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upfront opportunity corridor work begins

tHIS WEEK

As though such things heralded the clamor and fandom of, i.e, the National Basketball Association or something, Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor and ODOT Director Jerry Wray officially kicked off “the 2015 construction season” earlier this week. The focal point and location for the announcement led a flock of reporters to Northeast Ohio’s own Opportunity Corridor on Monday morning. In all, the upcoming season (Go team!) totals $2.4 billion in projects around the state. Cleveland plays host to one of the biggest. To begin the Opportunity Corridor business, crews have closed East 105th Street to southbound traffic between Carnegie and Quincy. That’ll last for some 75 days. The whole project — which opportunistically connects University Circle with the I-490/East 55th Street junction — will take place in phases through 2017 (sorry, RNC). All told, we’re talking a $331-million, 3.2-mile corridor here — a funnel, as it were, from the southern and western suburbs to the commercial glamor and healthcare hub surrounding the Cleveland Clinic and University Circle. ODOT held a number of open house-style meetings over the past several years to solicit some level of community feedback. Dissent is pretty well entrenched across the region, though the Opportunity Corridor PR machine is louder than hell and ensuring everyone that this is going to be terrific. In case you feel unheard (which you likely are), there’s still time to send in comments about the project’s seven bridges, which will either run over the roadway or concurrently as part of the actual route. Comments on that note are due by March 19.

According to ODOT: “As design progresses, other enhancement elements including public plazas and public art will be coordinated in the future. These components will provide an opportunity to include specific neighborhood identity.” Note the subliminal reference, for whatever it’s worth. At least one problem with that bit about neighborhood identity, though, is that the Opportunity Corridor as an idea and as a physical thing actually sets out to impose its own identity — and that of its public-private backers — onto the neighborhoods it’s carving up. It’s best to stop pretending that the people of Cleveland, the residents living along this route particularly, are anything but an afterthought caught up in this gargantuan boondoggle.

Sparring Over the iriShtOwn Bend On March 18th, representatives from the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority are presenting findings from a recent study on the deteriorating Irishtown Bend hillside. The Port has proposed a series of remediations on the half-mile curve of the Cuyahoga River’s west bank that would cost about $50 million. That sounds a like a ton of money, but it’s a distant cry from the $240-million proposal grandly submitted by the Army Corps of Engineers a few years ago, a proposal that was predicated on faulty geologic theory and no original data-collection, and which relied primarily on a litany of inconclusive reports from area stakeholders. “The Corps logo is a turreted castle,” said the Port’s director of sustainable infrastructure programs,

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Jim White, in a phone conversation with Scene. “Their DNA is coastal defense. They like to build big, clunky things. And I think they were proud of the proposal, but every engineer we interviewed said it was the dumbest thing they’d ever seen.” The Port has been trading punches with the Army Corps of Engineers for months, via the media, as they debate the Corps’ toxic dredge dump strategy. But as for the Franklin Avenue hillside, said White: “It’s time to get this done.” He characterized the study completed for the Port by engineering firm Barr & Prevost as “encyclopedic” and then “ridiculously thorough.” Key among the report’s findings was the ongoing risk of “catastrophic hillside failure” (i.e. collapse) if water conditions and slope stability at the toe

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aren’t dealt with promptly. “It’s not teetering on the brink,” White said. “It’s not like a single person on a pogo stick is going to make it come crashing down, but it needs to be fixed. It’s below the recommended factor of safety. If there were, say, a heavy, wet March snowfall and then an uplift, a little earthquake bump…I don’t know.” White said that preserving the hillside should be a priority for the many government agencies involved, and that a projected $48 - million budget, though expensive, would be manageable. “If the Sewer District, the Metroparks, the City and the County all put up $12 million, you’ve got your money,” he said. Of the projected costs, $2 million would go toward bike and pedestrian

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arth calling all sci-fi fans, space geeks, Trekkies, Star Wars nuts, and pretty much anyone who loves to have a good time! Saturday, April 11th, is the 4th Annual Yuri’s Night Space Party at Great Lakes Science Center. Kicking off at 8pm, the party is to honor cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s first manned space flight on April 12, 1961 and the inaugural launch of NASA’s Space Shuttle on April 12, 1981. With over 1000 guests expected, this is as much a chic costume party as it is an intergalactic celebration -- “about 75% of the crowd is decked out in space-themed gear! Star Wars and Star Trek characters are ever-popular. A lot of Dr. Who, of course. I’ve also seen a handmade robot costume created out of boxes, and even someone dressed as Yuri Gagarin himself” explains Dante Centuori, Director of Creative Productions for Great Lakes Science Center. Each year as the popularity of Yuri’s Night has grown, so have the outof-this-world offerings. This year, the folks at GLSC have brought some unique community partners to enhance the experience, including, a gamers lounge hosted by Xtend Technologies who will be running a Kinect Dance Party, tabletop games provided by Critical Hit, and Space Trivia hosted by GeekCLE. Not to be missed is OHTec (formerly NEOSA), making galaxy slime, Engage! Cleveland making pet aliens, Wizard World Comic Con who is making Yoda ears (yes, Yoda ears), and GeekCLE is making paper Yuri’s. The music has been a critical key to success for this event, and this year the line-up is in a new altitude. The main stage will have Abby Normal and the Detroit Lean followed by DJ Justin Nyce. On the outdoor decks, they will have the bands Indira & Guppy Jo, Joe Vitale Jr., and Michael McFarland on guitar. The food is also legit with some tasty light hors d’oeuvres like southwest eggrolls, turkey pot stickers, potato cheddar bites, breaded ravioli, pretzel sticks with Sam Adams cheese dip, chips and assorted cheese and crackers. General Admission tickets are $55 in advance and $70 at the door. Included in the ticket price are beer, wine, cider and light hors d’oeuvres -while supplies last. There will be a cash bar for cocktails and special treats. Scene readers can use discount code SCENE for $5 off your general admission ticket. Purchase tickets at GreatScience.com or at 216621-2400.

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upfront trails, but White said the priority should be determining the source of water saturation, fixing and realigning any sewer lines underground, and fortifying the slope at the north end. Ongoing attempts to determine the source of water damage have been complicated by a brutal, icy winter. Ed Rybka, Cleveland’s chief of regional development, is hosting the meeting Wednesday with area stakeholders. The Port would love to see a specific plan of action emerge from the meeting. White said he also thinks a task force of some kind would be a prudent idea. Rybka himself was unavailable for comment before press time.

Judge Overturns BrOadview HeigHts Ban On drilling

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Following similar judicial orders of late, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Michael Astrab ruled that Bass Energy of Fairlawn and Ohio Valley Energy of Austintown, among other such outfits, will be allowed to drill new wells in Broadview Heights. The ruling is notable not only for its timely complement to the Ohio Supreme Court’s Munroe Falls decision, but also because Broadview Heights was one of a handful of Ohio cities that had a voter-approved Community Bill of Rights in its charter. That ballot issue reserved residents’ rights to clean air and water and, i.e., banned oil and gas drilling from its point of passage onward. Bass Energy and Ohio Valley Energy sued the city, challenging that charter amendment. Astrab’s ruling puts the right to permit and regulate new drilling operations in the hands of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, mirroring the recent state ruling and further entrenching the precedent. “We now see that at least one court is not prepared to uphold our right to protect our health and safety,” community organizer Tish O’Dell

said. “Instead, the court prohibited our city from protecting us. If no branch of our government is going to protect us from these corporate harms, then our government has ceased to be legitimate.” At this point, Ohioans have pretty much heard it all from their elected leaders at the local, state and federal levels. They’re against drilling! They’re for drilling! More and more, though, the lure of the short-run pretty penny has proved hard to resist. ODNR, the agency in charge of overseeing and regulating our state’s natural resources, has become the benevolent gatekeeper, kowtowing to industry demands. Last fall, Bass Energy President William Hlavlin told The Broadview Journal, “We are just suing for the right to do what we do. We feel the city is denying our rights. We have a permit from the state. We just want to finish our project and leave.” No one was really disputing that. Scene presented a look at the drilling industry’s current Ohio boom cycle back in February, reporting on the transiency of these corporations’ drilling work. Even though signing away residents’ rights is a long-term decision from local and state courts, the actual drilling is not. Industry moves onto the next play, packing up and leaving the environmental consequences to the people to live there. Astrab is not the first — and he won’t be the last — judge to side with the out-of-towners, the corporate interests, the oily rats of the drilling underworld.

racially MOtivated attack alleged at akrOn’s sae Frat An African American student at the University of Akron is alleging in a lawsuit that in 2014 he was physically attacked and the target of racial slurs by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Akron, and the subject of false arrest by campus police who took the word of the frat brothers without any

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investigation. The lawsuit comes amid a slew of recent stories about overtly racist behavior at other SAE chapters across the country, like those insane chants by the University of Oklahoma chapter or the numerous other example throughout its history (see more at clevescene.com). The lawsuit filed last week by African-American student Gabriel Dorsey states that he attended a Super Bowl party at the frat house on Feb. 2, 2014, when a frat brother drunkenly came on to Dorsey’s girlfriend. When Dorsey confronted him, he says the guy punched him in the face, and then was “immediately attacked by a score of SAE brothers” when he defended himself, causing him to fall to the ground, and was the target of “multiple blows, kicks, and strikes while defenseless.” When the the frat brothers were attacking Dorsey, they were yelling n***** at him, it says, and then was tossed out of the house by the group. Following the beating, it says two of the frat brothers came up with the plan to tell campus police that Dorsey was the aggressor “and further conspired and manufactured false reports of two additional unidentified black males as accomplices” with Dorsey attacked

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them “without provocation and then fled on foot,” despite there only being one other black person at the house (an SAE brother who later left the frat because of their racist behavior). Dorsey and his lawyer say police arrested him without any investigation — like, say, watching the surveillance footage — and maliciously prosecuted him without probable cause. He was taken to the Summit County Jail and “was forced to bond out of jail and miss both work and school.” Because of this, he was expelled from all state universities in Ohio, the suit states. Once he got out, Dorsey was “confronted by SAE members known and unknown by threats of violence and racial slurs including but not limited to n***** via social media and telephone messages.” In September, Dorsey was acquitted of all charges, and was allowed to return as a student this semester. He missed a full year of college because of the incident. Dorsey and his lawyers are suing the national SAE fraternity, the frat’s Akron chapter and its members, University of Akron Police Department officers.

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It’s movie lovers’ favorite time of the year By Sam Allard The Cleveland InTernaTIonal Film Festival is upon us. It’s that annual celebration of all things cinematic — Indies! Shorts! Somber foreign-language documentaries! Quirky local mockumentaries! — and Bill Guentzler is the unflagging artistic director who’s been with CIFF for 17 years. He’s the guy who coordinates the scouting and acquisition of the films, creating the festival schedule, and then captaining the festival for the duration of its 10-day run, during which time he sleeps very little. Guentzler managed to carve out 20 minutes from a busy Friday morning to chat with Scene about this year’s fest:

hate to even broach the subject, Bill, but do you ever get burned out? No. I still love this job. I mean, how can I not? opening night’s less than a week away? how would you characterize your status? It’s not necessarily a mad scramble, but it’s definitely a scramble. There’s so much stuff that we still need to do, but we’ve been working all year on this, and it’s not our first festival, so we’ve figured out what we can do early and what we can’t. But the week before the festival is always insane. So like for instance, what are you doing right now? Today we’re actually moving into Tower City. We’re taking over the cinemas now. The box office is moving to the Tower City box office because up until this point we’ve sort of been over in the corner. The projection equipment is being moved in and then we’re going to start loading films onto the projectors. This year, you’re doing more programming outside of Tower City as well, seems like.

Yeah. Ten years ago for one of our anniversaries, we did one screening at the Cedar Lee. That was the original home of the CIFF. Then, probably about seven or eight years ago, we reached out to the Capitol when it opened, and did some screenings there and at Shaker Square. We have been doing screenings in Akron for five years now, and this is the third year that we’re having screenings for a full day. And this year, we’re doing it on a weekend. We’ll be a doing a Friday night screening and then a full Saturday of screenings.

That’s great. Yeah, and it helps us with Tower City, because there’s no more space. You go to the festival on the weekends and pretty much every seat is taken by the time the show starts. So is the Festival at its capacity? Can it even continue to grow at this point? We have been growing, obviously. I mean since 2003, we’ve grown 178 percent, but we don’t focus on growing. We focus on making the experience good. So with that growth, there are a lot of changes we have to do, just to make sure that everyone has a good time. There is still room during the week, during the day. Those screenings are rarely sold out, but if you go on the weekend, there’s 10 full theaters at all times. let’s chat about the films. have you seen them all? I have not. The majority I’ve seen, but I work with Mallory Martin, our associate programmer. We travel to film festivals throughout the year and then we have a selection committee process where films are submitted to us. how many people submit, generally?

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Bill Guentzler watches a lot of movies. You, too, can watch a lot of movies during CIFF.

This year we received over 2,000 submissions. And we have 60-70 people watching each film. Each film is watched three times and graded, and then Mallory and I watch the highest-rated feature films. The highest-rated short films go on to a secondary programming committee just for shorts.

So once you guys decide you want to bring a film to Cleveland, what’s the process? Usually, when Mallory and I go to festivals, we’ll come back and compare our lists and decide which films we’d like to bring. Then it’s usually just about reaching out to the film’s contact — sometimes it’s the filmmaker, sometimes it’s the producer, sometimes it’s a sales agent — and just starting the conversation. If they say yes, we go through the process of getting all the materials we need and figuring out the schedule — sometimes with these films, there’s only one copy. And if they say maybe, it’s sort of like selling ourselves and our audiences. What do you tell them? That we have one of the strongest audiences of any festival in the United States. That they’re really, really intelligent about film and they’ll see anything. I think a lot of companies understand our audience and really want to play their films here. With other companies, it’s a struggle because sometimes they haven’t even heard of Cleveland. any local films to highlight? Yeah, we’re doing our Local Heroes Competition again, for the fourth year. This year is really really strong. You range from a documentary about Derek Hess, a documentary about

Near West Theatre, all the way to a mockumentary starring and directed by Chagrin Falls natives: Fred Willard and Marion Flynn and then directed by Lance Kinsey.

any new initiatives this year that you’re excited about? Yeah, the New Direction Program, which is kind of replacing our Focus on Filmmakers program which we had for three years and was funded by the academy. That funding ended, and Mallory and I have really wanted to focus on first-time filmmakers for several years so this is our first stab at it, and we chose 11 filmmakers to focus on. These are firsttime filmmakers that are doing something new, exciting, interesting that Mallory and I haven’t seen before. The majority of those directors are coming in, including a director from India, a director from Mexico, several from Belgium. And we’ll be having a panel discussion the first Saturday of the festival at 4 p.m. What’s the best way to see films at the fest? You can either get a day pass, and that’s part of our challenge match. We’re trying to raise $125,000 throughout the festival. And if you donate at a certain level, you’ll get a day pass which is good for any film on that day. There are also passes which correspond to membership levels. Individual tickets are $15.

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CLUB COKE INSIDE THE INVESTIGATION THAT BROUGHT DOWN A WEST SIXTH STREET COCAINE DEALER BY DOUG BROWN

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IF YOU’VE HUNG OUT ON WEST

Sixth Street in recent years, you might have bumped into Gilbert Mendez, the energetic, sociable, suitwearing, fancy car-driving 37-year-old former owner of the now defunct Club Sin nightclub. Club Sin fit in with the rest of the entertainment district in some ways and stood out in others. It was filled with promoters and faux glitz and glamour, offered the usual bottle service and VIP fun behind velvet ropes, and came equipped with burly bouncers, DJs and shot girls.

Mendez was no stranger to those parties. He was a businessman, through and through, and he ran what was, by most accounts, a successful nightclub packed by shot-slurping crowds every weekend. He was also no stranger to federal prisons or the Cleveland police department. That history, which rubbed into his present day operation, is what landed Club Sin in the crosshairs of a drug task force. A February 2015 Federal indictment charged the Mendez with running a coke distribution operation

out of Club Sin. The investigation included phone taps, GPS tracking, stakeouts, controlled buys, friends turning on friends — really, the whole shady shebang. It all began back in the summer of 2011 when two paid informants set up a coke deal in the VIP room of Club Sin and ended with federal charges against seven men accused of having a role in a West Side drug ring. There were at least 15 other targets along the way — some caught state charges, some fell off the Northern Ohio Law Enforcement Task Force’s

radar, some became informants. But Mendez was the center of it all for the task force, which was made up of local detectives and FBI agents, and once they tapped his phone and tracked his cars, he flipped to informant before the indictment came down against six of his associates — Alexander Febres, Joseph Velez, Erick Mendez, Paris Valles, Israel Cortes, and nightclub promoter/rapper Ivan Salcedo Torres (known as “Bully Cashtro”). But the story is more complex than just the indictment of seven

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feATURe men. The investigation slithered its way through the Cleveland nightlife scene, doubled back to buys at cell phone stores and auto body shops, and ended with the main target on the run.

Gilbert Mendez has spent the majority of his adult life behind bars -- 120 months in all -- or on probation. His first federal bust, also nightclubrelated, was in 1997. A then 19-yearold Mendez had been transporting cocaine from Cleveland south to clubs in the Cincinnati area, where law enforcement there just happened to be orchestrating a year-long undercover operation. He was arrested alongside five others when Cincinnati police seized 4.4 pounds of cocaine (worth $400,000 on the street, as reported the Cincinnati Enquirer at the time, which seems a bit high, at today’s rate), and $15,000 in cash. “These are not small-time dealers by any stretch of the imagination,” Cincinnati police captain Richard Biehl, now Dayton’s police chief, said at the time. Mendez was convicted of

least some of it and faced at least a decade in prison based on his prior conviction committing the crimes while on probation. But you can always negotiate. In 2005, he struck a deal with the Feds, pleading to a lesser charge. As part of the deal, Mendez agreed to provide the Feds with something more useful -- information against others related to his bust and his testimony against others in future cases. Before his plea deal, he had already met with law enforcement and provided statements. “Additionally,” his plea deal stated, “the defendant has expressed an interest to fully cooperate in this case and any other case indicted as a result of his cooperation.” He was sentenced to 78 months, far less than what he would have gotten without cooperating, at the federal prison in Coleman, Florida, followed by five years probation. Three years in, however, U.S. attorneys filed a motion to knock off some years on his sentence after more of his information proved useful in additional convictions. Federal judge Donald Nugent

enforcement career. In 2001, while a cadet in the Cleveland police academy, he got in a fight at 2:30 a.m. outside of a nightclub on Scranton Rd. According to the arrest warrant, “Torres engaged in two physical assaults,” punching a guy in the face and kicking him while he was laying on the ground, which “incited several other members of the crowd to join in” and beat the guy up. Three Cleveland police officers who were working secondary employment there saw what happened, and

failed a test since release and had been employed full time at “Strugga, Inc.” (actually spelled “Struga, Inc.” in legal documents; the company was an umbrella for a variety of clubs and restaurants in Northeast Ohio), the motion stated. Included in the court filings were three character references -- letters lobbying judge Nugent to release Mendez from probation. The first was from his fiancé’s mother. She called him a “polite and hard-working man with integrity,”

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possession with intent to distribute and sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by five years of probation. Shortly after he was released, back in Cleveland and on parole, DEA records indicate Mendez quickly rejoined the game. In 2004, four informants told a DEA agent and Cleveland police that Mendez had delivered them at least 20 kilograms of cocaine -- 44 pounds -over the previous year. The evidence against Mendez was slim -- it was just the testimony of informants -- but he admitted to investigators at

agreed, chopping 15 months off his sentence. In 2009, Mendez left prison and immediately began working at Traffic Night Club, which later became Sin Night Club. (The address is now home to Martini 6, for geographical perspective.) There, the twice-convicted cocaine dealer partnered up with a fifth district Cleveland cop named Jose Torres (known as “Tito”), among others. Torres, now 40, had an inauspicious start to his law

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“two of the officers later positively identified Torres as the person inciting the crowd,” it says. He’d be charged with inciting violence, a charge later dropped by the prosecutor, and disorderly conduct, of which he was found not guilty at trial in 2002 -- witnesses’ memory, mostly Cleveland cops, became faulty when it was time to testify. He was then commissioned as a Cleveland police officer, with back pay. (The city of Cleveland has not yet responded to a public records request for Torres’ secondary employment records. Torres responded to a set of questions via Facebook message from Scene with a thumbs-up icon.) Mendez started five years of probation when he returned home from prison in the 2009. By October 2011, however, his lawyer, Edward LaRue (the same lawyer who represented Torres after his 2001 arrest), filed a motion to terminate his supervised release. Mendez had had enough of the drug tests and checkups. He had completed his 63-month prison sentence and a 500-hour drug program. He hadn’t

who “was honest about his past experiences. He continues to work hard at being successful and prosperous and has taken good care of our daughter financially and otherwise. His character has always been forthright and sincere and the plans for his future that he has shared with us are honorable and promising.” The other two references came from the Cleveland police department. Captain Dan DePiero was a colleague of Torres’ in the fifth district. He’s also an attorney, and he’s also represented Torres in recent civil litigation. (Around 2013, Torres wanted to open a nightclub on Memphis Ave, and he paid the owner of a building $80,000; when the deal didn’t go through, the building owner agreed to pay Torres back in installments, with interest. When he missed a payment last summer, DePiero, on behalf of Torres, filed suit.) DePiero had known Mendez since he was released from his second stint in prison and vouched for him.

(DePiero hung up the phone when Scene sought comment for this story.) His September 12, 2011 letter to the judge read:

Dear Judge Nugent: I have known Gilbert Mendez for the last two years. During this time, Gilbert has led a law abiding life, established a relationship with his daughter, is a good father, and has held steady employment. Sincerely, Dan R. DePiero Cleveland Police Captain The third letter came from Cleveland narcotics detective George Redding, who said he first met Mendez a decade prior when he was on post-prison supervised release following his first federal cocaine conviction. (Redding did not return calls seeking comment for this story.)

Honorable Donald Nugent: This is a character and personal reference letter for Gilbert Mendez; He is on probation to you and would like his probation to be terminated. I have been acquainted with Gil since about 2001 or so. We met when I was a patrol officer while he was waiting to pay his debt to society. Gil has been a positive and law abiding family guy since I’ve known him and since he’s returned. He has been gainfully employed and I have not observed or have any knowledge of things being any different. Since becoming a detective, I do a lot of undercover work and have observed Gilbert Mendez’s actions on several occasions. And I have not seen anything that would indicate anything different than above.

In August 2011, three Cleveland detectives -- two of which were assigned to the task force -- met with an informant, an “associate” of a man named Alexander Febres. “Alex” and “Gil [Mendez],” he told the detectives, had an entire cocaine operation running through Sin nightclub. They’d “receive kilogram quantities” of cocaine there, repackaged it, and sold it out of the VIP room. Febres and Mendez would regularly drive to Chicago in different cars to pick up cocaine, the CI said; the duo also had a supplier in Florida.

The informant “stated that Gilbert Mendez owns Club Sin with a Cleveland Police Officer named Juan Torres aka, ‘Tito,’” wrote Cleveland police detective James Cudo, a lead investigator in the task force, in an affidavit nearly two and a half years later about the meeting. It is not clear why Cudo wrote “Juan” instead of “Jose” in the affidavit -- Jose Torres and Cudo are colleagues, it was no secret that Jose Torres was involved in the club, and records and police rosters were available to him to check Jose Torres’ affiliation. In that affidavit,

written in Dec. 2013, Cudo made a footnote regarding the informant’s statement: “It is unclear at this point of the investigation whether Torres is involved with this establishment.” Records available to Scene do not indicate whether the task force cleared up that question. But sources tell Scene that Mendez and Torres were business partners around the start of the investigation in 2011, which was put on hold later that fall for nearly two years. They’d part ways in the coming years, we were told, by the time the task force seriously dove into the investigation

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feATURe again in the second half of 2013. Shortly after that August 2011 meeting with the informant -- an associate of Alex Febres -- the task force brought in two paid informants with no previous connection to Mendez and Febres. The pair met with Mendez inside Sin’s VIP room and set up a deal. They met back at the club a few weeks later, where Mendez and Febres told them an ounce of cocaine would cost $1,400. A week later, in October, Febres met the two informants at a house around West 30th Street and Monroe -- a block from St. Ignatius in Ohio City -- where he sold them 21.4 grams of cocaine, all recorded on audio and video for the task force. According to task force records obtained by Scene, that’s it for the investigation until midway through 2013. In the meantime, Mendez violated his post-release probation, according to a January 2013 probation violation hearing in federal court: “The defendant admitted to violating the terms of supervised release for a new law violation and possession of a controlled substance.” Records detailing how that violation came about were not available, but later records detail “Numerous State ID Cards,” “Numerous Credit Cards,” “Marijuana and Glass Pipe,” and a passport that were seized. Mendez was cited by Cleveland Police June 25, 2012, for a car noise violation, but there’s no indication the stop included anything more than that. The federal probation department recommended “the defendant participate in cognitive behavioral therapy.” Mendez would not be going back to prison -- perhaps a sign that something deeper was in the works: A sweeping investigation is impossible with your main target locked up and unable to lead you to others. Which is likely why when Mendez ran into police again on March 1, 2013, and was arrested for disorderly conduct intoxication, a prosecutor promptly dismissed the charge.

By 2013, the task force was back on Mendez’s trail, with a new weapon in their investigation: an informant known in court records as “CS5” (Confidential Source 5). At the task force’s direction and surveillance and using their money,

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CS5 made tens of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine purchases from Mendez between April and December 2013. The task force recorded his phone calls with Mendez, decoding his verbiage when discussing drug deals to provide clues for later conversations when they’d tap his phone. When Mendez needed more cocaine for a deal with CS5, they’d track Mendez to his suppliers and associates. And this was important, because between when the investigation started in 2011 and when it was picked back up in 2013, the investigation into Mendez and Febres had expanded beyond West Sixth Street to houses, business, and side streets throughout neighborhoods on the West Side of Cleveland. An auto shop owned by one of Mendez’s friends had become a hub for the operation. Mendez was tooling around in a number of different cars -a SAAB, a Mercedes, a Honda Accord, a Trail Blazer. Other than a single controlled buy by CS5 in April 2013, the action didn’t get going until that August, when investigators started documenting Mendez’s paranoia -- which turned out to be based in reality -- about getting caught. He was clearly aware of the possibility he was being watched. He took down license plate numbers of cars that he thought looked suspicious. He insisted CS5 get in his car -- a controlled environment, he thought -when they’d meet for a deal. When he drove to meeting with his associates to check if any car was following, he’d drive randomly on side streets that were out of his way, constantly making quick turns; on the highway, he’d get on and get off again. On September 12, for the first time, a federal judge authorized using a “pen register” and “trap and trace” on Mendez’s phone. Soon came a full wiretap of his phone, allowing investigators to listen in on his calls in real time. And then the GPS tracking devices that were installed on his ever-changing fleet of cars. Which is how they learned that “Do you wanna eat at Willie’s Restaurant?” was really code for meeting at his buddy Israel “Izzy” Cortes’ auto shop on West 63rd Street and Storer to discuss and conduct deals. And it led to Joseph Velez, a previously convicted dealer, and Erick Mendez, whose house Gilbert Mendez used for business. And it led to a search warrant for Febres’ apartment, where they found 470 grams of coke and a variety of drugrelated tools.

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But the biggest piece of the investigation had not yet come. Things dramatically changed, for everybody involved, on the afternoon of Monday, December 18, 2013. Something happened that wasn’t supposed to happen quite yet: Gilbert Mendez discovered a GPS tracking device on his Honda Accord. At 5:29 p.m., the task force received an automated text message that the GPS unit was removed. They immediately went to the auto shop -- his car was parked out front; the GPS tracker that was supposed to be affixed to it was registering elsewhere. At 6:01 p.m., Mendez’s girlfriend called him. He told her to get in his Trail Blazer and come to the shop, quickly. She pulled into the garage 16 minutes later. Mendez got in the Trail Blazer, his girlfriend got in the Accord, and they both headed back to their condo in Parma, where another investigator had set up surveillance. Mendez quickly left his condo in his Trail Blazer. Investigators followed him, and since the GPS was likely compromised, they pulled him over. And that was the moment Mendez realized his extreme paranoia was reality. He had been followed all along. One of his main customers had

been wearing a wire. His phone was tapped. He was fucked. Like before, there was only one thing Mendez could do: cooperate. And that’s when, in the task force’s eyes, he went from the Gilbert Mendez the main target of a drug trafficking organization, to Gilbert Mendez, “Confidential Source 14.” That evening he spilled a lot, corroborating for the task force evidence against his associates, backing up what they had seen and heard through surveillance and with the phone tap. Yes, he told them, on Dec. 6 he did take the hydraulic press used for reprocessing kilograms of cocaine from Erick Mendez’s house to Joseph Velez like they saw. And yes, that’s what he referred to as “my daughter’s toy” on the phone. Yes, Velez and Paris Valles reprocess cocaine at a house on Finn Ave. Yes, that’s Paris Valles in that picture, the guy referred to as “P” on the phone. Yes, he took a dye-cast mold from Alex Febres’ house, used in the reprocessing of cocaine, to Velez and Valles at a spot on West 60th Street. Late that night, investigators drove to the house of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Michael Astrab and presented him with a search warrant affidavit for that Finn

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Ave home. It couldn’t wait until the morning. Astrab signed it at 1:44 a.m. At 2 a.m., they hit the house, where they found 300 grams of cocaine and a kilogram press. From Valles’ Jeep Liberty in the driveway, they seized his dashboard GPS unit. Later in December, and through the following weeks, it was Joseph Velez’s turn to flip. He would wear a wire to record a purchase from an East Side supplier who later caught state charges. The task force still wanted more out of Mendez. After he was detained and flipped, Mendez would implicate a man named Ivan Salcedo-Torres. That time he sold CS5 a kilogram of cocaine for $27,000? That was supplied by “Bully,” he told them on January 21, 2014. He pointed the guy out in a photo lineup. Mendez and Salcedo-Torres, 31, definitely know each other from the West Sixth Street nightclub scene. Salcedo-Torres, known to his friends as “Bully” or by his stage name “Bully Cashtro” (or Ca$htro), was an over-the-top flashy nightclub promoter and rapper. On his Facebook page -- which investigators used to verify his identity by cross referencing his phone number caught on Mendez’s wiretap -- he posted hundreds of fliers promoting nightclub events (most recently advertising “Social Fridays” at Rumor, or Saturday nights at Anatomy with “$5 CIROC $3 BUD LIGHT $200 VIP SECTION W/ BOTTLE OF CHOICE”). There were also pictures of SalcedoTorres wearing suits and posing in nightclubs. He’d done promotional work for Club Sin. He and Mendez went back. His phone conversations with Mendez were recorded in a November 2013 wiretap back when Mendez was a target and not an informant. It recorded them setting up meetings and vaguely talking about deals, with the task force’s GPS unit affixed to Mendez’s car recording where they went.

At the end of Jan. 2014, he called Bully and set up a meeting. That meeting would go down inside a cell phone store on East 79th Street and Cedar Ave. The task force hooked an audio recording device onto him and set up surveillance in a nearby parking lot. Salcedo-Torres was peaking out the front window when Mendez pulled up at 11:16 a.m. on Jan 30. Inside, Mendez talked about buying five ounce of cocaine from his nightclub colleague. It was “A-1” quality, Bully told him, fresh off a brick with the ridges still intact, for $1,250 per ounce. They left after 20 minutes. They met the next day on the West Side. Mendez gave Bully $5,200 in cash, and said he’d pay the remaining balance later. Bully handed over the five ounces.

More than a year after Gilbert Mendez wore a wire to help the Feds, he’s on the run. He never showed up for his April 16, 2014 federal parole violation hearing. There are no shortages of rumors on his whereabouts. Some think he’s in Hong Kong. Some think he fled to Florida en route to Puerto Rico, where he has family. Other say “Food Stamp,” as he’s known to some pals and associates, could not have possibly been a snitch. That, of course, isn’t true. “Mendez is not in custody,” Department of Justice spokesman Mike Tobin told Scene last week. “Law enforcement agents are looking for him.” His former associates probably are too.

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Drawing Power Did you know that on the third Thursday of each month you can hang out at a bar and draw with artists you voted “Best of Cleveland” in Scene’s readers’ poll for the past two consecutive years? It’s true: Each month, the Rust Belt Monster Collective hosts a Drink-n-Draw at Lava Lounge at 7 p.m. Bring your sketchbooks and favorite art supplies, grab a beer and take a seat next to your favorite monsters. These monthly hangouts are very informal, and anyone is welcome to attend (21+ to drink, of course). A number of the “regulars” are cartoonists and illustrators, which makes for a fun night, even if you’re just a spectator. The best part is admission is free! Can’t make the third Thursdays at Lava Lounge? Check out RBMC’s website for info on their first Wednesday Drinkn-Draws at Great Lakes Brewing Company. (Josh Usmani) 1307 Auburn Ave., 216-589-9112, coolplacestoeat.com/lava.html.

tonight at the Improv at 7:30. Tickets are $10. (Martin Harp) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. musiC

A Polyphonic Approach Considered one of the world’s most versatile and innovative flutists, Matthias Ziegler makes the kind of polyphonic music that critics call “beguiling” and “extraordinary.” It’s definitely unusual as songs such as “Uakti” consist of whispering noises that sound something like wind blowing through a forest. Ziegler plays principal flute with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra has toured with the percussionist Pierre Favre and performed with the pianist George Gruntz as well as with the American contrabass player Mark Dresser. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Transformer Station. Tickets are $20, $18 for Cleveland Museum of Art members. (Niesel) 1460 West 29th St., 216-938-5429, transformerstation.org.

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Mr. Positive Veteran comedian Mark Reedy calls Cleveland his home, even if he wasn’t born here. He’s been nicknamed “Mr. Positive” because his set aims to uplift and inspire the crowd rather than degrade anyone or anything. Most of his material is based on his own experiences. He wants people to know that they always have a chance to start over — he grew up around the wrong crowd and managed to completely turn his life around. Catch “Mr. Positive”

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Random Thoughts Taking random situations and twisting and turning them into funny situations, comedian Nicholas Anthony is as unique as can be. Having previously been on two seasons of the NBC show Last Comic Standing, Anthony is more than comfortable on stage. He’s even starting 2015 off with a bang as he will be a writer for the upcoming CBS show The Inspectors. Catch Nicholas Anthony tonight at

the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet at 7:30 to see why he’s one of the top rising stars in the comedy world. Tickets are $18 and performances are scheduled through Sunday. (Harp) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. musiC

Shredding Sounds From 7 to 9 p.m. today, MOCA Cleveland hosts a very special musical performance of LIVE WIRES. MOCA Cleveland promises a “rich and varied sonic experience that combines the frenetic shredding sounds of a Janus, gentle resonating patinas of an electronic cello, and strange twills of custom hand-built transducers.” LIVE WIRES includes accomplished east coast musicians Arthur Hernandez, Jeffrey Krieger, Matt Sargent and Thomas Schuttenhelm. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the door, $5 for students (with ID), free for MOCA Cleveland Members. For reservations, visit MOCA Cleveland’s website (shop. mocacleveland.org/Events.aspx). (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org. Comedy

Slash and Byrne Comedian Steve Byrne has skyrocketed through the comedic ranks over the years. His comedic ability brought him his first television show, Sullivan & Son, on TBS. Being born to a Korean mother and Irish father, Bryne has plenty to joke about.

Most of his set revolves around his ethnicity and the many stereotypes he has faced. Byrne does an amazing job of connecting with the audience — once convincing an audience member to call his bedroom “Candyland” and bringing members up on stage to form a “boy band.” He performs tonight at Hilarities at 8. Tickets are $20 to $25 and performances are scheduled through Sunday. (Harp) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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From the Mouths of Babes The duo in Mouths of Babes — Ty Greenstein (of Girlyman) and Ingrid Elizabeth (of Coyote Grace) — describes itself as “a tender tomboy and roughand-tumble lady.” The two bring that opposites-attract appeal to the Happy Days Lodge in Peninsula tonight at 8. The Conservancy Canteen will be serving up the grub: fresh, locallysourced cuisine like Cuban sandwiches, antipasto skewers and spiced beer nuts. Tickets are $17 for non-members, $12 for Conservancy members. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd, Peninsula, 330-657-2909, conservancyforCVNP. org. Art

Late Night Screening If you haven’t heard about The Visitors at MOCA Cleveland yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. Stop by this today for a special Late Night Screening at 11:45 p.m. This enveloping installation

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get out incorporates video and music with a continuous, 64-minute loop of footage simultaneously filmed with nine cameras located throughout a home in the historic Hudson River Valley. It’s an experience that you won’t soon find anywhere else. Don’t miss it. Space is limited, so register through MOCA Cleveland’s website. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY!

March 25

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“Kiley & Booms Show” SPECIAL EVENT!

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CARLOS MENCIA Comedy Central’s “Mind of Mencia”

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Piston Power Hot on the heels of the International Auto Show, the annual Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama offers a more comprehensive look at vehicles of all makes and models. Films will screen on what’s billed as “the world’s only piston-powered drive-in theater.” Expect to see custom cars, trucks, bikes, tractors and military equipment. Today’s hours are 3 to 10 p.m. and the event runs through Sunday at the I-X Center. Tickets are $16. (Niesel) 1 I-X Center Dr., 216-676-6000, ixcenter.com. art

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TUESDAY APRIL 14 2015

7 PM Doors 8 PM Show

The Printing Process This month’s theme for Creative Mornings is INK. The Cleveland chapter has invited Joseph Makkos, Founder and CEO of NOLA DNA, a business dedicated to the preservation and digital archiving of historic printed material. In a secondary role, he performs custom, multi-process printing for artistic, small-run editions of various publishing projects. Learn more during Makkos’ presentation at SPACES today from 8:30 to 10 a.m. The event is free and includes free coffee and breakfast, but space is limited. To register, visit the Creative Mornings website. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, creativemornings.com/talks/josephmakkos. Comedy

with Alex Cameron TICKETS: $ 5.50 (including fees)

On sale now at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame box office, or online at rockhall.com

1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44114

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Role Player You may recognize foul-mouthed comic Jay Phillips from Baby Mama or Semi Pro. He has small roles in both films. Phillips, who’s often compared to Richard Pryor, likes to make fun of white people who try to act cool by wearing Obama T-shirts. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv and performances continue through Sunday. Tickets are $17. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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Something Fishy On Fridays through April 3, Prosperity Social Club offers Fish Fry-Day Lenten menu items. You can get everything from haddock to chowder. “I guess our New England clam chowder is false advertising since it is really made from scratch right here in our Tremont kitchen,” says owner Bonnie Flinner in a press release. “Even the pierogi are made here in Cleveland by local Polish women.” New for 2015 is the “Gotta Haddock,” an “ultimate Lenten meal” for diners who want to try it all; it includes coleslaw, a cup of chowder and two potato pierogi with all of the “fixings.” While Prosperity isn’t regularly open for weekday lunch, it’s offering special Friday lunch hours during Lent when it will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com. Food

Sweet Stuff Spring is officially here. Unofficially, we might not be able to start wearing shorts until May. But to celebrate spring’s so-called arrival, the Sweet Spot will offer one free scoop of gelato to patrons who stop by today from noon to 10 p.m. Co-owner Celeste Blau says she’s excited that the event, now in its second year, has become an annual event at the shop known for using local and/or organic ingredients in its “American gelato.” The shop offers classic gelato flavors like strawberry, chocolate and Tahitian vanilla, but also offers funkier flavors such as chocolate mint cayenne and Earl Grey tea gelato. Local favorites include pistachio, dark chocolate with sea salt and a cinnamon caramel swirl gelato. (Niesel) 17806 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-221-8870, thesweetspotcleveland. com. sports

Those Pesky Pacers The Cavs have matched up well against most of the teams in the Eastern Conference. And they’ve lately been playing like the dominant team that we expected them to be. But the Pacers have been a problem. Indiana holds a 2-1 edge this season against the Cavs, and the Pacers have been playing good ball as they try to secure one of the last playoff spots. Expect tonight’s game to be a real battle. Tipoff is at 7:30 at Quicken Loans Arena. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. drink

A Time for Wine Now in its 19th year, Heinen’s/WVIZ

Grand Tastings and Seminars gives you a chance to sample wines and learn something in the process. The event, which takes place today and tomorrow at the Cleveland Convention Center Ballroom, will feature more than 400 wines paired with hors d’oeuvres. Both nationally and internationally acclaimed winemakers and their representatives will be present to pour their wines, answer questions and offer wine and food pairing tips. Tonight’s event takes place at 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow’s events take place at 1 and 7:30 p.m. Admission is $75 and that includes a souvenir crystal wine glass, an official Wine Tasting Program and access to the Silent Auction featuring exceptional wines and additional gifts. (Kaitlin Siegel) 500 Lakeside Ave., 216-928-1600, ideastream.org/wine. Music

Voices Carry Founded in 2009, Roomful of Teeth is a vocal project that, as it’s put in a press release, is “dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice.” Songs such as “Amid the Minotaurs” certainly present a wild mix of different voices. Think of it as a choir on steroids, even though there’s only eight people in the group. The ensemble gathers

annually at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), where it’s studied Tuvan throat singing, yodeling, belting, Inuit throat singing, Korean P’ansori, Georgian singing and Sardinian cantu a tenore styles with some of the world’s top performers and teachers of the styles. You can hear the influence of those different styles of singing in the music. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $30 to $45. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. TheaTer

Wake for It No one knows grief and mourning like a Catholic, let alone an Irish Catholic. In its fifth year running in Cleveland, Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to a wake in Ireland where villagers tell tales and sing 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 night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. If you can’t make it this weekend, performances continue Fridays and Saturdays through April 26. Tickets are $25. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FilM

Wake Up Call To coincide with the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque hosts its own Cleveland Cult Film Festival. It kicks off with a screening of Awake: The Life of Yoganda. Yoga is hugely popular in the United States, and part of the credit belongs to India’s Hindu Swami Paramahansa Yogananda. The founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, he gave lectures that helped make yoga popular here. The film documents his influence. It screens at 7:30 tonight and again at 9 tomorrow night. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Arts and Crafts Crafters, artists and “those who love the indie-arts scene” will be on hand for

the the two-day Rocky River Spring Avant-Garde Art and Craft Show that takes place today at the Rocky River Memorial Hall. The show will feature more than 100 vendors who specialize in “creating unconventional and innovative crafts for the modern shopper.” Expect to see eveything from custom silver jewelry and original photographic prints/collages, to handdipped adult beverage truffles. The show takes place today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow. A portion of the show’s proceeds from the Rocky River event will be donated to Drink Local. Drink Tap., a not-for-profit organization that inspires individuals to recognize and solve our water issues through creative education, events and providing safe water access to people in need. Tickets are $3. (Niesel) 21016 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River, avantgardeshows.com. Drink

Beer Bash Tonight, Bedford Heights’ Winking Lizard is hosting its second annual Game of Thrones party in partnership with New York’s Brewery Ommegang, which is releasing its fifth seriesinspired beer. You can indulge in a medieval feast prepared by the Winking Lizard crew and sample

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Brewery Ommegang’s latest Game of Thrones-inspired brew, the Dark Saison Three-Eyed Raven., “Last year this event was so fun and brought so many laughs,” Winking Lizard’s John Lane says in a press release. “We are excited to be able to host another Game of Thrones-inspired series release. The beer brings the people together but the entertainment pieces make this such a unique event.” This year, folks can expect a slew of festive entertainment, including a yet-to-be-named live band, a magician, and a costume contest, among other things. Tickets are $35 and are on sale now at 216-831-0505. (McConnell) 25380 Miles Rd., Bedford Heights, 216-831-3488, winkinglizard.com. Food

2017 E. 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 44115 Tickets $25/$75 VIP Couples Packages Available www.eventbrite.com

Competitive Eating Tri-C’s Hospitality Management program has been invited to participate in the 2015 Ultimate Culinary Clash by InterContinental Hotels. One student will be selected to represent Cleveland in the Ultimate Clash in San Francisco on May 6 where he or she will compete against other culinary students from the U.S. and beyond. You can help pick the winner. Simply reserve your spot at Table 45 for tonight between 5 and 7 p.m. by calling Katy Weaver at 216-707-4160. You will get all three dishes (appetizer, entrée and dessert) from one student for $40 ($20 extra for wine pairing, gratuity and tax not included). Each guest will be able to rate the student’s dishes using a patron scorecard, with your rating counting towards the final score. A portion of proceeds from each menu sold during the three dinners will go to the Tri-C Hospitality Management Center Scholarship Fund. 9801 Carnegie Ave., 216-707-4045, tbl45.com. Art

Studio Session In conjunction with their new Majority Rising exhibition, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) are hosting a series of studio visits with some of the participating women artists. Majority Rising is an exhibition of archived, women artists. The show celebrates Women’s History Month. Majority Rising includes Shirley Aley Campbell, Lee Heinen, Kathleen McKenna, Marsha Sweet, Lynn Szalay and Judy Takacs, who curated the exhibition. From 1 to 2:30 p.m. today, the AAWR hosts a studio visit with Lee Heinen at her studio in Little Italy. Space is limited, so register

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soon by visiting the AAWR website or contacting the AAWR directly. Admission is $20, $15 for AAWR Members. (Usmani) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org. Music

Swing’s the Thing From the mid-’30s through the mid’40s, the sounds of swing reigned supreme in America. The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra brings the sounds of swing to life once again on Saturday during Swing’s the Thing, an event hosted by Bill Rudman, Paul Ferguson and Joe Hunter.The performance will feature rare film clips of Big Bands in musicals, creating jazz on stage and on screen. The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice for 30 years. The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, led by Sean Jones, is compiled of gifted jazz musicians, arrangers, composers and educators reflecting Cleveland’s diversity. The concert takes place at 8 tonight at the Ohio Theatre, and tickets are $30 to $50. (Siegel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Electronic Ecstasy Probably the best way to kick-start the week is by shaking your ass uncontrollably at Shake It Down, B-Side’s bitchin’ Sunday night electronic shows. DJs Eso and Corey Grand join forces to spin anything and everything: Funk, soul, hip-hop, trap, drum and bass, and all sorts of similarly ill shit. Grand’s cred speaks for itself: “Sucka Free Since ’88.” And that same sentiment goes for the Sunday-night throwdown as a whole. Work your way across Coventry all weekend and wrap up the party at B-Side. The DJs start spinning at 10 p.m. (Eric Sandy) 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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Comedy by Accident The local comedy scene is currently thriving and promoter and comic Ramon Rivas is at the forefront. He’s the man behind the Accidental Comedy Club, a weekly open mic session that takes place every Monday night at Hofbrauhaus. The weekly series features local comics as well as special guests from the region. Shows are free if you make a reservation in advance (simply email

accidentalcomedyclub@gmail.com) or $5 at the door. Comedy starts at 8:30 p.m. (Niesel) 1550 Chester Ave., 216-621-2337, chucklefck.com. Food

Industry Brunch Brunch isn’t just a Saturday/Sunday thing. Over at Mahall’s, you can grab a great brunch on Mondays as the club caters to industry folks who have the day off. Not that you have to work in the restaurant industry to indulge. The menu features items such as Chicken and Donuts, a dish that features three pieces of fried chicken along with two Old Hushers doughnuts. Other staples include the Everything Pretzel and the Creamy Egg Sandwich. A live DJ from WCSB will be on hand to spin cool tunes too. It runs from noon to 4. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com. Food

Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night. Work your way through the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie

Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese), Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice). If you’re still feeling skeptical, Monday night is also Craft Beer Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers! (McConnell) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

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Melts in Your Mouth Alltech master distiller Mark Coffman, a guy who was instrumental in the creation of Alltech’s bourbon, rye and malt whiskey, will be at Melt in Cleveland Heights tonight for a special dinner and tasting. All three of the aforementioned spirits will be part of the dinner that’ll include delicacies such as lamb, rabbit and duck. The sixcourse tasting event will be limited to 40 participants — contact Melt Bar and Grilled for ticket purchase information. (Niesel) 13463 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-965-0988, meltbarandgrilled.com. music

Unplugged Only Thanks to Pitch Perfect, a highly successful movie about a college

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women’s a cappella group, a cappella music is making a big comeback as of late. So it’s no wonder NBC’s The Sing-Off was such a hit. The a cappella competition TV show debuted in 2009 and Pentatonix, who just received a Grammy, took first place in 2011. The second national Sing-Off Live! Tour will feature fan favorite groups from previous seasons. Expect to see acts like VoicePlay, the Exchange and Street Corner Symphony, among many others. The talented singers will perform a capella versions of this year’s hits as well as favorite arrangements from the show. This year’s tour will also feature musical direction by Deke Sharon, who’s referred to as “The Godfather of Contemporary A Capella.” Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at Connor Palace. Tickets are $10 to $45. (Siegel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Boom’s Town The infamous Chuck Booms — best known as being the loudmouth on Sports Radio 92.3 — is a native of Cleveland and has made his way from being an emcee in a local comedy club to being dubbed “one of the six young

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Controlled Chaos Comedian Dov Davidoff puts on an extremely high energy and high intensity show. Yelling, shouting and screaming while he leaves you laughing and crying in the audience. His life was a roller coaster — he grew up in a junkyard and lost his virginity to a prostitute in Mexico at the age of 12. His set is just as chaotic. Dov Davidoff yells and tears his way through Hilarities tonight at 8 with performances scheduled through Sunday, March 29. Tickets are $13 to $18. (Harp) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com

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Palm Sunday Concert

Saturday, March 28th 7:30pm

Featuring the

TrueNorth Chorale & Chamber Orchestra Performing Mass #2 In G Major By Franz Schubert And Sunrise Mass By Ola Gjeilo.

Bay Presbyterian Church 25415 Lake Rd. Bay Village, Oh 44145

General Admission Seating $15 Adult $10 Youth (Under 18) Order Tickets at www.TNCArts.org or by calling 440.949.5200, ext. 221

A Broadway Revue Saturday, April 11, 2015 • 8p.m. Sunday, April 12, 2015 • 3p.m. Regina Auditorium at Notre Dame College 1857 S. Green Road South Euclid, OH 44121

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Advance Sales $15-$35 • Door Sales $20-$40 Information at: Tickets@ncmchorus.org, www.ncmchorus.org or call: 216-556-0590

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Go WEST, YoUNG MAN Dana Depew and Matthew Dibble pair up to look at the past By Josh Usmani If you’re makIng the monthly foray over to Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios, be sure to wander over to Bruno Casiano in Gordon Square as well. From 6 to 10 p.m., the gallery will be hosting a reception for new work from four local artists: Dana Depew and Matthew Dibble, as well as Dean Shaffer and Barney Taxel. Casiano’s main gallery space hosts Depew and Dibble’s Pioneer Driven Mad, an exhibition showcasing Depew’s latest installation work and Dibble’s newest, large-scale paintings. Depew and Dibble make very different work, but both have long established themselves as two of the most active and prolific artists in the region. The pairing makes for interesting viewing. For Pioneer Driven Mad, Depew has created a life-size, functional, pioneer chuck wagon using exclusively found and reclaimed materials. “This installation will include an audio and video element consisting of footage from Western movies enclosed in wooden boxes stacked on the gallery floor,” explains Depew. “The chuck wagon will serve chili, baked beans, and corn bread at the opening, so bring your appetite.” Depew found additional inspiration from a rather unique source — Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Actually, to be more specific, Depew was inspired by the documentary Room 237, which offers a variety of theories concerning Kubrick’s hidden symbolism in The Shining. “The Shining has been long believed to be about the genocide of Native Americans, because there is imagery throughout the film associated with the American West,” explains Depew. “For instance, cans of Calumet Baking Powder are noticeable

in the background of two important scenes. Because a calumet is a peace pipe, and the cans featured the image of a Native American, one analyst believed that American imperialism was the subtext of the film.” For example, Depew re-contextualizes a can of Calumet baking soda in homage to Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades and titles the piece, “Kubrick Readymade (The Shining, 1980).” If you’ve seen Room 237, you’ll enjoy exploring and deciphering Depew’s chuck wagon as much as the filmmakers dissected Kubrick’s film. As usual, Depew’s work is as

schools, government corruption, and the continual embarrassment from our local sports teams -- all because we have hope that things will get better.” Dibble’s large-scale, abstract, figurative paintings are created with an assortment of techniques. The figures appear through confident, expressive brushwork over various grounds of paint and (occasionally) local newspaper clippings. These newspapers in particular offer insight into Dibble’s creative process. The stories become the backdrop for his artwork, but these same stories distract and affect the artist in profound (and often negative)

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with daryl Stuermer runs through may 22, with a closing reception 6 to 10 p.m. both exhibitions and events are free and open to the public bruno casiano gallery, 5304 detroit ave., 216-346-6562, brunocasiano.com

intelligent as it is humorous. “A long time ago, the early American pioneers embarked on a perilous journey of hardship in order to have a better life,” reflects Depew. “They endured harsh conditions, bitter winters, and the potential of being scalped by Indians. They believed this temporary misery was all worth it. The chuck wagon was a pivotal component to the trek westward. It provided sustenance and nourishment to these hopeful travelers.” Depew found inspiration in the parallels between these frontiersmen and contemporary Clevelanders. “Maybe someday in the distant future, we Clevelanders will be viewed as ‘pioneers,’” adds Depew. “We have endured similar hardships such as brutal winters, potholes, poor public

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ways. “Getting away from my work for a few days, I realize I don’t know what it means to be an artist,” admits Dibble in his artist statement for Pioneer Driven Mad. “Life’s pull is strong, and I forget my aim. Fascinated with pop culture and the desire to create wealth, I begin to fall asleep and get caught up in the grinding of life. Worries, anxieties and fears distract and hold my attention. “A certain freedom that was once possible is far away,” he continues. “Other people seem to know a secret about life and the importance of acquiring things; happily I’m ready to join them. Looking for balance and always hoping for a better tomorrow are my worst sins, not allowing me to experience my life fully.” These new paintings reflect Dibble’s

current thought process. The artist finds himself examining his present through thoughts of his past and future. “This is my situation, moment to moment, day to day and year to year,” explains Dibble. “Where the figures in these paintings come from is a mystery. Dominating the scene, they emerge like rebellious children seeking attention from their elders.” Dibble’s expressive paintings juxtapose line, form, shape, texture and color; blurring the traditional line between abstraction and representational work. This new work is quite ambitious in terms of both scale and techniques. The artwork fits especially well in Casiano’s beautiful space, which recently received a facelift thanks to the installation of new storefront windows. One of the oldest surviving structures in Gordon Square, the building was originally constructed in 1867 and once functioned as a speakeasy during prohibition. “I feel like a pioneer myself,” says Casiano. “Looking back, when I first opened the gallery in 2002, Detroit Avenue was just a big open canvas awaiting a chance to create and we have been here since! “I hope to see resurgence in the support of local artists, where people come from other places to buy art instead of going to New York or Chicago”. Casiano’s “Speak Easy” Gallery, on the lower level of the building, features photography by Barney Taxel and cityscapes by painter Dean Shaffer.

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SOCIAL SATIRE AT WARP SPEED No one is safe as the barbs fly in Becky Shaw at Dobama theatre. By Christine Howey The ofTen unspoken truth about human relationships is that they are essentially selfish arrangements. All people consciously or unconsciously maneuver other people so that they get their back scratched — financially, emotionally, physically, you name it. And as the Seinfeld show once observed in another context, there’s nothing wrong with that. Let’s face it: If we humans weren’t selfish, focused on getting what we need, we’d never have enough resources to share with anyone else. Of course, when five selfish people collide in the scathing, satirical comedy Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo, now at Dobama Theatre, there are fireworks aplenty. This quintet of gloriously flawed young strivers pretty much covers the continuum of unfortunate social behavior, from battered and vulnerable to rapacious and cruel. And thanks to a tight production that fairly twangs under the direction of Donald Carrier, the playwright’s sharp-edged dialogue shoves the audience down a perilous, icy chute on well-oiled roller skates. These characters don’t fit into easy boxes as each develops different facets to their personalities, continually challenging easy assumptions about who they really are. While the play bounces up and down the east coast, it begins in a hotel room where 35-year-old Suzanna is lamenting the death of her father. She is being administered (Photo by Gina Gionfriddo)

a tough-love sort of therapy by her brother Max, who was adopted by Suzanna’s parents when he was ten. He is now a brutally successful financial planner who also administers the money for the family. Suzanna is bathing her sorrow by watching one of those ubiquitous true crime, young-woman-found-dead TV shows, but Max snaps it off, saying she shouldn’t waste her time with “dead prostitutes on the Autopsy Channel.” Sort of a Gordon Gekko on steroids, Max then tells Suzanna she should suck it up, stop sniveling and “mourn with a big dick.” This is the kind of biting repartee Gionfriddo is good at, and she lathers

to spark questions about who is to blame for what. Or, is anyone to blame? As Suzanna, Lara Knox crafts a wonderfully nuanced woman. She is buffeted among her over-solicitous husband, her slash-and-burn adopted brother, and her mom, Susan, who suffers from MS and is negotiating her own relationship with an unseen fellow. Laura Starnik lands some big laughs as Susan, especially toward the end when she tries to gain control of this fractious group. It seems like she walked straight out of one of those Marigold Hotel movies. Anjanette Hall treads a fine line as Becky, a character clearly

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all the scenes with her special brand of snark. Turns out, the borderline hapless Suzanna gets married to Andrew, a man who is so achingly feminist and protective of wounded women it almost seems pathological (to wit, pornography makes him cry). Indeed, he even sets up brother-in-law Max with a young female clerk from his office, Becky Shaw, who is not well-off and clearly in need of some serious rehab work. It’s no surprise that this mismatch turns into the blind date from hell. What is a surprise is how the playwright continually uncovers new sides to each of the characters, turning the story this way and that

modeled after Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair. By turns vulnerable and purposeful, innocent and scheming, Becky is an interesting wild card that the playwright throws into this familial deck. Of course, Andrew is drawn to the helpless-bird part of Becky’s persona, and Ryan Zarecki makes Andrew’s ministrations both comforting and queasy, fitting in nicely to the show’s ever-shifting character milieu. In the showiest role as curmudgeon-in-training Max, Geoff Knox slices and dices his lines with exacting precision. When he learns that his date Becky doesn’t have a

cell phone, he sarcastically asks, “Is she Amish?” But Knox also shows a different side later on, giving new perspective to Max’s brash, testosterone-driven vibe developed, perhaps, due to his somewhat fractured past. The production zips along at a furious pace, and that leads to a small wrinkle. On opening night, the first scene was played at such a fevered, high-volume pitch that Suzanna, Max and then Susan seemed like overcaffeinated honey badgers stuffed into too small a cage. This take-noprisoners approach leaves Max, in particular, fewer emotional places to go later in the proceedings. The scenic design by Cameron Caley Michalak is clean and efficient, with various wall hangings suggesting the different locations. But these could benefit from a bit more specific illumination in Marcus Dana’s lighting plot. Esther Haberlen’s costumes are spot-on, from Susan’s elegant outfits and snazzy cane to Becky’s blind date dress that Max describes, not flatteringly, as a birthday cake. The beauty of Becky Shaw is that it shows people trying to do the best they can and usually failing spectacularly in the process. If that isn’t a tidy description of the human condition, it’ll have to do till a better one comes along.

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the antecedent to which the “it” refers in the new horror film it follows is never quite explained. All we know, as a captive, knee-clutching audience, is that teens are being horrifically mauled by people only they can see, by a thing, a shapeshifting juggernaut force which treads slowly in human form in their direction until they (the targeted teens) manage to fend it off. The “it” can’t be killed, only delayed. And the only way to redirect the menace is by having sex. It Follows opens Friday, March 27, at the Cedar Lee. If this sounds like something you’ve seen before (teens getting their grisly comeuppance after fooling around), you can’t be blamed. And it’s true that up-and-coming director David Robert Mitchell embraces a throwback John-Carpenter vibe—natural effects, synth-heavy score, etc.—but this one feels fresh. There are no thirtysomething Hollywood regulars playing country teens. These kids look like babies. And they live in dreary suburban Detroit, where horrors both natural and supernatural, we sense, have been striking for years. When 19-year-old Jay Height (Maika Monroe) sleeps with her edgy new boyfriend, disaster strikes. He drugs her, ties her to a wheelchair in a vacant parking garage and informs her that “a thing” will begin to follow her. Indeed, as he speaks, a naked woman ascends a nearby hill, deaf and zombie-esque. The only way to get rid of it, he says, is by sleeping with someone else. The thing is slow, he tells Jay, and can be out-runned

The Divergent Series: Insurgent

Shailene Woodley reprises her role as Beatrice “Tris” Prior in this sequel to the 2014 sci-fi action flick based on a young adult novel. It opens areawide on Friday.

with relative ease, but the horror is that it never stops coming. Every time you sleep, for instance, it’s gaining ground. The film’s sense of dread is constant and total. Jay’s younger sister and childhood friends are no match for the follower, which, not unlike the Matrix’s agent Smith, can assume the form of anyone. The fact that the roster of bodies is comprised of both deformed and unsullied hosts dramatize the paranoia: it could be anyone. But only Jay can see it, and the tactics her faithful gang deploys—driving to a lake house to evade pursuit, electrocution—are always pitiful and misguided attempts at escape. The lack of a fully realized origin story make this one feel a little parable-ish at times, but its abiding terror hints at something larger. And not just STDs. The entire experience of sex, for teens, can be really really scary. And It Follows captures the traumas and the stigmas, and certainly the dread, that accompanies sex and its aftermath among this demographic. A seemingly deliberate clash of time periods—’80s underwear, millennial tech—is either a nod to motley Detroit or a gesture toward the themes’ cross-generational impact. It Follows, however, is much more than just metaphor. It is foremost a scary movie—a good one, a tense one—with a cool, retro glaze. Just be apprised that your next handful of orgasms will be ruined. — Sam Allard

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Sean Penn plays a Special Forces soldier who wants to reconnect with a lover in this thriller from director Pierre Morel (District 13, Taken). It opens areawide on Friday.

Spotlight two decadeS in the making, the wrecking crew, a documentary about the group of musicians who played on records by the likes of Nancy Sinatra, Bobby Vee, The Partridge Family, The Mamas & the Papas, The Carpenters, The 5th Dimension, John Denver, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Grass Roots and Nat King Cole, showed at the Cleveland International Film Festival way back in 2008. Since that screening, producer and director Denny Tedesco, son of late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, has been trying to get the money together to secure rights to the 110 songs that appear in the movie. “I started the film in 1996,” he says in a recent phone interview. “My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. After he passed away, I made a 14-minute teaser hoping that someone would come in and do it. We kept going until 2006. We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. We didn’t even have a film. I just had footage. It’s like having a property that overlooks this gorgeous place and I had the plans but I couldn’t sell it. I had an idea about how much the music would cost. No one would touch it, even with the awards. We had awards all around the world and the reviews were extraordinary. We were this hot coal that no one wanted to touch.” After some creative fundraising strategies, the final product opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre. The film documents the way in which a group of behind-the-scenes players became sought-after musicians even though they never achieved name recognition outside of music industry circles. It’s ultimately more than just a music film. It’s also about friendship and the value of hard work. And it’s about living life with the satisfaction that your efforts matter to the people who matter even if they haven’t been particularly profitable. “I had people at screenings crying because it touched them,” says Tedesco. “The movie touched them, partly because of the music at the time. Someone asked me if they were the musicians were upset that they weren’t stars. They were stars for the stars. The stars were appreciative. Nancy Sinatra would hold up the dates so she could get them to tour with her. [Composer] John Williams once told my father to leave his schedule open for two weeks. That’s when you know you did it. He’s not asking for a guitar player. He’s asking for him. There’s nothing better than someone of that stature respecting you.” — Jeff Niesel

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A pair of Latin-themed eateries pop up in the unlikeliest of places By Douglas Trattner SportS barS uSually play it safe when it comes to the food. Patrons are there for the view and brew, after all. The grub? Just pop it in a deepfryer, pile it into a wax paper-lined basket, and price it to move. Apparently, the proprietors at Moncho’s Bar and Grill didn’t get the memo. This Brooklyn Centre spot trades in the omnipresent platters of cheese-stuffed potato skins and milehigh nachos for atypical items like arepas, tostones, ceviche, cubanos, and jibarito sandwiches. Then again, the games broadcast on those flat-screens lean more to Premier League football and Major League Soccer matches than the usual lineup of NFL and MLB games. All of the above might sound a little odd, until you get to know the good folks running the show. Isabel Montoya and her father Moncho opened this cozy Colombian-themed spot last summer to showcase the foods they know and love. Like the cuisine, the space isn’t flashy — more bar than grill — but the hospitality is warm, genuine and straight from the heart. Isabel tends the bar and serves as gracious host while Moncho sticks largely to the kitchen, where he makes all the food from scratch. In place of chips and salsa, Moncho’s pairs flattened-and-fried plantains ($6) with Colombian hogao, a warm and savory tomato sauce flavored with onions, garlic and (Photos by Emanuel Wallace)

cilantro. The plantains are starchy not sweet, and they fry up as thin, crisp and golden brown as latkes. They work equally well as a vehicle for creamy, cilantro-spiked guacamole ($7). Those same thin, fried plantains also serve as little beds for a trio of tostada sliders ($9), topped with shredded chicken, shredded beef and shredded pork. Each is garnished with tomato salsa. Every single dish here is almost too big to finish, and that certainly goes for the churrasco ($20), grilled steak topped with housemade chimichurri and paired with roasted potatoes, deep fried sweet plantains, and salad.

awaited me at the Campus Grille in Berea, located just steps from Baldwin Wallace University. The generic moniker and the collegecampus address conjure images of nondescript, coed-approved food like pizza, wings and burgers. Of course, I knew better — that’s why I made the trip in the first place. Still, I was blown away by what I found. Last St. Patrick’s Day, genial owner Luis Roman opened this bright and cheery café in a former carry-out pizza shop. The man is a magician not for what he did with the space (although it’s a remarkable transformation), but because he figured out how to package

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On Sundays, Moncho prepares one special regional Colombian dish for the appreciative crowd. That might be sancocho, a hearty stew, or the bandeja paisa, a hunger-slaying platter piled with chorizo, pork, ground beef, rice, beans, arepa, egg, sweet plantain and avocado. As one fan of the place told me, “It’s the kind of thing that might bring a tear to the eye of a longtime Colombian expat.” *** I wasn’t at all prepared for what

and sell Latino and Puerto Rican food to hoi polloi like you and me. All day long, folks line up for large platters of mofongo, Caribbean chicken, and roast pork and beans. He does it by cooking everything from scratch in the open, offering it up in massive portions, doing so graciously and efficiently, and selling it practically at fast-food prices. What comes out the other end is fresh, creative and vibrantly flavored. The whole arrangement is the antithesis to the typical mom-and-pop ethnic

restaurant, which often focuses more on food than setting and service. Walk into Campus Grille and you’ll see a small army of folks working in the open kitchen, peeling plantains, breaking down whole roasted pork shoulders, or pounding mofongo in the traditional pilón. Marinated and spit-roasted chickens are hacked in half and served with lime-and-cilantro scented rice and black beans. It’s a good two pounds of delicious food for $8.99. That same juicy, well-seasoned bird gets an island twist in the Coco Tropical ($8.99), which includes fragrant coconut rice and a sweet and spicy fruit salsa. Every table has a bottle of Roman’s homemade pique, or tangy hot sauce. Crispy empanadillas ($2.49) come in both sweet and savory varieties, filled with ground beef, roasted pork, sweet potato, or guava and cheese. That same luscious hand-shredded roast pork is served as an entrée ($8.99) with yellow rice and beans, or layered in a Spanish bun with ham, swiss and mustard in a hefty, hearty Cubano sandwich ($7.99). Mofongo, fried plantains smashed in a wooden mortar and pestle with olive oil, garlic and pork cracklings, is shaped into a bowl and stuffed with pork or chicken ($8.99). The starchy mound is triumphantly garnished with a tiny Puerto Rican flag

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eat bites The Big Cheese

Grilled cheese cookbook author Shane Kearns hopes to open local cheese shop By Nikki Delamotte Shane Kearns cradles a chunk of Spanish blue cheese that he’s picked up from an extensive, almost intimidating spread of cheeses at Heinen’s. He sizes up a nearby block from Orwell, Ohio, cheesemakers Mayfield Road Creamery, musing aloud, “Pepper havarti. It has a nice little bite to it. But my go-to cheese is sharp cheddar. Simple, but flavorful.” Welcome to Kearns’ playground. The Solon native first cemented his gooey obsession when he began blogging about toasted cheese concoctions on his website, Grilled Shane (grilledshane.com). It was enough to catch the eye of Adams Media, publishers who recruited Kearns to pen his own cookbook, Melt: 100 Adventures in Grilled Cheese. (Barnes & Noble and Amazon) Today, as he peruses the display, Kearns pays particular attention

to the scattered Ohio choices that increasingly have begun to appear over the last year. And for good reason: In the near future, he hopes to open his own shop that specializes in local cheeses. “When you’re making a grilled cheese,” he says, pointing to Hiram-based Mackenzie Creamery’s chocolate and raspberry chevre, “you have to ask, do you want the cheese to support the other ingredients or do you want the cheese to be the star?” Kearns inked his book deal in December 2011 and the heat was on: His publishers wanted a manuscript with 100 new recipes by early March. The assignment called for 50 sweet and 50 savory creations. “I was walking through the grocery isles making lists, just looking everywhere I could to find inspiration. I started pushing the definition of grilled cheese,” Kearns recounts with a smile. “Sometimes I

think the more bizarre, the better.” Naturally, the book is best at its least conventional. For instance, in one case, Horseradish white cheddar and avocado is tucked between two waffles, while eggs and feta slide into crescent rolls. As he rounded out the last of his creations, Kearns found himself increasingly seduced by the sweet side, a line he’d only crossed once before with a popcorn dish. The book employs the use of dessert cheeses, such as mascarpone slathered on buttery slices of pound cake. “Those get a lot of oohs and ahhs,” he admits. “People like grilled cheese, they just don’t know everything you can do with it.” Never did that fact become more obvious than when Kearns hit the road on publicity tours. Not only was the demand high for grilled cheese, but more and more people were asking about sourcing from local cheesemakers. Upon returning to Cleveland, he created a series of sandwiches highlighting Ohio-based cheeses on his blog. But at the time, he often found it difficult to obtain the regional varieties with ease. While on the road, Kearns

stumbled upon Beecher’s, a Seattlebased cheese shop with a New York City outpost. That store’s model helped energize his plans for his own storefront. Unsure of his next move, he reached out to Mackenzie Creamery, which led to making a connection with the Ohio Cheese Guild, an alliance of more than a dozen cheesemakers. It has helped him to network with other farmers and set up more tours, such as his recent visit to Cleveland’s own Lake Erie Creamery. That is, when he’s not busy scouting prospective locations for his store. “There are all these good local cheeses — and more places are popping up — but some makers are too small for a big store and they can be really hard to find,” says Kearns. “I’d love to have a unique relationship with the farmer, be their middle man. It makes the product that much better when you know the care that goes into it.”

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eat bites CHAPATi brings CHiPoTle sTyle eATs To CsU CAmPUs DisTriCT By Douglas Trattner It seems lIke every other day another fast-casual restaurant aspiring to be the next “Chipotle version of X” opens its doors. Last week that honor fell to Chapati Indian Grill (2215 Chester Ave., 216-303-9780), a campus district start-up with dreams of striking it big in the franchise world. A second location is expected to open soon in University Circle. Guests who visit Chapati can be forgiven for wrongly thinking they’ve stumbled into a Chipotle. From the industrial-garage décor to the now-familiar process that moves diners along a steam table assembly line, where workers pluck and plop ingredients from stainless steel containers onto the vehicle of one’s choosing. Here, that choice comes down to a chapati roll or bowl. Whereas true chapati (also called roti) is a dense, chewy, whole wheat flatbread, the version here is more akin to a pliable wheat tortilla, which gets the quick steam-o-matic treatment to loosen it up. The main protein choices are limited to yogurtmarinated chicken ($6.75), grilled beef in sauce ($6.95), crumbled tofu in some other sauce ($6.45), or cumin-roasted potatoes ($6.65). From there, it’s a matter of custom building your meal by choosing fillings, toppings, sauces, garnishes... you know the drill. There’s steamed rice, chick peas, pickled chiles, coconut sauce, spicy cilantro chutney, tangy tamarind. There is an open kitchen, yet there’s nobody in it cooking save for the line worker who took a momentary break to pour bottled lemon juice into a tub of steamed rice before garnishing it with a few slivers of cilantro. All foods are prepared in advance and held in a steam table, even fried foods like samosas ($1.95) and onion bhaji ($1.95), side dishes that are predictably lukewarm and soggy. If you’re in search of authentic, freshly prepared and flavored Indian food, Chapati isn’t your place. But if instead it’s reasonably quick, cheap and familiar-looking food in a familiar looking package that you seek, do give Chapati a try.

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Blackberry is the new black.

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Blackberry Smoke turns up its amps on its new album

By Jeff Niesel Holding All tHe Roses, Blackberry Smoke’s fourth studio album and its first for Rounder, is its heaviest release yet. Produced by Brendan O’Brien (AC/DC, Aerosmith, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young), the album commences with “Let Me Help You Find the Door,” a swaggering mid-tempo rock tune that sounds like a cross between Tom Petty and Aerosmith, and then doesn’t let up as the Atlanta-based band dips into the blues, gospel soul and country on the album. Frontman Charlie Starr says the band took at the same approach when it entered the studio as it takes on every record; the album wasn’t necessarily intended to be a departure from their last studio effort, 2013’s The Whippoorwill. “The job in front of us is to make the best record we can,” he says via phone from his home just west of Atlanta amid a rare day off from the road. “It’s never someone’s artsy project or anything like that. It’s like, ‘We make music together as a band so let’s go in and record these songs.’” He says he and O’Brien had “some discussion” over the phone before they started to record the songs that would be on the album. “He had the song demos and we whittled them down to the 15 or so,” says Starr. “The only discussion we had about what kind of record we

wanted to make was that we talked about the records we loved. [The last studio effort] The Whippoorwill was us playing live. We always wanted to make a different record each time. We wanted to stretch out a little sonically. It came together nicely I think.” The fast-paced title track is a rollicking tune that features a bit of fiddle that’s hidden until a mid-song segment that features a twangy fiddle solo courtesy of guest Ann Marie Simpson that then gives way to searing guitar riffs. It’s a real juxtaposition of sounds, but it works. “Ann Marie Simpson is great fiddle player,” says Starr. “She came in to record to add some string parts in a couple of songs. She and I were sitting around and jamming on an acoustic guitar and a fiddle playing bluegrass songs and she has

us to put it on the song, so we did. It turned out great. It’s a stroke of genius.” All in all, the album rocks harder than anything the band’s done to date. It’s a real testament to O’Brien’s abilities as a producer that he’s able to bring out a side of the band that was only latent on prior releases. “I knew [O’Brien] would be a good fit,” says Starr. “We’re a guitar band and he’s a guitar producer. He is a fabulous guitar player. That’s something I love about his work. He’s an excellent musician and an excellent guitar player. “It’s funny, man, I listen to all of our records and I hear rock ’n’ roll records. I don’t know where people hear country music. Even on the last album, [the song] ‘Shaking Hands with the Holy Ghost’ is a dyed in the wool rock song. On this album, there

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a bluegrass pedigree and she plays with Steven Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers. I love that. That’s where I live. We started playing some fiddle tunes and Brendan [O’Brien] walked in and thought it was incredible. It’s his idea. He wanted

are some songs that are heavier than the last album. There’s the title track and ‘Let Help You Find the Door’ and ‘Payback’s a Bitch.’ They’re just heavier and that’s good. That’s what we talked about. We wanted an album with big riff laden rock ’n’ roll songs

and some laid back acoustic stuff. We wanted the record to be a nice ride.” The band’s been dubbed “the new face of blue-collar Southern rock” — something that sits well with Starr, though he bristles at the suggestion that the band has somehow revived Southern rock. “It’s not something we’ve done consciously,” he says. “We never sat down and said we wanted to revive Southern rock music. We just sound the way we sound when we play together. It’s as organic as it comes. If it we were putting it on or contrived, people would sniff it out and it wouldn’t be natural. We just sound the only way we know how. It’s the way we work together. “We are from the Southeastern United States and that shows in our playing and singing. I never thought there’s a void and it’s Southern rock and we need to do that. I know we will champion Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band as much as anyone because they made beautiful music. They might not be the flavor of the month but they’re still making music that’s better than what’s number one right now.”

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Glenn Schwartz back in the day.

Cult of personality

New book aims to set the story straight about local guitar hero Glenn Schwartz By Jeff Niesel The piTch for forTney road: Life, Death & Deception in a Christian Cult, a new book about local guitar hero Glenn Schwartz and his association with an Ohiobased religious cult, goes like this: “For the first time, the true story of Glenn Schwartz is going to be told, everything before, during and after he was in the cult on Fortney Road.” First-time author Jeff Stevenson, a California guy who now calls New York home, spent seven years researching the book which tells the tale of how Schwartz, a guitar phenom from an early age, ended up going from classic rock acts such as the James Gang and Pacific Gas and Electric to fronting the Christian rock act the All Saved Freak Band. Schwartz turns 75 this month and will play a special birthday show at the Beachland to mark the occasion. Due out June 2 and currently available for preorder, Fortney Road includes more than 50 photographs and images and features interviews with 17 former members of Reverend Larry Hill’s Ohio-based Church of the Risen Christ community. Modernday musicians such as David Byrne, Joe Walsh and the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach are also quoted. Adam Palmer (editor of Brian Welch’s bestselling Save Me From Myself) and Dick Marek (editor of The Silence of the Lambs) contributed to the editing process. Stevenson first became interested in Schwartz’s story in 1976 after he saw an ad for the All Saved Freak

Band that featured Schwartz’s name in bold print. He knew of Schwartz from the classic blues rock act Pacific Gas and Electric. When he heard “Elder White,” the first song on the All Saved Freak Band’s first album, he was immediately taken aback. “I heard that and it was really great music,” he says. He asked Glenn Kaiser, a blues guitarist friend in the Christian community, about the All Saved Freak Band and his buddy told him he didn’t know much, only that the “women had to walk around and look

and talked to Stevenson for more than two hours about his life before, during and after his time at Fortney Road. The book recounts how Schwartz came to become a Christian and documents his meeting with crosscarrying preacher Arthur Blessitt, whom he met one day while walking down Sunset Boulevard. “[Blessitt] was preaching on the street corner and had these weird jokes he would say like ‘Get high on Jesus,’” Stevenson says. “Glenn was touched by what Arthur was saying.

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at the floor.” “That image stuck with me for 30 years,” he says. “It just stuck with me. I wanted to know why. I wanted to know why Glenn ended up with this group of people. That’s the hook that made me want to know about him and these people in the cult.” The book recounts the story of the cult but also touches on Schwartz’s life, interweaving the two narratives throughout. Stevenson writes about that Glenn had a good childhood and that he learned to play guitar at age 11. In doing his research, Stevenson called his brother Gene, with whom Glenn plays in the Schwartz Brothers, and left a message with him for Glenn. Glenn called back

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I reached out to Arthur Blessitt on email and at first he thought I was trying to trash Glenn. When I told him that wasn’t the case, he calmed down and emailed me back and told me about how Glenn heard the message and wanted to become a Christian.” Stevenson also set out to dispel some of the myths about Schwartz. It’s often reported that Jimi Hendrix requested Schwartz play his birthday party. Stevenson contacted Cheap Trick’s Bun E. Carlos, a Hendrix fanatic, to find out where Hendrix would have been on his birthday. Turns out, Hendrix did happen to see Schwartz that day, but it was just during an impromptu backstage jam

session at Madison Square Garden where the Rolling Stones were playing. “There was no invitation,” Stevenson says. “Glenn told me, ‘Jimi stopped by and listened for a bit and nodded his head. But nobody cared who I was.’” In the end, Stevenson hopes that the book serves as a warning against religious cults and the damage they can do. “When I started this, I didn’t know much about [cult leader] Larry Hill,” Stevenson says. “Word soon got out about my project, and that’s when reporters started to phone and send me emails. One told me, ‘On the day you hear Reverend Larry Hill has died, remember to wear thick-soled shoes because hell will be stoked up extra hot.’” And what does Stevenson think Schwartz would have amounted to if he hadn’t joined that religious cult and derailed his career? “I think if he hadn’t encountered Larry Hill, he would have made music that influenced an entire generation,” says Stevenson. “Pacific, Gas and Electric was never a huge band, but if he had stayed with them, he could have gone on to make amazing music like Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. When you listen to the All Saved Freak Band, the music is really good but the abuse was so horrific that it destroyed him.”

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Tom Orange, left, and Dan Wenninger, seen here among shelves of music, host OutLab each month

IN ON THE OUTLAB

Orchestrating the return of a budding improv jam session By Eric Sandy After severAl months off — holidays, scheduling conflicts, all that stuff that tends to mark the flipping of the calendar — one of Cleveland’s up-and-coming improv jams is returning in fine form on march 24. With a new home at the BoP stoP (2920 Detroit Ave.), the guys behind outlab are hoping to keep the improvisational engines buzzing into 2015. In short and to the uninitiated, outlab is “a laboratory for spontaneous interactive musical exploration.” think, however, less esoteric and more freeform. the monthly events are hosted by local musicians tom orange and Dan Wenninger. they’ve come to dig roots into various improvisational music scenes around town. “Dan and I had been talking for a while about doing a monthly thing related to the long-running [1Way] series that Dan has done with Chuck Karnak at Go factory,” orange says. finding the musicians community across northeast ohio to be pretty widespread and active, the goal has always been to bring everybody together. Dan and Chuck’s 1Way series, some seven years running now, has been at least one foothold in the scene. “that series has been freeimprov, free music. It’s kind of a showcase stage,” Wenninger says. “A lot of people were

showing at that, and a lot of people were showing at tom’s shows. We kinda talked about, ‘how do we bring people in and how do we get them involved?’ People are coming out to watch the shows, but a lot of these people are musicians and a lot of them want to participate. this is a way that we can bring people in jam session-style. It’s community-building.” And “jam session” is the key phrase here. outlab doesn’t function like a classic open mic night or anything; the spirit of the event flows from the people who show up and from the very idea of improvisational music. As everybody gets together,

event. “the locker room is cool,” orange says, referring to the lower-level room at mahall’s, where outlab was set up for a year. “It felt like somebody’s parents’ basement. the sound is good down there too, because it’s stone walls and tile floors. It’s comfortable and the right size. thirty people feels packed, 10 people doesn’t feel empty.” Amid the scheduling conflicts and holidays, orange and Wenninger found the recently reopened BoP stoP to be a solid fit for what they were hoping to do going forward. “the sight lines are great, and the sound is amazing,”

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somebody will tend to start playing and will attract other musicians to add harmony or various layers. Groups might split off and form more focused grooves in the course of a night, but the gravity of the room will inevitably bring everyone back into a full group by the end of the get-together. there’s an amorphous element to the whole thing. the series originated in the fall of 2013, when mahall’s was looking for musicians to curate four-show residencies and when orange and Wenninger were debating how best to move forward with a new monthly

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Wenninger says. the march 24 outlab will be the group’s first event at the new joint. the BoP stoP was donated to the music settlement in late 2013, giving that University Circle-based nonprofit a westside spot to hone programming and expand offerings. After the music settlement moved in, they eventually hired oberlin grad Gabe Pollack to manage the place. With music education and business acumen, the pairing with outlab was a no-brainer. then, as now at the BoP stoP, there’s a very welcoming atmosphere to outlab. musicians of all stripes are

encouraged to come out and start playing. “Drummers are always a little bit scarce. If there’s any particular instrumentalist that we try to encourage to come out, it’s drummers,” orange notes. matt Kiroff brought out his analog synth a handful of times to outlab. “It was really fun to come to a couple outlabs and just work outside my usual medium,” he says. “that’s what’s cool about outlab. A couple horn players showed up, a couple guitars — which seemed more in the psychedelic rock or noise genre. they had some drums onstage too. “What I liked about it was the people who came — really interesting people to talk to and play with. In other words, it had a really sort of positive vibe to it on an interpersonal level. You know, anything that tom or Dan does has that vibe to it. You don’t know what you’re going to expect, so you may feel more free to experiment.” And like any good gathering of musicians, the chance for future endeavors is high. new bands have formed out of the outlab series, and orange knows at least one other band that has picked up a new member there. “having outlab become a catalyst for further creativity is exactly what Dan and I hoped would happen,” orange says.

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Jimkata/Marcus Alan Ward/Sammy Slims: A trio of terrific albums has showcased Jimkata’s early growth as a band raising curious eyebrows among the jam scene. They’ve progressively leaned more toward the electronic end of things, and the result is quite enticing. The band’s latest output, a 13-song live album inexplicably titled 10 More Songs!, is a heady set of jams mostly recorded somewhere in upstate New York. The album-opening “Electronic Stone” is a really great way of kicking things off; it’s got the spacey bird calls, the steel drum danceability, the wordless choruses. From there, the band flexes its jamtronica muscles in better form than most other attempts across the scene these days. “Night Shade,” a single of sorts off 2012’s Die Digital, moves from a slowly drifting verse into more upbeat waters as the tune progresses. This being a live album, everything is accented really well by the ambient crowd noise. The raucous cheering is pretty consistent throughout. You can expect the same at tonight’s Beachland show. 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. (Eric Sandy) Ahi-Nama: 8 p.m., $10. BLU Jazz+. Asleep at the Wheel/The Quebe Sisters: 8 p.m., $36-$46. The Kent Stage.

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‘Police State’: Cleveland Heights police raided the band’s rehearsal space in May 2014. They were holding a warrant for a previous tenant who had lived there several years prior. Guns were drawn, leaving the musicians wondering what in the hell was going on. This wasn’t even the first time the cops had pulled that move. “They screwed up,” Road says. “For them to come back a second time — I mean, all they had to do was check the housing records. There wasn’t any explanation.” The band’s latest album, Police State, is built thematically from the aftermath of that event. They’ll release that during this weekend’s Grog show. exPanding: “We just kept getting bigger and bigger. We have three horns now and a percussionist — eight total people onstage,” Roads says. The band performed about 100

shows in 2014 — their biggest year yet. When we spoke with Roads last week, the band was down in Key West, Fla., touring around in a renovated school bus alongside beloved Sublime tribute Badfish. For his part, Roads says he just quit his day job, putting Tropidelic’s success directly in his sitelines for the future. “There’s no alternative,” he says. “It’s all about finding your niche. What makes your group special compared to everybody else? There are tons of reggae-rock bands out there.” As far what’s to come, Roads hinted at some major announcement coming soon and another EP due out sometime in the fall.

Why you Should hear theM: We all love a party here in Cleveland, and Tropidelic’s brand of reggae-infused jams turns any night at a bar on our mean streets into an equatorial beach bash. You like dancing? You’ve got it. “We want to bring a party, and I think what makes us stand out is that energy that we have,” Roads says. “It’s really about that energy for life. That parlays on the live show. We’re a welcome-all kind of band. We’re not pretentious about who we are or who our fans should be.” Where you can hear theM: tropidelic.com Where you can See theM: Tropidelic performs at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, at the Grog Shop in Cleveland Heights.

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When the local roots rock act Rambler 454 got its start some 12 years ago, the band (singer-guitarist Dan McCoy, guitarist Rick, bassist Cooter and drummer Jessie) took a pretty straightforward approach to recording. “The first album came about after Dan and Cooter worked on some tunes and then we recorded them as a group,” says Jessie. “They weren’t songs that we played live or that we knew. We just got together and what it sounds like on the first or second take is what it is.” The band took that same approach on its new studio release, Wire and Wood, its first studio offering in six years. The disc commences with the catchy rocker “Charleston Early,” a song the band wrote while in Charleston, South Carolina, the town bassist Cooter now calls home. The group recorded the disc, which has the raw, reckless energy of Uncle Tupelo, in Willoughby at Closed Studios. “We recorded very quickly,” says Jessie. “Dan was hired to play a wedding for a couple that was getting married just outside of Charleston. He extended his trip and stayed with Cooter. They wrote a bunch of tunes and then circulated them to me and Rick. We met up at the studio having never played the tunes before and just did it. On the new album, you can hear the influence of alt-country acts like Lucero but you can also hear the punk stuff that Dan likes — bands like the Dropkick Murphys. There’s also blue-collar working man’s rock and moments that are Springsteen-like.”

Despite the distance between band members, the group plans to play one or two shows a year in the Cleveland area each year and hosts a CD release show at 9 p.m. on Friday, March 20, at the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern.

TribuTe ConCerT The founder of the Association for Consciousness Exploration (A.C.E.), Jeff Rosenbaum was a real catalyst. The guy used to host drum jams on East 185th St. and brought “cosmic thinking” people together for the annual Starwood Festival. He died last year. In order to pay tribute to him, a group of psychedelic rock acts have teamed up for the WinterStar Ball, a free event that takes place at noon on Saturday, March 21, at the Beachland Ballroom. Muruga Booker & the Cosmic Hoedown Band, Mayan Ruins, Brian Henke, Crystal Ball Band and Phat Man Dee are slated to perform. Donations will be accepted at the door. Workshops will be held during the day. The music starts at 7 p.m. Church of the Subgenius leader Rev. Ivan Stang will serve as MC. Proceeds go to a Rosenbaum memorial fund.

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