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Frankie’s is the place to go for Cheap Girls Lansing band to play Toledo on March 27.

By Alexia Bailey Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Ben Graham laughs when asked to describe the music of his band, Cheap Girls.

“People might call us a breath of fresh air,” chuckled Ben, drummer for the Lansing-based band.

The band describes its sound as ’90s rock and ’90s alternative with punk rock influence. They often find themselves being compared to the bands that influence them: The Lemonheads, Smoking Popes and The Replacements.

Cheap Girls combines its alternative sound with punk rock lyrics, a sound that isn’t too common in today’s mainstream music scene.

Ian Graham, bassist and vocalist, is the mastermind who writes the catchy lyrics that flow with Adam Aymor’s guitar and Ben’s drums.

“It’s already been done, we’re just going back to what people remember 15 years ago,” Ben said.

Its second record, “My Roaring 20’s,” was released in October on Paper + Plastick. The album has energetic songs and tracks that are perfect to kick back and relax to.

The guys say they constantly find that their fan base is expanding. They believe something about their music draws people in from other scenes and genres.

“We can’t figure out why we have this appeal to people. People picked up on what we were doing,” Ben said.

“We started out not wanting to just appeal to or please anybody and we’ve just kind of stuck to that. Everybody’s trying to do something new. We’re just sticking to what we started doing. Our style hasn’t changed a whole lot.”

Cheap Girls plays at Frankie’s on March 27. The Riot Before, the Dashburns and the Renditions open. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 for anyone over 21, $7 for anyone under 21.

For more about Cheap Girls, visit them at http://www.myspace.com/ cheapgirls. O

Cheap Girls is Adam Aymor, guitar, Ben Graham, drums and Ian Graham, bass and vocals.

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The Bronx/The Fight Within bring gritty rock

By Mighty Wyte TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAR STAFF WRITER star@toledofreepress.com

Left channel: grimy guitar. Center channel: drums and up-front vocals.

“I want to be original ... but everything is digital, the formulas are fallin’ apart.”

If that isn’t the truth. Formulas are boring and most ‘new’ music tends to feel disposable and mass produced. Bringing something new and punchy to Frankie’s on March 26 is L.A.-based band The Bronx (myspace.com/thebronx).

Real. Rock. The Bronx possesses a definite and sadly rare tonal quality, with big dirty guitars, oversimplified riffs and rock-solid drums that get the head noddin’ and vocals that are far from boutique, but uncommon in the sense that the vocal melodies are fun and catchy, while the delivery is raw and energetic.

This is just good-time, beer in the air, Rock ’n’ Roll. The music The Bronx plays feels authentic; there is a purposeful lack of over-production and it feels great. Songs like “History’s Stranglers” and “Young Bloods” resemble the once ubiquitous “for the fun of it”-style tracks that early rock was known for.

The sound is original, the feel is legitimate and the overall package is just balls-out. The energy, the riff-driven verses and choruses and the classic and simple breakdowns call back to

early Chili Peppers recordings. “Heart Attack American” and “Knifeman” (with well over half-a-million MySpace plays) just makes you wonder what happened to the basics. The basics worked, the basics sold millions of records, and the basics work very well for The Bronx.

However, expect two sets from The Bronx this Friday, a rock set and a mariachi set. Yep, mariachi. Don’t be discouraged — this isn’t local Mexican-restaurant mariachi. It’s wholly unique and strangely infectious. Hand percussion, nylon-stringed guitars and real brass rounds out the completely surreal marriage of mariachi music and Anglo vocals.

If The Bronx’s visit to Toledo isn’t enough to get you to Frankie’s, local brutes The Fight Within will perform as well. They recently finished their “Scum and Villainy” album and will undoubtedly pull from that hat of tricks this weekend.

If you’re not familiar with The Fight Within, the words natural and filthy come to mind. If you haven’t listened to any of their new material or checked any of their pictures, make sure you visit myspace.com/thefightwithin. These guys just bleed fun. Their music is from the gut.

Scissorfight-esque guitar riffs, and entertaining (not-too-serious) vocals round out the package with these guys.

Tickets are $12 in advance from Culture Clash and Ramalama Records or Ticketmaster outlets. Admission is $15 night of the show. O

The Bronx’s stage act includes a mariachi set.

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Toledo Bellows offers space on Robinwood Concert House stage.

By Colleen Kennedy Toledo Free Press STAR Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

In a city where underground bands are often neglected, one area man promises them a spotlight — in his living room.

Gabriel Beam utilizes his Old West End home, located at 2564 Robinwood and dubbed the Robinwood Concert House, coupled with his nonprofit, Toledo Bellows, as methods to foster an underground music culture in Toledo.

Beam said he founded Toledo Bellows in July 2008 after discovering a void in the music scene.

“I didn’t really like much that was happening in Toledo,” Beam said. “I got tired of doing things at the bar. I started doing a lot of these things at my house because I figured I’d be a better host than a bar — to present it the right way where people would have to pay attention to it instead of being distracted by the TVs at the bar.”

What Beam created is a platform for musicians that allows attendees an intimate experience with the music.

Many of the bands play what Beam describes as “outsider” music or “contemporary avantgarde.” These musicians commonly experiment with synthesizers and homemade or manipulated instruments. Beam said many of these items are often garage sale finds that have been re-wired to sound as if they are malfunctioning — a desired outcome.

Initial shows took place at The Black Cherry or Woodchuck’s Downtown though they didn’t fit his idea of a perfect venue.

Without the financial means to rent a building, Beam said he drew inspiration from the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor and decided to transform his living room. When cleared out, the 24-by-35 foot room accommodates approximately 50 people.

On Oct. 26, 2008, Toledo Bellows hosted its premiere concert held at the Robinwood Concert House which featured musicians Simone

Gabriel Beam during a quiet moment at the Robinwood Concert House.

Weibenfels and Adam Smith. To date, the venue has housed 25 shows for artists from Los Angeles to Canada — and later this spring a band from England — that Beam said would have a hard time fitting into other venues and as a result might have passed up performing in Toledo. But Beam said it’s not entirely about out-of-town acts.

“There’s always going to be somebody local playing which helps breed new people that are into outsider music,” Beam said, “So I always pepper it with some kind of local act if I can.

Since then a lot of people have come out of the woodwork with their projects.”

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“One of my favorite performances was there,” Montgomery said. “Just being able to connect with an audience who was accepting of being different was nice. It’s essentially just a living room but a lot of aural magic happens there.”

Shows often include small appetizers such as cheese, veggies and olives. Beam said wine is available but isn’t meant to become the primary focus of guests.

“It’s not a party house,” Beam said. “That’s really what I didn’t want. I wanted strangers to show up who were interested in music.”

Since there is no cover charge, Toledo Bellows accepts donations, which Beam said are

used to pay the bands and cover the cost of food.

To promote events, Beam uses electronic media such as Facebook, MySpace, an e-mail list and Internet forums. As an attempt to reach out to even more potential fans, Beam created “The Void Corral,” an Internet music forum where users can interact to find out about shows.

Through Toledo Bellows, Beam said he hopes to continue to provide a “safe haven for improvisers” and has shows booked through August.

“I love to do these shows because they are so intimate,” Beam said. “I think that it’s really the way music should be experienced.”

For more about Toledo Bellows and upcoming shows, visit toledobellows.wordpress.com. O

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Quest for Fire exhibit to open at TMA

By John Dorsey Toledo Free Press STAR Staff Writer jdorsey@toledofreepress.com

Quest for Fire Studios is teaming with the Toledo Museum of Art for its latest exhibition, which features works by nearly 30 of the area’s most acclaimed visual artists. The exhibit will be on display in the museum’s Community Gallery beginning March 26.

Quest for Fire is the brainchild of local artists Jerry Gray and Kerry Krow. The studio, which is located Downtown in the Secor Building, has hosted a number of arts events at venues such as Mickey Finn’s Pub, the Secor Gallery, Diva, Home Slice Pizza and the Collingwood Arts Center. Gray, who previously worked for the museum’s Collector’s Corner, is the founder of Bozarts Gallery, which has also presented past studio events.

“I first approached Gallery Manager Jennifer Bandeen in March or April of 2009, about how to submit a proposal to the Community Gallery,” Gray said. “We discussed the vision, dates and other possibilities regarding music and installation of the work, the number and caliber of artists that we [Quest For Fire Studios] wanted and believed we would be able to bring into the gallery, and how we could produce an exhibition rooted in connecting the community, the artists and the museum.”

In addition to the current exhibit, Gray and Krow previously took part in the TMA’s live painting event “The Art of Funk,” where all artwork was auctioned off to benefit the museum.

“The most difficult part of the show has definitely been having to discuss the fact that there was simply not enough room for everyone we would have liked to have had involved,” Gray said. “I think for the most part we have done a solid job and have a diverse group of artists, which is one of the founding ideas of Q4Fstudios.”

Gray said this exhibit will stand out from previous efforts.

“The biggest differences between this event and others we have done is, this exhibition will hopefully help to encourage a broadening demographic for both the TMA and the Toledo arts scene, whom at times may be segmented audiences,” he said. “In other words, to encourage patrons of the Museum to rekindle a relationship with the galleries and artists in our area and hopefully to help motivate visitors to our city and Museum to investigate more closely the current movement.”

There will be an opening reception for the public from 7 to 10 p.m.

The exhibit will run though May 2.

The TMA Community Gallery is located at 2445 Monroe Street.

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Bowsher High School will soon open what it describes as the largest musical production in the history of Toledo Public Schools. Its highly anticipated presentation of Disney’s much beloved classic “Beauty and the Beast” is set to open on March 26.

The production features more than 40 players, with Caitlyn Varwig and Matt Schermbeck in the title roles. The show is being produced by the School’s Director of Vocal Music Karin Giffin.

“These kids have put in extremely long hours of rehearsal to make this show fantastic!,” Giffin said. “This is the biggest show I have ever put together and we are blessed to be the first Toledo Public School to perform a Disney show and of this magnitude.”

Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated classic hit the big screen in 1991 and was followed by the long running Broadway production in 1994, which closed in 2007.

“It’s always great to have a name show, but we’ve also been blessed with so much community support. The costumes alone for this production cost around $7,500, which we’ve have already covered through generous donations. I would say that this is a show not to be missed because it is family friendly, and the acting is just wonderful. I think the audience will be left

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speechless. We are just so fortunate to have this opportunity. We want to show the entire community what we have here at Bowsher and the work that TPS is doing,” said Scott McGorty, a senior at Bowsher.

“We’re expecting a large crowd, including Toledo Mayor Mike Bell.,” McGorty said. “Tickets have been selling well — I think we’ve already sold out something like 12 or 13 rows of seats.”

McGorty was so thrilled with the production he invited President Barack Obama, as well as First Lady Michelle, and while the Obamas won’t be able to attend, he did receive the following reply from the First Lady’s office.

“The First Lady sends her best wishes and hopes that you continue to work with those close to you to strengthen your community and our country.”

“Beauty and the Beast” runs through March 28. Showtime for Friday and Saturday evening is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults. Seniors and children 12 and under are $10 at the door. E.L. Bowsher Senior High School is located at 2200 Arlington Avenue.

For more information, call (419) 671-2000. O — John Dorsey

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What many local artists fail to realize is that ne of the biggest complaints Toledo until a recording contract is signed, hip-hop is hip-hop artists commonly vocalize is not your wife, but rather a very high-maintethe small window of opportunity to be nance mistress. It is possessive and demands heard by a mass audience. Club shows excellence, but will leave in an instant. You are are OK, but when the same people go out every not married to hip-hop until you can claim it on your taxes and just like you pursued your high weekend, there is little room for growth. Apschool sweetheart, you must parently, these rappers do not continue to strive for the have cars — or gas money honor to call yourself a part — to drive to other cities of hip-hop. to perform at those So do yourself a favor: venues or their overall lazireplace that extra large, plain ness keeps them in the viwhite T-shirt with one that cinity, only to complain about fits, iron your jeans, and lack of opportunity. for Pete’s sake, see a barber Well, hopefully Bowling or beautician immediately Green isn’t too far to travel. and do something with the I know 20 miles can be quite hair follicles growing out of grueling, but if you can afford your scalp. the equivalent of three hours’ There are a lot of artists pay at a minimum wage job LIL here who are timid, and for gas money, half the battle may need some extra enis already won. couragement before doing Wale, Interscope Records’ something like auditioning latest recruit, will perform in to open for a national reBowling Green April 10 and cording artist. Luckily, the promoters are going to let there is a forum that allows a local artist open up for him. rappers, singers, poets and The auditions will take place anyone else with talent, the March 30 and 31. Both opportunity to share their days of auditions will take gift without fear of criticism or rejection. place on the BGSU campus from 6 to 8 p.m. The March 30 tryouts take place Every Saturday at 1811 Adams St Downtown, in room 115 and March 31’s in room 363. There Michael “Mercury” Hayes and his label, U.G.E., is a $15 registration fee, so hopefully that gold- hosts The Listening, an intimate, relaxed forum plated chain didn’t set you back too far, aspiring for undiscovered talent to sharpen up on their rapper. The artist will have five minutes to im- skills, so that one day he or she will be ready press the five judges, and it will be far from easy. to perform on a bigger stage. If you have worn This is not “American Idol”; you’re not going to a shirt that was two sizes too big in the last make it on your good looks — well, good looks year, I suggest you attend, and perform at, The will help. The winner will be picked based on a Listening every Saturday until you have acquired a new wardrobe. wide level of criteria and appearance Get your wardrobe together, select your will factor in. best song and practice. Go to The Listening Rappers with a bleak future, go this Saturday and don’t be afraid to ask back to your first date. Remember for feedback. They won’t bite. Then, how you made sure your hair was gather your $15 registration fee nice, your clothes were pressed and head to BGSU March 30 or and neat, your breath passed the 31 to try and secure your place in self-check test and your every front of thousands of people as you move was carefully calculated? open up for Wale. For more If you and your significant other information on the tryouts, made it past the “honeymoon contact Josh at 559-430-4338, phase,” you eventually let or visit www.vizionsmaryourself go, and all your keting.com. lover longed for was that And when you don’t get person you were when picked, in between curses the two of you first met. and incomprehensible exSo you make an effort clamations of misplaced to make sure on special blame as to why you were occasions like birthdays not picked, find a mirror, and holidays, you make and the answer will stare your significant other Wale (Interscope Records) at you. O remember why he or she

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hen the clock struck zero March 20 at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, the Waite Indians girls’ basketball squad was etched in the record books as the runner up for the Division I state title during the 2009-2010 season. Amid tears of sorrow, the Lady Indians accepted their medals and made the painful journey back to the Glass City, unfulfilled dreams still fresh in their minds.

But there is a bigger game that will be played on a community stage during the next several months. Whether the ladies realize it or not, they may have helped win a bigger game, of which the final outcome has yet to be decided.

While the dust is still settling around the debate, Toledo Public Schools (TPS) is still considering axing all of the school systems’ athletic programs. The school board has stated that cutting athletics from the budget would save roughly $3.5 million. While there are no specifics about any of the pending cuts, TPS has routinely in-

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nered plenty of attention from several Division I universities. Of course, I haven’t mentioned Natasha Howard. The Florida State bound forward has already been named Ohio’s player of the year, and she is a finalist for several national player of the year awards. Where would any of these girls be without Waite’s basketball program, which coach Manny May has crafted from scratch?

But Waite’s girls’ basketball team is not the cluded athletics in the list of programs that are only exception. All one has to eligible for the chopping block. do is cross the river and head I could use this space to over to Rogers High School. go into why athletics are Since taking the head great, or why cutting coaching job ten years ago, athletics would further Rick Rios has accomplished cripple a school system a similar feat with the Rams that already seems to be on football team. Rios has won life support. I could list a a city league championship litany of logical explanations (2000) and has appeared about the benefits of athletics in three state playoff games within the schools, and the (2000, 2005 and 2007). He great life lessons that carry also has coached several over from the athletic fields star players, including into the game of life. But I will Chris SCHMIDBAUER Drushaun Humphrey, who let the athletic programs speak accepted a scholarship to for themselves.

Ohio State prior to his unMost know about the Waite timely death in 2001, Fred Indians, who showed all that is Davis, who is a current player wrong with the idea of cutting for the Washington Redskins athletics from the TPS schools. and former star for the USC For the past four months, Trojans, and most recently, the city rallied behind this EJ Tucker, City League POY Waite team. How could you this past season and will connot? The team boasts sevtinue his playing career at UT. eral talented players like Brooke Hunt, Shanice McNeal, Mariah Haynes All of these young men were players under Rios.

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that rivals any in the state, and maybe even the country, for many years. Under the tutelage of head coach Rich Arbinger, who recently retired after 34 seasons, the Spartans won two state titles (1994 and 2000), finished as a state runner up several times, and has not had a losing record since 1978. Arbinger, whose successor Jason Biniker will take over the program this spring, had a record 759-214, which ranks him fourth all time amongst his Ohio baseball coaching brethren.

Surely this is just a fraction of the successful athletic programs that have made waves on the local and state sports scenes. Libbey’s and Scott’s boys’ basketball program, Waite’s and Start’s wrestling programs, and Start’s girls’ basketball team are just naming a few of the successful teams that have not yet been mentioned.

But the Lady Indians are the darlings of the city right now, as they grabbed the TPS athletic torch and carried it all the way to Columbus to represent the athletic prowess the Glass City has to offer. These girls illuminated what athletics can do for a team, a school and a community that has not always had much to cheer about.

It makes you wonder who the next one to bear the torch will be. Who will be the next athletic program to carry this city on their collective backs, with hopes of state championships on the line?

But the flame on this torch is starting to flicker, as ideas of cutting athletics have become more real than ever. The real question is, are we prepared to let this torch, which has been carried by so many over the years, extinguish on our watch? O Chris Schmidbauer is Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star Sports Editor.

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Demetrius Nicodemus

How the one-time bartender was harrassed into becoming Toledo’s funniest comic.

By Kristen Rapin Toledo Free Press Special Sections Editor krapin@toledofreepress.com

Demetrius Nicodemus was a bartender for Connxtions Comedy Club when he was harassed into performing stand-up comedy.

“After the shows the staff and all the comedians would sit around, have cocktails and share stories. One day the headliner of the club, Billy Gardell, told me I was the funniest guy he’d met that isn’t paid,” Nicodemus said.

“Then [Gardell] called me for 30 days straight until I went to my first amateur night. Literally, he harassed me.”

Nicodemus had doubts about standing onstage with all eyes watching, but once the lights hit his face, he knew comedy was for him.

“It was the best drug I’ve ever done.

It was better than drinking, better than sex. It’s immediate gratification. You give to the audience and they give back to you,” he said excitedly. “I’d live on stage if I could, but I don’t think people would want to watch me shower.”

Despite more than 15 years performing stand-up, Nicodemus, who goes from dry and sarcastic to silly and animated, said he still gets nervous be-

fore he performs.

“Before the show I pace. I pace to the point where it’s distracting to the people around me,” he said.

“People honestly think I have a bomb strapped to me. ‘Why is he so nervous? He doesn’t look Islam.’ I’m like, ‘it’s Muslim you dummy, it’s not Islam, that’s the religion.’ ” The Toledo native insists the nerves are positive and the night he’s not nervous is the night he gives up comedy. Being nervous reinforces that he still cares about comedy and the performance he has to bring the audience, Nicodemus said.

On the advice of other comedians, Nicodemus played around with having a message in his act.

“They told me I needed to have a message to my show, that somehow my comedy was supposed to better people’s life. Like start Scientology all over again,” he said mockingly.

After battling with the idea for a few months, Nicodemus decided his standup was to entertain, not deliver a message. His comedy is about making the audience forget about their crappy jobs or bills and have fun, he said.

Nicodemus’ show is never the same twice because he plays off the audience

and is improvisational. He has no set list of jokes and rarely knows what he is going to start out with, he said.

“I’m very stream of consciousness.

I never really know what I’m going to start out with or where I’m going to end up. I usually let the audience take me where they want to go.”

The stand-up is “sometimes so ridiculous that you can’t believe you’re sitting there listening to it,” with comedy that ranges from clean to adult humored, Nicodemus said.

“I’m an adult, I do things and talk about things that I think are funny and sometimes that runs blue and sometime it runs clean,” he said. “I have a Dr. Seuss parody of ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ that if you were a teacher you’d probably never read the story to your students again. I’m very proud of that.”

Nicodemus writes his best material while at the bar with a beer, commotion surrounding him, so he constructed the ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ parody while out.

“I was writing this bit, and I’m going through the book trying to get the rhyme scheme and I have a notebook and a beer. This guy walks by me and he says to me ‘if you stop drinking you’d probably be able to get through

that book without taking notes’, ” he said, almost disbelievingly. “You don’t even know me, but you feel I have a problem and I would take my remedial reading skills into a bar so I could be openly mocked.”

Nicodemus toured Ohio and Michigan, going as far as the Upper Peninsula, before joining the “Andrew Z in the Morning” show on 92.5 KISS FM. “Demetrius is there to entertain me,” Andrew “Z” Zepeda said. “He keeps it interesting. I never know what he’s going to say and it’s always funny.”

While Nicodemus is funny even though he has to be censored on the radio, he is amazing live, Zepeda said.

“It’s hilarious. He does a lot of relationship stuff, gives the male point of view. Women have it sugar-coated.

Demetrius knows how men think and doesn’t mind sharing it,” he said. His show is R-rated; if someone is easily offended they shouldn’t go.”

Nicodemus has been part of the Andrew Z show for nearly two years.

“Being funny is easier being with people who are fun to be around. If I hated everyone I would suck on the show. I love everyone on the show, it’s not like going to work,” Nicodemus said. “It’s not a job. It’s like going out

and hanging out with friends.”

Nicodemus is part of the morning show’s “Andrew Z’s Small Town Comedy Tour.” The Northwest Ohio tour consists of four comedians with Nicodemus as the headliner.

“He’s our Michael Phelps. Last one on the stage and goes the longest. He’s our anchor,” Zepeda said.

The tour was recently in Defiance and Nicodemus improvised with the audience for nearly an hour.

“I hear him on a daily basis, and to hear new stuff for 40 minutes, and have the audience erupting with laughter says what a talent he is,” Zepeda said.

Nicodemus will host comedy shows March 25 through March 28 at Fat Fish Blue home of the Funny Bone Comedy Club at Levis Commons in Perrysburg. Shows are March 25 at 7 p.m., March 26 at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., March 27 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. and March 28 at 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.fatfishblue.com.

Nicodemus can also be seen during “Andrew Z’s Small Town Comedy Tour.” Upcoming shows are April 5 at The Clarion Suites in Fremont and April 12 at The Cla-Zel in Bowling Green. For more information about the tour, visit www.925kissfm.com. O

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It was better than drinking, better than sex.

It’s immediate gratificaiton.

Andrew “Z” Zepeda with Sara Hegarty and Demetrius Nicodemus at the KISS FM studios in Toledo.

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You give to the audience and they give back ... I’d live on stage if I could, but I don’t think people would want to watch me shower.

Being funny is easier being with people who are fun to be around. If I hated everyone I would suck on the show.

They told me I needed to have a message to my show, that somehow my comedy was to supposed to better people’s life.

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I’m an adult, I do things and talk about things that I think are funny and sometimes that runs blue and sometimes it runs clean.

Catch Demetrius On Air: 92.5 KISS FM “Andrew Z in the Morning” weekdays 6 to 10 a.m.

On Stage: Fat Fish Blue March 25 - 28 On Tour: April 5: Fremont, April 12: Bowling Green

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What’s what, where and when in NW Ohio

Compiled by Whitney Meschke Events are subject to change.

MUSIC The Blarney Irish Pub:

Catch local acts and take in the pub’s modern Irish and American fare. 601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www.theblarneyirishpub.com.

O David Lester: March 25.

O The Bridges: March 26-27.

O Rick Whited: April 1.

O Jeff Stewart & the 25s: April 2.

O Kentucky Chrome: April 3.

Bronze Boar:

Be sure to check out this Warehouse District tavern’s namesake, overhead near the entrance. 20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www.bronzeboar.com.

O Brandon Duke: Wednesdays.

O Joe Woods Band: March 25-26.

O River’s Edge: April 1.

O Coosters: April 2.

O Bush League: April 3.

Brooklyn’s Daily Grind:

Coffee and music, what more can one want? If a snack is the answer, this is your spot. 723 Airport Hwy., Holland. (419) 724-1433 or visit the Web site www.brooklynscafe.com.

O Tom Harms: 8-11 p.m. March 26.

O Jim Bowser: 8-11 p.m. March 27.

O Acoustic Jam: 8-11 p.m. April 1.

O Josh Whitney: 8-11 p.m. April 2.

O Jamie Combs: 8-11 p.m. April 3.

Caesars Windsor:

Supporting Mama Sox n Papa’s Tavern will host “American Idol” viewing parties to support Crystal Bowersox every Tuesday evening. Live music from Ron Rasberry starts before the show at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and continues after the show. Food from “Good Ole Gary,” will also be available.

T-shirts saying “Papa’s Tavern Supports Mama Sox” will be available for purchase. Proceeds from the shirts will be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Association. n Trinity United Church of Christ Elliston is inviting all to join a tribute to Elliston’s “American Idol” at Trinity U.C.C. This event will be taking place at 8:30 p.m. March 24. An ice cream social will rally and support Bowersox. O — Kristen Rapin

If you have your passport, consider hopping the Detroit River for this casino’s entertainment offerings. Attendees must be 19 or older. Caesars Windsor Colosseum, 377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor, Ontario. (800) 991-7777 or visit the Web site www.caesarswindsor.com.

O Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra: 9 p.m. March 27.

O “Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding”: 7 p.m. April 2.

O Jethro Tull: 9 p.m. June 19.

O Ringo Starr/All-Starr Band: 9 p.m. July 23.

River Road, Maumee. $5 Tuesdays-Thursdays.

(419) 794-8205 or www.degagejazzcafe.com.

O Brian Lang: Tuesdays.

O Gene Parker: Wednesdays.

O Steve Richko: March 25-27.

Degage Jazz Cafe:

The Distillery:

Signature drinks and live local jazz performers. 301

Karaoke is offered Tuesdays, but paid enter-

tainers rock out Wednesdays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www. thedistilleryonline.com.

O Steve Mullan: March 24.

O Gunslinger: March 25.

O Earregulars: March 26-27.

O Tony & Lyle: March 31.

O The Bridges: April 1-3.

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Fat Fish Blue:

Serving blues and similar sounds, as well as bayou-style grub. Levis Commons, 6140 Levis Commons Blvd., Perrysburg. (419) 931-3474 or fatfishfunnybonetoledo.com.

O East River Drive: 9:30 p.m. March 26-27, $7.

Frankie’s:

Toledo’s venue for rock. Tickets vary between $5 and $14, unless noted. 308 Main St. (419) 693-5300 or www.FrankiesInnerCity.com.

O The Bronx, Mariachi El Bronx, Violent Soho, Dead Country, the Fight Within: 8 p.m. March 26.

O Cheap Girls, the Riot Before, the Dashburns, the Renditions: 9 p.m. March 27.

O Stephen Jerzak, Stereo Skyline, the Downtown Friction, We Should Whisper, Great Big Plains: 5 p.m. March 30.

O Kelly & Picciuto, WEe, the Matt Truman Ego Trip, the Infernal Names, CRISS: 9 p.m. April 1.

O Killola, Sick of Sarah: 9 p.m. April 3.

Ground Level Coffeehouse:

Mix your beans with some music for an eclectic brew. Open mic Monday nights. 2636 W. Central Ave. (419) 671-6272, www.groundleveltoledo.com.

O Relativity: 7 p.m. March 24.

O William Faehnle/Coosters: March 26.

O Crickets on the Hearth: March 27.

Headliners:

All ages, all genres are welcome. 4500 N. Detroit Ave. Ticket prices vary between $5 and $18.

(419) 269-4500 or www.headlinerstoledo.com.

O Glory to Judge, May This Fall, Straying from Grace, Heart of Gold: 7 p.m. March 26.

O Sponge, Red Rebellion, Highland, Hazard Perry: 7 p.m. March 27.

Manhattan’s:

A “slice of the Big Apple.” 1516 Adams St. (419) 243-6675 or www.manhattanstoledo.com.

O The Real Magicians: 6 p.m. March 25.

O Stonehouse: March 26.

O NoteWorthy: March 27.

O John Connally: 7 p.m. March 31.

O Tom & Kyle Turner: 6 p.m. April 1.

O Vytas & His Electric Outfit: April 2.

O Jeff Williams Group: April 3.

O Easter brunch: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 4.

Mickey Finn’s:

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O Brass Tacks: March 25.

O The Sights, Extra! Extra!, the Sanderlings: March 26.

O Black Cobras: March 27.

Murphy’s Place:

Jazz—smooth, bebop, traditional. 151 Water St. (419) 241-7732 or www.murphysplacejazz.com.

O Start High School Jazz Band: 7 p.m. March 24, $5.

O Kim Buehler: 9 p.m. March 26, $6.

O Nicole Heitger: 9 p.m. March 27, $8.

O Clifford Murphy and Claude Black: 8 p.m.

March 29-30, $4.

O Vocalists’ show: 9 p.m. April 2, $6.

O Glenda McFarlin: 9 p.m. April 3, $8.

Omni:

This Toledo club is a venue for music (and music lovers) of all types. 2567 W. Bancroft St. (419) 535-6664 or omnimidwest.com.

O Ozzmosis: The Ozzy Experience, with The Nightmare, Alice Cooper tribute. 7:30 p.m. March 26.

O Mas Fina: 9:30 p.m. March 27.

Ottawa Tavern:

Casual meals with weekend entertainment. 1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www.otavern.com.

O Black Atlantic, Sangsara, Big Kitty: 10 p.m.

March 26.

O WEe: 10 p.m. March 27.

O HotChaCha, Fangs Out: 10 p.m. April 2.

O Monolithic Cloud Parade: 10 p.m. April 3.

The Village Idiot:

Tunes combined with pizza and booze, some would say it’s a perfect combination. 309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 893-7281 or www.village idiotmaumee.com.

O 5 Neat Guys: Wednesdays.

O Mark Mikel: Friday afternoons and Tuesday nights.

O The Bob Rex Band: Sunday afternoons.

O Tree Head Kings: March 26.

O The Twin Cats: March 27.

O The MacPodz: April 1.

O Mojo Flow, Stretch Lefty: April 2.

Yeeha’s:

Country rules at this roadhouse. 3150 Navarre Ave., Oregon. $5-$10 covers. (419) 691-8880 or www.yeehas.com.

O Mas Fina: 10 p.m. March 26.

O ’80s party with DJ Jon Gordon: March 27.

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Taste of Latin America Honors Chavez Adelante, The Latino Resource Center, will host its 6th Annual Cesar Chavez Humanitarian Award Gala, “Taste of Latin America,” on March 31.

The event will feature tapas, appetizers, from throughout Latin America and honor the memory of Chavez. An award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, will be presented to a Northwest Ohio Latino.

Tickets are $50 and may be purchased at the door or by calling (419) 244-8440.

Proceeds will benefit Adelante programs.

The evening will be hosted from 5:30 p.m. to 8p.m. in the Secor Building, 425 Jefferson Ave. O —Kristen Rapin

Ohio University Men’s Chorus:

Scholars of a Different Note:

A Bow to Brahms:

Toledo School for the Arts:

Clarence Smith Community Chorus:

Stations of the Cross:

The group will perform “I Have Seen,” an original composition by Luke Rosen, and other works.

8 p.m. March 24, McQuade Theater, St. John’s Jesuit High School, 5901 Airport Hwy. (419) 8655743 or www.sjjtitans.org.

In addition to the composer’s Violin Concerto, the Toledo Symphony will perform works by Strauss. 8 p.m. March 26-27, TMA’s Peristyle, 2445 Monroe St. $20-$50. (419) 246-8000, (800) 348-1253 or www.toledosymphony.com.

This vocal group will present its annual spring concert, featuring spirituals, solo performances and songs of the season, highlighting AfricanAmerican composers. 6 p.m. March 27, Toledo Mennonite Church, 5501 Nebraska Ave. (419) 534-2299 or cscchorus.com.

New Christy Minstrels:

Local member Eddie Boggs will perform with the folk group. 7 p.m. March 27, Southview High School Center for the Performing Arts, 7225 Sylvania Ave., Sylvania. $20-$25. (419) 8418876, (419) 824-3999 or eddieboggs.com.

Way concert:

BGSU’s Graduate String Quartet and Belazel Trio will perform. 2:30 p.m. March 28, Way Public Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. (419) 8743135 or www.waylibrary.info.

Toledo Youth Orchestra:

This ensemble of young musicians will perform side-by-side with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. 4 p.m. March 28, Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle, 2445 Monroe St. $35. (419) 246-8000, (800) 348-1253 or www.toledosymphony.com.

UT concerts:

The university’s music students will perform the pieces they’ve been perfecting. (419) 530-2452.

Percussion Ensemble Recital: 4 p.m. March 28, Center for Performing Arts recital hall, Tower View Boulevard and West Campus Drive. www. utoledo.edu/as/music.

This concert series features BGSU vocal and instrumental music students. 7:30 p.m. March 30 and April 6, Wildwood Preserve Metropark Manor House, 5100 W. Central Ave. (419) 4079700 or metroparkstoledo.com.

Chorus and piano students will work together and separately for this concert. 8 p.m. March 30, First Presbyterian Church of Maumee, 200 E. Broadway St., Maumee. (419) 246-8732 or www. ts4arts.org.

The community is invited to take a symbolic walk with Christ on the Via Dolorosa, with accompaniment by the Canterbury Choir, for Good Friday.

7 p.m. April 2, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1 Trinity Plaza. (419) 246-8732 or www.trinitytoledo.org.

Ralph Stanley II:

You could call him a bluegrass legacy, with his inheritance an education learned at his father’s side; with Marion Blue. 7 p.m. April 3, Maumee Indoor Theater, 601 Conant St., Maumee. $15.

(419) 897-8902 or www.glasscityopry.com.

SPRINGTIME Hop to It:

Kids can get in a word with the Big Bunny at this photo opportunity. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. MondaysSaturdays and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays through April 3, Westfield Franklin Park food court, 5001 Monroe St. $20-$49. (419) 473-3317 or westfield. com/franklinpark.

Spring Fling:

The Imagination Station, Toledo Zoo and Toledo Ballet will host activities, plus crafts, gifts and Build-a-Bear Bucks will be available. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 27, Westfield Franklin Park food court, 5001 Monroe St. $5. (419) 474-6262 or www.juniorleaguetoledo.org.

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Piano trio to tickle ivories The Tecumseh Piano Trio will perform at First Presbyterian Church as part of Chamber Music Toledo’s 2009-2010 Artist Series.

The trio will perform a blend of Spanish, Latin American, Gypsy and Jewish idioms.

Comprised of pianist Greg Kostraba, violinist Regan Eckstein, and cellist Karen Kruse, the Tecumseh Piano Trio has performed contemporary and classical music throughout the Midwest since 1996.

The concert is April 11 at 3 p.m.

Tickets for the show are $1 for students grades K-12, $5 for college students with ID and $15 for adults.

Annual Easter Egg Hunt:

Kids 12 and younger are invited to seek out vibrant handfuls of treasures. Egg and candy hunts, games and photos with the Big Bunny are planned. 2 p.m. March 27, Adolphus Kraemer Park, West Main and North Church streets, Oak Harbor. (419) 898-0479 or visit the Web site www. oakharborohio.net.

Spring Fling:

A bounce house, laser maze, games, art activities, face painting, and magic acts will be available. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. March 27, Commodore Building, 140 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. $4-$8. www.perrysburgarts.org.

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(ages 4-5) April 3, Oregon Branch Library, 3340 Dustin Road, Oregon. Tickets, available March 27, are required. (419) 259-5250.

Easter Egg Hunt:

In addition to the oval objective, kids can pet farm animals, get their faces painted and visit with the Easter Bunny. Noon March 28, Hudson Mills Metropark, 8801 N. Territorial Road, Dexter, Mich. $3-$5, plus $5 parking.

Registration: (734) 426-8211 or visit the Web site www.metroparks.com/parks/.

“Come, Touch the Robe”:

Library Egg Hunts:

Children can share stories and songs and do the traditional seasonal search. Visit the Web site www.toledolibrary.org.

O 7 and younger, divided into two age groups.

4-5 p.m. March 26, Washington Branch Library, 5560 Harvest Lane. Registration: (419) 259-5330.

O For kids 1-8; free tickets, available March 16 and after, are required. 2-3 p.m. March 27, Point Place Branch Library, 2727 117th St. Registration: (419) 259-5390.

O 7-7:45 p.m. March 29, Reynolds Corners Branch Library, 4833 Dorr St. Registration: (419) 259-5303.

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This Easter musical details the meaning Christ had for those who were with him during his last days on Earth. 10:30 a.m. March 28 and 7 p.m.

April 2, Garden Park Christian Church, 8605 Salisbury Road, Monclova. (419) 868-7700 or www.gardenpark.org.

Bunny Storytime:

Kids 4-12 can hop in for bunny stories and crafts to take home. 4-5 p.m. March 31, Kent Branch Library, 3101 Collingwood Blvd. (419) 259-5283 or www.toledolibrary.org.

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Springtime Geocache Egg Hunt:

The traditional springtime search goes hightech. Finishers will be rewarded. 1-3 p.m. April 3, Buehner Center porch, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark, 4139 Girdham Road off Route 2, Swanton. $3. Reservations: (419) 407-9700 or reservations.metroparkstoledo.com.

Easter Egg Roll:

Kids 3-10 who bring three hard-boiled, colored eggs can participate in this White House holiday tradition. An egg-decorating contest, balloons and more. 2-3:30 p.m. April 3, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Spiegel Grove, Hayes and Buckland avenues, Fremont. (419) 3322081, (800) 998-7737 or www.rbhayes.org.

Easter Bunny Breakfast/ Lunch & Hayride:

Kids can dine with the Easter Bunny, then take a hayride with him to his egg patch, where finds will be rewarded. Farm animals available for petting, too. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 3, Country Lane Tree Farm, 3525 N. Bolander Road, Genoa. $7-$8.

(419) 461-1298 or countrylanetreefarm.com.

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“The Spring Skies Over Toledo”:

Amateur star-gazers can learn what they’re looking at in this program about constellations, planets and associated mythologies.

7:30 p.m. April 2, 9 and 16, UT’s Ritter Planetarium, 2801 W. Bancroft St. $5-$6.

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This venue has been rocking BGSU students (and others) for years. 127 N. Main St., Bowling Green. (419) 353-5000 or www.clazel.net.

O Luke James, Marky Dally: 9 p.m. March 25, $5.

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BGSU’s instructors, professors and musicians perform. Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center, Willard Drive and Ridge Street, Bowling Green. (419) 372-8171, (800) 589-2224, (419) 372-8888 or www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music.

O Sean David Cooper, bass-baritone: 3 p.m.

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O Faculty Scholar Series. 8 p.m. March 31.

Gish Film Theater:

Named in memory of Dorothy and Lillian Gish, this theater hosts screenings of international and arthouse movies and matinees of popular films of the past. BGSU’s Hanna Hall, East Wooster Street, Bowling Green. (419) 372-4474 or www. bgsu.edu/gish.

O “Snow Angels”: A young man enters his first romantic relationship as those of the adults around him collapse. 7:30 p.m. March 30.

O “After the End of the World”: The world of an ethnic melting pot is disrupted by political changes. 7:30 p.m. April 1.

O “The Outlaw”: This Western, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jane Russell, takes on the legend of Billy the Kid. 3 p.m. April 4.

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O JFK Didn’t Even See It Coming, Bravery My Neighbor: March 24.

O Red Wanting Blue: March 25.

O Limelightz: March 26 and April 3.

Nate, Saturnine Hello, Highbinder, Kids in the Making, Vocal Response Unit, Frank & Jesse: March 27.

O G.C.C., Vocal Response Unit, Years of Resistance, Wretches, Catatrophic Manifestation: March 31.

O April Fool’s Show, featuring Straight to the Withdrawal, Divine Lemons, Killbot Zero, Resonant Soul: April 1.

O Bands Straight to the Withdrawal, Resonant Soul, Downtown Brown, Extra Extra, Crotchet Catpause: April 2.

“Reflections of Winter” show:

Gallery members will display artwork that fits the theme. 1-4 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays and 4-7 p.m. Fridays through March 27, Arts in Common Gallery, South Main School, 437 S. Main St., Bowling Green. www.artsincommon.org.

BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition:

Art students’ culminating work will be displayed. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays (plus 6-9 p.m. Thursdays) and 1-4 p.m. Sundays through April 3, Dorothy Uber Bryan and Willard Wankelman galleries, BGSU School of Art, between Ridge and Wooster streets, and BowenThompson Student Union Gallery, Ridge Street and North College Drive, Bowling Green. (419) 372-8525 or art.bgsu.edu/galleries.

Jazz Fest 2010:

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O’Farrill will be the guest pianist. Halls are located in Moore Musical Arts Center, Willard Drive and Ridge Street, Bowling Green. (419) 372-8171, (800) 589-2224, (419) 372-8888 or www.bgsu. edu/colleges/music.

O Faculty Artist Series: Faculty Jazz Group.

8 p.m. March 24, Bryan Recital Hall.

O Vocal Jazz Ensemble. 8 p.m. March 25, Bryan Recital Hall.

O High School Jazz Day. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. March 26, Kobacker Hall.

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BGSU Women’s History Month celebration: “Women’s Peace of the World.” The month’s events highlight women and their efforts for global peace and justice. Events are free, but donations will be taken, and take place on the Bowling Green campus. www.bgsu.edu/offices/ women.

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Fourth generation bites into family business

By Colleen Kennedy Toledo Free Press STAR Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

For Zach MacQueen, it’s true the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

As assistant operation manager for MacQueen Orchard, Inc., MacQueen, 23, is the fourth generation to work for the family business. The Holland orchard, which began in 1936 as 10-acres of apple trees planted by greatgrandparents Hugh and Martha MacQueen, has grown to 180 acres and supplies apples for local companies like the Andersons, Churchill’s and Monnette’s Market as well as national chains like Wal-Mart and Save-A-Lot. After graduating from St. John’s Jesuit in 2005, MacQueen set his sights on majoring in construction management at the Ohio State University but later changed his mind.

“I had a couple good internships but those really made me feel that I didn’t want to do construction,” MacQueen said. “But I was so far into my major though, that there was really no turning back.”

Like most soon-to-be college graduates, MacQueen searched for jobs within his major. He graduated in June of 2009 with a bachelor of science in agriculture, with a focus on construction management, and a minor in business. But after a less-than-successful job hunt and no desire to relocate, MacQueen said he re-evaluated his goals.

“I sat down with my parents and told them I thought I’d be a good fit here,” MacQueen said.

“At first they were hesitant and said they didn’t want me spinning my tires working here if it wasn’t what I really wanted to do. Now that I am here, I think they’re happy.”

Since beginning to work full time at the orchard, MacQueen said he’s learned there’s more to the family business than just growing apples.

He has also realized that his degree is more useful than he initially thought. Many of his college courses, such as scheduling and operation management, go “hand in hand with what goes

on in this building everyday,” he said.

Daily tasks include everything from product packaging to making the occasional batch of cider.

MacQueen said he typically works forty-hour weeks but that number doubles from August to November during the harvesting. But MacQueen said the workload hasn’t bothered him, not even before he was receiving paychecks for his labor.

MacQueen said, “Even in high school when I didn’t work here, I would come home and drive through just to say hi to my dad and he’d say ‘Hey why don’t you give me a hand…’ and because it’s your family you’re immediately put to work and would be stuck for another couple hours.”

His early involvement is what MacQueen said fostered his love for the orchard and working outdoors. Some of his earliest memories, he said, include the orchard and involve him riding in a tractor alongside his father or falling off his bike in the market’s parking lot.

“I never thought anything of it but I guess it is kinda cool,” MacQueen said. “Growing up here was awesome; I think that’s why I’m so attached to the place. I’ve always been an outdoor kid and here I’m outside all the time.”

MacQueen said he doesn’t plan on returning to school to study horticulture because everything he’ll need to know in the future can be learned through hands on experience at the orchard. He said seeing his family all-day every day hasn’t bothered him and he still finds time to hang out with friends on the weekends.

Though he won’t gain complete control for quite some time, as both his grandfather, Robert, and father, Jeff, are still heavily involved in the orchard’s operation, MacQueen said he looks forward to learning more and being able to continue the work his family initiated.

“I’d like to move forward with my dad’s high density planting and every year increase our yield and be able to sell more product,” MacQueen said. “I’ll be working here for as long as I enjoy it. Before, everything I was doing felt like work and here it doesn’t.” O

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n the wake of the recent passing of health care reform legislation by Congress, after considerable debate, we’d like to take some time this week to examine the role that government plays in our lives, particularly as it relates to finance.

During the course of an average American’s working life, they will pay in excess of $600,000 to the United States government for income tax alone. Keep in mind that number does not include sales tax, property taxes, or capital gains tax, not to mention Social Security and the other costs (e.g.: driver’s license, license plates, hunting license).

The question I would pose to readers is this: Do you think that you receive enough benefit for your money?

Obviously, our interest in this subject hints immediately at our own bias; but at a time of political turmoil, with such emotionally charged public debate, it’s important that Americans educate themselves on issues they face.

Tax revenue in the United States historically

averages more than a quarter of our country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). From personal income tax to corporate payroll taxes, the US government collects approximately $2 trillion per year to fund its current programs and provide for the national defense.

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Humor comics offer something for everyone

By Jim Beard Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Humor comics used to dominate the industry; not so much these days. But if you know where to look for a few laughs, quality crack-ups in comics — something the whole family can share — can be yours.

Jim Collins, “JC” of Toledo’s own JC’s Comic Stop, notes that today’s arrival of “Futurama Comics” No. 48 from Bongo is cause for celebration. Based on the animated show, Collins says the comic “can be as funny as the Fox series…until the series comes back [to TV], this is my fix. Bender is just as scheming, Fry as clueless, Leela as much glue trying to keep everything together and Zoidberg ... well its Zoidberg.” For years, Bongo’s delivered funny books based on both “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” and have never really expanded beyond that.

Why would they need to? Their comics are truly the closest thing to actually watching the shows themselves.

And yes, you can stop wondering: the Archie people still make Archie comics. Lots and lots of them.

Also waiting for you is last week’s “Groo: The Hogs of Horder” No. 4 from Dark Horse, another pick of Jim Collins’.

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hen “Karen” explains the lack of desire she feels for her husband, she tells a strikingly similar story to those that numerous clients have shared before her. She says she loves her husband very much, but she would not mind if their physical relationship ended. Forever. Then she exclaims, “Isn’t that a terrible thing to say about my own husband? He would be crushed if he heard me say that,” and sadly she looks down at her shoes.

Continuing, she says, “I feel resentful when he expresses physical interest in me. But I go through with it because I fear for our marriage otherwise.” Through heavy tears she looks me in the eye and says pointedly, “Other than this, we have a great relationship. I don’t want to lose him. I can’t. He is everything to me,” she says.

“But I can’t keep living this way.”

It seems like one of life’s misfortunes that a couple who truly love and appreciate each other could feel their future is threatened due to se-

rious trouble connecting physically. This issue is far more common than many people think, and there is significant reason for hope.

Why do so many couples just settle for less or, worse, breakup or divorce? Our culture subscribes to the following idea: If you fell in love to begin with, and if you are meant to be, then your intimacy should just work, automatically, for the long haul.

Lori So when intimacy does not work, what does it mean?

With respect to our cultural expectations, people are led to assume that something must be wrong with them (“I am a failure as a wife”) or that their relationship is a mismatch (“We are incompatible”). Of course, we would never expect athletes to keep winning or businesses to sustain profits over years without an ongoing commitment of focused energy. So where did

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we get the idea that the heart of romantic relationship, the emotional and physical intimacy, should simply thrive endlessly all by itself?

Research about sexual desire has consistently focused on an individual rather than a relationship perspective, commonly citing “dysfunction” and “disorder” to explain relationship problems.

To top it off, pharma companies advertise pills to fix the problem (implied: within you).

Here is the essence of the mistake: The dysfunctionbased model encourages people to focus their attention on “fixing” themselves rather than determining what they each need to do to get in sync with each other.

How? First, we must identify the system error in a couple’s basic interactions that created the very real reasons for the intimacy breakdown in the first place. The work comes in here as we break

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down old, unhelpful patterns to replace them with new ones that work.

I asked Karen and her husband to follow a series of exercises through a highly structured model. I want to share with you two underpinnings from which those exercises are derived: 1. Create intentional time together that you would look forward to 100 percent for you: focused time sharing feelings, fun going out, and non-sexual physical affection.

2. Avoid any interaction in which you are participating due to guilt, obligation or fear of disappointing the other. Instead, do only what you genuinely enjoy.

That is just a quick snapshot, but I will be happy to share more detail in future articles if there is reader interest.

Karen and her husband did tremendous work, devoting hours each week to their exercises, and, therefore, their relationship. A month later, Karen said she was feeling more comfortable, happier and feeling small rumblings of desire. Her husband said, “What a big difference. Before she used to tolerate me. But now she wants to engage with me actively, and I love that. This process is a softer approach than I had envisioned, and we have more work ahead. But I now feel more intensely connected to her than I have for years.”

Couples like Karen and her husband are among the strongest individuals I know. It takes guts to go to a therapist’s office to discuss inti macy difficulties. Even more, it is an act of love. O Lori Hollander is a dual-certified couples and sex therapist at the Center for Intimacy in Ann Arbor.

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The crowd outside the GameStop store on Monroe Street was small. Hardly a crowd at all, really. Six people, loosely arranged in to a line. But their size did not reflect their enthusiasm. One of the most anticipated games of 2010 was being released on this night. And that’s why they were here. So they could get it as soon as possible, and say that they were first.

The game was called “God JEFF of War III.” As one might surmise from the title, it is the third part in a trilogy of games that began in 2005. During the past five years, the game has become regarded as a modern classic in the action genre for both the frenetic pace of its gameplay and the gleefully over-the-top nature of its adult content. The games feature numerous mutilations and decapitations, hundreds of gallons of blood spilled, dozens and dozens of innocents slaughtered — and that’s all done by the hero.

11:35 p.m. The group began to grow. Now it was 10 or so. A member of the store’s staff stuck his head out and glanced around. He said he really thought there’d be more here by now — they had over 100 copies of the game reserved in the store, and that didn’t even count the tremendous walk-up business a blockbuster game like this usually gets.

The word “blockbuster” is used quite literally.

To most PlayStation 3 owners, this release was the most important game to hit the system in months, maybe the most important game in its history. This would be the first game in the franchise to be released on the PS3, and most fans were excited to see the upgrade in graphics that the new hardware would bring. And the game’s makers had made it plain that this installment would be the final chapter of the story.

11:40 p.m. The crowd now stood at about 15. The most dedicated fans — the ones at the front of the line — had been there since about 11.

Not even standing outside on a chilly, late-winter evening dampened their spirits.

The anticipation for the game was compounded by how important it is to its system.

“God of War” is a Sony franchise, and its games only appear on PlayStation systems. Like Mario for Nintendo or Master Chief from “Halo” for Microsoft, “God of War’s” brutal star Kratos has become an iconic figure for the company. And his first adventure on the PlayStation 3 has arrived at a critical moment.

11:50 p.m. The GameStop employee once again emerged from the store and asked if anyone in line needed to pay for the game, so when midnight arrived, everyone would already be paid in full.

A few followed him inside to do so, but most stayed where they were.

They had paid for their copy long ago.

The PlayStation 3 saw its fair share of issues in the marketplace during the three years that followed its release.

Its high price point at the outset made it unattractive to consumers, and a lack of a large number of great titles did little to draw in hardcore gamers. But things are changing for Sony’s console. A lot of acclaimed titles were released exclusively to the PS3 in the past two years.

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And, most crucially, a price drop made the console affordable to many more customers. Just in time for the company’s flagship action franchise to once again take center stage.

11:55 p.m. The line now stood 25 members strong. The wait was almost over. Customers were instructed to have their receipts and IDs ready, so they could be served as quickly as possible.

The early reviews for “God of War III” were enthusiastic. Critics praised the game’s action, scale, graphics and more. Fan response since the release has been equally strong. For such a pivotal game in the lifecycle of the PS3 system, “God of War III” has seemingly delivered. But is this really the final game in such an iconic franchise?

Only time will tell.

12:05 a.m. I stood before the counter. I presented my receipt and ID. They handed me my copy of the game. The employee who served me had recognized me earlier — “Hey, don’t you write for Toledo Free Press?” I confirmed that I did. “You gonna write something about tonight?”

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