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Upfront

Editor Vince Grzegorek

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

The West Shoreway rehab is coming soon, a heroin kingpin is convicted, and more

Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive John Crobar, Shayne Rose Multimedia Account Executives Amanda Klein Classifi ed Account Executive Alice Leslie

Bill Cochrane of Nalu SUP & Surf talks about Cleveland’s newest favorite water activity

Framed

The best photos we shared with you this week

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Marketing and Events Promotions Coordinator Remi Bruell Marketing Director Moira O’Neill

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Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Graphic Designer Kristen A Lovejoy Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace

Language barriers remain a problem, despite new policies under the Cleveland Plan for Transforming Our Schools

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the new West shoreway will make the surrounding area even greener and more walkable.

west shoreway overhaul imminent

tHIS WEEK

ConstruCtion -- in its foreboding, catch-all connotation -- will begin on the West Shoreway June 22. The work will take about two years and will produce a 35-mph boulevard on which it’ll just be that much riskier to fly downtown at 70 mph. Not that we’d recommend attempting that. The whole point behind the city’s next big road project is to stimulate more of a neighborhood vibe -- connecting Detroit-Shoreway with Edgewater Park and infusing words like “walkability” with meaning. Hundreds of people showed up last week to hear out ODOT and city leaders about what’s to come. There will be hassles in the interim -- that’s a given -- but the end result is one of Cleveland’s more ambitious infrastructure plans in some time. As the design renderings would have it, the West Shoreway is going to be the nicest spot in town. Know now that lane closures will become a thing for westside commuters. Think Captain America filming, but less comprehensive. You’re going to want to tune into the news now and then to get a handle on what is closed and when. The speed limit will drop to 40 mph briefly as construction begins before hitting the project goal of 35 mph. From ODOT: “Q. Isn’t the reduction in speed from 50 MPH to 35 MPH going to slow me down on my way to work? “A: Only slightly... and we mean slightly! Traversing the distance of just over two miles at 50 MPH takes about 145 seconds. At 35 MPH it takes about 208 seconds. That’s only a

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difference of just over a minute!” Fair ‘nuff. One major fulcrum in this project is the $1.1-million roundabout planned for the entrance to Edgewater Park. This is a huge upgrade. Presently, the process of discerning right-of-way in and out of the park is a nightmare. The multi-pronged intersection connecting the freeway with the park and Whiskey Island is a headache even before you’ve gone and drunk yourself goofy at the bar formerly known as Sunset Grille. Further into the park, the Metroparks will continue its own journey into the service industry with its 12,000-square-foot, two-story Beach House. Positioned as a hub for parkgoers, the Beach House will feature spots for food, lakeshore sundries, showering, etc. Without a doubt, the building will have sort of a vacation-y vibe to it, not unlike the places that dot the Atlantic on, say, Hilton Head Island.

Leader of Massive CLeveLand Heroin ring ConviCted, faCes Life in Prison One of the main guys running a Cleveland-based drug ring that led to what authorities called the largest ever heroin bust in Northeast Ohio was found guilty of nine charges by a federal jury this week. He faces the possibility of life in prison. Keith Ricks, now 33, was was among the 92 people who went doing for their involvement in a heroin ring nearly two years ago. Ricks became one of the main targets — along with local rapper Maceo Moore, known, as “Chase,” and few others — once his role in the

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ring was discovered. He was found guilty of one count of “conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute” more than one kilogram of heroin, and eight counts of of using a phone (“a communication facility”) to commit a felony. The operation Ricks helped lead was based around East 117th Street and St. Clair. Ricks was instrumental in setting up a heroin pipeline from Atlanta, and other locations around the country, to Cleveland. In October 2013, we published a feature story on the ring and the bust. You can find that -- and more backstory to Ricks’ involvement in the case -- at clevescene.com

CLeveLand, oakLand art MuseuMs PLaCe friendLy Wager on nBa finaLs With the 2015 NBA Finals coming to Cleveland — and the series tied at 1-1 — we wanted to let you know about a friendly wager announced late last week between the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). In celebration of their respective teams competing for the NBA Championship, the institutions agreed to sponsor special art experiences for children from each city’s local community organizations based on the outcome of this year’s NBA Finals. If (When) the Cavs win, OMCA will sponsor a special visit to the CMA for 100 children from the Cleveland-area Boys and Girls Clubs and Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood Fatima Family Center. If the Golden State Warriors win the series, the CMA will sponsor a special Warriors-themed art experience

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for 100 kids from the Oakland YMCA of the East Bay. “Even if we lose, we win. Of course, we’re ALL IN and expect to win! ” explains CMA Director William M. Griswold in a statement released Thursday afternoon. “No matter the outcome, children from our communities will have a special opportunity to experience world-class art. Go Cavs!” “This wager is a win-win for our cities,” adds Director and CEO of the Oakland Museum of California Lori Fogarty. “Like the Boys and Girls Club and the YMCA, museums are dedicated to the health and well-being of children and families in Oakland and Cleveland. We look forward to welcoming children to OMCA when the Cavaliers lose. Game on! Go Dubs!” The wager follows a similarly goodnatured bet between Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. The venture seeks to help kids in their communities by raising funds for the winning city’s local food banks through a NBA fundraising competition. Both museums’ directors applauded the mayors for putting “a community-support spin on the traditional championship wager.” While the exact cost of the art experiences was not announced, it should be noted that the Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the largest, oldest and most comprehensive art museums in the country that is free and open to the public (admission required for special exhibitions). OMCA’s general admission is $15; $6 for kids ages 9 to 17; free for kids 8 and under. So we’re already winning, Cleveland.teammate

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By Eric Sandy BILL COCHRANE RUNS Nalu SUP & Surf in Rocky River, which specializes in making our lake and rivers even cooler than one might imagine. (Yes, you can *surf* on Lake Erie!) And as the summer unfolds, Cochrane is highly aware that standup paddling has become something of a cultural force in Northeast Ohio and the Midwest. The name speaks for itself, but there’s so much more to it. He speaks at a meeting of Sustainable Cleveland 2019 June 10 on the topic of water health and paddling.

West Coast, East Coast, Hawaii, Australia -- they’ve been doing it for a while. But it’s really just coming into its own in the Midwest. Our shop’s been around for five years. For the first two or three years,

people would see us out on the water -- I had one guy who saw me paddling out on the water in the morning. He came up behind me and pulled up and said, “Wow, I’ve got to go to church more often.” I’m like, “What do you mean?” He says, “You have no idea what that looks like from a distance.” And I’m like, “Ah. Don’t get me confused that with gentleman.”

Very good. It’s gone from that six degrees of separation maybe four or five years ago where we’d be driving around with a standup paddleboard

on top of our car, and people would be looking at us like, “You can’t surf on a lake!” Well, first of all, you can, but that’s not what this is. Two, now, it’s not uncommon to drive in somewhere with a board on the top of your car and people will say, “Oh, wow, that that’s standup paddleboard thing!” Or, It really is becoming extremely popular. Read the full interview at clevelandscene.com

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I admit I haven’t tried it yet. What’s the deal? First of all, it is the fastest growing watersport in the world. Two of the big things are that it can be done on any body of water. The only requirement is that you have to have enough water -- usually about 10 inches for the fin to clear the bottom of wherever you are. And we’ve got some awesome resources around here -- Lake Erie, all of our rivers, the Rocky River, Cuyahoga, Chagrin, inland lakes. Let’s say I’m interested and I’ve got a group of friends who are onboard. What’s the first step? We offer all sorts of programs. Basically what you would be looking at there is an intro lesson, which is usually an hour-and-a-half long. It’s 15-20 minutes on land learning, you know, the parts of the board, general dos and don’ts. Then we take the next 40 minutes to go out on the water and apply what you just learned -- proper paddle stroke, how to turn, how to stop. The last half-hour is typically kinda on your own; you’ll always have a certified instructor out there just watching you and maybe coming up and saying, “Hey Eric, flip your paddle around. Or here’s a new technique that’ll make whatever you’re doing well even better. Is this a relatively new activity around here, or has it been around for awhile and I’ve just missed it? It’s relatively new for the Midwest. You recognized that we’re always a little late to the dance. The

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The STruggle aT School

Are new policies at Cleveland’s most diverse high school helping Hispanic students or leaving them further behind?

By Eric Sandy When Catalina saW her cousin take a right hook to his eye in the cafeteria, it should have seemed out of the ordinary. It didn’t. Falling into routine, she jumped into the scuffle and soon landed a suspension from Lincoln West High School. That wasn’t unusual, either. She wrapped up 10th grade last month, but this particular fight broke in her freshman year, the spring of 2014. Catalina was one of 461 students suspended during the 2013-2014 year at Lincoln West (all told for 3,118 days, or seven days of missed school per student). Like most times she was sent home, she says she got very little work done. Classes passed her by. Catalina didn’t even want to fight that day, but family -- blood and otherwise -- is paramount in Puerto Rican culture. You back your family up. “He had his eye swollen, his lip busted and everything,” she says of the fight. Part of another gang dustup. Catalina volleys between English and Spanish as she talks, sliding a pues... or a lo que into her conversations. Most of her friends straddle linguistic lines as well, though home life on Cleveland’s westside is, for these students, more

often than not conducted in Spanish. As teachers surrounded the scuffle, Catalina and her cousin worked through a frantic blend of languages to explain what happened. Her cousin had been jumped, she told them. No teacher really listened, or

Lincoln West High School, which stands just south of Clark Avenue on West 30th. The hire, at $47,500 annually, was part of Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s “Wrap-Around” partnership with United Way -- a grant-funded program that brings community

“When I read about what the Wrap-Around program does, I really believed in it. We’re supposed to go into the school and we’re supposed to create programs to meet the needs of the students, the parents and the teachers. But we’re more so concentrating on the students than anything else. I believed in that.” - Elizabeth Ramos-Torres

could, except for Elizabeth RamosTorres. She was there, watching the fight. She’d find out soon enough that this was how things worked. Ramos-Torres had been hired by Esperanza Inc. in March 2014 as the “bilingual site coordinator” for

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leaders into CMSD schools to help them engage students in and out of the classroom. During her abrupt, six-month stint with the school, she grew angry with how the district was implementing the so-called Cleveland Plan for Transforming Our Schools and how the gap between students

and administrators was widening. She says she saw injustices leveled in particular against the alreadystruggling Hispanic community. “When I read about what the WrapAround program does, I really believed in it,” Ramos-Torres told Scene shortly after she had been let go last fall. “We’re supposed to go into the school and we’re supposed to create programs to meet the needs of the students, the parents and the teachers. But we’re more so concentrating on the students than anything else. I believed in that.” Her optimism slipped in short order. For Catalina and her family, the struggle had been a steady drone in their lives forever.

Catalina is not her real name. She tells Scene that the pressures and bullying from CMSD teachers and students are too much; publicizing her troubles would only guarantee more of the same. Seated at her family’s kitchen table, her mother to her left and a friendly translator to her right, she says that long-standing problems at Lincoln West have yet to be fully addressed. Frankly, she’s worn out from trying. “My daughter has been through a lot of bullying,” her mother,

FEATURE Juana (another pseudonym), says in Spanish. “They’re bullying her because there’s a language barrier and she can’t express herself. There’s no one to represent her.” What she means is this: What she means is this: a day-in, day-out routine of dismissal. “In 10th grade, I’m really having trouble,” Catalina says. “I’ll ask for help, and I’ll ask the teacher, and they’ll wait and wait and wait. I’ll get frustrated and they’ll just get mad at me.” That may sound like standard operating procedure for many students in need of tutoring or special attention, but Catalina says that her struggles with English comprehension -- she was taking ESL (English as a second language) this year and enjoying it -- present a disincentive for overworked teachers. With time, she slips further down the grade scale. Her test scores could be called abysmal. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Cleveland’s Hispanic population was clocking in at 39,000. Anecdotal estimates peg an increase in the ensuing five years, particularly on the near westside -- clustered around the streets that shoot off West 25th south of Clark. Juana says her daughter’s experiences in school mirror broader political marginalization outside CMSD’s borders. Generally speaking, she’s right. Teachers within the district concur privately, saying that the mostly Hispanic poverty decorating Clark-Fulton is an unavoidable factor in their education. The system is stacked against these students, and CMSD, try as it might, isn’t ameliorating that. At least not in a comprehensive, public education way. Lincoln West is a majority minority school. All told, 52 percent of students identify as Hispanic at the school, where 26 spoken languages represent 53 different nationalities, as of the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year. Total enrollment hovers around 850 or so, down from some 1,200 in 20132014. Students who are new to the U.S. -- emigrants from countries all over the world -- often take a year of schooling at nearby Thomas Jefferson International Newcomers Academy before funneling into the 45-year-old Lincoln West building as sophomores. Still, students and parents will say that this is an Hispanic school, through and through. For Catalina, life, of course, revolves around school. With what

energy she can summon, her goal is to skid across the destitution of poverty in Cleveland and graduate from high school. She wants to be a SWAT officer when she grows up. She knows she needs some improvement on those math scores. To facilitate dreams for CMSD’s thousands of students, the district began taking aim at its failing schools a few years ago. A central component of the Cleveland Plan for Transforming Our Schools is the identification of 23 “Investment Schools” -- schools that rank among the worst of the worst. The list includes Hispanic-heavy Lincoln West and Walton and Luis Munoz Marin elementary schools (also in Clark-Fulton), where westside Hispanic institution Esperanza Inc. employs site coordinators. These schools “fail to meet even minimum state standards,” according to the Cleveland Plan, and they’re far from the only ones with that label. When voters approved the November 2012 $15-million levy, they did so under the promise of fixing the Ds and the Fs of the districtwide report card (Lincoln West being a prime example) to something resembling passing, something that would signal a foothold for, in the most utilitarian sense, the city’s

results...Cleveland as a district has been known for our singleyear investments for many years. Start a strategy, stop a strategy. Start another strategy, stop another strategy -- a frenetic set of strategies applied randomly across our district.” Earlier this year, Gordon announced that he and the administration would be rewriting the strategy again. Even for students and teachers well equipped in their English, the turnabout is dizzying.

At CMSD’s majority-Hispanic schools, the Wrap-Around program’s site coordinator position was advertised with a specific qualifier: “bilingual.” Years of race-related strife at Lincoln West -- revolving mostly around gang violence, the sort that demanded flanks of officers stationed on school property each afternoon as recently as 2009 -- had brought the community to the point of demanding those in power be versed in Spanish. The last time the principal position at Lincoln West was open, parents clamored for a Spanish-speaking administrator. They didn’t win out. “Look, we are in need of someone

It’s another facet of a long-standing and seemingly unbridgeable gap between the schools and Hispanic students. future workforce. The levy will likely be up for a renewal in late 2016 On many promised fronts already, though, the district has balked. For the already marginalized Hispanic population, saddled with a mountainous language barrier, teachers say the strategy isn’t panning out. The district holds aloft a rising graduation rate -- across the board and for all represented races -- but parents and teachers seem well aware that many the neediest students are falling through widening cracks in the increasingly standardized system. Back on March 6, 2014, CMSD CEO Eric Gordon announced the second round of Investment Schools, lauding the fledgling program and looking toward the future. He said things were really working this time. “Investment Schools are a portion of our strategy,” he said. “If we can take immediate, explicit corrective action, we can quickly get a changed culture that will lead to changed

to go in there and help fix the schools,” Ramos-Torres says of the site coordinator job. Lincoln West was the last school in the bunch to hire for that position, according to her. There is no policy for the program, no official structure to which administrators can refer. Those who’ve worked within the program say that CMSD points to Cincinnati Public Schools’ community school program as the model. And so about that fight: RamosTorres, new to the job and ready to help fix the schools, organized two public safety meetings. She says now that the Lincoln West administration stymied any attempt to communicate to parents in the predominantly Hispanic Clark-Fulton neighborhood where the meetings were scheduled. “The parents very much care,” Ramos-Torres says, herself a parent. “They’re just not given the information for when they need to be there.” Ramos-Torres says that she tried

to reach out and then some during her six months with the district, which is what got her pushed out of the program prematurely. It was like when she tried to partner with a suspension intervention program, which would bring a student to City Life during, say, a 10-day suspension, rather than just missing out on education sitting at home. “They didn’t like me using the program,” Ramos-Torres says. When she tried to get to Hispanic students before they were suspended and removed from the building, she says the administration stopped notifying her of discipline efforts. The Spanish-speaking site coordinator was pulled from the very students she was tasked with reaching. Catalina says she wasn’t even aware what Ramos-Torres’ job was in the first place. According to students and parents, the administration began building a wall between the community and these site coordinators in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Catalina’s mother, Juana, says she only gets called when her daughter ends up suspended. Not that it matters much: She says interactions with principals and teachers hit dead ends with dubious translators. “I felt threatened because I didn’t know who to trust,” Juana says of the innumerable times she’s trekked to her daughter’s school, wandering into the bare-bones office past student art along the main hallway. While she can’t speak much English, she can often make out words that others are saying. It’s another facet of a longstanding and seemingly unbridgeable gap between the schools and Hispanic students. As teachers tell it, Spanishspeaking students learn at a different pace than those already well versed in English. They need more time and, more often than not, specialized tutoring. Parents point to federal Title III funds that are meant for English-languageacquisition programs and wonder where the results are. The WrapAround program was supposed to play a role in that. It’s a more specific part of the long education problem: Some students do well in a standardized setting, other’s don’t.

Sheila Vasquez, a community organizer and advocate, and a parent of a Lincoln West graduate, sits with us in the kitchen at Catalina’s home. She translates for the family, transferring frantic Spanish into yearning English, punctuating each statement with a stern “Why?” It’s

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presumed that she’s adding the unanswered inquiry. She adds the question to her own tangents, as well. It’s unavoidable for her. “You’re not building up a strong community,” she says. “You’re building up a strong prisoner system,” Vasquez says. “We have more families on a daily basis on the welfare system. So what are trying to do? Are they trying to make this a halfway house to receive more and more federal funding? Why? “We have leadership, but we have no leadership representing us,” Vasquez continues. “This is our district school. This is our Hispanic school. This is where our children need to be graduating. Catalina says that her tutoring sessions are hit-or-miss, a cookie-

with Spanish-speaking students did share some experiences from the classroom. In short, this teacher explains, the Cleveland Plan’s increasing demand on micromanaged accountability puts students on the raw end of the district’s relentless topdown structure. The impetus is numbers: rising test scores, a rising graduation rate. That’s mandatory. For students who are trying to learn English along the way to learning everything else, they either make the cut or they don’t. “Puerto Ricans: They value their culture and their language,” this teacher says of the neighborhood’s dominant ethnicity. “And a lot of their parents just do not speak English. They go home and that’s all they speak is Spanish. They have to turn their brain off. It’s really hard for kids who speak a second language. It’s really hard.”

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cutter method for students of all stripes at the school. Her geometry tutoring comprises 15 minutes of busywork at the end of the school day. “I’ve got to have more time, because I won’t get it,” Catalina says. “[My tutor is] so anxious to leave. He teaches it, but he doesn’t even teach it. He does the work for me. I don’t get it.” It became clear in visits to CMSD school board meetings that teachers weren’t going to discuss the Cleveland Plan -- much less the goings-on in their classrooms -- on the record. At one Collinwood High School meeting earlier this year, a retired teacher told Scene that the culture of fear within the district is now “worse than it’s ever been,” adding that we’d have a tough time getting anyone to talk about the school. She was right. One teacher who has worked

Ramos-Torres engaged hestudents in Spanish -- the students whose home lives were absolute wrecks at times, the students who didn’t have homes. She intimates that it was her drive to speak Spanish that led to her dismissal. She wasn’t the only hire who ran into trouble with how the district and its Wrap-Around program was implementing its transformation. At Walton Elementary -- another predominantly Hispanic student body in Clark-Fulton, one that inevitably graduates eighth-graders who then attend Lincoln West -- site coordinator Daniel Valentin outright quit over frustrations with the process. “In general Esperanza is doing a remarkable job because they tackle a lot of the issues…[like] programs in the schools and mentoring,” Valentin, a supporter of the Wrap-

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Around program, said. “As a site coordinator at times I didn’t feel like I was supported -- but onlyat times. In general they supported me and gave me a shot. “In my opinion the routine was a bit different than advertised because my understanding was to make the necessary changes and establish the necessary relationships in the community to spark change -- but change and being proactive or taking initiative simply took too long.” Despite repeated requests for an interview, Ruiz and other Esperanza Inc. administrators declined to speak with Scene. Last fall, Ruiz told Crain’s Cleveland that CMSD had seen an increase in the districtwide Hispanic graduation rate from 30 percent to 61 percent. According to the district, since Gordon took over the schools in 2011, the Hispanic graduation rate has increased by 18 percent. Still, an increase is an increase. Not in so many words, at least, but that’s the goal of CMSD’s operations. Exiting this current school year, Gordon is championing an all-time high graduate rate -- up 12 percent since he took over four years ago when the district hovered at 56.1 percent. “If we want to grow Cleveland, if we want to have those 21st-century jobs, the population we’re going

to turn to in 15 to 20 years is the Hispanic community,” Ruiz, a CMSD graduate, told Crain’s. “We weren’t going to be ready [with the earlier graduation rate].” Catalina’s older sister never graduated from CMSD. A threemonth suspension for a tussle at school sidelined her education. She moved to Florida to earn a diploma. “She was scared,” Catalina says.

cousin was beat up, the bilingual resource room buzzes with busy students. It’s almost the end of the school year, and the feverish excitement -- the magnetic pull of summer -- is clear. But there’s still work to do. Miguel Nieves, a Spanish-speaking paraprofessional tutor, holds court as students of all ethnic stripes dash in and out of the room, clocking time on the

“Poor Latino families are often labeled as uncaring about education. Their children are stigmatized as quitters or intellectually inferior when they don’t achieve in school. The fact is parents cannot give their children what they do not have, namely the tools (financial or knowledge of the education system) that will help their children achieve in school.” - Hispanic Alliance Inc., Hispanic Education Case Statement, 2008

Now, the soon-to-be junior at Lincoln West is scared of her own future -- upticks in statistics notwithstanding.

Within Lincoln West High School, near the cafeteria where Catalina’s

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computers and working through translations at one of the many tables. “The medium of instruction is English,” he says of Lincoln West’s curriculum. “That’s the nature of our programming as an ESL school. We’re bilingual by nature in terms of we speak two languages. But the

instructions are in English.” (Nearby Buhrer Elementary is CMSD’s literal bilingual school.) Nieves helps translate materials — say, a biology lesson — out of English and into one of the school’s 52 spoken languages. On most days, that means a lot of Spanish. “The students who don’t speak any English I bring here and I try to translate everything into Spanish, but at the same time I make sure that they know the meaning in English,” he says. “They need to know English in America. They need to learn English. I combine them. That’s my method to teach the students.” It’s the same intersection that Ramos-Torres ran into again and again as the site coordinator here, and the same debate that Valentin considered as his frustrations with the process mounted: At what point does the bilingual student check their native tongue at the door? It’s a longstanding debate that’s played out in cities and states around the U.S. (California, Arizona and Massachusetts, for instance, have passed controversial “Englishonly” public school laws.) Nieves walks through the granular difficulties of high school lesson plans with students from around the world. He says he’s become prouder of how his students do in class with each passing day. He sees successes, and he

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sees failures, but he says that an education rooted in English instills hope. The teacher we spoke with earlier, one who wished to remain anonymous, says that there will always be good teachers and bad teachers, much like the student body. She says that it takes a certain kind of professional to engage students who aren’t yet well versed in English -- regardless of whether the ultimate goal is to educate or to graduate. While poverty, standardized testing, access to resources and individual will are important factors in Hispanic students’ education, this teacher contends that too many of her colleagues either don’t give a hoot about the true grit of the profession or they’re too overtasked to care about the student’s real experience. She laments another longstanding debate in America: How should teachers be doing their jobs? Catalina says anecdotally that she has teachers who expect her more English-fluent friends to help impart the day’s lessons -- fellow students who themselves are buried in work each day. In a Pavlovian sense, she’s familiar with how her own language barrier and her sometimes-botched attempts to communicate will only land her in trouble. “Sometimes the teachers hear wrong, and they’ll kick us out,” Catalina says, referring to her Spanish. “They will write us up and kick us out.” Even when it’s not a bloody fight in the cafeteria, Catalina knows that, sooner or later, she’ll be sent packing. Briefly, an excerpt from Hispanic Alliance Inc.’s 45-page Hispanic Education Case Statement, published in 2008, well before the Cleveland Plan took hold: “Poor Latino families are often labeled as uncaring about education. Their children are stigmatized as quitters or intellectually inferior when they don’t achieve in school. The fact is parents cannot give their children what they do not have, namely the tools (financial or knowledge of the education system) that will help their children achieve in school. They can’t provide an extensive vocabulary, reading habits and discussions at the dinner table to add value to what they are learning in school. “The legacy that poor Hispanic parents pass on to their children can best be described as deficits in their educational journey. Adding salt to the wound, teachers assume

there is someone at home who will help Hispanic students with their homework. Think again, there may not be. Creating and rewarding ‘study buddy’ partnerships can help. Collaborating with community leaders and faith-based organizations to establish community homework centers is another viable strategy.” Between CMSD and the numerous community organizations seemingly working in concert, the goal remains to tackle those particular challenges. Lincoln West is a nexus for the Hispanic youth of the near westside. But with the school’s 49.8-percent graduation rate, rising yet as it were, attendance for many serves as a formality with no guarantee of success after enrollment. It’s the old narrative, polished anew as the Cleveland Plan for Transforming Our Schools: Some students will pass with flying colors, some students will fail. The numbers can mean whatever they mean. According to the most recent public reports, 76 percent of Lincoln West students report feeling “safe” at school. The administration has not stated what solutions are on the table for the remaining and unsettled 24 percent (or some 210 students). Ramos-Torres says that promoting a safe and helpful environment was packed into her job description. She says she tried. “I saw a lot of injustices, a lot of things going on,” Ramos-Torres says. “When there’s a rule and a policy it wasn’t being enforced across, it was being enforced only to a certain ethnic group.” The stories are strewn about the halls -- on one hand very much like any other high school in the country, and on another hand wrapped in Lincoln West’s own unique makeup. Around each tale, though, alarmingly, is how afraid families seem when asked to share their experiences, to tell their stories. More than anything, the culture of fear is settling in as a defining feature of the city’s school district. It’s nothing new for Catalina and her friends, though. Summer’s here, and with warm weather comes the inevitability of minimum-wage work. At 15, 16, 17, that’s fine. Years from now? Not so much. Vasquez, opting to editorialize for a moment between translations, says, “She wants a future, she has a vision. We all do.”

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Back on Track Comedian, screenwriter and TV/film producer Dave Chappelle had great success with Chappelle’s Show until he unexpectedly called it a day to take a break from entertainment. While the show remains in reruns, Chappelle hit the standup circuit in the wake of the end of the hit TV show and has been performing gigs ever since. He performs tonight at 7 at Connor Palace. Tickets are $58.50. (Jeff Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. musiC

Bean There One of the great things about U.S. Bank Plaza, a tiny bit of real estate across the street from Playhouse Square, is that it has a liquor license. That makes it a good spot to party, especially during the summer months. At Zack Bruell’s newly opened burger joint Dynomite, you can grab a beer and burger while you check out some of the city’s best local singersongwriters. Tonight, the Bean Sisters, a duo that includes singer-songwriter Maura Rogers and accordion player Meredith Pangrace, plays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is Free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Reserve University professor Patricia Princehouse talks about “how understanding canine evolution may help you choose and raise a puppy.” Should make for a fascinating discussion. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, happydogcleveland.com.

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Dan’s the Man Cleveland native Dan Grueter likes to poke fun at himself in his standup routines and laughs about the day when he was made fun of for wearing his brother’s hand-me-down bell-bottom jeans. As a result, he regularly got his ass kicked in the ’80s. Now, he loves to pick on audience members for questionable wardrobe choices, so don’t wear that sweater vest because you’re just asking to be called out. The fast-talking and quick-witted comedian performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities. He’s back at the club from June 12 to 14 as well.Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. LeCture

A Dog’s Life Raising a dog properly takes lots of hard work. There’s a certain psychological element as well. Just ask the Dog Whisperer. He’s able to correct bad behavior in ways that most pet owners can’t. Tonight at 6 at the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern, Case Western

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Seattle’s Finest Before the baseball season began, Sports Illustrated picked the Indians and the Seattle Mariners as the two teams to beat in the American League. Neither team has lived up to expectations. Tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field, they square off against each other. Both teams started the season slowly but have picked up some traction thanks to good starting pitching. The first game in a three-game series, tonight’s battle should be a good one. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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tor is given a full stein of beer to hold; the person who can hold it the longest is the winner. The champion has the opportunity to advance to competitions in Chicago and New York City. Registration starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Bier Hall and the contests are held at 7 and 8 p.m. Registration costs $10. Another round of competition happens June 11. (Hannah Wintucky) 1550 Chester Avenue, 216-621-2337, hofbrauhauscleveland.com.

at us as she wonders why her parents weren’t content with a single mention of that body part, but had to give her two to contend with. She was, as she suggests, the girl with two dicks! Funny stuff. The play opens tonight at 8 at Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre. It continues through June 27. Tickets are $29.50. (Tom Fulton) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-771-8403, playhousesquare.org. food

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A Drastic Change Written by Scene critic Christine Howey, and directed by veteran actor, teacher and director Scott Plate, Exact Change takes us inside the mind of Howey, a woman born inside a man’s body. With astonishing, visceral imagery and insight, Howey, actress and playwright, hews away at her human facade and personal privacy to reveal the terrifying, confusing, brutal and often hilarious musings of a trapped soul as seen through the eyes of a little girl, an adolescent, a mother masquerading as a father and a mature woman bitterly defeated by her awkward unfamiliar femininity. With a clear and nuanced voice built for the theater, Howey powerfully, unashamedly and without an ounce of self-pity, rants and raves, laughs and coos, struts and bellows, satirizing her earlier masculinity, boldly sharing her pain. Named ‘Dick’ at birth, she winks

Fresh Food North Union Farmers Market returns to U.S. Bank Plaza today for a regular Thursday morning stop that will continue all summer long. 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. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Continues through Sept. 17. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. sports

The Home Court Advantage The Cleveland Cavaliers’ quest for an NBA title continues tonight at 9 at the Q against the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors have the reigning MVP in quick-shooting guard Stephen Curry, but the Cavaliers have one of the greatest players of all time in LeBron James. And even with the loss of big man Kevin Love, the Cavs have been punish-

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Jam On The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce, formidable and very funny.” The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a longform improv set. The event begins at 8 tonight at Sachsenheim Hall. Arrive at 7:30 if you want to sign up and perform. Admission is free. (Niesel) 7001 Denison Ave., 216-651-0888, facebook.com/angryladiesofimprov. Art

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Will Stoner, vintage motorcycle event promoter, swap meet guru and “coconspirator” in the Roundups. “It’s not uncommon to see a 1950s Harley-Davidson Sportster parked between a low budget Honda CB550 Café Racer and a brand spanking new Ducati Diavel.” There will also be live music and a $10 steak special. Thor Platter plays tonight and the Britanny Reilly Band is slated for August. The event takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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Guitar Mania The Cleveland Classical Guitar Society has a very clear mission. It seeks to present “world-renowned performers and teaches hundreds of students each year through its education program.” This month, it’ll present CCGS at U.S. Bank Plaza, the small plaza across the street from Playhouse Square. It’s a free eight-concert series that showcases the best local performers. Music includes classical, Latin American and Spanish. Today’s noon kickoff features guitarist Bryan Reichert; check the website for more information. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. Art

The Human Element MOCA Cleveland’s Summer 2015 exhibitions officially open with an Opening Night Party that takes place tonight from 7 to 10. The new exhibitions include Tony Lewis’ first solo museum exhibition and How to Remain Human, a group exhibition featuring Mary Ann Aitken, Derf Backderf, Cara Benedetto, Christi Birchfield, dadpranks, Kevin Jerome Everson, Ben Hall, Jae Jarrell, Harris Johnson, Jimmy Kuehnle, d.a. levy, Michelangelo Lovelace, Dylan Spaysky and Carmen Winant. In How to Remain Human, artists from Cleveland, Michigan and Pennsylvania reflect on what it means to be human in contemporary society. Free. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org. Comedy

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Roll with It The Two-Wheel Roundup, an “open meetup featuring an array of American, Euro and Japanese vintage and mod motorcycles now in its fourth year,” is one of Prosperity Social Club’s more popular events. It draws an arrange of motorcycle enthusiasts who ride sportbikes, all-originals or Frankenbikes. “It’s a more diverse mix than the usual chain restaurant bike night,” says

Mo Better Comedian Mo’Nique is fat and Southern and proud of it. She’ll eat a whole fresh pig and she’s got the legs to prove it. Mo’s other topics of humor include her divorce from her “leprechaun” ex (dude was too short and had designs on her lucky charms anyway), her very “nice” son and her kids’ fear of playing Twister with their fat mom. Some of the stuff she talks about borders on the serious (like her mom life and why she

get out moved to a white neighborhood) but she manages to find the funny in every situation life throws at her, and she’ll have you laughing right along with her. She performs at 7:30 and 10:15 tonight and tomorrow at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at the Improv. Tickets are $40. (Liz Trenholme) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. Art

Peers Here The Peer Show is the Cleveland Print Room’s first juried exhibition. Selected by Barbara Tennenbaum, Cleveland Museum of Art’s Curator of Photography, the show includes more than 30 accepted works. The Cleveland Print Room invites the public to a free reception from 5 to 9 tonight. Awards will be presented at 6:30 p.m. The Peer Show runs through July 11. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com. Benefit

A Pianist and Psychiatrist The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center has enlisted classical concert pianist and psychiatrist Dr. Richard Kogan to perform at its annual benefit that takes place at 7 p.m. today at Reinberger Hall in Severance Hall. He’ll present The Mind and Music of Chopin, a combination talk/concert during which he’ll perform several of Chopin’s most beloved compositions. He’ll also “offer insight into the psychological forces that influenced those very masterpieces.” “We are thrilled that Dr. Kogan is visiting us again this year,” says Colleen Coakley, psychotherapist and development committee chair, in a press release. “The depth of his knowledge about Romantic-era composers, coupled with his undisputed talent on the piano, will be sure to give audience members something to remember.” Tickets are $75, $35 for students. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. Music

Pretty in Purple First released in 1984, Prince’s Purple Rain helped establish the diminutive singer-guitarist as a super star. Prince not only wrote and recorded the soundtrack, but he also starred in the movie. Tonight at about 9 p.m. (or whenever it gets dark), you can see the film on a giant outdoor screen. The screening takes place at Coventry P.E.A.C.E. Park, and admission is free. (Niesel) Euclid Heights Blvd. and Coventry Rd., coventryvillage.org.

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Tribute Time Some of classic rock’s biggest bands either don’t tour or have stopped touring. That’s why fans flock to see tribute acts. This weekend at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Classic Fest features a slew of such acts. War Pigz will play the best Black Sabbath tunes, Limelight will perform songs by Canadian power trio Rush and Ragged Glory will pay homage to rocker Neil Young. The event kicks off today and continues through Sunday. Tickets start at $55 and the price includes camping. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

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All About Canal Basin Park Walking around downtown Cleveland in the winter sucks. Walking around downtown Cleveland in the summer can be a really rewarding experience. 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. In 2014, the Take a Hike program received a Dominion Community Impact Award. Today’s tour explores Canal Basin Park in the Flats. Meet at 10 a.m. at Settler’s Landing RTA Station. (Niesel) 1278 West Ninth St., clevelandgatewaydistrict.com. drink

Beer Blast While Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica is mostly used for concerts, it makes a great place for a festival. The 3rd Annual World Beer Festival returns to the venue today from 1 to 5 p.m. It’s a great setting for the event, which features a wide range of beers, including a section dedicated to Ohio beers and a section dedicated to Belgian beers. There’s also a cask ale area as well. All in all, some 85 breweries will be on hand and that includes 24 breweries who haven’t participated in the past. Tickets are $40; for $75, you get early access and can start sampling the goods at noon. The VIP tickets also include access to private bathrooms. (Niesel) 2014 Sycamore St., 216-861-4080, allaboutbeer.com. Art

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get out and a concert lineup headlined by Ray Cintron’s Rice and Beans Band. Stop by BAYarts campus on the Huntington Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to celebrate art, music and summer. Just steps from Lake Erie, it’s a perfect excuse for a stop by the beach. Admission and parking are free. For more information, visit bayarts.net (Usmani) 28795 Lake Rd., Bay Village, 440-871-6543.

galize marijuana. To support the cause, you can take part in the Cannabis Crusades, a 5K walk/3K run that takes place today at 8 a.m. at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. According to a press release, “the purpose of the race is to collect signatures, to raise awareness, and to show support for the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment sponsored by Ohio Rights Group’s initiative to legalize medical marijuana and protect the interests of Ohio farmers.” Registration is $35 which also includes all day admission to the zoo. A portion of proceeds will go to Ohio Rights Group to help fund its

Circle has signaled summer in downtown Cleveland. One of the signature events of the summer in Northeast Ohio, Parade the Circle includes floats, dancers, live music, stilt-dancers, giant puppets, colorful costumes, vibrant characters and handmade masks. Participants include national and international artists, as well as local artists, community groups, schools and families. Circle Village offers activities, entertainment, food and more. It all takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in Wade Oval. The parade begins at noon. This year’s theme is “BEAT: to

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Cult Classic If “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!” hasn’t become a staple in your stable of relevant cultural quotes, then you aren’t a relevant member of the culture. Take that. You should see this cult classic at least once, just so you can say you’ve personally experienced the absolute silt of art’s age-old duck pond. It’s been dubbed by many the worst film in the history of cinema. It not only reorients but transcends the so-bad-it’s-good paradigm. The Room is, at root, a San Francisco love story. Johnny, played by the iconically awful Tommy Wiseau (who also wrote, directed and produced the film, bless him) is deeply in love with Lisa, who’s cheating on Johnny with his best friend Mark. God, this piece of shit is utterly, utterly senseless, and features memorable scenes like this one. Just please make sure you have a designated driver when you go to see it at the Capitol tonight at midnight. Tickets are $5. (Allard) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Gotta Have Faith The monthly Gospel Brunch has been a spiritual Sunday staple for years at the House of Blues. Curated by famed gospel singer Kirk Franklin, the recently reinvigorated show puts a bit more emphasis on the music. This week, the local group Lafayette Carthon and Faith performs. Band leader Carthon has performed with acts such as Celine Dion, Michael Jackson, Marvin Winans, Mary J. Blige and Vickie Winans. With seatings at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., the all-you-can-eat musical extravaganza features Southern classics like chicken jambalaya, biscuits and gravy, and chicken and waffles. Tickets range from $18 to $38. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com.

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Dancing Days Director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club) has made some terrific films over the years. In Pina, his 2011 effort, he profiles friend German Pina, a modern dancer and choreographer. The film documents the performances she and her dance company put on around the German city of Wuppertal which has been their home since 1972. The film was shot in 3D but will show in 2D tonight at 6:45 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. It’s a special benefit screening that will help pay for the installation of digital cinema in the Cinematheque’s new theater. (Niesel) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

full-scale opera production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, the classic love story about a beautiful Japanese girl and a U.S. naval officer. There will be the usual bells and whistles: soloists, chorus, orchestra, costumes, staging, and supertitles. Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, the principle associate conductor of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, will conduct. The performance takes place tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $25 to $65. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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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 donuts.” 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.

Blues Explosion Founded by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi who put together a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live, the Blues Brothers certainly surpassed expectations. The Blues Brothers first appeared on Saturday Night Live on Jan. 17, 1976, and then made its second appearance as the musical guest on the April 22, 1978, episode of Saturday Night Live. They made their third and final appearance on Nov. 18, 1978. To honor their 35 anniversary (not sure the math adds up but who really cares), House of Blues hosts a big bash tonight feature Austin Walkin’ Cane, who’ll play the band’s biggest hits along with a selection of Chicago blues tunes. The event takes place at the restaurant from 5 to 8 p.m. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.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 geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? 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. (Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

It’s a Revolution For many years, classical music wasn’t intended for the masses. Seemingly reserved for quasi-exclusive concert halls, classical music hid from the outside world. Classical Revolution Cleveland helps tear down that wall and once again bring great chamber music to the people. Showcasing a variety of performers in bars, cafes and the like, it’s actually not that different from how people used to listen to chamber music. The third Tuesday of every month, CRC brings its wide array of chamber music to Happy Dog. Performers like the Trepanning Trio, Anime Duo, students of Cleveland Institute of Music and even Cleveland Orchestra members grace the stage in these exciting concerts. Tonight’s free, all-ages performance starts at 8. (Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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Stop and Shop The Nine Twelve Shop Stop event offers downtown Cleveland employees, residents and visitors 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 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue for this pop-up shop. Participants include fashion trucks the Wandering Wardrobe and the Round About as well as food trucks. (Niesel) East 9th St. and St. Clair Ave., downtowncleveland.com.

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to beat, to breathe, to create Parade The Circle Celebrates Cleveland’s Dynamic Rhythms By Josh Usmani For a quarter oF a century, Parade the Circle has signaled the arrival of summer in downtown Cleveland. One of the signature events of the season in Northeast Ohio, Parade the Circle includes floats, dancers, live music, stilt-walkers, giant puppets, colorful costumes, vibrant characters, handmade masks and so much more. Last year’s 25th anniversary of Parade the Circle drew an estimated 80,000 visitors to University Circle. It included 90 groups, nearly 1,500 participants and lasted nearly three hours. This year’s theme is BEAT: to beat, to breathe, to create. It refers to the beat, or engine of our being. It all takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday June 13 in Wade Oval. The parade begins at noon, rain or shine. It will begin from the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) and will move counterclockwise around Wade Oval. “Beat, the creative pulse that moves individuals to create, is the theme for Parade the Circle 2015,” explains Parade director Robin VanLear. “In particular, this year’s Parade celebrates the various and unique beats that inspire Cleveland artists to make our community a more vibrant and exciting place.” This year’s participants include national and international artists, as well as local artists, community groups, schools and families. “To me, the inter-generational nature of Parade is one of its most inspiring characteristics,” adds VanLear. “Rather

than a children’s parade or a more adult oriented event, Parade encompasses art created by and for community members of all ages.” This year’s Parade features 32 regional artists, as well as visiting artists from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago. Organizers pair professional artists with community organizations. Featured outreach artists returning this year include Debbie Apple-Presser, Hector Castellanos, Mary Duhigg, Liza Goodell and Ian Petroni. It is the 18th year of participation for both Debbie Apple-Presser and Hector Castellanos. Apple-Presser is

Theatre’s Brick City Theatre Group. “During the last seventeen years, Parade the Circle has been a huge part of my life,” explains Castellanos. “No other celebration has had such an impact to bring together so many gifted artists, friends and families to one place to share their creative minds. We can experience and breathe the whole spectrum of what “Diversity” really means, and how proud we are of our cultures.” Mary Duhigg is celebrating her 25th year of participation in Parade the Circle. She will be participating as part of the Abington Arms “Funky Little Village,” inspired by the Cleveland

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the Parade’s outreach coordinator and a seasoned outreach artist. Outreach artists work for ten weeks to help community groups prepare for the Parade; planning the workshops and designing the costumes and other elements. This year, Apple-Presser is working with students and adults at Achievements for the Arts in South Collinwood and an after-school group at Outhwaite Community Center. Hector Castellanos designed this year’s Parade the Circle poster. His first experience with Parade the Circle was as an outreach assistant in the Spanish speaking parts of Tremont. This year, he’s working with the Cleveland Public

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Museum of Art’s Red Grooms’ work, Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church, 1981. Ian Petroni is also working with Abington Arms, a mixeduse residence in University Circle, coordinating the ensemble created by art therapy participants. In his 14th Parade, Petroni is also an outreach artist at Urban Community School, an artist in the public workshops and a featured ensemble artist of Parade the Circle. This will be Liza Goodell’s 22nd Parade. She began as a student at Monticello Middle School. She’s now participating as a visiting artist from Philadelphia. Her masks and costumes have made a crowd favorite over the

years, and her love of the event has led her to co-produce and create artwork for 30 other community parades and performances. “One of the things that I find most special about Parade the Circle is its diversity,” says Goodell. “Within the short list of guidelines, participants are free (and encouraged) to make whatever they dream up. I think its openness is one of the most remarkable things about this parade.” Circle Village offers tents filled with activities, entertainment, food, giveaways and more. Stop by to learn more about a wide variety of area nonprofits and community organizations; many of which are participating in the Parade. Parade the Circle is just the beginning of a full summer of festivities in University Circle. It started last month with the Hessler Street Fair and continues next week with the CMA’s Solstice on Saturday, June 20. At 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday in July, the CMA and Transformer Station continue the celebration of summer with Ohio City Stages; free block parties outside the Transformer Station; featuring global music from international artists on W. 29th Street. In September, the CMA’s Chalk Festival will return to University Circle for its 26th year. Visit clevelandart.org for more information.

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A family and their friends face existential angst in the excellent Three Sisters by Mamai Theatre Company By Christine Howey If you’re lIke most people, one week sort of bleeds into the next as we meander through our seemingly trivial and absurd lives. And unless you had a stretch of days like Caitlyn Jenner had last week, it might be hard for you to remember what happened, buried as we are by the ennui that daily life often imposes on us. Well, if you and I were smarter, we could have turned that often ridiculous, semi-bleak existence into great art, as Anton Chekhov did when he wrote his tragicomedies including Three Sisters, now being produced by the Mamai Theatre Company. This female-run theater company, specializing in classic works, usually delivers quality goods and this production is no exception. Chekhov has a particular gift for displaying nice people of the privileged class submerged in the wreckage of dashed dreams and futility. And if that doesn’t sound like a spiffy way to spend a couple hours in a theater, you might be right. The one condition is when an acting company can illuminate those characters and, even in the absence of anything very compelling going on, lash your attention to the small moments at hand. And that’s what the Mamai cast, under the crisp and often inspired direction of Bernadette Clemens, does for most of this production. Thanks to sharply dilineated performances and a lush set design by Don McBride, Mamai has created

an existential shadow box in which we can observe comfortable people in their native, uncomfortable habitat. The three sisters of the Prozorova family—Olga, Masha and Irinia—are whiling away their days in the rural home where their recently deceased father once ran a military garrison. Eldest sister Olga is the spinster (at 28!), Masha is married to an old fart who teaches Latin at the high school, and Irina is the youngest and filled with hope. All in their twenties, the women were born in Moscow and long for the city life, or at least some excitement. But they are stuck out in the sticks, along with their brother Andrei and

her pretentious prig of a husband (a wittily modulated Curt Arnold), and falls in love with Vershinin, a married soldier who has been dubbed “the lovesick major.” But he harbors grandiose fantasies about the future of the world, and this sweeps the normally cynical Masha off her feet. Anjanette Hall as Masha and Tom Woodward as Vershinin craft a tidy little bond, so that when Vershinin has to move out with his company, their parting resonates powerfully. As Olga, Natalie Green provides a strong center, as this teacher (and later headmistress) shows compassion for others, including the elderly servant woman Anfisa

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the doofus woman who eventually becomes the household harridan, his wife Natasha. Also hanging around are Chebutykin (a cheerily fatalistic Robert Hawkes)—a former army doctor who once loved the sisters’ mother—and some soldiers from the garrison who are drawn to the pulchritude in the house nearby. As things progress over four acts and five years, we see how these lives gently collide and disintegrate. And how, as time goes on, none of the characters can really get a fix on why they’re here and what their lives mean. Masha clearly is fed up with

(Bernice Bolek). The blossoming Irina, as played by Meghan Grover, has all the youthful dreaminess and vulnerability you’d ever want. Her frequent, extreme mood swings might seem a bit much until you acknowledge the hothouse environment in which she exists (in this household, being bi-polar passes for great entertaiment). And when she falls in “like” with quirky Baron Tuzenbach, you feel sad for her foreshortened prospects until fate deals her a different hand. Nate Miller is affecting as Tuzenbach, although his furious twitching early

on begins to feel like a strange nervous condition. Shawn Mann strikes a bashful and flawed presence as Andrei, and Hillary Wheelock has some deftly turned moments as the snarky Natasha, manipulating her sistersin-law and browbeating the help. However, some of her fury seems overplayed at times. Tony Zanoni makes some bold choices as the weirdo army captain Solyony, but they almost always work—even when he comes off as a refugee from the set of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But although Stephen VasseHansell generates quite a few chuckles, his hard-of-hearing doorkeeper Ferapont too often comes off as misplaced Gabby Hayes (hey, Google him!). Chekhov makes no secret of the existential themes he’s working with, as several characters recognize the fruitlessness of their lives. And some lines have an ironic ring, especially when Vershinin muses: “In old days, men were absorbed in wars, filling all their existence with marches, raids, victories. But now all that is a thing of the past, leaving behind it a great void.” Given the constant state of war we seem to live in these days, one might wish for some of the peaceful emptiness that bedevils the characters in Three Sisters.

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eveRy time anotheR one of theSe somber adaptations of 19th-century novels comes around, I know precisely what I’m in for. And yet I continue to hope. I continue to pray that a compelling performance, or a subtle reinterpretation, or even a modest set piece might dislodge me from the notion that these puddly domestic dramas were all produced with the same stock of costumes and interiors; that these were and are exquisite, influential works of fiction, but generally speaking make lousy movies. Madame Bovary is no exception. It’s the latest adaptation of the French author Gustave Flaubert’s incendiary debut of the same name. It opens Friday at the Cedar Lee. Unlike Jane Austen’s novels (or in Downton Abbey, for instance), which depict ensembles full of discrete personalities and diverse, bubbly desires, Madame Bovary is as sullen and impenetrably dull as they come. For a film about a profligate adulteress, this is a huge letdown. (The fact that the film’s total action transpires on cloudy days doesn’t help either, as far as mood is concerned.) The story is a familiar one, and indeed laid the groundwork for what we understand to be “realist narrative” back in 1857. The young Emma (Mia Wasikowska, whose American accent jostles among the British and French varietals) marries the provincial doctor Charles Bovary and moves to a listless town in Normandy. Almost immediately, she is bored by the banalities of her new life and begins lavishly spending on credit, redecorating her home and

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outfitting herself in imported fabrics and hot new styles. Also, plenty of adultery spices things up. Though why all these feathery legal students and moribund marquises take any interest in Madame Bovary remains a mystery. She’s supposed to be a romantic, a young mischievous woman swept away by music and literature. But Wasikowska’s version is muted, prim and painfully inaccessible. You’re likely to be more interested in the maid, Henriette (Laura Carmichael, Edith on Downton), who at the very least rouses herself to communicate some emotion with her eyes. The second and third act tragedies are all basically Shakespearian: dire straits get direr; the sinister merchant-cum-moneylender Lheureux (Rhys Ifans) demands prompt payment of the mounting debt; Charles grows more distant, having taken to gossiping with the pompous town pharmacist (an absent Paul Giamatti); the affairs fizzle out; Emma pouts for the duration. I often say that even a single moment of levity can enliven an otherwise mirthless, heavyset script. Here, there’s simply no joy to experience. There are, of course, some lovely period costumes and an omnipresent minor-key piano score: It’s like walking into a painting, raved one enthusiastic blurb. And if that’s your thing, great. But the real friction and social torque of the story occurs in the transgressions of Emma Bovary’s mind and body. And neither, in this instance, are successfully transposed from the page to the screen. — Sam Allard

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Spotlight an akRon/Canton native CuRRently living in Pittsburgh, Michael “Zombo” Devine is a jack(ass) of all trades. He played in “nutty” bands like King Dapper Combo, the Surfaholics and the Graveyard Rockers. He was also on a nationally touring comedy team in the ’80s/’90s and worked as a longtime radio DJ at WAPS. And now, with his new documentary film, Schmo Business, he can add “director” to his resume. The movie chronicles his career as a comic. “It all started after graduating high school and all I wanted to do was comedy,” he says via phone from his Pittsburgh home when asked about how he got his start as a comic. “I had this horrible computer job where I worked midnights. Computers were the size of whole floors. They looked they were from The Flintstones. I got this comedy bug and would go to the Cleveland Comedy Club. I would go there every Sunday and do their amateur night. I would get booed off the stage. I just gave up, so I took improv classes and put some plays together.” In the ’80s, comedy clubs started springing up and Devine’s plays morphed into Those Generics comedy team. He would take this Second Citylike show on the road and had a “nice little career” playing the crappiest clubs in the country. Schmo Bizness is “a journey back to the cultural phenomenon, the Comedy Boom of 1980s when everyone under the age of 30 still living at home or mooching off a girlfriend was a standup comedian.” He also describes it as “an odd chronicle of Those Generics Comedy Team,” his 15-year national touring comedy team. “In the film, we see a reunion of a comedy troupe that pared down to a comedy duo that worked in the trenches of grade-B comedy clubs who haven’t seen each other in nearly 30 years,” he says. “The original four members got together and we started talking, laughing and rehashing wild road stories we had long forgotten. I didn’t know who to make a movie but being a film buff, I caught on quickly. I used iPads for multiple camera angles. Changed that new footage to grainy black and white and then interspersed the old over saturated color VHS and Betamax live footage from some of our live shows and linked it all together with a cartoon animation backstory all on iMovie. It took about six months to make.” Devine weaves together live footage and “some aspects that defy description” to make the 70-minute movie something out of the ordinary. It’s had two “wild showings” at The Hollywood Theater in Dormont and the Rowhouse Cinema in Pittsburgh and will screen at 9 p.m. on Sunday, June 14, at the Nightlight Cinema in Akron. Admission is $10. — Jeff Niesel

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let’s eat in Meal delivery services are on the fast track to streamlining your cooking adventures By Douglas Trattner After heAring rAve reviews from friends about their experiences with meal delivery services like Blue Apron, HelloFresh and Plated, I decided to give them all a spin. While each has its own personality, the three most popular outfits all work pretty much the same. Boxes containing enough chilled, fresh ingredients for multiple meals are delivered to your door. All eliminate the hassle of planning recipes and grocery shopping.

Unboxing

My very first shipment came courtesy of Blue Apron, so I had zero expectations before opening the package. My initial thoughts were: Wow, this stuff looks remarkably fresh. My second thought was: Holy crap, that’s a lot of packaging. Inside the cardboard box was an insulated freezer bag loaded with enough fresh ingredients to prepare two servings each of three separate meals. Everything was well chilled, and the meats (cod, chicken breast, ground beef) all were vacuum sealed and kept separate from the other ingredients. Seasonal produce like ramps, rhubarb and asparagus arrived bright and crisp. The same was true for Plated, which included ground salmon, ripe cherry tomatoes, arugula and mache – all of it cold and fresh. Plated gets props for placing its ingredients in reusable “green bags,” which keep them fresh longer in the fridge. HelloFresh earns kudos for combining all the ingredients

needed for each recipe together in a single plastic bag. Not only is there less packaging, but it saves time when rounding up the numerous individual items from the fridge come cooking time.

The goods

While all of these companies strive to use good-quality suppliers, it’s not always easy to determine what, if any, produce is organic. Most meats are hormone and antibiotic free, seafood tends to be sustainable, but for others it’s impossible to say for sure.

delicious – recipes. The methods required multiple pans and multitasking. While brown rice simmered away, you prepare a quick-pickle brine for the ramps that would garnish the finished steamed cod dish. As the fish gently steamed atop sautéed yu choy greens, you whip up a ginger-soy finishing sauce. HelloFresh recipes tended to be less challenging, with less rewarding flavors as a result. A cinnamon and oregano-scented ground beef chili on rice and beans, for example, was ho-hum, while

I think the sweet spot for these services is busy home cooks who enjoy cooking but don’t have the time to plan and shop or inspiration to come up with recipes. The Recipes

All of these services provide everything needed to make the recipes, right down to the sugar, chili flakes, soy sauce and red wine vinegar. The only things not included are salt, pepper and oil. While you do have to wash and dry the produce, you do not have to measure a single ingredient as they come in proper quantities. Step-bystep instructions are illustrated and clear, and nutritional information is provided. Of the three, I found Blue Apron to have the most ambitious – and

a roasted veggie quesadilla was satisfying but somewhat flat in flavor. Plated seemed to fall right in the middle, with easier techniques than Blue Apron and better-tasting results than HelloFresh. We loved our horseradish and caper-infused salmon burgers with tarragon aioli on soft brioche buns, and the spinach pesto that sauced our orecchiette was bright, lemony and creamy from the pecorino cheese. All three services offer subscribers some level of choice when it comes to recipe selection,

with Plated providing the most options. Looking at many of the recipes listed for all three services, I could notice a certain level of redundancy in terms of overall recipe technique that might get tedious over time.

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Each offers various plans for subscribers. HelloFresh ships three meals for two or four per week, with each plate coming out to around $11, including shipping. Plated ships a minimum of two meals for two people per order, with each plate costing $12, including shipping. Blue Apron ships three meals for two or a larger family plan, with meals costing around $9 to $10 each.

conclUsion

I think the sweet spot for these services is busy home cooks who enjoy cooking but don’t have the time to plan and shop or inspiration to come up with recipes. Yes, the cost per plate is more than had you done the shopping yourself, but there’s none of the waste that comes with buying more (insert ingredient here) than you need for one meal. Plus, there’s a certain joy that comes from opening the box, trying new recipes, and improving your skills as a home cook.

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By Nikki Delamotte At 5 a.m., I push through the jagged plastic strips dangling from a tiny opening in a tucked away corner of the Cleveland Food Terminal complex at E. 40th and Woodland Ave. A flight of cement stairs leads to a set of wooden double doors below, where I’m immediately greeted with, “How did you find out about this place?” I hand the co-owner a fluorescent green pamphlet titled “Land of a 1,000 Diners: A Guide to Greater Cleveland’s Greasy Spoons, Family Restaurants, and Diners” opened to the page dedicated to the Maingate Restaurant. He looks down at the blurb, adjusts his oldfashioned white paper hat and murmurs, “Huh, next month I’ll be here 19 years” before quietly going back to serving his clientele, which includes a truck loader who has worked upstairs for four decades and a cop on his usual beat. That’s exactly the type of experience Julie Gabb captures throughout the 52 diner reviews in the 26-page zine, which she self-published this March and is available at Lakewood’s My Mind’s Eye

Her ground rules were simple: To qualify as a diner, breakfast must be served for under $10 and there must be counter-style seating. Flipping to the front of the guide, the first line of the first review aptly describes one diner as “Where you feel right at home in your mother’s living room.” Another unleashes the greasy spoon battle cry, “Give me grime or give me death!” But the best anecdotes are the stories about people – the patrons, owners and employees, like the steadfast southern charm of a server at soul food spot Annie and Earl’s in the midst of a Cleveland blizzard. “You’re getting in touch with the different neighborhoods, the different people there, the regulars,” she explains. “Some diners had factory workers, some diners had more business professionals on their lunch break.” Like anyone who covers the world of greasy spoons and 24-hour diners, Gabb isn’t without her tales of debauchery. One of the most storied destinations, of course, was Steve’s Lunch, which

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and Future No Future and Oberlin’s Hanson Records. “I was trying to dispel the mystery from all these places,” Gabb explains. “I wanted something people could keep in their glove compartment. If you’re driving around with your friends looking for a place to eat it leads you to get to know your city.” Gabb grew up going to family restaurants, so when she enters George’s Kitchen near her Lakewood home she immediately recognizes the neon signs and wood-paneled interior as straight from the ‘80s. “In some mid-to-late ‘80s diners you have glittery chairs and stimuli everywhere,” she fires off with uncanny expertise. Her mission to visit 52 diners in 52 days began in early 2013 as a New Year’s resolution with no real plans to document her findings, she explains between ordering her usual All-America, with two eggs, home fries, bacon and toast. “It’s an easy stand-by,” she adds. “You get to know their skillsets when they make the most basic things.”

Gabb affectionately memorializes in the guide for some profanity-laced wisdom bestowed on her by a whip-smart waitress. As luck would have it, Gabb gave the go-ahead to print the guides just three hours before the beloved joint caught on fire this St. Patrick’s Day. “I had this review but felt like I should have done a tribute,” Gabb says. “When people get the guide they immediately want to see the Steve’s Lunch review and say, yes, that’s exactly what Steve’s was.” From deep-seated late-night-toearly-morning memories to the eclectic immigrant influences spotted on the menus of countless Cleveland eateries, “Land of 1,000 Diners,” like the city it covers, captures a melting pot. “By going to all these different places you’re seeing an aspect of Cleveland you don’t always get to see without even trying.”

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eat bites RockefelleR’s RestauRant Is now closed By Douglas Trattner One Of the mOst beautiful restaurants in Cleveland closed its doors after dinner service late last month. Rockefeller’s, on the expansive second floor of the Heights Rockefeller Building, is pulling the plug. “For four and half years we were doing fine,” says owner Michael Adams. “We were established as a good restaurant. We established a solid core of regulars and people from the neighborhood who loved to come here. But it was time to rededicate myself to my three kids and my wife. “Obviously, it was a difficult decision,” he adds. “As a resident of Cleveland Heights, I enjoyed opening up a business here and contributing to the economy.” Nobody is more upset with the decision than executive chef Jill Vedaa, who has been crushing it in the kitchen since opening day. “Yeah, it sucks,” she says. “But I have no regrets. I was very spoiled with Michael because he allowed me to make the food that I wanted to make, and that, for me, was amazing. I pumped out probably the best food that I have in my culinary career.” As for what’s next – both for Vedaa and the gorgeous restaurant space – only time will tell. “I don’t know what’s next,” says Vedaa. “I might be kinda off the grid for a little bit, but not for too long.” Adams says the space is ripe for the picking. “I would love for another restaurateur to come in and open up whatever he would like to do conceptually,” he says. “The owner of the building is more than amenable to that happening.”

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A new sandwich shop on Cleveland’s west side has been drawing praise since it opened its doors in late winter. Gabe’s Deli (10435 Clifton Blvd., 216-4718578, gabesdelicle.com), named after owner Gabe Sims, is located in the same prominent strip as the Clifton Wine Bar. “We have been doing better than expected,” Sims says of his fast start. “We started out pretty decent.” Sims had been eyeing the adjacent space when MoCa, the former tenant, pulled up stakes. He jumped on the corner

property instead. Sims has been in the food and beverage biz for 23 years, most recently working in Austin, Texas. He originally is from San Francisco, but his girlfriend is a native Clevelander. All the sandwiches are named after Cleveland neighborhoods and movies filmed here. “I’m a movie buff and she’s a die-hard Indians fan,” he says. “We have season tickets.” Sims describes his shop as a “San Francisco-style deli.” “It’s mostly cold cut sandwiches, no hot sandwiches or corned beef; that’s a Jewish deli thing. Just fresh high-end bread and really good ingredients.”

Ingredients like Molinari salami, Italian prosciutto, La Quercia ham, and Amish cheeses are layered into Mediterra bread. The popular Tower City ($9) has turkey, ham, bacon, Swiss, white cheddar, mayo, lettuce and tomato, while the Deer Hunter ($8) stuffs a farm roll with roast beef, cheddar and horseradish mayo. The Murray Hill ($9), the classic Italian, has salami, prosciutto, ham, fresh mozzarella and vinaigrette. A few sides like soup, potato salad and pasta salad, as well as Cleveland-based Old City Sodas, are on hand as well. On Saturdays, a separate brunch menu is offered in addition to regular sandwich menu. Items like a big Cob salad ($11) with romaine, turkey, bacon, egg and swiss, joins a ciabatta pizza ($9) topped with housemade marinara, fresh mozz and basil. Gabe’s seats about 20 indoors and 30 outdoors on the expansive front patio.

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After a remarkable comeback, Fall Out Boy returns to Blossom By Jeff Niesel

When Green Day Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum earlier this year, alternative rockers Fall Out Boy had the honor of inducting the group. The guys spoke eloquently about the band’s ability to stay true to the essence of punk rock while doing things that wouldn’t necessarily be considered “punk” — i.e., making an album that would become a Broadway musical and recording power ballads. Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz describes the event as a “surreal moment.” “They don’t write the speeches for you,” he says via phone from the backyard of his Los Angeles home. “We wrote the speech ourselves. I personally had a lot of nerve. That was a big moment. Hearing [Green Day’s] Dookie was a big moment for me, and that album opened a lot of doors for other bands. It was a band of our generation that made it and not in a suspicious way. Sometimes bands get in and people wonder if they belong in or not. Not them. They were just welcomed. It was great to be a part of that.” For Fall Out Boy, the appearance at the Rock Hall was yet another important step on a comeback trail that started two years ago. Given the way today’s music fans are more fickle than ever, the band’s rise and fall is a remarkable thing and the band’s return to Blossom this month isn’t something that would have seemed possible five years ago. Shortly after forming in Chicago in 2001, the emo/alternative rock

band experienced a meteoric rise to fame. The band went from playing concert halls like the Agora, where it performed in 2007, to playing outdoor sheds like Blossom, where it played that same year. But then it hit rock bottom after the release of 2008’s Folie a Deux. Fans started booing the group during live performances and the guys decided it was best to take a break. Members worked on solo efforts during the hiatus. Frontman Patrick Stump was the most ambitious. He wrote, produced, and played every instrument for all the tracks on his

back together again. The band went to Venice, Calif. to record a new album, 2013’s Save Rock and Roll, with producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Pink). They kept the sessions secretive because they didn’t want to put any unnecessary pressure on themselves. The album veers away from the band’s signature emo sound to embrace pop and powerpop. Elton John makes a guest appearance on the title track, which he recorded from his Atlanta studio. It was a hit and the band was back to playing arenas and the group returned to Cleveland for the first

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debut album Soul Punk. He also reportedly lost his shirt touring in support of the album. Wentz formed the electronic duo Black Cards. It released an EP in 2012. He also wrote a novel and hosted a reality show. Andy Hurley drummed with multiple bands and formed a heavy metal group. Some personal stuff went down too. Stump got married and went on a diet, losing some 60 pounds in the process. Wentz went through a divorce. Through it all, members reportedly remained friends. And then Wentz and Stump began working on songs together. They called up guitarist Joe Trohman and Hurley and decided to get the group

time in more than four years to play Wolstein Center. During that tour, the band wrote the songs that appear on its new album, American Beauty/American Psycho. “Usually, we do some writing on the road, but this record was an experiment,” says Wentz. “Can we make a record — write and record — on the road like rappers and DJs do. People think of rock bands as dinosaurs. But we wanted to know if we would be able to do it. In that way, it was successful. We were able to do it but we don’t normally work that quickly.” Wentz says the lyrics are more personal this time around. He

should know — he’s the guy who writes them. “I feel like I have more to talk about it,” he says. “I have perspective in taking three or four years off from the band to get time to think about things. The first time, it was all smashed together. It was hard to process anything. It was a high and then a low. It was compartmentalized and it was compressed. Having time to process it all, I feel like there was more I wrote about from inside of me.” He says the songs are linked by a common theme — namely, that the way we communicate in today’s world has changed. And that change affects the way people share their emotional connections. “The idea behind the title track is that we’re all much more connected but so much less personally connected,” he says. “It’s just our take on that. There are beautiful aspects to it and some aspects that are a little bit crazy and there’s some mania involved. That’s what the album as a whole concentrates on.” The band self-consciously making references to American Beauty and American Psycho, which relate to a film and a Grateful Dead album and a Bret Easton Ellis novel and film, respectively. “The Dead reference and the reference to American Beauty, the film, and to the book and film American Psycho are significant,” says Wentz. “We’re a band that sometimes our reach is pretty big.

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MUSIC You make nods to other artists you want your fans to check out. We’ve always felt that was important.” The album is also the band’s most diverse. The music runs a wide gamut, from pop to rock to hip-hop. It almost sounds as if each song came from a different album. “In some ways, each song can sound like it’s from a different record,” says Wentz. “We made it all over the world. We made different songs with different people. We reached out to Sebastian who’s from a punk rock DJ scene in Paris. We wanted to do a modern rock song but like a throwback from the future. He sampled Mötley Crüe. We thought he’d sample ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ or ‘Shout at the Devil.’ But he sampled the punk rock Mötley Crüe record. We would have never thought about doing that.” The song “Centuries” seems like

on it. We played it for a friend. They thought of Quentin Tarantino because it’s like this Dick Dale surf-y guitar thing. I thought of her because she’s so quirky. It’s fun to be able to stretch out a bit and do something a little different.” For the current Boys of Zummer tour, the group has teamed up with rapper Wiz Khalifa, who coheadlines. Rapper/singer Hoodie Allen is the tour’s special guest. It’s an odd pairing but given the sampleheavy sounds on American Beauty/ American Psycho, it makes sense. “Being able to take this album into amphitheaters means it’s going to be the biggest vision of the album we could have, which is exciting because when you’re in the studio making the record, you imagine it being played like that but sometimes you don’t get the chance to do it,” says Wentz. “That we even get to take a swing at it is pretty cool. It’s going to be a fun tour. People might be coming out who aren’t familiar with Fall Out

“ I think for us, we needed to wait until we were inspired to make new music.We didn’t want to just be a legacy band, which is fine but it didn’t feel like it was the right decision. ” - Pete Wentz a victory celebration of sorts. The track starts with a sample of the Suzanne Vega tune “Tom’s Diner” before heavy synthesizers kick in and the song blasts off (at times, it literally sounds like a jet airplane revving its engines). “I thought about the song in the way that legends come from anywhere,” says Wentz. “For every guy like Michael Jordan, who gets denied and then becomes the biggest star in the world. How many people are out there like that? Their parents just shut them down. How many Kanye Wests are we missing out on. That’s what we wanted to write about. It can happen to anybody more than anything. It got played in a couple of stadiums and became a sports anthem but it’s meant to be about how the playing field is pretty level.” The song “Uma Thurman” sounds completely different. It features a brisk keyboard melody and a surf guitar riff that sounds like something out of a Tarantino flick. “We had the track first,” explains Wentz. “It had this Munsters sample

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Boy but are Wiz Khalifa fans and vice versa. Maybe we’ll do one of his songs and maybe he’ll come out and do a song with us. We want to mix it up a little bit.” And what’s been the key to the band’s incredible comeback? “I think for us, we needed to wait until we were inspired to make new music,” says Wentz. “We didn’t want to just be a legacy band, which is fine but it didn’t feel like it was the right decision. We waited and waited. Me and Patrick got together and more than anything, we want to treat the process like if it was a band we would like to see got back together. If it was the original members of Guns N Roses, how would you as a fan like to see the band get back together. We’ve been lucky to have great fans and be in the right spot at the right time. That has so much to do with it. It’s really humbling to see the serendipity and having good people around you.”

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MUSIC all that (free) jazz

Local educational-promotional venture New Ghosts aims to ‘seed the community’

By Jeff Niesel It’s a Friday night at Mahall’s and the place is filled with the usual quotient of hipsters and young revelers. But if you didn’t know any better, you wouldn’t know to go to the corner of the downstairs bar where there’s a paper sign with the name Josh Abrams Natural Information Society hand-written on it. It points you upstairs to the old apartment where the venue’s previous owners used to live. A ragtag group of musicians who look like they stepped out of a different world have assembled for the first-ever show in the small space. They’ve hung a giant orange tapestry in one corner of the room and sit in a semi-circle while a crowd of about a dozen or so people have pulled up chairs to listen to Abrams who sits in the center of the room strumming a guimbri, a threestringed animal hide bass traditionally used in healing ceremonies. In a city known for its DIY spaces, this show, which has the feel of a house concert, is on another level. Tom Orange, Matt Laferty and Andrew Auten, the promoters behind the show, call themselves New Ghosts in honor of the late Albert Ayler, the famous free jazz musician who was born and raised in Cleveland. Since the start of the year, they’ve been booking and promoting concerts that are avant garde even by avant garde standards. They all met by happenstance. Five years ago, Laferty moved to Cleveland from upstate New York. Prior to living here, he had never booked a show. But after moving here and checking out the musical landscape, he realized he could fill a niche by bringing obscure jazz groups to town. “One day I drove to Cincinnati to see a jazz trio called the Thing, a group that did a record with Neneh Cherry and named themselves the Thing after a song by her father Don Cherry, who had played with Ornette Coleman, and the drummer asked, ‘Why did you drive four hours to see us?’” he recalls. “I said, ‘You guys weren’t playing in Cleveland.’ He said, ‘What are you going to do about it?’” That’s literally how I started booking bands.” First, he booked the avant garde jazz group Ballister to play Now That’s Class in 2010.

“The first show went well because people showed up and liked it,” says Laferty, adding that he considers the endeavor a “labor of love” rather than a profitable venture. “It went well because the band was happy. It went well because it was a band that played here that never played here before.” He continued to regularly bring bands to town and in 2011 teamed up with Auten to issue an album of early Albanian traditional songs and improvisations. He also started seeing Orange at the same concerts he would attend. So it made sense for

shows, we bounce from space to space and from venue to venue and in some way, we haunt the venues,” he says. “When thinking about Albert, I remembered that he had an obscure version of his most famous song, ‘Ghosts.’ He recorded a version late in life called “New Ghosts.” It dawned on me that people playing this music are new ghosts. For me, that’s the ‘aha’ moment.” Orange agrees. “We want to celebrate and promote the legacy of Albert Ayler,” he says. “So many touring bands

The guys in the New Ghosts crew know their cutting edge music.

him and Auten to join Orange and start booking shows together in some capacity. “We kept seeing each other at shows and talking and Matt and I were booking shows that were very related,” says Orange. “There were multiple contexts that overlapped, and last year Matt wanted us to team up on the booking level. We were going to each other’s shows so it made sense.” Laferty says the name “New Ghosts” works on several different levels. “I realized that when we book

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are psyched to play in his hometown and they know and like the music. The audiences are great but there’s no civic recognition that he grew up here.” The New Ghosts guys say they want to do about a dozen shows a year at various venues around town. Last month, they even co-sponsored a show at the West Shore Universalist Church in Rocky River. “We see ourselves seeding the community,” says Laferty. “Cleveland has a great DIY culture here, almost to a fault. The only reason the Grog Shop

is something is because they haven’t given up over the years and even Now That’s Class has survived somehow.” “The Bop Stop has been very supportive,” adds Orange. “The timing there was perfect because that space became available as we were starting up. It’s a great place for all types of music, not just jazz but also modern classical music and gypsy stuff. We want to promote free jazz acts but a group like Josh Abrams Natural Information Society could be called free jazz in the Ayler tradition but they’re taking in interesting directions. We’re interested in music that doesn’t fit into categories like jazz. That’s a challenge for potential audiences. The labels predispose people one way or another. Someone who might not like free jazz might really like a show we do.” Upcoming New Ghosts gigs include a performance by Rent Romus, a jazz saxophonist and record label director from the San Francisco Bay area, who’ll play with a local ensemble (June 10, Bop Stop). And that’s not to mention performances by the guitar and bass free improv duo Secret Keeper: Stephan Crump & Mary Halvorsonm (June 13, Bop Stop) and “extended technique percussionist” Will Guthrie (June 14, Now That’s Class). The Romus show will be a special one. After he performs at the Bop Stop, he’ll conduct a live-in-the studio conversation and performance on WCSB 89.3 FM from 11 a.m. to 12:30 on Thursday, June 11, and will then play the What You Will festival of improvised music that takes place outside Columbus from June 12 to 14. That festival will also feature an appearance by Mutawaf Shaheed, an imam at a local mosque who played and recorded with Ayler in the 1960s. He’ll appear at both the festival and at the Bop Stop but won’t perform. You gotta think the late Ayler would approve of all this New Ghosts activity if he were still alive today.

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THAT’S DEDICATION

Alt-rock veterans Soul Asylum revert to the good old fashion way of doing it themselves By Jeff Niesel

Hard-rocking Soul aSylum singer-guitarist Dave Pirner originally didn’t set out to play punk rock. He first learned to play trumpet. It was only later that he realized he needed to break free “from the chains of playing trumpet scales every day.” So he initially gravitated to drums because, as he puts it, “I wanted to be the dude that hit shit.” Inspired by the Jimi Hendrix album Are You Experienced?, he picked up a guitar and “started making noise until it started to sound like something.” He’s never looked back. For thirtysomething years now, Soul Asylum, which originally started as a punk band, has delivered rock songs that draw from punk, blues and roots rock. Think of them as the Midwest’s answer to Social Distortion, the SoCal punk band from the same milieu. “We were trying to do punk music as far as Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers and the Ramones were punk rock,” says Pirner in a phone interview from his New Orleans home. “As we were sorting these things out, we’d do punk versions of [jazz trumpet player] Dizzy [Gillespie] songs or whatever. Easy simple shit. That was the root of so much of it. The Ramones simplified things for me so I could understand the music. In that way, it was a shortcut to writing. It was primitive in all the right ways.” Believe it or not, there was a time when bands and toured and recorded for years before they got any significant airplay or started to play large venues with lavish green rooms

and catering. Early on, Soul Asylum toured with fellow Minneapolis indie rockers Hüsker Dü, a band with a DIY aesthetic that would become hugely influential. “It was great,” says Pirner when asked about that tour. “They taught us a lot about the do-it-yourself aesthetic. They had offices in the same office space. We had two or three guys running an independent label and then we had Hüsker Dü running their own label. It was very organic and do-ityourself and home spun. It was a great inspiration and example. You didn’t need the music industry. You just got

“Over that period of reckoning, if you will, I wrote a bunch of songs that were different,” he says. “I was not going to the loud rehearsal room to work them out. I was working them out at home and that became the record. When I went to New York with the demos with that material, I realized that my goose wasn’t cooked yet. The first song was really sad and acoustic and down. The people at record labels thought it would be my acoustic record. I didn’t realize the material was so different. I didn’t know they were going to call it the down and out record. The last one

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in a van and started playing. After Wisconsin and Illinois, Michigan was next. We just worked our way out.” Soul Asylum initially signed with Twin Tone, the Minneapolis-based label that was also home to the Replacements. And then, the major labels came calling and the band signed to A&M. After two albums, however, the band split with A&M records. Pirner figured it was over. He figured wrong. It was actually just beginning. “I was distraught and felt like we were fucked,” he says when asked about the split with A&M. “I was thinking about going back to my day job.” But he started playing more acoustic guitar and writing new songs.

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wasn’t loud and happy. I realized people were still interested in me. That was strange.” The band signed with Columbia for the resulting album, 1992’s Grave Dancers Union, because, as Pirner puts it, record label head Don Ienner “was different enough from the other record companies in that he seemed crazy in the right way.” “He took it and ran with it,” says Pirner, “and next thing I knew, I was selling a shitload of records in Tokyo. It was a transition period that was a huge learning experience for me.” That lead to a long, successful streak that stretched into the ’90s. But after 2006’s Silver Lining, the band took a minute to regroup before returning with 2012’s Delayed

Reaction. “I think that when we made the record before that, we learned something about ourselves,” says Pirner when asked about the long layoff. “We were working with John Fields, who’s been a Minneapolis guy forever. Things had come full circle. We knew what we want the band to sound like. We had [drummer] Michael [Bland] in place and that was always an issue. Just trying to get good drum takes was the biggest problem for Soul Asylum. Now, we feel like we can’t be stopped. We own the horse and we know how to hold the reigns.” Earlier this year, Soul Asylum launched a PledgeMusic campaign to help fund an album of all new material slated for release later this year. For Pirner, the group’s longevity has come as a surprise. But he’s not ready to toss in the towel yet. “It’s really fucked up to think about for me because there’s not really a precedence,” he says when asked about the band’s long run. “I moved to New Orleans because it did have a timeless element and did seem ageless as far as that goes. I used to go see a guy who was 85 years old and the master of the bass drum and nobody does it like him. He did it til the day he died. That’s the way it goes in New Orleans. You play music until the day you die and then you have a musical funeral with all your friends.”

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The Movement/Wanyama/Dutty: The Movement has opened for such acts as Slightly Stoopid, the Wailers and Blues Traveler. Their mix of reggae, rock and rap is different from the roots reggae everyone knows. Their music includes the steel drum sound of island music and the undeniable record scratch of hip-hop; think Slightly Stoopid-meetsBarrington Levy-meets-traditional-rap. Their most popular song, “Set Sail,” is a mix of traditional reggae guitar with vocals reminiscent of rap, steel drums and tropical keyboard riffs. Their newest single, “Rescue,” features a mix of pop and reggae that sounds a bit like Sean Kingston. 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern. (Hannah Wintucky) Ozric Tentacles/Broccoli Samurai: With more than two dozen albums under their belts from the past 30-plus years, England’s Ozric Tentacles have become one with the psychedelic jam scene. The band’s latest, Technicians of the Sacred, is as fresh and inspired as anything they’ve dropped during their career. Album opener “The High Pass” swirls with natural sounds — birds, wind, flanged-doped Doppler shifts — the sorts of aural accents that might accompany an hallucinogenic hike through, like, the Peruvian interior. Layered on top of the electronic buzz are raging guitar solos, pulsing bass lines, defibrillating drum fills, etc. Even though but one founding member remains, the band shows off a sense of cohesion in the studio that foreshadows great things for tonight’s live show. 8:30 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom. (Eric Sandy) Shabazz Palaces/Eaters: With the Madison Avenue development project happening this summer, the folks at Mahall’s, the Lakewood club/bowling alley/cool place to hang out and get a beer, decided to skip LKWD Music Fest, their annual indoor/outdoor summer blowout concert, to avoid conflicts with the road construction. Instead, they’ll be spreading “the music awesomeness,” as they put it, over six shows that take place from June to August. The first such show takes place tonight. It features Shabazz Palaces, the heady hip-hop act out of Seattle. Band leader Ishmael Butler has some serious cred. He was formerly known as Butterfly and played in the jazz-influenced Digable Planets. A song like “#Cake” suggests the experimental nature of the group’s music. It features deep bass beats and echoing vocals. Should be a

Let’s hope Shabazz Palaces leaves the pet snakes at home. See: Wednesday.

great way to kick off a summer concert series. 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. (Jeff Niesel) Jarekus Singleton Blues Band (in the Supper Club): Slapping some hip-hop sensibilities on top of bluesy rock ‘n’ roll licks, Jarekus Singleton has begun emerging as an exciting presence in this decade’s cache of ambitious young guitarists. There’s a hell of a lot of Stevie Ray Vaughan in his stuff, and I hear a bit of RL Burnside now and then in his riffs. Singleton’s got chops, that’s for certain. And he surrounds himself with killer musicians (drummer John “Junior” Blackmon holds everything down with skill). Singleton’s debut, Refuse to Lose, is a fresh, deep groove in this year’s crop of new albums. “Purposely” is tight, tight, tight, wrapped up in Singleton’s smooth vocals and reverb-drenched lead work. Brought up amid gospel traditions outside of Jackson, Mississippi, it’s clear that Singleton knows his roots as he carves his own path. 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. (Sandy) 10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Connoisseur/Methlab Explosion/ Communazi/Smokemadweed420/Primitive Binocular Rainbow (in Club Atlantis): 8 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Gift of Gab/Landon Wordswell/Archie Green/Pure Powers/Vice Soulectric: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. Her Dark Host/Skan/Crumble: 8 p.m. The Foundry. Hollywood Ending: 7:30 p.m., $12-$60. Musica. Tim Matson Trio/Blues Chronicles: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Nana Grizol/All Over the Place/JoyFrame/

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livewire The Sonics/New Salem Witch Hunters/ Archie and the Bunkers: This year, some 50 years since the release of their debut, the Sonics, a proto garage/punk band, issued This Is the Sonics, their first proper studio album in decades. Recorded in mono by Jim Diamond (White Stripes), the album still retains that raw power for which the band is known. “[Diamond] seemed to have a good idea of what he wanted,” says guitarist Larry Parypa. “Everyone has their own opinion. There are things I would have done differently and maybe they would have been a failure, I don’t know. But in terms of mixing, he was good at capturing the raw sound. We didn’t go in fully rehearsed. We didn’t know what songs we were going to record. Some we decided to do right there and did our version of a cover song. A couple of others we wrote. It was a process. It was real basic and real unprocessed.” Parypa says the band is now in a good place and the acknowledgement from contemporary acts has been flattering. The guys in the Swedish garage rock act the Hives have befriended the band, and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder has been a vocal fan. 8:30 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom. (Niesel) Soul Asylum/Meat Puppets: 8 p.m., $15$25. Hard Rock Rocksino. Tall Heights and Heather Maloney: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. The Kent Stage. Tricky Dick & the Cover-ups: 9 p.m. Vosh Club. Jim Volk/Dan Bankhurst/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Liz Woolley Band: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Zex/Rotten UK/Beerokrats/Deche: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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Straddling the intersection of soul, R&B and dusty Americana songwriting, Timothy Bloom is quietly gaining some traction for doing things a little bit differently than his contemporaries. While songs like “Wooooooo!!!” would fit in real nicely on most college bars’ playlists, the off-kilter brass section and stutter-step beat are just enough to throw bovine pop listeners for a loop. Still, Bloom’s got a penchant for the catchy, and he should be sought out for such. “A Long Time Ago” (with Dezi Paige) is a throwback to Motown complete with weird production effects. Here’s Herbie Hancock on Bloom’s music: “Timothy is very talented, sincere, and passionate about good, relevant music. His music has all those elements. That’s a hard combination to beat.” We agree. 8:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. (Sandy) Beach Stav/Erienauts/Samfox: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Crazy Chester: 9:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge. DJ Jebediah/Mint Clad/DJ Ralf Macchio: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class. DJ Red-I: 3 p.m. Now That’s Class. Drenalin/Kiva/Light Weight Slams: 9 p.m., $10. Musica. The Fabulous Booze Brothers (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Don Felder: 8 p.m., $33-$159. The Kent Stage. Ray Flanagan & the Authorities CD Release/Brent Kirby & His Luck: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Honeyhoney/Conor Standish: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. The Lacs: Outlaw in Me Tour: 6 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Odeon. Local H/Aeges/The Decoy: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. Karen Meat & the Computer/That Poor Girl/Shisho/Heavenly Creatures: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Mo Mojo: 3 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Eddie Money: 8 p.m., $29.50 ADV, $30 DOS. House of Blues. Shockwave: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club. Dream Circuit/Sweet N Blu/Cats on Holiday: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Rob Thomas/Plain White T’s: 8 p.m., $43$78.50. Akron Civic Theatre. Tribute to Benny Goodman Featuring the Midiri Brothers with Craig Gildner: 8 p.m., $15. BLU Jazz+. Turquoise Jeep/Black & Broke/Wrecking Crew Red Panda Bears/Discordia: 7 p.m., $15. The Foundry. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Whiskey River Revival hosted by Hillbilly Idol (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Dizzy Wright/Jahni Denver/DJ Hoppa: 7 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Agora.

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Acadian Driftwood (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Art of Dying: 6:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora. Harry Bacharach Quartet: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Gibson Brothers: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. The Kent Stage. Mike Gordon: The power dynamics within Phish have always been interesting. For the bulk of their run together, Trey ran the show — which may or may not have played into the band’s impermanent 2004 split. Since then, and amid “Phish 3.0,” the guys have spent a lot of time touring and writing with solo bands and side projects — the Mike Gordon Band being one that’s really come into its own. Here, Mike is the undisputed conductor. Last year’s Overstep teed up a particular psychedelic sound that was heard in more nascent forms on his earlier albums (see the melody in “Andelman’s Yard,” for instance). In tunes like “Ether” and the ubiquitous “Yarmouth Road,” Gordon struts his songwriting chops. He’s grown into comfort at the helm of the ship — taking charge in Phish’s jamming style and, here, developing a whole new sound entirely to his and his fans’ liking. 8 p.m., $27.50 ADV, $30 DOS. House of Blues. (Sandy) Will Guthrie/Nevari Butchers/Fire Death/ Night Terrors: 8 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. Irish Sundays Featuring the Portersharks: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Jeff the Brotherhood/Bwak Dwagon/ Sweepyheads: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard/ Nowhere/New Planet Trampoline: 9 p.m., $10. Happy Dog. Night Owls: 3 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Joe Rollin Porter: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. White Lung/Obliterations: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

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