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UPFRONT DUMB AS ROCKS: Q RENOVATION WILL DO PRECISELY WHAT LEADERS FEARED Photo courtesy Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse

GIVEN THE CALAMITOUS, JAWdropping stories exploding daily from both the administrations of Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson — to whom one longtime political observer recently referred as “Tweedledee and Tweedledum” — it might be tempting to look upon the upcoming completion of the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse as good news.

The temple formerly known as Quicken Loans Arena will officially reopen on Sept. 30 for a concert by the Black Keys. And two days earlier, it’ll host an open house for the public.

This should not be celebrated. It should be mourned as the murder of democracy it will always represent.

A story earlier this month in Crain’s demonstrated once again just how thoroughly the Cavs deceived the public as they swindled them for something like $160 million, after interest. Comments from Cavs leadership articulated — quite without remorse — that one of the arena’s big goals is to compete with marquee local event spaces, including the Huntington Convention Center, and with nearby bars and restaurants.

These were fears that county council members explicitly fretted over before they greenlit legislation to fund the massive expansion anyway.

Councilman Jack Schron, for example, one of the few elected officials who subjected the Cavs presenters to anything resembling legitimate questioning in 2017, noted with some alarm that among the Q’s significant upgrades was an increase in floor space, from about 90,000 square feet to more than 150,000.

This would make the Q a much more attractive venue for private events, Schron understood.

Cavs CEO Len Komoroski confirmed at the time that the Q would be seeking and hosting many events in the space, both public and private. Schron, then, asked why it made sense for the county to contribute $16 million to fund a competitor that would directly undercut the business of the Convention Center and the Global Center, also funded by taxpayers and already struggling. Komoroski said the Q would be aiming for different, unique events.

But the Crain’s piece now reports the opposite. The Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse will have 22 “meeting, banquet, hospitality and event spaces” that will be used to try to increase the 1,400 private events that the arena already annually hosts.

“I think people think of convention centers and hotel ballrooms for more corporate-style meetings,” said Brooke Bockelman,

the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse’s VP of booking and events. “But this gives us the opportunity to put our name in the ring.”

In other words, they are doing precisely what they said they wouldn’t, competing for the same sorts of events that the Huntington Convention Center and Global Center for Health Innovation would hope to attract. Money in hand, there is now no need to disguise their true intentions, evidently. The Cavs told Crain’s that they have been working with Destination Cleveland to attract these events and had even brought in a sales staffer specifically focused on convention and banquet business.

One of the other fears expressed by county council was that the Q would “cannibalize” local small businesses. Councilwoman Sunny Simon worried that new dining options and larger social areas inside the arena would impinge on business at nearby bars and restaurants before and after games.

Those concerns, too, were waved away. In some cases they were flatly denied. When Scene examined preliminary budget numbers in May 2017, we sought to address Simon’s concern. The Cavs told us in no uncertain terms that there would be no new restaurants in the new square footage.

“There are no new restaurants

planned in the new square footage,” communications director Tad Carper wrote in an email. “Might add a new coffee area, but that is still yet to be determined.”

Whether this was a semantic dodge — the restaurants may not have been planned yet, or may not have been planned for the atrium’s square footage — or a straight-up lie is irrelevant. Everyone knew there would be new restaurants.

And voilà! The Crain’s piece explains in further detail: The arena will have what the Cavs call eight “destination hospitality areas” — from newly created neighborhoods to expanded atrium areas and the new-and-improved Loudville — that feature 16 spots where fans can order food and beverages or just hang out. There will also be six higher-end club and membership spaces, and all 62 of the FieldHouse’s suites will have been redesigned.

What an absolute travesty that money which might have been spent improving the conditions of Cleveland’s roads or paying for the increased compensation of corrections officers at the county jail has instead been deployed to redesign all 62 of the FieldHouse’s suites. Cleveland’s Living Room indeed!

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at the arena, cemented the lie in a press release on the subject.

“We’ve built brand new spaces or rebuilt existing spaces with all these new concepts and partner brands, with the goal in mind of making them as genuine as the partner themselves,” he wrote. “We can’t wait to welcome fans to the newly renovated FieldHouse, to enjoy some delicious food experiences and dishes only available inside the arena.”

These brand new spaces, which include dining options from some of Cleveland’s hottest restaurateurs, will be ideal for customizable “mix and mingle” events, Bockelman told Crain’s, events that local bars and restaurants would surely have hoped to attract: “The Overlook Bar provides elevated views of the glass curtain that envelops the arena, plus cool shots of downtown. Such spots can be ideal for people who are looking for that wow factor,” Bockelman said.

The biggest wow factor throughout this entire debacle is that anyone believed these inveterate liars for one second. The Cavs said what they had to say to squeeze as much money as possible from this impoverished region, and then they proceeded with what they intended to do all along. —Sam Allard

Cleveland.com Editor Joins Mayor Frank Jackson in Insulting Local Reporters

short of propaganda. An interview, one of a softball variety unbefitting the serious allegations at hand, that the city hall beat writer did not turn into an article, despite its exclusive nature. An interview that Cleveland. com reported on based solely on the edited answers by Jackson that they could not compare to the original conversation because the city hall beat reporter did not record the interview himself.

Judging the video released by the city to be exactly what it was — a canned and edited platform in which Jackson faced nary a hard question and was afforded free rein to deny any impropriety in his grandson’s criminal issues and carte blanche to defend a system of processes that had clearly broken down (in which Jackson nevertheless came off tonedeaf and defensive) — local media treated it as such. It was news, sure, but it was news that might as well been produced not by an interview with a city hall beat reporter but with someone from the city’s communications department.

In a pre-recorded introduction that led the video, Jackson said, “You can choose to believe the media, or you can believe me.”

Cleveland.com did not look great. Its city hall reporter had been roped into its production and dissemination. An explanation of how that came to be, and perhaps an apology noting the misstep amidst

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The Plain Dealer last week published a piece of media criticism, which in and of itself is a rarity, but which was made even more rare because the target was Cleveland. com, its sister but separate organization.

The piece, written by TV critic Mark Dawidziak, was greenlit only after PD editor George Rodrigue sought approval from Advance higher-ups in New Jersey to cover the reporting, and resulting aftermath of said reporting, by the digital side.

The subject was the interview conducted by Cleveland.com city hall beat reporter Bob Higgs with Mayor Frank Jackson. An interview on the multiple investigations of the mayor’s grandson that was video recorded by the city and released in an edited version the morning after, without the name or voice of the reporter included, that was nothing

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The Plain Dealer, like others in the local media sphere, had concerns and questions, not least because of

Quinn’s well-known relationship with the mayor. Those questions weren’t answered in direct communication between the two sides, but rather ignored, or never discussed privately at all. They then had to be run up the Advance chain of command.

That progression, and the bitter impasse that proceeded it, was the inevitable and predictable result of Advance’s decision to cleave the operation in two to bust the PD union. This is what they signed up for. This sad state of affairs was their own doing. They might not be happy to have the constant bickering and territorial battles fought behind the

scenes leak into public view in the pages of both Cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer, but they have no one to blame but themselves.

From the start, the relationship was strained, and it has only gotten worse. Not among the rank and file, who by and large are simply trying to do their jobs, but at the top levels, where pervasive disdain and distrust rule in tensions major and minor and barbs are lobbed from the high perch of 1801 Superior Ave. onto unsuspecting reporters below.

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running on its own pages in print and did the unthinkable — they decided to ask questions and report the story out. (And, one could argue, find a public outlet for six years of simmering frustrations over split newsrooms.)

Having bypassed every opportunity to set the story straight publicly or privately so far, Cleveland. com editor Chris Quinn was afforded another chance.

But in response to the PD’s questions, Quinn, who has railed against politicians for lack of transparency, refused to explain what happened while chastising anyone who was concerned because they still don’t know what happened, all in a venue where he could have explained what happened. How stunning and insulting for someone to ask questions!

And, once again, instead of putting down his leg to stop pissing in a corner to claim it for his precious fiefdom, he pivoted and merely reaimed his stream at the PD, and every other outlet in town for good measure.

“I’m stunned that the people you talked with could make such insulting statements without having the facts. And I’m surprised an institution like The Plain Dealer would repeat them, also without knowing the facts. The questionable journalism here seems to me to be the piece upon which you are working, because your premise appears to be a false one,” Quinn said.

“The simple story here is that the team at cleveland.com has for three weeks aggressively and responsibly broken all of the ground on what is going on at Mayor Frank Jackson’s house and with the investigations involving his grandson,” Quinn said.

“What people in this town know of this continuing story, they know because we unearthed it. Unlike with some other news outlets in this town that have been following in our footsteps, we have reported it with 100 percent accuracy. With every story we have produced, with every interview we have conducted, we have done so with the highest ethical standards in keeping with our wellknown reputation for integrity.”

Those sentiments serve no purpose other than to further escalate a battle only one man is fighting to demonize local media and set himself beyond inspection or question.

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FEATURE SCOOT SCOOT RIOT! Early feedback on Cleveland’s new micro-mobility rides

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WE’RE ROUGHLY ONE MONTH into a six-month trial period during which e-mobility startups are incrementally adding electric scooters to city streets.

Four vendors have been permitted to operate during this pilot phase under strict legislative guidelines from the city designed with safety at top of mind. Among them is a requirement that all devices be de-activated from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Cleveland city councilman Kerry McCormack, who spoke to Scene about the scooters last week, admitted that he thought the cutoff times were too restrictive.

“That complaint is legit,” McCormack said. “I think it should definitely be later — maybe 9 or 10 o’clock. That’s a piece [of the legislation] that will definitely change.”

McCormack said the current sixmonth pilot, while not his idea, turns out to have been a prudent legislative move. It will allow him and his council colleagues to amend the legislation based on rider feedback, which the city is actively soliciting.

Bird is the company that ignited the local scooter debate when it unloaded a fleet without warning last summer before the city booted them. It was also the first to deploy scooters in late August, this time with Cleveland’s blessing. The companies Lime and Spin were soon to follow suit. The fourth permitted vendor, Veoride, has not yet secured a location for a local warehouse, according to its regional director.

(The city’s permit is contingent on a physical presence.) But Veoride is “finalizing operations” and intends to have scooters on streets in “a week or two.”

The trial period will conclude at the end of February 2020, and during the current stretch, in addition to the nighttime riding ban, the max speed for all devices is 12 mph. Riders are technically only supposed to scoot on the street — not the sidewalk — and to do so while wearing a helmet. Per the legislation, vendors are required to provide helmets free of charge to those who ask. (Helmets have been available at local events promoting riders’ safety,

and vendors will mail you a helmet if you pay shipping costs.)

“The goal of legislation regulating this new industry is to ensure that there are rules and a process for shared mobility devices operating in the City of Cleveland,” said Mayor Frank Jackson in a press release announcing the vendors in late August. “Sensible regulation aims to make this mode of transportation safer and more efficient for all sharing the road.”

After the first few weeks, the comments that McCormack has received from constituents have been largely positive.

“It’s been going really well, as a general theme,” he said. “People like them a lot, and it’s not just joy riding. People are using them for both leisure and day-to-day use.”

The evening cutoff time has been by far the most common complaint, he said, but he has also heard comments about the speed limit. In other cities, the maximum speed is 15 mph, not 12. (In Washington, D.C., the speed limit is 10 mph.)

“It’s interesting,” McCormack said. “The intent of the lower speed limit was obviously safety purposes.

But some people are saying that they

aren’t able to slow down in traffic as well, so we’ll have to take a look at that.”

McCormack said that his own riding experiences have been positive too — except for a lack of available devices after the airshow on Labor Day — but he said the most important thing the trial period has demonstrated is how urgently Cleveland needs a “complete streets” overhaul. This was a reference to a planning framework in which streets are designed for all users: pedestrians, cyclists, scooters, motorists, etc.

“This is obviously not something new to cyclists, but we just need better multi-modal infrastructure,” McCormack said. “Cleveland has fallen way short, and it’s time we move into the 21st century when it comes to shared mobility.”

He said that alongside councilman Matt Zone, and with input from Bike Cleveland and Clevelanders for Public Transit, he plans to introduce amendments to the city’s Complete and Green Streets ordinance.

“I have lost all faith that drivers are going to improve their behavior,” he said, noting that despite one of

the main scooter restrictions — that they be operated in the street — people overwhelmingly still ride on the sidewalk. (This is certainly true downtown, where the bulk of the devices are concentrated.)

McCormack’s assumption is that people simply don’t feel safe riding in the street.

“Cars are getting bigger and faster, with more and more distractions. And so we need to invest in infrastructure that protects multimodal users. Paint doesn’t work. Try riding down Detroit when a car flies by you. It’s scary … .

Scooters are important because as our streets are opening up to a wider array of users, we’re seeing that we need to fix them.”

Despite these observations, the scooter rollout has transpired largely without incident. That is to say, Cleveland has managed to avoid disasters in two of the major areas that tend to produce headlines in other cities with expanding mobility options.

One has to do with the sheer size of scooter fleets and the careless way devices are often parked, resulting in sidewalk obstacles that wreak special havoc on people with disabilities. The other has to do with injuries.

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FEATURE On both of those fronts, the experience in Cleveland has been a far cry from the most apocalyptic accounts in the press and on social media. The city has specifically encouraged riders to park scooters in designated striped zones, for one.

And to conclude a ride in both the Bird and Lime mobile applications, riders must take a photo of their scooter to prove that it’s parked responsibly (parallel to existing bike racks, for example).

Each of the four vendors has been permitted to maintain up to 400 devices, and the three companies currently operating have been building steadily toward that number. Spokespeople told Scene that they plan to adjust their fleet sizes based on demand.

In terms of injuries, Consumer Reports found earlier this year that roughly 1,500 people had been injured in scooter-related crashes since 2017. Doctors told them that emergency rooms were experiencing an uptick in concussions, nasal fractures and forearm fractures, alongside other reported injuries.

Multiple experts expressed concern about the availability of helmets, “especially when considering the nature of the ride-share business model, which allows anyone with a smartphone to rent a scooter from wherever the last rider leaves it.”

While Cleveland has encouraged riders to wear helmets and asked vendors to provide them, Scene has personally seen only two riders wearing helmets while on scooters.

But for whatever reason, there doesn’t appear to have been any serious injuries as yet. All three major local hospitals told Scene that they’re not seeing patients with scooter-related wounds. Spokespeople from both the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, having consulted their emergency rooms, reported a total of zero incidents. A MetroHealth spokeswoman said that there “hasn’t been an influx.” When asked if she could provide a specific number of incidents, and the severity of them, she said that if there were any, they haven’t been serious enough to begin tracking.

*** When Veoride launches, there will be four companies competing for your precious scooter dollars.

The natural question for the scooter enthusiast becomes: Which one should I ride? (And does it matter?)

The functionality of all four scooter brands is more or less identical. They are all “unlocked” for $1 via smartphone app and are all designed with an accelerator wheel on the right side of the handlebar and a standard brake lever on the left. The apps themselves are very similar as well, complete with maps to identify the nearest devices and intuitive initial sign-up processes that require a credit card. The companies’ business models are pretty much indistinguishable too.

All of them told Scene that they’ll have a local manager and “operations staff” in Cleveland.

If you want or need to scoot — especially if you’re leisure-riding as a novelty — you’ll no doubt just hop on the nearest device. But if you’re downtown, where the scooters are plentiful, and you’ve got options, there are a few differences worth considering.

BIRD Bird is Cleveland’s O.G. scooter company and is notable, at least right now, for its high cost. At 31 cents per minute after the $1 unlock fee, Bird is the most expensive local option.

A 1.2-mile, 9-minute ride costs more than $4 after taxes. Bird asks riders to pre-load credits on a paid account before they ride and does offer discounts that increase with the size of the upfront payment. (Buying $20 worth of credits gets you $2 off.

Buying $50 gets you $6.)

Bird has perhaps the sleekest machine, with a minimalist blackand-white design and a battery artfully integrated into the handlebar. The deck is slenderest among the three current vendors, so wide-soled riders take note.

Having been the earliest out of the gate, Bird might have the benefit of familiarity for those who don’t wish to set up multiple accounts. After its first two weeks of operation, Bird told Scene that its most popular dropoff points were all on West 25th Street — Soho Chicken & Whiskey, Phnom Penh Restaurant and Mitchell’s Ice Cream — with Euclid Avenue at East Fourth Street and Lakeside Avenue at East Ninth rounding out the top five.

Bird’s senior manager of government partnerships, Sam Cooper, wrote in an email that Bird is also committed to transit equity. It offers a program called “Bird Access” which allows those enrolled in state or federal assistance programs to take unlimited trips of 30 minutes or less for only $5 per month. The availability of devices between East 30th and University Circle, however, is for now extremely limited.

LIME On the other end of the cost spectrum is Lime. Its 15 cents per minute is roughly half the cost of Bird (at 31 cents per minute) and Spin (at 29 cents per minute) and early reports from riders indicate that affordability is a major factor for them. (Veoride claims, for the record, that it’ll offer rates in the ballpark of 15 cents per minute as well, at least at the outset.)

Based on cost alone, Lime is by far the best option in town for recurring riders. On Bird or Spin, it’d be difficult to justify the higher cost for rides longer than a mile.

It’d begin to approach the territory of an Uber or Lyft, for comparison.

And, when paired with a public transit commute — scooters are often publicized as a “first mile, last mile” option — they significantly elevate the total cost of an otherwise affordable trip.

Lime appears to be unique among local vendors in that it doesn’t charge riders up front. You pay as you go. Additionally, when you complete your ride, the Lime app asks if you’d like to “pause” or “end” your ride, so that you can, in theory, hop off for a cup of coffee, and then hop back on the same device.

Aesthetically, Lime isn’t the sharpest on the street. A green console on the black vertical bar is a little clunky, and the wheels appear slightly smaller than the competition. Its overall effect is not of a singular machine but of an assemblage of parts. Its speedometer, however, does include a decimal point, which means that if you’re really booking it, you can glimpse yourself getting up to max of 12.1 mph.

Ben LaRocco, Lime’s Ohio manager, told Scene that it, too, was committed to transit equity.

In addition to being the lowest-cost option, Lime offers what it calls the “Lime Access” program — sound familiar? — where anyone who qualifies for city, state or federal assistance can receive half off the cost of scooter rides. (For lowincome riders who intend to use the devices regularly, Bird’s “access” program would be a significantly better value.)

SPIN Spin is the Nissan Xterra of the local scooter armada. That is to say, it feels like the largest and sportiest ride. The foot deck is ever-soslightly wider than its competitors and the tires feel ever-so-slightly more substantial. This means that you’ll have the most confidence

scooting over Cleveland’s potholes and irregular construction zones in a bright orange Spin. Perhaps it was psychological (or a byproduct of fresh batteries), but the motor felt stronger too. That’s consistent with our informal polling, in which riders told us that they liked Spin best for its powerful acceleration.

For those who care, Spin is the only company among the Cleveland quartet that is not backed with venture capital. It was acquired by the Ford Motor Company last year.

Will Burns, Spin’s director of government partnerships, told Scene that Clevelanders should choose Spin, in part, because of the company’s commitment to creating safer streets for riders through its “Safe, Liveable & Just Streets Program.” Burns said that Spin was the first scooter company to devote resources toward the physical buildout of safer streets.

Spin is right now charging 29 cents per minute, up near Bird’s rate, and Burns said the cost might change based on market demands.

Riders should note that Spin scooters have discount codes and an automatic $1 rebate for inaugural rides, but you’ll be asked to pre-load $10 onto your Spin account.

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VEORIDE Veoride, when it arrives, will be unique in one key respect.

Unlike its three competitors, Veoride scooters feature “swappable batteries,” which Midwest regional manager Ben Thomas told Scene made the fleet’s upkeep “greener and more efficient.” Maintenance staff can charge batteries at the local warehouse without having to lug the scooters themselves back and forth, further reducing emissions.

Veoride was started by two Purdue University grads and has a thriving business at a number of college campuses, including Kent State. Thomas told Scene that while they enjoy campus settings, where they are generally the exclusive vendor, being in Cleveland with three other e-mobility startups is energizing.

“All these companies that are in Cleveland enjoy the competition,” he said. “They don’t shy away from it and we don’t shy away from it either.

We all want to be able to prove that our product is the best, that we can provide a reliable and affordable way to help fill in those transportation gaps in the community.”

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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix fixe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Tonight, Buffalo News reporter Mark Sommer reads from his book Rocky Colavito: Cleveland’s Iconic Slugger. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. (Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

THEATER

Into the Breeches!

Set in 1942, Into the Breeches! centers on a group of passionate

yet inexperienced performers who rally together to produce an allfemale version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V. The press release for the Cleveland Playhouse performance proclaims that it’s “a hilarious and moving story about what happens when we’re all in it together.” Tonight’s show takes place at 7:30 at the Allen Theatre, where performances continue through Oct. 6. Tickets start at $20.

(Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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GlamGore Monthly Drag Show Each month, GlamGore, a drag show at the Grog Shop, features a variety of performance artists under one roof. The shows include everyone from “beauty queens” to “drag monsters.” Tonight’s show theme is Hotties of Horror with performers Anhedonia Delight, Poppy Poison, Indy Jailer, Riley Poppyseed and Jackie Mae Massacre. Tickets cost $10, or $12 for VIP tickets that give you early bird access to the Grog starting at 8 p.m. and a special photo

opportunity/meet-and-greet with the cast. For general admission ticket holders, the doors open at 8:30 p.m.

DJ Zoë will attend to the turntables.

(Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs.

COMEDY

Luenell Fearless when it comes to making jokes and making the audience erupt in laughter, Luenell, a comedian who left a lasting impression as the “hooker with the heart of gold” in Borat, regularly jokes about being a full-figured woman and getting married later in life. She can find humor in any topic or situation. She performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv Comedy Club and Restaurant, where she has shows scheduled through Saturday.

Tickets cost $22. (Hannah Borison) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

MUSIC

Mahler’s Fifth Gustav Mahler called his Fifth Symphony a “foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound,” and the piece serves as a love letter to the composer’s wife that he wrote in their first year of marriage.

Tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra plays it along with Neuwirth’s Masaot/ Clocks Without Hands. Guest speaker Michael Strasser, professor of musicology at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, speaks about the piece in a preconcert talk that takes place an hour before the performance begins.

It’s free for ticket holders. The program repeats at 8 on Saturday night. Consult the orchestra site for ticket prices. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

MUSIC

Rock Against Dementia Alive Inside aims to “activate individuals and communities to improve the quality of life for elders living with and without Alzheimer’s by providing music and relationships.” Today at 11 a.m. at the Rock Hall, the organization hosts a free concert featuring Alexis Antes, Angels in Disguise, Tracy Marie, and Engine Box. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

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GET OUT will be happy to know that winter is just around the corner. With that in mind, a weekend-long Ski Fest will commence at 6 p.m. today at Buckeye Sports Center in Peninsula with a kickoff party that’ll include a fashion show featuring new winter ski and snowboard outerwear from all the major brands, live entertainment, beer, wine, hors d’oeuvres, early access to merchandise and a silent auction. Tickets are $25, and proceeds benefit the Boston Mills Brandywine ski patrol. Festivities continue through the weekend when there will be more live entertainment, free food and beverages along with face painting and balloons for the kids and information on ski areas from noon to 3 p.m. each day.

In addition, freestyle skier Nick Goeppert, an Olympic medalist, will sign autographs from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday. (Niesel) 4610 State Rd., Peninsula, 330-929-3366, buckeyesportscenter.com.

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the difficulty of ever truly knowing oneself or others, Copenhagen is as much about philosophy as physics.

Tonight’s performance takes place at 8 in the intimate Kennedy’s Down Under, in Playhouse Square. Tickets cost $18, and the show continues through Oct. 26. Read our critic’s take on the production in this week’s issue. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

directs the movie). Tickets cost $10, or $7 for members and students.

(Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

MUSIC FEST

Fall Badfi sh Fall Badfish, an annual tribute to the ska/punk band Sublime, returns to Nelson Ledges this weekend. In addition to Friday and Saturdaynight headliners Badfish, the music

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The Addams Family Near West Theatre kicks off its new season with The Addams Family, a musical based on the comic strip that became a TV show and then a movie.

The play centers on how Wednesday Addams has grown up and fallen in love with a “normal” man. Or so she thinks. Tonight and tomorrow night’s performances take place at 7:30 p.m.; additional performances continue through Oct. 6. Tickets start at $10 for adults and $8 for children 12 and under. Reserved Star Seat tickets are $25. (Niesel) 6702 Detroit Ave, 216-961-6391, nearwesttheatre.org.

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ART FEST

IngenuityFest 2019: Dreamscapes Ingenuity Cleveland aims to “ignite the creative spark among artists, makers, and entrepreneurs through joy and collaboration.”

IngenuityFest 2019: Dreamscapes celebrates the organization’s 15th year by featuring “an entire fantasy, vividly imagined” at the 350,000-square-foot Hamilton Collaborative. Indie rockers Speedy Ortiz headline the main stage tonight, and King Buffalo has the honors tomorrow night. The Dock Stage will feature Cold City Sol (today) and the Admirables (tomorrow). At the Maker’s Mecca and Vendor Village, children of all ages can enjoy imaginative activities from the youth-focused Ingenuity Dreamland & Imaginarium. There will be sustainability focused exhibits of IngenuiTree Isle, featuring Lettuce Tree Farms and Drink Local Drink Tap; and Wellness Way, on the never-beforeseen third floor, provides a chance for attendees to focus on the health of mind, body and spirit. The Dreamer’s Tavern will feature local speakers from Cleveland’s Creative Arts Network. Consult the website for more info. (Niesel) 5401 Hamilton Ave., 216-589-9444, ingenuitycleveland.com.

COMEDY

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THEATER

Copenhagen Presented by Cesear’s Forum in a limited engagement, the Tony Awardwinning Copenhagen centers on an actual meeting that took place between the two great physicists, Germany’s Werner Heisenberg and Denmark’s Niels Bohr, in 1941, in occupied Denmark. The play is presented fictionally, “inside the heads” of three characters, as they relive their memories and speculate on the meaning, and consequences, of their actions. A deep dive into

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FILM

A Faithful Man A Faithful Man, a French comedy that was a big hit at the Cleveland International Film Festival, screens tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. It centers on two women who pursue one man (Louis Garrel, who also

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fest will feature Tropidelic, Little Strangers, the Quasi Kings and Trainjumpers. There will also be fire performers, morning beach yoga with OmBase, campfire karaoke and much more. Admission is $85 ($70 presale) for Friday through Sunday, or $65 ($50 presale) for Saturday through Sunday. Thursday arrivals

Anjelah Johnson-Reyes Formerly a professional cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes left the sports world to move to Los Angeles and pursue her dream of acting. She became an internet sensation with her viral video, “Nail Salon,” and that led to many standup, television and film opportunities. She would join the cast of MADtv and become particularly well known for a character she created named Bon Qui Qui, a disgruntled fast food employee who regularly calls out customers for being “rude.” After recording and releasing three songs and two music videos as Bon Qui Qui, Johnson-Reyes signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records to release a full album Gold Plated Dreams. She brings her Technically Not Stalking standup tour to the Masonic Auditorium tonight at 7:30.

Tickets start at $39.50. (Niesel) 3615 Euclid Ave., 216-881-6350, masoniccleveland.com.

THEATER

The Music Man Tonight at 7:30 at the Hanna Theatre, Great Lakes Theater presents its version of The Music Man, the play about salesman Harold Hill and his attempts to con people into buying instruments and uniforms for a band he never intends to form. The six-time Tonywinning musical features tunes such as “Seventy-Six Trombones,” “Ya Got Trouble” and “Till There Was You.” Performances continue through Nov. 10. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

NIGHTLIFE

Night Market Cleveland Part farmers market, part art/ makers’ market, part concert series and part food festival, Night Market Cleveland comes only four times a year — and tonight is the final market of 2019. Located on Rockwell Avenue near the heart of Cleveland’s Asia Town district, Night Market Cleveland includes more than 200 retail and food vendors and numerous bands and performers. The market was inspired by a tradition in several Asian cultures, and designed to connect the diverse people of Cleveland’s Asia Town, St. Clair Superior neighborhood and Campus District while “energizing an oftenoverlooked corner of Cleveland.” It goes down tonight from 5 to 11 p.m.

Admission is free. (Niesel) Rockwell Ave. and East 21st St., nightmarketcle.com.

FUNDRAISER

Project HOPE Fundraiser Tonight’s Project HOPE Fundraiser, taking place at St. Noel’s banquet center in Willoughby Hills, will feature dancing and singing to Neil Diamond songs performed by the Neil Diamond tribute band, the Diamond Project. Project HOPE provides healthcare screenings, evaluations and medical support to those who lack insurance or have other barriers. The event begins at 7, and tickets include a three-course meal, signature drinks, spirits, dancing, and multiple raffles and auctions. (Niesel) 35200 Chardon Rd., Willoughby Hills, 216-371-7557, projecthopeonline.org.

FILM

Ray & Liz During the Thatcher era in Britain, filmmaker Richard Billingham lived with his alcoholic father and chain-smoking mother. It was a

particularly rough period in his life. With his new film, Ray & Liz, he recreates that time period.

A hit at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival, the movie shows tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for Cinematheque members and students. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

BOOKS

Barry Schneier In early 1974, Bruce Springsteen was in danger of being dropped by his record label. One show would change the course of his career.

Springsteen and the E Street Band opened for Bonnie Raitt at the Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge, capturing the attention of Jon Landau, music critic for Rolling Stone and columnist for Cambridge-based The Real Paper, who was in the audience. He’d write, “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”

Photographer Barry Schneier was also there that night, and his photographs, entirely unseen for decades, are the only visual record of the performance. Today at 2 p.m. at the Rock Hall, Schneider will talk about his new book, Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Roll Future, which features photos from that show. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

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Thunder From Down Under The press release promoting the latest appearance by the group of burly hunks who call themselves the Thunder From Down Under boasts that they’ll provide “the perfect girls’ night outback,” a reference to their Aussie heritage.

Expect “seductive dance routines, cheeky humor and boy-next-door charm” from these topless dancers.

The group performs tonight and tomorrow night at 7 and 10 at the Neon Room at MGM Northfield Park. Tickets start at $29.95.

(Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, mgmnorthfieldpark. mgmresorts.com.

FILM

Where Is the Friend’s House?

Where Is the Friend’s House?, a 1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami, centers on an Iranian schoolboy who walks miles to an unfamiliar village to return a notebook to a classmate who may be expelled without it. The first part of Kiarostami’s Koker

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GET OUT Trilogy, the film comes off as a “moving tale of compassion and moral courage enhanced by humor, suspense, and poetry.” It screens at 7 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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the Greater Cleveland Aquarium.

Splash Fund leadership provides gloves, containers and guidance and, at the end of each session, the team records and analyzes the junk they have amassed. Over the course of four mornings, last year’s volunteers helped the Splash Fund bag 386 pounds of trash that included bits of foam, glass and 7,686 pieces of plastic. For registration, schedules and other details, see the website. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

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VOLUNTEER

Adopt-a-Beach Shoreline Cleanup Since 2012, Greater Cleveland Aquarium’s nonprofit Splash Fund has hosted an Adopt-a-Beach shoreline cleanup program. Today’s cleanup takes place from 10 a.m. to noon at Edgewater Park. The aquarium has partnered with Drink Local, Drink Tap for the event.

Someone from the Splash Fund team will be on hand to “advise, assist and provide necessary supplies.” Anyone who donates his or her time to help the lake stay great will be rewarded with one free general admission ticket to

The Chambermaid Variety magazine declares that The Chambermaid, Lila Aviles’ film about a maid who works in a Mexico City hotel, is “rare and special.” The movie features various vignettes which help to tell the story a woman who shuffles through waste bins to see how the other half lives. It screens at 8:40 tonight and at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for Cinematheque members and students. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

COMEDY

Kathleen Madigan: Hot Dogs and Angels Tour A veteran comic whose career stretches back nearly 30 years, Kathleen Madigan spends about three-fourths of the year on the road. Dubbed the Hotdogs and Angels Tour, her current tour brings her to town tonight for a performance at the Ohio Theatre. Madigan, who’s made 25 appearances on The Tonight Show, recently rode around with fellow comic Jerry Seinfeld in his internet series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. She also just filmed Bothering Jesus, her fifth hour-long standup special. The concert begins at 8, and tickets are $45. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

ARTS FESTIVAL

Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival Now in its 21st year, the annual Tremont Arts and Cultural Festival celebrates the cultural and artistic diversity of Northeast Ohio with more than 130 vendors, who’ll sell their paintings, sculptures, jewelry and more. The free event takes place today and tomorrow at Lincoln Park. In addition to the vendors, the fest features live music and dance

performances, a beer and wine garden, a children’s village and more. Today’s hours are noon to 7 p.m.; tomorrow’s hours are noon to 5 p.m. Find details on the website.

(Niesel) experiencetremont.com.

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Zen for Nothing With this documentary movie, director Werner Penzel captures what life is like during one year in a Japanese Zen monastery. The film centers on a Swiss woman who spends three seasons (fall, winter, spring) as a novice at the place. It screens today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where it screens again at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3-D movies. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

NIGHTLIFE

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.

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MUSIC

Open Turntable Tuesday Tonight from 6 to 9, the Winchester hosts its weekly Open Turntable Tuesday. Jason Gokorsch will book guest DJs and offer slots to people who want to bring their own vinyl and spin their favorite songs or deep tracks.

First time DJs are encouraged, and equipment is provided. Patrons can also bring records for the night’s DJ to add to their set. Sign up on Northeast Ohio Vinyl Club’s Facebook page.

(Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ TheWinchesterMusicTavern.

MUSIC

Vinyl Night Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot musicfocused 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 SCIENCE FICTION In Copenhagen, physics and philosophy collide

By Elaine T. Cicora Photo by Grace Baran

THIS MUCH IS CERTAIN: IN 1941, atomic physicists Werner Heisenberg, a German, and Niels Bohr, a Dane, met in Bohr’s home in Copenhagen for a visit. World War II was raging across Europe. Denmark was an occupied country. Germany appeared invincible.

What is uncertain — what has tantalized historians, biographers and the science community for decades — is this: What, exactly, did the two physicists discuss? And more urgently, what impact, if any, did that conversation have on the development of the atomic bomb?

These are — at least superficially — the questions at the heart of Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, which opened in London in 1998 and debuted on Broadway in 2000.

Dense, discursive, and (at nearly three hours in length) rich with provocative notions, the two-act play manages, however, to dig much deeper — into questions of truth, morality and the impact of science on both those who practice it and those who bear its consequences.

It is into this world of ambiguity that Cesear’s Forum, a small theater collective led by founder and director Greg Cesear, now boldly treads. With its mission to produce unconventional plays of social, political or cultural importance, the company could scarcely have chosen a more fitting work. Expressionistic in structure, Copenhagen’s characters are long dead, their dialog is unmoored in time and place, and their struggles unfold in a cozy, wood-paneled purgatory, created by set designer Michael Larochelle.

While small, the raked stage provides room for the actors to circle one another, like a probabilistic cloud of orbiting electrons spinning this way or that. And the performance space, in tiny Kennedy’s Down Under at Playhouse Square, only adds to the intensity. The upshot is one of the most intimate performances you will see in Cleveland this year.

While Copenhagen’s weirdness has historically drawn some grumblings from critics and audiences alike, the three-actor cast assembled here — comprising established veterans of the Cleveland theater scene — does a

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From left: Mary Alice Beck, Dana Hart and Brian Bowers

commendable job of illuminating the humanity inside this piece of historical fiction.

As Niels Bohr, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, head of the Bohr Institute and beloved mentor to many world-class scientists, Dana Hart — in long, bushy beard with silvery slicked back hair — gives us a complex, cautious but approachable academic who, during the course of the play, begins to visibly wilt beneath his burden of guilt, both personal and professional.

His adversary and former student, Werner Heisenberg (he of the “uncertainty principle”), is brought to life by Brian Bowers, who, despite

language,” Margrethe serves a much more important purpose. Especially as captured by Mary Alice Beck, Margrethe gives us the relentlessly human (and not always pretty) perspective on the motivations behind the men’s often self-serving narratives.

In Frayn’s telling, Heisenberg visits Bohr for help grappling with this dilemma: Does a physicist have a moral right to work on the exploitation of atomic energy? While the reality of the conversation between these three is unknowable, there is another certainty important to the storyline — despite the brilliant Heisenberg’s ultimate efforts on his country’s behalf, Germany never managed to produce

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stumbling over a few lines during opening night’s performance, clearly articulates the anguish of a man eternally unsure of whether or not he did the right thing — or even of what “the right thing” was.

Between these two scientists and colleagues sits Bohr’s wife, Margrethe.

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an atomic weapon.

Why? Was Heisenberg simply incompetent, overlooking certain scientific truths and unable to quite literally “do the math”? It seems unlikely. Or did he intentionally subvert the program, underplaying the likelihood of success and keeping critical information from his superiors? Risky business, at best.

Frayn suggests yet another possible

explanation. If Heisenberg did hide important scientific knowledge from his superiors, perhaps he also hid it from himself. By consciously choosing to not know what he did not know — by bluffing himself into ignorance — Heisenberg may very well have saved millions of lives.

The irony, of course, is that Heisenberg’s professional reputation never recovered from the stigma of working for the Nazis. Meanwhile, Bohr is smuggled out of Denmark, lands at Los Alamos, and plays a direct role in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet in the history books, Bohr is a hero.

The story of the past is, indeed, written by the victors. But then, what becomes of heroism? If the uncertainty principle tells us anything, it is that causality is an illusion. As Heisenberg says in the second act, “… if you don’t know how things are today, you certainly can’t know how they are going to be tomorrow.” How then, can we decide on a path of action? What really governs our choices?

From here, the questions multiply like a chain reaction. Is everything subjective, as Margrethe claims?

Do the ends really justify the means, as Heisenberg suggests?

Is the notion of Truth just a convenient ruse, dogma against which we stick our preconceived notions?

Does our Truth change, depending on where we look, what we remember, and the narrative we wish to tell? “So many explanations for what I did!” cries Heisenberg. “A million things we might do or might not do every day.

All we can do is look afterward and see what happened.”

If that holds, what then should we make of “moral dilemmas”? Who gets to have them? Are they merely an artifact of privilege, available only to those who hold sufficient power to actually make decisions?

Can we ever understand what drives others? Can we ever understand ourselves?

For a play about physics, Copenhagen provides a deep dive into the darkness of the human soul.

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MOVIES A STAR IS REBORN Renée Zellweger loses herself, finds herself in fresh Judy Garland biopic

By Laura Morrison THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT RENÉE Zellweger took the titular role of Judy Garland to show the world she’s not done yet. And, truly, watching her play a woman riddled with addiction and doubt gives viewers a front-row seat onto one of the Oscar winner’s greatest performances of all time. Judy opens Friday at select theaters.

Zellweger knows the harsh realities of the spotlight all too well, not releasing a film from 2011 to 2016 while riding a wave of criticism for facial plastic surgery gone awry. Watching her play Garland in Judy, which tells a comeback tale of sorts, is us seeing Zellweger make a comeback too.

The film wrongly begins in a flashback to the Wizard of Oz set with Garland as a teenager explaining to MGM head Louis B. Mayer that she’s good enough to land Dorothy, stalling the drama from the getgo. Minutes in, the movie finally moves to California in the 1960s, where Garland is recently divorced, trying to care for her two younger children and essentially homeless.

Broke, she’s persuaded to go to London for a series of concerts, and this, thankfully, is where the action begins.

See, Garland, with that glorious husky alto (and vibrato you can drive a truck through), has stage fright. When her handler, played

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by a wonderful Jessie Buckley, finally shoves her out for that first performance, relief comes. This play between “will she go on stage or won’t she?” brings the most tension to the film. You want her to succeed but know things can only go one way when she’s often out under the spotlight drunk and high, fighting with a hostile audience.

That this is based on a play — End of the Rainbow, by Peter Quilter — makes sense. Parts of this colorsaturated film feel like vignettes.

A scene with two fans making her dinner in their apartment is particularly beautiful (even if it’s

seemingly thrown in to remind us she’s a gay icon). Another where she calls her young daughter (Bella Ramsey, who slayed as Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones!) from a payphone will make you weep.

Director Rupert Goold, who’s mostly made TV movies in the past, aptly lets scenes breathe: from Garland meeting and fighting with her fifth husband, to focusing on Zellweger as she displays all the correct dance mannerisms and latter-year body twitches.

Garland died six months after the events of the film conclude, succumbing to a barbiturate

overdose. As we learn throughout Judy, the film studio got her hooked on pills in the first place. When they needed her to work 18-hour days, there were uppers. To get her to sleep: downers. She later discovers booze and men. None of it made her happy. Her body in the end was ravaged, wrinkled and thin (kudos to the makeup and wardrobe people for getting it so right here). She was 47 years old. To put that in perspective, stars like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are that same age.

Despite Judy’s imperfections (why so many flashbacks?), the film serves one grand purpose: Listening to Zellweger sing, and she does it well — as you knew she would, hello, Chicago — should make you itch to hear the real thing. This biopic should cause people to dig out the old songs and movies and revel, now 50 years after her death, in Garland’s heart-felt mastery.

At the end of the film, after an entirely moving and broken rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Garland says to her London audience, “You won’t forget me, will you? Promise you won’t.” It may as well be Zellweger herself.

lmorrison@clevescene.com t@lowesays

SPOTLIGHT: VILLAINS VILLAINS, A DARK HOMEinvasion comedy starring Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan and Kyra Sedgewick opens Friday at the Capitol Theatre. The squeamish will be relieved to note that unlike many of its torture-porn forebears, the film features only one moment of serious gore and only one gross-out scene. (And even that comes with a countdown to give you ample time to shield your eyes.)

It’s admittedly a minor work in the horror-adjacent sphere, with a smattering of plot holes that need not be examined too closely. It sure looked like fun for Donovan (TV’s Burn Notice) and Sedgewick (TV’s

The Closer) who got to perform the hell out of their roles as genteel Southern psychos — certainly more fun than for Skarsgård (lately Pennywise in IT: Chapter 2) and Monroe (of It Follows fame), who merely played earnest, lovestruck young crooks on the lamb.

Mickey and Jules run out of gas in a wooded suburb shortly after a sloppy gas-station robbery and are alarmed to discover a young girl chained up in the basement of the home they break into, hunting for car keys. When residents George and Gloria arrive home, negotiations ensue. George invites Mickey and Jules to take their car and promises

not to report it to the police if they forget about the girl downstairs.

Mickey reminds George that he’s the one with the gun and guesses that George wouldn’t want to get the police involved anyway. The girl’s coming with them.

George and Gloria promptly get the upper hand. And as their derangements surface, Mickey and Jules must find creative ways to exploit their captors and escape.

The set decoration (George and Gloria’s mid-century furnishings, in particular) and the credits (flamboyant pink) both suggest that the filmmakers wanted to produce a bold and stylized affair.

And while moments with Donovan and Sedgewick are outlandish and sometimes fun, substantial portions of Villains are just annoying. One feels zero sympathy for Mickey and Jules, who are criminals in an unsexy, unmotivated way — they want to go to Florida, I guess? And throwaway moments — Jules tosses a bowl of cereal over her shoulder, for example, when she finds it’s stale — create a cartoonish effect that prohibits taking the events even remotely seriously. — Sam Allard

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ABOUT The Hamilton Collaborative

VILLAGES

Ingenuity is proud to be a founding partner of the Hamilton Collaborative.

Our growing IngenuityLabs incubator program provides a supportive and accessible creative environment, resources and networking opportunities

We are redeďŹ ning growth and innovation as an open, intentional community, managed cooperatively, providing tools, space and knowledge.

We nurture a thriving family of creative entrepreneurs and, together with these partners, we are transforming a 100-year old factory with a new economic and social model for Cleveland.

Rust Belt Riders A worker-owned organic waste removal service available to Northeast Ohio businesses, schools and institutions, creating wealth from waste through conversion into value-added products.

Soulcraft CLE An artisan woodshop and fabrication facility offering classes at a range of skill levels, incubation space for emerging woodworkers, high-end custom furniture, and a technology lab.

Skidmark Garage A communit-access motorcycle garage that encourages you to work on your own motorcycle: you provide the bike, they provide the tools, the space, and the expertise.

Architecture OďŹƒce A boutique contemporary architecture ďŹ rm with a focus on a range of project types restoring Cleveland’s urban fabric.

Rebuilders XChange 50,000 square feet full of architectural salvage and construction material. Regular public hours Wednesday-Saturday from 9am-6pm. Festival hours 'till 9 pm, with something for everyone from kids to adults to the puppers at home!

MorrisonDance Integrating the art of movement with cross-disciplinary collaborations, continuously challenging the traditional of understanding dance. Performances on the Tesseract Stage Friday and Saturday.

3 Barn Doors A custom design/build furniture company working with clients on one-of-a-kind designs and furniture to give spaces a unique vibe.

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We encourage collaboration among artisans, technologists and innovators with our complementary year-round programs: the IngenuityLabs Incubator, the Ignite! series for creative entrepreneurs, and the community-driven creative collective, the Ingeneers.

IngenuityLabs WELCOME TO OUR YEAR-ROUND DREAM FACTORY - MEET OUR MAKERS! Himiko Gogo's Memorabilia Productions Himiko Gogo creates a happy place of color and wild shapes, tropical and kitschy, shiny and funky! Open during the Fest for impromptu dance parties and more!

Fire Guys LLC Incorporating Fire as a medium for interdisciplinary works large and small.

Presenting works in Music Meadow.

Makers Alliance A home for tinkerers of all types to Make, Learn, Grow. Open during IngenuityFest.

Astrocelt Visit Astrocelt's Dream Depot Cafe, but get ready to leave on an otherwordly journey. Open during IngenuityFest.

Beauty and the Bolt Making STEM more accessible and diverse through engaging media and affordable education resources. Open during IngenuityFest.

Cleveland Ghostbusters Cosplay group serving all of the Sixth City's professional paranormal needs. Exhibiting during IngenuityFest.

Andrew Kaletta Statuary Custom lighting and concrete casting.

Exhibiting during IngenuityFest.

Tesla Orchestra Performing on Tesla's Dream Machine Friday and Saturday at 8pm and 10pm.

Splendid Dimensions VR, New Media and Visionary Arts. Presenting "Mystical Media Lab" in IngenuiTree Isle.

Museus Electronic music and video production.

Presenting on the Tesseract Stage.

Hammertime Productions From painting to textiles, building community through multimedia. Presenting work in the Ingenuity Dreamland and Imaginarium.

Metal Yellow Studio Enameled reclaimed furniture.

Heyman! Productions Extraordinary works from reclaimed objects.

Presenting "The Hood" in Music Meadow.

Metalmorphosis The Art and Science of metal.

IngenuityLabs Dreamscapes

THE INGENEERS Alight upon Zephyr, Ingenuity's magical ying boat, for a ride through the clouds, above the magical memory of a bridge and through a waterfall . . . or hitch a ride on one of the enchanted cloud nets she tows behind. *Created in IngenuityLabs* All Aboard!

THE INGENEERS Jump aboard and travel through time & space on this whimsical piece *Created in parternship with Brite Winter at IngenuityLabs.* Dream Depot DINA HOEYNK AND THE STUDENTS OF ARTEMUS WARD ELEMENTARY With a little help from The Ingeneers, students invite guests to share their fantasies of taking ight - get ready to take off!

Tesla's Dream Machine

THE INGENEERS The marvelous contraption powering all of IngenuityLabs and the Dreamscapes that lay throughout - it's a city within a circuit board that sparks the imagination. Nightly performances with OPUS 216 (7pm), Beauty and the Bolt's Xyla Foxlin and Plasmosis (8pm & 10pm.) With Ed Morra, Skuda Production & Tesla Orchestra. *Created in IngenuityLabs* Creatures

ROGER TITLEY Appearing courtesy of BorderLight International Theatre and Fringe Festival.

Night at the Gallery DIFFERENT THINGS GALLERY

2NWU Ć“PF VJG OWNVK media Tesseract Stage, Tesseract Bar & ATM!

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Possibility Promenade INGENUITY'S MAIN DRAG FROM 53RD STREET TO INGENUITYLABS, FULL OF STAGES, FOOD TRUCKS AND MORE! The Traveling Porch MEGAN SHANE Transforming viewers into participants - relax and welcome home! A collaboration with the League of Creative Interventionists & Wick Studio

Himiko Gogo's Tropical Dock HALEY MORRIS, MEMORABILIA PRODUCTIONS A tropical tornado of color and shape!

Vinyl Record Art RICK SANS

The Dock Stage Curated by Brittany Benton & Gabe Pollack.

Cosplay Corridor RACHEL MEIKLE COSPLAY, THE CHET STUDIOS, ANNIE GRAVES COSPLAY AND MEERAMICOSPLAY Building costumes and props with foam, 3D printing, thermoplastic, fabric and more.

Elevator to Second Floor, Makers Mecca, presented

by Cosplay Corridor.

Archetypal Remix ARCHITECTURE OFFICE Viewing platform comprised of the stereotypical house form ipped and stacked (remixed) defying gravity.

Dingy Garden Stage Intimate Acoustic Offerings curated by Michelle Gaw, with artworks by the Ingeneers.

Illumination Island DOWNSTAIRS PASSAGEWAYS AND HIDDEN ROOMS - PLUS INGENUITY DREAMLAND, TEENLAND, SENSORY FRIENDLY & PARENTS' ROOMS You Are Art THOMAS CONGER AND THE INGENEERS Splash into a luscious sherbet-orange Dreamsicle passageway populated by the zentangled camels of Bex Moss, a rock wall, and the perfect spot to snap a selďŹ e. In partnership with @glo_cleveland, a social enterprised transforming people & places.

Elevator to Third Floor, Wellness Way, presented

by Cell-Avator Sacred Lights JEREMY LIGHT 33 abstract sculptures of sacred geometry made from pyramids.

CumuloNimbus & Prizmatic MELISSA MOON, RUSSA WENZEL, MELODIE GONZALES AND THE INGENEERS A series of playful clouds lights the way along a shimmering rainbow path.

Indulge ARCELIA GANDARILLA + CLAIRE APPELMANS Enter the mind: mirrors, voices & shadows.

Enter the body: worship, move & savor.

Fri 7:30-8pm; Sat 4:30-5, 6:30-7pm; Sun 2:30-3pm

Hall of Dreams Ingenuity's Family of Sponsors are Supporting Dreams and Dreamers Everywhere!

Syncretism FIERCELY SERENE A fusion of traditional and modern, Buddhist and Shinto, the companion installation for Zen SoundScapes weaves a spiritual retreat.

SolaLuna Rest among the stars (or at least the Sun and Moon)! Collaboratively designed, visioned and created by the Ingeneers at IngenuityLabs.

Zen Soundscapes AMANDA NYX AND MICHAEL MCFARLAND This human-scale, fully interactive Zen garden turns light into meditative sound as you rake your troubles away! *Created in IngenuityLabs*

Cabaret Stage

Cleveland Photo Fest CLEVELAND: THE RHYTHM OF FASHION with Anastasia Pantsios, Ron Knerem & Eartha Goodwin. Curated by Laura D'Alessandro and Jacci Hammer.

Curated by Michael McFarland & Meg Stepka with vignettes of curiosities by Meg Stepka.

With Comedy, Burlesque & more after dark!

Please note: this stage is 18+ after 9 pm!

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Emerge Microcinema Curated shorts in our one-of-a-kind mini theater.

MERGE ARCHITECTURE OFFICE An immersive experience project that combines (MERGEs) synchronized sound and light to amplify an existing spatial construct.

AstroPups JUNE HUND & NORBERT ZIEBOLD Playfulness & imagination come to life with colorful papier-mâchÊ life size dogs wearing space helmets oating in space.

Ingenuity Dreamland and Imaginarium!

Youth-focused playland featuring puppets, crafts, dress up, storytelling & more!

Curated by Jacci Hammer, Abby Gross & Matt Koballa, with Michael Harms, Diane Collins & Courtney Anderson. Collaborators: Nate Puppets, Alice Gregory, Samantha Vickers, Nena Hermosa, Christy Alice Heartlily, Jan McAndrews, Andrew Kaletta, Jeff Chiplis, Diane Iacobucci & Michael Heasley.

Sensory Friendly Room & Parents' Room IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MILESTONE AUTISM RESOURCES

Find a calm and dark room with plenty of tactile experience, soft toys and twinkly lights to both stimulate and de-sensitize in what can be an overwhelming environment. Plus, parents can ďŹ nd a changing table, rocking chair for nursing, and tucked-away bathroom here.

Ingenuity Teenland Young adults can ďŹ nd more challenging exhibits here, created by people who care about the same issues they do. Stories told through music, art and social justice, coming together.

SHOOTING WITHOUT BULLETS & EMPOWERING YOUTH, EXPLORING JUSTICE Awakening Redux MATTHEW YANNIS

Vendor Village CELEBRATING LOCAL CRAFT Boinkman the Art Handler SHAWN KERNS Boinkman is a fun loving art handler that can never do anything right in the eyes of his boss.

He exposes the deep dark secrets that happen behind the scenes in an Art Museum.

Simulated Synesthesia: A Conversation MICHAEL MCFARLAND, AMANDA NYX, MICHAEL HORNSBY Conveying the experience of chromesthesia, A Conversation isolates two participants and translates the sounds they make into streams of colored light.

More Love, Less Hate BRANDI MCELHATTEN AND TINY CREATIVES Leave a message of hope and healing. #NikkiForever Astral Logistics DAVE BRAUN Interactive Virtual and Augmented Reality inviting attendees to become Super-PsychoSynergetic-Eleventyists after the experience.

2NWU Ć“PF FQ\GPU QH vendors, and an ATM!

Music Meadow FORMER SCRAPYARD SPACE RECLAIMED FOR SOUND & SUNSHINE

Main Stage Curated by Ingenuity Music Manager James Carol Uuna Ahi FIRE GUYS LLC Matt Hummel and Nate Clark are the Fire Guys LLC - IngenuityLabs members who create a spark at home and across the country.

Returning from its maiden voyage to Burning Man, Uuna Ahi means "lots of ďŹ re," and was built collaboratively with Stephanie Hummel, John Kasunich, Dan Austin, Matt Edick, and many more, with help from The Ingeneers. See it lit Friday and Saturday after dark. *Created in IngenuityLabs.* Phoenix Rising EMILY APPELBAUM, JOHN KASUNICH, FIRE GUYS LLC Created as part of the Cuyahoga 50 celebration in remembrance of the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire, Phoenix Rising is a testament of hope and rebirth. With Tom Stoll, Steve Pitman, and The Ingeneers. *Created in partnership with Burning River Foundation, at IngenuityLabs.* The Artworks of Gadi Zamir Mystical multilayered works of paint and burnt wood, by the founder of Negative Space Gallery.

Cleveland ARTchitecture KEVIN JACKSON AND CLEVELAND ARTISTS Projection Artist Kevin Jackson mixes original content with works by an array of Cleveland artists at larger-than-life scale, plus live painting.

The Hood HEYMAN! PRODUCTIONS Interactive gazebo made of found objects- car hoods, retired pianos, and plenty of doodadspays homage to Music Meadow's junkyard past. *Created in IngenuityLabs.*

2NWU Ć“PF TGUVTQQOU the Main Stage Bar and food trucks!

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MUSIC MEADOW STAGE FRIDAY 11:00 PM

"Moving Places" Film Blue Heron Productions

10:30 PM Fire and Light Performing Arts

8:00 PM DANA

6:30 PM Bobby Vaughn

11:00 PM

DJ Dance Party - Muséus and Logan Boggs

10:30 PM - Close

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10:00 PM Muamin Collective 8:30 PM Sarah Arafat

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6:30 PM Church of Starry Wisdom

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"Moving Places" Film Blue Heron Productions

10:30 PM Fire and Light Performing Arts 9:30 PM King Buffalo 7:30 PM Jivviden Rachel B 5:30 PM feat. PGH Circus Arts 3:30 PM DOOMSQUAD 2:00 PM Sam Goodwill SUNDAY

SATURDAY 10:00 PM Collin Miller 8:30 PM Emily Keener 7:00 PM Corry Michaels 5:30 PM Micah Foster 3:30 PM Claudia Yannucci 2:00 PM Sophie Brown 1:00 PM Sean Howard & Chris Woten SUNDAY 5:00 PM Worry Stone Jason Kaminski & Sure, Machine

Tesla's Dream Machine feat.

8:00 PM Plasmosis, Tesla Orchestra, Xyla Foxlin

4:30 PM Smith Taylor

2:00 PM Lou Barrett Storytelling

7:00 PM OPUS 216

3:00 PM FREAKwents

1:00 PM Fig

6:00 PM Tribe Ostara Belly Dance

1:30 PM Apostle Jones

SATURDAY DJ Dance Party - Mind.E, 10:30 PM - Close moonhawk and Muséus Tesla's Dream Machine feat.

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8:00 PM Plasmosis, Tesla Orchestra, Xyla Foxlin 7:00 PM OPUS 216 6:00 PM Inlet Dance Theater 5:00 PM Tribe Ostara Belly Dance 4:00 PM Shanty Circus Acro Jam 3:00 PM Inlet Dance Theater 2:15 PM Nerdy Dancers of the CLE Rainey Institute Dance Program Dame

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1:00 PM Flow Fitness Open To All SUNDAY

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Cleveland Drag Kings & Friends

11:00 PM Rachel & Duberry's Vaudville Pajama Corner

9:00 PM Cleveland Comedy Fest 7:30 PM

A Light in the Distance (Meg Stepka)

6:00 PM Holodeck SATURDAY With your host Beezy Douglas 11:00 PM Shrimp's Oh! Strip Show

8:30 PM MT Fraze 6:00 PM Ignite! Talks Cleveland's Photo Landscape, Cleveland's Beer Entrepreneurs SATURDAY 9:30 PM The Punctuation 8:30 PM C-Level 7:00 PM Shy Moon 4:00 PM: Ignite! Talks: Cleveland's Maker Spaces, Arts-Driven Community Change

9:00 PM Cleveland Comedy Fest

2:30 PM Coupe De Grace

8:00 PM Mopi Dykk

1:00 PM Constant Source

6:00 PM Hello Headrush

SUNDAY

4:30 PM N6664

4:00 PM Oregon Space Trail of Jazz

3:00 PM Beezy Douglas Carnivale

2:30 PM Reginleif

1:30 PM Pinstrype Kouzin

1:00 PM Unknownphrazes

SUNDAY

4:30 PM NEOS Dance Theater

4:30 PM AIR 216 Open Mic

3:30 PM Be Fitness Student Showcase

3:00 PM Kiss Me Deadly

2:45 PM NEOS Dance Theater

2:00 PM

1:30 PM Selfspace Meditation Open To All

3:00 PM

Rachel & Duberry's Vaudville Pajama Corner

Please note that the schedule and stage location is subject to change due to the complexity of the event and weather conditions. If you have any questions please inquire at either information booth located at both entrances.

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BIKES: DOCK STAGE FRIDAY 11:00 PM Oregon Space Trail of Doom 9:00 PM Cold City Sol 7:30 PM Kyle Kidd 6:00 PM Biitchseat SATURDAY 10:30 PM Seeress 8:30 PM

Nathan-Paul & The Admirables

6:30 PM Xanny Stars

FREE SELF-PARKING RACKS 53RD STREET ENTRANCE Provided by Ohio City Bicycle Co-Op (Remember to bring your own lock and park at your own risk!)

SUSTAINABILITY:

Striving for Zero Waste—Look before you throw You can help make IngenuityFest environmentally friendly by avoiding single-use plastic like water bottles and straws.

Reusable bottles are available for purchase, with water stations throughout the Fest. You will see bins for compost, recycling, and landfill. Most of the food service products are biodegradable and compostable in the green bins. So are paper towels. Please look at the signs over the bins, talk to volunteers, and be thoughtful when disposing.

Thanks to our partners Rust Belt Riders.

ACCESSIBLE SERVICES: ADA parking and golf cart drop off to gate available.

QUESTIONS OR NEED HELP?

5:00 PM Mellow-XZACKT

Call 440-865-6166

3:30 PM Chelsea Pastel

INFORMATION & MEDICAL:

1:00 PM Beat Freak?

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Tents and EMS pickup at 53rd Street gate.

RESTROOMS:

4:00 PM SoundEVR Collective

Located in the outdoor lots in Possibility Promenade, near the entrance to IngenuityLabs, in Music Meadow, and on the second floor in ARTchiTECHtonica.

2:30 PM Sam Supreme

ATMS:

1:00 PM Acid Cats

At Tesseract Bar in IngenuityLabs and in Vendor Village.

SMOKING: Outdoors in designated areas only.

SLEEPWALKING IS DANGEROUS! OUR FACILITY IS AN OLD INDUSTRIAL SITE WITH INHERENT RISKS SUCH AS UNEVEN FLOORING; PLEASE WATCH YOUR STEP AND STAY IN MARKED EXHIBIT AREAS!

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IngenuiTree Isle SUSTAINABILITY & MORE Mystical Media Lab IngenuityLabs Member Ross Bochnek teams up with Steve Primeau, Jeremy Light, Ivan Davydov and the Ingeneers to guide small group journeys into intentionality, teambuilding, emotional expression & guided meditation, all within an immersive audiovisual dome.

Visit this unique piece to supersede personal identity and begin a journey towards empathy, connection to Spirit, and thereby, everything in the Cosmos! *Created in IngenuityLabs*

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Cleveland Metroparks Watershed stewardship and interactive activities Fresh Fest Based out of Cleveland's Urban Agriculture Innovation Zone at Rid-All Green Partnership, Fresh Fest is a brand new community initiative centered around youth engagement, healing, sustainability, and good vibes. Stop by for a Fresh Juice and wellness demonstration.

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EAT EVERYONE IN THE POOL! Cross the bridge to piping hot soups and world-class noodles at Dagu

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WHEN IT OPENED IN LATE JULY, Dagu Rice Noodle in Asia Town became just the second U.S. location for this massive Chinese export, which is said to have approximately 300 locations spread across that country. The Cleveland site follows one in Las Vegas and preceded, by just a few weeks, another in Greater Los Angeles. This city’s jump on the competition speaks both to the size and appetite of the local Asian community and the enthusiasm that entrepreneur Sheng Long Yu has for the concept.

In terms of options, there’s an embarrassment of riches in Cleveland’s ever-expanding Asia Town food scene. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing new left to discover. Thanks to Yu, who first experienced Dagu in Canada, we can add “crossing the bridge noodles” to our collective cauldron. Now that I’ve had the opportunity to get acquainted with this celebrated noodle soup, it will be hard to keep me away.

As with all novel foods, there’s a bit of a learning curve. A quick glance at the menu reveals a dizzying array of selections printed both in English letters and Chinese characters. There are multiple sections, each of which is filled with numerous dishes. Those dishes, in turn, come with an assortment of “add-ons,” sub-items that can be ordered to customize one’s bowl.

Toss in the various broth types and presentation methods and it’s nearly enough to send one running for the door.

“It might seem a little overwhelming,” Yu admits, “but here’s how simple it is. Our menu is separated into sections for appetizers, noodle soups and drinks.

Any soups that start with the letter A means the chef has prepared everything for you. The soups that start with letter B are the ‘crossing the bridge’ ones.”

To further clarify matters: There are only two main broths, despite the appearance of more. There is the main pork-based broth and the vegetarian tomato-based version — both of which are deeply flavorful.

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that the pork broth comes in various trims, to use an automotive analogy, that include traditional, spicy, sour or a combination thereof. Also, not all tomato broth-based bowls are vegetarian.

Once you’ve made your choices, tick off the appropriate boxes on the paper menu and wait the six to eight minutes that is the average ticket time at lunch (add a few minutes during dinner time). Soups are still literally boiling when they land on the table, served in superhot earthenware bowls that retain heat. While “crossing the bridge”

the side in both versions. Served raw and sliced very thinly, they cook in seconds in the hot broth.

Of course, the star of the show is the rice noodles, which come from the parent company in China. Snow white, round, slippery and downy soft, the cooked noodles get added to the broth along with everything else.

At Dagu, meals come with a free refill of noodles, though I’ve never even finished my first.

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($12.99), the same as A1 but with a Flintstone-size beef shank climbing out of the bowl, and the B2 ($9.99), a spicy version of the pork broth served “crossing the bridge” style.

The tomato-based brew works just as well in vegetarian dishes ($9.99) as it does in versions containing meat or seafood.

Dagu also offers a host of interesting appetizers, many of them tongue-tingling Szechuan-style

starters served cold. The savory beef and ox tongue ($5.99) is sliced paper-thin and doused in a potent chili sauce, a pair of marinated hard-cooked eggs ($1.99) is served warm, and the crispy fried chicken nuggets ($4.99) are peppery and well seasoned. If you are adventurous, tack on an order of spicy duck tongue ($6.99), a funky finger food with a surprising amount of fat, meat and flavor. (Who knew duck tongues had bones?) On the sweeter side are crispy squash pancakes ($3.99) filled with red bean paste, and sticky rice cakes ($3.99) drizzled with a brown sugar glaze. To drink, there are sweet milk teas made with real fruit.

Yu, who also operates Shinto Japanese Steakhouse in Strongsville and Kenko in University Circle and Kent, says that he isn’t at all surprised by the number of customers who have visited since he opened the doors. But it has been fun to welcome diners returning for the new school year.

“A lot of the Asian college students who came back after summer say that it tastes just like home,” he says.

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EAT BITES Legendary chef John Folse brings Louisiana tradition to Culinary Vegetable Institute

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BORN IN ST. JAMES PARISH, legendary chef John Folse has come to be known as “Louisiana’s Culinary Ambassador to the World.”

Through his many restaurants, television programs and cookbooks, he has spread his love of Cajun and Creole cooking literally across the globe.

Since opening his first restaurant in 1978, Lafitte’s Landing in Donaldsonville, the chef has worked tirelessly to preserve Louisiana’s rich culinary and cultural heritage.

One of those great culinary traditions is the Fête des Bouchers, a “party of butchers” that historically took place each autumn, when friends and neighbors gathered to slaughter hogs in anticipation of winter. Of course, they ate, drank and carried on as well.

Folse will be bringing that great South Louisiana practice to Northeast Ohio on Saturday, Oct. 12, when he and a broad group of talented chefs, butchers and culinary pros gather at the Culinary Vegetable Institute (12304 Mudbrook Rd., Milan, 419-499-7500) for Fête des Bouchers, an all-day nose-to-tail celebration like no other.

Visiting chefs and butchers will tend stations where they prepare various traditional Cajun recipes provided by Folse. There will be demonstrations on preparing fresh and cured sausages, head cheese, cracklins, porchetta, ponce (stuffed pig’s stomach) and other specialties.

Other speakers will tackle historical, cultural and practical information.

Lunch will consist of the “spoils of the boucherie” paired with seasonal produce from the Chef’s Garden. Following the meal, there will be a bonfire, wagon rides and other entertainment.

On hand that day will be “Charcuterie” co-author Brian Polcyn, Melissa Khoury and Penny Barend (Saucisson), Vincent DeLagrange (Ohio City Provisions), Brett Sawyer (The Plum, Good Company), Phil Wingo (Porkmafia), Andrew Gorski (Parker’s Downtown), Jerry Rush (Butcher and the Brewer), Certified Master

Chef Hartmut Handke, and John Selick, Anthony Verona, Joe Horvath and Ryan Hamel (Sodexo chefs from the University Hospitals).

Tickets for this bucketlist bash are $155 per person and are available at culinaryvegetableinstitute.com.

RetroMania, a Fundraiser for St. Augustine, Brings Food, Fun and a Late-’60s Vibe to Rock Hall RetroMania, a benefit for St. Augustine Health Ministries, invites guests to party like it’s 1969, the year the organization was founded in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. To be held from 7 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1100 Rock and Roll Blvd.), the bash will feature live music, auctions, raffles and food from nearly 20 local restaurants.

On the bill of fare are dishes from popular places like Alley Cat, Berea Depot, Black Pig, Element 41, Fairmount 216, La Dolce Vita, Mallorca, Market Rocky River, Nomad Culinary, Parker’s Downtown, Parker’s Grille and Tavern, Plank Road Tavern, Rocky River Wine Bar, Rosewood Grill, Serenite Restaurant and Tinman.

Adam Bostwick, the event’s culinary chair, will be representing Polpetta.

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HE PRESS MATERIALS k, the new accompanying Let’s Rock album from the Black Keys, find singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach talking abbout how the disc mar a ks a return to the band’s early days when it made stripped down, grunge-y garage blues records out of drummer Patrick Carney’ss basementt. Songs su uch h as the swaggering “Eagle Birds,” a tune that features a gritty mid-song guitar solo, and d th t e rousin ing in g “Get You ours r elf Together er” come off ff as vintag ge Black Keys.

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“I think n he was speaking abo b ut how there wasn’t a producer for the album,” says Carney when asked about Auerbach’s statement. The Black Keys perform with Modest Mouse and *repeat repeat at 7 p.m. on Monday at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse. “We hadn’t been in the studio for five years.

We had burned out. I think we became afraid of making a record because we were afraid of the time it would take.

That’s why I booked a trip [to France] the day the record came out. I booked a trip in case we are convinced to do more shit. This record is returning to the idea that this band needs to be fun for us. It needs to be enjoyable. We need to be in control of it despite the commitments we have to make.”

The Black Keys didn’t become an overnight sensation. The band played its first gig at the Beachland’s tiny tavern and then slowly graduated to bigger venues until it started packing arenas and playing to tens of thousands of fans at festivals.

“The weird thing is that it wasn’t until [2010’s] Brotherss that things got really crazy,” says Carney. “We transitioned from places like [Jacobs Pavilion at] Nautica to the Q [now Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse]. Already, playing Nautica was a huge thing. We went one more step to an arena. When those opportunities present themselves

after years of working, you can’t say no. We did it so much that it wasn’t until I broke my shoulder that we slowed down. When we did slow down, we reaali lize z d we nee eede ee d d to stoop doing it for a wh hile. It was a time suck. We couldn’t appreciate the idea of getting k] is more to play for people. [Let’s Rock a tory similaar too [2004’ss] Rubber Fac in the selection of sounds. To me, it’s just us coming off the train of what happen ned d between en 2010 and en d 20 2 15 and step epp ping bacck into the ban and and realizing the main goal is to just have fun and make music. If it requires playing g 60 6 show ws a year, theen we can’tt do that.”

During the band’s four-year hiatus, both Carney and Auerbach pursued other mu usical endeavors. Carney produced the latest effort from singersongwriter Michelle Branch, and the two married earlier this year. Auerbach put out a solo album and released an album with the Arcs. He also embarked on a solo tour and toured with the Arcs.

The hiatus also came with some heartbreak. In 2017, Carney’s uncle Ralph Carney, a saxophonist who had played in the Akron New Wave band Tin Huey and with singer-songwriter Tom Waits, passed away, leaving a huge hole in Carney’s life. Carney says he’s one of the few people he’s ever met who “truly made music without any consideration about whether people gave a fuck or not.”

“My uncle Ralph was a huge inspiration to me,” says Carney. “At about the time I was 14, Ralph, who was living in San Francisco at the time, started coming home more often.

He would come home and became a mentor. He encouraged me. He introduced me to so much cool music and ideas. My 16th birthday present was to visit him in San Francisco. We would walk to the pawnshops each day and just buy weird shit. He had me listen to Can records. We made music together, and I have a few things we didn’t put out. I built a studio in my house in 2013, and to test and make sure everything worked, I made an instrumental track and sent it to Ralph and he played some horns on it. Not

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thinking twice about it, it became the theme song to BoJack Horseman. He died unexpectedly, but it does make me feel good to know that he was very proud of o that [son ong]. It rocked my world when he died. I helped settle his estate and I bought every single one of his saxophones, and I have them all at the housse.”

Carney currently lives in Nashville, where he also operates a studio. And yet, he ha h sn’t forgotten his Northeast Ohio roo oots. He closely follows the Indians and he just recently was checking out Akron’s PorchRokr Music and Art Festival by looking at what photos bands had posted on Instagram.

“I can’t speak so much for the quality of the bands but there were hundreds,” he says. “It’s like a cult. [In Akron] everyone is doing something creative and the expectations are all about what your friends think of it, and that’s about it. You hope your friends are supportive, and that’s the main consideration.

For the current tour, he and Auerbach have recruited a couple of Ohio guys — Andy Zach Gabbard from the Buffalo Killers — to play along with them and guitarist Delicate Steve.

The Keys played with the Gabbard brothers years ago when they were in Thee Shams.

“We rehearsed in June, and it sounded really cool,” says Carney.

According to our calculations, the band will be eligible for induction into the Rock Hall in 2027. One thing for certain is that if that day comes, the guys will attend, and Carney says he’ll try y to improve upon his last appearance at the 2016 induction ceremony.

“I wrote one line of our speech,” says Carney of the Keys’ induction of Steve Miller, who famously ripped the Rock Hall backstage after his induction. “It was the opening line. Looking back on it, a guy like Steve Miller has been making music for 50 years. It must’ve pissed him off. I didn’t think about it.

I said something like, ‘There’s been a lot of Millers from Milwaukee but only one of them wrote ‘Fly Like an Eagle.’

That’s something a total shithead would say.”

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MUSIC TAKING AN OLD-SCHOOL APPROACH Lyrical confessions and social commentary distinguish the tunes on Mac DeMarco’s latest album

By Halle Weber Photo by Christine Lai

MAC DEMARCO, WHO BRINGS his stripped-down songs to the Agora on Thursday, is one of the few millennials and musicians without an Instagram account.

“I don’t need that shit in my life.

It’s not cool; people believing their self-worth is quantified by a heart symbol. It’s just fucked up,” says the 29-year-old in a recent phone interview. “I’m really disconnected with what’s going on, and it’s really hard for people to hit me up, but I don’t give a shit.”

DeMarco is old-school when it comes to his craft as well. The British Columbia native writes all of his songs in his L.A. home and records his demos in his garage.

DeMarco’s newest full-length, Here Comes the Cowboy, is full of intimate, acoustic indie ballads with some quirky percussion mixed in here and there.

“I’m not trying to chop the hell out of something on a computer,” says DeMarco, “But it doesn’t matter what people do to their music as long as it still feels human or has some connection to the person that’s making it.”

DeMarco is saddened by the lack of humanity in a lot of today’s hottest tracks.

“Even a really crazy, super cyber, insane top 40-song can still be cool if it has some kind of overreach of emotion,’ says DeMarco. “But I think when everything is super auto-tuned and the artists aren’t even writing their own music … maybe the human part gets lost in it.”

Making people feel something is DeMarco’s main goal, and he has a variety of ways of reaching that point. Here Comes the Cowboy features lyrical confessionals and social commentary but also snippets of jam sessions to round things out.

“Choo Choo,” a song with a catchy Motown groove, is one track that DeMarco didn’t take too seriously.

“I was already in the process of recording the final stuff for the record. I was doing it for a while.

So, there’s days where I’d be like, ‘I don’t feel like doing this today,’ and I’d record some funky little sounds.

So that came straight out of that and my girlfriend came into the garage

and was like, ‘That sounds like a choo-choo train.’ And I was like, ‘Okay.’ It’s definitely less of a song and more of a little patchwork.”

things I don’t usually play. The percussion is like me rubbing my pant leg. Stranger is better for me.”

DeMarco spread his wings and

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DeMarco’s favorite track, musically, on the album is “Little Dogs March.”

“It’s very slow, very strange.

For some reason, I was able to play

explored his lyrical abilities on Here Comes the Cowboy as well, pulling inspiration from all of his usual places. The oldest of his demos that made the final cut, “All of Our

Yesterdays,” includes a Shakespeare reference.

“A lot of really common idioms come from really far back in literary history, so it’s always interesting when you find one [and think,] ‘What? I say this every day, and it was in a play like way back,’” says DeMarco.

The track is the most raw and honest on the record, and by default, the most melancholy. It’s an ode to the days you can’t get back and the ones still to come, laid over a simple bluesy acoustic.

“I was in the garage late one night, just recording. I had a mic up and an acoustic guitar, and I just kind of went for it,” says DeMarco.

“I think it’s common ground, as far as my songwriting goes — kinda lonely.”

Even though he writes and produces all of his records singlehandedly, DeMarco doesn’t consider himself a particularly talented guy; he’s just in the game for the hell of it.

“I’m not very good with words, and I’m not even a very good musician either, but I like the idea of making something that is your collectable property that you can share with someone,” he says.

He’s also in it for the community that comes along with being a touring musician with a bit of a following behind you.

“The initial wave of meeting people that you think are cool and them treating you like you’re cool all of a sudden — it’ll drive you fucking crazy. But I’ve wanted to do this for so long, and now, I’m finally doing it.

It’s really trippy,” says DeMarco.

“Playing these shows to people, and everyone’s having a good time — that’s kind of like my church. Then, I’d go to a different city and everyone was doing the same thing and it was even bigger and the bands were even weirder. I just wanted to be a part of that. It’s different now; I have my community.”

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Alex Bevan: 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

Daniel Caesar/Koffee: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $40 DOS. House of Blues.

Chris Duarte/Ray Flanagan: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Charles Ellsworth: 8 p.m., free.

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Karuna Duo: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop.

Pallbearer/Destroyer of Light/ Relaxer: 8:30 p.m., $15. Grog Shop.

YFN Lucci: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre.

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Blue Lunch Featuring Tim Gartland: 7 p.m., $20. Bop Stop.

Mac DeMarco: 7 p.m., $38.99-$53.99.

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Andy Grammer: 8 p.m., $33 ADV, $38 DOS. House of Blues.

Tony Monaco Trio: 8 p.m., $25.

Nighttown.

Southern Culture On the Skids/The Split Squad: 8:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

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09/27

Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Tribute (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

Acid King Busse Woods 20th Anniversary Tour with Wizard Rifle/Warish: Though singerguitarist Lori S. started the stoner rock/doom metal band Acid King after moving from the Chicago suburbs to the Bay Area, her days in the Windy City’s ’burbs inspired the band’s 1999 album Busse Woods, named for a park where she and her friends used to hang out.

Twenty years on, the album still holds up and the band brings its tour celebrating its anniversary to the Grog Shop tonight. Songs such as the sludge-y, Sabbath-derived “Electric Machine” stand the test of time. The group will play the album in its entirety and then, assuming the crowd is hungry for more, will return to play a lengthy encore featuring tunes from its other albums. (Jeff Niesel) 9 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Grog Shop.

Moises Borges Quartet: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

Billy Cobham Crosswind Project

Acid King brings its anniversary tour to the Grog Shop. See: Friday.

featuring Randy Brecker: 8 p.m., $45-$65. Beachland Ballroom.

Delain/Amorphis/Anneke van Giersbergen: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre.

Josie Dunne: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Shannon Eller Un-Covered: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

Foster Care/Brainwashed Youth/ Boiled Men: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class.

The Gluttons: 8 p.m., $10. The Winchester.

Hotel California: A Salute to the Eagles: 8 p.m., $20-$29.50. MGM Northfield Park.

Jerry Paper: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Punch Drunk Tagalongs/Time Cat/ Wave Trails: 7 p.m., $6. Happy Dog. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free.

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09/28

Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Tribute (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

Com Truise/Photay/Beshken: 9 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Grog Shop.

David Liebe Hart/Whatever Your Heart Desires/Heavenly Queen/ ESP: Known for his appearances on Adult Swim, David Liebe Hart brings his unclassifiable live show to the Happy Dog tonight. “We put on a real weird performance that some would describe as comedy, or avant garde music, or a puppet show, but it’s really not easily describable,” he says in a press release. Hart does a bit of everything, but he mostly sings his strange songs about alien abductions and failed romantic

relationships. Opener Whatever Your Heart Desires includes him in its act. (Niesel) 9:30 p.m., $8-$30.

Happy Dog. Les Delices At Play: 11 a.m., free. Bop Stop.

Modus Featuring DJ Heather: 9 p.m., $15. The Winchester.

Nodge/Sweaty Mammoth/Pale Grey Lore: 8 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Felix Pastorius And Hipster Assasins: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop.

Revival ABB: An Evening with the music of Allman Brothers Band: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

Wish You Were Here: For a decade now, Wish You Were Here, the local Pink Floyd tribute act that started way back in 1995, has put on a special holiday show at House of Blues. Usually, the guys adopt some kind of theme for the gig, and this year is no different. The group, which celebrates its 24th anniversary this year, will perform Pink Floyd’s greatest classics with “musical and theatrical highlights” of The Wall to celebrate that album’s 40th anniversary. (Niesel) 9 p.m., $18.50 ADV, $21 DOS. House of Blues.

Zip-Zapp/Zunis/Pink Sky: 8 p.m., $7.

CODA.

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09/29

Captured By Robots: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class.

Dream Theatre: Formed in 1985 in Boston, Dream Theatre is the progressive metal band that just

won’t die. Earlier this year, the band dropped its 14th studio album, Distance Over Time. The disc features meticulously composed tunes that include off-kilter time signatures and ornate guitar solos (“Barstool Warrior” is a perfect example), showing just what great musicians these guys are. Tonight’s show will feature songs from it as well from Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory, the band’s first concept album, which turns 20 this year. (Niesel) $45-$65. Canton Palace Theatre.

Les Filles de Illighadad (in the Supper Club): This Niger-based group features Fatou Seidi Ghali, a pioneer of guitar in West Africa who is one of only two known Tuareg women guitarists in her native country. This marks their first-ever U.S. tour, and it supports the two very atmospheric albums the band has issued on the Sahel Sounds label. (Niesel) 7 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

Witt Lowry/Xuitcasecity/Whatever We Are: 8 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 7:30 p.m., $50-$65. The Kent Stage.

Phony Ppl/Red Rose Panic: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Grog Shop.

Streetlight Manifesto: 6:30 p.m.

Agora Theatre.

Ira Sullivan Quintet: 7 p.m., $20.

Nighttown.

Telehope/Heyohwell/Grumpy Plum: 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Gruca White Ensemble: 3 p.m., $10.

Bop Stop.

Jack Zucker Trio: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

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10/01

Black Label Society/Black Dahlia Murder/Alien Weaponry: 7:30 p.m., $39.50 ADV, $45 DOS. House of Blues.

DeVotchKa + The Joy Formidable: 8 p.m., $20-$50. Beachland Ballroom.

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BAND OF THE WEEK ANDY GRAMMER

By Jeff Niesel

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was the video that we cut. I was tearing up on the first three cuts. I just couldn’t get through it.”

A NAÏVE APPROACH: He intended

Naïve to show his depth and demonstrate that he’s more than just a positive guy. “I think that being positive or optimistic or happy comes with an association of weakness,” he says. “To me, it’s anything but that. To me, it’s a freaking war to keep bringing a positive outlook to a world that can dark. Naïve is a rebellious, revolutionary statement. I know how some people see me and I’m okay with that. It’s unbelievable to see people on this tour rocking Naïve T-shirts to show that they’re with me.”

MEET THE BAND: Andy Grammer (vocals, guitar, piano) OUT ON THE STREETS OF SANTA MONICA: Singer-songwriter Andy

Grammer started busking in the streets of Santa Monica. He says he learned a couple of key things from that time period. “Back then, I learned if you have something magic, people will stop,” he says.

“I learned that truly great art is valuable. [Current manager] Ben Singer was walking by and saw me playing on the street. We’ve been working together for nine years now, putting brick after brick into this incredible career.”

Grammer’s 2011 self-titled debut album featured the platinum singles “Keep Your Head Up”

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and “Fine by Me,” and his second album, 2014’s Magazines or Novels, yielded the quadruple platinum worldwide hit “Honey, I’m Good.”

Grammer just released his fourth album, Naïve.

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: Shortly before

his current tour started, Grammer performed a singalong with the Public School 22 chorus in New York. A video of the performance went viral. “I had no idea it would be as crazy as it was,” says Grammer. “It was just another thing to do that day that someone had set up. When I went in, I didn’t know what I was getting into. When I started to sing and heard the kids singing behind me, I started crying. The fourth time

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM: One album highlight, the ballad “She’d Say,” features the world music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who add rich backing vocals.

Grammer explains that a peculiar set of circumstances set the song in motion. “I lost my mom 10 years ago and she loved that Graceland record with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon. My wife got me a present and said I should take a phone call with a medium.

Right off the bat, he said my mother was there and she wanted me to write a song to my daughter about what she couldn’t say to her. I wrote the song, and I was in the car and heard that Ladysmith would be in Los Angeles on that Friday. I was so wonderfully confused. It was so strange. We chased them down and brought them into the studio and they helped me make this incredible love letter to my daughter from my mom.”

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By Dan Savage I’m a 35-year-old bisexual man in a LTR with a man. My question, however, has to do with my parents. As an adolescent/teen, I was a snoop (as I think most of us are, looking for dad’s porn stash, etc.). I was probably 12 or so when I found evidence of my dad being a cross-dresser. There were pictures of him in makeup and women’s clothing, and correspondence (under an alias and to a separate PO box) with other men interested in cross-dressing. As far as I could tell, he did this alone in hotel rooms while on work trips. Two years ago while on vacation, it came up while my mom and I were at dinner. She had recently found evidence, and she needed to take a short break to visit a friend out of state to process. She suggested I bring it up with him (I guess) because I’m queer and she knows I used to help host pansexual play parties. My dad is a devout Republican and comes off as very masculine. I see them only a couple times a year. Should I try to bring this up with my dad and let him know that I’ve known about his cross-dressing for more than 20 years and offer my knowledge about kink and alternative sexuality? Or just let him do his thing and we all retain the illusion of ignorance? My parents are still happily married —and whether it is more companionate than lusty, they love each other and have been married for more than 40 years.

Your take would be appreciated.

— Son Of A Cross-Dresser Why does your mother want you to talk to your dad about his crossdressing? Does she want you to talk him out of it? Does she want you to convince him to include her on his cross-dressing trips? Does she think he would benefit from attending a pansexual play party with his adult bisexual son?

Unless your father is in some sort of emotional distress or your mother is in some sort of danger, I really don’t see the point of this conversation, SOACD. It doesn’t sound like your dad is struggling with shame. If your dad had to abuse alcohol or smoke a crate of meth in order to give himself

permission to cross-dress alone in a hotel room, you surely would have mentioned that fact.

And if your father was having unprotected sex with the other straight male cross-dressers he corresponded with, you surely would have mentioned that, too.

From the details you included in your letter, SOACD, it sounds like your dad has successfully integrated cross-dressing into his life without harming himself or neglecting and endangering your mom. You could say your parents had a long and loving marriage despite the cross-dressing … or you could say it’s possible your parents’ marriage is an ongoing success not despite the crossdressing but because of it. If dressing up in women’s clothes and occasionally escaping the confines of masculine performance helped your dad feel centered and emotionally whole, having this escape and having some people he could be open with about it — some straight male cross-dressing peers — could have made him a better husband and father. (It’s too bad it didn’t make him a better person politically, but you can’t have everything.) And while it might have been better for everyone if your dad had been open about his cross-dressing with his wife and kid(s), that ship sailed a long time ago.

I don’t see what this convo — coming 20 years after you discovered his cross-dressing and two years after your mother discovered it — will achieve other than embarrassing and humiliating your father. Even a married person has a right to some small degree of privacy, and each of us has a right to a small zone of erotic autonomy. Your parents’ long, loving, successful marriage coexisted with your father’s crossdressing for four decades, and I don’t see why it can’t continue to coexist with it now. And if your mother is sad that your dad never shared this with her and wants to reassure him that he didn’t need to hide this part of himself from her and that she loves him just the same, she doesn’t need to deputize her bisexual son to initiate that

conversation. If she thinks it would be a relief and not a torment for her husband to know she knows and that knowing hasn’t changed how she feels about him, she should tell him.

*** I’m 25 years old and polyamorous. I’m in a relationship with a 28-year-old man since August 2018. It was just him and me when we first started dating, and then his old flame came into the picture. This whole time he had said he was not interested in having kids and a home and a primary partner. Since he got surgery in June and is now unemployed, he’s had a lot of time to think, he says, and now he’s decided he wants kids and a home and a primary partner. He knows I do not want any of these things, so he says his old flame is the person he’s going to do this with.

He has made jokes about being an “alcoholic” since I first met him, and I thought it was just a joke.

But now he’s spending money he simply does not have on alcohol.

It worries me. Do I hang in there?

Do I throw in the towel? I love this man very much, but I’m so confused.

— Previously The Primary I’m so sorry, PTP, but it would appear you’ve lost the unemployed guy with the drinking problem to another. But take heart: You’re young enough to meet someone else, someone who wants what you want and doesn’t want what you don’t. I’m certain that after meeting this person — or even long before you meet them — you’ll be able to recognize that your ex did you a favor. Sometimes we dodge the bullet, PTP, but on rare occasions the bullet dodges us.

smug. He also posts pics of his feet, videos of him urinating (no penis visible, just the stream), and lots and lots of “bitch shots,” i.e., crotch-height photos looking up at him from below. He uses a lot of homophobic slurs in the tweets that accompany these images.

I would have exactly zero fucks to give about this if my brother wasn’t still a teenager and wasn’t posting photos of his face. I warned him that the internet is forever, and facial-recognition software is a thing, and people who don’t understand the roleplay aspect of his use of hate speech will think he’s a bigot.

This could come back to haunt him socially or professionally.

Complicating matters somewhat, my little brother is a straight boy and I’m gay. He’s not making a ton of money doing this, but he’s making enough that my parents are wondering how he’s buying all those super-expensive shoes. What do I tell him? What do I tell them?

— Falling Into Nefarious Doings Of Male Sibling P.S. I know about this because he told me — I didn’t stumble over his Twitter account.

You’ve already told your brother the internet is forever and the low-key, low-stakes pseudo sex work he’s doing could come back to haunt him, FINDOMS. Beyond that … well, there’s really not much more you can do. Your brother is an adult, as are the men paying “tribute” to him, as they say in FinDom/FinSub Twitter, and he’s free to make his own choices. As for your parents, why is explaining where your brother is getting all those new shoes your problem? If your brother is old enough to set up his own Twitter and Venmo accounts, he’s old enough to come up with a plausible lie about those shoes.

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