Family of Man Hit and Killed by East Cleveland Police Officer Sue Officer and City
Update: The family of 22-year-old LaShon Kimble has sued the East Cleveland police officer who struck and killed Kimble with his vehicle, along with the city. There’s plenty of issues detailed in the lawsuit and they mirror the findings reported below culled from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s investigation of the incident. Namely, that Pettus…
The Scene Podcast With Jim Tews Talking Felines of New York and More
On this episode of Two Girls With Glasses, Brandi McElhatten and Nikki Delamotte talk with Cleveland ex-pat comedian Jim Tews (@JimTews). Locals may remember Tews as one of the original organizers of the popular comedy show, Chucklefck, which has since morphed into the Accidental Comedy Show run by Ramon Rivas. He’s since moved to New…
CAN Journal’s Michael Gill Hosts Holiday Letterpress Workshop at Zygote Press
Michael Gill is a busy man these days. Once serving as Scene’s Visual Arts Editor, Gill is now the Director of the Collective Arts Network and editor and publisher of its CAN Journal. Last month, he released his new hand-printed book, A Pocket Full of Change, along with a related exhibition at Tregoning & Company.…
Hip-Hop Show Has Grog Shop ‘Up in Smoke’
So Issue 3 failed miserably at the polls last week — a good thing in the eyes of many, but that didn’t stop the Grog Shop from going up in smoke last night for the Happy Holidaze tour featuring Devin the Dude and Potluck. Check out a slideshow of photos from the concert. Over the…
Veteran Jam Band the Samples to Play Fabulous Food Show’s Concert in the Kitchen
Given the fact that the guys in the Samples, a veteran jam band out of Boulder, came up with their band name because members used to live off food samples from the local grocery store, it’s appropriate they would play at the Fabulous Food Show. The group is slated perform at the event’s Concert in…
Comedian Paula Poundstone Talks Approach to Comedy, Upcoming Show
Comedian Paula Poundstone, a veteran in the comedy circuit, is coming to Playhouse Square November 12. Poundstone is a regular guest on several NPR programs and has performed for the likes of Hillary Clinton and Johnny Carson. Her first open-mic was 37 years ago, and her approach to comedy has evolved to incorporate her off-the-cuff…
Maroon 5 to Play the Q in 2016
The big tour announcements for 2016 just keep coming. Add Grammy-winning rockers Maroon 5 to the list. The band has just announced a fall 2016 tour. The group spent the better part of 2015 touring in support of its latest effort, V. By the time the 2016 tour wraps, the band will have played over…
Northeast Ohio Pregnancy Center Tells Students STDs are Prevented by Marriage
The Wooster City School District enraged parents and sparked a response from a national non-profit organization last month when it hosted a presentation from a religiously affiliated pregnancy center. According to a complaint from a parent sent to the non-profit organization American Atheists, the faith-based Pregnancy Care Center of Wayne County told Wooster High School…
Lakewood Is Selling Old Street Signs
The city of Lakewood is selling off some old street signs — and right in time for the nostalgic holiday season, too. Each sign costs $25. Get in touch with the Division of Purchasing at purchasing@lakewoodoh.net or 216-529-6075 to get one. The list of available street signs: ARCHDALE LEEDALE PARKWAY CLIFF MERL RIVERWAY DAVIS COURT…
You Can Now Watch “Make Fun: Building a Comedy Scene” In Full on YouTube
We’ll dispense with the introductory portion of this post and leave it to Jim Tews in his own words in a second except to say this: Cleveland’s comedy scene experienced a rapid and continual and amazing ascent in the very recent past and if you enjoy it now you can thank a lot of people…
Cowboy Junkies’ Singer Margo Timmins Talks About the Band’s Return to the Road
The release of Notes Falling Slow, the new box set from Cowboy Junkies, comes as a surprise on at least one level. It’s not the comprehensive career retrospective that one might expect — instead, it focuses on re-mastered editions of three albums that the Canadian band made during the 2000s with Open (2001), One Soul…
A Jam-Packed Week of Classical Music Events You Shouldn’t Miss
There’s lots to highlight this week, and a number of organizations have scoffed at triskaidekaphobia and piled up events on Friday the 13th. That’s actually a lucky thing for classical music fans. Choices are good. Oberlin Opera Theater will present four performances of English composer Benjamin Britten’s 1946 opera The Rape of Lucretia this week…
Adega’s Eddie Tancredi to Compete for Global Chef Title in 2016
Cleveland foodies: listen up. Eddie Tancredi, executive chef at Adega, is competing in the 2016 WorldChefs Global Chefs Challenge in Greece. Picture the culinary version of the Olympics, with Cleveland’s own Tancredi as the only chef representing the red, white, and blue. If you haven’t been to Adega, the feature restaurant at The 9, it’s definitely a once-a-year,…
Cleveland Spent $1.8 Million in Police Overtime Before and During Brelo Acquittal
Leila Atassi, reporting for Cleveland.com, writes that city administrators now refer to the period leading up to Michael Brelo’s acquittal as “the decision.” As it relates to police and city leadership, that decision appears to have connoted “deploying police resources” as needed, without regard for the budget. In so doing, Cleveland police spent $1.8 million…
An Unfortunate Jumbled Mess in ‘Force Continuum’ at Karamu House
The relationship between any African-American community and the police is certainly a fraught one these days. So this 15-year old play about a family of black police officers certainly has a target-rich environment in which to address its themes. Unfortunately, playwright Kia Corthron throws out a jumble of scenes involving lots of characters played by…
MOCA Cleveland Hosts Discussion on 1970 Bombing of The Thinker at Cleveland Museum of Art This Thursday
Did you know that the Cleveland Museum of Art has an authentic version of Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker on its grounds? Did you know it was bombed as an act of political activism against the Vietnam War in 1970? The very thought of it is chilling, especially as we see radical religious groups destroying priceless…
Local Indie Rockers These Knees Take a Big Step Forward with New EP
For more than a decade, singer Stephanie Trivison has been a familiar presence on the Cleveland music scene. With the release of Night Fires, the sophomore release from her band, These Knees, she’s finally starting to see years of hard work pay off. Its new EP represents the strongest batch of material that the group…
Ray Farmer’s Press Conference, Bernie Kosar, and the Protest in Missouri — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
The Cleveland Browns are streaking the wrong direction after another loss, this time to the Cincinnati Bengals. Andre Knott and Zac Jackson discuss that, plus Bernie Kosar and his desire to fix the Browns, and also the player strike at Missouri. Subscribe to A to Z on iTunes here. For Android users, here’s the RSS…
Bloom Bakery to Provide Training, Jobs for Those Facing Barriers to Employment
In baking, the golden brown crust on a well-baked loaf of bread is known as the “bloom.” Come late winter, Bloom will also be known as the place to go for premium breads, pastries and meals in two Cleveland locations all the while educating, training, employing and creating opportunities for meaningful self-sufficiency for people with…
Updated: Rapper Machine Gun Kelly Adds Second House of Blues Concert
Update: Because his Dec. 20 House of Blues show sold out so quickly, rapper Machine Gun Kelly has added an additional show and will also perform at the club on Dec. 21. Those tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday. Original Post 11/5/2015: Better known as Machine Gun Kelly, Cleveland-based rapper Richard Colson…
Blind Boys of Alabama Founder Discusses the Grammy-Winning Gospel Group’s Remarkable Legacy
The members of Blind Boys of Alabama, a terrific gospel group that first formed back in the 1940s, initially met at a school for the blind in a little town in Alabama called Talladega. They started singing together and quickly formed a group that specialized in both “jubilee” and “soul” gospel. “When we hit the…
Cavs Discover Love is All You Need to Beat the Pacers
If you haven’t read the reports, Kevin Love credited his Sunday’s second half breakout of the Cavaliers 101-97 victory over the Pacers to a talk with LeBron James. That conversation’s been spun in a variety of ways from scolding to pep talk, but the important thing, as more than one scribe’s pointed out, is that…
Rice Family Pushes for Prosecutor Timothy McGinty to Recuse Himself From Case
Faced with a steady increase in odd behavior from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, the Rice family and their attorneys are calling for him to recuse himself from the case involving Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann. Among the family’s most vocalized points is that McGinty has not yet publicly grasped how the release of two…
Vault to Debut New ‘Gastro Lounge’ Menu this Winter
Vault, the exclusive nightclub with bottle service and a dress code, will add a lounge-exclusive menu beginning in December, according to Meg Duniec, vice president of marketing for Geis Hospitality Group. Since opening at The 9 in 2014, Vault has been more focused on the liquid side of the business than the solid. Up to…
Five Northeast Ohio High School Students Present to Shark Tank’s Daymond John
Hanging at #TeenTechTank! with my kid #SharkTank entrepreneurs. @MosBowsMemphis & @LoveBeeSweet pic.twitter.com/B82JoWrd4d — Daymond John (@TheSharkDaymond) November 7, 2015 Sometimes we fret about the the whole “children are our future” thing, but leave it to young entrepreneurs and Daymond John from ABC’s Shark Tank to give us some hope. Saturday, five Northeast Ohio high school students pitched their…
RTA is Working On It!!!
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority boss Joe Calabrese, in a statement Friday, fought back against “certain circles” who have been predicting, in apocalyptic terms, the demise of the Rapid’s Blue and Green Lines. “Many of the same individuals who are continually asking RTA to expand the rail are now sounding the alarm about RTA’s ability…
This One Photo Perfectly Sums Up Road Construction in Cleveland
Presented here mostly without comment, here’s a pic we pulled from reddit this morning (thanks, Ampersandcastles_) depicting life amid Forest City road construction. We say, touché sir, touché.
Supreme Court Case Considers ‘Batson’ Challenge Process in Jury Selection, Which Was Used in Recent Cleveland Case
During the civil trial that eventually landed the estate of Kenny Smith a $5.5-million award from the city of Cleveland for its role in Smith’s wrongful death, the city’s legal representation tried to remove two black jurors from the panel. (Smith was a 20-year-old black man.) That’s not unusual in itself, but the sidebar debate…
Is the Cavs’ Big Three Built to Last?
We dispatched with the Sixers write-up in favor of writing a Sunday column on the team in general. We wonder mostly about the two cornerstones Kevin Love and LeBron James. One will presumably take a lot heavier load in the future, but sure doesn’t feel ready for the yoke yet. (Don’t worry, there are another…
Laugh Out Loud Film Festival Coming to the Capitol
Straight outta Muskegon, Mich., the fourth annual Laugh Out Loud Short Film Fest (LOLSFF) puts a twist on the traditional film festival. The fest, which comes to the Capitol Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, allows patrons to function as film critics. “At the end of the film, information appears on-screen telling movie-goers…
Five Cleveland Nacho Plates You Should Be Eating on National Nacho Day
National Nacho Day is a holiday we try to celebrate year round but, indeed, today is actually the real deal holiday if you believe in food holidays. Naturally, that begs the question, where to go? And, more importantly, what to order? Lucky for you, the Scene staff has culled some of our favorite nacho joints for…
Details Emerge on Red-Based Restaurant to Open on Prospect Avenue
Since it was announced that Red Restaurant Group took possession of the Gateway District building at 811 Prospect Avenue, rumors swirled as to what restaurant – or type of restaurant – would ultimately prevail following the planning phase of the process. After all, the restaurant group has in its portfolio Moxie, the Restaurant and three…
Davina and the Vagabonds Capably Draw from Dixieland Jazz
Given that she’s often lived a transient lifestyle over the years, singer-songwriter Davina Sowers says she thought it would be appropriate to name her backing band the Vagabonds. “I was myself pretty much a vagabond,” she says via phone from her Minneapolis home. “I hitchhiked and traveled the U.S. I had lived in Key West…
8 Concerts to Catch This Weekend
FRIDAY, NOV. 6 Sun Ra Arkestra It’s been more than 20 years since jazz pioneer Sun Ra departed this plane, but his Arkestra plays on. True to form, the ensemble remains a fluid project as lineup changes are the group’s only constant. The as-yet-uninitiated should pick up this year’s Live at Babylon, a sterling collection…
Popular Food Truck Boca Loca Burrito Factory Finds Permanent Home in Berea
For about two years diners have waited in line at the Boca Loca food truck for delicious burritos served up with a side of sass from owner Heather Doeberling. Now folks can cop a squat at her brand new 30-seat restaurant, located just steps from the campus of Baldwin Wallace University in Berea (1 Berea…
Chefs Jill Vedaa and Jack Moore Join Black Pig Team, Menu to Get Ambitious Upgrade
If proof is needed that the best restaurants are those that never stop evolving, The Black Pig (blackpigcle.com) is steadfast evidence. After moving last year from his original home along the bustling main drag of Ohio City to the nearby corner of Bridge and W. 28th, chef and owner Michael Nowak redesigned the menu to…
Canadian Rock Act July Talk Makes the Most of a Contrast in Vocal Styles
The members of the Canadian indie rock act July Talk felt the recent political election was so important, they promised to call and thank any young adult who voted. Turns out, they’ve had to make quite a few calls in the election’s wake. “It’s been pretty fun,” says singer Peter Dreimanis via conference call with…
Singer-Songwriter Vanessa Carlton Explores New Musical Territory on Latest Album
When singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton entered the pop/rock world in 2002, superficial female pop singers dominated the airwaves. That year, Forbes magazine called singer Britney Spears the world’s most powerful celebrity. In that context, Carlton’s single “A Thousand Miles” came across as something more substantial. With its lilting vocals and spirited string arrangement, the tune had…
Tremont Teen Learned He Was Kidnapped 13 Years Ago When Applying For Colleges
A Cleveland teen learned he had been abducted by his father in Alabama in 2002 when he applied to colleges and had trouble verifying his social security number. Julian Hernandez, now 18, with the aid of a high school counselor, located his name on a database with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.…
Update: Ohio Homecoming Group Reveals Plans for Cleveland’s New Year’s Eve Festivities, Ruby Rose to Headline
Update: The Ohio Homecoming Group gathered yesterday to announce its plans for the 2015-2016 New Year’s Eve celebration which, among other things, include moving the festivities indoors. The event will be held at Cleveland Public Auditorium on Dec. 31 and will be hosted by Forest City native and funnyman Drew Carey. “After participating in Cleveland Rocks NYE…
Cleveland Foundation’s Globe-Crossing ‘Creative Fusion’ Artists Debut Exhibitions This Weekend
As the Cleveland Foundation’s Fall 2015 Creative Fusion residencies conclude at the end of this month, artists from around the world and their host organizations are presenting exhibitions in celebration of the work created during their residencies. This Friday, Zygote Press, Cleveland Print Room and Waterloo Arts all host receptions for their Creative Fusion artists.…
Review: Organist Todd Wilson and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at Severance Hall
By Timothy Robson In the early decades of the 20th century there were as many as 7,000 organs installed in movie theaters in the United States for the purposes of entertaining audiences before and between shows and, especially, for accompanying silent films. The theaters have, alas, mostly vanished, the organs either destroyed or re-installed elsewhere,…
Review: The Affecting Saga of “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book”
By Daniel Hathaway The plangent sounds of Merima Ključo’s accordion, combined with an arsenal of musical effects from pianist Seth Knopp and evocative video art by Bart Woodstrup, told the affecting saga of a medieval Jewish prayer book last Wednesday evening in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The 50-minute multimedia work entitled…
The New Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Includes Cleveland’s Own Welshly Arms on the Soundtrack
The trailer looks badass and that made our day but so did the inclusion of Forest City’s own Welshly Arms and their cover of “Hold On I’m Coming.” (Hat tip Reddit)
Emo Act Never Shout Never to Play House of Blues
Alternative pop band Never Shout Never (aka Christofer Drew) has released more than 100 songs in the relatively short time that it’s been a band. The group has just announced that it will hit the road in early 2016 for a coast-to-coast headlining U.S. tour in support of their latest album, Black Cat, which was…
New Sounds of Silent Series Returns to the Nightlight Cinema
Last year, more than 20 area musicians teamed up to write, perform and record segments of a new soundtrack for an old silent film showing at the Nightlite Cinema in Akron. Dubbed Sounds of Madness, this year’s incarnation of the event comes to the theater for two shows at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. on…
Bizdom, the Startup Accelerator Founded by Dan Gilbert, Is Effectively Shutting Down
In an email today to Bizdom founders, Bizdom executive director Ross Sanders announced that “Bizdom will move away from an accelerator model and begin serving as a platform for connecting entrepreneurs to resources within the Rock Ventures Family of Companies, as well as non-profit partners supported by the Family.” The startup accelerator founded by Dan…
City Bike Share Vendor Selected, Downtown Program To Launch In Time for RNC
Cuyahoga County, in partnership with Bike Cleveland, has selected a vendor for its citywide bike share program, they announced Wednesday. CycleHop, the operator, and Social Bicycles (SoBi), the technology partner, will roll out their program in downtown Cleveland in time for the Republican National Convention. That’s the plan anyway. “Bringing large scale bike share to…
Spectre is Elegiac Sendoff to Daniel Craig, Who Reinvented James Bond
Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig, Daniel Craig, man. It’s very difficult after watching Spectre, the fourth (and, by recent indications, final) film in the Craig era, not to consider the electric-blue-eyed heartthrob the greatest Bond of all time. And not just because the movies themselves – the scripts, the visual effects, the women – are on…
Prosperity Social Club to Host Prohibition Repeal Party
On Dec. 5, 1933, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously proclaimed, “What the world needs now is a drink.” To mark the occasion, Prosperity Social Club will toast the end of that “noble experiment” with a Prohibition Repeal Party that takes place from 8 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5. “We’ve made some very specific…
In Win Over Knicks, Cavs Continue Rounding Into Form
This string of games against the league’s lowest rungs is providing the Cavaliers with a second preseason. It’s not so much that the games are meaningless – they damn sure aren’t — but in that this still bedraggled and beaten-up squad has time to round into shape against their more inept neighbors. That’s what they…
Jimmy Dimora in a Bathing Suit in Vegas? Jimmy Dimora in a Bathing Suit in Vegas
As you’ve surely heard by now, the exhibits used in the prosecution of Jimmy Dimora were made public today. It’s taken a few years to wrestle them from the government’s grasp — credit the Plain Dealer and Channel 19 for fighting to have them released — but they’re here now, handed out on two discs…
Risk! Live Coming to Cleveland Public Library
If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, chances are good that you’ll like Risk!, Kevin Allison’s award-winning storytelling show and podcast that regularly sells out its monthly residencies in New York and Los Angeles. Allison will host a live show at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21, in the Louis Stokes…
Preview: CIM Opera’s “The Marriage of Figaro”
By Mike Telin The celebrated collaboration between Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte yielded three of the most popular operas in the repertoire. This week, CIM Opera Theater will present The Marriage of Figaro, the first of those operas, beginning on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 in the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Kulas Hall. Performances…
A Chat With In2ative — Flutist Kimberly Zaleski and Cellist Trevor Kazarian — Appearing at the LCCC Signature Series
By Mike Telin The story of how flutist Kimberly Zaleski and cellist Trevor Kazarian came to form the duo In2ative is fit for the big screen. After graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Music they both worked in restaurants, until one day they found themselves out of work. It was at that moment that they…
“Color & Form” Exhibition Showcases the Work of Barbara and Julian Stanczak at Bonfoey Gallery
Cleveland-based husband and wife artists Barbara and Julian Stanczak have influenced multiple generations of young, aspiring artists in their roles as professional artists and longtime faculty at Cleveland Institute of Art, but their influence extends far beyond Northeast Ohio. Their paths to this moment have been as interesting as the work on display at Bonfoey…
Paul Brown Documentary Premieres on NFL Network Friday Night
The legendary and incomparable Paul Brown will finally get his due, or at least part of it, when the NFL Network debuts Paul Brown: A Football Life tomorrow evening. The one-hour documentary on the namesake of the Cleveland Browns should have been done a long time ago, as Tony Grossi and others have noted repeatedly.…
New Restaurant Alert: Yard House Is Opening in Westlake
Clevelanders know it’s all about great music, good food, and gracious amounts of beer. On November 14, a restaurant combining all three debuts at Crocker Park. Yard House has been around since ’96, with its main hook being that each of its restaurants has a custom playlist of 5,000 songs, most importantly including classic rock. Yard…
Election Outcomes Don’t Change Direction of Lakewood Hospital Issue; Mayor Looks Ahead
As one ardent supporter of Lakewood Hospital described the matter this summer, there was a political path toward saving the institution and a legal path. The former took place last night during an election that set the status quo in stone for a few more years and decidedly did nothing to “save” the hospital as…
The Dayton Daily News Had the Best Pot-Inspired Front Page Today
Issue 3 went down and it went down hard. Legal pot will live to fight another day in Ohio and hopefully a better tailored option will land before the voters soon. In the meantime, in the wake of last night’s decision, the Dayton Daily News led the pack this morning with its front page pun…
Schedule and Line-up Announced for This Year’s Kent Reggae Jam
Some 15 different venues in downtown Kent will participate in the annual Kent Reggae Jam that takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 13. The festival promises to offer bands from a variety of different musical genres. Acts such as Carlos Jones, Dreadlock Dave and his jam band Waterband, the Jimmy…
Brooklyn Police Draw Guns on Wrong Vehicle, Handcuff Innocent County Worker
Tuesday night, officers with the Brooklyn Police Department approached a white Ford Fusion with guns drawn. They believed that the vehicle had been stolen. It had not been. Brooklyn police chief Scott Mielke said it appeared Cleveland PD entered the wrong vehicle as stolen. In truth, the plates belonged to a Ford Econoline van. Nonetheless,…
New Twice-Weekly Pop-Ups at Spotted Owl Will Introduce Diners to Filipino Food
Apart from a small carry-out spot in Parma, the volume of Filipino offerings in Northeast Ohio is meager to nonexistent. Already, though, Tom Madrilejos has been working to remedy that shortcoming. For more than a year the home-schooled cook has been fine-tuning his repertoire of Filipino dishes, and if his recent debut at this summer’s…
Affordable Art and a Worthy Cause at the ‘100 Show,’ Which Helps Send CIA Students to New York
Cleveland Heights’ Art Spot hosts the 100 Show, an annual, one-night-only, cash-and-carry art sale to help subsidize Cleveland Institute of Art’s (CIA) annual student trip to New York City. For more than a decade, the trip has become a tradition. The 100 Show is a fantastic opportunity to support these aspiring young artists and score…
City Council in Nashville, Zone Will Become First VP of National Cities Organization
Councilman Matt Zone, Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland and Councilman Tony Brancatelli are in Nashvillle for the next four days at the National League of Cities’ annual conference. Zone is the national organization’s Second Vice President and is running unopposed for the position of First Vice President. He should be officially elected Saturday. Both Cleveland and Brancatelli…
The Scene Podcast With Special Guest James Alex Snyder from Beach Slang
Beach Slang have a new album called The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us, and we were able to catch up with James Alex Snyder from the band to discuss it. We talked about what it’s like to write deeply personal songs and still have fun engaging live shows. We discussed…
Spitfire Saloon to Shutter in January, New Concept to Open in February
The space housing Cleveland’s Spitfire Saloon at 1539 W. 117th Street will be going through some major changes in the next few months. Spitfire owner Stosh Burgess announced yesterday on the company’s Facebook page that after nearly a decade of service, the punk rock dive bar will shutter permanently on January 16. That’s not to say there…
SPACES’ Annual Benefit Tees Up a Grand Party and a Worthy Cause
SPACES’ annual benefit has become a tradition for the local art community. Each year, on the Saturday following Halloween, the organization hosts a costume party and silent art auction to raise funds for its operating expenses. The timing of the event is designed to offer guests one last chance to dress up before the Halloween…
Band of the Week: Crystal Bowersox
Meet the Band: Crystal Bowersox (vocals, guitar) An Early Bloomer: Born in Elliston, Crystal started performing at age 10. She played at bars in the Toledo area, busked at train stations and hit the open mic circuit. “I only knew about 10 songs at the time,” she says. “I repeated those 10 songs over and…
Rock Star Streep Influenced Suffragette In More Ways Than One
Digging into the press notes for Suffragette feels a lot like cozying up to a graduate dissertation. The film, which opens Friday at the Cedar Lee, Valley View and Crocker Park, tells the story of a group of women battling for suffrage in Great Britain during the early 20th century. And director Sarah Gavron and…
Spotlight:Spotlight: ‘I Smile Back’ and ‘Miss You Already’
Critics often complain that Hollywood doesn’t offer many good roles for women. The producers behind I Miss You Already and I Smile Back, two new dramas opening on Friday, would beg to differ. While the subject matter of each movie differs, both center on women and feature terrific performances by Toni Collette and Sarah Silverman, their…
The Call at Dobama Theatre Pivots Away From the Subject Matter Bull’s-Eye
Sometimes, a detail in a scenic design reveals more about a play than is intended. In one of the early scenes in The Call by Tanya Barfield, Anne and Peter are painting the bedroom of a child they plan to adopt. While a couple of the large wall panels are painted white, three of the…
The Ups and Downs of Expanding or Standing Pat in the Cleveland Restaurant Scene
Nine years ago, Matt Fish unveiled Melt Bar & Grilled in a tatty Lakewood bar that barely accommodated 50 guests — and that’s counting the folks sandwiched in at the bar. Jump to today and that number lands somewhere around 800 when you tally up all the seats found throughout Melt’s six locations spread across…
How and Why the Destitute Dead of Northeast Ohio Are Remembered
With each name, a bell tolls in memoriam. The low hum of suburban traffic provides a droning bass line as a group of 50 or so takes a Saturday morning in October to remember the dead. The Rev. Raymond Guiao is presiding over a prayer service, a semiannual gathering of the Saint Joseph of Arimathea…
