Cleveland Scene

Envelopes Full of Cash Help Jimmy Dimora Deal With Grief

Vince Grzegorek — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:05:03 -0500

If the father of someone you know dies, sending flowers is a nice thing to do. In lieu of flowers, a donation to one of their the deceased's favorite charities might be in order.…

YSU Student Hospitalized After Fraternity Hazing

Kyle Swenson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:38:06 -0500

Now, the closest thing to a social organization we belonged to in college was a String Cheese tape trading collective, but we hear most pledges come out the other end of fraternity hazing at worst with an unwanted tattoo or a horrifying revulsion to the Door's “The End.” Sometimes, the after effects are a little more frightening. Down at Youngstown State University, some recent Animal House-antics allegedly got out of hand when a student landed in the hospital after going through Greek-related beat down.…

Blood Battle Pits Red Cross Against Local Union (Updated)

Kyle Swenson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:08:23 -0500

Update:The Red Cross has gone ahead and pulled the plug on next week's blood drive due to the impending strike. Newsnet5 reports the details.…

Criminal/Hero of the Day

Vince Grzegorek — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:19:15 -0500

We don't like to celebrate criminals. They are, after all, criminals.…

Scene's Draft Expert Breaks Down the NFL Draft

Cristoff Fedorski — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:05:00 -0500

You’ve probably heard me on the radio in recent years saying something with an inordinate amount of bluster and confidence about the Browns and thought why, given my zero years on an NFL or college beat, you should consider me a “draft expert.”

Well thanks to the many hours logged watching video montages set to the theme for “Requiem for a Dream,” I’m able to definitively say that I’m ready to deliver the goods when it comes to parroted draft analysis that you’ve probably already heard from Kiper and McShay a week earlier.

Here are a few industry terms and their definitions on what I’m looking for from these players, some of which will be discordant from what you may read or heard from those that actually cover the NFL or work in front offices.…

Safe Not So Sound

Vince Grzegorek — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:01 -0500

Denzel Washington menaces, Ryan Reynolds takes his shirt off -- business as usual by Vince Grzegorek Denzel Washington can look menacing without saying a single word. He did it in Training Day, and he's at it again in Safe House, though the end results aren't nearly as textured or deep.…

Safe Not So Sound

Vince Grzegorek — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:01 -0500

Governor Kasich’s State of the State Address Elicits Widespread Mockery

Anastasia Pantsios — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:07:35 -0500

Perhaps Governor John Kasich moved his second State of the State address from its traditional Statehouse location to an elementary school in Steubenville hoping to keep the media spotlight off him. If so, he failed.…

Today We Learned About Black Death

Vince Grzegorek — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:06 -0500

You learn something new on the internet every day. Usually it's about cats, which is perfectly fine with us.…

HuffPo Clowns Kasich for State of the State Speech

Kyle Swenson — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:52:09 -0500

As you probably heard, earlier this week Governor John Kasich gave what was supposed to be a very serious update on how Ohio has fared over the last year, what your front-of-the-classroom-social-studies-types might know as a State of the State speech. Pretty important, right?…

Deagan's Kitchen to Reopen Tomorrow Following a Freshen-Up

Douglas Trattner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:50:27 -0500

"Before we opened the restaurant, we ran out of money to do the bathrooms," explains Deagan's owner Dan Deagan. "So we decided to close for a few days to redo them.…

Here's Drew Carey Dancing Onstage During a Machine Gun Kelly Show

Vince Grzegorek — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:12:00 -0500

MGK's Sunset strip show last night featured two special Clevo guests: Layzie Bone and Drew Carey. He brought them both onstage, commented on how The Price is Right host brought some really hot girls to the show, then launched into "Cleveland" while Drew Carey jumped around in the background.…

Pic of the Day: A Flats T-Shirt We Love

Vince Grzegorek — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:32:39 -0500

Who says the flats are dead? Courtesy of @ClevelandFrowns.

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Rock Hall Adds More Groups to Induction Ceremony

Michael Gallucci — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:28:51 -0500

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has decided to right some wrongs by adding a handful of backing groups to the induction ceremony that will be held in Cleveland on April 14.

The Blue Caps, the Comets, the Crickets, the Famous Flames, the Midnighters, and the Miracles will all follow their way more famous leaders (who are already inducted) into the Rock Hall.…

Dimora Not Ohio’s Only Party-Boy Commissioner

Anastasia Pantsios — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:14 -0500

Cuyahoga may have its ongoing political corruption trials. But politics is just as much fun at the other end of the state.…

Help Show Cleveland Off: CNN at Visible Voice Tomorrow

Maude L. Campbell — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:31 -0500

Cleveland is in the national spotlight, and this time, it’s not because of a restaurant or the foreclosure crisis. CNN will be interviewing the staff of Tremont’s Visible Voice Books tomorrow afternoon and everyone’s invited.…

Rock Clubs Unite to Fight Admissions Tax

Anastasia Pantsios — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:00 -0500

The flap last fall about Cleveland’s extraordinarily high 8 percent admissions tax on tickets and its impact on the city’s smallish live music venues has moved into action mode. Thirteen clubs formed the Cleveland Music Club Coalition in September to get the ear of city council.…

Michael Ruhlman Would Like to Talk to You About Fat for a Second

Vince Grzegorek — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:06:48 -0500

The renowned food writer and perfectly coiffed Clevelander had a new post on his site today. It was about fat. And stupid people.…

Marcy Kaptur Introduces Herself to Cleveland Airwaves

Anastasia Pantsios — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:14:25 -0500

Toledo congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, running in the Cleveland media market for the first time since congressional redistricting put her in the same district as Dennis! Kucinich, has done her first TV ad buy in Cleveland.…

American Greetings' War on Nigerian Princes

Vince Grzegorek — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:10:46 -0500

Cleveland’s own American Greetings has more worries than simply helping Grandma get you that birthday card with the $5 check in it. The advent of e-cards, which AG launched back in 1996, gave rise to a host of new woes: all the spam and phishing that comes along with the convenience of not having to leave your house to tell your niece that yes, you vaguely remember that she exists.…

Ohio Won't Execute People For Awhile (Updated)

Vince Grzegorek — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:53 -0500

Update: The Supreme Court has ruled that, much like a 15-year-old boy left home alone with unfettered and unsupervised access to the internet, the state of Ohio can't be trusted.

Via the PD:

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Ohio's request to put a condemned killer to death by refusing to overrule lower court rulings that put the execution on hold.…
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The Quality of Cleveland Life Report

Erich Burnett — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:20:00 -0500

Your guide to living in fabulous Cleveland.

Invest in Hot Pockets: Nestle reveals plan to move itsHot Pockets business team from
Colorado to Solon, which could result in dozens of local jobs. Team’s key function includes exclamations of joy that people actually buy Hot Pockets.…

Flame On

Peter Chakerian — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:00 -0500

Sweden's death-metal kings rebound by Peter Chakerian >When filmmaker Sam Dunn — Canada's long-haired answer to Ken Burns — declared the future of death metal rests in the hands of the Swedish band In Flames in last year's documentary Metal Evolution, it was hardly news to the group's fans. With more than 20 years of punishing riffs beneath, between, and behind them, the melodic band has become downright legendary in influence in its death-metal universe.…

Film Capsules

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:00 -0500

In theaters this week Pariah Writer-director Dee Rees' Pariah is a deceptive little film. A butch African American teen comes out (or attempts to, at least) to her disbelieving parents who have spent a lifetime trying to girlie her up and bury their heads in the sand.…

CD Review: Sharon Van Etten

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:00 -0500

Tramp (Jagjaguwar) Sharon Van Etten boasts an elegant, powerful, and strangely ethereal voice that imbues her music with grandeur — practically demands a spotlight all its own. The music on her third album, Tramp, wanders from atmospheric chamber-folk that reimagines Laurel Canyon singer-songwriters for the post-Radiohead generation ("Joke or a Lie") to lush, harmony-enriched rustic ambles ("We Are Fine") to doleful, haunted, and slow-burn balladry ("In Line").…