Video: Deer Jumps Through Window Into Bar
Not exactly what you’re expecting when you’re sipping on a tasty adult beverage. This happened at Luke’s Bar and Grille in Bluffton, OH.
The Movement to Keep LeBron From Being an All-Star Starter
There is no shortage of vindictive ideas floating about since LeBron signed with the Heat. Here’s one of our favorites: KeepLeBronOut.com’s plan is to flood the NBA All-Star voting with votes for anyone but LeBron in an effort to keep the NBA’s biggest name out of the starting lineup. Kinda brilliant, right? Here’s their mission…
Another Christmas Ale Tribute Video
Not the best we’ve seen, but not the worst. By the way, is it wrong that it’s 10 a.m. and we want one right now?
Peter Lawson Jones Lands TV Role on ‘Detroit 187’
Peter Lawson Jones, if you’ll remember, is more than just a politician and lawyer; he’s a bit of an amateur thespian. His turn in The Great White Hope at Karamu House showed he had some acting chops, and now he’s taking his local experience to the big-time. Sort of. NewsNet5 reports that Lawson Jones has…
Immortalizing PERCH, the Public Square Accident Victim and Graffiti Artist
Olando Coleman was the 19-year-old from Warrensville Heights who was killed by a passing car on Public Square last week. He was known to some as PERCH, a prolific graffiti artist around town. Now the moniker is taking on new life: Friends are memorializing the fallen artist with “PERCH” pieces in some of Cleveland’s hottest…
The ‘Stand Up for Loko’ Campaign
Or, ya know, sit down for Loko. Four Loko is the delightful caffeinated alcohol beverage that has dropped kids across the country into comas and earned a torrent of scorn from the media, though not from this respected source. On the eve of the federal government’s December banning of Four Loko, Cleveland’s Absolute Intense Wrestling…
Robbers Learn Knife Beats BB Gun
In your Real Facts of Science update of the day, here’s the tale of an Akron man who fended off two robbers with logic (and a knife): Two teens put a gun to an Akron man’s head and demanded money, then fled when their target — realizing their weapon only fired BBs — pulled out…
Kimberly Rudnay Hit, Killed Daughter
A sad story out of Parma from this past weekend… Police say 45-year-old Kimberly Rudnay was driving on Warwick Drive around 3 a.m. Sunday when she ran over her daughter, 22-year-old Meagan Skeens. The daughter was taken to Metro where she later died. According to NewsNet5, alcohol was involved in the accident, though further details…
Ed Fitzgerald Invites All County Employees to Meeting
Last week Executive-elect Ed Fitzgerald cleaned out the auditor’s office, ground-zero for patronage and cronyism in Cuyahoga County for the better part of the last two decades. It was a sweeping move, one needed both in function and for symbolic reasons. It seems, at least for the moment, that Fitzgerald is not only 100% committed…
Cleveland School Kids Slam LeBron in Poetry
Kids from Wade Park did this poetry slam bit mocking LeBron’s new Nike commercial for school.
Early Look at Cleveland Casino Design
The Plain Dealer, through a public records request, obtained a video showing early designs for Cleveland’s casino. Rock Ventures showed the video to the Ohio EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a meeting on October 21 because Dan Gilbert wants to narrow the Cuyahoga River 29 feet in order to give the…
Dan Gilbert’s Early Designs for Cleveland Casino Show LeBron Billboard
A video obtained through a public records request by the Plain Dealer shows early designs for Cleveland’s new casino. The video was shown to the Ohio EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a meeting on October 21 because Dan Gilbert wants to narrow the Cuyahoga River “to give the casino an extra 29…
Pic of the Day: LeBron Urinal
Seen at Werk Bar and Grill.
Matthew Collins, Former Mentor Cop, Headbutted Little League Coach
That’s a head made for buttin’. There are many ways, both productive at not so, to deal with your child’s little league coach. Headbutted them is not one. Matthew Collins was found guilty, pleading no contest, to attempted assault from an incident back in May. Seems the father, who was on medical leave from the…
Ohio Could Put a Limit on Last Words
“Hey man, sorry, but you got to keep it short. We’ve got places to be.” — . . . and in conclusion, I’d like to tell my kids that I’ll alwa— Sorry, Jeff. That’s it. You’ve used up your 140 characters. Throw the switch, Doc. A new law in Ohio may put a word length…
Charges Filed in Emma Nahas’ Death
</div Scene readers might remember the sad case of Emma Nahas, the 20-year-old girl who drowned on Lake Erie this summer while pleasure-cruising with a group of friends and older men. A lot of unanswered questions orbited around the situation and today the Cuyahoga County prosecutor office handed out a round of indictments against those…
Cougar Catered to Fugitive 20-Year-Old Wanted for Sexually Assaulting 13-Year-Old
A story that was already bizarre took an even more bizarre turn today. 20-year-old Roman McCarty was apprehended by police yesterday. He was hiding out in a homemade hut in the woods somewhere in Munson Township and had been on the lamb for six months, wanted by police for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl. Bizarre,…
Download Machine Gun Kelly’s New Album. Why Not? It’s Free
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly just unleashed his new mixtape, Lace Up — The Free Album. Helpfully, MGK put the album’s price right there in the title for you. That’s right: it’s free, bitches! You can download the album here. You can watch a trailer he made for the mix above. There are 16 songs here,…
The Onion Tackles LeBron’s ‘Time’ Person of the Year Nomination
(Via The Onion)
Peyton Hillis Likes to Chase Wild Boar
It should come as no surprise given his down-home country-boy demeanor, but Browns running back Peyton Hillis likes to hunt wild boar. From a Columbus Dispatch article on Cleveland’s new cult hero: “It’s crazy,” Peyton Hillis says with a Southern twang. His eyes burn as he explains to the microphone- and notebook-toting city folk media…
Man Impersonating an Officer Pulls Over and Gropes Woman
Pretty clearly this cop is not real. Ladies, it’s probably a prudent idea if you are being pulled over to make sure it’s an actual police officer and not a pervert impersonating a lawman looking for a way to fondle you. There’s a report out of Wickliffe of a man driving a sedan who used…
Concert Review: DJ Shadow at House of Blues
A shadowy figure. From a conspicuous white sphere center-stage at House of Blues last night, DJ Shadow unleashed a visual and aural spectacle that assaulted the eyes as much as Shadow’s twisted remixes assaulted the ears. The Live From the Shadowsphere tour is a trial, Shadow said, allowing him to test out new material, toy…
Cleveland Seeks Input on Unwanted Basketball Hoops, Buys Them Anyway
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson ordered a community forum Thursday night to discuss the most popular act of vandalism in West Park history. At issue was the future of a lone basketball court at the center of sprawling Impett Park, which is surrounded by dozens of homes. Last spring, the court’s heavy-duty hoops were mangled in…
Man Caught Using Whizzinator for Drug Test
Here’s the Whizzinator kit. The Whizzinator, if you didn’t know, is basically a prosthetic penis attached to a bag filled with clean urine that people use to try and pass drug tests. You see, it looks like you’re urinating, so there’s less suspicion involved, and you can surreptitiously empty out your bag of clean pee…
Max Torgerson Allegedly Broadcasted Sex With 16-Year-Old Online
A face for the internet. Update: Both Max Torgerson and Darrin Karnik have been indicted. According to the Lorain Morning Journal: Max Torgerson, 21, of Amherst, was indicted for two counts of compelling prostitution, three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of importuning. Darrin Karnik, 18, of Lorain, was indicted…
Archie Griffin Loves His Mustache
November is really Movember, a “moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men’s health.” Cool, right? Even cooler: here’s an interview with Archie Griffin where he talks about his love for his mustache. For example: Have you ever rocked other styles? I used to wear it all…
Video: Mom Forces Two-Year-Old Daughter to Smoke Pot (Update)
She looks sad and in need of a joint. Update: Jessica Gamble pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of corruption of another with drugs and tampering with evidence. In exchange for her plea, charges of child endangering were dropped. She’ll be sentenced December 16 and faces 6.5 years in prison. (via WEWS) *** In what might…
Dozens Fired at Auditor’s Office, Ed Fitzgerald Asks for Resignations of all Board of Revision Employees
Don’t let the smile fool ya’, he’s a pit bull. Ed Fitzgerald has fired everyone. Well, not everyone. Just most everyone. At a press conference today, Fitzgerald announced that 20 employees at the Auditor’s office, all hired by Frank Russo, had been fired. Also, Fitzgerald was to announce that every employee on the county’s boards…
Drunks to Get Free Rides Home Courtesy of the Parma Police This Holiday Season
Get a ride home and avoid this. Tis the season for turkey and shopping and gifts and holiday spirit. Oh, and tis the season for spirits, too. Whether you’re drinking out of boredom, self-medicating through an over abundance of family-time, or trying to drink every drop of Christmas Ale that Great Lakes produced this year,…
Republicans Have Upper Hand in Redistricting
Yeah, this means they’re going to fuck you up, Dennis. With a Republican majority now squatting in the state legislature, Ohio Dems are on the look-out for what’s coming down the line: redistricting. According to this snappy read over at Newsweek, the GOPers have an opportunity to reorganize the state’s congressional representative geography, and they’re…
Browns Fan Allegedly Tackled 8-Year-Old Jets Fan (UPDATED)
Update: Allegations such as these need to be taken seriously, but much of the coverage so far has been one-sided. And as this story has spread nationally, it’s only become more sensational. Now eyewitness accounts are emerging that make the whole incident seem more like the mistake of a clumsy drunk than anything insidious. Courtesy…
Mayfield Heights Man Invites Ex Over to Do Coke, She Calls Cops Instead
“Baby, I know we haven’t gotten along lately, but I got a surprise for you.” You know how it goes: you and your old lady are wading through a bad patch, have lost that former magic, so you extend the olive branch, maybe invite her over to the house for some adult refreshment and meaningful…
Ed Fitzgerald to Announce Firings, Staff Changes at Auditor’s Office
Cleaning up the county like he cleans up that pretty face of his. Ed Fitzgerald has quite the task on his hands: change the whole culture of government in Cuyahoga County, one that was beset with rampant corruption and sleezery. He’s already made certain steps toward that goal and will make another one (or many)…
Man Flashes Amish Buggy Full of People
Just because they’re Amish doesn’t mean they want to see your penis. People continue to shock and amaze us here at Scene & Heard. Take the case of Jason Morrison, a 33-year-old from Wayne County who found himself upset with (?), turned on by (?) an Amish buggy recently and did what exactly no other…
Your Daily Girl Talk Update, Now With Sample Spoilers
Some of these may have been used in the making of the new Girl Talk album We’ve now spent way too much time trying to pick out every single sample found on Girl Talk’s new album, All Day. Apparently there are 373 of them — but we’ve found only 362 since Monday, when the former…
Video: Woman Robbed While on Toilet Says She Thought About Doing ‘Ninja Stuff’ On Thief
A 70-year-old Akron woman was robbed while sitting on her toilet in her house. The perpetrator had on a clown mask. The victim stayed cool, although she did briefly consider doing “ninja stuff” to him.
Roger Maris Indians Card Among Finalists for “Topps 60 Greatest Cards of All Time”
Topps has whittled down its vast, vast catalog of baseball cards to a top 100. Now they have opened voting to the public to name the 60 best from the selections. To celebrate our upcoming 60th Anniversary we would like Topps collectors to vote on our Top 60 cards of all time! We have pre-selected…
Four Loko Makers to Get Rid of Caffeine in Four Loko, Stop Selling in Ohio
Four Loko’s novelty was its caffeine-powered punch on top of the whopping alcohol content. If you take away the caffeine (and the taurine and guarana), you’re left with… well, just a pretty crappy cheap alcoholic beverage. And that’s what Four Loko is about to become. The company that produces the liquid cocaine posted a statement…
Angela Firestone, Alliance Mom, Nabbed for Drunk Driving With Kids
You Northeast Ohio moms really need to cut down on the crazy. Less than a couple days after spotting a less-than-kosher local trend, we’ve got another one to add to the list. This time, an Alliance woman was tapped by police for booze-cruisin’ with her children in the backseat, says 19ActionNews. Angela Firestone was pulled…
Coco Crisp Takes to Craigslist to Find Female Assistant?
Wow. Via @joelhammond comes this Craigslist post in L.A. which looks to be former Indian Coco Crisp seeking a live-in female personal assistant. Yes, he would like to see pictures of you. Yes, the job pays $40,000. Yes, the post includes his email. And yes, it’s an AOL account. Hi, My name is Covelli Crisp…
The Time George Steinbrenner Drag Raced Against a Girl
Mary Jane Schriner, if you’ll remember, is the Bay Village native who was childhood friends with George Steinbrenner. During their friendship, Steinbrenner penned many a letter to her, all of which she kept. Those missives were meant to be collected into a book, but Steinbrenner’s family is blocking that from happening for now, which is…
Home Theater
Modern Times (Criterion) Charlie Chaplin’s final turn as the Little Tramp is one of his best movies, a part-silent/part-sound film that rides this dichotomy to hilarious and momentous results. Made in 1936, long after every other filmmaker adapted to sound technology, Modern Times uses noise sparingly in the story of an unemployed factory worker and…
On Stage This Week
DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE Due to a wild and fanciful digression, Sarah Ruhl’s play winds up spinning its wheels in the late going. But up to that point, this Dobama Theatre production is amusing and engrossing. The unambiguous title tells you much of what you need to know, since within the first couple minutes a…
CD Review: THE GREENHORNES
You know the other two guys in the Raconteurs? The ones you can’t name? They’re in a Cincinnati band called the Greenhornes. And along with another dude they make the type of wide-eyed, retro-leaning garage rock that Jack White grew out of ever since he became a rock god a few years ago. Their fourth…
Wand Over Matter
After nine years, six movies, and more hormone-fueled growth spurts you can shake a wand at, this is the beginning of the end of the Harry Potter franchise. And like last year’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the first part of the boy wizard’s final chapter (the second half arrives next summer) is directed…
CD Review: Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi has always had a me-against-the-world mentality, but the Cleveland native’s demons pretty much take over his second album. The distorted synths and heartbeat drums that back the rapper on many of Man on the Moon II’s tracks carry you into the 26-year-old Cudi’s muddled mind, a place where he battles cocaine addiction and…
The Deadly Sin
“It’s been slow …,” Kristin Carey says from behind the bar, dragging out each syllable, “… since the situation.” It’s around 9 p.m. on a Friday, and the staff at Lust is prepping for the weekend rush. The house lights are up, bleaching the large room’s stylish exposed brick and hardwood floors in clinical fluorescence.…
FREEWHEELIN’ LOUDON WAINWRIGHT
Even after 40 years, the name Loudon Wainwright III doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue the way Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, or Bob Dylan does. But it should. The singer-songwriter’s enduring career proves that sometimes survival alone earns you the right to do whatever you damn well please. Case in point: Wainwright’s 2009 album High…
CLOTHES QUARTERS
“The Mayor of Coventry Village” has been part of the three-block shopping strip in Cleveland Heights for 43 years, ever since he was a soda jerk at a drugstore there. Back then, it was still a collection of delis, meat markets, upholsterers, dry cleaners, and jewelers, serving what was a heavily Jewish neighborhood. After years…
Noise, Punk, and Chaos
The “Obama shirt thing” hounds No Age almost as much as the band’s always-asked-about affiliation with the punk scene that sprung up around a trendy Los Angeles club a few years ago. But guitarist Randy Randall doesn’t mind talking about his group’s TV debut in 2008, when he appeared on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show…
Bites: Restaurant Opening in Heights Rockefeller Building
The grand second-floor space in the Heights Rockefeller Building has housed many things during its 80-year run, including John D. Junior’s real estate offices and a handful of banks. More recently, the stately Cleveland Heights chamber has been used exclusively for special events and weddings (including that of yours truly). Early next year it will…
CD Review: Stereolab
It’s been a rough decade for Stereolab. One member died in 2002 after being hit by a truck. Then the band was dropped by its record company for poor sales. They finally pulled the plug last year, going on indefinite hiatus. Their 12th album, Not Music, was recorded at the same time as 2008’s Chemical…
We Get Mail
One More Vote for FitzGerald The PD sure did its best to sink Ed FitzGerald’s ship with tenuous corruption innuendo [“Stained?”, October 20, 2010]. In the end, voters saw through the smoke and mirrors. Fitz is clean; one phone call from Dimora and awarding a contract to the lowest bidder did not change that. As…
CD Review: Rihanna
Don’t be fooled by the title of Rihanna’s fifth album — Loud isn’t a guitar record. In fact, it sounds like Rihanna had Thriller on repeat when she was putting it together. Thankfully, the 11 songs are customized to her brand of skittering club beats. Rihanna sounds melodic and sexy throughout, tearing through “Only Girl…
Sit. Stay. Eat.
Like landing an airplane, dining with children is essentially a controlled crash. Even the most well-behaved crumb snatchers reach the point where all hell breaks loose, leaving parents scrambling for the check and the door. Strategies for a successful meal out with little ones often mean postponing impending chaos with distraction — toys, crayons, Kindles…
Concert Time
DJ SHADOW Josh Davis chose his moniker because he believed a DJ is there to support the music, not be its focal point. So it’s more than just a little ironic that he’s become one of the most recognizable DJs in the world. Shadow pops up every few years with a new album, spending his…
Film Capsules
Alpha and Omega (PG) — Humphrey (voiced by Justin Long) and Kate (Hayden Panettiere) are buddies in their wolf pack until Kate goes off to alpha training to become a future pack leader in this animated movie. Humphrey is an omega; his pack role is merely comic relief. The two classes traditionally never mix, but…
Get Out!
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 VEGAN FEAST Give Thanks for Seitan Melody Caraballo, a former music journalist turned vegan chef and holistic health counselor, is the meat-free force behind Foodgazi, a vegan catering company that specializes in culinary instruction. Together with best friend and business partner Kim Esper, Caraballo launched the biz last year after ruling out…
Stay In!
TOP PICK — CD The Beatles: 1962-1966, 1967-1970 (Apple/EMI) After last year’s reboot of the entire Beatles catalog, these two remastered reissues — essentials in the ’70s, when there weren’t any other Beatles compilations available — might seem like an afterthought. But the two-disc sets remain terrific primers, especially the early-period “red” album. Loaded with…
The Spy Left Out in the Cold
If truth is the first casualty of war, the second is the truth-tellers. Look at Julian Assange, the internationally hounded founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, and Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, the subjects of Doug Liman’s sharply observed Fair Game. The movie is based on the memoirs of Wilson — a former…
At the Arthouse
Dementia This short but spooky horror movie from 1955 mostly takes place inside a crazy woman’s head. Or does it? There’s no dialogue, and it’s moody as hell. It’s also really scary. Even scarier: The film was reissued a few years later under a different title, with tacked-on narration by Ed McMahon. Hey-o! At the…
A COUNTRY GIRL COMES HOME
When singer-songwriter Stacie Collins (staciecollins.com) moved to Cleveland from Los Angeles in 1996 with her bassist husband Al, who is originally from the Parma area, nobody knew she was an ass-kicking country singer — not even her. “We started discovering all the cool music spots in the city and started to get plugged into the…
CD Review: LOS HOMBRES DEL NORTE
Clevelander Tommy Wiggins recruited two out-of-state pals for Los Hombres del Norte, a side project in which they assumed aliases and headed south of the border to record Todos Santos Magico, a collection of low-key songs that perfectly capture the spirit of the Baja Peninsula. “Cold Rain Comin’ Down” and “Walkin’ Time” sound like Crosby,…
On View This Week
THE ABSTRACTED PLANE The paintings of Dana Oldfather and Erik Neff are abstract, but not so much that they keep you from theorizing about what might be depicted in them. In Neff’s case, the shapes that result from intersecting planes look like land masses. Oldfather’s pools of color, meanwhile, seem to float in a murky…
