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‘Streamlined’ Plain Dealer debuts, Ohio cop fatally shot on-duty, and more

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Carl Monday, dean of Cleveland investigative TV reporters, probes intriguing new subject: HIMSELF

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UPFRONT PROPOSED BILL WOULD REQUIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO INVESTIGATE POLICE SHOOTINGS NOT EVEN A MONTH HAS passed since a grand jury followed Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty’s recommendation and declined to file charges against Cleveland police in the Tamir Rice case, but the 2014 killing has still supercharged the atmosphere, not only around town but across the state. Some of that has lingered into the Statehouse, where a new bill has hit the Senate floor directly addressing future situations like the Rice killing.

Senate Bill 258 would require that the Ohio Attorney General’s office step in on all cases involving an officer using deadly force on an unarmed individual. The AG’s office can investigate these cases on their own, or hire a special prosecutor to dig into

these situations.

The bill is similar to a move by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Last July, New York’s top politico signed off on an executive order placing the authority for these kinds of lethal force investigations with the state’s Attorney General. Overall, both the senate bill and Cuomo’s action represent the growing distrust of local legal systems to investigate their own.

The Ohio Senate bill is being sponsored by Sen. Sandra Williams of Cleveland, along with Charleta B. Tavares of Columbus.

“Notable grand jury hearings have grown to represent a tool for faux justice, appeasing the public’s cry for an investigation, while protecting the officer from a real prosecution,”

Williams said in a release about the bill. “Senator Tavares and I believe this legislation offers a unique opportunity for law enforcement and local prosecutors to support an independent approach to how we administer justice in these cases.”

FORMER UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY STUDENT-ATHLETES SAY THEY WERE EXPELLED DUE TO FALSE RAPE ALLEGATION Campus rape and the administrative response to such allegations are two of the defining higher ed issues of our times. The Title IX lawsuits you see exploding like land mines across the country are reshaping campuses in their wake. It

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Cleveland ranks 8th in growth rate for college-educated millennials, according to study. Continues to rank 1st in millennials who never went to Ohio State but root for the Buckeyes anyway.

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ODOT reportedly set to announce “fix it first” policy prioritizing existing infrastructure over new roads. Asked how that jibes with $331 million Opportunity Corridor, ODOT responded by saying “¯\_( )_/¯.”

looks like the University of Findlay has found itself in the middle of such a scuffle with a lawsuit recently filed in federal court — a legal action that’s not over alleged sexual assault but dredges up accusations of administrative racism.

The situation at the center of the lawsuit happened in fall 2014. The two plaintiffs in the lawsuit were student athletes at time — Justin Browning, a junior football player from Detroit; and Alphonso Baity, a Kentucky-native and junior on the school’s basketball team. The two were also among the sliver of African-Americans at Findlay — just 1.7 percent of the school’s 4,000 undergraduate population are black.

According to the complaint, Browning and Baity met a freshman girl, identified in court documents only as “M.K.” The girl often visited the two student-athletes at the house they shared with two other friends that fall. The girl, the complaint alleges, was openly engaging in a sexual relationship with one of the roommates.

On September 20th, Findlay played Tiffin in football. After the game, the campus was lit up with partying, including a football player thrown down at the “Mascot House.”

Browning and Baity allegedly ran into M.K. at the festivities, and she eventually ended up back at their home.

In a group of paragraphs that make for hard reading, the complaint details how the girl allegedly had sex with first Browning, then Baity. Neither of them “coerced, threatened, forced, or otherwise made or threatened M.K. to perform any sex act or engage in any type of sexual activity or physical contact,” the complaint states. M.K. never told either “’No,’ ‘Don’t,’ and/or ‘Stop,” and did not directly, indirectly, implicitly, or otherwise convey or communicate in any method or form

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UPFRONT her unhappiness, unwillingness, disagreement with, rejection of, or objection to engaging in physical contact, sexual activity(ies), and physical intimacy.”

The complaint goes on: “Based upon the totality of the circumstances, it was the individual and collective impression of everyone in the house that evening – including those who had absolutely no alcohol to drink (Baity, [two other witnesses]) – that M.K. knew what she was doing at all times. She was in total command and control of her actions. In other words, she had the capacity to, and indeed did, voluntarily consent to all of the activity that occurred that evening.”

In the days that followed, the complaint says M.K. told numerous people about her night at the house — but didn’t claim she’d been sexually assaulted until October 1, when “M.K. made a false written and/or verbal report to the University” about the incident, according to the complaint.

What followed, however, wasn’t the rigorous investigation demanded

by Title IX regulations, the complaint says, but “a sham investigation in complete and utter disregard of the University’s policies and procedures.”

Investigators allegedly did not “interview or question M.K. about the alleged incident.” Also witnesses were ignored — apparently for discriminatory reasons.

OHIO POLICE OFFICER KILLED; FIRST ON-DUTY SLAYING THIS YEAR IN U.S. Danville police officer Thomas Cottrell was killed late Sunday night after a local resident warned that her ex-boyfriend intended to kill a police officer.

(Danville is about 100 miles south of Cleveland. Population: Little more than 1,000.)

At around 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, police received a 9-1-1 call from a woman who said that her exboyfriend was out to kill a cop. She noted that he was armed.

Dispatchers were unable to reach Cottrell via radio. During a search that unfolded around midnight, Cottrell’s body was found behind the village’s municipal building. He had been fatally shot; his weapon and car had been stolen.

Then, at 1:30 a.m. on Monday, officers arrested Herschel Ray Jones — the man referenced in the 9-1-1 call — after a short foot chase through a

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local park.

Ohio Fraternal Order of Police President Jay McDonald called the fatal shooting an “assassination.”

As of press time, the Knox County prosecutor had mentioned that he anticipates a murder charge against Jones.

“I am appalled and deeply saddened by the recent shooting attacks against law enforcement officers in Danville, Ohio, and Holladay, Utah,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. “These heinous assaults are reminders of the difficult jobs that our brave law enforcement officers perform every day and of the dangers that they willingly face in the service of their communities.”

several other changes in the print edition: • A Sunday column by Cleveland comedian Mike Polk Jr. • A new Sunday Arts & Life section, combining the former Entertainment and North Coast sections.

• A full extra page of content in the Diversions section, which will include a syndicated advice column

by Carolyn Hax. • A wider array of book reviews on Sunday.

• Activity-centered content in both the Friday Magazine and Sunday’s Arts & Life with new headlines “saying things like “See,” “Stream” or “Go.”

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Monday morning, the Plain Dealer debuted its “fresher, more streamlined” look.

A narrower page (11 inches wide, down from 12), livelier graphics, and a slightly larger typeface align Cleveland’s daily with industry standards and attempt to make it more useful for readers, according to editor George Rodrigue.

The redesign comes on the heels of a price increase that took everyone by surprise. The Plain Dealer is home-delivered Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and until last week, could be purchased for $1.00 at newsstands.

The new daily cost is $1.50.

The Plain Dealer published three letters to the editor last week, asking why there hadn’t been an official announcement of the price hike and chastising the paper’s leadership for their strategy.

“As a sign of the times, The Plain Dealer is now offering less content, more pictures to take the place of good journalism, at an increased cost to your subscribers. You have joined the ranks of all those who are providing us with less and asking for more,” wrote Cleveland’s Loretta Mlady in a letter published January 14.

Rodrigue, however, says that the newsrooms at both The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com are refocusing their efforts for 2016, tackling issues in the public-interest like infant mortality, gun violence, and the public school system.

“We aim to make every word we publish matter more,” Rodrigue said. Rodrigue also announced

“I’ve been super-secretive because this is a project we didn’t want anybody else to do before we did it,” says an observably excited Freddie Coffey, who has been teasing his big announcement for some time. “We’re working on building and launching from downtown Cleveland a pedal pub on the water. It’s like the Cleveland Cycle Tours pedal pubs, but ours will be on the river and on the lake.”

In fact Coffey, who previously worked with Destination Cleveland to promote the region for tourism, says that he came up with the idea soon after enjoying one of those exact tours.

“I actually just had the idea after doing the cycle tour thing,” he says. “I thought it would be cool if somebody could do this on the water instead. I started searching for a manufacturer and saw that one already existed.”

The barges, all built by the same outfit, currently operate in five cities, including Portland, San Diego and Houston. When it launches this Memorial Day, BrewBoat CLE, which operates under the Brew CLE umbrella, will be Ohio’s first floating pedal pub/sightseeing experience.

The 31-foot pontoon paddle boats accommodate 14 adult passengers, 10 of whom power the boat with pedal power while four take it easy on bench seating. Two staffers, a captain and first mate, are along for the ride.

The two-hour tours will embark from North Coast Harbor, the East Bank or the West Bank of the Flats.

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they’d like to do a loop on Lake Erie inside the break wall or travel down the Cuyahoga River and back.

The distance covered is determined by the power (and will) of those pedaling. By raising or lowering the paddle wheel, the speed increases or decreases in direct proportion with the effort. A 10hp electric motor is available as well.

These are BYOB tours, with each passenger allowed by law to bring 36 ounces of beer or 18 ounces of wine with them. Cups, ice and water are provided by BrewBoat.

Special-event tours might include a romantic date night for two or beer and wine tasting events hosted by the brewer or winemaker.

BrewBoat CLE will operate between Memorial Day and Labor Day, plus select weekends weather permitting, such as home Browns games. Plans call for adding a flatscreen television so football fans can float outside the stadium while watching the game.

The bulk of the project is being

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Graduation rate at CMSD high schools in 2014, up 14 percent since 2011.

(East Tech skyrocketed to a 72% graduation rate in 2014, after graduating only 46% in 2013.)

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UPFRONT privately financed, but an Indiegogo campaign (launching this week) will help fund the accelerated construction of the vessel. Rewards for donating include maiden voyage tickets.

“We expect demand to be very high, especially during special events like the Cleveland National Air Show, Republican Convention, IngenuityFest, the Fourth of July fireworks and even Browns games,” said Coffey. “Our Indiegogo campaign gives early supporters the chance to reserve their spot at a discount, while helping us get ready for a very busy 2016.”

MIKE O’MALLEY STEPS DOWN AHEAD OF PROSECUTOR RUN Just about a week before the official kickoff of a public campaign in his quest to unseat Tim McGinty as Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Mike O’Malley stepped down from his full-time role as Parma’s safety director.

His last day was Jan. 15.

“He is committing full time to beating Tim McGinty,” says Ryan Miday, who is running O’Malley’s campaign.

“The obvious benefit to this is having the time to run a full campaign, getting out there and meeting people, attending events, raising money — we’re going to cover all of that in a very short amount of time.”

The Democratic primary is in March.

“He has strong grassroots support and also has elected officials, as well as ministers, reverends and pastors, who will carry us across the finish line,” says Miday.

On Thursday, January 21, O’Malley will be holding a kickoff of sorts at Trinity Cathedral. He’ll be flanked by the aforementioned ministers, reverends and pastors as well as elected officials — Miday didn’t provide any specific names yet — at 6:30 p.m.

“He’ll begin to unveil why voters should elect him instead of Tim McGinty,” says Miday.

One point sure to be mentioned is the handling of the Tamir Rice grand jury, for which O’Malley has previously blasted McGinty.

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FEATURE

MONDAY MEMORIES Carl Monday, the dean of Cleveland investigative TV reporters, probes an intriguing new subject:

Himself

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FEATURE

IS LOCAL NEWS CELEB CARL MONDAY THE SAME IN PERSON AS HE IS ON TV? DID CARL MONDAY WEAR A SUIT TO HIS INTERVIEW WITH A LOCAL ALT-WEEKLY MAGAZINE, DESPITE A DENIM PREFERENCE? FIND OUT HERE! CARL MONDAY SITS IN HIS basement office, legs crossed in the American way. His suit is pressed, his mustache trimmed, his voice serene and even when he speaks.

Behind his desk, images of his face peer out from framed keepsakes: two Plain Dealer stories from 2006 and a Cleveland Magazine cover — “Monday in Your Face” — from 1991. In the adjoining room, stacks of cardboard boxes monopolize the height and length of a full wall, a mortuary of stories past and yet to break.

The bustle and chatter of Channel 19’s newsroom can’t reach us down here. This is where the dean of Cleveland’s investigative reporters does his dirty work, where the phone rings as many as 30 times per day with tips both hot and strange.

Carl Monday is a man who’s been on Cleveland TV since 1979. And now, at age 64, each day is a kind of exile, deep beneath his colleagues and his subjects, behind a blank beige door in a blank beige room, out of sight and out of mind.

Until, as ever, he isn’t.

Right now, he’s not bragging about his most recent investigation. With hidden cameras — Carl Monday loves hidden cameras — he and his team caught a Cleveland garbage collector slacking off.

They followed him as he punched

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into work and then ran personal errands before beginning his shifts. In one instance, the employee, Tyronza Smith, dallied for seven hours before he started working but was nonetheless compensated for eight hours of overtime that day. Behavior like Smith’s is one reason why trash isn’t getting collected until 9 or 10 p.m. in some neighborhoods. It’s also why the city has shelled out beaucoup bucks on overtime.

Monday’s investigation blew the lid off the story. It turned out inefficiency was, to use a word Clevelanders recognize, systemic in the city’s (aptly named) division of waste.

Tyronza Smith was promptly booted, for starters. City finance director Sharon Dumas told City Council that the division had paid $1.3 million in overtime in 2015 — 274 percent more than they’d budgeted for the year.

Five employees were fired for chronic absenteeism. Others were suspended or reprimanded. An outside manager was brought in to straighten things out.

All in a day’s work for Carl Monday.

But he’s not talking about that. Nor is he talking about any of his other recent investigations: his exposure of Cleveland firefighters abusing the city’s second-job policy; his story on a woman in Cleveland Heights performing “phony butt injections”; or even his 2015 Emmy-winning

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investigation of a CMSD grade school using a chunk of a Target grant intended for classroom technology on a trip to Puerto Rico.

Instead, he’s doing what might be called reminiscing. He has seen the peaks and valleys of Cleveland journalism since he graduated from Kent State in the early ’70s and made a splash in the local radio scene. Through the years, he’s been a bankable on-air personality at Channel 8, Channel 3, and now Channel 19.

Already, he says, he’s in talks to extend his contract here. He appreciates the fact that Channel 19 has demonstrated a “real commitment” to investigative reporting.

People love Carl Monday. Or else they hate him. He is both folk hero and demagogue, advocate and adversary.

And whether you think his reporting corroborates it or not, he’s a lover of Cleveland, a man who has devoted his entire professional life to investigating the city he calls home.

But it turns out the impeccable blue suit, complete with sky blue silk pocket square, is indeed an aberration. Before descending to the chief investigator’s headquarters downstairs, we pop by Channel 19 news director Fred D’Ambrosi’s office.

And he confirms.

“Ordinarily,” D’Ambrosi jokes, “Carl wears jeans.”

CARL MONDAY’S KENT STATE SHOOTING CONNECTION! PLUS, DID MONDAY LAUGH IN THE FACE OF JOURNALISM ETHICS? READ ON TO FIND OUT! “I arrived in the infancy of investigative journalism,” Monday says of his Cleveland career. “All the President’s Men had just come out. I remember seeing that in the theater and getting all juiced up.”

Monday had been a force to be reckoned with in the Kent State telecommunications program, working at both the college radio station, WKSU, and the newspaper, The Kent Stater. He was a freshman in 1970, the year of the Kent State shootings, and was literally on air during the burning of the campus ROTC building.

That experience, he says, gave him exposure with national media outlets.

He identifies it as the first of many instances of being in the right place at the right time.

After college, Monday worked for WERE radio in Cleveland, where he would meet his wife Sandy, to whom he’s been married for 41 years. He developed a reputation for chasing down stories, getting scoops and finding angles that no one else in town could.

Case He once flew to New York CityBargè to interview a mobster who he’d heard had a connection with a Cleveland

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school official, but who would only agree to be interviewed in person.

Monday dropped everything and booked a flight for the next day.

He was greeted at the Long Island Railroad by a stretch limo and two henchman who didn’t, strictly speaking, seem pleased to see him.

They took Monday to their boss’ lair, where he was thoroughly stripsearched — “down to my skivvies” — for recording devices. Then he proceeded with the interview.

“Back then,” Monday says, “it was whatever it took to get a story.”

And one TV executive took note of young Monday’s hustle. “[Channel 8’s] Virgil Dominic called me one day and said, ‘Carl, I listen to your stories every morning on the radio. I want you to come do those stories for us,’” Monday recalls. “No audition tape. No nothing. I kind of had to learn on the run, and I made some mistakes that could’ve cost me my job, but they were patient with me.”

Patient because Carl did what it took. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, no reporting technique was out of bounds. Monday says in those early days on the I-team, he’d routinely call people and say he was someone he wasn’t; he’d ring doorbells with flowers, pretending to be a flower delivery man; he was Chevy Chase’s Fletch incarnate.

“I remember putting on a lab coat and walking around all day at the VA Hospital,” he says. “Everyone thought I was a doctor. There was no such thing as false pretenses back then. Deception was an important tool in a reporter’s toolbox.”

In 1995, Channel 8’s I-team, with Monday at the helm, exposed a local doctor — one Charles Dunifer — for over-prescribing powerful prescription

drugs. Three men died of accidental overdoses during a three-month period due to Dunifer’s prescriptions.

Through a source, Monday learned that Dunifer was going to attempt to flee the country because of his forthcoming criminal charges. So the I-team contacted Dunifer through an intermediary and posed as makers of fake passports. They met Dunifer, took his picture with a Polaroid camera and filmed the whole interaction. Then they notified authorities, who re-arrested Dunifer immediately. When he was sentenced — he would be the first doctor in Ohio’s history to be charged with involuntary manslaughter — a year was tacked on for attempting to flee the country.

These days, undercover work and hidden cameras are just as important as they used to be, Monday says, but news stations tend to filter everything through their legal departments. And they’re more concerned with “fairness and balance.”

“In the heydey, we practiced what was known as advocacy journalism.

Even before we started reporting, we took a position. We still try to prove a point, but there’s more of an effort to look at an issue from all sides. And sometimes because of that,” Monday says, “and to our detriment, we’ll hold onto a story for too long.”

BUT IS CARL MONDAY EVEN A

JOURNALIST?

One of the big knocks on Monday is his “confrontational style,” his propensity for going after the lowest of the low-hanging fruit: bottom-rung employees urinating where they oughtn’t, sad-sack minor officials getting sex on the side, pathetic young

men jerking off in public libraries.

Indeed, the story for which Monday remains most widely known, at least among the millennial set, is his 2006 series on safety in the libraries.

Monday’s interview with a young man who’d been caught (on hidden camera) masturbating in the Berea Library went viral. Deadspin helped propel the segment to a national audience.

The site’s first post on the subject was entitled, “The Most Brilliant Thing You’ll See All Day;” its follow up, after a period of time when the video was hard to come by for copyright reasons, proclaimed, “At Last, A Carl Monday Video That Will Never Be Rubbed Out.” Deadspin later inducted Monday into its “Hall of Fame,” a designation reserved for the most infamous of pop culture figures.

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show even did a segment, “Rubbing Out Crime,” in which correspondent Jason Jones traveled to Cleveland to interview Monday face to face. It painted Monday as the aggressor and his subjects as hapless victims.

“Now remember, that was a big story,” Monday says of the piece in question. “It was a story about crime at the library. We had documentation of different crimes, including sexual assault. It was quite comprehensive and well researched.

“And when a young man decides to masturbate on camera, we can’t ignore it. This was Channel 3 at the time, and we had debates about what to do with the footage. Part of the story was that the library had told us he’d been there before and had been asked to leave, but they let him back in. He was doing it multiple times, and feet away from children. But we didn’t play up that angle in the story. It was probably two minutes into the story before we mentioned it.”

Monday says that the story aired

during the advent of social media, and it received unprecedented attention on the Channel 3 website. “Library Masturbator” turns out to be a pretty sensational hook.

“Once it happened, there was no stopping it,” Monday says.

Of the Comedy Central segment, Monday says he thought it was well done and he “took it for what it was worth.” But it’s frustrating, on the precipice of that story’s 10-year anniversary, that it’s what younger viewers still associate him with.

“Internet legend,” Monday says, gesturing to the August, 2006, Plain Dealer story behind his desk. “In 2006, I barely knew how to use a computer and I’m supposed to be an Internet legend.”

There’s more to the man, it turns out, than what many remember him for. Carl’s wife Sandy says that her husband is a “brilliant writer.”

“He paints a picture with his words,” she tells Scene. “He can take something dull and, with his writing, turn it into a terrific story.”

Cleveland Magazine thought so too, back in ’91.

“In the hands of most reporters,” Cleveland Magazine’s Jeff Hedrich wrote, “a story about a cop playing softball while on duty would consist of surveillance footage and a statement from a Cleveland Police Department spokesperson…

“In the hands of Carl Monday the story is called ‘Robocops.’ It begins with a rundown of brutal crimes committed in the officer’s district while he was playing softball and is followed by an interview with a tearful woman who had been beaten and robbed. We then see footage of the officer sitting on the bumper of his car changing from his police blues — as Monday intones, ‘An officer from the CPD in his BVDs’ —

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“We watch a few moments of the game as Monday critiques the officer’s play and then see a computer graphic scoreboard of his stats: 2 hits / 2RBI / 0 Arrests.

“Finally, Monday approaches the officer, asking him, ‘Have you ever heard the expression “caught with your pants down”?’ The officer’s eyes widen. ‘Uh, no, uh, not at all,’ he says. ‘Mmmhmm,’ says Monday.”

Say what you will about it, but Monday tells me the confrontational style is often favored by the TV stations — Channel 8 certainly, and 19 Action News. But more broadly: “There are times when you just don’t want to give people the chance to come up with an alibi,” he says.

“I think if you’re a public official or the head of a business or nonprofit, you’ve gotta expect to be held accountable.”

That’s another thing that was easier back in the early days.

Monday says he used to be able to walk into City Hall, stroll into any department he wished and ask for the director. The director would invite him into his/her office and they’d have a conversation.

“If I wanted documents,” Monday says, “he’d hand them over. These days, the agencies control their messaging. They’ve got teams of PR people. We have documents that we requested more than a year ago that we still haven’t gotten.”

In today’s climate, Monday never would’ve been able to get the interview by which older folks probably best remember him.

“George Forbes,” Monday recalls. “The most powerful man in Cleveland at the time. We had gotten a tip that City Council members weren’t paying their utility bills. We got all the records. Mike White owed $1,700 on some rental properties. We went to City Hall — this was before they had armed guards there — and knocked on White’s door. He said ‘I’m not talking to you,’ and shut the door in our faces.

“But we also went to the council president’s office [George Forbes].

He had $440 in unpaid water bills.

At the time, the city had something like $22 million in uncollected water bills, but who was gonna pay if the city council didn’t even pay? When we got there and asked him about it, Forbes just railed on me for threeand-a-half minutes. ‘Get that g-d camera out of my effing face’ and all that….”

(“I’m going to take that goddamn camera and wrap it around your goddamn neck,” is what Forbes told him. “I’m not bull-shitting you.”)

“He went on and on,” Monday says. “I don’t think he thought we were ever going to air it, but with some judicious editing, we did. And he told people years later that he thought that confrontation (along with some other instances of losing his temper) prevented him from being mayor.”

And though Carl says he’s made quite a few enemies through his stories — “I’ve covered just about every city department,” he says — Sandy Monday says her husband’s reporting methodology isn’t vindictive.

“He just wants everybody to get a fair shake,” she says. “He wants the bad guys to pay their dues. If he can expose them and what they’re doing — because they’re wasting taxpayer dollars or whatever — he wants to expose them. He thinks it needs to be brought to the attention of people who need to know that this is going on, that they’re doing these things behind closed doors, and that they should be brought to justice.”

CARL MONDAY: IDENTITY CRISIS OR IDENTITY THEFT? HAS LOCAL TV INVESTIGATOR SPURNED EASTERN EUROPEAN ROOTS? Monday, as some already know, is not the name on Carl Monday’s birth certificate. He was born Carl Stylinski, a Polish boy from Slavic Village. He adopted Monday as a radio name in college — a derivative of “Alexander Mundy,” a character played by Robert Wagner on the TV series It Takes a Thief — and it stuck.

He legally changed it in 1972, with his family’s blessing, as a professional decision.

“I think he just thought it would be easier going forward,” says wife Sandy, who married Carl after he’d changed his name and was never Sandy Stylinski.

Back at Channel 19, as he fingers through the various plaques and clippings near his desk, Carl says journalism is “one of the few industries where you’re not just an employee; you’re the product. I’ve always approached it like a family business. And I hate using the third person, but it’s like Carl Monday Inc.” The name is an essential piece of the brand.

“That’s why he’ll never be able to lose that mustache,” says Sandy. “Or the trench coat!”

FEATURE But Sandy says the name change should not be interpreted as an attempt to distance himself from his upbringing or his Slavic roots. “My husband is a city boy,” Sandy says.

“And he loves where he comes from.

He could’ve been the next Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes. He could’ve gone and done national, but he chose to stay here because he loves the city.”

Carl and Sandy have lived in Parma and Lakewood, but they’ve been living in a condo in the Flats for years. They’re both early-to-bed types — Sandy says she’s lucky if she stays up past 9 p.m., and usually watches Carl’s stories on the web the following day — and both wake up at 4:45 every morning.

“Carl makes breakfast for me every single day,” says Sandy. “And it’s not just cereal. It’s pancakes, it’s waffles, it’s omelets.”

Monday says he thinks it’s important to eat right, and stay fit.

He works out three or four times per week and reads a ton to keep his heart and mind in shape.

“I’ve been blessed to be able to do what I love in the town that I love,” he says, “And I want to keep doing it for a long time.”

CARL MONDAY REVEALS THE DANGERS OF 21st CENTURY JOURNALISM! AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY! Carl Monday has adapted admirably to the 21st-century newsroom. In the early days, Monday’s bosses would throw him in a back room and advise him to emerge four times a year with a golden piece of investigative journalism. He’s still expected to do that; now, there’s just a bunch of other stuff too.

Monday says he smells trouble if young people continue to report the way they report now.

“The Internet is great, on one hand, because information is so readily available,” he says. “On the other, there’s too much of a reliance on it. I look at reporters today and don’t see that one-on-one relationship with sources that we always used to have.”

It’s hard, Monday says. These days, sources aren’t as patient as they used to be. And with so many media outlets, they don’t have to be.

“It used to be there were three TV stations, one or two newspapers, and that was it. Now, if [sources]

don’t see a story yesterday, they’ll call and say they’re taking it to someone else.”

And maybe it’s because he’s getting older, but Monday says he has appreciated the recent branding changes at Channel 19, though he says the station had been in transition for some time.

He reiterates the commitment to investigative reporting and says that the station has been trying to integrate investigative work into daily coverage: Michael Brelo and Tamir Rice and stories of police misconduct.

“We needed a change internally,” Monday says of 19 Action News, which gave way to Cleveland 19 News. “For all the good that it did, it was a grind. It was a high-energy format both on and off the air. The whole style — pushing the envelope, not afraid to piss off anybody — I think it wore on the employees. We just needed to hit the reset button and ask if this is really who we wanted to be.”

Carl Monday has been with three TV stations, producing city-rattling content for decades. Who does he want to be?

“Well, I’m not done yet,” says Monday. He’s got an offer to write a local book and has been mulling over the idea, lately, of starting an investigative journalism program at Kent State or Cleveland State.

“I’ll be doing some form of investigative journalism for a long time,” he says. “Even if it’s at home in my bathrobe, I’ll be investigating.”

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The Beachland Dinner Series Earlier this year, the Beachland launched an all-inclusive themed dinner that includes live entertainment, cocktails and a three-course meal featuring two appetizers, an entree and dessert. Each menu is designed around a theme. Tonight’s theme is an Exotica Dinner with DJ p.stoops spinning rare tiki and exotica vinyl records. The Polynesian-themed menu will include chicken kabobs, BBQ Hawaiian pizza, mango bourbon crispy pork belly over coconut curry rice, pineapple upside-down cake and Mai Tais and Zombies to drink.

Tickets are $28 per person or a table of four for $100. The events begin at 7 p.m. and there is limited seating. (Douglas Trattner) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

and third Wednesdays of each month. At the end of each Drink & Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. It’s free. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

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Between the Lines The memoir of a childhood transformed by technology, Gamelife centers on author Michael W. Clune’s childhood, which he recounts through seven computer games. He’s the guest speaker tonight at Between the Lines, a program presented in partnership with the Happy Dog and the East Cleveland Public Library.

Clune will read from the book and discuss the inspiration behind his work. He’ll also engage in a Q&A with a moderator and the audience. Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, Clune lives in Shaker Heights. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Salon, and Granta. The free event begins at 7 p.m. (Jeff Niesel) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, happydogcleveland.com.

Food & Hennessy Meet & Greet North American Spirits’ Joe Deluca will be on hand tonight to host a Food & Hennessy Meet & Greet at Bin 216. There will be an assortment of snacks from the Bin 216 kitchen as Deluca discusses the virtues of cognac. Tickets are $51 per person and that includes tax and gratuity. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. (Niesel) 1515 Euclid Ave., 216-860-0530, thedriftwoodgroup.com.

ART

Drawing Power Twice a month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink & Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored

by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink & Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels to drink, draw, socialize/network and collaborate in a very relaxed and welcoming environment. Events take place at 7 p.m. on the first

MOMIX will present a new work at Connor Palace. See: Saturday.

SPORTS

Monsters vs. Grand Rapids Griffins The Lake Erie Monsters have played some close games this season against the Grand Rapids Griffins. A few of them have even ended in shootouts. Tonight at 7, the Monsters take on the team once again. It’s College ID night, so students with a valid ID can purchase tickets for $6. The Monsters stay in town for the weekend as they team up against the Milwaukee Admirals at 7 p.m. on Friday and at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Friday night’s game will feature a birthday party for the team mascot, Sully, and Saturday’s game is a Kids Day Game that features special kids meals and giveaways.

Tickets to all three games start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

COMEDY

Ryan Singer In one routine, comedian Ryan Singer jokes about when cookie dough becomes a cookie before concluding, “I’m not entitled to an opinion on this matter because the kitchen is a woman’s place.” He’s not really sexist but he likes to joke that he is. While observations like that aren’t particularly sophisticated, Singer compensates with his rapid-fire delivery and exaggerated mannerisms. He performs at 8 tonight and at 7 on Sunday night at Hilarities. Tickets are $18.

(Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

FILM

Time Out of Mind Pretty boy Richard Gere goes against type and plays a homeless man in Time out of Mind, a drama from The Messenger director Oren Moverman. Ben Vereen and Jena Malone also star in the film.

It shows at 6:45 p.m. today and Friday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

FILM

The Winter’s Tale Given that so many performances of The Winter’s Tale are sold out, chances are good that even if you went to London, you’d have a hard time getting a ticket to see Shakespeare’s tragicomedy of obsession. Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, who worked together on a successful staging of Macbeth in Manchester

and Manhattan, team up again for the production; Judi Dench plays Paulina and Branagh plays Leontes. A live feed of the play screens today at 7 p.m. at the Cedar Lee Theatre. Tickets are $20. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Michael Colyar Comedian Michael Colyar is a comedy veteran. He’s mostly known for his performances in Venice Beach where he would make the crowd laugh every weekend when he performed five one-hour shows.

His jokes aren’t designed to appeal solely to fans of a certain ethnicity, age or background: Colyar aims at making everyone laugh.

He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv. Tickets are $20 with additional performances scheduled through Sunday. (Martin Harp) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

ART

Face Value Best known for his extensive catalog of folk and rock songs, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has also dabbled in visual arts over the course of his extensive career.

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GET OUT An opening reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. today. (Niesel) 141 East Main St., Kent, 330-6761549, kent.edu.

COMEDY

Bobby Lee Bobby Lee is the black sheep of his very Korean family. He was supposed to take over the family clothing store, but instead he played in some bands and decided to become a comedian. His parents think he’s ugly, and every girl he brings home hears about how he ate dog poop as a kid. His self-deprecation ranges from the nine long months it took him to grow a mustache to the limited expressiveness of his eyes. His stories of awkwardness will have you cracking up. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities and has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets range from $23 to $28. (Liz Trenholme) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

says are fun to hang out with because they dress funny and tip well. Tripoli often resorts to stereotypes but undermines them with his outrageous observations.

Chad Zumock, Mike Polk Jr., Ramon Rivas II, Hot Carl, Brian Kenny, Joe Howard and Kris Wernowsky open tonight at 8 at Mahall’s. Tickets are $5. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.

songs for their dearly departed Flanagan. Finding the humor in life and death, the wake acts as a dark backdrop to an otherwise hilarious show in which alcohol fuels the humorous reminiscing.

A sort of tragic Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience as the guests are treated as the friends and family of the deceased. The show starts at 8 tonight and plays again tomorrow

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Heritage Concert Series Presented by the National Park Service and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Heritage Concert Series celebrates the cultural legacy of the Cuyahoga Valley with a series of folk and roots rock concerts at the Happy Days Lodge. Tonight’s concert features the acoustic bluegrass act Mountain Heart. Attendees can purchase soups, snacks and sweets prepared by Conservancy Canteen. There’s also local, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Admission is $17 for adults, $12 for conservancy members and $5 for children ages 3 to 12. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert begins at 8 p.m. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, conservancyforCVNP.org.

ART

Project: Goldilocks Auction The Gallery at Old Stone Church, Anansi Artists Alliance and 15 local artists teamed up for Project: Goldilocks, an art display and fundraiser benefiting Front Steps Housing and Services. It opened earlier this month at the Gallery at Old Stone Church and comes to an end today with an auction. The silent auction includes refreshments and snacks.

The suggested donation for the art auction event is $20 and all funds raised will go directly to Front Steps, a nonprofit organization that helps the homeless. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. (Niesel) 91 Public Square, 216-241-6145, oldstonechurch.org.

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Sam Tripoli Comedian Sam Tripoli has an impressive resume. He’s toured as part of the Monsters of Comedy, Rock Stars of Comedy and a USO tour of Afghanistan organized by fast-talking comic Vince Vaughn.

He also created the live comedy variety show The Naughty Show and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and Ice House Chronicles. On his 2005 album Crime Fighter, he jokes about his gay friends, whom he

comic Grandma Lee isn’t the sweet li’l granny you know and love. Instead, she hollers about her missing kidney and asks her audience to “cut the crap.” After reaching the finals of America’s Got Talent, the 81-year-old retiree hit the road, complaining from stage on behalf of the entire country. Tonight, she performs at the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet at 7:30 and 10 and again at 7 and 9:30 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are $13 to $18.

(Brittany Rees) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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Flanagan’s Wake Now in its fifth year in Cleveland, Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to a wake in Ireland where villagers tell tales and sing

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night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre.

Tickets are $26. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave, 216-771-4444.

The Assassin The first feature film in eight years from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin received rave reviews upon its release last year. Sight and Sound magazine even proclaimed it the best movie of the year. Set in eighth-century China, the film centers on a female assassin who struggles to keep her compassion from interfering with her work.

The movie screens tonight at 7:10 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9.

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Grandma Lee Don’t expect fresh baked cookies at this grandma’s house. Standup

Community Mural Project Local artist Angelica Pozo invites residents who live, work and/ or worship in Tremont to par-

GET OUT ticipate in a community ceramic tile mural project. Pozo hopes to engage as many residents, of all ages and artistic abilities, as possible. The mural will be made up of larger ceramic tiles painted by neighborhood artists, amateur through professional, including the advanced art class at Tremont Montessori. These panels will depict images of the Tremont neighborhood, and will be surrounded by smaller ceramic tiles decorated by the rest of the community at sessions throughout the winter.

To learn more about the project and how to get involved, stop by Pilgrim Church’s Fellowship Hall for a Tremont Community Mural Project Community Presentation from 1 to 3:30 p.m. today. It’s free.

(Usmani) 2592 West 14th St., tremontwest.org.

ART

Insider Trading The fourth installment of Pretension Gallery’s Insider Trading series takes place from 6 p.m. until

2 a.m. today in Slavic Village. This year, more than 40 artists will swap work during this one night only event. None of the works on the walls are for sale. Instead, the artists each draw a name of another artist and everyone leaves with a different piece than they came with. If an artist draws their own name, they get to “steal” any piece in the show. It’s the art community’s version of a white elephant sale, but you won’t find anything else like this in town. This year’s theme is the Unconscious Mind.

The event includes a raffle for the general public ($5 per ticket), refreshments (in return for a donation) and live music from DJs Geronamo, Krash Helmut and Matt Casio, and performances

by Conner Joseph McCready and Nick Brilla. Admission is free.

(Usmani) 6304 Fleet Ave., pretensiongallery.wix.com/pretensiongallery.

DANCE

MOMIX One of dance’s most recognizable troupes, MOMIX has clearly crossed over into the mainstream. In addition to its stage shows, the troupe has padded its

resume by doing advertisements for Hanes underwear and Target. Using light, shadow, props and the human body, MOMIX produces performances that are truly singular. Tonight, it will present a new work, Alchemia.

Artistic director Moses Pendleton created the piece which “serves as an enthralling exploration of the elements: earth, air, fire and water.” The performance takes place tonight at 8 at Connor Palace. Tickets are $25 to $60. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

THEATER

The Mountaintop The assassination of civic leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which took place in a motel room on April 3, 1968, shocked the world. When an “extraordinary maid” enters the scene, she challenges Dr. King. That’s the premise of the Cleveland Play House’s latest production, The Mountaintop, which “delivers a portrait of the man behind the myth that is as provocative as it is beautiful.” It opens tonight at 7:30 at the Outcault Theatre. Tickets are

$20 to $90. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-640-8669, playhousesquare.org.

FILM

The Scarlet Empress Way back in the 18th century, Catherine the Great rose from German princess to empress of Russia. The Scarlet Empress, one of seven Marlene Dietrich/Josef von Sternberg collaborations, turns Catherine’s story into a visual orgy, as critic Leonard Maltin once put it. Today at 5 p.m. and tomorrow at 8:30 p.m., the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque shows the 35mm print film straight outta the Universal Pictures vault. Tickets cost $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

COMEDY

Joshua Seth A noted voiceover artist who can be heard in more than 50 TV shows and movies (including the SpongeBob SquarePants movie, for which he provided the voice of many characters), Joshua Seth is also a famous illusionist. His one-man show Beyond Belief: An

Screamingly funny.

Gleefully twisted.

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GET OUT Intimate Evening of Psychological Illusion arrives tonight for a month-long run. According to the press release hyping his appearance, the show “combines thought reading, magic and some good old-fashioned showmanship to create an atmosphere of mystery and laughter that will absolutely astonish you.”

We’ll see about that. The show takes place today at 4 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-2416000, playhousesquare.org.

FILM

Theeb Set in Ottoman-controlled Arabia during World War I, Naji Abu Nowar’s Theeb centers on two brothers who must escort a British military officer across the barren desert. The film features beautifully lensed shots of the boys traversing the white sands as they encounter bandits and mercenaries along the way. Just nominated for an Oscar, the film screens at 4:15 p.m. today

at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinemthaque. Tickets are $9.

(Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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7th Day Sweat The “seventh day” tends to be a day of rest for many folks. But not for the party hearty people who run B-Side Liquor Lounge, the popular dance club located below the Grog Shop. Dubbed 7th Day Sweat, their weekly Sunday night soiree features DJ White Rims spinning “today’s hottest dance hits,” so you can “sweat it out” every Sunday. Admission is free, but you must be 21 or older. It all starts at 7 p.m.

(Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

FILM

The Armor of Light Evangelical minister Rob Schenck is the subject of The Armor of Light, a documentary

about Schenck and the amount of criticism he receives from his far-right colleagues as he preaches against gun violence.

The film screens at 4:15 p.m. today at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

FILM

Man of Aran Considered the father of the documentary film, director Robert J. Flaherty made a number of significant films before he passed away in 1951. With Return of the Naive, a special program featuring four features and four short films, the Cleveland Museum of Art provides a retrospective of his work. Today at 1:30 p.m., it screens the 1934 flick Man of Aran, a film about the fishermen and farmers who live on the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland. A showing of A Night of Storytelling, the first Gaelic language talkie, precedes the screening. Tickets are $10.

(Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Northeast Ohio Band Invitational Northeast Ohio Band Invitational XII, which takes place today at 2 p.m. at Severance Hall, features a slew of local symphonies pitted against each other in daylong competition. Featured local bands include those from Avon High School, Akron Firestone High School, Nordonia High School, and Olmsted Falls High School. Tickets are $10 to $20. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra. com.

MUSIC

The University of Akron Steel Drum Band The University of Akron Steel Drum Band was formed in 1980, an era when only a handful of colleges had such ensembles.

The group, which features both undergraduate and graduate students, plays on drums made by the legendary steelpan builder, educator and percussionist Cliff Alexis. For today’s performance at the Akron Civic Theatre, the group will play Caribbean music designed to help you “leave the

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GET OUT winter blues behind.” The show starts at 2:30 p.m. and tickets are $10. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

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The dinner includes five wines matched to five unique, seasonal dishes from Cibréo Italian Kitchen chefs. Among the menu items, you’ll find things like baked clams with arugula and roasted fennel, lamb bolognese, and braised beef and greens with polenta. Cost is $55 per person.

(Niesel) 1438 Euclid Ave., 216-862-9212, cibreocleveland.com.

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Breaking Our Silence Tonight at 6 at the Beachland Ballroom, Preterm and the public awareness campaign, My Abortion, My Life, present the second annual Breaking Our Silence, “an evening of real women’s abortion stories — their reasons, experiences, values, faith, struggles, triumphs, beliefs, and emotions.” The stories are sometimes funny. And sometimes they’re somber. Submit a story at MyAbortionMyLife.org and it might get read. The event is free. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-3831124, beachlandballroom.com.

FOOD

West Park Pizza Bake-Off Not all pizzas are created equal.

Today at the second annual West Park Pizza Bake-Off Pre-Super Bowl Game party that takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. in the gym at St. Patrick’s Church in West Park, you can decide who bakes up the best pizza in town.

Tickets include “all you can eat” pizza and a beverage. Prices vary by age: $10 for ages 12 and older, $5 for ages 6 to 11, and no charge for 5 and younger. A “wing war” will also be waged on the side for an additional charge. A raffle will be held with prizes that include a 48-inch LED 1080p HD Smart TV with Roku, and an Ohio State football autographed by Urban Meyer (donated by the Public House).

Proceeds go to the church’s effort to get the tower bells ringing again. (Niesel) 4427 Rocky River Dr.

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5 Course Food and Italian Wine Dinner Tonight at 6:30, Cibréo Italian Kitchen hosts “an elegant evening of fine foods and exceptional Italian wines.” On hand will be Wolfgang Klotz from Tramin Winery in Trentino Alto-Adige, and Guido Orzalesi

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Felines of New York Book Release Earlier this year, comedian, cat enthusiast, and Cleveland lover Jim Tews took to MSNBC’s The Book Report to talk about his new book, Felines of New York.

Tews’ inspiration came from photographing friends’ cats for a playful spin on the popular Humans of New York series. The idea has since turned into an Internet phenomenon. He now pedals all around New York to feature every furry feline possible on his blog. He hosts a book release party tonight at 8 at Mahall’s. Tickets are $10. (Brandon Koziol) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.

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Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs Dr. Giuseppe Strangi, professor of physics and holder of the Ohio Research Scholar Endowed Chair, appears tonight at 7:30 at the Happy Dog as part of the club’s regular speaker series, Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs.

Tonight, he’ll deliver a talk entitled “Photonics and Plasmonics Go Viral: Metamaterials for Life,” based on his research in extreme optics and the plasmonics of phototonic metamaterials which, if it helps any, he describes as “a new class of artificially engineered nanostructures.” One of his interests is “to learn from nature how to create materials with life applications without threatening the life, without harming the environment and by exploring natural strategies in the framework of the scientific initiative ‘From Life to Life.’” Admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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Join the North Coast Men’s Chorus for this night of music, merriment and masquerade that has become the signature event of the year!

The event includes a performance by the North Coast Men’s Chorus, led by Artistic Director Richard Cole, superb Bourbon Street cuisine, a live and silent auction and a French Quarter Wall with a top prize of $500.

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ART EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

New CSU exhibit reminds us that beauty is everywhere

By Josh Usmani I CAME SO FAR FOR BEAUTY, I left so much behind, My patience and my family, My masterpiece unsigned.

Leonard Cohen’s song, I Came So Far for Beauty, inspired the title of the first art exhibition of 2016 in the North Gallery of the Galleries at Cleveland State University. I Came So Far for Beauty is curated by Lane Cooper, artist and associate professor and chair of painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, with co-curator Karl Anderson, cofounder of Forum Artspace at 78th Street Studios.

“To speak of beauty is a dangerous thing,” warns Cooper.

“Beauty makes us present, takes us out of the everyday, gives us pause, lures us into an extended engagement, haunts us, seduces us, preoccupies us; it can lead to infatuation, obsession or even love. It has preoccupied thinkers as diverse as Plato, Adorno and Hickey. Each of the artists in this exhibition presents some conception of ‘beauty’ in their work. How that ‘beauty’ is produced varies widely.

In some pieces it could be said that beauty is more a product of the idea of the work than its appearance, while in many others it is produced through a sense of tactility, color, surface and material. Through the presentation of a broad spectrum of aesthetic approaches, this exhibition examines the role that these choices play in our understanding of art.”

Besides Anderson and Cooper, artists participating in I Came So Far for Beauty include Gianna Commito, Erin Duhigg, Tony Ingrisano, Sarah Kabot, Mimi Kato, Julie Langsam, Michael Meier, Christian Michael Mickovic, Sean O’Donnell, Katie Richards, Daniel Roth, Zak Smoker, Scott Stibich, Omid Tavakoli, Dan Tranberg, Charles Tucker, Barry Underwood, Nikki Woods, Justin Woody, Christian Wulffen and Lauren Yaeger.

“The idea of beauty is closely associated with the concept of art in the minds of the non-professional public,” says Robert Thurmer, CSU’s galleries director. “For artists and art professionals, however, beauty is

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Julie Langsam, “Gropius Floorplan: Palace of the Soviets, Yellow, Color Determined by Chance,”oil on panel, 2015.

often a thorn in the side — derided and ridiculed, and dismissed. After the atrocities and horrific images encountered after WWII, beauty was often relegated to the sofa-painting

translocated to Playhouse Square in 2012, it became ‘the Galleries at CSU’ — not a mere linguistic and cosmetic change,” Thurmer explains. “The transformation

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genre that was not considered ‘real’ art by most serious artists. So, it seems, after a little over a halfcentury, the idea of beauty is once again gaining some adherents and promoters. Although, even in its most recent incarnation, beauty ain’t what it used to be.”

Meanwhile, in the South Gallery and Media Room, CSU celebrates 150 years of Euclid Avenue’s greatness, with its first historybased (as opposed to fine art-based) exhibition ever. This collection of photographs, maps and artifacts creates a historical narrative of the very ground on which the gallery is located.

“When the ‘CSU Art Gallery’

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included a change from a program strictly dedicated to works of art to a broader field that includes art, art history, design, visual culture, and history. This is the very first exhibition of historic subject matter in the history of this gallery. Very appropriately dealing with the very locale of our new home at Playhouse Square, this exhibition actually features among other treasures, historic photographs of this very building! In this self-referential first attempt at an exhibition with a history subject, it is important to thank Dr. Richard Klein who helped us blaze the trail to many more historical exhibitions to come.”

Thurmer elaborates, “The

exhibition presents a historical narrative of the past of Euclid Avenue from East Ninth Street to the CSU campus: from the founding of ‘Cleaveland’ to the present. It gives a glimpse of the lay of the land from its earliest beginnings to the very present, including the newest buildings on campus.

This exhibition presents a journey though 150 years of time and about 15 city blocks of space. Everyone will be astonished to see what was here before and how what is here today came to be.”

CSU Celebrates 150 Years of Euclid Avenue’s Greatness is part of Cleveland State’s 50th anniversary celebration. The exhibition is curated by CSU lecturer and program research coordinator Richard Klein, with help from the Cleveland Public Library, Special Collections at the Michael Schwartz Library, the Kent State University Museum and the CSU Archives.

“As we celebrate Cleveland State University’s 50th anniversary, it seems appropriate to honor the greatness of Euclid Avenue,” says Klein. “Today’s thoroughfare began as a dirt path called the Buffalo Road. It became Cleveland’s Millionaires’ Row during the second half of the 19th century.

At the outbreak of the First World War, Euclid Avenue shed its elite residential character to become one of this city’s foremost commercial boulevards. More recently, it has assumed an entirely new role as a major component of the expanding Cleveland State University campus.”

Both exhibitions remain on view through Saturday, Feb. 27.

Beginning at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, curators Cooper and Klein will discuss the exhibitions in the galleries. A reception will follow from 5 to 8 p.m. At 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, Indra Lacis, editor of Arthopper.org, will moderate a panel discussion titled, I Came So Far for Beauty: The Role of Aesthetics in Contemporary Art.

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STAGE FEED ME!

That demanding, sociopathic plant once again sings for its supper in Little Shop of Horrors at the Cleveland Play House

By Christine Howey

From left to right: Ari Butler (Seymour) and Joey Taranto (Orin)

SOME SHOWS ARE PRETTY MUCH bulletproof, meaning they’re so tight and clever that almost any production has a good chance of success. Such is the case with Little Shop of Horrors, now at the Cleveland Play House. With sharp book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and catchy tunes by Alan Menken, high schools and community theaters around the country have had fun with this horror-comedy (horcom?) property that debuted more than 50 years ago.

Sure enough, this production at the Allen Theatre is often a fun ride. And if you’ve never seen this show before, the bloodthirsty plant and the sadistic dentist will definitely blow your skirt up. But if you have seen Little Shop previously, you may be distracted by some odd directorial choices and a couple performances that fall a tad short.

Like the Roger Corman movie that inspired it, the musical is about a florist shop in a rundown section of a big city run by snarky Mr. Mushnik.

His staff includes nerdy Seymour and Audrey, a young woman who often comes to work with bruises thanks to her abusive dentist boyfriend, Orin.

Mushnik can’t sell flowers to the wasteoids in his neighborhood until Seymour displays an exotic hybrid plant he named Audrey II (as an homage to the co-worker he desires).

This new botanical creation looks like a Venus flytrap and, he learns,

has a ravenous thirst for human blood. Soon, Seymour becomes a blood bag for the fast-growing, corpusclecraving carnivore that begins to talk and make its demands known in no uncertain terms.

The first curious production decision is apparent from the outset.

Philip Witcomb’s appropriately seedy, skid row set is littered with garbage, a tattered theater marquee, and a weather-beaten billboard that indicates that the time is late 1950s or early ’60s. But then, positioned stage right, is a female squad of five supposed street urchins (who also play the accompanying instruments), dressed slickly like some sort of cool, urban Jetsons who have visited this armpit street from a drop-dead, hipper-thanthou boutique far in the future.

The program seeks to skate around that time warp by describing the

but not great. Apparently, director Amanda Dehnert didn’t have time to attend to some performance details, since she was also busy being the choreographer and the musical director(!). This improbable trifecta probably looks like a winner on her paycheck, but less so on the stage.

For instance, Ari Butler, who sings well as Seymour, could have used some help in crafting a character that was more vulnerable and geeky. Aside from his first entrance, when he trips and spills a tray of plants, Butler is a rather bland and ordinary presence, not the clumsy, socially inept fellow who has a vicious plant as a best friend. In addition, his running and general movements are far too smooth and athletic for a dweeb like Seymour.

(For a tutorial, see almost any Jerry Lewis film.)

This is not a small thing, since the

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time of the play as “an early year in a decade not too long before our own,” which is a masterpiece of tortured time travel in itself.

So, what the hell, they’re playing fast and loose with the timeframe.

The core of the play is still about the relationship between Seymour and Audrey (the human one), and here everything goes pretty well,

more hapless Seymour looks, the more we root for him to win over human Audrey. But since Seymour appears only mildly shy, the tension doesn’t build. As for Audrey herself, Lauren Molina peaks in her tender rendition of “Somewhere That’s Green,” perhaps the sweetest, chuckle-inducing ballad ever penned — especially when she trills about her dream house with “a

fence of real chain link!” But the rest of the time, Molina leans too heavily on a screechy Queens accent that sometimes feels pushed.

In the spotlight role of the S&M dentist Orin, Joey Taranto huffs and puffs without much imagination in his featured song, “Dentist.” But he displays more wit in a later scene when he tries to get Seymour into his torture chair for a molar extraction.

As the voice of Audrey II, Eddie Cooper (who is visible, stationed behind the urchin band) growls effectively as puppeteer Kev Abrams operates the eventually man-sized plant.

There are other small glitches, such as having a member of the stage crew, with headphones on, push the florist shop façade open and closed several times during fully lit scenes happening a couple paces away. A director who isn’t multi-tasking might have found a way to make that necessary function integrate more smoothly into the production, since it is in full view.

Still, the material carries the day with Little Shop, as it always does, especially when Audrey (the human) finds her way to a decidedly surprising, Miracle-Gro happy ending. Turns out, it is easy being green.

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THE PLAY’S THE THING

Writer-director Charlie Kaufman turns his trippy play into a trippy movie

By Jeff Niesel THE GENESIS OF ANOMALISA, the new stop-motion animation movie from writer-director Charlie Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson, dates back to 2005 when Kaufman was doing a series of sound plays with Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers.

The plays were basically stage radio plays with musicians on stage and actors reading scripts along with a Foley artist. Kaufman had written one, and the Coens had written one. Kaufman wanted to take the production to Los Angeles and the Coens couldn’t go, so he had to write a second one to replace theirs.

“I was under the gun,” says Kaufman in a conference call with Johnson. “I had read about the Fregoli delusion, which is the belief that everyone else in the world is the same person under disguise. I thought it was interesting metaphorically and kind of interesting in terms of a sound play. It would allow me to have one actor play many parts, and I couldn’t

Anomalisa

afford to have many actors anyway. I liked the idea that there would be one person playing all these characters that the other character interacts with until late in the play when a third voice is heard.”

Kaufman recruited David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh to play the two main characters, Michael Stone and Lisa “Anomalisa” Hesselman. He enlisted Tom Noonan to play everyone else in the play. The same set of actors reprise their roles for the film.

“They’re three of my favorite actors,” says Kaufman. “When I was looking to cast the play, I approached people I liked and who I thought would be fun to do something with. I didn’t really know them at the time.

I had seen work they had done that I really admired. They ended up being nice people too.”

One of the main motifs in the play/ movie is the concept of customer service. The plot centers on Michael, a lonely man who has written a best-

SPOTLIGHT: #OSCARSOWHITE LAST YEAR, THE HASHTAG #OSCARSOWHITE blew up the Twittersphere in the weeks preceding the 87th Academy Awards as fans decried the total lack of diversity in the nominations for the big-ticket categories. The 2015 ceremony was of note, in part, because the film Selma was such a powerhouse vehicle for its star, David Oyelowo, and its director Ava Duverney. Neither was nominated. In fact, in all four acting categories, every nominee was white. In the directing category, every nominee was male.

The 2016 Oscar noms were announced last week, and the Academy’s institutional bias evidently hasn’t changed. Of the 20 available slots in the acting categories, not a single performer of color was nominated. All five directors nominated for top honors are men again too, and only Alejandro G. Inarritu, who is Mexican, and who won last year for Birdman, is a member of a minority.

It’s not like there weren’t options: Both Michael B. Jordan (for Creed) and Will Smith (for Concussion) may be considered bona fide snubs, given that Bryan Cranston, who was nominated for Trumbo, doesn’t belong on the Best Actor list. Idris Elba was notably absent from the supporting actor category for his work in Beasts of No Nation; he could’ve replaced Mark Rylance (who turned in an excellent, quiet performance in Bridge of Spies) and no one would have batted an eyelash.

Other nominations seemed to compound the issue. The film Straight Outta Compton, in my view,

wasn’t a Best Picture contender. But it featured a cast of young, black, relatively unknown performers who might have at least deserved a look. The film’s director, F. Gary Gray (who’s next project is Furious 8, to give you an idea) is black, and though a directing nom would’ve been a stretch, the Academy chose to nominate the writing team — a trio of Caucasians — for the best original screenplay honors as the film’s only nod. Creed, a film with a black star and a black director, received only one nomination as well: a best supporting actor nom for its white co-star Sylvester Stallone. What’s going on?

The bigger picture, many say, is that diversity in the Academy itself is lacking — it’s an honor society, for better or worse, chiefly comprising silver-haired white dudes. And though the Academy is working to expand its ranks, it would be wiser to create circumstances where women and minorities can succeed in filmmaking than to worry exclusively about nominations.

Another theory says that the more nominations women and minorities get, the greater the likelihood that women and minorities will continue working in an industry that, for years, has seemed to cast them aside.

For the 2016 ceremony that takes place on Feb. 28, #OscarSoWhite is here to stay. And you can expect host Chris Rock to make a few pointed jokes at the Academy’s expense. In a recent tweet, he called the Oscars the “white BET Awards.” — Sam Allard

selling book about customer service.

At a conference on the subject, he meets and falls in love with Lisa, a customer service rep attending the conference, because she doesn’t sound like everyone else.

“I think it’s funny that there would be somebody who is a celebrity in that field,” says Kaufman, adding that he worked in customer service for many years. “I know the field so it was an easy thing for me to draw on. It has an ironic element in that this character can’t really interact with people in a real way. That’s arguably the type of interaction you do as a customer service representative.”

The choice to use stop-motion animation stemmed from the fact that Johnson was working at an animation studio called Starburns Industries. He and one of the owners, Dino Stamatopoulos, had talked over the years about wanting to use stop-motion to explore more adult stories. He got a copy of the script for Anomalisa that he passed on to Johnson, who loved it, and encouraged him to explore it as a movie project.

“The challenges were creating something new,” Johnson says. “We weren’t drawing from any sort of references. We were forging our own aesthetic and our own approach and figuring out what that is and what that looks like and how to achieve this emotional authenticity.”

As strange and trippy as the movie is, it achieves a high level of emotional intensity and resonance.

The movie made the festival circuit last year; it opens areawide on Friday.

While on the festival circuit, it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival. It also was just nominated for an Oscar.

Given that Johnson and Kaufman had to self-finance the film to get it into production, the accolades certainly serve as vindication for their work.

“So much time was spent on this,” says Kaufman. “If it had disappeared without a trace afterward, it would have been very difficult for all of us.

That it’s getting positive attention is vindicating or something. It’s certainly a relief.”

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By Douglas Trattner

“DON’T YOU HATE IT WHEN THEY charge you for rice?” I ask my dinner companion after he mentions where he typically procures his Indian food, a well-known staple on the east side of town.

As if on cue, the manager at Tandul, Tremont’s first Indian restaurant, walks over and sets down a welcome basket of crispy fried papadum and a pair of chutneys. We inquire about the restaurant’s own rice policy and his response sounds as if it could have been ripped from a book of Hindu proverbs.

“We don’t want to be penny wise and pound foolish,” he says, before disappearing behind a Bodhi tree (or, perhaps, into the kitchen). Not only is the papadum on the house, as is that pea green, tongue-tingling cilantro chutney, a tamarind variety and the heat-taming yogurt raita, but also the rice that accompanies most entrees.

What’s more, when I dug into my bag of leftovers the following day, I discovered an additional container of basmati rice tossed in for good measure.

When it comes to the neighborhood ethnic restaurant, be it Indian, Thai, Mexican or Chinese, what diners are looking for is value, flavor and service.

We can quibble about the order of those elements, but if you deliver a tasty product at a reasonable price

in a comfortable setting, the battle is more than half won. Authenticity, either real or perceived, is a bonus.

Applying that scorecard, newly opened Tandul already is earning high marks, winning over the hearts, minds and wallets of its culinarily adventurous neighbors.

If Tandul feels like the cozy corner tavern that just so happens to serve Indian food, that’s because it is. The cheery storefront space, most recently home to a quick succession of Turkish restaurants, is small, colorful and comfortable. All told, the restaurant seats just 50 guests in two small dining rooms and at the handsome bar, a vestige from when the space belonged to the Hotz Valley View Cafe.

In terms of size, Tandul’s menu is one of the most extensive collections of Indian dishes around, with nearly 100

Starters, which weigh in at some 30 items, range from a veg-friendly lentil soup ($4.99) to egg Vepudu ($7.99), an out-of-the-ordinary curry starring hard-cooked eggs. Crispy-fried Chicken 65 ($9.99), a more typical dish, is like the Indian version of spicy Buffalo chicken, but without the bones, celery or blue cheese. It’s on the dry side, but the chutneys help. There also are vegetarian versions made with cauliflower or paneer, a simple cheese.

Over the course of two visits we barely made a dent in the menu, but we did make a point of mixing classics like chicken tikka masala ($13.99) with new-to-us options like Tandul Murgh ($16.99), a savory dish of chicken cooked with yogurt, coconut and nuts. With tender knobs of chicken swimming in a mild and creamy tomato-tinted sauce, the chicken tikka

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items splashed across about a dozen categories. It’s a broad brush that sticks neither to the north or south of the subcontinent as evidenced by the sheer variety of meats, sauces and breads on display. In fact, the menu is so long, it’s unwieldy, likely causing more apprehension than elation in the typical diner.

masala won’t let down fans of that Indian restaurant staple.

Tandul has the largest selection of goat-based dishes in the region, which is great news to those of us who already love the meat. Cooked right, as in the spicy goat Vindaloo ($15.99), goat meat is tender, slightly wild tasting, and not at all musky.

The word tandul is Sanskrit for rice, and it’s an element the restaurant takes seriously as shown by its biryanis. Served in decorative copper urns, the fluffy, fragrant dishes feel celebratory, a sharable dish that belongs on every table. There are versions built around paneer, chicken, shrimp and goat ($11 to $16). Tandul’s naan ($2.99) is no slouch either, all charred, chewy and glistening with garlic and melted butter. A half dozen naans join other breads like kulcha, roti and paratha.

By now service is settling into an acceptable rhythm, but we did spot an odd us-versus-them attitude between the front of the house and the chefs.

When the wrong item landed at our table, the server blamed the cooks instead of simply righting the wrong.

But right it he did.

Tandul is becoming a popular new takeout option for denizens of Tremont. It’s easy to spot those solitary customers seated at the bar, enjoying a craft beer and waiting for their order to come together.

Unlike the Turkish restaurants that preceded it, Tandul deals in a familiar product line, and that can be the difference between success and failure.

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WHEN LAUREN KLUTH MOVED to Chicago in 2013, after graduating from John Carroll University, she watched as her friends back home Instagrammed their way through all of Cleveland’s new restaurants and bars. But every time she returned home to visit, the quickly evolving dining scene felt overwhelming to navigate. While working for the digital marketing company Lunchbox, she thought, “What if there was an app that makes it easier to track down the latest and greatest?” She began working on the idea in Chicago and moved back to Cleveland last August to see it through.

This February, Kluth is launching CLEseats, a free website and mobile app that offers special deals and discounts to local restaurants. One week you might receive $10 off a bill, another week you might be offered 20 percent off the top at places like Pura Vida, the Flying Fig and South Side. It will be iOS compatible, with Android capabilities being added soon.

“My goal for this is to become the app everyone checks whenever they’re going out,” says Kluth.

For a flat monthly fee, restaurants have their own editable landing page on the site that details hours, menu, reservation capabilities, weekly events and current CLEseats discounts.

Discounts are redeemed with a simple code, which users give to their server.

Restaurants are searchable by location, price range and food type. Each is tagged by location: east, west, south or downtown, plus three additional surrounding neighborhoods.

“We built it for the person who knows the difference between Tremont, Ohio City and the Flats,” says Kluth.

“But we also built it for the out-oftowner who doesn’t know where Lakewood is.”

Kluth won’t be doing it all alone; to help spread the word she’s enlisted the help of CLEfoodies blogger and Wok n Roll food truck co-owner Tricia McCune and

@CLE_EATS Instagrammer Sarah Yi. Each will be in charge of posting spotlights on the site that delve into the history and uniqueness of all participating restaurants.

“Social media is lending that human aspect to the businesses,” says Kluth. “We want to give people a way to learn about these restaurants and appreciate their history.”

Another layer of the hyper-local service comes in the form of a monthly podcast, the CLEfoodcast, where Kluth and McCune delve deeper into the local food scene. In the first edition, released today (and the 15th day of every month hereafter), Kluth talks to Joe Fredrickson of Society Lounge about some new menu items and cocktails.

McCune speaks with Tom Madrilejos from the Filipino pop-up Carabao.

Trivia questions, with prizes from sponsors like LaunchHouse, Night Market Cleveland and Keep It Local Cleveland, are sprinkled into each podcast.

It was during a lively conversation with the owners of Ohio City-based Mason’s Creamery that McCune decided that she’d like to document these talks about the day-to-day aspects of being in the business.

“It’s a great way to tell stories from different perspectives,” says McCune.

“We’re talking person-to-person in the industry. And there are always bumps in the road, so we’re getting that dirt that we’re all going through too.”

Every Monday, an email wrapup of all the new deals is sent out to newsletter subscribers. Kluth envisions it as something “everyone will check at the beginning of each week and plan all their happy hours and date nights around.”

“It’s really important for us as Clevelanders to appreciate the new and support local businesses,” says Kluth.

“This is a good way to get out of your comfort zone. We just need that push sometimes.”

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By Douglas Trattner THE PEOPLE BEHIND CLEVELAND’S ambitious new downtown lakefront development project have selected an operator for the restaurant that will help anchor Phase One — and it isn’t a Cleveland name.

“It’s really shocking — and it’s quite an honor for sure,” says Zack Hirt, who along with his wife and business partner Lisa opened Akron’s popular Nuevo Modern Mexican and Tequila Bar (54 East Mill St., 330-7628000) in early 2014. “The developers came down here, checked us out and liked our concept. They said it was a good fit for Cleveland and that location.”

The two-level eatery, also to be called Nuevo Modern Mexican, sits like the rest of the development along the East Ninth Street Pier, north of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Phase One also includes retail, residential and another casual dining option.

The long-range plan for the mixeduse neighborhood includes more than 1,000 apartments, 50,000 square feet of retail, 80,000 square feet of office space, and a high-quality school.

Scene wrote about the Akron restaurant back in March after a very enjoyable dining experience. After two decades of working in other people’s kitchens, eight of which were spent at Akron’s Crave, Hirt analyzed his local market for opportunities and settled on modern Mexican.

“I’ve been working in kitchens for more than 20 years, and I could pretty much do anything,” the chef told me in a post-review phone call. “So when we decided to open a restaurant, we just looked at the market. Certainly, Momocho, Lopez and Paladar were inspirations. There’s nothing like that down in Akron.”

Diners at the 2-year-old spot are treated to contemporary takes on Latin dishes, like duck confit and goat cheese empanadas, salsa and guacamole samplers, and seafood ceviche. Also on the menu are assemble-your-own tacos (corn or flour) built around pork shoulder, short rib, pan-seared shrimp and tequila-braised beef tongue. Classics like carne asada and chicken en crema join modern entrees like cumin and

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cinnamon-rubbed heritage breed pork chops and adobo-braised lamb shanks.

All of it gets paired with an impressive tequila and mescal list.

Hirt says that, for the lakefront eatery, he’ll add more seafood dishes to the menu.

The two-story structure will seat 120 diners on the main floor, with seating for another 40 on twin patios that face both shore and skyline. A flexible second-floor space can be used for overflow dining or special events for up to 250 guests inside and another 40 out.

Hirt still can’t believe his good fortune. Business is going well enough down in Akron that he and his wife were hoping to expand — but not for another three to five years.

“We were looking at Cleveland anyway, but never in a million years did we think ‘lakefront,’” he says.

Dick Pace and Cumberland Development recently broke ground on the project and intend to have the restaurant up and running before the Republican National Convention this coming July.

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NEW FINER-DINING RESTAURANT TO LAUNCH IN THE HERMIT CLUB AT HOFBRAUHAUS CLEVELAND Despite being a little more than a year old, Hofbrauhaus Cleveland still holds plenty of surprises. The most fascinating one sits right under most visitors’ noses: the Hermit Club.

Founded in 1904, the Hermit Club is dripping with history. The private club for performing arts buffs produces and hosts its own elaborate performances, holds elaborate initiation rituals, and fosters undying fraternity among its members — all of which continues to this day thanks to a partnership with Hofbrauhaus.

But it’s the physical space, designed by club founder and architect Frank B. Meade and completed in 1928, that is ripe for inspection.

“People are still very curious about the club and are always asking about its status,” explains marketing manager Andrea Mueller. “The Hermit Club was a private club for over 100 years, and it’s now open to the public.”

While the club, now physically connected to the rest of Hofbrauhaus, has been open to guests, most visitors are oblivious to its existence, choosing instead to while away the hours in the festive beer hall. And who can blame them? But those who do wander into the woodsy abbey-style structure are invariably blown away by its character and authenticity.

To shine a brighter light on that portion of the operation, Hofbrauhaus is launching a new “finer-dining” restaurant service in the Hermit Club space. Before, the 50-seat dining room with attached barroom was used for banquets, large parties and overflow dining, where guests enjoyed the very same items as those served in the rest of the complex. That will change starting Thursday, Jan. 21.

The restaurant will be open every day but Monday, accept reservations, and utilize a menu that is different

from the one seen elsewhere. Items like potato pancakes with smoked salmon, lobster bisque, bone-in pork chops, grilled white perch, roast duck, roast chicken and pretzel bread pudding will be served in the cozy confines of the Hermit Club.

“We’re really trying to tap into the theatergoers who come to shows in the theatre district and want something a little more upscale and maybe don’t want the entertainment that is in the beer hall — something quieter, more intimate and finer dining,” Mueller says.

We’ll drink to that.

ARTIST REVEALED FOR SECOND INSTALLMENT OF CODA UNDERGROUND CONCERT SERIES This fall, a small gathering of lucky music fans got to enjoy the music of Ed Kowalczyk from the band Live as he played an intimate set to open Dante Boccuzzi’s new subterranean club Coda in Tremont.

That concert became the first entry in the Coda Underground Concert Series.

The date and act have been set for the second installment of the Coda Underground Concert Series. On Thursday, March 3, Jack Russell of the band Great White will perform an acoustic set with his guitarist.

“They’re going to come in and do an acoustic set of all the classic songs they did on MTV at that time, back when I was in high school,” Boccuzzi says. “He did one of the first Unplugged shows on MTV back when it was cool.”

Great White is best known for legendary hits such as “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” “Rock Me” and “Save Your Love.”

Tickets are limited to 100 spots.

The $85 ticket includes a welcome drink, dinner and the show. Dinner will be a buffet of salad, pasta, pizza, beef, and sushi served upstairs at Next Door. For $125, music fans will enjoy a private meet & greet with the band and a souvenir lanyard.

Coda, Tremont’s only venue dedicated to live music, opened in October.

“It will be the only place in Tremont like this, that has live bands and is built primarily as a music venue,” Boccuzzi explained during a pre-opening tour. “A lot of bars have bands, but they’re not set up like this with the proper sound, equipment and lighting.”

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STRAIGHT OUTTA EAST CLEVELAND Local rapper Kipp Stone makes his national debut with the Chicago label Closed Sessions

By Emanuel Wallace IT’S ALMOST FITTING THAT COLD winter winds seemed to finally blow down into Ohio just as reps from the Chicago-based indie record label Closed Sessions came to town to visit their first out-of-town signee, Kipp Stone.

After a full day of visiting Stone at his home, touring the city to get a better feel about where Stone is from and the obligatory visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the final stop is Cauliflower Audio at 78th Street Studios to unwind and play a few songs.

The atmosphere is light as music plays in the background. A 12-pack of Stella Artois is nearly emptied as the guys in the room crack jokes about dating preferences and experiences with the Tinder app. Stone is calm and collected as he lays on one of the studio’s couches waiting to be interviewed.

Closed Sessions developed from a working relationship between engineer Michael Kolar and DJ/ journalist Alexander Fruchter; Kolar would engineer the various projects that Fruchter would work on while running the blog Ruby Hornet.

“He mastered this mixtape I was doing with a guy named Naledge who was in a group called Kidz in the Hall,” Fruchter says. “When I took it in to master it, I asked Mike how much do I owe for this and he said, ‘You can pay me for this, or how about you never pay for the studio again,

but every time you’re doing something cool, you bring it to my studio.’ That was like our deal. So I started doing that all the time. Then, I had the idea of when the artists come to do my party, I can take them to the studio, do video and photo and see where it goes. We did the first version of this with Curren$y and he made a song called ‘Rapper Weed.’ Right after he made the song, he got on UStream and within a few minutes he had a ton of people following him, the song went everywhere. He was like, ‘I don’t want anyone else in this space.’ And that’s how we kinda called it a closed session.

It started off as a content piece for the blog.”

Kolar and Fruchter soon began to realize that this closed session approach was going to become its own thing.

“We started doing it with more artists who were coming to Chicago for the first time,” Fruchter continues.

“We then made a company and released many compilations like that of artists coming and doing a documentary like that with artists like Bun B, Raekwon and Action Bronson, to the earliest shit from Vic Mensa and the Cool Kids. A couple years later, long story short, we were like, ‘Fuck it, let’s just make this a real label; there’s a ton of Chicago artists here.’ We did that in, like, 2013 and put out Vic Mensa’s Innanetape, a record by this dude named Gzus Piece, Tree’s Sunday School II and just a lot of important

releases. We worked on a little bit of Acid Rap [by Chicago’s Chance the Rapper] and stuff like that. From there, we signed an artist and got distribution and we have been learning what it means to have a record label in the new digital age of music.”

That record label, aptly named Closed Sessions, had always been primarily focused on artists in the Chicago area, but the guys were drawn to the type of music that Stone makes.

“We’d been looking for an artist who brought the style of music that Stone does because it’s our favorite kind, but the artists on our label really don’t necessarily do that,” Fruchter says. “A friend of mine named Ryan started sending me Stone’s music in maybe the spring or summer. He kept sending me music like, ‘This is the kid I was telling you about and he’d be interested to meet you guys,’ etc. And it just worked out timing-wise where I was like, ‘Man, this shit is dope. Let’s have him come and work with our producers and if there’s a vibe there, then go forward.’ He came to Chicago and spent two days in the studio and made some really dope songs — one of which we’ve put out already. It was just a no-brainer.”

“Also, it’s cool that Stone came to us like real people and he has a good team behind him and he came from a real place,” Kolar adds. “Cleveland is nothing like Chicago. It’s not a construct or anything like that. It’s a realness that’s here. It’s nothing like

Chicago, but there is a realness here that we both like.”

“Seen It All,” the first single that Stone released with Closed Sessions, seems apropos as the rapper frequently moved around as he was growing up.

“I’m primarily from East Cleveland,” Stone says when asked about his origin. “I bounced around a lot when I was a kid. Born and raised in East Cleveland. When I was 8 years old, I moved out to Warrensville Heights.

I used to go back and forth, between living with my mom dukes and my dad. Then I moved to Cleveland Heights. When I turned 18, I ended up moving back to East Cleveland but I really started writing when I was in Cleveland Heights. I used to write stories; that used to be my thing. It was more fictional stuff like that. But later in life, it just didn’t feel right and I wanted to talk about shit that was really happening. I wanted to put some real feelings behind it because there wasn’t any real feeling in the early shit. But that’s how I started out writing. I started rapping because I saw 8 Mile. I sat on the foot of the bed and watched 8 Mile with my mom, and by the time the movie was over I had written my first rhyme.”

The guys in the room chuckle a bit, but Stone insists that he’s serious.

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The Closed Sessions owners were quite fond of Stone as an artist and fairly shortly after visiting the label in Chicago, Stone was sold as well.

“When they brought it to me, it was like, ‘This is Closed Sessions, they did this, they did that and so forth,’ but that really didn’t matter to me,” he says. “I just wanted to go out there to Chicago and meet these people and see if these were people that I could work with, and within the first 15 minutes, I was just like you saw me laying here, just coolin’.

I was thinking, ‘This is cool, I can do this.’ I had heard nothing but good things about ’em, so there was no reason why we shouldn’t do this and see what it’s hittin’ for. When we got there, we just made magic. We made three or four records. I was so used to working with [producer Mr. Anderson] and he engineered my first session in Closed Sessions, and a lot of the ways that he engineered was how he engineered so it was like a continuation of what I was already used to. That was pretty cool.

Everybody over there was really cool peoples. Essentially what I want to do with Closed Sessions is that I want to help them grow and I want to grow with them. Everything just gels well. That’s what I like about it. It’s a no-nonsense type of deal. Everything clicks. It’s like a machine.”

Along with Closed Sessions, Stone has L.I.F.E. Art & Content and A Right to Create behind him. The support system he has in place has a stronger foundation than many other artists in the city and it’s working to Stone’s advantage.

“The problem is that nobody really wants to listen, and you can’t run an organization like that,” Stone says.

“I feel like if it’s coming from a place where someone genuinely wants to see you succeed and do better, then you’ve gotta hear that shit, even when you don’t want to hear that.

Like [L.I.F.E. owner Truth Walker] will call me and tell me something that I already know. He could tell you about it better than I could, but it’s all about focus. Set a plan and stick to it.”

Walker echoes the same sentiment and believes that, at the root of it all, being a good person counts for a lot in the industry.

“I think that once artists here in

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Cleveland realize that without order there is chaos, then they’ll start to make some traction,” he says. “You’ll have an artist who says that they want a manager, but they don’t know how to be managed. They don’t know what that entails. When someone takes their music as seriously as they say they do, and you tell them that being a great artist is more than just rapping or producing. It’s how you carry yourself. Are you professional? Do people enjoy being around you? If you had to put it on a percentage scale, 20 percent of being a great artist is what you do in the studio and the other 80 percent is the person you are outside of the booth.”

“It’s not about the likes and the views and all of that,” Stone adds.

“I’m with these guys — Closed Sessions, one of the biggest if not the biggest indie label in Chicago — and I don’t have that many views on my SoundCloud or YouTube or nothing like that. It really doesn’t matter. It’s all about being a good person.”

“They didn’t sign Kipp because of hype,” Walker says. “They signed him because he’s talented and because he has a sound. Kipp has a standout sound. I can’t think of anyone in the city with a sound like his.”

Closed Sessions appears dedicated to helping Stone be the best artist he can be for them.

“That’s what a label still does,” Fruchter says. “That’s our job to worry about the views and the likes.

He should just be worried about making the best music that he can.

We have to figure out how to take his art and make more people care about it and how to get it to the people that need to hear it.”

Looking toward the future, Stone plans to keep grinding while carving out a new identity for East Cleveland.

“It’s not a knock to anyone else, but I think Stone, L.I.F.E., Closed Sessions and ARTC — it’s a new identity,” he says. “People talk about Cleveland and people talk about East Cleveland, but no one has ever really talked about it how I talk about it.

My biggest thing is that I want to give Cleveland an identity, because I don’t feel like Cleveland has one.

I’m just going to continue to drop bangers, work on a project and keep building. Hopefully some touring in the near future. We haven’t really talked about that yet. We’re just trying to get a running start. We’ve got some good stuff coming up.”

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DON’T CALL HIM BUCKWHEAT

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MUSIC Socially conscious singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys brings rare full-band tour to Beachland

By Jeff Niesel BROOKLYN-BORN SINGERsongwriter Garland Jeffreys has always been a New York guy. Even when he went away to college, he didn’t leave the state. Jeffreys, who went to Syracuse University in the ’60s, had a college experience that changed his life. While at Syracuse, he befriended another aspiring singersongwriter by the name of Lou Reed.

The two would develop a friendship that lasted until Reed’s death in 2013.

“We would meet almost every single day at a bar called the Orange Bar,” says Jeffreys, 72, during a phone interview from his New York home. “At the time, Lou Reed was just Lou Reed. He was just a plain guy. Me meeting Lou and Lou meeting me — that was a very powerful experience for both of us. What’s sweet about it is that we stayed friends until just before he passed on. He was a very great friend.”

While Reed went on to form the Velvet Underground and then start a successful solo career, Jeffreys began gigging in Manhattan. Like Reed, he developed his poetic sensibilities and wrote songs that reflected the time period. In his music, he would famously explore race relations in the states. The topics continue to intrigue Jeffreys, whose career experienced a rebirth in 2011 with the The King of In Between, his first studio release in years. Now Jeffreys has embarked on a rare full-band tour that brings him to the Beachland Ballroom on Jan. 22.

His roots- and blues-based music represents an extension of the music he heard while growing up.

“My mother played music in the house all the time,” he says. “My father loved Louis Armstrong. I heard Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Those were the original sounds I heard. I graduated to Frankie Lymon, who was my idol.

I fell in love with that. I still love jazz and blues and, of course, Miles and Mingus and Monk and all those people.”

In the early ’70s, he had some success with the single “Wild in the Streets,” a song that was inspired by

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rape and murder that took place in the Bronx. It features blaring horns and snarling guitars as Jeffreys croons, “Mrs. America/Tell me how is your favorite son?/Do you really care/What he has done?” The song has a Springsteen-like swagger to it — not surprisingly, Jeffreys and Springsteen are pals and work together on Springsteen’s Light of Day foundation that raises money to combat Parkinson’s Disease.

“It’s amazing, that song,” says Jeffreys when asked about “Wild in the Streets,” adding that “it’s really wild that it [will be heard in a forthcoming Baz Luhrmann-helmed Netflix series].” “It’s very promising.

With a capital P. It’s almost like being rediscovered as if it’s first happening.

I’m beginning to enjoy what is happening to it with the promise that there will be more exciting things surrounding the film. I think my wife is already going out and spending money.”

In 1992, he released Don’t Call Me Buckwheat, an album that centers on his reflections on being multi-racial in America.

“It’s a very interesting way that I used that phrase,” he says. “When I say, ‘Don’t call me Buckwheat,’ it means don’t stereotype me and don’t belittle me. I’m saying it to the race.

It’s all about racism. It’s all about respecting your brother and sister regardless of their color. That’s my message. Period. A short paragraph [about my music] would be, we know

At 72, Garland Jeffreys shows no signs of slowing down.

album’s success also inspired Jeffreys to return to recording. He followed it up in 2013 with Truth Serum. Now he’s started writing new songs for an album due out later this year.

“I’m working on an album now and one of the songs is called ‘Black Murder,’” he says. “It not only comes out of that jury trial in the South, but it’s the ease with which black people have been murdered. There are outrageous situations where

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that racism is still pervasive and powerful. I spent part of my career championing the idea that it’s time for a change. I’ve been doing that forever.”

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racism has been so strong and active.

People are saying, ‘So kill them.’ It’s amazing. People have had that race hate for hundreds of years. Somebody like Obama, whether he’s the greatest president or not, is undermined constantly. He fought it and fought it and fought it. He’s done a remarkable job considering he’s had no help. This is the country we live in.”

Recently inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame, Jeffreys says he’ll take whatever accolades come his way.

“It’s a nice tribute,” he says of the Hall of Fame induction. “At the center of my music is my interest in the race discussion. It always has been, even before it was popular.

That’s always at the heart of what I’m doing. I do go off into different other things. It’s just been that way.

I come from a place where I’ve had a lot of experience growing up.”

So what’s been the key to keeping relevant?

“I feel like for me, I’m compelled,” he says. “I want to. It’s not a job. I want to write good songs. I’ve met some wonderful people along the way. I put out some good music over the years too. Now, with this [Luhrmann] movie, we expect some action. What odd timing. That’s the music business.”

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Gunplay/Talk Chickens/Young Troubled Minds: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop.

Nile: 7 p.m., $17.68. Agora Ballroom.

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Blu Jazz Jam with Theron Brown: 8 p.m., $8. BLU Jazz+.

Broadway Showtunes Night (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Cauliflower Ninjas/After Funk: 9 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern.

CIMprovise: 8 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern.

Govinda/Eric Invasion/Shaggs: 9:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

High Waisted: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Hillbilly Idol/the Flavor Project: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Lyrical Rhythms Concert Series presents: Durand Bernarr’s “Home Sweet Home” featuring the Empire Band: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop.

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Chris Allen and Don Dixon: 8 p.m., $13. Musica.

The Blue Drivers/Joandjo/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

DJ Parker: 2016 and Still Feeling Mean: 9 p.m. Now That’s Class.

Fireside (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Ray Fogg: 9 p.m., $8. Vosh Club.

Garland Jeffreys/Robbing Mary: 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Jukebox Heroes: 9:30 p.m., $5.

Brothers Lounge.

Dennis Lewin: 10:30 p.m., free.

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Tracy Marie (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m.

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Epica brings symphonic metal to the Agora. See: Monday.

Montana of 300/Snipez: 6 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Joey Nix/Total Babes: 9 p.m., $5.

Happy Dog. Donny Osmond: 7:30 p.m., $49.50$79.50. Hard Rock Rocksino.

Schwartz Brothers: 9:30 p.m., $6.

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Space Funeral/Nope/Golden Streets of Paradise: 9 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern.

Tri-C JazzWorks: 8:30 p.m., $15.

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Yosemight/Vine Street Vibes/The Outer Waves: 9 p.m., $6 ADV, $8 DOS. Grog Shop.

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2016 Tri-C High School Rock Off: As a way of nurturing and supporting the talent native to Northeast Ohio, the folks at the concert promotions behemoth Live Nation devote what is traditionally a slow time of the year for concerts to this annual event, a battle of the bands that pits high-school bands against one another in a competition to crown one final winner the best highschool band in the land. Last year, the event returned to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where a handful of bands battled it out each weekend before one winner was

crowned in the Final Exam. This year, the event will also take place at the Rock Hall. Every Saturday in January, regional bands will compete before a panel of judges for the right to move on to the “Final Exam,” which takes place on Feb. 13 at the Rock Hall. Now in its twentieth year, the event will also feature special appearances by alumni acts who’ll perform at the end of each round. (Niesel), 6 p.m. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Chase Bryant: Up-and-coming country singer-guitarist Chase Bryant comes from a long line of musicians. His grandfather performed with Roy Orbison and Waylon Jennings and his uncles co-founded the chart-topping group Ricochet. So when he started playing guitar and singing, he wanted to follow in their footsteps — to an extent. He’s said he wants to put his own “stamp” on his music. If that’s the case, he’s off to a good start. Released in 2014, his self-titled debut has yielded one monster hit with “Take It On Back,” a song about wanting to fall back in love with an old flame and recapture that innocence of first falling in love. His latest single, the mid-tempo tune “Little Bit of You,” has become a hit too.

Bryant has supported acts such as Brantley Gilbert and Tim McGraw on national arena tours and has just hit the road again for a series

of headlining dates that includes tonight’s show at the Dusty Armadillo in Rootstown. (Niesel), 10 p.m., $12. Dusty Armadillo.

Ex-Astronaut/Sam Goodwill/The Safeties: Formerly known as Field Trip, Ex-Astronaut kicks shoegaze aesthetics across laid-back and anthemic vocals. The band recently released a live session recorded at WRUW. Both “Falling Apart” and “The River” showcase a band knee-deep in interesting ideas and tight execution. The former refracts hypnotic melodies through flange effects, creating a metallicsounding atmosphere that calls to mind the recording’s cover art.

“The River,” meanwhile, builds more slowly toward a thrilling, chugging chorus. We’re betting that this radio station session translates even better to the stage setting. (Eric Sandy), 9 p.m., $5.

Happy Dog. Amity Fest with Carousel Kings/ Sink the Ship: 6 p.m., $10-$12.

Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Fifty Amp Fuse: 9 p.m., $15. Vosh Club.

Group/Whiskey Hallows/Polars: 8:30 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Hubb’s Groove Tribute to David Sanborn and Grover Washington Jr.: 8 p.m., $20. Akron Civic Theatre.

In Training: January Rejuvenation with Altstadt Echo/Boy Harsher/ Moltar/DJ sets by SILKMAN and Mint Clad: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Lez Zeppelin: 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

Lily and Jeff (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Diane Marino Quartet: 7 p.m., $15.

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Brian Newman Quintet (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

The Nathan Paul Band: 9 p.m., $5.

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Jim Schafer & Friends/Eve N’ Stephen: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

School of Rock Strongsville Presents: Rage Against the Audio Garden/Zombie Fried Chicken, Psychedelic ‘60s (in the Supper Club): 1 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

The Suitcase Junket/Luckey Ones/ Josh “Wolfboy” Ryan: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern.

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Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free.

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The former pre-school teacher was so successful, he ditched the indie-rock gig and moved to Chicago, where he spent a couple of years in graduate school and simultaneously honed his G-rated songwriting craft. At that point, his career as a guy who can play to both parents and kids was born. Roberts and his band, the Not Ready for Naptime Players, regularly play Cleveland and this marks a welcomed return for the family friendly band. (Niesel), 3 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Alex Bevan CD Release/David J. Young/Tom Dobeck/Bill Watson: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Bog Trotters: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Brent Kirby: 3 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Calvin Love/Christmas Pets: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. The Portersharks (in the Supper Club): 4 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

Brandon R. Scarborough Presents “Bringing Gospel to Blu”: 3 p.m., $20. BLU Jazz+.

School of Rock with AC/DC “If You Want Blood”/The Monarchy Show/Rock 101/The Music of Pink Floyd: 1 p.m., Free.

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outside even the fringes of today’s rock ‘n’ roll scene, Fred Eaglesmith is the sort of musician who cherishes storytelling in his songwriting. His is music meant for the road or the dance floor, where wild American dreams play out nightly. Following what his team has called “a fusion of rock ‘n’ roll circa 1966, Motown, and even Tejano influences,” Eaglesmith’s latest album, Tambourine, once again builds a rich world of characters and more than a few broken hearts. In weaving tales like that against a backdrop of toe-tappin’ rock (his band is excellent), Eaglesmith has honed one of the more enticing touring acts of the day. (Sandy), 8 p.m., $20. Beachland Tavern.

Epica/Moonspell/Starkill: Some 13 years after forming in the Netherlands, the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica has become a major force on the international metal scene. It even successfully hosted its own metal festival last year. Singer Simone Simons has described the band’s latest album, 2014’s The Quantum Enigma, as the beginning of a new era. The album commences with “Originem,” a tune that features chanted vocals and has more in common with classical music than metal. But the group quickly plugs in the guitars for “Second Stone,” a song that allows Simons to really wail.

“The Essence of Silence” marries falsetto vocals with low-pitched male growls, turning it into something like sounds like Meat Loaf on steroids. A common theme about scientific discovery links the songs. It’s heady stuff. (Niesel), 6 p.m., $20.80. Agora Ballroom Skatch Anderssen Orchestra: 8 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge.

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MEET THE BAND: Brian Newman (trumpet, vocals), Steve Kortyka (saxophonist), Alex Smith (pianist), Paul Francis (drums), Daniel Foose (upright bass)

my whole band. We were lucky to get to record and tour. [Bennett] loves the music and he loves bringing other stars to the forefront with him. He’s a hell of a cat.”

THE CLEVELAND CONNECTION: Newman is from the Mentor area while Kortyka is from Cleveland, Smith is from Cincinnati and Francis is from Chillicothe. “Ohio always has the best people,” says Newman via phone from New York where he’d just wrapped up his weekly vocal lessons with renowned vocal coach Don Lawrence.

“They’re hard working and blue collar.

That’s how I was raised. It makes a different sound. I went to school with these guys and they’re some of the best musicians I’ve played with in my life.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: Brian continues to hold down a longstanding weekly residency as bandleader at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel on Tuesday and Thursday nights. He also performs on select Friday nights at NYC’s legendary Rainbow Room with his orchestra. Guests who have sat in with him include Jon Batiste, Mark Murphy, Dierks Bentley, Willie Nile and the Dirty Pearls. “I try to have a weekly residency somewhere so people can come out and hear us and we stay relevant,” he says. On 2012’s Live From New York City, he offers a peppy rendition of “Night and Day,” and he delivers a woozy horn solo on “Our Love is Here to Stay.” Newman will prerelease his new album, Eyes on the City, at the end of January on Pledgemusic.

GETTING CHEEKY: Newman, who’s Lady Gaga’s jazz bandleader, collaborated with Gaga and Tony Bennett on their 2014 Grammy-winning album Cheek to Cheek, which featured arrangements by Newman and his band. The single, “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down),” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard. “It took a couple of years to do the record,” explains Newman. “It worked out great. [Gaga] wanted me to do something different.

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CURATING AKRON’S MUSICAL LEGACY

By Brian Lisik FROM ITS INCEPTION, THE “Akron Sound” was less an actual sound than it was a rather ingenious bit of musical marketing hype.

While one might be generous enough to call what followed a movement of sorts - given birth amidst an otherwise dour, industrial Midwestern landscape; a grey and beige world more renowned for its export of tires, souped-up muscle cars, and a peculiar lack of civic selfesteem - the “Akron Sound” was really nothing more or less than an attempt to sell records.

“Unfortunately, we are Cleveland’s bitch – a lot of people still think Devo is from Cleveland,” says Wayne Beck, an Akron graphic artist who has spent the better part of the past year laying the groundwork for the latest testament to Akron’s gloriously patinaed past, the “Akron Sound” Museum.

The museum, Beck explains, will be dedicated to preserving both the legendary first wave of Akron new wave – Devo, Chrissie Hynde, Tin Huey, the Bizarros, and The Rubber City Rebels (a band that Beck humorously points out “went to LA, made a record, and then were paid not to make the next one” in true Akron fashion) while advancing later “waves” of music from Akron - like Unit 5, Chi Pig and Rubber City Rebels spin-off, Hammer Damage - up to and including 21st Century exponents of the “Akron Sound.”

Beck has been raising funds and gaining support for the “Akron Sound” Museum, so named – and kept in quotations – for the dubious term that, pop-musically speaking at least, put the Rubber City on the rock ’n’ roll map.

“Back in the ’70s and ’80s, you had Devo, Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders, Tin Huey, the Rubber City Rebels, the Bizarros - and all these bands left town to be the next big thing,” Beck says during a recent interview at Angel Falls Coffee, just down the road from his home in Akron’s artsy Highland Square neighborhood. “I was just going to college so I was too young for that ‘first wave,’ or I at least missed it.”

Beck was around, however, for that second wave, when he roomed with

Trudy and the Trendsetter’s bassist Bob Basone (who currently plays in the brilliantly anachronistic Akronbased soul group, Wesley Bright and the Hi-Lites), and ran with bands like Unit 5 and The Action - featuring Mike Purkhiser, whose brother, Erick, left Akron in the mid-’70s, changed his name to Lux Interior, and cofounded legendary horror rock outfit, The Cramps.

Beck says he envisions the museum showcasing a wide range of Akron-based art and culture – from poets like Rita Dove, to community playhouses, to homegrown retail music outlets like Highland Square staple, Square Records, and Time Traveler Records - owned by Scott Shepard and his wife, Unit 5 singer, Tracey Thomas.

The mission of the “Akron Sound” Museum, Beck says, is to foster new artists by continuing to keep alive a vital part of Akron’s music legacy, gathering and displaying important stages of this important moment in Akron’s musical history.

Beck first sought traditional routes to founding – and funding – the museum, including submissions to grant programs like Better Blocks and Knight Arts Challenge. The Akron-Summit County Public Library and Summit County Historical Society have also unofficially gotten behind the museum effort, to help with archiving memorabilia.

And, of course, the musicians themselves are providing the heart and soul of the “Akron Sound” museum.

“I met Wayne back in the day, [so] when he asked for some memorabilia, I gave him what I had, although I lost most of [what I had] in a flood,” says Thomas.

“It’s not just another music scene,” she says. “You can see that in how those singles from those Akron bands are selling for on eBay. Something in the water? I don’t know. But it’s not like a lot of other ‘hot spots’ – Liverpool, Portland – where there are moments in history where a lot of these really cool bands come together.

It is bigger than that.”

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— Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your question comes up frequently, RRR, and there really isn’t a satisfactory answer.

In Seattle, where I live, a community tool bank recently opened in my neighborhood — but they don’t collect and lend the kind of tools you’re looking to donate. I’ve heard about dildo graveyards in other cities (spots in parks where people bury their used sex toys), but burying sex toys isn’t environmentally responsible. And while high-quality dildos can be cleaned and safely reused, most people are pretty squeamish about the idea. Which is odd, considering that we routinely reuse actual cocks that have been enjoyed by others — so why not the fake ones?

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Dear Dan, I understand that monogamy is not something people are good at — and that’s fine. In fact, most of the people I know are in healthy poly or monogamish relationships. Here’s the thing: I’m monogamous. Not the “I’m attracted to other people but won’t act on it because

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— One 4 One You value monogamy, you want a monogamous commitment, and you want someone who feels the same. That great, O4O, and you have my full support. But you do acknowledge that fantasies about others can be fun, as can looking, as can porn (watching others) and role-play (pretending to be others). So while you may wanna fuck other people — hence the looking and fantasizing and roleplaying — you have no desire to actually fuck other people.

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