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CONTENTS 34 Upfront

Ground breaks on the African-American Cultural Garden and more

Framed

The best photos we shared with you this week

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Feature

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Art

Stage

Film

Dining

Music

Dr. Jay Alberts discusses the Cleveland Clinic’s Concussion Center

Exploring Northeast Ohio’s 50 most frustrating cold cases

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Dozens of events spanning the next week in Cleveland

The most famous faces and denominations get updated with an artist’s deft touch

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DeDicateD in 1977 anD languishing ever since, the africanamerican cultural garden has finally broken ground on the first phase of construction. in a ceremony Monday afternoon, frank Jackson, city councilmen, the association of african-american cultural gardens’ president carl ewing and others thanked god and one another that their community’s hopes and dreams are finally being realized. the festive celebration occupied nearly the garden’s full four-acre plot on Mlk Drive, the same plot that tri-c Professor Booker tall secured back in 1977. (Back then, it was called the “afro-american cultural garden,” noted Jeff Johnson.) city officials on the africanamerican cultural gardens task force, commissioned by Jackson, announced that they’d secured $512,000 from corporate, non-profit and faith-based organizations to complete the first of what will be multiple phases. (former cleveland Mayor Michael White committed about $250,000 during his tenure for research and design costs, Jackson said.) architect Daniel Bickerstaff, of local firm ubiquitous Design, spoke about the inspiration informing his concept. “i could expound for hours on end about the materials, about the design,” Bickerstaff said to the gathered crowd, “but this is based on the resiliency of our people, of our heritage.” the design features “pavilions” which are meant to encourage visitors to reflect on africanamericans in the past, the present, and the future. Bickerstaff said that after six months of research and

interviews with local residents, the theme of emergence recurred. the blue stone, which will contrast with the central black granite, is meant to evoke the atlantic ocean and the slave trade. “from a slave pavilion in ghana, when you saw the atlantic, you’d see how tranquil it was,” Bickerstaff said, “but you’d also understand your harrowing journey ahead.” frank Jackson expressed gratitude to Mayor Michael White and community advocates who have worked for 38 years to ensure the project came to fruition. (note: every time Jackson was mentioned in remarks, and certainly when he approached the podium, the pianist onstage launched into the intro to Jackson 5’s “aBc” — genius. also, councilman kevin conwell was on the drum kit throughout the proceedings.) councilman Jeff Johnson reminded the crowd that many contentious meetings transpired before the final concept for the garden’s structure was completed, and that residents must now make the african-american garden a priority in the community. “We don’t want this to be a museum item,” he said. “We want it to be used. you’ve got to grab this, adopt it and protect it.” as of last year, the africanamerican cultural garden task force had raised only $200,000 of the $550,000 they hoped to secure for phase one. the association of africanamerican cultural gardens indicates on its website that they’ll need $2 million for the entire project. “there’s a lot more work,” said city of cleveland coo Darnell Brown. “We want to make sure that this is just the start of the journey, and that we complete it.

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lawsuit will force city to relsease five years of police shooting records in november, nine of the 13 cleveland police officers who shot timothy russell and Malissa Williams in 2012 filed a federal lawsuit against the city and department leaders alleging discrimination. the group — including eight white and one hispanic officer — say they were treated harsher (extended gym duty and a longer “cooling off period,” for example) for shooting black people than when black officers shoot black people. it’s already a contentious case, full of bickering and heated legal filings that will surely take years to wrap up. But for as tone-deaf as the lawsuit is — it was filed just days after cleveland police officer timothy loehmann shot and killed tamir rice and just before the Department of Justice released a summary of their damning investigation into the department — even more information showing the inner workings of how the cleveland Police Department reacts following police-involved shootings will be included in the court file (these records are already public record, technically, but it takes months and months for reporters to get records on even a single shooting). lawyers for the officers initially asked for the city to release 13 years of police shooting records — including the ethnicity of the police officer who shot and their discipline and/or reassignment records following that. the lawyers are trying to find correlation between the race of the officers who shoot black people and what happens to them afterwards to prove that these “non-

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african american” officers were treated slightly worse when they shot black people. a federal judge initially ruled last month that the department must provide shooting records (including the race of the officer) and disciplinary records for police shootings that resulted in death for the past five years. But after a motion filed by the officers’ lawyer, a judge ruled that last week that records of police shootings that didn’t result in death will be included, too. the records will come from police shootings between november 2007 and november 2012. in another filing in april, the officers, including some who refused to to testify in the trial against their colleague Michael Brelo, squarely place blame on Brelo saying their own shots did “no harm.” filed in the midst of the Brelo trial is this: “the plaintiffs’ use of deadly force resulted in no harm much less death. they are similarly situated to a larger number of officers who have used deadly force and who did not cause harm. they are not similarly situated with officers who used deadly force but caused physical injury. “the plaintiffs’ were involved in a lengthy pursuit on november 29, 2012. they all discharged their weapons. the discharge was justifiable according to the report issued by the ohio attorney general. one officer involved in the pursuit and who is not a plaintiff in this case [Michael Brelo] fatally injured two people. his conduct was determined not to be acceptable under the circumstances. he is facing a criminal trial at this time for manslaughter.

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in terms of the nFL, is it an issue of changing the way the sport is played? or is it a technology issue? how can we take a game like football, which is brutal, and make it less harmful? I think part of it is coaching, I think part of it is education and I think part of it is conditioning as well. In terms of coaching, I think there’s been a tremendous influence by the NFL and other organizations to take the head out of the game, to tackle the way we were taught years ago, from the shoulder. Back then we were very concerned about spinal injuries. They’re moving back to that. Starting with the youth and all the way up. Education of coaches and players in terms of how to modify practice is also important. We probably don’t need to be engaging in heavy contact three days a week. The noggin of the noggin doctor.

ahead of the game Dr. Jay Alberts and the Cleveland Clinic’s Concussion Center By Craig Lyndall Scene Sat down with dr. Jay Alberts, the director of Cleveland Clinic’s Concussion Center, for a spirited conversation about — what else? — head injuries. Cleveland will play host next month to a symposium on concussions (Concussions: A National Challenge) at the Global Center for Health Innovations. Alberts discussed the symposium, his own innovative research on concussion care, and why he lets his son play football — other than the fact that his gene pool is too shallow for NFL aspirations. i didn’t know cleveland clinic had any concussion specialization going on. Yeah, well we should’ve advertised it a little better. The Concussion Center is a multidisciplinary center that sits between the Orthopedic Institute and the Neurological Institute, as well as Lerner Research. We started in 2012 officially, and our approach has been to look at the athlete and the non-athlete in a holistic manner. when people think of concussions, they think of athletes first. is that really the impetus for all this research, or was it going on even before the nFL became top-of-mind? It was going on before, we just

called it mild traumatic brain injury. That research was going on in military populations, as well as civilian populations — those who’ve had accidents or falls — but yes, with the information and the media regarding the NFL and the concussion lawsuits, it’s really exploded in terms of exposure.

do you have an opinion, as a medical professional, on the nFL settlements? I know there are lots of moving parts, but I think fundamentally a good thing is that they’ll be doing some initial baseline neurologicaltype testing for athletes. That’s a good thing. are there any relationships between the concussion center and area sports teams? We don’t provide services for the Cleveland Browns. We do provide services for the Cavaliers and for the Indians. The Concussion Center specifically has a relationship with the NFLPA Trust. It was an organization formed out of the collective bargaining agreement. Essentially, what we have is a program where former NFL players can come through our program, a two-day comprehensive screen. And then we provide them some after-care

i think i read that your kids play football. My son does. I have a boy and a girl, and my 9-year-old does. does that give you pause? It really doesn’t. I played Division III football so I know that the gene pool is relatively shallow and the chances that my son would become an NFL or even Division 1 player is very small. I think the value that they get from football, and a lot of team sports, is really unique. I think it’s been valuable for him and for a lot of his buddies. do you think we might eventually see tackling outlawed in high schools? I think it’s a lot more about technique. There is a movement afoot to delay tackling until junior high or high school, but I think before we make these rule changes, we really need to gather the data. And that’s really the goal of the Concussion Center, making sure we’re doing this from a data-driven standpoint, and not just hand-waving and moving in the same direction as the media coverage. In this case, the media has really outpaced our understanding in terms of science. is that a frustration for you? What’s actually more frustrating is that, if you look at the incidents of concussion in female sports — female ice hockey, for example, soccer, field hockey — it’s very high. Now it’s important to know that I’m not trying to protect football by pushing these other sports up there. But there’s something going on with the female

athlete, and while all the media attention is surrounding football, what about these female athletes? What’s frustrating is that there hasn’t been someone who’s taken up the flag for the female athlete.

the reason you’re here is the concussion conference next month. what can an attendee get out of it? Well, the entire conference is open to the public and free of charge. I think what’s unique is that when [Dr. Hunter Peckham] and I were planning the conference, we said we need to get people together who don’t normally attend the same meetings. That’s why we’ve got engineers from the auto industry, defense industry, sports, physicians, etc. From a community perspective, what you’re going to hear is experts talking about the science, but also about where we’re going to go and what we need to do. There’s an aspect of science to it, but I wouldn’t let that prevent anyone from coming. you developed an iPad app about concussions? Yeah, absolutely. It doesn’t diagnose concussions, but I think the important thing there is that we’re gathering information that can help potentially drive decisions on the field and down the road. The other part of this is, when you think about concussions and their care, you’re touched by a lot of different providers. And there are a lot of different signs and symptoms. To date, prior to this app, we’d really just look at the signs and symptoms in different buckets or silos. And that made handoffs between providers very difficult. Now that we’ve got it on one platform, it’s made the handoffs much easier from the athletic trainer to the physician to the physical therapist and then back to the athletic trainer. Now we’re all speaking sort of a common language. the apple engineers didn’t think of that, huh? No they didn’t. This has the potential to be transformative in the sense that usually medical technology doesn’t trickle down very quickly, to rural and inner-city areas in particular. So I’m really excited about the deployment to a really tiny town in Iowa, my hometown of 1,200 people, and also to inner-city Los Angeles. These kids couldn’t be more different, but what they share is access.

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FEATURE northeast ohio’s 50 most frustrating cold cases By James Renner It’s been two years sInce Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight returned from the dead, catapulting Cleveland into the national spotlight once again, just as we were beginning to forget about Anthony Sowell and his house of a thousand corpses. The question became: Is there something wrong here? Is there something about Northeast Ohio that creates a darker kind of monster? I used to write about crime for Scene. Over the years, I covered dozens of the city’s most haunting crimes and cases. I also compiled a list of dozens of others that have remained stubbornly unresolved. The list doesn’t seem to end, instead growing each year. Here are the 50 mysteries that just might have a chance at being solved. Not all of them are murders — but we do seem to have more than our fair share of those too. Included in each is the tipline for the relevant authorities in charge of the case. If you know anything, do get in touch with them and, of course, with us.

1. The Abduction and Murder of Amy Mihaljevic

his or her. Her body was found in an Ashland County wheat field four months later. In the days leading up to her kidnapping, a man called Amy at home and said that he was a friend of her mother’s and that Amy should meet him so he could take her shopping to get a gift for her mom. The key to solving the case may be finding how and when Amy crossed paths with several other girls who received calls from this man in 1989. The other girls were from North Olmsted. Like Amy, they had visited the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center that fall. They signed their names in a logbook there. A few of the girls also had a math teacher who was the brother of Amy’s horseback riding instructor. Send tips to Bay Village Police: 440-871-1234.

Crime Scene: Bay Village, Oct. 27, 1989. The Mystery: On a Friday afternoon, 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was abducted from the shopping plaza across from the Bay Village police station as every officer in the city was getting their pictures

4. The Murder of Joseph Kupchik

2. Ted Conrad’s Brazen Bank Heist Crime Scene: Lakewood, July 11, 1969. The Mystery: Ted Conrad considered himself Cleveland’s own Steve McQueen and the young man pulled off a brazen heist worthy of his own Hollywood movie. He worked as a vault teller at Society National Bank. downtown, and one Friday afternoon he walked out of the building with $215,000 in cash tucked in a brown paper bag and promptly disappeared. He was last seen in Hawaii sipping drinks at a bar. Send tips to U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott: 216-522-4483.

3. Who Was Joseph Newton Chandler?

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laying low? A retired CIA spook? Nobody knows. And the story gets stranger; just last year, U.S. Marshals released new information. In 1989, he checked himself into a local hospital with severe lacerations to his penis. He told the doctor on call that he’d had sex with his vacuum cleaner. Send tips to U.S. Marshal Peter Elliott: 216-522-4483.

Crime Scene: Eastlake, July 2002 The Mystery: An old man put a gun to his head in a shabby Eastlake apartment and blew his brains out. Everyone thought his name was Joseph Newton Chandler, but when police notified his next of kin, they discovered the real Joseph Newton Chandler died in 1945. The man from Eastlake had stolen his identity. He left behind $82,000 and several strange electrical gadgets he’d designed. Was he a mobster,

5. The Murder of Lisa Pruett Crime Scene: Shaker Heights, Sept. 13, 1990. The Mystery: 16-year-old Lisa Pruett was stabbed to death behind a mansion in the tony section of Shaker Heights. Based on tips from her classmates, police quickly focused on the weird kid in school, Kevin Young. He was charged with the murder but acquitted by a jury. Looking at the case again raises questions about Pruett’s boyfriend Dan Dreifort. Lisa’s body, after all, was found about 100 feet from the Dreifort family mansion. Dan had been released that day from the psych ward. He had written her letters from the hospital, warning her to stay away from him when he got out because he didn’t want to hurt her. Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

6. The Murder of Andrea Flenoury

Joseph Kupchik

Crime Scene: Cleveland, Feb. 12, 2006. The Mystery: Joe Kupchik’s body was discovered on the pavement below a parking deck in downtown Cleveland, around 1 in the morning. His car was found on the top level. A trail of blood led from the door to the railing, a knife lay nearby. The coroner initially ruled the young man’s death a suicide, but later changed it to “undetermined.” At the time, Kupchik worked at the Steak ’n Shake in Brunswick, with some very unsavory characters. His manager, Brian Weaver, had a couple felonies for creating ghost employees when he was a manager at Wendy’s (where Joe also worked). And coworker Brian Trimmer used to bum rides from Joe downtown. After Joe’s death, Trimmer skipped town. Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

Andrea Flenoury

Crime Scene: Coventry Township, August 7, 2005. The Mystery: 21-year-old Andrea Flenoury’s body was found submerged in the river along the Ohio & Erie Canal towpath, wrapped in chains. Detectives soon learned that this former Lordstown High School cheerleader had been moonlighting as a stripper in some of Akron’s seediest clubs. Her killer strangled her to death. She was six

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FEATURE weeks pregnant. Her murder may be linked to the April 2005 death of Donna Pittinger, whose body was found floating in the Tuscarawas. Send tips to the Akron Police Detective Bureau: 330-375-2490.

7. Who Killed Anita Pratt and Her Unborn Baby?

his own home, striking him on the head with some blunt instrument. His wife was out of state at the time. His son discovered the body. No suspects have been named, though his wife has said she believes she knows who did it. Send tips to Kent police: 330-673-7732.

10. The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard

Crime Scene: Ashtabula, Sept. 19, 1981 The Mystery: Anita Pratt, 22, was found stabbed to death, in a pool of blood, beside her 1 year-old son’s crib. There were no signs of forced entry. Her stepfather, Bill Colley, who lived across the hall from her apartment, told police he found the front door open and her child crying inside. She was seven months pregnant at the time. Police long suspected the stepfather but he never confessed to the crime. Send tips to Ashtabula County detectives: 330-675-7890.

8. The Disappearance of Tonia Aldrich

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Crime Scene: Elyria, March 29, 1997. The Mystery: Last seen at Chris’s Place bar at 2 a.m., 38-year-old Tonia walked east down Clark Street, headed for home. Later that night, her mother found Tonia’s medication and belongings by the front door but there was no trace of Tonia. She never used her credit cards after that day. It is believed she met with foul play. Send tips to the Elyria Police Department: 440-326-1205.

9. Who Killed Professor Shaw? Crime Scene: Kent, Sept. 20, 2004. The Mystery: Douglas Shaw taught urban studies at the University of Akron for 32 years before someone killed him inside

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Crime Scene: Bay Village, July 3, 1954. The Mystery: Someone bludgeoned Marilyn to death in the middle of the night. Her husband, wealthy osteopath Sam Sheppard, claimed he was sleeping downstairs when he heard cries. He raced upstairs but was confronted by an intruder who knocked him unconscious. An autopsy found that Marilyn was pregnant at the time she died. Sam was found guilty of her murder, but won a retrial and was later acquitted. The evidence suggests a woman or a very weak man actually committed the crime. Sheppard’s mother committed suicide a few days after Sam’s initial conviction. Send tips to Bay Village Police: 440-871-1234.

11. Who Was the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run? Crime Scene: Cleveland, 1935 to 1938 The Mystery: At least a dozen people were killed by a serial killer known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, who preyed upon drifters who lived in shanty slums around the banks of the Cuyahoga following the Great Depression. The sadistic predator cut the bodies into pieces and sometimes only torsos were found. Most of the male victims had been castrated, too. Untouchable Eliot Ness was safety director of Cleveland at the time.

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He believed Dr. Francis Sweeney was responsible and the murders stopped after Sweeney had himself committed to a mental ward. Other believed the real killer moved away and to safer killing fields. Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

12. Who Bombed the Thinker? Crime Scene: Cleveland Museum of Art, March 24, 1970. The Mystery: One of the most recognizable sculptures in history, Rodin’s the Thinker, sits at the entrance to the Museum of Art. Next time you visit, take a good look at its base. The steel is all twisted and the man’s feet are missing. Why? Because someone placed a bomb, as powerful as three sticks of dynamite, beneath it in 1970. It’s believed the domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground, did it as a political statement, but nobody ever claimed responsibility and nobody has been arrested for the crime. Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

13. Who Killed Beverly Jarosz? Crime Scene: Garfield Heights, Dec. 28, 1964. The Mystery: 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz looked like a young Zooey Deschanel. The Catholic schoolgirl had no shortage of suitors in Garfield Heights — and at least one stalker as well. One anonymous admirer left a ring and bracelet on her back porch. But the attention made her suspicious and she started carrying a sharp letter opener for protection. Then, a few days after Christmas, someone murdered Beverly in her bedroom when she was home alone. She was stabbed 42 times and strangled with a rope. Suspects include her boyfriend, an ex, a neighbor boy, and a traveling salesman. But no one has ever been charged. Send tips to Garfield Heights police detectives: 216-475-5686.

14. The 1987 Akron Murder Spree Crime Scene: Akron, August through December 1987. The Mystery: Three women were brutally murdered in similar ways in 1987, and their deaths may be the work of a serial killer. On August 10, 31-year-old Janice Christensen went jogging along the Hudson Bike and Hike trail. Someone sexually assaulted her and stabbed her to death. Her body was found the next day, just off the trail. On Oct. 24, the

body of JoAnn Bartholomew was discovered in the woods behind Chapel Hill Mall after she failed to return from church. She too had been raped and stabbed. Marcia Kay Potter, 36, was reported missing Dec. 14. They found her body in a northwest Akron apartment complex. Someone had stabbed her to death. It’s possible these murders may be related to Barbara Blatnik’s homicide as well. Send tips to the Akron Police Detective Bureau: 330-375-2490

15. Did a Serial Killer Leave His Victims in Berlin? Crime Scene: Berlin Reservoir, 1994 The Mystery: 14-year-old Sarah Boehm left her family’s house in Rochester, Pennsylvania, one night, telling her brother that she was going to a friend’s house. She never made it there. Her body was later discovered in Berlin Reservoir, a rural Ohio park, less than a halfmile from where the nude body of 17-year-old Kathryn Menendez was found. Menendez was from Alliance and had run away before. Both girls were murdered in the summer of 1994. The FBI believes the crimes may be the work of a serial killer. Send tips to the FBI: 216-522-1400 .

16. Who Really Killed Ramona Krotine?

Crime Scene: Brook Park, March 20, 2003. The Mystery: Someone shot this suburban mom in the head, execution-style, and left her body in the trunk of her own car at a seedy RTA station on the west side. Her husband, realtor Jeff Krotine, was tried three times for her murder but was ultimately acquitted. Police suspected he was involved after they caught him getting rid of carpeting from their bedroom. A witness named Sam Mazzola, who ran a bear-wrestling business, claimed he knew who the real killer was. Mazzola died in 2011; he suffocated on a dildo while dressed in leather and handcuffed to his bed. Jeff Krotine died last year of natural causes. Send tips to the Brook Park police: 216-433-1239.

17. What Happened to Beverly Potts? Crime Scene: Cleveland, August 24, 1951. The Mystery: Probably Cleveland’s most famous unsolved mystery, just about everyone has heard of Beverly Potts and her case remains a mystery. On August 24, 10-year-old Beverly went to Halloran

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Crime Scene: Barberton, May 2000 The Mystery: When Delialah Rollons dropped by her mom’s house on Mother’s Day, in 2000, she found her mother, Michelli Wilson, and her boyfriend, Edward Rhodes, dead, inside. Details of the murders have never been made public and the police are still investigating the cold case. Send tips to Barberton detectives: 330-848-6709.

19. Who Started the Shootings That Killed Four Kent State Students?

May 4, 1970. The Mystery: Following a weekend of protests related to the escalating war in Vietnam, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer William Schroeder. Several of the guardsmen claimed they only opened fire after hearing a gunshot from the area of the protestors, but many of the students said they heard an order to fire given by a ranking officer. Later, an FBI informant named Terry Norman, who was standing with the protestors, admitted to having a loaded gun with him that day. An analysis of the weapon showed that it may have been fired that day. Send tips to Kent police: 330-673-7732.

20. What Happened to Yvonne Regler? Crime Scene: Fairview Park, Aug. 8, 1977. The Mystery: 17-year-old Yvonne Regler usually worked at the Sunoco in North Olmsted, but on August 8, 1977, she filled in for an employee at the Lorain Road location, in nearby Fairview Park. When another attendant showed up for the 1:30 shift, they found Yvonne’s purse, with money and ID still inside, but there was no sign of Yvonne. No money was missing from the register. Police believe she was abducted, but her body has never been found. Send tips to the Fairview Park police: 330-356-4415.

21. Where is Ashley Summers? Crime Scene: Cleveland, July 6, 2007. The Mystery: Ashley Summers was 14 years old when she disappeared from Cleveland west side in 2007, not far from where Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were abducted. When police found Amanda, Gina, and Michelle Knight inside Ariel Castro’s homemade sex prison, some suspected Castro of abducting Ashley as well. Then, just a couple months ago, a woman who bares a striking resemblance to Ashley was caught on camera at an ATM in Rhode Island. Was she murdered in 2007 or did she run away to start a new life? Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

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FEATURE his wife and his week-old daughter slept inside. Luckily, he escaped. When asked if there was anyone he suspected wanted to kill him, he quipped, “How much time do you have?” Shortly before the fire, he’d received threatening letters signed by the “local KKK.” Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130

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25. Who Murdered Angela Hicks? Crime Scene: Elyria, July 21, 1990. The Mystery: 14-year-old cheerleader Angela Hicks disappeared while her mother was at work. The only thing missing when police searched her room was a duffle bag she kept her Barbie dolls in. All of her shoes were found in the home. Angela’s 21-year-old stepfather, Sam Legg, claimed he saw her leave the house before her mother returned. Angela’s body was later found near an old barn by Midway Mall. A short time later, her mother divorced Sam and they both moved out of state. Send tips to Elyria police detectives: 440-323-3302

26. Who Really Killed Tiffany Papesh?

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Crime Scene: Tremont, July 27, 2011. The Mystery: The body of a promising young student from Cleveland Institute of Art was found in his apartment on Professor Avenue, around 1 a.m., by a friend who immediately called police. Brandon Cartellone had been shot in the stomach and someone had bound his wrists and ankles. Detectives found cash and a pot-growing setup in the apartment, located in the hipster enclave of Tremont. A new detective has just been assigned to the case. Send tips to Cleveland homicide detectives: 216-623-5464.

24. Who Killed Aliza Sherman? Crime Scene: Cleveland, March 24, 2013. The Mystery: Two days before her divorce trial was to begin, someone stabbed Aliza Sherman to death outside her attorney’s office, in downtown Cleveland. Robbery was not the motive; her attacker left her purse and car keys behind. In January, police claimed they had a person of interest and an indictment was imminent. Send tips to Cleveland detectives: 216-623-5464.

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Crime Scene: Maple Heights, June 13, 1980 The Mystery: Tiffany Papesh, 8, was last seen carrying hamburger buns, walking away from a convenience store toward her family’s house, at 2:45. Her body has never been found. A man named Brandon Lee Flagner was actually convicted of her murder, after confessing to the crime, in 1983. But he later recanted the confession, stating that he wanted to stay in prison, and police no longer believe he was responsible for her abduction. Send tips to the Maple Heights police: 216-662-5884.

27. Who Are the Serial Rapists on Cleveland’s east side? Crime Scene: Cleveland, 1993 through 2010. The Mystery: When Cuyahoga County finally got around to testing their backlog of rape kits, they discovered that many of the unsolved crimes were linked by DNA. In fact, prosecutors believe there are more than 200 men who are local serial rapists. You read that right. One asyet-unidentified man, dubbed John “Countdown” Doe, was responsible for at least six rapes from 1993 to 1994, that occurred near East 55th. Send tips to Cleveland police sex crimes unit: 216-623-5630.

28. Who Murdered Barbara Blatnik? Crime Scene: Garfield Heights, Dec. 20, 1987. The Mystery: Barbara Blatnik was a bright-eyed 17-year-old student at Erieview Catholic High School in 1987. The evening of Dec. 20, she called her father from a party on Turney Road and said she would be leaving soon. In the morning, her

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29. Who Shot Charles Clark? Crime Scene: Mentor, Christmas Eve, 1959. The Mystery: Charles Clark, 35, was standing in his kitchen, opening a can of pumpkin for Christmas dinner, when someone shot him through the window, killing him. Clark had four kids, a nice wife, and was a leader with the Boy Scouts. Who’d want to kill him? Detectives soon learned that his wife, Lois, was having affairs with six different men, one of whom was a man named Floyd Hargrove, who’d received a sharp-shooting medal in the service. Hargrove was charged with the murder but was acquitted by a jury. Send tips to the Lake County Sheriff’s detectives: 440-350-5620.

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31. Did Bob Buell Kill Debora Kaye Smith? Crime Scene: Massillon, June 25, 1983. The Mystery: 10-year-old Debbie Smith disappeared from a street fair in Massillon in the summer of, 83. A man in a canoe found her body on the banks of the Tuscarawas River two weeks later. She had been raped and stabbed to death. Detectives found wax on her body. They would later trace the wax back to a brand of candles found in the home of convicted killer Bob Buell. However, strong evidence suggests Buell did not act alone and may have been training a sadistic apprentice. Buell was never charged with Debbie’s murder. He was executed in 2002. The case remains open. Send tips to Massillon detectives: 330-830-1744.

32. Who Stole the Keeshka? Crime Scene: Cleveland, 1963 The Mystery: Someone stole the keeshka from the butcher shop. Who stole the keeshka? Someone call the cop. Polka singer Frankie Yankovic described the crime: “Round, firm and fully-packed, it was hanging on the rack. Someone stole the keeshka when I turned my back.” Yaschel later found the keeshka and put it back on the rack but the man who snatched it was never apprehended. Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

33. What Happened to Jonni Clemett?

30. Who Ripped Off Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell? Crime Scene: Cleveland, Feb.16, 2005. The Mystery: Judge O’Donnell parked his state-owned car in the Flats and left a briefcase and $18,000 in cash in the back seat. Oddly enough, someone took it. After he reported the crime to police, the Plain Dealer contacted him. Instead of answering questions, he released a statement, saying the large sum was from his personal savings. A 2006 report by the New York Times suggested O’Donnell usually keeps a better eye on money; He has ruled in favor of campaign contributors 91 percent of the time,

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Crime Scene: Cleveland, May 27, 2001. The Mystery: Walking back from the Indians/Tigers game, Clemett made it all the way back to her car, which was parked beside the Little Bar, downtown, before she

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34. Who Stole 33 Paintings from True Art Gallery? Crime Scene: North Collinwood, January 2008. The Mystery: A week before the gallery closed, someone broke into True Art and made off with 33 paintings, as well as a computer, stereo, and phones. The paintings were not insured and nobody could figure out how the thieves removed the large paintings through a 2-by3-foot hole they punched in the window; the gallery doors were still locked. Send tips to Cleveland police: 216-623-5618.

35. What Happened to Elaine Ford? Crime Scene: Cleveland, May 21, 1990. The Mystery: Elaine Ford is one of the many missing women we never heard much about. She was 29 years old when she was last seen in Cleveland, in 1990. She was never heard from again. She was a short African American who wore a Jhericurl wig. She also had a rather large knot on her neck. Send tips to the Cleveland police, 4th District: 216-623-3138.

Ashtabula, 49-year-old Wayne Griffith was planning a trip to Melbourne, Florida, when he disappeared. Neither Griffith nor his gray, 1984 Ford conversion van was ever seen again. He has a tattoo of the Tasmanian Devil on his right arm. Send tips to the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office: 440-576-0055.

38. Why Was Dan Ott Murdered? Crime Scene: Burton, May 26, 2006. The Mystery: 31-year-old Dan Ott was about to move to Michigan to work at a greenhouse. Most of his belongings were already packed

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masked man dressed in camouflage broke into their house on ClaridonTroy Road. The intruder bound Dan’s hands together with duct tape. When Dan tried to fight back, the masked man shot him in the chest with a shotgun and fled the scene. Some investigators believe Dan’s death was the result of mistaken identity, after a hitman was sent to kill another man named Dan Ott. Send tips to Geauga County Sheriff’s detectives: 440-279-2009.

39. Where is Michael Hodge? Crime Scene: Cleveland, March 6, 2004.

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36. Who Killed Rene Wise? Crime Scene: Suffield, Jan.17, 1997. The Mystery: For weeks, there were signs that someone was entering 30-year-old Rene Wise’s apartment on Cleveland Road, in Suffield, when she was not at home; muddy footprints in the kitchen, missing change. She filed a report with the police. Then, one night she returned home and someone beat her and strangled her to death. Her life was about to change for the better; She was engaged to be married and was about to become a fire fighter. Some mysterious intruder cut that short. Sent tips to Portage County detectives: 330-297-3890.

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Crime Scene: Cleveland, April 12, 2006. The Mystery: 39-year-old Oliver Klar ran a used car business, called Eastway Motors, on St. Clair Avenue. His car was found abandoned a block from his work. He had many friends but no one has heard from him since April 12, 2006. Send tips to Cleveland detectives: 216-623-5464.

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41. How Did Ryan Johnson Die? Crime Scene: Akron, Jan. 14, 2010. The Mystery: Ryan was a whiz kid with a reckless streak. Two years after graduating high school, he had earned enough money to buy a mansion in Bath. He often held elaborate parties there, during which he would destroy his expensive toys. The police were once called out when he drove his Mercedes into the

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FEATURE The Mystery: Christina (or Tink, as she liked to be called) was 24 years old when she disappeared in 2011. She is mentally disabled, with the mental capacity of a child. She got into an argument with her parents and when they checked her room in the morning, she was gone. She has a history of prostitution and was known to frequent Pearl Road. Some believe she fits the victim profile of Ariel Castro, though nothing has ever been released that links him to Christina’s disappearance. Send tips to Cleveland police: 216-623-5262

44. Judy Martins: Murder or Runaway? Crime Scene: Kent State, May 24, 1978. The Mystery: Judy was last seen leaving a friend’s dorm at Dunbar Hall on the campus of Kent State, wearing a Halloween wig and oversized glasses. She never made it back to her dorm. Her disappearance was treated as an abduction, but the case

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45. Was Pamela Terrill’s Death a Cover-up? Crime Scene: Medina, August 23, 1976. The Mystery: The body of 21-year-old Pamela Terrill was

discovered in her bedroom. There were bruises around her neck and tape covering her mouth. When the coroner called it a suicide, the family cried foul. Just a few days before she died, Pamela had accused her boss of sexually assaulting her. Her boss was Republican county commissioner Mark Whitfield, whose father was a prominent local judge, retired, with lots of friends in law enforcement.Eventually, Pamela’s body was exhumed and a new coroner said she’d been murdered. Whitfield faced trial for the murder in 1988, but was found not guilty due to lack of evidence. Witnesses at the trial testified that Whitfield was a tranny who once tried to break into a house while wearing a dress and wig and groped another woman while riding to Pamela’s funeral. Send tips to Medina detectives: 330-725-9116.

Melissa Sue Sublett, told detectives that she had recently done cocaine with Summit County Common Pleas Judge Michael Callahan and had given him a blow job in his courthouse chambers. Five days later, she was found stabbed to death. A woman pleaded guilty to her murder and got a three-year sentence but she later recanted her confession. Send tips to the Akron Police Detective Bureau: 330-375-2490.

47. Is Lisa Sexton Still Alive?

46. Who Killed the Hooker Who Finked On an Akron Judge? Crime Scene: Akron, 1999. The Mystery: In 1999, the city of Akron cracked down on their growing red light district, indicting 67 people — mostly prostitutes. One prostitute,

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48. Did a Local Police Chief Fake His Own Death? Crime Scene: Edgewater Park, July 28, 1985. The Mystery: This one’s a doozy. In 1985, Mel Wiley was an aspiring novelist. He was also the police chief in Hinkley. And in the summer of 1985, Metroparks rangers found his car abandoned at Edgewater Park. His clothes were neatly folded on the seat, beside his wallet and police ID card. When his police buddies investigated his disappearance, they found scribbled notes about a bus ticket to Fort Ord, in California and a letter to a female friend that speaks of taking a “one-way trip.” He was officially declared dead in 1993. Send tips to Hinkley police: 330-278-7161

49. What Really Happened to Emma Nahas?

took six young women (five of whom were under 21) out on Cucu’s 48-foot cabin cruiser for a day of drinking and dancing. At some point, 19-year-old Emma Nahas jumped into the water with Slyman. Then Nahas went under the water. Slyman was pulled back onto the boat, naked. Nahas’ body washed ashore 11 days later. Cucu was sentenced to 18 months in prison early this year on charges of tax fraud unrelated to the event. Send tips to Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department, Detective Bureau: 216-443-6130.

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50. Rachael Johnson Crime Scene: Akron, March 30, 1991 The Mystery: This is the stuff of nightmares. Rachael was 24-years-old, in 1991. She was riding in a car with a friend when the vehicle got a flat tire. They pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store. A grey vehicle pulled in behind them and at that point Rachael either got into the other vehicle or was forced inside. Her body was found in the street, hours later. She had been raped, stabbed, and set on fire. The police have DNA of her likely killed but so far have not found a match. Send tips to Akron detectives: 330-375-2552 James Renner is a former Scene staff writer. His new novel, The Great Forgetting, about a history teacher from Lakewood who tries to save the world, will be published in November.

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Crime Scene: Lake Erie, July 8, 2010 The Mystery: It was quite a party. A wealthy 36-year-old businessman named Alex Cucu and 31-year-old John Slyman

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The Cardinals Cometh Year in and year out, the St. Louis Cardinals put together a competitive baseball team. Even after manager Tony La Russa retired, the team continued to compete. Tonight, they visit Progressive Field as part of an three-game interleague match up. The Indians will have a tough time: The Cardinals are one of the best teams in the National League and had a stellar start to the season. The game tonight starts at 6:10 p.m. and the two teams go at it again tomorrow. Tickets start at $10. (Jeff Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-916-6100, clevelandindians.com. Film

Backstreet Biopic Backstreet Boys were once so popular that they played huge arenas. Those days are done, but the band’s still going strong. The new biopic, Backstreet Boys: Show ’Em What You’re Made Of, offers an exclusive look into the lives and careers of Nick, AJ, Kevin, Howie and Brian. Additionally, the film includes a never-before-seen acoustic performance as well as performances of hits such as “I Want It That Way,” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Shape of My Heart,” “Show ’Em (What You’re Made Of)” and “In a World Like This.” The film screens at 7 p.m. at area theaters. (Niesel) fathomevents.com. Food

Food Truck Fiesta Eats from more than a dozen of Cleveland’s best-known food trucks will be available today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza park at East 12th and Walnut streets as part of Walnut Wednesdays. On tap this season are Barrio Tacos, Fired Up, Krav, Nosh Box, Zydeco Bistro, Wok ’n’ Roll and Streat Mobile, to name just a few. “Walnut Wednesday has grown in popularity over the years; now more than 1,500 people visit Walnut Wednesday each week and Perk Plaza is an urban retreat all season long,” notes Joe Marinucci, president and CEO of the Downtown Cleveland Alliance. Live music also will be featured. (Douglas Trattner) downtowncleveland.com/walnutweds. lecture

Let’s Talk About Sex With all the talk about transgender in the news lately, tonight’s talk, What Makes a Boy a Boy and a Man a Man?:

Amy Schumer cracks jokes about her back door. See: Tuesday.

The SRY Male Determining Factor and What it Says About Human Biological and Social Evolution, seems particularly timely. Case Western Reserve University chair of biochemistry Dr. Michael Weiss will present the lecture and then take questions. Expect to hear plenty of references to chromosomes and the concept of evolvability. The talk begins at 6 p.m. at the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern, and admission is free. (Niesel) 11629 Euclid Ave., 216-231-7066, happydogcleveland.com.

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Exhibitions at a Gallery Classes may have ended, but the Galleries at Cleveland State University have a few more exhibitions to offer before they close for summer break. From 5 to 8 p.m. today, they host an opening reception for Phyllis Seltzer’s Italian Works, Travis Kinchy’s From Shadows into Light, and Can Do! Like You, an eclectic exhibition of works from artists with developmental challenges. Seltzer is well known for her paintings of Cleveland but as a half-time resident of Venice, Italy, this exhibition features paintings created in Italy and never before seen in Cleveland. Travis Kinchy is a relative newcomer to the local art community. His beautifully dark, expressive clay and bronze sculptures show the influence of his travels through

Europe. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities and SAW, Inc. All exhibitions and the opening reception are free. Exhibitions run through Saturday, June 20. (Josh Usmani) 1307 Euclid Ave., 216-687-2103, csuohio.edu/artgallery.

mance art. Scott explores themes of racism, genocide and rape, but does so subtly with the help of humor and beauty. Get to MOCA early to see the exhibition before you check out the film. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org. theAter

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Getting the Lowdown Also known as “the Celebrity Snitch” because of the popular segment he contributes to the Tom Joyner Morning Show, comedian Huggy Lowdown likes to joke about how much money black stars like Jay-Z have, and he regularly dishes dirt on celebs such as Geraldo Rivera and Bruce Willis. Think of him as a black Perez Hilton. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv and has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $20 to $22. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. Art

A Movie That Matters In conjunction with Joyce J. Scott’s Truth and Visions exhibition currently on view at MOCA, the museum is offering free screenings 5 and 7 p.m. of An Authentic Life, a documentary on Scott’s life and work. The film features personal stories from the artist as well as footage of her visual and perfor-

Radio Daze Welcome to Night Vale is a twice monthly podcast series created by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. It’s presented as a radio show set in the fictional Southwest town of Night Vale. The small desert town gets community updates via podcast featuring local weather, news, mysterious lights in the sky and dark hooded figures with unknown powers. Welcome to Night Vale has been growing in popularity since its 2012 debut and actually surpassed This American Life for downloads in 2013. Described as the news seen through the eyes of Stephen King, the surreal and paranormal live show is selling out theaters across the country. (A novel based on the podcast is in the works for release in October.) Welcome to Night Vale takes the stage — for one night only — tonight at 8 at the Hanna Theater, featuring a brand new script, live music by Disparition and many surprise guest stars. Tickets are $30. (Kaitlin Siegel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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An All-Star Line-up Since 2009, Shaquille O’Neal’s All Star Comedy Jam has been selling out venues across the country. Comedian and actor DeRay Davis (Empire) hosts the newest installment of the Comedy Jam, coming to Cleveland tonight. Joining Davis is fellow comic Tommy Davidson who got his big break on In Living Color in 1990 and has seen major success in touring and voice acting for shows like The Proud Family and Adult Swim’s Black Dynamite. Tony Roberts is also on the docket and has been featured on Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo and BET’s ComicView. Up-and-coming Ghanaian actor and comedian Michael Blackson is also appearing; his fame has been growing since appearing in 2000’s Next Friday. Last but not least is Red Grant, a guy notorious for his contagious laugh and appearances in American Hustle and First Sunday. Catch Shaq’s All Star Comedy Jam tonight at 8 in the State Theater. Tickets are $47.75 to $87.75. (Siegel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. Art

Juried Artworks The Cleveland Museum of Art may have no interest in reinstating its legendary May Show, but Lakeland’s gallery coordinator Mary Urbas has taken up the charge. For the past five years, the Gallery at Lakeland has hosted its own version of the May Show, an annual, juried exhibition of local and regional art. This year’s May Show is selected by Tom Huck, chief curator of University Hospitals’ fine art collection, and Lauren Davies, future gallery director of 2731 Prospect (currently known as William Busta Gallery). Over the past five years, organizers have awarded $20,000 in cash awards. The award ceremony takes place at 7 tonight with a reception until 9 p.m. The exhibition runs through July 10. Additional gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s free. (Usmani) 7700 Clocktower Dr., Kirtland, 440-525-7029, lakelandcc.edu/gallery. musiC

Father and Son Reunion Must be something in the Bryson family DNA that determines family members will become musicians. Wally was a key member of the Raspberries, the terrific, genre-defining power pop band that came out of Cleveland in the ’70s. His son

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Jesse is no slouch. His band Qwasi Qwa took home top honors at the first-ever Cleveland High School Rock Off. Tonight at 7:30 at the Masonic Auditorium at the Rock ’n’ Roll Awareness Concert, they share the bill. Bryson Sr. will perform with the Wally Bryson Group. Bryson Jr. will reunite Qwasi Qwa. Sittin’ Ducks, which features members of yet another ’70s act, the Choir, will also perform. Proceeds benefit the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities PTCU Foundation. Tickets are $15 to $100 by phone or on the website below. (Niesel) 3615 Euclid Ave., 877-987-6487, paccleveland.com. Comedy

Kidd-ing Around Charming comic Tim Kidd has been doing standup for 11 years and found his niche by just being himself. The style of comedy he has developed over the years has turned his live shows into unpredictable, ADD-fueled performances. Kidd gained an interest in comedy while touring with his band, as he discovered he enjoyed talking to the audience more than playing tunes. His childlike exuberance and high-octane stage presence help deliver his very own twisted brand of yucks. Kidd’s the embodiment of everyone’s imaginary friend — except he’s all grown up. You can see him perform at the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet tonight at 7:30. Performances continue through Sunday and tickets are $13 to $18. (Siegel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. Art

More Bass Brooklyn, New York, artist Chloe Bass’ Book of Everyday Instruction, Chapter One: you + me together chronicles a series of one-on-one interactions between Cleveland residents and the artist. Earlier this spring, Bass invited the public to spend an afternoon having Bass “sub” in an activity normally done in pairs. The activities were well documented and time-lined, and the results debut tonight at Spaces from 6 to 9 p.m. Also tonight, Spaces hosts Bounce, featuring works by father/son collaborators Keegan & Nick. Additionally, the Vault premieres two new collections of video works, curated by Kerry Downey, Daniel Gray-Kontar and students from Cleveland School of the Arts. Tonight’s events are free. The exhibitions run through July 10. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org. Art

Open House We say it every month, but tonight’s another busy Third Friday at 78th Street

Studios. May’s open studios include the grand opening of ARTneo’s new location in the lower level (featuring the organization’s latest acquisitions), the Drawn and Quartered live drawing and drawing competition at Hedge Gallery, a closing reception for Don’t Panic! at E11even2, yours truly’s Funny Money II at Tregoning & Company and much, much more. While hours may vary by venue, most studios and galleries are open from 5 to 9 p.m. The competitive portion of the Drawn and Quartered event at Hedge will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. As always, Third Friday is free, and the Touch Suppertruck will be parked in front of the main entrance to serve up some good grub. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com. SportS

An Offensive Threat While the Cleveland Browns continue to search for a quarterback who can lead their offense, the Cleveland Gladiators have got their guy. Earlier this month, Gladiators quarterback Shane Austin was named Arena Football League offensive player of the week after passing for 364 yards and eight touchdowns against Orlando. At the time, he ranked second in the entire league in total offense. He’ll be taking the snaps tonight at 7 as the Gladiators take on the New Orleans Voodoo.

Tickets start at $9. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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Opening Day With the Cleveland Indians struggling in the early part of Major League Baseball’s season, fair weather fans might want to turn their attention to a team that hasn’t lost a game. The Lake Erie Crushers, an amateur baseball team that plays in the Frontier League, is that team. Of course, they haven’t lost because they haven’t started their season yet. Their home opener takes place tonight at 7:05 at All-Pro Freight Stadium in Avon. The guys take on the Southern Illinois Miners. Tickets start at $6 and concessions are affordably priced. (Niesel) 2009 Baseball Blvd., Avon, 440-934-3636, lakeeriecrushers.com.

Side-Splitting Antics America’s favorite foursome — Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel— are back and live on stage in color for the first time. The new musical stage event is adapted from one of the most beloved television shows in history. The premise is that it’s 1952 and you’re a member of the studio audience awaiting the filming of two hilarious and iconic I Love Lucy episodes. During I Love Lucy Live on Stage, you get to witness, firsthand, the side-splitting antics of that crazy redhead and Ricky Ricardo. The event takes place tonight at 7:30 at Connor Palace. Performances continue through Sunday and tickets are $10 to $60. (Siegel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Rocking the House A self-described “neighborhood center that provides services and programs” to Cleveland communities, Merrick House hosts its annual benefit, Merrick [Rocks} the House, today at 7 p.m. at House of Blues. The Spazmatics, an 80s cover band, are slated to perform, and there will be a cash raffle. Tickets are $20, with $175 VIP tickets that include appetizers, drinks and valet parking. (Niesel)

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Stretching Out The Music Box Supper Club has had great success pairing music with yoga. That’s right — we said yoga. At tonight’s “workout,” Jaclyn Hoffman leads the yoga session while guitarist Thom Pope provides the tunes. The class includes a post-session meet and greet where you can sample Bearded Buch kombucha and Wild Thing wine. Award-winning wine-

maker Carol Shelton is the guest speaker. The event starts at 6 p.m. and admission is $15. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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Alien Adventures A number of sci-fi flicks have been built around the premise of a hunt for an evil alien creature. In that respect, 1987’s Predator comes off as a conventional member of the genre. Its plot centers on the leader (Arnold Schwarzenegger) of an elite special forces team on a mission to rescue hostages in Central America. The movie got negative reviews when it was released, but still made a ton of money at the box office. It has since become a cult classic; it shows at midnight tonight at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $5. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. Art

Good as Gold After spending the past few months living and working in Cleveland, the Cleveland Foundation’s current Creative Fusion international artists are preparing to showcase the results of their residencies with various local arts and cultural orga-

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nizations. From 1 to 3 p.m., Zygote Press hosts a reception for resident artist Mauricio Cristobal Cortes Fuentes of Chile. He’s a master goldsmith as well as printmaker. His background in goldsmithing shows in his unique prints. The artist will speak at 2 p.m. The exhibition runs through May 27, and Fuentes will return to Chile mid-June. It is free. (Usmani) 1410 East 30th St., 216-621-2900, zygotepress.com.

Having a Bal Just west of downtown, Kalman and Pabst Photo Group is a private studio for local photo and media professionals. It’s not regularly open to the public, but it’s the venue for tonight’s Ingenuity’s Fourth Annual Bal Ingénieux, which takes place from 6 to 1 a.m. With 18,000 square feet of “nooks and crannies,” the

10 p.m. If you want 6 p.m. dinner, prices range from $150 to $200 (or $1,500 for a corporate table). And if you show up at 8 p.m. for desserts and cocktails, those tickets will cost $75. (Niesel) 3907 Perkins Ave., 216-426-9090, balingenieux.com.

live music, interactive art activities and local food vendors. It all takes place today and Sunday throughout the neighborhood. For more info and locations, pick up an event map at 7019 Fullerton Ave. It’s free. (Usmani) slavicvillage.org/roomstolet.

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An Annual Tradition Conceived in 1969 as a block party (and later abandoned in the not-so-hip 1980s), the Hessler Streeet Fair in Harmony Park has evolved into one of the biggest and most involved parties of its kind. It’s a free event that sort of opens the floodgates for summertime neighborhood fun in Cleveland. There’s plenty to go around — pass it to your left, as they say, or is that something else? — and it all begins at Hessler. Musical acts slated to perfrom include I-Tal, JiMiller Band, Revolution Brass Band and Cats on Holiday. It goes from 11 a.m. to dusk, today and tomorrow. (Eric Sandy) hesslerstreetfair.org. art

It’s a Celebration Some 2,000 students are enrolled in the Cleveland metropolitan school district. Today’s Rock Your World with Steam family festival aims to celebrate their artistic talents. Expect to find “a dazzling array of activities to inspire and empower students and their families.” Choirs, bands, drumlines, jazz and orchestra ensembles and dancers will perform on six stages outside the Rock Hall and the Great Lakes Science Center. There also will be a preview of the All-City Arts musical Memphis. Admission is free and the event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Find details on the website. (Niesel) cmsd-rockyourworld.org. festival

Ribs and Rock Downtown Willoughby features a great collection of bars and restaurants, making it the perfect place for the Fourth Annual Rib Burn Off, which takes place today and tomorrow. The event kicks off at noon today and features entertainment courtesy of country crooner Frankie Ballard, an up-and-coming singer who’s put out some terrific singles and would normally headline House of Blues or a similar-sized venue. Tomorrow, Bruce in the U.S.A., a band that bills itself as the “World’s No. 1 Tribute to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band,” will play. All the action takes place on Erie Street.

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Jay’s Way A former high school teacher who has become a hit with the college kids, comedian Jay Black likes to make jokes about teaching. He started teaching when he was only 21. “I didn’t know anything,” he says in one bit, adding that he was often too hungover to properly deal with students’ problems and issues. In 2015, Black will star along with Scott Wolf in Meet My Valentine, a movie for which he wrote the screenplay along with co-writer Brian Herzlinger. He performs tonight at 7 at Hilarities. Tickets are $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. Comedy

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Kevin’s Trip A former star on Saturday Night Live, comedian Kevin Nealon created some of the shows more memorable characters. He was responsible for the Subliminal Man and played one half of Hans and Frans. Unlike many comics, Nealon doesn’t scream and shout. Rather, he takes a subtler approach, spinning narrative stories about things like the assumption that he smokes pot (he says he doesn’t). He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 and tomorrow night at 7 and 9:30 at Hilarities. Tickets are $35. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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sation around vacancy and the current state of Cleveland’s historic neighborhoods, Slavic Village Development presents its second Rooms to Let: Cleveland Returns to Broadway Slavic Village. The event features more than 40 local artists creating a temporary, weekend-long art exhibition in four vacant homes. The festivities also include a block party with

Cooking Classes With all the hubbub about celebrity chefs, it’s not surprising that plenty of everyday people think they can cook. But those who do cook know it takes a certain skill set. Tonight at 6 at Cowell & Hubbard, you can get lessons from one of the best as local chef Zack Bruell hosts the first of his Taste of NEO: Chef’s Dining Series. After a cocktail reception, he’ll give a quick lesson or two and then serve up some fine food. Tickets are $100. (Niesel) 1305 Euclid Ave., 216-479-0555, cowellhubbard.com.

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All About Alex A Renaissance woman of rock writing, critic Holly George-Warren has built an

extensive body of work over the course of her career. She’s contributed to more than two dozen books and has written for fine publications such as the New York Times, the Village Voice and Rolling Stone. In her new book, A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, she writes about the man famous for leading power-pop acts the Box Tops and Big Star. Following the program, she’ll sign copies of the book. The event takes place tonight at 7 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Archives. Admission is free but advance reservations are required. (Niesel) 2809 Woodland Ave., 216-515-1956, library.rockhall.com. OutdOOrs

the wall that separates the people from great chamber music. The third Tuesday of every month, CRC brings its wide array of chamber music to Happy Dog. Performers like the Trepanning Trio, Anime Duo, students of Cleveland Institute of Music and even Cleveland Orchestra members grace the stage in these exciting concerts. Full of immensely talented performers, CRC re-instills the relevancy of this vibrant art form. Tonight’s free, all-ages performance starts at 8. (Patrick Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

Effect, comedian Paul Virzi takes a very casual approach to his standup gigs. He likes to joke about his love for the reality TV show Pawnstars. “I have to know what that musket is worth,” he says sarcastically. “They’re going to screw this poor bastard and I have to watch it go down.” Like most of Virzi’s material, the joke is based on a keen observation about popular culture. He performs tonight and tomorrow night at 8 at Hilarities. Tickets are $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

you’re definitely missing out. This friendly neighborhood brewpub hosts weekly trivia nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Grab some friends and head on down for a little brain-stimulating trivia, freshly brewed craft beer and some seriously stellar bar grub. Better yet, bike on over. The folks at Nano Brew are happy to share the love by giving you half off your first drink when they see your bike helmet. (Alaina McConnell) 1859 West 25th St., 216-862-6631, nanobrewcleveland.com.

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Take a Hike Walking around downtown Cleveland in the winter sucks. Walking around downtown Cleveland in the summer can be a really rewarding experience. With free guided walking tours of five downtown neighborhoods, Take a Hike explores the Gateway District, Warehouse District, Civic Center, Playhouse Square neighborhood and Canal Basin Park in the Flats. Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying historic figures from Cleveland’s past. In 2014, the Take a Hike program received a Dominion Community Impact Award. Today’s tour explores Playhouse Square. Meet at 6 p.m. in the State Theatre lobby. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., clevelandgatewaydistrict.com.

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Chasing Amy Amy Schumer has got it going on. The attractive blond comic stars in Inside Amy Schumer, a successful show on Comedy Central that just returned for a second season. She’s also just written the script to Trainwreck, the new Judd Apatow flick due out this summer. Her popularity is at a peak. But things weren’t always so peachy. “I had a good upbringing, just the normal horrible childhood insecurities and looking all fucked up,” she told us last year as she was finishing the Trainwreck script. She’s proud of the fact that she was voted “class clown” and “teacher’s worst nightmare.” “I was a really funny kid and everybody really liked me — I’m just kidding,” she says. “I had behavioral problems and was barely functioning.” Schumer made her standup debut 10 years ago. She performs tonight at 8 at the State Theatre. Tickets are $39.50. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. musiC

It’s a Revolution Showcasing a variety of performers in bars, cafes and the like, Classical Revolution Cleveland helps tear down

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Is this what you use to buy a clown car?

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The most famous faces and denominations get updated with an artist’s deft touch By Douglas Max Utter In the exhIbIt Funny Money, artist Josh Usmani riffs about the deep weirdness of our most crumpled, germladen means of exchange. Ramping up the potential for controversy at this show at Tregoning & Company Fine Art, which features Usmani’s re-working of other people’s — and other countries’ — cash, is the scent of danger. Anything that involves faith or depictions of religious figures can be a magnet for craziness. Of course it’s technically illegal to “deface” U.S. currency, however skillfully. But Usmani (who has been Scene’s visual arts editor for the past year) risks bruising other, loonier toes than those of the U.S. Secret Service. The graven images that help make money official represent real power, and the artist pokes at them provocatively with his multi-colored Sharpies and Prismacolor pens, chipping at many an icon in the 20 or so works on view. Using these markers as his trademark medium since long before he earned his 2013 bachelor’s degree from Cleveland State University, Usmani (who turns 30 this week) has produced all kinds of drawings and exhibited them widely in Northeast Ohio. At Funny Money, he clowns around masterfully (and literally), making the over-sized noggin of Andrew Jackson look a bit like Ronald McDonald — a feat that’s maybe not as hard as you might wish, but is redeemed by Usmani’s manner. His style is lushly phantasmagorical, combining ornamental-looking sparkly balls and burgeoning bubbles with a super-focused take on psychedelia; sometimes Usmani

recalls 1960’s pop illustrator Peter Max, though in these meticulous works Max must be channeling a 16th-century Persian miniaturist. Adding to the associative mix is the current discussion in numismatic and feminist circles about the $20 bill; Jackson is already something of a fallen idol, soon to be replaced by a founding Mother or maybe even Sister, the first on U.S. paper currency. As it is, the only woman in this show is Queen Elizabeth, also in clown drag, looking as gender-bending and transgressive as the rest of the boys.

Washington is the guy to watch out for. On one of Usmani’s previous $1 bills, he is outrageously wicked, sporting a pencil-thin mustache and matching goatee, like a minion of Cardinal Richelieu, or just plain Satan. Very funny, as long as you can forget John Wayne Gacy (or Pagliacci) and enjoy the ride. Whether or not you’re scared of clowns, or of money, or of everything that hasn’t passed through a metal detector, how do you feel about a 10,000 IRR note? That’s the Iranian rial denomination that pictures the

Art by Josh Usmani

Maybe a clown is a good thing, at least compared to more sinister faces that appear on money around the world. But many people are afraid of clowns, and Usmani’s money clowns are in fact pretty terrifying; his makeovers of Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth (everyone at Funny Money has the Rudolph-style classic nose; most have some amount of blue eye shadow and a Mardi Gras style mask) aren’t going to cure “coulrophobia.” Lincoln looks like Ben Vereen, with earrings and a glowing wig. But

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late Ayatollah Khomeini, in dark robes and a blue turban, glowering like Sean Connery in the Name of the Rose. Usmani hasn’t helped matters by packing on the clown-white, and the usual nose. The Muslim cleric who made fatwa a household word in the Western world looks deeply displeased. That can only be bad, and the thought of who else might react unfavorably to Usmani’s teasing could make any artist nervous. The real subjects at Funny Money are philosophical. Aside from enjoying

himself (and he’s having a ball), Usmani asks some subtle questions about authenticity and ownership, at the intersection of public and private space. Like graffitti, his embellishments grab a piece of public surface and use it as a personal billboard. But it’s hard to claim that Usmani is ruining any previously unspoiled rustbelt views, and it seems unreasonable that he shouldn’t have the right to mess up his own property if he wants to. We’re talking about ink on paper that exists mainly in the wallets and purses and pockets of the world, unexamined and for the most part unseen. Usmani has changed all that, made it un-spendable and at the same time radically visible, taking it right out of one sort of public utility, then reinventing it as fine art — as a commodity now, instead of the means of exchange. This is a cool, classically Dadaist move, with a Pygmalian-like, Cinderella twist, plus a theoretical thrust that could give nightmares to an economist. That this pretty tomfoolery could actually get him into trouble is food for much further thought. Never mind core values: How much freedom does any individual have to play around with the core of value? Where does the symbolism that is at the essence of money join with (or clash with) other untouchable systems of spiritual and political worth? In what way do you own those $10 bills buried in the family mason jar? Very interesting what you can do with a few bucks, a fistful of markers, and a lot of talent.

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It’s open season on progressives in Fairfield, now at the Cleveland Play House By Christine Howey As Jon stewArt knows, there’s no better way to puncture pomposity than through humor. Stewart’s well-researched jibes on The Daily Show continually reveal the hypocrisy behind many people in government and politics. Playwright Eric Coble is often just as piercing and insightful with the social commentary in Fairfield, now enjoying its world premiere at the Cleveland Play House during their annual New Ground Theatre Festival. Coble is intelligent and clever, and the talented cast under the direction of Laura Kepley delivers this comedy with vigor. But because Coble can’t quell his instinct to go for big laughs that defy character logic, the ultimate takeaway from this play is less than one might desire, given its subject matter. That subject is race relations in a diverse school district where liberal attitudes are prevalent. And it is February, when the school is determined to celebrate Black History Month in the best way possible. Principal Angela Wadley (she’s black) is a master of educational doublespeak, intoning phrases such as “mutual success ratio platform” and “professional knowledge support.” But she is having a problem with rookie fifth grade teacher Laurie (she’s white), who wears thrift store garb and is dizzily lost in a welter of pseudoprogressive lesson plans. For

instance, she includes “watermelon” and “fried chicken” on the spelling list, to pay homage to the AfricanAmerican diet, and assigns her students to act out Roots in class. Laurie’s excesses become a real issue during the play when Austin, a white kid playing a slave owner, yells the n-word at Deonte, a black kid playing a slave, then whips him with a chain of paper clips. Naturally, this gets around and soon everyone is all agog with shock and outrage. Wadley brings Laurie in for a talking-to, then Wadley herself is hauled in front of the school superintendent to get reamed out. Meanwhile Austin’s parents,

are tangled up in their own verbal and cultural underwear, trying to explain to their progeny the delicate matter of how to fight for your dignity, but not really fight, and so forth. Coble is a polished playwright and he knows how to structure laugh lines. But as the play progresses, adult behavior begins to devolve into borderline chaos, with an ex-Black Panther addressing the school at an assembly and then launching into an expletive-riddled rant. Ultimately, all the characters have a nuclear meltdown at a CelebrEthnic potluck dinner. Is all this funny? Well, yes. But it requires

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Scott and Molly, are trying to figure out how to react — as are Deonte’s parents, Vanessa and Daniel. During the first act, Coble tweaks many of the inherent absurdities of our modern, politically correct society, and good for him. As one character explains, the point of Black History Month is to recognize skin color, which doesn’t matter. And there are plenty of instances of liberal piety to skewer. As when Vanessa muses on moving her son to a private school “where there’s a more cultured racism.” Although the kids never appear on stage, we get a sense of how the parents

the audience to believe that everyone on display is a functional dolt since they don’t recognize the cultural trapdoors that words and ideas represent. Any comedy, like any village, can appoint one idiot, but Fairfield is bulging with them. Plus, Coble can’t resist the lure of juicy double entendres, even when they conflict with the character saying them. When the superintendent calls the principal on the carpet, he says, “I need head.” Then he clarifies that what he really means is, “I need a head (on a platter).” But if Coble had written it the latter way, it wouldn’t have

gotten guffaws. This happens several times, including when Laurie quotes her mother as saying, “Break bread, not balls.” Unless her mom is Shecky Greene working the midnight lounge at Caesar’s Palace, this seems weirdly out of character. (And if she is working the lounge, she deserves a speaking part in this play.) As Wadley, Nedra McClyde exudes the gloss of an educational professional, and Crystal Finn is determinedly clueless as Laurie. Brian Sills and Leenya Rideout neatly convey the frustrations of Austin’s parents, while Marinda Anderson and Bjorn DuPaty give Vanessa and Daniel as much dimension as the script allows. They’re all fine, until the cataclysm at the end. By turning his characters into gag machines, and diverting a wickedly witty comedy of manners into a slapstick farce, the playwright creates a reverse hypocrisy. Coble is a generous, caring man who lives with his family in a liberal-leaning community in greater Cleveland, where he actually has served on the school board. But his words in Fairfield don’t honor his deeds and beliefs, since the well-intentioned but sometimes misguided liberals in this play come off looking like Neanderthals and buffoons. That’s a lot to give up for a few big laughs.

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the thing about RoaR, a bizaRRe big-cat film from 1982 that screens at the Capitol Theatre at midnight Saturday, is that the horrific production notes are more entertaining than the film itself. Starring Noel Marshall and Hitchcock alum Tippi Hedren (husband and wife at the time), this story of a zoologist in Africa living on a plantation overrun with lions, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs and elephants has been dubbed “the most disaster-plagued film in the history of Hollywood.” In many ways, this makes it a perfect fit for Cleveland Cinemas’ Late Shift series. It’s been revived by Drafthouse studios expressly because of its insanity. Marshall and Hedren and their three actual children (Melanie Griffith, John and Jerry Marshall) filmed Roar over the course of 11 years, during which time most of the financiers abandoned the project and 70 members of the cast and crew sustained injuries. Melanie Griffith required facial reconstructive surgery. Both Marshall and Hedren suffered multiple bite wounds that became gangrenous. The cinematographer was scalped. (The irony, of course, is that no animals were harmed during the making of the film). It plays like one very long cat-themed YouTube video loosely framed as an old-school madcap Disney adventure flick. But the animalchase thrills put Cujo and even Jurassic Park to shame. With more than 100 big cats on set (in an animal reserve north of Los Angeles now known as Shambala, run by Hedren to this day) much of the film was unscripted by design: Marshall wanted the cats, innate comedic geniuses, to “improvise.”

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They were given ample opportunity within the film’s very basic narrative structure: A zoologist’s family comes to Africa to visit him. Due to a logistics mixup, they arrive at his home while he’s out trying to pick them up at the podunk airport miles away. While he races back by car and bike and foot to the homestead, his family is getting acquainted with the home’s undomesticated felines. They (the family) scamper from room to room, hide in lockers, leap from second-floor railings, attempt all manner of water and treeborne escape. The home, meantime, is torn to shreds, as is a zebra, which the lions see fit to eviscerate in the living room. Except for the blood-soaked alpha intruder, Togar, the cats are by and large a friendly bunch. Still, these are creatures whose heads alone weigh 80 pounds, and even their playfulness can be deadly. On set, John Marshall was once pinned to the floor by a 300-plus pound lion for 20 minutes with his head in the lion’s mouth. The lines between narrative and documentary are fairly blurry, but not to the detriment of the film. You’re going to see this one for the novelty of the human-animal interaction, not for the intricate plotting. And whether it’s a character or an actor inches from a hungry maw, the danger is very real. There are also, be advised, moments of raucous humor. Marshall is an accidental hybrid of Steve Irwin, Will Ferrell and Leslie Nielsen and seeing him being toppled by herds of lions or sprinting to corral bickering Bengal tigers in his underpants probably qualifies as unforgettable. — Sam Allard

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Spotlight a documentaRy film about the bRave young people who “stood up to speak their minds against social injustice in some of our nation’s most turbulent and transformative years,” Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America screened five years ago at the 2010 Cleveland International Film Festival. The movie has since been re-cut, and the producers are the midst of raising money to secure music rights so the film can be distributed. The current edited version now clocks in at 99 minutes and was just shown as part of the 45th anniversary of May 4th. It screens again at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13, at the Beachland Ballroom as part of a benefit designed to help pay for the music rights. “We are inviting film fans, political activists and human rights advocates who are working on the Black Lives Matter issues of today to all come and get enlightened about the bonds created in the ’60s around civil rights and anti-war issues and anyone who can to donate or spread the word about this film,” says Beachland co-owner Cindy Barber in a press release. The filmmakers are currently in the middle of an Indiegogo campaign that expires on May 17. Producer Bill Whitaker, a former SDS activist and Akron attorney, will be at the Beachland to discuss and answer questions after the screening. Some 20 voices of those people at Kent who lived through the movement are included in the movie. That list includes musicians such as Gerry Casale and Chris Butler and well-known former SDS radicals Mark Rudd and Bernardine Dohrn. In a statement, filmmaker Danny Miller, who attended Kent State University from 1968 to 1970, talks about the inspiration for the film in a press release. “I celebrated and suffered the events of the 1960s and 70s with my friends and colleagues who are featured in this film,” he says. “I can’t adequately explain what it was like to live through it. How does one explain an era when music, art, literature, and politics were transformative and at times, yes, revolutionary; when fathers were too often silent and angry; when mothers and wives were too often oppressed; when brothers and friends were fighting, killing, and dying in ways that were violent beyond any rational extreme; when kids were led through practice drills for nuclear war; when gays were cast as monsters; when the crudest most racist ‘N’ word jokes were common; when young blacks were beaten and murdered for being black and young whites were threatened for wearing long hair or short dresses, or listening to the wrong (black rock and roll) kind of music.” — Jeff Niesel

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it’s all to us eatgreek review Santorini gives Cleveland the Greek restaurant it needs By Douglas Trattner The poor waiTer assigned to the task of igniting our saganaki — aka “flaming Greek cheese” — nearly dropped the platter out of fright when it erupted into a terrifying fireball just inches from his face. Needless to say, he neglected to bellow the all-important “Opa!” that has accompanied the classic dish since it was invented in the late ’60s. We’ll forgive him the lapse in protocol given the near-dire circumstances. More than anything, it seems, local diners have lamented the lack of great Greek food in downtown Cleveland. The popular Greek Isles restaurant closed well over a decade ago, and only now has a reliable substitute entered the market. At sunny Santorini, owner Tommy Karakostas, who also operates the Greek Village restaurants, is doing an admirable job of showcasing this effervescent Mediterranean cuisine. Santorini, which opened in the old BRGR 9 spot in the Warehouse District, is more than three years in the making. The modern Greek eatery originally was bound for Ohio City, but those plans never materialized. That’s probably for the best, as this airy, loft-like space seems tailor made for the bold and bright flavors that are hallmarks of the genre. Though brand new, Santorini feels familiar, as though it tore a page out of the Greek restaurant

playbook. There’s the customary white-washed walls and sky blue accents. An oar boat, perched above the entryway, seems poised to make a quick getaway. Large murals depict the namesake island 5,000 miles away. But the restaurant also takes cues from its Warehouse District setting, with behind-thetimes Crayola-colored martinis, unnecessarily loud music, steep prices and a proscription against plate sharing. Santorini, like any great Greek shop, excels at starters, or mezedes, with a remarkable roster of 20 some items. Every table should begin

pie, is a rolled affair, much like an egg roll filled with feta, scallions and the aforementioned chopped spinach. Easy to eat; easy to love. At its best, Greek food is unpretentious, elegant, even spare, allowing the fresh ingredients to work their magic. That’s precisely the formula adhered to in the grilled octopus ($16), one of the best versions of the dish in the city. Firm, meaty and charred from the grill, the sliced tentacles are paired with shaved red onion, a few ripe tomatoes and some greens. All it needed was a splash of fresh lemon to make it shine.

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their meal with the tri-dip platter ($18), an attractive arrangement of warm quartered and skewered pita and a trio of small jars containing pitch-perfect dips and spreads. Ours contained salty, creamy taramasalata, a blend of carp roe and sourdough bread; tangy feta stirred with hot peppers; and a summery tzatziki. The appetizer is an upgrade from the delicious (and free) bread service containing pita, olives, fluffy hummus and labneh, delicate yogurt cheese balls. Santorini’s take on spanakopita ($13), the addictive flaky spinach

That same laudable approach is on display in the bronzini ($29), an entree of whole grilled fish sporting crisp skin, buttery flesh, and a light lemon oil for dipping. Occasionally the kitchen pushes the concept of minimal a bit too far, as in the case of a vegetarian entree of orzo pasta ($17) with spinach, mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes, which lacked seasoning and the promised addition of feta cheese. We know and love Karakostas’ Greek Village shops for their boozefriendly gyros, so it’s no surprise that those served downtown are just

as tasty. At lunch they’re served in the familiar rolled sandwich form ($10). At dinner, it’s more of a buildyour-own affair ($18): A platter is piled high with shaved meat, red onion, tomatoes, tzatziki and quartered pita. Both include french fries. Pastitsio ($17), a homey Greekstyle lasagna, gets a sophisticated upgrade here. Baked and served in a small crock, the pasta and ground beef casserole is rich, creamy and comforting, with warm cinnamon undertones. A crispy crumb topping adds the all-important crunch. We enjoyed much better service in the dining room than we did seated at the bar, where the bartenders seem flustered and inattentive. It’s a tradeoff given that at happy hour, bar patrons enjoy $5 plates of crispy calamari (normally $9), ouzosteamed mussels (normally $12), and discounted cocktails like the Santorini Sunrise ($5). The only major letdown we encountered during two visits was, ironically, that flaming Greek cheese. Despite the troubling amount of heat and flames, the cheese was neither fried, bubbling nor melty. Instead, it was cool and pasty. We’ll chalk that one up to inexperience, and hope that Santorini, unlike that saganaki, is no flash in the pan.

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WHAT’S FRESH AT LOCKKEEPERS?

Venetian-inspired seasonal twists and a new downtown restaurant in the works By Nikki Delamotte

It’s the tIme of year when Alberto Leandri’s mind is fixated on the notoriously fleeting early spring harvest of ramps, whether pickled, grilled or perched atop a plate of cavatelli. As executive chef of LockKeepers (8001 Rockside Rd., 216524-9404, lockkeepers.com), his featured dish pairs the pasta with a splash of olive oil and two cheeses. “I like to keep things simple,” he repeats over and over, opting for unfussy and memorable instead. “It might be the strong flavor they have, the garlic taste. I think it’s perfect for pasta. Unfortunately, their time is too short.” After all, by early June the short-lived ramp season is already over. “In a few weeks, it will all change again.” Foraged treasures like ramps remind Leandri of his childhood in Venice, Italy, where he would spend his summer days scouting for wild mushrooms near the Alps. Growing up in Venice, Leandri quickly grew dependent on farmers’ markets, which were the primary source of provisions. The seasonal harvests became instrumental to his cooking and have carried over to the rustic cuisine of LockKeepers. “Stands are all over; you find whatever’s in season,” Leandri recalls. “There, we don’t go to restaurants often because we’re born and raised to cook at home.” That’s why, naturally, when the chef arrived at LockKeepers three years ago, his instinct was to run as close to a scratch kitchen as possible. Every morning, one of his cooks is in at 5 a.m. to make the fresh pasta for the day. This spring, for a sunny twist, limoncello fettucine is served with shrimp, spring onions and asparagus. His tortellini is flavored with spinach and filled with a creamy mix of Parmesan, housemade ricotta and spring peas. Leeks top the latter, which rests on a tomato sauce. Peas, a professed seasonal favorite of the chef, also appear with a rack of lamb, alongside asparagus risotto, mint and

lemon zest. Regular visits to his hometown result in Venetian inspiration stateside. “This is my mother’s recipe,” he says of a traditional Italian dish of eggplant rollatini. It features local basil, an herb of choice for Leandri. Of course, with summer on the horizon, Leandri eagerly awaits the arrival of tomatoes. While he imports straight from Italy during the off season, he snatches them up from local markets as soon as they hit the stands, transforming them into bright and fresh marinara. They’ll also show up in salads for a lighter fare as the temperature rises, the patio opens and the scenic view from the windows overlooking the historic Ohio & Erie Canal appears in full bloom. “Heirloom tomato, basil, sweet corn, red wine vinaigrette,” he ticks off his list of a perfect summer mix. That’s not to say things won’t heat up along with the weather; Leandri already is looking forward to a spicy seafood diablo and, for those salads, he’ll be using “plenty of pepper,” he adds with a grin. By next summer, Leandri will transition into another new role as he begins overseeing the menu for a new LockKeepers operation in downtown Cleveland. Public Square Pizza, at 75 Public Square, on the ground floor of the former Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company building, will serve wood-oven fired pizzas, pasta and gelato in flavors from white chocolate strawberry and cherry to mascarpone. Leandri boasts plenty of experience with Neapolitan-style pies thanks to an eight-year stint at the esteemed Grissini in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. “The building is begging for this kind of space,” says general manager Brian Woehrman. “We’ll be building off all this new energy of downtown and Public Square.”

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Small, SeaSonal and strictly takeaway, the Gorilla (12102 Madison Ave., 216-221-0195) still manages to pack three different concepts under one roof. Set in the former Sugar Bear’s Ice Cream shop in the Birdtown neighborhood of Lakewood, the diminutive operation specializes in hot dogs, barbecue and soft-serve ice cream. In the hot dog category there are singles, doubles, foot-longs and chili dogs. Diners can customize their red hots from a list of a dozen or so add-ons or simply order a predesigned variety. The Hopkins Road ($2.25), for instance, is a hot dog topped with slaw and bacon. For a Chicago-style dog, go with the Big Mouth ($3.50), which is dragged through the garden and topped with tomatoes, onions, alien relish and sport peppers. The hot dogs are not earth-shattering, but the barbecue is more than worth the trip. Operating under the name BoBo’s Smokin’ BBQ, a separate menu offers sliders, sides and smoked meat by the pound. The Prime King ($5) should not be missed. Though it’s called a slider, this messy and delicious sandwich boasts a good quarter-pound of thick-sliced Texas-style smoked beef brisket. The beef is fatty, juicy, smoky and peppery, and it’s paired with Swiss cheese, pickled onions, horseradish cream sauce and BoBo’s Groovy BBQ sauce, made with Kentucky bourbon, peach puree and espresso. Another slider, the Hawaiian Hillbilly ($5), is stacked with honey-smoked boneless skin-on chicken thighs, pineapple and cheddar cheese. On the day we visited, the weekly special was a quarter-slab of meaty spare ribs, a bargain at $5. Sporting a thick and peppery bark, the juicy pink pork was tender, flavorful and plentiful. Brisket, pulled pork, smoked chicken and smoked turkey are all sold by the pound. The name, by the way, is a reference to the 10-foot tall gorilla sculpture that welcomes lunch and dinner guests.

Jekyll’s kitchen Opening sOOn in chagrin Falls It’s been a long 20 months since a fire destroyed Jekyll’s Kitchen in Chagrin Falls. The restaurant, part of the Hyde Park restaurant group, opened in the former home of Blake’s Seafood Grill in spring of 2009.

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Co-owner Joe Saccone said that a perfect storm of challenges combined to delay the opening. In addition to setting a new restaurant on a 145-year-old foundation and working on the side of a cliff teetering over the Chagrin River, the company had to overcome one of the harshest winters in recent memory. “That all took quite a bit of time,” notes Saccone. But there’s always a silver lining, and in this instance it gave Saccone and partner Rick Hauck the opportunity to rethink the entire space. While the footprint stays the same, the interior has been completely reworked. Before, upon entering the restaurant, guests would see the kitchen to the left and the bar to the right. That layout created two separate bar areas when you take into account the attractive outdoor bar. By swapping the kitchen and the interior bar spaces, management was able to create one large bar that serves patrons both inside and out. The space is separated by a new 30-foot folding glass panel wall that, when opened, unifies the area. “You have more energy now and a much more vibrant bar scene,” Saccone says. As for the menu, diners can expect some tweaks and amendments, but no wholesale transformations, according to Saccone. “We stuck with the American grill concept,” he says. “The American grill thing works really well here and there was no reason to change it.” Saccone estimates that 50 to 60 percent of the menu items are similar if not the same as before. Others have been updated and reworked. And still others are completely new. “We did build upon the last 18 to 24 months of experience at our other restaurants,” he says. Jekyll’s Kitchen will open its doors to the public on May 14. Next up for the Hyde Park guys is a new burger concept in Columbus. “This concept has been in development for five years,” Saccone says. Stack City Burger Bar, a gourmet burger and sandwich cafe, will open in the Short North this summer. If all goes as planned, the concept could find its way into our own backyards, says Saccone.

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the mother of invention A tragic death inspired singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke’s one-woman play By Jeff Niesel at the age of 51, singersongwriter Jonatha Brooke has just entered a new phase in her long career. Next week, she brings her one-woman play, My Mother Has 4 Noses, which she describes as a “hybrid” of music and narrative, to town for a series of performances. It’s received acclaim since debuting in February 2014 in New York. In many ways, My Mother Has 4 Noses, with its mix of acting and singing, represents the culmination of Brooke’s many different impulses. A native of New England, she got her start back in the ’80s and played the coffeehouse scene there as a duo with fellow singer-songwriter Jennifer Kimball; they would eventually christen their duo the Story. “It’s wild to look back and see your life passing before your eyes and all of these albums you put out and the tours and the schlepping across the world,” she says, via phone, when asked if she thinks back fondly on those early DIY days. “I’ve done a lot of stuff and I’m very, very proud

of it all. I got my start in church basements in Massachusetts. That was the whole coffeehouse scene. I was lugging my guitar around and trying my songs out. It’s great training for life and for anything.” She likens that experience to the type of training an athlete endures before participating in a big race. “You have to build your stamina,”

off. She took notes on things her mother said and did and eventually turned those notes into My Mother Has 4 Noses, which she put through a rigorous series of workshops before finalizing it. “[Director] Jeremy Cohen invited us to the Playwright Center in Minneapolis,” she says. “I had performed it in L.A. and Chicago,

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she says. “You have to keep your voice in shape and keep your body moving and keep creating. It’s been a great discipline to be doing this for so long and finding new challenges.” When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few years ago, new challenges arose for Brooke, and she decided to become her caretaker. That meant she couldn’t tour and record new material. And yet, she didn’t turn her creativity completely

and he gave us the space and time and wanted to hone in on it. We had the luxury of performing it four times in a row in four days. We realized that some things were funny all the time and others were falling flat and we would fix them. I could see that the audience could see certain things, and I knew when I was over-telling. People really responded. They really got it. My biggest worry was balancing the

comedy and tragedy. I didn’t want it to be too much of one or another.” Songs such as “Are You Getting This Down?” feature elegant string arrangements and hushed vocals. The play makes use of original music and personal narrative to tell the story of the experience of caring for her late mother. “I’m the youngest [child of my mother’s] and from the second that I started spending time with her and knew that I would take her in, I started writing stuff down,” Brooke recalls. “I thought it was a story that no one would believe unless I tell it. She was complicit. She was funny. She would ask me, ‘Are you writing this down because it’s going to make a very good play some day?’ My life was on hold. I was going to be doing this for a while and I wasn’t going to be touring or making records. I thought there was something here that was really beautiful and creative in the story that was unfolding.” Some of the songs in the play (and on the accompanying album)

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shift their point of view. The aforementioned “Are You Getting This Down?” is told from her mother’s point of view. “In the play, I don’t sing the full version that you hear on the record,” she says. “I don’t sing the last verse because it gives it away. That’s the beauty of theater. You can chop things up and do a verse and a chorus here and insert a bridge that will take you to the final chorus and maybe the final story. You don’t tell the whole story. You let your audience intuit it, in a way.” The title is meant to be literal; it’s a reference to her mother’s prosthetic noses. “If you see the play, you’ll realize it’s not a metaphor,” she says. “My mother really did have four noses. I won’t give it all away, but she had skin cancer that did a number on her face. Without getting into the comedy of the tragedy of it, we fixed her up at one point and she ended up with these prosthetic noses that were the stuff of comedy, especially as she became more and more demented.” The singing comes naturally to Brooke, a seasoned folk/pop artist who made her recording debut with the Story in 1991. The acting has been a work in progress, but she’s reached a place where she’s comfortable with her abilities. “People would tell me I was such a storyteller and that I was kind of acting,” she says. “I told them that they saw [an acting performance] they would never see me do. Here, I was off Broadway doing this play for 12 weeks. It’s something I have embraced. I would never say, ‘Now, I’m an actress.’ But I am an actress in this piece and it’s become second nature. It’s a lot of acting. I have to switch beats and modes and voices.

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I’m mimicking a lot of people’s voices. It’s really fun. It’s a new challenge and that’s what I’m drawn to, which is kicking my own ass.” So how does she imagine following the play up? “Just in the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about writing something else,” she says. “It’s also going to be personal but might involve more characters. I think it will involve music because I think that’s a compelling way to tell a story, to alternate from text into a song when a song will say it better. I do have an idea for a new thing. I don’t want to jinx it. It will be personal and about my world, but I’m going to embellish it more.” In the time since her play debuted, she’s spent more time around playwrights and has come to appreciate their craft, which she says isn’t far removed from songwriting. “I’m around so many playwrights,” she says. “I’m amazed at their output. They just crank the stuff out. They’re rewriting every day. I’m currently working on a play in Minneapolis and the playwright is fearless. He keeps rewriting and fixing scenes. I do that as a songwriter, but it’s cool to see this other discipline up close and see the fearlessness of it. That’s what I found exciting about this new phase. All of a sudden, I’m writing musicals and performing as an actor. I love it. Given the way the music business is falling down around us, I was wondering if I could sustain it. This is a really exciting left turn that feels really open. There may be a future in it.”

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Brent Kirby ties his new soft shoe.

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Local singer-songwriter Brent Kirby embraces ‘artistic freedom’ By Jeff Niesel

A Wisconsin nAtive, locAl singer-songwriter Brent Kirby moved around the Midwest before landing in Cleveland 14 years ago and putting out his local debut, The Mean Days, in 2005. Kirby took five long years to follow that album up with Last Song on the Soundtrack. At the time, he ran a guitar repair business out of the basement of his Willowick home, but he has since abandoned that business (“I just don’t have the time for it,” he says) and now lives in a much smaller place in Cleveland Heights. Because he says he was busy with other projects — there were three-plus years since he had done his last record, Coming Back to Life, and during that time he was preoccupied with a Jack Fords record, two Hey Mavis records and one solo record that he shelved — he hasn’t issued a new album in a few years. He identifies his priorities these days as his daughter, his girlfriend and his musical career. “Those are the three things I focus on,” he says one afternoon over beers at Merwin’s Wharf. But Kirby’s career takes up a big chunk of time. He’s one of the busiest musicians in town. In addition to playing with a number of local ensembles, he also nurtures a solo career and has just regrouped with a new backing band (dubbed the Luck) for his forthcoming album Patience Worth, an eclectic collection of roots rock songs that suggests he’s been unfairly pigeonholed as an Americana or alt-country artist. The album’s title comes from the name of a spirit of a person who lived in the 1640s in England. The spirit dictated prose that became best selling novels at the time. “It’s just a crazy story — I heard about it on TV or something,” Kirby says when asked about the album title. “I have a song on the album called ‘Some

of the Things I’ve Learned.’ The lyrics go ‘Who’s your patience worth/next to where you stand?’ It means who do you spend your time with and also who’s your spirit guide? Who’s your muse? The idea of this spirit dictating these things is interesting. There have even been books written on it.” A drummer by trade, Kirby initially became inspired to write songs after hearing Uncle Tupelo’s 1990 seminal alt-country classic No Depression. Then someone gave him a Gram Parsons album, and he never gave it back. “Gram Parsons hit me at the time when I was ready to hear that,” he says. “I was just swept away.” For the past few years, Kirby has played Parsons’ music with New Soft Shoe, a tribute act that held down a residency at the Happy Dog before this year, when it started

Cleveland. It just came out. It starts out in Tower City and then goes to the Old Stone Church and past the Free Stamp and to the Rock Hall. It then goes to the river and the Market and into the Cuyahoga Valley where the forests are. The last verse is about this place that my daughter has near the Harp where the bridge goes over to the lake. It peaks and you can see Lakewood. That’s her place. The sun sets over there. The last verse is about her. It’s a Cleveland song. I’m not from here, but I’m Cleveland proud. The song came out really quickly. I didn’t have to think about it or edit it too much.” “Say That You Want Me To” sounds like latter-day Dylan. “Keep It Safe” features some moody guitar work reminiscent of the restrained playing of Mark Knopfler, and “Some of the

Brent KirBy and His LucK cd reLease concert, Kiss Me deadLy 9:30 p.m. Saturday, may 16, muSic Box Supper cluB, 1148 main ave., 216-242-1250. ticketS: $10 adv, $12 doS, muSicBoxcle.com

taking the show to other venues in town. The group still plays at the Happy Dog, but it’s also branched out to other Northeastern Ohio venues. Kirby also fronts the rowdy rock act the Jack Fords and finds seasonal work with the Ohio City Singers, an ensemble that performs original Christmas music during the holidays. But his new album is now the focus of his attention. And it should be. It’s a terrific collection of tunes that sound like they were written by a veteran songwriter. The disc commences with “Our Town,” a tribute to Cleveland that comes off as if it’s a rejoinder to Michael Stanley’s “My Town.” “I didn’t even know about the Michael Stanley song,” says Kirby. “It’s not an answer. It is a song about

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Things” sounds like a classic rock track from the ’70s. “Is the Truth” is a beautiful lullaby that features piano and strings (Kirby’s father wrote the string and horn parts on the album). “Tell Me Something” and “Girl I Love” are both gritty rockers that have elements of early Tom Petty. “Some people heard the new songs at a listening party,” Kirby explains. “We listened to the record four or five times. There were things I didn’t even think about. There was no thought about what I wanted it to sound like. In the past, there has been some of that, even with the Jack Fords and other solo albums. There is still a unifying element to it. It’s there.” He recorded the album at a house in Willoughby Hills that overlooks the

Chagrin River. Local producer Jim Stewart brought his “rig,” and the guys sequestered themselves in the place for four long days, playing until 2 in the morning. “We recorded most of it live,” says Kirby. “I rented snare drums and guitar amps and we would detune the drums and pick out what pedals and amps we wanted. We would form the songs from the ground up. I don’t remember thinking that this is how I want the songs to sound.” The band just had one rehearsal before the recording session. Kirby says that was intentional. “I trust the guys,” he says. “I just wanted them to bring what they do and then refine it from a production standpoint.” He and Stewart purposely left the “ebb and flow” of the tunes alone so they would feel “real and live.” “We just didn’t want to fuck with it,” Kirby says of the approach, calling it a “stream of consciousness” album. Because of the way they reference self-realization and “being on the positive side of things,” the songs are more personal than anything else in Kirby’s catalog. “I’ve finally found who I wanna be and what I wanna do,” he says, adding that he was a bit of a “control freak” on his previous albums. “I feel artistically free and I can go in any direction. This new band has a jazz element and an R&B and a soul element and a Latin element. The guys are such accomplished musicians they can do anything. We’ve also gone back and reinvented the old songs; so in addition to the new stuff, we have the old stuff which sounds new again. I can’t wait for people to hear these songs this way.”

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Don Foose in the living room where he meditates.

RAW FOOD POWER

Local hardcore hero Don Foose promotes healthy living in his new book By Jeff Niesel Don Foose isn’t your everyday punk rocker who lives on a shoestring budget and has bad hygiene. Foose, a veteran on the local music scene who’s fronted numerous local hardcore bands, lives in a serene English Tudor on a quiet Fairview Park street. He’s transformed his living room into a sanctuary where he can sit beneath a series of skylights and listen to Indian music while he meditates. The home’s serenity stands in stark contrast to the music he makes. On the albums he’s released with bands such as the Spudmonsters, Run Devil Run and Foose, he unleashes parched vocals that make him sound slightly possessed. But when not performing, he’s a soft-spoken guy who preaches positivity and clean living. He’s just published his first book, Raw Life. In the self-published book, Foose provides recipes for raw food meals and elixirs. He even explains how to properly conduct a juice cleanse and talks about how one such 52-day fast (or “feast,” as he puts it) yielded terrific results. Off-stage, the wire-thin softspoken singer is an advocate for peace, love and understanding. For years, he’s followed the doctrine of Krishna consciousness and vegetarianism. The book is the result of years of research. “I’ve been a strict vegetarian for 21 years,” he explains one afternoon from his kitchen as he juices a watermelon. Foose’s story is a familiar one to

anyone who knows the man. Way back in 1994, the Spudmonsters went on tour with the punk band the Cro-Mags. Cro-Mag frontman John Joseph took him to a Hare Krishna temple and introduced him to Eastern philosophy and juicing: He was hooked. He drank his last beer in 1995. “It was really convincing,” he says of the indoctrination that came courtesy of Joseph. “Those guys were covered in tattoos. He was a really peaceful person, but on stage he was a maniac. I wondered about that dichotomy.” In 1998, Foose became a certified personal trainer. He would help his clients through juice fasts and started learning about the process of detoxification. At his clients’ request, he put together a small pamphlet for juice fasting. He also studied tonic herbs and learned how to make elixirs that could help people with health ailments. “I wanted to take all that to the next level,” he says. “After a while, I realized I could make a book out of it.” He hooked up with local photographer Kevin Kopanski and local designer Scott Schumacher to help with the book that he says he intended to be “easy to understand and follow.” On the book’s opening page, you can see a picture of him on stage in Belgium with his shirt off. Covered in tattoos, he has his arms extended as he stands in front of a drum kit. “People refer to it as a cookbook but it’s a un-cookbook because

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it’s all raw,” he says of the book, which just came out earlier this month. “Nothing is heated above 105 degrees [except for some of the elixirs]. That way, the living enzymes are still intact. Life comes from life and you want to put living enzymes in your body.” The book is self-published through Foose’s own publishing company, dubbed Kung Foose Publishing. Foose says compiling his own records wasn’t this hard. “Putting out a book is way more difficult than any record I’ve ever done,” he says. “I’ve done 13 albums in my life, and the book takes way more preparation. It’s more fulfilling than putting out an album because it’s just my project by myself. I can add or omit whatever I want. It took three years. Coordinating with the designer and photographer was a lot of work. It was a challenge but very gratifying.” One of his favorite recipes is the “earthshake elixir.” It consists of stuff like ginseng, ho shou wu powder and astragalus root. “Everything the body needs is in that shake,” he says. “It’s so nutrient dense that in that one drink, you get more nutrition than most people have in a whole month.” He says it took him some time to master things like his kale chip recipe. “It’s an Italian kale chip recipe that’s almost like a pizza flavor,” he says. “It has sun-dried tomatoes in there and fresh herbs and cashews.” His hope is that people have a

general sense of the benefits of a healthy raw food diet. “I hope people get an understanding that life does come from life, and it’s common sense,” he says. “You put seeds from fresh fruit in the ground, a tree is going to grow. You put a box of cereal in the ground and mold is going to grow. Everything we eat is masticated and goes into our blood stream and our body starts reproducing new cells. You can eat death or you can eat life. I don’t eat one hundred percent raw food. I also like rice, dahl, steamed vegetables, et cetera. Any cooked food I do is in moderation and I stay away from anything deep-fried.” The first day that he put it up for sale on his website, Fooseforlife.com, he nearly ran out of copies. He’s just received a second printing. “The response has been amazing,” he says, adding that the book can be purchased locally at Beet Jar Juice Bar, Good N Raw Cafe, Be Studios, In Carol’s Care, Yoga Bliss (in Akron) and Earth Fare. “People have been giving me great feedback. I’m going to do some tours where I can showcase the book and try to reach out to people. I’m an activist for animal protection, and I think all life should be dealt with in a loving, non-violent way. We don’t have to kill animals to survive. We can actually live much healthier and more peacefully if we don’t.”

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Fidlar/Archie & the Bunkers/ Sweepyheads: Ever since Fidlar formed in 2009, the band has been on the fast track and toured with popular garage rock acts such as the Hives and the Black Lips. Its self-titled album isn’t particularly sophisticated. Opening tune “Cheap Beer” features fuzzy guitars and parched vocals. To an extent, it’s a novelty tune along the same lines as the Dead Milkmen’s “Bitchin’ Camaro.” Rave-ups such as “White and White” and “No Waves” show a bit more finesse. But these songs are designed to create some serious mosh pit action, and they regularly become sing-alongs at the shows. 8:30 p.m., $15. Grog Shop. (Jeff Niesel) Joe Pug/Andrew Combs: Folk singersongwriter Joe Pug has dug his heels into the ramblin’ traditions of American music, lending his voice to a canon that pulls back the curtain a bit on who we are and where we’re all heading. Pug released Windfall earlier this year, building on his already strong catalog. With a gentle, reflective voice, Pug culls the dust of the American literary canon and postures himself as an individual seeking his own truth in this life. Tunes like “Veteran Fighter” and “The Measure” off his latest album evoke a dream that blends the highs and lows of the past with the optimism of the future. Throughout, the guitar work is great: laid back and yet full of wonder. 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Ballroom. (Eric Sandy) 10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Bad Suns/KIEV: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. House of Blues. Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Showcase: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Adam Faucett: 8:30 p.m., $5. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Sullivan Fortner: 7 p.m., free. BLU Jazz+. Kid Tested/Miniboone/Joshua Jesty: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Legends In Concert: A Tribute To Bruce, Cher, Michael, Elton, & Barbra: 7:30 p.m., $37.50-$59.50. Hard Rock Rocksino. Jon Mosey/Dan Holt/Still Hand String Band: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Six Organs of Admittance/Elisa Ambrogio/ Hiram Maxim: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. The Steel Wheels/Rebekah Jean: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Turbo Fruits/Eternal Summers/GoldMINES: 9 p.m., $10. Happy Dog.

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Bad Boys Jam: 9 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Davina & The Vagabonds: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Electric Orange Peel/Max Reaven/The Pupils of Groove: 9 p.m., $7. Musica. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. ILoveMakonnen/Sonny Digital/KEY!: 9 p.m., $20-$55. Grog Shop. Insvrgence/The Language/Abstraction: 7 p.m., $10. The Foundry. Ernie Krivda and the B3 Allstars: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown. One Sound: 8 p.m., $10. BLU Jazz+. The Rat Pack Featuring Frank, Dean & Sammy: 7:30 p.m. Vosh Club. Xavier Rudd & the United Nations/Mike Love: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Spyder Stompers/Reuben’s Train/The Graveyard Five: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Y&T/Shock Frenzy/Blackjack Symphony/ TBS: 6 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora.

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Fidlar in a candid moment. See: Wednesday.

George Clinton performs at House of Blues. Wild affairs that feature outlandish costumes, Clinton concerts are true spectacles. Clinton serves more as master of ceremonies, often barking out the lyrics with little regard for rhythm, but he still knows how to keep the party going. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 1997, the 73-year-old regularly comes through town -— with or without a new album to promote. 9 p.m., $29.50 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues. (Niesel) David Allan Coe: Johnny Cash might have walked the line, but Akron-born David Allan Coe, who’s done hard time and reportedly even killed a fellow inmate, has crossed it. An outlaw amongst outlaws, he received even more acclaim when Howard Stern started playing some of his obscure songs in which he freely uses the word “nigga.” Granted, these songs were reportedly written for a motorcycle gang and not intended for popular consumption, but they point to the hatred and racism lurking beneath the surface of his traditional country ballads. Coe, a self-described “longhaired redneck” who counts whitetrash rapper Kid Rock as a friend, tried to prove he’s not prejudiced with “Song for the Year 2000,” in which he asserts “it takes all kinds to make this world go round.” But that hardly makes

amends. 9 p.m. The Tangier. (Niesel) Guy Davis: Dextrous and evocative, Guy Davis has been writing and recording important blues records for decades, merging styles and traditions throughout. His 2012 album, The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues, takes the listener on a journey across fields and highways as only the blues can. On the album, short songs (“Miss Ripley’s Catfish Stew”) split the narrative with longer explorations (“Fishy Leaves Home”) and even spoken-word illustrations (“The Lynching”). He’s said his music has been inspired by his Southern grandmother’s way of speaking. Through her stories, the Deep South became a vivid land of larger-than-life characters and mythos. The blues, Davis has said, is a natural conduit for sharing those stories. 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. (Sandy) Houndmouth: Straight outta Indiana, Houndmouth taps into the collective consciousness of the dusty fringes of the Midwest. Their new album, Little Neon Limelight, has a looser, more open feel to it than previous outings. “For No One,” accented with ghostly backing vocals and driven by twangy acoustic guitar, sees a laid-back band indebted to a life on the road. That’s soon followed up by “Honey Slider,” where reverb-drenched lead guitar works it way across a building synth

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line and harmonized vocals. The band’s debut album, From the Hills Below the City, similarly is a true delight, complete with folksy fun, heartfelt musicianship and nods to the country-tinged legacy that lay within their shadow. 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Ballroom. (Sandy) Kansas: Guitarist Richard Williams and the original members of Kansas had a chance to look back and consider the seemingly unlikely sequence of events that led them out of Topeka in the new documentary Miracles Out of Nowhere, released earlier this year. In the film, some heavy hitters testify to the power of the music of Kansas, including Garth Brooks, Queen guitarist Brian May and album producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, AC/ DC). The band had a much different line-up back then. Today, Williams and drummer Phil Ehart carry on, surrounded by longtime Kansas bassist/vocalist Billy Greer, David Ragsdale on violin and additional guitars, keyboardist David Manlon and vocalist Ronnie Platt, who replaced original Kansas frontman Steve Walsh last year. Platt’s addition has really brought an exciting new energy to Kansas. As a result, Williams says the band has a lot of things on deck including plans to begin recording a new album next January. 8 p.m., $32.50-$57.50. Hard Rock Rocksino. (Matt Wardlaw) Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society: 8:30 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. The Ark Band: 7:30 p.m., $5. Grog Shop. Becky Boyd’s Groove Train/Claudia Schieve: 9 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Cleveland School of Rock: 7 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Brandon Coleman: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. The Donkeys/Holden Laurence/Aurora del Sole: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Fertile the Drip/Clan of the Cave Bear/ Fire Death Drunk Meat: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. George Foley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. God of Gaps/Deceiver/Piss Junkie/Jason Rodriguez/Baaldavar: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. The Green Escalators/Cold Heat/Jean Jammers: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Pat McGee/Freedy Johnston: 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Carlos Jones & the P.L.U.S. Band: 9 p.m.

Vosh Club. Last of the Red Hot Burritos/The Del Rios/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. The Menus: 9:30 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge. Tim Moon (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Seaside Caves/Endo Orphans/From Borealis (in the Locker Room): 9 p.m., free. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Shivering Timbers/The Help and the Hands/Dynamo Love: 8 p.m., $10. Musica. Sykosis/Malice 213/Padded Room/ Orwellian/Adrift on River Styx/Khai/ Cymatik: 6 p.m., $6. Agora.

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The Promise Hero/These Knees/Keys & Corridors/4 Door Theatre/Surrounding Cities, Caught Up in a Dream: For years, local singer-guitarist Bobby Vaughn has gigged around town with his indie rock band the Promise Hero. His favorite venue is the Grog Shop, and he’s on a campaign to sell the place out when he performs there tonight. He’s dubbed the show #selloutthegrog and has put together a clever video featuring testimonials from friends and family (and Grog Shop owner Kathy Blackman). It’s not just a gimmick, either. The guy makes some great music. The title track from the band’s 2013 album, “Déjà Vu” has an elegant string arrangement and bits of piano that amplify Vaughn’s highpitched vocals, making an otherwise ordinary power ballad into something powerful (think of Green Day’s “Street of Broken Dreams”). Elsewhere, “Keep It Flowing” is a poppy Weezerlike number with nasally vocals, and the bouncy piano in “Locked Up Alone” sounds like something from a Ben Folds album. The tunes reflect Vaughn’s inspirations: the Beatles and Beach Boys. Should be a good show, whether or not it ends up selling out. 7 p.m., $5. Grog Shop. (Niesel) Jon Regen: Produced by Mitchell Froom (Paul McCartney, Randy Newman, Suzanne Vega), Jon Regen’s new album Stop Time features the singer’s terrific songwriting skills. Featuring some fine piano work, the woozy “I Will Wait” has just enough sarcasm and witty wordplay that it could pass as a Randy Newman tune. Davey Faragher and Pete Thomas from Elvis Costello’s band the Imposters make guest appearances on the disc. 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. (Niesel) Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys/ Max’s Farm: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Contemporary Jazz Trio Featuring Peter Dominguez, Sullivan Fortner and Paul

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Pokey LaFarge/Caroline Rose: Like a street musician amid Steinbeckian settings, Pokey LaFarge has built a career on music first made popular some 100 years ago. His style has been referred to as “riverboat chic,” to be clear, and he appears physically and sartorially as a man revived from a vivacious former life in 1920. Pokey’s new album, Something in the Water, seems to expand the instrumentation a bit while maintaining firm footing in early 20th-century music. His band members know their way around strings and gentle percussion, mingling dynamically with Pokey’s Mississippi-dredged drawl (cue “Where I’m Gonna Go” from the new album). His last show in Cleveland was a rollickin’ night of old-timey music and terrific guitar playing. 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. (Sandy) Seether/Tremonti/Red Sun Rising: Originating in South Africa, Seether gained mainstream popularity in 2002 with their No. 1 rock single “Fine Again.” Since then the hard-rock band has churned out hits such as “Fake It,” “Rise Above This,” “Remedy” and a cover of “Careless Whisper.” Seether released its newest album, Isolate and Medicate, last year to critical acclaim. Opening act Tremonti features former Creed/Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti. The band has a new studio album set to arrive this year so expect to hear some new tracks at tonight’s show. 7:30 p.m., $35. House of Blues. (Kaitlin Siegel) 36 Crazyfists/Toothginder/Sourblood/ Perusing Purpose: 6:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora. Black Pussy/The Great Iron Snake/ Sparrowmilk: 8:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $7 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Matthew Curry (in the Cambridge Room): 7 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. House of Blues. Elliott Ingersoll’s Free Thought Folk Music/Charlie Mosbrook: 7 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Matt Pond PA: Several Arrows Later 10 Year Anniversary Tour: 8 p.m., $13. Grog Shop. Dianne Schuur: 7 p.m., $40. Nighttown. Septicflesh/Moonspell/Deathstar/ Mythrias: 6 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora. Dan Zola Big Band: 7:30 p.m. Vosh Club.

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that’s unspooling in her head, you can suggest realizing her fantasies in real life—and a few of yours as well. 5. And… um… lastly… Your wife may need to block you out—she may need to clamp her eyes shut—in order to climax because… um… she may not be sexually attracted to you. That’s harsh, I realize, and I hope that’s not the case. But if marital sex for her is a joyless exercise—she gets you off then clamps her eyes shut and gets herself off—then this is a problem that can’t be fixed, and spending the next five decades trying to fix it will be both futile and frustrating.

Dear Dan, I’m a lesbian who has been pretty successful at online dating. Lately, however, I’ve had a few women contact me who turn out not to be cisgender. I’ve tried to remain open, but I have never been attracted to a trans woman. I don’t rule out the possibility that it could happen. But one great thing about online dating is that you can express preferences before going on a date, and I’d rather not unknowingly walk into these potentially awkward and painful situations. Is there something I could put on my profile expressing my preference for cisgender women that is not offensive to trans people? It’s important to me that I remain an ally. — Can I Say? You can put “not into trans women” in your online dating profile, CIS, but you’ll have to hand in your Trans Ally card. Gay men are likewise free to put “no fats, no femmes” or “white guys only—just expressing my preference” on their profiles, and too many do (and not all of them are white guys), but gay men who do that have to hand in their Not an Asshole cards. Occasionally having coffee with someone you’re not into—and having to tiptoe through the awkwardness—isn’t something you can avoid in online dating. You would have to do that even if only cis lesbians responded to your ads, as you’re presumably not attracted to all cis lesbians. Having a coffee now and then with a trans woman you most likely won’t find attractive—but you never know—is a small price to pay to make the online dating world a less shitty place for trans people. It’s what an ally would do.

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