What to Do Tonight: Bon Jovi
Even when it’s short, hair takes a while to decompose It’s debatable whether or not Bon Jovi deserve a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. In its defense, the band has sold more than 100 million albums in a career that stretches back to the early ’80s, when “Runaway” became…
What to Do Tonight: Scorpions
We’re nearing the end of ‘Hurricane’ season Scorpions are making one last run before hanging it up for good — and they deserve the break. They recorded their first album, the progressive Lonesome Crow, in 1972. Since then, they’ve become heavy metal gods, peaking in the early ’80s with the hits “No One Like You,”…
What to Do Tonight: Smashing Pumpkins
I SMASH PUMPKINS! Two years ago, Smashing Pumpkins launched a small-hall tour in Cleveland, and they’re doing it again, kicking off a 14-city jaunt this week at House of Blues. At the 2008 show, frontman Billy Corgan — who was in particularly good spirits, despite having endured two decades of band drama — finally seemed…
What to Do Tonight: Grupo Fantasma
A ghastly funk The Austin-based 11-piece Latin funk troupe Grupo Fantasma has built a fervent grassroots following over the past decade with its vibrant percussive swing, fueled by sweaty live shows that shake the building with high-spirited energy. They could be Ozomatli’s younger Texas kin, blazing their own path. Indeed, their Latin vibe is more…
What to Do Tonight: The Moody Blues
Four decades of moodiness If you’re going to construct a diverse fan base, the Moody Blues’ model seems to be a good one to copy. Since 1964, the British quintet has managed to strike a chord with nearly every kind of music listener. The band’s first hit, “Go Now,” reflected their British R&B slant, but…
What to Do Tonight: Dar Williams
At times, it’s almost like New England alt-folkie Dar Williams doesn’t want to transcend the sphere she’s so comfortably established in. That’s not to imply she’s a stick-in-the-mud folk purist; she can craft a hook-filled tune with the best of them (including Marshall Crenshaw, who appeared on her 2008 album, Promised Land). But Williams values…
What to Do Tonight: Steve Hackett
Getting his shred on It’s hard to overstate guitarist Steve Hackett’s contributions to prog-rock. Four decades ago, when he was just 20 years old, Hackett became an integral part of Genesis, one of the most visionary bands in prog history. Over seven years and albums, Hackett set a high standard with the band, and although…
What to Do Tonight: Weatherbox
When sleepovers go wrong Ever wonder what would happen if emo kids got into psychedelic drugs? San Diego quartet Weatherbox has the answer. The band’s two albums include emo’s honest pleadings and hardcore roots, but there’s also plenty of swirling, lilting leads and calm acoustic guitars that would go great with your next trip. The…
New Poll Shows Ohioans Would Support Immigration Law Like Arizona’s
The first result when you do a Google image search for “dumb and Ohio.” Cleveland might be a progressive, loving, welcoming town built on the backs and hearts of immigrants grandparents — at least we’d like to believe that — but the rest of Ohio apparently is not so trusting. Half the state is basically…
What to Do Tonight: Neon Trees
“We bet our pants are tighter than yours.” This Utah quartet includes a towering goofball with a bad mohawk and enough retro synths to qualify them for some sort of misguided-nostalgia award. Their debut album, Habits, piles on the winking hooks and cheeky lyrical toss-offs — no doubt something they picked up from pals the…
And We Have Our First Fireworks Accident of the Holiday Week
Pretty… until it blows off your extremities. It seems like a good idea every time. A neighbor, a friend, a drunken uncle who’s an “expert,” or someone brings out the explosives around the Fourth of July. It’s fine, I’ve done this before, it’s no big deal, they say. Whatever homemade ammunition they’ve pulled from their…
The Greatest Random Gift Ever
I am not big on collecting sports memorabilia. I have baseball cards, of course, but those are different. When it comes to signed balls, posters, autographs, bobbleheads, bats and the like, I’ve never really cared much. I stood in line once at MC Sporting Goods when I was 12 or so to get Leroy Kelley’s…
What to Do Tonight: Wang Chung
Why is there no furniture in this room? Wang Chung may have spread some of the cheesiest rock of the ’80s (“Everybody Have Fun Tonight” is a classic example of the era’s obsession with karaoke-style synth-pop and party-all-the-time self-indulgence), but the band had a talent for creating melodies you’ll remember decades later. “Dance Hall Days”…
Ohio Falls to 13th Fattest State, Still Fatter Than Before
Jimmy Dimora is really not helping our average at all. The hotbed of obesity that is the Rust Belt continues to pack on the pounds, even if it’s at a slower pace than some of the other unhealthy regions of the country. Congratulations, Ohio, you are the 13th fattest state in the nation. Sure, that’s…
The LeBron Begging Continues: Cleveland Orchestra to Play Special Message on July 1
Cleveland, LeBron, blah blah blah, begging, LeBron, etc. There, you are caught up. July 1, the day NBA players can officially become free agents and talk to other teams, will be marked by a free performance by the Cleveland Orchestra on Public Square. In conjunction with the More Than a Player squadron (Dave Gilbert, WKYC,…
eBay Item of the Day: LeBron James Autographed Pool Table
While the world continues to turn solely on the power of the internet’s speculation regarding LeBron James — we fully expect the world to stop turning once it’s over, really — this pool table, autographed by LeBron James and the entire Cavs roster (what year, exactly, is unsure), is the perfect accessory to the Chosen…
Next week buy local
Hang onto those benjamins, Northeast Ohio The small business boosters over at COSE have come up with a novel idea for giving the local economy a bit of a jolt: Buy Local Week. The title kind of gives away the plot on this one, but basically the organization is urging Northeast Ohioans to keep their…
Out Today: Scissor Sisters
Scissor SistersNight Work(Universal) For their third album, Scissor Sisters work with an outside party for the first time. And it does them a world of good. The group apparently trashed an earlier version of Night Work and even considered calling it quits before bringing in producer Stuart Price, who helps drag Scissor Sisters out of…
Threat Averted: The Rogue Croc’s Tragic End
No need to thank me, mate For all who scoped the Morning Brew this morning and are curious to know what happened to Cleveland’s new reptilian friend, we have some unfortunate news to deliver, at least on the behalf of the crocodile. The 2-foot caiman croc, originally reported to be a 4-foot alligator, was put…
Out Today: The-Dream
The-Dream Love King(Radio Killa/Def Jam) For most R&B singers, a line like “Let’s make out on the phone first” would be hyperbolic overkill. But most R&B singers aren’t The-Dream. Fans of the Atlanta-based singer, songwriter, and producer — who doesn’t deny the debts he owes to Prince and R. Kelly — have come to expect…
Out Today: 3OH!3
3OH!3Streets of Gold(Photo Finish/Atlantic) There must be something about the air in Colorado that makes so many of its bands such insufferable goofballs. Flobots, OneRepublic, String Cheese Incident — their names say it all. But none of these groups is as awful as 3OH!3, the electro-pop duo that scored a hit last year with the…
Cleveland Named One of the “Coolest” Summer Cities
Cleveland is almost as cool as this guy San Francisco, Honolulu, Denver,….Cleveland? Turns out we are just as “cool” a summer city as these U.S. hot spots, according to AOL Travel. AOL seems to think our lovely city is one of the best places to visit this summer where you won’t be melting in ridiculous…
Now We Know Where Gov. Strickland Keeps His Alcohol
“Yes, I had this much Ciroc left, and now it’s gone!” Chris Rock had “No Sex in the Champagne Room.” Now, Gov. Strickland has “No Drinking at the Governor’s Residence.” Strickland has suspended a program that let inmates from various counties work in his mansion, cooking, cleaning and doing whatever other jobs were needed. Why?…
Twilight: Eclipse outdoes its predecessors
Bella (Kristen Stewart) finally chooses between Emo vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and hunky werewolf/shape-shifter Jacob (Taylor Lautner) in the third chapter of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. Directed by the gifted David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), Eclipse is infinitely superior to last fall’s pedestrian Full Moon, and quite possibly the best, most stylish…
This Just In: Cleveland Concert Announcements
We’re not too excited about any of these new shows. So enjoy a picture of a cat riding a turtle instead Anthony David: Fri., July 23, 9 p.m., Ballroom, $15 ADV/$18 DOS. Beachland. Coryell-Auger-Sample Trio: Sun., Aug. 8, 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Glenn Davis Trio, featuring Mark Soskin: Thu., Aug. 5; Fri., Aug. 6, 8…
Towpath Recap
That’s some nice lookin’ trail. The PD this weekend had this nifty charticle about the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail, that long-time-coming civic gem linking the Lake Erie shore to central Ohio. Besides offering a bit of history and color, the piece gives a good greatest hits of memorable scenic stops and attractions along…
Out Today: Alejandro Escovedo
Alejandro EscovedoStreet Songs of Love(Fantasy) It’s hard to pinpoint why Austin singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo hasn’t managed to break through to mainstream music fans after 30 years of cult stardom. He’s survived substance abuse, life-threatening health issues, and the indifference of listeners. Street Songs of Love isn’t any likelier to be his breakout record. In many…
Morning Brew: Renegade Alligators, LeBron’s Worth, Lickable Greeting Cards, and Powerball Winners
LeBron: King of modesty. Good morning, Cleveland. Here’s some stuff to read while you figure out how much you’re worth to Cleveland. — “Our economy is based on LeBron James.” That line from the infamous Cleveland tourism video was equal parts joke and truth. From stores slinging jerseys and merchandise to bars and restaurants around…
Out Today: Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody
Adam Franklin & Bolts of MelodyI Could Sleep for a Thousand Years(Second Motion) For two decades, Adam Franklin has been exploring the cosmos of creative noise. Fronting British rock cosmonauts Swervedriver, Franklin helped compose four awesome albums of spacey shoegazer rock during the 1990s, pitting pop melodies against the crushing sonic densities of distorted guitars.…
The Great Public Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art That No One Saw
This really happened. Really. Late in the evening on Saturday, June 19, a team installed 100 large weather balloons around the facade of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Mark Reigelman II, a 2006 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, had designed the work and partnered with Cleveland Public Art to display the 100 floating…
The Phillies Are Way Cooler Than the Browns When It Comes to Pranking Their In-Stadium Texting Service
By now, most stadiums have some sort of service that allows you to text an issue to a number for in-stadium assistance. Intended uses? Reporting crimes, fights, overly drunk fans, etc. In Philly it’s probably specifically good for contacting authorities when degenerates intentionally vomit on children. Unintended uses? Making jokes. Back in October there was…
Open a Cold One! Russell Township May Have Something to Celebrate
A Russell Township breakfast? Ever been to Russell Township? Where’s that? you ask. Well, can’t say for sure, somewhere out yonder, past the edge of the East Side and civilization as we know it, in that wild unsettled stretch between 91 and the Pennsylvania state line. At only 16 square miles or so, you actually…
Left Hand, Meet Right
They don’t get more scumbaggier than this guy Even as the evening news reports started coming in on June 12 about a police standoff in Beachwood, it was obvious the incident was a notch or two above the usual summer street-crime ugly. Police from all over the city were camped outside Alfredo’s International salon on…
Concert Review: Public Enemy at House of Blues
Yo, Flav. What time is it? My younger self would kick my ass for even thinking about criticizing Public Enemy. Make no mistake — there were a lot of things to be impressed by as the seminal rap group came to town last night to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark third album, Fear…
Morning Brew: Observation Decks, Plant Thieves and all things that are Ohio news
Room with a view It’s too hard to wake up on a Monday morning and hunt down your vital news. But it’s never too hard to peruse aggregated news! Sorry we couldn’t brew it stronger, but it was a slow weekend. The observation deck on the Terminal Tower has been closed to the general public…
Morticia’s Chair Drops New Album Tomorrow at Release Party
Trampled by a Muse Morticia’s Chair, the veteran area quartet who have been nominated for numerous Scene and Free Times music awards, will release their fourth CD, Trampled by a Muse, tomorrow night, June 26, with a barbecue starting at 6 p.m. The $10 admission gets you food (including vegetarian options) and an evening of…
Wait…How Much Pot?
And that was only the first suitcase Now that is a lot of pot. Lisette Lee of California has been accused of flying into Ohio on a private jet with, hold on, 506 pounds of marijuana. No that is not a typo. Stuffing the pot into 13 different suitcases, Lee is being charged with “conspiracy…
Foreigners and the Future of the Flats
One drawing of the planned growth in the Flats. Imagine that… The Flats East Bank project, a scheme devised to spruce up the much maligned downtown area, has been given a $20 million kick in the pants from forty international investors. It’s all part of a grand vision (and a $275 million plan) to build…
Kinks Bassist Pete Quaife Dies
RIP Sad news: Founding Kinks bassist Pete Quaife died after battling kidney problems for the past decade. He was 66. Quaife was an original member of the Kinks, playing on some of the band’s best and biggest songs, including “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” and “Waterloo Sunset.” He also…
The Price is Right in Ohio
We heard he’s partial to Clevelanders Quick! How much is that old wooden rocking horse you grandmother gave you when you were 6 worth? You had better brush up your price estimating skills, because The Price is Right is coming to Cleveland for an open casting call. Two people will be selected from the throng…
Morning Brew: Salmonella in the Sack, Diseased Mosquitoes, Minor-Leaguers Breaking Ribs and FEMA Being FEMA
We recommend this outfit to all Hilliard residents Good morning, Cleveland. Here’s something to read while you craft your very own bubble suit. -The first sign of the West Nile virus has reached Ohio. After trapping hundreds of mosquitoes each day to test for the virus, officials in Hilliard, a part of Franklin County, found…
Friday Ticket Giveaway: Scorpions
This is how they get ready to rock you like a hurricane We have a pair of tickets to the Scorpions show at Time Warner Cable Amphitheater on July 6. We also have a copy of the band’s new CD, Sting of the Tail. Want them? All you have to do is send your name,…
New Entry in Dumbest Band Name Ever
If you were to ask me to take two bands from the ’70s — one bloated and self-indulgent; the other just plain boring — and shake loose an auxiliary member or two from each and then name the new group something based on a farfetched combination of their previous bands’ monikers (neither of which even…
What to Leave Out of an Ethics Policy
Whoopsies… Keith Headen, disgraced Cuyahoga County Board of Revisions member, apparently was not too concerned with practicing what he preached. The 52-year-old chairman of the county administration subcommittee in charge of making revisions to property values was recently was busted trying to lower the monetary figure of a Mayfield Heights townhouse on paper most likely…
Dion Comes to the Rock Hall
More badass than you’ll ever be Tell Runaround Sue: Original rock & roll badass Dion is coming to the Rock Hall on July 7 as part of its educational Hall of Fame Series. And this should be an interesting one. Dion got his start in the ’50s leading the doo-wop group the Belmonts and scored…
Beware the Giant Carp
Oh, the giant Asian carp will take over your canoe. Don’t think it won’t The dreaded Asian carp has found it’s way into the Great Lakes. The 3-foot-long, 20-pound behemoth of a fish was found in Lake Calumet in Chicago, extremely close to Lake Michigan. Apparently, this conniving fish made it past the electric barriers…
Grown Ups could be Adam Sandler’s worst movie
In Grown Ups, Adam Sandler plays a high-powered Hollywood agent who reunites with some boyhood friends (including former SNL castmates Chris Rock and David Spade) at the funeral of their grade-school basketball coach. Every character comes with a joke: Rob Schneider’s new-age boob has a thing for older — really older — women; Rock’s Mr.…
Morning Brew: A Robber in Pajamas, Strickland’s Chicken Shack, All-in-the-Family Crime Sprees and More!
Crime has a face —Norwalk police are in the midst of a manhunt. Around 4 a.m. a man wearing red pajamas decorated with white moons and stars walked into a Mickey Mart and said he had a gun. His face was covered and he never displayed a weapon, but made out with $187 before hopping…
Concert Review: The Melvins at the Grog Shop
His hair doubles as a mop The Melvins brought their parallel-world version of intelligent, idiosyncratic hard rock to an appreciative crowd at the Grog Shop last night. The band’s recent shift to a four-piece, two-drummer lineup has not only yielded three strong albums — including this year’s The Bride Screams Murder — it’s completely re-energized…
Cleveland Rocks…Literally
Blame Terence and Philip for the earthquake today Our chairs were shaking, the building felt like it was swaying and all of us here at Scene expected the worst: Godzilla. Thankfully, it was just an earthquake. The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper, is reporting that a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Central Canada at 1:41…
From Buckeye to Tough Guy: Five Ohio Cities Make 50 Manliest List
Ohio smash! A lot of questions get raised about the status of our fine state. But one statistic is undeniable: Ohio is tough as nails, and finally someone made it official. Five Ohio cities made it in the top 50 in a recent “America’s Manliest Cities” study conducted by Bert Sperling, the mind behind a…
Court Tells Woman, “Sorry, Shouldn’t Have Gotten Pregnant!”
As Donald Trump would say: “Ya fired!” This just seems really, really wrong. Tiffany McFee, a 28-year-old woman employed at Pataskala Oaks Care Center in Licking County, Ohio, was fired from her job after she missed work because of “medical issues related to her pregnancy and subsequent childbirth.” Pataskala’s policy states that all employees must…
Album Review: Eminem
EminemRecovery (Interscope/Aftermath/Shady) Somewhere inside Recovery is a pretty good album. But you have to dig through the bloat to get to it. Eminem’s seventh record is his relatively speedy reaction to last year’s Relapse, an album even Em wasn’t too pleased with. “Let’s be honest, that last Relapse CD was ehhh,” he raps in the…
Morning Brew: PETA Wants to Replace Jesus, Cleveland Clinic Has an App,Youngstown is Building Steel Mills Again, and More!
PETA’s new marketing campaign: Sad dog figurines Good morning, Cleveland. Here’s some stuff to read while PETA tries to replace your garden gnome with a statue of a sad dog. -The Cleveland Clinic has developed an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch geared towards managing the stress in your life. The app, called Stress…
Murder by Numbers
Knight and Day almost sounds as if it could be the title of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s long-percolating Frank Sinatra biopic. Not that anyone will confuse James Mangold’s aggressively featherweight action adventure with a Scorsese joint. This ain’t that kind of party. Knight and Day is the kind of movie that promotes attention deficit…
Not a Breakup, Just a Break
Under normal conditions, the Dave Matthews Band’s show at Blossom this weekend would be just another annual appearance by the unspeakably popular jam band, which packs the place whether or not it’s got a new album. Frat boys would get wasted and do their approximation of the hippie twirl during another epic three-hour set, and…
Sour Mix Getting Sweeter
It was only a matter of time until Cleveland’s cocktail scene began to catch up with its food scene. Just as local chefs now routinely rely on fresh ingredients to construct their menus, area bartenders are following suit. Vanishing from bars are the bottles of Rose’s concentrated lime juice, replaced by freshly cut citrus, squeezed…
Around Hear
One-woman musical wonder Uno Lady (born Christa Ebert) is set to celebrate the release of Taco Cat, a new 7-inch single that features the tracks “Day Drinking” and “The Story of Everybody.” The experimental songs show off the Ohio City singer’s distinctive, almost-operatic voice. Uno Lady says the songs were made differently than the cuts…
Art
CMA Galleries Reopen The Cleveland Museum of Art’s announcement last week that the museum will go ahead with the third and final phase of its renovation and expansion program ensures that the dust won’t ultimately settle there until 2013. In the meantime, this week marks the reopening of 17 galleries in the museum’s original building.…
Livewire
Public Enemy When it comes to hip-hop history, Public Enemy (Dr. Chuck D and class clown Flavor Flav) have written one of rap’s greatest chapters. The genre’s most politically charged act for three decades running, Public Enemy emerged in the 1980s injecting hip-hop with a revolutionary spirit, producing fists-in-the-air anthems like “Fight the Power,” “911…
Bites
Taking things to the next level is Mike Gulley of Dragonfly Lounge (1865 W. 25th St., 216-696-7774, dragonflycleveland.com). Part of a growing trend of molecular mixologists, Gulley uses high-tech equipment and techniques to produce unconventional — yet delicious — cocktails. In a process called “fat washing,” bacon flavor is introduced to bourbon while leaving no…
Born to be Plaid
Playing Braveheart can get tricky. Swords are dangerous, bagpipes are tough to master, and not everyone can rock a kilt. But you can thrust yourself into the Scotland of yore at the 33rd Ohio Scottish Games, where competitions range from caber and sheaf tossing to hammer throwing and bagpipe showdowns. There’ll also be Highland-dancing competitions,…
At the Arthouse
SOLITARY MAN Michael Douglas is the principal reason to see this neatly written character study/cautionary tale about a junior league Gordon Gekko gone to seed. Douglas plays onetime New York auto mogul Ben Kalmen, whose creative bookkeeping nearly costs him his entire fortune after chronic womanizing destroyed his marriage long ago. Co-directors/writers David Levien and…
Northeast Ohio Music Releases
Fistula Goat (Crucial Blast) myspace.com/fistula666 Extreme-metal bands and their fans love gory lyrics. Slayer and Cannibal Corpse keep things theatrical, but on their new EP, Cleveland’s Fistula tackle the all-too-real case of alleged rapist and murderer Anthony Sowell. The band cranks out ultra-distorted riffs over clattering drums; the vocals are an indecipherable howl of pain.…
Stay In!
TOP PICK Tom and Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection (Warner) Old-school-animation fans rank these cat-and-mouse cartoons among the all-time best. And for good reason: Most of the 30 shorts on these two DVDs are classics (and more than a half-dozen are Oscar winners). “Puss Gets the Boot” and “The Cat Concerto” have inspired scores of ‘toons,…
Bodies by Shakespeare
It’s hard to go wrong with a play that includes the stage direction “Enter Messenger with two heads and a hand.” This is what happens after the title character in Titus Andronicus is cajoled to hack off his own hand in hopes of preventing two of his sons from being beheaded. So much for that…
Letters
LIVING IN LEBRON’S WORLD The Cavs may or may not be better off with LeBron James [“Let Him Go,” June 2, 2010]. They’ve had him for how long, and added some serious players to support him in the meantime, and he dropped the playoffs this year almost singlehandedly. Now he’s gotten the coach fired, and…
Positively Negative
Dennis Roche’s e-mail last week made it all sound so very urgent. The president of Positively Cleveland — the PR-spun name of the city’s convention and visitors bureau — claimed the group’s funding is at risk, and supporters must act quickly to contact the county commissioners. He was talking about the hotel bed tax, passed…
Free Fallin’ Again
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Mojo (Reprise) After more than a decade of singing about his divorce and how much the music industry sucks, Tom Petty returns to his roots on Mojo, his first album with the Heartbreakers in eight years. He and the group build most of the 15 songs around the bar-band blues…
Funny Lady Weeping
Joan Rivers — A Piece of Work, Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s warts-and-all documentary about the foul-mouthed 77-year-old stand-up comic, opens with a montage of clips from yesteryear. Johnny Carson tells her that one day she’ll be a “big star,” and headlines proclaim she has paved the way for female comedians everywhere. Flash forward to…
On Stage
Fiddler on the Roof — See review. Through June 27 at the Palace Theatre, 1615 Euclid Ave. Tickets are $10-$75. Call 216-241-6000 or visit playhousesquare.org. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — The biblical tale of Joseph and his awesome coat is told almost entirely in song. Jealous of his coat and his ability to…
Under the Influence
The Sadies don’t wear their influences like trendy fashions; they sport them like tastefully elaborate tattoos, choosing when and how much to expose them. On 2007’s New Seasons, the Canadian quartet — brothers Travis and Dallas Good on guitars and vocals, plus upright bassist Sean Dean and drummer Mike Belitsky — blended its traditional country/bluegrass…
Jukebox Heroes
Who says there’s no such thing as time travel? Three of the ’70s biggest bands (well, versions of them) have landed in the present and are now on a cross-country co-headlining summer tour. If you’re over 30, you grew up hearing their hits on the radio pretty much every hour. If you’re being dragged to…
Get to Know JAK
What the boss keeps in his office can give you a clue about his personality. Look in and around the offices of Jakprints co-founders Jacob Edwards and Dameon Guess, and you’ll see skateboards and screen-printed concert posters by famed Cleveland artist Derek Hess. There are electric guitars bought at a charity auction — one painted…
It’s Harvey Time
There is no reason why any of us should ever see Fiddler on the Roof again. The iconic songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick are familiar as nursery rhymes, and Joseph Stein’s story of Tevye and his family has grown to be a cliché. Then along comes Harvey Fierstein, and damned if he doesn’t…
Reel Cleveland
Set in 2011, Keitj T. Alin’s experimental horror film, A Barge and Its Wind, is a dystopian movie about a government conspiracy involving a mysterious boat docked in Cleveland’s harbor. A local filmmaker, Alin cites Andrzej Zulawski, David Lynch, and Stanley Kubrick as influences. And you can certainly see that in this edgy movie, which…
This Just In: Cleveland Concert Announcements
Coheed and Cambria: Proggin’ up the great outdoors Canceled: Nick Cannon: Thu., Aug. 26. House of Blues. This Just In: Acoustic Strawbs: Sat., Sept. 11, 8 p.m., Ballroom, $18 ADV/$20 DOS. Beachland. Amber Pacific/Halifax/City Lights/Where Are You Houston/This Is a Lifetime: Wed., July 14, 6:30 p.m., $11. Musica. Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull): Thu., Oct.…
