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UPFRONT TIMOTHY LOEHMANN, EX-CLEVELAND COP WHO SHOT AND KILLED TAMIR RICE, GETS ANOTHER JOB … AS A COP

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FORMER CLEVELAND POLICE officer Timothy Loehmann was fired from the force in 2017 for lying about his previous job history, but was not indicted for the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. As an unemployed officer, Loehmann was free to apply for jobs elsewhere, and he will now “protect and serve” the small Ohio village of Bellaire, which has a population of around 4,170. In case you’ve forgotten, Loehmann was one of two officers who responded to a 911 call in November of 2014 about a “man waving a gun around.” When the officers arrived, both Loehmann and his partner claimed they repeatedly yelled at the boy to “show me your hands” before Loehmann opened fire. Surveillance video showed Loehmann shooting Rice within two seconds of exiting his patrol vehicle. Loehmann fired his service weapon twice, killing the 12-year-old. Despite this evidence, Loehmann faced zero legal repercussions for the shooting. Rice’s mother said she’s not in favor of this hiring: “Ms. Rice believes that Timothy Loehmann does not belong on any police force, anywhere, period,” Rice family attorney Subodh Chandra told the Huffington Post. “Someone with his record should not be subjected upon the citizenry. But she does hope that this means that he will not ever return to Cleveland.” Bellaire police chief Richard “Dick” Flanagan sees this as a second chance for Loehmann, who was a trainee at the time of the shooting. “He was cleared of any and all wrongdoing,” Flanagan told the Bellaire paper. “He was never charged. It’s over and done with.” Lest we forget, before Loehmann joined the Cleveland Police after lying about his job history, he was an officer in Independence, Ohio, where he was forced to resign after being deemed unfit to be a police officer. He also failed a Maple Heights

Police Department exam in 2009, something he also didn’t disclose to Cleveland’s police department. — BJ Colangelo

Cleveland Catholic Diocese Says It’ll Release Names of Priests Removed Due to Sexual Abuse Allegations The Cleveland Catholic Diocese, the largest in the state of Ohio and one that observers said had the “biggest gap between the number of priests accused [of sexual abuse] and the number of priests that are public,” now says it will release a full list of priests removed from their posts due to child sexual abuse allegations. That’s what Deacon James Armstrong of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland told Cleveland.com last week, anyway. “[We] are currently working to identify any cleric removed from ministry prior to 2002 due to allegations that they sexually abused a minor,” he said. Pennsylvania recently released the full grand jury report on allegations against priests in that state, including more than 300

names. The scope and severity of the offenses drew widespread public shock and horror. Dozens of dioceses around the country have previously released full accountings of accusations and names, and many more this year have pledged to follow suit. Until this week, Cleveland had not only refused to do so but actively worked to ensure that a 2002 Cuyahoga County grand jury investigation, and the 149 priests named therein, remained under seal. A lawyer for the diocese told then-prosecutor Bill Mason it would sue if his ofﬁce attempted to release the report, but 16 years later, under Bishop Nelson J. Perez, the Diocese may ﬁnally do the right thing. — Vince Grzegorek

After Backing Out of Plain Dealer Building, Cleveland Police to Remain at Justice Center for at Least Another Year Cuyahoga County has conﬁrmed that Cleveland will retain its police headquarters at the Justice Center for at least another year. After Cleveland sold its portion of the

Justice Center to the county for $9.5 million, it sought a new home for its police headquarters, surveying dozens of sites before settling on the Plain Dealer building at 1801 Superior Ave. earlier this summer. The city then backed out of the plans last month for reasons unclear. When the news broke, the city issued a bare-bones, twosentence release reproduced from a letter to Fred Geis: “At this time the City of Cleveland no longer desires to pursue the purchase of 1801 Superior Avenue property for the Cleveland Division of Police Headquarters with GLP Superior LTD. Thank you for working with the City on this important project.” The county ofﬁcially took ownership of Cleveland’s portion of the Justice Center on Oct. 1 and said the city has signed a one-year, $1.4 million lease for police HQ to remain in its current location. — Grzegorek

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Sexual Assault.” While many people offered to help pay the potential fees, recognizing that the message of the sign was more important than an ordinance, the Delta Tau Delta fraternity unveiled a professionallymade sign yesterday, measuring an ordinance-friendly 39 square feet. Delta Tau Delta member Mike Trauman tweeted, “We will continue to stand up for what we believe in, raise awareness, and play our part in making the world a better and safer place.” In 2014, a study revealed that men in fraternities were 300 times more likely to rape a woman on campus. This horriﬁc realization was a call for Greek life institutions to make massive changes in their communities and culture. It may seem like a passiveaggressive middle ﬁnger to a lame ordinance being pursued by the city (probably because it is), but the dedication the Kent State Delts have shown in raising awareness of the importance of consent is truly and sincerely inspiring. — Colangelo

The LAND Before Time: Tri-C to Adopt Prehistoric Mascot In other local university news: Students, staff and alumni of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) have voted on “Triceratops” as their new mascot. In an online poll held last month, the threehorned dinosaur secured nearly 30 percent of the votes (4,000-plus) to beat out ﬁve other options: Jazz, Tridents, Blizzard, Coyotes and Challengers, the name Tri-C has used for years. A design ﬁrm will now work with the university community to create a logo and mascot for athletic competition. An unveiling is expected in December. “Triceratops seems ideally suited to represent the college,” Tri-C said in a press release announcing the name. “The stout and imposing dinosaur serves as a formidable yet likable creature that will be unique among school mascots.” Indeed so! Triceratops instantly becomes the best mascot among local colleges, far surpassing in originality the CSU Vikings, the John Carroll Blue Streaks, the CWRU Lions, the Baldwin-Wallace Yellow Jackets, the Kent State Golden Flashes and the University of Akron Zips. (The Fighting Scots of Wooster and the Terriers of

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Hiram are solid, but still several tiers below Triceratops.) All of Tri-C’s potential new names were reportedly selected for branding and design possibilities, regional tie-ins and “ﬁt.” That, of course, begs the question: Where on earth did “Coyotes” come from? — Sam Allard

Cincinnati Votes to Rename Columbus Day ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Despite what our curriculum taught most of us in elementary school, Christopher Columbus was not just some innocent dude who stumbled upon a new continent. Since 1937, Columbus Day has been a federal holiday celebrating the explorer’s so-called “discovery” of the Americas, despite the fact the land was already inhabited by people. The holiday coincides with a massive celebration in most Italian-American communities, but many cities and states have grown increasingly weary of honoring a man who engaged in enslavement, rape, murder, theft and the genocide of the continent’s indigenous peoples. Last night, on its third vote in three

years, Cincinnati City Council voted 6-0 (with city members Amy Murray and David Mann abstaining and vice mayor Christopher Smitherman excused from the meeting) to no longer recognize Columbus Day, but rather celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Alaska, Oregon, South Dakota and Vermont do not recognize Columbus Day at all, and Hawaii instead celebrates Discoverer’s Day, commemorating the Polynesian discoverers of Hawaii. Iowa and Nevada also do not celebrate Columbus Day as an ofﬁcial holiday, but the states’ respective governors are “authorized and requested” by statute to proclaim the day each year. Cincinnati joins Oberlin, whose

council unanimously voted last year to make the change to Indigenous Peoples’ Day, becoming the ﬁrst city in Ohio to do so. As for Cleveland, we’re still pretty big on celebrating the man of 1492. When Oberlin voted to make the change in their city, Basil Russo — former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge and father of Marvel directors Anthony and Joe Russo, who also serves as parade chairman for Cleveland’s annual Columbus Day Parade — called the move “a subtle form of bigotry.” Cleveland’s celebration is generally a massive ordeal with nearly 100 entries in the two-hour parade. Fortunately, the Cleveland bash is more of a

celebration of Italian heritage and less of Christopher Columbus the man. Yet the Italian-American community, one that I am proud to be part of, deserves a celebration that isn’t associated with a man who helped dehumanize an entire culture. Given the strength of the ItalianAmerican communities in Cleveland, and the foundation Little Italy has within the core culture of Cleveland, it’s doubtful there will be any changes anytime soon in how we celebrate Columbus Day. It’s a shame, however, because Columbus Day goes against the very fabric of the history of Italians in America. Columbus was a man who came to an unknown land and completely destroyed it, whereas Italian immigrants came to the United States to build something bigger and better for future generations. I’m proud to be an Italian-American, but there are better ways to be proud of our heritage than excusing the monstrous behavior of a historic ﬁgure just because we’re from the same country of origin. At least some of us got a day off work. — Colangelo

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FEATURE BERNIE FROM THE BLOCK The furious saga of a car dealer turned tech evangelist By Sam Allard Photo by Emanuel Wallace

ONE OF THE FEW THINGS Bernie Moreno remembers from college is a story about the smartest guy in the world. “It’s not me, by the way,” he tells Scene. “I’m certainly not the smartest guy in the world. Not even close.” It might have been a study, Bernie thinks, or maybe just a parable his psychology professor hatched on the spot to illustrate a point. The gist was the smartest guy in the world, alone in a booth, competes in a trivia contest against a stadium full of people plucked at random from the University of Michigan. “Who wins?” Bernie asks. “The smartest guy in the world, or the stadium?” “The stadium, of course,” we reply. “But that’s the smartest guy in the world.” We chuckle, stand pat. “Yeah, but ... ” “It’s the stadium.”

* * * IT WAS JUNE 6, 2018 — TWO days before attorney Jon Pinney’s “Dead Last” speech at the City Club, around which too much Cleveland news thereafter seemed to orbit — when a story published online brought Bernie Moreno’s Blockland initiative to the city’s notice. Bernie wanted to make Cleveland the “national epicenter for all things blockchain,” he said. And he wanted it with a hot eagerness that would have been embarrassing if it weren’t so typical of Cleveland’s elite desires. He had already poured a “humongous amount” of his own money into the effort, he said, and would continue to do so. More importantly, he was lobbying, making phone calls to legislators and rapping his knuckles on the lintels and oaken ofﬁce doors of any executive or public ofﬁcial or “super smart person” who would listen to his pitch. Bernie’s expectation, as a luxury car dealer and very wealthy man, is

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that his dollars, if not necessarily his ideas, produce results he gets to dictate. Even when he has made signiﬁcant donations, as in a $500,000 gift to Tri-C, or $1.3 million in two separate gifts to Cleveland State University, where he recently completed a two-year term as chairman of the board and where a Center for Sales Excellence

now bears his name, he’s in the habit of attaching strings. The Tri-C gift was to fund scholarships for Hispanic students, for example. (Bernie is Colombian.) But if any recipient failed to graduate, Tri-C would have to pay the scholarship money back into the pot. “It had to be on my terms,” Bernie says. “[Former Tri-C

president] Jerry Sue Thornton didn’t take that deal for three years.” Bernie self-identiﬁes, often, as a capitalist and a conservative. Through those lenses, it’s easy to interpret virtually all of his ﬁnancial activity, including his charity, as investments of one kind or another. Some are explicit: He | clevescene.com | October 10 - 16, 2018

FEATURE was one of ﬁve local investors who participated in Chain Reaction in Old Brooklyn this year, the local followup to CNBC’s LeBron James-produced Cleveland Hustles in Detroit-Shoreway, which paired investors with aspiring neighborhood businesses. Others are more indirect. He says he has a policy to pay all his employees $15 per hour, or the equivalent. For those making less — receptionists making $12 per hour, for example — the remainder is invested in a “scholarship fund” for their own education. So when he chartered a private jet to Toronto in June to expose a handful of the region’s topmost academic and nonproﬁt executives to blockchain research, it was clear

But Bernie also has a problem. He knows, deep down, that he must continue to be Blockland’s evangelist-in-chief if the effort is to succeed. He created it, and despite his insistence that his inﬂuence will dwindle from an initial 98 percent to one percent or less — “it’ll be like a bad stock,” he says — he understands that he needs to protect his vision as it grows and evolves. On the one hand: “When people ask me what this will look like at the end, the answer is, I have no idea. We’re building this as we go.” On the other: “We can’t have people — you see this on the Facebook page — saying the wrong talking points: ‘The public’s gonna pay for a tech center;’ ‘It’s going to be the Medical Mart.’ This, that, blah blah blah. It’s off the rails.” He’s savvy enough to perceive that Blockland can’t have the whiff of a pet project. People can’t

“ WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE AT THE END, THE ANSWER IS, I HAVE NO IDEA. WE’RE BUILDING THIS AS WE GO.”.”

he was buying something: not just their time and attention, but their assent. Bernie is candid, in fact verbose, on the topic of Cleveland’s old-school leadership culture and the enormous effort required to get the region’s risk-averse executives on board with new ideas. But now he has momentum on his side, and he knows it. After the private jet, a full battery of volunteers from the region’s top corporations, foundations and law ﬁrms leaped at Blockland. They’d been hunting for a “moonshot,” a grand idea to rejuvenate the city’s economy, and Bernie had one readymade. He was a unique specimen among Cleveland leaders because he wasn’t just talking. He was doing stuff, paying for stuff. And now, every local leader worth his or her board seat[s] wants in on it — even if they don’t understand it; even if they don’t like it, which many don’t — because they can’t stand the thought of being on the outside looking in. For them, who builds the rocket ship matters less than having ﬁrst-class seats when it blasts off.

be allowed to think that a single man, by the force of his personality and his wallet, has the power to warp a city’s destiny because he thinks Bitcoin is cool. And so he must achieve two equally crucial objectives: First, he must promote the narrative that blockchain is big. Indeed, it must be prophesied as a technology as groundbreaking as the internet. But just as critically, and much more deftly, he must sell the idea that the Blockland effort is bigger than blockchain. It goes without saying that it must be bigger than Bernie. He must convince both supporters and skeptics that its goal is not merely to attract blockchain-oriented startups to Cleveland, but to make the whole region a “petri dish for innovation,” a bona ﬁde tech hub, a destination of distinction for Silicon Valley expatriates and a breeding ground for, among other things, software developers who began as “16-year-olds from Glenville.” By mid-September, Bernie is even more in-demand than usual, and his personal ﬁnancial contribution to the initiative has exceeded the

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limit beyond which he can’t wave it away. He nevertheless remains a vigilant sentinel of the Blockland social media pages, and he avails himself to cynics and scribes whom he sees value in persuading. At an August forum hosted by the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the region’s chamber of commerce, Bernie said that “naysayers” would be the biggest impediment to Blockland’s implementation, a comment he resents getting so much grief over. He says he’s not facing naysayers now. Naysayers are what could be the biggest roadblock. And naysayers aren’t people like Scene, he clariﬁes, who have questioned or challenged aspects of Blockland. Naysayers are people who say, “Cleveland will always suck; Cleveland will never be relevant in tech.” His modus operandi, in any case, is to call out potential naysayers on Twitter or Facebook and then try to convert them in private. Why wouldn’t he? Bernie Moreno is a master salesman, owner and sultan of the Bernie Moreno Companies, which has under its umbrella eight luxury car dealerships. He is very good at conversation — that is to say, at controlling conversation — and has built an empire on the foundation of that expertise. He has a broad awareness of popular and political culture and is somehow both hyperactive and relaxed in person. He is quick to laugh. He does this thing during moments of disagreement where he reframes a talking point or subtly changes course so that you think maybe you aren’t in disagreement after all. He cackles good-naturedly, for example, at the mention of a recent testy social media exchange with this writer. He says, “That’s why I could never be a politician,” and suddenly he’s talking about his respect for public ofﬁcials and military personnel instead of the substance of the spat. At 51, he is trim and handsome and has retained a full head of hair, which has only recently begun to gray. He knows he can sell you a Mercedes or a Porsche or an Aston Martin in his sleep. But selling Blockland? That’s a more suitable challenge for a salesman of his stature and cred. Bernie loves a sales challenge, which means that if you’re a naysayer, he is an easy man to meet.

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AT THE BOSS PRO-KARTING indoor go-kart track, out among the aero-industrial flatlands of Brookpark Road, visitors must agree to the facility’s terms and conditions at computer stations near the entrance before racing. One of the required fields on the digital registration form is “I’m here for …” the multiple-choice responses to which are as follows: “Walk-in”; “I have an event code”; and “Bernie.” We’re here for the latter, as are this month’s top salesmen from the Bernie Moreno Companies, whom Bernie has invited in recognition of their accomplishments. Bernie does this semi-regularly, high-end gokarting being a fitting reward for high-end auto sales. Bernie has always loved cars. After attending the University of Michigan, where his wife also attended and where his youngest son is now a sophomore, he worked at General Motors for a few years before making the jump to sales, which included a jump to New

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England. He lived in Boston for the 12-and-a-half years immediately preceding his Cleveland adventure, which began in 2005. He’d always dreamed of working at GM. In fact, he’d wanted to run it. In 1982, as a precocious 14-yearold in Fort Lauderdale, he wrote to GM’s CEO Roger Smith, alerting him that one day, Bernie would be taking his job. In the meantime, he offered nine suggestions for improving the company, some of which were generic — “Improve vehicle quality” — but others of which indicated an early technical proﬁciency and business aptitude: “Combine Chevrolet and Pontiac,” the young Bernie suggested. “Make aluminum engines to reduce weight and boost fuel economy.” The letter inspired a detailed type-written response from Smith himself. At Boss Pro-Karting, Bernie looks airbrushed and race-ready in a marble gray pullover you needn’t touch to know is extremely comfortable, plus actual leather

racing shoes, which Bernie is conﬁdent will shave pivotal tenths of a second off his time. The fact that race times are being discussed without irony, let alone in increments other than laps, may be puzzling for ﬁrst-time guests. But Boss Pro-karting is a serious operation, and instant race stats are what premium go-karters, who are dropping $22 per race, expect as part of the package. Ditto neck braces and helmets, which turn out to be required. The helmets are oil black and visored and, when donned, lend to Bernie’s sales crew the same anonymous thuggishness as any disposable biker gang from The Matrix or Mission Impossible franchises. Beneath the helmets, racers must wear what are called “head socks,” which most closely resemble the stocking caps medieval peasants wore. A teenage employee, accompanied by instructional video, says that gloves and shoes and fullbody racing suits are optional as

well, if racers would like to “wear what the pros wear.” No one does, but Bernie sure drives like a seasoned vet. In a “qualifier,” he scores the second fastest average lap and third fastest lap overall. It occurs to us to ask whether or not he ever raced professionally, or wanted to. He says he attended driving schools and notes with pride that Colombian drivers abound in the sport — “Montoya,” he mutters absently, massaging his triceps — but it’s not something he ever pursued. Still, he loves driving. Every year, he and his son fly to Las Vegas or Los Angeles or Palm Springs and then drive north up the California coastline to the annual auto show in Monterey. It’s prime father-son bonding time, and a couple of years ago, along this scenic stretch, his son tried to convince him to invest his total fortune in something called Bitcoin. He’d never heard of it, and was doubtful on principle that investing in a currency was wise. He ragged his kid for the fun of the argument but was intrigued enough by his fervor to contact his financial people when he returned home. They told him not to invest all his money in Bitcoin but said that they

and other ﬁnancial institutions were beginning to seriously explore blockchain, the distributed ledger technology upon which Bitcoin was built. In Bernie’s telling, this revelation kick-started a personal fascination. He’s been boning up on the tech ever since, devouring white papers and industry news, attending the hottest conferences, and so on. “I went to Consensus in New York in the spring,” Bernie says, by way of example. “It was 95-percent anarchists.” In May of this year, Bernie held a meeting in Cleveland on the topic with 20 people, most of whom were about as far from anarchism as they were from Pan-Africanism. Joe Roman of GCP was there, to give you an idea. So was Ronn Richard of the Cleveland Foundation. So, too, was investor Stewart Kohl. “Random people,” Bernie says. “It’s not because they had money or were important. Literally, there was no other reason other than, ‘I think you’re a smart person.’ And the question was, could we change the conditions on the ground in Cleveland to make blockchain a reality here? The consensus was, ‘Yeah, I think we can.’” By then, Bernie had invested in

a local civic-oriented blockchain company, Votem, and co-founded another, Ownum — tagline: “using Blockchain to power the digital frontier” — and says that when he told his advisors he intended to dive into the blockchain game, they asked where he wanted to set up shop: Nashville? Austin? Boston? The Bay? “I was like, ‘Guys, I thought you meant Westlake or Ohio City or downtown,’” Bernie says. “I’m not leaving Cleveland.” The next local blockchain meeting was 50 people. Bernie had instructed each attendee at the May gathering to bring someone along for the ride, and energy was accumulating as a by-product of body heat, if nothing else. The group of 50 decided that they should model their effort on a blockchain system, a system valued for its decentralization, immutability and transparency. In practical terms, that meant setting up a bunch of subcommittees (called “nodes”) and making all meetings open to the public, with documents and updates shared on Blockland’s social channels. The transparency, Bernie says, has been a real sticking point for local leaders. Among other things,

they don’t like the idea of the press peeping in on their discussions. “I got calls saying, ‘What’s [ Scene] doing on that email? You can’t have them there,’” Bernie says. “And I had to say, ‘You don’t understand. These are public meetings. They are open to everyone. If this is going to be a civic movement, it has to be out in the public square.’” By September, Bernie says, more than 1,300 people were involved in the Blockland effort in some capacity. Meetings are happening virtually every day, and Bernie’s goal is to host 20 community meetings — “at the community centers and the CDCs and the churches” — before the inaugural Solutions Conference in early December, which David Gilbert and Destination Cleveland have organized on an aggressive schedule. Jon Pinney, who co-chairs the “Place” node alongside lawyer Teresa Beasley, is by all accounts (including his own) working tirelessly behind the scenes to nail down the location of City Block, Blockland’s physical manifestation and the evolution of what he called the nation’s “largest and most advanced technology and

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FEATURE entrepreneurial ecosystem hub” in July. The hope, Bernie says, is that Pinney will be able to unveil the location of City Block at the conference. JumpStart, the local startup accelerator, has now hired a Blockland project manager to help handle logistics and ﬁnances. “What I didn’t want was for this to become 501(c)3 too quickly,” Bernie says. “We’ve already got way too many organizations in Cleveland. I call it the Philanthropic Industrial complex. I don’t want an executive director making 600,000 bucks, a development guy, a marketing guy, this guy, that guy, chief of staff, da da da, what the fuck do you guys do?” This is roughly akin to Bernie’s stated reasons for not wanting public ﬁnancing: “The last thing we need is a $10 million government grant,” he says. “You know what would happen? We’d have 40 people on staff, a beautiful conference room and zero results, other than 40 people with great jobs.” He says he doesn’t want public ownership of City Block either — he

wants to ensure that there’s a proﬁt motive for private investors — but is more than happy to take advantage of extensive subsidies and credits. “I’m a conservative, so government should play no role,” he says. “But TIFS, new market tax credits, Opportunity Zones. I don’t consider that public funding. Those are just programs that currently

“ THE LAST THING WE NEED IS A $10 MILLION GOVERNMENT GRANT,” HE SAYS. “ YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? WE’D HAVE 40 PEOPLE ON STAFF, A BEAUTIFUL CONFERENCE ROOM AND ZERO RESULTS.” exist.” But he actually does want government to play an important role: as a consumer of blockchain products and applications. (This is, of course, a subsidy of another kind.) Bernie has said that both Frank Jackson and Armond Budish have been “great,” and “involved to the extent that they need to be.” He

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meets with Jackson nearly every week to provide updates, and he’s briefed the full mayoral cabinet on the Blockland effort. After the championship race at Boss Pro-Karting, which Bernie narrowly loses to a salesman racing under the moniker BillyBenz, he is prompted in the parking lot to respond to a question about

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Cleveland leadership. Bernie had told Scene in a prior interview that one of his major goals with Blockland, in addition to making the city relevant in the tech world, was to encourage a culture of collaboration among city leaders. The shortcomings of leadership had been swirling in news stories lately. Just that week, a report

from the young professional nonproﬁt Engage! Cleveland had been disseminated, and one of its key takeaways was that young people desperately want to be more involved in civic affairs but are unable to break into leadership roles. Cleveland is seen as a “do your time city” where leaders are hostile to young, diverse voices. The report echoed comments made in recent conversations about the Fund For Our Economic Future’s The Two Tomorrows report. “It’s the boards,” Bernie says, quickly and without equivocation. “Every board meeting I’ve been to —Tri-C, Rock Hall, GCP, all of ’em, the whole alphabet soup — it’s always the same question. How do we get more diversity? How do we get younger people? I’m sitting there asking the same thing when it hit me: We ask them for a shitload of money.” All 40 members of Tri-C’s board, he says, are required to pay $10,000 for the privilege. This is standard practice at all the major institutions and nonproﬁts. Bernie says he and Ronn Richard of the Cleveland Foundation (and co-chair of the Blockland “Philanthropy” node) are working on an initiative that will encourage — or even mandate

— that local organizations have a percentage of board members under the age of 35. “Not 40,” Bernie says. “Thirtyfive. Otherwise you start creeping up. I’ve talked to a bunch of people who say, ‘Well, we have Engage Cleveland.’ But that’s like the bullshit board. It’s, like, patronizing, right? These young advisory boards are just like gettogethers at lunchtime. Everybody knows that.” Bernie says that that’s exactly the problem he’s trying to overcome with Blockland’s “Next Gen” node, the mission of which is to get young people engaged and, per the official description, to “build and nurture next generation workforce pathways from within Cleveland’s disadvantaged communities.” “The big thing,” he says, “is that if we’re going to attract all these people from Silicon Valley, they need to be able to come here and feel like they’re making a difference. That means no separate boards and a lower give-and-get requirement. Dramatically lower, like 500 bucks.”

think is bad today is going to be exponentially worse as tech advances,” he says. “The poor will become the hyper-poor. We’ll look back on 2018 and say, ‘Wow, the poor in Cleveland had it good, compared to 2038.’” So why is there such an obsession with emulating San Francisco, a city with the worst income inequality in the country? “It’s a problem,” Bernie agrees. “There are 8,000 homeless there, and the city just hired a full-time poop patrol ... Look, do I think this [Blockland] effort is perfect? Of course not. If I did, I’d be delusional.

But that’s why ... ” That’s why the effort will be better and more inclusive than other strategies. Blockland, remember, is bigger than blockchain. And Bernie is insistent on explaining at length two components of the effort that are designed to countervail against the tech world’s natural tendency, which he freely admits is to exacerbate existing inequalities. The ﬁrst is education. Education is something that is also massively important to Bernie. His wife Bridget is a former pre-school teacher, and they have contributed generously to local

colleges and Breakthrough Schools, the charter network that Bernie laments has been having enrollment issues. They are involved in the Say Yes to Education initiative as well. At City Block, Bernie says, in addition to startup desks and space for growing companies and an advanced-tech HQ for the best and brightest of local corporations’ tech divisions, he wants to host a CMSD school, one he has dubbed Genesis. As board chairman of CSU, he says the most common call he got was from parents asking if he could get their child into Campus International, the CMSD

* * * FROM A GLASS OFFICE AT HIS ﬂagship Mercedes-Benz dealership in North Olmsted, ﬁve minutes from his home in Westlake, Bernie says that income inequality is “one of the things that is massively important to [him].” He was born and spent the first five years of his childhood in Colombia, and growing up there, he witnessed inequality’s ramifications firsthand. His brother still lives there and these days drives around in an armored vehicle because people are so fed up, Bernie says, with making a dollar per month. (His brother has a staff of 18.) When visitors arrive at the North Olmsted dealership, they are invited to wait at a coffee bar in the back which serves Ospina Coffee. A receptionist may note that this coffee has been imported from Colombia at $150 per pound and is, by definitive accounts, “the best in the world.” Bernie appends, later, that his paternal grandfather co-founded the Federation of Coffee Growers in Colombia alongside the Ospina family. It is this coffee, a smooth and fragrant morning blend, that we are choking on as Bernie riffs on the topic of income inequality. “In Cleveland, whatever we

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FEATURE school on CSU’s campus. (Bernie says he never did. Enrollment was determined by lottery.) “It’s got a waiting list,” Bernie says. “Hundreds of kids get turned down every year.” In 2017, 29 percent of Campus International’s enrolled students were “out of district,” meaning they didn’t live in the city of Cleveland. It’s the highest such percentage of any CMSD school, including those much closer to the suburbs, like the Cleveland School of the Arts (24 percent), the Warner Girls’ Leadership Academy (17 percent) and Ginn Academy (10 percent). Bernie says the goal would be to duplicate the Campus International model, with the hopes of keeping young, tech-oriented families in the city, which in turn would keep their companies there. Bernie prides himself on his candor (a kind of civic incorrectness) and says unabashedly that wealthy people in Cleveland would never send their kids to Cleveland public schools. “I wouldn’t even send mine to Westlake public schools,” he says. And while he doesn’t probe the motivations behind this assumption, presumed to be selfevident, he’s nevertheless able to trace, with remarkable clarity, its effects. “Say I’ve attracted you from California,” he says. “You’ve started your tech company. You get married and you have a kid. But then, you’re not gonna send your kid to Cleveland Public Schools, so now what do you do? You move to Solon! So what have I accomplished? Nothing. Because now, you don’t want to drive from Solon to work, so you move your company out there, to some office park. Then what happens? The tech center is evacuated, and all these companies are like, ‘Why are we in Cleveland again? Let’s just go to Austin, where we can get a new tax break.’” Bernie is at some times more keenly aware of his wealth and privilege than at others, but he maintains throughout multiple conversations his commitment to fairness. “I’m a capitalist, but I’m all about fairness,” he says. “At least from zero to 22. When you’re an adult, your decisions may be different than mine, but for kids, fairness is an absolute right.”

That’s why he says he believes so strongly in quality education. He drifts, as if by magnetism, back to automobile analogies. And in this case he likens fairness in education to a car race. “Look at my kids,” he says. “They had pit crews. They had Ferraris. They knew what day the race was. They had incredible preparation. And then look at these kids from the neighborhoods. They don’t even have a car! If at the end, you’re like, ‘Why did my kids succeed but the others didn’t?’ Are you shitting me? It wasn’t a fair fight.” There are other details that Bernie furnishes about Genesis: Students will be immersed in technology all day; those who rent space at City Block will be required to devote five hours per week at the school as a condition of their rent, etc. So how has CMSD responded, you might ask, as we did. Is Eric Gordon on board with the idea? “Ha! It’s all in my head right now,” Bernie says, thrusting an index finger to his temple. “It’s all right here.”

* * * AT AN EVENT IN SEPTEMBER styled as a series of TED talks on local innovation, Bernie presents his vision for Blockland. By now, he has given versions of this spiel for months, and his remarks are crisp and persuasive at 10 minutes. Charles Stack, the Flash Starts co-founder and CEO, introduces Bernie by saying that blockchain is the fourth major technological disruption of his lifetime, the previous three having been personal computing, the internet and cloud-computing. Comparing the blockchain buzz to the dot.com boom of the ’90s has been an essential ingredient of the narrative, even as it evolves. Bernie says that it’s important for people, even if they don’t understand “the plumbing” of the complicated tech, to recognize its potential. For weeks in August, he was sharing articles about new blockchain or blockchain-adjacent startups and applications on a daily basis, and he says that this was not to suggest that all these companies are good or sustainable ideas, but merely to build hype. “If there are 50 companies wanting to do something in blockchain, it’s possible that 45 of them are complete bullshit,” Bernie says. “Total bullshit ideas. But

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FEATURE in reading about one of those 45 bullshit ideas, maybe you get an idea to modify it. Iâ€™m not running a political campaign here. Itâ€™s not like I want people to support me. Itâ€™s more about getting the ideas out there.â€? But the message, embraced and propagated by other Blockland chairs, is that blockchain will be as revolutionary as the internet itself, as disruptive as smart phones. Through security and transparency, it can be for â€œvalueâ€? what the internet has been for â€œinformation.â€? Bernie has said more than once that it will be â€œthe next iterationâ€? or â€œthe next generationâ€? of the internet. â€œItâ€™s going to impact you across broad swaths of your life,â€? said Blocklandâ€™s â€œThought Leadershipâ€? co-chair Steven Santamaria in August. â€œIn 10 years, everythingâ€™s going to be blockchain.â€? That vision is still difficult for most to visualize, but Bernie is intent on getting the message out to Cleveland neighborhoods. He is working with a Community Engagement sub-node to assemble

volunteers to deliver talks at community centers and churches to explain blockchain in basic terms and what Blockland â€œmeans to them.â€? In this way, Bernie wants the effort to be more inclusive. (Inclusion is the other equity-oriented component, alongside education.) â€œThis is really about outreach,â€? he says at a September meeting, held at Hot Cards on Superior Avenue, which he also owns. â€œItâ€™s not about getting the community to support it â€” itâ€™s not about toeing the company line â€” itâ€™s about touching the unexpected. Itâ€™s about reaching out to that kid whoâ€™s getting his haircut who never thought tech was for him. Itâ€™s about the people that weâ€™ve written off as a society who think that Blockland is just for the honors math kids at University School.â€? Bernie is often racially clumsy as he delivers this gospel: He tells barber Waverly Willis and boutique owner Lisa McGuthry, both of whom are black, that when they explain blockchain in their communities, a pick-up basketball analogy might resonate more than one about gambling. He says that he needs to delegate more appropriate messengers to black

churches, where he fears heâ€™ll be seen as â€œjust another white guy.â€? â€œIâ€™m Hispanic,â€? he says, â€œbut they donâ€™t buy that.â€? But he also occasionally advocates what sure sound like progressive views, as in his (apparently sincere) thrashing of the bureaucratic red tape that he submits is designed â€” in our view, correctly â€” to keep poor people from easily accessing services and benefits. He is passionate that blockchain can be liberating for poor and disempowered communities, though heâ€™s still learning the language for that message. His concern for these issues may be interpreted as a rebuttal to the notion that Blockland could become a â€œsandbox for white dudes,â€? a description Scene applied to tech culture generally and which Bernie hotly rejected in August, notwithstanding the Blockland leadership and the Solutions Conference speaker lineup. In moments when Bernie articulates something with which we wholeheartedly agree â€” e.g., â€œMost people in Cleveland are used to someone like me creating something like [Blockland] in secret, having it all baked out,

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Cleveland Stories Dinner Party Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs ﬁne food with storytelling. The goal of the series is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix ﬁxe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. Tonight, former Scene staffer Anastasia Pantsios talks about the stories behind her recent book, Girls to the Front: 40 Years of Women in Rock, a collection of 56 of her photos of prominent women musicians based on her 2017 show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. (Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. FILM

Crooklyn Writer-director Spike Lee worked with artist and cameraman Arthur Jafa on his 1994 ﬁlm Crooklyn, a movie about a young AfricanAmerican girl who lives with her mother, father and four brothers in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in the ’70s. In advance of Jafa’s lecture on Saturday at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the museum will screen Crooklyn today at 6:45 p.m. It will also screen the 1999 drama Daughters of the Dust, another movie Jafa worked on, at 6:45 p.m. on Friday. Tickets to the screenings are $5. Admission to the lecture, which takes place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, is free. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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An Evening of Film and Music with James Newton Howard Composer James Newton Howard has written scores for ﬁlms such as Batman Begins, The Hunger Games and Pretty Woman. Tonight at 7:30 at the Fran and Jules Belkin Theatre on the Tri-C Metro Campus, he’ll share stories from his past and show clips from some of the movies he’s worked on. Tickets cost $10, but students get in free with a valid ID. Details and

Mamma Mia! This smash-hit musical features ABBA’s greatest hits, including classics like “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S,” “Super Trooper,” “Take a Chance on Me” and “The Winner Takes It All,” along with “an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship.” The musical even spawned a commercially successful ﬁlm. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at the Hanna Theatre, where the show goes on through

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The Seagull The Cleveland Playhouse updates Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull by providing a “fresh, contemporary take” on the play with its “youthful and energetic” production. Critics generally agree that the play about the self-centered guests at a country estate is one of Chekhov’s best works. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre, and performances continue through the weekend. Tickets are $15. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Godfrey Remember that 7Up guy? Good. Because he’s in town tonight, performing at the Improv. Godfrey got his start during a 1980s soda campaign, then went on to ﬁlm,

where he was cast as the token black friend in every comedy ever made, including 2001’s Zoolander. Godfrey’s hot right now, touring the country and making regular appearances on Comics Unleashed. Tonight’s show starts at 7:30; additional performances are scheduled through Sunday. Tickets start at $17. (Brittany Rees) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. MUSIC

Lucia Micarelli A classical musician who’s worked with the likes of Josh Groban, Chris Botti and Jethro Tull, Lucia Micarelli, who entered Juilliard at age 11, had a starring role on the critically acclaimed HBO series Treme that helped establish her as an actress too. Her current tour comes in the wake of a popular PBS special, and shows off her ability to play classical, jazz and traditional ﬁddle music. She performs tonight at 8 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $35. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SPORTS

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a psychopathic sniper and has-been horror movie star (Boris Karloff) who has retired because scary ﬁlms can no longer compete with the terrors of everyday life. The Cinematheque will show a special 35-mm print of the movie. Admission is $12, or $9 for Cinematheque members and students. (BJ Colangelo) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Paula Poundstone Over the course of a career that stretches back nearly 40 years, comedian Paula Poundstone has been a regular guest on several NPR programs and has performed for the likes of Hillary Clinton and Johnny Carson. In her books such as There Is Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say and The Totally Unscientiﬁc Study of the Search for Human Happiness, she provides a humorous look at life and zeroes in on the neverending quest for happiness. Expect Poundstone to improvise plenty at tonight’s show, which takes place at 8 at the Kent Stage. Tickets are $37 to $47. (Niesel) 175 East Main St., Kent, 330-677-5005, kentstage.org.

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DECEMBER 5 ROCK ON TV Inside our Stay Tuned: Rock on TV exhibit, team up for a scavenger hunt, win prizes at our TV theme song contest, and try your hand as a variety show host. Nostalgia and good memories welcome!

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Pride and Prejudice Adapted by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan and based on a Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice centers on the outspoken Elizabeth Bennet, a woman who shows no interest in marriage until she meets the handsome, enigmatic Mr. Darcy. The Great Lakes Theater presents its production of the play tonight at the Hanna Theatre, where performances continue through Nov. 4. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Targets At 6:45 tonight and 8:35 on Sunday night, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen the often-forgotten Targets, a ﬁlm about

Collaboration Kickoff Beer Week is here and that means every brewery and bar with a decent craft beer selection will serve up some special brews between now

Classic Fest Tribute bands draw some of the biggest crowds to Cleveland clubs and festivals, so it makes sense that the folks at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park would book a bunch of tribute acts for the inaugural Fall Classic Fest. Tonight, Odds and Ends will pay tribute to Bob Dylan and the Last Waltz will play songs by the Band. The festival continues through Sunday with tributes to Neil Young, Eric Clapton, the Doors, Janis Joplin and the Allman Brothers. Check the website for prices and a schedule. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

Dante’s Inferno Goblin keyboardist Maurizio Guarini will present a live performance of his original score to the first-ever feature film produced in Italy, Dante’s Inferno, showcasing horrific cinematic imagery decades before such giallo classics as Dario Argento’s Deep Red and Suspiria, both scored by Goblin and Guarini. The Cleveland revival debut of the movie takes place tonight at 7:30 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $27, or $20 for Cinematheque members and students. (Colangelo) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Soufra Soufra, a documentary that screens tonight at the Capitol Theatre as part of a fall documentary ﬁlm series, follows the “unlikely and wildly inspirational” story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar, a generational refugee who has spent her life in the Burj El Barajneh refugee camp just south of Beirut, Lebanon. She tries to alter her fate by launching a successful catering company and expanding it into a food truck business with a diverse team of fellow refugee women. An audience discussion will follow the 7:30 screening. Tickets are $9.75. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

who attend this year’s event can try out Za’Spresso, a coffee crafted by guitarist Neil Zaza and the crew at DogFish Head. (The coffee beans are infused with Bitches Brew.) The festival starts at 8 tonight at the Akron Civic Theatre. Tickets are $40. Buy them on the website, where you will ﬁnd the very long list of other participating breweries. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

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The 2018 Akron Craft Beer Festival Every year for the Akron Craft Beer Festival, a brewery crafts a special beer named after Loretta the Macaw, the Akron Civic Theatre’s mascot from 1929. This year’s special brew — an original recipe — comes from Seven Seas. In addition to being able to sample that special beer, fans

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Stranger Things Spooktacular Tonight at 7:30, the Beachland Ballroom once again hosts a Stranger Things themed burlesque show. It will feature dancers portraying characters from American Horror Story, Stranger Things, Evil Dead, Wizard of Oz and a few other classics. A Best Costume contest and Monster Mash dance-off will also take place. Consult the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

Robert Dubac: The Book of Moron Critics have described Robert Dubacâ€™s off-Broadway show, The Book of Moron, as one of the most hilarious bits of satire since Mark Twain. The man behind The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron and Sex, Politics and Other Headaches, Dubac performs at both 4 and 8 p.m. today at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $49 to $59. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SHOPPING

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Walkabout Tremont During this monthâ€™s Walkabout Tremont, you can stop by any of the Tremont art galleries to see their current and/or new exhibits. Of course, there are plenty of bars, restaurants and specialty shops in the neighborhood, too, that participate in Walkabout Tremont, so donâ€™t overlook them either. The stroll takes place from 5 to 10 tonight; this monthâ€™s theme is â€œLetâ€™s Luau,â€? so of course there is a Hawaiian shirt contest. Check out the website for a schedule, maps and a listing of entertainment and food and drink specials. (Niesel) walkabouttremont.com.

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CFA International Cat Show In a city where dogs seem to get all of the attention, cat people will ďŹ nally have their weekend: The International Cat Show, hosted by the Cat Fancierâ€™s Association, has sunk its claws into Clevelandâ€™s I-X Center and is settled in for the next two days. More than 1,000 cats from every corner of the globe will compete to be crowned Best in Breed in the largest cat show of its kind. Visitors can expect stiff competition, with opportunities to get to know the furry athletes competing in the agility ring and a chance to pet the cats in the Meet the Breeds Education Ring. The International Cat Show also boasts opportunities like a meet-and-greet with celebrity cat Farrah Pawcett, a stroll down the Meow Mall shopping market and pet education shows for children. And of course visitors who donâ€™t already own enough cats can adopt one at the fest. Adult tix are $12, and kids get in for $6. Todayâ€™s fun takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and tomorrowâ€™s hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details are on the website.(Gabrielle Greene) 1 I-X Center Drive, 216-676-6000, cfa.org.

The October Flea A self-described â€œsmall business incubatorâ€? that draws thousands of local shoppers to Tyler Village, the Cleveland Flea features a range of unique items you wonâ€™t ďŹ nd at the typical retail store. As much a social gathering as a shopping experience, the Flea also serves as an excellent hang, a place to meet and make friends while supporting your local creatives. It runs today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $1. (Niesel) 3615 Superior Ave., theclevelandďŹ‚ea.com. FOOD + DRINK

Shuck Yeah! Celebrate your favorite briny bivalves today at Shuck Yeah!, an annual fest that takes place today from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Alley Cat Oyster Bar in the Flats East Bank. This party on the water will bring together oysters from both coasts along with other bites from your favorite Zack Bruell restaurants, craft cocktails from Titoâ€™s Handmade Vodka and beer. There will also be live music from Madison Crawl. Guests will enjoy food tastings from the very popular Zack Bruell family of restaurants, including Alley Cat, Cowell & Hubbard, Exploration, Lâ€™Albatros, Parallax, Ristorante Chinato and Table|45. Guests will receive eight oysters, two oyster shooters, and four drinks featuring Titoâ€™s Handmade Vodka. Tickets are $45 in advance, or $55 at the door. (Niesel) 1056 Old River Rd., 216-574-9999, SceneShuckYeah.com.

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old-fashioned radio dial) and via its website. This year’s headliner, indie rocker Lucy Dacus, will share the stage with Canadian indie rockers Land of Talk and locals such as Key to the Mint, Punch Drunk Tagalongs, and Paranoid Lovesick. The concert starts at 2 p.m. outside of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in University Circle’s Uptown District. Admission is free, and there will be a cash bar and food trucks on site throughout the festivities. (Niesel) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, wruw.org. THEATER

Sweat A Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set in Reading, Pennsylvania, Sweat centers on union lock-outs, massive lay-offs and jobs going overseas. In order to try to face such hardships, a group of life-long friends gather at their local bar to discuss ways of dealing with such hardships. Inspired by true stories, Sweat provides “a compelling portrait of pride and survival in the Rust Belt.” Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at the Outcalt Theatre. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Cuyahoga Valley National Park Concert Series Presented by the National Park Service and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Concert Series aims to celebrate the valley’s cultural legacy with a variety of folk and roots rock concerts at the Happy Days Lodge. Tonight’s concert features Ed Caner plus special guest Bill Lestock Trio, and the show begins at 7 p.m. Consult the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, ConservancyforCVNP.org. FILM

Intermezzo A 1936 Swedish film, Intermezzo stars Ingrid Bergman in the first film in which she played the lead. Bergman plays a piano teacher who falls for a married violinist (Leslie

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Howard). Three years after its release in Sweden, a remake of the ﬁlm appeared in the States. It also starred Bergman. This month, the Cleveland Museum of Art screens both versions of the movie. Today at 1:45 p.m., it screens the 1939 version. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Monday Night Trivia Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds 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: Seats ﬁll up fast. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. NIGHTLIFE

Shit Show Karaoke Local rapper/promoter Dirty Jones and Scene’s own Manny Wallace host Shit Show Karaoke, a weekly event at the B-Side Liquor Lounge wherein patrons choose from “an unlimited selection of jams from hip-hop to hard rock,” and are encouraged to “be as bad as you want.” Fueled by drink and shot specials, it all goes down tonight at 10 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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Mary Shelley Haifaa Al-Mansour directs Mary Shelley, a ﬁlm that dramatizes how the love affair between Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley inspired Godwin to write Frankenstein, her famous novel about a scientist who creates

a living human being out of the pieces of corpses. The movie screens today at 1:45 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. MUSIC

Open Turntable Tuesday Tonight from 6 to 9, the Winchester hosts its weekly Open Turntable Tuesday. DJ Kris Koch offers 20-minute slots to people who want to bring their own vinyl and spin their favorite songs or deep tracks. Turntables are provided; you can play three to ﬁve songs during your time slot; and a mic is available to talk about the selections. (Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ TheWinchesterMusicTavern. SPOKEN WORD

The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Race and Place Still Matter As part of the Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series that is taking place at Case Western University this fall, Robert Bullard — known in some quarters as the “father of environmental justice” —will talk about the way climate change has affected human rights and public health issues in a lecture dubbed the Quest For Environmental and Climate Justice: Why Race and Place Still Matter. The talk takes place at 4:30 p.m. at the Tinkham Veale University Center. Admission is free, but advance registration on the website is requested. (Niesel) 11038 Bellﬂower Rd., 216-368-5681, humanities.case.edu. MUSIC

Vinyl Night Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” The club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases, partnering with Loop in Tremont, so patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. It all starts at 5 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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STAGE AGAIN, AGAIN, AGAIN Here we go again with Mamma Mia! at Great Lakes Theater By Christine Howey THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL Mamma Mia! has been around for almost 20 years, but it seems much longer. Perhaps that’s because some of the music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, performed by their Swedish pop group ABBA, was playing on radios for 25 years before this musical was even considered. As a result, our bodies now involuntarily thrum to infectious tunes such as “Dancing Queen,” “S.O.S,” “Super Trouper,” and the title song. This makes the show a sure-fire box office draw and explains one reason why Great Lakes Theater is beginning its 57th season with it. Okay, sure, the other reasons escape me at the moment, but that’s not to say there aren’t other fine motivations behind why “Cleveland’s Classic Company,” formerly dubbed the “Shakespeare Festival,” mounts productions such as Mamma Mia! and last year’s Beehive – The 60s Musical. Indeed, in his remarks on opening night, producing artistic director Charles Fee seemed to lament the fact that many of those in attendance to hear songs repetitively titled “Honey, Honey;” “Money, Money, Money;” “Gimme, Gimme, Gimmee;” and “I Do, I Do, I Do” were not likely to return a week later to see the opening of Pride and Prejudice. Such are the realities, apparently, of keeping a company such as GLT alive and kicking. As always when it comes to musicals, GLT is unofficially partnering with Baldwin Wallace University for MM, since director Victoria Bussert and a large part of the cast spend their daylight hours at BWU’s nearby campus. That university is a hotbed for producing Broadway talent, so it makes sense to involve these young folks. ABBA’s familiar songs are wrapped around the book by Catherine Johnson that begins with Sophie and her friends Ali (Shayla Brielle G.) and Lisa (Amy Keum). This trio is hanging out on a Greek island where Sophie and her mom run a taverna. Sophie

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appears to have everything she wants except for the truth about her father’s identity, since she was a result of the “free love” generation. So Sophie, who is about to be married to her heartthrob Sky, has secretly invited three middle-aged fellows to attend her wedding. They all dated Donna years ago, when she was the lead singer of a group called Donna and the Dynamos. Sophie suspects one of them is her father since she peeked into

enthusiastically perform. The cast is strong, with a couple notable exceptions. As Donna, Jillian Kates starts slow, vocally and otherwise, but gradually becomes believable (as possible as that is in this cotton candy confection) as a single mom with some regrets. Kailey Boyle sings well as Sophie, although the book doesn’t allow her to explore emotions much beyond hope and amazement. The putative dads are a mixed

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her mom’s diary and those steamy entries revealed some secrets. It seems that Bill, an Australian writer and adventurer; Sam, an American architect who designed the taverna; and Harry, a British banker are all ripe suspects for that paternal designation. On one hand, it sounds like an episode of I Love Lucy with lots of Greek-isle hard bodies added to spice up the dance numbers. And spice it up they do, as choreographer Jaclyn Miller stages some raucous, free-spirited dances-cum-calisthenics which the talented college student/performers

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bag. Alex Syiek as outdoorsy Bill is amusing as he awkwardly jerks his way through various dances, and Eric Damon Smith is smooth as the ambiguously fey Harry. But in the role of Sam, Donna’s one true love, Nick Steen is stifﬂy off-key as a singer and similarly wooden as an actor. In competition with Steen for the Best Sculpture Pretending to be a Person award is Jake Slater as Sophie’s ﬁance, Sky. Indeed, it’s hard to imaging what bouncy, bubbly Sophie sees in Slater’s impassive and mostly overcast Sky. Donna’s reconstituted group of

Dynamos fares better, with Laura Welsh Berg as Rosie and Jodi Dominick as hot-to-trot Tanya lend the gal-pal vibe to the proceedings. Berg offers some tasty asides and executes a hilarious dance with the terpsichore-challenged Bill. And Dominick handles her volley of double entendres with panache. But it might help the rest of us relate if it appeared that their bodies had a few more miles on them, as most 40-something folks do. Just sayin’. In the smaller roles, Warren Egypt Franklin as the taverna bartender Pepper and Mack Shirilla as towel boy and puppy wrangler Eddie stand out. Franklin is tall and possesses some dance moves that defy easy description. And Shirilla proudly displays his cut physique while adding some quick ﬂashes of humor. Of course, this isn’t a show where reality and subtle characterizations rule the day. It’s all about energy, and this production delivers plenty of sizzle with the eye-candy costumes designed by Tracy Christensen, songs that render resistance futile, and young bods in frenzied motion.

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MOVIES OUT OF THIS WORLD First Man offers a unique perspective on the inaugural lunar landing By Jeff Niesel DIRECTOR DAMIEN CHAZELLE (Whiplash, La La Land) has said he wanted his ambitious new film, First Man, to demonstrate just how terrifying it must have been for Neil Armstrong & Co. to fly to the moon for the very first time. He accomplishes that and then some with his remarkable movie that opens area-wide on Friday. Thanks to some compelling cinematography and terrific performances by leads Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy, the movie simultaneously shows the personal side of the endeavor and masterfully recreates both the voyage itself and the walk on the moon. As much as the film aims to capture how truly frightening it was to travel into space in the 1960s, it also sets out to capture what Neil Armstrong’s personal life was like. Early in the film, we see the Ohioborn astronaut (Gosling) struggle to cope with the death of his young daughter. Though he doesn’t show any emotion as he seeks treatment for her inoperable brain tumor and seems entirely detached, he cares deeply for her. We see that when he breaks down in private during her funeral. Throughout the movie, Neil and his wife (Foy) appear estranged from one another as Neil would

seemingly rather be working than spending time with his family. He’s a tough guy to figure out. In fact, when it comes time to fly to the moon, Jan forces him to explain the potential consequences to their sons. With the deadpan delivery of a poker player, Neil tells the kids he might not come back from the risky endeavor. Again, it’s difficult to read his emotions, and Gosling does a great job of making Neil into someone so inscrutable that neither his fellow astronauts nor his family ever seem to know what he’s thinking. While working as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California, Neil began to experiment with flying into outer space. Those experiments often ended in near-disaster. And yet, his skills at escaping catastrophe and understanding physics catch the attention of NASA chief Deke Slayton (Kyle Chandler), who recruits him to work at NASA. Neil and his family relocate to Houston and preparation for a lunar landing begins. Things don’t go well. Neil sees many of his friends perish in test flights. In fact, he isn’t even NASA’s first choice when it comes to sending someone to the moon. But when he and the cavalier Buzz Aldrin (Corey

Stoll) get the call, they’re ready, willing and able to take on the mission. And so, we see the guys shoot off into space in a rocket ship that creaks so badly, it sounds like it could break into pieces at any moment. The launch scene is completely grueling, but once Neil and Buzz get into space, a certain tranquility takes over, thanks, in part, to the scenes that depict what it’s like to ﬂoat in zero gravity. The moments they spend on the moon come off as completely surreal,

and Chazelle wisely doesn’t let the special effects take over. Rather, he makes the moment seem serene and transcendent, an anti-climax of sorts. Neil and Buzz return to Earth as changed men, something that comes across as Neil sits in quarantine awaiting a visit from Jan. The ﬁlm’s ending again shows Chazelle’s remarkable ability to balance highly personal moments with the thrilling scenes of traveling into outer space.

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SPOTLIGHT: THE OLD MAN & THE GUN IN WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY pitched as his final film performance, Robert Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a career criminal who has successfully escaped from prison on 16 separate occasions and gets his kicks robbing banks well into his late 60s. He’s charming, a snazzy dresser and exudes a level of cool confidence that goes unmatched by everyone around him. Tucker feels like a love letter to Robert Redford’s career and a character that writer-director David Lowery is submitting to add to the canon of all-time great antiheroes, complete with a retro wash of costuming, music and cinematography upping the “cool” factor. Unfortunately, The Old Man & The Gun barely portrays Tucker with ambivalence, and therefore tells a story that could be aptly named Charming

White Crime: The Movie. It will surely do well with the Academy come Oscar season as the predominately white male voting pool will absolutely relate to Redford’s portrayal as some sort of life goal. The entire film hinges on Redford’s performance, a career best for him, but this film presented as an ode to living life to the fullest regardless of age is hard to enjoy when the titular character is a completely unchecked asshole put on a pedestal because he’s “nice.” The movie opens area-wide on Friday. Easy comparisons can be drawn to the Hanks/DiCaprio flick, Catch Me If You Can, but the major difference between the two is that DiCaprio’s Frank Abagnale Jr. eventually had to own up to his life of crime and learn from it, while Tucker never does. We’re provided a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it

scene of Tucker’s daughter (a wasted role for Elisabeth Moss) explaining how he abandoned his family for a life of crime, a family Tucker denies even exists in one of his earliest scenes with Sissy Spacek, the delightfully sweet ranch-owner who serves solely as a vehicle to humanize Tucker as more than just a bad guy who robs banks. It’s a shame because Spacek’s performance as Jewel is excellent. She genuinely captures what it means to be “young at heart” with her blushing smiles that resemble that of a high school girl being dropped off after a ﬁrst date. It would have been nice to have moments getting to know Jewel as someone more than just the object of Tucker’s affection. This wouldn’t be a comedic pseudoheist movie without a case-closing cop, and the forever problematic

Casey Affleck plays this understated role with ease, but he is outshined by the secondary players. Tucker’s coconspirators, the “Over the Hill Gang,” (played by Danny Glover and Tom Waits) serve as the perfect contrasts to Tucker’s charming criminal, and Waits delivers the best lines of the entire film. Ultimately, The Old Man & The Gun serves best as an ode to the career of Robert Redford, and watching it with this intention will make the film the most enjoyable. It’s a calm and calculated heist film with small bursts of levity, but it fails to acknowledge the bleak realities left in the wake of our leading man’s decisions. — BJ Colangelo

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EAT ROLL WITH IT Polpetta takes meatballs on a clever and wholly satisfying culinary journey By Douglas Trattner Photo by Emanuel Wallace

IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN PAYING attention, conventional restaurants continue to be edged out by gimmicky concepts that focus more on customization than quality. Every day, it seems, we learn of a new build-your-own [insert popular food item here] place that puts the diner squarely in control of his or her culinary destiny. It’s a clever conceit that often diverts one’s attention away from the main event and to the toppings and trappings, in much the same way a magician employs misdirection. At first blush, Rocky River’s Polpetta appears to be yet another interpretation of the B-Y-O trope. Replace tacos, burritos, hot dogs or poke bowls with meatballs and you pretty much know the drill. Or so I presumed. Sure, the format feels familiar, with guests charting a course by selecting from a catalogue of balls, sauces and sides. But in the hands of talented chef-owners — as opposed to, say, a lab-coated corporate culinary specialist in another state — the results can be staggeringly good. What sets Polpetta apart from run-of-the-mill custom shops, in my opinion, is that you’re not simply eating different versions of the same food. A hot dog topped with chili, cheese and hot sauce, rather than one slicked with peanut butter and pickle relish, is still a hot dog. But the concoctions exiting the kitchen here often look, taste and present as entirely unique dishes. The lamb meatballs on a bed of tzatziki sauce with panzanella salad, for example, has more in common with a saucedripping gyro than it does a plate of spag and balls. Likewise, the chicken meatballs with paprikash gravy and spaetzle is a genrebusting treasure that arrives from Hungary via Italy. In the hands of chef-owners Adam Bostwick and Brian Okin, the team behind the now-closed restaurants Graffiti and Cork and Cleaver, the cheeky artifice gives way to imaginative, creative and well-executed fare that often sidesteps culinary borders. Of course, the concept was not gifted to them by an apparition

in a dream; it was lifted from the popular Meatball Shop in New York. But that was just the starting point for these guys, who ended up doubling the number of ball varieties, quadrupling the sauces, and offering twice as many sides. For many, variety and paralysis are two sides of the same coin. Given the number of balls, sauces and sides, there are literally thousands of possible dinner combinations. Lucky for us, the menu also offers a convenient list of chefs’ picks, thoughtfully composed items that strip the mixing and matching from the equation. The term “side” can be slightly misleading as most belong squarely under the balls, like the al dente spaghetti that arrives beneath a trio of beef meatballs and a ladle of bright pomodoro in the Sunday Supper ($14). In the Mandy ($14), porridge-soft polenta props up sausage-and-pepper balls in a luxurious tomato cream sauce. I can’t say enough good things about that gyro-themed arrangement,

dubbed the Curtis ($14), which does a masterful job of impersonating the genuine article. Servers estimate that diners are pretty equally split between those who pick a chef’s choice and folks who go rogue. Given that there are 10 different balls, I expected duds to appear along the way, but even wildcards like the lobster and crab were good enough to build an entire meal around. In addition to the plates, balls can be ordered as sliders, subs or family-style, which nets a large platter weighed down with a dozen balls (three different types), sauces and sides. The pepperoni bread ($6) is nothing to write home about, but the spinach and meatball dip ($10) is a great place to start. Order this appetizer and you’ll be dunking warm, oven-fresh pita into a heavenly pool of mini beef balls, roasted tomatoes and spinach in a savory bechamel sauce. A trio of salads offers an adequate range of options, including a standard and well-made Caesar ($8). Polpetta is doing brisk take-out

business, but the balls are only one of the reasons people have been flocking to this Rocky River restaurant. In place of a banal, blindingly bright fast-casual eatery, where customers are pushed out the door with plastic and paper, guests enjoy a full-service (and family friendly) establishment with a professional service and bar staff. An impressive bourbon selection seduces whiskey fans from open shelving, while bartenders properly prepare classics like Sazeracs and Manhattans, but also Mai Tais and Painkillers, a nod to partner (and Porco owner) Stefan Was. A sizeable list of sparkling, pink, white and red wines by the glass starts at $7, and more than a few local and regional breweries are represented. There are a lot of silly ideas in food out there these days, but Polpetta has figured out a way to make meatballs creative, delicious and fun.

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Now Open: The Grocery OHC in New Quarter Development Right on schedule, Rachel Kingsbury opened the second location of her popular Grocery concept last week in Ohio City. The sunny spot is larger and more prominently located than the original on Lorain, but fans can count on the same great assortment of fresh produce, dry goods, prepared foods, salads, sandwiches, coffee and juices. “We are going to have similar products [to the original] but we will offer more of the things people need when you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have nothing in my refrigerator and I want something that’s healthy,’” Kingsbury explains. “The more you give people the ability to get things easily, the more likely they are to

add it into their schedule. Hopefully, people will treat us like their actual grocery store where they do their weekly shopping.” At three times the size of the other shop, plus a much better equipped kitchen, the new Grocery will be able to stock more staples like yogurt, eggs, bread, fruit, greens and grains. There is a full deli counter where guests can order juices and smoothies, rice bowls, salads and sandwiches, and even grilled-to-order proteins like salmon and chicken to go on top. “The grocery experience has deﬁnitely changed over the past 10 years into more of an experiential type of retail experience,” she adds. “People come in and want something right now.”

Lilly Handmade Chocolates Now Open in New Location in Old Brooklyn It may have taken a little longer than expected — and, honestly, when isn’t that the case when talking about a new restaurant or bar — but the ﬁne folks behind Lilly Handmade Chocolates opened their new location in Old Brooklyn two weekends ago, after shuttering the original spot in Tremont in May. Find them at 2032 West Schaaf Rd. Hours are Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The space is smaller than the Tremont shop, with no seating. Also, the owners did away with beer, wine and spirits so that they can focus solely on chocolates and confections. With increased attention placed on wholesale and internet-based business, the owners decided to shift gears somewhat. But candy making will remain front and center at the new shop. “When you walk in you’re going to be in our chocolate lab, so you’re going to be even closer to the action than you were in Tremont,” says Joshua Montague, who co-owns the store with his wife Amanda.

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IN A SENSE, FORMER Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page is a man without a country. The Canadian moved to central New York in recent years, and thanks to the way laws are structured, he found that his vote doesn’t count. Literally. “You know, I used to be very politically active when I lived in Canada. Here, I’ve got a green card, but I can’t vote. I’m not a citizen,” he says during a phone conversation. He performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at Music Box Supper Club. “And I can’t vote in Canada anymore, because they changed the laws, so if you’ve been away for over five years, you can’t vote there anymore. So for somebody who was so active and so involved, I’m kind of stifled except for in my music.” But as Page quickly adds, don’t go looking for him to start cranking out albums with heavy political themes to fi ll the void. That’s not his style. “I don’t want to write simplistic stuff with answers, because that stuff always makes my skin crawl,” he says. “But given the fact that there aren’t necessarily clear-cut answers to what we want to see in the world and who do we want to invite into our lives and so on, music is the best place for me to do that.”

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Musically, Page has been on an interesting exploratory path that began with the 2016 release of Heal Thyself Pt. I: Instinct, an intriguing title that immediately suggested a sequel might follow. Two years later, that next chapter has indeed arrived in the form of Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II. “Officially, it’s part two of Heal Thyself. I put the first one out two years ago. So this one, rather than being Heal Thyself, Pt. II: Discipline, it’s Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt II. I just flipped them around,” he explains. “That originally started as a record of about 30 songs that I thought, I could waste this all in one fell swoop and have nobody hear it, or I could release it in a bunch of different EPs. But I thought, I’ll just cut it into two records. What happens is that you spend two years in between, and you kind of outgrow some of the material, or you want to revise stuff or you start writing new stuff that you’re excited about. So about half of it is the other half of the record, the stuff that I was happy putting out and then the rest of it is new stuff. We spoke with Page on the day after he had finished the album, and he was excited to talk about it. “It’s as eclectic as any of my records have been, stylistically, all

of the way back to Gordon, where you’ve got one song that’s a huge up-tempo Latin number, followed by guitar power pop, followed by a big soul ballad. So it’s all over the map in that way,” he shares. “But thematically, I’ve been trying to think about it now that I’m outside of it. What is this record? What’s it about? You know, the last one, a lot of it was about trying to reconcile what it is to be an artist and have an artist’s life and not feel guilty about it. Like, how does any artist feel like their vocation is making a contribution or isn’t just being a slacker? Because any of us who do it know that it’s hard work and it’s heartbreaking and it’s intense. But we also love it. So that’s what the last record was. This record was kind of, well, what do I do with that now? It’s really like, where do I stand on things?” The concept sounds deep, but longtime fans of Page’s music, both solo and with Barenaked Ladies, will ﬁnd that it slots in quite comfortably with his past work. He’s always been keen to explore a variety of genres and moods with his songwriting, looking as far back as the previously mentioned Gordon, the major label debut from Barenaked Ladies, which was released in 1992. While it featured a good amount of

lighthearted fare in the form of songs like “If I Had $1000000,” it also showcased a number of songs that were deeply introspective — quite impressive for a band so early in their career. It showed that there was depth and that the Canadian group was no ﬂash in the pan — they were destined to write many more songs and albums after Gordon. With the group celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, it was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame by legendary Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee, a moment which sparked a one-night reunion for Page, who departed from the band nearly a decade ago, with his former bandmates. “It’s amazing. I mean, I didn’t grow up as a Rush fan, which is a sacrilege in Canada. I’m not a hockey guy; I’m not a Rush guy. It’s like, maybe that’s why I’m a man without a country right now. But I remember this one summer being at my friend’s cottage for a big chunk of the summer, and we just listened to [the Rush album] Moving Pictures every day all of the time,” he says. “Then Signals came out, and we listened to that all of the time. By that point, I discovered punk rock. So I kind of moved on. But you know, they are absolutely iconic. | clevescene.com | October 10 - 16, 2018

MUSIC I’ve had the opportunity to meet all of those guys several times. I got to actually play on a Rheostatics record with [Rush drummer] Neil Peart at one point when we were really young, like before we made Gordon. [Rush guitarist] Alex [Lifeson] and Geddy [Lee] — I’ve done a bunch of different events with them and so on. But now that they’re not really doing Rush anymore, it’s kind of hard to nail those guys down. I know for [BNL’s] Ed [Robertson] especially since Ed was such a Rush fanatic. That’s how I knew him when we were in elementary school together. He was the grade below me, so I wasn’t

‘One Week’ and ‘If I Had $1000000,’ are the two songs that I don’t do,” Page explains. “I do lots of the BNL songs — ‘The Old Apartment,’ ‘Brian Wilson,’ ‘What A Good Boy,’ ‘It’s All Been Done’ — but I don’t do [those two songs]. Not out of bitterness, but I just think because those songs are duets between me and Ed, they’re special to me. I feel like if I did them without him, it would feel like a cover band. With me singing ‘What A Good Boy,’ it’s me singing just like I did before. But if I’ve got some other guys singing it or I’m singing the whole thing, it seems weird to me. I thought, those songs are kind of sacred. They mean a lot to people, and I don’t want to make them cheap for the audience. You know, maybe I overthink that, because maybe the audiences just don’t care. But it serves me best to

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friendly with him.” Robertson, as Page recalls, was “the guy who played guitar and had the Rush T-shirt,” even going so far as to perform [the Rush song] “Fly By Night” in the school play. They immortalized those early school days in the song “Grade 9” on the Gordon album, and humorously, they later heard from the members of Rush as they were on their own path of musical success as a band. “I remember when we played Massey Hall in Toronto the ﬁrst time. Rush used to play three-night stands at Massey Hall, that’s when they did the All the World’s a Stage live album from there. We did four sold-out nights there, so they sent us some ﬂowers with a card that just said, ‘I thought it was supposed to be three nights,’” he laughs. “So when they gave us the award, I so badly wanted to be able to say, ‘Thank you, Geddy, for presenting us with the award’ and then he could say, ‘Ten bucks is 10 bucks!,’ which is his line from the Bob and Doug McKenzie album. He didn’t do it, but it was still great.” Fans coming out to see Page perform at the Music Box Supper Club can expect an evening of music that will mix past Barenaked Ladies favorites with songs from his solo work, including material from the newest album. But there are two songs that you’ll have to pull up on YouTube from the Hall of Fame reunion performance if you want to hear them. “Those two songs that we did,

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ﬁnd the specialness. So that just made it that much more special, for me to feel like, ‘Okay, now I’m going to do these songs, because this is how they’re to be done.’ That was a great and very satisfying feeling.” When asked how much the Hall of Fame reunion helped to repair some elements of the relationship with the band, both collectively and individually, he admits that he’s not entirely sure. “Occasionally, I’ll send a text or something like that now, which we never would have done before,” he says. “You know, otherwise, all I would ever get was maybe a birthday greeting from [BNL’s] Kevin [Hearn] and stuff like that and that was kind of it. Now, I’ve seen the guys a couple of times at events. Of course, we did the Junos and then there was a plaque unveiling at the Hall of Fame in Calgary. I realize we have years of great jokes and memories and tears and everything else together growing up that it’s fun to reminisce about. But I think, you know, I can feel the guardedness from them, and that’s ﬁne. I know I have to remind myself not to run in and go, ‘Let’s be best buddies again!’ Because I know that’s just going to end up in tears! [Laughs] But to have some shared respect and gratitude for what we did together is a huge step forward from where it was before.”

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FAMOUSLY, THE ROLLING Stones once said, “You can’t always get what you want.” But for Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, sometimes you get exactly what you want. “It’s not often that you get the record that was in your head, for whatever reason. Some you get mixed results. And sometimes it’s good, but it still wasn’t in your head,” he says, calling from Glasgow. Simple Minds perform at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at Hard Rock Live. “[Walk Between Worlds] was the record that we wanted. I think we hit the sweet spot in terms of, we wanted a record that could conjure up the ghosts of the past, the Simple Minds sound, the early ’80s. But we didn’t want it to be some act of retro. We wanted it to be contemporary also. That sounds great, but how do you do it? Because the very deﬁnition or contradiction, then is not now. Then was 20 or 30 years ago; the world has changed. Everything’s changed. How are you going to conjure that up? I don’t know, but I think we managed to do it. The upcoming show at Hard Rock Live will mark the ﬁrst time that Simple Minds has played Northeast Ohio since a 1995 gig at the Cleveland Agora. It’s long overdue, and Kerr is enthused about the return engagement, which is part of the most extensive U.S. tour they’ve done in years. “Listen, I was beginning to worry and wonder if we’d ever get the chance to come back,” he says. “But patience has paid off, and more importantly, I think you’re going to get the band in great form; so if it’s anything to do with us, we’ll make sure it’s been worth the wait.” They’ll perform two sets featuring material from Walk Between Worlds, which was released earlier this year, but Kerr promises that there will also be songs from across their lengthy career. The aim, he says, is to put something into the set list for everyone. “A lot of people are jonesing to hear stuff that they never thought that they would hear or they only heard once 20 years ago,” he says.

“I mean, listen, it’s a great problem to have, but it is always a problem trying to get a set that ticks all of the boxes. We want to play all of the songs people will come out to hear, and we want to play some stuff people don’t think they’re going to hear. Inevitably, someone will say, ‘You never play my favorite song,’ but you know, hopefully, we do well and we get back sooner rather than later. Therefore, maybe

of last year’s Acoustic in Concert. When they weren’t on stage, they were still creating. “The thing that we do is when we’re not touring, we’re always writing. Some of that stuff is much more complete than others. But there’s a mountain of stuff and, you know, the very fact that we spent time working on it, we think that there’s quality there,” Kerr says, when asked how some of the

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songs on Walk Between Worlds took shape. But, as Kerr points out, while they weren’t afraid to dig back into the archives, they also worked very much in the present, writing plenty of new material for the album. A song like “The Signal and the Noise” was written only a couple of months before the album. The title track was a new song too. “So it’s not all old stuff,” says

Kerr, “but it draws on anything from a month ago to 20 years ago.” “The Signal and the Noise” is a reminder that spending time in the real world, and not just a virtual one, is important. “I just spent three days hiking in the Highlands. That’s pretty much what ‘The Signal and the Noise’ is about, in the sense that like everyone else, I love the technology. But you’ve got to get away from it. The real energy, the real power, you’ve got to communicate, as in talking to people,” he says. “You’ve got to look people in the eyes. So the song, I’m not sure if it’s a plea or if I’m pontiﬁcating. If I am, I’m pontiﬁcating to myself and saying, ‘Take off the headphones, put off the glasses, do other stuff, get out there and ignore the hype.’ Get out there where your senses become sort of alive again or sharpened. “So the song is about this bipolar world that we’re all in now, including me, of course. As I said, I’m as typical as anyone.”

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Pit: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. Prime Prines - The Music of John Prine Pine Fever/The Cory Grinder Band: 8:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $7 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Simple Minds: 7:30 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. Therapy Thursday Featuring Jess Sikon & Michelle Gaw: 8 p.m., free. CODA.

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10/12

American Werewolves/The Brazen Rogues/Cult of the Psychic Fetus: 7 p.m., $12. Agora Ballroom. The Bottle Rockets/Sarah Borges: For nearly 30 years, the Bottle Rockets have carried the altcountry torch, even as other bands have fallen by the wayside. On their latest album, Bit Logic, the St. Louis natives write about contemporary culture and our dependence on technology. Produced by longtime studio collaborator Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (the Del-Lords, Steve Earle), the album features everything from rousing cowpunk anthems (“Bit Logic”) to groove slide guitar-driven rockers (“Maybe Tomorrow”). (Niesel) 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Vanessa Collier (in the Supper Club): Singer-saxophonist Vanessa Collier draws equally from funk, soul, rock, and blues. This year, she received Blues Music Award nominations for contemporary blues female artist of the year and horn player of the year. The

current tour supports her new album, Honey Up, which shows off her ability to mix heavy blues guitar riffs with vibrant horn arrangements. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. The Doobie Brothers: 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. Druids/Droids Attack/Sparrowmilk/ City of the Dead: 8 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class. Colin Dussault: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Lil Xan/Steve Cannon/Phem: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $33.50 DOS. House of Blues. Occidental Gypsy: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Signals Midwest 10 Year Anniversary/Restorations/Wild Pink/The Sonder Bombs/DJ Guilty Pleasures: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop. Soul Glo/Minority Threat/Harvey Pekar/CityCop/COOP (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Uptight Sugar/Vinyl Wings/Blue Collar Coalition/Wake Magnolia: 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Herb Wilborn Quartet: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

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I’m married and poly, with one partner in addition to my husband. My partner has a friend-with-beneﬁts arrangement with a woman he’s been with since before we met. The FWB is not poly, but she’s always known my partner is. She has always insisted they’re not a couple, but he knows she would be hurt if she found out he was with someone else, so he has avoided telling her. I don’t like being someone’s secret. This feels oddly like I’m helping my partner cheat on his FWB, even though they’re “not a couple.” So it’s not cheating … is it? — Pretty Obviously Lost, Yeah It’s not cheating, it’s plausible deniability. Your partner’s FWB would rather not know he’s seeing anyone else, so she doesn’t ask him about his other partners and he doesn’t tell. Accommodating his FWB’s desire not to know about other partners — doing the DADT open thing — does mean keeping you a secret, POLY, at least from her. If you’re not comfortable with that, you’ll have to end things with your partner.

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