Save Gas.. and the World, if You Get a Chance
With gas prices nudging $3 mark, I almost gagged (which is a good dieting technique). Then I received this email alert: On May 15, drivers around the country are being urged to conduct a “gas out” in protest of prices. If 73 million Americans don’t go to the pump on that day, it will cost…
Hurrah! Cleveland Jumps 2 Spots in Pollution Standings!
The American Lung Association has confirmed Clevelanders worst suspicions: It’s really polluted here. You know how the area around downtown sometimes smells like a party at Marion Barry’s house? Well, that’s not good for you. The 2007 air pollution rankings came out today, officially naming Cleveland the 6th most polluted city in America, behind such…
More Hypocrisy from the Creepy Little Congressman
Congressman Creepy Elf — a.k.a Dennis Kucinich — has been taking shots at his own party lately, criticizing Democratic candidates John Edwards and Bill Richardson for boycotting a Fox News debate scheduled for August. “If you want to be the president of the United States, you can’t be afraid to deal with the people with…
This Just In: Concert Announcements
This week, 32 new shows for your summer schedule. Bow Wow and Jibbs visit town to celebrate WENZ’s eighth birthday. Nickelback and Nickelback emulator Daughtry on the same bill. Alt-rock lives with Goo Doo Dolls. Rap-rock lives with Critical Bill. The Killers of Comedy Tour features your favorite goofs from the Howard Stern show. OAR…
Roger Brown Reappears in Lorain County
Word is Northeast Ohio’s favorite sports-gossip columnist has quietly resurfaced on the Sunday pages of the Lorain Morning Journal and Lake County News-Herald. Roger Brown dropped a few columns in February and March, then, in a tribute to the late Sam Fulwood, took a few weeks off. “But he’s writing every week now,” says a…
Ballantine’s gastrobpub coming to Willoughby
Lakewood native, one-time chef at Great Lakes Brewing Company, and sustainable foods advocate Kurt Steeber is set to launch a gastropub inside the former Johnny Mango’s space in Willoughby, at 4113 Erie St. Look for Ballantine to open in early June, with a luscious menu of Steeber standards – including braised pork belly, old-world pâtés,…
Rock ‘n’ Roll Slideshow: The Best of Walter Novak, Part I
Ace Scene photographer Walter Novak has been shooting concerts for years. So present Part I in what we hope will be a never-ending series of the Best of Novak Slideshows.
Money Where Your Mouth Is: Drop Notion
…In which the Scene music writers let a band speak for itself (because they’re busy watching Operation Kitten Calendar on Acceptable TV.) Band: Drop Notion Hometown: Cleveland Sounds like: “A funky drum-and-bass-driven hard-rock explosion with money-maker-shakin’ groove guitar and vocals that don’t stop to breathe — over rye bread.” Fun fact: “Drummer Joe and bassist…
Mikey G’s Picks of the Week
This week’s top arts and entertainment picks around town, from the guy who’s paid to pick them: Monday: Unless you scored a ticket to tonight’s game in Washington D.C., the best place to see the Cavs in game four of the NBA Playoffs is at the Official Cavaliers Watch Party at Johnny Malloy’s. The bar’s…
Don’t Look Now, but the Browns are Getting Favorable National Press
The Internet is, for once, a happy place for Browns fans this morning. ESPN’s Jon Clayton’s grades the weekend’s draft and puts the Browns at the head of the class. Sports Illustrated’s Peter King relays the story of how Phil Savage pulled off his Draft Day double, landing two of the team’s top-six prospects. The…
Free At Last, But Will They Get Paid?
In 2003, Scene chronicled the nightmare tale of how Bob Gondor and Randy Resh were convicted of a rape and murder they didn’t commit. Last week, the two men finally found justice after spending the past 17 years in prison. On April 27, a judge threw out Gondor’s case just after Resh won his retrial.…
Beating the Phone Game for American Idol
It might have been a shock to most of the country when Sanjaya, the American Idol contestant everyone loved to hate, was kicked off the show last week. But Jim Hellriegel wasn’t surprised. The IT tech from Mentor had predicted Sanjaya’s outing the night before. Hellriegel is the creator of dialidol.com, a free, downloadable program,…
Crowning Cleveland’s Hottest Mom
Between spins of JT and Nelly Furtado, the folks at 96.5 KISS FM are finding time to take up another important initiative: crowning Cleveland’s hottest mom. This is no small task. Ranking women’s hotness is an exhausting exercise. Just last weekend I spent all of Saturday ranking the girls from Sex in the City. At…
SI Columnist: Browns Going with Brady Quinn
Bad news for the gang at Don’t Draft Brady Quinn.com: Sports Illustrated’s Don Banks reported late yesterday the Browns “are locked in” on Quinn with Saturday’s third pick. Banks says owner Randy Lerner has long favored the Notre Dame quarterback, and that Phil Savage and Romeo Crennel will listen, if only because it’ll help them…
Christian Hippie Music is seeing a Resurrection
“They would become the All Saved Freak Band,” wrote Thomas Francis in “Lord of the Strings,” a 2004 cover story detailing the turbulent career of local guitar god Glenn Schwartz. “A true grassroots operation compared to what Glenn was used to, the band traveled the country in a van, setting up on the sidewalk outside…
Female Chauvinist Pigs: OSU’s Cheerleaders Need to be More Revealing
For years feminists have complained about how the media exploits women. Cameramen are more than happy to ogle over women in bikinis and slinky dresses, and producers are happy to broadcast these images. But now comes a new complaint: In a threatening letter sent to producers at ESPN and several Ohio State employees, one unhappy,…
The Gypsy Gourmet: Underground Dining comes to Cleveland
Drawing inspiration from everything from Cuba’s secret supper clubs to celeb chef Anthony Bourdain, underground dining is hot in spots like San Fran, New York, and Chicago. Now, thanks to a cadre of chefs, the trend has come to Cleveland with the arrival of The Gypsy Gourmet. Like most of its kin, the Gypsy celebrates…
Velocity is Ready to Reemerge After a Fire
The tables are set, the wineglasses polished, and staff training is slated to start next week at Velocity, the Clifton Blvd. bistro that barely began running last June before fire shut it down. With any luck, brothers and co-owners Ken and Gregg Korney hope to reopen for dinner service on May 8. A sneak peak…
Slideshow: Molkie Cole, Live at the Winchester
Last weekend, one of Cleveland’s more precious and successful rock acts from the ’70s, Molkie Cole, revived its legendary stage show for a two-night engagement at the Winchester. Specializing in a theatrical blend of glam, progressive rock, and Beatles-inspired pop, the Cole performed before sold out audiences both nights. Action Rock Photographer Wanda Santos-Bray was…
Kent State Students Give it the Ol’ DIY Try
They’re not Quincy Jones or Clive Davis just yet. But the students in Gene Shelton’s record-promotions class at Kent State are giving it the ol’ college try at making stars out of Northeast Ohio bands. The class has founded GTB (“Got to Believe) Records . So far, they’ve signed five acts, including Kent folkie Chittlin,…
The Search for Miss Roar by the Shore
Grand Prix of Cleveland organizers have long been aware that it takes more than cars to rev up ticket sales for the annual Roar by the Shore at Burke Lakefront Airport. Men tend to better appreciate a two-hour race with hotties in skin-tight spandex in their midst. On Saturday, Grand Prix judges will start a…
The Don’t Draft Brady Quinn Movement
Maybe Browns fans believe too much in democracy. That could explain why the team’s been as well-run as the country for the last eight years. Last season, they started three online petitions to fire then-offensive coordinator Maurice Carthon. Carthon bailed soon after, and his replacement, Jeff Davidson, tanked even bigger. But Davidson didn’t wait for…
He’s hitting .203, but Omar’s still got game
Even Indians fans did a double take when Omar Vizquel, then 38 years old, signed a three-year deal with the Giants in 2005. The guy’s career was built on speed, range, quick feet – attributes that, unlike the chemical-aided power of aging sluggers, tend to decline in later years. But now, in the third year…
We’ll take local know-it-alls for 200, Alex
Answer: Who is Andrew Rostan? Question: Youngstown college student who’s appearing on Jeopardy! tomorrow. The 22-year-old smarty-pants (who enjoys “film, reading, and jogging”) will undoubtedly make us all feel stupid as he fires off answers about conjugate variables, Olmec culture, and macromolecular scales. Meanwhile, we’ll be sitting on the couch eating Cool Ranch Doritos and…
The Return of Adam
Acid-rock legends the Damnation of Adam Blessing will reunite for two shows this weekend. Aside from a 2000 concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, these will be the Cleveland band’s first gigs since 1973. “Every time I see her, [Beachland owner] Cindy [Barber] bugs me, ‘You oughta get the band back together,'”…
Heads Held High
Heads Held High’s last album had potential, but sounded like it was recorded in a coffee can. So does this one. But the Cleveland vegan/straight-edge quintet now sounds more hardcore and less formulaic punk — and it’s better off for the adjustment. “Superheroes Make Lousy Models” is the band at its best: Guitarists Jon and…
The Dark Knight Speaks
It was a momentous occasion. Inside Business was throwing a small dinner party for 500. Naturally, Sam Miller was invited to speak. It’s one of the perks of being very old and very rich. Miller could be expected to wax poetic about the wonders of the free market, or perhaps the anguish of finding decent…
Dear to His Heart
When Casey Crescenzo was in the Boston emo group the Receiving End of Sirens, he repeatedly found himself butting heads with his bandmates. He had bigger things in mind than the post-hardcore slog that TREOS had grown accustomed to. “I always wanted to take it a little too far,” he says. “It wasn’t an environment…
Xbxrx
These noise-rockers from the Bay Area started making waves throughout the underground back in the late ’90s, when the band would show up at DIY basement shows and play furious, eight-minute sets full of flashing lights and insane dance moves. Since then, xbxrx has racked up some serious accolades: Not only has it released jams…
Bonk
This Kent quintet’s second disc stands right alongside melodic metalcore peers like Hopesfall and From Autumn to Ashes. But while some of the hooks and breakdowns aren’t quite as strong, the playing is tight; you could bounce a quarter off some of the muscular riffs. “The Window” features a nice lyrical passage with a snaking…
Courting the A-List
The View on the second story of a crumbling brick building on Prospect. You must walk up subway-like stairs, where a sour, beefy bouncer looks you up and down, as if your value as a human being can be sized up by the name sewn on your jeans. If you’re not wearing the right blazer…
Draft House
Woo-hoo! Today’s Draft Day, and we can’t think of a better place to celebrate than at the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s NFL Draft Day Party. Twenty big-ass screens beam live coverage of the draft throughout the museum. Former Browns guard Joe DeLamielleure — a first-round pick for the Bills in 1973 — hosts the…
Los Straitjackets
Dressed as masked Mexican wrestlers, los Straitjackets are best known for applying their surf-guitars to collections of holiday classics, including ‘Tis the Season for los Straitjackets! and Halloween Hootenanny. Through the sunny months, however, the group plays instrumental versions of pop-rock hits; check out its Wurlitzerized take on the Titanic theme, Celine’s “My Heart Will…
What’s in a Name?
Chefs, like mechanics, tend to be tinkerers, constantly reworking recipes, menus — even entire concepts — in the hope of eventually getting it right. But success can be elusive. Find the precise combination of tweaks and twists, and you’ll be hailed as a creative genius; preside over a series of meaningless meanderings, and your long-suffering…
Cow Town Conniption
Shecks! That thar’s a helluva good point! What is this, Kick Lorain County Month? Jared Klaus’ mean-spirited story about South Amherst’s thwarted plans to turn an abandoned quarry into useful land [“Fantasy Island,” March 28] was nastily contorted, to say the least. Why be so quick to belittle the benign village 30 miles from Cleveland…
Masters and Servants
Leathermania comes to town this weekend, when more than 2,000 S&Mers from around the world convene for the sixth-annual Cleveland Leather Awareness Weekend. “It’s about fellowship,” says Dennis McMahon, the fetish fest’s president. The bondage-worshiping starts at 3 p.m. today with a sign-in at the makeshift Leather Village at the Wyndham Hotel (1260 Euclid Avenue;…
The Divas of Gospel Tour
Gospel fans across the country have many reasons to celebrate this tour, which features some of the music’s most relevant artists. With youthful, contemporary rhythms and undeniable vocal chops, headliners Yolanda Adams and Mary Mary, and California sisters Erica and Trecina Campbell are amazing entry points for those who know absolutely nothing about gospel. These…
Chef Wars
Take six chefs, three judges, and one secret ingredient; mix well inside Windows on the River; then bake for 60 minutes, basting generously with complimentary drinks — and what do you get? Scene’s Iron Fork competition, part of the fifth-annual Tasteful Affair, taking place from 7 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 17. Modeled after…
Afrobeat Orchestra?
After the first pressing of their 2000 debut, Antibalas tacked “Afrobeat Orchestra” to the end of its name in order to provide some context for the disc’s contents. But now they’re back to just Antibalas, a move that not only reflects the Brooklyn outfit’s growing reputation but also indicates newly found confidence, which can be…
Up Close and Personal
New York City singer-songwriter Nicola bounces between Evanescence goth-pop and granola-chewing folk on her third CD, Don’t Take It Personally. It’s a mix that recalls the mid-’80s, when female rockers put down their mic stands and picked up guitars. Nicola’s got a big voice, which helps carry her over some of the less dynamic songs.…
Colette
The decision to create SuperJane — the first all-female DJ collective — was a no-brainer for Colette, Heather, Lady D, and Dayhota. Not to overlook their skills behind the decks or the daunting task of navigating the male-dominated world of dance music, but in the late ’90s, SuperJane’s sex appeal easily separated the women from…
Austin’s Powers
“Ten people will fight. Nine people will die. You get to watch.” So proclaims the poster for The Condemned, a movie executive-produced by World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon and starring self-professed “whup-ass machine” Stone Cold Steve Austin and oft-suspended former soccer star Vinnie Jones. So can someone explain where this movie gets off lecturing…
Yo, Adrian!
Adrian Belew is primarily renowned for his King Crimson guitar work, which helped establish him as a unique and visionary talent — particularly for his use of midi on the guitar. But the guy’s influence is as pervasive as dandelion seeds. Belew has served as sideman on several legendary albums, including the Talking Heads’ Remain…
T for Tears
On their latest CD, Every Second Counts, Chicago emo pinups the Plain White T’s completely embody TRL’s pop-punk-lovin’ demo. Songs like “Friends Don’t Let Friends Dial Drunk” and “Hate (I Really Don’t Like You)” get tangled in myriad emotions — just like your average teen. Love, anger, and jealousy top the list, but many shades…
Dianne Reeves and George Duke
For some jazz artists, crossover success means selling out (at least in the eyes of jazz snobs). But for others, it means walking a tightrope between creativity and accessibility. The velvety Dianne Reeves may be our era’s definitive jazz singer. Thoroughly versed in the masters (Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington), Reeves never overstates technique, offering soulfulness…
Here, Mike! Sit! Good Boy!
Speaking as the owner of a new puppy, I can say definitively that a dog is both more and less annoying than the average person. Year of the Dog makes much the same point with its pack of uncontrollable pooches, including a cute beagle that rips into the wrong bag of treats and thereby makes…
The Killers Will Kill You
Back in early 2003, the Killers were just another name littered in the demo piles of A&R departments across the country. Few people in the music industry knew much about the Las Vegas rock group, which isn’t to say the group — which features Brandon Flowers as lead vocalist — didn’t show loads of promise.…
Brother Ali
“Every stone that’s ever been cast/Or blow that’s ever landed/Helped to build the man that’s standing before you,” raps Brother Ali on his new disc, The Undisputed Truth. It’s a line that embodies what the dude is all about. Ali, you see, is a legally blind albino, something that made him the punch line of…
Short Takes
Black Book Paul Verhoeven can be a very bad boy and a very good filmmaker. Any of his movies could have been titled Basic Instinct — not least his epic World War II thriller Black Book. The movie opens in 1956 with a busload of Holy Land tourists gawking at “what is called a kibbutz.”…
Even Through Beer Goggles, Bush Doesn’t Look Good
Writer Mike Palacek brings his anti-GOP crusade to Cleveland Drinking Liberally’s weekly meeting tonight. The local left-wing group says it promotes “democracy one pint at a time.” The Iowa-based Palacek raises a glass or two to the day when George Bush and Karl Rove are kicked out of Washington. “Somebody needs to punch those two…
Richard Buckner and Six Parts Seven
Like Joe Pernice, Richard Buckner is a creative-writing grad turned songwriter with a penchant for dark, desperate tales of the half-broken. But where the Pernice Brothers have built lavish baroque-pop backdrops to cushion their despondent vibes, Buckner’s folk-blues strum and downbeat arrangements rarely disguise painful lyrics delivered in a gruff baritone. This means the mood…
Click, Click
As dysfunctional dads go, it’s hard to top one who whistles while making his morning coffee, then sits down with the newspaper, puts a gun to his head, and pulls the trigger. He chuckles at the click — no bullet in the chamber this time — and amiably heads off to work. A fast round…
Roar of the Crowd
You gotta be able to do more than yell sis boom bah to be part of the Cleveland Lions’ Top Cats Cheerleading Squad. At today’s auditions, organizers are looking for catwalk-ready girls. “Modeling experience is a plus,” says Holly Brannan, the squad’s director. “You have to have the whole package — how you present your…
Bob James & the Angels of Shanghai
Devout jazz fans generally think of Bob James as a commercial sellout who helped create smooth jazz back in the ’70s. In 1965, however, James unleashed the Explosions LP via the now mythical ESP-Disk’, home to folk-rock mutants the Fugs and Albert Ayler, the seminal Cleveland free-jazz saxophonist. A heady collage of out-there sounds and…
Dead On
A hundred years ago, long before the Republican Party was Cheneyfied and Coulterized, small-town members of the GOP could be viewed as a fairly representative sampling of America. Honest and hardworking, these were folks who did everything “right”: They followed the rules, made love in the missionary position, and still wound up dead. The juxtaposition…
Have Harp, Will Travel
Bluesman John Németh, whose old-school harmonica playing on Magic Touch belies his 32 years, says he chose his instrument based on economical attainability, not because he felt an overpowering draw to it. “I wanted to buy an electric piano and amplifier,” he says. “That was $3,000. The harmonica was $6.99.” On his debut album, Németh…
The Ruse
After relocating from N.Y.C. to L.A., indie-rockers the Ruse are working on their third album with producer Danny Saber, who’s worked with U2, the Rolling Stones, and David Bowie. In tunes like “Sit Down Stare Out” — great title, huh? — the group flows from mild to electric and back. You may have heard the…
Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations.
A Colored Funeral — One would wish that this world premiere at Karamu could harness the kind of singular magic common to New Orleans-style jazz funerals, but despite the efforts of a talented and diligent cast of five, this play largely feels dead on arrival. Most of the problem stems from the playwright, Gregory S.…
Parade Prep
The Cleveland Museum of Art kicks off its Parade the Circle Workshops tonight. For the next seven weeks, folks can prepare for the big University Circle bash on June 9 by making masks, puppets, and flamboyantly colored costumes. Experts will be on hand to show participants how to assemble the pieces, which will be seen…
Purple Party
Sure, he played the Super Bowl, and even though Prince isn’t quite the big name he used to be, he still sells out arenas. And in the future, people are going to talk about him like he’s James Brown. Don’t embarrass yourself in front of your hipster grandchildren: Jump on the bandwagon now. California DJ…
Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.
NEW Come Closer — Rejoice, ye who mourned the late E. Gordon Gallery. Elizabeth Davis has launched a bright, spacious new venture downtown in the Tower Press Building, and its debut is auspicious. Inaugurating freshly whitewashed walls is a diverse collection of small, mostly abstract pieces by 20 local artists, many of whom Davis has…
Epitaph for a Legend
In 1989, 10 years after his death, jazz giant Charles Mingus’ Epitaph was completed by friends, family, and historians. Tonight, the Charles Mingus Epitaph Orchestra performs the two-hour masterpiece as part of the Tri-C JazzFest. “It is the premiere jazz orchestral work ever written,” says Beth Rutkowski, the JazzFest’s managing director. “It is very complex.”…
Redman
It’s hard to say what’s more surprising: that Redman’s sixth solo album is actually decent or that it even exists. The long-rumored Red Gone Wild seemed to be floating in the ether for years, along with all the ganja smoke from the New Jersey rapper’s pothead flick How High. But here’s the disc at last,…
Five Wonders of the World
Planet Earth (BBC/Warner Bros.)Roll over, Marlin Perkins, and tell Jacques Cousteau the news: There’s never been another nature series like this. You will spend forever glued to this five-disc collection, finding among such holy-shit discoveries a herd of never-before-photographed camels who live in the frozen wastelands, great whites dining on unsuspecting seals, swimming monkeys and…
Communication Breakdown
At tonight’s He Said, She Said Comedy Tour, comedians David Arnold and Kym Whitley square off on battle-of-the-sexes issues. “My wife wants to talk all the damn time,” quips Arnold. “The minister said we were supposed to talk, the counselor said we were supposed to talk. Tuesday is talk day, Thursday is talk day. I’m…
Blonde Redhead
Blonde Redhead started out as a de facto Sonic Youth tribute act, openly channeling the post-punk legends’ raw guitar noise and stop-start rhythmic attack. Yet over a decade-plus of increasingly sophisticated record-making, the New York trio has evolved into something far more unique: On 23, its seventh full-length, the band comes off like the world’s…
This Is Madness
A game based on 300 has no excuse not to kick ass. Just picture yourself leading 300 Greeks (that’s 1,800 abs) against the Persian empire’s massive armies, led by the evil, pierced, and preening King Xerxes. Since your Spartans are the deadliest soldiers in the world, the Persians’ only chance is to smother you with…
Boys to Men
The three generations of fathers and sons in Argentine director Daniel Burman’s Family Law struggle for connection –to their jobs, to their homes, and, most importantly, to each other. Perelman Sr. is a successful lawyer, and his daily routine leaves little time for anything other than his practice. His thirtysomething son Ariel is also a…
Korn
Like many landmark hard-rock groups, nu-metal godfathers Korn will never earn mainstream respect as serious musicians — and MTV Unplugged, a disc baffling in its utter badness, won’t help. Long story short: Bongos are best left to hippies. In the band’s defense: Alice in Chains’ Unplugged shouldn’t have worked. Alice’s metallic dynamics were rooted in…
Our top DVD picks for the week of April 24:
Al Franken: God Spoke (Docurama) Code Name: The Cleaner (New Line) Columbo: Mystery Murder Collection 1989 (Universal) Déjà Vu (Buena Vista) The Documentaries of Louis Malle (Criterion) The Drew Carey Show: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.) Flipper: Season One (MGM) .45 (Velocity) Ironside: Season 1 (Shout! Factory) Jean Renoir: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition (Lions Gate)…
The Surreal Wife
Convergence-Continuum opens its new season tonight with References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, a comedy about a military wife stuck in a small California desert town. It’s an appropriately surreal piece. As Gabriela waits for her soldier boy to come home, she strikes up a conversation with the moon . . . which not…
Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard/Ray Price
Fans of these three country legends — as well as western-swing junkies — will find little to quibble with here. Nelson, Haggard, and Price offer flawless renditions of chestnuts penned by Lefty Frizzell, Harland Howard, Hank Williams, and others. Meanwhile, sideman hotshots like pedal-steel whiz Buddy Emmons and fiddler Johnny Gimble only add to the…
Here are the week’s best releases from the pop-culture universe:
CD — Back to Black: Amy Winehouse is a stumbling, slurring mess. And the British singer is proud of it — laughing off failed alcohol treatment in the opening song, “Rehab,” and boozing her way through other sultry torch tracks. She’s also a pretty lousy girlfriend (see “You Know I’m No Good”). Producer Mark Ronson…
Melody Makers
What sets tourmates From Autumn to Ashes and Alesana apart from other screamo groups are their pop hooks. On Holding a Wolf by the Ears, FATA rebounds from the loss of one of its singers (the screaming guy) by enlisting the drummer (who sings the melodic sections) to handle both parts. It’s a neat twist…
Blues Revival
With heavy rains whipping through downtown, the Robert Lockwood Jr. All Stars hold down the fort at Fat Fish Blue. Some in attendance wonder if the crappy weather is to blame for the small turnout this Wednesday night in March, but guitarist D.C. Carnes knows that’s not it. As he put it earlier in the…
JJ Grey & MOFRO
It’s been years since southern blues-rock has received a boot to the ass this strong. With his third disc, North Florida backwoodsman JJ Grey raises the bar for every would-be swamp-boogie bad boy. Forget stale revisitations of Delta chestnuts and Allmans-flavored blues; Grey is a first-rate song-crafter, drawing from his Dixie roots with ease and…
More Victims
There appear to be more victims of Dr. Daryl Steiner’s false accusations of child abuse [“Guilty Until Proven Innocent,” April 19]. After reading last week’s cover story, Sue Milton called to say “the exact same thing happened to me and my granddaughter.” In 1998, Milton’s daughter Latesia gave premature birth to a beautiful baby girl,…
Main Course
Today’s your last chance to take advantage of Cleveland Metroparks Golf’s Free Replay offer. Play a round on any of the park’s seven greens and get nine additional holes at no cost. The park features both nine- and 18-hole courses, so choose wisely. Nine-hole greens include Little Met (18599 Old Lorain Road; 216-941-9672), Mastick Woods…
