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UPFRONT LANCE MASON, FORMER JUDGE HIRED BY CITY DESPITE BRUTAL DOMESTIC ASSAULT, MURDERED HIS EX-WIFE ON SATURDAY Photo from Shaker Heights Police Department

FORMER CUYAHOGA COUNTY judge Lance Mason, who served nine months in prison for the brutal beating of his then-wife Aisha Fraser in 2014, and who was hired by Mayor Frank Jackson last year, stabbed Fraser to death this weekend in Shaker Heights. Fraser, 45, was a beloved sixth grade teacher at Shaker Heights’ Woodbury Elementary. She had been a teacher in the district for 16 years. “Aisha exemplified the best of Shaker Heights teachers; smart, amazingly caring of her students and her colleagues, active in her profession and in our association,” a statement from the Teachers Association read. “She is loved by many.” Fraser leaves behind two daughters, ages 11 and 8. As of Monday, Mason was in custody. After stabbing Fraser Saturday morning, police said, he took her vehicle and drove it into a Shaker Heights police car. Both Mason and a police officer were hospitalized. Mason has been charged with felonious assault for driving into the police cruiser but has not yet been charged for his wife’s murder. The tragedy casts Mayor Jackson’s decision to hire Mason last summer in a much darker light. Late Saturday, Jackson’s office issued a press release saying that Mason had been officially terminated, but some have called for Jackson’s resignation or for the immediate release of all documentation surrounding Mason’s hiring. WKYC broke the story last November, shortly before the mayoral election, that Jackson had personally hired Mason from a pool of 13 candidates to work as a minority business administrator in the city’s Office of Equal Opportunity. To counter rumors that Jackson had hired Mason as a favor to Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who knows Mason, the city trotted out Equal Opportunity director Melissa Burrows to claim that she’d made the decision on

her own because he was the most qualified. “I made the decision to hire Mr. Mason because of his expertise in reading, understanding and interpreting contracts and other legal documents,” she said at the time. His reading comprehension notwithstanding, in 2014 Mason had savagely punched his wife in the face 20 times and smashed her head into their vehicle’s dashboard repeatedly while their daughters sat in the backseat. The beating was severe enough that Fraser required reconstructive facial surgery. After his first court appearance, a family member called the police because she feared that Mason might commit suicide. When police arrived and took him into custody, they found a cache of weapons and ammunition in his home: two shotguns, two assault rifles, two handguns, smoke grenades, a bulletproof vest and a sword, among other things. He was hired in August 2017, when he would still have been serving time for the assault if not for his early release. But Jackson defended the hiring then, and recently, on the grounds that everyone deserves a second chance. Monday, he said he stood by the decision to hire Mason, saying he had “no way to predict the future.” When Fox 8 asked if the city would no longer hire domestic abusers, Jackson said no. “Our policy is second chances unless there is something that would prevent us from doing it,” he said. “For example, you wouldn’t hire a convicted felon and put them around children. You wouldn’t hire an embezzler and put them in the finance department.” Okay, but you’d hire a violent domestic abuser and amasser of heavy weapons, including semiautomatic rifles, to liaise with contractors and women- and minority-owned businesses? Frank Jackson is pathologically unable to admit a mistake. It’s one of his ugliest leadership traits. He sincerely believes that he can

Lance Mason in a booking photo from a previous arrest.

do no wrong, that every decision he has ever made — even if it has produced negative results — was made for the right reason. But in this case, the response was obvious. He should have issued an immediate and extravagant apology, both for Fraser’s death and for perpetuating a system that rewards insiders and protects abusers at the expense of victims. As Joe Patrice wrote for Above the Law on Monday morning: “Should the criminal justice system lean away from draconian sentencing? Sure. Would society be better off if ex-convicts aren’t permanently blackballed from earning a living when attempting to reenter society? Of course. But we’re not talking about someone starting over after serving their time. This is a tale of complicity, where apologists pushed a professional colleague through his “difﬁculty” with sweetheart deals and patronage gigs. Protecting Fraser was never a consideration while they worked to restore Mason.” In this instance, the future was crystal clear. And Jackson needs to own up. — Sam Allard

Statehouse Republicans Stand Their Ground, Pass Bill Proven to Have Racist Results Last week, the Ohio House of Representatives voted along party lines to pass a “Stand Your Ground” bill which Democratic lawmakers have referred to as the “Kill at Will” bill. They say it will endanger Ohio’s communities by allowing individuals to “shoot first and ask questions later.” The bill would reduce some firearms offenses to minor misdemeanors, make it much harder to prosecute gun violence cases, and preempt local authority to enact gun restrictions. While the evidence is mixed on whether or not Stand Your Ground laws increase violent crime in other states, it certainly hasn’t deterred it. The nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, which opposes the bill, says that Ohio’s HB228 would “upend centuries of traditional self-defense doctrine and threaten public safety by encouraging armed vigilantism and giving civilians in public places more leeway to shoot than the U.S. military gives soldiers in war zones.” | clevescene.com | November 21 - 27, 2018

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One of its key effects, according to a 2013 study from the Urban Institute, is to justify the killing of black people by white people. In Stand Your Ground states, the study found, when white shooters kill black victims, the shootings are deemed justifiable 11 times more frequently than when the shooter is black and the victim is white. That’s one reason why Rep. Stephanie Howse (D-Cleveland), spoke about the racial implications of the law before the vote last Wednesday. When she mentioned that the bill’s sponsors represented districts that were 90 percent white, House Speaker Ryan Smith cut off her mic. He later said that he did so because she’d referred to other legislators by name, a no-no, apparently. Smith was challenged about that decision after the vote. He told reporters after Wednesday’s session that mentioning specific representatives “was disrespectful to the chair. You cannot do that,” Smith said. “That’s not how we do things.” But other lawmakers during Wednesday’s session had mentioned colleagues by name. Why weren’t they silenced? “When you’re speaker, you’re always second-guessed and [there are] armchair quarterbacks everywhere,” Smith said. “It’s a subjective situation. I try to manage it as best I can.” Howse, in an official statement, said that Smith and Republicans were creating greater division in the state of Ohio. “This type of legislation is dangerous and leads to justified murder,” she said. “The leaders of the Republican Party have shown their disregard for Ohioans and especially their disregard of black lives. It is a sad day in Ohio and I pray that one day my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will truly value the voices and lives of Ohioans — especially the 18 percent minority population of Ohio — and not intentionally divide Ohioans based on unfounded fear.” Gov. John Kasich himself has said that he would veto any Stand Your Ground bill and has voiced his support for “Red Flag” legislation, which would allow judges to issue specialized gun violence restraining orders after receiving evidence from family members or police. The bill had the unanimous

support of Cleveland City Council. But when state Democrats tried to put forward a Red Flag bill, it was crushed in a party-line vote. The current Stand Your Ground bill is supported by the usual suspects, the Ohio Buckeye Firearms Association and Ohioans for Concealed Carry, and opposed by more or less everyone else, including law enforcement (represented by the State Highway Patrol and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police). The Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys and highschoolers everywhere, who marched this year “for [their] lives,” are opposed to the bill as well. It is needless to mention that the Ohio chapter of Moms Demand Action is vocally opposed to the bill. The group issued a statement saying they’d be urging Ohio’s senators to reject it. “Ohio’s public safety laws are in place for good reason,” said Sarah Mouncey, a volunteer leader with the state chapter. “At a time when the consensus is growing that we need to do more to prevent gun violence, this would move Ohio in the exact opposite direction.” The bill comes on the heels of the gun massacre in Thousand Oaks, California, which, at the time (Nov. 7), was the 307th mass shooting of 2018. There have been seven mass shootings since then. — Allard

Evergreen Cooperatives Launches Fund to Create More Employee-Owned Businesses Evergreen Cooperatives last week announced the creation of a fund to purchase existing businesses in Northeast Ohio and convert them to employee-owned operations. The Fund for Employee Ownership, as it’s called, is part of Evergreen Business Services, which is just one segment of the 9-year-old Evergreen Cooperatives that currently operates three co-op divisions — Evergreen Laundry, Evergreen Growers and Evergreen Energy Solutions. All told, there are more than 220 employees throughout the company. The goal here is simple: identify businesses with retiring owners looking to get out, purchase those businesses for a fair market price, and in doing so not only retain jobs in Northeast Ohio but then convert them to employee-owned operations. The beneﬁts are hard to overstate. Instead of jobs disappearing, or new owners cutting back or moving positions out of state or overseas,

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UPFRONT they’ll stay right here, and employees will have a share in the profits and success. “The work of the Fund for Employee Ownership will be a vital way to keep quality jobs in the communities that depend on them, especially when so many business owners facing retirement lack a clear plan for succession that can preserve their legacy and

protect their employees,” Brett Jones, executive vice president at Evergreen and director of the new fund, said in a release. “Helping these companies go employeeowned is a win-win-win solution for business owners, workers, and our communities.” Jones has been working to make the fund a reality since last year when we talked to him about Evergreen’s mission to create a new ownership class in America, to close that income inequality gap, to improve lives. “You have these places where

a current owner wants to retire, and they’re not private-equitysized companies, but maybe they’re attractive to off-shoring,” Jones said last year. “So you’re converting them to worker-owned, to stay here. There are a lot of baby boomers who are ready to retire and business that may move or close. That devastates local economies, when you lose 10 or 20 jobs in aggregate. That industrial base in Cleveland is still strong and we want to keep that here.” New acquisitions will benefit from Evergreen’s experience and

voluminous offerings. Employees, many of whom are refugees or ex-convicts, get access to financial training and affordable mortgages; members attend quarterly board meetings and vote on issues affecting the business and share in the profits. The new fund is looking to make its first purchase and conversion in 2019 and are currently actively seeking owners of small and medium-sized businesses who would be a good fit right now. — Vince Grzegorek

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BY SCENE STAFF t’s beginning to look a lot like you once again have no idea what to buy people this Christmas. You’re not alone. Some people out there are blessed with an uncanny sense for gift giving, knowing just what that special person will go absolutely gaga over. They probably also keep a detailed list throughout the year as ideas come to them. We, and we’re guessing a fair number of you, are not those people. As you dive into December and begin making

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Cleveland Then and Now Last year, Plain Dealer reporter Laura DeMarco released her ﬁrst book, Lost Cleveland, which explored “long-gone places and historic events” to trace Cleveland’s glorious past. Set to come out on Dec. 1, her followup book, Cleveland Then and Now, returns to those sites, and many more, to explore

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how the city has changed and where it stands today. The book pairs modern-day photos with vintage ones to illustrate how our ﬁne city has transformed over the past 150 years; the 144-page tome includes more than 150 photos from 67 locations. It retails for $22.95. facebook.com/lostcleveland

No one wants to be another basic B with a Coach handbag. That’s where Cleveland’s own Blair Ritchey Functional Leather Goods comes in to help. Designed and ﬁnished at Ritchey’s home studio in Lakewood, customers can choose bags of all sizes from the smaller Origami Envelope Clutch ($64) to the perfectfor-carrying-your-whole-life-around Lango Messenger bag ($498). The designer’s bestselling Mini Penn Carryall ($390) was crafted for

According to the ASPCA, close to 700,000 dogs are euthanized in the United States every year. Because of overcrowding in shelters, a good number of those dogs are perfectly healthy and just unable to ﬁnd that loving home they’re looking for. So why not save an animal’s life, and at the same time give a gift that will become your loved one’s best friend? Look, we know it’s a little

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baby mommas, dads and everyone else and comes with an adjustable strap that can change it into a backpack. The bags are made with quality leather and constructed by the Cleveland Canvas Goods Manufacturing Company, so customers know that no matter which bag they select they’re carrying a hometown original while supporting this maker’s business. blairritchey.com

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Ebony Watch with Corroded Metal Dial If you’re willing to splurge on something unique, the steam punk-y, adventure-inspiring timepieces from Exquisite Corpse Boutique could be the gift you’re looking for this season. The Ebony Watch ($125) features a protective ﬁnish and a soft leather strap for the large, handmade nickel dial. Each piece is one of a kind and it’ll have everyone asking where you (or your pal or loved one) got it. theexcb.com

Flanagan’s Wake Tickets Starting in early 2019, this interactive play will run at

Playhouse Square’s Kennedy Theatre. The comedy, which will open Jan. 5 and run every Friday and Saturday through April 28, is entering its 10th year of being performed in Cleveland. The show is an interactive Irish wake that relies on audience participation for its payoff. Flanagan, a member of the ﬁctional community in Graplin, County Sligo, passes away and the villagers (that’s you, the audience) participate in telling stories, singing songs and mourning Flanagan, while paying respects to his widow and mother. So if you’re looking for a little culture in your New Year, while also getting some laughs, this is the show for you. Tickets start at $26. playhousesquare.org

GLBC Infuser Many craft breweries feature one of their beers “infused” with a special ingredient. With the Great Lakes Brewing Co. infuser, you can do the infusing yourself. Simply stuff the center tube with your preferred ingredient (hops, coffee, fruit) and then ﬁll the “All Yours Infuse-A-Brew” with your favorite beer and let it steep. The item, which retails for $7.95 at the Great Lakes Brewing Co. store, is even

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Homage Vintage Cavs’ Sweatshirt Though the swift rejection of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 2018-2019 “City Edition” uniforms was not quite universal, responses to its unveiling were in the neighborhood of 95-percent negative. The bright blue and orange jerseys, with Destination Cleveland’s script “Cleveland” in white on the front, looked like absolute trash. But they served as a reminder that the blue and orange Cavs Unis from the ’80s and ’90s were classic editions, and worthy of throwback treatment. Items in that color scheme belong in any Cavs fan’s closet. Homage, the Columbus-based apparel shop with a location at Crocker Park, has a wealth of unique vintage hoodies and sweatshirts that’ll let you show your team pride while still looking ﬂy. Our preference: the blue and orange “Cavs stripe crewneck.” homage.com

Inductee Class of 2018 Mug The Rock Hall Class of 2018 was one of the weakest in the Rock

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Karats from Wanderlust Jewelers When words aren’t enough, diamonds can say what your vocal cords can’t. Thankfully, Wanderlust Jewelers in Cleveland Heights is here to make sure your next high-end jewelry purchase for the one you spend your life with is not only handcrafted right here in Greater Cleveland but won’t be confused with anything Vera Wang is selling on TV. Since 2011, Wes and Heather Airgood have been designing and making jewelry with the most precious of metals and gems. Each ring (engagement, wedding or otherwise), bracelet, necklace or set of earrings is made to order. Buyers can choose from stunning designs on the website or work with the jewelers directly to create their own special piece. From simple gold bands to the most extravagantly diamondcrusted rings, nothing here comes cheap. But even today, some things are worth all the time, effort and money. Visits to the studio can be made by appointment only. wanderlustjewelers.com

Loganberry Book of the Month Club Loganberry Books is routinely mentioned as one of Cleveland’s best bookstores, and the mesmerizingly large scope of its collection is only one piece of the literary puzzle. Another is the bookstore’s programming. Beyond all the regular events at its Larchmere location, Loganberry offers a Book of the Month Club, a perfect gift idea for the bookworm in your life. Just fill out a form with the recipient’s age and reading tastes, and every month the staff at Loganberry will send them a new book. It makes for a thoughtfully curated reading list for only $12, $24, or $36 per month. (The priciest tier includes special and out-of-print editions and hard-to-find titles, for even

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Mayfield’s Thursday Night Color Rush Browns Hat What better way to commemorate a resurgent Browns’ franchise for the Cleveland sports fan in your life than with the very ball cap that quarterback Baker Mayfield wore on the sidelines during the victory over the New York Jets on Thursday, Sept. 20? The brownon-brown “color rush” snapback cap, with “BROWNS” on the front and two orange horizontal stripes on the side, is not only a memento of the first Browns win in more than a year, it’s just a dope-looking piece of headgear. Once you start wearing it, we guarantee you’ll wake up feeling dangerous. This is an extremely popular item, and is selling out at various online shops, but ask for the “New Era Color Rush 9FIFTY Snapback” at the Browns team shop or your local Lids location. neweracap.com

Nutcracker Ballet Tickets What better way to usher in the holiday season than by attending a performance of The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet that takes place in an enchanted world on Christmas Eve. Performed by the Cleveland Ballet, the show will be here for a seven-show run, Dec. 13 through 16, with matinees on Dec. 14 through 16 at Playhouse Square’s Hanna Theatre. Tickets start at $25 and go up to $79. In 2017, all the Cleveland shows sold out, so act quickly. Ballet artistic director Gladisa Guadalupe brings her own interpretation of the classic Christmas ballet to spice things up. playhousesquare.org

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Valerie Mayen blasted off like a rocket in 2010 when she landed her ﬁrst appearance on Bravo’s fashion game of thrones, Project Runway. The then-28-year-old Cleveland designer behind her own Yellowcake label — a funky and colorful line of clothing and accessories that would look cool on chic space invaders — has since been keeping Cleveland looking great. Drop by her site and snag something special for a favored fashionista from her collection of outerwear, dresses, jumpsuits and more. yellowcakeshop.com.

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Morning Show, comedian Huggy Lowdown likes to joke about how much money stars like Jay-Z have, and he regularly dishes dirt on celebs such as Geraldo Rivera and Bruce Willis. Think of him as a black Perez Hilton. He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $22. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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Cavaliers vs. Los Angeles Lakers Former Cav LeBron James returns to town tonight just in time for Thanksgiving. His Los Angeles Lakers make their sole appearance at the Q, and we hope that Cavs fans will show up en masse to root for the Cavs and not James, who left the team in the lurch after a very successful run. While the Cavs have struggled mightily this season, we truly hope they destroy the Lakers, a team that will have a hard time making the playoffs even with the addition of James, who signed a max deal over the summer. Tipoff is at 8 p.m. Check the Cavs’ website for ticket prices. (Jeff Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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Laurie Kilmartin A veteran comic who got her start in the late ’80s, Laurie Kilmartin possesses a particularly irreverent sense of humor. She once made a comedy special she dubbed 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad and has written two books, Shitty Mom and Dead People Suck. She performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at Hilarities, where she has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $18 to $28. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

11/22

FAMILY FUN THANKSGIVING

Feed the Souls When House of Blues ﬁrst opened here 14 years ago, it provided a free Thanksgiving meal for those in need on Thanksgiving Day. The concert venue continues that tradition today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as House of Blues’ volunteers (employees, friends, family and vendors) provide food for the homeless — and anyone who is either alone or can’t afford a good meal. The venue serves an average of 400 people each year. There will be live music as well. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com. MUSIC

Post Thanksgiving Get Down Most bars will be closed today. Now That’s Class is the exception. One of our favorite punk clubs in town, the place will open at 5 p.m. “Avoid your family, bring your family, cheat on your partner, bring your partner, get twisted. Don’t know, don’t care, don’t ask!!” reads the website description. Music starts at 9 with DJ Hama providing “a night of funky grooves, heavy riddims and smooth vibes that will have you sweating off all that Thanksgiving grub!” Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

Scuba Claus returns to the Greater Cleveland Aquarium. See: Friday.

Author Ben Vendetta Author Ben Vendetta will speak with local music journalist Jason Pettigrew about his new book, Sunset Trip, tonight at 6:30 at the Happy Dog. Set in and around the Y2K Los Angeles psych rock scene, which included bands such as Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Warlocks, Beachwood Sparks and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, the novel centers on the life and times of a ﬁctional music journalist. In addition, DJ IKE will spin psych, shoegaze and canyon rock. Admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

that the squishy sentimentality (of which there is plenty) never leads to saccharine reﬂux. Philip Grecian is listed as the playwright, but everyone understands that the bulk of the insights comes from the mind of Jean Shepherd, who wrote the original story, co-authored the movie, and narrated the ﬂick in his distinctive, triple-wry voice. The Cleveland Play House’s production rides a two-hour wave of intricate details to unerringly establish the period and to help even the youngest patrons make the leap back in time to when cowboy hero Red Ryder was king of the wireless. See it tonight at 7:30 at the Allen Theatre. Performances continue through Dec. 23. Tickets are $25 to $97. (Christine Howey) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000. playhousesquare.org.

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A Christmas Story A near-genius piece of American reminiscence, A Christmas Story is so period-perfect and charming

Huggy Lowdown Also known as the “Celebrity Snitch” because of the popular segment he contributes to The Tom Joyner

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Scuba Claus & the Seas’N of Play Scuba Claus & the Seas’N of Play continues today, tomorrow and Sunday at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium. Kids get a temporary tattoo, an activity book and the chance to expend some of their excess holiday spirit by learning about and imitating the movements of crabs, archerﬁsh, frogs, frilled lizards and other Aquarium residents. Guests of all ages can participate in an aquarium-wide scavenger hunt and/ or talk to and snap a selﬁe with Scuba Claus while he dives in the Aquarium’s 230,000-gallon shark exhibit from 1 to 2 p.m. Aquarium hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Check the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

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GET OUT dio Theatre. Local vendors from the Cleveland Bazaar Holiday Market will set up in the Ohio Theatre Lobby, and the Festival of Trees returns to the Allen Theatre lobbies. It all starts at 1:30 p.m.; admission is free. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

(15711 Waterloo Rd.), at which time he will regale the audience with tales from his time in and out of Public Image Ltd., mainly covering the years 1979 to 1985. Admission for that talk is $20. You can read all about it on the Beachland website. (Niesel) beachlandballroom.com.

where it stands today. To this end, the book pairs modern-day photos of 67 locations with vintage ones and illustrates how our ﬁne city has transformed. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, Prosperity Social Club will host a launch party with DeMarco, who’ll be on hand to sign copies of the book, which will be on sale at

THEATER

The Nutcracker In years past, Akron Beacon Journal readers have voted the Ballet Theatre of Ohio’s production of The Nutcracker as Akron’s No. 1 holiday show. Set on Christmas Eve, the ballet, as you know, tells the story of a young girl and her beloved doll. As the clock strikes midnight, magical things begin to happen. Today’s performances take place at 2 and 7 p.m. at the Akron Civic Theatre. Tomorrow’s performance takes place at 2 p.m. Tickets are $40 to $50. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

FILM

Rock ‘n’ Soul holiday hits by GRAMMY winner Mike Farris Dinner by Cleveland Celebrity Chef Rocco Whalen Tickets available now at www.rockhall.com/holiday

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Martin Atkins Rocker and producer Martin Atkins presents two distinct programs today in North Collinwood. At 2 p.m., he offers “tangible strategies” and advice for independent artists that will translate into additional revenue; the free talk is based on his book Band:Smart, and takes place in Space: Rock Gallery (15721 Waterloo Rd.). He speaks again at 7 p.m. in the Beachland Ballroom

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable New York street photographer, Garry Winogrand took photos in the 1950s and 1960s that captured the social issues of the time. He died in 1984, leaving behind thousands of rolls of undeveloped ﬁlm. The documentary Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable provides an overview of his life. It screens today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art; catch it again at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

Ghengis Con Since the late ’90s, local illustrator John G has drawn hundreds of “ridiculous, vivid posters” and done illustrations for Melt Bar & Grilled, Cleveland Cinemas, Scene and a multitude of bands and music venues. He also co-founded and continues to run Genghis Con, a small press and underground comics convention in Cleveland. This year is the 10th installment of the festival, and it takes place from 2 to 7 p.m. today at the Lake Erie Building in Lakewood. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1300 Athens, Lakewood, genghisconcleveland.com.

Winterfest Cleveland’s annual Winterfest, which kicks off at 9 a.m. today at Public Square, includes free ice skating, free horse-drawn carriage rides, food trucks, live music, ﬁreworks and a Santa sighting. Those who wish to take advantage of the free skating should arrive early to secure a time slot: Only 150 tickets are given out per 45-minute session. Skate rentals are included along with your free ticket. Note that the all-important tree lighting ceremony is scheduled for 6 p.m. Admission is free. Find all the details on the website. (Laura Morrison) 50 Public Square, downtowncleveland.com.

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Cleveland Then and Now Book Signing Last year, Plain Dealer reporter Laura DeMarco released her ﬁrst book, Lost Cleveland, which explored “long-gone places and historic events” to trace Cleveland’s glorious past. Set to come out on Dec. 1, her followup book, Cleveland Then and Now, returns to those places and many more to explore how the city has changed over the past 150 years, and

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the event. Admission is free, and no restaurant purchase is required. But do note: Prosperity will serve brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. that day; launch party dining reservations are recommended. Prosperity chef Ed Kubitz is adding a “creamy chicken a la king over biscuit” special to the menu as a nod to classic eateries such as Higbee’s Silver Grille and Miller’s Dining Room. Drink specials include

Searching for Ingmar Bergman A slew of actors, ﬁlmmakers and family members participate in Searching for Ingmar Bergman, a documentary about the great Swedish director. The movie includes archival ﬁlm clips and rare photos in telling the story of Bergman, who would’ve been 100 this year if he hadn’t died 10 years ago. It shows tonight at 7:15 and tomorrow night at 6:45 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10, or $7 for Cinematheque members and students. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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11/26

SPORTS

Cavaliers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves The Minnesota Timberwolves, a playoff-caliber team, suffered a setback earlier this season when

star player Jimmy Butler demanded a trade. The team shipped him off to Philadelphia, but it will have to make some serious adjustments in the wake of that trade. As a result, tonight’s game against the lowly Cavs should be a tough one. Tipoff is at 7 at the Q. Consult the Cavs’ website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. FILM

Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $5 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices; many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Find a list of participating theaters on the website. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com. MUSIC

Shit Show Karaoke Local rapper/promoter Dirty Jones and Scene’s own Manny Wallace host Shit Show Karaoke, a weekly event at the B-Side Liquor Lounge wherein patrons choose from “an unlimited selection of jams from hip-hop to hard rock,” and are encouraged to “be as bad as you want.” Fueled by drink and shot specials, it all goes down

tonight at 10 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com. FOOD

Wing Dang 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 Dang Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews, along with 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 Dang Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago that takes place tonight at 7:30 at the Connor Palace features former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George in the role of Billy Flynn. That’s reason enough to see the musical about fame, fortune and “all that jazz.” Tickets start at $10, and performances continue through Dec. 2. Get your tickets on the website. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SPOKEN WORD

Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs Glenn Starkman, a self-described cosmologist and “asker of the Big Questions about our universe,” will present his talk, “The State of the Universe,” tonight at 7:30 at the Happy Dog Tavern as part of the Happy Dog’s lecture series Life, the Universe & Hot Dogs. Admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. MUSIC

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Vinyl Night Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” The club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases, partnering with Loop in Tremont, so patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. It all starts at 5 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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STAGE THERE ARE MANY BOOGEYMEN IN BOOGIEBAN The curse of war bedevils two military men in this world premiere at None Too Fragile By Christine Howey Photo by Robert Horwell

IF IT SEEMS YOU’VE SEEN a lot of plays and movies about soldiers and the frequently invisible destruction that combat has imposed upon their psyches, you’re not mistaken. From the former warrior in The Best Years of Our Lives in 1946 to the PTSD-infected soldiers in Stop-Loss in 2008, and from Sophocles (Ajax) to local playwright George Brant (Grounded), many writers have explored the well-trod territory of war trauma. The ancient Greeks called it “divine madness,” while troubled soldiers from World War I were said to suffer from “shell shock.” In these enlightened 21st-century times, when America is in a constant state of war with someone somewhere, some of our combatants come back tormented by “post-traumatic stress disorder.” That antiseptic term, usually shortened to PTSD, attempts to make the horrific and unspeakable just banal and clinical. In Boogieban by D.C. Fidler, now having its world premiere presentation at None Too Fragile theater in Akron, there is banality present. But while it starts slowly, this two-hander builds inexorably to a climactic scene that is so emotionally wrenching you feel it in your bones. We are in the office of a military psychiatrist, Lt. Col. Lawrence Caplan, who is packing boxes and getting ready to begin his retirement. But he has agreed to see one more patient, Spc. Jason Wynsky, who suffered from PTSD from his posting in Afghanistan but now seeks a clearance to return to his unit. Once they start talking, the shrink gets intrigued and wants to conduct further interviews with this young man who clearly has demons in hiding. For the first hour or so these two fence with their words, as Wynsky — who always wears the dogtag of one of his buddies, Josh — tries to ruffle the doctor’s professionally placid demeanor. Clearly, Caplan has seen all these defense mechanisms in his long tenure, and he bats them all back like Rafael Nadal volleying tennis balls with a high school kid. The playwright of Boogieban, referred to as Dr. Donald Fidler in

the program, taught cultural and clinical psychiatry for many years at the University of North Carolina. And his expertise in the field of psychiatry shows, at times a bit too much, as his two characters vie for dominance in the confines of Caplan’s book-riddled office. At least, the office is supposed to be stuffed to the gills with various scholarly and other volumes. Unfortunately, director Sean Derry, doubling as set designer, has not found a way to capture that aspect of Caplan’s environment. The shelves on two walls of the small space display a rather artful scattering of only a few books. This look seems more appropriate to an

progresses and we learn more about Caplan’s life — his shocking experience in the Vietnam War as well as his own son’s death in battle — the juxtaposition of these soldiers from different generations adds psychic heft to the proceedings. It all comes to a devastating head when Caplan intentionally triggers a ﬂashback in his patient, and Jason relives every moment of the tragic, life-changing event in Afghanistan that has tormented him ever since. Lighting designer Marcus Dana and sound designer Brian Kenneth Armour combine forces to make this segment of the play land with enormous power,

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Architectural Digest photo spread than the book-hoarding, military man-cave where an ofﬁcer might be hiding his own problems in the camouﬂage of other people’s case histories. While Derry’s scenic design may slightly miss the mark, his management of these performances is right on target. Indeed, as the play

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when we learn what Jason did during a fierce firefight. But most of the credit goes to the actors, Travis Teffner as Wynsky and David Peacock as Caplan. They exhibit a bracing focus on what their characters do and not how they feel. Or, in the words of the acting coach Mark Westbrook, they decline the temptation

to “disappear up their own emotional sphincters.” As a result, the sometimes desultory conversation early on pays huge dividends when the real shit hits the fan. In particular, Teffner shows the youthful, brazen confidence of a man who is trying to fit himself with a mask of artificial assurance. Peacock matches that by showing him how an older man, quite accustomed to the wearing of masks, can manipulate his own surroundings. Up to a point. As is often said about warfare, it’s months of boredom punctuated by moments of terror. Those are the moments that can distort the lives of those who serve, in ways that the rest of us can only imagine. And that is where this play reaches us, at its most visceral level. At the end, playwright Fidler crafts a lovely denouement expressing the eternal bond of all soldiers: I’m there for you, you’re there for me. Even now, when our Commander in Chief is a person who has said his efforts to avoid acquiring STDs was his “personal Vietnam,” this is meaningful.

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MOVIES STEVEN’S CREED Hometown director Steven Caple Jr. on taking the Rocky reins By Sam Allard THE ONE FILM THAT Clevelanders should take special interest in during Thanksgiving weekend is Creed II, the sequel to 2015’s Creed, which starred Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Creed, the son of Carl Weathers’ Apollo Creed from the original Rocky films. It opens in wide release on Wednesday. It’s directed by Cleveland native Steven Caple Jr., who exploded on to the scene with his Sundance hit The Land in 2016. He now takes the Rocky franchise reins from his close friend Ryan Coogler, who most recently directed Black Panther. Coogler recommended Caple for the film when his schedule wouldn’t allow him to direct the sequel himself. Creed II draws its visual inspiration from a number of Caple’s idols (Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan), and from the first Rocky film itself, Caple’s favorite, which was much more concerned with characters than it was with boxing. The fights in Creed II are well choreographed and often brutal, and Rocky fans will savor a flagship desert training sequence, but Caple told Scene that his primary artistic aim was building dimensional characters. More than any Rocky film to date, Creed II explores the lives of the opponents, in this case Viktor Drago (Florian

Munteanu) and his father, Rocky IV’s Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren). The script was conceived in broad strokes by Stallone, but was filled in by Caple and the actors themselves. Caple described the set as a rich and collaborative space that was often challenging on a tight production schedule. “But that’s why we’re family,” Caple said. “If you’re not coming together through struggle, you’ll end up with something like that banner where the LeBron banner used to be.” (Our interview was held downtown, and Caple said the new Sherwin-Williams’ Guardians of Traffic collage looked “hokey.”) A proud Clevelander, Caple made a special 24-hour trip to promote the film last week, but he said that the city sometimes feels “like it’s still stuck in a cheap commercial from the ’90s. If you’re not willing to add spice to the mix, you’re going to fall even further behind.” Caple grew up on the west side — he graduated from John Marshall after a year at Max Hayes — and said he got some flack for his portrayal of Cleveland in The Land. “It was like, ‘That’s not how the West Side Market is supposed to look,’” he said. For that film, he had recent grads, friends and family members on set for

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the low-budget shoot. Creed II took Caple to Philly, L.A., New York and New Mexico. And he said the biggest challenge, in addition to the grueling schedule, was communicating his vision to the vast number of internal department heads, including the visual effects team. Caple said he’s uncertain what his next project might be. He said he’d be content to work on a small ﬁlm if it meant he’d have artistic sovereignty.

And he’s hopeful a script he wrote for HBO about Emmett Till, which was ultimately dropped, may ﬁnd new life with Creed II’s success. When asked if he had any interest in the new Space Jam movie, which Ryan Coogler is producing, Caple said he was asked to direct, but declined. “I can’t just be the sequel guy!”

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SPOTLIGHT: RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET ERNIE PETTI, THE TECHNICAL supervisor on the latest Disney animated movie Ralph Breaks the Internet, has some deep ties to Northeast Ohio. He went to Saint Ignatius High School and attended John Carroll University, where he majored in physics. He initially started working in aerospace, but then got a gig at Disney nearly 20 years ago. He began on the software side of things but got more directly involved in the creative part when he began working on 2005’s Chicken Little. A tactic supervisor, Petti worked on 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph and then had an even bigger role on the sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, which is currently showing at area theaters.

“Right when they know roughly what the movie is about at the highest level, I’m in there to ﬁgure out what are the things we don’t know how to do yet or the things we haven’t done before,” he says one morning from the downtown Aloft. He recently came through town on a promotional tour to do interviews with media outlets and give a couple of presentations at area colleges. “The biggest thing with this one was scope and scale. We have over 150 environments. There’s the arcade and the internet, which is just humongous and has lots of websites. Each website has its own look and style. We have to create all of that.” The ﬁlm centers on the friendship between Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah

Silverman). They live inside their respective arcade games, but when they leave their homes to explore the internet, all hell breaks loose. “I like the route the film takes where you take two characters out of the arcade who are very comfortable in their life there and insert them into a whole new world,” says Petti when asked about the film’s storyline. “It’s about how they respond to that. [The film] can apply to friends and to parents and to kids. There’s a dynamic there that I think really resonates with a lot of people’s experiences.” Older viewers will understand how the web has nearly rendered arcade games obsolete. With its references to sites both real and imaginary, the movie appeals

equally to adults and kids. “That’s always our goal,” says Petti. “We want to make sure it’s appropriate for kids, but there’s plenty there for adults. There are layers of themes, but some of the deeper themes will really resonate with adults.” Petti says his ultimate goal was to make the movie “entertaining and enjoyable.” “I think there’s some good themes in there in relationship to friendship and growing up,” he says. “If people can make that their own, that’s great. But it’s primarily just supposed to be fun.” — Jeff Niesel

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GROWING PAINS Geraci’s new outpost in Pepper Pike struggles to get service on par with reliably great fare By Douglas Trattner

AFTER MORE THAN 60 YEARS OF doing business in University Heights, there’s not much left to learn with respect to serving guests. Since 1956, Frances and Michael Geraci and their heirs have been turning strangers into friends, friends into extended family, and family into one of the hardest working talent pools in Northeast Ohio. Unfortunately, that warm, wellhoned hospitality has yet to be unboxed at the iconic eatery’s new suburban location. Two recent meals, a lunch and a dinner, were marred by awkward, poorly timed pacing that managed to overshadow the reliably delicious Italian-American bounty. In the case of our lunch, the snags began immediately and persisted for nearly an hour and a half, at which point we were compelled to pack the remainder of our meals into to-go containers and hustle back to work. Arriving at midday on a Thursday, we were happy to see a lively packed house. What we did not enjoy was being tossed into the middle of a skirmish when the host attempted to seat us at a dirty table. We selfconsciously stood around while someone summoned somebody to do something. It’s a good thing I enjoyed my mate’s company, because we waited another 10 minutes for menus, 20 for water and 30 for his barrel-aged Manhattan ($14), which was odd considering that the bartender was

doing double duty as our server. I’m anything but ignorant of the situation at hand, which revealed a full dining room (including a few large parties) and, given the fact that the bartender picked up a table on the opposite side of the building, a short-handed staff. But it’s rarely the delays that miff us, it’s the neglect: those stressful chasms of time with no updates on when one’s meals might possibly materialize. If that lunch transpired at 33 rpms, a subsequent dinner played out at 78. At one point in time, our table strained beneath the weight of the soup, salad and bread course, an appetizer pizza,

for a table, lack of a bar, absence of outdoor seating and, until recently, a nettlesome cash-only policy. The second location, in the former home of XO Seafood in Pepper Pike, resolves all those issues and more. A spacious, brightened-up interior has more than enough seating in two dining rooms, a private meeting space, and a generously proportioned bar and reception area that easily accommodates carryout orders. Fans of Geraci’s, as a majority of east-side residents are, don’t need me to describe the nostalgic jubilance that comes from cracking open a cardboard

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and our two main courses, which were dropped by a food runner just moments after the pie. “Oh, that was fast,” our server uttered spontaneously upon seeing them. I have no doubt that owners Greg and Marti Spoth will right the ship. If anything, the snafus conﬁrm management’s conviction that there was pent-up demand for the product by longtime fans unwilling or unable to make the 20-minute drive west to the original. Of course, it’s not just the drive that deterred customers, it’s the parking, occasional waits

box concealing those heavenly pepperoni pizzas ($8.75, $15.50). Fragrant bowls of Italian wedding soup ($3.50, $5) are as soothing as the roaring ﬁre in the rear of the dining room. If you enjoy dipping crispy fried things into sauces, take your pick among the calamari ($11), breaded artichoke hearts ($9) or toasted meat or cheese ravioli ($7). Chef’s Salad lovers should consider upgrading to the abundant Geraci’s salad bowl ($11), a deep, wide well ﬁlled with bright greens, various meats and cheeses, olives and

pepperoncini, and a hard-cooked egg. Carb loaders can design their own pastas from a choice of noodles (spaghetti, angel hair, penne …), sauces (marinara, meat, alfredo …) and toppers (meatballs, clams, shrimp ... ), all of which are priced accordingly. Geraci’s linguini and clams ($17) is loaded with garlic, chopped clams and parsley. The pasta is al dente, the sauce bright and fruity from the olive oil. Other favorites include stuffed manicotti, baked lasagna and spicy shrimp linguine. Why decide when you can have it all? Hearty mains like eggplant Parmesan, chicken piccata and veal cutlets all come with a side of pasta and sauce. In the piccata ($19), tender scallops of white-meat chicken are lightly sauteed, paired with artichoke hearts and capers, and draped with a lemony white-wine sauce. The veal ($22) is simply prepared and presented: a large ﬂank breaded, fried and plated with a dish of warm meat sauce. While the two Geraci’s locations are vastly different in terms of setting, neighborhood and experience, they are united by food, history and a family that has been in the business of making people happy since the Eisenhower administration. You really can’t go wrong at either.

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FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, THE Indigo Girls have been examining differences. “What separates me from you?,” asks singer-guitarist Amy Ray in “Tried to Be True,” a track from the group’s 1989 self-titled major label debut. Along with bandmate Emily Saliers, the Indigo Girls have been longtime advocates, using their songwriting as a platform to explore a variety of topics, illuminate various perspectives and put forth important commentary. Holler, the recently released solo album from Ray, ﬁnds the veteran artist continuing to dissect the world around her. “Sure Feels Good Anyway,” which leads off the record, grapples with the divide that sometimes exists right outside the front door for Ray in her hometown of Dahlonega, Georgia. “I have a certain sympathy with the people who are good people, but they still have a Confederate ﬂag on their house. … My neighbors may have been racist and homophobic at one time, but I believe that people can change,” Ray says via phone. She performs at 8 p.m. on Tuesday at E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron. “I also appreciate the fact that when I’m stuck in my driveway and don’t have

enough horsepower to clear all the trees that have come down in an ice storm, those people come and help me.” She says one lesson she’s learned is that you truly can’t judge a book by its cover. “[I’ve learned to] not have everything based on politics and all of that,” she says. “Even though it’s hard not to personalize that, because when the battles become about things like whether you’re gay or not, or what your race is, or what your socioeconomic level is, you feel like you do personalize it, because they’re basing it on that. But those kind of family-value politics — that’s just this thing that we’re all fooled by it. I know that a lot of these people are good people, and I know that when it comes down to it, one on one, they may vote in ways that are against me, but they can’t be mean to me one on one. Like, when I’m playing a beneﬁt at their church for homeless people, they’re not going to be mean to me. [Laughs] And maybe one day, they’re going to even embrace it.” Ray continues to take advantage of her platform to hopefully do some good, recognizing the many challenges that still exist.

“It would be harder if I was Hispanic or black or even Asian; in my community, it would be a lot harder,” she says. “Racism is sort of the last thing to fall, so that’s the thing that I’m most dedicated to work on, really, is issues around race, because I feel like that’s the last thing standing that we’re going to have to [change]. I think we can get to a place with queer issues where we are in a more tolerant arena, and I think even with some feminist issues, but I think when it comes to race, that’s the hardest thing.” Though Ray addresses some serious topics in her new work, the album generally captures the joy that she experienced working on the songs with her band, with whom she toured for the past four years, following the 2014 release of Goodnight Tender, her solo album that found her dipping a toe into the waters of country and Americana. Holler continues that excursion, while also wrapping in some of her previous punk-ish solo roots. Ray and the members of her solo band spent 10 days tracking the material for the album in Asheville, North Carolina, playing live, straight to tape. The fact that the resulting album

sounds like a band playing at a gig, just running through the songs, is no accident. Ray and the band had the opportunity to road test a number of the songs in front of select audiences prior to recording them, which she says offered up valuable perspective. “It helps me tweak the song. I can tell if something doesn’t work. It’s not all just reaction; it’s just that there’s something about when you stand in front of people to play something, you hear it differently,” she explains. “There might be things that I thought might be not right, but it veriﬁes it to play it in front of people. So I can go back to the drawing board and be like, ‘This doesn’t work, or this chorus is too long, or the song’s too long, or I need to cut this, or the arrangement’s wrong, and we need to have the drums enter here instead of there.’ Things like that. There’s a lot of information just out of one time doing that that you can get. I mean, a lot. So for me, I always try to do something like that.” “Tonight, I’m Paying the Rent” documents the spirit of a working musician, just out playing that regular gig, with harmonies from the Wood Brothers adding to the loose, good-time feel. “They can | clevescene.com | November 21 - 27, 2018

make a party out of anything,” Ray laughs. Meanwhile, “Last Taxi Fare” has a gloriously old-school, late-night country vibe to it and came out of a real experience that Ray had in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. “I was at this bowling alley, and I was just over it, and everybody was drunk, and I was just having trouble with drinkers in my life generally. It’s kind of an Al-Anon song,” she chuckles. “I needed to leave, and I couldn’t ﬁnd a cab. I found one, and then the guy was like, ‘Can I go pick somebody else up?’ It literally was a drunk person to sit in the back seat with me for 20 minutes, and he tried to talk to me the whole time.” Ray points to the end of the song, which captures the message that she got from the experience. “It was just a vision of me, when I was sitting there — it was what I was I thinking about to get myself ... I was just like, ‘You know, this is meant to be and I’m supposed to learn something from this,” she says now. “What if this guy was the [driver’s] father or something? And he’s just helping him out. I tried to go through those scenarios. I ended up writing a

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everybody and everybody wanted to be there. You know, people were done with their gigs, but they didn’t want to go home. They just wanted to hear what was happening!” The Holler tour will ﬁnd Ray and her band playing the entire album through the course of the set. They’ll also play other material. Listening to the songs on the record, it’s not hard to hear that they’re easily road-ready. “This one we can do, which is good. I always like that when that happens. Sometimes, with Indigo Girls, I mean, we can play them all live, but if we record with a band on the record, we don’t feel as strong about doing it solo because it doesn’t work as well,” she says. “But I just have the band all of the time with me when I do solo stuff, so it works that way.” She wears a lot of hats with her solo touring and says that she wouldn’t have it any other way. “We tour in a van; we don’t have any crew; it’s just us. I’m sort of the tour manager, den mother person,” Ray laughs. “I drive a lot of the time, and they share the driving with me too. We’re just a tight operation. I book all of the hotels and do all of the advancing and then we go

song where that was the story because it helped me get over it and be a better human being that night and not be a jerk, basically. [Laughs] Because I felt like everything that happens, that kind of stuff, where you’re put in these compromising situations, you know that’s where you really learn your life skills and how to be a better person.” A variety of special guests lent their vocal talents to the album, including Vince Gill and Brandi Carlile, who helped Ray form a dream “vocal trio” for “Last Taxi Fare.” The songs on Holler were further elevated with some additional instrumentation. “We brought in a horn section and a string section from Asheville and had arrangements that were worked on by a couple of members of the band who did arrangements for the record. That was fun too, because we had the songs down, so we could just sit there and listen to what the horns and strings were playing,” she says. “It was a little treat, like, what are they going to do? How’s it going to sound and how’s it going to feel on the song? It was a good surprise for us to hear that kind of thing, because we haven’t worked with that before, so it made it fun for

and do it all and that’s just it. It’s easy. Everybody else is playing in different bands and has other jobs, so we just ﬁgure out a time when we can all go, and we do it.” Ray terms the whole experience as “so much fun,” even though carrying a full band with her makes the dates not “economically viable.” But she also sees a positive evolution happening with the commitment that she’s made. “I sort of decided that was less important to me, obviously, than just going out and representing the record the way I want to represent it. I don’t want to go out and play a bunch of stuff solo by myself, just so I don’t lose money or something,” she says. “I don’t want to do that. I made a conscious choice, to have this be my labor of love. If it one day gets to a place, which it almost is at, where I can break even on tours, I’ll be really happy and everybody will be well-paid and I’ll be able to feel like I can get to the next level then, which is to actually pay some bills from touring, but it’s the least important part of it to me.”

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MUSIC AN INSPIRATION Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale talks about touring with In This Moment and New Years Day By Jeff Niesel Photo by Jimmy Fontaine

HALESTORM’S LZZY HALE SAYS she and her current tour mates, the bands In This Moment and New Years Day, have talked about touring together for years. But the three hard rock acts, each of which features a woman as the front person, finally got their schedules synced earlier this year to hit the road together. They bring their tour to the Masonic Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. “We’ve known each other for years, and it was always something we talked about. We were always like, ‘What about next year?’ Finally, we did it kind of selfishly. I’ve never been surrounded by more estrogen on a tour. I can easily borrow eyeliner, and it’s been great. I don’t have to ask the one guy in the other band that wears makeup. I don’t think we realized how important it has been until we got out there and did it. We watch the audience and see these girls just owning their moments. It’s their show.” Hale admits she initially took inspiration from “dude singers” such as David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio and Alice Cooper. But shortly after she started the band, her mother suggested she give female rock singers a chance too. “When I was 15 or so, my mother told me, ‘You need to hear Janis Joplin and a live record from Heart and this Pat Benatar compilation I have,’” she says. “I could connect the dots from there. All those elements go into who I am now.” Hale and her brother Arejay began jamming together when they were kids. They formed the band when they were still teenagers. “Arejay has always been a prodigy of sorts,” says Hale. “He’s always been able to do that on the drums. All I had to do was write these stupid little songs. He could put a beat behind them, and he made me look really good. We’ve been doing it ever since. It’s always been the two of us. In the early days, when we were trying to find band members, we’d have these 15-year-old guitar players, and their parents would pull them out of the band because of

school or whatever. I asked [Arejay] if he thought we were crazy for wanting to do this. He said, ‘What else are we going to do?’ He’s followed me down every rabbit hole I’ve gone down. He’s always there.” After a few lineup changes, Halestorm signed with a major label

“In the beginning, right before the start date in the studio, I was trying to write the next record,” she explains. “I wrote a bunch of songs and got together with a bunch of people and wrote songs with them. Every song felt like it was an out of body experience with a few

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in 2005 and began a regular cycle of touring and recording. With the band’s latest effort, Vicious, the group ditched the songs it had written prior to entering the studio in an effort to come up with material that Hale says had more “truth” to it.

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shreds of truth. One song was for the label, and one was for fans. We tossed all of those songs and went into preproduction with practically nothing.” Every day, they’d see which band member had brought a new riff to the table; they’d work collectively to

turn it into a song. “We were recording as we were writing,” says Hale. “It was like a light switch went on. I realized I should chase after what got me excited in the ﬁrst place, and that’s why I was here. It was really freeing. It was great to write that way and to have a producer who was seriously just your cheerleader. He was a fan of Halestorm. He knew I could sing higher, and my brother could get crazier. He kept us on our toes, and it was fantastic, and we came out the other side swinging. We had renewed respect for each other.” While the album begins with “Black Vultures,” a by-the-numbers hard rock anthem complete with a wailing mid-song guitar solo, it also embraces more acoustic instrumentation than past albums have. “Conﬂicted” features acoustic guitars but doesn’t lose its heaviness as Hale lets loose some Robert Plantinspired “oohs.” “I love the acoustic parts of the songs,” says Hale. “It’s something we shied away from on previous records. When I was coming up on the scene in Pennsylvania, there were the two types of girls. There were the girls who wanted to be [Disturbed’s] David Draiman, and there were the girls who wanted to be Jewel. I was smack dab in between that and stayed away from the acoustic guitar out of spite. It’s been slowly entering into our music, and I just love the acoustic guitar.” She says that all three bands on the current tour inhabit “different corners of genres.” “We just do our own thing, which is awesome,” she says. “It’s really inspiring. All three of us encourage each other and we all watch each other’s shows. It’s really fun. We’ve done it a couple of times. Each time, it gets a little more intense because we’ve gotten used to each other. It’s nice to be on the stage and look at these teenage girls and tell them there is a path. It’s neat to be in that position now.”

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FreeByrds Musician’s Night: 10 p.m., free. Smedley’s. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Lil Chevy/ELO/DHO /Megadon216/ Jey Grant: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop.

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Bohemian Rhapsody: Celebrating the Music of Queen with Uptight Sugar/Tim Moon: 7:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of Blues. Derek Deprator/Meg & The Magnetosphere/The Lab Techs: 8 p.m., $5. CODA. Ekoostik Hookah: The grandfathers of Ohio’s expansive jam-band scene — culturally and musically — have always maintained close ties to the Cleveland area. From 1991’s Under Full Sail to 2013’s sweetly groovin’ Brij, Ekoostik Hookah have kept their ﬁre burning across

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time. Check out “Whiskey Woman” for a ﬁne example of the hookahladen chops still hooked around each of the band’s compositional outings. Given the band’s personal history, rife with small shows and Hookahville festivals alike, every chance to be a part of the fun is a necessary diversion from life out there. (Eric Sandy) 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Odeon. Forecast: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Gay New Wave Night with DJ Guilala: 9 p.m., free. Now That’s Class. Journey Tribute by E5C4P3: 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club. The Kinks Tribute by Cats on Holiday (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Odonis Odonis: 8:30 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Pajama Jam at the Grog Shop & B Side Featuring After Funk/ Muzzy Bearr/The Cat’s Meow Family Funk Band: 9 p.m., $20

ADV, $25 DOS. Grog Shop. Real Friends/Boston Manor/Gray Scale/Eat Your Heart Out: 7 p.m., $22 ADV, $26 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.

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The Allman Brothers Tribute by Revival: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Dust and Debris EP Release/ Daniel Rylander, Sarah Arafat & Johnny La Rock: 8 p.m., $5. CODA. Forecast: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown. The Garden/Le1f/Machine Girl: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Keith Harkin: 9 p.m., $35-$75. Musica. Holiday Stomp with the Walking Clampetts/The Twist-Offs: 8 p.m., $20-$35. The Tangier.

Make Black Friday Red Again with Basement: 8 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class. Pollen Eyes/Fuzz Aldrin/Tunnel Songs/Blue Radio (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Punch Drunk Tagalongs/ Deadbeat Beat/Sweepyheads/The Dreemers: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. Rumpke Mountain Boys/JP & the Chatfield Boys: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Dave Smeltz Project/Steel Yard Soundsystem: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Swervo Tour Featuring G Herbo/ Southside/Queen Key: 6 p.m., $40. Odeon. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Welshly Arms/The Whiskey Hollow/The Blue Stones: This year, local rockers Welshly Arms have been plenty busy. They toured with Thirty Seconds to Mars and represented Cleveland at Lollapalooza, where the band’s rousing performance was one of many highlights at the festival that featured close to 200 bands. At Lolla, the band really benefited from having locals Bri Bryant and Jon Bryant on backing vocals. The husband and wife duo not only provided some great vocal harmonies, but they also danced in unison and provided a dynamic visual element as they smiled and laughed throughout the performance. Expect the group to be in fine form for this homecoming gig. (Jeff Niesel), 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.

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Mark Rose Celebrating 15 Years of Spitafield’s ‘Remember Right Now’/Joe Joyce Band/Lucas Carpenter/Jonathan Rogers (in the Locker Room): 7:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Tech N9ne/Futuristic/Dizzy Wright/Krizz Kaliko: Tech N9ne (Aaron Yates), who began his career as a break-dancer, started rapping at an early age. He wrote his first rhyme in seventh grade, and even his teachers noticed his commitment to the art. Influenced by rapper Slick Rick and a few other old-school acts, Yates developed his unique rapid-fire | clevescene.com | November 21 - 27, 2018

LIVEWIRE delivery. He’s steadily recorded and toured ever since dropping his debut, The Calm Before the Storm, in 1999. Tonight’s show supports his 20th studio album, Planet. The rapper puts his microphone skills on display right from the start, delivering the tongue-twisting lyrics of album opener “Habanero” with ease. (Niesel) 6 p.m., $30. Agora Theatre.

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DAVID SMELTZ PROJECT By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: David Smeltz (vocals, guitar), Eva Dilcue (vocals), Chopper (guitar), Russ Richards (keyboards), Chris Desantis (percussion), Chris Dunmore (drums), Adam Rich (bass) THE GODFATHER OF CLEVELAND REGGAE: Smeltz started performing in 1978 when he co-founded I-Tal, the first American reggae rock band in the area. He had played in small bands prior to that but had an epiphany when he heard reggae for the first time. “I initially heard ska stuff like ‘My Boy Lollipop’ and ‘Israelites’ by Desmond Dekker,” he says. “I had gone up to Boston when I was in high school. At the midnight movies, they showed The Harder They Come. That inspired me. It wasn’t so much [Bob] Marley at first. It was Jimmy Cliff and Toots and the Maytals.” Smeltz subsequently taught himself some chords, specifically G, C and D, which are used in lots of reggae songs. “Later, I started seeing the spiritual aspect to reggae,” he says. “I got into that with the dreadlocks and the herb.” The band splintered in the early ’80s when some members formed First Light. I-Tal continued to play until the late 1980s and then in different formations until 1995. THE ROAD TO RECOVERED : Smeltz, who now runs the nonprofit Clean House Inc., went into recovery for addiction issues in 2001. “I wanted to stay sober and

stay clean, and I didn’t think I would play anytime soon,” he says. “I didn’t start playing solo stuff until just recently.” A year ago, he started writing songs that would make up his new album, Recovered. “They’re all sober songs, which is a surprise,” he says. “They’re all originals except there’s one song that is basically a biblical verse that I put music to, and there’s a cover of an old Fleetwood Mac song.” WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: A confessional song such as “My Life” has a Sublime-like feel to it as Smeltz sings “that’s not the way I live my life today” over an undulating acoustic guitar riff. “Everyone is excited about playing in the David Smeltz Project,” says Smeltz, who also fronts a threepiece band he calls the Smeltztones. “We won’t play out every night of the week like [local singersongwriter] Carlos Jones does, but we still plan to play regularly.” Smeltz says he’s written other songs he’ll record over the winter; he hopes to have another new disc out next year. WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: cleanhouseinc.org. WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: David Smeltz Project performs with Steel Yard Sound System at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Beachland Tavern.

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