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Benefit will raise money for young victims’ family.

By Caitlin McGlade Toledo Free Press STAR Staff Writer cmcglade@toledofreepress.com

The sixth floor of Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center is a place for whispering.

It is a place where silence is broken by beeping heart monitors and adults who muffle their tearful gasps by pressing their faces into their palms. It is a place where children softly babble over the hum of machinery, unaware that they are the ones, with even just one smile, who comfort the adults.

The morning of Aug. 23, a groggy man pulls a little boy in a wagon from the Intensive Care Unit in the Children’s Hospital to the elevator doors. A woman walks down the hall holding a little girl’s hand, glancing down at the head wrap protecting the toddler’s head.

This place, where paintings of animals and sea creatures meet intravenous therapy carts loaded with plastic bags and tubes and cords, is where Quen’Torria Snowden has spent much of her August.

“She’s strong,” Snowden says, stroking her daughter Le’Ondra’s back as she sleeps in her hospital bed. Clad in pajamas printed with monkeys and peace signs, Le’Ondra is attached to an IV cart by a purple, plastic tube that leads into her arm. She awakes and Snowden scoops her into her arms and holds her.

After rubbing her eyes and yawning, Le’Ondra scoots herself off her mother’s lap and off the bed. She tries to dance a little. Her IV tube gets tangled around her legs and caught in her leopard-print slippers.

“Go,” she said, rocking back and forth.

“Wanna go.”

This was Le’Ondra’s second hospital visit within the past few weeks, following the shooting that left her injured and her 1-year-old sister dead. It was about 9 p.m. Aug. 9 and the girls were home with their aunt at Snowden’s apartment at Moody Manor, a Kent Street complex.

Gunshots erupted outside, projecting bullets that whizzed inside and struck both Le’Ondra and her sister Ke’Ondra.

Snowden was not home. She got a call from her sister. Her two little girls had been shot.

Ke’Ondra, who was shot in the head, died in the hospital hours later.

Le’Ondra, shot in the torso, survived after one surgery and more than a week in the hospital.

Snowden had to bring her back to the hospital

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last week because of a fever. And she’ll have to bring her back again within the next few months for another surgery.

When Le’Ondra cries, her bladder pops forward and pushes out her stomach.

Three arrested

The Toledo Police Department arrested three men for obstructing justice in connection with the shooting, but no murder charges have been filed, said Sgt. Joe Heffernan. The police are investigating further.

Snowden said she knows the three arrested: Keshawn Jennings, 20, Antwaine Jones, 18, and James Moore, 20. They were each placed on a $500,000 bail and were indicted for the felony charge.

She said she knows them from growing up in the neighborhood, and that they have never tried to hurt her. She assumed the shooting was gang-related.

“The world is messed up and I don’t think it’s going to get better until the world comes to an end and wipes everybody away,” Snowden said.

Since the shooting, Snowden hasn’t returned to her apartment. She hasn’t allowed any of her relatives to go either. She doesn’t know when she’ll be able to go back there, if at all, to retrieve her family’s belongings. It is difficult enough for her when Le’Ondra talks in her hospital room.

“Ke Ke! Ke Ke!” Le’Ondra says, banging her hands on the plastic hospital bed rail.

Ke Ke was her little sister’s nickname.

Just a month ago, Le’Ondra proudly pretended to be a parent, carrying around Ke’Ondra and playing goofy games with her. Just a month ago, Le’Ondra was carelessly dancing to her favorite hip-hop songs on the radio and scribbling doodles on paper.

“I don’t think she knows how to talk about it, she just sees people wearing T-shirts with Ke Ke’s name on them and watches,” Snowden said, alluding to tribute T-shirts many of her family members have made. “She knows what’s going on though.”

Snowden’s other daughter, De’Ondra, is almost 5. She lives with a different family and was not at Moody Manor during the shooting. n PEACE CONTINUES ON 4

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Snowden will move out of her apartment but doesn’t know where she’ll go next. She hopes to leave Toledo altogether.

‘I feel it’

The effects of the bullets that killed Ke’Ondra and injured Le’Ondra are reverberating from Toledo to Detroit, bringing together rappers and activists to hit the streets with a positive message.

Toledo-native rappers Jason Jensen and Sik Da Don Sikosa don’t know Ke’Ondra’s family.

“I still don’t know them but I ain’t got to know them to feel it,” said Jensen, a father of three. “And I feel it, just like the whole community does.”

Jensen, known as J360 by the hip-hop community, and Detroit resident Sikosa composed a rap song about Ke’Ondra and Le’Ondra. They are pressing 500 1,000 CDs to sell to benefit the girls’ family.

Snowden said the extra cash will be a much needed help, especially because she was recently laid off.

“You can make excuses for people about why they got killed, like ‘Well they were doing this or doing that.’ It ain’t right to do, but you do. You can put an excuse on it if a drug addict gets killed,” Sikosa said. “But kids — you can’t make sense of that. You might have killed the first woman president or a doctor. And now Le’Ondra has to grow up hearing about all of this and knowing about this.”

The pair will perform their song at HipHop4Peace, a benefit for the victims’ family at Inez Nash Park, 206 E. Bancroft St., on Sept. 1.

The benefit will run in conjunction with the Warren Sherman Festival and will feature other performances, food and treats for kids and speeches by community leaders. Sikosa and Jensen’s CDs will be for sale for $5 and attendees will be encouraged to donate more to Le’Ondra and Ke’Ondra’s family for medical and funeral expenses. Jensen said he and Sikosa are spending at least $500 to bring all of this together.

“The hope is to create a unified effort to

Sikosa moved to Michigan recently, but was touched by the news and wanted to help.

“I just thought that people cared more, period, than to shoot at a house that has children in it,” Sikosa said.

Titled “I Thought They Cared,” the song about Le’Ondra and Ke’Ondra laments senseless violence “getting out of hand” and asserts that the issue is “bigger than the neighborhood you trapped in.”

“I live in Lincoln Park, Mich., now and I get online and watch the news and, man, Toledo news is rivaling Detroit and it’s unbelievable to me. I’ve had so many friends die there and get murdered and killed,” Sikosa said. “There’s got to be something to bring us together, so we can stop killing each other and if two little girls can’t stop it, then there ain’t no hope.”

In 2010, there were 101 nonfatal shootings in Toledo. In 2011, there were 177. As of July 31, there have been 106 shootings this year, said, Toledo City Councilman D. Michael Collins, chair of the public safety, law and criminal justice committee.

Jensen and Sikosa’s lyrics ask God how to understand man’s actions and asks if there is a heaven because “there’s hell on these streets.”

Both Sikosa and Jensen know firsthand about the “hell on the streets.” Jensen spent time in prison following a fight at a rap concert, which only made him want to give back to the community once he was freed. Sikosa’s mother died when he was a child and his aunt and uncle raised him, but he constantly had to defend himself if he went to a store in an opposing gang’s territory. He was beaten up often, a violence that forces a kid to attach him or herself to a gang, he said.

“After you get whooped for crossing the street, you begin to be like, ‘Well hell, I might as well be bad,’” Sikosa said. “If everybody in this neighborhood is gangbanging, it’s a trap — you’ve got to be the ultra male.”

He was entrenched in that lifestyle for years, until his son told him that his mother’s boyfriend had said Sikosa was a drug addict. That was it.

Now, he said, he’s dedicated to using hip-hop to spread a positive message.

“From the time you’re born, you can only be what you see … how can you dream to be a doctor or a lawyer when you don’t know none?

When the only people you see with fancy cars and pretty girls are the people selling drugs?”

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Sikosa said the shooting outside Moody Manor exemplifies a tragedy in the black community, which Sikosa’s lyrics refer to as “an issue that ain’t white and ain’t black.”

“The only time black people want to stick together is if it’s about something a white person did,” Sikosa said. “You know, my grandmother lived to be 97 years old — and after all the pain and struggle she saw and black people had — we died for each other before. And now we’re just killing each other.” O

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New venue LeSo Art Gallery opens first show Sept. 29.

By Brigitta Burks Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer bburks@toledofreepress.com

Inside a mostly bright red building in East Toledo, Amber LeFever and Adam Soboleski are putting the final touches on their new venue, the LeSo Art Gallery.

The gallery, 1527 Starr Ave., is set to have its first show, 7-9 p.m. Sept. 29. The venue, which will have a space for classes, has been on LeFever’s and Soboleski’s minds since October 2010.

“I noticed so many old and abandoned buildings and it was just so sad. It felt like they were left to die and so I kind of started brainstorming on what I would do if I had an old building,” said LeFever, an art teacher at Imagine Clay Avenue Community School.

The Starr Avenue building that LeFever and Soboleski picked was built in 1903. In the 1930s and ’40s, it served as the neighborhood hangout Circle Bar, also the last stop on the trolley line.

Eventually, it was a Marco’s Pizza headquarters and then an insurance agency.

LeFever and Soboleski originally had trouble getting a bank to sign on because of the building’s commercial designation.

“Without even asking so much as our name, it was, ‘No, no, no, no,’” LeFever said. After four and a half months, the pair was able to secure funds and move forward.

Then came the intensive revamping process.

“When we first saw it, it was an insurance company so there was like carpet on the walls,” said Soboleski, who works at Home Depot. Under two layers of ceiling, he and LeFever discovered the original tin ceiling that LeFever then brushed with silver paint.

“I wanted to bring [the building] back to what it was, what its history was,” LeFever said.

The two, who live in an apartment above the gallery, have done all the construction work themselves.

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Still, the process has not been all fun.

“I’ve burned through a couple friends,” Soboleski said. “It’s just day in and day out. You don’t ever walk away from it.”

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“It just kind of became an idea, an obsession and we made it a reality,” LeFever said.

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Fuel to play free acoustic show at Hollywood Casino Toledo

By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Brett Scallions’ birthday is Dec. 21 — the day the Mayan calendar predicts as the end of the world in 2012 — but the Fuel frontman laughs

off any suggestion he should be concerned.

“I take things like that with a grain of salt,” Scallions said during an interview with Toledo Free Press. “No one knows when the world will end.

All we can do is live our lives to the fullest, prepare for the future and live day to day.”

For Scallions, living life to the fullest

means making music.

Fuel will play a free acoustic show at Hollywood Casino Toledo at 9 p.m. Sept. 2. The show will be the final stop of a summer tour before the band returns to Los Angeles to finish recording an album set for release early next year, Scallions said.

“I can’t wait to do the show. That’s the last show of the tour and we’ll be playing an acoustic show, which is always a fun time for us. It’s more laid-back and relaxed, a chance to do our songs in a different way. Afterward, we’ll just be hanging out and having a good time,” Scallions said. n FUEL CONTINUES ON 7

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“We also have all the newer songs and some songs that aren’t released yet.”

Fuel sold 3.5 million albums and had a number of hit songs, including “Shimmer,” “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” and “Falls On Me.” Scallions left the band in 2006. The last Fuel record, “Angels & Devils,” was released in 2007. After Fuel later broke up, Scallions regrouped some of the members and toured as Refueled before negotiating with former bandmates to tour as Fuel again.

Scallions is the only member of the original group left in the band. Rounding out the current lineup is Andy Andersson on lead guitar and keyboards, Brad Stewart, formerly of Shinedown, on bass and Ken Schalk on drums.

Scallions said he doesn’t have much contact with former Fuel members.

“Honestly we don’t really talk much,” Scallions said. “Our lives are just different now. I don’t hold any animosity toward those guys at all. They are doing whatever they need to do to lead good, happy lives and that’s great.

I hope they are doing great. I do what I do and that’s being out as Fuel. That’s what I love. The fans are there and all is good. We’re having a great time.”

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Scallions’ other band, World Fire Brigade, released its debut album, “Spreading My Wings,” Aug. 28.

Scallions and Sean Danielsen share vocal duties for the group with Danielsen on guitar and Eddie Wohl on keyboard. Andersson and Schalk of Fuel, Rob Caggiano of Anthrax and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam also play on the record.

“You’re always excited to put out new music.

That was a really fun record to make. It happened very organically,” Scallions said. “It’s a much heavier record [than Fuel]. It’s still very melodic and singalong type music, but it’s a much heavier record for sure.”

Scallions said he hopes Toledoans come out Sept. 2 to help Fuel finish their tour.

“We have some of the greatest fans in the world and they’ve been out partying with us and having a blast. It’s been fun,” Scallions said.

“We have a lot of passion for music and for performing. We just try to make it a fun getaway from reality. That’s why fans come out to shows, period, whoever is playing.

“I hope people forget about any kind of frustrations they may have in their lives and just rejoice in the music and have a good time. I want people to come out and release themselves, get engulfed in the moment and sing the songs.

Crowd participation is always a must. Just get away from whatever your life entails and just really enjoy being in freedom for a while.”

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Dark Star Orchestra ready for Jubilee in Thornville

By Mike Bauman Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer mbauman@toledofreepress.com

To call Dark Star Orchestra (DSO) a cover band would not only be an understatement, but also not entirely true.

Since its inception in Chicago in 1997, DSO has gone beyond just recycling tunes of the Grateful Dead. Instead, DSO recreates performances of past Grateful Dead shows and plays the set list within the musical style of the time period it came from.

“Contrary to what some people believe, it’s definitely not a note-for-note reinterpretation,” said DSO drummer/percussionist Dino English. “It’s more of [an] arrangement-for-arrangement kind of thing, so there’s still tons of room for improv and our own musical expression.”

DSO’s attention to detail and talented musicians have garnered the group praise from multiple media outlets, the Grateful Dead’s loyal fan base known as the “Deadheads” and even Grateful Dead members.

From Aug. 31 through Sept. 2, DSO will continue to raise the dead with the inaugural “Dark Star Jubilee” at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio. The three-day music festival will feature three different performances from DSO, more than 20 bands and nearly 40 hours of music with no overlapping sets, including three original Grateful Dead members.

“We kind of liked the idea of bringing folks together,” English said. “There’s a lot of different people taking a lot of different approaches out there with the Grateful Dead music, and so we figured it would be a great thing to have a several-day event where we could bring it all together and focus on that kind of music.”

Focusing on the Grateful Dead’s music is just what DSO does.

During the past 15 years, DSO has performed more than 2,100

shows. The group still does approximately 135 shows a year and used to play as many as 170 gigs annually at one point.

“Grateful Dead played 30 years and did I think it was about 2,400 shows,” English said of the Grateful Dead. “So we’ve almost passed them up in 15 [years]. We have a database where we keep track of all the shows that we’ve played and what we played in a certain place last time.

“What we try to do is mix it up from each time we play in a certain area. We try not to go in there with the same style of show.”

The current lineup of DSO features Rob Barraco (keys, vocals), Rob Eaton (rhythm guitar, vocals), Rob Koritz (drums, percussion), Lisa Mackey (vocals), Jeff Mattson (lead guitar, vocals), Kevin Rosen (bass, vocals) and English, who joined the group in 1999.

“We had never played [together] before, except for sound check earlier that day,” English said of his first audition with DSO at a gig in Chicago. “Never played together, but I think they were confident enough to give me a whirl through the music that I had sent and knew that I could play it.”

As part of Dark Star Orchestra, English has played with several Grateful Dead members, including Bob Weir, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Bill Kreutzmann, Tom Constanten and Vince Welnick.

“I had been a fan of his and watched him play so many times,” English said of Weir. “And then to be up there on the stage, and then see him going through the same motions that I had seen him do many times before where he’s tuning up his guitar [was exciting].

“And then as soon as he’s done tuning, he looked right up at me and [was] like, ‘Are you ready to go?’ He gave me that kind of look.

Then I’m like, ‘Yeah! Let’s do this.’”

While those experiences have been memorable for English, the acceptance of DSO from the “Deadheads” is something he

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“That they’ve come and embraced it and come out and have a good time, that’s very thrilling,” English said. “At the same time, it’s still thrilling to play for the young kids. In the long run, that’s why we’re here — to give the kids a taste of what it was like back in the day.”

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Ivan Doroschuk is clearly tickled by the latest events in his life, especially since they weren’t what he expected to happen. Doroschuk, the lead singer of the popular New Wave 80’s band Men Without Hats, had been dormant in the music scene for nearly a decade. Now, he finds himself touring regularly to crowds full of fans — both young and old.

“It’s awesome,” Doroschuk said in an interview with Toledo Free Press Star. “It was one of the reasons that we did it to begin with. We didn’t have any plans for a new record — it was basically just go out and play the catalog, go out and play a ‘best of ’ show, a ‘Greatest Hats’ kind of show. And do just that, reconnect with the fans who have been waiting for, in some cases, 25 years to see us.

“It turned out to be, in a lot of cases, a family affair. The original fans would come, and they’d bring their kids. It was great. It’s become a real cross-generational thing that I’m really happy about. My son found out about me on the Disney Channel with the Crazy Frog video. It’s great.”

The group has changed drastically — Doroschuk himself is their primary connection to the glory days of “The Safety Dance” and “Pop Goes the World” — but the sound and feel remains very much intact. And now, via the new shows and an acclaimed new album, “Love in the Age of War,” Men Without Hats is beginning to reclaim their place in a music landscape which it has been part of for more than 30 years.

For Doroschuk, the resurgence comes after years away from music. “I’ve been a stay-at-home dad for about 10 years, the last 10 years. And so, my son was getting to an age where I didn’t have to take care of him, like, 24/7 anymore. So I was itching to get back. I was completely out of the loop for that time.”

Doroschuk said seeing the group’s music referenced in the world of pop culture helped spur his desire to return.

“Just seeing ‘Pop Goes the World’ and ‘Safety Dance’ popping up in Tide commercials and on ‘Glee,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ movies — ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ — it just kept popping up all the time,”

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he said. “Plus, the fact that I’m hearing a lot of ’80s influences in the modern music today. Kids seem to be going back to synthesizers.

“I don’t wanna say it’s, like, back in style, but the kids seem to be referencing it more than they were during the ’90s, let’s say.”

With a new group of backup musicians, Doroschuk relaunched Men Without Hats in late 2010. The group performed the band’s standards at several music festivals, but it was a show at the SXSW in Austin, Texas, that began to convince Doroschuk that big things could come from this new version of Men Without Hats.

“That’s where I saw that I was connecting with 20-somethings. It was all 20-somethings, and not only were they getting off on it, a lot of them knew the words, they knew the songs. A lot of kids came up to me after and were saying ‘Man, I love the sounds.’ They were talking about the sound being relevant, and also about the

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“That really showed me that it didn’t have to be a nostalgia trip. It kinda made it interesting for me,” Doroschuk said. “I was kind of prepared to go out there and play my old catalog — I’d never done that before, so it was something I was looking forward to. And it was awesome playing the old stuff. But it kinda made me realize that it wasn’t all just nostalgia.

It was also about being relevant to what’s going on today, too.”

While on the “Dance If You Want Tour,” Doroschuk started writing the songs that would eventually become “Love in the Age of War.” “Being reimmersed in the whole band structure and the whole sort of thing,” Doroschuk said. “The songs just started coming out again.

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Shearer pleasure Comedy legend discusses Spinal Tap, ‘The Simpsons’ and angering Jerry Lewis.

By Jason Webber Special to Toledo Free Press Star star@toledofreepress.com

On the scale of pop culture relevance, Harry Shearer goes to 11.

Not only did the guy co-invent the world’s most infamous guitar amp as the bassist of satirical metal band Spinal Tap, but Shearer also provides the voices for no fewer than 10 characters on “The Simpsons.” He is part of Christopher Guest’s stock company in Guest’s acclaimed series of mockumentary comedies (including “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind”) and is also a bestselling author. Plus, he gains extra hipster cred for being one of the only people on Earth to have publicly acknowledged seeing the legendary unreleased Jerry Lewis film “The Day The Clown Cried,” in which Lewis plays a circus clown during World War II who is forced to lead concentration camp children into the gas chamber Pied Piper-style. Shearer told Spy magazine that the film left him in “slack-jawed amazement” because it was so horrible.

Shearer’s musical talents go far beyond his role as Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls. On Aug. 27, Shearer released his new album “Can’t Take A Hint,” which contains a healthy dose of his irreverent brand of thinking-person’s humor. Toledo Free Press caught up with Shearer for a few minutes to discuss his long and varied career.

Toledo Free Press Star: One of the songs on “Can’t Take A Hint” is about Joe the Plumber, who of course is from the Toledo area. So what’s your take on Sam Wurzelbacher?

Shearer: We heard during the Olympics about all of the obstacles that people had to overcome. Here’s a guy whose name isn’t Joe and who isn’t licensed as a plumber so he’s had to overcome those obstacles to become known as Joe the Plumber. It’s an amazing story. I did a song about him because he seemed to symbolize this

fetish or cult in America these days for “common sense.” Those are the two words you hear politicians use all the time — “We need commonsense solutions.” And my reaction to that is, “You think that’s really how we got to the moon? Yeah, you know, just aim up.” Common sense will get you only so far, so if you want common sense solutions, ask Joe the Plumber about anything.

Star: How much hate mail do you get from conservatives over your political humor?

Shearer: I get almost no hate mail. I get into arguments on Twitter, but because I’m a satirist I make fun of everybody. I’m not carrying water for the liberals or the conservatives. I think there’s enough blame to go around and so I’ll get angry notes from Obama supporters sometimes on Twitter if I say something that’s critical or making fun of the administration and I’ll get the same sort of reaction from the conservatives when I make fun of one of their guys. It just goes with the territory but it’s just rarely in the category of hate mail. I know that people do get it and I don’t want to deny that it exists but I’ve been lucky.

Star: On the new album, you do a song with Jane Lynch. What was it like working with one of the stars of “Glee?”

Shearer: Well, Jane is one of the great people in show business. This business is sort of a snake pit and when someone you know gets famous, the usual reaction is “Ohhh, I hope she breaks her leg.” But everyone who knows Jane, I think, is so glad that finally something good happened to a really good person. We worked together on the Christopher Guest movies and my wife and I do a series of Christmas shows every year as a benefit and Jane performed at the one in LA last year and just sang everybody else offstage.

She’s so great a singer. So it’s great fun to work with her, she’s just funny and sweet and always coming up with great ideas so it was a real treat to work with her.

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Star: Let’s talk about “The Simpsons” a little bit. You’ve been pretty vocal about saying that the show quality has been declining for a while now. Do you remember the exact moment when you suddenly realized the series had jumped the shark?

Shearer: I’m not authorized to comment on that.

Star: Is it true that we’re starting to see the end of “The Simpsons” in sight?

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“I’m going to suggest we be bold.” — Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer) n SHEARER CONTINUED FROM 12 Shearer: Probably Otto. The really hardest one to do was a character early in the series — he was a family therapist — that the Simpson family went to and the idea was that he was supposed to be the most irritating family therapist imaginable, so I gave him a really irritating voice.

Unfortunately, he was really irritating for me to do and fortunately one day I was watching a Halloween episode and they always begin with the little ride through the graveyard and you always see the funny names on the tombstones and I saw that the name of that character was on a tombstone and that was their way of telling me that they had killed him off.

Star: Was that Dr. Marvin Monroe?

Shearer: (in character) That was Dr. Marvin Monroe!

Star: Nice! What is Derek Smalls up to? Are there any plans for another Spinal Tap project?

Shearer: Well, with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and I all having unfortunately flourishing careers, it means sort of pulling the emergency cord in stopping our personal momentums to get together. So it’s a bit of a wrangle to do — not “wrangle” in the sense of an argument — but just as a bit of a job to get our schedules to coalesce to do that. But we all love doing Spinal Tap. The 30th anniversary is coming up, so who knows?

Star: One of my favorite movie projects of yours has been rather forgotten and that is your role in the John Landis movie “Oscar.” What was it like working with Sylvester Stallone and Tim Curry?

Shearer: (laughs) Oh, yeah. Well, I mean the

cast of that movie was just filled with such amazingly funny people. I loved working with Tim; that was the first time I’d met him. I just thought he was one of the great funny people and just so much fun to hang around with and swap stories and make up stuff with. Stallone was a lovely guy. I think he felt he was maybe in the wrong movie because he was working very hard to do it. If you look at that cast, there are some amazingly funny people in it and it was fun to do but I felt a little sorry for him. It’s like if you cast me in an action movie, I’d feel the same way. ‘Oh, boy! Look at the muscles on these guys!’

Star: You’re one of the only people to have publicly acknowledged seeing the Jerry Lewis movie “The Day The Clown Cried.” Have you ever heard anything from Jerry’s people asking you to shut up about it?

Shearer: No. Jerry was on a television show I was part of in Australia a few years back and I heard from folks afterwards that after he gave me a big hug and a lovely, “Hey, great to meet you” and all that, he turned around and said to someone “I’ve been waiting to meet that a-hole.”

So that’s as close as it came.

Star: In addition to “Can’t Take a Hint,” what else are you working on?

Shearer: No movies at present but I’m doing a television series in Britain that will hopefully come over here eventually. I’m going to London in a few days to begin shooting on a six-part series that will hopefully be on British television next spring. It’s called “Nixon’s the One,” which was the campaign slogan for Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign. O Harry Shearer’s album “Can’t Take a Hint” was released on Aug. 27 on Courgette Records.

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Review: Shearer delivers puzzling new album Harry Shearer is a legendary talent. His most enduring contribution to pop culture may come from his voice work on “The Simpsons,” but through his work with artists like Christopher Guest, Albert Brooks, Martin Mull and many, many more, Shearer has cemented a legacy as one of the most brilliant writers and performers in comedy.

Shearer’s talent for crafting indelible memories in comedic history makes his latest project, the album “Can’t Take a Hint,” all the more puzzling for how forgettable it is. It’s not bad, by any means. In fact, it’s well-produced and performed, and boasts a who’s who of musical talent — artists like Dr. John, Jane Lynch, Fountains of Wayne and more contribute. But the whole thing is missing something that would make it a truly great experience. Maybe part of the problem is the nature of the album.

Shearer’s previous musical projects have usually had an overriding theme tying the whole thing together. “Can’t Take a Hint” is more of a catch all, collecting many of the songs Shearer has written for his “Le Show” radio program and giving them a boost in production quality.

Fine, but if they’re not part of a bigger piece, the tracks need to stand on their own, musically and comedically. The thing is, while many of the songs are ear-catching, they’re relatively empty in meaning and/or devoid of laughs.

Considering the talent involved, I was stunned by how few times I even smiled at the lyrics, let alone how often I actually chuckled.

Take opening song “Celebrity Booze Endorser,” an ode to stars who eventually sell out and start shilling for products after their rebellious youth is over. Think of all the elements that could be riffed on with such material. But Shearer’s material doesn’t really dig that deep into the subject matter, as if the concept itself was enough to generate laughs. With Fountains of Wayne backing him, the track is not offensive to listen to or anything, but it has nothing to say.

A lot of the tracks are like that. There’s an idea at their center that should be funny, but it feels underdeveloped — like “Joe the Plumber.”

The song is a straightforward piece from the perspective of a fan of the local celebrity, gushing about his influence for minutes on end. I guess the idea is to send up how little Joe matters by overpraising him. A clever idea? Could be. But in execution it just feels like we’re listening to lyrics that could be about anybody.

Like all humor, musical comedy is extremely difficult to get right, but when it works, it looks easy. Artists like Garfunkel and Oates, Paul and Storm, “Weird Al” Yankovic and the legendary Tom Lehrer craft songs that are not only funny but memorable and stand up to repeated listening. With “Can’t Take a Hint,” Shearer has assembled a remarkable range of talent in service of songs that simply don’t pass muster. And, sadly, I doubt that most folks who pick up the album will be compelled to listen to it more than once. O — Jeff McGinnis

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What’s what, where and when in NW Ohio

The Blarney Irish Pub

Compiled by Whitney Meschke Events are subject to change.

Catch local acts while taking in the pub’s modern Irish and American fare. 601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www.theblarneyirishpub.com.

O Meaghan Roberts: Aug. 30.

O Noisy Neighbors: Aug. 31.

O Measure of Time: Sept. 1.

MUSIC The Ark

This small venue offers a showcase for lesserknown acts. 316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor. (734) 761-1451, (734) 761-1800 or www.theark.org.

O Studebaker John & the Hawks: 8 p.m. Aug. 29, $15.

O Brendan James: 8 p.m. Aug. 30, $15.

O Bill Kirchen: 8 p.m. Aug. 31, $20.

O Ruthie Foster: 8 p.m. Sept. 4, $20.

O Chuck Mead: 8 p.m. Sept. 6, $15.

O Frontier Ruckus: 8 p.m. Sept. 7, $10.

Bar 145

This new venue features burgers, bands and bourbon, if its slogan is to be believed. $5 cover. 5304 Monroe St. (419) 593-0073 or bar145toledo.com.

O Aaron Stark: Aug. 29.

O MissUsed: Aug. 30.

O Hello My Name Is: Aug. 31.

O Popbillies: Sept. 1.

O Dan Fester: Sept. 5.

O Arctic Clam: Sept. 6.

O A Thousand Julys: Sept. 7.

BGSU concerts

The university’s ensembles, choirs, quartets and more — and their friends — will present the music they’ve been perfecting. Halls are located in Moore Musical Arts Center, Willard Drive and Ridge Street, Bowling Green. (419) 372-8171, (800) 589-2224, (419) 372-8888 or www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music.

O Penny Thompson-Kruse: 8 p.m. Aug. 29, Bryan Recital Hall.

O Conor Nelson: 8 p.m. Sept. 5, Bryan Recital Hall.

Blind Pig

A variety of rock, soul, pop and alternative acts perform at this bar. 208 S. First St., Ann Arbor. $3-$20 unless noted. (734) 996-8555 or blindpigmusic.com.

O Sample the Martian, Bazuuka Joe, Soup or Vilainz, Nikola Whallon, Audiological: 9:30 p.m. Aug. 29.

O The Henhouse Prowlers: 9:30 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Com Truise, Mogi Grumbles, Dick Jones: 9 p.m. Sept. 1.

O Trevor Hall, Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers: 9 p.m. Sept. 5.

O Ann Arbor Soul Club, Brad Hales, Breck T: 9:30 p.m. Sept. 7.

Bronze Boar

Be sure to check out this Warehouse District tavern’s namesake, overhead near the entrance. 20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www.bronzeboar.com.

O Open mic: Thursdays and Mondays.

O Saturnine Hello: Aug. 31.

O Beg to Differ: Sept. 1.

O Mojopin: Sept. 7.

Caesars Windsor

If you have your passport, consider hopping the Detroit River for this casino’s entertainment offerings. Starting ticket prices, in Canadian dollars, are for the cheapest seats; attendees must be 19 or older. Caesars Windsor Colosseum, 377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor, Ontario. (800) 991-7777 or www.caesarswindsor.com.

O Big & Rich, Cowboy Troy, Bradley Gaskin: 9 p.m. Aug. 31, $35.

O Randy Travis: 9 p.m. Sept. 7, $30.

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Another drinking-and-dining option has opened up near Fifth Third Field and will feature occasional musical performances. 9 N. Huron St. (419) 244-2855.

O Captain Sweet Shoes: 9 p.m. Thursdays.

O John Barile & Bobby May: 6 p.m. Fridays.

O Danny Mettler: 7 p.m. Sundays.

O Dave Carpenter & the Jaeglers: 9:30 p.m. Aug. 31.

Dégagé Jazz Café

Signature drinks, such as pumpkin martinis, plus live local jazz performers. 301 River Road, Maumee. $5 weekends for cafe seating. (419) 794-8205 or www.degagejazzcafe.com.

O Gene Parker & Friends: 7-10 p.m. Aug. 29 and 4-5.

O Jason Quick: 7-9 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Ramona Collins: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 31-Sept. 1.

O Leo Darrington: 7 p.m. Sept. 6.

O Eric Dickey: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 7-8.

The Distillery

Karaoke is offered Tuesdays, but paid entertainers rock out Wednesdays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www. thedistilleryonline.com.

O DJ Mark EP: Thursdays.

O Nathan Cogan: Aug. 29.

O Arctic Clam: Aug. 31-Sept. 1.

Doc Watson’s

Named in honor of the owners’ forefather, this bar and restaurant serves a variety of dishes and entertainment. 1515 S. Byrne Road. (419) 389-6003 or docwatsonstoledo.com.

O Stephen Woolley: 10 p.m. Aug. 31.

Dorr St. Café

Grab a reuben or some fish while bobbing your head to some tunes. Southwest corner of Dorr Street at Reynolds Road. (419) 531-4446 or www.dorrstreetcafe.com.

O Don Coats: Aug. 31.

Frankie’s Inner City

Toledo’s venue for rock. 308 Main St. $5-$15, unless noted. (419) 693-5300 or www.FrankiesInnerCity.com.

O Leyden Jars, Catherines Wheel: 9 p.m. Sept. 1.

O Daytrader, the Fight Within, Arrows: 6 p.m.

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O’80s Night: 9 p.m. Sept. 6, free-$3.

O Citizen, React, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Vice, Ages, Pity Sex: 7 p.m. Sept. 7.

French Quarter J. Patrick’s Pub

Live entertainment after 9:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Holiday Inn French Quarter, 10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg. (419) 874-3111 or www.hifq.com.

O Green Eyed Soul: Aug. 31-Sept. 1.

O Bush League: Sept. 7-8.

Greektown Casino-Hotel

Three stages — at Shotz Sports Bar, Eclipz Ultra Lounge and Asteria — offer competition for gamblers’ attention. 555 E. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit. No cover charge, unless noted; guests must be 21 or older. (888) 771-4386 or www.greektowncasino.com.

O Karaoke: 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Shotz.

O Howard Glazer Band, Emannuel Young: 8 p.m.

Fridays, Asteria.

O DJ Lee J: 9 p.m. Sundays, Shotz.

O Daniel Harrison & the $2 Highway: 9:30 p.m.

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O Chris Shutters Band, DJ Rob Sample: 8 p.m.

Aug. 30.

O 56 Daze, DJ Rob Sample: 9 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Skoobie Snaks, DJ A Dubb: 9 p.m. Sept. 1.

O Fuel: 9 p.m. Sept. 2.

O Risque, DJ One Tyme: 8 p.m. Sept. 6.

O Moon Dogs, DJ Rob Sample: 9 p.m. Sept. 7.

Headliners

All ages, all genres are welcome. 4500 N. Detroit Ave. Ticket prices vary between $5 and $15, unless noted otherwise. (419) 269-4500, www. headlinerstoledo.com or ticketmaster.com.

O Nonpoint: 8 p.m. Sept. 6.

ICE Restaurant & Bar

This local, family-owned enterprise offers food, drinks and music in a sleek atmosphere.

405 Madison Ave. (419) 246-3339 or ice restaurantandbar.com.

O Dan and Don: 7 p.m. Aug. 31.

JJ’s Pub

Live music is on Saturday’s menu; the genre varies, along with the cover charge. Karaoke is on tap 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, and a DJ starts spinning at 9 p.m. Fridays. 26611 N. Dixie Hwy., Perrysburg. (419) 874-9058 or jjsperrysburg.com.

O John Barile and Bobby May: 8 p.m. Sept. 4.

Kerrytown Concert House

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O Alex Levine Quartet: 8 p.m. Sept. 7.

Manhattan’s

This “slice of the Big Apple” in the Glass City provides entertainment most weekends. 1516 Adams St. (419) 243-6675 or www.manhattanstoledo.com.

O Steve Kennedy: 7 p.m. Aug. 29.

O Dick Lange Trio: 6:30 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Mo Joe Boes & His Noble Jones: 9 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Cliff Millimen: 7 p.m. Sept. 5.

O Estar Cohen Quartet: 7 p.m. Sept. 6.

O Steven Woolley & Suburban Soul: 9 p.m. Sept. 7.

MGM Grand Detroit

Live music rings out over the slots and croupiers on the weekends in the Int Ice lounge.

1777 Third St., Detroit. (877) 888-2121 or www. mgmgranddetroit.com.

O Charles and Gwen Scales: 9 p.m. Aug. 31.

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A variety of genres to wash your drinks down with. Open mic nights, 8 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover; $5-$7 cover other nights. 602 Lagrange St. (419) 246-3466 or www.mickeyfinnspub.com.

O Open mic: 9 p.m. Wednesdays.

O In Hell and Fury, Destroy Us All, Remember the Dead, Dead on Arrival, Alcyoneus: 9 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Buried but Breathing, Hence the Wolves, One Hit Kill, Constricted, Lake Erie Monsters: 9 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Transmission (Goth night): 10 p.m. Aug. 31, $8.

O Chavar Donte, Bassel: 9 p.m. Sept. 6.

O Ryan Waldie, Dan Horst, Human Juicebox: 9 p.m. Sept. 7, $7-$10.

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O DJ Nate Mattimoe: 10 p.m. Saturdays.

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Live music starts at 7:30 p.m. 5703 Main St., Sylvania. (419) 882-2266 or treosylvania.com.

O Jack & the Bear: Aug. 31.

O What’s Next, Raq the Casbah: Sept. 1.

O Lisa Lynn Trio: Sept. 7.

Oarhouse Bar & Grill

If one gets tired of spiking the volleyball, throwing some ringers or tossing the cornbags, perhaps some entertainment will fit the bill? Plenty of dock space for boaters, too. 5044 Suder Ave. (419) 671-6256 or oarhousepointplace.com.

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Motor City Casino/Hotel

This casino’s Sound Board offers big names, big sounds and a big experience. 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit. Guests must be 21 or older. (866) 7829622 or www.motorcitycasino.com. The casino’s Chromatics Lounge also features live performances.

O Lil Stubby & the Disappointments: 7 p.m. Aug. 29.

O Bomb Squad: 7 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Nightline: 5:15 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Serieux: 10 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Ani: 5:15 p.m. Sept. 1.

O Dave Hamilton: 10 p.m. Sept. 1.

O Diversity: 3:30 p.m. Sept. 2.

O Cancel Mondays: 7 p.m. Sept. 3.

O Sheri Gold: 7 p.m. Sept. 4-6, 5:15 p.m. Sept. 7-8.

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O Karaoke: 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Ottawa Tavern

Casual meals with weekend entertainment. 1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www.otavern.com.

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O Jason LaPorte: Aug. 30.

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What began as an antique store in Chicago turned into a string of more than 200 eateries nationwide, including Toledo. All of the shops feature live music. 4038 Talmadge Road. (419) 725-5037 or www.potbelly.com.

O Don Coats: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays.

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Anyone curious about this charcuterie can check out the menu while also sampling some music Tuesdays through Saturdays. 219 Louisiana Ave., Perrysburg. (419) 873-6224 or www. swigrestaurantandbar.com.

O Old State Line: 6 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Jamie Mills: 9 p.m. Aug. 30.

O Stephen Woolley: 6 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Paul Fritsch: 9 p.m. Aug. 31.

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A home for the avant garde and untraditional, this Old West End venue hosts artists on the experimental end of the musical rainbow. 9 p.m., 2564 Robinwood Ave. $5 donation, unless noted. www.toledobellows.wordpress.com.

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Founded in 1968, this Celtic-style bar and eatery offers entertainment at its three locations. 4400 Heatherdowns Blvd., (419) 3811281; 105 S. Third St., Waterville, (419) 4411081; and 7436 W. Bancroft St., Sylvania, (419) 724-7981. www.shawnsirishtavern.com.

O Johnny Rodriguez: Aug. 29, Heatherdowns.

Black Pearl

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Natural Blondes and Sweethearts? Those are the martinis; you’ll have to decide about the musicians. 3145 Hollister Lane, Perrysburg. (419) 874-4555 or tresbellelounge.com.

O Microphonics: 8 p.m.-midnight Sept. 4.

Uptown Night Club

Rewired presents Goth Night at 9 p.m. Wednesdays and ’80s/’90s dance music on Mondays.

160 N. Main St., Bowling Green. No cover. (419) 352-9310 or uptowndowntownbg.com.

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O Old West End Records: 8 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Bob Rex Trio: 6 p.m. Sundays.

O Frankie May and friends: 10 p.m. Mondays.

O S*** Dang Monster Trucks, Evan Bates: 8 p.m.

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O Afternoon Moon: 10 p.m. Aug. 30, $5.

O The Original Killer Flamingos: 10 p.m. Sept. 1.

O S*** Dang Monster Trucks, Dooley Wilson: 10 p.m. Sept. 7, $5.

included. 5-7 p.m., Grand Plaza Hotel’s Aqua Lounge, 444 N. Summit St. $15. (419) 241-141 or www.arttatumsociety.com.

O Lori Lefevre, Eric Dickey: Aug. 29.

David DeAnda, Grupo Illusion, Zueno Tejano, Tejano Sound Band: 4:30 p.m.-midnight Sept.

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The track hosts concerts before the evening’s harness races. 5 p.m. Saturdays, Raceway Park, 5700 Telegraph Rd. (419) 476-7751 or www.racewayparktoledo.com.

O Motor City Mix: Sept. 1.

Webber’s Waterfront Restaurant

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This Point Place eatery hosts weekly entertainment on its patio with a river view. 3 p.m., 6339 Edgewater Dr. (734) 723-7411 or www. webbersrestaurant.samsbiz.com.

O Junkanoo Brothers, Bobby May & John Barile: Sept. 2.

Wesley’s Bar & Grill

A huge variety of beers helps wash down the entertainment. 1201 Adams St. (419) 2553333 or wesleysbar.com.

O WEe, the Strong Talk, Bikini Babes: 8 p.m.

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Ye Olde Durty Bird

It’s back, and more entertaining than ever. 2 S. St. Clair. (419) 243-2473 or www.yeolde durtybird.com.

O Ben Barefoot: 9 p.m. Aug. 29.

O Jeff Stewart: 9 p.m. Aug. 30.

O The Eight-Fifteens: 4 p.m. Aug. 31.

O Ronn Daniels: 9:30 p.m. Aug. 31-Sept. 1.

Swingmania

With its focus on swing music, Jeff McDonald’s group of musicians provides a peek into another era, with music from bandleaders such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, the Dorseys and more. With combos from trio to full orchestra, the performers provide music for all occasions. (419) 708-0265, (419) 8740290 or www.swingmania.org.

O Big Band All Stars: Dancing is encouraged.

8-10:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Trotter’s Tavern, 5131 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 381-2079 or (419) 708-0265.

Jazz on the Maumee

The Art Tatum Jazz Society will provide smooth, cool “Twilight Jazz” along the river, appetizers

Downtown Toledo Improvement District conspires to set lunch to music. Noon-1:30 Thursdays through Aug. 30. Levis Square, North St. Clair Street and Madison Avenue.

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O David Browning: Aug. 30.

Weekly concerts will pierce the summer heat. Commodore Park, Louisiana and Indiana, Perrysburg. (419) 873-2787 or www. perrysburgarts.org.

O Sea Commanders II: Aug. 30.

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This Toledo rock band promises to “shake your bones.” 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1, the Rocket, 135 S. Byrne Rd. $5-$7. (419) 474-6394 or www. myspace.com/skeletoncrue.

Performers take the stage near Cheetah Valley. 2700 Broadway. (419) 474-1333 or ticketmaster.com.

O Fresh Beat Band: 6 p.m. Aug. 30, $28.50$39.50.

Jazz in the Garden

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Take in some swing and smooth tunes among the swaying flowers. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays through Sept. 6, Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Dr. $6-$8; $48-$64 for season pass. (419) 536-5566 or toledogarden.org.

O Gene Parker Quintet: Aug. 30.

O Lisa Lynn, Jason Quick: Sept. 6.

Club Friday

Some of the city’s most talented performers entertain museum-goers during TMA’s It’s Friday events. 6:30-9:30 p.m., Peristyle Terrace, 2445 Monroe St. (419) 255-8000 or toledomuseum.org.

O Bobby May & Friends: Aug. 31.

O Kentucky Chrome: Sept. 7.

Centennial Terrace

This venue next to a quarry hosts dance parties, swing bands, country singers and rockers.

5773 Centennial Road, Sylvania. (419) 8821500, (419) 381-8851, www.centennialterrace. org or www.ticketmaster.com.

O Boogie Matrix Mechanism: 8 p.m. Aug. 31, free.

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Agent P, live Toledo native Tiffany Westfall suits up for ‘Ferb.’

By Brigitta Burks Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer bburks@toledofreepress.com

Liberty Center native Tiffany Westfall has performed all over the world — she’s been to Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, China and more. But, on Sept. 1, she will tumble across the SeaGate Convention Centre stage as Agent P in “Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!”

“It’s exciting for [local family and friends] to be able to see what I do when I’m away, to be a part of what I’m doing all year long,” Westfall said.

Playing a platypus

WESTFALL

Westfall’s character, Agent P, is the title characters’ pet platypus, but also a secret agent. The part requires Westfall to do gymnastics dressed as a platypus wearing a fedora. However, she’s game for the challenge.

“Everything was designed for us and [the designers] try to make it as easy as possible,” Westfall said. “It’s mind over matter. It’s really getting into wanting to be the character and portraying him as he is on the show (on the Disney Channel).”

“Creating the costumes for this show

certainly had its challenges,” said Cynthia Nordstrom, the show’s costume designer, in a news release. “We needed to be mindful of the acrobatics in the show, particularly involving Agent P and Dr. Doofenshmirtz, so crafting costumes that supported a lot of unusual motions was imperative.

Break from college

Westfall, who is a graduate of Liberty Center High School, said she discovered gymnastics as a child.

“Of course, everybody watched the ’96 Olympics and fell in love with the awesome gymnastic team we had,” she said. In addition to competing, Westfall coached at Northwest Ohio Gymnastics Academy in high school to help pay for gas.

Later she attended Owens Community College to become a physical therapist’s assistant.

Her fate changed when she was perusing for scholarships online and saw that Disney had a program where you could work at the park for credits. However, the deadline for the program had past — but Westfall traveled to Orlando, Fla. to audition anyway.

“They asked me to move to Florida and start working full time,” Westfall said. “I took a little break from college and little did I know five years later, I’d still be here.” n PHINEAS CONTINUES ON 21

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Tiffany Westfall performs a backflip in her role as Agent P in ‘Phineas and Ferb’ Live.

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n PHINEAS CONTINUED FROM 20 Westfall worked as a dancer in the parades and shows at the park. Just when she was ready to go back to school, she received word that she got a part as a dancer in “Playhouse Disney Live” with Feld Entertainment. Since then, she has visited several countries for her roles in “Mickey’s Magic Show” and “Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh.”

So far, her favorite place has been China where she spent four months on tour. “It’s just so different. It’s a different lifestyle and the people are so friendly,” she said.

The tumbler has been with “Phineas and Ferb”

since its start last year. She clearly loves her part.

“I couldn’t pick a favorite [scene]. We have so many exciting scenes,” she said. “The show relates to a lot of families these days because Phineas and Ferb are stepbrothers … it’s all about having fun on summer vacation so it’s no drama; it’s all fun.”

The show revolves around the characters putting together a show to celebrate the last day of summer. Meanwhile, Agent P must fight Dr. Doofenshmirtz — who really just wants everyone to think he’s cool.

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The show also includes 14 songs from the TV show like, “Gitchee Gitchee Goo,” “Squirrels in My Pants,” and “Today Is Gonna Be a Great Day.” It also features carefully crafted sets like Agent P’s jungle gym and treadmill.

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spent catching up. The hardest part of her job is being away from her family and missing out on her sister’s senior year or her one-and-a-halfyear-old nephew’s milestones.

“It’s very difficult to be missing out on a lot,” she said. “Thank God for technology.”

In the next couple weeks, Westfall’s schedule will lead her to Texas and California. Despite the difficulties of road life, Westfall plans to continue “as long as my body will met me.”

“I absolutely love what I’m doing,” she said.

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By Jim Beard Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Marvel Comics’ recent release of Amazing Spider-Man No. 692 stirred strong emotions in at least one Toledoan, comics retailer Jim Collins of JC’s Comic Stop. The book was touted as the famous wall-crawler’s “50th Anniversary Issue” and for Collins, who shares the same birth month and year with Spidey, it meant a chance to look back over some shared history with his favorite super hero.

“I remember getting Amazing Spider-Man No. 44 and No. 45 for Christmas of 1966 and that was it,” Collins said. “I was hooked for life, mainly because of the giant, talking Lizard.

Seeing the ’60s cartoon also had me glued to the set and couldn’t wait to get more of his adventures in the comics. Growing up, Amazing Spider-Man was the one comic I really tried to never miss. My grandparents would buy copies if they saw them, so [the books] would be there when I visited them. I remember going to the High Level Carry-Out with my dad when he would have me and going through the stacks of coverless “3 for 25 cents” shrink-wrapped comics looking for issues I would have missed. Granted they were coverless, but I wanted and was glad to have the issues … but was still disappointed they

didn’t have the covers.”

Collins also remembers the infamous anti-drug stories of the early 1970s, though he was more interested in the villainy of the Green Goblin in those issues than editor Stan Lee’s stance on illicit narcotics.

But it was Amazing Spider-Man No. 100 in 1971 that truly sent the young comic fan into a “tailspin” upon digesting its contents.

“What an issue!” he remembers. “The wall-crawler fighting his greatest foes and, shock of all shocks at the end, out pops four extra arms [from Spider-Man]! I was able to get issues on a more regular basis after that, pleading with my folks to stop at whatever carry-out or drug store that I knew had comics and let me go in — ‘I’ll be just a few minutes.’

Ha! There were just too many choices back then for a 9-year-old, but Spidey was always Number One with me.”

One might then wonder what Collins thought of the current Amazing Spider-Man No. 692.

“Yes, it’s his 50th Anniversary issue, but boy was it a disappointment,” he said. “Weak story, same subpar art, and back-up stories that wouldn’t have made even fill-in issue. I expected much more from Marvel for their flagship character’s big celebration. Sadly, Marvel mailed this in — I guess I have to hope to live to 100, to see if they can redeem themselves after this.” O

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Trivia

McGinnis wins arts reporting award Toledo’s own pop culture guru received statewide recognition last week as the Ohio Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded Jeff McGinnis second place in the state at Best Arts Reporting.

McGinnis has written for Toledo Free Press since 2009, crafting columns and articles about pop culture.

“I love conversation and I love talking to people,” McGinnis said. “Having the chance to have so many conversations, to talk to McGINNIS people from all walks and see how their minds work ... there isn’t a thing about this job that I don’t love.”

McGinnis graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2001 with dual degrees in journalism and theater. With Roger Ebert as his guide, McGinnis aspired to one day become a film critic but it was not until a few failed auditions for the Face of FOX Toledo contest that he got the opportunity to spring from the blogosphere to Toledo’s news print and radio world.

Toledo Free Press Editor in Chief Michael S. Miller was one of the judges for the contest when McGinnis auditioned. McGinnis didn’t make the final cut on his third and last try — but Miller tracked him down afterward and asked him to write for the newspaper.

“Jeff had a wit and insight that impressed everybody,” Miller said.

Miller also connected McGinnis to 92.5 KISS FM, a station that offered McGinnis the oppor-

tunity to report weekly about “American Idol.”

That was the year that Crystal Bowersox stole the show — so his segment ended up becoming “pretty important,” McGinnis said.

McGinnis still talks pop culture on the radio and juggles two other jobs: one as a cashier at a movie theater and the other as an acting teacher at Starbound NYC, a studio that mentors and coaches budding actors and actresses.

McGinnis writes about anything from delightfully awful movies such as “Manos the Hands of Fate” to visiting comedians, to wrestling to television series. And, Miller said, he does all of this with an air of modesty and admiration.

“In this market, critics and pop culture writers have viewed themselves as above the arts and somehow better than the arts that they are reviewing,” Miller said. “But Jeff respects the arts. He is an artist at what he does and therefore his critiques and reviews have an empathy and insight that has long been missing from the Toledo market. The joy of experiencing art comes through Jeff ’s work.”

McGinnis said writing for Toledo Free Press has presented him with a multitude of opportunities: his favorite gig involved an interview with Roger Ebert.

“He’s the guy who made me want to get into this kind of work,” McGinnis said. “I had the chance to communicate with him through email and just getting the chance to express my questions and having him respond, seeing that he had read my work and thought it was good — that meant everything to me.” O — Caitlin McGlade

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mbition can take you far in the music business. If you mix that with talent and business sense there is no limit to what you can do inside and outside of Toledo.

Shawanda “Spyda” Johnson is a Toledo native who has taken full advantage of opportunities, many of which she has made happen through sheer ambition and determination.

The singer, dancer and choreographer has been entertaining the Glass City and beyond as a member of dance troups and drill teams since she was a child.

As a preteen she approached the founder of the House of Adonis dance company, Bridget Hanson.

Hanson instantly recognized Spyda as a force to be reckoned with and was determined to groom the born leader.

Since then, Spyda has performed as a dancer and singer in front of thousands.

House of Adonis is a mainstay at talent shows, showcases, community events, tours, video shoots and more.

They have won on “Showtime at the Apollo,” appeared on BET’s “106 & Park” and in 2011 performed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Michael Jackson tribute.

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plishments as choreographer and dancer with the House of Adonis. She has made these moves while living, working, serving and sharing her passion within her hometown.

Once a student in the dance company, she is now one of the leaders, and she and Hanson continue to provide a professional dance outlet for the youth in Toledo.

Spyda recently celebrated the grand opening of her very own dance studio, F.A.M.E.D. Studios, 1822 Reynolds Road, where they offer ballet, jazz, hip-hop, praise dance classes, voice lessons and more. It is open to students of all ages who want to learn and enjoy dance.

Her music has been concentrated around her passion for dance and her upcoming album, “Live, Love Dance,” features her new single, “Paper Chase,” featuring “Put Me On Live” winner Payper Flav.

The album is scheduled to be released on her birthday, Oct. 27.

“It’s going to talk about living life, the love with the life and of course my passion, dance, within the music itself,” Spyda said.

The album will contain music you can dance to whether you like club bangers, hustles or just want some “feel good music.”

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As if that wasn’t enough, she is currently finishing up a tour geared toward Toledo and other Midwest artists with scheduled dates in Atlanta Sept. 4 and 5 at the Apache with the tour finishing up in Baltimore.

Spyda has a positive impact on youth in Toledo needing an outlet to express their passion through dance, with many of her students going on to other major cities like Atlanta and Los Angeles Her students have danced in national artists’ videos and performed in Tyler Perry plays. She has proven to be a true Toledo treasure, instilling hope while giving back and providing opportunities to younger generations as the big sister many of them never had.

On Sept. 7, Spyda and the House of Adonis can be seen at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on one of the largest tours in the U.S., the Scream Tour.

They will accompany, compete and dance with the likes of Jungle Boogie from MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew,” in hopes of continuing to Atlanta and gaining the opportunity to perform with the other finalist chosen on the 10-city tour.

The grand prize winner will win $10,000 and a coveted spot in the next season of “America’s Best Dance Crew” as well as a contract with Bloc South Talent Agency and more.

Spyda has committed to representing Toledo, and through her hard work she has proven that all is possible if you stay focused on your goals.

For more info about Spyda, House of Adonis and F.A.M.E.D. Studios visit www. reverbnation.com/spyda419.

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