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Dedicated to Free Times founder Richard H. Siegel (1935-1993) and Scene founder Richard Kabat Publisher Chris Keating
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Public digests independent reviews of Tamir Rice case, a conversation with former city planner Norm Kurmholz, and more
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Memorials line the streets of Cleveland, where gang violence is becoming an ongoing crisis
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TWO EXPERT REPORTS WERE released to the public Saturday evening, each independently claiming that officer Timothy Loehmann acted “reasonably” when he shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice last November. In the 11 months since the shooting, County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty has not issued an indictment against Loehmann — nor his partner Frank Garmback. It’s unclear why his office released the reports at this time, though his office cited the need for “transparency” and a “demand [for] a higher level of public scrutiny.” Scrutiny, indeed. Since Saturday, McGinty has come under fire in the past few days for commissioning and publishing these reports. “It looks as though the prosecutor is trying to taint the grand jury process as well as manipulate the judicial process overall,” Edward Little said during a gathering of clergy and activists at Cudell Rec Center yesterday. McGinty’s office insisted that it is “not reaching any conclusions from these reports.” (Read the two reports, authored by S. Lamar Sims, senior chief deputy district attorney in the Office of the Denver District Attorney, and Kimberly A. Crawford, a retired supervisory special agent assigned to the Legal Instruction Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, at clevescene.com.) McGinty, earlier this year, said that he will not be charging anyone on the Cleveland Division of Police payroll: “This case, as with all other fatal use of deadly force cases involving law enforcement officers, will go to the grand jury. That has been the policy of this office since I was elected. Ultimately, the grand jury decides whether police officers are charged or not charged.” Activists working with Ferguson’s Hands Up United wrote: “This is Mike Brown all over again. Just like in the case of Mike Brown, the decision to release these reports ahead of the grand jury findings is morally bankrupt —as they serve to tamper
that all adds up to what I hope is a greater focus on equity.
Screenshot of the infamous video with the court of public opinion, and only further malign a dead 12-year-old who cannot respond because his voice and life were stolen from him.”
A CONVERSATION WITH FORMER CLEVELAND CITY PLANNER NORM KRUMHOLZ, ABRIDGED Norman Krumholz arrived in Cleveland in 1968 with a big idea: to build a more equitable city. Appointed City Planner by Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Krumholz set out to “promote a wider range of choices for those who have few, if any, choices.” He and his office rejected traditional efficiencyfirst models of city planning, and instead prioritized transportation, housing, and recreational solutions for the city’s poorest residents, an innovative approach known as equity planning. City planners and elected officials around the country looked to Cleveland as a model for putting equity planning into practice. Since leaving City Hall in the late 1970s, Krumholz, now 88 years old, has continued to promote equity planning as a faculty member at Cleveland State University and during a stint as President of the American Planning Association. While the influence of equity planning has waxed and waned during those decades, today equity planning is back on the center stage of urban planning and policy.
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In Cleveland, where he has trained a generation and more of planners, much of Krumholz’s vision for a city of opportunity - including landbanks and a network of CDCs - has come into focus. He’s watched its progress closely, most recently as a member of the Cleveland City Planning Commission until Mayor Jackson removed him in 2014. Scene: Why do you think people are talking about equity in city planning again? NK: The income disparity issue - the kind of things characterized by Occupy Wall Street a couple of years ago - has become a much more important issue over time. Income disparities are now the currency of common discussion. People are concerned about it. There’s no question the Democratic party is going to run on that as an important plank [of its campaign platform] in 2016. For planners, sustainability has become the big schtick. It’s hard to say whether it’s going to become a fad or not, but so long as planners are concerned about sustainability, equity is one of the three legs of the sustainability stool. The other two are economics and environment. And then there’s the change of population in the country. The country is becoming more diversified, more Latino and more Asian. I think that tends to modify and diminish more traditional political positions. I think
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While you were Cleveland City Planner, you had a lead role in preparing the legal framework for today’s Community Development Corporation (CDC) structure. What are CDCs in Cleveland doing well today? I think one thing they’re doing well is engaging as many citizens as can be engaged in the political process, in the development and planning process. That’s all to the good. But there are tangible successes to report with CDCs around the country. And the CDCs in Cleveland, particularly the development CDCs, like Detroit Shoreway, Tremont, Ohio City, University Circle, that demonstrated pretty well that they can produce. They’ve produced housing - a lot of it affordable, not all by any means, but a lot of it - and commercial activities and so on in neighborhoods that were completely redlined by the private market. So I think they have a good record. In what ways have CDCs fallen short of what you’d hoped for them? I think some of them have lost their focus on the lower-income population. Some of them are looking more and more for market-rate housing, and as their communities - Detroit Shoreway, Ohio City, maybe in particular Tremont - have become more of a private market operation, the CDCs have been aiding and abetting. And I don’t think we need the CDCs to do private market housing. That’s not what they’re there for, in my humble judgement. CDCs working in Downtown, I couldn’t be less interested. In that case, they’re just supporting the Chamber of Commerce. You have to be true to your objective of representing equity. You have to do that from a professional perspective. You have to remember that one of the three Es is equity, it’s not just the economy or the environment.
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UPFRONT How about landbanks? If I understand correctly, your work in the 1960s allowed for landbanks to exist [Interrupts] In the ‘70s! I’m not that old! [laughs] Excuse me. Yes, I did spearhead the first statewide land bank law. I think the county land bank is a great thing, and I totally support it.
It’s hard to talk about equity without talking about power, and about who gets to make decisions. Yep, it’s highly political.
important part about it is organizing at the neighborhood level, and turning the neighborhood people into politically astute people who will vote their own interest, who will understand first of all how the system works, understand how they plan an important role in making the system work. And then vote in accordance with their own interests.
on the neighborhoods. What advice do you have for organizations that are looking to do that, to activate political capacity in local neighborhoods? Get out and organize! Nobody ever willfully gave anybody any power, you sort of have to take it. And you take it through the political process.
To what extent does community organizing, building neighborhood coalitions that have the potential to translate into political power, fit into equity planning? Is there a role for organizing in equity planning? Absolutely. In spades. The most
Why is that so important in equity planning? It’s fundamental and essential for the neighborhoods to express their wishes, and not have a planner, even a planner with the best of intentions, impose his or her view of what the neighborhoods need
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Some Cleveland City Council Members have complained that the land bank is too predisposed to demolish vacant houses, as opposed to mothballing and rehabbing vacant homes. I think the county land bank is doing the best it can. The controversy as I see it is by one or two Councilmen who are concerned about demolitions, because they want to mothball and preserve some houses they’ve identified. Unfortunately, most of the people in the neighborhoods want those houses down for a variety of reasons. And it also costs a great deal of money to mothball and maintain. And if you go ahead and rehab some of those old units, particularly if you’re not careful, you end up putting an enormous amount of public resources
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FEATURE
MEMORIAL DAYS
The story of Cleveland’s gang violence is written chapter by chapter with balloons, posters and candles on the city’s streets By Eric Sandy A memorial to Javon Alexander stands on East 104th Street
A CROWD GATHERS SLOWLY around a utility pole on East 113th Street in Cleveland. Young and old, they bring balloons and stuffed animals, candles and memories. A child no older than 6 hoists a poster onto the ragged roadside pine. Bedecked with photos of his uncle, the poster reads: “Do It 4 Deck.” Today’s gathering is a neighborhood coming up for air. Besieged by new waves of violence and an increasing homicide rate, Cleveland’s eastside streets are frequent datelines in Plain Dealer crime stories even as they remain far from the commercially minded downtown consciousness. We may as well be talking about Aleppo. Today, these residents collectively exhale, as they have before, as they will again: In just 24 hours, another crowd will form down the road, where 5-month-old Aavielle Wakefield will take her last
breaths amid gunfire. Dexter “Deck” Mangham was shot and killed Sept. 27 downtown, where Euclid Avenue meets East Fourth Street. It was another tragedy, and a rare blast of violence invading Cleveland’s most recognizable street -- the one anchored by Michael Symon, the one lauded by the Wall Street Journal and other national publications championing Cleveland as a tourist destination. The police are saying that men associated with a rival gang fired bullets into a crowd that night around 2 a.m., killing Deck and injuring several others. Those men reportedly went on to kill 19-year-old Sidney Smith -- an innocent sister of a gang member -- on the eastside later that night after pumping 31 bullets into her house. Two men have thus far been arrested. Deck’s friends and family have
gathered this late September evening, in the neighborhood where he lived, to remember him. A crowd of more than 100 coalesces into a loose circle as the sun hangs low over two-story homes. Candles are lit. Small cut-out letters are arranged to spell “RIP DECK.” The utility pole has taken on new life as Deck passes out of this one, turned into makeshift memorial totem. “That’s my uncle, and I love him,” says one little boy. Then, on the count of three, the gathered crowd releases heart-shaped balloons into Cleveland’s fading sunlight. The wind catches many of them, tossing them into a nearby tree where they get stuck. The crowd laughs. There’s not much else to do. “Deck’s just hanging out, like he always was,” says one friend. It’s a light hearted moment that belies a serious situation. Police say the Benham Boyz and
103 Murda Block have been waging a months-long gang battle against each other, trading drive-bys where targets and innocent bystanders have ended up in pools of blood. (Deck was associated with the Benham Boyz, according to those in the neighborhood.) Judy Martin led the group in prayer before the balloon release. She attends vigils like this every time someone is killed in the city, as the director of Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, a local group that memorializes victims like Deck. She’s got intimate knowledge of burying a loved one -- her own son was shot and killed in 1994. She’s seen plenty more since then. And the tragedies she lives with aren’t stopping, nor are they slowing down. In the two weeks since Deck’s murder, four more people were killed in Cleveland, fresh data points clustered too often like flies around the
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FEATURE core of Mount Pleasant. (The westside is far from immune, though. On Oct. 6, 68-year-old Clarence Adkins was stabbed to death on Colgate Avenue, bringing the city’s homicide total to 101 for the year. For reference, last year saw 102 homicides; in 2013, 88; in 2012, 99; in 2011, 75; in 2010, 72.) “The vengeance and the revenge and the anger: That all keeps on going,” Martin tells Scene. “And until they hit Dexter, they all missed their targets.” Martin is talking about a spate of innocent children being gunned down across the city’s eastside as the city’s gang violence escalates, the most sickening entries into the city’s climbing homicide tally. A few weeks earlier, 3-year-old Major Howard was shot and killed just up the road here on East 113th. A week before that, it was 5-year-old Ramon Burnett on a quiet side street off East 55th. And soon enough: little Aavielle Wakefield, all of 5 months, over on East 143rd on Oct. 1. If you were to visit East 113th north of Union Avenue, you’d find a memorial to Major Howard that looks much like the memorial to Deck just
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a block away. Balloons and stuffed animals and posters. Take a 10-minute drive around a 10-block radius, and you’d find many more. It’s a startling sight. They’re omnipresent, these memorials, both easy to gloss over and impossible to miss once you’re looking. They sprout up on corners and sidewalks, spontaneous and deliberate manifestations of grief and remembrance, balm for each fresh scar on the neighborhood. They’re certainly not unique to Mount Pleasant, but in other corners of Northeast Ohio, and particularly in the suburbs, memorials tend to signify the site of a fatal promnight car crashes and the like. Here, that’s rarely the case. Here, they’re usually tied to gun violence. Here, they represent homicides. Here, you drive around and can’t help but think about what Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams would go on to say amid tears on the night little Wakefield was killed: “This shouldn’t be happening in our city.”
Just nine blocks away from Deck’s memorial on East 113th is the memorial for Javon Alexander, who was killed back in February. White and blue balloons still flutter peacefully amid Indian Summer
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“The vengeance and the revenge and the anger: That all keeps on going.” — Judy Martin
wind, casting oblong shadows on the cracked sidewalk of East 104th Street where Alexander took a single bullet to his head. Freshly purchased stuffed animals and Sharpie-scribbled notes from friends cling to yet another utility pole. These sites tend to be well maintained by the victims’ loved ones. It was around 5:30 a.m. when Alexander died, and the sun had yet to crack the February horizon when gunfire ripped apart the street. According to news stories at the time, a woman ran out of her home and shouted, “My baby, my baby.” He was only 18.
Back in the winter, Alexander’s death didn’t get much attention. There was no context. It was too early for the powers-that-be to guess that the city’s homicide rate would balloon to triple digits with ease. The public at the time was mired in a heated debate over police officers’ use of force in the deaths of Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson. No one was running news stories about gang warfare and blackon-black crime. But City Councilman Zack Reed has urged the city to take action for years. “We can’t be shocked,” he tells Scene during a recent trip to Deck’s neighborhood, Alexander’s neighborhood, his own neighborhood. Reed has slapped the administration with demands to take this problem seriously, to understand the deeper civic meaning of these memorials to the city’s fallen. Things are different now. It’s taken awhile for the stories to gain traction, for the summer of violence and bloodshed to lead the evening news and land on the front page. Sadly, it’s taken the deaths of three children under the age of 5 to bring us here, to that conversation, to the point where the mayor and police chief call press conferences and visit crime scenes as routinely as big-business ribboncuttings spring up downtown.
FEATURE But that conversation is not easy, nor should anyone expect short-term answers or quick fixes. The problem is systemic. Mayor Frank Jackson was correct when he stood in front of TV cameras after Howard’s death and said there was no panacea for what was going on -- which isn’t to say all possible solutions shouldn’t be pursued with all due alacrity. (The memorial for Wakefield includes a poster that reads urgently: “We’ll never stop fighting for you. STOP THE VIOLENCE.”) It goes deeper than police, to housing and education, to policies and inaction that have put the eastside African American community in the position
on social media on the respective nights they were killed. Word travels quick, and even before their loved ones congregated at roadside utility poles to honor their lives, memorials were shot into the digital sphere. #RIP, #restup, calls for the end of violence and more: The smiling faces of these children lingered on Instagram pages, adorned with lament. This even before the sun had risen the next day, before the news published their names. Those same social media accounts of people tied to the gangs and the residents that live in those streets are dotted with short bios that tally off the dead. Three, four, five names at a time. The dead have been memorialized in a permanent way, at least as far as social media allows, not in a fleeting post or tweet. The dead are now intricately
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— City Councilman Zack Reed it’s in now. Fixing all of that will take years and decades, not days and months. But leaders and residents are looking for short-term answers and well as long-term fixes, and every day seems to bring a fresh body without any action. Just last month, Reed and a few other lawmakers introduced legislation to pull $1 million from the city’s $19-million “rainy day fund” to pay for additional police officers and requisite overtime. To date, Councilman Matt Zone’s Safety Committee has not entertained a vote on the matter. (Zone did call a vote on a donation of three horses to the police department, which passed unanimously.) Inaction has flustered Reed and other council members. During a Sept. 21 meeting, he again called out the administration and his idle colleagues: “I don’t know what you call it in your community. But in my community, when little babies are being shot and killed, they call that an emergency.” Sept. 21 feels like a lifetime ago already, and the emergency hasn’t stopped.
Images of 5-year-old Burnett, 3-year-old Howard and 5-month-old Wakefield quickly made the rounds
woven into the very identify of the community. This is who we are. This is who we’ve lost. Theories abound as to what is really driving the violence: senseless young egos, turf wars, a long-standing “beef” that’s led each side to volley bullets back and forth in pursuit of an unnameable end. It seems like the only people who have answers to those questions are dead or in jail, neither of which appear to be a deterrent to those pulling the triggers. But there are theories, and each one is as believable as the next. One text passed along to Scene by someone who said they received it from law enforcement said, “We are in a tenuous spot. On the verge of becoming Chicago in terms of gang wars. The Heroin trade is a very lucrative business right now & people are killing each other & bystanders over money, drug & turf. It will get worse before it gets better.” People like Martin and other neighborhood advocates tie the whole thing back to the flat circle of time: Men in poor, historically redlined neighborhoods grow up disrespecting themselves and others, and then their children grow up doing the same. Police sources Scene talked to doubted the heroin theory, but within days similar threads were being
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FEATURE shared across Northeast Ohio on Facebook. The threats and fear and awareness of a very real gang beef and the very real facts of innocent bystanders dying made everything believable. The local police and the FBI are monitoring social media feeds for threats of violence, hints of direction. “Although no credible threats have been verified through any of our law enforcement platforms, the Division of police reminds the public that all must remain vigilant and if suspicious behavior or criminal activity is seen or known of, that this activity is reported to law enforcement,” a statement from the mayor’s office released that weekend read. If this is about a new, budding turf war, it shouldn’t be all that surprising. Just two years ago, federal prosecutors indicted 92 people on charges connected to a massive heroin ring that ran across the city’s eastside. When Scene spoke with City Councilman Kevin Conwell at the time,
he lauded the investigation but warned of an impending power vacuum left in his eastside ward and other neighborhoods. Following a similar 2010 bust, he said, violent crimes increased dramatically. “It’s going to happen, because it happened three years ago,” he said. Prescient words. Jackson and Williams pleaded for community involvement, for tips to come forward. It’s true, and that’s part of what’s needed and part of what’s already beginning to happen on the ground. Much like the digital memorials that abound on Instagram, the mug shot of Donell “Nell” Lindsey seared across the web over the past few weeks. He’s wanted in connection with Howard’s death. He’s also avoided the police for the past three weeks.
“I hope he moves quicker!” Sid Moustafa shouts when Scene asks about Reed’s $1-million rainy-day fund proposal. Moustafa owns the Marathon gas station at East 116h and Union, and the HP gas station down at East 140th. His businesses aren’t faring so well these days. Reed’s suggestion -- funds for at least 14 additional
officers on the streets -- is at least the inkling of a solution. For now, the neighborhood is just drowning in balloons and flowers. The gravity that surrounds these transient memorials carries with it consequences. It’s not just the weight of painful memories; sometimes these memorials act as demarcation lines between peace and violence: “This corner is hot,” is the message in police parlance. On Aug. 5, Jervaughn Gambrell was shot and killed at the Marathon station. He was in the store around 3 a.m., when two other guys showed up. “I don’t know what happened between them,” Moustafa says. “They both had guns, and everybody just shot each other up.” (Three weeks later, Gambrell’s nephew was shot a few blocks up on East 116th. He survived.) In the immediate aftermath, a memorial went up beneath the Marathon sign, right on the corner. The hallmarks were all there: balloons, flowers, stuffed animals and more bottles of Hennessy than you could count. Two months later, the memorial is still there, and it’s growing each day. Graffiti has crawled up the base of
the sign. “Benham 112” dots the metal frame like pockmarks. Moustafa speaks wearily, holding a small Styrofoam cup of coffee in his hands as he gestures. He’s miffed that the Fourth District of the Cleveland Division of Police hasn’t done much. He wants the memorial and its magnet for gang presence gone, but he was told not to mess with it for fear of inciting further violence from the gang. (Later, Reed tells Scene: “If the police tell you the damn corner is hot, then who’s going to make it unhot?”) “I don’t know what to do; I’m waiting,” Moustafa says. “I can’t take any actions, because I’m not putting myself or my employees or my business in harm’s way.” When Scene stopped out to see the memorial in early October, a woman walking down the sidewalk on East 116th came over and tsk-tsked the display. “I was at the bus stop on Sunday, waiting for the 15 to go to work,” she said. “A girl came over here and got a bottle and hit another girl on the head. Sunday, at 12:30 in the morning. It’s a mess.” And it’s not just safety implications. With this memorial casting a shadow
Friends and family of Dexter “Deck” Mangham begin constructing a memorial site on East 113th Street.
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FEATURE across Moustafa’s gas pumps, his business has soured. An already struggling local economy is faltering even more under the weight of these shootings. “The gang violence that’s been going around affects the business completely. It’s affected my business dramatically,” Moustafa says. “Especially my night business. My night business used to be my backbone. I’m hurting real bad. It’s getting to the point where I don’t think I can go much longer. It’s losing money right now. I put a lot of money in there, but I didn’t invest all that money to lose.” Moustafa opened the gas station just two years ago, cleaning up a formerly blighted central part of the neighborhood. “I started off OK, and it started getting better. Then this happens,” Moustafa says. “For the past, what, four months? It’s just nosediving. “Anyone who’s got a store from 150th all the way down to 93rd: Every store you go in, they’ll tell you the same thing,” he continues. “Especially the 24-hour operations -24-hour operations is tough. They’re feeling it.”
Al Rollins has owned Upper Cutt on Union Ave. at East 105th since 1975. It’s the quintessential neighborhood barber shop, with quiet soul playing from a small stereo and pictures of people, celebrities and otherwise, adorning the walls. On this afternoon, one man is inside getting a quick buzz. Most days, when the weather’s fine and business is relaxed, Rollins
“The gang violence that’s been going around affects the business completely. It’s affected my business dramatically.” — Sid Moustafa
sits on a small crate outside and plays his soprano sax. That’s what he’s doing when Scene asks him how things are going around here; business is relaxing a bit too much these days. He says it didn’t used to be like this -- the rampant shootings, the innocent victims, post-mortem balloons on every damn near every street. “This is the ‘hood, and I’m not saying that’s what you should expect,” Rollins says. “It’s something that we’re not really used to either. Every post you see have balloons and liquor bottles, pop bottles, candles. Nobody’s used to that. Not really much can be said; until something different happens, I don’t think it’s something we should settle for. But what can you say? Ain’t nothing you can say. The only thing I do is keep on playing, and keep myself and my family in line. “The neighborhood’s changing as we speak,” Rollins says between bursts of melody. A few years back, Rollins found himself dodging bullets right outside his barber shop. “I was sitting right here, got caught up in some crossfire,” he says. “It destroyed my horn. So hearing about any of that [violence] takes me to a certain place.” Still, guys Rollins isn’t convinced more police officers are the answer here. He’s not sure what it’s going to take. “I mean, this situation, in the future we’re going to have to come to some sort of conclusion,” Rollins says. “It’s getting closer to us. It’s getting worse, because when we’re not affected, it’s people around us who are affected. Down the street, two robberies just the other day.” The next day, Scene catches up with Alfrieda Haywood, a school crossing guard outside Andrew J. Rickoff Elementary at Kinsman and East 147th. She’s been posted up here for six years. A lot kids here walk to and from school, although Haywood says she’s seeing more parents than ever showing up to drive their little ones. “They know what’s going on around here,” she says as kids race out of school and into the community. “I be cautious, but I’m not worried about it. If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. I can’t worry about that.” She used to live around right around here, but she says the strains of the neighborhood drove her away: “It’s been a lot of violence around here. I feel for the family of the little baby that got shot last week. There’s something going around, and
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Gang symbolism has overtaken a gas station in Mount Pleasant where a man was shot in August.
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Down at City Hall and at Cleveland Police headquarters, those in charge of public safety are grappling with an explosive issue from which there is no clear exit. Hours prior to Aavielle Wakefield’s death, Mayor Frank Jackson was at a ribbon-cutting for the Flats East Bank, demonstrating almost perfectly the dissonance between downtown’s corporate power structure and the blind violence of the city’s poorer neighborhoods. It’s not an indictment of downtown or Jackson or developers, just context for what else happens inside the city’s borders. By the time Jackson and Chief Calvin Williams arrived at East 143rd Street, a crowd was gathering. Williams wept on-screen. A memorial would slowly take form on the spot. The next day, on Oct. 2, Williams discussed that most recent homicide to bring Cleveland to a halt. He stood in the police headquarters briefing room and explained that no leads emerged from the first night of the investigation. “We are getting tips in, and our officers are following up,” he said. “But we need more. Our community needs to step forward.” Williams sighed, heavily. “Over the past month or so, everybody knows the kind of things that have been a plague on the city, as far as violence and young folks,” he said. “We’ve lost three young innocent lives. It’s hard to stomach
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that, because it’s not for any reason that we can come up with -- not for any reason that any sensible person can come up with.” Earlier this year, Williams’ own brother was gunned down in a domestic dispute. It was a surreal moment, one that brought to city’s woes to its police chief in a personal way: The chief was facing down the scourge of violence that had made its way into his own family. Much like the whole of the U.S., the time between shootings in Cleveland is becoming shorter and more steeped in debate and reflection. Jackson, during that Oct. 2 news conference, drew a parallel between Cleveland’s crisis and the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in rural Oregon. Following that tragedy, President Barack Obama spoke about how terrifyingly routine this is becoming: the aftermath of violence is a regularly scheduled process. So are the memorials, so is the grieving. Another day, another week, another family mourning, another vigil. Another time that Judy Martin addresses the friends and family of a loved one dead and gone. “We’ve got to stop this,” Martin says. “Or we’re gonna be here every week, every month, every year.” Anyone with information relating to these crimes and others can anonymously call Crime Stoppers with tips at 216-252-7463.
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Violins of Hope The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Violins of Hope exhibit features restored Holocaust violins. Tonight at 8 at Severance Hall, the Cleveland Institute of Music presents a special concert in conjunction with the exhibition featuring music by Barber, Bach, Bruch, Sarasota, Beethoven and Mahler. General admission is free but a ticket is required. Go to the Cleveland Orchestra website for more details. (Jeff Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. FOODIES
Food and Wine Inspired by Art Food and Wine Inspired by Art is a new monthly culinary series that kicks off tonight at Provenance, the restaurant inside the Cleveland Museum of Art. It features a chef’s amuse-bouche as a starter and includes four courses, each paired with wine. Chef-partner Douglas Katz leads the culinary team, so you can bet the food will be terrific. The dinner begins at 6:30 tonight, and tickets are $90, or $70 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. SPOKEN WORD
Marketing and Promotion Not just another critic, Scene visual arts editor Josh Usmani supports the local art scene as best he can. Today at 6:30 p.m. at the Artists Archive of the Western Reserve, he’ll discuss the best ways for young art professionals to get the word out on their endeavors. A Q&A session follows. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org. BEER
Onshore Pour In case you missed the “offshore pour” (or even if you didn’t), you can participate in tonight’s “onshore pour” that’s part of Cleveland Beer Week. The event takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. at Dive Bar in the Warehouse District. Several craft breweries will be on hand as will local food trucks. Tickets are $20 for four pints, a
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Scorpions: Forever and a Day For a year and a half, filmmaker Katja von Garnier accompanied German rockers the Scorpions on what was supposed to be the band’s farewell tour. Of course, the band didn’t call it quits — it actually decided to go on a huge tour in support of its 50th anniversary; in fact, it just came through Cleveland on that very tour. Dubbed Forever and a Day, Garnier’s documentary provides an inside look at one of the world’s most popular metal acts. It screens tonight at 7:30 at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $12.50. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. ART
A Special Guided Tour In conjunction with one of its many special exhibitions, Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America, the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts a guided tour with its co-curators, Case Western Reserve University’s Dr. Andrea Wolk Rager and CMA curator of photography Dr. Barbara Tannenbaum. They’ll discuss the first major movement of amateur and professional photographers who created new techniques in an effort to transcend the medium, moving it from the rigidity of mechanical reproduction to a tool of creative expression. The
free tour starts at 6 p.m. at the Atrium desk. (Josh Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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The Devolved World of Mark Mothersbaugh Next summer, MOCA Cleveland and the Akron Art Museum will bring Mark Mothersbaugh’s touring retrospective, Myopia, to Cleveland. In advance of this event, curator Adam Lerner, director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will discuss the Devolved World of Mark Mothersbaugh at MOCA tonight at 7. Mothersbaugh is best known for co-founding DEVO and scor-
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Newsong One of the most popular Christian acts on the circuit, the Grammynominated group Newsong is on a short 11-city tour in support of its latest effort, Faithful. Several of the tour dates are in Ohio, including tonight’s show at Grace Baptist Church in Brunswick. The tour also features American Idol finalists Mandisa and Danny Gokey. Ticket prices range from $20 to $45. For an extra $25, a VIP Experience upgrade may be purchased and includes special early entry, an exclusive Q&A with the band, appetizers and a special VIP laminate and lanyard. The concert begins at 7. Get tickets by phone or at the websites below. (Niesel) 3480 Laurel Rd., Brunswick, 800-965-9324, imageofgod.org and iTickets.com. MUSIC
Splendor of Venice Large-scale orchestral concerts were popular years ago in Italy where aristocrats employed large numbers of Europe’s finest musicians. Splendor of Venice: An Orchestral Extravaganza, the concert that kicks off the 24th season for Cleveland’s baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, includes two of the “concerti per molti strumenti”
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Ales on Rails Heidelberg Distributing hosts a special Cleveland Beer Week edition of Ales on Rails that takes place tonight from 6 to 9:30 on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. Seven craft beers will be served with a boxed dinner as you ride on the train through the valley. Tickets range from $49 to $82 depending on your car selection. Advance tickets are required; buy them through the Beer Week website. (Niesel) clevelandbeerweek.org. COMEDY
Mike Armstrong A former law officer, Mike Armstrong has decided to make a living making people laugh.
Besides tales about his time on the force, he talks about his family; those stories are mostly about his wife, and how she has to put up with him in public as he messes with total strangers. You can hear more tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet. Tickets are $13 to $18 and performances take place tomorrow too. (Martin Harp) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. BEER
Beer and Chocolate Extravaganza To coincide with Sweetest Day, Cleveland Beer Week has put together Beer and Chocolate Extravaganza, a new flagship event that features craft beers and artisanal chocolates. Beer and chocolate reps will be on hand to answer your questions about their respective products. The event takes place from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Heinen’s Downtown. Tickets are $40. (Niesel) 900 Euclid Ave., 216-302-3020, clevelandbeerweek.org. WRESTLING
Big Trouble in Little Cleveland A former former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, ECW World Heavyweight Champion and 2009 WWE Hall Of Fame inductee, Terry Funk, who has starred in films such as Road House and Over the Top, is professional wrestling’s self-proclaimed “hardcore legend.” He’s in town tonight to tangle at Absolute Intense Wrestling’s Big Trouble in Little Cleveland, a multi-bill match that takes place at 7:30 at Our Lady of Mount St. Carmel. (Niesel) 1355 West 70th St., shop.aiwrestling.com. COMEDY
Comics for Choice Bombastic, outspoken and hilarious, Cleveland comedians aren’t afraid to share what’s on their minds. Today, they’ll dish out laughs and opinions in support of choice. NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio is hosting Comedy for Choice at the Nash to raise awareness and bring the funny about reproductive rights in Ohio. Cleveland’s own Mike Polk Jr., Lauren Bencaz and Dustin Meadows will perform starting at 7 p.m. Polk, of Cleveland Tourism Video fame, has already made his stance on reproductive freedom known with his 2013 sketch, “How the New Ohio Budget Affects Your Va-
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Evil Dead the Musical: Evil Dead the Musical combines the first two Evil Dead movies into a rock-music extravaganza featuring decapitation, dismemberment and more fake blood than was spilled during the entire run of ER. Cult faves of the 1980s, the Evil Dead movies were directed by Sam Raimi and featured some questionable special effects. But there was an infectious spirit of harmless anarchy that has inspired a substantial following. The same is true in the musical version. Borrowing freely from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Little Shop of Horrors, Evil Dead manages to put its own stamp of giggly ghastliness on the horror genre. The play opens tonight 8 at the Ohio Theatre. Performances continue tomorrow and Sunday. Tickets start at $10. (Christine Howey) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. DANCE
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GroundWorks Dance Theatre In conjunction with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage’s new exhibit Violins of Hope, GroundWorks DanceTheater will present the world premiere of a work by artistic director David Shimotakahara. Inspired by the exhibit, the piece features music by Israeli composer Oded Zehavi. The performance takes place tonight and tomorrow night at 8 at the Allen Theatre. Tickets are $10 to $25. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. THEATER
The Investigation Using testimony of survivors, The Investigation comes off as a documentary drama. Focusing on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials of 1963 to 1965, the play features two versions of history: the victims’ and the executioners’. The play takes on “our ongoing understanding of human nature, morality and the clash of differing cultural beliefs.” It opens tonight at 8 at Kennedy’s Down Under.
Tickets are $18; performances continue through Nov. 14. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SPORTS
Monsters vs. Iowa Wild When it comes to local professional sports, the Lake Erie Monsters, the minor league hockey team now affiliated with the Columbus Blue Jackets, offers plenty of bang for the buck. The team kicks off the season tonight at 7 at Quicken Loans Arena against the Iowa Wild. Tickets start at $10 and deep discounts on concessions are available too; fans can enjoy $1 sodas, $2 hot dogs and $3 beers. There’s also a free postgame skate. The Monsters square off against the Wild again tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Q. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. FILM
Taxi Banned from filming in Iran, director Jafar Panahi secretly shot his new feature, Taxi, while driving a cab around Tehran. As you can imagine, he picks up a variety of passengers, including a DVD bootlegger, an injured man and a young girl. They talk about what life in Iran is like. The film blurs the lines between fact and fiction as Panahi hasn’t said how much of the movie is scripted. It screens at 7:30 tonight at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque and shows again at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. ART
Third Fridays The galleries and artists of 78th Street Studios invite you to attend a number of fall openings tonight during the montly Third Friday event. This month, Greenwald Gallery presents Sublime Knowledge: the Paintings of Grant Cleveland Cleveland-based photography. According to a press release about the show, the works exhibit “a sort of naïve whimsy but with deeper inspection one is struck with a sense of deep psychological introspection.” At Tregoning and Company, Local artist Michael Gill releases A Pocket Full of Change, a colorful artist book illustrated with original, hand-pulled woodcut prints. There’s plenty more to see too. Most Third Friday events take place from 5 to 9 p.m., but individual hours may
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dishes while five judges sample all 25 trucks’ eats and decide on an overall champion. Unlike some of Cleveland’s other food challenges, this festival’s panel of judges isn’t composed of celebrity chefs or talk-show personalities. Instead, Crocker Park hosted a Facebook contest to choose five regular Joes to test out the area’s hippest
als with cancer and their family and friends,” the Gathering Place hosts its inaugural GatherPalooza fundraiser today at Grays Armory from 6:30 to 11 p.m. The event will feature a Battle of the Bands between local acts the Nerve, Skin & Bones, Faith and Whiskey, and 80-HD, rock bands featuring Cleveland area professionals in
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Brewzilla Beer Week comes to a glorious end today at the Wolstein Center with Brewzilla, the “monster of a beer tasting” that regularly closes out the annual event. Some 80 breweries will be on hand to offer samples of hundreds of beers. There will be a special Ohio beer area and a Gnome Garden with Belgian beers. The event runs from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $40 via the website, and the price includes 25 beer samples. VIP tickets will set you back $75 and they include early entry at 5 p.m. (Niesel) 2000 Prospect Ave., 216-687-9292, clevelandbeerweek.org.
Halloween Flea Market A regular event at Now That’s Class, today’s Heavy Metal Flea Market has been rechristened Halloween Flea Market. Some 20 vendors will be on hand hawking all things Halloween from 2 to 7 p.m. Think horror VHS/DVDs, action figures, toys and other novelties, handmade Halloween arts and crafts, home decor, gifts, taxidermy and more. Costumes are encouraged. Expect food and drink specials too. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.
Lawrence of Arabia Film magazines and digests often cite David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia as the top film of all time. Tonight at 7:15, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque shows a restored 4K version of the movie about a British adventurer (Peter O’Toole), who unites Arab tribes to fight the Turks in World War I. The film won seven Oscars upon its release in 1962. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.
Cuyahoga River Concert Series Founded in 2011, the Cuyahoga River Concert Series brings top quality professional performers from the folk and world-music scene to the greater Kent area at an affordable price. The concerts take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, a venue with terrific acoustics. Tonight you can catch a performance by Hal Walker and Matt Watroba, two veteran singer-songwriters who share the bill. The concert starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $15. (Niesel) 228 Gougler Ave., facebook.com/pages/CuyahogaRiver-Concerts/270446576301561.
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stations and two complimentary drink tickets. VIP tickets are sold out. (Niesel) 1234 Bolivar Rd., 216-595-9546, touchedbycancer.org.
Rockhall.com/SmokeyAMM restaurants. Admission is free. (Brittany Rees) 143 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com. MUSIC
GatherPalooza A non-profit, community-based cancer support center that focuses on “the social, emotional, physical and spiritual needs of individu-
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health care, law and insurance. Live Nation’s Barry Gabel emcees. Proceeds support the free services at the Gathering Place. Raffle prizes include two tickets to the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York City along with roundtrip airfare and two-night hotel accommodations for two. General admission tickets are $75 and include food
Prosperity Social Club Celebration The original family of Dempsey’s Oasis, Richard and Teresa Demboski, will be on hand as Prosperity Social Club, which occupies the former Dempsey’s space, celebrates its 10-year anniversary. A popular place that appealed to steel mill employees and ethnic residents, the business stayed in the Dembowksi family for more than six decades. Complimentary pastry and soft drinks will be served, and the kitchen and bar will be open for brunch service. The event takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com. PETS
Spooky Pooch Parade An annual event, Lakewood’s Spooky Pooch Parade allows pet owners to put costumes on their dogs. It begins at 12:30 at Kauffman Park. Award categories
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be participating as CIA’s cartooning instructor. Stop by to make a three-dimensional cartoon character out of polymer “Sculpey” clay with me. It’s free. (Usmani) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7407, cia.edu.
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Foto Brunch Fundraiser Stop by Mahall’s today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the Cleveland Print Room’s fourth annual Foto Brunch fundraiser. Fare includes French toast from Breadsmith of Lakewood, meats from Saucisson, quiche courtesy of Gray House Pies and coffee from Waterloo’s Six Shooter Coffee — all served by Hollyhock Hill. Curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Barbara Tannenbaum is this year’s honorary chairperson, and Rachel H. from WRUW’s Guilty Pleasures will emcee. Brunch is $25 per person. Special patron packages are $50 and include a Cleveland Print Room T-shirt and coffee mug. Get tickets online or in person at the Cleveland Print Room. (Usmani) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, clevelandprintroom.com.
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Jen Kirkman On tour in continued support of her Netflix comedy special I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), sardonic comedian Jen Kirkman promises that she’ll perform some new material at tonight’s show at the Grog Shop. “There will be plenty of new material that hasn’t been seen on my special,” she says. “The special is material I have previously toured with, so this time Cleveland should be delighted by all-new tales of interactions with a stranger in a truck, love, death, the usual.” Also, you can enjoy a specially curated preshow music playlist provided by Kirkman. She performs at 9 p.m. Mary Santora opens. Tickets are $15. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs.
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Jutta Graf The Bruno Groening Circle of Friends, a nonprofit, carries their namesake’s philosophies of higher powers and healing into the present day. Tonight, the group brings German lecturer Jutta Graf to First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights. Graf will speak on Groening’s approach to harnessing one’s natural healing power. (Group leaders say that a healing may take place during the event.) It begins at 7 p.m., and admission is free. (Eric Sandy) 21600 Shaker Blvd., Shaker Heights, 330-372-3144, brunogroening.com.
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Kaleidoscope Cleveland Institute of Art hosts Kaleidoscope, an art-making open house, from noon to 4 p.m. today. Families are invited to drop in for demonstrations showcasing CIA’s offerings. I’ll
3-D Rarities The 3-D technology used in most commercial movie theaters today features stunning digital effects. But 3-D films have been around for ages. The first one showed way back in 1915 at New York’s Astor Theater. 3-D Rarities, a special program put together by the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, pulls together some of the earliest 3-D movies, including New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film, originally shown at the 1940 World’s Fair in New York, and Doom Town, a controversial antiatomic-testing film that disappeared mysteriously in 1953. The screening takes place tonight at 7 at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.
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Three-headed beast of art exhibitions opens at 78th Street Studios By Josh Usmani JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN, this month’s Third Friday at 78th Street Studios is highlighted by the emergence of a “Three-Headed Beast” of exhilarating new exhibitions by some of the city’s most respected artists. These shows include a Godzilla-themed group show at Derek Hess Gallery, the debut of Michael Gill’s highly anticipated children’s book, A Pocket Full of Change, at Tregoning and Company and Dana Depew’s first solo show in Cleveland in over three years. It all takes place this Friday, Oct. 16 from 5 to 9 p.m. (Individual gallery hours may vary.) When Derek Hess Gallery opened this summer, Hess promised the space would provide opportunities to showcase work by other emerging and established artists. Just two months after opening, it didn’t take him long to deliver on his promise. This Friday’s Gojira features work by two dozen artists from Northeast Ohio, and as far as Florida and New York. Gojira takes its title from the original release of the 1954 Japanese film. Longtime Clevelanders may have been introduced to the film franchise through local TV legends like Ghoulardie and Big Chuck and Little John. “Gojira is the original name for Godzilla,” elaborates Hess. “It was changed for the American market, specifically our creature feature hosts like Hoolihan and Big Chuck, who exposed me to Godzilla, and I was never the same. We had a wealth of TV hosts, Ghoulardi, Little John, Super Host and the Ghoul. I grew up with Godzilla. Those movies, along with other monster movies that were brought to us by Cleveland’s great TV creature feature hosts, have cast a long shadow over my creative process and imagery.” Participating artists include James Bulloch, Jason Byers, Rich Cihlar, Deanna Dionne, Andy Dreamingwolf, Eileen Dorsey, Steve Ehret, Kevin Fernandez, John Greiner, Linwood Hart, Derek Hess, Andy Howl, Jake Kelly, Steve Knerem, Erin Mulligan, Billy Nainiger, Clay Parker, Scott Pickering, Angela Oster, OkPants,
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Ashley Ribblett, Wendy Colin Sorin, JenMarie Zeleznak and Jeff Zornow. CAN Journal director, editor and publisher Michael Gill has spent countless hours over the past several months printing at Zygote Press and the Morgan Conservatory in preparation of his latest book and exhibition at Tregoning and Company. A Pocket Full of Change is a picture book with original rhymes that tells the story of a boy from the west side of Cleveland with a bicycle and a pocket full of coins, which he places along neighborhood railroad tracks to be pressed by passing trains. “Last winter, Michael shared with me the story of A Pocket Full of Change, and all at once I was immediately swept back to my own childhood, growing up within earshot of the Shaker Heights rapid transit trains,” explains gallery owner William C. Tregoning III. “I remembered the hot summer afternoon when my best friend Chip and I rode our bikes over to the tracks to do a little science: set down different coins on the tracks and watch wide-eyed with anticipation as the Rapid train rolled over them in a blur...then inspect the results. In a rush, I immediately agreed to exhibit the accompanying woodcut prints from the book, as well as host the debut of the lovingly handwrought book of letter-press text amplified so vividly with his woodcut illustrations.” The limited edition artist book includes twenty multicolored woodcut prints, hand-carved and pulled by Gill. Each book was created from
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more than 150 blocks, and the text is set in moveable type. Gill has created just 100 signed and numbered copies of the book, as well as very limited individual framed prints. Gill used local graffiti and street artists to strengthen the book’s connection to Cleveland. He explains, “A Pocket Full of Change includes the work of old school, second and third wave Cleveland graffiti writers Shrug, The Sign Guy, Dale Caruso, Prae, Poke, Verb and Lost. Like the writers themselves, their inclusion in this picture book marks territory. This is Cleveland.” Last month, Popeye Gallery took over curatorial duties at Survival Kit on 78th Street Studios’ third floor. The first solo exhibition, Assholes & Elbows, features new work by the incomparable Dana Depew. (Disclosure: I’m one of the directors of Popeye Gallery.) Dana Depew’s first major solo show in Cleveland in over three years includes three-dimensional, twodimensional and video-based works produced from reclaimed and found objects. His site-specific exhibition draws inspiration from obscure pop cultural references, as well as the aesthetics and personality of the gallery and building itself. “Assholes & Elbows will consist of a collection of works produced from found and reclaimed objects,” explains Depew. “The materials will be transformed into sensory works utilizing light, sound, and video.” The multi-talented artist concentrated in sculpture at Kent State University. Depew’s work can be
seen all over town and points beyond – including Melt Bar and Grilled and Big Fun. If you’ve been to 78th Street Studios recently, you’ve seen Depew’s colorful lights in the parking lot and his new neon sign for the first floor’s E11even 2. Unfortunately, we don’t have room to discuss every exhibition, but additional October highlights include Cinema 06 at Kenneth Paul Lesko, HEDGE Represents at HEDGE Gallery, David Gieske and Ashley Rowland’s Temporal Topography at the Cleveland West Art League, Abbey Blake and Carmen Romine’s Nature Ordered at FORUM Art Space, Grant Cleveland’s Sublime Knowledge at Greenwald Gallery, Christina Sadowski’s Cleveland at Home Collection at E11even 2, Mary Spain’s Curious Distortions at ARTneo and much more. THREE-HEADED BEAST 78TH STREET STUDIOS 1300 W. 78TH ST., 330-819-7280 78THSTREETSTUDIOS.COM
Gojira will remain on view by appointment for a limited time. A Pocket Full of Change remains on view during regular business hours through Dec. 18, including Third Fridays in November and December. Assholes and Elbows will close with a reception during November’s Third Friday open studios event. Aside from Third Fridays, Assholes & Elbows can be viewed by appointment only. Derek Hess Gallery and Tregoning and Company are only accessible through a separate entrance on the W. 78th Street side of the building. All Third Friday events are free and open to the public.
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STAGE FIRING GLITZY BLANKS Bullets Over Broadway has everything but what it needs By Christine Howey IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, AN entirely hypothetical situation in which a small, nebbishy guy— say, Woody Allen—is in a horrible accident and loses all his limbs. But the doctor says he can graft on new ones, and he recommends transplanting the arms and legs of a recently deceased champion body builder. Sounds like a good idea in theory, until you realize that the small frame of the patient can’t support his super-charged new body parts. Such is the case with the supermega-glitzy Bullets Over Broadway, the Musical, now at Playhouse Square. It’s based on the small Woody Allen backstage-in-the-theater-world flick of the same name. And this muscleflexing effort, originally directed and choreographed by the inimitable Susan Stroman, spares virtually no expense in generating eye candy. The sets are gorgeous! The costuming is lush and witty! But still the show labors to deliver anything close to the kind of hilarity generated by the ultimate backstage musical (also directed by Stroman), The Producers. It’s odd, because the basic storyline is certainly clever. In 1929 New York City, a young and intense playwright, David, sees his career languishing until a gangster named Nick decides to invest in his show, so Nick can give his girl, the talent-challenged Olive, her dream of a part in a real Broadway show. To keep Olive safe, Nick assigns tough-guy Cheech to sit through the rehearsals with her. But Cheech turns out to be a natural script doctor, who is able to make swift and superb revisions to David’s lumbering script. It’s a cool concept undone by a couple problems. One is that this touring production’s bedazzled and titanic staging is transplanted onto Allen’s tidy little speedboat of a story and ultimately capsizes it. Sure, it’s
good fun to see all the glorious sets and costume changes, and if that’s all you’re looking for then Bullets will knock you for a loop. But if you’re a fan of the Allen sensibility and his trademark low-key, neurotic humor, you’ll spend a couple hours trying to find it amidst the sparkly tumult. Another problem is that the show uses all period music, instead of tunes written specifically for these characters and this situation. With the possible exception of one song—when Cheech sings “Up a Lazy River” as he drives his hit victims to his favorite corpse-dumping site at the Gowanus Canal—the songs are either just plain
hot/I don’t want it cold/I want it so it fit my roll”) and beats it to death with staging. First, there’s a hot dog vendor who pulls out a short and slender hot dog, then a short fat hot dog, and then finally a fat two-footer. That’s followed by the dancing hot dogs that tap and strut as the song continues. All that’s missing, phallic symbol-wise, is the Oscar Meyer wienie car bumping up against a scantily-clad chorine with legs akimbo, and a blimp in the shape of a hot dog flying between two bunshaped clouds. Come to think of it, that might actually work better, since Bullets
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wrong or a near miss. As a result, this musical jerks to a stop repeatedly as we try to process why this particular character is singing that particular song. One example of the excess is “The Hot Dog Song.” Based on the old and racy vaudeville ditty “I Want a Hot Dog for my Roll” by Butterbeans and Susie, Stroman takes that original highly suggestive tune (“I want it
never has the go-for-broke renegade energy that makes shows such as Monty Python’s Spamalot so hilarious. Instead, it all feels uncomfortably bLoated, like Warner Purcell (a nicely pompous Bradley Allan Zarr), the ravenous actor who eats his way into morbid obesity during the show. Still, the lead roles are handled with professional efficiency by most, including Jeff Brooks as the soft-
spoken, Tommy-gun toting Cheech and Michael Williams as wimpy David. Indeed, the tap dance number “Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do,” featuring the gangsters led by Brooks, is a verifiable showstopper (in the good way) thanks to Stroman’s signature choreography. But the key role of Olive is given a screechy, nails-on-a-blackboard performance by Jemma Jane. Touring director Jeff Whiting should be held to account for not helping Jane create a rather irritating character with compensating charm and sexiness, a la Judy Holiday in any of her many movies. In the featured role of the prima donna actress and lush Helen Sinclair, Emma Stratton does her best considering her character doesn’t just hit the bottle, she swigs lighter fluid (!). Yes, the excesses abound in Bullets Over Broadway. And another thing: These days, it just ain’t as funny as it used to be to see people firing off guns in all directions, even in a comedy. But if you like big production numbers and lots of flash, this show will, um, kill you.
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SPIELBERG DOES IT AGAIN Bridge of Spies is director’s latest gem By Sam Allard IN THE RIVETING OPENING minutes of Bridge of Spies, U.S. agents pursue a presumed Soviet operative through the meandering tenements, parks and subway cars of New York City. Director Steven Spielberg, a man who’s not shy about the fact that he can make action movies in his sleep, reminds us of his cinematic expertise immediately. No dialogue is necessary during this heartpounding sequence, yet the anxiety and paranoia of the Cold War 50s is communicated with power and precision. The operative isn’t a sleekly outfitted double-0, either; he’s Rudolf Abel, an elderly Russian national from Ireland (played by renowned stage actor Mark Rylance, who will also play the title role in Spielberg’s “BFG,” due out next year). He is a quiet, dutiful smoker of cigarettes and painter of portraits, and once he’s apprehended by the FBI, he becomes the most hated man in America. Bridge of Spies, which
opens in wide release Friday, is the story of Abel’s legal representation, and American attempts to exchange him for one of its own, an Air Force pilot captured in enemy territory. At the center of the movie is insurance attorney and family man James Donovan (Tom Hanks, who else?). He’s conscripted into representing Abel -- it’s his civil duty, says his firm’s managing partner (Alan Alda) -- and such is Donovan’s respect for and devotion to the American legal system that he takes the job, much to the consternation of his goodly wife Mary (Amy Ryan, rocking her 50s housewife do to the nines) and confusion of his children. As he represents Abel, though, Donovan cannot help but grow to respect him. He’s an enemy of course, but a courageous one, unwilling to cooperate with his American captors. Among Donovan’s many legal and moral arguments in the film is that the very same qualities Abel embodies
would be celebrated in American spies abroad. We, as a democracy in general and a criminal justice system in particular, ought to treat this Russian agent with the dignity that we’d want for our boys. Donovan manages to avoid the death penalty for Abel. And when a young, handsome pilot named Frank Powers is brought down on a top-secret intel-gathering mission in Soviet airspace, Donovan is called on once again, this time to negotiate an urgent transfer in hairy East Berlin. The thorny political relations mean that neither the U.S. nor the U.S.S.R want to be seen at the same table, so a neutral party is required. But things get complicated when an American grad student is captured by the East Germans -- literally as the Berlin Wall is being erected -and Donovan, against strict orders from his CIA chaperones, attempts to exchange Abel for both the soldier and the student.
the master of horror prose himself: Steven King. Pumpkinhead (1988): A revenge demon known as Pumpkinhead is summoned by a grieving father to kill the teenagers responsible for the death of his son! AHHHH!!!! Pumpkin-carving will never be the same again. The Descent (2006): A team of female spelunkers are set upon by gruesome subterranean predators in this recent cult classic. Caves are spooky enough already, but once you see the bloody, crawling demons in these caverns, you’ll be sleeping with a nightlight for months. Madman (1982): Nothing like the early 80s to inspire haunted serial killer tales. The madman of the film’s title is resurrected and, with his new found existence, stalks the mirthful innocents at a nearby summer camp. Bring on the
popcorn! An American Werewolf in London (1981): British horror classic alert! The Londoners of this film are mum on the existence of a bloodthirsty werewolf prowling their streets, but two American college students on tour become his latest victims. In addition, Cleveland Cinemas has promised a surprise screening. Bre prepared to munch all night long. The Capitol’s hearty snack and beverage menu will be offered all night long, and in the morning -- if years’ past are any indication -expect a luscious breakfast spread. But if you prefer to vacate the premises after so many terrifying movies, the good news is, DetroitShoreway is swarming with more brunch options than zombies.
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Crimson Peak Mia Wasikowska leads a cast which also includes Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston in this haunted-mansion horror from visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Early guess: it’ll be the spookiest film of the year.
SPOTLIGHT: 12 HOURS OF TERROR AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE SATURDAY NIGHT, BRING YOUR comfy PJs to the Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65th St.) for Cleveland Cinemas’ sixth-annual 12 Hours of Terror festival. The scary-movie marathon begins at 8 p.m. and will run -- as can be readily deduced -for 12 hours, all night long. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at any Cleveland Cinemas location or online. On the slate this year: Night of the Living Dead (1968): Considered the original zombie movie, this George Romero classic takes place at a farmhouse near a cemetery and chronicles one breathless night, while a group of strangers tries to survive an unexplained attack from the undead. Creepshow (1982): Another George Romero spectacle. This one is a compilation of five frightful shorts written for the screen by
The movie is by turns poignant and gripping, and, like a lot of vintage Spielberg, testifies to immensely detailed storyboarding. The shots are colorized and manicured down to the direction of the blowing cigarette smoke. And Hanks, as Donovan, is your classic American everyman-hero. When he returns from East Germany and collapses on his bed -- desiring neither accolades nor sympathy for the dangers he faced while making history -- one cannot help but be bestirred.
Goosebumps Jack Black stars as famous children’s horror author R.L. Stine in this extremely loose adaptation of his books. (His imaginary monsters are set free in Maryland). You can see it wherever movies are shown.
Beasts of No Nation Head to the Cedar Lee for this Netflix produced drama by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the celebrated director of True Detective’s killer first season. This one’s about a boy soldier in Africa. Buckle up.
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EAT GOOD TIDES Alley Cat finds its home on the water By Douglas Trattner SLURPING RAW OYSTERS AT the bar in Alley Cat, with the full expanse of the restaurant opened up to the river, we enjoyed views of the neighborhood in ways we haven’t in ages. Slender, slippery rowing shells glide by titanic freighters. Architecturally striking bridges, viaducts and overpasses pepper the landscape. People, so many people, amble down the boardwalk to savor the setting sun. And to think, just 45 years ago this place burned like Hades. Of all the shimmering new spots down by the river, components of the sprawling Flats East Bank development, none feels more at peace with the environment than Alley Cat. The restaurant, the latest from charmed operator Zack Bruell, enjoys prime boardwalk frontage near the mouth of the Cuyahoga, and the faded wood exterior appears weathered from years of salty ocean breezes. Inside, the meandering restaurant has the feel of a maritime vessel thanks to low-slung ceilings with exposed mechanicals painted submarine gray. Thanks to Bruell and his colleagues, the Flats are being introduced to a new generation of residents and visitors who have little if any recollection of the historic neighborhood’s epic highs and lows. Say what you will about the volume of new restaurants, there is no arguing that our waterfront is an asset worth cultivating. Bruell is the only operator down there who bothered to tailor both design and concept to the watery surroundings. In addition to its breezy nautical abode, Alley Cat debuted a seafood-heavy menu that stands out both from its neighbors
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with training wheels, cooked just long enough to make them attractive to folks who can’t stomach them raw. Despite a roster of nearly a dozen varieties on the menu, the restaurant only offers three or four types per night. It’s natural to Steamed Middle Neck Clams assume that a seafood and the chef’s numerous other restaurant, much like a steakhouse, restaurants. Think SoCal-style fish is out of reach for modest budgets. house with some Latin riffs. Fat and But Bruell has always been a mensch crusty crab cakes ($16) are paired when it comes to seeding his menus with Green Goddess dressing, a with economical options. Rich or West Coast staple. In addition to an poor, every diner should kick off the all-American shrimp cocktail ($12) meal with a cup of absolutely perfect served on ice, Bruell introduces New England clam chowder ($4), Midwest diners to the refreshing a model of the form. Whereas the Mexican-style seafood cocktail, a tall chowder is all creamy and luscious, glass filled with shrimp, squid and the Mediterranean bisque ($4) is scallops in a spicy tomato broth. smoky, earthy and complex, offering It might sound like a truism to a quick trip to the South of France state that oysters are best enjoyed in in a bowl. places that sell bushels of oysters, For just $17 a diner can net an
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but fast-moving inventory is easy to taste. Alley Cat serves them raw, baked and Rockefeller-style ($12), roasted in the shell with watercress and fontina cheese beneath a crispy crumb topping. Skip the baked variety ($14), which are like oysters
unfussy quesadilla, a well-griddled flour tortilla folded around chopped seafood and melted cheese, served with salsa and sour cream. Or, for $32, a person can dig into a crispy whole fried snapper, served Asianstyle with head, cheeks, bones and
tail. It’s dramatic and delicious, perched atop a fragrant Thai-scented sauce, but be prepared to extract countless bones from your mouth as you eat. We had a similar experience with the grilled pork steak ($20), a deeply flavorful cut of meat that was exceedingly chewy and riddled with connective tissue. Meat-eaters might be better off ordering the chili braised beef with tostones or the one-pound USDA Prime ribeye, depending on the budget. Sandwiches like the Maine lobster roll ($22), loaded with Old Bay seasoned meat, and the fried perch ($16) with fontina are almost worth ordering just for the amazing french fries. A dish that earned faint praise is the grilled octopus ($20), which gets lost among an ocean of accompaniments like bacon, succotash and smoky mayo. I can’t predict what the Flats will feel like come winter, but I do know that spending a sun-soaked afternoon at the bar when the garage doors are raised high is as close to “getting away from it all” as one can get in the 216. Happy Hour is flush with two-dollar oysters, four-dollar glasses of crisp Vinho Verde, and zesty micheladas, chile-tinged beer cocktails that taste like a Mexican beach vacation. It’s a delicious way to experience Old Cleveland in an entirely new light.
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TUESDAYS ARE BREAKDOWN days at Saucisson (saucissoncleveland. com). This means that butchers Melissa Khoury and Penny Barend are at Katz Club Diner, where they currently rent prep space until they move into their new home in Slavic Village, making into sausage what was only hours earlier a whole hog. If you find a certain magic in these thoughtful farm-to-plate practices, you’re not alone. Khoury and Barend’s sausage-making process is just one of many butchering techniques they’ve been teaching in workshops throughout the city since establishing themselves. Demand for instructional foodbased workshops such as those led by Saucisson is high, and more options abound for the curious student than ever. “Just as people are more interested in learning where their food is coming from, people are getting back to the idea of ‘My grandparents used to do this but I missed it, and I’m thinking about starting,’” says Khoury. The larger butcher shop in Slavic Village will allow for a more varied curriculum, such as a customizable Butcher For a Day program. Saucisson has schooled everyone from professional chefs who’ve never broken down a whole hog to a gentleman who wanted to learn to make terrines. Trevor Clatterbuck saw a similar disparity between ingredients and home-cook know-how when he started Fresh Fork Market (freshforkmarket. com) in 2008. After launching each new season with a whole chicken, he received pushback from customers unsure of how to utilize every part. “I knew the solution must be tips and tricks that weren’t making it from commercial kitchens into the home,” explains Clatterbuck. Enlisting the help of Parker Bosley and other guest chefs, Clatterbuck has led an average of 25 classes per year, often filling the lower level of Market Garden Brewery. Attendees receive an instructional booklet, demos and dinner while learning about everything from vegetable braising and vegan cooking to canning and grilling.
Not coincidentally, the first class of the season is Chicken 101. Following a demo on quartering and deboning, Clatterbuck and Bosley “clear the tables and give everyone a knife, a cutting board and a chicken and make everyone do it themselves.” That hands-on approach also has been adopted by Aaron Powell, founder of Bearded Buch (beardedbuch.com) kombucha. “I think it has a lot to do with the grow-your-own food movement,” says Powell. “They’re realizing brewing kombucha isn’t a complicated science project that they can’t do.” It’s not just butchering and beverage making that’s seeing an upswing, but boozy confections too. The Bom (thebom.us) host workshops to infuse truffles with whatever poison (or juice) is behind the bar wherever they set up shop — places like John Christ Winery or the lounge at the Aloft hotel — or as provided by the attendees at private parties. “Someone recently told us to try espresso vodka because they’re a coffee drinker and people love it,” says creator Carolina Martin. “It continues to take on a life of its own.” Like Bom’s sweet seminars and Saucisson’s personalized classes, Kelli Hanley Potts also has seen a rise in specialized courses. She started the Agrarian Collective (theaccle.com) in 2013 to bring her culinary teachings full circle around four areas of study: garden, kitchen, pantry and table. She’s partnered with Urban Orchard flower shop, Edible Cleveland, Cleveland Flea and the Slovenian National Home to lead classes on everything from table décor to how to plant seeds in the spring. This year, she’ll host workshops on pies and soups and stews. Like others, her goal is to demystify the kitchen one class at a time. “There are all these buzzwords and we’re trying to present it in a way that becomes accessible for the everyday person,” says Potts. “We want to break down those barriers.”
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Mentor, Lyndhurst Lose Old Carolina BBQ but Gain Crooked River BBQ By Douglas Trattner TODD SCHAFER ADMITS THAT he essentially served as guinea pig when he purchased the very first two Old Carolina BBQ franchises, in Lyndhurst and later Mentor, from the Akron/Canton-based chain of eateries. But after only a few years in operation, he understood that the relationship needed to be terminated. “I always wanted to go local, but Carolina BBQ’s identity is Carolina,” he explains. “It was a no-brainer what I was going to do. What needed to happen was for me to separate the relationship, stop right there and move on.” Schafer, a firefighter who spent four years as part of a pediatric Life Flight crew, mistakenly thought that starting and running two restaurants would be a less stressful career choice. Nonetheless, he decided to go through a complete restaurant overhaul to strip both businesses of their Old Carolina DNA and replace it with Ohiothemed BBQ or “OHIQ.” His two restaurants, which open as Crooked River BBQ this week (Lyndhurst on Oct. 12, Mentor on Oct. 14), will use “Ohio Proud” chicken, pork and beef. The meats are smoked over local hickory and cherry, the sauces are made and bottled in Independence, the dressings are from Hartville, the hot sauces from Westerville, and the
beer, naturally, hails from around here. “Barbecuing is easy, it really is,” says Schafer. “You find a good rub, you rub it on a giant piece of meat, you put it in a smoker and let the smoker do all the work for you. The hard part is the recipes and how each recipe complements the brand.” Schafer said that these past three years in business have provided him with invaluable feedback on how to move forward. His all-new menu has more items, more options and more room for customization. Now guests can order everything from a pulled pork slider on up to a pound of smoked beef brisket. Chicken, ribs, hot smoked sausage, creative hot dogs, scratch-made sides and even salads round out a menu with a much broader appeal, he says. “A lot of people don’t want barbecue all the time – that’s the problem with barbecue,” he says. “So we wanted to provide more variety of menu items and value.” Schafer closed both stores last month to reconstruct, retool and rebrand. Both feature a fresh new look that screams Ohio rather than the Deep South. He hopes to expand his Crooked River BBQ to other parts of the city.
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MUSIC WHEN GREEN DAY PERFORMED at House of Blues in Cleveland earlier this year, the band recruited a longtime friend, singer-guitarist Jesse Malin, to open the show. He started things off with a 30-minute set that drew mostly from New York Before the War, one of two albums he’s released this year; the second album, Outsiders, just came out this month. At that House of Blues show, Malin and his large band often sounded more like a classic rock act (think Springsteen) than a punk group, but he won the crowd over with his enthusiasm as songs such as “She Don’t Love Me Now,” which he described as a “dance number,” featured soulful vocals and some
spirited, woozy horns. Malin has described the album as “metaphor for surviving in an ever-changing, rapidly desensitized world.” Malin was the perfect opener. Like the Green Day guys, he’s been performing since he was a teen (a tween, really). And like the Green Day guys, he knows that even a punk rock band needs to have good songs. “I’ve known them for years,” he says via phone from a rehearsal space on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when asked about the Green Day connection. “I toured with them when I was in D Generation in the ’90s. I recorded a track with them once called ‘Depression Times.’ It was a latenight drunken jam session. To play with them at this sold-out House of Blues show in front of 2,000 people, I was nervous. I don’t normally get nervous. I tour all the time. It was a
special night.” That same weekend, he also played a gig at the Beachland, where he’s set to return, and then rushed back downtown to hit the Inductions afterparty. “We went to House of Blues for some crazy after-party and hung out with Paul McCartney,” he says. “It was a surreal rock ’n’ roll fantasy trip.” The trip started when Malin was only 12. CBGBs used to have a regular open mic showcase, and “New York was up for grabs then.” Inspired by young Harley Flanagan who was playing in the punk band the Stimulators, Malin put the hardcore band Heart Attack together. “We’d been listening to records of the Ramones and Plasmatics,” he says. “We grew up with classic rock like Led Zeppelin on the radio. But once we heard the punk stuff, we realized
we could write song with three or four chords. We jumped at it. We put out our first single in 1981. I was 13. We toured with Misfits and Bad Brains and Dead Kennedys and GBH. I did that for a bunch of years. I went to public schools that would let you go on the road.” In the ’90s, he turned his attention to the glam outfit D Generation, a band that generated enough interest that it signed to a major label during its decade-long run. “We were singing about things from the ’90s, stuff like the war on drugs,” Malin says. “Grunge was unattractive to us; we wanted to bring sexuality and danger and excitement back to music. We met Green Day and toured with Offspring and Rancid.” At that point, Malin says he realized that he “wanted to be more about the lyrics and less about the mosh pit,
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MUSIC the shoes and the hair.” He started playing acoustic guitar and released his first solo effort, The Fine Art of Self-Destruction, with a little help from singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. “He gave me some confidence,” Malin says of Adams, who’s rumored to produce a new D Generation album. “I met him at a D Generation show in North Carolina in a parking lot. We both just loved songs. We drank a couple of beers together and it was a great connection. He gave me the shot in the arm and produced my first record, which we cut in five days. I started to do shows with Counting Crows and Bruce Springsteen and different folks along the way. When I was looking to get out of hardcore punk and I needed inspiration, I found artists like Graham Parker and Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg. They made me realize that songwriting could have an edge. It could help you deal with fucked up situations.” He made “a bunch of solo records”; New York Before the War and Outsiders might be his strongest offerings yet. “I didn’t have a record out for a couple of years so there was a big build-up of material before New York Before the War,” he explains. “That’s how I ended up with two records this year.” New York Before the War opens
deal with things that make you sick and disgusted, but the record is about trying to put a positive spin on it.” “Turn up the Mains” is a great example. The song is the kind of tune that you can pump your fist in the air to. It’s that righteous of an anthem. So what inspired the song? “Probably ‘Kick Out the Jams’ by the MC5,” says Malin. “It’s about apathy and following trends and getting fed up. Music can be a place where you blow shit away with sound and volume and feeling. It’s a traditional FU kind of song about all the things that might bog us down. It’s a way you can cut through the apathy. It’s a sleazy fun rock ’n’ roll song. It’s like the Rolling Stones’ ‘Brown Sugar’ meets Iggy and the Stooges — in my basement.” Produced by Don DiLego, Outsiders has a different vibe. Malin describes it as “really dark” and says it has “an arty edge” to it. It was done in the Poconos where Malin says there were “bears and turkeys and craziness.” The jangly title track sounds like vintage Springsteen and “Here’s the Situation” packs all the punch of Elvis Costello’s take on “What’s So Funny (About Peace, Love and Understanding).” “It’s darker and edgier and artier and rhythmic,” says Malin. “Don DiLego made me be fearless. He was rolling tape and told me, ‘Let’s do this right now.’ Some songs we put together as we rolled. There was plenty of late-night tequila jamming.” Malin says he’s been feeling
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with a tender piano ballad that finds Malin singing in a tense whisper. The tempo picks up with “Addicted,” a catchy tune that sounds a bit like something that Elvis Costello might have penned back in the ’70s. Several songs have a real swagger to them. Malin has described the album as a “metaphor for surviving in an everchanging, rapidly desensitized world.” “New York is the title but it’s a metaphor for a world that’s so disposable and fast changing,” he says. “People don’t have any attention span. We’re burning through the planet and burning through information. YouTube and the Internet is cool but I like to go to shows and get in the pit. I like to have sex with a real live human being. I like getting out there and sweating under the hot lights. It’s a lot about being in the moment. You might
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particularly creative, constantly writing down song ideas in a notebook he takes with him. “Joe Strummer once said ‘no input, no output,’” he says. “The world is wacky and Donald Trump wants to be president and people are talking about Taylor Swift and people go around taking pictures and posting them everywhere. It provides a lot of color. If you do it every day, it’s a great outlet. I think everyone needs some kind of art. You don’t have to be a musician or a person who mediates or a person who paints. You need a way to get something out and, for me, music has always been the medicine and the focus.”
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TIME OF THEIR SEASON The Zombies revisit 1968’s Odessey and Oracle on first-ever American tour in support of the album By Jeff Niesel THE MUSIC BUSINESS CAN BE fickle. When the Zombies issued their final album, Odessey and Oracle, in 1968, the lukewarm response from both critics and the general public helped drive a stake into the group, which had had a handful of hits prior to its release, causing it to prematurely splinter. The band didn’t even tour in support of the album. Now, five decades since its release, the album is considered a classic. And the Zombies have miraculously reunited to tour in support of the album, which they’ve never performed live in the States. The original line-up (minus the late Paul Atkinson) will perform Odessey and Oracle in its entirety. Because the guys originally double tracked the vocal harmonies in the studio, they’ll tour with vocalist Darian Shanaja, who plays with Brian Wilson’s band, to help bring the music to life in the live setting. This is a tour the band should have embarked upon nearly 50 years ago, but the fact that the single “Time of the Season” took a year or two to become a hit derailed those plans. Still, better late than never. “We would have toured behind the album but the success came a little bit too late and everybody had moved on,” says bassist Chris White via phone from Dallas last month on the first date of the tour. While the band hasn’t played the album in its entirety in the States, the group played the tunes from the album in London as part of a reunion in 2008 just “to do a concert.” One night turned into three because
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demand was so high. “Standing on stage some 40 years after we recorded was like we were just back to the recording sessions,” says White when asked about those shows the band did in England. “We decided that when the time came again and people wanted us to do it, we would do it. I was asked three months ago if I wanted to do these shows. It’s like magic. You’re working with Colin Blunstone, that great voice. You’re working with Rod Argent, that great keyboardist and songwriter. Would anyone turn that down?” The album wasn’t an easy one to complete. Argent and White started writing songs separately and would then bring them to the group. They
the place where the Beatles recorded. In fact, they started recording in the wake of the Beatles, who had just cut Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club. John Lennon’s mellotron was still in the studio. “We did most of it at Abbey Road,” says White. “I think we were the first group that wasn’t signed to EMI to use the studios. We did three songs in three hours in those days because we had a small budget. It started off in four-track recording. The Beatles had just recorded there and experimented with four-track to four-track. You have three-hour sessions because we couldn’t afford anything else.” The recording of “Time of the Season,” a track that with its harmony vocals and snappy percussion has
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originally started work on the disc in April of 1967. “We had been working with a very good producer but the recording wasn’t going the way we wanted to go,” says White. “We wrote songs separately and we got together with the whole group and those we liked they used. We had no concept until we finished it. It was an ‘odyssey’ and an ‘oracle.’ It was about different aspects of life but it didn’t start out like that.” The group recorded the bulk of the disc at the famed Abbey Road Studios,
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become one of the Zombies’ biggest hits, didn’t go smoothly. “It was very rare that we’d argue,” says White. “Rod had just finished it the morning before the session. Colin was singing it. Rod said he needed to sing it differently. By that time, Colin was so tired. He told Rod he should sing it himself. Colin didn’t think it was worthwhile. He’s changed his mind since.” The band mixed the album in mono but then had to remix it in stereo. And it had to foot the bill too. “Yes, it was a period when they
were switching to stereo and just had to have stereo recordings,” he says. “After we had finished the recording, the label informed us that they wanted stereo. We had to pay for it ourselves. I haven’t heard [the mono version] for years. It’s probably the definitive thing.” “Time of the Season” became a hit a year after the album’s release. To this day, White says he’s not sure why it took so long. “That is always a mystery,” he says. “By the end of the album we had split up. Eight months later, it was a hit in [places as far away as] Boise, Idaho. I think it was the third or fourth single from the album. [Rod and I] had decided to go out on our own and had formed the band Argent.” Over the last 15 or 20 years, the album has gained even more respect. “I’m glad we’re alive to see it,” says White, who says the band will also play songs from its new album, Still Got That Hunger. “I don’t understand why things suddenly get respect. People like the Foo Fighters and Al Kooper and Beck have said it’s one of their formative albums. And Tom Petty has said that as well. When they’re quoting it as important, that’s great support.” He says the decision to tour was a surprise — a happy one. “I didn’t expect this, so you never know what’s going to happen,” says White. “I just take it and plan to enjoy it.”
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MUSIC DOTTING THE ‘I’ AND THEN SOME
Ohio State marching band alum makes some noise with hybrid jazz act Huntertones By Jeff Niesel Photo courtesy of Hellowendy.com
COMING FROM WHAT HE SAYS is a “musical family” certainly helped trumpet player Jon Lampley. Lampley, who grew up in Tallmadge, says his cousins all sang or played an instrument. They inspired him to take up a musical instrument, and he now leads Huntertones, an upand-coming jazz act that’s building a name for itself on account of its high-energy approach. “As I got older, I knew I wanted to play music,” says Lampley via phone from Colorado, where he was attending a wedding. “Trumpet was the instrument that was natural for me to play. It worked out conveniently for me that way. I was in the fifth grade band, and I liked trumpet and trombone better than the reed instruments.” A “huge Ohio State fan,” he attended the school not only to get an education in music but also to play in the marching band known as the “best damn band in the land.” “It was amazing,” he says of the experience. “It was one of the biggest aspects of my college career. I studied music, but the marching band was a whole separate thing. It’s a rigorous tryout and heavy rehearsals. It’s a huge time commitment, but it’s one of the best experiences ever. Getting to be out on the field in front of 105,000 people was something I always dreamed of doing. Getting to ‘dot the i’ was a really special day. I play a lot of tuba now and I studied trumpet so all of the tuba stuff is directly attributed to the time I spent with the marching band.” While at OSU, he also joined the jam band O.A.R. after one of his teachers introduced him to the band’s sax player who was looking to put together a horn section. “I was a junior in college and freaking out,” he says. “I did that first summer. Two weeks ago, I finished my fifth summer with them. It’s been an awesome experience to play with those guys. When I was still in college, there would be some gigs on weekends. I would be backstage doing homework at the O.A.R. show. That’s been a great experience.” Initially, he started performing
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with the other members of Huntertones in the Art Blakey ensemble. That group would evolve into Huntertones. “We got tight through playing music at Ohio State,” Lampley says of the experience. “We became friends through music school and started playing shows around town. It grew from there.” Taking the name from a street he used to live on, Lampley christened the group Huntertones. That was a couple of years ago, and the band’s now evolved into something of a force. Members have collaborated with artists such as Ricky Martin, Allen Stone, Phillip Phillips, Jon Batiste, Snarky Puppy, Red Baraat, Eric Krasno, Fred Wesley, Rashawn Ross and Lena Hall. They’ve jammed with ensembles such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. Lampley has even had a few guest spots with the band playing on Stephen Colbert’s new late-night show. For its forthcoming self-titled EP, the band holed up at a studio in Columbus when it had a day off between gigs in Cleveland and Toronto. It recorded another handful of songs at a studio in New York, its
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to do in a studio. This album does it better than any of the others. On this tour, we’re doing two nights in Columbus and we’ll be recording those shows for a live album we’ll release later next year.” Due out next month, the new EP opens with the spry “Rumpus Time,” a song driven by a funky guitar riff. The album concludes with “The Gwiz,” a pensive number that features a woozy horn solo and some snappy percussion. “[Trombone/beatbox player] Chris Ott wrote ‘Rumpus Time,’” says Lampley. “It’s funk and soul inspired. The title comes from the movie Step Brothers, which we love. It defines what we’re trying to do.
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current home. “We recorded five songs with the seven-person version of the band,” Lampley says. “It’s three horns, a rhythm section plus keyboards. For the trio format songs, we recorded at a studio in New York. We’re excited about this record. It’s original music and we tried to capture the live energy of the band, which is hard
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It’s high energy and funky. There are parts that are flashy. We want to keep it to the point that you can dance to it. We don’t want to have solos that are so long that it becomes inaccessible to someone who just wants to rock out. We want it to appeal to someone who just wants to dance and it will get you moving.” While jazz can be a rather refined
art form with limited appeal, Huntertones look to break that stereotype. “The art form itself is one of the only music genres that’s truly American,” Lampley explains. “It’s inspired by African rhythms but the music was born here. The equivalent of Top 40 is now is what jazz was in the ’30s and ’40s and ’50s. Today, it’s hard to use that one word to define groups that produce music in the genre. There are bands that still play straight-ahead jazz and they’ll always appeal to an audience that wants that. Younger musicians are making music that appeals to people who like jazz and the history and tradition but also has much appeal as pop or soul. Bands are starting to do that successfully. [The jazz act] Snarky Puppy does that really well. They play rock, hip-hop and jazz. We’re trying to do that because we don’t just listen to jazz. We listen to rock, hop-hop, singer-songwriter stuff. When you write music, it’s influenced by what you listen to. Our music comes from all those things we’re influenced by, and we want to reach all those people who enjoy those types of music.”
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The Dodos/Stems: Indie psych folk duo Meric Long and Logan Kroeber have held down the past decade in off-kilter rock as The Dodos, dropping percussion-heavy tunes that blend the strains of Americana songwriting with crushing punk instrumentation. As their record label describes the band, they were searching for a sound where the “drumming could be a center role and help bring out the syncopated rhythms coming out of the acoustic guitar.” With this year’s release, Individ, the guys continue that mission with relentless focus. For anyone who’s really into studying the drums, check out how The Dodos throw down. On a related note, the band’s latest video (“Competition”) has the duo performing a strange dance routine all in one single take; the last few seconds are awesome. (Eric Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $12. Grog Shop. Hanson: You might have missed it, but those cute Hanson siblings that gave us the hit tune “MMMbop” in the ‘90s are all grown up. As if to prove it, they’ve embarked on the Roots and Rock n’ Roll Tour, a special 10-city tour that’ll feature two concerts in each of the 10 major markets. The tour will also mark the launch of the band’s craft beer, Mmmhops Pale Ale, in new markets across the country. “This tour is all about celebrating our musical journey, starting with a night of cover songs that have inspired us, followed by a night of rare tunes and fan favorites. Each night will be a totally unique experience,” says Isaac Hanson in a press release. In addition to the two special concerts, at each tour stop Hanson Brothers Beer will present an after-party, which will feature a special DJ set from Taylor Hanson and showcase Mmmhops Pale Ale. (Niesel), 7 p.m., $80. House of Blues. The Stray Birds/Red Brick Rhoades: The Americana trio the Stray Birds has come through Northern Ohio a few times in the last few years, playing shows in Cuyahoga National Park and the Kent Stage. Now, the band is slated to play its first show in Cleveland proper. Multiinstrumentalist Charlie Muench’s
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mother grew up in Cleveland, so the band has a large contingent of loyal Irish relatives who always come the shows. An exuberant folk song that features terrific vocal harmonies, a songs such as “Best Medicine” ranks right there with singer-songwriters such as Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch. (Niesel), 8:30 p.m., $12. Beachland Tavern. Extortion/Full of Hell/Grin and Bear It/Short Order: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class. J. Fernandez/Turn to Crime/Saul Glennon: 9 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Cliff Habian: 7 p.m., Free. BLU Jazz+. 10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. J Boog: 7 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom. De’Sean Jones: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Jon Mosey/Rachel Roberts: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. David Ramirez/Dylan LeBlanc (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Reed Simon & Friends: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown.
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drummer for seventeen years, local singer-songwriter Daniel Rylander then taught himself to play piano and guitar. He can also handle a ukulele. Back in 2012, he wrote “A Friend & Brother (Be Thou at Peace)” for his brother’s funeral. He’s been writing songs ever since. Last year, he issued his full-length debut, Strawberry Skyline, and tonight he celebrates the release of his latest endeavor, The Memoirs of a Poolside Romance. Songs such as the somber “For a Moment” have an emo feel to them — think Death Cab for Cutie. Rylander’s got a great voice, something that comes across well in pretty indie pop tunes such as “Hurts Like Hell” and “Lullaby for the Sunshine.” (Niesel), 9:30 p.m., $10. Musica. Loudon Wainwright/Rachel Brown: Perhaps best known now for his song “Daughter,” which appeared in 2007’s Knocked Up, Loudon Wainwright III was once pegged as “the new Dylan” as he came up in 1960s New York. That moniker still stands, as Wainwright (the father of Rufus) has built a dynamic canon out of 26 albums and decades of heart-stirring performances. (Wainwright has referred to his discography as a “tapestry.”) Tonight’s show at the Music Box should provide a nice, intimate setting for the singer-songwriter, giving the audience a chance to get up-close and personal with his indelible sound. For a primer, pick up Attempted Mustache, a pitchperfect collection of Wainwright’s tunes circa 1973. (Sandy), 8 p.m., $28 ADV, $32 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Benefit for Jeff Benko Featuring John Koury/Banging Fragiles/ Lawton Brothers: 7 p.m., $10. Grog Shop. Bossa Nova Night with Luca Mundaca (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Dave Days with Alex Preston/ Future Sunsets/Restless Road/ The House on a Cliff: 5 p.m., $12$60. Musica. For Today/Fit for a King/Gideon/ Silent Planet/Phinehas: 6 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Agora Ballroom. Horns and Things: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. How to Stay Alive in the Woods/ Willie and the Giant: 9 p.m., Free. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Huntertones: 9 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Jesse Malin/Matthew Ryan/Thirteen Cadillacs: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam: 8:30 p.m., $45-$65. The Tangier. New Salem Witch Hunters: 9 p.m.,
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Hello Ocho/Bwak Dwagon/ Ghostbread & Giant: Their selftitled album begins with lurching “oohs” and “aahs,” filling out the backing melody to an enticing little instrumental called “Mooah.” From there, Hello Ocho churns out an
experimental take on folksy funk numbers, kicking up the energy and demanding listeners go from tapping their toes to full-on twisting and shouting on the dancefloor. The band’s first album (they’ve got a second one on the way) is riddled with catchy hooks and poetic lyrics that create a warm atmosphere -something sonically distinct from their contemporaries. Call it streamof-consciousness sound-making, if you will; while they hit on a number of traditional songwriting structures, the band often wades into unclassifiable waters. Fun stuff.
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