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CONTENTS 51 Upfront
Editor Vince Grzegorek
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A foot chase turns into a flashpoint, a major museum expansion gets under way, and more
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 Editor Nikki Delamotte Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani Interns Hannah Wintucky, Brittany Rees, Jacob Gedetsis, Jason Meek, Maggie Sullivan Kimberly Jauregui,Tyler Singleton, Caitlin Summers
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Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive John Crobar, Shayne Rose Multimedia Account Executives Amanda Klein, Kiara HunterDavis Classifi ed Account Executive Alice Leslie Marketing and Events Marketing Director Jenna Conforti
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In a world of Cleveland-themed tattoos, Andrea Lynne is happy to oblige
Feature
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Is being “authentically Catholic” the ultimate credential for teaching high school?
Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Layout Editor/Graphic Designer Christine Hahn Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace Business Asst. To The Publisher Angela Lott Sales Assistant/Receptionist Megan Stimac Credit Manager Angela Lawrence
Get Out!
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Art
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Film
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Dining
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Dozens of events spanning the next week in Cleveland
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Zygote Press themed show explores iconography in history
Scene’s theater critic tells her story in a deeply moving one-woman play at Playhouse Square
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Westside Foot Chase ends With shots Fired and telltale signs oF tension
tHIS WEEK
A SundAy morning foot chase on the city’s westside ended with an officer firing his gun four times. He didn’t hit anyone, though one man who had allegedly pointed his own gun at the officer was injured while jumping a fence during a foot chase. The story quickly grew more complicated as the neighborhood came to life on a humid morning in Cleveland. Residents gathered around West 83rd and Detroit en masse, drawn out from quiet homes after gunfire and rumors piqued curiosities. Confusion abounded, and neighbors swapped stories about what brought them out there. From around 10:40 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. or so, police did not provide information as to what was going on. “I heard about nine shots,” one man told Scene around 1 p.m. “Two guys were hit.” He didn’t know much more. Others shared stories that included a man’s stomach being sliced open, a dead body baking in the afternoon heat behind a commercial building, and a suspect being cornered by police until SWAT officers showed up — which they later did, though there was no such confrontation. Most people seemed to believe that a police officer had shot and killed a young man, and this was backed up in spirit by an erroneous report from an EMS official. The crowd -- maybe 75 people or so at
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its peak -- grew angry. Without a coherent message from anyone, though, nothing added up. At one point, a representative from the Division of Police told a crowd of people that “there was no shooting.” Minutes later, another CPD rep told another nearby crowd that a “shooting investigation” was under way. Later in the afternoon, Police Chief Calvin Williams said that
the hospital in handcuffs. “By the grace of God no one was struck, not even the suspect,” Williams said, guarding the finer details of the incident. If anything, though, the confusion of the morning returns the city’s fickle spotlight to ongoing frustrations between Cleveland’s black residents (according to witnesses, the men involved in the foot chase were black) and the police. Photo by Eric Sandy
Residents shout at police officers stationed across the street
officers had responded to reports of six men waving guns around in the area. A pursuit began on foot, culminating with at least one man pointing his gun at an officer. The officer fired four times and did not hit the man. Shots were also fired by an unconfirmed number of men in the group. Williams said that the man who first pointed his gun at the officer was eventually injured as he tried to hop a fence. He was taken to
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The recent Michael Brelo verdict came up constantly on Sunday, with one man challenging a Cleveland police officer repeatedly over whether the not-guilty verdict was the right answer to the community’s questions about the Nov. 29, 2012 police chase and shooting. The community, of course, awaits the imminent Grand Jury hearings in the Tamir Rice shooting case. It was hard not to recall the
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words of Art McKoy, a longtime local organizer who spoke with Scene contributor Daniel McGraw in a March 2015 article for The Guardian: “This is going to be a summer of agitation in Cleveland if things don’t change.” Now, once ascertained, the context of Sunday’s foot chase is wildly different than the shooting of Tamir Rice or the eastside gang violence that claimed a 15-year-old boy’s life (the vigil for whom was where McKoy was speaking). But rumors built on the sounds of gunfire and the void of explanation prompted quick-draw anger from citizens long fed up with how the police interact with the community. Some police representatives have intimated that they believe the simmering tensions sparked an “ambush”-like scenario, and that officers have much to fear as this summer unfolds in Cleveland. Elsewhere, city leaders -- like Williams and Mayor Frank Jackson -- gather before the media to promise transparency and a greater emphasis on “community policing.” There’s a lot of information left unknown about what happened on Sunday, about how the foot chase unfolded and how the various people involved exchanged gunfire. Body cameras have been rolled out in the First and Second Districts (the border of which the crime scene straddled), though CPD has not elaborated on
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less,” Gates said in March. In the groundbreaking ceremony Monday, alongside Frank Jackson and other city leaders, Gates said it was time for the museum to “step up its game.”
stAte senAte Provision MAy keeP bArs oPen until 4 A.M. during rnc the museum’s expansion looks marvelous, if we say so ourselves.
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The FBI is accusing two Akron men of extorting a Columbus-area businessman whose brother had connected them to a large-scale Mexican drug trafficker that ripped the pair off. The Akron men, Franklin Conley and Patrick Griffin, threatened to harm the victim and the victim’s family if he didn’t pay them what they lost in the failed deal — between $65,000 and $125,000, an FBI agent’s affidavit says. They later demanded $175,000. Conley and the businessman’s brother were housed together last year at Oriana House, an Akron halfway house. There, the brother “provided Conley with the name of a Mexican drug dealer,” and after Conley was released this winter, he and Griffin “met with the Mexican drug dealer who ripped them off (took their cash and provided no product) for a large amount of money, between $65,000 and $125,000,” the FBI affidavit says. “Conley and Griffin told the victim’s brother that since he gave them the Mexican drug dealer’s telephone number, he was responsible for their losses and he had to make it good,” it goes on to state. “After the victims’ brother told them he could not pay, Conley and Griffin began contacting the victim and threatened him.” The pair believed the brother could pay because he’s a successful businessman. Starting this February, they began harassing him for the money, telling
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him that he and his family would be harmed. In May, Conley called him up and said he’d “go to war” and that he had “people from out of town” that would come harm them. Conley said he already gave his lawyer $20,000 in case he was charged with a capital offense, and that he’d beat a capital offense charge for a second time. In 2012, Conley was acquitted of a capital offense charge in Summit County. “I’ll pay $50,000 to beat another one,” he told the man. The man had already gone to the FBI and agents were listening to the calls and reading the text messages. According to federal court records, Conley was arrested on Friday and charged with extortion and “interstate communication” (using a phone to do it). Griffin’s status is unclear.
clevelAnd MuseuM of nAturAl History breAks ground on Wildlife center, MAssive centenniAl cAMPAign underWAy When the new Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Perkins Wildlife Center and Woods Garden opens in 2016, according to the CMNH literature, “you will enter on an elevated walkway through the tree canopy.”
We will? “Raccoons will be climbing in the trees.” Stop it. “You will pass through an aviary full of songbirds, waterfowl, and upland game birds.” Next you’ll be telling us about
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bobcats. “Then you will be level with bobcats jumping on rock ledges.” Um. “Further on, the path will descend into a pond, and you will be eye to eye—separated by a curving, 50-footlong wall of clear acrylic—with river otters swimming underwater.” This sounds extremely state-of-theart. “Then you will cut through a vertical cross section of a wetland, the home of Sandhill Cranes. Above the wetland habitat, as in nature, you will see Bald Eagles.” Well my my my. Quite the exhibit! CMNH broke ground Monday on the new Perkins Center. It’s part of the $20-million first phase of the institution’s grand $150-million expansion. A 300-space parking garage is also slated for imminent construction. The sparkly new campus - the renderings for which may actually have been stolen from the set of Jurassic World -- is scheduled for completion in 2020 to mark the museum’s centennial. CMNH says the new Perkins exhibit, which is being from the north to the hilly south side of the museum complex, will utilize the sloping topography to optimal advantage. The outdoor exhibit is popular in part because it features flora and fauna from Ohio. The current Perkins Wildlife Center will close in August. CMNH CEO Evalyn Gates has long held that the museum’s expansion will forge sustainable architecture and engineering with bold and innovative exhibit design. “The community deserves nothing
Per hour cost of parking downtown, an increase of $.25/hour. (Max costs at city-owned garages are now $1 more per hour.)
The Ohio Senate wants to put the party in “Republican party” by keeping Cleveland’s bars open until 4 a.m. during the Republican National Convention. State Sen. Tom Patton, a Strongsville Republican, added a provision to the Senate’s budget plan that would allow certain establishments to stay open extra late, especially for convention-goers who may not leave event functions until midnight. If passed, a limited number of Cleveland bars would be allowed to serve booze past the usual 2:30 a.m. cutoff time. The deal isn’t just for Republicans — the provision would also allow late-night liquor sales in any Ohio city with a population greater than 350,000 during “major events” that last from one to 10 days and attract over 3,000 attendees. Any bar seeking these extended service hours would need to apply for a waiver 120 days in advance. This isn’t the first time that liquor laws have been loosened, either — state lawmakers also approved a bill to allow “outdoor refreshment areas” exempt from Ohio’s open container laws. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has remained mum on the subject, though it’s not like he’s really been asked about it. By the time the RNC rolls around next summer, Kasich’s hopes are that he’ll be onstage, cloaked in the spotlight and accepting the great reward Of course, post-convention, if and when joints like the Tilted Kilt stay open until 4 a.m., well, you know where to snag your autographs.
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What do you think is your favorite part about your job? For me, it’s creating something. I like the whole process of working with the client, seeing their idea, vision in my head, and putting it together. Who is the most famous person you have tattooed? I had no idea who he was, until he left, and I looked him up. I thought this guy is so hot, so English, and amazing. He gave me ID, email address, phone number, the whole bit. He was Matthew on Downton Abbey. I spent 45 minutes trying to put an “A” perfectly on his ribcage. He was super specific about where he wanted [it] because it was for his son. It was really hilarious. Why was he in Cleveland?! He was filming a movie with John Travolta, just walking by and wanted to get his son’s initial tattooed on him.
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In a world of Cleveland-themed tattoos, Andrea Lynne is happy to oblige
By Kimberly Jauregui AndreA Lynne, founder and owner of Kollective Studio, has been devoted to opening Tremont’s newest tattoo shop for some time. She opened shop June 1 after moving locations twice, and renovating the old food joint at 1112 Kenilworth Ave. with her own hands. Specializing in Americana-style tattoos, this chick has been inking people all over the US for nine years, and decided to make Cleveland home. She sat down with us at Scene to talk about her story, her new shop, and all the painfully inspiring spots for your next ink endeavors.
How did you get into the business? I started getting tattooed when I was 19 by a couple of guys in Dayton. I moved to Columbus, and I met this guy named Greg D., who started tattooing me. He knew I could draw and he got tired of hiring people that never
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worked out. He thought, “I should teach you how to tattoo because its easier than hiring people who don’t show up to their job.”
did you always see yourself opening your own shop? It was never my intention; this whole thing kind of all fell together. I never thought that I would be where I am right now. So when did you open Kollective? In 2011, originally started in Cleveland Heights. In 2013, we moved to Tremont and were on West 14th until June. Would you say you get some pretty good food traffic here in Tremont? We get a decent amount of foot traffic. The other location was a little slower. Before we were a destination; now we have a lot of people who just happen to be
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What are the weirdest, and also most common tattoo requests you’ve gotten? Infinity symbols are the most common. Its very Pinterest; we get a lot of those. An infinity symbol means a lot of different things to a lot of people so I totally get that. The weirdest? No one is getting really random stuff anymore. Its all very: flowers, birds, that kind of thing. I think the weirdest tattoo I ever did was of the word “tattoos” with a big red “no” sign over it. The guy wanted to tell people he had no tattoos. It was so random. I didn’t know if he was making fun of tattoos. The more I thought about it, the more odd it was. Have you seen or done any Cleveland-themed tattoos? Oh yeah, the Ohio with the dot for Cleveland, or the brownie. I’m so sports-stupid though. So, I learned about it, but if there is somebody in the studio who is generally more into sports than I am, I’m like, “Please take this tattoo, because you actually like sports and know what they’re talking about.” I try to steer clear of those. Cleveland skyline is a popular one; I’ve done that a couple times. Have you ever had someone screaming their head off while you were giving them a tattoo?
Once, a long time ago, she was flailing around screaming. People are pretty composed now, and I’ve figured out ways to calm them down. I think a lot of people know how to adjust their head and calm down, but she did not.
do you mind sharing your first tattoo experience? Yeah! The guy is actually about to be on the next Ink Masters. His name is St. Mark. If he knew that I was telling you this, he would probably be really embarrassed. He wanted to learn how to tattoo, so he started tattooing in the back of his airbrush studio. I wanted this “X” with letters above and below it and I wanted it on my shoulder. He was like “OK,” and put it together. I didn’t know anything, it was my first tattoo. I remember sitting in a chair reading comic books thinking, “This isn’t that bad.” I thought it was going to be a lot worse. When he got done, I [thought] wow, I want more tattoos. It was very uneventful but it was basically an illegal shop. I think it was in ‘92, and now he is going to be on Ink Masters, which I think is hilarious. What would you say is the most painful part on the body is to get a tattoo? Palm of the hand, fingers, underside of the fingers. Closer to the nail bed on fingers is pretty bad. What’s the wrist like? It’s really pinch-y. It like a rubber band is snapping at it really hard. Closer to the armpit is really bad. ribs? Ribs and stomach are notoriously tender. If you think about an area of your body that gets sunlight, or you bang it a lot more [those are easy]. Outside the arms are easy, its fleshy. Legs [too], until you get to the back of the knee, which hurts badly. Its one of those things where you sit for an hour and it feels like a sunburn; its hot, but after a while you’re like “meh, its not that bad.” If you can handle womanhood, you can get any tattoo. That’s what I tell everyone. That’s 100-percent true.
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MORALS OF THE STORY Is being “authentically Catholic” the ultimate credential for teaching high school? By Sam Allard Here’s a Harmless conversation starter for the dinner table: How will the Cleveland Catholic Diocese’s “morality clause” impact its ability to hire quality educators? The so-called “morality clause” was a key (but surprisingly noncontroversial) component within the contract recently agreed upon by the Diocese and the 195 members of the Cleveland High School and Academy Lay Teachers Association (CHALTA). That union exists at the pleasure of Bishop Richard Lennon. The contract is negotiated every three years and signed by faculty members annually. Elementary school teachers agreed to the same terms last year. The clause in question itemizes those moral behaviors to which teachers are expected to adhere. They can’t publicly support abortion, for example. Nor can they support in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or the “socalled homosexual lifestyle.” They certainly can’t get abortions. They can’t unlawfully use drugs, be “seriously dishonest,” view or share pornography, support “transgenderism” or exist in a state of marriage not officially sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church. Cohabitation and sex outside of marriage are also, of course, strictly prohibited, as is membership in any organization “whose philosophy is in any way contrary to the ethical or moral teachings” of the church. So it’s a pretty detailed clause. On that last item, various interpretations might preclude faculty members from participating in Dungeons & Dragons or other tabletop gaming groups -- on this topic, Christian debate rages online -- or even in neighborhood yoga classes. A crotchety bishop in Nebraska last month urged the readership of a Catholic women’s magazine to find other forms of
physical exercise, as yoga’s ancient Hindu origins and emphasis on meditation -- to say nothing of yoga pants -- invited demonic attack. (Demons often enter vaginally in Catholicism.) But in Cleveland, the questions that concern at least some of the current teachers at the five schools under the diocesan umbrella relate to enforcement. Specifically: Will the morality clause be enforced? And how thoroughly? And by whom? And depending on the answers to those questions, is the contract worth signing in the first place? Is all this high-moral posturing just another example of the church’s anxiety about the world’s “relentless progress” and the need to insulate itself therefrom? Or is the so-called morality clause actually a prudent legal consideration to avoid costly settlements with high school teachers whose lives no longer accord with gospel values? These all seem like fair questions, but we mustn’t count on answers from the diocese. Communications director Bob Tayek advised Scene that the so-called morality clause had already been in earlier contracts, albeit in less specific form. “The terms were simply better defined,” he wrote Scene in an email, of the so-called morality clause. “It is a provision elementary and secondary teachers have agreed to in their contracts for some time. The diocesan guidelines contain these essential qualifications for a teaching candidate: A person must be of good moral character whose lifestyle is consonant with the teachings of the Catholic church. “The remainder of your questions,” Tayek continued, “are based on assumptions that our school officials say are not borne out of reality.” The remainder of my questions turned out to be the totality of my questions: I asked about standard
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operating procedure if teachers were found to be in violation of the clause. Would enforcement be left to the discretion of the individual schools or would the diocese be involved? I also asked how strictly the enforcers (whomever they might be) intended to police specific moral breaches. What about teachers in protestant marriages, for instance, or those who’d married divorcees without the imprimatur of an R.C. annulment? And what was the mood of the faculty, to the best of his knowledge? Was there a noticeable divide between older and younger teachers?
When I rephrased my questions to include specific hypotheticals, Tayek said that the Diocese would be sticking with its earlier comment. Lord knows how all these mysterious school officials were privy to my assumptions, but it’s true that principals and presidents don’t seem to acknowledge the existence of moral aberrance of any kind at their institutions. “I don’t think I can be of any help to you,” wrote David Csank, Principal of Euclid’s Villa-Angela St. Joseph. “You are asking for responses to situations we are not experiencing at all, so I really would
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FEATURE not be able to provide any insight.” Csank was the only principal who responded by phone or email to the six questions I posed regarding the morality clause. Again, the questions related to enforcement, faculty sentiment and parent and student awareness. Karl Ertle, however, President and Principal of Walsh Jesuit in Cuyahoga Falls and former President and Principal of Cleveland Central Catholic, promptly responded to my questions by phone and email, hours before his school’s baccalaureate. Ertle is also a former St. Ignatius High School administrator. He said, somewhat unexpectedly, that in his six years at CCC (2004-2010), there was never one instance when a faculty member was living outside the teaching of the Catholic Church. “I was never aware of any, nor was one ever brought to my attention,” he said. “As at Walsh Jesuit, I was blessed to work with some truly wonderful people.” On the flipside: Mike DeSantis, who’s been president of CHALTA for 17 years, said that he could guarantee that at each of the five diocesan high schools -- Cleveland Central Catholic, Elyria Catholic, Holy Name, Lake Catholic, VASJ -- there was at least one instance of a teacher cohabiting (just for example). “But it’s not a witch hunt,” he said, in a phone conversation. “If it were, I would’ve had a lot more cases.” DeSantis said that since he’s been president, there has only been one teacher termination for a morals violation. “And the guy was arrested,” DeSantis said. “It was pornography and stuff like that. The clause doesn’t say you can’t have your own beliefs. You just can’t get up in front of the classroom and promote them. If I had said that abortion was acceptable, that it was an acceptable form of contraception, I would be in the same trouble five years ago as I would be now.” As such, DeSantis said, there wasn’t a whole lot of controversy when CHALTA voted on the contract earlier this year. There was some concern among members about gay relatives, though. “That was one of the things we got clarified [by our attorney and the Diocese],” DeSantis said. “Because we wanted to know, could we go to a gay wedding ceremony? And the answer is yes. There’s no problem with my going to the ceremony. Now,
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if I come out and say something positive in the classroom, that’s an issue. But that was a misconception.” So why the hullabaloo now? DeSantis said that because the contract is on a three-year cycle, this is the first time new, young teachers have experienced the negotiations. “But our view is, they’re spelling out exactly what they expect of us. Our teachers now have a better understanding of what was expected of them in the past. The people on our board look at it as a way of clarifying, of giving them more knowledge.” It’s also a legal linchpin because it prevents dismissed faculty members from suing the Diocese for discrimination (more on this in a moment). That happened in 2013, down in Columbus. Carla Hale, a physical education teacher was dismissed when the name of her female partner was published in her mother’s obituary. After Hale leveled an official complaint, and petitions and protests were organized on her behalf, she settled with the Columbus Diocese outside of court. Financial terms were never disclosed. But with the expanded contract language in Cleveland, no longer can terminated teachers claim that they “had know way of knowing” that supporting [the moral violation of your choice] was a fireable offense. Maria Schock, 30, teaches Spanish part-time at Elyria Catholic. She’s a lesbian, and she won’t be returning to her post next year. To be fair, she told Scene over coffee in North Olmsted, she’s finishing up a graduate degree at Cleveland State and is eager to move out of the region, but still said the morality clause would have compelled her to quit regardless. “I could just lie,” Schock said, “but I don’t want to live my life that way and I don’t want to sign a piece of paper that says I agree with this when clearly I don’t. It’s sad, though, sad for all of us. You grow so close to the students and the school -- it’s heartbreaking really.” Schock grew up in North Olmsted and attended Elyria Catholic in large part because her mother was a Spanish teacher there. “My parents said that I could go anywhere I wanted for high school,” Schock said, “as long as it was Catholic.” She said being gay was a private struggle through her teenage years, a struggle made all the more difficult by the church. “I was told that if I prayed hard enough, it would go away,” she said. “So I did. I went to the school prayer service every morning. I joined the
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“I went to school to study Spanish, I’m good at it. I’m not a minister. If I wanted to be a minister, I would’ve gone to school for that.” - Maria Schock Schock came out in her early twenties and, after traveling the world teaching English, settled down in New York City, teaching ESL classes for five years. She only returned to Northeast Ohio when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. “It was the third time and it was stage four,” Schock said. She had a few spare months before she was slated to begin grad school in NYC, and she decided she’d spend time with her mom by helping her out at school. “They thought it would be better for her recovery to be in the classroom. It was what she loved,” Schock said. Schock came in every day, serving mostly as an aide -- passing out papers, running small errands -- and teaching afternoon classes when her mom had run out of energy. By the end of the year, she was teaching the full class load because her mom couldn’t leave the house. The breast cancer had spread to the bones and she didn’t have much time left. During the tragic ordeal, Schock said, Elyria Catholic was “so kind and so supportive” and despite her reservations about the faith, she agreed to return to teach after her mother’s passing, In May, after the most recent contract had been agreed upon by
CHALTA, Schock wrote a letter to Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio to the United States (basically, a Vatican diplomat) to provide her story as testimony and to outline her qualms: “As I fell back into the daily school routine, I began to feel as though I had a purpose again and that I was in the place where I could be of the most service. I intended to continue working at the school, which many people were happy about. However, Bishop Lennon has intervened and disrupted our happy and productive environment with a morality clause that will be attached to the contract of any future employee at our school. The contract now says that employees cannot show support for homosexual unions. I do not believe that the love I feel is a sin and I will not sign a piece of paper that says I do. I am not alone, other teachers will not be returning because of other morality clauses written in the contract (sic)…. By adding this morality clause into the employment contract, schools will lose valuable employees who have already proven their worth. This clause will have no effect except to drive people away. I feel as though I am continually being called to come back to Catholicism by a higher power, but the Catholic representatives here on Earth keep pushing me further away.” In person, Schock elaborated. “It’s like what [does the Diocese] want? Do you want someone who knows their subject and does a good job, or someone who goes to mass every week? I guess you could have it both ways, but they pay so little that the pool becomes really really small.” With respect to what the Diocese wants: Bishop Lennon made that clear in a letter to teachers and administrators. Whether or not you agree with his hard-line philosophy, you certainly can’t blame the guy for wobbling. He said that though Catholic schools are, by definition, schools, they “in fact serve the primary purpose of developing each student as a whole person based on the model of Christ.” Lennon cites a Vatican council, canon law and the keynote address at a Catholic schools’ conference to bolster his argument that teachers are not merely instructors, but Christian role models -- ministers: “A Catholic school succeeds in its mission only if every aspect of the school is inspired and guided by the Gospel and only if instruction
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occurred in both the Oakland and Cincinnati Dioceses last year and are all in the wake of a January, 2012, Supreme Court ruling which established something called the “ministerial exception” for religious employers. In laymen’s terms, the ministerial exception means that anti-discrimination and workplace labor laws don’t necessarily apply to people whom religious employers deem “ministers.” So firing someone for supporting the “so-called homosexual lifestyle”? That’s on rock-solid legal ground. The question remains, though: Who is going to enforce the clause? Citing history -- one termination in 17 years -- Mike DeSantis argued that just because the Diocese can legally dismiss employees for morals violations doesn’t mean they will. “It’s a last resort,” he said, suggesting that if a violation was brought directly to Bishop Lennon’s attention, he’d likely delegate to the Diocesan secondary schools’ superintendent, who would then meet with the the school principal and the teacher in question to “address the situation” and “work out a simple solution.” “If a [female teacher] is cohabiting with her boyfriend, they
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And though Lennon says his hands are tied on LGBT issues -- far be it for him to change the word of God -- there are non-doctrinal concessions he can make. Finding a new, less flippant, way to describe “the so called homosexual lifestyle” would be a welcome first step. Recognizing the value of LGBT (and divorced, and artificially inseminated, etc.) educators, whose personal lives are very far removed from the classroom, would be another.
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Family Friendly Back for its eighth year, Wade Oval Wednesdays is a family friendly outdoor concert that’s free. That’s right, you can bring the kids and grandparents and it won’t cost you a thing. The weekly event takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. in Wade Oval, the park near University Circle. Tonight, Councilman Kevin Conwell & The Footprints play Motown jazz and blues. (Jeff Niesel) 10820 East Blvd., universitycircle.org. Food
Food Trucks Aplenty Walnut Wednesday, the unofficial holiday for Clevelanders who work or play downtown during lunchtime, is back, thanks to the people at Downtown Cleveland Alliance. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., some 30 food trucks will gather at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons (East 12th and Walnut) to serve up delicious eats. Live entertainment, usually of the musical variety, is also expected. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. (Alaina Nutile) East 12th and Walnut St., facebook.com/ DowntownClevelandAlliance. Music
Party on the Patio During the summer months, the folks at Luxe Kitchen & Lounge make use of their outdoor patio to host Luxe Kitchen & Lounge Songwriters on the Patio. A casual affair that features some of the city’s best singer-songwriters, it offers a good chance to hear some great music in an intimate setting. Tonight, singer-songwriter Mike Uva is on the bill. The event takes place on Wednesday nights from 7 to 9 p.m. In the event of
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A Rare Visit With a new manager at the helm, the Chicago Cubs are playing much better than they have in years. They’re still a few games behind the division leading St. Louis Cardinals but they should prove to be a formidable opponent tonight for the Cleveland Indians as they make a rare visit to Progressive Field. Tonight’s game begins at 7:10 and tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. Art
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An Up-and-Coming Act Throughout the year, Aloft Hotels is presenting “local emerging talent” through Live At Aloft Hotels, a signature music series that features acoustic performances and meet-and-greets at its hotels worldwide. At 6:30 tonight, North of Nine, a band featuring Ohio native Michael O’Grady (a guy who’s said that seeing AC/DC play here in Cleveland made him want to pick up the guitar), will perform at the Aloft in the Flats. Managed by former American Idol judge Randy Jackson, the group has a soul/pop sound reminiscent of Maroon 5. The concert is free. (Niesel) 1111 West 10th St., 216-400-6469, starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels.
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the bone marrow transplant program.” This weekend, the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park hosts a weekend-long charity event. Lilian Garcia, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) personality and host of Monday Night Raw, performs at 9 tonight. Also tonight, hair metal holdover Kip Winger performs at 7:30 p.m. the Hard Rock’s Club Velvet. Tomorrow at 5:30, there’s a Celebrity Chef Dinner followed by a concert featuring the band Brother Trouble. Then, on Saturday, Lou Gramm, the former singer in Foreigner, and classic rock act Starship perform. The VIP package includes a private pre-party with ’80s actor/rap legend rapper Tone Loc and a chance to meet Super Bowl MVP’s Mark Rypien and Jim McMahon, Cy Young Award Winner Bret Saberhagen, World Boxing Champ Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, hockey hall-of-famer Grant Fuhr, pro wrestler/actor Ted Dibiase, Jr., Browns legend Bernie Kosar and many more. An after-party event features American Pie’s Thomas Nicholas. The VIP events start at 5:30 p.m., and the concert begins at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $200. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. Food
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get out lar 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. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. Comedy
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A Good Laugh Thursday night is often Friday night for college students and people who don’t have to work the next day. Even though you may work Friday, don’t let that stop you from coming out to Pickwick and Frolic tonight at 8 for a good laugh with Greg Fitzsimmons, stand up Comedian and television writer/producer. Fitzsimmons has also won four day time Emmy Awards and has had his own Radio Station since 2006. He even wrote a book called Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons that recieved critical praise by NPR and Vanity Fair. Tickets are $23, and performances are scheduled for tomorrow and Saturday night as well. (Hintz) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. Comedy
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.
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Smooth Grooves Throughout the summer, the folks at Playhouse Square will team up with Labatt Blue Light Lime to present a series of free concerts at U.S. Bank Plaza. The music starts at 5 p.m. and the bands generally play until about 7 p.m. Tonight, the Easy Glistening presents its tribute to the “smooth sounds of the ‘70s.” The band bills itself as “yacht rock” so expect to hear tunes by Kenny Loggins, the Doobie Brothers, Toto and Steely Dan. Admission is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. leCture
Something Graphic Cleveland superhero fans can rejoice. The newly founded “Trauma and Transformation” book club at Cleveland Public Library’s Ohio Center for the Book focuses on bringing to light the trials and tribulations of the modernday superhero. Apparently, it isn’t all just billowing capes and breathy dames. The biweekly book club will focus on Frank Milller and David Mazuchelli this week and their work Batman: Year One, one of the more morose Batman installments (and that’s saying something). The DC comic deals with Batman’s first dimly lit romps with masked baddies as he comes of age in a mob-run Gotham City. The Year One run isn’t as littered with familiar faces as other Batman installments as it follows his first 365 days in tights but it is one of the more turbulent installments. The book club will discuss the plight of a young Bruce Wayne at 4 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the main library and welcomes superhero critics and fans to join in. (Rees) 325 Superior Avenue, 216-623-2800, ohiocenterforthebook.org.
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Out of This World This is something you’ll want to phone home about. Coventry Village is showing the cult classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to celebrate family, education and aliens. The 1982 Spielberg flick won’t be screened until after dark, but come early. Before the start of the film begins, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History will launch a discussion about life beyond earth. The museum is also providing telescopes for moviegoers to stargaze during the screening. The screening is drive-in style and expected to begin around 9 p.m. in Coventry’s P.E.A.C.E. Park. It’s free for all so grab a picnic blanket and some Reese’s Pieces and dive in. (Rees) coventryvillage.org/2015/05/coventrysummer-series-2015/.
A Burlesque Icon Ever had the urge to go see a show full of dancing and semi nudity? Well, tonight at 8 at the Beachland Ballroom, the Ohio Burlesque Presents burlesque icon: Dirty Martini. Special guests Bella Sin, Doll Bambino, Eileen Gavin, Lili Paralax and Dahlia D’Luxe will also be on hand. The all-inclusive VIP package is $50 and includes a meet and greet, reserved seating, a complementary photograph by Perkoski Photography, a poster and a gift bag. General admission tickets are $20. (Hintz) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com. Film
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at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, you can do just that. The theater screens the 2007 flick Flight of the Red Balloon, a movie about a film student in Paris who becomes a nanny to a 7-year-old kid. Tickets are $12. (Hintz) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. SportS
Storm Watch Now that the Cavs are no longer playing at the Q, why not root for the city’s Arena Football League team, the Gladiators. They’re riding a two-game winning streak as they arrive at Quicken Loans Arena tonight to take on the Tampa Bay Storm. The contest begins at 7 p.m. and tickets start at $9. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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A Frank Approach At 6 tonight, Canopy hosts just the second gallery exhibition of work by Grace Frank. Organizers describe her work as just like the artist herself, “loving, fun, full of spirit and joy. Her characters are teeming with life and imagination, and each painting truly holds endless possibility for storytelling.” The artist will be on hand for the reception from 6 to 10 p.m., and the evening includes a DJ set and refreshments. Canopy is a new collective of artists and creatives. Canopy’s facilities include exhibition space, studio space, community classes, art consignment, gathering space and more. Free. (Usmani) 3910 Lorain Ave., canopy-collective.com. MuSic
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 genres include 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. FilM
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Mountain Movie Few have survived a climb all the way to the top of Mount Everest. The extreme cold and height lead many to perish on
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its side. A 1924 silent film, The Epic of Everest, is the first to chronicle that odyssey of a hike and document two hikers who died in the attempt to scale the mammoth mountain. The film, directed by Jean Baptist Lucius Noel, has been revived with new music and shows tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $11. (Rees) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. Art
Open House This month’s Third Friday event at 78th Street Studios is sure to be another busy evening. June’s highlights include Material Girls by Katy Richards and Nikki Woods at HEDGE Gallery, TRANSOM by Andy Dreamingwolf and Scot Phillips at Cleveland West Arts League and a $50 Show at E11even 2. You’ll also have another chance to see Preston Buchtel’s solo exhibition at Kenneth Paul Lesko, Richard Peterson’s show at FORUM Art Space and my own Funny Money II at Tregoning and Co. It all takes place from 5 to 9 tonight. (Some individual gallery hours vary). Free. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com. outdoorS
Party in the MetroPark Hiking boots and beer come together in Elevation, Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s very own summer party. Trail Mix, music, campfires and s’mores are staples of this event. The evening starts off with a one-hour hike on the Ledges Trail then food and music from local bands and sponsors. Food includes appetizers and dinner (slider bar, mac and cheese, and salads). All proceeds benefit TRAILS FOREVER, an organization that provides funds to preserve national park trails. Dance and eat with fellow outdoorsmen and women and enjoy the scenery of the beautiful CVNP. The event takes place tonight from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. at Ledges Shelter, and tickets are $75. (Hannah Wintucky) 701 Truxell Rd., Peninsula, 440-391-0067, conservancyforcvnp.org/elevation. FeStivAl
Paying Homage to the Dude The Big Lebowski, a film that centers on a crazy, White Russian-drinking character named the Dude, is a cult classic. To honor the film, Game of Mentor has teamed up with the Fisher House and the City of Mentor to present the inaugural Big Lebowski Bash. The event kicks off today and runs through Sunday. It features trivia contests, bowling and a Kahlua bottle ring toss. To start things off, Game of Mentor hosts a screening of the movie in its parking
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get out lot tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 the day of the event. Other events are slated to take place throughout the weekend. Go to the website for more information about the many related activities and events that are happening all weekend long. (Niesel) biglebowskibash.com. SportS
The Rays Have Their Day After a four-game interleague series against the Chicago Cubs, the Indians are back to playing American league rivals. Tonight, they square off against the Tampa Bay Rays. Despite having one of the lowest payrolls in the league, the Rays, one of the few teams to draw fewer fans than the Tribe, somehow always manage to put together a competitive squad. The game starts tonight at 7:10 and it’s dollar dog night. Stick around for fireworks after the game. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.
continues through Sunday. Check the website for more details. (Niesel) ducktapefestival.com.
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Award. Today’s tour explores Canal Basin Park. Meet at 10 a.m. at Settler’s Landing RTA Station. (Niesel) 1278 West Ninth St., clevelandgatewaydistrict.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 ex-
Pop-up Rink Skaters, rejoice! Coventry Village in partnership with Public Square Group is putting up a one day only pop-up rink on Coventry Road today. The groups are hosting skateboarding competitions, lessons and prizes for skaters who really know how to roll. The event,
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Dad’s Day Dad probably has as many ties, golf club covers, wallets and coffee mugs that he needs. So why not take him to Prosperity Social Club for Big Daddy Father’s Day Show, which takes place today at 6:30 p.m. This pub party features “a menu of ‘pops’-perfect specials such as the ‘fall-off-the-bone’ barbecue baby back rib platter served with tangy homemade coleslaw and handcut fries.” You can also have a vintage beer or two — think Blatz, Strohs, Schlitz and Ballantine. Classic Mad Men-worthy cocktails like 7 and 7 Highballs and Canadian Club Manhattans will be served as well. Lounge Kitty, the self-proclaimed Cleveland queen of kitsch, will perform too. And dad should love the place’s retro vibe. Reservations are suggested. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.
Revolutionary Theory Revolution. That’s the theme of this month’s CreativeMorning CLE presentation by R.A. Washington, writer, community activist and founder/director of Guide to Kulchur: Text, Art & News in the Detroit Shoreway. Last year, Washington received a Creative Workforce Fellowship from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC). At 8:30 a.m., he’ll present his talk, The Question of Revolution: Personal Politics, Identity and Grassroots Organizing in Post Riot Cities. He asks, “How does the question of identity inform our understanding of community and how does the historical landscape effect how we organize?” The talk is free and breakfast will be provided, but online registration is required. (Usmani) 2306 West 17th St./1720 Willey Ave., creativemornings.com.
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Street Art This Saturday, Clifton Blvd. will be shut down. And this time it’s not for construction. Lakewood anticipates 40,000 visitors for the 28th Annual Clifton Arts and Musicfest. Annually held on the third Saturday of June, the festival celebrates both visual art and music. The exhibitors are selected through a juried competition, and prize money is awarded annually in the Juried Art Show. The event places special emphasis the pride, diversity and vitality of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. This will be the first Clifton Arts and Musicfest since the streetscape project was recently completed. Free. (Usmani) cudell.com/artsfest.asp.
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Tale of the Tape One of the more unique festivals you’ll find in these parts, the Duck Tape Festival is always a big draw. According to the official press release, this year’s festival will feature “life-sized Duck Tape sculptures, a Duck Tape fashion show and a parade featuring floats made of Duck Tape.” The first 500 visitors each day will receive a free roll of Duck Tape. And you know the stuff has plenty of uses so that’s a real bonus. The event takes place today from 4 to 11 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Park in Avon, and it
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plores the Gateway District, Warehouse District, Civic Center, Playhouse Square neighborhood and Canal Basin Park. Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying figures from Cleveland’s past. In 2014, the Take a Hike program received a Dominion Community Impact
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which is part of Coventry Village’s Summer Series, is free and open to the public. Skateboard enthusiasts can ollie on up to the rink between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. in parking lot 15 (between Marc’s and Heights Cleaners). (Rees) Coventry Rd., Cleveland Heights, coventryvillage.org.
Green Thumb Ever wanted to create and lord over your own little ecosystem? Artsy Academy is bringing terrarium-building classes to Cleveland today. Artsy’s plant science specialist and Cleveland State University student Eric Gaiser will be on hand to offer expert instruction. He’ll provide the materials -— including moss harvested from the Blue Ridge Mountains, phosphorescent glass mushrooms, crystals and artisan glass containers handmade by founder and glass blower Tracie Sell. “This is a great introduction for people who have reservations about their green thumb,” Sell says. The course, held at Bar Louie downtown, costs $35 per person. The class runs from 2 - 3:30 p.m. today. Portions of the proceeds will benefit Trees, Water & People. (Sandy) 1352 West 6th St., 216-577-4327, artsy.academy.
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Sports Talk Most dads love baseball so why not take them to the Maltz Museum for Father’s Day? Today at 6, you can hear from baseball superstars Carlos Baerga and Alvaro Espinoza in a moderated talk hosted by Bob DiBiasio, Sr. Vice President of Public Affairs for the Cleveland Indians. Baerga and Espinoza will talk about their careers (especially as members of the 1995 Cleveland Indians) as well as the tremendous impact of the late, great Roberto Clemente. Each player will stick around after the discussion for photographs and autographs. Admission to the program includes admission to the Maltz Museum and to the current exhibit, Chasing Dreams: Baseball & Becoming American. Tickets are $12 general; $6 Maltz Museum Members, Space is limited. (Niesel) 2929 Richmond Rd., Beachwood, 216-593-0575, maltzmuseum.org.
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Dinner by the Book Calling all Vincent Price fans! This week features a number of special events in honor of the man himself. It all leads up to a special exhibition at the Good Goat Gallery on Friday, June 26. However, the week starts from 6 to 9 p.m. today with a special Vincent Price-themed dinner at Luxe Kitchen and Lounge. The guest of honor will be Victoria Price, his daughter. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Price’s A Treasury of Great Recipes cookbook, the staff at Luxe has created a formal five-course meal from the book. The dinner will also include a special, limited edition Vincent Price wine not available in stores or in Ohio and a raffle. Seating is limited (and shared). A limited number of tickets are still available for $95 per person (plus online handling fees) and are available through Eventbrite. All proceeds will go towards the new Vincent Price Scholarship Foundation. (Usmani) 6605 Detroit Ave., 216-920-0600, luxecleveland.com. SportS
Tigers Trap At the beginning of the MLB season, most pundits picked the Detroit Tigers as the division rival that the Tribe would have to beat to win their division. Well, the Tigers struggled at the beginning of June, suggesting that the Twins and Royals might be duking it out come September. Regardless, the Tribe needs to beat the Tigers if it hopes to keep any playoff hopes alive. Tonight, the Indians start a three game series against the
Tigers. First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.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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Trivia Tuesdays How do you spend your Tuesday nights? If you’re not at Nano Brew in Ohio City, you’re definitely missing out. This friendly neighborhood brewpub hosts weekly trivia nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Grab some friends and head on down for a little brain-stimulating trivia, freshly brewed craft beer and some seriously stellar bar grub. Better yet, bike on over. The folks at Nano Brew love bikes almost as much as they love beer, and they’re happy to share that love by giving you half off your first drink when they see your bike helmet. (Nutile) 1859 West 25th St., 216-862-6631, nanobrewcleveland.com. Art
Price is Right Following yesterday’s special, themed dinner at Luxe, Lakewood’s Good Goat Gallery hosts a special preview event for its Six Degrees of Vincent art show. Vincent Price’s daughter, Victoria, will be in the gallery for the preview event. At 6 p.m., she will sign copies of her book, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography. At 7 p.m., she will present a talk & movie presentation about her father’s role in the arts. Food and refreshments will be available and the event continues until 9 p.m. The exhibition includes about two dozen artists from Cleveland, California, Mexico and Europe. Tickets to this preview event are $10 (plus fees) and available through Eventbrite. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, June 26 and runs through Aug. 29. (Usmani) 17012 Madison Ave., Lakewood,440-799-0675, thegoodgoatgallery.com.
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Zygote Press themed show explores iconography in history By Josh Usmani What represents iconography in the 21st century? This is the question posed by curators Jennifer Finkel and Bellamy Printz in Memeography at Zygote Press. This themed group show includes an eclectic roster of artists whose work explores personal and universal themes of iconography, or “image writing.” Memeography opens with a reception this Friday, June 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. “In a culture where new channels of social and other media create images that go globally viral in a matter of minutes, Memeography looks at contemporary uses of personal and political iconography,” explains Finkel. “In this dizzying digital environment, artists identify with specific objects or concepts as a way to communicate a larger message. The artists in Memeography explore a broad range of themes using a variety of signs, symbols, motifs and marks that are instantly recognizable yet highly personal.” At its core, the exhibition explores visual communication. Memeography examines how we use images to communicate on both personal and universal levels. Through social media like Instagram, Snapchat and even Facebook and Twitter, images are becoming an increasingly important element to how we convey the narrative of our daily lives digitally. Thanks to the unprecedented evolution of smartphones over the past decade, nearly every member of contemporary western society has a camera and internet connection in our pocket. “The word iconography literally means ‘image writing,’” adds Printz. “Iconography studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images, not artistic style. Using this concept, the artists included in this exhibition examine notions of societal constructs and contemporary values. While some of the artists use symbolism within their imagery, others included here adapt specific forms that are ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives. Politics, economics, medicine, Utopian communities and popular culture– are a few of the subjects that artists in Memeography communicate through the integration of personal and contemporary icons.” Participating artists include
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Clarke Curtis, Christa Donner, Amber Kempthorn, Claudio Orso-Giacone, Arabella Proffer, Michael Wallace and myself. “There are so many people represented that are near and dear to Zygote,” says Zygote Press Executive Director Liz Maugans. “They are not always here on a consistent basis but Clark Curtis was a past student of mine at CIA and an amazing printmaker, you, of course who has collaborated on some projects, Amber Kempthorne who participated in our MONOTHON and Arabella who is just so key in this region. And then there is Claudio who is my soul brother in wood and can carve the grooves out of a piece of wood. So happy to see so many familiar folks who are presenting their work for the first time at Zygote in this show!” Clarke Curtis was born in Eugene, OR and currently lives in Austin, TX. He received his MFA from Clemson University, but has ties to Cleveland from his BFA at Cleveland Institute of Art.. In addition to exhibiting in many states throughout the U.S., his work has been featured in numerous publications; including Vice Media, Grafik Magazine, PBS (KLRU), Printeresting and Cantanker Magazine. Christa Donner lives and works in Chicago. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first solo exhibition was at MOCA Cleveland in 1999. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Germany, Japan,
Amber Kempthorn, Our Reach, Pastel, Charcoal & Collage, 44” X 30”, 2014
Claudio Orso-Giacone is an Italian artist living and teaching in Oberlin. He received his MFA from Bowling Green University and a BA from Cleveland State University. His latest exhibition, Tavula Lunga, recently opened at the Morgan Conservatory. For Tavula Lunga, Orso created wood engravings using 4 ft. by 8 ft. sheets of wood.
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Switzerland, Sweden, Columbia, Cyprus, Finland and throughout the U.S. In 2013, she founded Cultural ReProducers, an online, community-based resource for and about active cultural workers raising children. Amber Kempthorn holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook University, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate from Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA from Hiram College. She currently lives and works in Cleveland, as adjunct faculty in Cleveland Institute of Art’s Drawing department. Her work has been exhibited in Boston, Detroit, Florida, Vermont and numerous venues in and around Cleveland.
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Arabella Proffer is an artist, author and co-founder of the former indie label Elephant Stone Records. Born in Ann Arbor, MI, Proffer has lived in many cities, including Laguna Beach, Los Angeles and Boston. She attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her surreal portraits have been exhibited throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. She lives in Cleveland and maintains a studio inside Lakewood’s Screw Factory. Michael Wallace is an artist and cyclist living and working in Baltimore. Using his smartphone, bicycle, GPS
satellites and Google Maps, he creates his unique GPS art. Wallace rides his bike in particular routes, creating enormous “drawings” on the digital maps. “My biking history goes way back, but only in recent years have I taken on an internal passion for blending technology with creativity and exercise,” explains Wallace. “As of now, my portfolio consists of six distinct riding seasons, and I continue to generate happiness, fitness and imagination through planning and the physical activity of ‘digitally spray painting’ my ‘local canvas’ with the help of tracking satellites 12,500 miles above.” (Full disclosure: I’ll be exhibiting 12 Funny Money bills. Nine bills are new and have never been previously exhibited.) Memeography runs through July 30. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Additional viewing hours are available on Wednesdays and Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. or by appointment.
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Scene’s theater critic tells her story in a deeply moving, funny one-woman play at Playhouse Square By Michael Mauldin Performing self can be a tricky, if not terrifying, business for an actor. Many will confirm that one of the reasons they got into acting was to escape themselves and hide behind the persona (Latin for mask) of a character, assuming a fictive personality and speaking the fabricated lines of a, most often, absent playwright. Even Laurence Olivier, arguably the greatest English speaking actor of the twentieth century, confesses in his autobiography to finding relief “when some character part called for a sculptural addition to my face, affording me the shelter of an alien character and enabling me to avoid anything so embarrassing as selfrepresentation.” This aesthetic denuding is just one of the many onion-like layers of bravery and risk revealed in Christine Howey’s remarkable performance of her own play, Exact Change, performed in the intimate Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre in Playhouse Square. In this 80-minute theatrical maelstrom of text, memory, activism, and poetry, Howey and her director/ collaborator Scott Plate have fashioned a riveting evening detailing Howey’s transition from Richard to Christine in a manner which defiantly eschews any preconceived expectation an audience may have had from such a narrative. The set is as bare as Howey’s soul: a chair, table, three Venetian blinds covered window units, and a small projection screen. Then Christine enters, wearing a loose white blouse and black leggings, reminiscent of Elaine Stritch’s ensemble in her own solo exercise of her “existential problem in tights” in Elaine Stritch at Liberty. From that point, the stage is filled to bursting as Howey portrays a myriad of diverse
and engaging characters, including herself at different ages (and genders), her mother, wife, and daughter, friends, mentors, and antagonists. With her commanding presence and richly theatrical voice(s), Howey journeys through a series of more than 20 short supertitled vignettes, augmented by projected photographs from the baby her parents named “Dick” (with no sense of the irony that name would later assume), through her careers in advertising, teaching, and acting, her pre-operation forays in social groups for straight crossdressing men, and finally her search for Christine’s identity. While the characters range from her ever practical mother who frets over how to introduce her new daughter to friends, to Dolly, a delightfully faded Southern Belle drag queen who teaches her strength and self-reliance, Howey imbues each with a subtlety and truth
tries to mask the obvious intelligence of the writer/actor. In an instant, it can shift from hilariously graphic descriptions of how to learn to pee without the familiar male equipment to exquisite poetry about isolation and otherness. It is the overt intellect and theatricality of the piece which triumphantly disallows the audience or character to bask in comforting emotion and expected compassion. It is frank and honest, but this is no confessional. Howey and Plate have expertly fashioned an almost textbook example of Brechtian distancing which forces the audience to think about the issues rather than feel for the character. Howey neither asks for nor needs our understanding, forgiveness, or empathy. This is where the true brilliance of the play is centered. The projected supertitles of each vignette, the lightning shifts from one piece to another, the use of photographs, and
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which never allows them to swerve into caricature. The only exception is the elusive character, The Enforcer, who tempts Richard with thoughts of suicide and is played with an over the top approach similar to Lucifer from medieval cycle plays. However, even that choice is indicative that the evening will never veer into cheap sentiment, which could be an obvious trap and downfall in less accomplished hands. Beyond the performance, though, the throbbing center is the writing and construction of the play itself. The language is deft and clarion, and never
even the exercise of the playwright as actor, always remind us that we are sharing a social, political, and philosophical paradigm shift which is greater and more important than the story at hand. The most telling example is during a segment entitled “My Passing,” which simultaneously celebrates Christine’s “passing” as a woman in public while reminding us of Richard’s “passing” from existence. For one, exquisite moment, we see Howey’s triumph and loss, and then it is gone. We are not allowed to lose sight that even this moment is a vehicle in service to the greater objective of the story.
Benjamin Gantose’s lighting design is simple and evocative, and like James Kosmatka’s sound design and video editing, is always in support of the performance and text. The use of the Venetian blinds aptly provide a metaphor for Howey’s journey, providing both protection from and a means of witnessing an outside world which had never heard of Caitlyn Jenner or Laverne Cox. They are such a simple, yet important presence that it would have been more interesting to see them used as screens for the projections of titles and photographs, involving them more in the action and dispensing with the projection screen, which seems unnecessary and out of place. Similarly, the inclusion of projected transgender statistics toward the end of the show seemed tacked on and bowing to the expected. But these are small quibbles which in no way detract from the overall power of the piece. There is one particular moment which epitomizes the bravery of portraying self in this production. It will not be revealed, but its impact lives in the memory. By the simple removal of one piece of accoutrements, Howey stands naked, triumphant, vulnerable, and invincible. In that one, breathtaking theatrical moment, we see that our future is never without our past, and the extraordinary courage it takes to be, or become, ourselves. Michael Mauldin is an actor, director, Associate Professor and Founding Chair of Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance.
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not to be confUSed with the 2004 documentary Yves Saint Laurent: His Life and Times or the 2014 biopic Yves Saint Laurent, Saint Laurent (which is, in fact, another biopic released in France in 2014) opens Friday at the Cedar Lee. Please be apprised up front that it’s two-and-a-half hours long. Saint Laurent’s subject and protagonist: the French fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent (obvi) during the turbulent, sartorially resplendent late ’60s and early ’70s. Saint Laurent is here portrayed by the handsome and dispassionate Gaspard Ulliel, whom you’ve probably never seen but about whom it suffices to say that his face is a refined Euro-mishmash of Rodrigo Santoro, Channing Tatum, Andy Samberg and Eddie Redmayne. He captures YSL in his prime: confident, magnetic, oftimperiled by marathon benders. But neither he nor the outrageous clothes can save the film from its burly run time and its lack of narrative focus. Important to mention: Some aspects of behind-thescenes fashion are captivating on screen. Others are not. The seamstress-designer dynamics during the frantic progression from sketch to runway, for instance, or the perpetual engorgement of Saint Laurent’s daily calendar, seem fun and insidery, especially in an industry about which most of us know very little beyond Project Runway. The business side, on the other hand, may as well be dramatizations of legal transcripts. There’s a torturous scene where Saint Laurent’s lover and business partner Pierre Berge (Jeremie Renier) communicates, through a translator, at a conference table, with an American businessman about YSL’s mainstream market trajectory and branding. It feels about 45 minutes long.
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The film begins, though, with an exhausted Saint Laurent recounting his story to a journalist by phone from a hotel room in 1974. We then follow Saint Laurent — after his days at Dior, already an established genius and innovator — back through his haute couture designs of the late ’60s. After hours, he’s a staple of Paris’ orgiastic nightlife. He takes up with the mustachioed tomcat socialite Jacques de Bascher, who hosts kinky, pill-laden parties when the clubs have closed. (If you’re uncomfortable with gay sex, Saint Laurent is not exactly for you). He cavorts with models and industry luminaries. He travels to Morocco on a whim to sketch and do drugs in peace. He drinks non-stop. At some point we’re slingshot to 1989, whereafter an aged Saint Laurent (now played by Helmut Berger) sketches in a borderlineschizophrenic decline. An important seasonal show functions as the film’s climax and finale, but its significance in the Saint Laurent catalogue is unclear. For the film’s final third, a depressed Saint Laurent does little but mourn the abrupt end of his relationship with de Bascher (orchestrated by a jealous and ambitious Berge). And though he manages to find the requisite inspiration to produce workable drawings, whence the inspiration came remains a mystery. Saint Laurent is cast as a trailblazer and visionary, a man who (as a Warhol analog) brought high fashion to the masses. But what he wants — fame? companionship? escape? — remains hugely inaccessible, despite what feels like an eternity trying to triangulate.. — Sam Allard
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Spotlight almoSt to a faUlt, diSneY’S pixaR Films have put an emphasis on the storyline in ther films. Sure, the animated studio is known for getting A-list talent to provide the voices for the characters in its films. And it spares no expense when it comes to the detailed, life-like animation you find in the movies. But the story is just as important, something that can’t be said for many animated (and even live action) films. Inside Out, its latest offering, is another triumph. The concept behind the movie, which opens areawide on Friday, revolves around the various emotions that young Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) feels as she and her parents pick up and move from Minnesota to San Francisco after her father gets a new job. Her emotions, which take physical forms, include Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). They go haywire as she struggles to adjust to a new school and a new home (the film’s creators make San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the country, look dark and dingy but that’s a minor quibble). You can imagine the fear she feels as she has to eat lunch in the school cafeteria for the first time. And who better to voice fear than Hader, a guy who always sounds like he’s on edge. In the struggle to adjust to her new environment, Riley starts shutting down, and her fond childhood memories start to fade. So Joy takes the lead and heads off to a place called Long Term Memory. With Sadness by her side, she meets Riley’s imaginary friend Bing Bong (Richard Kind) as she and Sadness, who has good intentions despite being a total downer, try to find a way to keep Riley from having a complete breakdown. At this point, the film becomes rather somber and takes on a complexity that might be beyond the grasp of most young children. But Joy’s sheer determination provides a sliver of hope even as Sadness, who functions a lot like Winnie the Pooh’s Eeyore, always sees the glass as half empty. This film succeeds on concept alone. Turning a young girl’s emotions into physical forms that have personalities of their own is a brilliant concept for an animated film. That the film has a complex-but-not-confusing plot and some terrific voice actors is an added bonus. Kids might not totally understand what’s going on throughout the entire movie, but they should gravitate to the coming-of-age theme at its core. — Jeff Niesel
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The documentary follows a group of young teenagers who have spent their entire lives cooped up in a small apartment watching movies. It opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre.
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Great heiGhts Two fast-casual spots join Cleveland Heights’ food scene By Douglas Trattner Cleveland HeigHts recently snagged a pair of independent, fast-casual eateries, and while they’re both mainly carryout sandwich joints, they couldn’t be more dissimilar. On one end of the spectrum is the health-focused Café Bon Appetit, which set up shop on the southern tip of the main Coventry drag. On the other end is Black Box Fix, a gut-busting comfort food spot that claimed the old Sweetie Fry space on Lee Road. Both are worth a visit. Which one you choose likely will depend on your appetite. Café Bon Appetit might be new to Cleveland Heights residents, but Cleveland State University students and faculty have been enjoying the downtown shop on Euclid for about five years. That’s how long owners Jade and Jay Novak – a former biology professor and civil engineer, respectively – have been serving up good, healthy and reasonably priced food. The pair noticed a decided lack of budget-friendly healthy options in the area and decided to do something about it. That’s what makes the shop, located near the entrance to the old Centrum Theatre, such a natural fit for Coventry. Long a haven for health-conscious residents, the strip has been inundated in recent years by lessthan-wholesome fare. The Novaks, Heights residents themselves, decided to amend that by importing the successful model to
their own neck of the woods. The straightforward all-day menu comprises juices and smoothies, salads, wraps and sandwiches, and even a few crepes. Items are made to order by a small staff, which results in fresh food but not necessarily fast food. Most diners grab and go, but there are about 20 seats inside and a few more outside on the sidewalk patio. The slender space, formerly home to the Doghouse Inn, is cute in a DIY sort of way, with reclaimed wood walls and a fresh coat of paint. In the morning, French press and pour-over coffees are served,
based sibling. I’m pretty certain the word “healthy” doesn’t get bandied about much when folks recommend Black Box Fix to their friends. And they do recommend it. At this smart little corner carryout, the food sticks mainly to twofisted, meat-stuffed sandwiches that drip down one’s chin, arm and pant leg if not eaten with due care. Self-titled celebrity chef (even prior to his lone appearance on “Guy’s Grocery Games”) and owner Eric Rogers has built up a remarkable following on social media thanks in large part to his sophisticated use of the medium,
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as well as his one-year tenure running Nevaeh Cuisine in South Euclid. In fact, the peculiar restaurant name originated as an Instagram hashtag (#blackboxfix) that customers would use when sharing pictures of food from his prior restaurant, which was served in black take-out boxes. For now the menu consists of about a dozen sandwiches, most of them regular items and the rest specials. Rogers says that he might add salads and entrees down the road. The lone current exception is the “Famous Creole Soul Roll” ($3), a deep-fried, egg roll-style snack. The wrapper on ours was drenched in grease so
we stuck to the filling, a zesty and flavorful mix of seasoned rice, greens and sausage. There was absolutely nothing wrong with our OMG Philly ($13), a hoagie-style bun filled with sautéed shrimp, grilled chicken, mushrooms, onions and peppers dripping with delicious “yumyum” sauce. The same holds true for the Reuben Gobble ($10), a delicious mess of smoked turkey, warm slaw, Swiss cheese and remoulade on grilled Tuscan bread. Like all the sandwiches we tried, the bun arrived buttered and toasted and the ingredients well seasoned. Other sandwiches are built around fried chicken, sautéed tilapia and smoked beef sausage, the last appearing in the chef’s take on a Polish Boy. Every sandwich comes with a big pile of salted and herbed fries topped with shredded parmesan cheese, a move that ups the flavor profile while all but guaranteeing non-crispy spuds. Rogers has a good system in place up front, with separate lines for diners who call ahead and those who are placing their order on the spot. My wait time decreased from 13 minutes to three minutes when I phoned ahead. There is seating for approximately 15 to 20 dine-in customers, but almost everybody takes their black boxes elsewhere.
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Improvements include all new flooring throughout, an improved and expanded layout in the bar/restaurant, and cosmetic changes to the lounge and theater spaces. The small retail space up front was removed. And by fall, part of the parking lot will be transformed into “one of the nicest patios in Cleveland,” according to partner Joe Jackson. Jackson, who moved back home from Texas to partner with his brother on the project, says it was the staff that ultimately tipped the scales and swayed him to jump aboard. “What really convinced me and my brother was the staff who stuck around until the end even when they knew it was closing,” he explains. “We said we’d be crazy not to jump on this with guys like that.” As for the restaurant formerly known as Union Station, the plan is to wait until after Pride weekend to get it fully up and running. And even then, the plan is to play it pretty conservative in terms of the food offerings. Sunday brunch will be added down the road.
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the space. The wall behind the original bar will be pushed back into a portion of the kitchen, enlarging the room by a considerable amount. “I prefer the places that have the bar and dining together; I like that buzz,” says McDonnell. “That’s what I’m comfortable with.” The new layout will offer seating for about 50 at the bar, new banquettes and a pair of “power booths.” The original centrally located front door will be enlarged and brought back into service, providing better flow and energy than the side door that’s currently in use. McDonnell describes the food as Cal-Med – shorthand for CaliforniaMediterranean themed fare. Diners can look forward to dishes inspired by those found in Barcelona, the South of France, and Northern Italy, he says. Next door, in the adjoining dining room space, the owner intends to operate a casual gourmet foods market during the week, where neighbors can pop in for wine, cheese, charcuterie, produce and prepared foods. On weekend evenings, the owner will hold one-off dinners run by him and his chef or bring in guest chefs. The slender enclosed dining space will be returned to its original status as an alfresco porch. Estimates put the grand opening in August, with the possibility of earlier events taking place in the market space. For McDonnell, who left Ohio City – and Cleveland as a whole – just when the dining scene was really getting exciting, he’s thrilled to come home. “When I left Ohio City, Cleveland was just beginning its fun food renaissance. I was kind of sad I missed a lot of it,” he says. “I’m a city guy, I love it down there.”
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It was love at first sight for the members of mates of state.
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Husband and wife team in Mates of State adheres to indie rock ideals By Jeff Niesel An indie pop duo thAt has managed to eke out an existence for close to 20 years now, Mates of State plays poppy, synth-driven music that features male and female vocals that bounce back and forth. It’s a unique blend of sounds and, since the whole synth-pop thing has been popular at various times in the past couple of decades, it only makes sense that major labels would have offered the band a contract at some point during its career. “We had some of that, but all that’s bullshit,” says singerdrummer Jason Hammel during a phone interview from his Trumbull, Conn., home. “The only thing the labels want to know is ‘can you make me a lot of money?’ I have nothing against business people, but if they’re just saying, ‘hey you can make me a lot of money,’ usually you want to go a little bit deeper than that. There’s a lot of ways to make money. Money can always be had, but you shouldn’t do it by exploitation. I think that’s a bad
idea.” Hammel and wife Kori Gardner, a multiinstrumentalist who sings and plays organ, synthesizer, piano, electric piano, and occasional guitar, first met back in the ’90s at the University of Kansas. You couldn’t script a better first encounter. “We had known of each other because we were in different bands at the time,” says Hammel. “There was a pretty close musical community in Lawrence. Friends’ bands
You should email me.’” At the time, they were both in relationships with other people. But once those relationships ended, they began dating and eventually married. Though they initially played together in a hard rock outfit, they started working on their own music together and found themselves embracing pop music with pristine vocal harmonies. “We would find ourselves, just the two of us, at the rehearsal space without the rest of the band a lot of times,” says
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would open for each other all the time, but we didn’t really know each other. One night, she was playing a solo show and after her show, I walked up to her and basically told her I was in love with her. I told her I was in love with her voice and she was like ‘oh really, that’s cool.
Hammel. “I had played drums prior to that, so one night I just decided to be behind the drums, and she had this crazy old Yamaha vintage organ, and she just decided to play that because she had played piano previous to guitar. So, we just kind of started fooling around
on these other instruments and we kind of wrote what we thought was a silly song and not even knowing if it was a really a song because it wasn’t a guitar thing. It was just like us singing. Before we knew it, we had like five or six songs. We decided to play an open mic just to see how it went, and it went really well, so after that, we just decided to make that our focus.” Hammel says their vocal interplay, a trademark for the group, was part of the plan from the start. “The way it happened was that we were both the primary singers and the primary songwriters in our previous bands,” he says. “So, we both just loved to sing and when we started the band together, we just found ourselves both coming up with melodies, and Kori loved to sing harmonies. So, she kind of taught me how to do it. I had never really sung harmonies before Mates of State. Then, we would start singing together and
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MUSIC separately and in unison, but also in separate melodies and a lot of harmonies of course too. It just sort of developed over time.” The band’s new EP, You’re Going to Make It , commences with “Beautiful Kids,” a moody track about the way we communicate in a postmodern world. “You should stare into my eyes more,” Hammel and Gardner sing to a swirl of static-y synthesizer riffs and pounding drums. The other three songs aren’t as dark, but the music shows the range of acts that have had an influence on the group (on a covers album the band released a few years back, it played songs by Fleetwood Mac, Death Cab for Cutie and Nick Cave, all of
those elements rather than live instruments.” Hammel says he likes the EP format and the band plans to put out more EPs than LPs. “Nobody’s buying LPs,” he says. “All they want is the two or three best songs on a record anyway, looking through the whole thing once just to get those nuggets and then pull those out and that’s it. So, we’re like we already have what we feel are five hit songs and put those on an EP and let’s give people that. The thinking is we’ll do an EP every year or year and a half with five songs rather than a full length every three years. It’s really exciting for us right now because there’s no inbetween stuff. It’s like all good stuff right on the record. So, we’re really excited about the songs. I love every song on that EP.”
“Nobody’s buying LPs, all they want is the two or three best songs on a record anyway.” - Jason Hammel
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whom Hammel considers to be “lifers”). The songs from You’re Going to Make It were culled from a big batch of tunes. “We wrote a full soundtrack for [the film Rumperbutts ] and then we would write Mates of State songs in between time too, so we had probably written 20 to 30 songs or started some and didn’t finish others,” says Hammel when asked about the writing process for the EP. “When we finished the movie, we started to comb through some of the stuff we had made and picked out our favorite songs and kind of tried to figure out a new interesting process of making music too. In the past, we’ve always just kind of sat behind our instruments and jammed out parts but we didn’t really feel inspired to work in that manner. We started to find out new ways to do it and a lot of it was starting with beats and that sort of thing and using MIDI and some keyboards and stuff and just kind of constructing songs using
The band’s been together for almost 20 years now, no easy feat in a world where making music gets less and less lucrative each year. Hammel says the band’s pure love of touring and recording is what keeps it going. “We just like making music together, and I think we’re real,” he says. “You can’t get wrapped up in that industry bullshit. It changes all the time and there’s different reasons for people being in it and a lot of it has to do with cash, fame, or a combination of the two, or their egos. So, we try to keep all that shit in check and just remember that what’s important is the relationship with the people that like your music and then obviously being true and honest and we just want to write good songs. That’s all we want to do. We can find a way to do that within the confines of a shitty music industry. You can do it. It is possible.”
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MUSIC A VocAl Force
Heartless Bastards keep the raw energy intact on their new album
By Jeff Niesel Photo by Courtney Chavanell
Wennerstrom, the fiery singer in the Austinby-way-of-Cincinnati band Heartless Bastards, has brought her garage blues band to Cleveland on several occasions. Early on, the group was still a work-in-progress, and she remembers one particular performance that didn’t go so well. “There was a rough moment on the first album and we were opening for Drive By Truckers,” she says via phone from her Austin home. “When I wrote that album, it hadn’t occurred to me to try songs in different keys. I had trouble singing that album. I was just first starting to tour. I didn’t realize that just because you get free beer doesn’t mean you have to take advantage of it. I had trouble losing my voice a lot. I remember that show and we did one in Cincinnati. I could barely sing. I didn’t cancel the show. I would sing these songs and only part of the words would come out. I’m sure we were so awful. We’ve come a long way.” Formed back in 2003, Heartless Bastards emerged from the Dayton-based garage rock act Shesus, a band that featured Wennerstrom and drummer Dave Colvin. The two split off to form Heartless Bastards and with a little help from Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, a fan of the band who passed their demo on to the folks at Fat Possum, the group had a record deal within a year or two of forming. Its debut came out in 2005 and though it’s gone through a handful of lineup changes, it’s remained a constant on the indie rock circuit and has evolved with each album. For its latest effort, Restless Ones , it holed up at El Paso’s Sonic Ranch for a 10-day stretch to write and record the songs. Produced by Grammy-
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Erika Wennerstrom and the Heartless Bastards have “come a long way.”
winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Swans), the album puts Wennerstrom’s howling voice up front in the mix and keeps the band’s raw energy intact on songs such as the distortion heavy “Wind Up Bird” and the bluesy “Eastern Wind.” “What I enjoy about creating is trying new things,” says Wennerstrom. “I really focus
“The initial ideas appear in my head,” she says. “There are a few tracks that might even be ideas I’ve had for six or seven years. I have a lot of ideas and then at certain times I think if it’s the right time to explore something more. I build up these melodies. I try to finish the lyrics and bring them to the band but it never really
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on writing songs that I would like to hear. I’ve had some fans tell me that my first album is the best thing we’ve done, but I don’t want to recreate that. Ultimately, I can’t think about pleasing other people. What I’m writing is personal. At times, I question whether to put myself out there in certain spots. Some of that is figuring out the fine line between too much information and what is also something authentic and real and giving people something from within me.” She adds that some of the songs on the album have had a particularly long gestation period.
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works. This album lyrically had to be forced out of me. I would work on a song and want to write lyrics and then have the same one going on for months. I would finish in two or three days. There’s a real spontaneity to the songs even though I tried to work on them for so long. I just found it necessary to force it out. That’s what I was saying about not being quite sure how to feel about what I write. Sometimes it’s nice to look back on something you’ve created and still identify with it. I had to trust myself and sometimes I don’t trust myself.”
The album’s a little more diverse than past efforts. The moody “Black Clouds” has a twangy guitar riff to it that recalls early R.E.M. as Wennerstrom lets loose a Janis-inspired wail. “We have an idea of where we want to go as far as what something sounds like,” she says. “I find that individually within each song. I never say I’m going to write a country record. I feel like when I write albums I put one foot in front of the other. I have these songs and a definite idea of where I want them to go. But I don’t look at the overall picture. It might be song by song. I get to the end and I look back and think I’m discovering what I’ve done. It’s not calculated or planned in that sense.” The first single, “Gates of Dawn,” capably vacillates between acoustic and electric. “That was one we changed last minute after we had finished the album,” Wennerstrom says. “We added the acoustic and recut the lyrics. We literally finished that two days before we mastered the record.” Those early struggles with singing notwithstanding, Wennerstrom has become a powerhouse singer. The occasional hiccups that make their way into her vocal performances help distinguish her as a singer. “I think I’ve started to feel that when you’re recording something, something you see as a flaw can be a cool thing,” she says. “It’s almost like feeling more at peace with the recording process and I can nitpick things less and something you think of as a flaw can be a happy accident.”
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A guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Solstic 2015 By Jeff Niesel Taking place across Two stages on June 20 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Solstice 2015 is arguably the concert event of the summer. Tickets to the event, now in its seventh year, sold out in 36 hours. In fact, only museum members were able to purchase them and the general public never even had a chance. That’s a good problem to have, and of course, you might be able to find a secondhand seller giving up his or her tickets. Or perhaps you can bribe someone you know who has tickets to give you an early birthday present or something. And the museum is giving away tickets. You can enter the contest on the museum website. We recently sat down with CMA Director of Performing Arts Tom Welsh at Jukebox, the Ohio City bar and eatery that’s become a Hingetown hang, to discuss the lineup of what he says has “turned out to be the most exciting annual music festival in this city.” Welsh explains that one key part of this year’s festival is the video art component to several of the performances. “The artists on the inside stage come with a video component and they have a video artist on stage with them,” he says. “That’s an interesting development in the electronic music arena where video has become central to the performance and isn’t just an old ironic movie in the background.” He also adds that there will be “surprises,” and “some old familiar faces.” A German digital artist collective called the Constitute will bring interactive video to the outside. They were on hand a few years ago with their digital slingshot that enabled audience members to post
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messages onto the museum wall. Here’s Welsh’s take on the acts slated to perform.
South terrace Stage Meridian Brothers (8 to 9 p.m.) “Psychedelic cumbia group from Colombia. We’ve had these kinds of artists before at Solstice and Ohio City stages and it’s a measure of this renewed excitement for cumbia, and psychedelic cumbia, and tropicalia, and alternative versions of traditional music from the ’60s onward that these bands have emerged doing these things. Lo and behold, Meridian Brothers are touring in the U.S. for the first time since I don’t know when. What a great way to start the night.”
symbolizes that.” escort (10:30 p.m. to 11: 30 p.m.) “Who doesn’t have a soft spot for a 15-piece new disco music? This is music played by people who are so young that they actually missed the disco era – they’re the children of disco, so all the difficult baggage of disco does not apply. These groups look at it as amazing source material, which it is. They bring a freshness and enthusiasm to it. It’s time for older people to admit it — they’re awesome. They played for us for the Gay Games last summer, and they’re great.” king Britt DJ set (11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.) “King Britt is playing two sets, one
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seun kuti & egypt 80 (9:30 to 10:30 p.m.) “This band is legitimate African royalty. Seun Kuti is the son of Fela Kuti, and he’s basically carrying on the legacy of Fela’s band. The opportunity to have Seun on this bill is too great for words, so we had to do it. To hear this music by the guys who created it is a rare opportunity. moved a couple of small mountains to make this happen. It’s a great fit because one of the hallmarks of Solstice has been an international cosmopolitanism. It’s about what’s going on not just in American but on the planet earth and everywhere. Fela’s original band, now Seun’s band,
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of which is a late-night DJ set. He’s been around for sometime. He’s an always creative electronic music and hip-hop artists. I’ve been a fan through his various projects and incarnations over the years. He knows how to throw a party. He carries his Philadelphia pride everywhere he goes, which is a great thing. He’s a total creative force.”
atrium Stage Britt presents Fhloston paradigm (8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.) “I’ve always wanted King to play at Solstice. When he released the Fhloston Paradigm record, I realized this is the year we have to
have King Britt with us. It’s an audio and visual project that came out on Hyperdub Records, which is this label for exquisite and abstract music. It’s head music. King’s move to Hyperdub is very interesting. It’s a forward looking electronic music label in the UK, which shows he’s a continually searching and inquisitive artist who’s not resting on his laurels or doing what’s expected. They open on the atrium stage as a trio — two electronic artists and a live video component. King is the backbone of this whole thing.” afrikan sciences (8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.) “This is Eric Porter, who coincidentally released new music on Hyperdub. It’s abstracted free form electronic music in the post-dance world. It’s clearly influenced and informed by dance music but might be tricky to dance to. I like this idea. Inside, we’ll create this head space. There will be two different experiences inside and outside, and Afrikan Sciences will be the centerpiece of the inside stage.” grassy knoll (11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.) “Nolan Green made several landmark recordings of samplingbased groove-heavy collages under the name The Grassy Knoll, then went off the grid for ten years. Suddenly, he was inspired to start recording and touring again, and we are really excited that he’s coming to the art museum for Solstice.”11
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Bahamas/Hayden: Canadian guitarist Afie Jurvanen pushes a really cool blend of folk and classical songwriting ethos and instrumentation. His 2014 album, Bahamas is Afie, is a gentle boat ride through love, loss and dreams. “Can’t Take You With Me” is moody, heartbreaking stuff racked across arpeggiated raindrop notes. Then, “Bitter Memories” filters a terminated relationship through sepia-tone wistfulness. “You can add my name to the long heavy chain around you,” Jurvanen sings, stumbling through the past on shaky pins. Throughout the album, the use of guitar tone and effects -- even in this stripped-down capacity -is just stunning (see the solo on “All the Time”). This is full-bodied songwriting, heartfelt and intentional. He performed a sweet set at Akron Civic Theatre last fall; tonight promises an even more intimate show. 8:30 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. (Eric Sandy) The Main Event: New Kids on the Block/Nelly/TLC: Monumental Boston boy band, New Kids On The Block are on tour in the U.S. again with a brand new arena show, entitled The Main Event. The tour was announced in January on Good Morning America. It features support slots from Nelly and TLC to complete the nostalgic feel of the show. Though the group hasn’t released a new album in a few years, it’s been plenty busy. It toured Europe just last year and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. An original member of the group, Donnie Wahlberg, found success elsewhere on the hit A&E reality show, Wahlburgers. The group has been able to keep it fresh after all these years by taking a new approach to the old songs and by putting a lot of effort and emphasis on the production of the show. The result is a live spectacle containing a huge stage that runs across most of the arena with tons of sing-along hits dating back to 1986, when their self-titled debut album was released. 7:30 p.m., $29.50-$92.50. Quicken Loans Arena. (Elizabeth Manno) Tyler the Creator/Taco: Tyler, The Creator is famously known for being a member of the hip hop collective, Odd Future, a group whose members (Earl the Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean) have also achieved successful solo careers. However, in response to fans wanting Tyler to collaborate with former Odd Future members, he stated “Everyone’s on their own island.” In April, Tyler released Cherry Bomb, his
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critically-acclaimed third studio album. It features appearances by the likes of Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and more. Tyler has cited Stevie Wonder as his inspiration for the album and also wrote the opening track, “Deathcamp” in honor of his love for N.E.R.D, Pharrel Williams’ alternative hip-hop group. After Cherry Bomb had become available to preorder, Tyler tweeted, “It doesn’t matter much but I do want a No. 1 album just to go back to the niggas who said I wouldn’t.” The LA rapper debuted two new songs from the album, “Fucking Young” and “Deathcamp” at this year’s Coachella music festival, which began his world tour in support of the new album. 8 p.m., $28.50 ADV, $30 DOS. House of Blues. (Manno) 10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge The Ataris: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Agora. Clearwater: 8 p.m., $8. BLU Jazz+. DJ Paul E. Wog and DJ Shaun of the New Apocalypse: 9 p.m. Now That’s Class. Floetry: 7:30 p.m., $31.50-$47.50. Hard Rock Rocksino. Hillbilly Idol/Spoon Too Soon/Peter Novelli: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Shooter Jennings with Waymore’s Outlaws/Jeff German & the Blankety Blanks: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $28 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Della Mae (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.
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Tony Monaco/Fareed Haque Trio: 7 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Mountain Lions/Caleb Spaulding/ Matt Moore: 8:30 p.m., $12. Grog Shop. New Moon Rising/Unamused Dave/ The Bitter Smoke Initiates/Jack and the Bear: 8 p.m., $5 ADV, $8 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Sommerfugl/Marcus Whiteamire and Candy Brown/Jay Alm: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.
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The Honeypot/That Poor Girl/Bitter Smoke Initiative: Fuzzy and nostalgic in all the right ways, Kalamazoo’s The Honey Pot trips into the druggy merger of pre- and post-grunge shoegaze. The band’s self-titled 2014 album moves patiently through moods (“patiently” being a key word here, as the musicians take their time with execution). The effect hits that dream-rock sweet tooth real nicely for those who are into such things. “Pushing Along” swings among tree branches of high-end accents and reverb-soaked progressions. The band volleys well between soft-loud dynamics throughout the album, furthering the whole hypnagogic vibe of everything. In “Music” (which clocks in at 3:11, probably coincidentally but probably not coincidentally), the garage-band ethos of The Honey Pot is in full swing, with crashing drums wrapping smoky strings in a nervous heartbeat. It’s a cool album from a band just up the road in Michigan. 9 p.m.,
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for this gig will hoist their drinks in the air in unison as a toast of sorts to Blossom’s country-heavy concert schedule. 7 p.m., $31.50-$61.25. Blossom. (Niesel) Zach Deputy/Freekbass: Known for his tangles of guitar melodies looping across themselves, Zach Deputy is that unique musician who comes off sounding like he’s actually several musicians in one body. His beachy guitar work blends into a melange of hip-hop beats, dancehall and neo-soul. Check out his bandcamp page for live sets from the past few years; you’ll gather a sense that Deputy’s a funloving cat who laces his dedication to his instruments with wit and personal savvy. He has described his sound as “island-infused drum ‘n’ bass gospel ninja soul.” We like to think of it as the soundtrack to a backyard party where the steaks are rubbed with kief and the sun is shining oh so warmly. 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. (Sandy) Bossa Nova Night with Luca Mundaca (in the Supper Club): 8:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Breakfast Club: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. The Clarks/Bastard Bearded Irishmen: 8:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop. Sammy DeLeon and His Latin Jazz Septet: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Antoine Dunn/Robin Stone: 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Garage Mod DJ Dance Party: 9 p.m., Free. Beachland Tavern. Lou Gramm/Starship: 7 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. Ice Age/Lowlife/Fuck You Pay Me/ Rubber Mate: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class. Impending Lies/Konipshun Phit/Tear from Grace/Odds Against Tomrrow/ Soulus/Zero.Set.Memory/Audience of Rain: 6:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Agora. Madison Crawl (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Silver String Band/Mark Martin and Betsy Marshall/Songwriters in the Round: 4 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. X Ambassadors/Dreamers/Tribe Society: 9 p.m., $12. Musica.
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Girl Band/Hiram Maxim/Burnin’ Loins: With loud guitar return, blaring drums, and screaming vocals, Dublin, Ireland’s Girl Band is making waves. Their most recent EP, The Early Years, features screaming vocals and screeching guitar similar to Primus or any punk-meets metal band. They’re a noise rock band whose songs are all just formless instrumental noise and vocals that somehow create the loud songs for which they’re known. NPR states, “It’s hard to overstate how heart-stopping it is to see these four guys from Dublin play live.” Their live performances are loud, energetic, and unforgettable, as said by many critics before. Their single, “Why They Hide Bodies Under My Garage” features repetitive vocals and loud, shrieking guitar riffs. Their unique music is a must see and hear for any punk lover. 8:30 p.m., $10. Grog Shop. (Hannah Wintucky) Imagine Dragons/Metric/Halsey: With its percolating electronics and defiant chorus (“welcome to the new age, welcome to the new age”), “Radioactive,” became a huge hit for Las Vegas-based rockers Imagine Dragon, garnering them all sorts of awards when it came out in 2013. The band has continued to build on that momentum with its new album Smoke + Mirrors, another eclectic collection of tunes that should sound great in an arena setting. 7:30 p.m., $29.50-$59.50. Quicken Loans Arena. (Niesel) Pete Cavano/Jim Kozel: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Crobar/Battlecross/Lord Dying/ Venomin James/Psyclosarin: 6 p.m., $14 ADV/$17 DOS. Agora. The First Five: 8 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Ben Nichols of Lucero: 8 p.m., $13. Musica. Trails and Ways: 8 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern. Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m.
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why you should hear theM: Hendricks says the band is proud to be part of the Cleveland music scene. “We are so fortunate to have such a talented music scene in Cleveland,” he says. “Every local band we have played with has been incredibly hospitable and supportive. Every band has their own unique sound, but to say you are trying to make music that is ‘special’ is really just a hoax. For instance, the song ‘Re:Stacks’ by Bon Iver is by no means a special song. But it is special to us in a way that is unexplainable. Music is transcendent and is beautiful because it can be interpreted by everyone in their own way.” Pipe Dream’s music sounds like a mix between Coldplay, Foo Fighters and the Fray. A great, unpretentious ballad, the title track from last year’s The Oak is a mellow, acoustic guitar-driven song that features the sound of children playing in the background and a low-key mix of acoustic guitars and lilting vocals. where you can see theM: Pipe Dream performs with Clubhouse and ShiSho at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, at the Grog Shop.
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One Of Our favOrite lOcal acts, the Lighthouse and the Whaler has announced that it will release its new album, Mont Royal, on August 28. The song “I Want To Feel Alive,” can currently be streamed via Consequence Of Sound and Soundcloud. It can also be purchased as a digital single via iTunes. The band spent five weeks in Montreal recording with producer Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire, Stars, Local Natives), and the album takes its title from the Quebec capitol’s small mountain. The album comes on the heels of their two previous albums — 2009’s self-titled effort and 2012’s This Is An Adventure. This Is An Adventure songs “Venice” and “Pioneers” have amassed over 3.4 and 1.8 millions plays, respectively, on Spotify.
MGK Needs a VIoLINIst Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly has announced a new partnership with Grammy U, a selfdescribed “unique and fast-growing community of college students, primarily between the ages of 17 and 25, who are pursuing a career in the recording industry,” as he sets out on a tour that includes a contest to find the country’s most talented violinists — or at least ones that want to perform with a boisterous hip-hop star. The tour kicked off in Los Angeles on July 1 and continues through the end of August. In each city, MGK will invite “a selected local young violinist” to perform on stage with him as he plays his current single “A Little More.” The concerts will feature songs from his upcoming album. The tour scheduled doesn’t include a Cleveland date.
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Dear Dan My boyfriend and I both spent a lot of time masturbating when we were young, and pretty much trained our brains to come only one way. He can only come from masturbating furiously, or sometimes from a marathon of jackhammer sex. A few years before I met him, I toned down the masturbating to retrain my brain and pussy and tried a bunch of new things, and I can now come from different acts and positions. It wasn’t easy, but I am so happy with this versatility. I’m starting to get annoyed that he isn’t working harder to overcome this jackhammering reliance. It hurts, it’s super boring, and it makes me feel like I might as well be an inflatable doll. We’ve talked about it, and he says he’ll masturbate less, and that does help (read: Now it’s a half hour of jackhammering instead of hours), but I’m still eager for more variety— and to be able to walk after sex and ride a bike the next day. For what it’s worth, about half the time he just lets me come buckets and then gives up on himself. Can you recommend anything that would help him? Since I know firsthand this can be overcome and I accommodate him as much as possible, I think I’m being reasonable, but I’m sure you’ll tell me if I’m not. – Hoping A Massive Masturbator Eventually Retrains Exacting Dick Here’s how you retrain his dick: Your boyfriend stops doing what he’s always done—no more masturbating or fucking in the style to which his dick has become accustomed—but he keeps on having sex and he keeps on masturbating. But he is not allowed to revert to jackhammering away at your pussy or his fist if he doesn’t get off. If he doesn’t come, he doesn’t come. Eventually his dick, in desperation, will adjust to newer, subtler sensations, and he’ll be able to get off without jackhammering. Or not. Some guys can retrain their dicks—and some women can retrain their pussies—but some people have carved too deep a groove into themselves and their junk. Other people really do require intense stimulation—jackhammers and death grips and powerful vibrators—to
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