Feds’ Lawsuit Against Quicken Loans Will Be Heard in Detroit, Not D.C.
Update: A federal judge ruled this week that the Department of Justice lawsuit against Quicken Loans will be heard in a Michigan courtroom instead of in D.C., as the government had initially requested. Via the Detroit News: U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton issued an order Monday approving the lender’s request to move the case,…
More Than 1,000 Teachers Confront CMSD Board Over Rewritten Agreements
There seemed to be genuine concern among CMSD police officers last night as more than 1,000 teachers and union supporters packed into Rhodes High School and, in the words of one officer, violated some major codes. But the meeting went on, and the Cleveland Teachers Union voiced its anger over how the district is overseeing and…
City Council Talks Sports Stadium Tax Distribution
We’re coming up on the first anniversary of the sin tax renewal vote (May 6), and we’re sure your local elected representative is planning some fun activities for the day. Until then, though, the need for committee discussion is strong. City Council held a meeting this week to run through all of the city’s obligations…
Update: Columbus-Based Jeni’s Ice Creams Issues Total Product Recall/Temporarily Closes Shops
Update: Here’s the latest from Jeni’s, in what can only be described as the perfect way to handle a crisis: The all-hands-on-deck Listeria eradication effort continues at our production kitchen. World-class experts and our team are working together to ensure we get it all, finally and forever. We are destroying more than 535,000 pounds (265…
Any Hope for Life Without Love?
The curse was bound to hit. You know it, I know it. But let us not forget, we call the Eastern Conference home. It’s like Thunderdome on the Island of Misfit Toys – suddenly all our competitors seem to be missing an arm, eye-button or battery. We’ll worry about the West when we get there,…
Holocaust-Era Violins to Be Played in Cleveland This Fall
A very special and unique musical arts exhibition is coming to Northeast Ohio, giving us all a look and a listen into history. Violins of Hope builds a bridge to Nazi Germany, where music played a vital role in the minute sense of hope that was illuminated for the dying. The group’s founder, Amnon Weinstein,…
Fernando Colon, Convicted of Molesting Ariel Castro’s Daughters, May Get New Trial
In 2004, a man named Fernando Colon told FBI investigators that they should look into Ariel Castro as someone connected to the disappearances of Amanda Berry and DeJesus. He was the last person to see DeJesus before she was taken. As history bears out, the FBI didn’t follow up on Colon’s suggestion. That same year,…
Andrew WK Plays the Grog Shop Tonight, So Let’s Listen to Him Declare His Love for Giant Eagle Again
Andrew WK stops by Cleveland Heights this evening for a very special solo show (he’ll also be at our sister paper in Detroit’s launch party for Blowout 18 tomorrow, which you should check out if you want four days of music for $20), so it’s as good a time as any to listen to this…
Primus Gets Weird and Chocolatey at the Masonic Auditorium: Review
Primus shows tend to be extraordinary experiences, and the band’s latest trip into the world of Willy Wonka makes that even more true. The band set up shop last night at the Masonic Auditorium, dividing their time between an old-school set and a more theatrical spin on their latest album, Primus and the Chocolate Factory…
City-Run Community Relations Board Twitter Account Asked if Cleveland Should Be Burned Like Baltimore Last Night
That’s just one of the strange, now-deleted posts from the @CRBCleveland account last night, posted as violence and riots were erupting in Baltimore. @CRBCleveland, if you missed it the last few days, is part of Cleveland’s ongoing efforts to engage its residents in a catch-all conversation about police and other issues as the consent decree…
Waterloo Arts Hosts Two Films on Trans Women of Color This Friday
In conjunction with their I AM: A Trans Art Exhibition, Waterloo Arts is hosting a special film screening at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, May 1, as part of this month’s Walk All Over Waterloo. Presented in partnership with Sistah Sinema and the Cleveland International Film Festival, the evening includes two short films about trans women…
Five Classical Music Events You Shouldn’t Miss This Week
The Cleveland Orchestra showcases music by Joseph Haydn this weekend, a celebrated composer who spent most of his career working for the Esterházy family outside Vienna before becoming an international sensation during his visits to London between 1781 and 1795. (One London newspaper could barely contain its enthusiasm, lauding him as “the inexhaustible, the wonderful,…
Beloved Cleveland Chef Shawn Brozic Passed Away
Shawn Brozic didn’t snag the media buzz that many of his peers in the Cleveland culinary world did, but he was every bit as talented, passionate and hard working as any of them. His many years of work as executive chef at the Ritz-Carlton, Wyndham Playhouse Square and Quail Hollow Resort won him the respect…
Cavs Get the Sweep, But Pay Exorbitant Price
It started out a basketball game and turned into a street riot. There were 49 second-half foul shot which has to be some sort of post-millennial playoff record and explains why the game went on through the first quarter of the Spurs-Clippers contest. If you saw it you know what a mess it was. Nobody…
Walnut Wednesday Returns to Downtown Cleveland on May 6
Walnut Wednesday, the unofficial holiday for Clevelanders who work or play downtown during lunchtime, will make its seasonal comeback on May 6, thanks to the Downtown Cleveland Alliance. Beginning next Wednesday and continuing weekly through September 30, food trucks will gather at their usual place, Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at E. 12th and Walnut…
Herb’n Twine Sandwich Co. to Open in Ohio City
By mid-June, Herb’n Twine Sandwich Co. is expected to open at 4309 Lorain Avenue, in the storefront space adjacent to Bloom & Clover Wax Studio. Owner Brendon Messina, currently a sous chef at Rockefeller’s in Cleveland Heights, describes the shop as a quick-serve stop for local residents, commercial tenants, and anybody else looking for a…
A Brief History of #ourcle
“CLE,” whether pronounced as individual letters or as monosyllabic grunt, is the Bat-Signal of our civic pride. We attach it to everything we love in this city: catchphrase-stitched clothing, foodie praise, tourism branding and, ubiquitous as wintertime grumblings, social hashtags. #ourcle, however, is something of an outlier. (Don’t make the mistake of pronouncing it “OUR-kuhl.”)…
Cleveland Play House Earns 2015 Regional Theater Tony Award
Cleveland Play House snagged a prestigious honor last week as well as a $25,000 grant when it was named a 2015 Regional Theater Tony Award recipient by the Tony Awards Administrative Committee. An offshoot of the estimated Tony Award, given annually for live performance achievements on Broadway, the regional Tony honors theater companies outside of New York…
Local Hardcore Hero Don Foose Promotes Healthy Living in His New Book
Don Foose isn’t your everyday punk rocker who lives on a shoestring budget and has bad hygiene. Foose, a veteran on the local music scene who’s fronted numerous local hardcore bands, lives in a serene English Tudor on a quiet Fairview Park street. He’s transformed his living room into a sanctuary where he can sit…
Watch Footage from the First Passenger Flight from Detroit to Cleveland in 1928
As we lurch headfirst into another workweek showered with status updates, Google alerts, and tweet after tweet all whizzing by us at lightening speed, take pause this Monday morning to look back on the triumphs of a different era, thanks to King Rose Archives who published this video of the first passenger flight from Detroit to…
Local Rapper to Present Inaugural Hip-hop Showcase
Local rapper Matthewmaticus is a big supporter of local hip-hop. To showcase some of the region’s best talent, he’s booked local acts to perform at Matthewmaticus Presents: May Day at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 1, at the Phantasy Nite Club. The show features Matthewmaticus, Aphiniti, Vice Souletric, Mitto, Ryan the Realist, Watts, B-Lo, Scott…
Police Union Prez Urges Members to Look Out for ‘Anything Out of the Ordinary’ Amid Brelo Trial
As the trial of Cleveland police officer Michael Brelo turns toward the defense this week, all Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association eyes remain fixated on the proceedings. A motion for acquittal was denied yesterday. Following the news, CPPA President Steve Loomis sent the following memo, urging the union to let leadership know if anything seems out of…
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo Deliver Career Retrospective at Hard Rock Live
It’s been 36 years since Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo first began their journey together with an album called In the Heat of the Night and a song that quickly found a lot of success called “Heartbreaker.” The album was released in August of 1979 and by November of that same year, they were playing…
Cavs Close Down Quarters to Shut Down Celtics
The way a team closes out a quarter tells you something about them. There’s a real, “No fella, you come here,” way the Cavaliers closed every quarter against the Celtics. There was no fear, just determination and the same solemn implacability as displayed by the coin-flipping, cattle gun-wielding, force of nature in No Country For…
Local Metal Band Olathia to Celebrate EP Release with Two Shows
The local metal band Cellbound had a great 8-year run that resulted in three albums and several regional tours. The group even released an impressive, professional looking video for the tune “Fallen Angels,” which they shot at a cemetery off Pearl Road. Mushroomhead’s Skinny and Stitch directed it. But when the group’s drummer “retired,” singer…
Cleveland in Running to Host the 2016 Copa America
As a warmup, perhaps, for the Republican National Convention, Cleveland announced its bid last month to host the 2016 Copa America, a prestigious men’s soccer tournament that, until now, has always been held abroad. The event will be held next June at eight to 13 stadiums across the country, and local officials are hoping Cleveland’s…
FBI Accuses Parma Woman’s ‘Pimp’ Of Extorting Stark County Businessman
The victim met the woman on ashleymadison.com A Middleburg Heights man was charged in federal court yesterday, accused of extorting a wealthy married Stark County businessman who he accused of causing a Parma woman’s rectal boils. David A. Zehnder, 45, is accused of demanding $125,000 from the businessman, who had met a 32-year-old Parma woman…
Scene Podcast: Sam Allard on the ‘Wolf of Gates Mills’ and the Cavs’ Playoff Run
Following this week’s cover story, writer Sam Allard joins host Craig Lyndall to discuss the investment schemes of on-the-lam “wunderkind” Oscar Villareal, who bilked Cleveland’s rich out of millions and then disappeared. The two also discuss the Cavs’ awesome playoff start, which has the team up 3-0 against the piddling Celtics. Listen in below and…
Scene Foodcast: Punch Bowl Social, Chicago-Based Soul Food, and More
On this episode of our weekly podcast, Dining Editor Doug Trattner talks with host Craig Lyndall about the goings-on in our region’s dynamic dining scene. Here’s a sampling of the topics at hand: Grove Hill family night, country clubs dying off, Punch Bowl Social, Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles, Music Box Supper Club opening the Rusty…
Symon to Host New Food Network Show: Burgers, Brew and ‘Que
There have been multiple Michael Symon spottings around town lately. He recently popped up on Market Avenue by Great Lakes Brewing Co. He paid a visit to Karen Small’s Flying Fig. His presence was documented at Butcher and the Brewer. Heck’s in Ohio City reported a visit by the Iron Chef. And he checked out…
11 Concerts to Catch This Weekend
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Trampled by Turtles After a string of dynamite albums and a cloudburst moment (2010’s “Wait So Long”), Trampled by Turtles now sit atop the mantle of bluegrass and American folk rock in this young century. Their latest album, last year’s Wild Animals, is a stripped-down version of what most Americana listeners have…
Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter To Bring Acoustic Trio to Town
“I don’t mind working without a net” — that’s what Mary Chapin Carpenter says in the lyrics to “I Take My Chances” from her 1992 album Come On Come On. She put that thought into play in a big way when it came to recording her latest album, Songs from the Movie, which was released…
Actress Vicki Lawrence Stops in Cleveland to Discuss Chronic Hives
Vicki Lawrence, known for her roles on The Carol Burnett Show and Mama’s Family, stopped in Cleveland this week as part of a publicity tour for her latest endeavor: raising awareness of chronic idiopathic urticaria. To the initiated, which is most of us, CIU boils down to “chronic hives.” It’s not pleasant, and there’s no known…
Pop Star Kiesza to Make Cleveland Debut Next Week at House of Blues
Kiesa “Kiesza” Rae Ellestad originally set out to become a sailor. That’s right, the mega pop star whose electronic dance music hit “Hideaway” — with a Chicago house beat and upper-register vocals, the song sounds like a mash-up of Ray of Light-era Madonna and Adele — lays claim to more than 202 million combined YouTube…
Serial’s Sarah Koenig, Other Literary Heavy-Hitters, To Speak in Cleveland for County Library Writer Series
Serial fans, rejoice: On September 24, podcast co-creators Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder will kick off the Cuyahoga County Library’s 2015-2016 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series with a talk at Case Western Reserve University. Tickets for Koenig and Snyder, and for all the Skirball Writer talks, are $30. (Detailed info here). The lineup…
ICYMI: Here’s “The Offs,” the Cavs 2015 Playoff Anthem
If you haven’t yet caught wind of “The Offs,” the Cavs 2015 Playoff Anthem penned by the team’s own Iman Shumpert, we’ve posted it below for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.
Review: Gruca White Ensemble at Bop Stop
by Jane Berkner The Gruca White Ensemble must have a special connection to the number 100. Their formation as a flute and guitar duo dates back to 2013, when they played an hour-long concert on WCLV as a part of The Music Settlement’s Centennial Celebration. Then, at the duo’s concert on Saturday night, April 18,…
Here’s Two Lakewood Residents Calling the Cops to Complain There are Black People Around
This is nothing new, nothing unique. It happens all the time, here and elsewhere every day. We’re just posting this to highlight what happens far too often — people of color having to deal with police scrutiny for simply existing in public because others didn’t want them in the neighborhood. We recently stumbled onto an…
Breaking Down the Last 17 Minutes of the Cavs’ Game Two Win Over Boston
As we noted in today’s earlier column, Blatt has defended the amount of isolation and one-on-one play as taking advantage of the personnel. We wondered if it couldn’t also lead to offensive stagnation, and therefore need to be used more sparingly. Blatt didn’t think so. “We have great one-on-one talent and we use it to…
Space: Rock Gallery to Open New Exhibit on May 1
From the late 1970s until 2005, Cleveland photographer Kevin D. Carmont, who had been in a band with Anton Fier (Golden Palominos) and Mike Terrell (Wild Giraffes), photographed local acts such as Styrenes, Pere Ubu, Foreign Bodies, Jim Jones, Dave E. with the Cool Marriage Counselors (pictured), Golden Palominos, the Wild Giraffes and Wally Bryson.…
Personal Information About Cleveland Schemer Oscar Villarreal Trickling In
I made a big fuss this week, in Scene’s Oscar Villarreal cover story, about not being able to verify whether or not Villarreal, the notorious Clevleand swindler, actually played the piano. I suggested that, given the extent to which he fabricated information about investments in Mexico, it was at the very least not unreasonable to entertain…
North Ridgeville Man Sues Cleveland Police Over Unlawful Arrest
Another civil rights lawsuit against the Cleveland Division of Police has landed in federal court. North Ridgeville resident Joshua Hall asserts that he was driving on the East Shoreway on April 16, 2014, when he was pulled over by Cleveland police. He was asked to step out of his car and submit to testing for…
Deep Chemistry Sustains Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo are like a lot of married couples — one will often jump in and complete the other’s sentences and thoughts as they laugh at each other’s jokes. There’s a deep chemistry between the two that’s immediately evident, and it’s something which has served the pair well, producing an impressive stack…
The Cavs May Have a Gun in This Knife Fight, But Can They Avoid Getting Hurt?
With the possible exception of Crocodile Dundee, nobody brings a knife to a gunfight, or they wind up like the sabre-swinging dude from the original Raiders of the Lost Ark. “Yeah, nice sword, fella.” In the case of the Celtics, it’s all they’ve been able to afford, and their goal is to rope-a-dope the Cavaliers…
Video: Machine Gun Kelly Punches Harder Than Rob Gronkowski
Cleveland’s own Machine Gun Kelly, who is apparently still doing things, stopped by SportsNation in Bristol to wear an Indians jersey and chat about the big fight and to take a swing at SportsNation’s boxing game. The upshot of the minute-long video: He punches harder than Rob Gronkowski. This has been today’s Machine Gun Kelly…
Les Délices to Feature Gambists in “The Angel and the Devil”
By Mike Telin This week Les Délices, Cleveland’s French baroque music specialists, will present “The Angel and the Devil.” The program showcases music by the most famous pair of viola da gamba players of the eighteenth century, Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray. Referred to respectively as The Angel and The Devil, their musical personalities will…
Baltimore’s DuClaw Brewing Company Expands into Cleveland
The Baltimore-based DuClaw Brewing Company announced this week its plans to expand its distribution into Cleveland and will soon make 35 craft beer varieties available to northeast Ohio residents in stores throughout the city. Famed for its unique flavors, such as Sweet Baby Jesus, a chocolate peanut butter porter, and Dirty Little Freak, a coconut caramel…
The Veronicas to Play Free Show at Aloft Downtown
Earlier this year, Aloft Hotel launched Live At Aloft Hotels, the brand’s “signature music series” that showcases “local emerging musical talent through live, intimate, acoustic performances and backstage moments at all Aloft Hotels worldwide.” While they’re not exactly local, the Veronicas, a pop duo out of Australia, is set to perform at 6:30 p.m. on…
Cabela’s to Open Store in Avon
Local fans of outdoor gear and goods rejoice! Cabela’s has announced plans to open a retail outlet in Avon, OH. Construction on the new 81,000-square-foot digs, which will be located off exit 153 of I- 90 near Chester Road, will commence later this year and may be completed as early as fall of 2016. “Cabela’s…
Neutral Milk Hotel Holds Nothing Back on ‘Last Tour for the Forseeable Future’
Like Helen of Troy was said to be “the face that launched a thousand ships,” Neutral Milk Hotel is the group that launched a thousand indie bands. Though the band has only been around since the late ’80s, fans revere Neutral Milk Hotel as a rare unicorn. Not only has their eclectic, lo-fi sound inspired…
A Geometric Pairing at 1point618’s Latest Exhibition This Weekend
At 7 p.m. this Friday, Apr. 24, Gordon Square’s 1point618 hosts an opening reception for its latest exhibitions of paintings by local art veterans John Pearson and Mark Keffer. The artists’ use of geometry makes them a natural pairing. John Pearson was born in Yorkshire, England. Over the past five decades, Pearson has built and…
Review: Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival Opening Concert
by Timothy Robson A new era began this weekend for the revered Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival, now in its 83rd season, with a new artistic director, Dirk Garner, and orchestral conductor Octavio Más-Arocas. In any such transition the new regime has the opportunity to assess tradition and determine the direction forward. If the first concert…
Somebody’s Sending Kilograms of Cocaine To A Lakewood Gas Station
Somebody in Long Beach, California sent a Lakewood gas station multi-kilogram packages of cocaine, and the owner has no idea why. According to an affidavit filed by a Cleveland-based United States Postal Inspector, the owner of the Sunoco station received the first package last Wednesday, opened it, and discovered “two cellophane wrapped bundles of a…
Goose Beheaded in Mentor, Authorities To Investigate
We’ve all been frustrated and somewhat baffled by minefields of gooseshit before, but Lordy. NewsNet5 has reported that a horrible animal abuse incident transpired in Mentor today. A goose was beheaded and then attached to a tree with plastic ties. Local police are stunned — and who could blame them: a goose was beheaded! It…
Derby Day is a Big Deal at Southern-Themed SOHO Kitchen
I have no idea what a bib or tucker is, but if you do, SOHO Kitchen’s Derby Day Porch Party is right up your alley. The annual event was an immediate hit right out of the gate, says owner Nolan Konkoski, who along with partner Molly Smith hosted the first one a little over three…
Review: Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Ends CMA Season With Ligeti Works
By Daniel Hathaway Born in Romania, displaced by the Nazis, educated in Hungary, and finally settling first in Vienna then in Germany after the 1956 Hungarian revolution, György Ligeti spent a lot of his life on the move. Musically nomadic as well, he chased after a number of different compositional styles. Two of Ligeti’s pieces…
A Conversation With Cleveland Women’s Orchestra Guest Violinist Michael Ferri
By Daniel Hathaway Three years after his first solo appearance with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, violinist Michael Ferri will return to Severance Hall to help the ensemble celebrate its 80th birthday with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto on Sunday, April 26 at 3:30 pm. Born in Northern Italy and homeschooled in Cleveland, Ferri has…
Celebrate Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day This Sunday at the Cleveland Print Room
The Cleveland Print Room (CPR) invites you to join this year’s celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day with a special workshop. From noon to 3 p.m. this Sunday, Apr. 26, you can build a camera, take a picture and even upload your photo to the Worldwide Pinhole Photo Day’s website’s gallery. Plus, you’ll have a…
New York Times Publishes Video on Rice Family
“It’s been five months since a rookie police officer in Cleveland fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice…” Today, the New York Times published a video on those months of experience and reflection that the Rice family has been through. They moved out of their home near Cudell Rec Center in an effort to heal, Samaria Rice says,…
They Might Be Giants Deliver Two Stellar Sets at Beachland Ballroom
It was a real “Tuesday night super rock special,” as They Might Be Giants singer John Flansburgh put it, as the group played two stellar sets in front of a sold out crowd last night at the Beachland Ballroom. “In the real world, people have to pay actual money for things,” Flansburgh joked with the…
Booze & Broads Culinary Fundraiser for Women by Women
On Saturday, May 2, from 6 to 9 p.m., BurkleHagen Photography will be hosting Broads & Booze, a fundraiser to benefit FrontLine Service, which is an organization that helps women and families in crisis. The food and booze filled event will take place in BurkleHagen’s stunning 6,000-square-foot food-photography studio in AsiaTown with city views. “David…
20 Greats Hikes to Take in Ohio
The weather in Ohio is finally turning which means its due time to pull ourselves up off the couch and away from that addicting Netflix series and do something active. Like hike. But where to go? And, more importantly, what can we expect out on the trails? Lucky for us, our friends at TrekOhio, a…
A Chilean in Cleveland Talks about his Art and his New City
Master Goldsmith and printmaker Mauricio Cristóbal Cortés Fuentes is from Santiago, Chile. He’s in Cleveland as one of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion 2015 Spring Class, which brings six international artists from Armenia, Bulgaria, Chile and Romania to Cleveland for three-month residencies and partners them with local, nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, including the Cleveland…
Square Bistro is the Rare Resto That’s Got Something for Everybody
I didn’t bother making a reservation at Square Bistro because, well, Chardon. I’ve been covering this beat long enough to know that chef-driven bistros in far-flung burgs don’t tend to pack them in on weekdays. Heck, they don’t tend to pack them in on weekends either, thanks to hectic family schedules and competition from quicker,…
Jogging Season is Upon Us — For the Vets and Rookies Alike
With warm weather comes plenty of talk of Tribe games and day-drinking and, for our purposes here, hitting the pavement and trying to get back into shape. Running. It’s the great equalizer of physical activity, and it’s best done with some sort of goal in mind: Get in shape or beat your personal best or…
Film Review of the Week: Ex Machina
Domnhall Gleeson (Harry Potter, Calvary), Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis, A Most Violent Year) and Alicia Vikander (Seventh Son) star in Ex Machina, a sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence that’ll have your blood curdling and your neck hair doing what neck hair does when the heart and the stomach are in crisis. Written and directed…
Film Spotlight: HUMP!
Ten years ago, syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage launched HUMP!, a film festival designed to challenge his Pacific Northwest readers to “get their hands dirty” and create “good, old-fashion homemade porn.” The results ran a wide gamut and represented straight, gay and transgendered shorts made by amateurs from the area. Until last year, HUMP!’s screenings…
Band of the Week: Brian Lisik & the Unfortunates
Meet the Band: Brian Lisik (vocals and guitar), Steve Norgrove (bass, mandolin, vocals), Ray Flanagan (guitar), Craig Lisik (drums), Tim Longfellow (piano) Roots: Curtisinterruptedus, the band’s new album, follows 2012’s The Mess that Money Could Buy. This time around, Lisik says, a lot of things fell into place precisely as he had hoped. It’s a…
We’re Out on a Limb: In More Ways than One, in the Convoluted, Compelling In a Word at Cleveland Public Theatre
The words we use every day serve to conceal as much as they reveal. This is especially true for those automatic expressions continually trotted out that form the bulk of most conversations. Of course, this is nothing new to many playwrights, including Pinter and Mamet, who have frolicked in the misunderstandings and absurdities created by…
Midnight Passenger Issues Long-Awaited Debut
Midnight Passenger Calypso (Cellar Door) cellardoorcle.com Recorded over the past year by local hero Jim Stewart at Lava Room, Whiteout Audio and Jim Stewart Studios, Midnight Passenger’s new album Calypso, the long-awaited follow-up to its 2011 debut EP, sounds like a throwback to ’90s bands such as Semisonic, Live and Guster. The tunes here tend…
Oscar Villarreal Swindled Cleveland’s Rich Out of Millions… and Then He Disappeared
A theory: There are two kinds of philanthropists, and Cleveland’s got the bad kind. Cleveland’s got the cloak-and-dagger trustees and the hoarders of recognition. Good philanthropists, according to custom, generally try to promote the welfare of humankind. They write checks, sure, but also policies. Sometimes they’re “venture philanthropists” who treat their gifts like for-profit investments.…
