Tonight’s Michael Schenker Group Concert Canceled
How will Peabody’s be like a reputable Chinese restaurant tonight? Neither will have any MSG. Tonight’s Michael Schenker Group concert is canceled. The German guitar whiz has left the country under somewhat sketchy circumstances. Cleveland MSG fans, if you’re counting, that’s the third time in a row he’s canceled a Peabody’s show. “I doubt we…
Live at the Q: Police Concert Review
The Police reunion tour got off to a shaky start, but Matt Wardlaw says Monday night’s sold-out show at the Q exceeded expectations: It’s Monday night in Cleveland. Sting is on stage at the Quicken Loans Arena, but Sting is always on stage somewhere. Something is different tonight, though. Is that Andy Summers on guitar,…
SI: Browns Open Training Camp as the NFL’s Worst Team
It’ll be 54 days before the boys in Brown and Orange open a new season against Pittsburgh — 10 days until training camp even begins. But already, some national media think we should be looking to 2008. In his Monday column for SI.com, Sports Illustrated’s Peter King throws a bone to those of us craving…
This Just In: Concert Announcements
This week, 64 — count ‘em, 64 — new shows, from Cheap Trick to Scene’s own Music Festival, which is cheap, but no trick. Something for everybody, from Patti Smith’s punk poetry to Sum 41’s punk pop. Plenty of jazz, too. And more Celtic bands than you can shake a shillelagh at. SOLD OUT Interpol/Calla:…
Money Where Your Mouth Is: Pterodactyl
Scene’s Music Department brings you free online exclusives damn near every day. How do we do it so cheaply? We eliminate the middle man and let the band speak for itself. Band: Pterodactyl Hometown: Brooklyn, NY Sounds like: “Golden sunshine and heaps of rusted scrap iron.” Fun fact: “The Blue Jay belongs to the crow…
More Whining from America’s Leading Hypocrite, Dennis Kucinich
Count on the U.S.S. Dennis Kucinich to stand up when the basic tenets of our democracy – especially the congressman’s God-given to prattle in front of millions of TV viewers. So when Democratic presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Hillary Clinton were caught whispering in front of an open microphone about muscling certain fringe candidates out…
Anything for T&A: The Hard Life of Dieter
Dominic Dieter took a dive Friday morning. It landed him in the hospital. Better known as Dare Dieter to the listeners of Rover’s Morning Glory on K-Rock 92.3, Dieter has created a cult following by being a dumb ass. Every Friday, he performs wannabe Jack Ass stunts for the show. Last Friday was no different.…
All the Pretty Horses: Restoring the Carousel at Euclid Beach
It’s been a decade since the Euclid Beach carousel came home to Cleveland in hopes of being restored to its former glory. This favorite remnant of the amusement park that once graced Euclid Beach in North Collinwood was purchased at a public auction in 1997, and the horses were restored. Historians raised more than $1.4…
Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Slow Poisoner
One-man band Andrew Poisoner explains why you should come see him. One of the Scene music writers would have done it, but they’re still so overcome by the new Interpol that they can’t even type. Band: The Slow Poisoner Hometown: San Francisco Sounds like: “A one man surrealistic rock and roll band. Sounds like an…
Interpol is Sold Out at the House of Blues Tonight
Tonight’s Interpol show at House of Blues (308 Euclid Ave., downtown) is sold out. If you were gonna try to skip the $19 Ticketmaster fees and just get tickets at the door, the plan just blew up in your face. To help you get over the pain, here’s the band’s latest video, “The Heimlich Maneuver,”…
Interpol is Sold Out at the House of Blues
The July 23 Interpol show at House of Blues (308 Euclid Ave., downtown) is sold out. If you were gonna try to skip the $19 Ticketmaster fees and just get tickets at the door, the plan just blew up in your face. To help you get over the pain, here’s the band’s latest video, “The…
Mikey G’s Entertainment Picks of the Week
This week’s top arts and entertainment picks around town, from the guy who’s paid to pick them: Monday: Chicago garage rockers the Ponys are the probably the least pretentious and ambitious group to come out of the scene over the past few years. Their latest CD, Turn the Lights Out, sounds like an afternoon-long beer…
Regionalism: Just Another Score for Sam Miller
The Sunday July 15 Plain Dealer has a big front page news story (PR piece) with the PD calling for regional government. On page 1 it says Sam Miller is the most vociferous buisnessman advocating regional government. That is because with regional government, there will just be a few government officials running the region, which…
If Walls Could Talk is Looking for You
“If Walls Could Talk,” the popular HGTV show that profiles homeowners who’ve discovered secrets or treasures hidden inside their home, comes to Cleveland next month. Directors are looking for three to five families to talk about the surprising things they’ve found hidden in their homes while moving or renovating. Past shows have featured a couple…
Jesse Malin Cancelled
Jesse Malin’s Sunday, July 15th show at the House of Blues Cambridge Room has been cancelled. Malin’s sick, but he’ll be back to HOBO August 5, opening for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. — D.X. Ferris
Last Call Cleveland: Outcry Over a Cat-Hating Video
The dudes at Last Call Cleveland, a local comedy crew, write a lot of very smart, very funny sketches for the stage and screen. Other times, they go into full fucking-around mode, which results in videos like the above, wherein they more or less put hats on cats and sing about it. It’s sort of…
We Failed the Bar Exam on the Black Flag Logo
Denise, Denise, Denise. You failed the bar exam. I remember on one of the first days I worked at Scene, I commented on your K Records tattoo, an awesome, yet blatant example of the cultural branding you cite in your Rock Hall article [“Rock the Vote,” June 20]. All you had to do was a…
Vigilante Crime Fighting: The Butler County Border Patrol
Butler County’s practically another country from here. It sits in the far southwest corner of the state, smack between Cincinnati and Dayton. But Sheriff Richard Jones is about ready to redraw our border with Mexico – at the Ohio River. Jones says Mexican illegals are flooding Butler County in record numbers, stealing good construction jobs…
Fundraiser for the Urban Learning Garden at Chipotle
The first Chipotle Mexican Grill (www.chipotle.com) within Cleveland city limits will soon open its doors in Steelyard Commons (3471 Steelyard Drive, at the intersection of I-71 and the Jennings Freeway). And since the socially conscious company can’t toss lettuce without turning it into a fundraiser, you can be sure that staffers have come up with…
Great Northern Aids the Fashion Conscious and Time Impaired
Say it’s 3:30, you can’t see your desk with all the papers stacked on top of it, but you really, really want to be the first one in the office to show up in those limited-edition, neon-ugly Sketchers that came out this morning. Normally, this would take approximately 47 minutes of searching different mall stores…
Dick Feagler’s Summer of Love Tour
Something must have irritated Plain Dealer columnist Dick Feagler this week. Perhaps he passed a car of youths booming their dang hip-hop. Or maybe he went to the movie theater, only to realize that Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” wasn’t still playing. Whatever irked him, Feagler needed to vent. It was time for another look back…
The President Eats a Sandwich
Apparently the president is good for something – drumming up business. The good folks at Slyman’s Restaurant can attest to that. One day after W. stopped by, the restaurant was packed with customers. Even at the normal closing time of 2:30, customers were banging on the locked doors trying to get in one last order.…
Regina Brett isn’t Racist
Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett has taken some unfair hits, in my opinion, from some members of the black community over critical statements she has made in her column about the conduct of some elements in our black society. While I view several of her recent comments about the plight of blacks as a search…
Party with Middleweight Champ Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik
Cleveland celebrates Friday the 13th by paying tribute to World Middleweight boxing champ Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik. The 25-year-old Youngstown native will be at Jacobs Field, where it’s Kelly Pavlik Day. Following the Tribe game, McNulty’s Bier Market is hosting a free after-party. Pavlik – who’s undefeated in 31 fights – will be at the…
40 Years Later, a Cellmates Reunion Show
Eric Carmen is gracious in victory: As a member of the Sounds of Silence, the Raspberries singer was once a rival of Cleveland’s Cellmates. But he remembers them well, and he’ll join the group for its first reunion show in 20 years at the Brush High Class of 1967’s 40th anniversary reunion. The private event…
City Morons & the West Side Market Fiasco
Seven years ago, the city was supposed to provide West Side Market vendors with new display them as part of a major renovation. But soon after they arrived, vendors discovered problems with drainage and overheating. They almost immediately started to rust. So the city sued the architect and the scabs who surely made them. Meanwhile,…
Hate Jamz
Don’t let the title turn you off: The Summer of Hate Weekend is the grooviest happening to hit Cleveland since the Summer of Love. The weekend kicks off with a Friday-the-13th hardcore extravaganza featuring American Werewolves (pictured) at Peabody’s. And if a sweaty evening in the pit isn’t your idea of a good time, fear…
Nothing Lost On This Boy
Everyone knows that northeast Ohio is losing population, with more than 16,000 people leaving the area last year alone. We might be able to reverse that trend if more folks find their way to Porthouse Theatre — particularly when Matthew Earnest is directing. Last summer, Earnest mounted a sublimely simple and tone-perfect staging of Our…
Gutter Punk
Jesse Malin is the prototypical New Yorker. He looks the part — disheveled, but downtown-hip. And he talks the part — his rapid-fire speech is peppered with traces of a Noo Yawk accent. So why exactly did the singer-songwriter and former D Generation frontman go to Los Angeles to make his third solo album, Glitter…
Covers for the Cure
Good songs — proven good songs — good bands, good cause. Seven of your favorite local groups will play entire sets of material from their favorite bands to benefit the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Funds. Blind Waltz will jam on some Grateful Dead tunes. The…
Two-Faced Terror
Most of us wish, from time to time, that we could bring out a hidden side of our personality to help out in certain situations. Like when some obnoxious creep is talking too loudly in a movie theater, you might want to call upon your submerged Dirty Harry persona, turn around, and shut him up…
Musical Puke
Boston’s Ezra Furman & the Harpoons mark their first anniversary with a summer tour that stops at Wilbert’s tonight. The 20-year-old frontman says it all started when his parents gave him a guitar as a bar mitzvah gift seven years ago. He taught himself a few chords so he could play along with his favorite…
Young Buck
The autumn release of 50 Cent’s Curtis surely has Interscope execs sweating like pigs praying not to be butchered. Will Curtis save the G-Unit empire or hasten its demise? While they’re waiting, the suits should parse related releases for hints. The formulaic Rotten Apple, the sophomore effort from Lloyd Banks, went top three. Nashville rhymer…
Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations.
A Narrow Bridge — Clevelander Cliff Hershman’s drama is another plunge into the crowded waters of suburban dysfunction. A merged family is living in upscale Toledo, with Mom Edie and her middle-school daughter, Kim, sharing a roof with Mom’s second husband, Blue, and his estranged son, Willy. Squalid undercurrents in this plastic setting quickly bubble…
The Hole Shebang
The Ohio State Alumni Club of Greater Cleveland holds its annual Golf Outing at Brecksville Reservation’s Sleepy Hollow Golf Course today. It’s the 20th outing of the yearly favorite, which benefits OSU’s scholarship fund. Prizes, raffles, and auctions run throughout the 18-hole event — which culminates in a dinner featuring a keynote speech by OSU’s…
Rock Hall Throwdown
Fire a round for Guns N’ Roses: I am writing in response to Denise Grollmus’ opinion that Guns N’ Roses should not be inducted into the Rock Hall [“Rock the Vote,” June 20]. Does she even know what rock and roll is? Music hasn’t had a rock star since Axl Rose. His larger-than-life presence was…
West Sixth Shootout
Last week’s Independence Day celebration might be better described as Use It or Lose It Ammo Night here in our Venice by the Lake. The final stats: eleven people shot, six killed. But at least one slaying could have been prevented. Kevin Montgomery, classified manager at Scene, lives in the Hat Factory building next to…
Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.
NEW Retreat — Sarah Kabot. Sarah Kabot. Sarah Kabot. If the Cleveland-based artist behind this cunning little installation is correct — if repetition does, in fact, invite attention and promote memory — you should remember her name for weeks. That’s a good thing. Kabot drills home her theory by piecing together an elaborate framework from…
Ghetto Fabulous
Killer of Sheep’s backstory is almost as intriguing as the movie itself. Shot in the mid-’70s by Charles Burnett as part of a film-school project, the work – about a ghetto-dwelling slaughterhouse worker, his family, and his friends – has rarely screened since it was completed in 1977. As such, it’s become a lost classic.…
The Punk Police
Los Angeles, 2006: After a lengthy break from music, guitarist Henry Padovani is back in the studio, recording a track for his new disc. His drummer, however, can’t nail the reggae feel. The engineer jokes that they should’ve hired Stewart Copeland. “Wow. That’s a great idea — I’ll call Stewart,” says Padovani. “Fantastic. Let’s do…
West Park Story
Most of the lunch crowd has already cleared out of The Public House in Kamm’s Corners. A gray-haired waitress emerges from the kitchen with some bad news: “I have an announcement to make. There’s only one piece of shepherd’s pie left.” Thus begins another long, lazy afternoon of drinking at this bedrock of West Park…
All Class
One of the best new video games on the market requires you to take math tests. During summer break, no less. But before you cue up “Night on Bald Mountain” and run like hell, you really should play Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree. Any “party title” that can hold a group’s attention with counting, memorization,…
Lost in Translation
Stand-up comic Lou Ramey says his southern-fried jokes lose something when they cross the Mason-Dixon line. For example, Texas audiences love his bit about Homeland Security: “They don’t need it, because they have rednecks.” But that gag often falls flat up north, says the Georgia-bred comedian, who’s black. “Apparently, the word ‘redneck’ means something totally…
White-Trash Queer
“I don’t give a fuck what they say about me, because I’m a white-trash queer who might live to be 30 if I’m lucky,” declares Bradford Cox, frontman for Atlanta noise-rockers Deerhunter. Talking from his cell phone, Cox returns some jeans that didn’t fit to a friend. The singer probably has a hard time finding…
Optional Justice
The words “Hurl yourself at a losing proposition” don’t appear in Inspector Rob Havranek’s job description, but that’s what he does. On any given day, more than a dozen of his guys at the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department are hunting fugitives. Some have violated parole. Most have decided that, had they shown up in court,…
Roky’s Picture Show
You’re Gonna Miss Me (Palm) A hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival two years ago, Keven McAlester’s doc about the Papa of Psychedelia, Roky Erickson, at long last gets its proper release. But time has done McAlester a tremendous favor: Had he shot the film too soon, he would have been forced to…
Thanks for the Memories
Eight artists contribute sculptures, videos, and mixed media to Storage Space, now on view at Spaces. The group exhibit – featuring work by three Ohioans as well as artists from Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan – centers on the concept of memory and how it affects reality. Blurry images collide with colorful pieces that touch on…
Buckeye Classic
Devo, Pere Ubu, and the Dead Boys are punk legends in the Buckeye State. Most heroes from Ohio’s indie-rock boom of the ’90s live on only in old fanzines, tattered flyers, and hazy but endearing recollections from record-store burnouts. Outside of Guided by Voices, chances are you’ve never heard V-3, the Boys From Nowhere, Thomas…
Derf City
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Here are the week’s best releases from the pop-culture universe:
CD — Family Tree: Nick Drake’s been dead for 33 years, but this new set manages to exhume more than two dozen never-heard tracks by the morose singer-songwriter. Most of them were recorded as home tapes before Drake released his debut album. But the lo-fi sound lends the songs (including Bob Dylan’s “Tomorrow Is a…
A Smorgasbord of Creativity
The third-annual Ingenuity Festival kicks off this afternoon at Playhouse Square. Over the next four days, more than 1,100 performers, artists, and music ensembles will showcase their work. Highlights include Brazil’s Beat the Donkey percussion group, the Brooklyn dance troupe Troika Ranch, and Grandmaster Flash, the influential DJ who recently became the Rock Hall’s first…
From Dead to Dog
Next time you’re out drinking, tell your friends that the Grateful Dead rocks. Most of them will shape-shift into rabid Dobermans and tear into your musical taste, frothing rebukes that include the words dirty, fuckin’, and hippie. It’s a common ailment among music fans, this anti-jam-band rage: the zealous belief that any stoner who trucks…
Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell can’t dance. If he could, he wouldn’t have transformed “Billie Jean” into a funkless piano-and-guitar dirge, a trick he pulls eight tracks into his second solo album. Handing Zack De La Rocha his walking papers in favor of Cornell was the best move Audioslave ever made. Cornell has one of the great voices…
Our top DVD picks scheduled for release on July 10:
After the Wedding (IFC) The Astronaut Farmer (Warner Bros.) Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Funimation) Brutal (Lionsgate) The Comedy Collection (Lionsgate) Elizabeth Taylor Collection (St. Clair) Extras: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Fat Burning Hip Hop Dance Party: Urban Style (Shami) Fred Astaire Collection (St. Clair) Frankie & Annette: MGM Movie Legends Collection (MGM) George C.…
Busy Signal for (216)
Mushroomhead offshoot (216) will play Peabody’s (2083 East 21st Street) Saturday, July 14. Although the metal group has been working on its second album for over a year, (216) has yet to announce a release date. “We’ve been so fuckin’ busy,” says drummer and producer Steve “Skinny” Felton, acknowledging the record’s delay. “Everyone’s got so…
Art Brut
Eddie Argos’ self-conscious lyrics suggest what it’d be like if Rob Gordon, John Cusack’s character in High Fidelity, fronted a band. Argos denudes the rock-singer mystique, portraying himself as a hopeless music geek. On “Pump Up the Volume,” the chunky new-wave churner that opens It’s a Bit Complicated, Art Brut’s sophomore disc, Argos can’t help…
Cheap Seats
Look under your couch cushions! Cain Park kicks off its $2 Tuesday summer concert series tonight. The weekly outing features live performances by local and national singer-songwriters. “We want to bring lesser-known artists to the park,” says general manager Erin Cameron. The inexpensive ticket price will hopefully get people in the door, she says. “I…
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear sounds like a beautifully fragile tissue-paper float. But instead of chicken wire, the group’s music is held together with layers of shimmering guitar, percolating melodies, and rustling percussion. Acolytes of early Pink Floyd’s psychedelic folk, the Brooklyn quartet’s echo-laden atmospherics and muted cosmic hues also recall the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, and Elliott…
Matthew Dear
Matthew Dear has breathed new life into Detroit techno. “Hands up for Detroit,” his debut single from 1999, became an anthem for the city, invoking the spirit of the mid-’80s, when the “Belleville three” ruled the clubs while inventing techno. After eight years of crafting traditionally pounding dance tracks, Dear explores new territory. While he’s…
Muffin Man
David “Coondog” O’Karma offers a few tips for those thinking about taking part in the eating-contest portion of today’s Muffin Day celebration. Rule no. 1: Don’t try to wolf down a muffin in one mouthful. “Small bites, swallow, small bites, swallow,” he says. “Get a rhythm and don’t stop.” He should know. The competitive eater…
Fujiya & Miyagi
Maybe you’ve never heard of Fujiya & Miyagi, but I’ll bet you know “Collarbone,” the electronica outfit’s ditty for the new Jaguar commercial. The krautrock-inspired group is just one of many hip indie acts employing advertising to break its music. “People don’t buy as many records as they used to, so groups have to find…
Air Conditioning
Ever listen to the hums and knocks of your fridge? They ain’t half bad. They would totally rock if you could turn their volume way, way up. That’s why Air Conditioning exists. As its name implies, the Pennsylvania trio jams loud enough to alter the atmosphere. But AC’s records have yet to bottle the face-blasting…
Raising Cain
Every year around this time, George Kozmon, director of the Cain Park Arts Festival, feels like the ringmaster of a very colorful circus. “It’s perpetual chaos,” he says. “We panic that it won’t be as good as last year.” Opening jitters aside, Kozmon says he’s proud of the 14 seasons he’s spent organizing the popular…
Def Leppard
According to a recent news story, a 72-year-old beat down a twentysomething mugger who tried to swipe $300 from him at a gas station in Michigan. This only proves that old dudes can still kick ass. Of course, that old dude is an ex-Marine and former Golden Gloves boxer. This brings us to the pairing…
Anne E. DeChant
Anne E. DeChant has a pile of singer-songwriter awards that’s bigger than she is. Her fifth CD, however, isn’t a gentle folk album, nor is it an unplugged confessional. The full-band affair has a kick missing from recent Ani DiFranco discs. If every guitar-toting girl had a drummer like Brian “Nucci” Cantrell, coffee-shop regulars would…
On the Beat
Before he started telling jokes for a living, Juston McKinney was a cop. His duties included schooling area kids on the dangers of gangs. “The program started in L.A., and I had to teach the exact same lesson plan up in the woods in Maine,” he recalls. “The kids didn’t even know what a gang…
Hermann Nitsch’s Die Aktionen 1962-2003
Not everyone recognizes the statuesque beauty of a young blonde with a face drenched in pig’s blood. If you’re over 21, however, and you dig such things, there’s an art movement for you. In the early ’60s, Austria reared Viennese Aktionism, a cluster of controversial performance artists who produced short films and happenings, exploring the…
Corey Bapes
Corey Bapes isn’t the greatest MC of Cleveland’s hip-hop renaissance, but his grill is definitely in a class of its own — simply check out his debut’s foil-embossed cover. The track listing, meanwhile, boasts two songs about “Swagg” and plenty more about green in general. This focus on gettin’ paid pretty much sums up the…
A Great Lei
Tiki torches, tropical tunes, and swaying hula hips transform Wendy Park into a slice of Waikiki at today’s Luau on the Lake. “Think about sitting on the sand — with that kind of laid-back, colorful atmosphere — watching the sunset,” says spokesman Brendan Doyle. The second-annual outing mixes local flavors (beer and cornhole tourneys) with…
Bob Dylan
On June 22, Dylan kicked off the current leg of his Never Ending Tour with a two-night stand in Atlantic City. Before his July 14 stop in Cleveland, he will have performed in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Michigan, and Toledo, as well as four dates in Canada. At 66, Dylan has deflected the…
Dish Du Jour
By many measures, chef Donna Chriszt’s career has been a disaster. At best, it’s a reminder that even the most gifted can reach into the jaws of victory and pull out a humiliating defeat. At worst, it’s a grim if oft-told tale of ambition outweighing common sense. While well known, the details remain appropriately gory.…
Rhythm and Hues
Detroit’s Nomo isn’t an easy group to pin down. For starters, its globe-trotting, polyrhythmic take on free jazz uncovers a fondness for shunning music’s conventions. And the electronic blips and bleeps that drift through its latest CD, New Tones, collide with big, brassy horn blasts that punctuate nearly every song. Like Afro-funk collective Antibalas, Nomo…
The Detroit Cobras
Tied and True, the Cobras’ new disc, is their finest recording to date. The group unloads an astounding assortment of ancient soul and R&B treasures drawn from American, British, and Jamaican sources — everything from the Flirtations’ girl-group opus “Nothing but a Heartache” to the melodic ska of the Melodians’ “My Delight.” But good taste…
Dark Arts
The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, black variety. The darkest and most threatening by far of the five Potter films, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix feels like the product of a vivid cinematic imagination, not just a slavishly faithful transposition of a runaway…
Come Sail Away
Junior Bay Week winds down over the next couple of days as more than 175 of the region’s top teen sailors compete in the Inter-Lake Yachting Association/GMC Junior Regatta on Lake Erie. Today, 13- to 19-year-old skippers race four-mile heats between Put-in-Bay and Rattlesnake Island. The boaters with the fastest times in three different classes…
Squirrel Nut Zippers
For seven years, fans of retro swing have lamented the demise of the Squirrel Nut Zippers. In the ’90s, the cheeky big band from North Carolina channeled ’30s-styled hot music with an alt-rock edge. The group’s mix of southern gothic, Dixieland instrumentation, and early-20th-century hedonism inspired five full-lengths before the Zippers played their last show…
L.A. Story
Killer of Sheep is a study of social paralysis in South Central Los Angeles in the years following the Watts riots. The work of a UCLA grad student named Charles Burnett, the film was shot in Watts in the early 1970s and completed a few years later. But despite its enormous critical reputation, the film…
Energy Crisis
Local playwright Christopher Johnston calls on comic-book superheroes to take down the world’s oil barons in Spawn of the Petrolsexuals, a Convergence-Continuum production making its world premiere at the Liminis Theatre this weekend. First target: Dubya’s Iraq skirmish. “It’s a war of blood for oil,” says Johnston. “The war is being driven by the Bush…
