Soundbites
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Long Live the Kings
“Green E — The Environmental Elvis” appears at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 25, at the Phoenix Coffeehouse, 3750 Pearl Road in Cleveland, 216-741-6010. For booking information on Danny G and Jeff Reed, call Fun-Tastic at 1-800-585-6003.
Learning to Fly
Get Hep Swing, 5939 Broadway, hosts an aerial workshop on Sunday from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Cost is $15 per person. Registration is recommended. Call 216-883-4519.
Gizmo King
Inspector Gadget. Directed by David Kellogg. With Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Andy Dick, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Michael G. Hagerty.
Drop Dead Awful
Drop Dead Gorgeous. Directed by Michael Patrick Jann, from a screenplay by Lona Williams. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, and Kirstie Alley.
Gotta Get the Money!
Run Lola Run. Written and directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Herbert Knaup.
Crabby Cabbies
Mark Naymik can be reached at mnaymik@clevescene.com.
Raw Terror
It scares people silly. It makes coolheaded adults wonder if witches are real. It draws hundreds of thousands of hits to its website. It drives a local historian in small-town Maryland crazy. The Blair Witch Project, a first film by two canny young Floridians, has developed a reputation as the most frightening movie to come…
Edge
Et tu, Randy? Staffers at the Cleveland Free Times arrived at work Monday morning to find that Editor Tom Vasich had been given the heave-ho by Publisher Randy Siegel. The firing comes just nine months after Vasich, late of the Colorado Springs Independent, took the helm and six months after Siegel regaled his staff over…
What They Did for Love
A Chorus Line. Through August 8 at Beck Center, 17801 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood. 216-521-2540.
Bella Bugatti
Bugatti. Through September 19 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard. 216-421-7340.
Reaching for the High Notes
Warm breezes blow across the rolling hills of Blossom Music Center, one of the region’s undisputed cultural gems. In a few hours, members of the celebrated Cleveland Orchestra will take the stage and perform an evening of masterful works by Beethoven — a musical menu designed to whet the appetite of any classical music fan…
Agile Revivalists
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, opening for Widespread Panic. 7 p.m., Friday, July 23, Nautica Stage, 2014 Sycamore Street, the Flats, $19.50 ($22 day of show), Ticketmaster 216-241-5555.
Smokin’ in the Girls’ Room
The Donnas. 9:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 28, Euclid Tavern, 11629 Euclid Avenue, $8, Ticketmaster 216-241-5555.
Playback
Trish Murphy Rubies on the Lawn (Doolittle) Hey, all you rock and roll dads. Are you having trouble weaning your preteen daughter off the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, or (God help us all) Shania Twain? Can you just not convince the lass that this “Girl Power” crap is as phony as Austin Powers’s chestwig? Does…
Livewire
Counting Crows Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre July 16 Last Friday’s Counting Crows concert at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre was supposed to be a warm-up gig before the big Woodstock ’99 show, and one would assume the band’s timing would be rusty. Wrong. After being holed up in the Hollywood Hills writing its next album, This Desert…
