Update: Rock Hall Announces Presenters for the Upcoming Inductions
The Rock Hall has just announced more presenters for the upcoming Inductions that take place on April 14 at Public Hall. Howard Stern and Ann Wilson have both already announced that they’ll respectively induct Bon Jovi and the Moody Blues. A Rock Hall press release sent out this morning adds that Mary J. Blige will…
Local Rock Photographer Holds Auction to Benefit Kitten Krazy Cat Shelter
The Kitten Krazy cat shelter opened over a decade ago in Medina and has found good homes for more than 5,000 cats and kittens. Local rock photographer Joe Kleon, a volunteer at the place, regularly holds an annual auction to raise money for the free-roaming shelter. He’s just announced the details for his third annual Furrever…
Tickets to Rock Hall Inductions Go On Sale on February 8
[image-1]The Rock Hall has just announced that tickets to the 33rd annual Inductions that take place at Public Hall on April 14 will go on sale to Rock Hall members on Feb. 6. They will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Feb. 8. A two-ticket limit applies to all purchases. The…
7 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, JAN. 26 Yoke Lore/Vita and the Wolf Yoke Lore singer-guitarist Adrian Galvin grew up in upstate New York. Because his parents were artists who were very dedicated to teaching their kids about art, he took dance and painting classes. Music became an outcropping of that. Galvin originally began playing drums and then hooked up…
Cleanup of Arco’s Illegal Dump Site in East Cleveland Will Cost $9 Million, Be Complete in February
The cleanup of Arco’s illegal dump site in East Cleveland will be finished sometime in February, state officials told Ideastream. While that’s certainly welcome progress, the cost has now ballooned to $9 million from an initial $6 million estimate. Arco was shut down by state order last year. Noble Road residents had long complained about the…
Waterville’s Oliver Hazard Turning Heads With Its Twangy Tunes
An Ohio native, Oliver Hazard singer Mike Belazis was spending most of his time on Outward Bound backpacking trips in California, but he’d return to his Waterville, Ohio home during slow periods. When he was back in 2016, he had a “bucket list moment” and decided he wanted to play a show before the year…
In Trailblazing Project, CWRU’s Alumni of Color Diversify Campus Portraiture
At last week’s Case Western Reserve University MLK Convocation, Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity Dr. Marilyn Mobley presented highlights from an annual diversity report produced by her office. Included in the report was a new campus initiative called the Trailblazer Project. It aims to diversify the images that appear on campus by…
Help Guide to Kulchur’s Fundraiser to Send 10,000 Books to Prisoners Cross the Finish Line
Guide to Kulchur, the westside non-profit book store that reopened in June of 2017 in a new location at Lorain and West 52nd, launched a GoFundMe in June of 2016 to send books to 10,000 prisoners. The fundraiser is now about $1,000 short of reaching its $7,000 goal, and it comes at a time when…
Cleveland Opera Theater’s {NOW} Festival and the Rest of the Classical Music You Should Catch This Week
Thanks to Cleveland Opera Theater’s {NOW} Festival, most of this week’s suggestions have to do with opera — not a dead art form, but one that still lives, breathes, and explores the dramatic and lyrical dimensions of our own lives and times. Cleveland Opera Theater offers both glimpses of works in progress and productions of…
Bigmouth Donuts Opens at Hub 55 This Saturday
Good news, donut fans: Bigmouth Donuts will open its doors at Hub 55 this Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The shop, which also houses the production facility that’ll supply Bigmouth’s Hingetown location when it opens, joins Goldhorn Brewery and Sterle’s Slovenian House in the mixed-use facility owned by Rick Semersky. Partners Courtney Bonning and Kelly Brewer…
Slayer’s Final Tour Coming to Blossom in June
After nearly 37 years, and 12 studio albums, the thrash/metal/punk act Slayer has announced it’s calling it quits. The band will embark on one last world tour and then call it day. Earlier today, it announced tour dates; the group will perform at Blossom on June 7. Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth and Testament will…
The New York Times Says ‘Cleveland Orchestra May (Quietly) Be America’s Best’
Today, the New York Times nearly admitted the Cleveland Orchestra is the best in the country. In an article titled “At 100, the Cleveland Orchestra May (Quietly) Be America’s Best,” New York Times critic James R. Oestreich wrote about the mastery of the orchestra and its centennial celebrations. While the headline was eye-catching, Oestreich never exactly…
Cuyahoga County Dems Endorsed Marty Sweeney over Nickie Antonio on the Day of the Women’s March
[image-1]Roughly 7,000 people assembled on Public Square for the Cleveland Women’s March Saturday, according to official police estimates. An impassioned slate of speakers praised the energy of the crowd and encouraged those distraught by the current political climate to protest with their votes. City Councilman Kerry McCormack, Democratic Lt. Gov. candidates Betty Sutton (Richard Cordray) and…
The Secret Amazon Bid Dramatizes a Huge Cultural Problem in Cleveland. The Media Can Do Something About It
Last week, Scene joined Jay Miller of Crain’s Cleveland Business and Danielle Serino of WKYC for a panel discussion about Cleveland’s failed Amazon bid on the WKYC evening program “Donovan Live.” Jimmy Donovan, the voice of the Browns and the host of the show, was keen to ask the panel why Cleveland didn’t make Amazon’s HQ2 shortlist. This is…
Daryl Hall & John Oates/Train Double Bill Coming to the Q in May
Earlier today, Train and Rock Hall inductees Hall & Oates the dates of a co-headline North American summer tour. The two groups perform at the Q on May 22. It marks the first time the two acts have toured together. Both bands will perform full sets and then play a joint set. “This is going…
Northeast Ohio Native Devil Doll Launches Campaign to Finance Her First Album in More Than 10 Years
An Old Brooklyn native, singer-songwriter Colleen Duffy has toured as the rockabilly act Devil Doll for the past 20 years. Duffy attended Case and was the first female rockabilly/psychobilly radio show host at WRUW. She also started the distribution company Hep Cat Records. She moved to New York in the mid-’90s and had a deal…
This Year’s Country Megaticket Goes on Sale on Friday
Now in its 11th year, the Country Megaticket offers country music fans the chance to buy one ticket that includes admission to the six country concerts coming to Blossom this summer. Live Nation has just announced that this year’s Country Megaticket goes on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday. The deadline to purchase the package…
Rock Hall to Screen Documentary Film About Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart
“All I know is that people say I was influential,” says former Hüsker Dü drummer/songwriter Grant Hart near the beginning of the documentary Every Everything: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart. He’s not bragging but humbly acknowledging the significance of the Minneapolis-based hardcore/post-punk band that’s revered for its aggressive style of playing. It’s…
Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum to Play Blossom This Summer
Country superstars Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum have just announced the dates for their co-headlining Summer Plays On tour. The tour kicks off on July 19 in Toronto and then immediately comes south of the border for a July 20 show at Blossom. “For us as a band, being out on the road together is…
Jonah Koslen to Revisit His Back Catalog and Debut New Material at Upcoming Music Box Concert
Singer-guitarist Jonah Koslen first met fellow singer-guitarist Michael Stanley in the 1970s through the late Marty Mooney, a local guy who worked as a regional rep for Columbia Records. At the time, Koslen, 22, was living in Denver, but he liked the prospect of moving back to Northeast Ohio to play with Stanley. It turned…
Ohio Democrat Crafting Revenge Porn Bill to Protect Victims
Ohio is one of 12 states left where there is no specific penalty for those posting nude photos online without a subject’s consent. Sen. Joe Schiavoni, a Democrat from the Youngstown area, wants to change that. Schiavoni, who’s also a gubernatorial candidate, plans to soon introduce a bill that would ban revenge porn and protect victims…
Machine Gun Kelly to Portray Mötley Crüe Drummer Tommy Lee in New Netflix Film
Ever since rock writer Neil Strauss published The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, a collaborative Mötley Crüe autobiography he wrote with help from the band, there has been talk of making The Dirt into a movie. Variety magazine reports that a Neftlix adaption is finally in the works. The trade publication also reports…
Classic Rock Acts Def Leppard and Journey to Play the Q in May
Earlier today, Def Leppard and Journey announced a co-headlining North American tour featuring both stadium and arena concerts. Journey will headline half the shows and Def Leppard will headline the other half. The tour will feature all-new production from both bands. It comes to Quicken Loans Arena on Monday, May 28. “These co-headlining Journey/Def Leppard…
Kent State Declines White Supremacist Richard Spencer’s Request to Speak on Campus on May 4
Kent State responded quickly to a request from white supremacist Richard Spencer and other alt-righters to rent space on campus for a speaking engagement on May 4, the anniversary of the Kent State shootings in 1970. Citing the packed academic calendar during the week before and after the date, the university declined the request while…
Controversial Online School Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow Will Close
The controversial online school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, the state of Ohio’s largest virtual school, will close. The charter school’s sponsor organization, the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West, voted last night to close ECOT’s (virtual) doors after the state rejected a settlement offer that would have let the school complete the academic year.…
Third Annual Cleveland Tattoo Arts Convention Begins Today
Back for the third year, Villain Arts’ Cleveland Tattoo Arts Convention brings together hundreds of tattoo artists and vendors from Cleveland and across the country for a weekend filled with tattoo sessions, entertainment, seminars, competitions and more at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Special guests include Cleen Rock One from Ink Master Season 9,…
In Advance of His Beachland Concert, Singer-Guitarist Ben Miller Talks About His Eclectic Approach
Singer-guitarist Ben Miller, who’s just issued a terrific new studio album, Choke Cherry Tree, listened to a wide range of music while growing up. His background undoubtedly contributed to the eclectic nature of his music. “I grew up in Washington State, but my dad is from Arkansas,” he says in a recent phone interview. The…
Flu-Related Deaths Continue to Rise in Cuyahoga County
The flu continues to hit Northeast Ohio hard this season, as the Cuyahoga County Board of Health reports that three people have died from flu-related complications this week. All three people were female, ranging from 78 to 101 years old. This brings the flu-related death total for the county to five. Activity level for the flu season,…
Big Gift Will Create Fund to Help Former Foster Kids at CSU
[image-1] Former Sherwin-Williams exec Thomas Hopkins and his wife Marsha Hopkins have donated $500,000 to Cleveland State University. The gift will create an endowed fund at CSU’s Pratt Center, created in 2016 as a “comprehensive resource hub dedicated to the academic and personal success of former foster kids.” The fund will provide academic assistance, housing…
Southern Tier Brewing to Open Brewery, Tasting Room in Downtown Cleveland
Southern Tier Brewing is planning to open a brewery and tasting room in the Gateway District of Cleveland. The new venture will be taking shape at 811 Prospect Avenue, the site of the short-lived restaurant concept 811, brought to us from the Red Restaurant Group. That building underwent significant improvements in advance of that opening.…
Shaker Heights Native Celeste Ng’s Debut Novel Optioned for Feature Film
Everything I Never Told You, the debut novel by author Celeste Ng, has been picked up by LD Entertainment and will be turned into a feature film. The novel, which takes experiences from Ng’s own Shaker Heights upbringing, tells the story of a Chinese-American family in the 1970s in a small Ohio town who suffer…
Tour Manager for White Supremacist Richard Spencer Requests Space at Kent State for May 4th Speaking Event
According to an email obtained by KentWired and a tweet from Kyle Bristow, an alt-right lawyer who represents Richard Spencer, Spencer’s tour manager, Cameron Padgett, has requested to rent space at Kent State on May 4, 2018, for a speaking engagement. The event would include Spencer and fellow white nationalist Mike Peinovich (Enoch). It would…
Here’s Where to Watch Stipe Miocic Defend His Heavyweight Championship in UFC 220 This Saturday
Northeast Ohio’s own and UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic will fight Francis Ngannou in UFC 220 this Saturday, January 20, in Boston at TD Garden Arena. Undercard action begins at 10 p.m. Miocic, an Eastlake North graduate, has been the UFC Heavyweight Champion since May 14, 2016. He’s successfully defended his belt twice already, and…
Not Much to Like in ‘Love Never Dies,’ the Phantom Sequel Now at Playhouse Square
If you’re a dewy-eyed romantic and if you reach for a fainting couch at the very thought of two accomplished singers applying their vocal chops to tunes fairly dripping with maudlin sentimentality, there’s a show in town that will delight your throbbing heart. It’s Love Never Dies now at Playhouse Square, the Andrew Lloyd Webber…
Dead & Company Will Return to Blossom in June
Last summer, Dead & Company rolled into Blossom and played to a capacity crowd that’s one of the biggest we’ve ever seen at the venue. Scene’s reviewer noted that “the highlight, no doubt, was ‘Truckin’,’ which featured a spellbinding jam that dissolved into roving, spacey melodies. It was futuristic Dead. [Guitarist John] Mayer and [keyboardist…
Amazon Releases List of 20 Finalists for Second Headquarters; Cleveland’s Not On the List
Unless one of the cities listed below is Amazon’s codename for Cleveland, the Forest City is out of the running as the location for the company’s second headquarters. The 20 finalists released this morning, which includes Columbus, move on to the next phase of Public Subsidy Thunderdome. Cleveland’s bid was notoriously opaque as public and…
Ohio Woman Finally Extradited and Arrested After Fleeing to Brazil Following Murder of Husband in 2007
The family and friends of Karl Hoerig have waited a decade for the wheels of justice to spin in their favor. Yesterday brought good news on that front. Claudia Hoerig, who fled to Brazil in 2007 after allegedly murdering her husband — a crime featured in a 2011 Scene cover story — was finally extradited…
Cleveland Print Room to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary with a Special Reception for Its New Exhibit
The Cleveland Print Room celebrates its fifth anniversary on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. with a special reception launching Anthropocene, a new art exhibit that examines how humans affect the environment. The exhibit includes works by the following: local artist Michael Loderstedt; former Clevelander, photojournalist Tom Laffay; and Oscar Palacio, a native Colombian who…
Here’s One Local Designer’s Suggestion for Rebranding the Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Indians aren’t the only team in town that needs a redesign. For as long as we can remember — even before the orange was more orange — Aaron Sechrist has been talking about rebranding the Cleveland Browns. If you follow him on Twitter, you know this is true. It turns out even he…
60 Years In, Geraci’s Restaurant Makes Moves with a Second East-Side Location
The year was 1956 when Frances and Michael Geraci opened their eponymous Italian restaurant in University Heights. After five years they moved to their current location (2266 Warrensville Center Rd., 216-371-5643), where they have been feeding multiple generations of happy families for more than 60 years. Come spring, the iconic Italian eatery will open a…
Apple Announces Second U.S. Headquarters, Local Leaders Drop Everything to Brainstorm Code Names
Shortly after a presentation this afternoon by Cuyahoga County’s Chief Economic Development Officer Ted Carter and Team NEO’s CEO Bill Kohler — about, of all things, Amazon — Silicon Valley tech giant Apple announced that it would be building a second “corporate campus” somewhere in the United States. BREAKING: Apple says it will build a second…
The Head and the Heart and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats to Bring Their Co-Headlining Tour to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
Earlier today, indie acts the Head and the Heart [pictured] and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats announced that they’ll partner up for a spring tour. The tour kicks off at Northerly Island Amphitheatre in Chicago and is only hitting a few cities, but it includes a stop at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica on June…
City of Cleveland Exploring Possible Purchase of Cleveland.com Building for New Police Headquarters
The city of Cleveland is in the market for a new home for its police headquarters after a deal agreed to last June in which it will sell its jail lockup and police HQ in the Justice Center to Cuyahoga County for $9.5 million. As that process plays out, the city has explored properties that…
Here are the 15 RTA Routes with Service Reductions Coming Soon
As expected, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) announced upcoming service reductions for 15 bus and train routes at its board meeting Tuesday. Responding to impassioned public comments, CEO and GM Joe Calabrese said that he knew these reductions, which will be implemented on March 11, will inflict pain on RTA’s customers. He said,…
6 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, JAN. 19 Silverstein/Tonight Alive/Broadside/Tonight Alive Back in 2015, post-hardcore act Silverstein celebrated 15 years together with a show in Cleveland that made it seem as if the band was playing “a hometown gig.” Tonight, the explosive Ontario-based act is back at House of Blues armed with a new album, last summer’s Dead Reflection. The…
‘It Still Smells Like Burnt Rubber’
Forty years ago, Akron had the most buzzed-about music scene in the world. Warner’s Jerry Wexler, a legend who coined the phrase “rhythm and blues” and who signed Led Zeppelin, came to town to scout and sign bands. Sire, Mercury and Capitol followed suit. The country’s most famous rock critic, the Village Voice’s Robert Christgau,…
Get Out: Everything You Should Do This Week in Cleveland (Jan. 17-23)
WED 01/17 Cleveland Stories Dinner Party Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is…
Audiences Encouraged to Offer Feedback at Cleveland Public Theatre’s Entry Point Festival
“We actually started to hope it would be a failure, since it was so hard to put it all together. But last year was incredibly popular, so we’re doing it again this year. I guess we can hope it’ll fail this time!” So says executive creative director of Cleveland Public Theatre Raymond Bobgan, with tongue…
Daniel Day-Lewis Delivers Knockout in (Putative) Final Performance
One of my college English professors wrote, after he saw Phantom Thread, the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson, that during his viewing he felt both “awed and assigned to awe.” He enthused about the film, but admitted that in some ways his appreciation had been suffocated by all the talk in Phantom Thread’s orbit:…
Boss Dog Brewery’s Pub Atmosphere Has Quickly Become a Cleveland Heights Favorite
We strode buoyantly through the rear door of Boss Dog, past the bar, and directly into the dining room. It was another frigid evening in Cleveland Heights and we assumed the restaurant would look like most others on this dark, bleak, January night: That is, a ghost town. How wrong we were. Every table in…
Band of the Week: Big Head Todd and the Monsters
MEET THE BAND: Todd Park Mohr (vocals, guitar), Rob Squires (bass), Brian Nevin (drums, percussion), Jeremy Lawton (keyboards, lap and pedal steel guitar, and backing vocals) ROAD WARRIORS: After forming in the mid-’80s in Boulder, Colorado, Big Head Todd and the Monsters initially focused on playing shows regionally in the Colorado area. They’d quickly take to…
Savage Love: Bloody Business
I’m a professional dominatrix, and I thought I’d seen everything in the last five years. But this situation completely baffled the entire dungeon. This middle-aged guy, seemingly in fine health, booked an appointment with me and my colleague for one hour of some very light play and a golden shower to finish off with. We…
