Nelsonville Music Festival Begins on Thursday
JASON BASH Nelsonville Music Festival Hosting an impressive lineup of top-notch musicians in the foothills of Appalachia, the Nelsonville Music Festival promises a kick-ass weekend beginning tomorrow evening. The schedule offers four robust days of music in the bucolic Southeast Ohio city. Guaranteed highlights include Cat Power’s Friday night set and Wilco’s Saturday night set.…
Case Prof Has Written a Really Good Memoir About Heroin
Case Western Reserve English Professor Michael Clune, this guy, has written a really, really good book about heroin, reviewers say. It’s so good and so exact, writes Gideon Lewis-Kraus in the New Yorker’s book blog, that it makes you actually consider doing smack. What most drug books don’t do is make the reader, upon closing…
South Euclid’s Telling Mansion May Become a Museum
Controversy has been swirling in South Euclid, given the Cuyahoga County Public Library system’s plan to sell Telling Mansion and invest $12.6 million in a new, state-of-the-art library over on Green Road. If it seems like a simple transaction, it’s not. Telling Mansion, 4645 Mayfield Road, has served as a community library since 1952. Around…
Volcano Choir Teases Upcoming Album: New Music Tuesday
Today, experimental pop outfit Volcano Choir offered a glimpse of what’s to come when the band’s upcoming album Repave drops in September. From the sounds of it, the new music comes off a bit more dynamic than the band’s first outing several years ago. (The album’s trailer, which includes at least a portion of one…
Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik is Leaving the Plain Dealer
Congrats Advance! Longtime reporter and Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik is leaving the Plain Dealer. He’s taking a job with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office, where he’ll helm Timothy McGinty’s communications and public policy arms. In a farewell column yesterday, Frolik chronicled — as farewell columns often do — the inception of his love of…
The Columbus Road Bridge Will Close For More Than a Year
ERIC SANDY/SCENE Columbus Road Bridge will close at 7 a.m. Wednesday, May 29. If Columbus Road is your go-to artery for gettin’ into Cleveland, then apologies are due to your poor tires. Also, unrelenting bad news for your commute kicks in tomorrow. The Columbus Road bridge is going to shut down at 7 a.m. Wednesday…
Rumor: Bon Jovi Playing Browns Stadium in July
Rumors have been circulating for the past few weeks that Browns Stadium — yeah, we still call it that — will play host to a major concert sometime in July. Word was it wouldn’t be the Kenny Chesney sewer debacle Part II, but would instead by noted arena football fan and musician Bon Jovi with…
Concert Review: The Avett Brothers at LC Pavilion in Columbus
The Avett Brothers have been on tour relentlessly since the start of this year and may have lost a bit of steam by the time they arrived at the LC Pavillion in Columbus Saturday. But despite missing the infamous Seth Avett scream, the band still put on an intelligent, lively and pitch-perfect show. With 21…
Is a Giant Hofbräuhaus Coming to Cleveland?
Is Cleveland next in line to receive a Hofbräuhaus? Sources close to some very discreet dealings are telling Scene that plans currently are in the works for a massive Hofbräuhaus to land soon in PlayhouseSquare. Presently, a handful of operating licensees of that famous Munich brewery exist in the states, including Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Las…
Residents Aren’t Very Good at Promoting Cleveland?
David Gilbert, the President of our city’s booster institution Positively Cleveland, says that his organization has learned a whole bunch about attracting visitors to Northeast Ohio. Among other things, he claims that residents just aren’t taking enough pride in the city. “As we get into talking about perceptions, the perception of locals about our own…
Is the Bedford Bear Back?
Cuddle me. Is the infamous Bedford Bear back on the prowl in Northeast Ohio? Probably not. But there was a black bear sighting in Ashtabula and, as with any sensational animal story in a small town, it brought out the absolute best in local reporting. “Banging devices” and exaggerated eyewitness accounts coming your way, courtesy…
The Internet Coughed Up A Charles Ramsey-Inspired Online Game
Ugh. Most of Cleveland – nay, the world – wants to know what Charles Ramsey’s life has been like for the past few weeks. For now, though, interested Ramsey fans will have to settle for some reductionist playtime. NMA-TV’s abysmal video game, CHARLES RAMSEY’S BURGER BASH, attempts to toss some humor into the local kidnapping…
The Five Must-Eat Events in Cleveland This Week
Hungry? Thirsty? We’ve got you covered. 1. On Friday, May 27, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church will host the 43rd annual Greek festival. Held in Tremont every Memorial Day weekend, the popular event features Greek music, food, drink and even antiques. Visitors will find a mouthwatering assortment of homemade Greek specialties like pastitsio, moussaka (Greek…
Gypsydaze Reforms For Lakewood Debut Tonight
Gypsydaze performs in Lakewood tonight. Scene first highlighted the work of TeeJayy Lewins as he hit the road in December for a songwriting sojourn in Colorado. He returned to his native Cleveland with a fresh batch of material and a plan to form Gypsydays, a hard rock outfit that played a handful of shows between…
John Q’s Steakhouse Closing
John Q’s, the legendary downtown Cleveland steakhouse, is closing its doors on June 15th. Located in the 55 Building on Rockwell Ave. across from Public Square, this establishment has been serving award-winning steaks for almost 22 years. “This is purely a business decision. I have looked at it a hundred different ways. I’ve agonized over…
The Isles of Avon
In the hands of a great chef, any cuisine can feel modern, even one that dates back millennia. That’s not normally the case when it comes to Greek cooking, a playbook that too often gets represented through lumpy dips, dry kebabs and muddy stews. You’ll have to drive all the way out to Avon Lake…
Culture Jamming
TOP PICK ABC’s of Death (Magnolia) If you’re a fan of horror, you’ve gotta like this film’s premise. Each of the 26 different directors that participated was given a letter of the alphabet and asked to pick a word that began with that letter. They were then instructed to create a short film about death…
Movies Out
Thursday, May 23 Hangover Pt. III The Wolfpack returns to form in the third and final installment of what might be the most pleasantly surprising film franchise of the past decade. Though The Hangover sequel suffered from a dismal lack of imagination and relied on the repurposing of jokes from the first film in a…
Overdose Nation
Trish is shivering in her lime green polo shirt even though it’s 70 degrees outside. The 42-year-old stands behind the Free Clinic’s needle exchange van parked near Metro on W. 25th Street and admits she’s a bit paranoid, her head on a swivel as she rubs her hands against her arms. Trish is a…
Childhood Fears
Nathan Margoni remembers childhood in terms of its relation to horror. It was something real, too real, in nights of sweat and strange sounds in the darkness, but it was also a prop in daytime play. A child might kill and be killed half a dozen times in an hour of pretend fun, or wage…
Also On View
Breakneck Gallery 3D Art Show. Paintings pop off the walls at this second annual exhibition of art layered with optical illusions. Borrow glasses for free, or purchase at the gallery for $2 apiece. An opening reception will be held Saturday May 25 from 6 to 10 p.m., followed by an after-party at Spitfire Saloon, 1539…
The Heart of It All
If you drive past the airport, bounce over a couple sets of railroad tracks, and circle to the back of an industrial complex, you’ll end up at Fat Head’s production facility. Inside the cavernous warehouse, brewers work around the clock to generate an endless supply of Head Hunter, one of the best India pale ales…
The Cleveland Craft Beer Report
Memorial Day signifies the start of the outdoor craft beer drinking season in Northeast Ohio. Stouts, barleywines and strong ales have been tucked away until autumn; this is the time of the year when beer needs to be quaffable and refreshing. What selections are perfectly suited for a session in the summer sunshine? While any…
Grassroots Methods of Opposition
The March Against Monsanto, an international day of protesting the environmentally unfriendly work of a major multinational corporation, will have a budding Cleveland presence this Saturday, May 25. Led by Kalina Jones, the group will meet up to march in opposition to Monsanto’s GMO (genetically modified organism) use and ethically troubling food production process. Monsanto,…
It’s a Gas
Just over a week before the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s newest exhibit, Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Satisfaction, workers were still prepping the museum’s top two exhibition floors. “You’d need a hardhat to go in there,” says assistant curator Meredith E. Rutledge-Borger. She explains that ever since opening,…
Blow Out the Candles
Cleveland rapper Draft Pick has a birthday coming up. He’s throwing an open-to-the-public party at the Phantasy to celebrate and has lined up a litany of Cleveland’s best new artists slated to rock the stage with him that night to celebrate another year of repping his city musically. But as awesome as that night will…
Love Hurts
Alkaline Trio has been a steady presence on the pop-punk scene since forming some 15 years ago. While the band slipped a bit on 2010’s uneven This Addiction, it returns to form with the just-released My Shame is True, an album that features solid pop hooks and passionate vocals while never sacrificing its punk edge.…
Savage Love
Dear Dan — I am a straight, 45-year-old, monoga-mous male. I am married for the second time, to a wonderful 42-year-old woman. The few times I shared fantasies with my first wife, she used them as weapons in the many battles we fought over the years. She also betrayed my trust by sharing these fantasies…
Sex Among the Stanzas
If someone asked you to attend a play about two college professors, written in rhyming verse and centering on the poetry of William Blake, you might be tempted to hide behind (or maybe under) the largest rock you could find. However, if you were told the play involved the after-effects of a public sex act…
