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Dedicated to Free Times founder Richard H. Siegel (1935-1993) and Scene founder Richard Kabat Publisher Chris Keating Associate Publisher Desiree Bourgeois Editor Vince Grzegorek

Upfront

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writer Sam Allard Web Editor Alaina Nutile Contributing Writer Will Burge Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editor Nikki Delamotte Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani Interns Hannah Wintucky, Brittany Rees, Jacob Gedetsis, Jason Meek, Maggie Sullivan Kimberly Jauregui,Tyler Singleton, Caitlin Summers, Elizabeth Manno, Dana Hetrick, Alexandra Hintz

Put-in-Bay police chief faces horrendous accusations, committee begins work on Community Police Commission, and more

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Scene presents the 2015 People Issue

Dozens of events spanning the next week in Cleveland

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Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Layout Editor/Graphic Designer Christine Hahn Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace

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WE’VE BEEN FOLLOWING A HELL of a story from the Sandusky Register lately, wherein the paper is reporting that Put-in-Bay Police Chief Robert “Ric” Lampela ignored incidents of drugging and rape within the ranks of his Lake Erie Island police force as far back as 2003. Former Scene reporter Doug Brown wrote a long story about rampant roofies at Put-in-Bay last year, but it turns out the alleged date-rapes of bar manager Chris

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Blessing in 2014 were neither isolated nor new. Lampela, two federal lawsuits say, protected a PIB police officer who roofied two female cadets and raped them (on different occasions) 12 years ago. One lawsuit says that Lampela used his power to threaten one of the victims, saying he was the “God of Put-in-Bay” and could destroy her career if he wanted to. According to the legal documents filed in the U.S. District Court of Toledo, Lampela called the victims “whores” and even went to one of their homes and held a gun to her head. His general stance, which he was reported to dickishly vocalize, was that two women didn’t have the power to take down the department of which he was allpowerful dictator. “Who do you think they will believe,” he reportedly told one of the victims when confronted about the rape, “you or the chief of Police?” The Register reports that the officer accused of the rapes left the police force many years ago. Lampela, for his part, was arrested in February on counts of aggravated menacing, falsification and dereliction of duty. He was suspended with pay in March. On Aug. 3, Put-in-Bay’s village council will vote on whether or not he should be fired. In the meantime, the gallant Register has renewed a public records request with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who has denied them documents they requested related to the investigation of Lampela and another officer.

UPFRONT “The Register contends DeWine is improperly withholding the records in violation of the spirit and intent of Ohio’s Sunshine laws, designed to protect the integrity and to encourage release of public records,” the paper’s editorial brass asserted earlier this week.

COMMUNITY POLICE COMMISSION SELECTION PANEL SETS TO WORK

Development Inc., told the crowd. The commission positions involve four-year terms. The consent decree stipulates that the 13-member Community Police Commission will also have three members from local police organizations. It will be the first commission of its kind in Cleveland, where police officers and members of the community will serve alongside one other. “They’ll have to learn to work together,” said U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach upon announcing this first committee.

CONGRATULATIONS TO US As a brief addendum this week, we’d like to point out a recent bout of award-winning successes for our little magazine’s mighty editorial staff. Your humble and hungry dining editor, Doug Trattner, took home first place for food writing among the crowded and deserving crop of submissions in the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s annual awards ceremony, held last weekend in Salt Lake City. That’s no small feat, considering the competition from

Texas, LA, New York and other foodie locales. You can read the winning entry, about how he’s lifted more than 1,000 menus from restaurants and what his collection has taught him about Cleveland’s resto scene, over at clevescene.com. Scene also took home four other awards, including second place for staff blog, second place for Oliver Barrett’s fantastic illustration of Johnny Manziel, third place for staff writer Eric Sandy’s story on a tragic assault on two transgender women in Lakewood, and third place for our annual Comedy Issue.

Per the consent decree, Mayor Frank Jackson has appointed an 11-member panel this month whose mandate is the selection of a Community Police Commission. Jackson said that, after consultation with the DOJ and City Council (plus non-required input from the public), he has assembled a team of incredibly accomplished individuals. Photo by Sam Allard

U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach and Mayor Frank Jackson announce the committee that will announce the commission.

“They’re good people,” the mayor told the eager press in early July at the federal courthouse. (Although, we would interject, the Rev. Jimmy Gates has since resigned his post over his past convictions for taking bribes while working in the city’s water department.) This week, the committee more or less gets down to brass tacks. Last night, the members discussed their work with the public during a meeting at Cuyahoga Community College. The members will have 60 days to recommend 10 appointments to the commission. Those interested in the job can apply online at clevelandcpc. org; applications are due by Aug. 6. “Let’s be real frank: If you don’t have the time to do this, don’t apply,” Timothy Tramble, executive director of Burten, Bell, Carr

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WELCOME TO SCENE’S THIRD ANNUAL PEOPLE ISSUE By Vince Grzegorek THE PEOPLE ISSUE IS BOTH one of my favorites of the entire year and also one of the hardest to put together. The goal, if this is your first go-round with us, is to showcase some 30 Clevelanders who we love from all walks of life. There is no theme or qualifications — it’s not the 30 under 30, or the 30 best, or the 30 most notable. Without some hard work, however, it very well could turn out to be the 30 people we could think of off the tops of our heads. And that wouldn’t be a good thing. The process goes like this: A couple of months before publication, the editorial team gets together and tosses out a list of suggestions for inclusion. Invariably, that list is mostly made up of folks who have dotted headlines in the past year and people who we work with or cover on a regular basis. That, friends, would not make a very interesting list. So we toss out some 90 percent of the first suggestions and the writers are sent packing with a mandate to come back with names that they and you might not know much about. They are asked to go outside their comfort zones, outside their neighborhoods and social circles. They are asked to bring

back names that better represent the full spectrum of Cleveland — geographically, professionally and demographically. That process repeats itself a few times until the list is whittled down to its final form. Which isn’t to say that the frustration ends there. Invariably, on top of the rest of the work that comes with populating a weekly paper and a daily website, the task of profiling — not to mention photographing — nearly three dozen people for a single issue becomes a stressful addition to the staff. But it’s only momentary, and lasts only until the first phone calls and interviews are made. The resulting conversations are reinvigorating, reminders of how much of this beautiful city flows beneath the radar, of the ripple effects one person can have on a whole industry or community, of the businesses and accomplishments that haven’t been recognized yet but will soon be celebrated by all. It’s been our immense pleasure, for the third straight year, to meet these people. And it’s our immense pleasure to now be able to share their stories with you. Photos by Peter Larson.

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Co-owner, Cleveland Exotic Dance The business idea came as a happy accident. Roxi DellaDonna was at a party, a little get-together with some friends, when a gal pal of hers started a conversation about stripteases and her boyfriend. She didn’t know what to do or where to start. DellaDonna did. She’d performed in Cleveland gentlemen’s clubs off and on for seven years, starting at the age of 19. And now, some years removed, she did some dance moves. “‘Didn’t you used to work in clubs?’” one of them asked, she says. “So I showed them some things and the women were smiling and laughing. It was fun.” Not too long after that, she was in a bookstore and spotted a book called The S Factor: Strip Workouts for Every Woman, written by Sheila Kelley. It contains basically what the title says: ways in which dance moves from strip clubs could be used for workouts. “I thought, ‘Wow, maybe I could do this,’” she says. “I researched where to get a pole and I found out that there were poles for homes. It’d been a couple years since I worked in a club, so I started to piece together what I did, breaking it down into how you would teach it.” She started with some of her friends, setting up the pole in her living room and giving basic classes. The trial classes gave way to bringing the pole — it’s portable, after all — to bachelorette parties. That gave way to women asking if she had a studio where she gave classes. She didn’t, but soon found a space in Midtown with two rooms. “It really just was something I was doing to help finish funding my undergraduate

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degree,” she says. “But it turned into a business and it continues to grow.” With more students came more instructors, and with more instructors came more classes: belly dancing, pole dancing, burlesque, hula hopping, even twerking. Along the way, Cleveland Exotic Dance became more than a place to work out. She’s recently focused on other aspects of instruction that the open atmosphere of the organization have created (as well as a baby she and her husband have on the way). “We do classes that are adult-oriented,” she says. “They’re pleasure-based, but also about information. Over the years, women have found a home here, somewhere they feel comfortable. So they started opening up to instructors about boyfriends and husbands and questions they had, and we’ve had people who are transitioning ask us about how to be more comfortable walking. There’s really a need here, and it was logical to take it a step further. Some classes are fun — there’s the “Blow Him Away” class — but there’s also stuff about women’s anatomy and not just stuff like what Cosmo says.” When she talks about how all this started, back when she was in her early 20s, you can understand how she makes her students and instructors feel so welcome. “I guess you’d call me an extroverted introvert now, but back then I was an introvert. Working at the clubs got me out of my shell, but it was more about stripping and being on stage,” she says. “You really have to talk to people. And as far as the body image issues go, you realize that what you’re sold on TV and in magazines isn’t really the truth. The cookie-cutter image of a stripper… those aren’t necessarily the successful ones. All women are beautiful and different, and you appreciate that and you celebrate it together.” – Vince Grzegorek

The Farm guy’s guy

Trevor ClaTTerbuCk Founder, Fresh Fork

In 2008, Trevor Clatterbuck concocted a no-fail model for connecting chefs and farmers. The enthusiastic Case Western Reserve University business student devised an Amazon-type marketplace where chefs could order fresh, seasonal ingredients from multiple farms 24 hours a day and have them delivered right to their kitchen door.

mission of supporting small family farms throughout the region. As the saying goes: “Teach a man to cook venison and he’ll never send back his weekly allotment along with an angry letter.” “The events help the farmers sell food, and they help the consumer better understand the seasonality of food.”

What could go wrong? “I learned that the most logical thing doesn’t always work; it didn’t work for the customer and it didn’t work for the farmer,” Clatterbuck explains. “That was not the norm in the industry, where chefs still pick up the phone and call their produce guy. It’s about relationships.” Undeterred, Clatterbuck shifted gears – and shifted customers. Rather than focus on wholesale restaurant accounts, he zeroed in on the retail segment: home cooks and their families. Fresh Fork became a farm-buying club, where the consumer gets a bundled package of farm-fresh ingredients at an exceptional value. For their part, farmers can plan their crops a year in advance and know that everything will be sold through Fresh Fork. Sure, Fresh Fork’s reach has ballooned to 3,500 subscribers. But, as Clatterbuck would say, “It’s not just groceries: It’s a farm-to-consumer package that includes education, community and food.” Fresh Fork’s frequent pop-up dinners, farm tours and cooking classes not only add value to those weekly grab bags; they help advance Clatterbuck’s original

The next big chapter for Clatterbuck and Fresh Fork will begin this fall when Ohio City Provisions opens up in Ohio City. The dual-purpose storefront will feature a full-service butcher shop run by chef and partner Adam Lambert and a retail market selling local produce, grains, meats and dairy. Consider the grocery an extension of Fresh Fork that is geared to those customers for whom the subscription model doesn’t fit. “I have to be careful not to cannibalize the business that has done well,” Clatterbuck stresses. “But our grocery program, where I select all the food and you pick it up in a parking lot, doesn’t fit everyone’s lifestyle, which naturally leads to a grocery storefront model. The flipside of that is that it puts me in the same ballpark as other retails in that you hold inventory, have more overhead and risk spoilage.” By having Lambert as a partner, Clatterbuck greatly reduces his exposure. Not only will the meat, grain and dairy inventory carry the business through the lean months, but Lambert’s prepared foods menu will utilize those perishable products long before they, well, perish. – Douglas Trattner

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Chris Powell

Head groundskeeper, Cleveland Browns There’s a saying amongst groundskeepers to this effect: If nobody is saying anything, everything is great. Hundreds of thousands of people tune into Browns’ games each fall and winter, and while they watch whatever quarterback has been left holding the hot potato at the time, they are also watching Chris Powell’s handiwork. But they’re not talking about it. Powell, 47, is the head groundskeeper for the Cleveland Browns and has been since 1999. That means he’s the man in charge of the turf down at the stadium as well as all the turf at the team’s practice facilities in Berea. “At both locations, I basically designed the fields myself,” he says. “At first, they didn’t let me design the field for the stadium — there was also a time crunch — up to my specs. Basically, for the NFL, you take the United States Golf Association’s specifications for golf greens and that’s what you work with. It’s pretty much sand, with a little peat. I also added 10 percent clay to the mix to help with stability at the practice facility. We didn’t do that at the stadium and there were issues from the first game. There was no stability. It’s thin-cut sod, and it was late June, and it was a very hot summer in 1999. We had some issues with rooting and had to resod and redo it for the next season.” Since then, however, you haven’t heard so much as a peep about the playing field not being up to par. And Powell says they haven’t had to do a full resod of the complete surface in seven years, though the middle of the field, prone to the most wear and tear from 300-pound bodies, does get fresh turf throughout the year. What does it all entail? Traveling with the team and making sure any surface they set foot on has the right hardness standards, checking the weather more than a meteorologist, organizing plans for any special events that’ll be hosted at the stadium and thus affect his precious sod, and dealing with fickle kickers. “Phil Dawson’s a great guy,” says Powell of the departed Browns kicker. “I don’t want to say we had a love-hate relationship, but … . He had very good success in Cleveland. We had lots of conversations through the years. He’d want to know how much sand was at the top of the soil, how that changed what cleats he might wear, he’d ask about the top dressing of the field — he was very in tune to everything we did.”

The Grass Man

Back when he got out of high school, Powell’s dad told him to get a job for the summer. So he got the best job he could find: working at a golf course. He saved up, went to the National Guard, went to Central Missouri State and got to work on athletic fields and golf courses and network. Which is how he got hooked up with the Browns’ groundskeeper back in 1992. He was in Cleveland for a year before heading to Kansas City to work with groundskeeper guru George Toma, a legend in his line of work who has been the groundskeeper or assisted with groundskeeping at every single Super Bowl since the first one in 1967. “I learned the high intellectual end of groundskeeping from some of the people I’ve worked with and the old-school stuff from George Toma,” Powell says. “I like to think I’ve come to a sort of balance.” – Vince Grzegorek

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The Teacher

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Professor, Case Western Reserve University Earlier this year, Cassi Pittman took the stage at the East Cleveland Public Library to deliver a powerful analysis of the debate over annexation: Should the city in which she grew up agree to a merger with the city of Cleveland? It’s a question that’s sparked debate for years. Now, both cities are inching toward more realistic conversations and petition-signing processes. There’s a sense on both sides of the political boundary that this could happen. But, joining many others in her outlook, Pittman isn’t sold. For one, she’s a native East Clevelander. Born and raised, before heading east to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, and returning to her post now as a professor at Case Western Reserve University, she’s rooted here. And she’s not sure that handing over the reins of the city to another political body wracked with the same troubles is the best idea. “Some of the things that are going on in East Cleveland — it’s such a case study of so many different issues,” she says, referencing the concentration of political power, the diminishing tax base, the decline of city services and more. She used her time during the keynote speech at the library to illuminate how East Cleveland’s problems are mirrored almost perfectly by issues plaguing Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. Pittman started out at East Cleveland Public Schools. In fifth grade, she transferred to nearby Hathaway Brown, where she had a front-row seat to the social inequalities that drive politics and economics in this country. “Some of my [East Cleveland] classmates, I just remember them being so brilliant,” magazine | clevescene.com | July 22 - 28, 2015

Pittman says. “We would have science fairs, and everyone would have these super creative projects. Then, when I left for HB, I felt like there was this assumption that because I came from East Cleveland I would be behind.” Whereas students at Hathaway Brown were told that they could do anything they wanted as they grew up, her former classmates in East Cleveland were hit with the hard realities of bleak graduation rates and the too-often out-of-reach goals of college and careers. Pittman, thankfully, has made of her life what she wanted. Now teaching in the sociology department at Case (teaching criminology and economic sociology), she is determined to study how best to improve the urban core of Northeast Ohio. She’s hoping to teach an actual class on Cleveland and its socioeconomic past and present in the future. For as diverse a region as it is, she says, the racial and class-based divides run deep. As we talked in the cafeteria at the Tinkham Veale Student Center, it was hard not to remember that physical and structural disrepair exist in almost every surrounding neighborhood — and while many leaders have spent time championing “regionalism” as political end. It’s one disc in the backbone of rhetoric supporting a Cleveland-East Cleveland merger. “But I can’t understand why we can’t have the benefits of regionalism without necessarily losing our municipality,” Pittman says. Smart, confident and dedicated to her community, Pittman embodies the sort of New Resident around whom East Cleveland and most cities throughout Northeast Ohio need to structure themselves, no matter the outcome of the debate. – Eric Sandy

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Don WojTila

Lead singer, Schnickelfritz Wojtila, who’s a “very young 60,” as he likes to point out, had been playing polka for decades. His dad had moved to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia and settled the family in a little pocket of Slovenians off Buckeye Road before moving to Euclid. His mother was an accomplished pianist and teacher, and music was always around. So, naturally, he picked up instruments and learned how to play Slovenian polka. He made recordings and did TV appearances and played weddings, but it was a side gig, a lovely hobby that filled the time when he wasn’t raising his family or running his bakery in Euclid. “We played variety and Slovenian and we learned all aspects of music, not just polka,” he says. “We learned pop for the weddings that we played back in the day.” He’d still be playing with his brothers and assorted musicians at weddings for the most part, catering to a fervent but older crowd, if not for the arrival of the Hofbräuhaus in Cleveland. “They scouted us and basically that’s how we ended up there,” says Wojtila. “So we just carried through what we did there. We’re a mainstay now.” Schnickelfritz is the de facto house band at the giant beer hall and garden, taking the stage during peak times: weekends, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. or so. When you enter the giant hall, for those who haven’t yet been, you walk into a packed room filled with hundreds of people standing on benches and bellowing the words to songs at the top of their lungs, clinking their steins and dancing. And Wojtila is the center of it all, singing and playing accordion, dotting the atmosphere with polka standards like “Roll Out the Barrel,” “Who Stole the Kishka” and “Too Fat Polka.” But alongside those standards come polka variations on “Hang on Sloopy,” Bon Jovi songs, even Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass.” It’s Oktoberfest and a wedding and a dance party all rolled up into one, every single night. “It rejuvenated our career because it’s not just old-people polka,” he says. “We kind of fuse polka with rock and pop. It’s a very, very unique situation. It’s very fun, something like I’ve never seen before. As soon as you walk into the place, you’re accepted, it’s a warm feeling, and everyone is just happy and smiling and dancing. So we have to think very carefully about what we play.” The six-member group holds court amidst the pretzels and sausages and shotskis (basically, shot glasses attached to a ski, filled with your choice of liquor, and downed simultaneously by whomever you happen to be sharing it with).

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German beer halls and gardens are enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and so too are the people who play traditional Eastern European music. A couple have opened in Cleveland, and another — Hansa brewery in Ohio City — is slated to join the crowd. Which means more polka than Cleveland’s enjoyed in awhile, and that’s just fine with Wojtila. It’s music for the people, and he’s happy to lead the party. “There was a woman last week who was celebrating her 95th birthday,” he says. “And I introduced her and she stood up and waved and the whole crowd applauded and wouldn’t stop. It went on and on. It was amazing. That’s what this is all about. It’s a people place.” – Vince Grzegorek

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amy lee

Violinist, Cleveland Orchestra; Member, Ensemble HD Amy Lee was only 12 when she decided that the violin should be something more than a hobby in her life. “That’s when I decided this is what I wanted to do; I totally fell in love. I wanted to become a violinist,” says Lee, now the associate concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra. So she asked her parents if they’d move from Korea to the Philadelphia area so she could be around the music conservatories there. The very next year they made the move. In short time, Lee won a competition and soloed with the Philadelphia Orchestra – at the tender age of 15. At 16, she enrolled at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. After her bachelor’s there, she got her master’s degree at the Julliard School in Manhattan. “Right when I was finishing up my grad school, and started looking around for what positions were available, this was one of them,” she said. “I came here totally not expecting to win such a great position out of school, but they were so nice and gave me a chance.” Soon after arriving to Cleveland in 2008, she met her future husband, the orchestra’s principal oboe player, Frank Rosenwein. They married in 2012. Together, they’d excel on stage and in front of packed crowds at Severance Hall and New York and across Europe, but they’d also take part in fun side projects, like the Ensemble HD, an idea born by principal flutist Josh Smith and the Happy Dog’s Sean Watterson. The idea was simple: A small group from the orchestra would perform at the westside bar. “We thought, look, let’s connect with these people who would otherwise never get to hear what we do, and let’s show them that this is something they can enjoy as much as other genres of music,” says Lee. “We went out there to the bar, put on a show, and it was so successful. People loved it. We were like rockstars playing Beethoven; it was so great.”

The classical ambassador

Lee and Rosenwein are also part of a Cleveland-based group called PAND (Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament), putting on shows to raise awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons. They are both professors too — Rosenwein at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Lee at Kent State. And Lee also performs with a group called the Omni Quartet with three other orchestra members, who also happen to be her best friends and bridesmaids. In seven years, there are many memories, but Lee’s favorite moments so far in the Cleveland Orchestra happened during European tours. “One was Rusalka, the opera by Dvorak, that we did in Salzburg. Every concert was an out-of-body experience. It was so beautiful, so amazing, and I will never forget the experience. After that, doing Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem in Vienna, that was just a very special experience. The orchestra just really came together in this beautiful hall where Brahms had performed it.” From where Brahms performed his masterpiece to where you eat hot dogs and tater tots. No big deal. – Doug Brown

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The voice

AhmAAd crump

PA Announcer, Cavs; Radio Host, 93.1 FM; Beer Money Host, SportsTime Ohio Back when Ahmaad Crump was growing up, his friends knew that even if they were out in the neighborhood and playing on a Saturday morning, Crump wouldn’t be joining them until noon. That’s because The Price is Right didn’t end until then, and Crump was a gameshow junkie. “I loved them all,” says Crump. “But my friends knew not to knock on my door until it was over.” He knew then that he wanted to have a mic in his hand for the rest of his life, and things have turned out that way in more ways than he could have imagined. Not only did he finally get a chance to host his own gameshow — Beer Money on STO — but a good portion of his year is spent, mic in hand, entertaining more than 20,000 Cavs fans at Quicken Loans Arena. “I probably would have been hustling regardless of that opportunity,” says Crump of the Cavs gig, “but never did I imagine being front of that many fans each night.” Crump was working as a records clerk at Ulmer & Berne, a big downtown law firm at the time, back in the mid-2000s. He wanted to be a lawyer after graduating from Central State University. But his dreams changed course, leading him back to the mic. He was on the Cavs’ scream team in 2003 and 2004. When Dan Gilbert bought the Cavs, he wanted to start over with a fresh crew — new dance crew, new excitement, new everything. “I saw an article on Cavs.com that said they were looking for PA announcers so I

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tried out,” says Crump. “And I bombed the audition. There were three judges, and there was a simulated game, and they gave you a script but you had to memorize it as best as possible. I wasn’t used to that.” One night in 2005 when current in-game partner Nicole Cuglewski called in sick, the Cavs called Crump to fill in, and after a few jittery moments, he nailed it. And he finally got his shot at the PA gig for the 2006-2007 season — a perch he hasn’t relinquished since. From the start, one of the employees suggested dropping a mic from the ceiling, a la boxing matches. It’s become part of Crump’s routine as he blares out, “Annnnnnd from St. Vincent St. Mary ...” Each player gets Crump’s little touch — Mo Williams, returning next season, was one of the few players with a specific request, asking Crump to introduce him as MoGotti — and there’s a certain specialness in announcing No. 23, but Crump is equal opportunity with the flare. “When LeBron announced he was coming back last summer, I think the next day I started practicing for that first game at the Q,” says Crump, who’s been married for three years and recently welcomed a daughter to the family. “But at the end of the day, as great a player as he is, it’s all about the team.” Crump, incidentally, hasn’t missed a single game, and his streak — currently at 445 straight games — is almost at another Cleveland milestone: the Tribe’s sellout streak. –Vince Grzegorek

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the gym teacher

anne hartnett Founder, Harness Cycle

“Nowadays, there’s a boutique fitness studio next to every Starbucks in Manhattan,” says Anne Hartnett. “But a few years ago it was still very new.” Spinning was certainly a foreign concept to a lot of Clevelanders. Until Hartnett took the entrepreneurial splash with her spin shop in Ohio City, she’d been a consultant for Hyland Software. She was working a long-term project in NYC and fell in love with spinning as it was taking off there and all over the East Coast. Back in Ohio, after she graduated from Bad Girl Ventures, an organization that invests in women by helping them create and optimize startup business plans, she found the space on the corner of Detroit and West 29th Street (now known as Hingetown) and knew instantly that she’d found the home for her concept. “After my husband and I had rehabbed our home in Ohio City, I knew that we could do it here,” Hartnett

says from the basement of Harness as the beat of a class in progress pumps through the ceiling. Hartnett, who’s 31, recently moved out to Rocky River with her husband and young son. They’re expecting another child later this year. But even though her house is now in the suburbs, she feels deeply a part of the community she helped create and lived in since 2010. In fact, she argues that the mission of Harness is much more than just trendy exercise. “Our mission is to build community through movement,” Hartnett says, “and even more than that, to kind of activate a culture that traditionally doesn’t exist in Cleveland, which is that people get out of work and then go move instead of the alternatives. We have so many phenomenal natural resources in the city, and with all the young people coming back, I think there needs to be places like Harness facilitating opportunities to make those things happen.”

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Case in point: a weekly bridge run culminating in the Ohio City Stages concert space in Harness’ front yard. Events like that — “sort of our poster child,” Hartnett says of the weekly run — bring people together. Hartnett is also an instructor at her studio and she concedes that her playlist isn’t exactly traditional. “I don’t do a lot of the electronic dance music,” she says, gesturing to the music above. “With me, you’ll get a lot of Mumford & Sons, classic Bruce, Coldplay. I’ll definitely do remixes, but I’m a big fan of alternative rock.” She’ll continue rocking (and attracting new business) with the attitude that working out should be fun. “At Harness it’s as much about being social and active as it is about getting exercise,” she says. – Sam Allard

mike shea

Publisher, Alternative Press Mike Shea has been the publisher of Alternative Press since he started the national music mag some 30 years ago in Cleveland, where it is still based. That time has seen more than a few shows; Shea can still remember his first. “I saw Blue Öyster Cult at Blossom Music Center,” he says. “It was the first time I smelled pot. I was 14. I might have been hauled to a concert by my mom before that, but that was the first concert I went to with my friends on my own.” From that point on, he was hooked. “Before I graduated high school, I hung out with my punk friends,” says Shea. “We were Coventry kids but we were going to Pop Shop and Cleveland Underground and the Agora.” When the Smiths announced U.S. tour dates in the late ’80s and didn’t include a Cleveland stop, Shea, the former editor of his high school newspaper, was pissed. He wrote to the record label to complain. And he decided to start a music magazine so he could publish an editorial decrying the oversight. Ultimately, though, he says he started the magazine because he was fascinated by musicians. “It’s like people who are film critics and they write books about [director Martin] Scorcese in order to understand how he comes up with his films,” he says. “In the same way, I’m fascinated by musicians. Not how they wrote the song but I’m more interested in them. So much of art is created by insecurity. Did I expect I would be a music journalist? No. It’s always changing. It never gets boring. The genres keep changing and the bands keep changing. AP is a community. It’s all family. It doesn’t matter if you work at AP or Fearless Records. It’s all part of us. It’s like going to a family reunion every time a band is in town.”

The music man

Being based in Cleveland might come off like a disadvantage in the music media world, but the truth is the exact opposite. “There have been plenty of times when we wondered if it was good to be here,” he says. “Spin and other magazines wrote from a New York-centric point of view. It’s ‘been there, seen it, done it.’ They have a snobbish attitude. We were writing from a Midwest kid’s perspective. We were down to earth and more real. The upper echelon of music journalists looks down at us. They dismiss us because we weren’t legitimately writing about Paul Westerberg every other time. We weren’t allowed in the cool cats club, but we outlasted all of it. We weren’t writing for fellow music journalists. We were writing for these kids who followed us who lived in the suburbs and wanted to listen to music they felt connected with them. We weren’t writing about the coolest thing that somebody saw in a bar in the East Village. And now, Cleveland has amazingly turned around and it’s so alive.” – Jeff Niesel

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isAbel monToyA

Manager, Bartender, Host, Moncho’s Bar and Grille Isabel Montoya’s life did not turn out the way she had planned, and for a fastidious arranger of actions and consequences like her, that’s pretty remarkable. Of course, after some detours, she ended up precisely where she wanted to be. A Colombian native, Montoya moved stateside when she was still in elementary school. The charming, outgoing newcomer had no trouble at all fitting in with her suburban classmates in Rocky River and, later, Lakewood, where she played sports and was on the cheerleading squad. After graduating from high school, Montoya opted to stay close to home and family, attending Cleveland State University, where she majored in Spanish and education. She had every intention of becoming a teacher, but instead landed in finance, where she remained for five years. But her education never stopped, with frequent study abroad dropping her in Mexico, Beijing and Spain, to name a few. It was while she was immersing herself in the foods of Spain that her father thought it would be a good idea to buy a restaurant and bar. “My brother and I had always had the idea to open a restaurant together, but not until we retired,” explains Montoya. “But my dad bought the property while I was traveling and we just rolled with it.” So a career in finance soon morphed into a multifaceted job in the family restaurant, where Montoya and her coworkers — father Ramon, mother Cristina, brother Mario — dish up Colombian comfort foods to enthusiastic diners. One year in, things are going so well that the team renovated the space to focus less on the “bar” and more on the “grill.” “We have people coming in from Columbus, Pittsburgh, even New York, just on word of mouth,” she says. They come to watch futbol, drink some hand-pressed mojitos, and snack on tostones and salsa, chimichurri-topped steak, and bandeja paisa, a platter weighed down with various cuts of meat, rice, beans, arepa, plantain and avocado.

The AccidenTAl ResTAuRATeuR

This summer, Montoya will be changing her last name to Sweeney, when she marries her fiancé right downtown on Mall C. They selected the location based upon a shared fondness for their hometown, which is also why they are postponing the honeymoon to a “more sensible” time of year, climate-wise. “We’re waiting until the sub-zero temperatures hit,” Montoya says. “There’s no way you can get me out of Cleveland in the summer.” Though the bright and affable Montoya acts as the face of Moncho’s, working as host, manager, bartender, bookkeeper and more, she’s quick to credit the entire clan. “The success of Moncho’s wouldn’t be possible without my family,” she says. “They are the people who drive the business every day.” – Douglas Trattner

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the Lyricist

matthewmaticus RAPPER

“I’m too old for this,” says Matthewmaticus while sitting on the patio at Gabe’s, a westside deli near his home. With specks of gray in his cropped beard and hair, he could be on to something. But the 34-year-old hip-hop artist has a youthful enthusiasm about him, especially when he talks about his music. Or when he talks about his various influences. The son of a steelworker, he grew up on the westside of town before moving out to the one-stoplight burg of Spencer, OH. Despite the change in scenery, he found solace in music. “My earliest memories are of driving in the car with my dad, listening to 105.7 when they played early rock and roll and R&B — all that Phil Spector and British Invasion stuff. My aunt was a college rock chick. She played the Smiths and the Pixies and Echo and the Bunnymen,” he says. “They whet my whistle for music.” When hip-hop exploded, he was on it, buying DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s Rock the House on cassette from a record store at the mall. “All those influences, which to this day I think are important to me, were formed

early,” says Matthewmaticus, who went to college at Kent State and played in a band that he says had a Tribe Called Quest dynamic. “I was into writing and poetry and put the music down and focused on that for almost a decade.” After what he calls “a bad marriage,” Matthewmaticus started going to the Tuesday night showcases at the B-Side Liquor Lounge in Cleveland Heights to hone his skills. He officially rebooted his career last year when he dropped the mixtape The Job Will Not Save You. Earlier this year, he followed up that album with The Sanctified Tape. The EP’s opening track, “A Meditation” features undulating beats courtesy of LTHEBLACKPRINCE while Matthewmaticus asks, “What am I really doing?” The track certainly lives up to its title, especially as it closes with a refrain about goals and plans. “I’m working on what I think of as a musical collage and I want to pull from different places,” he says with a mischievous grin that makes you think whatever the next project turns out to be will be decidedly against the grain. “I’m going to make a big, crazy hip-hop album in mono with a lot of reverb and a very lush sound. I’m going to take as long to do it as I need to. And I’m going to do it until it sounds exactly like I want it to sound.” – Jeff Niesel

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cleveland sgs Artists, filmmakers

There are five current core members of Cleveland SGS, the loosely knit collective that’s documented the city’s street signs and businesses, along with creating original art installations, since 2006 after a sort of spontaneous formation conjured by people who shared the same interest in commercial design, filmmaking, music and fiction. In general, the group has a “shared interest in using creativity as a form of escape from the burdens of daily life.” We will not be using their names here, not because we don’t want to tell you, but because the group opts for anonymity. Along with that anonymity comes the veil of secrecy, which is also why the picture accompanying this blurb is of a little girl and not any of the members. There’s a reason for that, a philosophy and worldview that has shaped their work. “Who we are is unimportant,” one member says. “It is our creative works that we would like people to focus on. If you think about it, Western individualism has taken a toll on art. Now, before looking at a person’s work we first think about their story: where they were raised, who they are married to, and what they tweeted while drunk on New Year’s Eve. In a way, a person’s life story has become a perverse form of art in and of itself.” Which makes the decision to include the group in the “People” issue seem like an

odd choice at first, but we’ve learned about tons of amazing Clevelanders thanks to SGS over the years, like signmakers Harry Bell and Mr. Wonderful. They’ve brought them to our attention through their early Flickr page, which documented corner store signs, through exhibitions at SPACES and other galleries, and their recent “Behind the Signs” video project (which to date has featured Don McMahan of McMahan’s Wrecking and Earl Phillips of U-Need-A-Sign Co.). “Various interweb users were asking questions about the places shown in the images; places that were right in front of them; places that they never bothered to acknowledge in the flesh,” says the member. “The initial interest in SGS compelled us to explore new avenues of creating our own work through various mediums. The film projects evolved from the countless sidewalk conversations that we’ve had with local business owners while taking photos of their signage. Over the years, we have been fortunate enough to get to know many shopkeepers and it became obvious to us that each and every business had their own unique story to tell. The culture of a city is always defined at the ‘block level.’ Over time, neighborhoods and small businesses develop a character that has value; others seek out that character and consume it until nothing is left. So long as there is such a thing as land developers, there will always be a fast-casual restaurant ready to wipe away the memories of a generation. This we believe to be a universal cycle that cannot be stopped. It is not a concern; it’s just the way it is.” –Vince Grzegorek

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The people’s arTisT

John rivera-resTo Muralist

You may not know John Rivera-Resto, but you’ve probably seen his work. The dashing, Cleveland-born Puerto Rican muralist and armchair philosopher steps into his black Mazda MX5 in the heart of Lakewood’s Gold Coast and dons his sunglasses, “J. Rivera-Resto” inscribed on the side. He is armed with leather man-purse and dresses the part of the exotic artiste: long black hair, black pants, the billowing white blouse of a pirate or Don. He is taking Scene on a tour of some of his local work, “some of” being the operative words — John Rivera-Resto has been commissioned by so many local clients with such a diverse array of success stories that any complete tour is necessarily incomplete. First, we cruise up through Lakewood to the Madison Avenue Panorama Travel Agency to see his mural therein. Rivera-Resto painted an interior wall to capture the lush blues and greens of East Asia and the Pacific. It’s a magnificent and highly detailed piece that took him four-and-a-half months to complete. He was commissioned to paint the Panorama mural when the agency’s owner, Vladan Blagojevic, saw the dancing painter working on the massive CMHA mural on West 25th Street and demanded a business card. But no time for details; we’re off to Independence and another John R-R production: the interior of the recently opened Slyman’s Tavern, the famed deli’s first franchise restaurant since it opened more than 50 years ago. Rivera-Resto designed it all. With a small army of dedicated assistants, he painted the central Three Stooges mural that greets patrons as they enter. He selected the wood for the tables, the stone for the bar, the stained glass above the doorways, the Cleveland skyline

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above the crown molding. It is as comprehensive a project as Rivera-Resto has ever worked on, and he walks among the tables and the luncheoners like a king among his people. Onward to Clark and West 25th, to pay homage to what might be Rivera-Resto’s masterpiece: “It’s Up to Us,” the mural that he painted in the scorching summer sun and bitter autumn chill of 2012 and 2013. It is an immense achievement, located along a prime corridor where development is expected to boom in the coming years. Among the quirkiest trivia tidbits related to the mural’s creation: Orlando Bloom’s face was used as the model for the police officer. Rivera-Resto doesn’t often dip into sentimentality. He is as much a businessman as he is an artist, and he’s not gooey about his work. He says, in fact, that the act of painting is his least favorite part. He’s a thinker, a conceptualizer, a dreamer. He’s got copies of The Jungle Book and The Once and Future King in the library of his cluttered studio on West Boulevard, alongside calculus textbooks and beer. He is an eccentric artist of all trades — a sculptor, a painter, an actor. He says he often performs for clients to win their affection and their offers. He can do a Texas accent and several Spanish varietals. But Rivera-Resto has no business phone number. He is not a member of the so-called “arts” scene. He does not advertise, nor does he schmooze. So how does he keep getting commissions? Word of mouth, he says, and a portfolio website which doubles as a wormhole of his life and work. “But most of all,” he says. “The secret of being employed is working cheap and working fast.” – Sam Allard

Dan brown

The DirT guy

Co-founder, Rust Belt Riders Dan Brown and his future business partner Michael Robinson were trying to run a garden on East 40th and St. Clair. They had one big problem: The soil was no good. They had to truck the stuff in to make do.

just $2,000, on June 1 of last year when their presentation at SOUP Cleveland, a sort of informal business incubator, was selected as the winner and recipient of that month’s kitty.

“We realized we were more farmers of soil than farmers of food and basically got really into composting,” he says. And that’s when they realized they could perhaps make a little bit of money while doing some good for the community.

“The idea was to basically make composting easy, make it free at the gardens, and assign a value to the waste that comes out of restaurants.” They’d charge restaurants and homes a flat fee to pick up compostable waste — solely on bikes, at first (thus, the name “Rust Belt Riders”) — and then deliver it to nearby community gardens for free.

“We were working at restaurants at the time and saw how much food was going out the back door, and realized we could capture some of that and just bring it to our garden to mix into our compost bins and pump out healthy soil,” he says. “Extrapolating from our own situation, there are like 200 community gardens in Cleveland, all on really shitty, highly compacted soil, and all of them would benefit from having access to free compost.” And that’s how Rust Belt Riders would start, funded with

Brown, a 2007 St. Ignatius grad, met Robinson, an Illinois native, during college in Chicago. Brown studied ethics at Depaul; Robinson studied history and philosophy at Loyola. “We’re not business gurus by any stretch of the imagination,” says Brown. But with a year of trial and error under their belt, they’re beginning to understand how to make

a sustainable business. They’ve since moved away from residential pickups (“We needed a tremendous amount of density to make that pricing model work”) and now charge by the pound. They’ve also started using cars more — ever since the restaurant compost hauls grew to more than the 250 pounds that the bikes could handle. The 400 pounds of waste they pick up twice per week from Beet juicebar, for example, just isn’t feasible to move via bike, he explained. Things have gone well enough that Brown recently made the “terrifying” move to leave his internship and restaurant gig to give this a go full time. “When we started we had like three or four clients and had no idea what we were doing; we just threw out random prices,” he says. They started just bringing compost to their near-eastside garden. Now they work with 20 businesses and bring compost to 15 gardens around Cleveland, hauling an estimated 80,000 pounds in the first year. – Doug Brown

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LeA KAyALI

College Student, Activist Many people experience racism. Few actually do something about it. Recent Shaker Heights High School grad Lea Kayali is one of the exceptions. Winner of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Stop the Hate: Youth Speak Out essay contest, she’s an activist who knows more about international relations than your typical teen working a summer mall job at American Eagle. “People have been on the victim side,” Kayali says, explaining why she was prompted to speak out against racism one afternoon at the Maltz Museum. “It knocks them down and it’s hard to get back up when you feel like the world is against you. I chose to do something about it because I felt encouraged and supported by my community. Shaker Heights is very diverse and welcoming. I could reflect on that in my essay. I had adults I trusted. I’m in a group on race relations. I could talk with people who cared about ending racism.” A Palestinian-American who’s often mistaken for Hawaiian because of her name, Kayali regularly has to explain her ethnic background. She attempts to simplify the geography and cultural issues for those who want to lump all Arabs together by explaining that being Arab is like being European and being Palestinian is like being French. “That’s important for me to tell people,” she says. “It’s difficult for people to grasp the idea. Being Palestinian is unique. People see the whole Middle East as one. I can understand that. It’s more difficult to be Palestinian than Egyptian or Lebanese because of all the things you hear in the news. It’s all terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It’s a big misperception to think that all Arabs are violent or even that all Arabs are Muslim.” Kayali has posted about her “desire to counteract the hatred that accompanies the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” branding herself with the hashtag, #IStandWithPeace. “I had a blog called I Stand with Peace,” she says. “It’s what I saw last summer over the war in Gaza. It was more about how the world was reacting to it. I shared it and I was surprised at how much response I got. It inspired me to do more with it after this experience with Stop the Hate.” She also spoke about the conflict in classes at Shaker and led the school’s 300-member human relations group. “I tried to answer some questions in a few classes because I was studying it for a 20-page paper I wrote for the International Baccalaureate Program,” she says. “I wrote about the wall between Palestine and Israel. I’ve become an expert on this one small aspect. What I took away from talking in class was that I realized people were confused about the basics, which is totally understandable. I had to go back to the drawing board. I can’t just jump into every human rights violation. I need to start from scratch. I learned a lot.” Now Kayali says she’s working on a new “empathy network” website. “If people have trouble understanding something, they can go to the site and read personal testimonies. I think true, personal stories have a more profound effect than if you just Google something.” This fall, she’ll start college at Pomona College in California using the $40,000 scholarship she won in the Stop the Hate contest.

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The VOICe OF ReASON

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The casual curaTors

erika Durham anThony koch Co-founders, Canopy Collective

Founded this spring in Ohio City’s Lorain Avenue antiques district, Canopy Collective is an antique and regional art consignment boutique, gallery, artist studios, classroom, screening room and more. As co-founders Erika Durham and Anthony Koch explain, the space is really whatever you wish it to be. “I think what makes us different is most easily understood by being in the space,” explains Durham. “There are many great shops in Cleveland where you can buy handmade art, crafts, vintage items and antiques, but what sets us apart is our ability to morph the space into just about anything. We are so excited to continue to meet new artists and creative minds and grow this fantastic community of people. One of the nicest compliments we receive is that our space feels very comfortable and ‘like home,’ which is what we were aiming for all along.” Canopy, which populated the old Buck Buck gallery space, hosts an eclectic variety of classes including painting, tango, movement exploration, yoga, digital photography, threedimensional design and children’s art classes. So it’s sort of a shop and sort of a gallery and sort of a studio for just about anything the duo are into. It also hosts the PenPal Social Club every other week in collaboration with online publication The Red Heart Press. “We are both from Cleveland, and our families are here,”

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says Durham. “We also have been part of the growing arts scene in a variety of ways and were so excited to see how much support the people who live here are willing to give to artists and artisans. It seemed like the right time to jump into a big creative project.” They have nine studio artists that run the gamut from writers to muralists to photographers to wood workers. That end result stemmed from a vision for the Collective that the two had in the initial planning phases. “We started working with eight other people last year with an idea to start a non-profit focused on music and art, with community events and classes,” recalls Durham. “After looking at a few spaces for that specific project, we started to realize that it was going to be incredibly difficult to meld the worlds of ‘practice space’ and ‘fine arts space’ because of noise and scheduling issues. Once we came to the conclusion that it wasn’t a feasible project, we branched off with two friends (Adam Jaenke and Lisa Paulovcin) from the group and changed gears to a for-profit business focused on the art aspect. The idea morphed over time and came to be what it is now.” Moving forward, Durham and Koch have a full schedule planned through May 2016. In the coming months, Canopy will host a number of special events featuring many emerging local artists. – Josh Usmani

Sara elaqad

Volunteer, Minds Matter; Law Clerk, Margaret Wong and Associates Sara Elaqad was just 7 years old when she fled home with her parents during the Bosnian War, landing first as a refugee in Arizona and then spending the next decade moving from city to city before making her way to Cleveland in her early 20s to attend law school at Case Western Reserve University. It was here on the shores of Lake Erie that she developed an interest in immigration law, a specialty she’s now pursuing professionally at Margaret Wong and Associates. It’s also where she was introduced to Minds Matter Cleveland, the local branch of the national non-profit that assists area high school students from low income families achieve academic success and land at schools like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. “Education has always been near and dear to me,” Elaqad says, “Education — and family — are really the only things you have when you’re stripped of all your worldly possessions like many immigrants are.” That value system, paired with the belief that everyone — regardless of social circumstance — should have the opportunity to reach academic excellence, is what first led her to seek out a volunteer position with Minds Matter and eventually propelled her into a leadership role as senior vice president of programs. “Everyone has basic human dignity, and we all have this potential that we’re born with. It shouldn’t matter that you’re born across a city border,” she says. Lack of access “can have a terrible impact on [a student’s] life and can prevent them from getting the education they have the potential to get. That’s something I can definitely identify with.” Now, two years after joining the organization, the 28-year-old oversees all local Minds Matter programming, which includes the mentor program, summer program, student affairs, alumni relations and college admissions, to name a few. Pair that with a law clerk position at Margaret Wong — where she also assists people with high-stakes, high-reward cases — and the rest of her obligations, and it starts to feel like a marathon. Did we mention she’s training for one of those too?

The helping hand

“I’m super organized,” she says with a laugh. She’s visibly passionate about the work she does for both organizations. Her one-on-one work with Minds Matter students is one of the most rewarding aspects of her volunteer position, she says. “Really getting to know the kids, and getting to the grit of it: That’s how you can make a difference on an individual level.” Continuing to build these relationships with students, as well as those between volunteers and the community, is one of Elaqad’s long-term goals for Minds Matter and for herself. “I’m planning to stay in Cleveland and continue building up the things that I’m involved in.” If her track record is any indication, she undoubtedly will. – Alaina Nutile

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Erika laurEn

Co-host, Alan Cox Show Now a mainstay on Cleveland radio — from 3 to 7 p.m. on 100.7 FM WMMS’ Alan Cox Show — Erika Lauren has taken a circuitous route to land in her buzzworthy role. Springboarding from her stint on The Real World, she’s been developing a career in radio and music. And with the North Shore as her backdrop, her creativity seems to expand with each passing year. Lauren was led to Cleveland more than six years ago, moving here for love with little in the way of job prospects. She reached out to a few radio stations, soliciting interviews about her time on MTV’s The Real World. A former producer at WMMS ended up offering her a part-time job with the Alan Cox Show, running admin work and screening calls. Six months in, they left her mic on and encouraged her to contribute to the show. “It was kismet,” she says. “I had studied radio in college and interned at a radio station. I always thought I would be on the promotions side or working behind the scenes, but I grew up listening to talk radio.” Often, she says, she’d pick up tardy slips in high school after gluing her ears to DreX in the Morning out in the parking lot. “I’ve always been drawn to that, but I never thought that I could or should or would do it,” Lauren says. “I always tell people I just fell ass-backwards into it.” Well into her tenure on the show, she’s long been a natural fit alongside Cox’s biting wit and co-host Bill Squire’s everyman sarcasm and wordplay. It’s been an adventurous ride where each day brings something different — like a recent lost bet that had her drinking Malort on-air (think “gasoline and wood shavings,” Lauren says, flavor-wise) while Cox tried and failed to eat an entire stick of butter.

ThE sidEkick

In short, her work in radio affords her a nice blend of fun and those endless horizons of learning. “I still have so far to go, but I feel like I’m at the point where things are starting to make sense and I’m starting to get the hang of it,” she says. “As a co-host, you’re there to support. You’re there to follow the vision of the host of the show. It’s just following Alan’s lead and chiming in when the timing is right. Timing is everything in radio.” Elsewhere in Cleveland, and per her own vision, Lauren fronts Hawkeye, a local “rocktronica” outfit that blends an EDM base with high-energy dance structures. The band came together amid hazy conversations about how best to fuse these exciting strains of rock music. The crowds have been growing at their shows over the past few years, and it’s those crowds — the audiences at her concerts, the audiences tuning in each afternoon — that sustain her talents. “What I’ve learned is that the people make the city, and Cleveland has the best people,” Lauren says. “The way I explain it is: If you walk down the street in Chicago and you ask for directions, nine times out of 10 that person will either a) pretend like they don’t speak English or b) have their earbuds in. In Cleveland, not only will they stop and give you directions — if they don’t know the directions, they’ll call a friend, they’ll look it up on their phone. There’s a camaraderie here. Everyone is out to support one another.” – Eric Sandy

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JeFF Johnson

Cleveland City Councilman “We expect our politicians to be thoughtful, levelheaded, calm under pressure, all that,” says Jeff Johnson, seated in his ward office in Glenville, twirling a Huntington Bank pen as he talks. “But we also expect them to have feelings.” Johnson is speaking on the subject of his Cleveland City Council reputation: as a challenger, a hothead, a guy who doesn’t stop fighting even after he’s lost. “Mrs. Jones in my ward,” he says, referencing his favorite theoretical constituent who often appears in his council-meeting remarks, “she doesn’t have access to the bully pulpit of City Hall. So if she’s angry, it’s my job to express that anger.” Johnson seems like he’s been angry all year. Ever since former council president Martin Sweeney conspired to remap Cleveland’s wards in 2013 in an effort to unseat Mike Polensek (impossible) or Johnson, the eastside politician has seemed to have a chip on his shoulder, and some would say he can’t be blamed. Johnson prevailed over Eugene Miller, the profanity-prone Sweeney sycophant (and recent City Hall hire), and now governs the long, thin Ward 10, which spans St. Clair-Superior, Glenville, Collinwood, Euclid Park, and Nottingham Village. In what was something of an unprecedented alliance, Johnson teamed up with Councilmen Kevin Conwell and Polensek to form a Northeast Bloc. Together, they’ve been singing the song of inequitable resource allocation. They feel that the city’s northeast section is being neglected in favor of downtown and destination neighborhoods. Johnson was also frustrated by council’s lack of preparation for the Department of Justice consent decree with the city. “We put ourselves in the hole by not preparing for it,” says Johnson, who urged his colleagues to set aside a pool of funds during budget discussions. He sees the challenges of implementation as a three-headed beast: 1) The ability to fund everything, obviously. 2) Expecting current leadership — the leadership that oversaw the systemic failures in the police department — to see change through. “It’s problematic and it’s short-sighted,” he says. And 3) The power of the union, which will no doubt nibble away at the goals and spirit of the consent decree and blunt its impact. For now, though, Johnson is excited to be planning the 37th annual Glenville Community Festival and the upcoming development projects in his ward: the St. Clair Corridor and a new grocery store at the East Side Market location on St. Clair and East 105. But the big question with Jeff Johnson is whether or not he’ll run for mayor in 2017. The press has speculated that he’d be a frontrunner ever since Frank Jackson was elected for his third (and presumably final) term in 2013. Some of Johnson’s colleagues have even suggested out of the corners of their mouths that Johnson’s inflammatory rhetoric in council is a conscious tactic to publicize his platform.

The FeisTy PoliTician

“I’m considering it,” Johnson says, of a mayoral campaign. “If I announce, it would be after the presidential election in 2016, but I won’t be coy. I’m definitely looking at it: figuring out costs, figuring out strategies.” One of which will likely be differentiating himself from the measured, and some might say boilerplate, leadership of Frank Jackson. Johnson says he has agreed with Jackson on a number of issues — he thought he handled the consent decree negotiations well, if less so in the media — but maintains that the mayor needs to speak up for the city and its frustrated residents. “He was too quiet on Tamir Rice,” Johnson says. “I’ve got a different style.” – Sam Allard

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THE PARloR TRIo

BEN HAEHN, DAVID SPASIC, NATHAN MURRAY Proprietors, Superelectric Pinball

When Scene arrives at the corner of Detroit and West 65th, the former Yellowcake storefront that soon will be the home of the Superelectric Pinball Parlor, Ben Haehn and David Spasic are planing some lumber. It’s going to be used for the shuffleboard table-turned-bar.

got pinball machines in their bedrooms, in friends’ basements, at the Blazing Saddles bike shop. They continue to accumulate games to rehab from as far away as Texas. Often they purchase from individual sellers, older folks who’ve had a machine in their basement since the ’70s and are happy to see it in passionate hands.

Along with partner Nathan Murray, Haehn and Spasic are the visionary wizards behind the hotly anticipated vintage arcade concept, an outgrowth of their studio and pad at 78th Street Studios. The artist trio intends to have their parlor opened and fully functioning by the end of August.

And even though arcade bars like 16-Bit and board game bars like Sidequest and Tabletop have become popular, the Superelectric guys don’t see themselves as occupying the same niche.

The three buddies, all of them in their 30s, met in college at Bowling Green and have been working collaboratively at 78th Street for almost eight years. Pinball’s a more recent development for them. It arose out of their work on film sets. They’ve all had gigs off and on in art and prop departments — Ben once had to make five identical sandwiches for a Kyrie Irving commercial — and one film script required a working pinball machine. “My parents had an old one in their basement,” Haehn says, “and I worked on it for almost a month. I just fell in love with the process.” “Pretty soon, we were playing nonstop,” adds Spasic, “mostly just to hang out. We started buying machines to work on them, thinking that we’d resell them and buy new ones.” “We laughed when we got up to 20 games,” says Haehn. “Now we’ve got 65.” As they prep their new parlor location, which will serve food and beer as well, they’ve

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“We are pretty much strictly pinball,” says Haehn, “and that’s a lot more challenging for operators because of the time and effort of the maintenance. We’re also very community-involved, which means our days and our evenings are very full.” Haehn mentions that they often host field trips for youngsters to teach them the science behind pinball and to let them experiment with designing art for a machine of their own creation. “Part of it also is that we all still identify as artists,” says Spasic. “That’s a huge part of how we approach this, and everything we do.” Haehn agrees, and as he walks Scene through the space, he articulates a vision that’s much more than a bar with a marketable gimmick. “I want people to feel the way they did when they were 16 at the local pizza parlor playing with their friends,” Haehn says. “Some people, yeah, they want a beer in their hand. But for a lot of people, that’s not the kick. We’re creating an environment.” – Sam Allard

REACHSOCIAL Could the next major social networking app be born right here in Cleveland?

merica’s next big social networking application might not come from San Francisco or New York City. Rather, it might be made right here in Cleveland by a team of local IOS developers and marketing experts who believe they’ve created the ultimate tool to connect and reward social media users and local businesses alike. The concept behind Reach Social App is simple: Incentivize users to promote businesses by giving them rewards in real time. In turn, users are more likely to share their experiences with their friends and family members online and become repeat customers. “We haven’t even launched yet and we already have more than 30 local businesses who’ve signed up to be premium members,” Founder Steven Macecevic said. When the

app hits the ground next month, users will be able to walk into any number of local business – such as Southside, Press Wine Bar, and the Velvet Dog, to name a few – and receive an exclusive offer just for interacting with the establishment through Reach. “Millions of people daily are sharing their experiences at their favorite restaurants and bars,” Macecevic said. “They are tagging a location, promoting a business, and sharing photos. Why shouldn’t they be rewarded?” He raises a valid point: An establishment beneﬁts extensively from a customer’s social post, but what does the customer get in return besides a few gratifying “likes?” How about a free appetizer, for starters? Or free bottle service? How does a discounted tab sound? These are just some of the offers

users will receive in real time by interacting through Reach. The businesses, too, rake in beneﬁts as potential customers are more likely to become actual customers if a friend or family member has visited and shared their experiences. “[A social post] is more powerful than listening to a radio ad or TV ad,” Macecevic said, because the trust factor is in play. While restaurants and bars are the starting point, Macecevic said he’s also in talks with retail outlets, amusement parks, and stadiums throughout greater Cleveland and beyond. “This thing is going to go gangbusters,” he said. We’re already working with businesses in Columbus, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, and San Francisco, he said. Within 18 months Macecevic expects the app to be accessible across the U.S.

Like other major social networking players, Reach users will be able to create a personal proﬁle, follow their friends, and interact with other users, as well as view all public photos and videos. Out-of-towners or folks unfamiliar with a particular establishment will have the ability to view other users’ experiences before frequenting a location themselves. Pair that kind of access with real-time rewards, and it’s not hard to see how this application could potentially reach a far larger demographic than Instagram or SnapChat. While a deﬁnitive launch date has not yet been announced for Reach Social App, it can already be downloaded from the App Store. Businesses interested in getting involved can send inquiries directly to Macecevic at steven@myreach.io.

Link to download: http://itunes.com/apps/reachsocialapp

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Cori imbrigioTTa anne ruTTer Proprietors, Haven Style House

Three years ago, Cleveland native Cori Imbrigiotta pushed a rack of clothes onto a small patch of sidewalk at the annual Chagrin Falls Sidewalk Sale and set up shop. Flash forward to 2015 and the 27-year-old is still there, only she’s moved indoors, purchased a sign, and launched one of the region’s most successful women’s lifestyle brands and retail outlets with her business partner and co-owner Anne Rutter. Since opening in March 2013, Haven Style House has become an epicenter for fashion and style throughout Northeast Ohio. A community experience more than a store, women flock in for the chic, classic inventory, but return time and time again for the style advice and warm, social atmosphere. “A woman’s style and body is a very personal thing,” Imbrigiotta says. “We wanted to develop a space where women can feel comfortable and can interact with other women, with no pressure to buy.” In other words: a haven. Such a unique concept might flounder in other major metropolitan areas with high rent or a thirst for international couture, but Cleveland’s love for local has given Haven the foundation and customer base it needs to thrive. “There’s such loyalty here that doesn’t exist in other cities,” Rutter says. “It’s so infectious and so rare and so invaluable to a shop like ours.” Word of mouth has been the duo’s biggest asset, and it’s not hard to see why. Spend 10 minutes in the store and just try to refrain from texting a gal pal about the Orange Street gem that feels more like a friend’s carefully curated closet than a retail outlet. Imbrigiotta and Rutter are the shop’s lone employees, which means the women are both the CEOs and the ones who sweep the floor at night. “We don’t have investors. We don’t have employees. We do every single thing ourselves,” Rutter says. That includes putting on small events, like sip & shops or even bridal showers. “The majority of the time these parties are thrown by people we know or customers who’ve become friends,” Imbrigiotta says. “They’re proud of us and want to show us off to their friends. There’s a real sense of comradery that’s not always typical between merchant and customer.” While Rutter takes the lead on the majority of the marketing initiatives and Imbrigiotta handles the business side of things, both women come together to hand-select each item they debut in store from online and independent retailers. “We gravitate toward the same pieces, but put them together differently,” Rutter says. Both women describe their styles as classic and structured, Imbrigiotta being the edgier of the two. “The magic is in the mix,” Rutter says. “When we come together, the result is always better two ways than one.” – Alaina Nutile

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The sTylish duo

Yusuf Ali Comedian

Cleveland is many things, but it is most definitely a comedy town. The crowds know that, judging by the attendance at the daily comedy nights that dot the calendar every week; and, of course, the comedians — locally and nationally recognized alike — know that too. Yusuf Ali has risen with the tides since 2009, growing his artistic vision as the city has grown its comic scene in the same span. Come October 13, the lifelong Clevelander will have been in the game for six years. As for origin stories, he performed for the first time during the Tuesday comedy contests at the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls. “The growth from 2009 to now is crazy. There’s somewhere to go literally every night, Sunday through Thursday, if you want to,” he says. He was working in a porno warehouse at the time. “It was an interesting job,” he says. “We had everything. Everything that anybody is seeking, it came from there. All those stores on the side of the freeway — it came from there.” But the job was boring, so Ali took to scrawling jokes on scratch paper in his spare time. His cousin was doing standup around town, piquing Ali’s interest. So he called around, asking places like the Improv and Hilarities for their open-mic nights. Of course, those spots don’t just bring in anybody, so Ali had to turn to lesser-known, more dubious circles to get into the game. So he picked up an issue of Scene. (Aw, you’re making us blush.) That led him to the Funny Stop gig and they gave him five minutes — no cussing — and Ali killed it. No one believed it was his first time. “My heart was beating through my chest,” he says. “Once I took the mic off the stand, it was like something went over me. It was like I was in a bath. I was so comfortable.” Winning that first contest meant he was allowed back the next week. Then, the lighting guy tipped him off on a Friday night show. Soon, Ali fell in with the crowd at the now-defunct Bela Dubby, which gave him his Monday night outpost. Lakewood Village Tavern filled in Wednesdays. (Check out his Facebook page weekly for his current schedule.) Onstage, he grounds himself in topical jokes, working to not repeat himself in his opening sets while staying away from, like, well-trodden Browns humor. He reads the news, gleaning historical perspectives, current events and “weird animal facts.” He’s got a new one about a spider that has two dicks, if that’s any indication of what you might hear.

The YucksTer

In his car, Ali rotates five CDs, all curated for his professional development: Patrice O’Neal, Martin Lawrence, two Richard Pryors and Hannibal Buress. He falls asleep to that stuff too. Like air, the comedic stylings of Ali’s heroes surround him at all times. When he was growing up, Ali’s father was encouraging him to feast on Eddie Murphy Raw while other kids were forbidden from that sort of stuff. “I knew that word-for-word when I was, like, 11,” Ali says. Ali says Cleveland is one of the best possible places to cut your teeth as a comedian. We’ve got tough crowds, smart crowds, engaged crowds. When people here like your stuff, they really like your stuff. Ali knows this; he rejoices in their splendor and, when his material doesn’t stick, he returns to the mic to hone his craft some more. – Eric Sandy

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pedro sarsama

Assistant Brewmaster, Buckeye Brewing If things had been different, we all could have been enjoying a refreshing pint of Earlybird Pale Ale by now. Last year at this time, home brewer Pedro Sarsama was gearing up to open the adorably named nano brewery Earlybird, to be located near the border of the Ohio City and Stockyards neighborhoods. But babies, apparently, don’t want us to have any fun. “I have a 2-year-old daughter and another kid on the way,” Sarsama tells me when I check in on his progress. “I’m trying to be fairly risk-averse, which is different from the answer I would have given you two years ago.” Whereas Chancy Sarsama was all gung-ho on starting his own brewery, Cautious Sarsama decided to work for the man, who in this case happens to be a brewery a few thousand times larger than Earlybird. “I decided to scrap my plans of having my own brewery and taproom and took the position of assistant brewmaster at Buckeye Brewing,” Sarsama says. “It was a combination of having to be a fiscally responsible parent and also having to be an astute small business owner. The beer market is crowded, and shelf and tap handle space is at a premium.” Before you start feeling sorry for the guy, consider this: His boss lets him brew his very own beer on their equipment. Not only that, they are going to let him sell it in their own taproom, Tapstack, which is located at the production facility in Cleveland. “Everyone at Buckeye has been so supportive,” he says. Look at Sarsama as kind of like the gypsy brewer who wouldn’t leave. After he punches out for the day, he brews on a small one-barrel system normally used for pilot brews and yeast propagation. Whereas Buckeye Sarsama beers stay pretty true to the style guidelines, Earlybird Sarsama beers get a little bit funky, with saisons, session wits, and low-alcohol pale ales among his repertoire. “You can take more risks when you’re doing 30 gallons as opposed to 500 or 600 gallons,” he says. As in the case of the gypsy brewer, who relies on the kindness — and really expensive equipment — of strangers, Sarsama enjoys many of the rewards and few of the risks associated with launching his own operation. But the arrangement isn’t without its shortcomings. “It’s great because I have the benefit of being in a large-scale brewery without having to have made the sort of capital investment that there’s no way I would have been able to afford,” he says. “The downside is that I’m not reaping the benefits of that investment either.” Instead, Sarsama will punch the clock, draw a salary, and look forward to the day when his babies are a little older, he’s set aside a little nest egg, and much of his competition has gone belly up. “Right now, some of the big players are crowding out some of the smaller players,” he says. “But at the same time we’re seeing as a response to that growth a return to the very small-batch brewery. I think the shakeout will pass over the nano movement, where the neighborhood crowd is coming to support a neighborhood brewery like Earlybird.” When that time comes, we’ll be the first in line. – Sam Allard

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The musicians

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Liz Kelly, Karah Vance, Debbie Randazzo, Ty Craerner The Davenport Collective is a loosely organized community of artists, musicians and poets from Cleveland who all call the studio space in a Lakewood office building their home. That’s where local indie rockers the Village Bicycle got their start. Back at the beginning, bandleader Liz Kelly was one of only a handful of women to be part of the collective. “I had been part of the Davenport for a long time,” says Kelly from the kitchen of the Old Brooklyn home where the band has assembled for an early evening rehearsal. “I played in the Dreadful Yawns and several other groups. For the most part, I was one of maybe three women. There were so many guys.” She says the group didn’t start out as an all-female group but evolved into it by circumstance. As a result, it makes the band sound “grittier,” as keyboardist Karah Vance puts it. A song like “Turtle Dove” is a good example of the band’s distinctive sound. It starts with hushed vocals and R2D2-like synthesizer bleeps and blips. Eventually, the tempo escalates and the layered vocals become more animated as the guitars become louder. The Breeders make for a good reference point. “We also like the Raincoats and Elastica and Britpop,” says Kelly. “Nineties femaleinspired bands are our go-to sources for inspiration.”

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Since forming in 2010, the band has shared bills with acts such as Bleached, the Black Belles, Gardens and Villa, Cloud Nothings, Death of Samantha, Rubblebucket, La Luz, the Suzan and Herzog. To date, the band has released only one single and one album, but as anyone who’s caught their live shows will testify, the small catalog doesn’t matter. Recently, band members realized they have “hard-hitting, fast, punk-y songs” but not much in terms of slower material, so the group is trying to work on its dynamics. It’s just completed a music video for the single “She’s a Hero,” a song about Kelly’s experience recovering from a car accident in which she broke more than a handful of bones. The folks at the local studio Bad Racket handled production duties for the music video. “It’s been tumultuous,” says Kelly when asked about the band’s tenure so far. “We were stalled for a while. Two of the band members decided to move on so we had to scrap an entire album and move on. We still play some of the songs live.” But despite being part of the city’s male-dominated indie rock scene, the women say the band has been well received. “We want to be noticed for our talent and not our looks,” says Vance. “The name of the band has a real irony to it. The name of the band addresses what it’s like to be a woman playing music.” – Jeff Niesel

BRIAN GLAZEN

Founder, Think Media Studios At the Mayfield home of Think Media Studios, Brian Glazen’s employees are quick to crystallize their founder’s reputation: “Around here, he’s known as the guy who can pull off the impossible,” says marketing & sales VP Mary Hipp. “If something can’t be done, Brian can do it.” Sitting across from a world map with pushpins identifying site locations for T.M.S. projects, Glazen admits that the impossible is what has always excited him. It’s what keeps him coming to work every morning. “I like to fix things,” Glazen says. “If you tell me something can’t be done, that’s exactly what I’m gonna go do. And that’s really the core of what a producer is.” Working at a media studio, producing often means liaising with powerful people, working nimbly on one’s toes among competing entities. Sometimes it means telling Shaquille O’Neal that he’s going to have to dump a 5-gallon bucket of water over his head one more time. “Shaq looked at us and said, ‘You get one pour,’” Glazen says as he chuckles, recalling shooting the first Cavs intro video that Think Media produced back in ’09. It was the scene where Shaq emerges from Lake Erie to join his XL teammates. “We did the one pour and it didn’t work. He started choking on the water … he said we could have one more pour.” Glazen, born and raised in Cleveland, fled the Lake Erie shores in his early 20s to seek fame and fortune in Hollywood, which he promptly found. Due to tenacious networking, Glazen managed to work with industry luminaries on projects for HBO, Showtime, Fox … no biggie. But Cleveland’s siren call was too seductive, and when it came time to start a family, Glazen knew where he belonged. “I always knew I would come back,” he says. “This place is home.” Though he worked for a spell at his father Alan’s company, Glazen Creative, Brian soon wanted total creative control and set out to form Think Media Studios. “The market for what we do has been more open-armed than I expected,” Glazen says. What they do is incredibly high-quality productions: Every time you see the Cavs’ intro videos, or sleek corporate promos for CSU, Playhouse Square, Progressive or Smuckers, chances are it’s a T.M.S production. The corporate projects have been the company’s bread and butter, and that makes sense, because Glazen’s personality is hardwired for meaningful, client-first relationships. But Glazen says he’s “aggressively expanding.” The next horizon is original content. Last year, their second-ever feature film Fishing Without Nets took home Best Director honors at Sundance. They’ve received offers for two features in the next year, and they’re pursuing documentary content as well.

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“I see a lot more of that, but no less than the other,” Glazen says, championing his staff’s commitment to quality production from concept to the studio to the editing bays regardless of the project. As for Cleveland, he knows what it’ll take to keep the positive filmmaking momentum going. “We need to continue being an incredible place to shoot, with good, reliable crews; accessible, state-of-the-art gear; and people who are eager to have productions here. We’ve got most of those covered already.” – Sam Allard

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The TheSPIAN

dArIuS STubbS

Performer, Cleveland Public Theatre There aren’t many actors who can play both a wife and the gruff, cigar-chomping team owner in Damn Yankees. But that’s what Darius Stubbs did in his second show in high school. Of course, it helped that Darius himself was on the cusp of a gender change at the time. Now, as a performing artist with the Cleveland Public Theatre, Stubbs is experiencing life in his true gender and playing the male roles he feels he was always destined to play. Born female as Erica Loriel Stubbs, Darius had a fairly uneventful early childhood, convinced that either his body or mind would adapt and lead him to some measure of gender peace. But that didn’t happen and, after puberty hit, Darius began being tormented by much confusion. That’s when he made his first of several suicide attempts, as he had a hard time fitting in anywhere, including with the lesbian community in college.

After his doctor abruptly stopped treating trans patients and ceased giving him testosterone, Darius spiraled down into some serious mental anguish. Fortunately, he’s always had theater to fall back on. He first took roles that could be gender-neutral, such as the stage manager in Our Town, before he got back on the male hormones that have helped give him the equilibrium he always sought. To date, Darius has performed on several stages in the area including Great Lakes Theater, CPT, Huntington Playhouse, Near West Theatre and the Beck Center. And he recently led a stirring conclusion to the Station Hope street celebration on the near westside, performing a piece he wrote with the assistance of CPT executive artistic director Raymond Bobgan. Off stage, Darius feels strongly about coming out publicly as a transman. “I think those of us who can live relatively easily as transgender individuals owe it to

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others to be visible and active in the community. This is how we can break down barriers and make it easier for those trans people who are still afraid to live as they would want.” Describing himself as a transgender advocate, Darius now enjoys a close relationship with his father Eric (after whom he was initially named). But like many trans people, he finds some familial relationships remain fraught. Darius and his mother have a distant connection, maintained only through greeting cards at birthdays and holidays. “Being an open transgender person is shaping my life in new ways,” says Darius. “Our existence renders the gender binary null and void, and allows people to talk about the real dynamics of gender in a new way. Hopefully that can lead to more freedom for everyone, wherever they are on the gender continuum.” – Christine Howey

rachel SchlaTher

The rec engine

Writer, CLEFashionista.com

Rachel Schlather first launched her fashion and lifestyle blog, CLEFashionista, on a whim. “I worked in digital marketing, and coming out of college I knew nothing about it,” says the 26-year-old Strongsville native. “So I started a website where I could play around and learn more about my day job. It just took off from there. People other than my mom were reading it.” Two years later, Schlather (pronounced schlought-er) now works at Rosenberg Advertising in Lakewood by day, and by night crafts blog posts that tackle everything from local fashion trends and sales, to how to pack a bag for a beach day at Marblehead and where to dine and shop along the way.

While her audience consists primarily of Northeast Ohio women ages 20 through 40, Schlather’s site has an even broader reach, grabbing the attention of tourists planning trips to Cleveland, and even some national brands, such as Shopbop and True Religion, who’ve asked her to test and review their products. As her blog has evolved, Schlather says she’s had to become more selective about the companies she works with, but that by a landslide her favorites are always Cleveland based. “If the company is local, I’m an automatic customer,” she says. The Wandering Wardrobe, Banyan Tree, and CLE Clothing Co. are just a few of her favorite local shopping haunts.

“It’s a two-part mix: Cleveland and fashion,” she says about her blog. “I write about things to do in Cleveland, places to eat and drink and hangout, as well as fashion for the every-day Clevelander.

“It’s an exciting time to be part of Cleveland,” she said. “There are so many great events and I’ve gotten to meet so many cool Clevelanders.” Just this February, for example, she modeled in the Hunger Network of Cleveland’s annual All About the Bag Fashion Benefit that helped raise over $70,000 to feed local families. “It all circles back to Cleveland, which is awesome,” she says.

She describes her own style as classic and budget-friendly, two characteristics that have made their way into many of Schlather’s posts. “I want it to be accessible, not just runway styles,” she says. “I want to offer people options at reasonable price points and give someone who maybe doesn’t consider themselves to be ‘fashionable’ some tricks to try,” she says.

When she’s not being invited to attend events or cataloging fashion trends she’s craving on her blog, the local fashionista says she enjoys drinking pinot noir, watching crime shows, and spending time with her husband. She also knows how to appreciate a fine pair of sweatpants. “I wear them every night,” she says. – Alaina Nutile

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The Doyenne

DoroThy Silver Actress

“I’ve been letting myself grow old for years,” Dorothy Silver says. “I’m very confident in my age. Also, it helps me be competitive in getting many stage and film roles, since so many older actresses try to take years off their age.” Silver, the grande dame of Cleveland theater at 86, is nothing if not confident. From her movie roles in The Shawshank Redemption and Promised Land to her local stage appearances over many decades, Silver has defined the essence of talent and grace. Of course, Silver was often paired in many people’s minds with her husband of 65 years, Reuben, who passed away last year. They were “ReubenandDorothy” long before other celebrities began using playful uni-names for their bonded status. As Dorothy says, “We grew together over all those years. He was so supportive of my work, as I was his. I’m very grateful for the time we had together.” They were both pillars at the Karamu House and at Cleveland State University, directing and acting in countless productions there and elsewhere. “My first love is theater,” says Silver, “because that’s where you actually act. If you act on film, you’re in trouble. Everything has to be done in miniature.” Her favorite 48 magazine | clevescene.com | July 22 - 28, 2015

stage role is Claire Zachanassian in The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt, a part she created at CSU in 1991 (it was helmed by another Cleveland theater icon, director Joe Garry). And she also enjoyed playing opera diva Maria Callas in Master Class at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood. Even though Reuben isn’t here in the flesh, he’s still with her. “I feel strongly that he’s around me. He’s often leaving the room or calling me. And I have discussions with him. Of course I know how he thinks, after all those years, so the discussions are really quite productive.” Even now, Dorothy is continuing to work on stage and in film. She will be playing Goody Nurse in The Crucible during the Cleveland Play House’s 100th anniversary season, in October of this year. And she is slated to star in The Revisionist at Dobama Theatre next April. As Dorothy notes, “I’m glad I’m still here, and so glad this is such an extraordinary city. It’s essentially a blue-collar town where top-flight arts institutions such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Karamu House and the Cleveland Play House have endured and thrived for 100 years, or close to it. I think that’s remarkable!” – Christine Howey

michelle maTTox Pastry Chef, EDWINS

These days, she adheres to the strict technique of classic French cuisine, but the path leading up to today hasn’t always been straight and narrow for Michelle Mattox. The same might be said for EDWINS, the upscale Shaker Square restaurant that doubles as a reentry program for formerly incarcerated adults and those who have been touched by the justice system, where Mattox currently serves as head pastry chef. When Mattox first learned of the program, which launched with the mission to provide job skills and immersive resources to those looking to make a change, it immediately resonated with her. She knew right where she needed to be. After two decades of working fast-paced line cook positions around Cleveland, she enrolled in EDWINS and found herself gradually falling for the process-intensive craft of pastry making. Mattox emerged as a rising star in the classroom and in the kitchen and was hired on just before her graduation in July 2014. “I do have plenty of patience,” she says, punctuating it with a grin. “But I also make the best soufflé. It’s all about timing.” Timing is everything to a patissier, just as it has always been an important part of the EDWINS mission to offer time for readjustment, time for growth and time for learning. And like the dozens who have passed through its doors and gone on to work in the bistro itself or other acclaimed restaurants throughout the city, Mattox’s road was not without its obstacles. “I had a lot of struggles of my own in my life, but also a lot of understanding and forgiveness,” she recounts. “To be able to come here and see I wasn’t a failure and have people look at me like a leader, that’s a big step for me. I keep getting better every day.” Education does win, as the EDWINS moniker intentionally suggests, in Mattox’s world. These days, one of her most important duties is to teach classes for incoming students.

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“There’s just this look on their faces when they finally get that perfect crème brulee or that perfect pyramid,” Mattox says of finding her footing in mentorship. “I encourage them every time; I tell them ‘I knew you could do it.’” Mattox says that one day she might like to turn her skills toward her own entrepreneurial endeavor, just like her boss Brandon Chrostowski did when he founded EDWINS. But for now, she reflects fondly on the staggering difference one year can make. “All I wanted to do was be successful and follow my goals,” she says. “I came a long way from where I was and I think I’m doing all right.” – Nikki Delamotte

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07/22

OUTDOORS

All About the Gateway A program featuring free guided walking tours of five distinct neighborhoods in downtown Cleveland, Take a Hike explores the Gateway District, Warehouse District, Civic Center, Playhouse Square neighborhood and Canal Basin Park in the Flats. Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying historic figures from Cleveland’s past. Today’s Gateway District Tour takes place at 6 p.m. Meet at the Arcade. (Jeff Niesel) 401 Euclid Ave., clevelandgatewaydistrict.com.

COMEDY

Scene’s Alefest brings out the city’s beer lovers. See: Saturday.

MUSIC

COMEDY

Feel the Beat One of the best ways to get in touch with your emotions is to get down with some live music. HeartBEAT Afrika uses anything and everything to create its music. From drums to its members own bodies, the band creates an organic sound and atmosphere with its set. The street percussionists bond with their audience and allow the audience to get in touch with themselves with their stripped down sound. HeartBEAT Afrika plays at Howe Meadow tonight as part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s summer concert series. The show is free and kids are welcome. The music starts at 6:30, but come an hour early for family friendly activities. (Brittany Rees) 4040 Riverview Rd., Peninsula, conservancyforcvnp.org/events/musicin-the-meadow.

A Rambling Man There’s a warm feeling that comes from seeing a big star and saying, “I remember him when … .” The angryyet-optimistic Jimmy Shubert swears he’s on the brink. Tonight could be the last time to see the standup comic before he hits the big time — or so he hopes. Shubert compares his comedy to the pragmatic ramblings of Louis Black, and after stints on King of Queens and Entourage, he’s seasoned enough to make his way in Hollywood. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities and has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $18 to 23. (Rees) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

FOOD

Food Trucks Aplenty Walnut Wednesday, the unofficial holiday for Clevelanders who work or play downtown during lunchtime, is back, thanks to the people at Downtown Cleveland Alliance. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., some 30 food trucks will gather at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons (East 12th and Walnut) to serve up delicious eats. Live entertainment, usually of the musical variety, is also expected. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. (Alaina Nutile) East 12th and Walnut St., facebook.com/ DowntownClevelandAlliance.

prop comedy for her routine. Instead, she and Arnold bring to light reallife situations you never knew could make your sides hurt from laughing. Their routine starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $20. Performances will run through Saturday. (Rees) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

FILM

Working Class Hero A kindly, unemployed Italian man must make a living for himself the only way he knows how, by finding as many temporary odd jobs as he can. That character at the center of Intrepido is someone to whom we can all relate. The comedy stars Antonio Albanese as Antonio Pane, who in spite of his loneliness, family issues and economic difficulties, has an incredibly optimistic outlook on life. Though his life, from the outside looking in, seems like it should drag him down, he picks himself up and selflessly devotes time to his son, a struggling musician. The film is meant to be a portrait of modern life’s ups and downs as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged man with an astounding amount of self respect. The movie screened at several large film festivals, including the 70th Venice International Film Festival and the 2013 Toronto International Film

Festival, and was directed by Gianni Amelio, who’s best known for his films Lamerica and The Stolen Children. It screens at 7 p.m. tonight and Friday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9. (Elizabeth Manno) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

THUR 07/23 OUTDOORS

Civic Pride Need another excuse to hit the city sidewalks? Today’s Take a Hike program explores downtown’s Civic Center. (Other free weekly tours explore the Gateway District, Warehouse District, Playhouse Square neighborhood and Canal Basin Park in the Flats.) Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying historic figures from Cleveland’s past. In 2014, the Take a Hike program received a Dominion Community Impact Award. Meet at 6 p.m. at the Old Stone Church. (Niesel) 91 Public Square, clevelandgatewaydistrict.com. COMEDY

Comedic Duo If you’ve never seen Cleveland native Kym Whitley live, she has some words for you. Tonight at the Improv, Whitley and her stage partner David Arnold perform their gender-based routine “He Said, She Said.” Known for her stint on ABC’s Young and Hungry as well as the docudrama Raising Whitley, Whitley offers a brand of humor that’s subtle yet relatable. She doesn’t need streams of expletives or

Comedy Throwdown Come watch two men fight in public tonight at the Hard Rock’s Comedy Zone. BT and Mike Merryfield are duking it out with words on their “Black and Blue” comedy tour. The guys aren’t known for much yet. BT landed a role in HBO’s Suckers, but that’s about it. The guys promise to make you laugh while they fight, so it may be worth the gamble. They perform at 7 p.m. and have shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $25. (Rees) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. FOOD

Fresh Food North Union Farmers Market returns to U.S. Bank Plaza from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for its regular Thursdaymorning stop. Sponsors tell us the market is an “urban desert oasis of fresh and sustainable local farm foods directly from the farm owner.” There will also be live entertainment. The weekly market continues through Sept. 17. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-751-7656, northunionfarmersmarket.org. ART

Human Remains In conjunction with its Summer 2015 exhibition, How to Remain Human, MOCA Cleveland continues its ongoing presentation series, THE ART + DOGS OF OUR TIME, at the Happy Dog at Euclid Tavern. Each month of the summer, MOCA invites one of the current exhibition’s artists to discuss his or her work, inspiration, subject matter, creative process and more. This month, painter and former Clevelander Harris Johnson will discuss his new work as well as his recent MFA studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. After the 6 p.m. talk, visitors are invited to walk down Euclid Avenue to explore the MOCA exhibit until the museum closes at 9 p.m. Next month, performance artist Jimmy Kuehnle will discuss his experiments with

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of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Hetrick) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

inflatables; you can see his giant, pink sculptural installation through MOCA’s glass exterior. (Now just imagine him wearing somthing like that and walking around downtown.) The lecture is free. (Josh Usmani) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, mocacleveland.org.

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Everything Irish If there’s anything the Irish get right, it’s food, beer and a good party. Today, the Irish Cultural Festival kicks off at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds. Brimming over with Guinness, cabbage and folk dance displays, the fest is sure to have every visitor seeing green. With tons of classic Irish booze, the festival makes for a great adult night out. However, kids are also welcome. If they’re under 10, they get in for free. General admission is $12. The event will run through Sunday with different performances and displays each day. Parking is free. (Rees) 164 Eastland Rd., Berea, clevelandirish.org. FILM

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A Fantasy Adventure A 1984 release, The Neverending Story is a classic children’s tale of fantasy and adventure. The film’s protagonist, Bastian, is faced with constant torment from bullies and often finds solace in stories at a local bookshop. During one visit, the elderly shopkeeper introduces Bastian to a mysterious, yet magical, book, which he then steals to read on his own. Upon opening the book, Bastian is tossed into the fantastical land of Fantasia, where he is forced battle to save its inhabitants. It screens tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Dana Hetrick) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. FILM

Fond Farewell The Last Waltz is a 1976 documentary by critically acclaimed director Martin Scorsese about the final performance of American rock group (and Bob Dylan’s backing band) the Band. The visually stunning film includes performances by Dylan, along with Neil Young, Eric Clapton and many others as they bid farewell to the Band at a gala concert. The film shows tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Institute

ART

Found Photography The Cleveland Print Room invites you to an opening reception for its latest exhibition, Destruction of Form, today from 5 to 9 p.m. The exhibition showcases work by accomplished Cleveland-based painter John W. Carlson and CPR founder and director Shari Wilkins. Both artists repurpose found photography. Carlson deconstructs the imagery in his trademark style with accompanying paintings, altering both the imagery’s forms and the original photographer’s intentions. Wilkins also alters imagery, but does so directly on the photographs’ surfaces. DJ Sputnik will provide music for Friday’s reception. Both artists will discuss their work during a gallery talk tomorrow at 1 p.m. Destruction of Form runs through Friday, August 28. Tonight’s event is free. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com. THEATER

Hair Today A famous rock musical that’s still popular to this day, Hair is the latest production to be staged at the new Near West Theatre in the Gordon Square Arts District. The plot centers on the “Tribe,” a group of hippies protesting the Vietnam War. The production includes Galt MacDermot’s vintage rock score and features lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. It will be staged in the round. The play opens tonight at 7:30 and runs through August 9. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 6702 Detroit Ave, 216-961-6391, nearwesttheatre.org.

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Beer Here Ale Fest has grown into a league of its own over the years. It’s Scene’s hallmark summertime event, anchoring that crazy July heat with a badass selection of microbrews from Northeast Ohio and across the U.S. The whole thing goes down in Tremont’s Lincoln Park, where breweries set up shop and pour all your favorite IPAs, porters, hefeweizens and ciders, and plenty of beverages that will be new to you. You’ll even have the first opportunity to sample Southern Tier’s tasty Pumking. Over the past few years we’ve noticed that impromptu volleyball games become

gravitational centers as the day goes on, so bring your best spike. Add some complimentary food and music, and you’re looking at an ideal way to spend a Cleveland afternoon. Yes, we’re biased, but this is a can’t-miss frenzy of foamy fun. Locals Jabtune, Cities + Coasts and Lauren Lanzaretta are set to perform. DJ Terry Urban, a former Clevelander, will spin from 5 to 7 p.m. The event runs from 1 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 on the website, or $40 at the gate. (Eric Sandy) 1200 Starkweather Ave., 877-280-1646, scenealefestival.com. festival

Come Together What better way to celebrate family than with some soul music? Luke Easter Park hosts Family Unity today, a free music celebration of family and culture. R&B, jazz, reggae and soul singers from across the state come to perform and join in rejoicing. Performers include Stephanie Mills and the SOS Band. Vendors will be selling food, drinks and local goods. There will also be health screenings and voter registration opportunities. The event kicks off at 1 p.m. and will go until 9:30 p.m. when you can expect an outstanding fireworks display. It’s free. (Rees) 3090 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., 216-229-0290, thefamilyunityinthepark.com. art

An Emphasis on Dialogue The Lockwood Thompson Dialogues series brings nationally and internationally renowned individuals to Cleveland to initiate thoughtful and thought-provoking conversations with particular relevance to our community. This year, the Cleveland Public Library is partnering with the Cleveland Museum of Art to present two legendary African-American painters, Barkley Hendricks and Kehinde Whiley. At 2 p.m. today, Hendricks will discuss his work and its socio-political themes. On Saturday, August 29, Whiley — arguably one of the most successful painters in today’s art market — will discuss his work at 2 p.m. Both lectures are free, but registration is strongly recommended. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. art

Fabulous Food Last week, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) debuted its latest juried group exhibition, Sustenance: From Palate to Palette. The show features artwork inspired by and/or created using food as a

medium. In conjunction with its exhibition, the AAWR is hosting a special discussion with Yael Raviv, director of Umami: Food and Art Festival. Umami is a nonprofit, biennial event in New York City founded in 2008. The festival showcases cross-disciplinary ideas that foster a dialogue about the role of art and food in our society. Dr. Raviv will discuss past projects and explore the role food can play in artwork that’s grounded in everyday life and materials. Art, Food and Umami is free, thanks to a grant from the George Gund Foundation. (Usmani) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org. sports

Sock It to the Sox At the All-Star break, the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox occupied last place in the division. Now is as good a time as any for the Tribe to put some distance between them and their division rivals. They take on the White Sox tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field as a four-game series commences. The Tribe has had solid pitching but the offense has been MIA. Tickets to the game start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. music

Tumultuous Times The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky led a tumultuous life before he died suddenly at the age of 53. Those emotions come out in his Fourth Symphony. Tonight at Blossom, Stéphane Denève conducts the Cleveland Orchestra as it plays the piece. The program also includes selections by Stravinsky and Schumann. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and tickets start at $24. (Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Bikers Gone Wild Back in the ’60s, singers/actors/ pop icons Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello made a series of successful beach party movies. Beach Blanket Bingo, the fifth flick in the series, centers on a biker gang that kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane (Linda Evans). Mayhem — including skydiving surfers! — ensues. The film has spawned musicals and comic books. A U.K. band even took its name from the movie. It screens this morning at 10 at the Capitol Theatre.

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GET OUT Tickets are $6. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. NIGHTLIFE

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

Watson, and Judi Dench — just to name a few. The film depicts the making of the 1957 film, The Prince and the Showgirl, which starred Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier; that flick was based on the novels of Colin Clark. My Week focuses on the week that Monroe (played by Michelle Williams) was in London after her husband Arthur Miller (played by Dougray Scott) left the country. Colin Clark (played by Eddie Redmayne)

1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9. (Manno) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Local Laughs Shop local. Eat local. Laugh local. That’s what Cleveland-native Nelsin Davis hopes you’ll do tonight when he performs at the Improv. Davis has been making his rounds throughout the state for the past few years, leaving a trail of side-split Ohioans in his wake. The situational comic focuses on storytelling in his routine, so expect more of a clever audiobook than a standup routine. Davis stands up at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12. (Rees) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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She’s a Beauty My Week with Marilyn (2011) features a star-studded cast that includes Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Emma

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

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Opera in the Outdoors Today at 6 at the Italian Cultural Garden, Opera Circle will perform “well-known songs from famous Italian operas.” The event is billed as a family friendly concert and you can bring a picnic dinner along if you like; wood-fired pizza and free wine tastings will also be available. Some chairs will be provided but, to ensure a seat, bring your own. The performance is presented as part of the Italian Cultural Garden Foundation’s “Viva! La Cultura Italiana” cultural series. Admission is free. (Niesel) 990 East Blvd., 216-916-7780, operacircle.org/italiangardenconcert.

illustrating the inter-dependent relationship between plants, animals and humans. Whatever you decide to explore, you’ll be able to get up close and personal with all your favorite exhibitions since Mondays are usually one of the least crowded days of the week. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This free Monday promotion is not available on holidays and unfortunately excludes access to the RainForest. (Nutile) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

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the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which offers free admission for all residents of Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Township on Mondays. You can explore the zoo’s massive collection, which includes more than 3,000 animals and 600 distinct species, including the largest primate collection in the country. Or check out the zoo’s impressive botanical garden, which has been praised for expertly

Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $6 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas. Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3D movies. (Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com. MUSIC

Music Mondays Every second, third, and fourth Monday of the month, Great Lakes Brewing Company in Ohio City kicks off its week with a little live music to accompany the craft brews and delicious pub eats (we recommend the housemade pizzas, which are half off during their 4 to 7 p.m. happy hour). Guests can grab a beer and meander down to the Beer Cellar on the basement floor to enjoy the laid-back tunes of local musicians. Tonight, it’s local singer Kristine Jackson, who adeptly alternates between blues and pop. She plays from 6 to 8 p.m., and

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A Royal Battle In the first half of the baseball season, the Kansas City Royals proved that last year’s trip to the World Series was no fluke. These guys are for real. By the All-Star break, they had one of the best records in the league. The Tribe played them pretty evenly in that first half but they’ll need to do better than that to make up some ground in the division. They get that chance tonight at 7:10 as they wind up for a threegame series against the Royals at Progressive Field. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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Trivia Tuesdays How do you spend your Tuesday nights? If you’re not at Nano Brew in Ohio City, you’re definitely missing out. This friendly neighborhood brewpub hosts weekly trivia nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Grab some friends and head on down for a little brainstimulating trivia, freshly brewed craft beer and some seriously stellar bar grub. Better yet, bike on over. The folks at Nano Brew love bikes almost as much as they love beer, and they’re happy to share that love by giving you half off your first drink when they see your bike helmet. (Nutile) 1859 West 25th St., 216-862-6631, nanobrewcleveland.com. MUSIC

Trivia Pursuits Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographicevolutionofScotchwhisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds — it’s a crapshoot — and general knowledge questions that seem considerably trickier than some of the other live trivia locales in town. Obviously, have a hot dog and a craft brew while you’re at it. And arrive early. The tables fill up quickly. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

The Vinyl Answer While sales of CDs continue to decline, vinyl has seen a resurgence. In fact, the recent Jack White album became the fastest-selling vinyl album since Nielsen Soundscan began compiling vinyl sales figures in 1991. Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” In keeping with that spirit and recognizing the burgeoning popularity of vinyl, the club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases. The place has partnered with Loop in Tremont so that patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. We love the concept. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night. Work your way through the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese), Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice) or many of the regular menu items made vegan. Monday night is also Craft Beer Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers! (Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

Stop and Shop The Nine Twelve Shop Stop offers downtowners a “new opportunity to buy local from area vendors.” Mobile retailers and food trucks will gather today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the corner of East Ninth Street and St. Clair for this pop-up shop. Participants include fashion trucks the Wandering Wardrobe and the Round About as well as food trucks such as Boca Loca Burrito Factory, Nosh Box and Sweet! Mobile Cupcakery. Find the full lineup on the website. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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ART A CELEBRATION HARVEY PEKAR MIGHT RELUCTANTLY NOT HATE The Coventry Outdoor Courtyard to be christened Harvey Pekar Park By Josh Usmani IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE IT HAS been five years since we lost legendary comics writer and Cleveland icon Harvey Pekar. He may be gone, but he’s certainly not forgotten — especially in his hometown. To celebrate the life and work of Pekar, the Coventry Outdoor Courtyard (at the northwest corner of Coventry Road and Euclid Heights Boulevard) will soon be renamed Harvey Pekar Park. “For a few years now, I’ve been asked to endorse the installation of a big, permanent ‘Harvey Pekar’ billboard on a wall in my neighborhood, one with an image of ‘American Splendor #1’ which was ‘where it all started,’” says Joyce Brabner, Pekar’s widow. “I’ve always said no. This year, I saw an opportunity and said I would cooperate if a nearby corner was returned to its earlier, youth/arts-friendly state by removing the big blocky ‘people bumper’ planters that were installed to discourage assembly, and by welcoming back young people, street musicians, storytellers, chess players,

etc., to a communal meeting space and encouraging artists, storytellers and comics makers.” The “park” is the corner plaza outside the Grog Shop. Brabner hopes that Pekar’s legacy will help preserve the space for a long time as a resource dedicated to the local creative community. “The corner is where (young) Harvey used to try out material on the crowd, as a sort of standup comedian who later wrote and published his stories about neighborhood life in his ‘American Splendor’ autobiographical comic books,” she says. “The spot had been a haven for nonconformist and creative youth until overblown anxiety about flash mobs and kids hanging around without money to support local business led to curfews and what many felt was repressive rezoning and redesign.” A special dedication ceremony will take place during an all-day festival in his honor from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday. The ceremony itself takes place at 12:30 p.m. Jazz performances

will follow from 1 to 3 p.m., with storytelling from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. “It’ll be complete with a tiny amphitheater for future ‘Harveys’ and small-scale performance,” says Brabner. “I’ve designed permanent banners of a special ‘American Splendor’ story (illustrated by Joseph Remnant) that can be read as you walk from lamp post to lamp post.” The event culminates with a 9 p.m. outdoor screening of Pekar’s biopic, American Splendor, in Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Park. Brabner will introduce the film. “Harvey’s Coventry hangouts and interactions often became part of his stories,” explains Angela Hetrick, executive director of Coventry Village Special Improvement District. “We’re excited to honor him through this special dedication. The area has always been a gathering space for the creative and non-conformists to share ideas. Through this dedication, Harvey will forever be a part of our Coventry story.” Harvey Pekar passed away on

July 12, 2010, at the age of 70. During those seven decades, Pekar observed Cleveland from both an insider and outsider perspective. Eventually these observations began to impact the environment and events he was commenting on. Through his use of words and imagery, Pekar’s opinion became one of the most respected and influential in the city. He moved to Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights when it was still in danger of becoming “Cleveland’s first suburban slum,” and when rent for a large, clean six-room apartment was $150 a month. Pekar is remembered fondly by Coventry’s small business owners, including Big Fun’s Steve Presser, who pegged Pekar as a pioneer of the shop local movement. “Harvey was ... Harvey,” reminisces Presser. “He saw the world through a pair of unfiltered glasses. Harvey was a friend and a neighbor in Coventry Village. Harvey was a renaissance man, yet a common man, who embraced music, the arts and politics and was not afraid to say how he felt about each. Harvey influenced a whole generation of comic and graphic novelists. I am lucky to have known him.” Local artist Gary Dumm collaborated with Pekar on “American Splendor” for years, and even designed the iconic “American Splendor” logo. Asked about the ceremony, he jokes, “I’m happy to hear about the naming in his honor, but I have the feeling that Harvey would just give a little smile and a shrug and then say ‘Okay, fine, but is this gonna get me another good gig?’ And/or, ‘Where are the doughnuts?’” The park dedication is the second time Pekar’s hometown has honored its “anti-hero.” In October 2012, a twoand-a-half-foot-tall bronze statue of Pekar was installed on the first floor of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library on Lee Road. In case of rain, the dedication will be postponed until Sunday.

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Jason Kaufman as Stanley, Rachel Lee Kolis as Stella

Bernadette Clemens as Blanche Dubois, John Busser as Mitch

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The classic A Streetcar Named Desire shatters dreams again in this Mamai production By Christine Howey WE ALL KID OURSELVES EVERY day about who we really are, and thank god for that. If we had to actually confront our personal realities, with all our vulnerabilities and missteps in full view, we’d never crawl out from under our beds. That’s why it’s still easy to relate to Blanche DuBois, the deluded and shopworn Southern belle at the heart of A Streetcar Named Desire, now being produced by the Mamai Theatre Company. Blanche is a mystery wrapped in a cascade of feminine flutters, frequent swigs of booze and a constantly misdirected libido. Arriving in the French Quarter of New Orleans, after the family estate in Mississippi was lost, Blanche decides to nest with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. Supposedly on leave from her job as a teacher, Blanche soon takes over the dingy two-room flat, thumbing through her memories of her dead husband and dodging Stanley’s pointed questions about how the sisters’ family home disappeared into a pile of legal paperwork. For a while, Blanche finds a safe harbor in the interest Stanley’s poker-playing buddy Mitch shows in her. He’s a goodhearted bumbler and she is drawn to his earnest attraction It’s no secret that Streetcar is a luxurious gift to actors who are bold enough to take on the challenge. Embellished by Williams’ magnetic words, almost every character has

lines that pulse in the moment and then reside in your brain for much longer. Since Blanche is on stage for most of the show, she represents a huge riskreward equation. And in this instance Bernadette Clemens handles the task with remarkable skill. Although she doesn’t possess the birdlike frame of Jessica Tandy or Vivien Leigh, renowned actors who previously have played this role, Clemens homes in on Blanche’s bravura belief in her own fictions and “the kindness of strangers.” Like so many U.S. presidential candidates who blithely

with Stanley Kowalski, a man who is often performed as just a violent jerk with, we would imagine, some pretty powerful chops in the sack. In this production, Jason Kaufman nails the macho, malignant side of Stanley, disrobing at times to reveal a cut bod, slapping dinnerware around the place in a fit of pique, and bellowing “Stella!” with the best of them. Resembling Christopher Meloni who played Detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order SVU, Kaufman plays the detective role to the hilt, stripping away Blanche’s gauzy fibs as easily as his undershirt. Less in evidence is the

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ignore facts while preening in front of others, Clemens’ Blanche is invested fully in her own fantasies. Clemens is particularly effective when she interacts with Stanley, the sexually magnetic brute who slaps Stella around when they’re not making love. As we find out, Blanche has been around the track with men, and in Clemens’ portrayal we see her revulsion mixed with sexual desire. Some roles in theater are challenging not just because they’re hard to do but because they are too easy to do wrong. Such is the case

boyish, vulnerable side of Stanley that would give his impulsive outbursts more context and dimension. It’s a devilishly difficult mixture to achieve, which is why Stanley is probably the most demanding role in the show. As Stella, Rachel Lee Kolis brings simple honesty to this role that requires her to be a figurative and literal punching bag for both Stanley and her sister. John Busser makes the most of his scenes as Mitch, conveying an average-guy normalcy that is quickly shredded by Blanche’s whirling blades of need. So when he

eventually turns on her, it feels doubly shocking. And Christine McBurney is helpful as Stella’s upstairs buddy Eunice. Streetcar is sometimes dissed for it’s dated cultural references, since Blanche’s sexual history, the “scandalous” reveal of her husband’s homosexuality, and other tidbits (what the hell is a streetcar?) feel oddly out of place in today’s world. Once a contemporary theater event when in debuted in 1947, Williams’ opus has now become a period piece and should be viewed that way. Sure, we no longer look with petrified shock upon a woman who tosses back some drinks during the day or who reveals the sexual side of her nature. But that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate how that would have gone down more than a half-century ago. Director Mitchell Fields keeps the pacing of this fairly long work admirably brisk, and the small touches of N’awlins life help round out the setting, such as the flower seller at the conclusion who is offering “flores para los muertos.” Ultimately Blanche gets on that passionately directed conveyance, but it takes her instead to the end of the line. As built by Mr. Williams and conducted by the Mamai Theatre Company, this is a streetcar ride well worth taking.

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MADE BY THE PRODUCER AND WRITER OF the 2011 hit Forks Over Knives, PlantPure Nation puts forth a convincing argument about the benefits of a plant-based diet, and has just completed a preview screening bus tour that went through 23 cities in the U.S. and Canada. It’s not just a movie. It’s a movement. At least that’s what the filmmakers would have us believe. The movie opens Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre for a limited week-long run. Dieting isn’t the sexiest of subjects and many clips in the film center on patients who switched to plant-based diets. One guys hears that his cholesterol levels have dropped, and he’s shocked. Another woman, a Type II diabetic, is told “there is no cure” but then finds that switching to a plant-based diet helps her illness. And a guy who was denied life insurance because of his tri-glycerides finds his levels have dropped dramatically. It’s all a little too much like reality TV, but the message is clear. The film holds together a narrative by following three people who try to spread the word about a plantbased diet.

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The filmmakers hope the film will create a broad grassroots movement and they’ve created PlantPure Nation Foundation to establish local PlantPure Pods in cities and towns across the states. They’ll help institute the 10-day Jumpstart program depicted in the movie. The film delves into the politics of the matter too, and it shows how there have been few official medical or state-sponsored efforts to support the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet. Doctors confess they don’t know what to tell their overweight and unhealthy patients about dieting. And food-related legislation stalls. In spinning this narrative, the film includes interviews with pundits such as Steve Forbes Jr. (editor-in-chief, Forbes Magazine), Dr. T. Colin Campbell (co-author, The China Study), Dr. Neal Barnard (founder and president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine), and Dr. Michael Greger (director of public health and animal agriculture, Humane Society of the United States). Former President Bill Clinton even chimes in to talk about how he switched to a plant-based diet. – Jeff Niesel

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SPOTLIGHT THE ANNUAL 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT kicked off again this month. This time around, we have eyes on the inside, focused on Maple Films. The competition, which started July 10, invites filmmakers to script, shoot and edit a short film within the course of 48 hours. This Wednesday and Thursday, Capitol Theatre screens each of the contenders. To ensure no team jumped the gun, gamemakers give each a unique genre to work in and throw in last-minute elements that must appear on-screen. This year’s elements included a standup comedian and a jumper cable. Maple Films drew drama as their genre. Winners get a slew of prizes from Cleveland retailers. In addition, the best picture will go on to compete in the International 48 Hour Film Project. The cherry on top: This year, winners from Cleveland may be chosen to screen at Cannes, a first-time honor for the Cleveland 48. This year, 43 teams competed, the second largest pool of filmmakers ever. We followed Maple Films for the entire 48 hours. “This probably isn’t the best year to follow us,” assistant director Caroline Abbey joked during the project. Over the course of the two days, Maple ran into problems with time management, lighting and labor. There were actual labor pains too: On the last day of the competition, lead editor Jon Jivan’s wife went into labor, taking Jivan out of the game. Still, with just minutes to spare, Maple Films turned in Early October, a stunningly shot and acted short. Centered on a minor league baseball player who’s just been cut from his team, the simple film captures the disappointment of returning home after missing a big shot. “This is something we’ve never done before,” director Dustin Lee told his team when first pitching the flick. Maple Films typically throws in sci-fi or fantasy elements, having won the 2014 48 Hour Horror Film Project for a short about a mind-bending vixen. This year, Maple’s film was simple and down-to-earth. It’s also one of the first, if not the first, sports films to be submitted. “We don’t do this to win,” Lee said at the drop-off. “We do this to make good films.” Screening group A will show Wednesday at 7 p.m. Group B will follow at 9:30 p.m., while group C will show Thursday at 7 p.m. Maple Films will screen with group A. Tickets to the screenings are $10. For more 48 Hour Film Project coverage, head over to our website, clevescene.com. – Brittany Rees

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button,” says Anna Harouvis, whose raw foods shop Anna in the Raw would supply my sustenance. I asked Harouvis how, exactly, a juice cleanse “reboots” my body like a hinky smartphone. “I think the body is meant to cleanse itself,” she says, adding that she is not a doctor but rather a raw-foods expert relied upon by such notable organizations as the Cleveland Cavs and Indians. “You’re giving your body a rest from all that food so it has a chance to repair itself. The juice just allows you to properly nourish yourself while it does that.” When I picked up my three-day supply of liquid food I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were at least 21 pints of colorful juice on the counter. My first thought was How the hell am I going to drink all that? My second thought was How the hell Photo by Douglass Trattner

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am I going to get it all to the car? Juice cleanses ain’t cheap — roughly 50 bucks a day for the good stuff — but after seeing what goes into each and every pint, it’s easy to see why. There are between six and 12 pounds of raw, organic, non-GMO fruits and veggies in each bottle, with no pulp or added water. The juices are cold-pressed and nonpasteurized, giving them a limited shelf life. My first day started off on a high note, literally. In place of my morning java, Harouvis gave me some cold-brewed coffee, which is less acidic than the regular stuff. It’s also jacked with caffeine. From that moment on, my job was easy: go to the fridge every hour or two and grab the next numbered bottle in line. There’s real joy in never having to decide what to eat, go to the store, cook a meal, or wash a dish. Instead, I drank dark green Hercules fortified with kale, spinach, parsley and apple. I sipped my way through Aphrodite, a bright and fruity mix of green apple, pineapple and mint. My Spirulina Lemonades were sweetened with stevia. Apart from a brief and blinding headache, I felt completely fine that first day. In fact, I felt great, almost giddy at times. Given that I was drinking my weight in fluids, I guess it’s not at all surprising that I wasn’t hungry. Nor was it surprising that I was peeing like an 80-year-old. What was surprising was the foul smell. “Oh, that’s great!” Harouvis said when I told her about it during one

of our daily check-ins. “That means your body is alkaline.” I guess I should have known not to thumb through my Instagram feed on that second day, where pictures of beer, fried chicken, hamburgers, pizza and ice cream cascaded by. For the first time ever I appreciated all those yoga, painted fingernail and artfully posed feet pics because they weren’t food. Occasionally, I’d catch myself blindly reaching for the bag of potato chips instead of yet another goddamn juice. How could anybody hate juice? By Day 3, you loathe it. Apart from a few desiccated kale chips and a handful or two of chalky macadamia nuts, mine was a liquid-filled existence. It’s all you can do to force another 12 ounces down by the end, which can’t come soon enough. I found myself planning my first meal like a pre-release inmate. Fried chicken. Definitely, fried chicken. “You have to ease back into food,” Harouvis warned. “No fried foods.” Instead I had pasta — and could barely polish off an appetizer-size portion. The truth is, I did feel better. In fact, I lost three pounds and my stomach issue went away. But then I returned to my regular routine, which is to say eating and drinking way too much, and it all came roaring back. Would I do it again? That’s a very good question.

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BETH AND TIM KNORR FARMED together at Crown Point Ecology Center in Bath for a decade, so when their pastime of making gourmet popsicles began snowballing into a business, it felt natural to adopt the community supported agriculture (CSA) model by offering “subscribers” monthly boxes of the icy treats. Their company, Popsmith (popsmith. com), is one of a growing number of local food businesses making use of Northeast Ohio’s bounty of summer fruit. “Working with seasonal fruit keeps us on our toes,” says Beth. While they were familiar with local farms when they started Popsmith in 2013, selling at area farmers markets has helped them cast a wider net. They make frequent stops at Rittman Orchards for raspberries and Huffman Fruit Farm in Salem for peaches. Popsmith’s newest concoction turns sweet cherries from Quarry Hill Orchards into cherry cola pops, which blend house-made natural cola syrup with the ripe fruit. FruitVibe (fruitvibejuice.com), the cold-press juice purveyor formed in 2014, also is a customer of Quarry Hill. But they didn’t find each other the traditional way. The farm left a comment on one of FruitVibe’s Instagram photos and soon after was providing them with fresh peaches. Before becoming one of FruitVibe’s founding partners, Sam Rego would venture to markets in Lakewood, where he met growers and asked to tour farms. He and co-founder James Ryan eventually begin volunteering at the urban farm Amalfi Gardens before linking up with their third member, Austin Snyder. “We started when the plants were tiny,” says Rego. “As you moved into the summer everything was blossoming and ready to pick.” Foraging is Rego’s latest experiment. FruitVibe recently made juice from mulberry trees in Lakewood. “There’s fruit growing right in our own backyards,” says Rego. As a resident of Ohio City for the past seven years, Theresa

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MUSIC A FORMIDABLE FOLLOW UP Alternative Press ups the ante for Year 2 of its awards By Jeff Niesel MUSIC AWARDS CEREMONIES impressive numbers than last year, can be rather formal affairs with the magazine has upped the ante rock stars dressed up in tuxes and for this year’s event, which will designer dresses. In other words, take place at Quicken Loans Arena. they can be pretty fucking boring. It’s also partnered with Tumblr and Not the inaugural Alternative Snapchat. Press Music Awards, which took “We want to see how big we can place last year at Voinovich Park make it this year,” says Shea. “Not behind the Rock and Roll Hall of more than a day after last year’s Fame and Museum. The irreverent event, we started talking about it. event launched with a red carpet We realized we should have been meet & greet in front of the Rock talking about this year before Hall that drew a throng of fans we ended last year’s event. We’re who wanted to catch a glimpse already talking to bands about next of celebrities such as Paramore year.” singer Hayley Williams (who All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth looked great with bright blue hair), and Jack Barakat will host the Slash (who, of course, wore his awards. Voting began in March signature hat) and the Misfits (who were decked out in makeup and cartoonish outfits) as they walked to the event. The awards lived up to the hype as Panic! at the Disco singer Brendon Urie opened the show with a medley of Frank Sinatra tunes. He got a little help from his friends in Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra. A real smart aleck whose musical legacy practically gives him the right to make fun of other bands, – Mike Shea, publisher Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus served as an emcee for the event. The stats from last year are rather impressive. The event reportedly drew a crowd of 6,500 and the award show trended No. 1 worldwide for 24-plus hours through Facebook and Twitter and had an overall 2.5 billion combined impressions. “Last year was pretty incredible for us,” says AP publisher Mike Shea. “It was bigger than we thought it would get. A lot of it had to do with the social media aspect. It just blew up and continued Alternative Press publisher on after the event. We trended Mike Shea has taken his worldwide on Twitter for 24 hours. magazine’s annual awards We were No. 1, which is incredible.” to the Q. In order to put up more

for this year’s event, which will again acknowledge underground bands that other institutions tend to ignore. Weezer — whose 2014 album Everything Will Be Alright In the End is nominated for the Album of the Year — will be the headliner. Panic! At The Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Motionless In White, All Time Low, New Found Glory (featuring Hayley Williams), Echosmith, Halestorm and the Madden Brothers are all slated to perform. The Contemporary Youth Orchestra will accompany many of the bands. In addition, Deryck Whibley and Sum 41 will reunite for the event, and Simple Plan will

return to the stage after a threeyear hiatus. Black Veil Brides, who won the Most Dedicated Fans award last year, will also play a special set. “With Weezer playing, that was awesome and a surprise to us,” says Shea. “That was a total get. We are so happy about that. We have Halestorm, one of the top metal bands in the country, coming. They wanted to come. We like that. We like inclusiveness. They’ll have a special guest. Rob Zombie coming to pick up the Vanguard Award is awesome. We’ve been behind him since his White Zombie days. The guy is a legend and we’re really Photo by Nisha Sondhe

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VANS WARPED TOUR, WHICH WAS established in 1995, has been giving punk fans a summer escape since its beginning. In recent years, as punk has continued to morph into different subgenres, the tour has embraced the changes and included hip-hop, dubstep and even spoken word as part of its programming. Here are some of the acts we think are worthy of seeing at this year’s installment that’s coming to Blossom next week. Citizen Citizen has shown their ability to grow and mature musically with their recent album Everybody Is Going to Heaven. A drastic change from their previous release, Youth, the album finds the band doing its best to grow. They have moved from their pop-punk roots to focus more on the punk side of things. The band brings raw emotion to each performance. (Martin Harp) Icon for Hire Formed in 2007, Icon for Hire quickly made its name known in the alternative and pop punk world. With a sound similar to early Paramore and Evanescence, there is no question why they are well liked and well known. Lead singer Ariel belts out lyrics criticizing the government, society and modern life. But, as music has changed over the past few years since their start, so has Icon for Hire. On their newest self-titled album, hardcore guitar and double bass pedals are joined by electronic sounds and interesting EDM-like sounds. Nonetheless, Ariel’s powerful vocals and the heavy instrumentals distinguish the group. (Hannah Wintucky) Knuckle Puck Knuckle Puck was most recently featured on the Punk Goes Pop 6, covering “Chocolate” by the 1975. While the band is just now releasing its debut album, it isn’t a newcomer. They have had numerous EP’s and formed back in 2011. Starting to catch fire and gain a following, Knuckle Puck is an upand-coming act. (Harp) Mod Sun Mod Sun (which stands for

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“Movement on dreams, Stand under none”) offers a 2-to-1 mix of hip-hip and rock as the group delivers songs about being happy, smoking grass, dating girls and, most importantly, living the life of hippie. Mod Sun’s debut, Look Up, came out earlier this year; it features tracks with G-Eazy, Jody Highroller (Riff-Raff), MGK and Travis Barker. The songs on his album range from those of a psychedelic nature and up-beat “hippy-hop” to alternative-meets-rap songs. But, his persona is what sets Mod Sun apart from the rest of the rap world. His long hair, positive

head well after their performance. (Harp) New Beat Fund When this SoCal group played at Warped Tour a couple of years back, the band, which sounds like a cool cross between Beck and Weezer, didn’t seem to mind that only a handful of fans showed up to hear it perform. The group still put on a helluva show. Its new album Sponge Fingerz makes extensive use of electronic samples and beefy bass riffs as songs such as “Any Day” and “Halloween Birthdaze”

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messages in his music, and overall happy and carefree nature make him truly unique. His music is danceable, fun and catchy. (Wintucky) Neck Deep With their second studio album, Life’s Not Out to Get You, set to release in August, pop-punk band Neck Deep has plenty to look forward to. The first single off of the album, “Can’t Kick Up the Roots,” was met with great praise by the band’s fans. The band is sure to give a peek at their new album, along with the things fans know and love. With their catchy up-beat style, Neck Deep’s songs are sure to be stuck in your

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have a funky, Red Hot Chili Peppersinspired feel to them. Expect the guys to draw a bigger crowd when they play Blossom this time around. (Jeff Niesel) PVRIS Taking the music scene by storm, PVRIS shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. The band released its debut album, White Noise, back in November to critical acclaim. This alternative rock band has been the talk of the scene, and you’d be a fool to miss out on this band’s performance. There’s a good reason the band has been so hot as of late: Lynn Gunn’s vocals are so clean and

Riff Raff Also known as Jody Highroller, this guy may be one of the craziest, most eccentric rappers to ever enter the music industry. Riff Raff’s music is full of hard, bass heavy, dirty beats and odd, sometimes confusing lyrics. But every one of his concerts is a huge party. With an affinity for neon colors, big chains, cornrows, and grillz, the rapper himself is a sight to see. His most popular hit, “Dolce & Gabbana,” is a fast-paced, heavy-hitting anthem about rich girls he dates and is sure to start a large rap-induced mosh pit. While his songs may not be the cleverest or well thought out, his beats are fantastic and his stage presence alone is worth the price of admission. (Wintucky) Transit Hailing from Boston, Transit is a band that’s seen its fair share of tours. The band formed in 2006 and has four studio albums under its belt. Transforming from their emo style into a more pop-punk hybrid, Transit has great versatility. (Harp) The Wonder Years A perfect definition of pop punk, the Wonder Years was formed in 2005 and has provided fans with beautifully engineered songs for the past decade. Frontman Dan Campbell’s voice resonates over the perfect mix of drums, bass and guitar to create the perfect pop punk. No whiny voices here or simple guitar: Heart and soul are put into their music. Their most recent album, The Greatest Generation, features songs like “There, There,” a tune that beautifully transforms from a slow song into something almost alternative, and “Passing Through the Screen Door,” a very pop punk song with lots of screaming. One of the better pop punk bands in the industry now, they are a must-see and are sure to have a head-banging, moshing crowd. (Wintucky)

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X/Dead Rock West: “Cleveland actually does rock,” said shaggyhaired X singer Exene Cervenka last year as the veteran punk band started a three-night stand at Music Box Supper Club by playing its first two albums (and then some) in their entirety before a crowd that filled about three-fourths of the club. It was a great show as singer-bassist John Doe proved he could still sneer and sound like he means it on the hard-driving “Johnny Hit and Run Paulene,” and guitarist Billy Zoom (who’s sitting this date out as he battles cancer) let loose some tasty solos in songs such as “Sugarlight” and “Los Angeles.” Drummer DJ Bonebrake proved to be no slouch. He kept time with accuracy and hit just as hard as he ever has. Expect the band to play a set of hits for tonight’s gig which coincides with the Alternative Press Music Awards (where the band will receive an Icon Award). (Jeff Niesel), 8 p.m., $32 ADV/$38 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Reptar/Twinsmith/Stranger Cat: Named after the Rugrats TV show character of the same name, Reptar isn’t your average alternative band. Synthesized back beats mix with the vocals of Graham Ulicny (who sounds somewhat like Matt Johnson of Matt & Kim). Their newest album, Lurid Glow, features songs synthy, tribal beats with whiny, screaming vocals (“Ice Black Sand”) and postpunk indie rock that incorporates elements of ‘70s funk (“Cable”). (Hannah Wintucky), 9 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. 10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. AP Music Awards Featuring Performances by Weezer/Panic! at the Disco/All Time Low/ New Found Glory with Hayley Williams/Taking Back Sunday/ Simple Plan/Halestorm/Black Veil Brides/Echosmith/Sum 41/ Motionless in White/The Madden Brothers: 7 p.m., $62.99-$202.99. Quicken Loans Arena. Bluewater Kings Band: 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Emo Night Brooklyn Presents Jukebox Breakdown with DJ’s Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail and Dan Campbell of the Wonder Years: 10 p.m., $5 ADV, $8 DOS. Grog Shop. Hollywood Slim Band (in the Supper

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Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Chris Knight/Radio Birds: 8:30 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom. The Oblivion Project: 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Repeat Repeat/Erienauts/The Smug Saints: 8:30 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern. Jackie Warren: 7 p.m., Free. BLU Jazz+. Wolf Eyes/Sissy Spacek/Grin and Bear It/Rubber Mate: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class. Xe La/Jonn Ones: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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07/24

The Appleseed Cast/Mare Vitalis 15 Year Anniversary Tour with Adjy/ Annabel/Heavenly Creatures: Blending some of the finer elements of the emo and post-rock sets, the Appleseed Cast has staked a very consistent claim to both camps since first blossoming in Lawrence, Kansas, around the turn of the millennium. The band’s most recent album, Illumination Ritual captures their career’s essence really, really well. Album opener “Adriatic to

Black Sea” encapsulates the slowbuild mentality espoused by the cream of the post-rock crop. The band sets the stage for the vast landscapes to come, shining an introductory light onto listeners just as the curtain begins to rise. Several tracks later, the ricocheting melodies within instrumental “Simple Forms” highlight both the time signaturebending elements of the band and the talents of the musicians at the helm (notably drummer Nathan Wilder; wow!). (Eric Sandy), 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. Cake: When singer John McCrea, who formed Cake way back in 1991, talks about his band’s “sonic DNA,” he explains that the band was conceived as a “a hostile reactionary gesture against the music of the early and mid-’90s, which for us was just big dumb white guy rock.” Regardless of how out of sync the band’s rinky dink music sounded at the time, the group quickly found a following and was signed to Capricorn Records following the release of its debut album, Motorcade of Generosity. The group’s second album would yield, “The Distance,” a terrifically quirky song that featured McCrea’s sarcastic, spoken word vocals and the band’s signature trumpet sound. The band’s popularity soared. The band’s cover of the disco tune “I Will Survive” got radio airplay and became a hit. The group hasn’t put out a studio album in about four years but tonight’s show should still be a blast. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $37.50 ADV, $45 DOS. Jacobs Pavilion. Chevelle/O’ Brother: Formed in 1995 in a small suburb of Chicago, Chevelle has been putting out records ever since. Their alternative metal music has given them one platinum record ( Wonder What’s Next) and one gold album (This Type of Thinking). Lead vocalist Pete Loeffler screams out vocals and plays heavy guitar on all albums; he really gives the band its sound. Their most recent album. last year’s La Gárgola continues with their guitar heavy, traditional metal sound. (Wintucky), 8 p.m., $29.50 ADV, $30 DOS. House of Blues. David Wax Museum/Mick Reiter: 9 p.m., $10. Musica. Destroy Cleveland Pre-Film Barbeque with Muerte/Lotus Fucker/Deche/ Radium Girls: 3 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class. Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds: 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. Rosie Flores/Bar Brawl III/Rodney and the Regulars: 8 p.m., $12 ADV,

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LIVEWIRE $14 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Goldmines/Shitbox Jimmy/Ma Holos: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Hamell on Trial: 9 p.m., Free. Millard Filmore Presidential Library. Heaven is in You with Urbindex/ DJ Eso/Twizz/Kiernan LaVeaux/ Guapperia: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Tim Kirker: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Ballroom. David LaFlamme and It’s a Beautiful Day: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Dennis Lewin: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Miss Alexandra Huntingdon (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Mo Mojo: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. The Oblivion Project: 8 p.m., $15. BLU Jazz+. Rachel and the Beatnik Playboys (in the Supper Club): 8:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. The Smokin’ Fez Monkeys/The Elderly Brothers/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. The Spazmatics: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. World Beats with DJ Neil Chastain: 5 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Yonatan Gat/Another Mother’s Milk/ Cereal Banter/Bummed Out: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

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Motion Device: 6:30 p.m., $20. Brothers Lounge. Banquets/Worship This!/Bernies/Otis Wolves: 9 p.m. Now That’s Class. Bossa Nova Night with Luca Mundaca (in the Supper Club): 8:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Erica Campbell & Friends: Help 2.0 Tour: 7 p.m. House of Blues. Cleveland Jazz Orchestra: 8:30 p.m., $25. Nighttown. Dreemers/Nico Missile/Jean Jammers: 9 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern. Lindsay Dunphy/Lucas Carpenter/ Andrew Nielsen: 9 p.m., $10. Musica. Flow Inside with DJ Dara/DJ Moose/ DJ Meghan/Logan Boggs: $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Givers/Aero Flynn: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. Mad Sing You 3: 2 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. The Marshall Tucker Band: 8 p.m., $20-$45. Hard Rock Rocksino. Mood Indigo — Brad Wagner Quartet: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Ringo Deathstarr/Field Trip: 9 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

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Saul Glennon & Guests: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Tom Stahl/Sur’ Lawrence Trupo: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. The Stereo Workers Union/Bobbipin/ Reverb Union: 9 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern. Visionaries/London Eyes (in the Locker Room): 7:30 p.m., $6. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Whiskey Daredevils/A Train and the Steamers: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Yacht Rock with Chris Hatton: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

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Barbarama A Rally for Support featuring Jah Messengers/Alan Madej/Joey Beltram/Shawn Mishak: 8 p.m., Free. Beachland Ballroom. Beverly: 8:30 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Joe Deninzon Quartet: 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Hot Djang: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Irish Sundays Featuring the Portersharks: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Brent Kirby: 3 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Lady Lamb/Uno Lady/Small Wood House: 7:30 p.m., $12. Grog Shop. Bill Lestock (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Mike Petrone (in the Wine Bar): 5:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Louis Prima Jr. & the Witnesses: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. TV Girl/Tapes/Younger Still/Cape Fear: 8 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Winston Facials: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

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07/27

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LIVEWIRE DOS. Jacobs Pavilion. Sam Smith: Not to be confused with the terrific British brewery, soul/R&B/ pop singer Sam Smith is already hugely successful in the U.K. where his debut came out last year and battled Coldplay’s Ghost Stories for the spot at the top of the charts. That success has translated stateside. The guy’s a helluva singer. Album opener “Money on My Mind” immediately announces his unique vocal phrasing. His quivering vocals take center stage on tracks such as “Good Thing” and “Leave Your Lover,” both of which feature some rather overwrought string arrangements. The gospel arrangement on “Stay with Me” is a bit much too. Smith is at his best when he really lets loose, which he successfully does on “Like I Can” and “Lay Me Down,” songs about unrequited love that come off as genuine confessions of self-doubt. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $39.50-$79.50. Wolstein Center. Bob Schneider Band: 8 p.m., $20. The Kent Stage. Delicate Steve/Turbeaux/Classic Sand: 9 p.m., $8. The Euclid Tavern. First Five Featuring Tom First with Ki Allen: 8 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Michael Fracasso/John McGrail Duo: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Steev Inglish/Ted Ganger: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Screaming Females/Vacation/ NNNowhere/Shale Satans: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Now That’s Class. Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

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Steely Dan/Elvis Costello & the Imposters: The famous jazz rock band, Steely Dan, are embarking on their Rockabye Gollie Angel Tour all across the US this summer. They helped created the soundtrack of the ‘70s with hits such as “Reelin’ In The Years”, “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “Deacon Blues.” The band consists of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and an incredible ensemble of eight supporting musicians. The legendary Elvis Costello and his band, the Imposters, who also have members in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Costello, Steve Nieve, and Pete Thomas, will support the band on their tour. Costello is perhaps best known for his New Wave sound with

the Attractions and he’s sure to bring out hits like the heart-pounding “Pump It Up” and “I, Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea” to entertain the crowd. (Elizabeth Manno), 7 p.m., $35.50-$183. Blossom. Sublime with Rome/Rebelution/ Pepper/Mickey Avalon: We all know and, for the most part, enjoy the widely hailed legacy of Sublime at this point, right? So what’s better than summertime living with one of the few guys still directly attached to the canon? Bassist Eric Wilson remains the lone founding member of this incarnation after drummer Bud Gaugh left in late 2011. (In fact, Gaugh has publicly expressed reservations about this whole project; “I was talked into it and I would like to apologize to certain people and the fans for trying to justify or talk them into it as well,” he once said.) Still, joined with singer Rome Ramirez, who captures the vocal essence of the late Bradley Nowell fairly well, Wilson is soldiering on. They’ve been around Cleveland a handful of times since their first tour in 2010, and the fans here go all in on classics like “Santeria,” “40 oz. to Freedom” and “What I Got.” Sublime with Rome also kicks around a number of original tunes on tour. (Sandy), 6:35 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. Jacobs Pavilion. We Banjo 3/The Portersharks: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. 2 Set Tuesday with Chris Hanna: 7 p.m. Brothers Lounge. The Aristocrats/Travis Larson Band: 8:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Rob Bell: 7:30 p.m., $20. Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Ave, Cleveland. Brandi Carlile/Anderson East: 8 p.m., $32.50 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues. Civil Twilight/Cheerleader/Playing to Vapors: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. Mischief Brew/CityCop/Two Hand Fools/Max Stern: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Open Mic Night with Will Cheshier: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Ratboys/Peacekeeper/Failed Astronauts/Drivers’ Ed/Admirable Phantom: 7:30 p.m., $6. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Saint Motel/Coin: 8 p.m., $12. Musica. The Serotones/The Erienauts/The Sleeps: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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SAVAGE LOVE SOFT SERVICE By Dan Savage

Dear Dan, My wife and I have been together for more than 10 years, practicing some kind of nonmonogamy for more than seven. We tried different things—open, dating others, FWBs—but after a bi threesome with another guy a year ago, we knew that was our thing. For a while, everything was great, but roughly a month after that defining threesome, I came down with a bad case of mono. In a couple of months, we resumed our bi sexdates with our FWB, and I noticed I had a hard time getting horny and even had a hard time getting (and staying) hard. We assumed I was still recovering and that diet and exercise would make it all better. Then I had a work-related crisis, and finally in March I got shipped off to a war zone. And I still don’t have the drive I had a year ago. My brothers-in-arms ogle every female who happens to be around, and sometimes they hook up even though they’re not in open relationships—unlike me, who is in one but has no desire to hook up with anyone. I rarely masturbate these days, and if I do, I need sexts and naughty pictures from my wife (and our FWB) back home. I just recently started to get morning wood again, and I blame all this on the stress of being in a war zone. But I fear these are just excuses and that I’m just getting older and this is how my libido is gonna be from now on. I’m turning 30 in a few weeks, so that doesn’t help, either. What are the chances that when this is over, I could go back to being my old horny self? – Currently Occupied Mostly By Arms Though I asked a doctor—Dr. Barak Gaster, a physician at the University of Washington and a regular (if sometimes mortified) guest expert around here—if mono could damage and/or diminish a guy’s libido, his ability to stay hard, and his masturbatory routine for nearly a year. “Mono is a viral illness for which there is no real treatment other than the tincture of time,” said Dr. Gaster. “Mono is a pretty insidious illness in that it typically causes really severe fatigue, which can linger for a long time. Other common symptoms are muscle and joint aches.” Could fatigue and aches still be affecting mood and interest in sex? “They could,” said Dr. Gaster. “It would not be typical, but they could. The duration of mono symptoms is typically around three months, but they can persist to some degree for one to two years in more severe cases. None of the effects are

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