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An oral history of Speak In Tongues

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UPFRONT PEOPLE MAKE A PRIDE PARADE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND Photo by Emanuel Wallace

THIS WEEK

IT’S BEEN A ROUGH SUMMER and it wasn’t made any better last Thursday when the Board of Directors of Cleveland Pride, Inc. announced that they were canceling this year’s Cleveland Pride Parade. The only reason for the cancellation mentioned in their press release, —“Because of the changing social climate…” — is inscrutable at best. What social climate? What changed? Was there a credible threat made against the parade? The same as there is every year at every pride parade everywhere? So what’s the difference? Why are we stopping now? Why, in the middle of this shit show of a year, after people were slaughtered at an Orlando gay nightclub just for celebrating their own existence, are you canceling one of the most fun, most joyous, and most necessary parties of the year? We were able to keep our city safe during the Cavs parade when over a million people descended on downtown. We were able to keep our city safe during the RNC where groups of people who actively hated each other congregated in Public Square each afternoon to try to entice the other side into violence. What makes Cleveland Pride any different? What has not changed in this social climate is the fact that members of the LGBTQ community and their allies are desperate for feelings of hope and belonging. We all want to feel as though we are loved and understood and do not need to hide away in fear. You know what’s great at both providing those feelings and challenging a “changing social climate”? A DAMN PRIDE PARADE. Fine. You know what? The Board of Directors is right – the social climate IS changing and our only option is to cancel things, a whole mess of things. Get out your planners because we need to cancel, cancel, cancel it all. Here is

You can’t shut down pride — or Pride.

a list of things that are now ofﬁcially cancelled for 2016: s .OT GIVING A SHIT ABOUT congressional elections s .EVER HAVING A FEMALE NOMINEE FOR president s /LYMPIC ATHLETES BEING POSSIBLY electrocuted while they sleep s !SSUMING THAT *USTIN "IEBER IS pretty good live s "ERNIE OR "UST ERS s 4HAT HORRIl C FROG 3NAPCHAT l LTER s 4HE ORIGINAL ENDING TO “Believeland” s 5NREGISTERED VOTERS s !NYONE ELSE EVEN THINKING OF ATTEMPTING TO PULL OFF AN ALL WHITE pantsuit s ,EAVING DISHES IN THE SINK FOR MORE than 12 hours

LONELY ISLAND Mayor Jackson ponders banning bus trafﬁc through Public Square, despite millions poured into redesign speciﬁcally to accommodate it. Also rethinking the name “Cleveland.”

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s 0RESIDENTIAL NOMINEES WHO DON T read books s #LAIMING ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT you’re headed to go to the gym when you know damn well you’re going to go home to “change ﬁrst” but then sit down on your couch, and then turn on your TV, and then watch American Ninja Warrior in full while ordering pizza s 0ICTURES OF "ILL #LINTON WHERE HE IS not engaging with balloons s 2EMEMBERING TO WORRY ABOUT :IKA s ,ETTING YOUR RACIST UNCLE S nonsense on Facebook go unchallenged s .EVER HAVING WATCHED h4HE 'REAT British Baking Show” s 4HINKING THAT YOU CAN T SUPPORT

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Cedar Point announces Sept. 16 closure of Mean Streak. Cleveland Flea vendors request all parts — lumber, screws, bolts — calling this “the ultimate upcycle.”

During Ohio rally, Donald Trump says he fears November election will be “rigged” against him. Entire country literally looks away, begins twiddling thumbs and whistling.

both police and Black Lives Matter s 7ONDERING IF $ONALD 4RUMP WOULD ever dare to invite Russia to hack the US s .OT USING THE BATHROOM OF YOUR CHOICE s 4HINKING THAT PEOPLE WANDERING through a park late at night aren’t hunting Pokemon s #LEVELAND S SELF HATRED s 4HE IDEA THAT IT IS IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE to cancel a Pride parade. People make a Pride parade, not the other way around. And come Aug. 13, we will gather in Cleveland, at one of the many alternative events that have popped up since The Board of Directors’ announcement, and we will celebrate Pride. Canceling Pride is canceled. And with that in mind…

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There has been a groundswell of support for an alternative to Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noshow on Aug. 13 and a group of folks is stepping up. They include the LGBT Community Center, State Rep. Nickie Antonio, the City of Cleveland, and assorted organizations like Plexus, HRC Cleveland Steering Committee, GG9, Stonewall Democrats, Stonewall Sports Cleveland, WH2, Dare2Care, Margieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hope and Equality Ohio. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will have a safe and secure environment in which to celebrate and we will show the world that Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LGBTQ Community Rocks,â&#x20AC;? the press release, issued late last week, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please stay tuned for more details on location, times, entertainment, etc. Cleveland will unite and will celebrate our community and diversity on Saturday, August 13, 2016.â&#x20AC;? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep you updated as we learn more.

APPEALS COURT DEEMS OHIO ABORTION RESTRICTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONAL An Ohio state court of appeals ruled that regulations controlling Capital Care Network, the last remaining of

the previous three Toledo abortion clinics, were unconstitutional. The case goes back to 2014, when Capital Care sued the state after the Ohio Department of Health rejected a written transfer agreement it had negotiated with the University of Michigan Health System, saying it did not meet the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requirements. According to state provisions approved in the state budget in 2013, a hospital must be located within 30 miles of an abortion clinic. The U of M Health System and Capital Care facilities were 50 miles away from each other. Capital Careâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s argument against the state said that the regulation placed an undue burden on a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to abortion access, that it unconstitutionally delegated state authority to outside parties and that the initial enactment in the state budget violated the Ohio Constitution. In June 2015, the trial court decided in favor of Capital Care, that the licensing provisions the state enacted were unconstitutional because the provisions contain â&#x20AC;&#x153;unconstitutional delegations of licensing authority.â&#x20AC;? The ODH appealed this decision, resulting in the decision made by the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals last Friday. The court ruled that the state

law approved in the 2013 budget assessment, that clinics were required to have a written transfer agreement with a local hospital, was â&#x20AC;&#x153;an undue burden on a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to have access to an abortion.â&#x20AC;? Using the standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court decision on a Texas law earlier this summer, Whole Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court weighed the burden placed on patients seeking abortions against the health beneďŹ ts of a regulation to determine whether an undue burden exists. The statement released by the court said that the SCOTUS decision on the Texas law afďŹ rmed the district courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nding and there was an undue burden. Finally, the court decision found that the budget bill violated the single-subject rule and could not touch on licensing requirements for clinics while being connected to the appropriation of money as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The U.S. Supreme Court said if an abortion restriction is burdensome and does not improve care, then it is unconstitutional. Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transfer agreement requirements for abortion providers are burdensome and medically unnecessary,â&#x20AC;? Kellie Copeland, the executive director for NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio told Cleveland.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling

is a common-sense decision, and protects the health of women across Northwest Ohio.â&#x20AC;?

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‘WHATEVER HAPPENED, HAPPENED’ An oral history of Speak In Tongues By Eric Sandy

S CRI BE S, E D E M A N CT I T S d LIKE TH E A at Lorain an e u n e v ic s u und m d an the undergro of s, represente e u g n o T In k a e p S , , e r e th 4 th 4 t d ene Wes t. What happ e s d in m t, ly ld otherwor rformance ar e P . n o ti n e v os and in ble exactly? Cha and unnama ts u o k a e r F eater. e lots of cats r e music and th w e r e h T . weirdness rks. meat. Firewo subterranean g in d lo p x E f cat piss. ce and plenty o acid. The pla n o s o th e ’s leveland own rules. It s it The grit of C y b d n a e own univers t. existed in its t was the poin a th t u b , y tt e s pr wasn’t alway From the fall of 1994 to New Year’s Eve 2001, Speak In Tongues evolved as new characters moved in and designed the venue according to their individual and collective visions. It began life as the dream and delight of Dave Petrovich (aka Dave P.) and Shelby Bell, but thousands of people from around the world would leave their imprints over the next seven years, leaving a legacy that’s still referenced and revered today. Pull a string on Cleveland’s current creative climate and the thread will inevitably tug back to that little venue. What follows is certainly not a full accounting of the life and death of Speak In Tongues. It’s a kaleidoscope

hazy memories and well-worn tales. There are, of course, voices that weren’t heard this time around, and nearly inﬁnite stories that will have to wait for the next spin through the history. And that’s okay. For now, let’s roll the tape.

THE BEGINNING (1994-1995) Dave Petrovich, Founder A lot of people think it has to do with Talking Heads, and it doesn’t. I mean, I like Talking Heads, but I was thinking of the weird spiritual place somebody is in when they’re speaking in tongues — that outsideof-yourself feeling of just going on intuition. I think when a lot of people heard it originally, they thought it

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was Speaking In Tongues; instead, it was just Speak In Tongues. Like, “You should do this. You should speak in tongues. Or, you can do this here. This is a good place to speak in tongues.” Rob Sabetto, Dave’s roommate [Dave and I] were sharing the upstairs apartment of a two-level on Clifton when he told me he was moving out to start it. That was September of ’94. He told me the concept and where it was going to be — in some old storefront/dance hall/ bowling alley/whatever-the-fuck it was on a dingy little strip of nothing on Lorain Avenue at 43rd — and I didn’t think much of it. Dave Petrovich The whole idea was a place, a clubhouse, where we could do art and play music and hang out on a regular basis — a place that wasn’t a club with a bar where everyone had to pay and where there was a business side to it. Rob Sabetto I was more concerned with ﬁnding someone else to take his place on the lease. Leland “Pugsley” James, Dreyfus Dave worked at a video store in North Olmsted, and we used to go

there all the time. He was telling me about how he wanted to create this musical collective, where bands could play and they could do all sorts of art projects. It sounded really cool, though I didn’t know the grand scheme of it all. Dave Petrovich [Rob and I] had had the idea to do a pop culture ’zine that was pretty much open-forum. It was going to be submission-driven. We would go down to Kinko’s late at night on Euclid, right across from CSU. And we would usually go in there after 1 or 2 in the morning to use their computers. There was a guy who was working there who was really helpful and knew a lot about music — more like avant-garde music. His name was Shelby Bell. He and I went on to open Speak In Tongues. Initially, it was going to be tied to this magazine that Rob and I were working on. Cat Celebrezze, Walking With Edna Walking With Edna had this weird moment in like 1990 or whenever, where we had a pretty signiﬁcant following, but everybody was like 13. Back then — like today, places really cater to 13-year-olds — but back then, bars were really the places where you saw bands. And bars didn’t want | clevescene.com | August 3 - 9, 2016

FEATURE 13-year-olds there. It’s a problem. They don’t drink. So we struggled for a long time to find a place to play even though we had a huge following. There was no space that was catering just to people who wanted to see music and wanted to dance — to see a performance that’s not tied into all these sorts of capital gain incentives for bars to have bands. Dave Petrovich I had become aware of [the building] because I went to see Craw at the Euclid Tavern a bunch of times in the early ’90s and met a lot of cool people from hanging out at the Euclid Tavern. One of the guys who was close with that band had rented out and was living in the top floor of that building at 44th and Lorain. His name is Tim Funtjar. He and his friends who were living there at the time were hosting DIY, BYOB rock shows. Tim was friends with Ralph Haussmann. Ralph was sort of a music nut to the nth degree: crazy record collection, really into avant-garde stuff, electronic stuff, weird rock ’n’ roll. He provided the PA system that Tim was using in his space. Ralph Haussmann, Sound Engineer, Collective Member Me and another guy, Tim Funtjar, we had a performance space on the third floor of the building about a year and a half before Speak In Tongues started. We were in the building already doing shows. I had been doing shows since ’88, ’89 at different places, different venues. I put on a lot of the shows, and I kind of ran sound. Steve Kuchna, SIT Tenant, Collective Member In the mid-’90s, Danny Noonan, Jake Kelly and I started hanging out there. We started going to Food Not Bombs, which was hosted on the second floor of the building at the time. And then we started going to shows at the Pieta, which was the third floor, which Timmy Funtjar ran at the time. Jake Kelly, SIT Tenant, Collective Member I was a high school punk kid living in Fairview, and I was doing weird home recordings and trying to get bands together. Dave Petrovich We got into the [first-floor] space, and Shelby and I were like, wow, this is the kind of place we want to be in. It was really close to downtown but

sort of like ... Lorain Avenue at that point was definitely dilapidated and sort of off the radar, but still really easy to get to. There was a gas station right across the street for beer and cigarettes. Rob Sabetto I didn’t quite grasp what he set out to do, and little did I know how much time I would spend there or what it would become. Keith Kanderski, Pudding and Fruit There was this benefit show coming up, and they wanted to create a venue for local musicians to play at. Leland “Pugsley” James At the time, I was playing in a band called Dreyfus and we were always looking for places to play. Me and all the guys I worked with, we all played in different bands and stuff, so we got the idea to do a benefit show. We

had been to our shows upstairs so we kind of knew them. Dave Petrovich Three bands played there opening night. Prune Jive opened. Then Pudding and Fruit. Walking With Edna was the headliner. Leland “Pugsley” James Everybody was on the same page for the most part: having fun, making music, not hurting anybody. We were doing something that was under the radar a bit, you know? It was all put on by punks. It was cool: the power of a group, what a group can accomplish if they put their mind to it. Dave Petrovich The ﬁrst art show that we did was mostly paintings. That was Oct. 22, 1994. That was a cool night. I was leaving my job; I worked at a really cool video store. And as I was leaving

And as I was leaving my job to get gas and bring supplies over to the place before this opened, I found a $100 bill on the ground, so I was able to buy a bunch of toilet paper and beer. That was a good omen. — Dave Petrovich

did it at Horizons Day Care Center in North Olmsted. We had like eight or 10 bands. My band, Pudding and Fruit, Indelible, Whatever, a few others. We charged $20. We had to hire security, and we made like $600 or $800 after costs. None of the bands took any money. We gave that money to Dave to build a stage at Speak In Tongues. And it was kinda cool: All these bands that had played this benefit show, we kinda had an easy in to play shows at Speak In Tongues. My band played there a bunch of times. Ralph Haussmann One day we heard some banging going around downstairs. The whole building was owned by the Ohio Communist Party. They had their offices on the second floor. On the ground floor at the time the Communist Party was running kind of a day job thing, where people could go sign up in the morning and get work for the day and stuff like that. A band or two was practicing in the basement. But like I said, we heard some banging and checked it out, and Dave P. and Shelby and some of their friends were building a stage. They

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my job to get gas and bring supplies over to the place before this opened, I found a $100 bill on the ground, so I was able to buy a bunch of toilet paper and beer. That was a good omen. Steve Kuchna Since we were all high school punk rockers we all had our own bands. It was kind of natural that when Dave and Shelby started doing shows on the first floor — we knew them from hanging out — we started playing shows there. My band, Big New Plaid, played there in 1995. Jake Kelly I guess the first time I was ever there was to play the second show ever [in my band Squirrel Monkey], so that was pretty cool, and then to be keyed into the place from then on. We just started going to see whatever show there. It was almost guaranteed to be a crazy, cool show. It was a weird, crazy place. Matt Fish, Musician (Whatever); Owner, Melt Bar and Grilled I remember Dave P. had started this club, and it was very cool. Like

nothing we’d seen before. We were used to playing real rock clubs like Flashes and things like that, where you had to have tickets and there’s a bar and a sound guy and security and all this bullshit. Denise Grollmus, Writer The first time I was there, I was about 14 or 15. It wasn’t any band that I knew; my friend was just like let’s go to this amazing place called Speak In Tongues. I think they were called Pudding and Fruit? Rob Sabetto That first year was a blast, and it exceeded anything I expected. He and a couple guys — one of them was Shelby Bell — started booking bands. I don’t know where they found them; they were really obscure and they were from all over. Rarely would I have heard of them. Once he started booking shows, it picked up fast. It seemed like all of a sudden, within months, the place had already developed a scene. Cat Celebrezze They got together and they rented that old Communist meeting house and they totally did it. Denise Grollmus It still feels real. Like, in my memory it feels like a Satanic ritual. It was really dark, and I remember thinking this place is so cool and so underground. I was just sort of blown away. Ron Kretsch, Collective Member I had already been going to the Pieta upstairs, because a former roommate of mine, Tim, had been running the place. When Dave and Shelby opened Speak In Tongues downstairs, it wasn’t really any different; just playing there was better because you didn’t have to lug your shit up three flights. Dave Petrovich Shelby was really good at networking and bringing in bands. We didn’t have a computer there. We didn’t have internet access. He would do some email communication at his job at Kinko’s at night, but a lot of it was done by writing bands or labels through the mail or calling. He really liked the Texas label Trance Syndicate, so we got a number of those bands to play shows in Cleveland when they were on tour. The word started getting out. Leland “Pugsley” James I just remember being really nervous about the neighborhood. I

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like, “Well, what do you want to do?” In the three years that Grain was together, we had made all these connections. It was the post-hardcore, pre-emo days of the ’90s, where there were huge scenes in Michigan and Chicago, western Pennsylvania. There were all these bands like Promise Ring, Cap’n Jazz, whoever it was, this whole movement of kids doing shows. We were friends with pretty much everybody from all the traveling we had done, and I was kind of the unofﬁcial mascot-roadie of the band that went along for the journey. So it’s like, we have all these connections. Let’s get these shows started. Brian Strazek We wanted a place that we could call our own and do it. That time in Cleveland, too, there was nothing there. We knew what we did was a little wilder, so it was a perfect opportunity. It was a beautiful building. We knew it was the Communist headquarters previously; it just all made sense. We were excited to get back and see what would happen.

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mean, I was a suburban kid from Rocky River going down to West 44th Street and Lorain. It was a little rough. We’d go across the street to the gas station, and they’d sell beer to anybody. Eric Lerner, Concertgoer It was a great atmosphere. We’d get there around 8:30, maybe 9 o’clock. And we’d walk over to that Clark station — I think it was a Clark station — on the corner and, depending on our mood, we’d either get 40s or some beers (those little Red Stripe hand grenades were popular) and some kind of snacks. There were a lot of little cliques around the space, hanging out in different areas. So we’d shoot the shit and wait for a band to play. It was what I did whenever there was an opportunity. Keith Kanderski It was the one place I could go to let loose. I really admired what [Dave] was trying to do. He didn’t want to screw over musicians. He was making a place where you could just do what you do. You don’t need to follow any rules or anything. It was where my girlfriend– now my wife– and I would spend almost every weekend.

Eric Lerner It shaped my social world. When I got back from college, it was sort of a meeting place. This was before text messaging and Facebook, so you’d sort of go to Speak In Tongues and see who was there. Keith Kanderski After every show was the dance party. To this day, I’ve never seen the movie Pulp Fiction. They always played the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Dave Petrovich One thing that we used to do in the ﬁrst year — it became a ritual — we would play the Pulp Fiction soundtrack after a show, just over and over again, and dance until 6 in the morning. That was cool. Really fun. All the people that were there remember that stuff. Those are times that, you know, even if they’re a little hazy, you know that they happened and they brought a lot of people together and they were super fun.

worked downtown. I worked in the Chester Building, and he worked in the grocery store and coffee shop across the street with Dave. Lawrence Daniel Caswell, Concertgoer Grain is one of my favorite Cleveland bands of all time. Dan Santovin Brian and I moved in with Brian Noga and our friend Ryan Rinella, who was in another band from the Slavic Village area. We literally moved all our stuff in from our house in Tremont and then left the next day for the Grain tour. We were gone for almost two months. That kinda left the place in Ryan’s hands.

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Brian Strazek, Grain, SIT Tenant We had known about it; Dave Petrovich was running it, and it was around. He was in the process of moving upstairs. This was right before Grain went on tour, so we said we’ll take it. We went on tour, came back and that was our new house.

Dan Santovin, SIT Tenant How I got involved was I was living with Brian Strazek, who had recently started a band called Grain. We both

Dan Santovin We came back from tour, and Grain eventually broke up. So it was the four of us at this place, and we were kinda

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Dave Petrovich I think that, especially when Dan Santovin moved in with Grain, he was really aggressive and he sort of picked up where Shelby had left off. And he deﬁnitely had a knack for contacting booking agents and getting bands that he liked to play there under circumstances that maybe these agents and bands and labels wouldn’t have dealt with if he had been working for a club. Dan Santovin The band Joan of Arc, Tim Kinsella and those guys came and did a show and they loved it. They were working with Susanne at Flowerbooking in Chicago. She kinda handled everything that was happening, she and Bettina who ran Thrill Jockey. They were the two matriarchs of the Chicago music scene, booking the bands, running the labels, keeping all the bands on the road and all that. The guys from Joan of Arc go back there and they’re like, “Hey, there’s a new place in Cleveland. You should go there.” I remember getting a call from Susanne. She’s like, “Obviously I’ve got options. I can put this show anywhere. But everyone’s telling me I should do it with you. This is the show: Tortoise, Five Style and the Sea and Cake.” At that time, they were the shit. They were the three biggest bands of that Chicago indie jazz scene. I’m sitting there shitting myself, like, “Are you serious? Of course I want to do it!” That was the ﬁrst show

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Ralph Haussmann The stairs going down to the men’s room got blown up during one noise show.

that we really had to — like, none of us had money, but I knew that we had to make it a good show. I wasn’t worried, I knew it was going to sell out. But what they were paid was like a third of what they’d make at another venue. We totally got a steal. It was one of those things, like, “Oh my god, what just happened?”

Jake Kelly A couple people took tumbles down those stairs. Obviously that’s one of the risks you run when you’re running an illegal show space where people bring as much beer as they want and drink it until they’re tired of drinking.

Ralph Haussmann Eventually I started helping them out with their PA stuff too. I’m guessing by sometime in ’95, I think Tim either moved out or got tired of doing stuff, I kind of migrated downstairs. I remember my ﬁrst show, sometime in ’95, was the Dirty Three, a band from Australia. Dan Santovin [Ralph] had this whole 24-channel board with all these big amps and monitors, and he had them up on the third story of the building. When we booked that Tortoise show, he came to me and said, “Dan, I like what you guys are doing here. I want to leave all my equipment down here. Can you help me move it down? And then it’s yours to use.” That was probably a $40,000 or $50,000 sound system. Brian Straw, Collective Member We had an awesome sound system there, which was really unheard of for a DIY space. Brian Strazek There was a big underground community in Cleveland for the performance art stuff, the experimental stuff. Ralph Haussmann was a big part of bringing that in to Cleveland — stuff you just couldn’t believe you were seeing. Dave Petrovich By the time they were doing that, there had been this reputation that was established that it was a good place, that we treated everybody well there. Alan Sparkhawk, Low It was tough part of town, and it didn’t look like there were many thriving businesses at all. So you’re here in this abandoned-looking storefront, and there’s this place where they do shows and shit. We showed up, and they made us dinner. Like, “Hey, we made you some pasta.” Eric Lerner In the mid-’90s you had this incredibly active emo/emocore scene. It

The always-open front door of Speak In Tongues, currently home to Bloom and Clover wax studio.

was mostly smaller, gritty Midwestern cities. Detroit had a scene. Kalamazoo. Pittsburgh. D.C., certainly. That became a way for kids who didn’t necessarily fit in or want to fit into their schools to discover this rich, interesting world around them that was kind of a neat little insider’s secret in a way. Speak In Tongues was very much Cleveland’s outpost for that scene. Dave Petrovich And at that point, we had access to the whole basement. That was made into bedrooms. It was actually a pretty big area. Ralph Haussmann It really only worked if people were living there and paying a little bit for rent. Jake Kelly Rent was $800, which was fairly cheap considering how many fucking people lived there at a given time. Between four and six or seven. And floaters like Ginchy. And 10 cats. Dave Petrovich Living in a basement underneath a rock club can wear you out. There was always a snarky attitude or a necessary level of sarcasm that you had at that place, that you needed to survive. It could be tough living there sometimes. There were shows five nights a week, and you work a day job, and people are there until 5 in the morning, and it’s super loud. That stuff wears you down. Shelby took his own life back in 1997. Steve Ginchy, who was sort of the spirit of the place, as far as art and music expression goes, he died. A lot of the people who were there in the beginning are dead, which is

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really unfortunate. Some of it was dumb luck, some of it was mental rock ’n’ roll living-related, some of it was suicide. Brian Strazek It was a controlled chaos. Steve Kuchna I remember falling asleep to hardcore and emo bands jumping around on top of me. There were a million cats. We all chain-smoked in the basement with no ventilation. Ginchy, our homeless guide to the universe, was there with us all the time sleeping on the couch. Jake Kelly All the rooms [in the basement] were ﬁlled with garbage, and it was a wild assortment of garbage: legitimate garbage, like I said, like broken lamps and ripped-up lampshades and old socks, and then weird Communist propaganda from the ’40s and ’50s, because the Communist Party of Ohio had this literature moldering in the basement, which was maybe one reason why communism didn’t take off in Ohio. They didn’t get the actual literature. Ralph Haussmann We were totally illegal, actually. Brian Strazek They got a grant to redo the storefront and never told us. All of a sudden, we woke up — we were sleeping on the couches — and you kinda woke up in an open mailbox. There was no front on the building anymore, and stuff was blowing in, people were walking by. Eventually they put up some plywood for us. It turned out great, but it was stuff like that: Nothing was shocking.

Sam McNulty, Market Garden Brewery I used to bike from Cleveland Heights to Speak In Tongues with my brother Paul in my late teens and early 20s, and we would catch concerts there when it was a kind of free-form rave thing. It was a freakshow. There was nothing like it in Cleveland. The bar was not licensed, but you would bring in beer and they would hold it behind the bar. The suggested donation was $1 per bottle, so they would charge you almost a corking fee, if you will, or an uncapping fee. Craig Chojnicki, Concertgoer Apart from playing there, I saw William Hooker — the jazz drummer — play there with DJ Olive. That was an incredible show. I got to see Panasonic, that Finnish electronic band, and that was really cool. One show that really stuck out for me was that I got to see that band Low before they got really big. Sean Carnage, Artist Derek Hess did a show over there in 1995, and I went over and saw Unsane play. I was like seriously doing cartwheels and somersaults on the ﬂoor. I was so excited. I had never experienced anything like that. It was basically this free-for-all zone, this playground for young adult wastoids. Brian and Brian were there, and Dave P., and I realized this is going to be my new home. Dan Santovin Dave Petrovich didn’t live with us, but he had just as much of a voice as well. He was very excited to see it grow. If there was something that he liked that was going on, he was there spinning records. He wanted to make sure that everybody was having fun. He would provide the afterparty. That’s Dave. Ken Blaze, Photographer, Collective Member Later, when I became more involved with the collective, I kind of got the idea that, okay, this is something that needs to be more documented. We need

FEATURE to remember this. I started to shoot more along the lines of that. [My book of photos] was about showing off what I saw while I was there. This isn’t the ultimate history of Speak In Tongues. This is what I saw. And everyone could say the same thing. Everyone went for what they were into. Brian Strazek Some of those pictures just capture the chaos. I think there’s one where Danny’s on ﬁre. It’s like, what the hell is happening here? Dan Santovin I could go on for days. How much time do you have?

AND THEN ... (1997-1998) Steve Kuchna When my group of friends moved in, it was a passing of the torch from the Grain boys. The day we moved in was like when they were moving out. Ralph Haussmann Eventually I guess they got kind of tired of doing it and talked about moving out. I wanted to keep it going. I think Dave had moved out by then; Dave moved in and out of Speak In Tongues several times. So to keep it going I knew a couple Lakewood kids, and their bands were opening for different bands. It was mainly three guys: Danny Noonan, Jake Kelly and Steve Kuchna. Danny had a label, and I was helping him get recordings together for the albums he was putting out. Jake Kelly I think we moved in there in 1997, and it was me, Danny Noonan, Steve Kuchna and Steve’s girlfriend. We moved in because, I think, all of the guys from Grain that were living there — Strazek, Noga and Santovin — were sort of tired of living the weird windowless subterranean life that was Speak In Tongues. And, I don’t know, we were young and stupid, so we were like, “Yeah! We’ll move in here!” Steve Kuchna You can live in an abandoned theater because it’s Cleveland and there are few laws and no one has any money, and if you can ﬁnd the abandoned theater and grease the palms of whatever wacko owns it — in our case, the heads of the Communist Party of Ohio — then, you know, you can get away with it. We subdivided the basement into

little private areas, little bedrooms. At certain points some drywall went up. There were also curtains and things dividing personal areas. For a while I had an actual room down there, which was cool because it had a door, but it was directly under the stage. I got used to it, but sleeping was kind of hard for a while. Jake Kelly So I lived in this heat room, which was a trillion degrees. It kinda sucked, and it was windowless. Not a lot of light seeped into Speak In Tongues. Given a night where ﬁve bands play and you have a few beers and you crash out at, you know, 4 in the morning, you wake with a start and you look at the clock and it says 5. You’re not sure if this is 5 a.m. or 5 p.m. And you really have to go up a ﬂight of stairs and walk across the entire building to get a sense of, oh, the sun is not out yet. It must be 5 a.m. Why did I wake up?

Bill Badgley Have people talked to you about the basement being full of cat shit? Alan Sparhawk Yeah, you know, it smelled like cat urine. Jake Kelly I was always less cats, less cats, less cats. And there were certain elements who were always more cats, more cats, more cats. One of the weirdest fucking things that ever happened to me in my entire life is: I walk into Speak In Tongues, and it’s the afternoon. No one else is there. You would open the front door, and there was kind of a wall. You would go around and then you’d be in the main room. And I go around this little wall, and in the center of the dance ﬂoor is a circle of 10 cats, all facing each other. Not doing anything, just sitting stoically and staring at each other. And I walk in and all of them, in unison, turn and look at me,

It was fucking disgusting. There was just ground beef everywhere, splattered everywhere. And the noise was horrifying, deafening. — Jon Strange

Bill Badgley, Federation X We’re talking 1998, maybe 1999, and we had just started. We had to live in a van for two months. We were such lunatics that we were like, “Let’s go on a national tour!” And that’s not a good idea, you know. To go on a national tour like two months after you start your band. But we were really young, like 20. We had spray-painted Federation X on the side of an old ’77 Impala that all the mechanics told us would not make it past Detroit. We took it on seven national tours before it ﬁnally bit the dust. Jake Kelly I saw them in Sacramento and made a long-distance phone call to Dan, which was expensive, and I said, probably very fast, “Danny there’s a band called Federation X and they’re the best band in North America I just saw them last night if they try to book at Speak In Tongues you gotta book them okay bye!” Click. I think like literally a week later, they sent him a tape and a letter. “Oh! Best band in North America! I’ll book them!”

and I look at the cats, and all the cats scattered. I think I took my bag off, set it on the couch, went across the street and got a beer, drank it, scared, on the stoop. So the cats were there, and the cats were fucking weird. Brian Strazek The cats come up all the time. The cats were magical. Danny Noonan, SIT Tenant, Collective Member There was a joke that the only reason the place didn’t burn down was because it was so saturated in cat piss that it would be impossible for any flame to take hold. Lawrence Daniel Caswell Pretty much every time I went there I had an asthma attack. Hot, mildewy, moldy. Cat piss. I’m sure that’s not the first time you’ve heard about the cat piss. And whatever was emanating from the basement. Danny Noonan I wish I could remember the specific show, but we cleaned the place up

and I went downstairs to change my shirt, and Scum Chop, that was the name of the cat, had her litter in my T-shirt drawer. She had her litter there. I’m like, “Goddammit!” It became a thing where I was mentioning it [that night], so like every 20 minutes I had to walk people downstairs because they wanted to see the kittens. Steve Kuchna I was like 19 at the time I started living there, and the level of personal and artistic freedom that we all had in our lives was pretty much unparalleled since then. It came with a high price: You lived in a ﬁlthy basement with six other people and had to try to sleep through emo bands. But it certainly granted a lot of personal freedoms that are no longer really necessarily available. Dan Santovin Brian Straw had just moved to town. He showed up one night at the club, and he was like, “I like what you guys are doing, can I just help out with sound or apprentice?” We introduced him to Ralph. Ralph Haussmann I taught other guys how to do sound. Brian Straw got really good at it. There was another guy who lived there, Steven Schindler — nicknamed Ginchy — he’s dead now, but he ran sound a lot of nights. Brian Straw, SIT Tenant, Collective Member I moved to Cleveland when I was about 21, on a whim. I didn’t know a single person. I came here for music for some reason. I found Speak In Tongues really fast. This was 1997, I think. I didn’t know if I was going to plant my roots here or what; I was a kid, just trying some new city out. When I found Speak In Tongues, it felt right. It felt like I made the right choice and found a home and community to build from. Jake Kelly And then random weirdos like Brian Straw show up and end up living there two weeks later — I forget how long it was, it seems very compressed — but he was like a weirdo who was at a show, then he was a weirdo moving into the back room, and then he was my really close friend, someone who I cared deeply for. That maybe is a takeaway from Speak In Tongues: I’m friends with tons of people that I met there, still to this day. If anything, it’s that. It’s more personal than it is artistic or musical or whatever. | clevescene.com | August 3 - 9, 2016

FEATURE Brian Straw I remember the ﬁrst show I saw there really well and the last show I saw there really well, and everything in between was like one big show. It never really stopped for me. I would wake up in the morning, and the band’s still there, and the next band’s pulling up as we got back from breakfast. The ﬁrst show I saw there was William Parker and Susie Ibarra, who were amazing free-jazz musicians. They were from New York. I just couldn’t believe it, that I had stumbled onto something like that. It was so beautiful. I knew right then, this is fucking real. This is pure. I could tell by how the audience was reacting, by the space, the people involved with it, and the musicians working, that it was really a communal thing. It always had that feel. The door was always open, even if it was a non-show night. Jon Strange, Concertgoer I remember being at a show, I think it was 9 Shocks Terror, and they come out and they put a huge metal trashcan in the middle of the stage. And like before you really knew what was going on, suddenly there was this amazing amount of noise — pop-pop-

pop sounds, and light — and he’d set off a string of ﬁrecrackers in a metal trash can that was ﬁlled with ground beef. It was fucking disgusting. There was just ground beef everywhere, splattered everywhere. And the noise was horrifying, deafening.

pissing all over the place. The living conditions were really bad, but they did it. A lot of people left, and then some new people came in.

Patrick Munn, Boulder Three-quarters of the band worked in a Chinese restaurant. This was not the only show/club that involved raw meat and blood!

what we were doing was buying new trashcans. The backyard was ﬁlled with like 20 trashcans, and we’d just pack these trash cans full. So all this meat got scooped up with the beer and the bullshit from that night — and, I don’t know, dirty socks and hair and shit — and stuffed into these cans and dragged into the backyard and left. That was maybe July. Come August we ﬁnally get the dumpster back. And, like, no one’s here, no one’s going to help me, and it’s time to begin emptying these trash cans into this dumpster. I chucked a few in, emptied them out. And I grabbed one of the trashcans from the His Hero Is Gone night. I upturned it, and it came out the way that cranberry sauce comes out of the can, except it was gray and writhing with maggots, and it hit the bottom of the dumpster and sort of splooshed. I got hit with a wall of stink so awful that I didn’t even have time to turn, I just vomited. I vomited like propulsively and instantaneously from this. And I sort of reeled back and was like, “That was fucked up. Okay. You know what? I’m done with doing the fucking trash for now!” So that kind of stuff was going on.

Jake Kelly This also coincided with us being in arrears on the dumpster payment, so the dumpster had been shut off. So

Leland “Pugsley” James Apparently it was really disgusting. I never saw it when people were really living there. Dogs and cats

Dave Petrovich Ginchy had a big impact on that place. His artistic style was really cool and it was cool to see him decorate the place, even though sometimes it was really annoying because he could be such a nutcase at times. Undeniably, he was a creative genius. He would do really cool things to that space.

Jake Kelly I’m pretty sure the show was His Hero Is Gone, Boulder and 9 Shocks. And Boulder, I’m not entirely sure how, but they blew up a bunch of meat onstage. Like I think they had meat in a bucket or something, and then had an M-80 under that and it blew up the meat. There was meat everywhere. At the time we had this dog who was running around and trying to eat this raw meat. Jon Strange I don’t really know what the point was. As a vegetarian, it was extra gross. There was raw meat exploding across the room.

Sean Carnage It was this scatological, explosive, anarchist, disgusting, putrid, liberating environment. It was seriously the most disgusting place. Literal shit all over the place, shit that would rise up on floodwaters out of the ground and fill the entire basement and sometimes the first floor. I had never seen the debauchery and degradation that I had seen there. It’s like a Marquis de Sade thing. It’s kind of very liberating. For a former Catholic schoolboy, altar boy, it was pretty much total transubstantiation as far as the spirit of a twisted artist. Jake Kelly In one of life’s great ironies, you can play music all you want until 4 in the morning. You can form a billion bands if you want. And you kind of just sit around and stare. Especially in the wintertime. It very much became like you were living in The Shining. And Lloyd, the bartender, was real, and his name was Ginchy.

Ralph Haussmann He was one of a kind. I would say a true artist, actually. He lived there. He looked after things a lot. Underneath Lorain Avenue were these catacombs, which was actually the roughest place to live. Ginchy lived in there, under the street in the basement. Matthew T, Promoter, Collective Member Ginchy passed away a few years ago. He was a cool kid. He operated on a different plane of existence. I can’t say a bad thing about Ginchy. He wasn’t dangerous; to himself he was. He had a rough life. Dan Santovin Ginchy. That’s a whole other story. Ralph Haussmann We always had a lot of different characters coming to shows. Denise Grollmus I will always remember Bleeding Ear Man. He was such a ﬁxture at so

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The collective gathers at Speak In Tongues

many shows. He was in Bent Crayon one time talking to John, and at one point his ear just spontaneously started bleeding. He just sort of like covered his ear up and was like, “Uh, gotta go,” and ran out. Jake Kelly At one point we banned him. His deal was, he was crazy. He seemed to live in like a westside suburb, and he roller-bladed everywhere. It seemed like some of his ﬁngers had been cut off; his hand was deformed in some way. He played the harmonica. He had a fanny pack with, like, some kind of batterypowered radio and speakers. He always dressed in gear appropriate to someone who’s rollerblading: a helmet, neon shirt, spandex pants. That was the one thing that wasn’t crazy about him, because, well that is how you dress when you’re rollerblading. Oh, boy. I wouldn’t call him a cool dude or a welcome addition to the family, but he counts as one of those things at Speak In Tongues that at the time ... . He could have me boiling over with rage and I would want to kill this man, but then ﬁve or six years later he comes up and we’re laughing about it. Like, “Haha-ha, Bleeding Ear Man.” Ralph Haussmann Bleeding Ear Man was actually a music fan. You’d see him being pulled by his dogs up and down on Lorain on his skates.

Brian Strazek There were times when he’d roll in and we’d turn him around and roll him out. Jake Kelly You would see him trucking down the middle of Lorain at 2 in the morning, like out in West Park, like a man on a mission. And he liked Low. And he would come to the show and try to play harmonica along with them, and it’d be like, “Stop.” And he’s like, “What? I love them!” And he loved Modest Mouse. He loved the music that was happening at Speak In Tongues. And he had something wrong with him, because as he’d be enjoying the music his ears would begin to bleed.

IN BLOOM ... (1998-2000) Steve Kuchna If there was ever a band that was associated with Speak In Tongues, it’s Modest Mouse. They’re almost — I wouldn’t say a house band, but they were up there. I don’t remember who exactly set it up ﬁrst, because I was still kind of unfamiliar with them. I remember when Dave told me we were going to do the show, I was like, alright, cool, I’ve heard of these guys. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, “Holy shit, Modest Mouse is playing Speak In Tongues.” Danny Noonan A big part of Speak In Tongues’ history was this relationship with

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Modest Mouse. They played there when they were not that well known. The last show they played there, they probably wouldn’t have played except for the relationship that was there. They had outgrown us. That was huge. Dan Santovin That ﬁrst show was insane. Isaac [Brock] is tripping the whole time and plays an amazing show. The bands are done — great turnout, everyone’s super happy — and we end up pulling out the couch beds. Jeremy [Green, Modest Mouse’s drummer] and I end up sleeping in the same couch bed together. Isaac wants to sleep out back behind the club. I don’t know why the hell he wanted to do that; it was disgusting back there. Everyone crashes out. The next morning, I remember Isaac jumping on Jeremy and me and yelling, “Holy crap! You’re not gonna believe this, but in the middle of the night I was visited by aliens!” He goes into this whole story about how aliens visited him in our backyard. I think Jeremiah was used to it, but I was like, “Holy shit.” Michael Graham, Blue Max I was very into that band at that time. I still love their music, although the music by them I love the most is from that era. This was shortly after Lonesome Crowded West had come out. I saw they were on tour, and they had a show in Detroit before taking a break for three days. I called up Dan, and I said, “They’re not stopping in

Cleveland. You’ve got to get them to come again.” Dan Santovin I remember one show where they played with this local band Blue Max, and Blue Max ended up playing two sets of the same songs because Modest Mouse was late. Michael Graham The place was totally packed. We probably had 30 minutes of songs to play. We waited and waited for them to show up, and they didn’t show up. So we were just like, “Okay, let’s keep these people occupied.” So we played close to an hour, and they still hadn’t shown up at that time. Then they show up, and they had gotten lost somewhere, taken a wrong turn or something, so they were heading to Toronto or wherever. Dan Santovin They were coming in from Detroit. They literally showed up, pulled everything in, set up and within 30 minutes they were playing. No sound check. It was probably one of my favorite shows ever. Michael Graham Two songs from the end of the set, Isaac broke his guitar stings. He must not have had any others, because he was like, “Hey, can I borrow the guitar from the opening band?” I went out to my car and got my guitar so he could use it. He played the last two songs using my guitar. He was asking,

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FEATURE “How do you make this thing super treble-y?” I showed him. The next day, I took my guitar out and it stank. Worst B.O. smell you ever smelled in your life. I had to scrub out my guitar strap with liquid detergent. But that was cool. Jake Kelly I knew how much [Michael] loved Modest Mouse. Everyone knew how much he loved Modest Mouse. And when he handed over the guitar everyone was like, “This guy! He’s doing it! He’s touching your guitar!” Danny Noonan During the whole time they were playing, I was only half paying attention. I had all the door money hidden in my room, and it was the

most money I had ever had. It was only like a few thousand dollars, but having a few thousand dollars in your hand, it’s like, “What if someone sneaks into my room? Everyone will think I stole it!” That was the other thing: A lot of people knew that we lived there, but we really did see it as our house. And when you’re having people come over and play at your house, there’s all these other things happening. It’s hard to completely lose yourself in the show. Pete Jennings, Ex-Astronaut One of the more memorable shows I ever saw was the Nick Riley Allstars at Speak In Tongues sometime in 2000 or 2001. While NRA was wrapping up a particularly intense and alcohol-fueled set, someone took all the papers out of a pair of nearby and freshly stocked newspaper vending machines on

Lorain and started tossing them into the crowd. The ensuing newspaper melee left Speak In Tongues completely covered in pages from Scene and the Free Times. Most of NRA’s gear was toppled over and generating a soundtrack of feedback. One person tried to toss Nick’s bass drum and failed miserably when they fell flat on their back trying to hoist it above their head. Meanwhile someone set a fire in the lot behind the building. Steve Kuchna Ken’s band, The Unknown, played one night, and me and my friend Marty grabbed one of the filthy couches from the back of the room and threw it up in front of the stage and started ripping it apart while his band was playing. And there was nothing weird about that. It wasn’t unusual. Spontaneity was encouraged.

Ken Blaze If you never went, it was kinda like, “What is that?” You just gotta go experience it. Any night, it could be a completely normal watching-a-band kind of night. Or it could be a freakin’ night where people are shooting fireworks off or there’s some weird performance art. Or you could walk in and there’s no one in there, and you go in and sit on the couch and drink. There were backyard parties, rooftop parties, all kinds of things that just happened. Matthew T My film festival, 20,000 Leagues Under the Industry, was born there. I had a business partner in Los Angeles, and he was like, “Don’t you have this clubhouse or some shit? Let’s do a film festival.” It was wall-to-wall people the first night. Ken Blaze It was definitely a closed group to a certain degree. Unless you were in the know, you probably didn’t go unless you were going to see a show. Matthew T There were cliques in the sense that everyone had their own interests, but I don’t think it was cliquey. I didn’t see eye to eye with everybody, but I had the respect that we were all in this group together. Jake Kelly Did Danny mention the mafia stuff? Danny Noonan The police presence got worse. We all had this theory. There was a coffee shop on West Sixth called the Drip Stick, which everyone kinda knew was owned by the mob. People found out that the guy was an informant. A lot of us who lived at Speak In Tongues worked there. It was right after that that the police presence became worse.

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Jake Kelly We all worked there. It was run by this woman named Laurie, and her husband Mike was this comically gangsterish guy who turned out to be actually gangsterish and was in fact a rat who was informing on all these other guys. I didn’t see much, if any, illegal activity. It was a shitty coffee shop that people barely came into. He was informing on an ecstasy ring. Now, I worked there and Matt worked there and Danny worked there and Straw worked there. There’s absolutely no way that the people who were monitoring this man did not also begin to monitor Speak In Tongues. I know that Danny and I — like I

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FEATURE would sit on the pay phone talking to Danny at work, bored — and we would have outlandish conversations. Like, “Do you think you could beat up a kangaroo?”-type shit. Around that time is when we started having SWAT teams raid us. Danny Noonan It’s a veriﬁable fact that the phones at the Drip Stick were tapped. They used that as evidence against these mob guys. And we used the phones; this was before people like us had cell phones. So we’d be talking on the phone about stuff, about shows. I don’t know ... we were worried that maybe someone thought that Speak In Tongues had a connection. The police presence during that time really started to become a problem. Jake Kelly And we’d have undercover cops coming in. You could always spot them, because they’d be dressed real cool in their Indians gear. And it’s like, boy, you don’t fucking get it, do you? Like, whatever happened to Serpico, man? Grow a shaggy beard or something! Like, “I’m wearing my cool Indians pullover. This is casual, right? This is what the kids are wearing.” You could spot them from a mile away.

THE END (2001) Jake Kelly Everybody, in like one sort of spasm, decided they were sick of living in this cat piss-stinking hole in the ground, and all kind of moved out. Matthew T The ﬁnal group was moving out. Everybody but Danny moved, and it was either going to fold in on itself, or ... it was unclear. Jake Kelly In order for the place to keep going, it was decided to collectivize. I don’t remember whose idea it was or if it was one of those things that just came in from the ether, like any organization that goes on long enough has to skew leftist. But it happened. And it was ﬁne, it was cool, and that sort of eliminated — other than two people maybe wanting the same Friday night — eliminated any static. Ralph Haussmann My idea at that point — and Danny’s and other people’s — was to make it into a collective. Pretty much

everyone who had been involved all along became part of the collective. We generally had somewhere close to 25 people or bands as part of the collective. That was kind of the ﬁnal stage of Speak In Tongues. Everyone paid like $30 or $40 a month. You got to do a show whenever you wanted, you got to do a show however you wanted. Ken Blaze You put your name down and you booked your show. I was booking so much that I was like, “Okay, I’ve gotta be a part of this.” I wanted it to last forever and to be something I could use. I was really active in booking shows and playing. “If I lose Speak

Danny Noonan I tried, but, I’m sorry, it’s a very old building with old wood. That was always a thing. We did try to clean a lot. People didn’t think we did, but we did. It just didn’t last long. Matthew T We all tried to take care of it as best we could. I remember when I did my ﬁlm festival, the place had been covered in grafﬁti for a couple years. It was old. I had a buddy who worked for Sherwin-Williams, and he managed to give me enough paint to paint the entire place on the inside. I formed a painting party. And then I had to go do publicity and press, so I basically left a whole crew of kids

It may have gotten a little destroyed. There may have been someone like me who normally tried to stop people from knocking holes in the walls who said, “This is what’s going to happen.” — Matthew T In Tongues, I’m going to be screwed.” But also I knew all these people, so they’re all my friends. Matthew T We voted things by consensus. We’d have monthly meetings, getting together and discussing the issues that had been going on. Sometimes it was heated and sometimes it was really easy. Brian Straw Another big change with the collective is that instead of the rent falling on the few of us that were living there, we moved out and we turned the basement into rehearsal spaces. Everyone in the collective paid a certain amount of dues each month. That was a big shift. Ron Kretsch I think at the end when Gene [Burnworth] bought the building and fucked us, there were like 30 or 35 people all paying in. There was a division of labor. Danny Noonan was more or less the caretaker. Great guy. Dave Petrovich In the end, Danny Noonan was the only person living there. I’m sure he’d say that there were points where, if somebody was careless or didn’t clean up after a show, he was kinda left with last night’s mess.

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there painting. I always joke that we Huck Finn’d a whole group of kids into painting the club for us. Those colors stood until the very end. Dave Petrovich At a certain point in time, the top floor, which Tim Funtjar had been living in — he left -- and the place was rented to [Gene Burnworth], who I don’t think I ever met. He started doing shows up there that were kind of — I actually never attended any, so I can’t talk about whether they were cool. But it seemed like it was more generic metal shows. Definitely not the kind of stuff that we would have booked downstairs. Ron Kretsch His name was Calvin, but he called himself Gene because Calvin didn’t seem metal enough. Ralph Haussmann The Pit moved in [to the third floor] and started doing shows. It was mostly like high school bands, and whoever sold the most tickets got to headline the show. I don’t think they had too many touring things. It was a little bit different than what we were doing. I don’t think they understood us exactly. Ron Kretsch By the way, calling a third-floor place “The Pit”?

Ralph Haussmann We didn’t know about anything going on between the owners of the building and the Pit guys, but apparently they had come to an agreement to lease the building from them — but lease it to buy, basically. We were told at the end of December of 2001 that we had two or three weeks to get out. Danny Noonan You could say it was childish, but we got kicked out because metalheads wanted that space and they wanted to turn it into a metal club. So, yeah, fuck ’em. I was 100-percent ﬁne with all the damage that was done. That just might be the type of person that I am. Matthew T He got the deed and he kicked us out. Danny Noonan It was such a shady deal. I think it was the day after Christmas that we got the eviction notice and we had to be gone by the 1st. That came out of nowhere. And all these people were like, “This is how you ﬁght it.” But we were just a loose-knit collective. We weren’t together enough to mount a legal battle. There was zero respect from the landlord, and the metalheads who had been living up there were horrible people. The sweatshirts they sold for their club, the back of them said, “Don’t Be a Bitch.” Which is funny, because a year later they started cropping up at free stores and you’d see homeless people on the street wearing them. Jake Kelly I wonder how long it could have gone on, had those jackoffs not bought the building. And make no mistake, those guys were jackoffs. Their motto was, “Don’t Be a Bitch,” which was ultra charming. I mean, it wasn’t like we were clutching our pearls aghast that these guys had “Don’t Be a Bitch” as their motto, but it was like, ughh, could you have a more groan-worthy thing? Was “Fuck You, Faggot” taken? Jesus Christ. Dave Petrovich Whatever. [Gene was] not obligated to rent to somebody he doesn’t want to rent to. But there was a lot of animosity toward him. It wasn’t just about being crazy and destroying the place. It was also aimed at “fuck you” to that guy. “Thanks for kicking us out.”

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FEATURE Brian Straw We wanted to have a special night [on Dec. 31, 2001]. We tried to put a well-rounded bill together of bands that were important to the venue. It was pretty eclectic. 9 Shocks Terror, the Unknown, I did a set, the Perfect Guy did a set. There might have been one or two others. Steve Kuchna We got notiﬁed really abruptly that they were not going to allow us to continue renting the place and that we had to get out. We knew that, and, you know, the last show got put together [for Dec. 31, 2001] and the people there pretty much took to destroying the place by the end of the night, physically destroying the place, essentially to be like, “Hey, you want our clubhouse? Here you go; you can have it like this.”

Sean Carnage I was just in a mind state where I was not going to accept that Speak in Tongues was ending. A lot of people were extremely sad. Matthew T I still get a little choked up when I think about it, how the end was so tragic and drastic. It wasn’t on our terms. Steve Kuchna The end was ... . Wow, that was a depressing night. Matthew T It may have gotten a little destroyed. There may have been someone like me who normally tried to stop people from knocking holes in the walls who said, “This is what’s going to happen.” Dave Petrovich It was kind of dark. I don’t have good memories about the last hour in that place.

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SPEAK IN TONGUES HAS ESCAPED TO THE FUTURE Sean Carnage I wrote that on the back of a window display that I’d built. I ﬂipped it over and spray-painted that on it: “Speak In Tongues Has Escaped to the Future.” It was not authorized by any of those guys, so hopefully they weren’t pissed off. My idea was that it’s this story of a temporary autonomous zone. It always exists, and it’s just in another dimension. It lives forever. Brian Straw I was sad, you know, when it closed, but I was also kinda like, “Oh thank god that’s over.” Ron Kretsch Speak In Tongues felt unique because it felt like an incubator. It became just as much a circle of friends as it became a bunch of frequent concert-goers. Brian Straw I’m still active in the music scene

here, but I don’t see the type of connectivity, even locally. I don’t feel like there’s a place we can really call home. The kind of aesthetic that we lived by at the time, I don’t see that much. You see it in little pockets here and there. You mention the place that does house shows in Tremont, and some of those have popped up in Cleveland over the years. And that’s good, because that kind of DIY aesthetic carries the torch to a degree. A place on the scale of Speak In Tongues? I’m not sure that could happen again. Dave Petrovich They’re all still involved with music in lots of different capacities. They’re all important people in this city, culturally speaking, giving the city its identity. Bill Badgley It’s completely deﬁned by heart. There’s no payoff that you can put your hands on. In fact, I’d say most of those people, myself included, suffered a deﬁcit for doing what they

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FEATURE did. And I really would doubt it that any of them regret it or would do it differently. Denise Grollmus I wouldn’t be the person who I am today without the Cleveland underground music scene being such a huge part of who I was back then. I think it’s such an important part of that area’s identity. Jake Kelly I don’t think there’s any grand statement about Speak In Tongues. I think that it ﬁt in with its time and place. I think it was a product of its time. It was deﬁnitely important to everyone or at least most people who went to it on a regular basis. And I’m glad it’s gone. I’m glad it closed down. Places like that aren’t supposed to last forever.

Garden production facility. We were just starting construction, and Michael reached out. I said that’s perfect. We were going to build a bar in our tasting room, but decided it would be much more fun to have this whole backstory, this vintage reclaimed bar that has such a checkered past, taking on a third or fourth life in the brewery. Matt Fish Years later, somehow Ken Blaze and I were talking and the [“Speak”] letters came up. I said, “Who has the letters? Where are the letters?” I started this chain of sending out emails to Ken, Ron Kretsch and ﬁnally Dave P. I said I’d love to get a hold of the letters and put them on display at Melt. You know, as an honor to what Speak In Tongues was. It worked out that Dave P. had them on his mantle at his apartment. I asked him what he’d think about

is as strong as ever. Socially, all the shit I’ve always like about Cleveland is still the same. It’s always welcoming to new people. If someone is being pretentious or a snob, they don’t ﬁnd themselves welcome for too long. Show up with a cool band and a cool idea, you’ll make friends fast. I love that. Steve Kuchna It’s difﬁcult for me to talk about, because I was really close to it, it was something really important in my life and there was a lot of really cool, good, positive things, and then there was kind of a darker negative side that a lot of people, for better, don’t know a lot about. We had little or no supervision, and the supervision we did have was usually encouraging of our bad behavior. Again, a homeless schizophrenic guy was one of my best friends while living there. I couldn’t tell you exactly why

Craig Chojnicki I still feel the spirit of that place, as it were. Ed Sotebo, Viva Caramel They weren’t afraid to combine the raw, uncooked elements of society, and I think a lot of people really dug that. For me, it was a great incubator of ideas and a shining light in Cleveland. Brian Straw For the majority of its existence, it was very unorganized. If you wanted to do something, you just stood up and did it. There was no leader, nobody in charge. So it’s not like you can tell somebody, “No, you can’t do that.” Whatever happened, happened. There was no form. It’s amazing, actually, that it lasted as long as it did. Matt Fish I will always consider Speak In Tongues probably the best venue Cleveland has ever seen, because of the way it started, the way it was run, the bands that played there, the connection it had to the neighborhood, the connection it had to the Cleveland underground scene. Sam McNulty A good friend bought the building [years later; the physical space is now occupied by the Herb‘n Twine Sandwich Co. and Bloom and Clover Wax Studio], and when he was in there renovating he didn’t have a use for that bar. We had just purchased the building that is the Market

me taking the letters, cleaning them up, putting them up in Melt as an honorary remembrance of Speak In Tongues as a major part of my generation growing up in Cleveland. He was all about it. I cleared it with as many people as I could from Speak In Tongues. Steve Kuchna Other than our handprints in the sidewalk, there isn’t much documentation to say that it existed at all. Dave Petrovich It was deﬁnitely a place that gave you freedom and a physical place to do art and music and let other people see it. I think a lot of people exploited that, and I mean it in a good way. Everybody had an opportunity to develop whatever skills they’re recognized for now. This was a place where a lot of that stuff incubated and had a means to reach a wider set of people. Ron Kretsch The only bad thing about a postSpeak world is no Speak. The good things are plentiful. I think the scene, in terms of really sweet bands,

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it was such a remarkable place. I could go on and on at length for hours, trying to describe every nook and cranny of the place, and it still might not hit on why it was such a remarkable place. The point is: Virtually everyone who ever set foot in that building for a performance has some kind of memory of it, where it’s this indelible memory that they cannot forget. There was something magical; maybe it was haunted. Well, it deﬁnitely was haunted, in a good and bad way. There was something kind of magical about it. Jake Kelly It’s unknowable. That place is probably most remembered, if it’s remembered by anyone at all now, as a place that Gordon Solie and 9 Shocks played. Or where Modest Mouse played their ﬁrst show in Cleveland, for anyone who’s a fan of that band. But that’s just way too easy. The actual breadth and scope of it is sort of unknowable. It hurts the brain to ponder that.

In August 2003, Matt Kuchna, Steve’s brother and another denizen who lived in the spirit and physical space of Speak In Tongues, penned

a remembrance of the place. It exists now at the archival speakintongues. com, a site that also includes a semicomplete listing of every band to play the joint, big and small, as well as a concert poster archive. “If you must open your mouth,” read a poster in the back room that had been there forever, “Speak In Tongues.” David Petrovich (aka “Dave P. the place to be” aka The Perfect Guy) put it up to inspire Grain’s West Coast trip back in ’95 or so, but it remained an appropriate slogan — especially as few people knew it was there. That was the thing about Speak In Tongues: More myth than reality, it was also more real than it ever could have seemed. Those who never went there, or those who’ve only heard about it after the fact, can’t imagine it. It wasn’t what one thinks of when one thinks of a music venue, which is how it is primarily remembered. It was the westside epicenter of the underground, no matter how highminded that may sound: a social club, gathering place, residence, crash pad, rehearsal hall, group therapy center, riot ground, support system, and totally against the “law.” Speak In Tongues hosted a dynamic array of events, not limited to the 2,000-plus performances by musical acts including names famous, unknown and notorious. There were movies, plays, happenings, meetings, parties and camaraderie (and fights, trash, disputes, arrests, raids, fires, floods and animals). All this without a license, without “management,” without a leader. A true collective long before it eventually became one, a concrete manifestation of the febrile lasting hopes and desires of generations of certain types of people, Speak In Tongues was for and of those who believed and who continue to believe, often without return, that there’s something better. And what’s better is to take it, make it and make it happen, whatever the hell that is. Speak In Tongues belonged to everyone. When it closed, something very special was lost, and in many ways, that spirit yet founders without another real home. The diaspora is often unspoken; the loss still is painful. Speak In Tongues can never be duplicated, never re-created — but that doesn’t mean, “Don’t try.” It means remember. It means recall. It means rebuild.

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the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of the museum’s series Lords of the Rings: Boxing Films Before Rocky and Raging Bull. Tickets are $10, $8 for CMA members, seniors and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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BB Blues Bird Retrospective For the past 10 years, local cartoonists and illustrators Ron Hill and Gary Dumm have collaborated on BB BluesBird, a comic centered around a small avian musician. Although recently retired from teaching, Hill works tirelessly as an editorial cartoonist for six local papers, and Dumm is best known for his work on American Splendor with the late Harvey Pekar and more recently for his collaborative paintings with his wife, Laura. This month, the Solon Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library presents a retrospective exhibition of BB BluesBird paintings and drawings. The library hosts an opening reception and artist talk at 7 tonight. The work will remain on view during regular library hours through Aug. 23. Admission is free. (Josh Usmani) 34125 Portz Pkwy., Solon, 440-2488777. BEER

Hoppin’ Frog Hoppy Hour Much like the Fat Head’s tasting room in Middleburg Heights, the Hoppin’ Frog Tasting Room in Akron is in a non-descript strip of storage facilities and warehouses, but step inside and you’ll find a cozy tasting room where you can find a huge array of the brewery’s wonderful libations. The place features “hoppy hour” every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m. Tonight, the brewers visit the tasting room from 5 to 7 p.m. While they don’t fill growlers, you can drink bottles on site or take ‘em to go. The place also offers a “Hoppin’ Frog Rare & Vintage” list as well as a guest bottle list. And you can order from a limited food menu too. (Niesel) 1680-F Waterloo Rd., Akron, 234525-3764, hoppinfrog.com/tastingroom. SPORTS

Indians vs. Minnesota Twins The Indians have played well within their division this year, kicking the crap out of a pretty good Detroit Tigers team on a regular basis. But for some reason, they’ve struggled against the last place Minnesota Twins. Tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field, the Tribe takes on the Twins on their home turf before a crowd

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that has ﬁnally realized the Indians have a playoff caliber team. The series wraps tomorrow at 12:10 p.m. Tickets for both games start at $13. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. FOOD

Pig + Whiskey Wednesdays The patio season is in full swing in Northeast Ohio and chefs like Ben Bebenroth over at Spice Kitchen are ﬁnding every excuse in the book to move culinary operations out of the restaurant and under the clear blue skies. He and his crew have created Pig + Whiskey Wednesdays; Bebenroth and his chef Josh Woo ﬁre up the smoker and cook up a mess of barbecue. The items vary based on whim and weather. There’s always a seasonal whiskey cocktail or two to wash it all down. The events run from 5 to 10 p.m. and there will be live music at some dates. No reservations are required. (Douglas Trattner) 5800 Detroit Ave., 216-961-9637, www.spicekitchenandbar.com. FILM

Between the Lines The locally produced short ﬁlm Between the Lines takes a look at homelessness through the eyes of “two unrelated pairs of fathers and daughters.” Made in Cleveland by Clevelanders, the movie screens tonight at 7 at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. Actor/writer/ producer Jeff Grover and ﬁlmmaker/ producer Steven Hacker as well as members of the cast and creative team will participate in a Q&A session after the screening. Tickets are $5. (Jeff Niesel) 2929 Richmond Rd., Beachwood, 216-593-0575, maltzmuseum.org.

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Drink and Draw Social Club Twice every month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink and Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink and Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels of experience to drink, draw, socialize/network and collaborate in very relaxed and welcoming environment. Events take place on the ﬁrst and third Wednesday of every month. At the end of each Drink and Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. Free. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com. COMEDY

AJ Finney Known for his outrageous personality and quick-witted jokes, comedian AJ Finney has become extremely successful in the comedy scene because his rapid-ﬁre jokes seem to never end as he goes from one crazy thought to the next. During his performances, he jokes about his everything from his receding hairline and to his battles with OCD and ADD. He performs at 8 tonight and tomorrow night at Hilarities. Tickets are $13 and $18. (Hannah Borison) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. FILM

The Harder They Fall Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger and Jan Sterling star in director Mark Robson’s The Harder They Fall, a ﬁlm about an ex-sportswriter who has second thoughts about becoming a boxing PR guy when he witnesses the boxing world’s corruption. The ﬁlm shows at 7 tonight and Friday at

Summer in the City Each summer, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosts a variety of indie and alternative rock acts on its outdoor plaza. Tonight, local indie rockers New Planet Trampoline and Heavenly Queen will perform. The concert takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. and prior to the concert, the Rock Hall will host a Q&A with the acts slated to play. The concerts are free — as a bonus, local residents and college students can purchase admission to the Rock Hall for a mere $5. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-5158444, rockhall.com. MUSIC

Wade Oval Wednesday A summer tradition, Wade Oval Wednesday, which takes place every Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Wade Oval in University Circle, provides the opportunity to catch a free concert — jazz, swing, world music, and more. Between sets, check out the local food vendors, the beer and wine tent, the farmers’ market, and free kid activities — all laid out on the Wade Oval lawn that’s adjacent to Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Art Museum, and the Cleveland Natural History Museum. Tonight, the local Latin group Son Gitano performs. (Niesel) universitycircle.org. FOOD

Walnut Wednesday You know it’s summer when Walnut Wednesday returns. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut Streets — food trucks gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com. COMEDY

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the door with VIP and reserved seats available. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

a few things that led Piers Morgan of America’s Got Talent to call Alex Zerba “The total package.” A selfdescribed “human cartoon,” his show is perfect for the whole family. His hilariously entertaining, so don’t miss his performance from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Alma Theater at Cain Park. Tickets are $10 to $15. (Danielle Immerman) 14591 Superior Rd., Heights, 216371-3000, cainpark.com.

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undoubtedly ﬁnd a way to rope you into the show. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv. Tickets are $12. (Martin Harp) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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A Celebration of Northeast Ohio Punk and New Wave Akron has produced a number of great rock musicians over the years. Mark Mothersbaugh, leader of the New Wave act Devo, ranks as one of the top musicians to emerge from the Rubber City., Both the Akron Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art currently have exhibitis featuring his artwork. As part of the MYOPIA Mark Mothersbaugh 3-D Experience and Victory Slam, the local groups Half Cleveland (members of Tin Huey and the Waitresses), the Bizarros and the Numbers Band will perform a special set that will pay tribute to Mothersbaugh at 7 p.m. today on the outdoor stage at the Rock Hall. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-5158444, rockhall.com. FOOD

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Ohio Burlesque Some 60 performers will perform at the sixth annual Ohio Burlesque Festival that kicks off today at 8 p.m. at the Beachland Ballroom. The three-day event will feature burlesque, vaudeville, sideshows and variety. Performers from United Kingdom, South America, Canada and the United States will participate. A portion of the proceeds will go to the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland. Tickets are available for a limited time at $50 for the weekend pass. Single day tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at

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Lakeside Clambakes Catering to the late night crowd, Cedar Point will be open until 11 p.m. weeknights and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays during Cedar Point Nights. You can ride Valravn, the “tallest, fastest and longest dive coaster” in the world in the dark, and state-of-the-art vibrant LED lighting will illuminate the park’s rides and coasters. Tonight from 6:30 to 8 p.m., you can also enjoy a Lakeside Clambake that features fresh clams and shrimp served with corn cobbettes, potatoes and sausage. The meal includes one clambake bag as well as all-you-caneat hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, cookies, Toft’s ice cream and Coca-Cola beverages. It costs $25, but guests can enjoy the buffet only for just $16. (Niesel) 1 Cedar Point Dr., Sandusky, 419627-2350, www.cedarpoint.com. NIGHTLIFE

MIX: Games For the ﬁrst time since the highly successful Solstice at the end of June, the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts monthly MIX Happy Hour. Back with a bang, MIX:Games will be held outside on the CMA’s South Terrace. In conjunction with WKYC Channel 3, MIX: Games celebrates the 2016 Summer Olympics. The museum’s current exhibition Stag at Sharkey’s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports inspired the event. Historically, August’s MIX is the biggest event after Solstice, and the

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museum encourages reserving your tickets now. MIX: Games takes place from 5 to 10 tonight. Tickets are $10 or free for CMA members. (Usmani) 13100 Shaker Square. COMEDY

Sinbad Story-based comic Sinbad prides himself on finding the funny even in the toughest situations. His show’s interactive, but you may not want to participate in this audience. Sinbad flips the script on his viewers and turns their troubles into comedic gold for everyone else. The comic’s also seen some screen time though it’s nothing to brag about. He was the star of the holiday flop Jingle All the Way and has also acted in several pilots. It’s safe to say his forte is stand-up, but you can judge that for yourself tonight at 7:30 and 10 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $30 to $35. (Brittany Rees) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

has a look about him that’s funny. He doesn’t even need to tell joke because his facial expressions can make anyone laugh all night. He has shows scheduled at the Improv through Sunday. Tickets are $25. (William Hoffman) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. COMEDY

Todd Yohn Comedian Todd Yohn separates himself from other comedians because in addition to his incredible comedic talent, he adds his musical gift to his performances. He uses his high energy and quick humor to write hysterical songs such as “Feminine Hygiene Song” and “Daddy Please Don’t Go.” He performs tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10 at Club Velvet at the Hard Rock Rocksino at Northfield Park. Tickets are $13 and $18. (Borison) 10705 Northfield Road, Northfield, 330-908-7771, www. hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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John Witherspoon If you’re going to see comedian John Witherspoon tonight at the Improv, where he performs at 7:30 and 10 p.m., you better dress up because “you got to coordinate,” as he puts it. That catchphrase is just one of the comedians many oneliners and various accomplishments throughout his long career. He’s worked alongside famous comedians such as Ice Cube, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Chris Tucker and starred as “Pops” on The Wayans Brothers. But he might be most well known voicing “Grandad” on the animated series The Boondocks. His standup is even similar to the Boondocks character he portrays; it features fast-paced jokes that keep coming at you. Witherspoon simply

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2016 Intern Art Show This weekend, SPACES lets its talented interns take over its exhibition space. For the second year, the organization hosts an exhibition curated by and showcasing work from SPACES current and recent interns. These young artists come from a number of different colleges and universities, including the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio State, Baldwin-Wallace, Alfred University, Hiram College and more. They work in a variety of media and study more than just studio art, including arts management, educational studies and entrepreneurship. Interns artists include Erin Jesson, Jenna Krivonic, Kelsey McRill, McKenzie Merriman, Emilie Molkentin, Joey Strunk and Matthew Thompson. The opening reception takes place today from 2 to 5 p.m. The show will remain on view through Aug. 10. Admission is free. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org. SPOKEN WORD

Dark Universe Narrated by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe explores the mysteries of our solar system and beyond. The immersive and visually stunning planetarium show features “exquisite renderings of enigmatic cosmic phenomena,

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Expedition: Spaces EXPEDITION: SPACES is back with more experimental and electronic sound, live projections and performance art. The second installment features artist and inventor Tim Kaiser, writer and poet John Burroughs, Machine Listener, Mike McNamara and Nathan (Geronimo) Melaragno, DJs Dan Cook and Marc Lansley, as well the performance art trio of Marcia Custer, Alyssa D’Amico and Beth Lomske. EXPEDITION: SPACES II is curated by Craig Chojnicki and Lisa Miralia. Doors open at 7:30, and the performances begin at 8 p.m. Admission is $10, and all proceeds will go to the artists. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org. ART

Lakewood Arts Festival The 39th Annual Lakewood Arts Fest takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today. This year’s event features more than 100 artists working in painting, drawing, printmaking, etching, ceramics, photography, ceramics, glass, sculpture, metalwork, leather, wood, ﬁber and mixed media. Additionally, Lakewood City Center Park hosts live music. The Beck Center hosts performances and demos in art, music, dance and comedy. For a complete list of artists and events, as well as parking information, visit lakewoodartsfest.org. Free. (Unman) lakewoodartsfest.org. ART

Meet the Artist Stop by Zygote Press from 10 a.m. to noon today to meet the gallery’s latest artist in residence. Sage Dawson will be at Zygote through August 14. Dawson received her MFA in printmaking from

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the University of New Mexico. She currently lives and works in St. Louis, and teaches in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Saint Louis University. Her work has been exhibited at the International Print Center New York, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston University and the City University of New York. Dawson and her work have been featured in Elephant Magazine, Dwell Magazine and From Here to There published by Princeton Architectural Press. Free. (Usmani) 1410 East 30th St., 216-621-2900, www.zygotepress.com. FLEA MARKET

The Peninsula Flea Not all flea markets are created equal. Consider Peninsula Flea. According to the press release announcing its return this summer, Peninsula Flea is “an upscale flea market, featuring handmade, repurposed and vintage high quality items from dedicated artists, crafts people and collectors.” Held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the first Saturday of the month from May to September, Peninsula Flea takes place on the lawn next to the big red barn on Heritage Farms. It’s the first year at the new location since the event outgrew the Boston Township Hall. (Niesel) 6050 Riverview Road, Peninsula, 3306572788, www.explorepeninsula. com. FILM

Rocky Horror Picture Show Because it’s the ﬁrst Saturday of the month, the Cedar Lee Theatre will host a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 ﬁlm that still draws an exuberant, costumed crowd that likes to throw rice and dry toast and sing along to the songs in the movie. Tickets are $9.50. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com. FAMILY FUN

Star Wars Tribute Day Plan to grab your tattered brown robes, face paint and your favorite colored light saber for the Coventry Village Star Wars Tribute Day. The idea: a Star Wars-themed day of events for fans of all ages. Festivities kick off today at 2 p.m. at P.E.A.C.E. Park, located at the corner of Euclid Heights Blvd. and Coventry Road. For kids, a video game truck will feature all Star Wars video games and you can test your lightsaber skills in friendly competition at an arena in P.E.A.C.E. Park from 2 to 5

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p.m. At 6 p.m., gather your friends and family at the arch in P.E.A.C.E. Park for a parade. Then, at 7:30 p.m. in Pekar Park, Classical Revolution Cleveland will ﬁll the courtyard with John Williams’ arrangements from the Star Wars soundtracks and Star Wars inspired compositions. Shake off the heat at the main event of the day: an outdoor screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakes, the seventh episode in the franchise, takes place at 9 p.m. in the park. Following the ﬁlm, adults can let loose on BarWars Bar Crawl, a Star Wars-themed tour of some of Coventry’s best bars for adults and parents 21 and up. Admission is free. (Tucker Kelly) coventryvillage.org.

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Chardon Arts Festival This year’s Chardon Arts Festival features more than 100 local and national artists and craftspeople. Mediums include painting, photography, stained glass, leather, fabric art, wood carving, pottery, weaving, copper, jewelry, stone cutting and more. It all takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Chardon Square, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The event is expected to draw more than 5,000 visitors. Several restaurants, as well as shops and boutiques will be open, and food vendors will be on site. Additionally, Lolly the Trolley will be shuttling visitors on a short 5-minute ride to and from Big Creek Park for the 25th Annual Nature Arts Festival, featuring 50 juried artists as well as a dozen vendors in the Farm-Artisan Market. After 13 years at the West Woods, this is the ﬁrst Nature Arts Festival held at Big Creek Park. Free. (Usmani) Routes 44 and 6, 440-285-3519, chardonsquareassociation.org.

Cleveland Improv Jam 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 women have some serious experience too. Katie White-Sonby is an actress who’s performed at Clague Playhouse, Karamu and Kennedy’s Cabaret. Marjorie Preston is an alumna of Something Dada and Rockwell 9 improvisational comedy troupes. Dionne Atchison is a theater artist with Cleveland Public Theatre, and Brenna “MC” Connor is an actress and improviser. The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a longform improv set. It begins at 5 p.m. at Coffee Phix. Arrive early if you want to sign up and perform. Admission is free. (Niesel) 4485 Mayﬁeld Rd., South Euclid, 216381-5706, coffeephixcafe.com.

7th Day Sweat The “seventh day” tends to be a day of rest for many folks. But not for the party hearty people who run B-Side Liquor Lounge, the popular dance club located underneath the Grog Shop. Dubbed 7th Day Sweat, their weekly Sunday night soiree features DJ White Rims spinning “today’s hottest dance hits,” so you can “sweat it out” every Sunday. Admission is free but you must be 21 or older. It all starts at 7 | clevescene.com | August 3 - 9, 2016

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony German Romantic composer, pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn left behind quite a legacy. Among his many accomplishments, he wrote his Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of his best-known works, at the age of 17, and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Under the direction of conductor Nicholas McGegan, the Cleveland Orchestra pays tribute to him tonight and plays his Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”). The orchestra will also play Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 and Arthur Benjamin’s Divertimento on Themes by Gluck. The concert begins at 7 p.m. at Blossom. Tickets start at $24. (Niesel). 1145 W. Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra. com.

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My Love, Don’t Cross That River The “highest grossing indie documentary in South Korean ﬁlm history,” My Love, Don’t Cross That River centers on an elderly couple who contemplate their mortality as they come to the end of 76 years together. Winner of the Audience Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, the movie screens at 1:30 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9, $7 for CMA members, seniors and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. -221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

A RTS i n A UGUST freeartsprogrammingin Tremont’sLincolnPark Schedule of Events Cleveland Public Theatre’s STEP Friday, August 5th, 7pm

Cleveland Shakespeare Festival The Tempest Saturday, August 6th, 7pm Sunday, August 7th, 7pm

Inlet Dance Theatre* Thursday, August 11th, 8:30pm

GroundWorks DanceTheater* Friday, August 12th, 8:30pm

Verb Ballets* Saturday, August 13th, 8:30pm

Arts Renaissance Tremont The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra with Paul Ferguson, Artistic Director Friday, August 19th, 7pm

Cleveland Opera Theatre formerly Opera Per Tutti Saturday, August 20th, 7pm

Tony Mikhael’s Crew Friday, August 26th, 7pm

Papo Ruiz Y La Dulzura de la Salsa Saturday, August 27th, 7pm

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Members of Inlet Dance Theatre performing “Memoriate”, photo by Suzanne Sherbundy.

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Warehouse District Street Festival From noon to 8 p.m. today, the corner of West Sixth Street and West St. Claire Avenue host the 12th Annual Warehouse District Street Festival. The day features live music, art and art demos, food from neighborhood restaurants and bars, vendors, residential open houses, street performers, children’s activities and appearances by Jasmine Dragons Aerialists, the Chris Clark Bicycle Stunt Show, Cleveland’s Cutest Dog Contest and Fashion Show and more. Free. (Unman) warehousedistrict.org.

Science Cafe The second Monday of each month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club so they can talk about science topics. Tonight at 7, hear the lecture Hoards of Insects: The Value and Use of Natural History Collections. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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Food Trucks at Legacy Village Food Truck Monday at Legacy Village is a fun experience that features a wide variety of food and music. Today and every other Monday throughout the summer, it is a perfect opportunity to take a break from work and forget about the Monday blues. Today’s food trucks include Slyman’s, Fired Up and Betty’s Bomb Ass Burgers, and more. Takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Check the website for details. (Borison) 25333 Cedar Rd., Lyndhurst, 216-3823871, legacy-village.com. FOOD

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Lunch Hour Live Trivia A live hosted trivia event during which teams compete for prizes by answering trivia questions, Last Call Trivia takes place every Monday at U.S. Bank Plaza throughout the summer. Designed to be “a spirited competition,” the event lasts an hour. The games also include a point wagering system that gives teams the ability to choose their own strategy. The event takes place at noon. Admission is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-7714444, playhousesquare.org.

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Wing Ding Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon. Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Ding Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-9371938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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Centennial Chats As part of its yearlong 100th anniversary celebration, the Cleveland Museum of Art continues its Centennial Chats series with a discussion of White Tara, a Tibetan sculpture dating back to the 1600s, on loan from the Asia Society, New York. Made of silver, a material rarely used in Tibetan sculpture, as well as gold and inlays of copper and semiprecious stones, White Tara is an enlightened being of Tibetan Buddhism. The seated yoga position, hand gestures, outfit and adornments are sure to make for a very lively conversation. The CMA hosts two Centennial Chats for White Tara at 2 p.m. today and tomorrow. Meet in gallery 237. Free. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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EXPLOSIVE GOOD TIME Back again, Weapons of Mass Creation is not your grandfather’s arts conference By Josh Usmani SEVEN YEARS AGO, CLEVELAND -based design ﬁrm Go Media launched Weapons of Mass Creation Fest as the region’s premier design conference. In the years since, the festival has grown and evolved. Now held at Playhouse Square, WMC Fest brings artists, designers, illustrators, art directors, freelancers and students to downtown Cleveland for three days of inspiration, networking and exchanging ideas. However, as more guests discover each year, you don’t necessarily need to be an industry insider to enjoy your time at Weapons of Mass Creative Fest. “Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is a feast for the senses and appeals to anyone who loves and appreciates art or creativity of all kinds,” says WMC Fest event director Heather Sakai. “You don't have to be a professional to enjoy events such as our free yoga class, Ink Wars (a captivating live illustration battle), our vendor village, Jakprints After Party or TEDx style talks by inspiring speakers like Cleveland hero Michelle Knight and Grammy Award-winning designer Stefan Sagmeister.” This year’s WMC Fest takes over Playhouse Square’s Ohio and State Theatres, as well as the State Theatre lobby. A nationally recognized, weekend-long design conference, the seventh incarnation of WMC Fest features eight workshops, 10 guest speakers, three panel discussions, interactive demonstrations, a vendor village with more than 20 vendors, live artwork, podcasts and more.

Each year, the event attracts more than 1,000 attendees. Hosted by Aaron Sechrist of OkPants, WMC Fest features special guest speakers Jillian Adel, Mark Brickey (with Adventures in Design), Lily Rose Lee, Isabel Urbina Pena, Wilson Revehl, Stefan Sagmeister, Sean Starr, Darius Stubbs, Jeral Tidwell, Jay Wallace and RA Washington. These diverse presentations cover a variety of topics and could be considered the TED Talks of the design community. “How aspiring designers and artists learn their craft has changed a lot over the past decade-plus, so we don’t aim for WMC Fest to be like school or a seminar,” explains Sechrist. “It’s a conference on paper only. That’s only a part of the whole experience though. WMC Fest has really grown into a tightknit community over the past six years and the person who spends a weekend experiencing it can look forward to being a part of the

artist is given an 8-foot canvas and some markers. This year’s theme will be chosen by the audience and announced during the event. You can submit a topic to hello@wmcfest.com or bring it for the judges on Friday. Seven artists have been announced, and the eighth will be selected from the crowd before the event. Contestants include Brittany Barnhart, Joe Baron, Chris Corsi, Aaron Lee, Lisa Lorek, Dylan Menges and Remo Remoquillo. Supplies are provided by Blick Art Materials. Ink Wars takes place during Friday evening’s meet & greet from 8 to 10 p.m. The weekend-long conference was founded by local design ﬁrm Go Media as “three days that will change your life.” The festival is centered on networking, sharing ideas and collaboration, as well as equality and embracing each other’s uniqueness. Discussing this communal environment, Sechrist says, “WMC Fest feels a lot like DIY shows I used

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to play in bands, in that the show itself is just one element of the experience. Making friends and meeting new people is really where I’ve found the good stuff to be. Everyone is very accessible on every level. The keynote speakers, podcasters, me (the emcee), et cetera, aren’t on pedestals; we’re just out here to connect like audience members are. This festival at its core

exists really to just show the design community that it needs to exist in real life beyond social media and email. I think that, in and of itself, has a lot of appeal to people.” Whether you’re a casual attendee with no design experience or a professional designer, WMC Fest can and will inspire your own passionate creativity. After all, there’s just something really inspiring about listening to experts discuss the topics they are most passionate about. “I’ve been a friend and collaborator with the good people at Go Media, who founded and put the event on, for quite a while,” Sechrist adds. “I was ecstatic when they took a chance and launched it seven years ago. I didn’t quite know what I needed at that point in my life as a graphic artist, but WMC Fest was the thing that was missing. If I felt that way, I was pretty certain other creatives were looking for that experience as well — and not just in Cleveland. My involvement has grown from there. It’s not my show, but that’s the charm of WMC Fest: Everyone feels like it’s theirs and they’re not just another guest.” Tickets, especially three-day passes, are expected to sell out quickly. For more information and a complete schedule, as well as to purchase tickets, visit wmcfest.com.

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MOVIES BEASTS OF THE RUST BELT WILD The Land is a gnarly ode to Cleveland By Sam Allard WHEN THE LAND DIRECTOR Steven Caple Jr. spoke with Scene earlier this summer, he said that his debut feature film, a Sundance darling that opens at the Cedar Lee on Friday, shouldn’t be considered “just another gritty ’hood film.” It’s an ode to the Cleveland he grew up in — a city with all the signposts of Rust Belt decay, sure, but also a city that doubles as a playground for the teenage skateboarders at the movie’s core. Cisco (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), Junior (Moises Arias), Boobie (Ezri Walker) and Patty Cake (Rafi Gavron) are high-schoolers who don’t see much profit in school. An opening montage introduces us to them via a faceless guidance counselor, lamenting their truancy and apparent lack of ambition. But these kids are not without goals: They want to get sponsored for regional skateboarding competitions and eventually go pro. To finance this dream — they need demo tapes, new equipment, threads of adequate dopeness — they hijack old cars and sell them to a shady chop shop. But when they discover a duffel bag full of pills in an Oldsmobile’s trunk, they turn to small-time drug dealing to get rich quick. Only slowly do they realize that the pills they thought would be their ticket out of town are in fact just the opposite. A local queen-pin (Linda Emond), a Kathy Bates-ish crime boss who runs a stand at the West

Side Market, wants her pills back and dispatches one of her minions, a bikerthug named Elliott (Cleveland native Robert Hunter), to exact vengeance on the streets. But Elliott goes too far, terrorizing those who would cross Momma and wreaking havoc on the lives of our starry-eyed, criminally hapless quartet. A Welcome to Collinwood for Cleveland’s next up-and-coming ﬁlmmaker, this unique crime drama celebrates the physical landscape of Cleveland more than any ﬁlm ever has. In an effort to capture the energy and poetry of the streets, Caple and his cinematographer Steven Holleran pack the movie with slowmotion sequences of skateboarding in warehouses and the old abandoned Max Hayes High School. They stage scenes on rooftops or near windows so the downtown skyline is prominent in the background. The city is on full

and vivid display. But life is by no means glamorized: Junior lives in the projects (the CMHA housing complex north of Hingetown). Cisco lives above the Old Fashioned Hot Dogs on Lorain with his Uncle Steve (Sons of Anarchy’s Kim Coates) who runs the place alongside a mournful prostitute named Turquoise (Erykah Badu). Boobie and his blue-collar father (The Wire’s Michael Kenneth Williams) live in a modest apartment, and Patty Cake, a teen parent, uses his scant funds for diapers and a high-chair for his toddler at home. Caple has said he’s interested in stories that explore humanity’s “dark edge,” but those themes are reinforced by the ﬁlm’s look. Much of the action transpires at night; even the daytime shots are often consumed by shadow. In the end, it’s a crowded, collisioncourse story that doesn’t quite

deliver on the criminal side. The drug operation is painted in broad strokes, and it’s breeched by a number of forgettable characters whose relationships to principal characters are sometimes unclear. The maternal market vendor who runs drugs on the side is a killer idea — though not fully original — and in keeping with Caple’s concept of Cleveland as a corrective to racial and social stereotypes, but Momma is an unconvincing drug lord. That said, the teens who dominate the story triumph in their scenes of reckless behavior and boyhood glee. And in any case, most Clevelanders will venture to the Cedar Lee because of the local connection, and on that score they won’t be disappointed. As both celebration and captain’s log, The Land feels truer and richer than other ﬁlms that have envisioned Cleveland as an arbitrary sad-sack backdrop. Because of strikingly similar career trajectories, Steven Caple Jr. has been compared often to his friend and mentor Ryan Coogler, who wowed with Fruitvale Station in 2009 and (again with Michael B. Jordan) Creed last year. But The Land feels equally of a piece with Benh Zietlin’s 2012 debut Beasts of the Southern Wild, which sought to evoke a region (in that ﬁlm, the Louisiana bayou) in a new and wonderful light.

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SPOTLIGHT: EAT THAT QUESTION WHEN AN INTERVIEWER IN EAT THAT Question, a new documentary about musician and composer Frank Zappa, asks Zappa if he considers himself a genius, he scoffs at the notion. And yet, Zappa certainly brought something unique to the table with his avant-garde compositions and decidedly bizarre lyrics. The movie, which opens Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre, successfully proﬁles the man and his music by piecing together footage of interviews and performances. One of the earliest clips features Zappa on The Steve Allen Show in 1963. “This gentleman’s name is Frank Zappa and he plays the bicycle,” goes the tagline. We then see a clean-cut, well-dressed Zappa lead Allen over to the bicycle he intends to play with a bow and drumsticks. The moment suggests the degree to which Zappa wanted to experiment from the very beginning. Shortly after

that appearance, he would join the R&B group the Mothers of Invention and, from that moment onward, the floodgates were open. A perfectionist when it came to performing, Zappa talks about his zero tolerance for drugs. He didn’t care what his musicians did when they weren’t on the road with him, but to tour with him and the Mothers meant a commitment to making music at the highest level. Zappa, who would grow his hair long and sprout his now-infamous oversized mustache and soul patch in the late ’60s, often functioned more as a conductor than band member, something that’s apparent in the live footage included in this film. As time went on, Zappa became frustrated with the American obsession with commercial success. In Europe, fans flocked to see him play, even though radio stations rarely played his

music. In the Czech Republic, for example, fans came by his music by way of bootlegs. After the Velvet Revolution, the Czechs, including President Václav Havel, treated him as a diplomat when he visited the country. The film includes footage of his arrival there in 1990. Tragically, Zappa was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 1990 and died in 1993. In one of his final interviews, which aired on The Today Show in 1993, he appears more subdued but refrains from discussing how he wants to be remembered. “It’s not important,” he says, adding that the guys who want to be “remembered” spend tons of money making sure people like them, making it clear that, up until the very end, he wanted his music to speak for itself. Yep, “eat that question” is certainly an appropriate title for this terrific film. — Jeff Niesel | clevescene.com | August 3 - 9, 2016

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DRINK LIKE A VISITOR History, architecture and scenery on a downtown Cleveland hotel bar crawl By Douglas Trattner AN EXCELLENT HOTEL BAR CAN be the difference between a good and great travel experience. The welcoming lobby bar is often the first stop a guest makes after a long day of sightseeing, and just as often the last one he or she makes before calling it a night. Hotel bars bring out-of-town visitors together to interact, share travel tips, and maybe get lucky. Cleveland recently landed three new downtown hotels — the Hilton, Drury and Kimpton Schofield — so we rounded up a group of wellseasoned travelers to explore and evaluate the bars of each. Extending little more than half a mile, the walk from bar to bar to bar is as easy as it is architecturally stimulating. There are few prettier façades downtown than the Schofield Building, which just wrapped up a $50-million renovation that stripped away a drab late-’60s overlay, revealing a stunning terra cotta exterior. The early-20th century building now houses Ohio’s first Kimpton hotel, a boutique brand known for quirky amenities like loaner bikes and guitars, and in-room food and water bowls for pets. Officially, the Kimpton doesn’t have a bar. But it does have Parker’s Downtown (2000 East Ninth St., 216357-3250, parkersdowntown.com), an onsite restaurant that serves as

the hotel’s bar, restaurant and room service provider. The snug lounge, just off the lobby, offers a cozy perch to unwind with a drink or nibble, as long as you’re not seated at the granite bar, where small, stiff stools deter lingering. Instead, grab a seat at a plush banquette and enjoy cocktails like the Thyme is Money ($9), an ironically named drink given the time it takes to prepare, and the Professor ($11), a sturdy, smoky blend of rye and Laphroaig served with large-format ice. Large windows offer nice views of the historic Cleveland Trust Building, now home to Heinen’s Downtown. The bar menu offers wine- and cocktailfriendly bites like a cheese and crostini platter ($10), meaty poached shrimp with horseradish custard ($14), and warm, creamy smoked white ﬁsh spread ($12) served with great grilled bread. After paying the tab, our group walked down East Ninth to Rockwell, passing by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Cleveland Public Library and its amazing pocket park, the Eastman Reading Garden, until we hit the Mall. Anchoring the east end of that wide-open expanse is the Beaux-Artsstyle Board of Education Building, which hasn’t looked this good since it opened in the 1930s. Now home to the Drury (1380 East Sixth St., 216-3573100, druryhotels.com), the building’s

lobby boasts two original murals by Cleveland School of Art instructor Cora Holden, who drowned in Lake Erie in 1938, at the age of 44. After roaming the wide, marblelined hallways we landed in the cleverly named Teachers’ Lounge, where we were greeted by a friendly face. The bar is small and hidden but it’s well designed, with comfortable furniture and educationthemed touches like an antique perpetual calendar and periodic table of elements. Drinks, too, have a scholastic ring, with names like the Lunchbox and Tardy Slip. Guests can sip on a bottle or draft beer, limited selection wines by the glass, and full cocktail selection. Snacks like free popcorn, ﬂatbreads ($8), hummus and pita ($7) and mozzarella sticks ($8) are available until 10 or 11 p.m. After being dismissed, the group orbited its way through the revolving door and landed back on the Mall, where a towering statue of Abraham Lincoln awaits. The impressive memorial was sculpted in 1923 by Lithuanian immigrant and artist Max Kalish and was funded with pennies collected from Cleveland schoolchildren. We made our way across the Mall, site of the Great Lakes Expositions of 1936 and 1937, and current home of the graceful War Memorial Fountain, toward the newest and most modern addition to

the Cleveland skyline. The glass-and-steel Hilton Cleveland Hotel (100 Lakeside Ave., 216-413-5000, www3.hilton.com) rises 32 stories above Lake Erie, and visitors can climb right to the top and get loaded. Bar 32’s stylish indoor-outdoor space is 400 feet above terra ﬁrma, offering unobstructed views of Burke Lakefront Airport to the east, sunsets to the west, and Browns Stadium and the Rock Hall in between. Although the bar gets slammed, there’s approximately 175 seats. Cocktails are a bit pricy, but they’re well built. The Proper Daiquiri ($13) is indeed proper, a perfect balance of sweet, tart and boozy. Bar 32 is just one of three bars on the new Hilton property. In addition to the bar inside the Burnham Restaurant, there’s Eliot’s Bar, a proper hotel bar perched on a mezzanine that overlooks the airy lobby. Of all the bars we hit before and during our trip to the Hilton, Eliot’s, we all agreed, felt most like the kind of bar where guests would interact with other travelers. The sprawling layout offered options for socializing and privacy, which should cover the needs of just about everybody.

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EAT SYMON AND FLAY TEAM UP FOR GALA By Douglas Trattner SINCE ACCEPTING HOSTING duties of the biennial Autism Speaks Chefs Gala, Michael Symon has managed to improve an already extraordinary event. His next opportunity to do so will come this Saturday, at the Cleveland Convention Center Grand Ballroom (300 Lakeside Ave. E.). The glitzy culinary fundraiser beneﬁts Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization. Co-hosting this year’s event is Symon’s Food Network colleague Bobby Flay. The two Iron Chefs will prepare a live and interactive dinner on stage in the open kitchen while entertaining the crowds. Sponsors who pony up $1,000 and more will enjoy a full-service plated dinner with open bar; those with individual tasting tickets ($250) get general admission seating with family style dinner and two drink tickets. For this year’s event, the organizers are going bigger and bolder than in any previous year, says co-chair Jim Sammon. “Building on the expansion of Cleveland’s great culinary scene, we’ve been blessed to have several more Cleveland chef volunteers this year, bringing the total amount to just about 30,” Sammon explains. “Now add America’s ﬁrst Iron Chef, Bobby Flay, as well as Cleveland’s favorite Iron Chef, Michael Symon, as our hosts and this makes it the premier culinary event of the year.” See autismspeaks.org for details.

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STAR-CROSSED HARMONIES Singer-guitarist Steve Earle and singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin team up for a terriﬁc new album Photo by Alexandra Valenti

By Jeff Niesel LAST YEAR, AS SINGER-GUITARIST Steve Earle was in the midst of a two-hour concert before a capacity crowd at Music Box Supper Club, he made a comment about getting kicked out of a blues band when he was 13. He said his 2015 album, Terraplane, a straight-up blues offering, was essentially a way of commemorating the dismissal. His revenge was our good fortune as Earle and his backing band, the Dukes, put on a stellar show that was the ﬁrst of two sold-out nights at the venue. Earle loves the venue: He returns to town on Aug. 7 to play the Music Box with singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin. The two are touring together in support of Earle & Colvin, a fantastic new collection of tunes that ﬁnds the duo collaborating on the songwriting and playing a few

choice covers. The two ﬁrst met almost three decades ago when Colvin opened for Earle, who was on a solo acoustic tour. Earle immediately proposed that he and Colvin record an entire album together. “I started doing solo tours in between my band touring cycles as soon as I started making records,” says Earle via phone from a Lexington tour stop. “I knew that I instinctively needed to do that to keep touch with who I am and what I am as a singer-songwriter. Also, it was a way I knew whether I had songs or not. It was the way I was taught to assay what I had created. [Singer-songwriter] Guy Clark told me they’re not songs unless you play them for people.” Earle was touring in the wake of the alt-country classic Exit Zero

and prior to the release of his breakthrough album Copperhead Road. Colvin’s debut, Steady On, had yet to come out. “I knew exactly what I was looking at: [Colvin] was a folk singer who could stand up there and hold down an audience by herself with just a guitar,” says Earle. “And she was hot. I remembered her and ran into her off and on over the years. A short time later, I was pretty much homeless and one of the tiny points of light that gave me hope was that Emmylou [Harris] had recorded ‘Guitar Town’ and Shawn had recorded ‘Someday.’ That was a big deal to me. It made me believe that what I had done was remembered and was worth something, and I needed that. It was one of a handful of things that helped me ﬁnd my way back.”

Earle served a 60-day jail term in the 1990s. When he got out of prison, he would regularly meet Colvin at gigs, and they started singing the aforementioned “Someday,” his tune “Fearless Heart” and a few other songs together. Earle says their approaches to writing songs might be different, but that doesn’t mean their personalities clash. “As far music goes, she underestimates herself as a writer a lot of the time, and she writes really great songs,” he says. “She talks in terms of it being something that’s hard for her to do. She struggles to do it. I have to wake up and assume I’m going to write something, otherwise I would probably shoot myself. It’s how I justify my existence. I don’t have writer’s block because I don’t believe in it, I guess.” | clevescene.com | August 3 - 9, 2016

MUSIC Just a few years ago, Colvin came up with the idea of doing a tour together, and the two started singing “Someday” all the way through together in harmony. “That’s the first time we realized that something happens when we sing together,” says Earle. “That was what made me want to make a record. I wanted to write songs for those two voices. That was what I wanted to do. It was her idea for us to tour together, and my idea to make a record.” For the album, they teamed up with a longtime friend, singersongwriter Buddy Miller, who cut the songs in a six-day session at his home studio. “It was cool,” Earle says when asked about the sessions. “It was just in his house. There’s no formal control room, but there’s a first-rate console. There’s a Trident B Range there, which is a great console. Some great records have been made there. He was really busy because it was the last season of Nashville, and he was the music director. We just found a hole in our schedule.” The album opener “Come What May” shows how well their voices blend. Earle’s raspy voice provides a nice contrast to Colvin’s supple tones. “It was a guitar riff that any guitar dealer in North America and most of Europe has heard me play,” says Earle when asked about the song. “Whenever I picked up a large acoustic guitar, something you’d strum on rather than finger pick,

place. It’s a very natural approach to harmony singing. I thought I was the worst harmony singer in the world and some people probably still think I am, but my opinion of myself as a harmony singer has been elevate somewhat in the process.” With its snarling guitars and clanging percussion, John D. Loudermilk’s “Tobacco Road” has a great bluesy vibe to it. “Shawn wanted to do it,” Earle explains. “She always says it’s a song she couldn’t see herself singing on her own. She likes to do covers and has done two covers records. Once we started singing together, she wanted to sing one of the two parts on it and knew what part she wanted to sing. Richard Bennett, the guitar player on [1986’s Guitar Town] and all that stuff, is the guitar player on that.” “You’re Right (I’m Wrong),” another highlight, has a real edge to it as Earle’s sneering vocals dominate the mix. “There’s one change on it,” Earle says of the song. “We had Chris Wood for the first four days and the fifth day my own bassist Kelly Looney came in and played electric bass on ‘You’re Right (I’m Wrong)’ and ‘Raise the Dead.’ That song started with this weird B-minor suspended something that I came up with. The guitar riff is Richard [Bennett]’s. I emulate it when we play it live now. It was one of those things where the song had this inherent lonesomeness to it from the beginning. It was the last thing we wrote. We literally finished the lyrics on the last day of recording.” Given that Earle, who has

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it was a riff I’d play. If I picked up a D18 or J200 or something big, it was the riff I played. I did that for a couple of years and I knew it’d become a song one of these days. It was kind of cool because it’s Beatlesesque in the chorus and for the verses, we did this cross harmony thing that the Everly Brothers did and the Delmores did and the Louvins did.” Earle says the two don’t plan who’ll sing which line of a song or which lines they’ll sing in unison. “We change parts, and we don’t rehearse when we do it,” he says. “We just sing and it works. That’s what’s intriguing and made me want to make a record with her in the ﬁrst

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overcome drug addiction and has been married several times, hasn’t had an easy life, how does music sustain him? “Music is just what I do,” he says. “I played music until I couldn’t when I was still using. That took away everything, including music. Nothing was going to come back until I got sober. That’s what it was about. Once I got clean, there was no way. To this day, it’s still 12-step. I go to meetings. I call my sponsor. I sponsor people. And a little yoga. That’s what I run on nowadays.”

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MUSIC A VOICE THAT CARRIES A bitter breakup inspired the latest album from powerhouse singer LP By Jeff Niesel IN 2012, WHEN ROCK/POP SINGER LP (Laura Pergolizzi) was set to perform at Lollapalooza, she ran into a bit of bad luck. A massive thunderstorm forced an evacuation of the park. “In the spirit of my crazy career, it was the one Lollapalooza that got rained out,” she says via phone from Los Angeles where she was about to “jump on an Uber” to go to the L.A. airport and fly to Italy, where her latest single “Lost on You” is No. 1 on the charts. “I was on this great stage, and there was this cathedral of trees. The crowd was filling up and I had gotten this great writeup in the Chicago Tribune. I was the first band after it rained. The monitor had washed up. That was the end of my sense of humor that day.” A powerhouse singer who emerged in 2001 when she released her debut album Heart-Shaped Scar, LP, who grew up in New York, quickly raised eyebrows with her distinctive voice and confessional songwriting. She says she initially just “put a band together” in the wake of her mother’s death and set out to play whatever crappy clubs she could. “I had the whole ‘life’s too fucking short’ moment,” she says. “I didn’t know shit about shit. I started playing at the worst places possible on [New York’s] Bleecker Street. I wrote terrible songs. I killed it. My only friend used to come to my shows and I’d play to her essentially. It’s a life experience. I took away from it an appreciation. All the shit makes me terribly appreciative. I worked really hard and went really hard at it.” After the Backstreet Boys recorded one of her songs, she began to take her career more seriously. “That was a moment for me,” she says. “I thought I could just write songs. I hadn’t thought about that because I couldn’t get arrested so long and the irony of ironies is that other people could do them.” She got a publishing deal in 2009 and then signed to a major label shortly after that. But bad luck came her way in the wake of signing to Warner Bros. “The label power paradigm shifted and I was left in the dust, but

the [2014’s Forever For Now] did come out, and that was a positive,” she says. “The moral of my entire story is just to shut the fuck up and write songs. Even if you write a hit song, everyone wants you to write another hit song. If you’re writing hits or you’re writing shits, it doesn’t matter.”

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Another round of bad luck inspired the songs on her terriﬁc new Death Valley EP. A slow burner of a song that ﬁnds LP belting out the refrain with abandon, “Lost on You” captures the frustration she experienced when she went through a bitter breakup. At one point toward the song’s end, she lets loose a pierc-

Rock/pop singer LP loves to “belt.”

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ing howl. “I was in a relationship I had been in for five years, and shit was going down,” says LP. “I knew it in my heart. It was that not-so-magic moment when you’re like, ‘Am I crazy or is this fucked?’ I had the same thing going on with my label. Something was remiss and off. I just thought, ‘Fuck.’ On the personal side, I realized this person was not seeing what they were doing. That’s where ‘Lost on You’ came from. I wrote that phrase in the back of the van on tour. For my favorite songs, the titles come out of nowhere. That was a good one. That song is a day-of demo vocal. You can really feel it.” She says she tried to redo the vocals but couldn’t capture the same intensity as the first take. “The day I tried to go back and do a better vocal was a day in the middle of when I broke up with this person, and I was too fucked up to sing,” she says. “I felt like I had a chokehold on my neck. There was a lot of emotions.” The album’s opening tune, the plodding, transfixing “Muddy Waters,” also alludes to the breakup. “It was a massive confusion song,” LP says of the song. “It helped me get it out. Before or after an event happens is my best writing.” With the soaring “Strange,” a song about how we are all “strange,” she embraces a different set of emotions. “That song felt celebratory to me,” she says of the tune. “I just remember it was one of those songs when I left the room I would come back with another part of that song. That was a fun session. I love belting. I always belt in songs, but that’s the real belter on this record.” While many so-called belters don’t translate live, LP doesn’t have that problem. She’s a dynamic performer; the upcoming show at House of Blues Cambridge Room will undoubtedly feature the same intensity found on the Death Valley EP.

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Juliette LewisThe New Regime/ Time Cat: Juliette Lewis has long since added “musician” to a resume that already includes “Academy Award, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominated actress.” The recently reunited Juliette Lewis and the Licks, Lewis’ rock band, came out of an eight-year hiatus for a 21-date tour across Europe, but Lewis will ﬁnish the rest of the year with a 20date tour across North America as a solo artist. Her latest single, “Hello Hero,” is a well-produced, high energy, danceable track. Good luck getting the infectious melody and refrain out of your head. (Tucker Kelly), 8:30 p.m., $18-20. Grog Shop. Texas Hippie Coalition/Scott H. Biram/Hillbilly Hearald: Beards? Check. Tattered clothes? Check. Guitars? Yes, but not the kind you expect. The name Texas Hippie Coalition is, at its best, a great name for this Denison, Texas-based metal band and, at its worst, a misnomer only clever tricksters would choose. THC, as they’re also known, are touring behind their recently released Dark Side of Black, another perfectly apt name, on the nationwide THC Tour the Fuck Up. To the actual hippies headed to the show: take a break from feeling the dirt between your toes and put on some steel-toed boots. Thank us later. (Kelly), 7 p.m., $14 ADV, $17 DOS. Agora Ballroom. 10 X 3 Singer Songwriter Showcase: Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. 98 Degrees/O-Town/Dream/Ryan Cabrera: 7:30 p.m., $52.50-$92.50. Hard Rock Rocksino Northﬁeld Park. Alpha Quartet: 7 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Bill Dobbins: 8 p.m., Free. BLU Jazz+. Hartle Road/Sweepyheads/Wesley Who: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Rebecca and the Hopewell/ Pete McDonald: 7:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Sink Tapes/Cheap Clone/ Fascinating: 9 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern.

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Anders Osborn/Oliver JohnRodgers: Restless, hardworking singer-guitarist Anders Osborne found time between recording and touring for his last album, Space Dust and Ocean Views earlier this year to cut his second album of 2016 (and ﬁfteenth since ’95), Flower Box. Distorted, layered guitar and classic rock drums drive all eight tracks as the album successfully blends Louisiana blues, mid-tempo classic rock, and pop sensibility. (Tucker Kelly), 8 p.m., $15-18. The Kent Stage. All Keyed Up Dueling Pianos: 9

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p.m. Vosh Club. Anna & the Consequences: 6 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. DJ Lawrence Daniel Caswell: 6 p.m. Happy Dog. East Wind: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Extinction A.D./)/Cringe/Domestic Terror: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Iris Isadora/Colin Shoff: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Jimmy Lo Fi Album Release/The Whiskey Hollow/Seth Hasan/ Orange Tabby/Unruly Blu: 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Late Nite Lounge: Stella Brickhouse (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. LP/Diana Chittester: 8 p.m. House of Blues Cambridge Room. Michael Malis Trio: 8 p.m., $12. Bop Stop. Nick Moss/Church Of The Lazy Bastards: 8 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern. Nick Puin Band ft. Maria Jacobs: 9 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Paul Christensen (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Polkadot Cadaver/Knives Out: 7 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. Agora Ballroom. Richie Cole with The Sammy DeLeon Latin Jazz Septet: 8:30 p.m., $20. Shrub/Wanyama/New Moon Rising: 9 p.m., $8. Grog Shop. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: 8 p.m., $29.50-$57.50. Hard Rock Rocksino Northﬁeld Park. Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Third Day/Steven Curtis

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