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Marketplace changes

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UPDATES IN LOCAL BUSINESS Musicians on a budget should look into Toledoan Ron Pollman's latest venture, The Used Music Shop, at 2425 W. Laskey (next to Sommerset Hall). Pollman, who has 47 years in the music business with former shops Ron's Music and Toledo Musical Instrument exchange, has created a new hub for buying, selling and swapping musical equipment. So get ready to start practicing again! 419-377-8964. Facebook page: The Used Music Shop. We can walk a bit prouder, as retired orthopedic surgeon Tom Merritt, M.D. opens the first Toledo location of international shoe retailer Foot Solutions. The chain sells custom fitted footwear and health and wellness products from over 175 stores in 13 countries with an emphasis on professional personal service. The new location, slated for a January opening, is in the Talmadge Town Center at 4204 W. Sylvania Ave, near Westfield Franklin Park. 888-348-3668. www.footsolutions.com. There's hope for a return of cheesy goodness, as fondue chain The Melting Pot plans to open a new location at Westfield Franklin Park in early 2013. This will be the franchise's second foray into the Toledo restaurant market; their former location on Monroe St. near US-23 closed in fall 2011. www.meltingpot.com. Irish Eyes Heavenly Pub, the new themed spot from the owner of Tres Belle and La Casa De La Habana that we reported on previously in marketplace changes, has opened its doors. Chef John Keane’s Emerald Isle-inspired menu is heavy on spuds (there’s even a chocolate potato cake), and includes other culinary delights, like Guinness beer cheese soup. 3324 Secor Rd. (in the Home Depot plaza near Subway). 419-531-2427. www.irisheyesheavenlypub.com. Take a deep breath — O2 Experience, Toledo's own "oxygen bar," has closed the doors of their 5201 Monroe St. location after several months in business. They're searching for a new home, and in the meantime plan to offer their services at private parties and events. www.facebook.com/o2toledo Toledoans have to go a bit further for their white chicken chili and seafood, as Chowder's 'n Moor closes its Holland location on Airport Highway. They'll continue to offer your favorites at the Waterville location at 312 South St. 419-878-9105. www.chowdersnmoor.com.

What do you resolve to do in 2013?

Read between the lines

The nearly 40,000 adults in Lucas County who are functionally illiterate do not suffer alone — their children are often left with little or no support at school, leading them to struggle, too. Read For Literacy’s Creating Young Readers program is enlisting volunteers to help break the cycle. After a three hour training, volunteers commit to an hour and a half per week of one-on-one reading time with a child, visiting a preschool or elementary to help improve literacy skills. "There's a desperate need,” says Diana Bush, director of operations. "It's really, really important. Most of these kids have never been read to.” To sign up, call Diana at 419-242-7323 or email diana.bush@toledolibrary.org.

New year, new cause

Toledo’s InterAgency Recreation Committee (IREC) is giving community members with developmental disabilities the chance to ring in 2013 in a positive way with their third annual New Year’s party on Friday, January 4. IREC was developed to provide recreation opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities, including the New Year’s dinner and dance event, which has enjoyed overwhelming popularity. Last year 400 people attended; this year, party planners are expecting 500 or more. “It’s really important for our folks to have a party, because they don’t get the opportunity that their typical peers get,” says The Arc Lucas County program coordinator Jean Blachowski. “This gives them the opportunity to be with their friends and to enjoy the whole experience of the same gala that we would experience.” Partygoers will enjoy a red carpet entrance, New Year’s toast, and live band; tickets are $25 per person, and proceeds go to sponsor attendees and future parties. 5-9pm. Grand Plaza Hotel, 444 N. Summit St. For more information, contact The Arc Lucas County at 419-461-7366. arclucas.org. —AO

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It might not help your studies like that other library, but new bar The Library hopes to be just as important a destination for students — and everyone else. Under manager Danny Ruiz, the pub, on West Bancroft next to Rick's City Diner (the space formerly occupied by the Ale House) will offer a classy experience with live music, karaoke and more. 2633 W. Bancroft. 419-725-8401.

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The Olive Tree's all-natural, alternative health approach won't be on offer in 2013 — the health store announced it will close on Saturday, December 29th. They'll end their run by offering 20 percent off all their products. A perfect chance to snap up some supplements? 3355 Briarfield Blvd. (in the shopping center next to Pyure Salon & Spa). 419-480-7530. www.facebook.com/ OliveTreeHealthMaumee.

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UT mechanical engineering students with the ECOsmart bus bench

Waiting for a ride, the eco-friendly way

“I was trying to take the 1950s bus bench and bring it to the 21st century,” says Christopher Harris, founder of ECOsmart Outdoor Media. The result is the ECOsmart bus bench, a collaboration between local company exec Harris, Toledo solar panel company Xunlight, and several University of Toledo mechanical engineering students. Solar panels connected to the bench generate energy to power a wi-fi connection and a 50-inch monitor that keeps riders updated on weather alerts, campus safety issues, bus schedules and other information — environmentally conscious communication of timely messages. “I really wanted to use the bench primarily as a campus safety, security and emergency notification system in real time,” said Harris. Though the bench is still in the prototype stage (it was shown at UT’s design expo in early December), Harris has high hopes that the eco-friendly innovation will eventually lead to jobs, saying the product “has national potential.” —AO

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Taking second-hand by storm

Hunting for treasures at Stormin Norman’s Trading Post By Jeff Berry Equipped with only a warm, jovial personality, Norman Eisen navigates his supersized 58,000 square-foot selling space with ease, making sure his workshop is in order before opening his doors to treasure-seeking customers. “We’re the largest indoor [flea market] in Northwest Ohio that I’m aware of,” Eisen, owner of Stormin Norman’s Trading Post, says. “Even Santa comes here,” he boasts, petting a four-foot plastic Santa Claus. Stormin Norman’s opened just before Thanksgiving two years ago, after Eisen decided he could turn financially struggling people into entrepreneurs. “The reason I got into this was to help people — help people afford things or help people start a business,” Eisen said. Whether it’s an over-sized inflatable football helmet, Coca-Cola collectables, unique beer steins — even food and jewelry — there’s a great chance it can be found in Eisen’s store. “If you can’t find it here, I don’t know where you would,” he says. Wandering down the aisles at Stormin Norman’s, it’s easy to feel the close-knit family atmosphere that he and his team have created. Eisen’s booming belly laugh can be heard throughout the

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post and “good to see you again” is the greeting of the day. That is perhaps why Norman’s customers often befriend him. They grab a free cup of coffee and roam the former Food Town store, often stopping to catch up with the workers and browse the booths for new additions. “At the end of the day, I ask [myself] did I take care of the customers? If you don’t have customers, you might as well lock your doors,” Eisen said. Vivacious vendors are encouraged at Stormin’ Norman’s Trading Post; booth rental is $10 per day, an affordable way to capture your entrepreneurial spirit. Stormin Norman’s Trading Post, 5860 Lewis Ave. (at Alexis Rd.), open Thursday-Sunday, 10am-6pm. 419-724-4001.

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Fitness guru Erika White pow-wows with her producer, Andre Savage, before a taping of FitZone TV

Power plants

When a local media entrepreneur and a fitness force join up, a high voltage show lights up local TV By Nan Bauer André Savage dreams big. “I’m Berry Gordy. I’ve been waiting for my Michael Jackson to show up. I think I found her.” Savage’s ‘Jackson’ may be Erika White, and her “ABC” might be FitZone TV. The show, which combines interviews with local health and nutrition experts, cooking demos, and fitness segments, debuted to 10,000 viewers on September 30 this year. “That was the day that more than 17,000 people were downtown at the Susan Komen race, and we still pulled those numbers,” says Savage. When asked separately how they made it happen, both White and Savage are quick to give credit to God. “I just showed up,” laughs White. “I was content to ask for Hamburger Helper, God gave me a steak. But I did have to cook it.” It also helps that Savage’s first show, Game Savvy Latenight (GSL), has an established Northwest Ohio presence and loyal following. “The extent of our marketing was we put together a promo for FitZone that told about Erika’s journey,” says Savage. “We ran it on GSL, and we did some Facebook announcements. Boom. It took off.” A longtime friend of White and her husband, James, Savage knew Erika had the right stuff, including a megawatt smile, journalistic experience from college, serious communication chops — she’s the vice president of the local union chapter of Communications of America Local 4319 — and a compelling back story. “I was fat,” says White, “and I wanted to fix my high blood pressure and play with my kids. I found out that insurance would cover gastric

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bypass surgery if I gained 40 pounds, and I started to figure out how I could gain the weight to get the surgery! I can laugh about it now, but I was desperate, and I didn’t even realize how depressed I was.” Instead, White took off her weight the old-fashioned way, through diet, exercise, and discipline. “It was tough. I remember how much I hated those early workouts,” she says. “But there was one instructor who’d walk by me while I was sweating and say, ‘good job, Erika.’ That was powerful. And that’s what I’m doing now, saying ‘good job, you can do it,’ to everybody who tunes in.” Savage considers her an ideal partner. “I need Erika,” he says. “GSL has a solid following, but it’s late night; it’s got a distinct urban rhythm. I want to expand Savvy Television, and FitZone TV captures a whole different audience.” He’s completely straightforward about his local media rap. “I have a lot of confidence and swagger, and I know I’m kind of polarizing.” He reports that when the first FitZone episode aired with his executive producer credit, “Erika’s phone started ringing off the hook, with people asking her, ‘are you sure you want to work with that guy?’ But she believed in me.” White has tremendous respect for her business partner. “I bring the fitness and health,” she says, “and André knows the entertainment/TV side back to front.” Both brainstorm ideas and write stories, tapping into their extensive networks and

imaginations for inspiration. Savage, who’s been in the public access trenches since college, produces and shoots the show; Gerald Hill helps out with editing. Quality control, particularly when it comes to sponsors, is key, and both parties want to keep advertising minimal. “I’m very picky,” says White. “I would never, ever want companies that sell diet pills or scams, like a wonder shake that costs 80 bucks, to be sponsoring the show.” That desire makes funding an ongoing battle — the team has decided to take a hiatus from production after the final episode of the first 12-week season on December 30. Savage believes the show has tremendous potential, “but we have to get the financial backing. We’re attracting a big audience on a tiny budget. If we can get the funding to match the vision and the production values to match the quality of what we deliver, we can kick ass even harder.” Like his role model, Berry Gordy — who set up Motown HQ in a two-story house in downtown Detroit — Savage is dedicated to keeping it real and homegrown. He has huge heart for kids who start life, as he did, in rough neighborhoods. “I’m dedicated to showing as many people as I can that there are ways out of poverty besides playing basketball or selling drugs. You can write, produce, work a camera, be in front of the camera.” It’s extremely hard work, but neither complains. “We’ve been given a ball, and it’s up to us to keep it rolling,” says White. “So we keep at it, and don’t stop, and you know what? We got a good-sized ball right now.” FitZone TV airs on Sunday, Dec. 30 at 7:30am on NBC-Toledo 24. You can also watch episodes at erikawhite.net/tv2012 or www.youtube.com/user/ erikafitzone, or attend one of her classes at Extreme Cardio Center, 5201 Monroe St., 419-309-9777, starting in January.

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Something old, something new What will the New Year bring to City Politics? By Johnny Hildo

As the calendar flips, we at Hildo News Service take the time to reflect on the old and anticipate the new. It’s the season when Old Man Time must yield to the fresh babe of new possibilities. Except that, here in ol’ Froggy Bottom, the same old keeps rearing up trying to be the new. Consider. One Old Man Time, Smilin’ Jack Ford, has a long list of formers before his venerable name. Former City Councilman, State Representative, Mayor, School Board Member. A lifetime of public service finishes as it should, mentoring a fresh new generation of public servants like auditor and presumptive mayoral candidate Anita “Stepping Stone” Lopez. It’s almost poetic, as Old Man Time steps aside and 2013 ushers in the babes of the next era, including Lopez and Mr. Ambition, Joe McNamara. But wait: Smilin’ Jack sez he’s feeling much better, thank you, and wants a seat on Council so he can give Mayor Bell Bottoms a good old fashioned whuppin’. Ford’s crack at being appointed to Council suffered a setback when the Democratic Party declined to endorse him for the seat vacated by Phil Copeland, but this old man walking has legs and intends to win in November. Ford has garnered support from that other relic of bygone days, former for-

mer Carty S. Finklesteiger. Add in the mayoral ambitions of the Fink’s former aide-de-camp Theresa Gabriel and we have two septuagenarians who refuse to say when.

Generation next

Where are the fresh faces of City Politics? Remember, that scoundrel T. Jefferson touted the value of a good rebellion every now and then. Whence might come the rebellion-of-the-next-week against the hangers on from the late 1970s? The Dems endorsed a thirty-something, Shaun Enright, for the vacated Council seat. But his name was pushed hard for the endorsement by the entrenched old guard of organized labor. How much independence will he be allowed? Other folks who screened for the seat included another former and a retired. Geez, seems like those adjectives are used so much they have become nouns. The only “current” who screened was a clueless cipher who bombed in two previous attempts at elected office. The now generation, the twenty- and thirty-somethings who cut their teeth slogging behind the scenes in elections, have moved out or on, it seems. From Gabby Seay (Ohio Dems) to David Mann (Advocates for Basic Legal Equality) to Josh Thurston (Office of Commissioner

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Wozniak), the youngsters you’ve never heard of have moved on. Those you have heard of, like Frank Szollosi (master of public administration degree) have left office to pursue other goals. Former Council candidate Terry Biel (Tech Director, TLC Homelessness Board) has also left the stable.

Young blood

Does the rebellion of the yet-to-be come from the party of the golden past, the GOP? One feather in Jon Stainbrook’s cap has been running young candidates like Hans Schnapp and Constantine Stamos. Unfortunately, they’s been rerun ‘til the grooves don’t play right. Schnapp is now a Board of Elections operative and Stamos, well, the rest is better left unsaid. Shall we hear from minor parties? Far right tea partiers and their libertarian fellow travelers are out of touch with the center left leanings of the swamp. The greens, while running youngster Sean Nestor, seem so caught up in inner circle purity that they will have serious trouble cracking the mainstream. A small tent doesn’t invite participation. So we wait. The young generation of T-town devoted movers and shakers are out there. Young entrepreneurs and community activists like Julie Webster (Art Supply Depo) and Rachel Richardson

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(Independent Advocates and Art Corner Toledo), Kamaron Kyser (ThoseFellas) and Will Lucas (Classana), Marc Folk, Ryan Bunch and Michelle Carlson (Arts Commission), Jeff Williams, Robyn Peabody, and the rest of the goods folks at EPIC, well, we’re running out of column space to print them all. Thanks for all you do for the Toledo region, folks. Ever consider running for public office?

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Project Censored

Project Censored: The Year’s Most Ignored News

The “sock puppets” the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know about— and 9 other stories you didn’t hear from the mainstream media. This story originally appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in October. by Yael Chanoff

eople who get their information exclusively from mainstream media sources may have been surprised at the lack of enthusiasm on the left for President Barack Obama in this past election. But that’s probably because they weren’t exposed to the full online furor sparked by Obama’s continuation of his predecessor’s overreaching approach to national security, such as signing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the indefinite detention of those accused of supporting terrorism — even US citizens. Project Censored, a non-profit dedicated to media criticism and investigative journalism, has been documenting inadequate media coverage of crucial stories since it began in 1967 at Sonoma State University. Each year, the group considers hundreds of news stories submitted by readers, evaluating their merits. Students search Lexis Nexis and other databases to see if the stories were underreported, and if so, the stories are fact-checked by professors and experts in relevant fields. A panel of academics and journalists chooses the Top 25 stories and rates their significance. The project maintains a vast online database of underreported news stories that it has “validated” and publishes them in an annual book. Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution was released Oct. 30. But with revolutionary unrest around the world, and the rise of a mass movement that connects disparate issues together into a simple, powerful class analysis — the 99 percent versus the 1 percent paradigm popularized by Occupy Wall Street — this year’s Project

Censored offers an element of hope. It’s not easy to succeed at projects that resist corporate dominance, and when it does happen, the corporate media is sometimes reluctant to cover it. Number seven on the Top 25 list is the story of how the United Nations designated 2012 the International Year of the Cooperative, recognizing the rapid growth of co-op businesses, organizations that are part-owned by all members and whose revenue is shared equitably among members. One billion people worldwide now work in co-ops. The Year of the Cooperative is not the only good-news story discussed by Project Censored this year. In Chapter 4, Yes! Magazine’s Sarah Van Gelder lists “12 ways the Occupy movement and other major trends have offered a foundation for a transformative future.” They include a renewed sense of “political selfrespect” and fervor to organize in the United States, debunking of economic myths such as the “American dream,” and the blossoming of economic alternatives such as community land trusts, time banking, and micro-energy installations. And ultimately, it’s the public — not the president and not the corporations—that will determine the future. There may be hope after all.

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Project Censored

OCEANS IN PERIL Big banks aren’t the only entities that our country has deemed “too big to fail.” But our oceans won’t be getting a bailout anytime soon, and their collapse could compromise life itself. In a haunting article highlighted by Project Censored, Mother Jones reporter Julia Whitty paints a tenuous seascape — overfished, acidified, warming — and describes how the destruction of the ocean’s complex ecosystems jeopardizes the entire planet, not just the 70 percent that is water. Whitty compares ocean acidification, caused by

global warming, to acidification that was one of the causes of the “Great Dying,” a mass extinction 252 million years ago. Life on earth took 30 million years to recover. In a more hopeful story, a study of 14 protected and 18 non-protected ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea showed dangerous levels of biomass depletion. But it also showed that the marine reserves were well-enforced, with five to 10 times larger fish populations than in unprotected areas. This encourages establishment and maintenance of more reserves.

Here’s Project Censored’s Top 10 list for 2013: SIGNS OF AN EMERGING POLICE STATE President George W. Bush is remembered largely for his role in curbing civil liberties in the name of his “war on terror.” But it’s President Obama who signed the 2012 NDAA, including its clause allowing for indefinite detention without trial for terrorism suspects. Obama promised that “my administration will interpret them to avoid the constitutional conflict” — leaving us adrift if and when the next administration chooses to interpret them otherwise. Another law of concern is the National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order that Obama issued in March 2012. That order authorizes the President, “in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production

capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements.” The president is to be advised on this course of action by “the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council, in conjunction with the National Economic Council.” Journalist Chris Hedges, along with co-plaintiffs including Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, won a case challenging the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause on Sept. 1, when a federal judge blocked its enforcement, but her ruling was overturned on Oct. 3, so the clause is back. Continued on p12

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US DEATHS FROM FUKUSHIMA Continued from p11

A plume of toxic fallout floated to the US after Japan’s tragic Fukushima nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011. The US Environmental Protection Agency found radiation levels in air, water, and milk that were hundreds of times higher than normal across the United States. One month later, the EPA announced that radiation levels had declined, and they would cease testing. But after making a Freedom of Information Act request, journalist Lucas Hixson published emails revealing that on March 24, 2011, the task of collecting nuclear data had been handed off from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a nuclear industry lobbying group. And in one study that got little attention, scientists Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman found that in the period following the Fukushima meltdowns, 14,000 more deaths than average were reported in the US, mostly among infants. Later, Mangano and Sherman updated the number to 22,000.

SATellite image of fukushima after the march 2011 massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami

THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF COOPERATIVE

4. FBI AGENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR TERRORIST PLOTS We know that FBI agents go into communities such as mosques, both undercover and in the guise of building relationships, quietly gathering information about individuals. This is part of an approach to finding what the FBI now considers the most likely kind of terrorists, “lone wolves.” Its strategy: “seeking to identify those disgruntled few who might participate in a plot given the means and the opportunity. And then, in case after case, the government provides the plot, the means, and the opportunity,” writes Mother Jones journalist Trevor Aaronson. The publication, along with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, examined the results of this strategy, 508 cases classified as terrorismrelated that have come before the US Department of Justice since the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001. In 243 of these cases, an informant was involved; in 49 cases, an informant actually led the plot. And “with three exceptions, all of the high-profile domestic terror plots of the last decade were actually FBI stings.”

5. FEDERAL RESERVE LOANED TRILLIONS TO MAJOR BANKS The Federal Reserve, the US’s quasi-private central bank, was audited for the first time in its history this year. The audit report states, “From late 2007 through mid-2010, Reserve Banks provided more than a trillion dollars... in emergency loans to the financial sector to address strains in credit markets and to avert failures of individual institutions believed to be a threat to the stability of the financial system.” These loans had significantly less interest and fewer conditions than the high-profile TARP bailouts, and were rife with conflicts of interest. Some examples: the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served as a board member of the New York Federal Reserve at the same time that his bank received more than

$390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. William Dudley, who is now the New York Federal Reserve president, was granted a conflict of interest waiver to let him keep investments in AIG and General Electric at the same time the companies were given bailout funds. The audit was restricted to Federal Reserve lending during the financial crisis. On July 25, 2012, a bill to audit the Fed again, with fewer limitations, authored by Rep. Ron Paul, passed the House of Representatives. HR459 expected to die in the Senate, but the movement behind Paul and his calls to hold the Fed accountable, or abolish it altogether, seem to be growing.

SMALL NETWORK OF CORPORATIONS RUN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Reporting on a study by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich didn’t make the rounds nearly enough, according to Censored 2013. They found that, of 43,060 transnational companies,

147 control 40 percent of total global wealth. The researchers also built a

model visually demonstrating how the connections between companies — what it calls the “super entity” — works. Some have criticized the study, saying control of assets doesn’t equate to ownership. True, but as we clearly saw in the 2008 financial collapse, corporations are capable of mismanaging assets in their control to the detriment of their actual owners. And a largely unregulated super entity like this is vulnerable to global collapse.

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Can something really be censored when it’s straight from the United Nations? According to Project Censored evaluators, the corporate media underreported the UN declaring 2012 to be the International Year of the Cooperative, based on the co-op business model’s stunning growth. The UN found that, in 2012, one billion people worldwide are coop member-owners, or one in five adults over the age of 15. The largest is Spain’s Mondragon Corporation, with more than 80,000 member-owners. The UN predicts that by 2025, worker-owned co-ops will be the world’s fastest growing business model. Worker-owned cooperatives provide for equitable distribution of wealth, genuine connection to the workplace, and, just maybe, a brighter future for our planet.

WAR CRIMES IN LIBYA 8.NATO

In January 2012, the BBC “revealed” how British Special Forces agents joined and “blended in” with rebels in Libya to help topple dictator Muammar Gadaffi, a story that alternative media sources had reported a year earlier. NATO admits to bombing a pipe factory in the Libyan city of Brega that was key to the water supply system that brought tap water to 70 percent of Libyans, saying that Gadaffi was storing weapons in the factory. In Censored 2013, writer James F. Tracy makes the point that historical relations between the US and Libya were left out of mainstream news coverage of the NATO campaign; “background knowledge and historical context confirming Al-Qaeda and Western involvement in the destabilization of the Gadaffi regime are also essential for making sense of corporate news narratives depicting the Libyan operation as a popular ‘uprising.’”

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PRISON SLAVERY IN THE US

On its website, the UNICOR manufacturing corporation proudly proclaims that its products are “made in America.” That’s true, but they’re made in places in the US where labor laws don’t apply, with workers often paid just 23 cents an hour to be exposed to toxic materials with no legal recourse. These places are US prisons. Slavery conditions in prisons aren’t exactly news. It’s literally written into the Constitution; the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, outlaws “slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” But the article highlighted by Project Censored this year reveal the current state of prison slavery industries, and its ties to war. The majority of products manufactured by inmates are contracted to the Department of Defense. Inmates make complex parts for missile systems, battleship anti-aircraft guns, and landmine sweepers, as well as night-vision goggles, body armor, and camouflage uniforms. Of course, this is happening in the context of record high imprisonment in the US, where grossly disproportionate numbers of African Americans and Latinos are imprisoned, and can’t vote even after they’re freed. As psychologist Elliot D. Cohen puts it in this year’s book: “This system of slavery, like that which existed in this country before the Civil War, is also racist, as more than 60 percent of US prisoners are people of color.”

10. MAKING PROTEST CRIMINAL

Lawyers and other concerned citizens worry HR 347—also called the “antiOccupy” bill—could have disastrous effects for the First Amendment right to protest. Officially called the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act, it would make it a felony to “knowingly” enter a zone restricted under the law, or engage in “disorderly or disruptive” conduct in or near the zones. The restricted zones include anywhere the Secret Service may be — the White House, areas hosting events deemed “National Special Security Events” or anywhere visited by the president, vice president and their immediate families; former presidents, former vice presidents and certain family members; certain foreign dignitaries; major presidential and vice presidential candidates (within 120 days of an election); and other individuals as designated by a presidential executive order. These people could be anywhere, and the zones have notoriously included the Democratic and Republican national conventions, the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards.

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culinary

Monday, January 7

Joie de Vivre Cooking Class Treo

Chef Brett McIntosh will teach you how to whip up a classic Cajun and French-Creole-inspired New Orleans menu of seafood gumbo; shrimp and smoked cheddar grits; chicken and andouille sausage jambalaya; and bananas foster. $25. 6:30pm. Registration required by January 5. 5703 Main St. (at the corner of Maplewood), Sylvania. 419-882-2266. treosylvania.com.

Between the slices

Lunch service goes farm to table at Degage Express By Alia Orra

Wednesday, January 9

Tyler Florence Fresh Cookbook Club Event Williams-Sonoma

Though hunky Food Network star Tyler Florence won't be in attendance, Williams-Sonoma's culinary experts will teach you how to prepare a dinner based on his cookbook "Fresh," a compilation of recipes that put quality produce on display. The menu includes kale salad with apple, walnuts and roasted grapes; steak with spinach, parmesan, lemon and olive oil; and frozen chocolate raspberry "bombs." After the two-hour session you'll walk away with new kitchen knowhow, 10% off all purchases, and a copy of the book. $75. 6:30-8:30pm. Westfield Franklin Park Mall, 5001 Monroe St. 419-475-6368. www.williams-sonoma.com.

high spirits Just Wednesday Tastings The Beer and Wine Cave Wednesday, December 26

Try a sparkling wine and port, and winter beers.

Wednesday, January 2 Sample a variety of beers and wines.

Wednesday, January 9 Enjoy a variety of beers and wines. [All tastings $10-$15. 6-8pm. The Beer and Wine Cave, 4400 Heatherdowns Blvd. 419-382-6221. www.toledomeatsandmore.com.]

Thursday Tastings Middle Grounds Market

Thursday & Friday, December 27 & 28 On Thursday, enjoy a selection of bubbly wines and Michigan beers. On Friday, sample more bubbly wines.

Thursday & Friday, January 3 & 4

Chef Joseph Jacobsen’s big inspiration? The reuben sandwich. To less refined foodies with insensitive palates, this may sound silly. But to a seasoned pro, the reuben sandwich poses a big problem — a culinary hazard, if you will. Finding a decent one in this town is a challenge, Jacobsen says. “Everywhere I’ve gone, I haven’t gotten one I really like,” the 31-year-old head chef at Maumee’s Degage Cafe says. With the opening of Degage Express, a new, high-end version of a cafeteria-style lunch spot next door to Maumee’s fine dining Degage Cafe, Jacobsen intends to apply his perfectionism to the creation of a good reuben, and a host of other creative sandwich concoctions. He is a stickler for quality, he says, no matter how many extra hours in the kitchen he puts in because of it. “A lot of the things we do are a lot more work, but I think it’s worth the effort.” And that hard work is paying off. Jacobsen’s Degage Reuben meets all of his criteria: corned beef made in-house,

sauerkraut from The Fremont Company in Fremont, Ohio, a slice of Swiss cheese and their secret recipe thousand island sauce on toasted marble rye from Wixey Bakery. It’s a delicious contender for the title of best reuben in Toledo. Jacobsen is a passionate advocate of buying local, hence his emphasis on a farm-to-table concept at Degage Express, sourcing as many ingredients as he can from regional farms and food companies. That’s not to say going local has made Jacobsen subtle — “I think people’s palates have been dulled by eating at chain restaurants,” he says. He counters that trend by being a generous cook, creating food that is big, hearty, spicy — loud, in the best way. Take, for example, one of the creations that seems inspired by his late-night creative epiphanies (he keeps a notepad by his bed to jot them down): the It’s Not So Izzy Being So Cheesy Weezy sandwich. Its ingredients are as indulgent as its title: caramelized onions, local apples, applewood smoked

bacon, and three kinds of cheese (cheddar, American and muenster) on toasted sourdough bread. Bacon appears frequently on the menu — “I do have a thing for it,” Jacobsen confesses — in everything from his own bacon jam to the maple bacon gelato made especially for the restaurant by Ann Arbor’s Zingerman’s Creamery. The Skyler’s Butternut Squash soup, named for sous chef Skyler Stanton, has a satisfying eastern Indian flavor, and Jacobsen’s Bird, Apples and Pears salad is loaded with chicken, blue cheese and candied pecans atop a bed of lettuce. All Jacobsen’s energies are focused on bringing real food back into people’s lunch breaks. “There are so many chain restaurants in the area,” Jacobsen says. “I think we’re losing touch with how things used to be.” Degage Express, 301 River Rd., Maumee. 419-794-8205. Facebook page: Degage Express: Soups, Sandwiches and Such. Open Monday thru Saturday, 11am-7pm.

Enjoy a variety of wines and beers.

Thursday & Friday, January 10 & 11 Sample a variety of wines and beers. [All tastings $10-$15. 5:30-7:30pm. Middle Grounds Market at The Oliver House, 27 Broadway St., inside the Petit Fours Patisserie & Cafe. 419-351-3335. Facebook page: The Middle Grounds Market at The Oliver House.]

Friday, January 11

Celebrity Wines Tasting Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion

In honor of the Made in Hollywood exhibition, the TMA will delight It’s Friday! visitors with tastings of West Coast wines. $15/$25 non-members. 7-9:30pm. 2445 Monroe St. 419-255-8000. www.toledomuseum.org.

Saturday, December 29

Champagne Extravaganza Walt Churchill's Market

Enjoy an afternoon of bubbly during this tasting celebration. Five tasting tables will feature Grower Champagne, Italian Prosecco and Asti, Spanish Cava, Michigan Method Champenoise, and delicious foods, too. Prices per sample vary, from $1 to $15. Noon-5pm. 3320 Briarfield Blvd., Maumee. 419-794-4000. www.waltchurchillsmarket.com.

A winter on the waterfront?

John and Jonathan McQueary, father and son restaurant management veterans, say they are ready for the ultimate culinary challenge — the team plans to fill the Docks spot formerly occupied by Cousino’s Navy Bistro and, more recently, Admiral’s American Grill, with their new venture Forrester’s On The River. “It was a great opportunity, just because [the location is] a staple in the Toledo area,” Jonathan says. The pair want to revive the location’s former glory as a classy, nautical-themed steakhouse while keeping the food affordable. They plan to debut a menu of rustic dishes, from chicken pot pie to porterhouse steaks to bourbon pork chops, with Toledo native Chef Brian Joyce at the helm of the kitchen. “He’s studied at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Las Vegas, and then worked at the St. Regis Aspen Resort,” Jonathan says. “He’s a young, fresh mind and he brings a lot of talent.” Forrester’s On The River is now open on Main St. at The Docks at International Park, downtown Toledo. 419-691-2626. —AO

Chef Brian Joyce at Forrester’s On The River

Bake beautifully

Perrysburg’s 577 Foundation has always got something for the wannabe chef. This month, learn to make some sweet surprises for the winter. First, on Friday, January 4 from 1:30-4 pm, learn your way around “Filo Dough” with instructor Azizi Abdoney. If you’re intimidated by the delicate pastry, you’ll gain some kitchen courage as you get the skills you need to craft it into tempting dinner party desserts. ($15.) Then, get a lesson in “Breakfast Breads and Pastries” on Monday, January 7 from 6:30-8:30 pm. You’ll learn to craft some tasty treats without fancy equipment, from apple strudel to bagels to challah. By the end, you’ll have some bread to take home. ($20.) Space is limited; register by phone or online. 577 E. Front St., Perrysburg. 419-874-4174. www.577foundation.org. —MD

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Revisiting the classics

After a brief hiatus, the Valentine Theatre’s Silver Screen Film Series is back with two of the most popular movies of all time. On Friday, January 4, the series kicks off in a Southern Civil War-era setting with Gone With The Wind. Friday, January 11, Silver Screen continues with Citizen Kane, a masterpiece directed by and starring Orson Welles revolving around the meaning of the dying words of a newspaper tycoon. Full bar, popcorn and snacks are available. Both $5; 7:30pm. Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St. 419-242-3490. www.valentinetheatre.com.

Freedom for all

Thomas Jefferson lost the fight to include strong anti-slavery language in the U.S. Constitution, so it was up to social reformers and the politicians in power almost a century later to tackle the problem. The Abolitionists — the documentary screens at the Way Library on Thursday, January 17 — chronicles the fiery fringe movement that swept through our nation, following the relentless campaigning of Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimke, and how it helped create equality. Free. 10:30am, with discussion following the film. Way Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. 419-874-3135 x102. www.waylibrary.info —SR

film events [Thursday, January 3]

[Wednesday, January 9]

“If you build it, they will come.” So promises the mysterious voice instructing Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to cut a baseball diamond in his corn field. Soon the ball field is inhabited by the spirit of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and other players who were disgraced in the 1919 “Black Sox” baseball scandal. Free. 10am. Way Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. 419-874-3135. www.waylibrary.info.

Spun from Daniel DeFoe‘s tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe — but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on a hostile planet. $10. 7pm. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St. www.michtheater.org.

Field of Dreams

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Robinson Crusoe on Mars

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Sylvania native Hayley Reynolds was accepted into Chicago’s Second City Training Center

Comedic aspirations

Local actress hones her chops with Chicago’s Second City By Christine A. Holliday Musical theatre major and Sylvania native Hayley Reynolds has played many roles and garnered many laughs in her young career. Beginning in January, she will experience the academic opportunity of a lifetime when she has the role of a student at Chicago’s Second City Training Center, arguably the nation’s best-known home of comedy and satire. She was chosen to attend classes in comedy, learning its history, writing it, and developing the physical, vocal, and improvisational skills to perform it. She will earn 16 credit hours toward her degree at Ohio Northern University while plying Chicago’s comedy and improvisation venues. “I didn’t get the word that I had been chosen when I expected it,” Reynolds says. “They had me enrolled at the college connected to the program but not in the program, and it took a week to straighten out that glitch in the application. That was a nerve-racking seven days before I got the email that my application had been accepted. I opened the e-mail at seven in the morning and only told a few people until I was sure. Then I called everybody!” Asked about her reason for applying to the program, she answered, “I am an outgoing person, but I don’t try to be funny. People tell me that I am funny, so I liked the idea of exploring roles outside my own skin. Maybe it is a hidden talent, I don’t know.” What she does know is that comedy is hard work. “Anyone can tell a joke, but great comedy is not easy. It takes a lot of effort to affect comedic timing and a strong point of view for each character. “When I approach a comedic character, my goal is not just to make people laugh. I use the other characters around me to feed off and, above all, I focus on having fun. I really strive to commit to each character through physical movement and voice work. My favorite part about comedy and improv is the creativity I get to use.”

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Reynolds has been performing since she was eight, appearing in more than 50 productions through several local theater companies. She attributes all of her comedic acting techniques and training to her past directors, including Trish Sanders at Notre Dame Academy. Sanders pushed Reynolds to develop new voices and become more of a physical actress, skills she has used since performing on the stage at NDA and in statewide and national forensic competitions while she went to school there. She has appeared in dramatic & comedic productions at Ohio Northern and was part of a seven-member University troupe that performed in England last year. Sanders is pleased for her former student, saying, “This program will develop skills that musicals alone don’t develop. Hayley has the energy, creative vision, and talent that will allow her to make the most of what Second City has to offer. She really is a triple threat because she can act, sing, and dance. Plus, she has a mobile comic face; she is the whole package.” While she waits for the program in Chicago to start, Reynolds continues to “work.” She recently played Logainne Schwartzandgrubnierre in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (“my favorite role, I think”) and reprised her role of Pixel the Elf in ONU’s holiday spectacular. On break from school, she vows to watch her favorite comedic actors (Robin Williams, Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, and Ellen DeGeneres, among others) to see if she can pick up any pieces of their art. She’ll keep in touch with her future classmates on Facebook, and spend time doing the required reading for the academic work. “The first comic scene of my Chicago adventure will probably be navigating the transportation system,” she predicts. “We don’t get much rehearsal for commuter trains in little Ada, Ohio!”

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Guess who’s coming to dinner

The Village Players kick off 2013 with their production of the Neil Simon classic, The Dinner Party, opening on Friday, January 11. Five unsuspecting dinner guests arrive at a Parisian restaurant not knowing why they were invited. As the mystery unfolds, marriage, divorce and of course comedy are served up! Shows run January 11-26, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8pm. $16 adults/$14 students & seniors. The Village Players, 2740 Upton Ave. 419-472-6817. www.thevillageplayers.org —JG

Ace in the hole

Mistaken identities, country club hijinks and golf take center stage in the Toledo Rep's latest production The Fox on the Fairway, opening Friday, January 18. Directed by Carol Ann Erford, this comedy was written by Ken Ludwig, author of the Rep's very popular production of Leading Ladies. When a country club director makes a bet he can't afford to lose during the annual Interclub Championship Golf Tournament, all sorts of hilarity ensues! January 18-27. Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm; Thursday, January 18, 8pm; Sunday, 2:30pm. $10-$20. Toledo Repertoire Theatre, 16 10th St. 419-243-9277. www.toledorep.org—JG

theater events [Thursday, January 10]

Swan Lake: Russian National Ballet

With its fairy tale story of a beautiful princess, a passionate prince, and the evil spell that threatens their happiness together, it’s no wonder Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is so revered. It was composed in 1875 as a commission by Vladimir Petrovich Begichev, the head of the Russian Imperial Theatres in Moscow. $39-$50. 7:30pm. Valentine Theatre, 410 Adams St. 419-242-3490. www.valentinetheatre.com

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[Tuesday, January 8 & Wednesday, January 9]

Open Auditions: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat For the Monroe Community Players. Adults should bring comfortable clothes to move in and a prepared piece to sing. Children (Ages 7-17) should be prepared to sing with musical director. No prepared piece required. Children 6:30-7:30pm. Adults 7:30-9:30pm. Monroe Middle School, 503 Washington St., Monroe, MI. 734-241-7900. www.monroecommunityplayers.org

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A challenging road ahead

Collingwood Arts Center appoints new Executive Director by Joseph Schafer Keys change hands — sometimes quietly, other times dramatically. The leadership of Toledo’s not-for-profit artist’s residence, the Collingwood Arts Center, passed to attorney Mary Sawers on October 5. “The only thing about this job I’m not going to like is that I’m going to be in the public eye more than I want to be,” says Sawers. Two months after taking the job, she has not yet issued a press release regarding her new position. The Collingwood Arts Center is the largest artists’ residency in Ohio, housing 42 creatively-minded people. Unlike traditional residencies, where artists stay for a set period of time, the CAC allows artists to stay as long as they pay rent and abide by the CAC’s rules. The operation carries a massive overhead, one with its own management challenges — evidenced by the fact that the CAC has had five executive directors since 2002. Sawers served on the CAC’s board of directors for five years before resigning in October to take the Executive Director position. The CAC’s previous Executive Director, Brin Felster, passed away unexpectedly in October of 2011. The board of directors has maintained the organization since then. Sawers took the Executive Director position because, she says, “It’s very difficult to manage an organization of this size with this many nuances on a board basis.” Sawers’ appointment made waves almost instantly. CAC program director John Dorsey, as well as maintenance person Darcie Trane (who worked pro bono) sent their resignations to the board via email shortly after Ms. Sawers’ appointment. Both declined to comment for this article. Sawers believes their resignations were a direct result of her appointment, but says that she did not want either person to leave. Sawers admits she “can be difficult to get along with.” On the other hand, she’s qualified for the position: Sawers, an artist herself — she creates ink drawings, which she modestly refers to as

Mary Sawers is the fifth executive director that the not-for-profit Collingwood Art Center has had in the last decade. doodles — lives two blocks from the CAC, and walks there every day. Her parents taught at Mary Manse college — the building which became the CAC. And, Sawers has worked in nonprofits including Planned Parenthood and the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) office since 1989. Though she has never worked as a director before, Sawers said the only thing she lacks is “a degree in psychology; in this setting where you have so many dynamic personalities, anyone in this position could benefit from some insight into human nature.” She says she wants the CAC to function better as a business and to better understand “how the organization works.” Considering the rapid turnover of directors in the past 10 years, it is difficult to take over where someone has left off. “In positions like this, I lead by following.”

Sawers has made, by her estimation, only minor changes. “That’s not to say the artists are in any way inhibiting the way the organization functions,” Sawers is quick to point out. The CAC’s residents have, however, been called the source of the organization’s trouble with public perception, which Sawers wishes to change. “There has been a perception that the CAC houses artists that are not producing work ... that this is sort of a flophouse where artists can get rent cheap.” She also alluded to historical rumors of drug abuse in the building: “What I have found is the opposite.” Sawers offered every artist the opportunity to meet with and discuss their work with her. “I am pleasantly surprised at the caliber of art being produced in the building and how hard the artists are working.” She attributes some of the

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negative image with the CAC’s history of cryptic inner workings. Sawers says her goals include transparency. High on the her priority list are finances and funding. Sawers has already arranged lower monthly payments with most of the CAC’s many creditors. The structure is old, and in need of serious repair, including roofing, electrical and plumbing. “We have a building that was built in 1906 that is the equivalent of a 32-bedroom home. The order of nuns for whom the place was built could not have anticipated the Internet, or the electrical gizmos we have.” For the Collingwood Arts Center to survive, however, it needs to generate more revenue. Sawers has ideas on that front as well. One of Sawers’ plans is to make available the use of the CAC’s Lois M. Nelson Theater — which was originally built with acoustics for musical performances like opera — to support community musical groups, such as high schools or church choral performances, which will in turn expand the demographics with the attendees those groups attract. The next chapter in the Collingwood Arts Center’s history promises to be memorable. Sawers leadership signals that, yes, things in the organization will be changing, chartering a course toward financial liquidity, while allowing creativity to flourish.

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Speaking of the city

UT art students have been given the opportunity to make their creative voices heard on a large scale, thanks to a partnership with Lamar Outdoor Advertising. Currently, on twenty digital billboards around Toledo, a project of fictional film stills called “Stories from Toledo” created by UT BFA students will be displayed through the holidays. Locations include I-75 at Berdan, I-475 at Upton and Monroe at Sylvania. Visit www.utoledo.edu/ cvpa/art/studentworks/splprojects.html. —SR

Rainbow connection

To usher in 2013, the Launch Pad Collaborative presents a solo exhibition of founder Timothy Gaewsky’s latest work, Chasing Rainbows. Gaewsky uses visual stimulation to facilitate the exploration of the human desire for instant gratification and materialism. Using visual elements to purposefully catch the eye — pinball and slot machine graphics, carnival games, toy packaging designs, etc. — one cannot help but look and wonder why we are conditioned to do so. There’s an opening reception on Friday, January 11 from 6-9pm and a closing reception on Friday, February 8. Launch Pad Cooperative, 911 Jefferson Ave. www.launchpadcooperative.com —JG

Danny White will be the featured glass artist in the Hot Shop during The Great Art Escape (Dec. 27–Dec. 31) at the TMA.

Sneak in some art

If you want to get out of the house before, during or after hunkering down with friends and family over the holiday season, the Toledo Museum of Art has the answer. The TMA’s Great Art Escape, from December 26-30, is five days packed with tours, quick classes, demonstrations and performances, similar to the It’s Friday Series, which runs on a weekly basis throughout the year. And, remember, you only have until New Year’s day to visit Manet: Portraying Life, which is when the exhibition will be transferred to London. TMA is open New Year’s Eve and Day from noon to 8pm. 2445 Monroe St. 419-255-8000. www.toledomuseum.org —SR

Behind the beer

PBR has an image of being the gritty, yet hip beer and what better place to represent that than a scrappy city, with a steadily rising art scene. That’s why Toledo was chosen for your favorite happy hour brew’s latest photo shoot. Local model/producer/ business woman Cori Rist pitched the idea to PBR and, after they accepted, enlisted the help of photographer David Sprott and make-up artist Natalie Pohorecki. The promo is for the PBR Toledo Contest on Facebook, asking contestants to recount their best stories involving PBR. Two winners — one male, one female — will receive a PBR Swag Pack. —SR

events

all sizes. 11am-1pm. Downtown Latte, 44 S. St. Clair St. 419-243-6032. www.downtownlatte.com

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

11% Sale. Forget department store after-holiday

specials, American Gallery has an eclectic assortment of all media. American Gallery, 6600 Sylvania Ave. 419-882-8949. Through January 31

friday 4 Alumni Art Exhibition. Toledo School for the Arts’ Alumni Association is now 400 strong. Come to the Alumni Exhibition to see how the visual artists have progressed since their days at TSA. 6pm. Gallery 333, 333 14th St. Additional viewing times can be arranged with the Gallery Director, Leslie Taylor, at 419.246.8732. www.ts2arts.org.

Matthew Chambers presents new conceptual works. 24164 Front St. 419-830-3080. www.libraryhousegallery. com. Through January 27.

Cool Yule. More than twenty local artisans have

been busy creating wonderful handcrafted Holiday gift items just for you. Once again the gallery is full of ceramics, glass, jewelry, paintings, prints. Hudson Gallery, 5645 N. Main St. 419-885-8381. www.hudsongallery.net. Through December 29.

environment, chemistry, mathematics and more— science informs art and art reflects science. Students and faculty cross disciplines to learn share and to discover in this collaborative exhibition. University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Carlson Library. 2801 W. Bancroft St. 419-530-8888. www.utoledo.edu.

Chasing Rainbows. Gaewsky’s examination of

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December28 Come a bit early and don’t miss a free demonstration by local cut-paper artist Mary Gaynier, in the Family Center, or hear a lecture from glass artist Danny White in the GlasSalon, both at 6pm. Create a glass icicle in the Hot Shop at 6, 7 or 8pm.

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Nate Masternak. Displaying new and old works,

it’s friday

Hear jazz from Lori Lefevre in the Cloister from 6:30-9:30pm. Take a free public tour of the “Made In Hollywood” exhibit at 7. Hear writer and broadcaster Michael Lasser lecture on “America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley” in the Little Theater at 7:30. Free glassblowing demonstrations at 7, 8 & 9.

The Nexus – Exploring the Link between Art & Science. In countless ways—medicine, the

ongoing

2445 Monroe St. 419.255.8000 www.toledomuseum.org

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the relationship between desire and materialism and the ways in which desire for commodities, fortune, and instant gratification are facilitated through visual stimulation. 6-9pm. Launch Pad Cooperative, 911 Jefferson Ave. www.launchpadcooperative.com

Toledo Museum of Art

Jim Yarrito — Glass and Steel in Cool Yule Holiday Salon. More than a dozen River House

artists, some familiar and some new to the gallery, will be presenting their works in this special winter season exhibition of fine art as well as functional, wearable, and decorative items. 6-9pm. River House Arts, 115 W. Front St., Perrysburg. 419-874-8900. www.river-house-arts.com

Enjoy four wines and light snacks, as Art of the Vine presents “Celebrity Wines,” at the Glass Pavilion at 7pm. Public tours of the “Made in Hollywood” exhibition at 7, and of the Works on Paper galleries at 8.

ongoing

Time is running out to catch “Leslie Adams: Drawn From Life” in Gallery 18. Adams got her start with art classes at TMA, and has gone on to a nationally-known career creating portraits of the best and the brightest.

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1 Breaking it down

TCP’s top ten albums of 2012 Selected by staff; written by Scott Recker We polled several staff members on their top albums released this year. There were all kinds of off-the-wall submissions, but after a little arguing and compromise, we composed a list that everyone seems to agree on — although Amanda still claims that Ke$ha was robbed.

10. The Lumineers - The Lumineers

6. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

By this time, it’s no secret that made-for-radio, pop-infused indie-folk is on the rise. But besides being wildly catchy, this album has some depth, with smart, evocative writing and warm, layered and whimsical instrumentation.

The title doesn’t lie: these two Vancouver natives are celebrating their dirty, relentless rock ‘n roll that the world fell in love with decades ago; and they’re proving it still has some room to charge forward. By splicing in dashes of punk hooks, clever lyrics and a handful of pop sensibilities, they round out the chaos to a controllable level — hitting the bulls-eye of where rock ‘n roll should be heading.

9. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams

Maybe the great surprise album of the year, these Michiganders take dreamy, stream-of -consciousness folk-rock to the next level. Saturated with poetic, vivid accounts of rivers, roads, deserts and dreams, this is Lord Huron’s first album and a brave and ambitious dive into what seems to be the start of a promising career.

8. Justin Townes Earle - Nothings Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now

The best songwriters sing about what they know in an unpretentious way, and, if Justin Townes Earle is an expert on one thing, it’s life on the road. In his fourth full-length — a mixture of his narrative country roots and melancholy Memphis soul — Stevie Earle’s 30-year-old son masterfully chronicles the wear and tear of the open highway.

7. Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth In a dim, dusty corner of folk, there remains a contemporary fellowship of hyper-literates, and Mountain Goats songwriter John Darnielle just might be the king. Two decades into his career, he is slinging as much poetic fire as ever; from denouncing conformity to deconstructing loneliness, his piercing poignancy never fades.

5. Grizzly Bear - Shields

Brooklyn’s favorite sons pick up the pace, get out the distortion pedals and harness their inner rock stars on their fourth album. The hipster folk-rock ambience is still there, but they are sounding a little more like My Morning Jacket than Radiohead these days.

4. First Aid Kit - Lion’s Roar To say sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg are beyond their years is a huge understatement. Everything — the lyrics, vocals, delivery, harmonies, hurt and angst — points to the Swedish teen duo not being on the fringe of their coming-of-age years, despite that fact that they’re 21 and 19, respectively. Their debut is consistently brilliant, no matter if they are singing about heartache or Gram Parsons.

3. Dan Deacon - America The mad scientist of the electronic era, Deacon lyrically explores the state of the country, while his slick arrangements announce him as the sheriff of the new frontier of music.

Holding a master’s degree in electro-acoustic and computer music, the 31-year-old Baltimore transplant/ New York City native isn’t your standard button masher; this guy’s a true genius.

2. Jack White - Blunderbuss

Packed with grizzled rock anthems and introspective psych-folk, Jack White’s first solo record picks up right where the White Stripe’s left off: producing batches of harddriven Midwestern grit with a steel backbone. It’s bigger and fuller than his work with Meg, but it has that same weird, distinct magic.

1. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...

As eccentric, emotional and sharp as ever, Fiona’s firehorse vocals —with seemingly unlimited energy, passion and wit — shine over sporadic keys and primitive drums. She’s so delightfully odd, she’s almost unable to be categorized and that’s what makes her so special

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Raq the Casbah

Manhattan’s / Friday, December 28 Oftentimes the term “world music” is used to identify music from another country, regardless of its true genre. be it rock, folk or pop. Raq the Casbah takes the meaning of “world music” to another level by exploring the music of each of it’s members’ multi-ethnic backgrounds. Complete with exotic instruments and a mesmerizing bellydancer (the lovely Leyla), this ensemble incorporates musical flavors from around the globe. Whether it’s a Spanish ballad, Eastern European folk song or a German drinking shanty, Raq the Casbah will get your foot stompin’. You can also catch them at the One2 Lounge @ Treo in Downtown Sylvania on January 5 at 9pm. December 28, 8:45pm. Manhattan’s, 1516 Adams St. 419-243-6675. www.manhattanstoledo.com—JG

wed, DEC 26 JAZZ,BLUES & R&B

Degage Jazz Café: Gene Parker Aqua Lounge @ Grand Plaza Hotel: Mark Kieswetter B.Gump’s 101 Restaurant and Lounge: DePue De Hoyos, Alex DePue

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

The Village Idiot: Shit Dang Monster Trucks

Dance & Techno

The Distillery: DJ Mark EP The Rocket Bar: College Night w/ DJ Manny

JAZZ,BLUES & R&B

One2 Lounge @ Treo: The Microphonics Mancy’s Italian Grill: Skip Turner Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Ramona Collins Dorr Street Cafe: Andrew Ellis & Lucky Lemont

Dance & Techno Mickey Finn’s: Transmission Goth Night

Potbelly: Don Coats Ye Olde Durty Bird: Ronn Daniels The Distillery: Dave Carpenter Manhattan’s: Mike Corwin Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Danny & Jonny

Other

FRI, DEC 28

SAT, DEC 29

Other

Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Mickey Finn’s Pub: Open Mic Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Open Mic Manhattan’s: Open Mic Bier Stube: Karaoke

THU, DEC 27 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Ye Olde Durty Bird: The Eight Fifteens H Lounge @ Hollywood Casino: Nine Lives Bar 145: Arctic Clam

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Rosie’s Italian Grille: Don and Rachel Coats Papa’s Tavern: Bobby May & Frankie May and Friends The Bronze Boar: Open Mic w/ Steve Kennedy Swig: Joe Woods Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Mike Fisher

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Wesley’s: What’s Next Manhattan’s: Quick Trio B.Gump’s 101 Restaurant and Lounge: DePue De Hoyos, Alex DePue Longhorn Saloon: Jam Session Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Mike Whitty

Country & Bluegrass

December 26 • January 15

Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Karaoke Bier Stube: Karaoke

Wesley’s: Old School Fridays Mickey Finn’s: The Sanderlings, The Dashburns, The Figs Posey B.Gump’s 101 Restaurant and Lounge: Johnny Reed & The Houserockers, Jason Sherwood Ye Olde Durty Bird: Stranger Danger Frankie’s Inner City: Halero, Cosmic Throne The Oarhouse: The Lebowskis Mutz @ the Oliver House: Breaking Ground The Village Idiot: Bobby May And The Dry Bones Revival Holiday Inn French Quarter: Short Vincent The Blarney Irish Pub: Toast & Jam H Lounge @ Hollywood Casino: Mas Fina Swig: Captain Sweet Shoes Table Forty 4: Nine Lives The Distillery: Venyx The Bronze Boar: Mojopin Bar 145: 4th Day Echo Yeehas: The Websters Ottawa Tavern: Frank & Jesse, Gardens, Speed Governor

ACOUSTIC, FOLK & ETHNIC Rosie’s Italian Grille: Mitch Kahl Potbelly: Jaime Mills Ye Old Cock ‘n Bull: Bobby May & Jon Barile Doc Watsons: The Acoustic Troubadours Manhattan’s: Raq The Casbah

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

The Village Idiot: Rootstand Mickey Finn’s: Ryan Waldie, DJ Green Ranger The Oarhouse: The Lebowskis Frankie’s Inner City: Undercut Table Forty 4: Nine Lives Bar 145: Killer Flamingos Yeehas: My Sister Sarah Holiday Inn French Quarter: Short Vincent The Bronze Boar: Dave Carpenter & The Jaeglers The Blarney Irish Pub: Freakender Ottawa Tavern: Bloodgment Day: The Re-Re-Re-Re-Re-Re-Reckoning

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Rosie’s Italian Grille: Skip Turner One2 Lounge @ Treo: Organized w/ Tim Tiderman H Lounge @ Hollywood Casino: Soulstice B.Gump’s 101 Restaurant and Lounge: The Good The Bad & The Blues Manhattan’s: Grape Smugglers Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Last Born Sons Cheers Sports Eatery: Mark Mikel Band w/ Chris Shutters The Distillery: Venyx Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Ramona Collins

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Ye Olde Durty Bird: Jon Barile Swig: Jason Laporte

Dance & Techno

Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): DJ Nate Mattimoe

wed, JAN 2 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop Ye Olde Durty Bird: Hippie Chick Band

JAZZ,BLUES & R&B

Degage Jazz Café: Gene Parker

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

SUN, DEC 30 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Mickey Finn’s: This Is Everything, Something Like Forever, The Shame Game, Ryan Started The Fire, Flaming Hot

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic Potbelly: Don Coats The Distillery: Dave Carpenter

Other

Mickey Finn’s Pub: Open Mic Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Open Mic Bier Stube: Karaoke

Jazz, Blues, & R&B Village Idiot: Bob Rex Trio

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

MON, DEC 31 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Village Inn: Mt. Fuji & The Eruptions H Lounge @ Hollywood Casino: New Year’s Eve With Disco Inferno Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Jumpline The Blarney Irish Pub: Nine Lives Papas Tavern: Measure of Time Band Yeehas: New Year’s Eve Party w/ DJ A-Dubb Doc Watsons: Doc’s NYE Party w/ Underground Sounds

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic Village Idiot: Frankie May and Friends The Bronze Boar: Danny Mettler Ye Olde Durty Bird: Ben Barefoot One2 Lounge @ Treo: Jack And The Bear Stellas: Meaghan Roberts, Acoustic Soul

JAZZ,BLUES & R&B

Stranahan Great Hall: Gala New Year’s Ball w/ Johnny Knorr Orchestra Crystal’s Lounge @ Ramada Inn Ballroom: UT Jazz Night Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Laurie Swyers And Blue Sun Manhattan’s: Alen Smith And The Blues All Stars Studio Z: Alexander Zonjic Fat Fish Blue: Bourbon Street B.Gump’s 101 Restaurant and Lounge: B Charmers Holiday Inn French Quarter: Green Eyed Soul, The Late Show, Night Line Band

Other

Manhattans’s: Open Mic

TUE, JAN 1 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Frankie’s Inner City: Agitator, Wrong Answer, NRR, Hence The Wolves, Titan

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Sundown Cantina: Jaime Mills Potbelly: Tom Drummonds Village Idiot: Bobby May & Jon Barile

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Trotter’s Tavern: Jeff McDonald’s Big Band All-Stars Manhattan’s: Blues Jam w/ Jeff Williams Basin Street Grille: Tom Turner & Slowburn Trio Jam

Other

Claddagh Irish Pub: Karaoke The Bronze Boar: Karaoke Bier Stube: Karaoke RHouse: Karaoke Ye Olde Durty Bird: Open Mic

THU, JAN 3 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Johnny Rodriguez

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

SUN, JAN 6 Jazz, Blues, & R&B Village Idiot: Bob Rex Trio

B.Gump’s 101 Restaurant and Lounge: Justin Moyar

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

MON, JAN 7 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Mickey Finn’s: The Paramedic, In Other Words, Evelynn, Goodbye Blue Skies

Village Idiot: Frankie May and Friends The Bronze Boar: Open Mic w/ Joe Woods

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Wesley’s: What’s Next

Dance & Techno

The Distillery: DJ Mark EP The Rocket Bar: College Night w/ DJ Manny

Other

Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Karaoke Bier Stube: Karaoke

FRI, JAN 4 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Wesley’s: Old School Fridays Frankie’s Inner City: Lost In Chicago, Black Mountain Side, 5th Ace

ACOUSTIC, FOLK & ETHNIC Rosie’s Italian Grille: Mitch Kahl Potbelly: Jaime Mills Ye Olde Durty Bird: Joe Woods

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Paul Keller

Dance & Techno Mickey Finn’s: Transmission Goth Night

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

SAT, JAN 5 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Frankie’s Inner City (early): Counterparts, Seasons, The Beast And His Image Mickey Finn’s: J02, Sixx Digit, C-Fifth, Nino Graye, Hize, C-Roze, Proficey, False, Randy Jay Frankie’s Inner City: Sugarboxx, Downspeed, Saturnine Hello, When Minds Collide Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Johnny Rodriguez

JAZZ,BLUES & R&B One2 Lounge @ Treo: Raq The Casbah

Dance & Techno

Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): DJ Nate Mattimoe

Other

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Rosie’s Italian Grille: Don and Rachel Coats Papa’s Tavern: Bobby May & Frankie May and Friends The Bronze Boar: Open Mic w/ Steve Kennedy Ye Olde Durty Bird: Ronn Daniels Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Jason Quick

Bier Stube: Karaoke

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Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Crystal’s Lounge @ Ramada Inn Ballroom: UT Jazz Night

Other

Manhattans’s: Open Mic

TUE, Jan 8 Sundown Cantina: Jaime Mills Potbelly: Tom Drummonds Village Idiot: Bobby May & Jon Barile

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Trotter’s Tavern: Jeff McDonald’s Big Band All-Stars Manhattan’s: Blues Jam w/ Jeff Williams Basin Street Grille: Tom Turner & Slowburn Trio Jam Swig: Andrew Ellis & Lucky Lemont Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Gene Parker

Jack & The Bear

One2 Lounge @ Treo / Monday, December 31 With a sound that owes as much to rugged backwoods Americana as it does to highenergy Springsteen-ish sensibilities, these eight late-teens/early twenty-somethings are rounding out an impressive year — becoming one of the hottest bands on the local radar, touring and playing at festivals. And their live show, constantly dashing to and from opposite ends of the folk-rock spectrum — from the sweet and melancholy to the fast and furious — will start and end your New Year’s Eve with a bang. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and champagne toast. $5 21+, $10 18-20. 8:30pm. The One2 Lounge @ Treo, 5703 Main St., Sylvania. 419-882-2266. www.treosylvania.com —SR

Dance & Techno

The Bronze Boar: DJ Symmetry

Other

Claddagh Irish Pub: Karaoke The Bronze Boar: Karaoke Bier Stube: Karaoke RHouse: Karaoke Ye Olde Durty Bird: Open Mic

wed, Jan 9 JAZZ,BLUES & R&B

Degage Jazz Café: Gene Parker

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic Potbelly: Don Coats The Distillery: Dave Carpenter Ye Olde Durty Bird: Jeff Stewart

Other

Mickey Finn’s Pub: Open Mic Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Open Mic Manhattan’s: Open Mic Bier Stube: Karaoke

THU, JAN 10 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Ye Olde Durty Bird: The Eight Fifteens Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Engine19

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Rosie’s Italian Grille: Don and Rachel Coats Papa’s Tavern: Bobby May & Frankie May and Friends The Bronze Boar: Open Mic w/ Steve Kennedy

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Dance & Techno

The Distillery: DJ Mark EP The Rocket Bar: College Night w/ DJ Manny

Dance & Techno

Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): DJ Nate Mattimoe

Classical & Spiritual

Other

Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Karaoke Bier Stube: Karaoke

FRI, JAN 11 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Wesley’s: Old School Fridays Frankie’s Inner City: Marc Rizzo (Soulfly), Undercut, Sik Lid Fat Fish Blue: Four Twenty Seven Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Jumpline

ACOUSTIC, FOLK & ETHNIC Rosie’s Italian Grille: Mitch Kahl Potbelly: Jaime Mills Ye Olde Durty Bird: Barile & May

Dance & Techno Mickey Finn’s: Transmission Goth Night

BGSU Bowen-Thompson Student Union Ballroom - BGSU Gospel Choir 10th Annual Gospel Fest

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

SUN, JAN 13 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Frankie’s Inner City: Jamboree Battle Of The Bands

Jazz, Blues, & R&B Village Idiot: Bob Rex Trio

Classical & Spiritual

TMA Peristyle Theater: Toledo Symphony’s On Pointe w/ The Toledo Ballet

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

Other

Bier Stube: Karaoke

SAT, Jan 12 Rock, Pop & Hip-Hop

Fat Fish Blue: Four Twenty Seven Frankie’s Inner City: Hize, Triple Threat, Proficey, Four Eyes

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic Ye Olde Durty Bird: Dave Carpenter

MON, JAN 14 Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Village Idiot: Frankie May and Friends The Bronze Boar: Open Mic w/ Joe Woods

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Other

Manhattans’s: Open Mic

Toledo Zoo

TUE, JAN 15 Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic

Sundown Cantina: Jaime Mills Potbelly: Tom Drummonds Village Idiot: Bobby May & Jon Barile

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

Trotter’s Tavern: Jeff McDonald’s Big Band All-Stars Manhattan’s: Blues Jam With Jeff Williams Swig: Andrew Ellis & Lucky Lemont Basin Street Grille: Tom Turner & Slowburn Trio Jam

Dance & Techno

The Bronze Boar: DJ Symmetry

Other

Claddagh Irish Pub: Karaoke The Bronze Boar: Karaoke Bier Stube: Karaoke RHouse: Karaoke Ye Olde Durty Bird: Open Mic

wed, JAN 16 JAZZ,BLUES & R&B

Degage Jazz Café: Gene Parker

Acoustic, Folk, & Ethnic Potbelly: Don Coats The Distillery: Dave Carpenter Ye Olde Durty Bird: Jamie Mills

Other

Mickey Finn’s Pub: Open Mic Mutz Pub (at the Oliver House): Open Mic Manhattan’s: Open Mic Bier Stube: Karaoke

Crystal’s Lounge @ Ramada Inn Ballroom: UT Jazz Night

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Jeff Daniels Through December 31. Thursday, 8pm; Friday, 8pm; Saturday, 3pm & 8pm;

Monday, 3pm & 8pm. $75 / $250, New Year’s Eve. The Purple Rose Theatre Company, 137 Park St., Chelsea. 734-433-7673. www.purplerosetheatre.org A prolific songwriter as well as playwright and actor, Daniels will perform an arsenal of songs that are alternately humorous and poignant.

monday 31

5th annual Blues Year Bash! 7pm. $20. Guy Hollerin’s @ Holiday Inn, 3600 Plymouth

Rd. 734-769-4323. www.hiannarbor.com A prolific songwriter as well as playwright and actor, Daniels will perform an arsenal of songs that are alternately humorous and poignant.

tuesday 8

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart 730pm. $50. Corner Brewery, 720 Norris St., Ypsilanti. 734-480-2739. www.arborbrewing.com/brewery Pull up a chair and wet your whistle for an evening of anarchic theater, live music, and strange goings-on as UMS takes theater into the pub, moving to the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti for six performances. One wintry morning, Prudencia Hart, an uptight academic, sets off to attend a conference in the Scottish Borders, the region of Scotland that borders England. As the snow begins to fall, she finds herself trapped in a secluded bar with strangers, only to be swept away on an enchanting, dream-like journey of self-discovery filled with magical moments, devilish encounters, and wittily wild karaoke.

sunday 13

The Never Ending Story 1:30pm. $10 / Free for children under 12. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St. 734-668-8397. www.michtheater.org Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende‘s children’s story for this charming fantasy film that spawned several sequels. Bastian (Barret Oliver) is dealing with his mother’s recent death. His father (Gerald McRaney) is an imperious sort who continually lambastes Bastian for daydreaming and falling behind in school. One day he decides to play hooky and walks into a strange bookstore, where in the attic, he discovers a book called “The Neverending Story”.

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Solartaxi 7pm. Free. Elmo’s Hideaway, 220 S. Main St. www.elmoshideaway.com The story of

an epic, 18-month adventure, the first ever ‘around the world’ journey in a homemade car powered exclusively by the sun. Louis Palmer and Solartaxi meet princes, movie stars, politicians, scientists, and ordinary people. For more events around Ann Arbor check out the new www.ecurrent.com! Or pick up a copy of our sister publication, Current Magazine at various local businesses, bars and restaurants, galleries & salons all over the metro Toledo area.

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Wesley’s: What’s Next Longhorn Saloon: Jam Session Dégagé Jazz Cafe: Leo Darrington

The Valentine Theatre: Toledo Jazz Orchestra - An Evening With Duke Ellington Pat & Dandys Sports Pub & Grill: Last Born Sons

NYE PARTIES

Jazz, Blues, & R&B

2700 Broadway 419-385-4040 www.toledozoo.org Before parents go out for the night, you can celebrate the New Year with the little ones at the zoo! Enjoy animal feeding demos, ice carving and an apple juice toast at the stroke of noon! 11am-1pm.

Bar 145 5305 Monroe St. 419-593-0073 www.bar145toledo.com Rock out to Fashion Disaster, toast champagne to the New Year at midnight and grab some party favors at Bar 145. Hors d’oeuvres are also included. $20 pre-sale; $25 at the door, VIP table $100.

Rosie’s Italian Grill 606 N. McCord Rd. Holland 419-866-5007 www.rosiesitaliangrille.com End 2012 on a good note with one of Rosie’s NYE specials! Surf & Turf anyone?

Revolution Grille 5333 Monroe St. 419-841-0070 www.revolutiongrille.com Sometimes you have to go all out for New Year's Eve and Chef Rob is here to help. He's hosting a 5-course Soiree carefully and artfully selected — even incorporating

"good-fortune foods." Enjoy the music of Chris Knopp and cap off the evening with a midnight champagne toast. Reservations required; $100 per person.

Ye Olde Durty Bird 2 S. St. Clair St. 419-243-2473 www.yeoledurtybird.com Before you start that New Year's Resolution, swing into central city Toledo, grab a signature durty bird surf-n-turf burger and enjoy party favors, live music and, of course, a champagne toast at midnight. Reservations are recommended.

The One2 Lounge at Treo 5703 Main St. Sylvania 419-882-2266 www.treosylvania.com With entertainment from one of Toledo's hottest bands, the energetic Americana eight-piece Jack & The Bear, along with a special NYE menu, complementary hors d'oeuvres and a champagne toast, this is bound to be a great way to end 2012. $5 cover 21 and over; $10 18-20.

Doc Watson’s 1515 S. Byrne Rd. 419-389-6003 www.docwatsonstoledo.com NYE's is the perfect time for a dance party and, if that's what you're looking for, Doc

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Rosie’s Italian Grill 606 N. McCord Rd. Holland 419-866-5007 www.rosiesitaliangrille. com End 2012 on a good note with one of Rosie’s NYE specials, featuring Surf & Turf. And enjoy live music from Kelly Broadway. 7pm

Degage 301 River Rd. Maumee 419-794-8205 Enjoy music from Laurie Swyers & Blue Sun starting at 7:30pm, with an open dance floor at 9pm. Party favors and a champagne toast are also included.

Pat & Dandy’s

The Clazel

127 N. Main St. 419-353-5000 www.clazel.net Dance the last night of the year away at Bowling Green's favorite club, with DJ Manny, party favors, hors d'oeuvres The Annex and a midnight chamBehind The Omni pagne toast. $15 for 2567 W. Bancroft singles; $25 for couples. TCP invites all of the Glass City to party like it’s...1989! The Claddagh NYE Throwback will feature Irish Pub multiple DJs spinning nothing 5001 Monroe St. but old school hip-hop. No 419-471-9661 Katy Perry. No “Call Me Maywww.claddaghirishbe.” Just the hits! Guests will pubs.com enjoy party favors, free food, Celebrate the beginning of and a champagne toast. Our 2013 the Irish way with a friends at 3byOne Media will complimentary Guinness have a photobooth to capture toast at 7pm (Midnight in all shenanigans and the peeps Ireland), four course dinner at Needle Masters and Kisses special and champagne 1 Showgirls will be giving prizes toast at midnight. out all night. 9pm. $10. SPONSORED BY

3340 W. Laskey 419-474-1189 Enjoy an awesome selection of seafood specials before rockin’ out all night to Jumpline. Hors d’oeuvres and a champagne toast included. $10 cover after 9pm.

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Mancy’s www.mancys.com Reward yourself for another great year by treating your midnight kiss to a wonderful meal at Mancy's Steakhouse, Mancy’s Italian Grille, Bluewater Grille or Shorty's BBQ!

Tres Belle Lounge 3145 Hollister Ln. Perrysburg 419-874-4555 Reserve your seats now for the classiest NYE party in town, hosted by 105.5’s Gay Steve, with live music from Band of Brothers, DJ Avalanche and DJ Rob Sample. Tickets include food, bottle of champagne, cigars and more. Plus inquire about the free shuttle service! 7pm.

Hollywood Casino 1968 Miami St. 419-662-1717 www.hollywoodcasinotoledo.com Dine like a star this NYE then head over to the H Lounge for DJ Rob Sample and live music from Disco Inferno. Party favors will be handed out starting at 10pm, and there’ll be drawings for free slot play prizes every hour from 9-11pm. Dinner is served from 5-11pm. No cover!

Connxtions Comedy Club

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Funny man, Alex Ortiz, will perform two special shows — the first follows a prime rib dinner buffet at 6pm for $59 — the second is followed by music, dancing and a champagne toast at 10:30pm for $39. Both include party favors, door prizes and plenty of laughs!

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Fat Fish Blue & The Funny Bone 6140 Levis Commons Blvd. Perrysburg 419-931-3474 www.fatfishblue.com Enjoy a soul food buffet dinner and spend the night laughing with comedians Vince Morris & Billy D. Washington, or catch the later show then ring in the midnight hour with the Bourbon Street Band. 7pm show & dinner, $60 / 10pm show, champagne toast & live music, $45.

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NYE PARTIES

35 N. Huron (Next to The Blarney) 419-410-6769 www.newyearsevetoledo.com The Glass City’s most exclusive party features fortune tellers, balloon drop, complimentary deserts & confections, champagne toast and giveaways from Beauty Bar. 8pm. Purchase tix at Beauty Bar, 2919 West Central Ave. continued on pg 29

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Winter Wonderland 3D Christmas Walk-Thru Continue your family’s Christmas dreams at Ghostly Manor Thrill Center’s magical 3D Christmas Winter Wonderland Walk-Thru. Grab your free pair of magical glasses for an adventure to meet Santa and his elves. That’s not all — every evening throughout December enjoy a free light show from 6pm-midnight. Simply drive up and tune your car radio to 99.7FM. Runs through December 31. Sundays-Thursdays, 12-8pm; Fridays & Saturdays, 12-10pm. $7 adults, $5 kids, free for children under 5. Ghostly Manor Thrill Center, 3319 Milan Rd., Sandusky. 419-626-4467. www.ghostlymanor.com Toledo Zoo Lights Before Christmas Thousands of lights illuminate the walkways and the animals, creating a unique experience for zoo-goers. In addition to the lights, every Thursday (from December 6 to 27) the zoo will hold ice carving demonstrations from 11am-2pm. Daily through December 31, 3-9pm. Children under 2 free, children under 12 $11, adults $14, seniors $11. The Toledo Zoo, 2 Hippo Way (off the Anthony Wayne Trail). 419-385-4040. www.toledozoo.org

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The Original Harlem Globetrotters - For the first time ever, during the Globetrotters’ 2013 “You Write the Rules” World Tour, your family’s smiles will begin before you even get to the show. Fans will decide the rules for the game that could affect the final outcome. This could be anything from playing with two basketballs at once, to getting double the points for each basket made. Go online with your kids to vote for which ground-breaking rule you want to see implemented in the game. 2pm & 7pm. $19-$111.75. Huntington Center, 500 Jefferson Ave. 419-255-3300. www.harlemglobetrotters.com

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Travel Circle: Manatees and the Wonders of Southern Florida - Each week features an exciting, new world travel destination. Spend an afternoon with Maumee Valley Adventurers. Hike or ski at 1pm, weather permitting. At 2:15pm, enjoy a slide show presented by Tim Kreps. Free. Oak Openings Preserve, 4139 Girdham Rd., Swanton. 419-407-9700. www.metroparkstoledo.com

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Superbowl of all Bridal Shows - This is the largest, most attended bridal show of the year. With over 125 wedding specialists showcasing their merchandise & talents, trolleys to transport guests from one venue to another, One admission price that includes an entry for both show days. Brides

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& grooms can eliminate a lot of stress & simplify decisions by discovering the endless possibilities at hand in planning their wedding. Embracing fresh new ideas with the extensive array of options available, memories of a lifetime can definitely be created for that special day. Saturday & Sunday, 1-5pm. Stranahan Theater & Premier Banquet, Heatherdowns. 419-893-5888. www.soundsofmusicdjs.com

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Toledo Walleye Vs. Kalamazoo Wings - What’s better than a Bobble-Head giveaway? A BobbleBody giveaway featuring the Toledo Walleye mascot, Spike! Spike Bobble-Bodies will go to the first 2,000 fans that enter the Huntington Center. Doors open at 4pm, arrive early to get your prize. Also, your little ones can meet Dora Explorer on the Main Concourse during the game. 5pm. Huntington Center, 500 Jefferson Ave. 419-255-3300. www.huntingtoncentertoledo.com

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On Pointe Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle / Sunday, January 13 The Toledo Symphony has the right friends — their 2012-13 Family Series features collaborations with local performing arts mainstays like the Toledo School For the Arts, the Toledo Opera and Toledo Botanical Garden. In January, the Symphony teams up with the Toledo Ballet to present On Pointe, a kid-friendly introduction to the noble art of dance. Even jaded kids raised on YouTube won’t be able to help being transported by the potent combination of music, movement and spectacle. And even grown-up ballet veterans will savor the experience of seeing two cornerstones of Toledo’s cultural world sharing a theater for the night. $25 adults / $10 children. 3pm. 2445 Monroe St. 419-246-8000. www.toledosymphony.com—MD

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Downton Abbey Fan Club - Love the Show? Gather with friends and make new ones for tea and to talk about Downton Abbey, the characters, the time period and more. Bring a tea cup for a spot of tea and wear costumes or hats for added fun. Cathy Kamenca, WGTE’s TV Program Coordinator, will be joining the group for prize drawings and a glimpse behind the scenes. 7-8pm. Free. Sanger Public Library, 3030 W. Central Ave. www.toledolibrary.org

Travel Circle: Namibia, Desert Paradise - Each week features an exciting, new world travel destination. Spend an afternoon with Maumee Valley Adventurers. Hike or ski at 1pm, weather permitting. At 2:15pm, enjoy a slide show presented by Richard Weisfelder. Free. Wildwood Preserve Metropark, 5100 W. Central Ave. 419-407-9700. www.metroparkstoledo.com

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Euchre Tourney - The Toledo Reign will be hosting their first fundraiser for the 2013 season with a euchre tournament in downtown Bowling Green! This will be a progressive format tournament, so every round you will have a new partner and new opponents. First place in the tournament will get 25% of the total pot, with second and third receiving 15% and 10% respectively. The tournament is limited to the first 60 registered players. 7-10pm. $20. Grumpy Daves Pub, 104 S. Main St., Bowling Green. www.thetoledoreign.com

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Featured Lines ft. Tara Misu - Launch Pad Cooperative is pleased to present the Featured Lines reading series. Each month a different writer or poet will have the opportunity to present an extended reading at the gallery followed by a question and answer session. The aim of this reading series is to shine the spotlight on a single writer; providing them with the platform to present a body of work and the necessary time to engage and connect with the audience. This session features poet Tara Misu. 7:30pm. Free. Launch Pad Cooperative, 911 Jefferson Ave. www.launchpadcooperative.com

Lewis Black - The legendary caffeinated comedian, Lewis Black, speaks his mind without a filter during his “The Rant is Due.” Expect topics to include politics and observations on the prevailing stupidity of the people of the United States. 8pm. $38-$48. Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd. 419-381-8851. www.stranahantheater.com

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Night Hike & Fireside Stories - Put on warm clothes for a night hike through woods and meadows in hopes of observing winter wildlife. After the hike, warm by a fire, roast marshmallows, sip hot chocolate and listen to stories of nature. Register each family member. 6-8pm. $3. Oak Openings Preserve, 4139 Girdham Rd., Swanton. 419-407-9700. www.metroparkstoledo.com

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Wintertime Blooms - Let the Women’s Connection West’s next luncheon refresh you after the hectic holidays. Jennifer Cummins of Beautiful Blooms by Jen, will revive you with the smells and beauty of her floral bouquets and arrangements for any occasion. Then, speaker and former Pro Baseball player, Ron Rightenour, “Discovers an Important Legacy to Leave His Children.” Reservations and complimentary childcare are suggested by Monday, Jan. 7. 11:15am-1:15pm. $12. Highland Meadows Golf Club, 7455 Erie St., Sylvania. 419-535-5853

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Behind the Scenes of Stranleigh - See how the other half lived as small groups explore parts of the Manor House, formerly named Stranleigh, typically out of sight to the public. Participants see the attic, maids’ quarters, boiler room and other rooms. This tour will forever change how you view one of Toledo’s architectural icons. Space is limited. 2-5pm. $12. Wildwood Preserve Manor House, 5100 West Central Ave. 419-407-9700. www.metroparkstoledo.com

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Our food weaknesses thrive during the holidays, so by the new year, we’re looking to awaken from our food comas and break the habits that keep us from being healthy. Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat author Michelle May, M.D., advocates mindful eating, which requires being more in tune with your body — focusing not only on what you eat, but how you’re eating it. Jane Charette, a licensed “Am I Hungry” facilitator, will offer Dr. May’s Mindful Eating workshops at Lial Renewal Center in January and February, helping you discover a more conscious, stress-free approach to food. Sessions start Thursday, January 10, with two schedules offered: Thursdays from 5 to 6:15pm, or Saturdays from 9 am to noon. Cost is $250, including materials; registration deadline is Tuesday, January 8. Contact Charette at 419-8855793 or email janecharette@me.com. Lial Renewal Center, 5908 Davis Rd., Whitehouse. —AO

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Promedica Flower Hospital Community Blood Drive - ProMedica Toledo Hospital will host a community-wide blood drive in the hospital’s Croxton Auditorium. The blood drive is sponsored by the American Red Cross. The drive will help ensure that adequate blood supplies are available across northwest Ohio. All donors will have a chance to win door prizes. 9am-3pm. ProMedica Toledo Hospital, 2142 North Cove Blvd. 419-887-2954. www.givelife.org

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Epilepsy Seminar - One of the main goals of the Epilepsy Center is to provide the community with valuable information that can be used to improve the lives of people affected by epilepsy and those with developmental disabilities. This seminar is titled: “Epilepsy Syndromes in Children”, and will be presented by Dr. Michael Nagel, a Pediatric Neurologist from The Toledo Clinic. There will be a question and answer session immediately following the presentation. Reserve your spot before Monday January 7. 7-8:30pm. St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, 2213 Cherry St. 419-867-5950. www. epilepsycenter.org

Diabetes Self-Management Program DSMP is a 6-week workshop for people with Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. This evidence-based program teaches skills to better manage the condition and is presented by the Area Office on Aging. Refreshments provided. 1-3:30pm. Kent Public Library, 3101 Collingwood Blvd. www.toledolibrary.org

ongoing Mondays

Beginning and Gentle Yoga - Classes cover releasing stress through deep breathing and body/mind awareness, gradually increasing strength and flexibility and proper body alignment. All levels of fitness welcome. 7:30pm. Six weeks for $75. It’s About Movement Yoga Studio, 26597 N. Dixie Hwy., The Shoppes at RiverPlace, Perrysburg. 419-868-9199. www.itsaboutmovement.net

Mondays & Saturdays

Hot Yoga at Zen in the District - Join Brent Coldiron for a sweaty, invigorating yoga practice, Saturday mornings and Monday evenings at Zen in the District in the uptown area. Above the bail bond shop. Mondays, 6pm; Saturdays, 9:30-11am. Free will donation. Zen in the District, 1700 Canton Ave. Suite 200. 419-345-7490

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JANUARY — We really should have a cake to celebrate Toledo’s 176th birthday on January 7th. The position of planets on our birthday (for people too) sets the tone for the year ahead. Crime should be curtailed and negotiations with unions will be successful. The size of our police and fire departments will be increased and modernized. City Council will appoint a new member to replace Copeland. FEBRUARY — The new moon on

February 10 is in the sign of Aquarius should bring additional money, much of which was not expected. The argument, of course, will be where to spend it. Mercury and Saturn both retrograde, so decisions may be delayed. Much emphasis is placed on water — in the pipes? In the swimming pools? For purification? For disposal? Wherever ...

MARCH — Spring fever is really terrific

as we plan for outdoor events. The use of the new cameras is helpful in curtailing crime. The additional police presence helps too. After the 19th many tourists and conventioneers plan to arrive in late spring and summer, which is a boost to our local economy.

APRIL — This month should bring in

additional money from taxes, license fees, and especially casino dollars. A line-up of planets in the sign of Aries causes problems as city council argues about spending. The tendency is to want to do NEW things, plan new events and spice up parks and recreation. Decisions are reached by the 29th.

MAY — The waterfront comes to life! Boating will be a major source of pleasure and income. The new park downtown is complete and the area looks good. Additional housing downtown shows a real need for grocery shopping, so this may be developed by local entrepreneurs. JUNE — Our police and fire departments are at full strength. The fact that so many planets are in the sign of Gemini gives us good publicity and countless outdoor festivals, which attract visitors from outside our city. This has a positive affect on real estate sales. JULY — The festivities on the 4th may have a few “bumps” because Mercury is retrograde. But all in all the holiday is successful. T-shirts

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show up encouraging the people to vote for mayor and council members at large in November. Conventions are held here also and money rolls in.

AUGUST — The new moon on the 6th brings some “big bucks” to the city and some “big plans” about spending it. The shipping industry is busy with trade with Canada. Some labor unions may be deadlocked, which interferes with our progress. Pictures of picket lines are in the paper and on TV. And the city council hopefuls and mayoral candidates are passing out literature.

SEPTEMBER — Labor Day is a major holiday in Toledo. The parade on the 2nd is well attended even though “labor” is unhappy about ongoing negotiations. Charter schools are busy. The education system is being challenged from the inside. Various committees are formed to help.

OCTOBER — City expenses are extremely high, but various fees come in at the last minute. Plans need to be made for leaf collection and repairs to our infrastructure before cold weather sets in. After the 21st, when Mercury goes retrograde, the citizens may panic about EVERYTHING. Keeping them calm can help city officials proceed with the plans. NOVEMBER — It is finally time to elect

city officials. Three of the eight planets are retrograde on election day, which indicates that many of the same people will be re-elected. There will have to be some re-counts. One new council member will replace George Sarantou and the person who was appointed in January must run to keep his seat. A mayor will be elected as well as the at-large council members. These are Rob Ludeman, Steve Steel, and Adam Martinez. Dan McNamara is also at-large, but he may decide to run for mayor so that would leave an opening. Sandy Spang, owner of Plate 21 Coffee Shop, may run if that happens.

DECEMBER — This is an extremely

happy month. Toledoans are generous and the holiday parties are glorious. Private homes, commercial buildings, the zoo, the museum and the city have magnificent decorations. Spirits are high and all is well.

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8. Conservative hairstyle 9. Up and about 10. Certain remains 11. WWII female enlistee 12. IMF collaborator 13. One may be tangled 16. Online lecture series name 18. Just some guy 23. Gary of "CSI: NY" 25. One being unsubtle, perhaps 26. #43 27. Give the heave-ho 28. Drunk's shakes, for short 30. Nurses at the bar 32. Displays good preschool form 34. Animal on many a dairy council logo 36. Org. for fighters 37. Prepare, as some tuna 39. Italy's ___ di Como 40. Drugstore chain 41. Year in the life of Pliny the Elder 43. Supervise 44. TV's Miss Cleo, supposedly 47. Business and Nursing, for two 50. Trivia buff's boast 51. Toledo Speedway contests 52. Like some apartment rentals 54. Historian's letters 56. Word processing menu option 58. Body-inspecting govt. gp. 59. Color TV pioneer 60. Japanese-American rock guitarist James 61. "Bad" cholesterol, briefly 62. Drill attachment

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By Alia Orra Michelle Henry,

Super hero

Wanda Butts, the inspirational founder of The Josh Project, celebrated her recent CNN Heroes award with a fundraiser at The Ramada Hotel & Conference Center. Wanda’s non-profit is dedicated to teaching children how to swim, and is named in honor of her son Josh, who lost his life in a drowning accident. The celebration was held on what would have been Josh’s 23rd birthday, December 9.

graphic designer

Michelle, who works at marketing and advertising firm Stephenson and Taylor, is a lover of the classics, from her vintage Chanel earrings to her J.Crew booties.

Since you’re in the design business, does that mean that you are a pretty visual person?

I think with design or fashion, I analyze an entire piece by its shape, color, and texture. I look at the individual components and how they work together.

How would you describe your style? Modern vintage preppy.

Are those Chanel earrings? Yeah, they are.

Where did you find them?

Vickie Riehle and Wanda Butts (Josh project founder and CNN Hero), with Tom & Mary Ellen Peters Kathryn Earley Moore, Wanda Jean Butts, and Rhonda Sewell

Supper time

Manhattan’s Supper Club wine dinner was brought back by popular demand on December 19, with a retro ‘60s menu by Chef Ian.

Ebay. And every city I’m in, I go antiquing. I love the Maumee Antique Mall; I got this fur muff from there for $30. I’m an investment shopper — I buy things I know are going to sustain themselves through the years, rather than a season’s trend.

You’re very pulled together. Do you ever have a lazy sweatpants moment?

Leaving yoga, maybe! [Laughs] I do like to put an effort into how I look on a daily basis. You feel better if you’re put together.

Cindy Gedert (a loyal Manhattan’s patron who demanded the encore of the Supper Club Wine Dinner) with Chef Ian

LaKeiva Zimmerman with Anisha Hollman

Garden party Kevin McKee, Kelly Savino, Rita Malkin and George Clemens

Heralding The Holidays, the Toledo Botanical Garden’s annual celebration of the season, took over the Garden on December 7 with performances and cool gift items from local artists.

Karen & Kiera Wolkins with Lynn Brand

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