Corbo’s Bakery Now Open in Playhouse Square
Update: Good, nay, great news — Corbo’s opened its doors in the theater district last Friday. Find them at 1603 Euclid Ave. *** (Original story 10/16/17): Corbo’s Bakery is soon coming to Cleveland’s downtown theater district, making Northeast Ohioans’ musical-going experience that much sweeter. Leasing a spot at the Keith building, right by the Connor…
Update: Black Keys Singer-Guitarist Dan Auerbach to Play the Agora in March
Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach has just announced dates for his Easy Eye Sound Revue Tour featuring Robert Finley and Shannon Shaw with special guests Shannon & the Clams. The extensive North American tour will kick off on Feb. 10 in Vancouver. The jaunt includes a March 31 date at the Agora. Tickets go on…
Case Professor Lucy Biederman Explores Corporate Mythos in ‘The Walmart Book of the Dead’
However you slice it, we all have some sort of connection to Walmart. The corporate retail behemoth is a lot like death itself: It looms as an inevitability. Had the ancient Egyptians been so lucky, they might have written the Book of the Dead a little differently. Thankfully, Case Western Reserve University English professor Lucy Biederman…
Galley Group to Bring Innovative Food Hall Accelerator Concept to Ohio City
At first glance, Smallman Galley, which opened in Pittsburgh’s Strip District in 2015, is a public food hall populated by various and unique restaurant concepts. But this is not your average food hall, which typically features satellite outposts of already thriving, popular brands. Just four operators were selected for an 18-month residency designed to give…
Comedian Brian Regan Coming to the Akron Civic Theatre in January
Brian Regan originally set out to become an accountant. But when that didn’t work out, he shifted into comedy. Turns out, he made the right call. Years later, comedians around the country hail his impeccable delivery and ability to inflect just enough physicality into his routines. Regan, who refrains from using profanity, relies on observational…
CSU President Sorry He Wasn’t More Sorry In First Statement on Anti-LGBT Fliers on Campus
Yesterday brought the debut of a new LGBT center on Cleveland State University’s campus. It also brought an assortment of hateful anti-LGBT fliers to the school. CSU President Ron Berkman issued a statement on the incident last night. As many students, and some of the general public, noticed, Berkman spent about as much time extolling…
The Bad Boys of Blues Will Bring Wednesday Jam Night to Smedley’s
After a brief summertime stint at Happy Dog, the Bad Boys of Blues will take their venerable Wednesday jam night to Smedley’s in West Park next month. The music starts on Nov. 1. If you’ve never been, you should amend that immediately. The Bad Boys of Blues play a set for the first hour, and they…
Tina Fey Co-Producing New Film About Kent State Shootings
The tragic Kent State University shooting of 1970 will once again get the Hollywood treatment with a new film 67 shots, co-produced by Tina Fey. Jeff Richmond, Fey’s husband who attended Kent State, is also producing. And Jay Roach, a producer on Fey’s Sisters, was nabbed to helm the project. Based on the non-fiction Howard…
Columbus Crew Owner Threatens Move to Austin Unless He Gets State-of-the-Art Stadium
Sports Illustrated and others have reported that the MLS’s Columbus Crew may move to Austin if the Ohio capital does not agree to build a state-of-the-art soccer stadium downtown. Owner Anthony Precourt told ESPN that the Crew would need “a dramatic change” in attendance numbers to keep the team in Columbus, but that dramatic change…
The Cavs and the NBA Are Back — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
Andre and Zac on the return of The King, Kyrie’s homecoming game, the inevitability of Cavs-Warriors IV and a little on the hopeless Browns.
Anti-LGBT Fliers Posted at CSU on Same Day School Opened LGBT Center
Despicable fliers encouraging members of the LGBT community to commit suicide were posted around Cleveland State University’s main classroom building yesterday, the same day that the school opened an LGBT center. “Follow your fellow faggots,” the flier read. As Eris Eady of the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland told NewsNet5, not only are the statistics…
Weird Al to Bring His Ill-Advised Vanity Tour to the Ohio Theatre in March
A Weird Al Yankovic concert is more than just a concert. It’s an experience as Yankovic does a bit of everything. He changes into a countless number of different outfits and shows funny, home-made videos in which he takes clips of celebrity interviews and inserts his own colorful commentary, drawing from stand-up comedy and theater…
Nike Launching Pop-Up LeBron Store on East Ninth Starting Today
Nike is opening a pop-up store at the corner of East Ninth and Euclid, next to Cleveland Pickle, to launch the LeBron 15 starting tonight at 6 p.m. It’ll operate through Sunday, Oct. 22. Per the press release: “To celebrate the tip-off of the NBA season, Nike and LeBron James have created a limited-time retail…
Euclid Will Pay $675,000 in Legal Settlement Over 2013 High-Speed Chase that Ended in Crash
[image-1]The city of Euclid will pay $675,000 to Wickliffe resident Regina Hardesty in a legal settlement relating to a 2013 high-speed police chase that ended in a crash. Hardesty was seriously injured during the incident. (She was not the person being chased by the police officer.) Euclid officer Jose Alcantara initiated a traffic stop in…
New Electronic Dance Music Label to Host a Showcase at the Phantasy
Over the past twentysomething years, Ohio natives Charles Noel and Todd Sines, musicians who first met a Revolting Cocks show in Cleveland in 1990, have recorded for electronic music labels like Ghostly International, Planet E and Peacefrog. They recently launched their own imprint, HELIC.AL, to issue the debut album from Interval, a band that features…
Subodh Chandra, Samaria Rice Bash Zack Reed for CPPA Endorsement, Tear Loomis a New One
Cleveland attorney Subodh Chandra and Samaria Rice have called upon mayoral candidate Zack Reed to “disavow, repudiate and reject” the endorsement of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, the police union for rank-and-file officers. That organization endorsed Reed last week, but Chandra and Rice said that under the leadership of Steve Loomis, the CPPA has become…
Is It Cute or Annoying That LeBron is Super Cheap?
[image-1] Scene might have been among the first outlets in America to let the general LeBron-curious public know the King is, for lack of a better word, cheap. Back in 2008, we reported that after James had dined at XO in the Warehouse District, one of his favored haunts in his then young career, he…
An Indians Autopsy and Browns QBs — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
(Note: recorded prior to yesterday’s Browns games.) Andre and Zac discuss the end of the Indians’ season, the trophy or Jordan Face culture, the new Browns’ QB and Andre’s suddenly open social schedule.
The Cleveland Reggae/Hip-Hop/Funk Act Tropidelic Makes Forthcoming Album Available for Preorder
The local reggae/hip-hop/funk act Tropidelic formed in 2008 in Kent and built a following after self-distributing over 10,000 free copies of its self-produced first EP, Rebirth of the Dope. After releasing its second EP, Tree City Exodus, and relocating to Cleveland, the group has gained some traction and opened for acts like Slightly Stoopid, 311,…
Melt Bar & Grilled Will Open Canton Location on Monday, Nov. 6
On Monday, November 6, Melt Bar & Grilled will open its 11th location, this one in Jackson Township at the Belden Village Mall (4199 Belden Village Mall Circle, Canton, 330-494-4604). The Cleveland-based restaurant group, beloved for its riffs on grilled cheese sandwiches, opened its first shop in Lakewood in 2006. They have since expanded to…
Paramore Taps Into Its Punk Rock Past for Spirited Show at Akron Civic Theatre
Even though she’s only 28 years old, singer Hayley Williams has logged some serious hours touring and recording with Paramore, the alternative rock band she fronts. That’s because Williams formed the band when she was still a teenager. She wasn’t even 21 when the group came through town in the mid-‘00s to play a heavily…
Graffiti Social Kitchen in the Battery Park Neighborhood is Closed
Following yesterday’s Sunday brunch service, Graffiti Social Kitchen (1261 W. 76th St.) closed its doors. The restaurant, operated by Brian Okin and Adam Bostwick, took over the former Reddstone space in Detroit Shoreway just under three years ago. The reasons behind the closure are two-fold, the owner says. “Winter is a slow season over there,…
Euclid Police Officer Seen in Violent Arrest Video Has Been Fired
The Euclid Police Department has fired officer Michael Amiott, who was seen violently beating Richard Hubbard III during a traffic stop earlier this year. Mayor Kirsten Gail said the move is a response to multiple complaints about Amiott’s behavior on the force. In August, video of Hubbard’s arrest raised serious questions about Amiott and the department…
Cleveland Police Now Have Dirt Bikes of Their Own
Just weeks after the city backed off its plan to construct a dirt bike track at Marion Park, we turn now to law enforcement, which has been working in its own way to crack down on illegal dirt bike riders. The long-running problem is that officers in patrol cars cannot pursue riders on bikes or…
BioEnterprise Reaches Agreement to Take Over Global Center for Health and Innovation
[image-1] As Scene reported two weeks ago, there’s another pivot coming for the floundering Global Center for Health and Innovation. BioEnterprise, a non-profit business incubator and accelerator headquartered in University Circle, will take over strategy, marketing, programming and tenant engagement activities at the county-funded building. The Cuyahoga County Facilities Development Corporation, a non-profit created by…
Rapper Cousin Stizz Shows Off His Lyrical Dexterity at Grog Shop Show
For his first visit to Cleveland, rapper Cousin Stizz wore a dark shirt, a Red Sox hat and gold fronts in his teeth. He took them out to sip from a clear plastic cup of cognac that sat on the DJ booth of the Grog Shop stage, microphone gripped in his palm as the molded…
A Defiant Kesha Promotes Equality at Sold Out Lakewood Civic Auditorium Concert
They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s certainly true for Kesha, who has a chart-topping album and sold out tour to prove it. The pop singer played a rousing 90-minute sold out show last night at Lakewood Civic Auditorium. Three years ago, Kesha sued her former producer for sexual assault that had…
Liverpool-Based Beatles Tribute Act and John Lennon’s Sister Coming to the Kent Stage
Billed as the world’s only all-Liverpool born Beatles tribute band and the former decade-long resident tribute band at the Cavern Club, the Liverpool nightclub where the Beatles perfected their act in the ’60s, the Mersey Beatles bring their tribute to the Fab Four to the Kent Stage on Saturday, Oct. 21. Julia Baird, John Lennon’s…
What You Need to Know About Cleveland Beer Week 2017
If you’re anything like us, every week in Cleveland could technically be considered a beer week of sorts. What makes this week different is the official events. Yes, the annual Cleveland Beer Week is back in full swing staring today through Sun, Oct. 22 (which is longer than seven days, but that’s OK). While there…
“It Kind of Makes Us Look Like We’re a Bunch of Racists;” A Local American Legion Stops Showing NFL Games, But Not Everyone’s On Board
American Legion Post 118 in Amherst recently joined a smattering of veterans’ organizations and VFWs in announcing they won’t be showing NFL games as a boycott against players who have engaged in various forms of protest during the national anthem to bring attention to social and criminal injustice against minorities. Polls show favorability toward the…
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Recorded an Incredibly Eerie Rendition of the ‘Halloween’ Theme
This is awesome and spooky and perfectly timed to freak you out for the rest of the month. “[My friends and I] left the theater forever changed,” Trent Reznor said in a statement. “We were damaged and scarred, with the shit genuinely scared out of us and that theme stuck firmly in our heads. John…
A Sheriff’s Deputy in Sandusky Used a Racial Slur and Vomited on a Table During Dinner. He Has Resigned
[image-1]Deputy Justin Smith of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office resigned this week, amid a handful of internal charges. Department records (first reported on by Fox 8) describe Smith acting inappropriately during a dinner with other officers in Columbus. “At one point, he allegedly used a racial slur when talking about local attorney Geoffrey Oglesby,” according…
Plain Dealer Published Big Gun Advertisement After Las Vegas Massacre Because They’re “All About Free Speech”
“Why would a paper that editorializes for sensible gun control publish a big advertisement for guns?” asked Ohio’s largest newspaper in a Facebook post Thursday. Answer: “Because we’re all about free speech – in news stories, in opinion pieces, and in advertisements… We try extremely hard not to stifle speech, even if it disagrees with…
The Amplify Peace Tour: Saving Syrian Lives Coming to the Beachland Ballroom
Bassel Almadani, the singer who fronts the Chicago-based soul/funk group Bassel and the Supernaturals, has deep ties to Northeast Ohio. Born and raised in Kent, he blossomed as a songwriter here, where he regularly attended shows. After moving to Chicago a few years ago, he started listening to the music of Otis Redding, Al Green,…
Ohio’s Top Halloween Candy Choice Really Blows
When it comes to selecting Halloween candy (either to give to trick-or-treaters, or for in-home use), Ohio’s preferred choice is apparently Blow Pops. This news comes according to Candy Store, a bulk candy supplier which recently crunched 10 years (2007-2016) worth of their own Halloween candy sales numbers finding the Top 3 sweets choices for…
Local Rockers Personsplacesthings To Play EP Release Party at the Warehouse
Two years ago, Nick Fondale and Chris DiCola, former members of the local ska/punk band the Glow Pop, started the garage blues band personsplacesthings. They put out two EPs and then recruited Jake Grahn, formerly of the Kent-based band Sumpin’ Sweet, to join the band and play on their forthcoming EP, Demonstration. The track “I Want Love…
Cavs Among Pro Sports Teams That Have Stopped Staying in Trump Hotels
The Washington Post, in pursuit of delineating how Donald Trump’s presidency has had varying effects on Trump properties, and in the aftermath of Trump’s attacks on pro athletes, asked teams that had used Trump hotels in the past if they still use them now. The answer: not many. In fact, maybe just one of the…
Director Adam Green to Appear at the Capitol Theatre’s Screening of His New Horror Flick ‘Victor Crowley’
Writer-director Adam Green says that after Hatchet III came out in 2013, he was “done” with his Hatchet horror trilogy and had no intention of revisiting the series. In fact, he’d even become “disenchanted” with filmmaking. “If you were to ask [filmmakers] George Romero or Wes Craven, they all created these things that became very…
Tribe Fan Starts GoFundMe to Remove “Racist and Obscene” Wahoo Tattoo
The Indians lost to the Yankees last night, and now a Pennsylvania man is trying to raise $1,000 to remove a Chief Wahoo tattoo from his calf. In a GoFundMe message published yesterday, David Allen said he got the tattoo when he was 18 years old, during the height of the Cleveland Indians hysteria in…
Ohio House Approves Bill to Legalize Fireworks
Fireworks occupy a divisive point of discussion in Ohio each summer: You can purchase them here, but you must transport them out of the state within 48 hours. The only items that are allowed to be used in Ohio are “trick and novelty” doodads, like sparklers and bang snaps. Of course, as many next-door neighbors can…
Police Union Endorses Zack Reed, But More Officers Won’t Solve Cleveland’s Crime Problems
[image-1]Yesterday, the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, the union representing rank-and-file officers, endorsed City Councilman Zack Reed in the upcoming mayoral election. “Councilman Reed has been consistent in his concern for rising violent crime rates and the need to improve police staffing levels in Cleveland,” wrote Union President Steve Loomis, in a statement, “while the current…
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz Talks About the Band’s Forthcoming Studio Album
Save Rock and Roll, the 2013 album that emo rockers Fall Out Boy recorded with producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, P!nk), represented a remarkable comeback for the Chicago-based band. The group had been on hiatus prior to its release; members reconvened in secret with Walker to lay down the tracks at his Santa Monica studio.…
RTA Driver Who Hit Pedestrian on Public Square Pleads Guilty
Former RTA driver Antoinette Peterkin pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, a first degree misdemeanor, in court last week. Peterkin had been charged with both aggravated vehicular homicide and vehicular homicide in April. She was behind the wheel of an RTA bus when she struck 69-year-old Joan Kuendig, who was crossing Rockwell Avenue on the northeast corner…
6 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, OCT. 13 Kesha/Savoy Motel “Bastards,” the acoustic country-ish tune that opens Rainbows, the latest offering from pop singer-songwriter Kesha, shows the extent to which she’s embraced a different approach. Known for clubby tunes such as “TiK ToK” and “We R Who We R,” Kesha puts the emphasis on the songwriting. Poppy tunes such as…
The New ‘My Friend Dahmer’ Trailer is Here to Creep You Out
The official My Friend Dahmer trailer is here, and its full two minutes and 23 seconds will certainly give you the creeps, if not chills. The feature-length picture, filmed in Northeast Ohio and based on Derf’s graphic novel of the same name about Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood, was a buzzy hit at the Tribeca film festival earlier this…
The Flamin’ Groovies to Play Beachland in Support of First New Album in 14 Years
In 2013, Flamin’ Groovies guitarist Cyril Jordan and charismatic lead singer Chris Wilson reunited after three decades to play sold out tours in Japan and Australia. They came through Cleveland that year too. After getting their musical sea legs back, the guys have now released Fantastic Plastic, their first studio release in more than a…
Gun Sale Touted in Prominent Plain Dealer Cover Ad
Less than two weeks removed from a Las Vegas mass shooting that left more than 50 dead and 500 wounded — the deadliest in modern U.S. history, we’re told — the Cleveland Plain Dealer featured a prominent cover advertisement promoting a “Ruger Days” sale at the Middleburg Heights location of Fin Feather Fur. Three handguns,…
Indians. Yankees. Game 5 — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
Andre has some strong language. Zac has some football stories. The new A to Z gets you ready for a big one Wednesday night.
Early Voting in Ohio Begins Today
[image-1] The headliner for the November 7th election, at least for those in the city of Cleveland, is Frank Jackson vs. Zack Reed, but there are more than 60 issues and races across Cuyahoga County that voters will decide in the coming month. That process begins today as early voting and mail-in voting opened. Registered…
A Master Class in Acting in ‘Waiting for Godot’ at the Beck Center Is the Perfect Distraction From Real Life
If life is absurd and time has no meaning, then you have no excuse not to see Waiting for Godot at the Beck Center. Because during this brief interlude in your pointless life, the fine actors in this production will, for a fleeting couple of hours, show you what kickass acting is all about. Indeed,…
In Advance of Her Music Box Concert, Singer-Songwriter Suzanne Santo Reflects on ‘Recalibrating’ Her Life
After moving from Los Angeles to Nashville and living in the Music City for several years, singer-songwriter Suzanne Santo, a Northeast Ohio native who plays in the twangy alt-country duo HoneyHoney, moved back to Los Angeles. She loosely documents the life changes she’s recently experienced on her solo debut, Ruby Red. “I’ve been back in…
There are Some Loose Ends to ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Blank Canvas Theatre
When the Rocky Horror franchise first hit the streets back in the 1970s, first on stage in London and then in the iconic film that has been featured in countless midnight screenings ever since, it was a howl against sexual repression. Transvestites! Transsexuals! Perverts of all descriptions! Well, now that we’re in a world of…
Chow Chow at the Parkview is a Delicious Match Made in Detroit-Shoreway
You’d be hard pressed to find a joint in Cleveland with more history than the Parkview Nite Club. The saloon officially opened up in 1934, when the ink was barely dry on the 21st Amendment, but it has been a public (and not-so-public) tavern since the turn of the century. To use the phrase “hidden…
Amber N. Ford Turns Her Artistic Focus to Cleveland’s Immigrants and Refugees
It is unusually hot out as I approach Amber N. Ford’s studio near East 22nd Street and Superior Avenue. There is a woman shooting hoops on the roof of the adjacent warehouse. The striking visual shouldn’t be such an unusual sight, but she is wearing a form-fitting dress. I take a moment to see if…
Turf Wars and Philosophical Divisions in Ohio City … Again
Among the miscellaneous radical values I internalized growing up on Cleveland’s near west side, one of the most readily observable was an idea that “community” was more than a buzzword — a whole lot more, in fact. The sanctity of “community” was what might be termed a guiding tenet of the neighborhood. Abiding by it…
‘Marshall’ Dramatizes Pivotal Case in Famous Justice’s Career
Not to be confused with the 2006 football pic We Are Marshall, the 2017 courtroom drama Marshall, out in wide release Friday, dramatizes a pivotal legal case from the early 1940s. At the time, a tireless young attorney named Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Bozeman) was zigzagging the nation on behalf of the NAACP, defending black people…
Harry Dean Stanton’s Final Performance Shines in ‘Lucky’
Given that the late Harry Dean Stanton made a career out o f playing loveable but cranky guys, it’s fitting that his final starring performance would be in Lucky, a drama about a 90-year-old atheist who seeks some kind of spiritual connection in his dying days. A well-crafted character study, actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut serves…
Savage Love: Poly Wants
Dear Dan, I’m a 25-year-old woman currently in a poly relationship with a married man roughly 20 years my senior. This has by far been the best relationship I’ve ever had. However, something has me a bit on edge. We went on a trip with friends to a brewery with a great restaurant. It was…
Band of the Week: Aaron Civil War and the Brave Girls
MEET THE BAND: Aaron Civil War (vocals, guitar), Andy Stibora (guitar), Lisa Ellis Schafer (vocals), Eric Schulte (bass), Jason Weiner (bass) WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM HIS FRIENDS: In 2015, local singer-songwriter Aaron Civil War was recording some songs he’d written on his phone and posting them on SoundCloud. “I didn’t exactly know what to…
Get Out: Everything You Should Do This Week in Cleveland (Oct. 11-17)
WED 10/11 2 for $20 Promotion Great Lakes Science Center and the Greater Cleveland Aquarium have teamed up for a special fall 2-for-$20 package. Today through Saturday, guests can explore both downtown attractions for just $20. Tickets purchased online must be redeemed first at the attraction from which they were purchased. Both attractions have a…
Nearly 90 Years of Cased Meat Joy at Old Fashion Hot Dogs
One thing I notice sitting at the counter of Old Fashion Hot Dogs is that people like to reminisce about it, even while they’re sitting right there at the counter. “On a Friday night, you couldn’t get in this place,” says a customer six stools down. His name is Paul, and he’s been coming here…
