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Editor Vince Grzegorek

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writers Sam Allard, Doug Brown Web Editor Alaina Nutile Contributing Writer Will Burge Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editors Nikki Delamotte, Jason Beudert Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani Interns Martin Harp, Kaitlin Siegel, Brittany Rees Jacob Gedetsis, Jason Meek, Maggie Sullivan Kimberly Jauregui,Jonathan Singleton

Red Line Greenway long-term update, 170 CCW licenses revoked in Lake County, and more

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Federal public defender Carlos Warner wants to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp

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Before we lavish too much praise on the proposed Red Line Greenway project, we’d be wise to recall that, given the current funding picture, the earliest construction can begin on the linear park running adjacent to the RTA rapid tracks from Downtown to Detroit-Shoreway is 2019. Nonetheless, conceptual renderings were lovingly unveiled at a community meeting Wednesday evening and rehashed Thursday morning for the Cleveland Metroparks Board of Commissioners. Metroparks CEO Brian Zimmerman advised that the funding for the Greenway’s $4.7 million first phase (of the estimated $13 million total) wouldn’t be available until 2019, though the $2 million Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) grant, awarded in January, is a nice start. “The goal is to really build a coalition of support for outside dollars,” Zimmerman said at the board meeting, dropping the names of a few of the usual corporate suspects. “This is really a remarkable part of the revitalization of Cleveland. When you

look at, again, that we’re supported by the property tax, and the reutilization and revitalization, 100 years from now, we will be touted for the work that we’re doing to revitalize the City of Cleveland.”

know, mega-donors are being mobilized as we speak). As it stands, despite the handsome PowerPoint slides, prepared and presented by one Evan Peterson, a grad student from the LSU School of

The Rotary Club is driving this project.

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Regarding the time frame, we’re as stunned as you are. Most of us expected some mega-donor to emerge from the wooded shadows of Gates Mills, halo and white wings affixed, to write a seven-figure check and accelerate the building schedule in order to accommodate all the ambling Republicans next July. (For all we

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Landscape Architecture, this puppy’s still a long way off. The $7 million third phase, intended to connect the RTA’s Red Line viaduct to downtown, is still “highly conceptual, highly theoretical, very far off,” via Peterson. (The $7 million, then, must also be). And if the involved community partners miss the RNC and thereafter

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Cuyahoga County loses more than $1 million after missing deadlines for state reimbursement for courtappointed attorneys. Council members, gathered at Hilton construction site: “No big.”

invest as much time, focus and questionable dollars in the Red Line Greenway as they’ve invested in the Towpath Trail, for instance, we can expect a fully operational park, complete with restaurants, native plantings and a competitively compensated executive staff, just before the dawn of the 22nd century. Cynicism aside, the proposal kicks conceptual ass. The affected neighborhoods (The Flats, Ohio City, Clark-Fulton, Stockyards, DetroitShoreway) would see a 2.8-mile park with 10 access points and an influx of greenspace. The additional greenspace, in particular, which would bump Cleveland’s dismal percentage a hair closer to the national average, Peterson said would help encourage all the obese children nearby to get outside and play. Thirty-eight percent of the surrounding population (and 53 percent of the children) live in poverty, Peterson said, the majority of them south of Lorain Avenue. Framed as an answer to New York’s “High Line Park,” the Red Line Greenway has been championed by Cleveland’s Rotary Club, a group

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of volunteers from which has been steadfastly maintaining the acreage for 30-plus years. The nonprofit LAND Studio was in fact born out of the gardening efforts along the same stretch. They’re now teaming with a handful of local partners who all see the potential for a really cool public space. Which, allow us to reiterate, will include not one but two restaurants in Peterson’s concept. “Within a quarter mile radius of the West Side Market, there are 30-plus breweries and restaurants.” Peterson said in his presentation. “What I’m proposing is two restaurants on the Red Line Greenway, a permanent restaurant with a well-established chef, and a pop-up restaurant with rotating chefs, young and upcoming culinary artists who can show off their craft. That way, this project will not only embody the culture of Cleveland but help grow it as well.” No word, yet, on how the restaurants will affect the plight of childhood obesity. (On second thought, the impoverished children nearby likely won’t be able to afford most of the items on the menu, so nbd). But we’re putting our skepticism aside for a moment and keeping our fingers crossed. With any luck, this gets underway before all the old Rotary Dudes are confined to hospital beds.

170 Lake County CCW LiCenses Revoked

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A whole bunch of gun-toting Lake County residents recently learned their CCW licenses were invalid after their instructor was busted for offering “fast track classes” to get them certified. The News-Herald was the first to report that after someone complained to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in March, the department began investigating. They found that the NRA-certified instructor from Mentor charged people $100 and didn’t do nearly as much as was required, offering much less than the required six hours of classroom instruction and completely skipping the mandatory two hours of instruction at a gun range.

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So now, 170 folks were informed by a letter from the sheriff’s office that their concealed carry permits are invalid. They’ve got to do the course over again, and this time they’ve got to do all of it. The sheriff’s office handed their investigation off to the Lake County prosecutor’s office last week and County Prosecutor Charles Coulson explained to Scene it’ll probably be a couple weeks before decisions on any charges against the instructor would be handed down (and, finally, the authorities will not release the guy’s name -- all we know now is the instructor was an NRA-certified man from Mentor). Coulson explained that his office is currently treating the 170 phony-permit holders as victims and witnesses, and not suspects in the scheme. But Lake County Sheriff Daniel Dunlap told WEWS last week that “they’re offenders in a sense too. They signed that they received the training.”

Fox spoRts ohio Cans WRiting staFF Fox Sports Ohio has never really known what it wanted to be, and despite a healthy roster of talent at times, it never really broke through the traffic jam of folks covering sports in Northeast Ohio. That being said, it did boast some talented reporters, among them Zac Jackson, who told us last Friday that he was told by FSO his last day on the job would be June 30. A second source confirmed that it wasn’t just the Akron and Swenson’s aficionado who was let go — the cuts were across the board and not limited to Jackson or the NFL, meaning Joe Reedy, who covered the Tribe, also met the axe, as did folks who worked in Columbus and Cincinnati. The writers we talked to heard about some vague restructuring by FSO, but no one was really told a thing about future plans as this was going down. That matches the tone of communication the writers had previously enjoyed with their bosses -- namely that of silence. Except, as one put it, when they decided to get angry or shuttle in their consultants to tell the writers how to do their jobs.

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Anyway, we heard similar conversations went down in other Fox regional outfits and that the emphasis now will be on video. In a statement to Crain’s Cleveland, Fox backed that up: “We’re shifting our digital strategy away from traditional editorial to focus more on producing short-form video content, which is more closely aligned with our core sports video business. As a result, we have made the decision to significantly reduce the use of freelance writers who have been contributing to our local websites. These changes will not impact our regional game telecasts.” Surely Zac and the others will land on their feet. Go hire them.

County’s CoLLege savings pRogRam WiLL go aWay County Council members are considering and mostly rallying around the idea of repealing the college savings account program set up and championed by former Executive Ed FitzGerald. Here’s how the fledgling program worked: The county funneled $1.5 million into college savings accounts for some 15,000 kindergartners at $100 each in the fall of both 2013 and 2014. The idea was to encourage further investment on the part of parents, but, based on early numbers, that hasn’t really happened. The Education, Environment and Sustainability Committee kicked the idea around last month, pulling up the program’s dire numbers. In terms of straight-up costs, the program has eaten $293,000 in administrative salaries and benefits, $73,000 in contracting services and $45,900 in mail. Part of the issue was that the program was never fleshed out in any meaningful sense. The onus of this public investment was put on parents -- some of whom might have had financial experience, others less so. For the latter, putting $100 on autopilot for like 13 years makes no sense. The money propped up 10,500 accounts created last year, but only 400 or so ended up registered by parents.

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Here’s the most eye-opening number: Only 55 of those accounts had received additional deposits. Council members have been debating alternatives -- programs that might achieve the same financial cushion that this one provided, though with a less burdensome cost. During that meeting, Councilman Pernel Jones did drop a great line about what an alternative program might look like: “It may not be as politically sexy as sending kindergartners to college.” Indeed. The measure went through a second reading last week; a vote is expected soon.

WoRks Continues on West 25th exit Ramp We’re well past the initial endpoint of “mid-May,” and it looks like the construction work on the West 25th exit ramp off I-90 is just gonna run on toward eternity at this point. The latest ODOT estimates have work wrapping up in “early June,” which colloquially means “sometime after early June.” As a reminder, the work being done at that point along I-90 eastbound will see the freeway “reconfigured to provide two lanes to I-490 east, two lanes to continue on I-90 east and one lane to I-71/SR 176 south,” according to ODOT. “The new configuration will also create a new exit lane for those exiting onto West 25th Street and allow traffic entering I-90 from West 41st more time to merge onto I-90 east. Traffic entering I-90 from West 41st will also be able to continue to I-71/SR 176 without making a lane change.” Sounds nice. Until the cows come home, though, your roster of detours remains the same: Getting off at West 44th or West 41st (depending on if you’re heading south or north, respectively) and trudging along Clark or Lorain, or looping around I-490 at Broadway to get back into Tremont at West 7th.

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Northeast Ohio-based federal public defender Carlos Warner works for change at Guantanamo Bay here in Cleveland By Eric Sandy NEWS OF GUANTANAMO BAY and its prisoner population reaches the cable news airwaves in fits and bursts, always setting the tone of the place against a drawn-out war and two overzealous administrations that have never made clear the intent of the place. Federal public defender Carlos Warner, a Cleveland guy who now lives in Summit County, helps represent more than a dozen men doing time at Gitmo. He’s here to share how important it is that we start moving on closing the place.

You did a reddit AMA on this topic recently. What brought that about? One of the biggest challenges we have for Guantanamo is just keeping it in the news. It tends to be in the news, but it goes to the background and the cycle is so quick. Like I said there, one of my obligations is to try to keep the issue out front and to try to educate. That’s the only way that we can make any change down there, is by having the average citizen know who is down there and why they’re down there. They’re not terrorists. I got a lot of feedback. I guess the reddit community is fairly liberal, but I wasn’t sure. To pose as broad a question as possible, how does Guantanamo work and why hasn’t there been a change in those policies? They opened Guantanamo -- and when I say “they,” it was the neocons in our government, like Dick Cheney, Wolfowitz -- they opened it up with the purpose of holding people someplace where no country could touch them. That’s why they picked the Caribbean. They fought that for years. It was just a few years ago that we got access to the men at Guantanamo. Once we started to get access, that’s when we started to learn about them. They said that you can have access, but you can’t tell anybody about it. You can’t talk about the allegations. You can’t really

investigate any of the allegations. We had to get really creative about how to get the men’s stories out. For a long time, especially in 2006, it was a mixed bag. But George W. Bush actually released the dangerous people. They were mainly Saudi people. These are people who returned to the battlefield. Then, around 2007 and 2008, which is when I got involved, there were really the poor people who had no representation or governments talking to then. We ended up with about 13 cases.

The idea, of course, is that the worst of the worst are down there. That idea has persisted. When you say that these men are “the poor people,” what do you mean by that? They’re innocent. Let’s be clear about that. They’re not only not the worst of the worst, they’re innocent. They are people who -- let’s say they’re looking for an Eric Sandy and they got the wrong Eric Sandy. But you’re a poor Yemeni Eric Sandy, so you’re stuck there for 13 years while we’re trying to sort it out. We can’t get you out of there. We can’t send you back to Yemen, because there’s a civil war there. In the general population, the majority of men left -- both the Bush administration and the Obama administration have said that they should be released. They’re cleared for release -- the majority of them. You’ve got maybe, I’d say, under 10 hardcore guys who should be charged somewhere. You have this group of people who are being held on suspicion. They can’t be charged, they won’t be charged, but they’re being held indefinitely. Then you have this last group of people who are all cleared. Everyone agrees they should be released -- all the intelligence agencies -- but it’s hard to find them solutions. Nobody was looking for solutions for several years.

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Day to day, what are their lives like? Is this like a supermax prison? There are three different places. We represent people in all three. There’s Camp Seven, where the high-value detainees are. We have someone there, but we’re not really allowed to discuss at all what goes on there. There’s Camps Five and Six. Camp Five is like a segregation supermax. They use it for punitive purposes -- people who are not behaving. That’s solitary confinement. The majority of men are held in Camp Six, which is basically just a mediumsecurity prison here: communal pod living. They’ve had no family visits. The only amenities they can get are from the lawyers. They have no money to get anything. We have to provide them with whatever extras they get beyond the prison food. You mentioned McDonald’s on reddit. The McDonald’s -- that’s an interesting thing. This is a good example of how we’ve adapted to the system. Most of the lawyers would go down there and they would just stop in the morning and they’d take them some McMuffins. When we started going, all I would do is, with the help of many organizations here in Cleveland, I would organize and bring these incredible feasts down there for them. The guards were used to seeing a couple McMuffins coming in, but I would bring in, you know, piles of grape leaves, wonderful pies, Afghan food. We’ve had Thanksgiving there. They have no idea what Thanksgiving is, but that’s what we would do. We became known for that. Some of the other lawyers started doing that. That really built some -- very little -- but some morale, and they’d look forward to it and make requests. When new lawyers would ask me what they shouldn’t do, I’d say you should not bring McDonald’s. The detainees realized McDonald’s sucks, and it really

sucks in Guantanamo.

I can only imagine. They have a Subway there too, but. Outside of just checking in on their state of being, what sort of things are you able to do? “How do we attack getting them out,” I think you’re asking. We were assigned to do habeas corpus, which is basically a lawsuit against the president saying that the person is illegally held. Habeas corpus means “free the body.” Because he’s being illegally held he should be freed. I watched this litigation evolve in Washington, D.C. They started having these incredible legal loopholes for the government. The D.C. circuit court said that all of the government’s evidence is presumed accurate, and we have the burden to show that it’s inaccurate. That’s the complete opposite of all the jurisprudence here where the government has a burden. Not only that, but there’s a security clearance. Let’s say you’re a witness, and my client was charged with assaulting someone in a bar. They just say, your client assaulted an Eric Sandy in a bar in Yemen. But they won’t tell us what bar -- I can’t talk to you, because you don’t have a security clearance, and I can’t talk to any witnesses. I can’t even tell my client -- this is the crazy part -- that this is the allegation, because he doesn’t have security clearance. And that evidence is presumed innocent. I’d like to think that our office -- and not everything agrees with this -- was one of the first offices to stand up and say, hey, this entire system we have for litigating these Guantanamo cases is bullshit. There’s just nowhere you can go with it. Read the full interview at clevescene.com.

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It’s yet to be seen if LeBron will raise a banner in Cleveland, but he’s already delivering a winner to Akron’s kids By chris parker

GABRIELLE BRIGGINS TRIES TO hold back tears, to no avail. Minutes earlier, her daughter Shavelle received a Samsung Galaxy tablet as a door prize from the LeBron James Family Foundation (LJFF) at one of its monthly Hometown Meetings, which rotate among schools. Shavelle’s been in the LJFF Wheels for Education program four years now. It has helped her bring up her grades and so much more. In addition to the tablet for her daughter, Briggins was informed this April afternoon that her family also had won $1,000 in groceries from the Foundation, an incomprehensible stroke of luck for a mother of three just trying to get by. “It’s very inspirational. We love LeBron and the Foundation,” Briggins says before rhapsodizing about the changes she’s seen in her daughter. “She’s more outgoing, more outspoken, she participates more. It’s great. They listen to [LeBron] better than they do us.” At a table nearby, a boy puts almost half his arm into one of LeBron’s sneakers and a little blond girl named Zoe, sporting a braided ponytail and glasses, twirls in a LeBron James practice jersey that nearly reaches her knees. She could be the flower girl for a Cavaliers-themed wedding as she spins about the Jennings CLC cafeteria like a reeling top. Her father, Chris Fassnacht, is a teacher at Harris Elementary and coached against James in football more than a dozen years ago. He’s amazed at the impact her participation in the

program has made in just a year. “After the summer classes, she was reading so much better already and she’s been making merit and honor role this year,” Fassnacht says, noting how much LeBron’s personal touches, like letters and phone calls, mean to these kids. “Just seeing her work so hard and then when there is a letter that comes in the mail from him … she loves getting those letters from LeBron. He sent ice skating tickets and they went on the Polar Express.” The gifts and memorabilia are just a small part of the LJFF’s Wheels for Education program, the Akron charity LeBron started in 2003, during his first year in the NBA. And while it was active

it was during those struggles in those times when he was alone, away from his support network from home in Miami, that he really learned what he wanted this foundation to do and to be and how he wanted to use his influence to move a community.” He may have been a thousand miles from home physically, but his heart was back there. He realized his greatest desire was to help the kids in his hometown, the ones who face the kind of struggles that LeBron dealt with growing up. For example, James missed over half the school year during fourth grade as he and his mother Gloria changed

“It’s very inspirational. We love LeBron and the Foundation.” - Gabrielle Briggins

while James started his career with the Cavs, it finally found its focus, ironically enough, after James left for Miami. “We were in Cleveland still at that time, our offices,” explains Stephanie Rosa, media relations manager. “It was a very pivotal year for him. He went away. It was the first time he was away from home, first time he was away from mom, away from his fiancé, his boys. We always say it’s like that freshman going away to college.” “That year I always say was the best thing that ever happened as far as the Foundation,” says Michele Campbell, LJFF’s executive director. “Because

residences and school districts several times. When he discovered that nearly a quarter of all students in Akron public schools never graduate, he set out to do something about it. “He said we needed to fix that,” Campbell recalls. “For these kids to be successful and live out their dreams, they can’t do that without an education.” For all the rosy forecasts that greeted his return, it’s these more subtle ways in which James has touched Northeast Ohio that are likely to have the most enduring impact. It’s not just because an athlete’s star burns brightly for only so long, but

also because predictions of economic booms from successful sports teams inevitably fail to match the initial fanfare. That didn’t stop civic leaders and so-called experts from throwing around grandiose figures with zero evidence. Former Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald predicted a $50 million windfall from LeBron’s return, and John Carroll economics professor LeRoy Brooks suggested a ridiculous $500 million regional economic boom, which he later revised down to $162 million. Even the Plain Dealer got in on the game back in 2010, guestimating a $200 million increase in downtown spending thanks to No. 23. Sure, downtown businesses might see a bump, especially those within a very close radius to Quicken Loans Arena, but Northeast Ohio? Economic studies have failed to show any real regional economic impact of sports teams more often than Austin Carr says, “Get that weak stuff out of here.” “It really depends on what you define as your area of economic impact,” says Victor Matheson, economics professor at Holy Cross and a respected connoisseur of economic impact studies. “Without question LeBron is great for that economy within a mile or half mile radius of the arena, but … you have to decide: Are we having a gain for [downtown] Cleveland coming at the expense of Shaker Heights?” This is what’s known as the substitution effect. Since most of the spending spurred by the Cavaliers’ success comes from residents of

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FEATURE Northeast Ohio, it’s usually simply money they’d spent elsewhere in the community. Factor in the costs of policing, maintenance and concessions to the arenas and their teams, and it winds up a wash economically. LeBron’s Cavaliers reunion is unlikely to spark a substantial or even measurable macroeconomic impact; however, that doesn’t mean the Prodigal Son’s return isn’t playing an important role in Northeast Ohio’s ongoing renaissance. His presence alone can have a kind of halo effect. A winning team means plenty of glamour shots of the city beaming out to millions on every national broadcast, helping burnish the reputation of the Mistake by the Lake. That can be important for a region trying to stem/replace population loss and convince the best and brightest this is the place to raise their family.

Maverick Carter to former college coaching exile Keith Dambrot, so many have been blessed by their associations with James that one hesitates to doubt his ability to extend that gift to an entire region. “When he first went to St. VincentSt. Mary, the school didn’t have a lot of students and now they’re doing very well,” says Dambrot, who coached LeBron at SVSM and who now coaches the University of Akron’s thriving basketball program. “He took a former college coach and resurrected his career, and with the shoe deal and the equipments deal he’s resurrected our program. He resurrected the Cavaliers. He brought a championship to the Heat. “You say the halo effect, it’s more like the Midas Touch,” says Dambrot. “Everything he’s touched has turned to gold.”

James never has lacked ambition. And, generally, his pursuit of glory and

So many have been blessed by their associations with James that one hesitates to doubt his ability to extend that gift to an entire region. “People see [on TV] that it’s a pretty cool place,” says Cavaliers CEO Len Komoroski. “And it’s helping to change the dialog and perceptions of Cleveland as a city in a very favorable way.” Given all the gray, sunless skies we’ve endured literally and metaphorically, you shouldn’t underestimate the power of just feeling good supporting a winning team. That simple but vague feeling is the most substantial effect to be found in any sports-related studies, according to Matheson. “A good example of this is the 2006 World Cup which was held in Germany and was wildly successful both for the German National Team as well as the country,” he says. “But economists going back and looking didn’t find big increases in tourism spending. No big increases in incomes or employment. But they did find a big increase in the selfreported happiness of Germans. These things might make us happy, but they aren’t going to make us rich.” Then again it depends on how you localize the effect. Restricted free agents Tristan Thompson and Matthew Dellavedova not only have seen their careers soar in the past season, but this summer, their bank balances will see similar boosts. This is not unusual. All his life, James has cultivated the ability to enrich the lives of those around him. From high school teammate and business manager

success never has been simply for his own sake, but also for those around him. With his namesake foundation, he takes on an even bigger challenge: leveraging his spirit and stature as a role model to change Akron’s high-school graduation rate. No small task. If there’s anyone that understands that it takes a village to raise a child, it’s James. When his mother and he were struggling, a family that knew him through recreation sports offered to take him in for a year so Gloria could focus on improving her situation. That year provided James not only with a stable home, but the discipline he lacked. His grades and attendance turned around, setting stage for his athletic exploits to fully bloom. So in 2011, the LeBron James Family Foundation began a program in concert with Akron public schools to identify rising third graders at the highest risk for dropping out and bring them into LJFF’s newly reconfigured Wheels for Education program. “We look to identify students at the third-grade level because studies and analysis show us that is the age where a child is most likely to fall through the cracks,” explains Desiree Bolden, manager of extended learning for Akron Public Schools, who helps identify the kids. “Akron public schools use a variety of factors,” she continues. “The primary

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before they graduate their first kids in 2021. Not everyone who’s eligible does participate (and they’re studying why), but those we talked to seemed ecstatic at their kids’ turnaround. Upon completion of the camp, the children also receive a bike. This is sort of a legacy from the Foundation’s earliest efforts, where they gave away bikes as part of an Akron area bike-a-thon. The bikes were personally emblematic of freedom and self-agency for James.

“It gave us a brotherhood and a sense of being able to forget whatever we were going though at the time. It’s just my way of showing my appreciation not only to the city for that outlet but to the kids as well.” - LeBron James

As long as the child and parent(s) attend eight of the camp’s 10 days, they’ll remain in the program until they graduate high school nine years later. They currently have 800 kids and expect to have 1,000 by next school year. By that math, LJFF’s enrollment will double

“It was something I did as a kid that drove me away from all the hardships that I was going through. It gave me and my friends a sense of… just to be able to get away from it and travel around my city,” LeBron says. “It gave us a brotherhood and a sense of being able to

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One such day had LeBron visiting a school. The Foundation fielded numerous calls from parents who wanted to join their children that day for the event. Concerned that a flood of people might disrupt the event, LJFF turned the parents away. Afterward, the board

everything changed, and everything we do now involves a parent. Every outing, every field trip, every meeting — we always invite a parent to come. It’s a pillar of our program.” Every month LJFF goes to one of the 30 elementary schools the kids attend

“The inspiration is simple, it’s the kids and for me to be able to be a part of something that’s so special and for these kids to be able to get direct contact with me.” - LeBron James

explained how hard (and crucial) it was to get parent involvement. “They said we would die if the parents called saying they wanted to come, and you’re saying, ‘No,’” Campbell remembers. “From that moment on,

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and takes them on an excursion. Some destinations are suggestions from the board, some are suggestions from the crowd, and some are specially suggested by the King, himself. Over a recent holiday weekend, James

attended a symphony orchestra for the first time and was so struck by the experience that he insisted LJFF take their kids to a special kids-oriented show by the Cleveland Orchestra in March. “We always include an outing that is an experience that exposes them to something different, coupled with a dinner,” Rosa says. “We believe it is very important to sit down with the family and spend time with them over a meal.” James participation isn’t limited to his memorabilia and financial donations. He appears at events, records weekly video messages, leaves frequent blogs entries and even sends personal letters and makes phone calls to encourage “his kids.” Yes, he’s as indefatigable off the court as on. “The inspiration is simple, it’s the kids and for me to be able to be a part of something that’s so special and for these kids to be able to get direct contact with me,” he says. “It means a lot to me, and it’s pretty cool we’re able to do things like have a field trip to Cedar Point and take them places for their reward for doing so many great things in school. I’m happy to have such a great program.” he says. “It means a lot to me, and it’s pretty cool we’re able to do things like have a field trip to Cedar Point and take them places for their reward for doing so many great things in school. I’m happy to have such a great program.” As the families dine on food supplied by Old Carolina BBQ Company, Jennings CLC principal Rochelle Brown-Hall effuses about the program’s ability to get kids who’d had trouble in school to focus. She compares it to LeBron’s homecoming letter where he noted that in Northeast Ohio, “nothing is given, everything is earned.” “They do very nice things for them but they also hold them accountable

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academically,” says Brown-Hall. “It’s interesting, there is one young lady here who wasn’t doing her best and then they didn’t allow her to go on a field trip and now she’s doing a whole lot better. So most of them do well in the first place, but the idea that the Foundation has that impact has made a difference.” Indeed, as the oldest kids, the sixth graders, moved into middle school, LJFF added a service component. Recently they went to the Richard Howe House in downtown Akron where they cleaned trash, weeded, mulched and otherwise beautified the grounds around the historic Erie Canalway building. Earlier in the year they attended a University of Akron football game, then helped clean up the stadium afterwards. Tiffany Taylor’s seen the change in her son Jayden just in this year, in which he’s won a BUG (Bringing Up Grades) and a citizenship award. “He’d been bugging me ever since we got to Friday he wanted to get here,” says Taylor at the Jennings monthly event. “I said, ‘Jayden, I know why you’re excited — you think Mr. LeBron is going to be there.’ And he said ‘No, I just want to go.’ He likes answering the questions and being around other kids.” Before the door prizes are handed out and the $1,000 grocery tab to Giant Eagle is awarded (once a month to someone spotted sporting a Just Cling It sticker on their house or car), the kids, sporting their “I Promise” wristbands, gather at the front of the auditorium to recite their pledge to LeBron and his pledge to them. They promise him they will go to school, be respectful to their parents, teachers and peers, be active and make good decisions. In return, he promises them that he will be the best role model he can be, on and off the court. “This is the promise between LeBron and his kids,” Rosa says turning over one of the bands in her hands. “They know what this means. Every time we’re together, every time he’s with them, we always say the promise. I failed a test, I can do better, but there is going to be another test, and this isn’t the end.” Before the Foundation, most of James’

successes have come around basketball or marketing ventures, like Beats Audio. His association with Akron basketball coach Keith Dambrot in high school helped the Akron native overcome an unfortunate incident at Eastern Michigan that blackballed him among the college coaching community. Since taking over Akron’s head coaching reins in 2004, Dambrot’s led the team to 10 straight 20-plus win seasons, made three NCAA tournaments and three NIT tourneys, making it to the second round three times. He’s consistently fielded the best college basketball team in Northeast Ohio since Kevin Mackey’s heyday at Cleveland State in the ’80s. LeBron has lent his hand, not only

making Nike’s sponsorship of the Akron basketball team part of his contract but by making frequents guest appearances. He used to host his summer basketball camp on the Akron campus and still can be found hooping it up on campus. “They changed the rules so he can’t do his camps here, but he still comes around to open gyms a couple times each summer and plays with our guys. This year he brought his two sons to one of our games,” says Akron athletic director Tom Wistrcill. “Having him tied to our athletic department and our basketball program is hugely beneficial to everything we’re trying to do.” Of course, St. Vincent-St. Mary received a whole new gym 18 months ago, courtesy of James, and, like University

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of Akron, their sports uniforms are provided by Nike. St. V’s basketball coach Dru Joyce, now into his 13th year, has turned the success he had leading James’ AAU team, the Shooting Stars, into an annual tournament in Akron. The 10th Annual King James Shooting Stars Classic Tournament brought over 600 basketball teams to Northeast Ohio the last weekend in April. The wealth of out-of-state teams means much of the $2.5 million the tourney is estimated to bring to Akron will actually be new money. It only seems to be growing. Coach Lenny Cathcart drove his 12-year-old MSU Skyliners seven-anda-half hours from New Jersey. Bounced from the tournament, the nonplussed ’tweens lean against a car whose music backdrops our conversation and provides them an opportunity on a couple of occasions to bust a move. Their team travels a lot, but this is the farthest Cathcart’s taken them for a tournament. He’s going away impressed. “I loved it. Well run. Well organized. Helluva teams here. I never knew they made kids that big at 12,” Cathcart chuckles. He’ll be coming back. “Everyone’s respectful and everyone has a good time … . Our kids just lost and look at them over there.” Of course, you probably knew that LeBron’s return would be good for the Cavs. But it’s been even better than that. Just as LeBron took it to another level in the post-season, the Cavs have been breaking records off the court, according to Komoroski. “Even compared to the prior run, our television ratings are the highest in history,” the Cavaliers CEO says. “Numbers from sell-outs to merchandising levels to all our digital assets are at league-leading levels across many different variables and subsets, from merchandising to you name it.”

“LeBron accelerates and compounds,” adds Cavaliers PR director Tad Carper. “He’s a catalyst and a multiplier.” The past couple years have witnessed James’ attempts to use his notoriety, charisma and pop-culture power to bridge his way into film and television the way many rappers have. His local Spring Hill Productions Company has been busy pitching and scoring projects that typically play on James’ basketball

and Maverick Carter rescue distressed businesses (Property Brothers II maybe?), a male-targeted Esquire Network show about one’s “bucket list,” and a trivia game show which recruited its first contestants from Northeast Ohio. Though based here in Northeast Ohio, they were reportedly opening an office in California. Whether any of this would impact Ohio is unclear; indeed, whether James can even make this transition (Kazaam, anyone?) is open to

notoriety. This summer, James will make his feature film debut appearing as himself, alongside rising-star comedian Amy Schumer and actor Bill Hader, in the new Judd Apatow movie, Trainwreck. James plays Hader’s “real life” best friend. In February, Hollywood Reporter published an article enumerating a slate of shows and pitches including those currently in production for Disney (Becoming) and Starz (Survivor’s Remorse), sort of the “before and after” of James’ story. Among the potential entries were a CNBC show where James

debate. The Hollywood Reporter piece cited an anonymous agent (aren’t they all?) who was skeptical they could sell material based on something other than James’ life and experiences. “If they can do that, they’ve got a shot. If not, it’s done as soon as his basketball career dims.” Even should that be true — and he’s been media-savvy enough until now not to doubt him — James has taken the steps necessary to make this area, his home, healthier, not just for this season, but for years to come. As Campbell notes, “Changing graduation rates is just like winning a

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championship. It is a monumental task. So the only way he can do that is with an awesome team around him.” The same could be said about pulling Northeast Ohio out of its doldrums. LeBron was never going to be the linchpin in this long-wished-for renaissance, but he could be a big key in that puzzle, as he is for the Cavaliers. However, as James cautioned early this season, “Patience.” Some things take time to take root (even if the team’s bulldog defensive demeanor seemed to sprout nearly overnight). “Having a likeable star and a winning team associated with your city is nice and puts a little burnish on what’s otherwise not a great reputation for Cleveland,” says Matheson. “It’s certainly a lot more fun having a team that’s going to win 50-60 and maybe go deep into the playoffs, depending on injuries and suspensions. That’s a lot more fun than holding your nose and watching your team go 20-62.” Komoraski already can feel the change in people’s attitudes brought on by LeBron’s return and the incipient arrival of the Republican National Convention next year. It’s like the wind’s changed, it’s blowing out to right and Jim Thome’s up. “We’ve got a journey to go and who knows what will happen?” says Komoroski. “But right now we’ve got a lot of great people and LeBron coming back just amplifies and helps accelerate everything we hope and aspire to as a region. There’s a lot of good things that have been happened and hopefully a lot more to come.”

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Bhangra Beat While artists and art professionals host various events all over the city, the Cleveland Museum of Art has booked another incarnation of its MIX Happy Hour event. Tonight’s MIX: Fusion is highlighted by a performance from Brooklyn-based band Red Baraat. Red Baraat combines hip-hop, go-go, New Orleans-style jazz and Punjabi Bhangra music. This month’s MIX also welcomes speakers and attendees of TEDxCLE 2015. TEDxCLE attendees receive free admission to MIX: Fusion with their ticket. Admission to MIX: Fusion is $8 in advance, $10 the day of event. It’s free for CMA members. Cash bar and food are available for purchase in the CMA’s restaurant and cafe. The event takes place from 5 to 10 p.m. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Art Walk It’s the first Friday of June, and that means it’s time for Collinwood’s Walk All Over Waterloo monthly art walk. From 6 to 10 p.m., Waterloo Arts hosts a special reception for the opening of the 2015 Waterloo Arts Fest Juried Exhibition. Just 35 works by 33 artists were accepted from 231 submissions by 113 artists. This year’s juror was Thereasa Bembnister, associate curator at the Akron Art Museum, who has written for numerous publications including Scene. Additionally, Loren Naji’s Satellite Gallery invites the public to participate in an interactive art project. Stop by between 6 and 9 p.m. to help stuff an 8-foot custom-built Lake Erie perch sculpture with plastic trash collected by Adopt-A-Beach volunteers at Edgewater and Euclid Beach this spring. The project is a collaborative effort between Naji and Waterloo-based artist Ali Lukacsy. All events are free. (Josh Usmani) waterlooarts.org.

A Closet Case n 1976, Dave Treat lived in Lakewood on Giel Avenue. His neighbor was Stiv Bators, singer in the punk band Frankenstein (which would become the Dead Boys). At that time, Treat was studying photography at Cooper School of Art. Bators asked him if he would shoot a promo photo for the band, so they went downtown on Saturday and spent most of the day shooting. For one photo, Treat had them climb over a fence between two buildings and move to the back. That photo became their promo photo and their template for their first album. Treat recently discovered the photos from that shoot in his closet. With help from the vintage store/record shop/record label Blue Arrow Records, he’s put together an exhibit he’s calling Stiv 1976: Lost Photos of Stiv Bators and the Dead Boys. The exhibit opens tonight with a reception from 6 p.m. to midnight at Gallery 160. (Niesel) 16008 Waterloo Rd., 440-715-0603, galleryonesixty.org.

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woodcuts by the Oberlin-based printmaker. The exhibition’s title refers to an Italian term meaning “long board.” The work for this exhibition is created using boards as large as 4-by-8 foot. Meanwhile, Cleveland-based wood engraver Eric Gulliver organizes a collection of work by members of the Wood Engravers Network. The Morgan Conservatory paper mill and the Wood Engravers Network have partnered to create a limited edition, hand-printed folio book. A series of prints on custom-made paper will be displayed to showcase these vibrant artists and the benefits of hand papermaking. Both exhibitions remain on view through Saturday, July 18. It’s free. (Usmani) 1754 East 47th St., 216-361-9255, morganconservatory.org.

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An Immersive Experience From 6 to 8 p.m. today, the Jack and Linda Lissaur Gallery at the Shaker Historical Society hosts an opening reception for the latest exhibition by recent Cleveland Institute of Art graduate Abbey Blake. You May Find Me in the Woods is a collection of new work by Blake. Most recently, she participated in the Cleveland West Arts League’s Six in Studio. Along with five other artists, Blake used CWAL’s exhibition space at 78th Street Studios as a collaborative studio. Over the course of a month, Blake created an immersive, threedimensional art installation. We’ve been fans ever since. It’s free. (Usmani) 16740 South Park Blvd., Shaker Hts., 216-921-1201, case.edu/affil/shakhist/. Art

It’s a Celebration Local curator Natalia Dale was recently appointed to organize art exhibitions at the Ohio City Masonic Arts Center. Today from 6:30 p.m. to midnight, Dale and OCMAC present the second installment of its Art & Music Series. The event celebrates the life and art of Munroe W. Copper IV (1949-2013). The last signed originals of Copper’s industrial photography from his personal collection will be exhibited. Copper was known for working in a variety of mediums, including photography, metalwork, sculpture, painting and even restorations. Also on exhibition are recent works by Cleveland-based artists Joe Ayala, Eric Ortiz and David Szekeres. Morticia’s Chair will perform. It is free. (Usmani) 2831 Franklin Blvd, 216-206-6022, ohiocitymac.com. Art

Looks Good on Paper From 7 to 9 tonight, the Morgan Conservatory hosts a reception for its latest pair of exhibitions. Claudio Orso’s Tavola Lunga features large-scale

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Maron-ic Behavior If you’ve listened to Marc Maron’s podcast or checked out his show on IFC, you know what a grump he can be. We’re not sure if it’s an act or if he really is that neurotic. Whatever the case, it makes for good comedy. And Maron’s popularity is on the rise. He’s appeared on HBO, Letterman, Leno, Craig Ferguson, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Real Time with Bill Maher, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up and The Green Room. He’s also filmed two Comedy Central Presents specials. He’s appeared on Conan O’Brien more than any other comedian. He appears tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $32. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. musiC

Nash Up Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame multiple times, singer-songwriter Graham Nash has one of rock’s greatest voices. When he was harmonizing with those other two guys in Crosby, Stills and Nash, he made some remarkable music that has held up over time. Tonight he joins the Cleveland Youth Orchestra for a special program. The concert takes place at 8 at Severance Hall. Tickets start at $29. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. Comedy

Opposites Attract Bill O’Reilly and Dennis Miller are poles apart on the political spectrum. O’Reilly is incredibly conservative and Miller leans to the left. Their differences are the basis for this tour, dubbed Don’t be a Pinhead. The show starts at 8 p.m. at the State Theatre. Tickets are $72; the $525 VIP ticket includes premium seating, the chance to meet the guys after the show with a photo opportunity

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The Value of Print You’d be hard-pressed to find a cinema that still shows movie on 35mm prints. With the switch to digital, the old-fashioned projector has been replaced with a hard drive. But the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles has a strict 35mm policy. Owned by director Quentin Tarantino, it’s an old school establishment frequented by directors and actors such as John Landis, Joe Dante, Kevin Smith and Patton Oswalt. The theater is the subject of Out of Print, a new documentary that pays tribute to the place. It makes its Cleveland premiere tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Broadway and Beyond Singer-actress Linda Eder came to prominence as the female lead on Broadway in Jekyll & Hyde. She was hailed as the most impressive contemporary vocalist since a certain Barbra Streisand. Eder also has a successful solo career and has played sold-out concerts

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Derby Days The Artwood Derby is back at Spaces! From 6 to 8 p.m. today, Spaces invites artists and non-artists (ages 5 and up) to create their own car (kits, as well as a drink ticket, are included with the entry fee). Decorate the cars however you’d like — the weirder the better. The Artwood Derby track is approximately 36 feet long, with a 4-foot drop. Celebrity announcers will call the races, cameras will capture photo finishes, and results will be tallied live. All racers are invited to pick up a kit early and display

For the Fans Hope springs eternal — and with every new season, Browns fans think their beloved team has a chance to make the playoffs. Sadly, those aspirations often fall short of reality. To get fans pumped for the upcoming season, some 40 Browns players and alumni will be at today’s Cleveland Browns Fan Fest that takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Convention Center. Browns head coach Mike Pettine, general manager Ray Farmer and president Alec Scheiner will be on hand as will the Browns’ mascots. There will be a photo opportunity with the Cleveland Browns 1946 Championship Trop. ESPN850 and 92.3 The Fan will broadcast live from the event. Tickets are $15, or $10 for season ticket holders. (Niesel) 300 Lakeside Ave., 216-928-1600, clevelandbrowns.com.

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Mas Tequila Tequila is one of Mexico’s finest imports, and at today’s Tacos and Tequila, a new event put on by Scene magazine, you can sample a variety of styles. You can drink the stuff straight, on the rocks, or mixed in a cocktail. Your ticket includes 10 samplings of tequila, and the event will feature local restaurants and food trucks selling your favorite Southwestern dishes. There will also be live music, contests and outdoor entertainment. The event takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. at Tyler Village. Tickets are $30 advance, or $40 day of the event. (Niesel) scenetnt.com.

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Art Talk While the opening night party for MOCA Cleveland’s Summer 2015 exhibitions isn’t until next week, the latest exhibition by Tony Lewis opened yesterday. To celebrate, MOCA Cleveland presents an artist talk with Lewis; Chicago-based artist, community organizer and educator Anthony Stepter; and MOCA Cleveland associate curator Rose Bouthillier. At 3 p.m. today, the trio will discuss Lewis’ first solo museum exhibition, Tony Lewis: free movement power nomenclature pressure weight. Following the talk, Lewis will be present in the gallery until 5 p.m. It’s free. And mark your calendar: The Summer Season Opening Night Party begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 12. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

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their cars inside Spaces before the event. General entry will set you back $8; it’s $5 for season pass members and $3 for anyone racing an “Old Skool” Artwood Derby car from a previous year’s event. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org.

Mutual Savings Thanks to a generous gift from Medical Mutual, every first Saturday of the month is free at MOCA Cleveland. Stop by today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to see a large exhibition by Joyce J. Scott. You can also partake in a variety of fun activities including Highlights Tours, Target Talks and the One Hour, One Work program. Kids 10 and under can visit the ArtSquad Plays Workroom featuring activities, books and games designed to use art as an educational tool. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org. BeneFit

One Big Benefit Cleveland Play House’s annual benefit, Cosmopolitan — A Roaring 20s Celebration, which takes place tonight at 5:30 at the Allen Theatre, has plenty going for it, including Tony-Award nominees Mary Bridget Davies and Elizabeth A. Davis, with musical backup by Sherrie Maricle and members of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra. Bob Hale of

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Food that Rocks Chef Jam, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual rock-related food event that pairs local musicians with Cleveland’s top chefs, will take place today at 7 p.m. at the Rock Hall. Local acts Tropidelic and Cream of the Crop All Stars are slated to perform. Participating restaurants are an allstar lineup themselves, and include B Spot, Dante, Melt, Black Pig, Tremont Taphouse, Butcher and Brewer, Urban Farmer, Pier W, Crop Kitchen, Greenhouse Tavern, Cork & Cleaver, Deagan’s, Sterle’s and more. Each ticket includes samples of all the dishes offered at each food station during the event, as well as Great Lakes Brewing Company beer, wine, artist performances and tours of museum exhibits, including the 2015 inductee exhibit and Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits. Tickets are $75. A portion of proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the Rock Hall’s education activities. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

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Pole Position Slavic Village is the center of all things Polish, so it makes sense the neighborhood would host the Pierogi Dash 5K Run and Fun Walk today at 9 a.m. The race starts at Aetna Road and East 75th Street, winds through the historic Warszawa neighborhood past St. Stanislaus Church, down the Morgana Run Trail and back up Broadway Avenue. Polkas will serenade runners at the start of the race and participants can feast on Polish pierogies and smokies at the finish line. Pre-registration costs $20 on the Hermes website. (Niesel) Aetna Road and East 75th Street, 216-429-1182, hermescleveland.com/roadracing.

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Time for Wine Plenty of places in town have wine tastings. But few have tastings as affordable as Prosperity Social Club’s Summer Tasting Series. Tonight’s event is part of a seasonal series of one-hour tastings held the second Monday of every month. “From Argentina to Oregon, this is a chance to learn a little something about different regions’ wines and taste a few varietals from each,” explains Prosperity’s general manager Kelli Graibus in a press release. “We’ll be pairing the wines with appetizers so that tasters can experience how they bring out particular flavors in food.” The tastings will be on the rear patio (weather permitting). Each event is just $15 per person and includes five wines, appetizer pairings, tax and gratuity. “I hope tasters learn something they didn’t know or are introduced to a new favorite wine,” says Graibus. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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Seattle’s Finest Before the baseball season began, Sports Illustrated picked the Indians and the Seattle Mariners as the two teams to beat in the American League. Neither team has lived up to expectations. Tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field, they square off against each other. Both teams started the season slowly but have picked up some traction thanks to good starting pitching. The first game in a three-game series, tonight’s battle should be a good one. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-916-6100, clevelandindians.com.

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Changes at the Cleveland Institute of Art lead Jessica Pinsky to open a textile-focused space in Collinwood By Josh Usmani When the Cleveland Institute of Art decided to close its George Gund Building and unify its campus under one roof, some downsizing was inevitable. Despite an impressive expansion and extensive renovations to its Joseph McCulough Center for the Visual Arts, there simply was not as much space. When CIA adjunct faculty Jessica Pinsky learned that that the Fiber + Material Studies department would be downsized and combined with the CIA’s Sculpture + Expanded Media department, she felt compelled to do something. Fast forward many months later and the result is Praxis Fiber Workshop, the newest nonprofit arts organization to join Collinwood’s Waterloo Arts District. Opening to the public this Saturday, Praxis will offer members and CIA students 24/7 access to 7,000 square feet of studio and gallery space, including 30 floor looms (17 donated by CIA), a full dye lab, exhibition space and individual studio spaces available for rent. “Building owners Erika and Cesare Ruggeri have remodeled our stunning 7,000-square-foot space on Waterloo Road to include a gorgeous 1,000-square-foot gallery, commercial dye lab, weaving lab, classroom space, library and five individual studios available for rental,” explains Pinsky, Praxis Fiber Workshop’s executive director. “This is a

really exciting time for myself and the fiber arts community. As a technical specialist in the fiber department, and an adjunct faculty member at CIA, I wanted to preserve the fiber tradition CIA has upheld for decades. The proposal was met with enthusiasm and I set out to find a perfect location. There are many wonderful arts neighborhoods in Cleveland, but I was struck by the contagious and emerging energy in the Waterloo Arts District in North Collinwood.” Praxis Fiber Workshop joins a growing list of nonprofit arts

amazing hard work of existing arts organizations in the neighborhood and to be creating momentum with other new businesses. Outreach is a big part of the Praxis mission as everyone has associations to textiles which naturally lead to collaboration and community.” We can’t go a single day of our lives without interacting with textiles in some way. Despite this intimate connection, most of us do not spend a lot of time thinking about where it all originates. “From the clothes we wear to the sheets and blankets we

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organizations in Waterloo, including, most recently, Brick Ceramic + Design Studio and Zygote Press’ Ink House (both of which have ties to Cleveland Institute of Art). “We are so excited to have this connection to CIA and to carry on the tradition the fiber department has upheld for decades and to create a bridge for the students to such a strong and exciting arts district in Cleveland,” she says. “To be a part of the exciting and contagious energy in Collinwood is at the heart of this for me. The opportunity to use this equipment to create larger community connections and to access a larger demographic feels like a perfect fit. We are so proud to continue the

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sleep under, fiber is a huge part of our lives, and people of any age or background, regardless of artistic experience, can access the processes involved to make these everyday items and begin to imagine their own possibilities,” she says. Soon, Praxis will be offering classes to the public on fiber dying and weaving. All materials will be included in the cost of classes. Membership alternatives include a per-class option, monthly memberships and open public studio time for independent work. For a complete list of current classes, visit praxisfiberworkshop. org. “We have a truly exciting line-up of classes and workshops

beginning in mid-June,” she says. “Saturday workshops are perfect for those who would like a smaller taste and evening classes are available in four-week sessions with courses such as intro to weaving, felting, fabric dyeing and sewing. We also have a kids camp for grades 1 through 6, running on July 20 to 24.” (The full class schedule is listed online.) During this Friday’s Walk All Over Waterloo event, Praxis will celebrate with a VIP ribbon cutting ceremony and a private party. However, the general public is invited to a grand opening celebration on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. The event features tours of the space, interactive opportunities to test out the equipment, live music and refreshments. If you’re on Waterloo this Friday, be sure to check out the many other events taking place, like the 2015 Waterloo Arts Fest National Juried Exhibition, featuring 35 works by 33 artists, at Waterloo Arts; Gallery One Sixty’s opening reception for STIV 1976: Lost Photographs of Stiv Bator & The Dead Boys ; or several new exhibitions at Loren Naji’s Satellite Gallery.

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Dudley Swetland and Anne McEvoy

There are lots of loose ends in The Young Man from Atlanta, now at Beck Center By Christine Howey There IS a reaSon ThaT stage plays do not often sound like real people. It is because real people, this writer included, are not all that interesting when we speak normally. Our actual conversations are suffused with empty space-fillers, clichés, yawning pauses, and (in my case) a gratuitous use of fucking obscenities. All of this verbal clutter is usually there to keep our daily dialogues lubricated and, more importantly, so we can avoid telling hard, honest truths. The playwright Horton Foote is a craftsman when it comes to capturing real human speech, and that is both a strength and a weakness of his Pulitzer Prizewinning play The Young Man from Atlanta, now at the Beck Center. Although generally well-acted by the Beck company, the direction by Eric Schmiedl skitters along the surface of Foote’s realistic but often banal writing. It’s a vexing challenge to turn ordinary people talk, with all its digressions, into compelling theater. And that only happens in fits and starts in this production. The whole effort doesn’t exactly get off to a rousing start, as 64-yearold Will is bragging to a young co-worker Tom (David Hetrick) about the expensive house he’s just built and crowing about how he only settles for “the best” in everything. Trouble is, there is so much linear,

fact-by-fact exposition in the first scene (including a reference to the recent death of Will’s grown son) that it makes the average Wikipedia entry seem like a befuddling poem from The New Yorker. Fortunately, something does happen in real time in that scene: Will is shit-canned and replaced by Tom, the young man he hired. The remainder of the play takes place in the Kidder’s new digs, on a handsome, period-perfect set designed by Aaron Benson, but which reveals no signs of a house just moved into. Of course,

The Young Man is never seen on stage although, according to other characters, he hovers just at the margins — weeping copiously at Bill’s funeral, contacting Will repeatedly and hanging out at the Houston YMCA. In theory, this is an interesting way to structure a play, as all the characters are continually relating to and being influenced by the two men who are invisible. And as the play progresses, curiosity builds about what kind of relationship the Young Man had with Bill — just good friends? gay lovers? blackmailer and

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home is now not so much of a refuge: Will’s wife Lily Dale has become obsessed with religion since the death of their only child. Set in 1950 in Houston, Texas, the play is wrapped around a mystery and a secret. The mystery: Why did the Kidder’s 37-year-old son Bill, a non-swimmer, drown after apparently walking into a lake in Florida? The secret: What was the role the eponymous Young Man played in that tragedy? Will wants nothing to do with that man from Atlanta, but Lily Dale is drawn to him and, we learn, even forks over tens of thousands of dollars to him.

victim? con man and mark? As Will, Dudley Swetland does a lot of the heavy lifting, laying out the exposition early on and then showing how this accomplished and confident man has been brought low by circumstances beyond his control. Swetland is good enough that you feel bad when he’s forced to say, “I’ve lost my spirit, I’m whipped.” We already got that, from Swetland’s nuanced demeanor. The uber-talented Anne McEvoy is a tad less successful as Lily Dale. McEvoy conveys the tragic desperation of this woman; but a later scene, when she reveals how

she misled her husband about an odd tryst (or almost tryst?) with another man, lands with a perfunctory thud. In the thankless role of Pete, Lily Dale’s stepfather who lives with the Kidders, Michael Regnier is a calming but rather amorphous presence. In smaller roles, Tina D. Stump plays the Kidder’s current maid with Cheshire cat grin, and Brenda Cassandra Adrine limps in as the elderly former maid who stops by to recall the clan’s balmier days. Kyle Huff and James Alexander Rankin provide quick sketches of Pete’s great-nephew and Will’s new young boss. Playwright Foote leaves many questions unanswered in this play. And that is just dandy, since the mysteries and secrets at work in this family create a riptide that threatens to sweep all the characters out to sea. But Schmiedl’s direction, while compassionate and skillful, doesn’t provide this material the motive force to make the unseen threats palpable. And that makes The Young Man from Atlanta a bit too cluttered and meandering, and not quite honest enough.

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paul Dano anD John cuSack team up to portray the Beach Boys’ tender, enigmatic Brian Wilson during two troubled eras of his life in the unconventional biopic Love & Mercy, opening Friday areawide. It’s unconventional in the sense that it’s not a linear story. We’ve got Brian Wilson, the sonic genius and innovator, breaking from the lollipop surfer-pop of the ’50s and early ’60s and orchestrating the complex backing tracks of Pet Sounds, to the disapproval of his father and touring bandmates. Then we’ve got a vacant Wilson, 20 years later, diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic by the manipulative therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), and trying to fall in love while being monitored and medicated beyond recognition. In both periods, Dano and Cusack play the afflicted Wilson with — I beg your pardon — love and mercy. Dano in particular, in what may be the Little Miss Sunshine actor’s strongest performance to date — I couldn’t stand him in Looper — convincingly charts Wilson’s descent into mental instability, from the opening blurry shot in which, seated at a piano, he mumbles through a barely coherent defense of his soughtafter sound. At the same time, Dano celebrates the magic and spontaneity of the studio. During marathon recording sessions, he prances among the instrumentalists, coaxing the never-before-heard harmonies toward the designs in his head. But it’s not only music up there in Wilson’s head; it’s voices too. And Dano packs on the pounds

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as those voices become louder, more dissonant, more debilitating, Cusack is the trapped Wilson of the ’80s, imprisoned by a “doctor” who also intends to cash in on the music still inside his charge. Wilson meets the Cadillac saleswoman, Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks), who must decide not only if she loves the emotionally battered former celeb, but whether or not she should (and can) intervene. The scenes of romance are always haunted by Giamatti’s Landy in the periphery, and this creates a constant discomfort for the characters and, be well apprised, the viewers. In one super-tense moment, Landy screams at a drooling Wilson for eating a hamburger before Ledbetter eats hers. Giamatti, ever more Hollywood’s “mean music executive for hire,” is a tad one-note as the villainous caretaker, but all three (Cusack, Banks and Giamatti) contribute meaningfully to the untenable dynamic’s portrayal. Cusack, though, isn’t the perfect evolution of Dano’s Wilson, and the back-and-forth nature of the script creates the occasional illusion that this might be two different films entirely, two similarly (but not identically) cadenced interpretations of the same remarkable man. The elder storyline’s not quite as strong as the younger, but that might be because music is no longer at its heart. And seeing Pet Sounds unfold in the studio is a blast. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” ... “That’s Not Me” ... “Sloop John B” ... “God Only Knows” … what an album. — Sam Allard

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a slice of heaven The Cleveland pros and amateurs in search of the perfect pizza By Douglas Trattner I don’t often get envIous; I’m perfectly content with what I’ve got. But then I walked into Cal Carlisle’s backyard and for one brief and shameful moment, I despised him. He had something I coveted and, worse, knew I would never have. Rising to a height of 11 feet, clad in attractive native stone, capped with a towering stainless flue, and emitting more heat than the business end of a topfuel dragster, Carlisle’s wood-burning oven is a thing of beauty. Built of his own hands over the course of three years, this tour de force of design and construction was brought into being with a single purpose: to make the best pizza in the world. Carlisle, a landscape architect, is a member of a small but passionate band of obsessed perfectionists known as pizza makers. Like beer brewers or barbecue pit masters, theirs is a quest to be the best or not do it all. Hours are spent fixating over wood, starters, doughs and temps, and if you ever find yourself in their company, god help you. “I eat pizza all over the country and I can tell you that, much to the annoyance of my wife, pizza people can talk for hours about the subject,” Carlisle says. “You can meet someone, start talking pizza and it’s like you’ve known each other for 20 years.” John Tutolo recalls the precise moment he joined the club. The year was 1998 and he found himself in Phoenix for work. He settled in for a meal at Pizzeria Bianco, the now-famous shop run by Chris Bianco, the James Beard Award-winning chef who jumpstarted the American artisanal pizza movement. “When I ate at Pizzeria Bianco I

about fell over,” recalls Tutolo. “I said, ‘This is crazy; I gotta learn how to make pizza like this.’” Tutolo returned home and immediately got to work. He bought all the right books, started messing around with starters and doughs, but he was only getting so far. His doughs, while decent, were miles away from those thin, crisp, chewy, poofy char-pocked crusts that he’d died over back in Phoenix. The barrier, he determined, was his conventional oven. “I realized I needed a wood-fired oven,” he says. Designed in Italy and built onsite

importing all those ingredients from Italy runs counter to the logic that created the rules in the first place. “My rule of thumb is if my grandparents came here to open a pizzeria, what would they do?” Tutolo asks. “They’d find the best available products as close to home as possible.” Like all pizza makers, Tutolo controls every step of the process, from fire management to dough spinning to the all-important bake. Over the course of a single night, he and his small team will send out 160 pizzas. When your oven is between 780 to 1000 degrees, each pie bakes in just 90 to 120 seconds.

“I eat pizza all over the country and I can tell you that, much to the annoyance of my wife, pizza people can talk for hours about the subject.” - Cal Carlisle

by a mason, the wood oven would be Tutolo’s classroom for the next eight years, at which point he finally felt confident enough in his pizza making abilities to open his Kirtland restaurant, Biga Wood Fire Pizzeria. “I told myself that I can’t even open until I’m at least as good as Bianco. Otherwise, there’s no point.” You might call Biga’s pizza style neoNeapolitan. Tutolo doesn’t adhere to the strict rules of the Vera Pizza Napoletana (VPN), which dictate everything from oven fuel (wood) to flour type (Caputo 00) to tomatoes (Italian plum) to cheese (mozzarella di bufala). To him,

“Within 10 seconds you should see a nice push; that thing will blow up right in front of you,” Tutolo says of the dough. “The most important part to me is spinning out the dough. If you overwork it you lose all that fermentation that has built up. I treat them like little clouds of air.” You might call Marc-Aurele Buholzer the pizza purist. The name of his Cleveland Heights shop says it all: Vero, or truth. He adheres to the rules of pizza napoletana as if they were commandments passed from on high, working within a canon of precepts passed from generation to generation.

“I feel like there’s a righteousness to it; it bases you somewhere,” he says while getting his fire going. “I’m held by these techniques and ingredients. Now, what can I do with them?” That dedication to authenticity and craft is behind the shop’s somewhat controversial “no take-out” policy. In addition to the basic concept of supply and demand — “I can’t make any more pizzas” — is the elemental notion of quality. “I come in and work 13 hours a day every single day. There is this repeated, continued commitment to excellence. And then I put my pizza in a box and you drive around with it? The customer is not receiving the product I intended to give them.” Back in Cal and wife Regina’s backyard, the first pizzas are starting to come out of the oven. One is topped with pistachio pesto, fennel sausage and pecorino, while another comes bearing guanciale, braised fennel and fennel pollen. They are picture-perfect. And then, just like that, they’re gone. For Carlisle, who built a $4,000 backyard pizza oven with poker winnings, and folks like Buholzer and Tutolo, the journey is as rewarding as the destination. Sure, the pizzas taste great, but there’s also joy in doing good work, mastering the mechanics, and being one with the process. “My hope is that at 85 years old I’m still making pies, totally zenned out, and at peace with it all,” says Buholzer.

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For every brewer working at places like Great Lakes, Market Garden and Portside, there literally are thousands more tinkering away on jury-rigged equipment in out-of-theway places. Some of them will begin to cultivate a following, either through beer competitions, festivals or handles at the local taproom. For the best of the bunch, the next logical step is to invest in a small brewery, where they can brew more beer, reach more customers, and begin to build a lasting brand. Increasingly, there’s another path, one that doesn’t require taking on investors, wrangling with local, state and federal regulators and spending fat wads of cash on equipment. It’s called “gypsy brewing,” a practice that falls under the larger umbrella of contract brewing. Those are precisely the people that Justin Carson and Paul Benner of Platform Beer will seek to serve when they open Gypsy Brewery, a largescale brewhouse dedicated to itinerant brewers. “I got this idea before we even opened Platform,” explains co-owner Carson. “Paul and I visited like eight to 10 breweries and it really stuck out to me that so many of them had been around for 10 years and haven’t outgrown their tasting room.” Often, a small brewer will seek out a local brewery with excess capacity with which to partner, working alongside the brewer to craft a batch of beer. But given the explosive growth of craft beer in Ohio and elsewhere, good luck finding a brewery with “excess capacity.” Gypsy Brewery will be committed to working with brewers in need of equipment, availability and expertise. “We approached this from our own eyes as Platform — from a brewer’s eyes,” says Carson. “If this entity was around the corner from us and belonged to somebody else, what would be advantageous for us?” The outcome of those discussions led them to a formula whereby Gypsy charges a flat rate per finished barrel of beer, absorbing all other costs associated with the process, including rent, insurance, equipment, ingredients, expertise and labor, to name but a few. The finished product is then picked up by a distributor and delivered to waiting accounts. “You have to be a licensed brewery in Ohio, but that doesn’t mean you need to have a location,” explains Benner. “What

you have is a host and tenant brewery. We’re the host.” Carson and Benner could not have found a more appropriate home for their new venture if they tried. They recently got the keys to the former Leisy Brewery, a warren of hulking brick buildings less than a mile from their Ohio City brewery. Spread across multiple floors

in multiple buildings dating back to the turn of the century, the 120,000-squarefoot space soon will begin to take shape as the only such brewing facility in the state and region. After clearing out the complex, which had been vacant for a decade save for squatters and urban explorers, the crew will move on to pouring the concrete

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“Basically, the more beer you can make at one time, the more money you can make. It takes about the same amount of time to brew a 30-barrel batch as it does to brew a 10-barrrel batch, so it makes sense to go bigger. And the extra product helps to extend your reach into the market.” Other tenants lined up include Renee DeLuca, who recently revived her father’s seminal beer New Albion, which he founded in Sonoma, California, in 1976. And, of course, there’s Platform Beer, who likely be will Gypsy’s largest tenant brewer. With new and future caned ventures like New Cleveland Palesner, Speed Merchant white IPA, and Ester Belgian Christmas Ale rolling off the lines, the added capacity is a necessity. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, says Carson. “There is nothing like this anywhere close to here,” he says. “We believe that we’ll find a lot of regional breweries that

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the momentum that we started through Platform, and are continuing to do with other breweries like Catawba Island Brewing,” says Roth, whose popular Sandusky Pale Ale is impossible to keep flowing given the lack of capacity. “We’re brewing from hand to mouth to keep our name out there.” Even when Roth’s brewpub is up and running, he says he’ll rely on Gypsy to brew large batches of his flagship beers. “We’ll be able to brew larger batches like our Sandusky Pale Ale without having to turn over our smaller brewpub system that many times,” he says.

have either run out of space or are in between facilities or they figure that this model is a better fit for them.” To some extent, he adds, this is what Platform has been about since the start. “Platform is all about helping to start good local breweries in and around the area,” Carson explains. “This is our way of taking it to the next level by bringing in new jobs to leverage a bunch of other breweries here in Cleveland.”

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back in the groove

Barenaked Ladies complete an ‘evolutionary cycle’ with Silverball By Matt Wardlaw

The lasT Two Barenaked Ladies albums, 2010’s All In Good Time and 2013’s Grinning Streak, have featured cover artwork highlighting the band members in a rather stoic pose. The cover art for their new album Silverball has a pinball-driven theme that seems ideal for vinyl. As drummer Tyler Stewart told us during a recent phone conversation, the graphics will indeed find their way to wax. “I think it’s a victory for Barenaked Ladies whenever our pictures aren’t on the cover,” he says in talking about the cover art. “It’s like, ‘Wow, it’s so much more appealing when we don’t see you guys.’ But yeah, the pinball-inspired stuff, it’s amazing how pinball insinuated itself into this record. Because really the only obsessed guy is Ed Robertson, our lead singer. “The rest of us have respect for pinball — it’s not like we hate it or anything — but he’s fully obsessed,” he continues. “He now has, I guess, probably 15 machines in his home. He’s hooked up with a group of guys, fellow aficionados who are now in a rotating [schedule] — they’re going to swap machines every couple of years or couple of months or whatever. Which is really a neat thing too.” Stewart says he likes the “analogness” of pinball machines just as he likes the old-school look, feel and

sound of vinyl. “I think there’s an appreciation now, for the slightly less slick things, more tangible with moving parts,” he says. “Because everything we get these days is so streamlined and technologically advanced. It’s nice to step back once in a while and appreciate the simplicity yet wonder of earlier machines.” Silverball is the 14th studio album release for the Ladies, and this year the band marks 27 years as a performing unit. Stewart has been

to who you were and who you are, because you still have to put your whole being into the music. You know, you play a song like ‘Blame It On Me,’ which was on Yellow Tape and also on our first album, Gordon, I get as much satisfaction out of playing that every night as I do any of our new tunes. That to me, it is a bit of a marvel, it’s like, ‘Holy crap, where did the time go?’” The band is three albums removed from the departure of singer Steven Page, who once shared lead vocals

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behind the kit for 25 of those years. “The 25 years, when I look at it, it’s like over half of my life. I’ve been in Barenaked Ladies longer than I haven’t been,” he laughs. “And that does freak me out. You as a fan, as you say, thinking back maybe to the first time that you saw us, or the first time you heard our music and it just sort of became part of your life and away we go. Then cut to us going, ‘Wow, that song is 24 years old or 25 years old and can we still even play it?’ We’re not necessarily the same guys — but that’s the beauty of art and music is that it’s this touchstone

with Robertson, and Grinning Streak was the sound of a band that was finally starting to feel comfortable in its own skin again with the revised line-up. Silverball is the album that, according to its members, completes that evolutionary cycle. Robertson has described the new release as one that would “indicate the reality that Stella had indeed got her groove back.” “Going in, it’s not necessarily the goal to prove ourselves again, because in some respects, I think every artist has to prove themselves every time they put out a record, whether they want to or not,” Stewart says. “The

media and the fans are like, ‘Have these guys still got it?’ But for us, I think this time was something that we looked forward to. I know that Ed has said to us and also he’s said it in the press that it was his most stressfree writing experience. He went away to his cottage by himself to write, thinking that he would come up with some ideas and he came out with like 15 songs that were either finished or almost finished. We were like, ‘Holy shit!’ That’s pretty prolific.” Band members now have learned to “trust each other implicitly,” making the studio experience an effortless one. “We trust each other with the material that’s being brought to the table and then we trust each other in the studio,” he says. “This time around, we kind of had to make the album in a short time frame, because [keyboardist] Kevin [Hearn] had to go and get some treatment for some tongue cancer that happened with him. He’s a cancer survivor — in ’99, he battled leukemia and successfully won and this time, he had a little bout of tongue cancer, which he had removed and treated, but it started while we were making the record. So he was contributing, even though he was about to undergo treatment. We kind of had this compressed window, and I think what we all realized was that, ‘Wow, we can do this.’ Even if

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MUSIC we’re under the gun, and also let’s do it for our man Kev. Let’s make sure that we get a great record and that he’s totally represented. You never think, ‘just in case,’ but I think that’s probably looming there like, what if anything goes wrong? But luckily, his treatment was totally successful and he’s back with us and, dare I say, more on it than ever. He really seems to be into it and contributing and happy, which is great. That’s the longest answer in the world to a simple question, but we’re in a great place. We’re in a really united and

together place.” Silverball is a typically energetic and diverse set of songs from the Canadian music veterans and Stewart loves the opportunities that are in front of him in the studio that allow him to color outside his normal drumming territory. “I love being able to sing in this group. It’s so much fun. I’ve been singing a lot more since Steven left the band and I really enjoy that,” Stewart says. “I think the band in general too has kind of been more committed to group vocals and things like that. So what a pleasure [it is to have that opportunity].” He also points to producer Gavin Brown (who also worked with the band on Grinning Streak) as an important addition, someone who as a fellow drummer brings additional elements to the table. “We’ve always

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had guys around who kind of encouraged that rhythmic element, and I think it sure helps the songs with a little bit of swagger and vibe. It’s great to work with drummers.” The band returns to Cleveland for the opening date of their annual Last Summer on Earth tour and Stewart says they’re looking forward to touring with Violent Femmes and former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay. The Femmes, as Stewart points out, have created a catalog of songs that get under your skin and become a part of your DNA, as he terms it, and “are responsible for some incredible moments that are defining moments in your musical journey and in your life.”

This is their first time touring with Hay, but as Stewart recalls, they’ve heard from promoters for years that, “You guys would like Colin Hay — Colin Hay is like you guys.” He points to Hay’s tendency to tell stories between his songs, a similar staple in the band’s shows. “His songs have a whimsy and a sense of humor in them that obviously Barenaked Ladies have shared over the years.” With that sense of humor fully intact, it seems like a surefire thing that Barenaked Ladies will present another evening of music underneath the stars at Jacobs Pavilion, the site of quite a few memorable BNL shows in the past, and one that you won’t want to miss.

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Post-punk icons Wire embrace spontaneity on their new album By Jeff Niesel In the mId-’70s, england was teeming with punk bands. The Sex Pistols, the Damned and the Clash might not have been playing to huge crowds, but they were sending ripples throughout the rock world. The guys in Wire, which formed in London in 1976, were clearly influenced by punk’s recklessness, and they continue to be a cutting-edge act. But just don’t call them punk. At the time, they were onto something else, and they still are. Their new self-titled album features guitar riffs that really bristle and the heady lyrics take on political issues. “It wasn’t that punk was irrelevant by 1977 but you didn’t want to be a punk band in 1977,” explains singerguitarist Colin Newman during a recent transatlantic phone interview. “There were too many other bands being punk bands. We had other concerns. It depends on how old you are. For someone now in their 20s and 30s, they might not see a distinction, but punk hated Wire. We played too slow and the songs were too short. We were arty and intellectual, all of the things you weren’t supposed to be. We didn’t look like punk. We were quite smart. We were somewhat fashionable. It was a different thing.” Wire’s 1977 debut, Pink Flag, was noisy. But the noise was tempered. The guitars on album opener “Reuters” were distorted but not that distorted. Most songs clocked in at one or two minutes in length and almost had an industrial feel to them. The group’s distinctive, proto-Brit-pop sound has often been imitated (the band’s music publisher even sued Elastica for stealing the opening riff from “Three

Girl Rhumba”). Band members have said they were essentially still learning to play their instruments on Pink Flag. But with 1978’s Chair is Missing and 1979’s 154, the group developed a bit more confidence and proved Pink Flag was no fluke. And like any good punk band, Wire dissolved just as it peaked. But the group reconvened in 1999 and began recording and touring again. In 2012, it revisited songs that were just sketches based on ideas from 1979 and 1980. The guys wanted to capture what the group was sounding like in 2011 and 2012, so they thought those tunes might be a good starting point. The band took about seven songs from the scrapheap and reshaped them, often only retaining a

the song to everyone in the control room. We all learned it together and thenwe played it. The argument for doing it this way is that you get that instant reaction. That’s good because there’s a history in Wire of people forgetting things. There was one song which could have been on the record and we were playing live but [bassist] Graham [Lewis] forgot the bass line. None of us read music. There’s no way to notate something.” The basic tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios near Monmouth, with overdubs added at Brighton Electric last December following the group’s Drill: Brighten Festival. It’s the second album the band has done there though it worked in a different studio in the complex this time.

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single chord. After about five days in the studio, they’d recorded 13 songs. The songs on the resulting 2013 album Change Becomes Us suggests a real rebirth. For its new, self-titled album, the band shifted its approach once again. Some of the songs on the album were ones the band had been playing live. For the rest, they went into the studio and worked them out there for the very first time. “I had this idea that the way to get the best out of everyone was for them to have heard nothing beforehand,” says Newman. “I came to the studio with a bunch of pieces. We just played

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Newman explains that an ominous tune such as “Sleep-Walking,” which features whispered vocals and pounding drums, is about “the fragile state of Britain politically.” “[England] could be out of the European Union,” he says. “It certainly isn’t coming from a conservative, unionist perspective. I know the U.K. is a body that needs reformed. I don’t think there’s any sense to it. The kind of people who want to leave are the kind of people who like to take orders. It’s what it comes down to. It’s a smallminded way to looking at the world.” “Harpooned” is one of the heaviest songs on the album, and the vocals

can barely be heard above the din of noisy guitars. It’s a song the band has played live since 2013. “It has a fascinating history,” Newman says of the song. “We have been playing it live and it came into the set in September, 2013. It’s quite old. We wanted to do it very slow and it’s very, very simple. We started playing it live and people started reacting very strongly. We have been closing the set with it now for two years. It took on a life of its own. It got to the point where it’s impossibly loud. If you haven’t got earplugs in, god help you.” With its 40th anniversary looming on the horizon, things couldn’t be better for Wire, which seems to just get better with age. “We need to do something special for the 40th anniversary,” says Newman. “We want to have an album out then but we can’t guarantee it. Another thing that happened with this one is that we set the release to coincide with a date in London. I also moved last year so finishing the production was hard. I delivered it a month sooner than I had promised. But it was too late for the vinyl. If we had had vinyl the week of release, we would have gone Top 40. This is a new concern. You could say charts are rubbish but certain things will happen because you’ve sold very well. People pay more attention to you and your value goes up. It’s a good thing for the band ultimately, not that we’re trying to make Top 40 music.” 30 p.m., monday, June 8, Beachland

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My Morning Jacket: looking good and doing good.

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My Morning Jacket explores its soulful side on first of two new albums By Jeff Niesel

Since firSt forming in 1998 in Louisville, My Morning Jacket has been involved with philanthropic endeavors. But now, with the release of its new album, The Waterfall, the band has made its activist impulses more explicit. The band named the Waterfall Project after its new album; the Waterfall Project will house the band’s ongoing cause-related work. “We wanted to have some kind of project or initiative to go along with the launch of the new record,” explains keyboardist Bo Koster, a Lakewood native, in a phone interview. “We want to raise awareness and we’re taking money from ticket sales and giving it to specific organizations. We’ve always wanted to give back, and we feel lucky to play music for a living and feel like it’s our duty as people who have the time and voice and capacity to make a difference. This project is our next step forward. We’ve been doing it for a long time. It’s a way to make it a little bit bigger.” The band recorded the album, its seventh studio effort, at Stinson Beach, California. An old black-and-white photo of Yosemite’s Vernal Falls became the record’s cover art. The album of mid-tempo rock songs commences with the proggy “Believe (Nobody Knows)” and includes the catchy single “Big Decisions,” a song with a spectacular vocal performance that comes courtesy of soulful lead singer Jim James. Even though the album is connected to a cause, Koster says the band didn’t intend to make a concept album. “I think the human brain loves to find a pattern,” he says. “You could find a lot of common themes if you go through the record and if you dig deeply

enough. [James writes about] struggling with love and relationships and the ending and beginning of those things. His lyrics are about existential crises and wondering about the meaning of things and the meaning of life and the meaning of love and what our time on earth is supposed to be. That kind of thing. It’s been a common theme in the lyrics and stuff we talk about in the band. There’s a line in the song ‘Compound Fracture’ that [speaks to activism]. It goes, ‘There’s no evil, there’s no good, only people doing as they should.’” The band cut the songs in a couple of long sessions in California, two or three weeks in Portland and then two short sessions in Louisville.

to whittle it down to the best record we could make right now. We had games where we all picked 10 songs to see where everyone’s favorites were. We started shaping the record there. Once we did that, we had the top 14 that were contenders and related to each other in some shape or form. It was arbitrary and then Jim had another song, ‘Believe (Nobody Knows),’ which really started to solidify things for everyone. It was like making a puzzle as we kept whittling away at it. That was the last piece of the puzzle: ‘Believe.’” The music features the same mix of rock, pop and psychedelic rock you find on other MMJ albums. “I wouldn’t say we were going for anything,” Koster says when asked

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“We had so many songs,” says Koster. “We recorded maybe 24 songs. We spent a lot of time on it, but we did a lot of work and had two records finished by the time we were done.” The band intends to put out half of the tracks that didn’t make the cut on the new album on the next studio album. While recording, the guys didn’t initially think about which songs would be on which album. “We wanted to make a song the best we could and not think about whether it would be on the record,” Koster says. “That can stunt you. We tried to stay in the moment and not judge it. If you’re in the studio judging your work, it’s not conducive to making good art. We had a couple of listening parties and tried

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about the band’s approach. “That’s like not being in the moment. You can’t control your artistic process. It never works. It does what it does on its own. We’re always trying and open to doing things that are fresh. We don’t want to go over old ground. That’s not exciting to us. It doesn’t make any sense. You don’t want to tell the same story over and over again and make the same sounds. That would be boring. If it’s not boring for us, hopefully it won’t be boring for the listener.” James sounds particularly soulful on “Big Decisions,” a song that Koster says was reworked and “recut.” “The first time we cut it, it was slower and more ethereal,” he says. “We decided to put more guitars in there. It

was a live vocal. Jim’s great at getting these emotional takes in the studio. God bless him. Often, we’re just learning the song or getting comfortable with the tempo and hearing it in our headphones and learning our parts and he’s given three or four really emotional vocal takes that we lose because the band isn’t ready yet. When we recut the song, we all knew it and were ready to play right out of the gate. The vocals were the first or second take.” Given the fact that the band’s catalog is so extensive, picking tunes to play for the current tour hasn’t been easy. “We’ll play a lot of the new record, which will be cool,” says Koster. “Most people like the new record and they’re excited to hear the new record. That’s nice. We’ll try to weave in the old stuff as best as we can. It’s tough with how many records we’ve made. There are a lot of different fans and hopes for what we’ll play. We try to keep it fresh. We’ve been doing no repeats. At a festival in Mexico, we did three nights with no repeats. That’s like 90 songs. With the new record, we can do even more. The main problem is that we won’t have enough time. For us to really give a good show and show the full breadth of what we can do, we need a good chunk of time. At the core of it, we’re just a bunch of guys who love music and love playing. Those guys will always be in us. We’re like our 14-year-old selves, freaking out on stage and air guitaring in our bedrooms.”

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Taylor Swift/Vance Joy: Country singer Taylor Swift fully ditched country for pop on her new album 1989. But the sharp production values and catchy hooks have ensured that she hasn’t lost a step. Last year, the disc was the top selling album of the year and the hits just keep coming. Expect to hear tunes such as “Style” and “Blank Space” alongside a hard-rock rendition of “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Tickets for the show sold out immediately after going on sale, so scalpers are your best bet if you’re hoping to get into the gig. 7:30 p.m., $39.50-$129.50. Quicken Loans Arena. (Jeff Niesel) 10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Bluewater Kings Band: 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Flaw/Seasons After/Karmuh/Sins of Apathy: 6:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $13 DOS. Agora. Half an Animal/P. Stoops/Hen Demo/ Fyodor Novotny: 8 p.m., free. Beachland Tavern. Alex Hoyt: 7 p.m., free. BLU Jazz+. Alan Madej/Flannel Response/Daniel Huszai: 8:30 p.m., $5. Grog Shop. My Morning Jacket/Floating Action: 8 p.m., $35-$45. State Theatre. Thor Platter Band/John Hansen: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Wildhoney/Spook School/This is Antartica: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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Tame Impala/Kuroma: Australian psych outfit Tame Impala raised plenty of eyebrows with their 2010 debut (Innerspeaker), but it was 2012’s Lonerism that dragged the fans out of their basement recording studios in droves. With a distinctly John Lennon-on-acid vibe, Tame Impala has proven adept at blending old and new, traditional songwriting chops and experimental studio techniques. The band’s new album will drop in mid-July. Lead single “Cause I’m a Man” is catching some nice play in the blogosphere; it’s a tune that sets the band’s sound in a late-night lounge atmosphere. It’s druggy, groovy, spacey. Frontman Kevin Parker said in interviews ahead of the single release: “I wouldn’t say making psychedelic music is my focus. That’s not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It’s about making music that moves people.” 8 p.m., $33.50 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues. (Eric Sandy)

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Cornmeal/Honeybucket: Rootsy bluegrass band Cornmeal quickly built a towering tour reputation for their high-octane, strings-fed dance throwdowns. 2006’s Feet First is a great primer — as are the two Live in Chicago sets — but the band has returned this year with Slow Street, a stash of tunes that kick ass in the studio and are sure to light up the stage. “All Things Must Change” and “Old Virginia” hit the more laid-back corners of the band’s style, while album opener “Goodnight, My Darling” has all musicians firing on all cylinders. Every show is unique with these guys, so everything from the old tunes to the new will get a fresh performance. 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. (Sandy) Night Demon/Shok Paris/Destructor/ Deadiron: Hot on the heels of the release of their latest album, Curse of the Damned, this Ventura, Californiabased metal band carries the torch of the British New Wave of Heavy Metal. The wailing vocals in songs such as “Screams in the Night” and “Full Speed Ahead” look back to the days of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. The slow-mo rocker “Satan” has more of a Black Sabbath vibe to it. The guys have played Cleveland once before and have planned to play an especially long set for tonight’s show. Fans of old-school metal should gravitate to this gig. 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Agora. (Niesel) Harry Bacharach: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Barenaked Ladies/Violent Femmes/Colin Haye: 7:30 p.m., $31-$73.50. Jacobs Pavilion. Dierks Bentley/Kip Moore/Maddie & Tae/Canaan Smith: 7 p.m., $32-$46.75. Blossom. Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway: Hard Rock Rocksino. Blair Crimmins & the Hookers (in the Supper Club): 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Hussy/Ju Ju Shrine/Midwives: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Nancy Kelly with the Dan Maier Trio: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Keys & Corridors/Entendre/Starlight Secret/The Hundred Hand Band: 6:30 p.m., $10. Musica. Bill Lestock/Anita Keys & Friends: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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Jeff Austin: Mandolin player Jeff Austin — a founding member of Yonder Mountain String Band — struck out on his own in early 2014, forming bands and getting on with some new recordings. Here, the band — Austin, Danny Barnes on banjo and guitar, Ross Martin on guitar and Eric Thorin on bass — gets dirty on some classic bluegrass compositional structures. Austin’s always had a way with vocals, and his irreverence and humor shine on the band’s first album, The Simple Truth. His press

team touts “hints of power pop, country ballads, bluegrass and rock,” and that’s spot-on. This isn’t the sort of in-the-pocket jam/bluegrass stuff that Austin had been spending his career crafting. The live show is sure to impress, but you can tell these guys were very much interested in nailing down their writing approach first and foremost. Sounds like it’s paid off. 8 p.m., $18-$22. The Kent Stage. (Sandy) Heart: For a band that has struggled to be relevant for the past two decades, classic rockers Heart sure played with plenty of confidence two years ago at Blossom. Perhaps the band’s overdue induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum had something to do with it. Ann Wilson and her guitar slinging sister Nancy Wilson started the 90-minute set with the hard-rocking “Barracuda” and then ratcheted up the energy as they delivered hits such as “What About Love” and “Magic Man.” The Wilsons and their solid four-piece band ended strong with an inspired rendition of “Crazy on You” that Ann Wilson sang just as powerfully as she did when she recorded it some 35 years ago. Expect to witness something similar tonight at Hard Rock Live. 7:30 p.m., $45-$75. Hard Rock Rocksino. (Niesel) Milo Greene/Hey Marseilles: Bon Iver meets Of Monsters and Men in the music of Milo Greene. Folky guitar and drums with heartfelt vocals create a cinematic landscape like something out of a new-age indie flick. Featuring four lead vocalists who all play various instruments, the band is up and coming in the indie scene. Their new album, Control, takes a look at more percussive, cheerful sounds reminiscent of alt-indie music. Expect the band to play new songs along with popular past songs like “What’s the Matter” and “1957.” 8:30 p.m., $15. Grog Shop. (Wintucky) Clean Bandit: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. House of Blues. Girlschool/Crucified Barbara/Old James/ Velvet Black: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Graham Parker & the Rumour/Lowell Thompson: 8 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Rachel & the Beatnik Playboys/Nathan Bell/Nate Jones: 8 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern. Lindsey Stirling/Karmin: 8 p.m., $27.50$42.50. Jacobs Pavilion. Charlie Wiener/Ruairi Hurley/Letter B: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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Dear Dan, I’m a 35-year-old divorced man. I’ve been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date #2: “Why did you get divorced?” This is where everything goes to shit. I’m honest: “We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot.” This usually catches my date off guard because I’m “not the kind of guy I’d have thought could do that.” But I can hardly get past date #2 after this, because this information is “too much to handle.” Sometimes my dates will admit to having cheated too. Not even other cheaters are interested in seeing me again. I was a good husband and father for seven years. But after four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. Crying myself to sleep every night took its toll, and I self-medicated with casual sex with attractive women. Two years and 20 women later, I got caught. I don’t hide the facts; I own my mistakes. I’ve grown and learned from my mistakes. But it’s hard for most women to see past “cheater.” In my mind, anything less than complete honesty would validate the belief that I’m still a lying cheat. But complete honesty is kicking my ass and ruining potential relationships. — Forthright About Cheating, Then Silence I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt, FACTS, and assume that mistreatment, neglect, and stress didn’t extinguish your wife’s libido. (You weren’t shitty to your wife, right? You were helping with the kids, right?) I’m also going to assume that you made a goodfaith effort to address the sexless state of your marriage before you began self-medicating with all those beautiful women. (You sought counseling and got medical checkups, right?) And I’m going to allow for the possibility that your wife may have married you under false pretenses, i.e., she wasn’t into sex or you or both, but she wanted marriage and kids and figured you would do. (I’m going to allow for that because that shit happens.) These favorable assumptions— of the kind typically extended to persons seeking advice in a format like this—don’t exonerate you of all

responsibility for cheating on your wife. But if they’re accurate, FACTS, they do put your cheating in a particular guilt-mitigating context. And that’s what you need to do when you answer that question about why your marriage ended: Put your cheating in context. Most people intuitively understand that wedding vows aren’t sexual suicide pacts and are capable of feeling sympathy for those who find themselves in sexless marriages. But instead of emphasizing the context in which you cheated— the emotional dynamics of your marriage, those long sexless years— you’re emphasizing the breakdick pace at which you cheated and the quality of the pussy you landed. “I cheated! A lot! With 20 beautiful women!” is one telling of the truth, FACTS, but it’s not the most flattering telling of the truth (for you) or the most comforting telling of the truth (for your date). Instead of saying, “I cheated with 20 women, all of them babes. I banged the living shit out of each and every one of them!” which makes you sound more boastful than remorseful, try saying something like this: “After four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. It was the wrong thing to do, but I was desperate. The cheating ended my marriage, which obviously needed to end, but it’s not something I ever want to do again.” Omit the detail about the number of women you cheated with while emphasizing your determination to avoid making the same mistake in your next committed relationship. Tell your date that you are looking for a strong sexual connection (and other things) with someone you can communicate with about sex (and other things). Because you’re not a cheater—not anymore. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Seattle author Jason Schmidt about his memoir, A List of Things That Didn’t Kill Me.

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