What to Do Tonight: Crosby, Stills, and Nash
“I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob!” There was a time — oh, like five years ago — where it was popular to hate on Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The sugary harmonies, the hippie-dippy lyrics, David Crosby’s freakin’ mustache — all are longtime enemies of real rock & roll fans. Then Fleet Foxes, Band of…
What to Do Tonight: Jenny and Johnny
Jenny (the one with the sunglasses) and Johnny (the one with the Justin Bieber hair) During their five-year courtship, singer-songwriters Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice have collaborated on each other’s solo albums, supported one another on tour, and shacked up together in one of Laurel Canyon’s standard-issue rock & roll bungalows. The next step was…
What to Do Tonight: Deftones
Deftones, prepared for all kinds of weather In the 15 years since they formed in Sacramento, Deftones have upped their game with each album. Other less-complex bands they were lumped in with have sold more records, draw bigger concert crowds, and are more visible (we’re looking at you, Korn and Limp Bizkit), but Deftones expanded…
Out Today: The Drums
THE DRUMSThe Drums(Downtown) The latest group of Brooklyn hipsters isn’t nearly as challenging as many of its neighbors. In fact, there’s nothing at all complicated about the Drums’ self-titled debut album. Their glistening indie pop is rooted in the moody sounds of ’80s post-punk, but frontman Jonathan Pierce delivers every word with a wink —…
What to Do Tonight: Kiss
The cover of Kiss’ latest album. Figured you’d want to know what it looks like, since you probably never saw it before Can you remember what a single song from Kiss’ 2009 album Sonic Boom sounds like? Didn’t think so. But don’t worry about it — Kiss are keenly aware that they’re a retro band…
What to Do Tonight: Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, but nobody loves long-ass stupid band names Despite the laidback implications in the title of their third album, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s Let It Sway sticks to the playful and exuberant indie pop they’ve been playing since their 2005 debut. It’s just that now the Missouri quartet…
What to Do Tonight: Jamie Lidell
Jamie Lidell goes out for a paranoia-filled stroll Like Mayer Hawthorne, Jamie Lidell is a thirtysomething white guy who grew up on soul records from the ’60s and ’70s and can perfectly replicate that sound in his own songs. Hawthorne was raised in Michigan; Lidell is British. But the biggest difference between them is their…
What to Do Tonight: Sublime With Rome
Sublime: now heroin-free (we think) Besides No Doubt, Sublime are the most successful band to come out of the SoCal ska revival of the ’90s. But they never had a chance to go on tour with their breakthrough self-titled album from 1996 because frontman Bradley Nowell died of a heroin overdose two months before the…
What to Do Tonight: “Weird Al” Yankovic
Al Yankovic, doing something weird There was a time when just about everybody in the United States was on the same page, culturally speaking. Let’s call that time “The ’80s.” The pop stars at the top of the charts — Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson — were universally recognizable. You could hum their biggest…
What to Do Tonight: The Breeders
Four square, Breeders style The Breeders have released only four albums in their 22-year career, making them one of alt-rock’s most underachieving bands. During the same period, frontwoman Kim Deal’s Pixies bandmate Black Francis/Frank Black has been ridiculously over-prolific, recording more than a dozen albums. But even with the smaller catalog, Deal and the Breeders…
Cleveland On Web Site’s List 20 Worst Cities to Sell a House
We keep getting so many of these, we’re going to need a display case. In the click-obsessed world of online media, nothing gets readers flipping pages like a good ol’ city ranking. Some of the best in the biz come courtesy of serious journalism/gossip rag juggling act The Daily Beast. Their favorite click-trick is to…
Asterisk Gallery in Tremont Closing
Dana Depew will support Cleveland art in other ways. Frank jackson will still wear this shirt. Artist and Asterisk Gallery proprietor Dana Depew reports that he has decided to close his gallery—a mainstay on the Tremont art walk— after a ten-year run. “I found myself awake at three a.m. trying to hook up a bunch…
2,000 Ohioans Go to Utah for Gun Permits
This is the last time I catch you crawling through my daughter’s window. If handgun law was like the culinary arts, Utah would be fast food. The conservative bastion dishes out conceal carry permits like Happy Meals on a Sunday afternoon in summer, and the gun-hungry don’t even have to live in the state to…
This Just In: Cleveland Concert Announcements
Drive-By Truckers will be stopping in Akron in October Accept/King’s X: Fri., Oct. 8, $25. Agora. The Almost/House of Heroes/Chasen: Tue., Sept. 21. 7 p.m., $10 ADV. Musica. The Bridge: Thu., Nov. 4, 9 p.m., Tavern, $8 ADV/$10 DOS. Beachland. Cabinet/Funk You: Sat., Sept. 18, 9 p.m., Ballroom, $10. Beachland. Cro-Mags (featuring John Joseph and…
Robert Oneal, Self-Appointed “Rambo”, Flubs Vigilante Mission
Oneal, adding to the Lorain myth. Lorain, it’s time we had a talk. What the hell is going on? You’ve been acting so strange lately, everyone’s talking about it. They blame it on the water, blame it on the economy, say the 440 is just plain crazy. But seriously, a screw’s loose, friend. It’s time…
Jim Brown is Slaughter
I haven’t decided whether or not to wade into the mess that is the Brown vs. Browns situation. For the moment, here’s the trailer from Jim Brown’s role as Slaughter. Damn right.
David Franklin, New Director of Cleveland Museum of Art, Loves Hockey
David Franklin, displaying his teeth. David Franklin, the internationally respected scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, who was named the next director of the Cleveland Museum of Art last week, still has all his teeth. This is noteworthy because the 49 year-old native of Toronto has played hockey ever since he was a youngster.…
Plugging Our Pals
In his spare time, frequent Cleveland Scene contributor Phil Freeman edits a quarterly magazine called Burning Ambulance. The second issue is just out. The mag, which calls itself a “journal of music and the arts,” is available in both digital and old-school print versions. The second issue includes a profile of saxophonist Darius Jones, a…
Concert Review: Built to Spill at Musica
Hello, Akron! Indie rockers Chikita Violenta opened a night of great music at Akron’s Musica last night, even if singer Luis Arce didn’t get much of a response when he asked the audience, “Who here speaks Spanish?” The response to their music was enthusiastic and strong, and that’s all that mattered. (Their debut album, Trees,…
What to Do Tonight: Jonas Brothers
“Justin Bieber said we should wait here. He’d pick us up later” Has the Jonas Brothers’ hold on teenage girls’ hearts, wallets, and bedroom walls run its course? It would appear so, now that so many of the Jonases’ fans are inflicted with temporarily incurable cases of Bieber Fever. But the Jonas Brothers’ reign never…
Out Today: Film School
Film School Fission(Hi-Speed Soul) Like all Film School records, Fission’s 12 blasts of energy wash over listeners with dense, multi-layers of warm and intense shoegazer rock. The five-piece led by singer-guitarist Greg Bertens has been splitting arty and atmospheric modern-rock since its San Francisco days, recording excellent albums like 2001’s Brilliant Career. Mixing Swervedriver’s penchant…
Cutest Thing You’ll See All Day: Cat Adopts Baby Squirrel
Awwwwwwwwwww. Lisa Reichel and her family were scared. They’d found a baby squirrel that had fallen out of a tree and tried to save it. A wildlife expert told them to use a dropper to try and see if the baby squirrel would drink some of the nutrition it would need to live. The squirrel…
16 Dead People Have Voted in Recent Ohio Elections
Boo! I will haunt you, and vote GOP. The Columbus Dispatch reports today that over 5,800 deceased Ohioans remain on voter rolls throughout the state. That bit of clerical error is embarrassing enough and troubling to many through the state without the prospect of any of those 5,800 dead people actually voting. Secretary of State…
Cleveland Galleria Continues March Toward Sustainability
18th-century practices in 20th-century building. The Galleria, a former hotbed of downtown business before all the businesses left downtown, is doing its part to turn back the clock of recession — by about 200 years, when plowhorses clogged the city streets each rush hour. Yet another cog in Cleveland’s urban agriculture movement, the Galleria debuted…
Rock Hall Celebrating 15th Anniversary With ‘Cleveland Rocks!’ TV Special
It’s still here. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame celebrates its 15th anniversary this Friday with a series of events you can actually afford to treat a family to. Amid the media hype this week will surely be a shout-out to the hour-long special Cleveland Rocks!, which is scheduled to air at 7 p.m.…
Goodtime III Discovers Dead Body in Cuyahoga River
And if you look to your right… “Folks, this is your captain. Just wanted to point out that if you look to your left you’ll get a nice view Progressive Field. And if you look to your right… um… nevermind. Don’t look to your right.” Passengers on the Goodtime III are used to seeing all…
Buy Built to Spill Tickets, Win Some Cool Vinyl
Looks like they were already spilled The aweosme Built to Spill are playing Musica in Akron on Monday. If you buy your advance tickets on TicketWeb, you’ll be entered into a contest to win limited-edition copies of four Built to Spill albums on 180-gram vinyl (which will be given away at the show). The records…
Lotsa Local bands Playing Last Open Air Tomorrow
Open air, before all that damn music pollutes it All good things must come to an end. The Open Air Market in the Square, in the little park at West 25th and Lorain across from the West Side Market, has been going strong since late May, but the last regular edition of the weekly event…
Band With Stupid Name Plays Show Tomorrow
We figured you’d rather see a picture of Uncle Fester instead of another one of Elvis Longtime music-scene observers may remember the jazz-influenced, seven-piece band from Youngstown, I Don’t Care, who released one album back in the ’70s. Damian Knapp, son of that band’s vocalist/trumpeter, the late Pete Knapp, has followed in his dad’s musical…
Another Karen Novak Benefit Next Week
Unsane, rockin’ your ass benefit style Cleveland-area music photographer Karen Novak, who’s been documenting the local underground music scene for two decades, lost most of her possessions when her home in the Waterloo neighborhood burned down in June. Many of her artist and musician friends hosted a benefit for her at the Beachland Ballroom in…
Just a Warning — Highland Square Will Be Loud Tomorrow
Hey Mavis! You gonna be at Highland Square tomorrow? More than two dozen local original musicians and bands — most from the Akron area — will be playing on five stages at Art in the Square in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. The better-known names include the raw, punk-inflected…
Rock Hall’s Annual Acknowledgement of Latinos Happens Tomorrow
These people are happy the Rock Hall is devoting a whole day to them The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual Latino Heritage Festival, held each year in honor of Latino Heritage Month, returns from 3 to 7 p.m. tomorrow outside on the Rock Hall’s plaza. It’s free. Since a majority of…
Scene and Phillip Morris Agree: Super-Recycling Cans Questionable
“Look, we need to talk, I know you haven’t been taking out the plastics.” Scene shouldered a little flak from readers earlier this month when we questioned Cleveland’s decision to hard-wire recycling bins across the city so The Man can tell if you’re taking out your cans and plastics on a regular basis. Our good…
Columbus Churches Ask That You Don’t Kill Anyone This Weekend
Please restrict your homicides to weekdays, please. It’s a small but earnest request: Please don’t kill anyone this weekend. Like, pretty please. In the wake of a string of violent crimes in the area, churches have organized ‘Ceasefire Columbus,’ an event scheduled at Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church on Saturday. There will be live music, food,…
Ohio Wants Craiglist To Remove Adult Section
Ohio doesn’t care about your quasi-legal sexual needs. Ohio is one of over a dozen states that want Craigslist to abandon its adult services business. Ostensibly, they have noble goals: reigning in child trafficking and cracking down on prostitution. No one’s going to argue with that. A letter on behalf of seventeen states — Arkansas,…
Watch Thrifty Brides Sprint for Dress Deals
Maybe someone scored a dress like this. It’s a pretty slow news day in Cleveland. Sadly, no masturbating drivers or flashing twenty-somethings popped up this morning, so instead here’s video of a bunch of soon-to-be brides sprinting through Filene’s Basement in Warrensville Heights hoping to score deals on wedding dresses. Hopefully someone will do something…
Concert Review: Coheed & Cambria/Porcupine Tree at Nautica
Porcupine Tree: as proggy as they wanna be Triple bills and co-headlining summer tours are usually maddening. Initial ticket purchase excitement usually bleeds into the disappointing awareness of short sets, poor sound, lack of stride, and so on. Fans get the shaft because the gig never lives up to the hype. Somehow, last night’s Coheed…
The Devil Inside
Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) is a former evangelist who used to perform phony exorcisms. But now he wants to expose the ritual as a potentially dangerous sham. So he and a film crew visit a rural family that’s looking for some divine intervention. Cotton expects something he’s seen dozens of times, but he winds up…
Peter Lawson Jones Would Like to be a (Casino) Regulator
Peter Lawson Jones prepping for a role in a casino heist movie. Peter Lawson Jones will soon be out of a job. He won’t be dawdling about on the golf course though, at least it doesn’t appear that way. Lawson Jones is one of dozens of people who have put their names into the hat…
Bruce Springsteen Has Something for Your Holiday Wish List
“Al who? Dog Day After what?” A couple of years after it was first announced, the deluxe reissue of Bruce Springsteen’s classic 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town will finally see the light of day. Details on the six-disc box set, The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, finally surfaced…
About the Foolishness of Wanting to Lose the Browns’ ‘Dawg’ Identity
WFNY posted a roundtable discussion amongst their writers on the topic of the Dawg Pound. Of course it wasn’t just about the physical Dawg Pound itself; it was a debate about the identity of the Browns as the dawgs and whether the organization or fans should be holding onto that identity. Hypothetically there are people…
Jim Traficant’s Political Hopes Not Dead Yet
Whatever is on his head, however, is dead. Former congressman/felon James Traficant isn’t quite ready yet to pack up his epicly bad hairpieces and fade into history. Once revered in the Youngstown area, Traficant’s nearly two-decade career representing the Mahoning Valley’s 17th district came to an end in 2002 when he was expelled from Congress…
Eminem vs. Egghead
If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably been sitting around the past couple weeks wondering about the psychological implications of Eminem’s video for “Love the Way You Lie.” Well, we’re all in luck, because the Last Psychiatrist has just broken down the video for us — complete with a tiny illustrative graph. The 2,500-word treatise…
Cynthia Boogher, Drunken Flasher, Causes Commotion in Lorain
Cynthia Boogher during one of those rare times when she has a shirt on. In your daily update of the strange and crazy happenings of Lorain, Ohio… Cynthia Boogher, 27, made the normally breast-free zone of W. 10th Street and Reid Avenue in Lorain more breasty yesterday, according to police. Boogher was more than a…
Morley Davidson, KSU Professor, Unlocks Rubik’s Cube Mystery
Rubik’s Cube master, the best way to get the girls. The Beacon Journal reports Kent State University professor Morley Davidson and a team of researchers have proved that a Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves, regardless of how mixed up its primary color patterns are. Thirty years of intermittent research yielded the answer,…
Colondra Hamilton Charged For Masturbating, Watching Porn While Driving
She has that post-orgasm glow. Colondra Hamilton took multitasking while driving to a new level earlier this week. Forget the people who drink their coffee, chat on their cell phones, do their makeup, or read the paper while driving. Those in-car distractions are child’s play compared to what Elmwood Place cops found Hamilton doing while…
Lakewood Named Top-Ten Coolest Suburb In Country
Seal soon to be redesigned to feature Melt logo. Travel + Leisure mag, that recognized arbiter of all that’s cool, has deemed Lakewood cool enough to land on its list of top ten cool suburbs worthy of a visit. What with all the churches and bars, how could it not be the coolest? What other…
Cleveland In Top 15 Cities for Bedbug Infestations
Cooler in photos than in person. You go, Cleveland. You’re on top again. Or at least near the top, though you shouldn’t be too thrilled about these rankings. Joining three other Ohio cities — Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati — Cleveland is among the top 15 locales that is being bombarded with bedbug infestations according to…
Cleveland Hts. Firefighters Held Out For More Money, Lost Jobs When None Was Found
Firemen’s unions are as gifted with the prose as their brethren are with the hose. “Cleveland Heights officials playing politics with fire,” reads a letter to Scene from Paul Hallisy, president of the Cleveland Heights firefighters union, Local 402. The group claims that recent layoffs, which cut the force from 72 to 69, should have…
Kristin Ann Stahlbush, Suspended Laywer, Often Billed For More Than 24 Hours of Work in a Day
Kristin Ann Stahlbush would tell you this scale could hold two tons of weight. It’s hard enough to trust lawyers without them giving you obvious reasons to not trust them. Case in point: Ohio lawyer Kristin Ann Stahlbush. There’s a blind trust when working with a lawyer. You trust that the hours and minutes they’re…
Matthew Prince and David Muniz, Suspended Cleveland Cops, Spent Lots of Time Parking, Not Much Time Policing
Davide Muniz, fan of Christie’s parking lot. David Muniz and Matthew Prince were the Cleveland policemen responsible for misidentifying Angela Bradley-Crockett’s body on the side of I-90 as that of a deer carcass. In their defense, it’s hard to correctly identify a body, or anything at all, while driving by at 50 mph, but in…
West Side Market Named Food Network Top 10 Destination
Simply the best. Despite 20/20-stache John Stossal’s beef, the West Side Market continues to rack up an impressive number of accolades. A recent one came via the Food Network, which has put the Cleveland staple on it’s list of Top 10 Destinations. The market gets props as the “Best Food Lovers’ Market.” “Local, including Iron…
Kenneth Ray, School Janitor, Gropes Little Girls at Wal-Mart
Not someone you want to leave alone with your kid. Parents beware: fanny-pinching part-time school janitors are stalking area Wal-Marts. Well, at least one. Police say Kenneth Ray was caught grouping two young girls at a Mentor branch of the big box. As if that description didn’t make Ray out to be a perv already,…
Lorain Teen Goes Crazy On Aunt
Teen girls can be vicious. A couple times a week we post a bizarre story from the Lorain area. Inevitably, the comments come in: What’s with the water in Lorain? Who knows, but there might actually be something to that line of reasoning because the strange Lorain stories don’t seem to stop, they only seem…
Rainbow Connection
If Coheed and Cambria weren’t such geeks, they’d be overbearingly pretentious. The New York-based indie-prog-rockers have released five albums since 2002, all of them telling the story of “The Amory Wars,” a sci-fi concept conceived by frontman Claudio Sanchez about a galaxy far, far away and the messianic dude (named Claudio) at the center of…
Port in a Storm
John Carney’s eyes glowed with excitement that cold December night in 2007 at a community center on East 82nd Street. An air of triumph washed over the chairman of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority as he revealed plans for a new port that would create 25,000 jobs and $2 billion in economic development for the…
It’s a Crime
The “Takers” are a group of criminals who drive Porsches and live in high-rise condos. They pick and choose heists with discretion. So when old pal Ghost (played by ex-con rapper T.I.) returns from prison with a plan to hijack an armored truck, they’re a bit suspicious. But because Ghost used to be part of…
We Get Mail
GORILLA’S IN OUR MIDST Gorilla Productions’ methodical rip-off scheme of exploiting youngsters trying to make a name out there is what’s making it nearly impossible for the rest of us to get paid gigs these days [“Monkey Business,” July 28, 2010]. It almost doesn’t matter where a band tries to book a show; nearly every…
Keeping It Like a Secret
Smart choices often outpace ability. That could be Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch’s personal motto. The small decisions made a huge difference on his band’s seventh album, There Is No Enemy. For example, Danny Levin added a conquering trumpet solo to “Things Fall Apart,” an epic six-minute head trip through reggae space-rock. “I was…
Bites: Flour Opening in Moreland Hills
“We want to be known as a place with great pizza,” says Chris DiLisi. “We don’t want to be known as a pizza place.” For the past five years, DiLisi was a chef at the Baricelli Inn, which closed last month after 25 years. When Flour opens later this year, DiLisi will serve as executive…
Hell Bound
Following in the shaky faux-documentary footsteps of The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, The Last Exorcism comes from an even older tradition of pea-soup-spewing horror movies about demonic possession. The template was set by a pair of box-office blockbusters, Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, back when Nixon was President. They ushered in an era…
Fiesta & Fizzle
Long before Eric Williams retooled Happy Dog into an uproarious tubesteak bierstube, savvy operators were plotting to do the same with tacos. More than one local chef had been tracking available properties in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, eager to stake a claim on the next big thing. The unbridled success of Happy Dog only shifted those…
To the Core
Sweet Apple (myspace.com/sweetapplesongs) just announced a new set of dates in support of their debut album, Love & Desperation. The indie-rock band featuring Clevelanders John Petkovic and Tim Parnin — who are also members of Cobra Verde — will play a few East Coast dates in early September before opening for the recently reunited Guided by…
The Troll Collector
Best Worse Movie starts off as a low-key profile of an amiable small-town dentist. A bunch of locals from Alexander City, Alabama, talk about what a great guy Dr. George Hardy is. Even his ex-wife thinks he’s the nicest person on the planet. Five minutes later we learn that Hardy was the star of Troll…
OUT OF DARKNESS
“I have a little thing with numbers,” says Henry Senyak. He shares this as he drives in the dark along Clark Avenue on Cleveland’s gritty near West Side, spouting addresses as he passes them and making notes on a piece of paper he keeps on the console of his gray Chevy van. It’s after 9…
Stay In
TOP PICK — CD Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R — Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe) The fuzz-lovin’ stoner rockers’ breakthrough album celebrates its tenth anniversary with a two-CD set. “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” (which runs down a list of drugs that were most likely ingested during the making of the record) is one…
CD Review: Dead Confederate
Dead Confederate rose from the ashes of the jam-oriented Red Belly Band on their 2008 debut, Wrecking Ball, where they pursued a sweltering neo-psych throb in songs that stretched into extended, distortion-drenched vamps that bared traces of the Allman Brothers’ rawk theatrics. Some of that old thud is still evident on the band’s follow-up album…
CD Review: Eels
It’s harder to write a happy song than an unhappy one. That’s the problem with the final album in Eels’ trilogy about dissolution, heartbreak, and redemption. Misanthropic frontman Mark Oliver Everett, who’s built his entire career around dispirited paeans, simply isn’t equipped for the task. Most Eels albums focus on Everett’s gruff and glum delivery…
CD Review: Katy Perry
Katy Perry’s life is all cotton-candy kisses, fireworks on the beach, and drunken Friday nights. And throughout her second album, she sings about the fun she’s having living it up with her BFFs. (Market crisis? Oil spills? What war?) Teenage Dream is pure escapism, and the perky Perry sells it hard here. Whether thinking about…
CD Review: The Sword
Austin metal band the Sword has always had great riffs, but the execution was usually more about passion, not precision — until now. On their third album, the Sword tighten their game. The most immediate change involves frontman J.D. Cronise, who’s learned how to sing. Warp Riders is a sci-fi concept record — at least…
Pretty Things On Walls
BAZAARBECUE The folks at Forum ArtSpace have taken the missionary approach to building an audience: Share food with people and they’ll be your friends. Or at the very least they’ll stick around to hear your message. The Forum ArtSpace message is contemporary art — especially work by young folks. It’s run by recent Cleveland Institute…
At the Arthouses
[REC] 2 2Hollywood sorta remade the first part of this Spanish horror movie as Quarantine. It sucked. This follow-up picks up where the original left off: A TV news crew is still trapped inside an apartment building where a virus is turning people into very hungry zombies. A few more victims show up as dessert.…
Concerts? We Got Your Concerts Right Here
Jonas Brothers Has the Jonas Brothers’ hold on teenage girls’ hearts, wallets, and bedroom walls run its course? It would appear so, now that so many Jonas fans are afflicted with temporarily incurable cases of Bieber Fever. But the Jonas Brothers’ reign never really seemed as strong or as widespread as corporate bosses Disney made…
Film Capsules
Charlie St. Cloud (PG-13) — After his 11-year-old brother Sam (Charlie Tahan) dies in a car accident, Stanford-bound sailing aspirant Charlie St. Cloud (Zac Efron) becomes unglued. Consumed with grief and guilt — he was behind the wheel at the time of the smash-up — Charlie soon abandons his dreams and takes a job as…
Get Out
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 UNIVERSITY CIRCLE The Final Wade Oval Wednesday Summer’s wind-down has hit the fast-forward phase, so get out there and enjoy what will probably be some of the nicest days of the year after the blistering summer we’ve endured. Tonight’s the final Wade Oval Wednesday, the summer-long series of midweek concerts at University…
Muni Lot Won’t Open Until 7 a.m. For Browns Games This Year (Update)
Update: And now there’s a little online petition regarding the change in Muni Lot opening time. (via @sojournalista) *** Update: Comment from the City of Cleveland’s Kathleen Dorsey — “This was a city decision – we are merely bringing the opening of Muni Lot in line with other lots in the area. Patrons arriving prior…
Cleveland Getting a New Improv Comedy Group
Big Dog Theater will be off to a great start by featuring Mike Polk Half a decade ago, Cleveland’s sketch/improv comedy scene appeared ready to hit the big time. That’s when the ambitious Ground Floor Theater company took over the old Centrum movie theater on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights, gave it a makeover, and…
