Livewire
Orbital The Crystal Method The Lo Fidelity All Stars Nautica Stage July 7 Can a flaming synthesizer ever replace a flaming guitar? Live rock shows depend on the performer/audience relationship: the drummer’s relentless pounding; the guitarist’s spontaneous, emotive solos; the scraggly, profane, spastic lead singer. How does a mild-mannered, dance-oriented duo generate that bond with…
Can You Dig It?
Ohio City’s Open Air Market, at the corner of West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue across from the West Side Market, is open every Saturday through August 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dan Gill can be reached at diggerdan@MINDSPRING.com
Soundbites
Send local music info and alternative uses for a cheese grater to dmartin@clevescene.com.
Bound for Fun
Jennifer Stoffel discusses and signs Cleveland Family Fun on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Borders Westlake, 30121 Detroit Road. Admission is free; call 440-892-7667.
Emotional Wreck
Eyes Wide Shut.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, inspired by a novella by Arthur Schnitzler. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
St. Eazy-E’s Fire
The Wood.
Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Starring Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, Taye Diggs, Sean Nelson, Duane Finley, Trent Cameron, Malinda Williams, and De’Aundre Bonds.
Fright by Bite
Lake Placid.
Directed by Steve Miner. Screenplay by David E. Kelley. Starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, and Brendan Gleeson.
Bailing Out
Jacqueline Marino can be reached at jmarino@clevescene.com.
I Stun the Body Electric
Mark Naymik can be reached at mnaymik@clevescene.com.
Edge
For his spirited defense of the First Amendment, Mayor Michael White has earned the admiration of no less a personage than Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Reverend James Hogg. “He’s upholding the Constitution,” the appropriately named Hogg says of White’s efforts to safeguard an August 21 Klan demonstration. “I’ve got a lot of respect for…
Human Rights Make a Wrong
Silenced Voices: An Affirmation of Human Rights. Through July 30 at SPACES, 2220 Superior Viaduct. 216-621-2314.
The Bard Makes Whoopee
Much Ado About Nothing. Through July 18 at Porthouse Theatre, Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls. 330-929-4416.
Encore
Regina. Anyone lucky enough to catch Lyric Opera Cleveland’s final performance of Marc Blitzstein’s Regina (ending July 15) will find his artistic soul expanding at the same rate as the Grinch’s heart after he discovered the joys of Christmas. Composed in 1949, it’s a plangent retelling of Lillian Hellman’s stage melodrama The Little Foxes. Blitzstein,…
A French Kiss
If the bustling waiters wear uniforms that seem designed by Toulouse-Lautrec . . . if expensive pleasure boats putt-putt past the front door . . . if the award-winning wine menu weighs about as much as a newborn baby . . . why, then you must be at Chez François. Chef John M. D’Amico and…
Trout Mask Original
With the release of the Captain Beefheart boxed set, Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982), rock’s ultimate eccentric is finally honored as a figure who influenced artists as diverse as Tom Waits and Pere Ubu. The five CDs offer 75 outtakes, as well as CD-enhanced live-performance tracks. Ironically, this long overdue celebration of Beefheart’s work, which is…
The Wizards of Oz
Ozric Tentacles. 9 p.m., Friday, July 16, the Odeon, 1295 Old River Road, the Flats, $17.50 ($20 day of show), Ticketmaster 216-241-5555.
Tired of Being Sick and Tired
The Vans Warped Tour ’99, featuring Pennywise, Blink 182, Sevendust, Eminem, Less Than Jake, Lit, the Living End, Suicidal Tendencies, Ice-T, the Bouncing Souls, and Royal Crown Revue. Nautica Stage, 2014 Sycamore Street, the Flats, $22.25 ($25 day of show), Ticketmaster 216-241-5555.
