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LIGHTING THE FUSE

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Thomas F. Pounds President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com Michael S. Miller Editor in Chief mmiller@toledofreepress.com Joshua E. Trust Vice President of Sales & Marketing jtrust@toledofreepress.com Kay T. Pounds Vice President of Operations kpounds@toledofreepress.com Stacie L. Klewer Art Director sklewer@toledofreepress.com Susan Ford Contributing Editor sford@toledofreepress.com Barbara Goodman-Shovers Contributing Editor bgshovers@toledofreepress.com DM Stanﬁeld Photo Editor DMStanﬁeld@toledofreepress.com STAFF WRITERS news@toledofreepress.com Joe Bellfy Keith Bergman Michael Brooks David Coehrs Barbara John Chris Kozak Vicki Kroll Scott McKimmy Lisa Mohr Heather Nash Mike Roth Mark Tinta David Wasinger CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Japiya Burns Scott Calhoun John K. Hartman Randy Zalewski ADVERTISING SALES Renee Bergmooser rbergmooser@toledofreepress.com Mike W. Bush mbush@toledofreepress.com

An epiphany, served on a wing and a prayer

esterday, driving north on Monroe Street and stopped by a red light at N. St. Clair, my humanity was challenged by a dying pigeon and a homeless man. It’s not fair for me to call him homeless, but that’s the abrupt judgment I made as I saw him crossing Monroe Street. He was an older man, with graying hair and an unkempt thatch of beard that looked matted and yellow under his mouth. He wore two knitted caps pulled down over his ears, and at least three jackets, none of which looked like they had seen the inside of a washing machine for many, many moons. His pants were discolored at the knees and the cuffs were frayed, falling upon mismatched shoes that forced him to walk with the slightest hint of a limp. He tilted his head at odd angles, as if his eyes were incapable of going where he wanted them to go. I was able to observe all of this because through at least three cycles of red-yellowgreen, he stood in front of my car, trying to wrangle a pigeon that was ﬂapping and pecking to escape. The man grabbed one of the bird’s wings, hoisted it to his chest and started to

took one more glance to see what was going on. The man wrapped his left hand around the pigeon’s body, placed his right hand around its neck, and twisted. Sitting in a running car with the talk radio swirling around me, I know I did not hear the bones snap, but in my memory, I heard them as clearly as a baseball connecting with a well-swung bat. He took the dying bird, placed it in a brown paper bag, and shufﬂed/walked toward the river. My ﬁrst, instant thought was that the man was going to take the bird somewhere quiet and eat it. Without realizing it, I hit the brakes. Fortunately, the woman behind me was too shocked to have stepped on her gas pedal. I caught her gaze again, and she looked like she was being forced to hold a live centipede in her mouth. She was shaking her head and glaring at me, and in my head, I could hear her accusatory tone, her anger that I didn’t stop the man from killing the pigeon. A few blocks later, as she passed me, I did not look over to make eye contact. I was ten miles on I-475

Michael S. Miller walk/shufﬂe to the curb. I glanced in my rear-view mirror to see the woman in the car behind me watching the man as he sat down on the curb, almost directly across from the hibernating 5/3rd Field. She looked up, probably to see if the light had changed, and I caught her glance in the mirror. She shrugged her head toward the man, pursed her lips and narrowed her gaze at me, as if to say, “Aren’t you going to tell that man to leave that bird alone?” Having no desire to leave my running car to open an animal-rights discussion with a stranger who might be as willing to ﬁght with me as he was with a pigeon, I made a face meant to communicate, “Um, no.” I saw her turn her head back to the man just as the light turned green. I

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before I realized that all of my mental and emotional energy was focused on the “poor bird,” with nothing spared for the human being who I assumed was homeless, destitute and living off of pigeons and God only knows what other street game. Shouldn’t my thoughts and feelings have focused on him, not the bird? Shouldn’t the woman behind me have urged me to help him, not the bird? What does it say about me and my humanity that, at ﬁrst, I cared more about a minor member of the animal kingdom than a human being? I suppose the violence of the moment prejudiced me against the man, but that feels like an excuse. I’m not claiming to have been spiritually shamed into a new awareness, like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning. But I do wonder, would Scrooge have been as madly gleeful if his epiphany had been delivered with a snapped pigeon neck, instead of a goldenbrown turkey drumstick? Michael S. Miller is Editor in Chief of Toledo Free Press. He may be contacted at (419) 241-1700, or by e-mail at mmiller@toledofreepress.com.

BLOG TALK Selected quotes from Toledo-area blogs: “There are so many organizations that put their heart and souls into making this city into something so much more than what it is (or has dwindled to) and are frustrated somewhere in council’s la-la land. Toledo government sucks. Warehouse District has a less than credible attitude towards a lot of ideas and potential new businesses (you wonder why there are secret meetings?). Packo’s got screwed! Fifth Third Field was what it needed to be and people were coming, but after the games this place was dead and people just went home. Is it possible to recognize a good plan for the city and actually go full throttle to get it completed?” – Interest, www.toledotalk.com “Downtown Toledo redevelopment is akin to Capt. Smith of the Titanic putting in an order for more lifeboats after hitting the iceberg. While I commend the people who really want to do something about saving Toledo for their good intentions, it’s too little, too late. Toledo should have been working on these problems, keeping the city, not just downtown, vibrant and vital, for the past, well, 40 years. Keeping the city generally in good shape would have gone a long way towards helping the ‘downtown.’ ” – swd, www.toledotalk.com

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region; and the Memphis metro region, whose 100-mile radius extends across three states. His approach to development is unique in several GALLIS respects. ■ He forms coalitions by building and engaging public, private and institutional leadership across a region. ■ He creates visual frameworks that convey information efﬁciently. ■ He employs communication strategies that reach a wide range of audiences, democratizing the process and gaining public consensus. And, he said, “we’ve actually had results.” Clients call to tell him about good things that are happening because they’re now operating within a regional framework. But how do you go about building consensus in a country that has been characterized by disjuncture of interest since

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colonial times? You do it through a process of dialogue, said Gallis. “It’s a process that must be structured,” he said. As a doctor looks at the systems of the body, “we … look at all the systems of a region,” he said. “Education, environment, infrastructure, history, culture. And then we ask what the information means.” The next step is to see where the opportunities and threats are, and develop strategies the three sectors will support. “The most difﬁcult, really, is the leadership component,” Gallis said. Triangular leadership – political, corporate and institutional – is key, he believes, because the 21st century knowledge economy comes out of universities and out of research hospitals. These institutions also stabilize the leadership, because if you’re looking ten and 20 years out, political bodies will roll over. CEOs will, too. But as a society, we’re not used to talking across professional lines. Educators aren’t accustomed to listening empathically to politicians, hearing about the difﬁculties they have satisfying multiple constituencies. Nor are politicians used to listening to CEOs talk about the competition they face in markets.

“It takes time,” he said. How the parts of an economy interrelate is an issue not just for Toledo but for the U.S. and North America, Gallis said. For most of the 20th century we benefited from being the biggest economy in the free world. But the reality has changed. The European Union now has a larger economy than the U.S. “We can’t just say, ‘I’m going to go it alone’ and not relate to others,” he said. Gallis sees building a regional mentality as a process that will eventually overcome the current fragmented approach. “Regions are like sports teams,” he said. “A basketball team doesn’t work with five centers. The guard has his role and the center has his. A football team doesn’t work with 11 quarterbacks. Each member of the team has to play the role that goes with his place on the field.” And so it is with regions. “The center city has its role to play and outlying areas have theirs. If the players are competing inside the region …” Gallis broke off. On a basketball team, he said, if one player is hogging the ball, “you know they’re going to be a losing team.”

Susan Ford is Contributing Editor for Toledo Free Press. She may be contacted at sford@toledofreepress.com.

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2005 Corvette is lean, mean muscle machine

hevrolet’s ﬂagship car, the legendary Corvette, was totally redesigned for 2005. This sixth generation ’Vette, referred to as the C6, is handsdown the most fun you can have driving a new muscle machine down the road. I had a blast every time I stepped on the gas pedal of this American beauty. The Corvette doesn’t look that much different than the C5. Its basic structure is still based on the C5. Upon

Mike Schaffer closer inspection, the C6 is far superior to the C5 in every capacity — from its ride and handling, to its power, new interior features, drop-dead gorgeous

looks and ﬁnely sculpted body. The design engineers at GM poured over ever inch of this baby, and the results are subtle but not without purpose. At 0.28 coefﬁcient of drag, the C6 is the most aerodynamic Corvette ever. Best of all, the new Corvette has a base price of just $43,500. That’s plenty of world-class performance for the dollar. The most noticeable difference is the car’s headlights. Corvettes have had hidden headlights since the early 1960s. The new clear-lens over high-intensity-discharge Xenon headlamps that sit aside the C6’s low center grille sure look a lot better and illuminate the night road better than those bulky, popup lights of Corvettes past. I liked the shorter and seemingly lower hood

that deﬁnitely offers a better view of the road. You don’t feel like you’re driving a boat like those big ’Vettes of yesteryear, but rather a world-class sports car ready to pounce. And pounce the C6 does. The C6 features hiperformance 18-inch tires in the front and 19-inch rubber in the back wrapped around polished aluminum wheels. Its wheelbase is also 1.2 inches longer than the C5. With the wheels pushed out to the corners, the C6 has a low, muscular stance that helps the revamped four-wheel independent suspension stick to the road. I liked the new Tremec sixspeed manual transmission and the more aggressive gear set. However, the most impressive part of the 2005 Corvette is the output of

Westﬁeld Franklin Park sneak preview From Staff Reports

TOLEDO – Westfield Franklin Park opened its doors Tuesday for a media tour of its expansion. This was the first public viewing of the 238,000-sq. ft., $117 million re-development. The area will feature 27 stores, a food court and a 16-screen cinema. A grand opening is scheduled for May 6. LEFT: The existing light tower is being dismantled for a glass pyramid. RIGHT: Robert Keith of Toledo, a journeyman tile finisher with Local 3 Brick Allied Craftsmen union, applies sealcoat to the new food court’s floor. Toledo Free Press photos by DM Stanfield

the 6.0-liter, pushrod 16valve LS-2 V-8 engine. With 400 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque — which is 50 more horses than the C5’s 5.7-liter engine and virtually equal to the C5’s high-performance Z06 model by the way — this car can cover 0 to 60 mph in just 4.2 seconds — according to GM. The best interior feature is the 6.5-inch navigation system screen — a ﬁrst for Corvette — that tilts upward to reveal the CD insertion slot and DVD navigation slot behind it with a push of a button. The C6 will hit showrooms in 2006 and feature a monster 500-horsepower engine. Mike Schaffer is a member of the Automotive Press Association. He may be contacted via e-mail at schaffer@heritage.com.

COMMUNITY ■ Safety tips for your Easter egg handling, page 10

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Jared Fogel’s message: “Health is a choice.”

The familiar Subway spokesman paid a visit to two local schools on Monday to talk about eating right and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, page 10 TOLEDO SPOTLIGHT

She walked the line

Barbara John: A life in music and media By Michael S. Miller Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief mmiller@toledofreepress.com

“I sang much from the heart of me I sang of the bond, I sang of the free; Yet many never heard my name Until Barbara John came. Each house was filled was filled to overflow When Barbara ran the show. Of all the world I’ve traveled yet, No greater lady have I met. You other promoters get behind; Barbara John heads the line.” – Signed, “Corny but true, Johnny Cash, to Barbara John on her birthday, March 2, 1969.” TOLEDO — The sheet of paper containing those words is preserved in a frame, hanging on the wall of Barbara John’s north Toledo home. Next to the poem is a large framed photograph of American music legends Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash. The photo, which was used for a TV Guide cover, is autographed to Barbara John from both musicians. John, who turned 78 this month, enjoyed success

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Tips for handling Easter eggs

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Fogle shows students at Highland Elementary his 60-inch jeans.

Fogle: Health is a choice By Nikka Dawes Special to Toledo Free Press

SYLVANIA – “Whoa!” was the reaction given by students at Highland Elementary School on Monday as Subway spokesman Jared Fogle held up a pair of jeans with a 60-inch waist. The man known as “the Subway Guy” toured Highland and Longfellow elementary schools Monday, speaking to kids about healthy eating, exercise, and his former weight problems. Fogle pushed a message that each child was responsible for his or her choices. “When I was so big I couldn’t walk across a room without being out of breath, I really only had myself to blame,” he said. Fogle recounted how, beginning in third grade, be became addicted to junk food, spiraling into an obsession that left him so fat he could not sit in movie theatre seats. Depressed with his condition, Jared tried several

diets and failed. He reached a breakthrough in college when he discovered a nearby restaurant, Subway, featured low-fat subs he enjoyed. Within three months, Jared shed more than 90 pounds. A year later, having eaten more than 700 subs, he lost 240 pounds. The Indiana native was pushed into the national spotlight when a college buddy wrote of his success in a newspaper, which was seen by Subway. Now at age 27, Fogle weighs 195 pounds and has cut his waist size in half. “The best part of the job for me is coming to places like Toledo and speaking to kids,” Fogle said. “Every decision, whether it is an apple instead of chips, outdoor play instead of video games, can have a huge impact on your life.” In his visit to Toledo, Fogle also recognized students for their participation in Jump Rope For Heart, a health education event of the American Heart Association.

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Kaptur town halls scheduled From staff reports

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-9th District) will hold her next town hall meeting Wednesday at the Sylvania Senior Center. Kaptur will join attendees from 5:30 to 7 p.m. At the forum, the Congresswoman will discuss the current status of Social Security in America and solicit views on the emerging plans for Social Security reform. For information, contact Kaptur’s ofﬁce at 1-800-964-4699. Kaptur - Social Security town hall schedule March 23: Sylvania Senior Center 7140 Sylvania Avenue - 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 29: VFW Post 2529 604 W. Perkins Avenue, Sandusky - 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 30: Oregon City Council Chambers, 5330 Seaman Road - 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 31: Ottawa Co. Community Resource Ctr., 8043 W. SR 163, Oak Harbor - 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 4: University of Toledo Hosted by UT Young Democrats - 6-8 p.m. April 18: Elms Retirement Village 115 Prospect Street, Wellington - 6:30-8 p.m. May 2: Warren AME Church 915 Collingwood Ave., Toledo - 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

hile eggs are used all year long, they are especially used around the Easter holiday for decorating and hiding for the big Easter egg hunt. Here are some tips to help before the egg hunt: ■ Wash your hands thoroughly before handling eggs. ■ Use only eggs that have been refrigerated and discard eggs that are cracked or dirty. When cooking, place a single layer of eggs in a saucepan. Add water to at least one inch above the eggs. Cover the pan, bring the water to a boil, and carefully remove the pan from heat. Let the eggs stand (8 minutes for extra-large eggs, 15 minutes for large, 12 minutes for medium). Immediately, run cold water over the eggs.

Susan Zies When eggs are cool enough to handle, place them in an uncovered container in the refrigerator where they can air dry. ■ When decorating, be sure to use food grade dyes. ■ Keep hard-cooked Easter eggs refrigerated until just before the hunt. Keep them fully chilled by storing them on a shelf inside the refrigerator, not in the door.

■ Consider buying one set of eggs for decorating only and another set for eating. During the hunt: ■ Hide the eggs in places that are protected from dirt, pets, and other potential sources of bacteria. ■ To prevent bacterial growth, don’t let eggs sit in hiding places for more than 2 hours! After the hunt: ■ Throw away any eggs that were cracked, dirty, or that children did not ﬁnd within 2 hours. ■ Place the eggs back in the refrigerator until ready to eat. Susan Zies is extension educator, family and consumer sciences, Lucas County Ohio State University Extension. She may be contacted at (419) 213-4254.

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in three distinct careers, following a path that took her to radio and television, concert promotions and newspapers. She has worked with such show business legends as Bert Parks, Gene Autry, Dick Clark, Marty Robbins and Willie Nelson. John, known as “Bobbie” to her friends, has large, dark eyes that glisten when she talks about her life; one can sense there are fascinating movies playing in her mind as she reminisces. Her face is a road map of lines and while she suffers from a breathing disease, she still stubbornly sneaks away to smoke a cigarette when she can. She is sharp, witty and an avid Scrabble player; she is studying lists of two-letter words and foreign words that appear in the Scrabble dictionary. She was born at Flower Hospital in Toledo in 1926, the daughter of A.R. Simpson, one-time head of Toledo Home Federal Bank. She graduated from Toledo Libbey High School in 1944, and pursued a college degree at Bowling Green State University. “I started out as a speech major, because there was no journalism major then,” she said. “Eventually, journalism became a major, so I switched to that.” John, who served as editor of the Libbey Crystal and the Bowling Green News, said she was attracted to print journalism because, “I never had any other talents. I’m comfortable behind the scenes.” An early marriage resulted in two daughters, Rebecca and Deborah, and a divorce after seven years. John never remarried. Late in her marriage, her salesman husband was transferred to St. Louis, where John found a job writing and producing for television station KSD-TV. “I got to a point where I could not advance any further in St. Louis, so they found work for me in New York,” she said. “I went there to seek my fortune.” In New York, she found herself developing and producing game shows with Bert Parks and Paul Winchell. But the 1956 quiz show scandal, in which contestants were provided answers and games were rigged, forced the genre to shut down.

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“Every one of our shows was proven clean,” John said. “We were totally cleared. But the four shows we had ready were canceled.” John received an offer to revive her game show ideas at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, which operated independently of the three networks. In the early 1960s, Gene Autry bought KYLA-TV, and asked John to produce “Melody Ranch,” a program that showcased country music. “Autry came to my ofﬁce and perched on the corner of my desk and drawled, ‘Hawnee, I want you to produce Melody Ranch,’ ” John said. “I told him, I can’t, I don’t know any country music. He told me I had four weeks to learn it, so I went to the record store on Hollywood and Vine every night for a month and listened to as much country music as I could. That’s how I learned.”

THE MAN IN BLACK

After a year producing Autry’s show, John was hired by KGBS radio in Los Angeles. One of her promotions was a 1967 concert featuring Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash. John presented Cash with a unique idea for his performance. “I asked him if he would sing his first song without his guitar,” John said. “I had him step up on a black box, and I had permission from the fire marshal to turn out every light in the room for a few seconds. I had two thin spotlights slashing down on him, and with no music, he launched into ‘Big River.’ With him elevated, in the dark house, and those slashing lights, you could hear the collective gasp and awe in the audience. It was a special moment.” Cash’s manager soon contacted John and offered her a gig promoting and designing all of Cash’s concerts. “One of the first concerts I designed for him was at Cobo Hall,” John said. “When I got there, Johnny said, ‘There’s a young man opening for me named Hank Williams Jr. Would you light him too, make him look good?’ ” Between shows, John met Cash and his wife at a restaurant. “He said to me, ‘Well, Ms. Bobbie, I want you to move with us to Nashville.’ ” John said. “I told him I didn’t want to move to Nashville, and why would you want me to? He said, ‘Hell,

Toledo Free Press photo by DM Stanﬁeld

Barbara John with one her most treasured collectibles, a rare, unproduced album by Johnny Cash. Ms. Bobbie, I don’t know. I just know I need you around.’ ” For the next seven years, John traveled with Cash around the country and around the world, designing stage shows from Cobo Hall to Wimbledon, England. She was with Cash during his concert at San Quentin prison, and the recording of one of Cash’s biggest hits, “A Boy named Sue.” During her time with Cash, John traveled to Jerusalem to help produce a 1973 movie he wrote, “Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus.” John said that while she worked with Cash, he was sober and at his ﬁnest. “I worked with him during his seven best years,” she said. “He was off the dope and very gracious about my contributions to his act.” John was a producer for the ABC-TV “Johnny Cash Show,” working with such legends as Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. As her notoriety grew, other performers called for her help, including country superstars Conway Twitty, T.J. Sheppard, Johnny

Duncan and Marty Robbins. John said her career kept her from settling down and remarrying. “I logged three million air miles during that era,” she said. “One year, I was only home 19 days. I had two suitors who asked me if I was ever going to be home long enough to be a wife. I never was. Sometimes, now, I wish I had, but I love my life.” By January 1974, John was ready for a change, and began her third career, in a ﬁeld she had studied for decades earlier — print journalism.

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She moved to Florida and worked for the Fort Meyers Observer newspaper chain, writing stories and editing for ten years. An article she wrote about a city ﬁne on a Shriners group resulted in the ﬁne being lowered by $40,000, she said. She moved to Hawaii for a short time, but an allergic reaction to the volcanic ash in the air brought her back to Toledo. “I kept in touch with the

Cash family,” John said. I help them with weddings and funerals. The last time I saw them was in Ann Arbor in the mid-90s.” John solemnly remembers the day Cash died, Sept. 12, 2003. Both of her daughters were visiting her in Toledo. “Deborah was up before me, and saw it on television,” John said. “I went out to get the paper, and when I came in, she said, ‘Mom, before you open the paper …’ and I said, ‘Johnny?’ and she nodded. We woke up Rebecca and told her, and three of us watched the coverage. Then, I got out my old Johnny Cash records and the three of us sat around all day, singing Johnny Cash songs. I had my daughters with me — the Lord did something nice for me.” She keeps active seeking Scrabble games and has recently taken up yoga to help with her breathing. She stays active in seniors issues, and will contribute a regular column to the Toledo Free Press. “I’m all about staying busy,” she said. “I’ve had three good careers, and now I’m about to start a new phase.”

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WITNESS Eli S. Semer joined Army Reserves unit 983 in Monclova in 1997 when he was 18 years old. In March 2003, he was sent with the 368th in New Hampshire to the battleﬁelds of Iraq. A tire ﬂying off a fuel truck struck his collarbone and he was sent home to heal. He is awaiting the call that will take him back to Iraq. He took some of these photos with a disposable camera.

“We were escorting fuel trucks through the desert when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded the truck ahead of us,” Semer said. “All of the soldiers aboard survived the attack.” “The Iraqis outside of our base camp always wanted to see us; they were very curious about us,” Semer said. “When we could, we would give them food out of our MRE bags. If the bags had candy, like Skittles or M&Ms, we would give them to the kids. But we had to be careful, because the people would ﬁght for the scraps.”

“One day as were guarding this bridge from below, we saw a group of Iraqis approach one of our tanks,” Semer said. “The Iraqis were not surrendering, but they raised their hands to make sure they would not be shot at. The desert could get to 148 degrees. I wore the same uniform for the ﬁrst six months I was in Iraq. I washed my uniform by jumping into a water tank fully dressed.” “We took Baghdad so quick that our job was done,” Semer said. “So they had us escorting ofﬁcers in Black Hawks. We rode with them so if a chopper went down, we could protect them if we lived. It was unbelievably hot in the Black Hawks. This is my sergeant, Pete Dascoulias.”

ON THE COVER: “I got the idea to sled down a quarry at Christmas,” Semer said. “One guy would guard; while we sledded, we would sing ʻJingle Bells.ʼ ”

“This desert fox wandered into our base camp, which was built in the middle of nowhere,” Semer said. “We tried to feed it, but it stumbled around, and eventually wandered away.”

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■ Cherokee sweep Chicago, advance to ﬁnals, page 16

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The man behind the player

James Walker Sr. has guided his son, James Jr., to glory for Scott High School basketball … and for his future as a young man, page 16

KOZ’S CORNER

Chris Kozak

omewhere along the line we all should have heard about Viviana Rivero. Rivero is a Junior Tennis player on the University of Toledo’s Women’s Tennis team with an international pedigree and Vogue cover girl looks. She came to Toledo without ever seeing the campus, without ever experiencing more than a dusting of snow, because she “felt comfortable with the coach (former Rocket coach Laura Isabel) as she was from Venezuela,” Rivero said. “And a friend I’d known since I was 8 years old (former player Monica Ribero) was already here and told me it was a good place.” If word gets out that friendships from second grade attracts athletes with backgrounds the like of Rivero’s, elementary schools across America are about to be overrun by recruiters. Consider that while growing up in Bolivia, Rivero: Played for the Bolivian Fed Cup team four times; was ranked Please see RIVERO, page 15

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John K. Hartman

No. 1 in singles and doubles for ages 16-18 from 1998 to 2000; was a member of the Bolivian National Team from 1993 to 2001; and in 1999, the president of Bolivia named her the “Best Female Tennis Player.” It’s almost laughable when you hear the list of the colleges that offered her scholarships. She rattles them off like it’s no big deal: Tennessee, North Carolina, Norte Dame, and Duke. She enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in communications, and last year was named to MAC Academic Honor Roll. “I’m happy in Toledo,” she said. “I like the people, it’s a safe place compared

to bigger cities.” “I’m not a big fan of the cold,” she added, “But I’m getting used to it.” Playing No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles for the Lady Rockets, Rivero said she eagerly embraces her position as leader and team member. “I have lots of experience,” she said, in the biggest understatement since Barry Bonds said, “I might have taken steroids.” “And I know I can be a leader. I can help them realize this is not an individual sport at the college level. We need to play as teammates.” The team is a unique blend of skill and background. Comprised of four freshmen, a sophomore and four upperclassmen, the players come from equal parts America (3), South America (4) and Canada (3). Tennis, the great American melting pot, eh?

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“It is amazing how much we learn from each other, mainly because we are from different cultural backgrounds,” said secondyear coach Tracy Honko. “I think the girls have learned to appreciate other cultures because of their teammates.” Rivero returns to the court after a shoulder injury forced her to red shirt all of last year. Out-of-conference matches in, among other places, Hilton Head, Louisville and Pittsburgh, Rivero and her doubles partner, Sarah VanderMolen, posted a 5-2 record. They begin the MAC season schedule this Friday at Buffalo. “I can’t wait for the MAC season to begin,” Rivero said. “I have great expectations and I know we will all work hard.”

Chris Kozak may be contacted at Ckozak@toledofreepress.com.

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miss the gold coat. I miss the swashbuckling, animated ﬁgure prowling the sidelines, kicking the chairs, stomping his feet, waving his arms and shouting at the top of his lungs with his hands cupped around his mouth. That version of Stan Joplin has been gone for a while, replaced by the dark-suited, circumspect, soft-spoken, diplomatic, philosophical Stan Joplin ﬁghting for his job. The long knives are out for the dashing head basketball coach of the R-R-R-O-CKETS and the threat of losing his job apparently has caused him to change his ways. The critics say he doesn’t win enough games, doesn’t recruit quality student athletes, doesn’t win championships and doesn’t put enough fans in the increasingly antiquated Savage Hall. His contract was not

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extended as it had been in the past. He has one year to go. The University of Toledo, his alma mater, has made Stan Joplin a lame duck. The media has been reporting extensively on his shortcomings and his short-leash. Now other colleges can tell recruits to avoid UT because its headman is a short-timer, a powerful argument to make to teen-age boys looking for stability. Joplin temporarily silenced the boo-birds by winning a share of the Mid-American Conference’s Western Division title this year, but his Rockets stumbled to Buffalo in the opening game and ﬁnished 16-13 for the season. Co-championship forgotten. Long knives back in position. Here’s why Joplin deserves a better fate than the dishonor of lame-duck status: ■ He has built a winning program in spite of playing a tough pre-conference schedule of games on the road against marquee opponents, such as Duke this year. ■ His teams have always been competitive in the conference. ■ He has gotten the better of arch rival BGSU by a landslide. ■ Joplin knows that most blue chip recruits are not going to go to Toledo over big-name schools. So he goes after talented players with some issues like low high school grades and behavior challenges. Sometimes he

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turns these rough edges into shining stones. Sometimes not. ■ He cares about the Toledo area. He wants to live here and work here. Toledo is having trouble keeping its talented graduates from fleeing the area’s troubled economy. Stan wants to stay! ■ What will become of Joplin if UT shows him the door after next season? ■ I predict he will become a first assistant at a big-name university in the south or west for a lot more money than he makes now. After three-to-five years, he will be named head coach at another big-name university and be wildly successful. ■ There is precedent for this around here. Three decades ago Bowling Green State University showed Don Nehlen the door as head football coach because despite a solidly winning record, he could not win a championship. Nehlen then went to work as an assistant for Bo Schembechler of University of Michigan fame. After a few years of “seasoning,” Nehlen took the head job at West Virginia University and became a big winner. UT could show Stan the door in a year and receive the same embarrassing fate.

John K. Hartman gets ideas for his column driving around Ohio and Michigan listening to radio station 89X, Windsor, Ont., at 88.7 FM. 89X can be heard throughout Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. E-mail him at john.hartman@dacor.net.

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It is every father’s wish to have his son grow and mature into a decent and happy young man. In the case of James Walker, Sr., it would appear this wish has come true. James Walker, Jr. has been a part of the Toledo sports scene for several years but he recently rose to prominence through his team’s success in the just-completed state play-offs. As a part of the play-off experience, James, Jr. was exposed to a series of interviews by various members of the media under difﬁcult and trying circumstances. Through these interviews, James, Jr.’s personality and underlying character was brought to light. The Walker story begins with James, Sr.’s uncle, Jack Walker. Uncle Jack provided Senior with the guidance and support that allowed him to avoid the many distractions that often cause young men to stray. According to James, Sr., his uncle was “always there for me. He provided me with whatever I needed to play; shoes, money, whatever. I vowed that when I got older I would do the same for my son.” The evidence that James, Sr. had kept his vow became evident as the Scott Bulldogs’ 2004-05 season neared a close. In post-game interviews, the younger Walker made frequent reference to advice and counsel his father provided as he was growing up. The comments made by James, Jr. were delivered with an openness and warmth that indicated the high level of respect he has for his father. James, Jr. began his basketball career in the third grade after his father gave him a small basketball. According to his dad, James went everywhere with the ball, dribbling all the time. One day he mistakenly placed the ball by a space heater and the ball developed what James, Sr. described as “knots.” This did not dissuade the young Walker and he learned to dribble just as well with the knots as he did without them. The ball remains a treasured part of the Walker trophy collection. James, Jr. has had the pleasure of playing with some of the ﬁnest players in Northwest

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James Walker, Sr. and Jr. hope recruiters come knocking. Ohio. Throughout grade school and junior high, he was part of the Robinson Junior High School team that featured Chris Poellnitz and B. J. Raymond. James, Jr. developed a close relationship with Raymond that has continued. One of the more memorable moments following Scott’s upset victory over St. John’s Jesuit High School in the regional semi-ﬁnals was the hug between Raymond and James, Jr. at center court. Despite the deep respect between the two Walkers, there have been disputes. James, Sr. said his son was still “rough around the edges.” “James sometimes wanted to take off and not do enough,” James, Sr. said. In response, James, Sr. forced his son to take a job last summer at a local fast food restaurant. After only a few days, James, Jr. decided that furthering his education might be a good idea. “I want him to get a scholarship,” James, Sr. said. “Get to school. Don’t want him to have any regrets. I

had my chance. I blew it. I want better for James.” Unfortunately for James, Jr., the recruiters are not yet beating a path to the Walkers’ door. James, Jr. is considered by many supposed experts to be undersized for Division-I basketball (he is listed at 5’10”) but, as his father says, “you can’t measure his heart.” There have been several smaller schools expressing interest but James, Jr. “does not want to play D-III.” Whatever happens, James, Jr. said he feels he is a fortunate young man. “Where I come from a lot of guys aren’t lucky enough to have a mom and a dad. I have both and they have taught me to live right. Do what you are supposed to do,” he said. James Walker, Jr.’s basketball career might be over. It is left to the college coaches whether he plays next year. What is more important is that he has grown into a solid young man who appreciates what he has and what his parents have done for him. James, Sr. has his wish.

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Cherokee sweep Chicago, advance The Toledo Cherokee completed a two-game sweep of the Chicago Force in the best of three opening rounds of the Central States Hockey League playoffs with a 4-3 victory Saturday. By eliminating the Force, Toledo advances to the Hurster Cup ﬁnals in Peoria, Illinois where they will be part of the “frozen four” that will compete for the opportunity to go to the National Championship the following week in Blaine, Minnesota. The other three teams that will be at the Hurster Cup this week are Peoria, Cincinnati, and defending National Champion St. Louis. The Cherokee schedule in Peoria is as follows: March 24, Toledo vs. St. Louis 6 p.m. at the Owens Center, Peoria, IL March 25, Toledo vs. Peoria 6 p.m. Owens Center March 26, Toledo vs. Cincinnati 5 p.m. Owens Center March 27, Hurster Cup Championship game Teams TBA 2 p.m. Owens Center For more information, see www.cherokeehockey.com.

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Tamaron names golf professional Bill Kline, former assistant golf professional at Eagle’s Landing Golf Club, has been named Head Golf Professional at Tamaron Country Club, according to a press release. New programs at Tamaron this season will include two junior academies, a high school golf league, a ladies club golf league, senior club golf league, men’s club tournaments, adult clinics and individual video lessons. For more information, see www.tamaroncc.com.

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For Michael Wolff & Impure Thoughts, it’s all about playing live jazz. “I like being in the moment, improvising,” said the pianist and composer. “We have a structure, but we’re really influenced by each other and the audience. I think it’s really exciting.” So exciting, in fact, that Wolff and his band recorded their latest release, “Dangerous Vision,” live in front of an audience during three nights in the studio. Wolff, percussionist Badal Roy, drummer Mike Clark and bass player John B. Williams will play everything from “Dangerous Thoughts,” as well as tracks from their first two discs, “Intoxicate” (2002) and “Impure Thoughts” (2000), during shows at 8 and 10 p.m. at Murphy’s Place Thursday, March 31. Tickets are $8, $10 and $15. “I was the last pianist with Cannonball Adderley’s band. Recording live was something he liked to do. He would have an audience in the studio and have a bar and food — it would be like a party,” Wolff said from his Manhattan home in a phone interview last week. “I get self-conscious in the studio with headphones on, start to worry about everything. With an audience there, I just played for them.” Released in November, the CD features five songs written by Wolff and four covers, including John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” and

Haas was eclectic, thoughtful

ello, Everyone! It’s impossible (so far) to trademark a salutation, but if anyone could own the above statement it would be the musicologist Karl Haas. Haas, a cultural giant, died last month at 91. His obit was obscured by those of Arthur Miller and Philip Johnson and who passed away around the same time. Of the major art forms, classical music has always been the one that to me is least intuitive. My understanding and appreciation of architecture and drama come naturally. I “know” words. I “get” shapes. But despite years of piano lessons and symphony tickets, I need someone to point out the scale of C major, the key of F sharp, a ﬁfth or a third or an octave. Karl Haas was my someone. Truth be told, what he said Please see HAAS, page 19

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Music Notes The Ark 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor. 734-763-8587 RFD Boys March 25. 8 p.m. $11. Susan Werner March 26. 8 p.m. $17.50. Take a Chance Tuesday featuring Andy Cohen March 29. 8 p.m. Free. Club Bijou 209 N. Superior St. 419-321-5007 Resonant Soul, Attacked by Wolves, Huge World Project March 25. 8 p.m. $5. Aaron Carter and Jordan Knight March 26. 7:30 p.m. $25.50 in advance, $30 at the door. The Happy Badger 1855 S. Reynolds Rd. 419-389-0021 Alone@6a.m. The Modern Soviet Enemies, Lock N Key March 25. 7 p.m. $7.

Headliners 4500 N. Detroit Ave. 419-269-4500 Fan Appreciation Show featuring Mindshift, Onceover, After Alice, Downtown Brown, Intentions of Nothing March 26. Doors open at 8 p.m. $2-$5. Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club H 210 N. Main St., BG 419-352-3195 Saturday Looks Good to Me, Drama Club, Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electric Tiger Machine, Shuttlecock, The Cupcakes March 26. 10:30 p.m. $5-$8. Maumee Theater 601 Conant St., Maumee 419-897-8901 Fools for Animals Concert featuring Three Sheets to the Wind, The Chicken Pickers, Dave Browning April 1. 8 p.m. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Proceeds to benefit Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nursery and the Toledo Animal Shelter. For tickets, call 419-877-0060 or 419-382-1130. Mickey Finnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub 602 Lagrange St. 419-246-3466

Courageous Minority March 25. 10 p.m. $5. Dr. Sauce March 26. 10 p.m. $5. Desolation Row March 30. 10 p.m. $4. The Static Rituals, The Drawers, Coroli March 31. 10 p.m. $4. Girls Rock Toledo! April 1. 10 p.m. $5.

Murphyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place 151 Water St., Toledo. 419-241-7732 Sheila Jordan with The Murphys March 25. 9 and 11 p.m. $8-15. Toledo Museum of Art 2445 Monroe St. 419-255-8000 Libbey Court: Gay Galvin Trio March 25. 6:30 p.m. Free. Tapestry April 1. 6:30 p.m. Free. Peristyle: Classics Series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mark Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Four Seasons.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Toledo Symphony Orchestra with violinist and composer Mark Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor and conductor and violinist Scott Yoo. April 1. 8 p.m. $22-$45. The Underground 209 Superior St. 419-531-7625 CL1, Bigfoot & The Fully Automatics, Deadbeat Moms, Huron County Creeps March 25. Doors open at 9 p.m. $5. Dead to Fall, Flesh and Blood Robot, The Machine Always Wins, Separation Tree, The Bacon March 27. 6 p.m. $7 in advance $8 at the door. With Passion, Genocya,Thought Hideous April 1. Doors open at 9 p.m. $5. University of Toledo 419-530-2248 Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall: Evening of Classical Guitar, direction of Ed Levy March 28. 8 p.m. Free.

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TOLEDO CONFIDENTIAL

Club owners turn down â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;free lunchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

hings that are a matter of routine in other cities just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get done here in Toledo. Questioning it seems to invite hostility, and a surly invitation to hit the bricks if the status quo doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suit ya. Change doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come easily to the Glass City, even when it involves something that makes the kind of horse sense we stalwart Midwesterners pride ourselves on. Weekly newspapers across the country are known for having nightclub ads. For club owners, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a no-brainer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that weekly ad expense brings in a steady crowd. Simple, right? Well, several options exist that make event promotion even simpler. Web sites and magazines have free events calendars â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no strings attached. Yet promoters still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be bothered to call in their weekly events. Then when faced with an empty room and a bad gig, the typical reaction is â&#x20AC;&#x153;this town sucks.â&#x20AC;? Meet the music fans halfway, at least â&#x20AC;&#x201D; let them know they have options. Promoters: do yourselves, your acts, and your customers a favor. Call in your listings to the Toledo Free Press once a week. Make it part of your routine. Sure, I (and my new bosses) would love to see you all buying ad space. But whether you do or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, your listings have a

Keith Bergman home in Toledo Free Press. If someone wanted to promote my business for free, I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d let â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em.

Get off the couch Mickey Finnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is hosting a mandatory night of no-frills rock and roll Thursday with some of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most reliable guitar slingers. Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rock Star Club kick off the evening with infectious alternarock anthems, followed by local working-classpunk bar rock vets Dragracer and Deadbeat Moms. Rounding out the night, The Zimmerman Twins celebrate frontman Kevin Murnenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday in true ramshackle f-you rock style. Friday, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d recommend heading south to Easy Street CafĂŠ in Bowling Green to see the Modern Soviet Enemies. This BG band has the indie cool, the punk sneer and a big olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dose of loud inspired by mid-90s cultists Brainiac and a legion of wild-eyed

garage rockers with smarts. Definitely a band to watch around here. You may wanna find a dorm floor to crash on, because Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bill not to miss is also in BG, at venerable dive Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Saturday Looks Good To Me is an Ann Arborbased collective of indie scenesters making punktinged 60s pop anthems. Also on the bill, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss local ragtag girl rockers The Cupcakes and awe-inspiring two-man Spock rock weirdos Shuttlecock. This is a band everyone needs to see, for the sheer spectacle of two scientists divvying up the bass lines on foot pedals and drum pads and generally making the weirdest, nerdiest mathrock noises sound vital and human. Drama Club and BG electro-art-nutters Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electric Tiger Machine open. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still standing by Sunday, The Underground is hosting Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dead To Fall. This is sheer, out-for-blood underground metal chaos. Opening the show: Flesh and Blood Robot, Seperation Tree, The Machine Always Wins and The Bacon. Call off Monday.

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often didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stick. But listening to his avuncular voice made me believe Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d eventually crack the difference between Schubert and Schumann. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help that I listened to him dodging traffic, but then again, if he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been on, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d probably have had more accidents. Even back in the 70s when I started tuning in (in Philadelphia) he was one of the few on-air personalities with a soothing influence. Haas, whose show runs on Toledoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WGTE 91.3 FM, was the best company around. The music he played was eclectic, his observation thoughtful, analogies helpful, titles corny but to-the-point: The Joy of Sax. Baroque and in Debt. Hayden Go Seek. Trilling Moments. Did he lie awake thinking these

up or did they just come? Most amazingly, he pulled it off for four and a half decades. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longer than, well, many of us have been alive; certainly longer than most job tenures. I know how hard it is to write a once-a-week column. Doing a daily show â&#x20AC;&#x201D; coming up with a theme, finding the music, cutting in commentary, making it fun â&#x20AC;&#x201D; month after month after month; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heroic. By all accounts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the fact that accounts are hard to find substantiates this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Haas was a modest man. Born Jewish in Germany, he emigrated to the States in 1936 and found work as the pre-show voice of the Detroit Symphony. After several years conducting, playing piano and hosting a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program, in 1959 he was offered his own time-slot on WJR. Eleven years later a Cleveland syndicator took â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adventures

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ARTS&LIFE â&#x153;Ż in Good Musicâ&#x20AC;? national. According to Tom Paine, program manager at WGTE, â&#x20AC;&#x153;AGMâ&#x20AC;? is one of the stationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most listened-to programs. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m an example of why, it might be because Haas was rarely didactic or fussy. He gave the impression he was having a sly time with Brahms and Bartok and wanted more friends in on the joke. He never preached or made me feel dumb not being able to guess the Mystery Composer. Day after day heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d patiently remind me of the forms and notes I knew I should know but rarely remembered. Then like magic heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say something simple and I had it forever. How, lightbulb-in-the-head terrific, for example, is this quote from a story in the Chicago Tribune: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about sonata form I may say it is like coming into a party. You get acquainted with the people, then you have your main conversation, then someone says something that is slightly off-key, and so on.â&#x20AC;? Haas stopped taping new segments two years ago and the shows since then have been re-runs. Paine says WGTE plans to continue the broadcasts seamlessly. Still, when I heard about Haasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; death, it was an â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Pieâ&#x20AC;? moment. The music didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t die, but something in me feels like it has. Goodbye, Karl. Thanks for the melodies.

Barbara Goodman Shovers is a Toledo Free Press Contributing Editor. She may be contacted at bgshovers@toledofreepress.com.

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Rollinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;St. Thomas.â&#x20AC;? Wolff and Impure Thoughts move effortlessly through an eclectic mix of music â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from hip-hop rhythms to world beats, funky soul to calypso grooves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole band rose to the occasion,â&#x20AC;? Wolff said of the recording sessions. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect the concert to sound like the CD. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like a Broadway show. I would hate to play the same thing every night the same way,â&#x20AC;? Wolff said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never go in the same direction.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We like to take known tunes and deconstruct them to get down to the real important part of the piece. I learned this from listening to Miles Davis â&#x20AC;&#x201D; get to the essence of a tune so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of room to improvise,â&#x20AC;? he said. Wolff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical education started when he was 4 years old and his father taught him to play â&#x20AC;&#x153;St. Louis Bluesâ&#x20AC;? on the piano. At age 8, he started taking classical piano lessons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents had a bunch of 45s, and I used to play â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Love and Marriageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; by Frank Sinatra over and over and over,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember my father playing me music â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sinatra, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just sit in front of the record player. When I got old enough, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take me to see performers. I saw Mel TormĂŠ when I was 11 or 12, and he took my younger sisters and I to see Ella Fitzgerald.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long before Wolff began sharing the

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TOLEDO-LUCAS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENTS For more information about these and any other programs offered by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, please call 419-259-5207. Read Off Your Fines Through March 31 at all Toledo-Lucas County Public Library locations. Overdue fines preventing you from using your library card? If you’re 17 years old or younger, you can read off your fines: For every 15 minutes of reading, earn one ‘Library Dollar’ to pay towards your fine. Connect to Creativity Through Saturday, April 2, during regular Library hours at Main Library, 325 Michigan Street. Teen art show featuring more than 100 paintings, works of art and furniture from area youths, grades 6 through 12. College Resource Night Wednesday, March 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Main Library, 325 Michigan Street. Offers information on Library resources that will assist in preparing for college and is for students, parents and educators. Authors! Authors! Featuring Edward P. Jones Wednesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the Stranahan Theater Great Hall, 4645 Heatherdowns Boulevard. An evening with 2004

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Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Known World.” Tickets are $8 and are available at the door. Book Discussion Group Thursday, March 24 at 2 p.m. at the Birmingham Branch Library, 203 Paine Avenue. Book discussion groups give patrons the opportunity to exchange ideas and particular points of view with other book lovers. This month discuss “Midwives” by Chris Bohjalian. Shiny Pretty Stuff Thursday, March 24, at 4 p.m. at the Point Place Branch Library, 2727 117th Street. Make scented glitter and enjoy some snacks while you work.

Wednesday, March 30 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Washington Branch Library, 5560 Harvest Lane Offered by the American Red Cross, those 11 years of age or older can register for a one-time $25 fee covering the course and handbook. Students must attend all 6 hours. TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART All events are free, unless otherwise noted. Visitors can call 419-255-8000 or visit www.toledomuseum. org for more information. Exhibitions and installations:

Book Discussion Group Friday, March 25 at 10 a.m. at the Holland Branch, 1032 South McCord. Book discussion groups give patrons the opportunity to exchange ideas and particular points of view with other book lovers. This month discuss “How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill. Wolcott House Guild Historical Lectures Monday, March 28, at 10 a.m. at the Maumee Branch Library, 501 River Road. “Ohio’s and Other Places’ Interesting Stories” with Jim Bowsher. American Red Cross Babysitting Clinic Tuesday, March 29, and

■ Picturing Freedom: Photographs from the American Civil Rights Movement Through April 3, 2005 ■ Passion for Drawing: Poussin to Cézanne, Works from the Prat Collection Through April 3, 2005 ■ French Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art Through May 15, 2005 ■ Vive La France: Sèvres Porcelain in the 1800s Through June 16, 2005

To list your upcoming cultural or social event in the Community Calendar, e-mail brief details, including contact information to news@toledofreepress.com.

March 23, 2005 ARTS & LIFE BRIEFS From staff reports

TOLEDO

Freedom Forum The eighth annual Freedom Forum on independent media and press freedom will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Law Center Auditorium, University of Toledo. The event is free and open to the public. A panel discussion will feature members of the Independent Collegian; Jason Kucsma and Jen Angel, co-editors and founders of Clamor magazine; and Michael S. Miller, Editor in Chief of Toledo Free Press. For information, e-mail uteditors@hotmail.com

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Performing Arts Hall of Fame Three individuals will be inducted into the Lake Erie West Performing Arts Hall of Fame on April 9. The performers include tap dancer Jerry Reed, Big Band singer Helen O’Connell and Jazz artist Jon Hendricks. The event will take place at the Owens-Illinois Theatre at One Seagate. Ticket information is forthcoming. Contact Lake Erie West Art Council at (419) 531-2046.

TOLEDO

Ronnie Baker Brooks concert Ronnie Baker Brooks, son of blues artist Lonnie Brooks will appear Sunday, April 10 at the Toledo Speedway Bar & Grill, 5625 Benore Road. The concert is sponsored by the Black Swamp Blues Society. Cover charge is $15, $12 for BSBS members. A general membership meeting will take place at 6 p.m. before the concert. For more information, see www.bsbs.net/index.php.

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Detroit man shows up in ‘Be Cool’ Q: In your review of “Be Cool,” you mention The Rock plays a character named Elliot Wilhelm, which is the name of a friend of yours who runs the Detroit Film Theatre. You guessed that author Elmore Leonard knows this and used the name since he also lives in Detroit. Here’s the actual story: Wilhelm, who’s run the DFT for the past 30 years as the film curator of the Detroit Institute of Arts, made the top bid of $2,700 at a 1998 DFT fundraiser to have Leonard use his name in an upcoming book. The book was “Be Cool” and moviemakers kept the name for Rock’s character. The real Wilhelm also turns up as an extra in the bar scene where Travolta

Roger Ebert meets Rock. — Robert Musial, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. A: Elliot Wilhelm is not only a brilliant programmer and critic, but also a heck of a nice guy, and on the basis of his cameo I think he has a promising future ahead of him as a programmer, critic and nice guy. Q: I have finally figured out how to read your reviews: ■ If you are stimulated to

eloquence by the movie, then the movie is a must-see. It doesn’t matter if you rate it well or poorly; it is the fact that you reacted strongly to the movie, that tells me what I need to know. ■ If the review looks like it “wrote itself,” then you enjoyed the film and I may or may not like it based on personal preference. ■ If the review seems to lack punch, or seems confused, then I know the film was a stinker no matter which way you look at it, and should be avoided for mental health reasons. – Ron Wodaski, Cloudcroft, N.M. A: By following these rules, one would not always see good movies, but one would usually see interesting ones.

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WTOL most-watched in February WTOL News 11 was the most-watched local news station in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, according to February 2005 Nielsen Media Research. The station won its time slots at noon, 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. in all households and households with adults 18 and over. The newly created morning newscast “Your Morning” doubled in share and ratings from a year ago. “It’s clear more viewers are watching us than anyone else and that’s something we can be very proud to say,” said WTOL News Director Mitch Jacob.

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Brendan Powell Smithʼs “The Last Supper” in Legos.

The Bible, brick by brick By John Rozum Special to Toledo Free Press

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, in six days. Web designer Brendan Powell Smith has recreated that story and many more from the Bible, taking significantly more time, and using Lego bricks as his building material of choice. In the spirit of Easter and Passover, it is fitting to take a look at Smith’s Web site, www.thebricktestament. com. “The Brick Testament” is a growing attempt to illustrate the entire Bible. “Everything is Lego except the sky,” Smith writes on his Web site. Smith says he acquired about $5,000 worth of Lego sets from yard sales and eBay before deciding what to do with them. He says that very little tampering was needed with the plastic toys. He uses the Legos exactly as they were molded. The site is stunning. It tells the stories in a very straightforward manner, letting the viewer make decisions about the intent of the site. It is humorous in many ways, but never irreverent. You’ll get a kick out of Smith’s creative use of existing Lego kits (those Jedi robes sure come in handy), particularly his choices for Pharaoh’s sages and sorcerers in the story of Exodus. Not only is Smith’s ability to construct biblical scenes impressive, his sense of design and composition is to be admired. Smith has a gift for the dramatic, often photographing his setups with either the background, or foreground elements out of focus, creat-

ing a greater sense of depth, and drawing the viewer’s attention to an essential detail. “The Brick Testament” comes with a parental warning guide. Stories are labeled with a combination of “N” for nudity, “S” for sexual content, “V” for violence, and “C” for cursing. That may seem silly; after all, we are talking about the Bible, and Legos. Part of Smith’s intent in his depictions, is to show just how violent and graphic some of these “family-values” stories are. If there’s any doubt that illustrations created from Lego bricks can be shocking, or unsettling, turn to the Old Testament section Powell Smith calls “The Laws.” Any parent considering letting their child peruse this site without parental supervision is best advised to review “The Laws” without the kiddies present. Among the best-executed is Exodus, presenting the story of Moses in an entertaining and dramatic way, that is involving to the point where you soon forget the novelty of its construction materials (except when a piece of sheer cleverness of creation appears). Likewise, the story of Jesus, his crucifixion and resurrection, is also well done, and well cast. “The Brick Testament also offers some of its material in book form, which can also be found on the Web site. For those who are inspired enough to try this, Smith offers a custom Lego set of the Holy Trinity for $30. Everything else is up to you.

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Thought balloons for this series: â&#x20AC;&#x153;And just what, pray tell, are you looking at?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aw, shucks, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at me.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready for my close-up.â&#x20AC;? Capturing an interesting image of animals can try oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patience. It took perhaps half an hour for this squirrel to stop hiding behind the tree. Holding the camera to my face during that time probably helped him disregard me as a threat. Perhaps he saw me as a harmless Cyclops or perhaps he figured I was too busy eating to mean him any harm. This squirrel was one of many at the Toledo Botanical Garden Tuesday, March 15.

Technical information: This series was taken at 1/400 sec, ISO 400, f/8 and 300mm with a Canon Digital Rebel. DM Stanfield is Toledo Free Press Photo Editor. He may be contacted at dmstanfield@toledofreepress.com.

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