Texas Court Dismisses Lawsuit by Ohio Bridal Shop at Center of Ebola Scare Against Dallas Hospital
Update: A Texas appellate court last week dismissed a negligence lawsuit filed by the owners of the now-closed Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal store in Akron against Texas Health, the organization that operates Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, overruling a trial court’s earlier decision. Coming Attractions had argued that the hospital, which treated Thomas Duncan, the first…
Updated: Documentary About Britpop Band Oasis to Open at Cedar Lee Theatre on Friday
Update: As previously announced, Oasis: Supersonic! will screen on Wednesday at the Cedar Lee Theatre, but Cleveland Cinemas has just announced that the film will re-open for one week at the theater beginning on Friday. **** While nothing will likely ever compare to the British Invasion of the ’60s, the Britpop explosion of the ’90s certainly…
Singer-Songwriter Brandy Clark Talks About Each Track On Her New Album
Raised in a Washington logging town, country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark originally got her start performing in school musicals. She eventually gravitated to songwriting and would pen “Mama’s Broken Heart” with frequent collaborators Shane McAnally and Kacey Musgraves. The song found its way to country superstar Miranda Lambert, who turned it into a monster hit. Not…
Seven Women Play 44 Presidents in 44 Plays at Cleveland Public Theatre
How does it feel for a woman to be President of the United States? According to Tanera Hutz, it feels amazing. “I’m a history buff and being able to perform as President is very empowering.” Even thought there may be an actual female occupying the Oval Office in a couple months, there are seven women…
CSU Invites Artists of All Stripes to be Part of People’s Art Show
Calling all artists! It’s time once again for Cleveland’s most democratic art tradition, Cleveland State University’s People’s Art Show. Unlike any other show in Cleveland (and maybe anywhere else), the People’s Art Show is open to anyone, from kids to professionals. The walls of the Galleries at CSU will be filled salon-style (artwork from floor…
More Northeast Ohio Teens Arrested or Sought for Making Clown Related-Threats
The scary clown chronicles continue, and so do the revelations that online threats are coming from teens. (Of course.) Today’s entry comes from Perry Township, where police responded to a threat with an arrest on Monday. The person behind a threatening Twitter messages from @Fr0wntheCl0wn (the account has since been suspended, in case you were…
Cleveland May Further Limit Street Performances Downtown
City Council will vote next week whether to apply new restrictions to street performers downtown. Current law allows performers to remain on the street until 11 p.m., but new legislation working its way through council would bump that back to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 9 p.m. every other day of the week.…
The Tribe Sweeps Its Way to the ALCS — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
Someone got Andre out of bed after last night’s celebration in time to record a podcast this morning and talk champagne, sweeps and Big Papi. Subscribe to A to Z on iTunes here. Download the episode directly here. Or stream below.
Contrite Indians Beat Writer Paul Hoynes Offers Apology, Fans Celebrate His “Return”
Cleveland.com Indians beat writer Paul Hoynes has written a column apologizing for his doomsaying last month. “When you’re wrong, you’re wrong,” the headline admits, “and I was wrong about demise of Cleveland Indians.” Hoynes engendered the ill-will of fans and the Indians players themselves when he put a fork in the team’s post-season hopes after…
Nature’s Bin in Lakewood Will Close on Nov. 12
Cornucopia Inc., the organization that runs Nature’s Bin in Lakewood, announced this morning that the market will close on Nov. 12, after 41 years of business. Declining sales led to the decision. The catering side of Nature’s Bin will remain in operation. “The community’s support over the years through donations to Cornucopia and by shopping…
TBS Used a Moscow River Fire to Depict Cleveland Last Night
It’s bad enough that people still resort to talking about the Cuyahoga River catching fire whenever they want to talk about Cleveland. But if you’re going to go there, the least you could do is get the facts right, especially if you’re going to use imagery. Last night, the TBS postgame coverage of the Indians…
New York Style Pizzeria to Join Detroit Shoreway’s Eclectic Food Scene
Most of us are familiar with Cleveland’s well-known Little Italy neighborhood on the east side of town. But few of us know the history behind Cleveland’s west side Little Italy, clustered north of Detroit between W. 65th and 69th streets, in what is now referred to as the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. “The architecture’s a little…
An Endorsement for Cleveland.com’s Endorsement of LeBron James’ Endorsement
[image-1] Although the presidential endorsement of the Scene Editorial Board is short and simple, we thought we’d muddle the process instead and put the focus on us, not the readers. We could explain our thought process in a direct manner, but what would distinguish that from the litany of thoughtful, cogent and well-written arguments already…
Mathcore Pioneers The Dillinger Escape Plan Mark an End to Their 20-Year Run
The Dillinger Escape Plan are not for the faint of heart. With their jarring guitar riffs, fleeting rhythms, and vocalist Greg Puciato’s screams sounding like a frenzied Trent Reznor, their recipe of chaotic metalcore wields itself with heavy, unstable power, like a semi-truck fishtailing on the freeway, but is carefully crafted as such. This style…
Video: Bay High School Football Team Honors Cheerleader Battling Cancer
Ready for your office to get a little dusty? Here’s the Bay High School football team honoring Jane Finley, a Junior Rockette cheerleader who’s battling cancer, on Friday night. I'm just so thankful for such amazing people. Much love to the football team&everyone💖 thank you for making me feel amazing! @BayAthletics pic.twitter.com/oCAKOOgxJe — Jane Finley…
Clowns Aren’t Going to Get You
[image-1]On October 3rd a video was posted to Twitter. It shows a group of Kent State students jogging through campus, phones held aloft to light up the night. They are accompanied by Kent State Security and they are all searching for a clown. The tone of the video is apparently satirical – the students are…
Video: The Only Good Thing to Happen During the Browns Game Yesterday
The Browns lost, looked bad, had a couple more players get hurt, and played in front of a sizable Patriot fanbase at home. Did anything good happen? Just one thing, by our count. Andrew Hawkins’ touchdown celebration, which was some inspired performance art directed at a league that is throwing penalty flags and fining players…
Chief Wahoo Head Stolen from Lakewood Scarecrow
The bespoke papier-mache head of a decorative Chief Wahoo scarecrow was stolen Saturday night after less than 24 hours on display in front of the Lakewood flower shop Cottage of Flowers. “The first thing someone said was, maybe it was a Boston fan,” said Tina Russell, owner of the flower shop on Madison, in a…
Comedian Tig Notaro Goes With ‘Whatever Feels Right’
More than just a standup comedian, Tig Notaro does a bit of everything. Back in 2012, she turned heads when she spoke about being diagnosed with cancer during one of her comedy routines. Comedian Louis CK was at the show and called it groundbreaking. Massive success followed, and Notaro subsequently did a segment on This…
Coming Soon: Square 22, a Little Taste of Tremont in Strongsville
You couldn’t blame the residents of Strongsville for assuming that the marquee property of Westwood Commons would be handed over to another drab chain eatery. After all, they’ve watched as this new development at the corner of Pearl and Westwood filled up with national franchises like Tom+Chee, Hot Head Burritos and Pita Pit. But that…
Another Awesome Ohio Stadium Cake as OSU Looks to Beat Indiana This Weekend
The Ohio Stadium Cake Crew has crafted another delicious-looking giant cake this year, ahead of the OSU-Indiana game this weekend. Up here in Cleveland, we’re all anxiously awaiting today’s Tribe-Sox Game 2, but, for a moment, we’re pausing to shine a light on this terrific organization. For years now, the Ohio Stadium Cake Crew has…
A Relaxed Approach Works Well for Guitarist Eric Johnson
While he might have been notoriously meticulous about a number of things in the past, there’s at least one detail in Eric Johnson’s history that’s been stretched into a bit of a tall tale. It’s been said that the Austin-based guitarist had things so dialed in with his setup, that he could hear a difference…
Rock/Pop Act Saint Motel Aims to Modernize A Classic Sound
Two years ago, the Los Angeles-based rock act Saint Motel made its label debut with the EP, My Type. The EP delivered a huge hit with the catchy, retro-leaning title track, which is also featured on the Paper Towns soundtrack. The song has received over 46 million streams on Spotify and was a top 40…
7 Concerts to Catch This Weekend
FRIDAY, OCT. 7 Aqueous With a new EP release right around the corner, Aqueous seems primed and ready to shred Cleveland. This is not a show to be missed. The Buffalo-based band has come through our city a handful of times each year (a pair of Grog shows in September 2014 and February 2015 are…
Check Out This Immersive Collinwood School Fire Project
Growing up in Cleveland, we all sort of eventually come to learn the story of the Collinwood school fire — the tragic 1908 blaze that killed 172 students and, now, gets incorrectly cited as the reason public buildings have doors that open outward. Lake View School, an imposing brick structure, was consumed quickly, and the…
Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams Tour Coming to the Q
Released late last year, Coldplay’s latest studio effort, A Head Full of Dreams, has been a huge hit for the British band. The videos for the album’s hit singles — “Adventure Of A Lifetime,” “Hymn For The Weekend” and “Up&Up” — have more than a billion YouTube video views combined. To date, Coldplay’s A Head…
“Margin of Error” Is a Fiercely Funny Play About the Way Politics Used to Work
It’s weird how sometimes a concept we all agree upon can be upended, suddenly rendering that concept almost meaningless. This is especially troubling for a playwright who labors on a script for months, or years, and then opens the show in a world where all the assumptions of the play have been rendered null and…
Listen to Tom Hamilton Call Last Night’s 3rd Inning Homerun Parade
Well, that was fun. See you at 4:30, Cleveland. Robo. Kip. Lindor. And Hammy. Enjoy! #RallyTogether pic.twitter.com/ACOn1jsKwZ — Cleveland Indians (@Indians) October 7, 2016
Daylong Drawing Event Set for CMA on Sunday
As the Cleveland Museum of Art continues its centennial celebration, the museum hosts a free, daylong, community-wide drawing event this weekend. Draw Together: A Big Draw Event is part of the Big Draw Festival, a worldwide, month-long celebration of drawing. Approximately 400,000 people participated last year across all seven continents, and this year is expected…
Max and Iggor Cavalera Talk About Revisiting Sepultura’s Groundbreaking ‘Roots’ Album
When they played together in the metal band Sepultura, singer-guitarist Max and his brother, drummer Iggor Cavalera, who currently play together in Cavalera Conspiracy, explored their Brazilian heritage on the 1996 album Roots. For the current tour, Cavalera Conspiracy guitarist Marc Rizzo and bassist Johny Chow will join the Cavaleras as they play the album…
America’s Got Talent Auditions Coming to Cleveland in December
UPDATE: Auditions will be held at the Huntington Convention Center on Lakeside Avenue. In the meantime, start practicing your juggling. *** America’s Got Talent is coming to Cleveland. You can now register to audition to be on Season 12 of the show. Auditions will be held December 10 (location currently TBD at a time TBA, so…
Cleveland Metroparks Receives Prestigious “Best in Nation” Gold Medal Award
We’re number one. Again. This time it’s the Cleveland Metroparks taking the top spot and repping Northeast Ohio by winning a prestigious 2016 National Gold Medal Award for excellence in Park and Recreation Management. Cleveland Metroparks had previously won the award in 1994, 2001 and 2007. The park system rolled out several new initiatives and…
MOCA Will Host ‘Open Projector Night’ for Filmmakers
This weekend, MOCA Cleveland presents two distinctly different events. First, MOCA Cleveland debuts its Open Projector Night this Friday evening. On Saturday afternoon, the institution hosts an artist-led voter registration drive. Meanwhile, its Fall 2016 exhibitions remain on view through Jan. 8. You’ve heard of open mic night, but how about Open Projector Night? MOCA’s…
Bonfoey Gallery Hosts Intriguing ‘Thump… Dump, Clump, Lump… Bump!’ Exhibition
Thump… Dump, Clump, Lump… Bump! Perhaps never has there been a more intriguingly titled exhibition in Cleveland’s art history. This exhibition at Bonfoey Gallery features four artists selected by one of the gallery’s represented artists and former Bonfoey associate Dana Oldfather. Oldfather’s relationship with the gallery goes back nearly 20 years. “We felt that having…
Brazilian-Themed Ipanema Market Ready to Serve its Large, Growing Community
Carla Batista and Gustavo Nogueira, the owners of Batuqui (12706 Larchmere Blvd., 216-801-0227), are approaching the finish line on their Brazilian-themed market Ipanema (12602 Larchmere Blvd., 216-465-1422, ipanemamarket.com), which will specialize in Latin food products. Located immediately next door to Big Al’s Diner, the shop recently welcomed customers during a “preview day” and will be…
Simple Plan Rides Pop-Punk’s New Wave of Resurgence
Shortly after forming in 1999, the Montreal-based pop-punk act Simple Plan signed a When the pop-punk act Simple Plan signed to its Atlantic Records in 2002 to release its debut, No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls, the execs at the label were anxious for the album to come out. “They wanted to strike the iron…
Indians vs. Red Sox and NFL TV Ratings — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
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You Can Watch Sunday’s Presidential Debate on the Big Screen at Local Regal Cinemas
Regal Cinemas, one of the nation’s major movie theater chains, will be offering free admission Sunday to live screenings of the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. God help us all. Locally, viewers can check out the big screen debate at the following Regal locations: Crocker Park in Westlake, Richmond Town Square…
Many Delights in “Twelfth Night” at Great Lakes Theater Despite Misfires in the Humor Department
If you’ve ever felt hemmed in by the expectations of others, you can find at least one—or maybe five or six—characters to relate to in this lyrical Shakespeare play. The twins, Viola and Sebastian, start off by being shipwrecked, with neither aware the other has survived. To avoid getting hit on, Viola dresses as a…
385 Fatal Overdoses in Cuyahoga County So Far This Year — And The Problem Is Getting Worse
[image-1]The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office released some statistics today that reveal how bad the opiate overdose crisis is becoming here. Throughout the year so far, 385 people have overdosed and died. Looking at the late summer and fall, though, it’s getting even worse: 52 people fatally overdosed in September, tying the record for most…
Apollo’s Fire Opens 25th Anniversary Season With “Resplendent Purcell” Programs
By Daniel Hathaway “I want Apollo’s Fire’s 25th Anniversary Season to be extra flashy and triumphant,” Jeannette Sorrell exclaimed in a recent telephone conversation. “So we’ll open with a program of music by Henry Purcell, one of the six or seven great composers of all time, and stretch the organization by planning a Beethoven-Schubert mini-festival…
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill to Bring Their Soul2Soul World Tour to the Q in 2017
Country singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill began touring together some 20 years ago when they embarked on McGraw’s Spontaneous Combustion tour. In 2000 they created the Soul2Soul franchise with a record-breaking tour that became that year’s top grossing and most successful U.S. tour. Ten years ago, they took Soul2Soul II back out on the…
Jimmy Haslam and His Wife Each Gave $50,000 to Paul Ryan’s “Team Ryan”
As is well-documented and widely known, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam comes from a Tennessee family renowned for big political contributions. Jimmy’s father Jim Haslam II, in 2014, gave more “hard money” to political candidates than any other Tennessean. Jimmy’s keeping the tradition alive. Thanks to a report from CREW — the Committee for Responsibility and Ethics…
Army Corps Budges, But Obstacles Remain Before Cuyahoga Will be Dredged at Last
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) announced Monday that it would relent at last and dredge the six-mile stretch of the Cuyahoga River from Lake Erie to the ArcelorMittal steel plant. (Truly exquisite photos of that stretch here.) But the Corps’s long-delayed acquiescence has been complicated yet again, this time by financial questions. …
Arena Rocker Bon Jovi to Play Quicken Loans Arena in March
Arena rock acts have come and gone over the past two decades and yet somehow rocker Jon Bon Jovi still manages to be popular enough to fill venues such as Quicken Loans Arena, where he’ll play on Sunday, March 19, when his This House is Not For Sale tour comes to town. This will…
Video: Russ Mitchell Grills Steve Loomis on Police Union’s Trump Endorsement
Largely at the urging of Steve Loomis, the Cleveland police union voted to endorse Donald Trump. It was the first time the union had ever endorsed a presidential candidate. The decision has drawn the ire of the public (there was a protest outside union headquarters last night) and some members of city council. Lynn Hampton, president…
Cleveland Orchestra Offers Tesla Orchestra Performance for Students After October 6 Concert
By Mike Telin The Cleveland Orchestra will take you to Rome this weekend without needing a plane ticket or a passport. Franz Welser-Möst is your tour guide, and the itinerary includes the Fountains, Pines, and Festivals of Rome as represented in the spectacular tone poems of Ottorino Respighi, with performances from Thursday through Sunday. Following…
All RTA Rapid Lines to Run Until 60 Minutes after Indians Home Playoff Games
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) announced Tuesday that all Rapid lines — Red, Blue and Green line trains — would run until one hour after all home Indians playoff games in October. The Indians open their American League Division Series against the Boston Red Sox Thursday evening. First pitch is at 8:08 p.m.…
Indians Playoffs, Trevor Bauer, and a Little Football — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
A little football talk, too much/too soon? And is Trevor Bauer ready for the ALDS? Subscribe to A to Z on iTunes here. Download the episode directly here. Or stream below.
Savage Love: Vulva Va Voom
Dear Dan, A question on your favorite topic, Dan. Just kidding, it’s a question about my vagina. I’m having a problem with the microbiome of my vulva and vagina. I’ve been going to my gyno for the last six months for recurrent bacterial vaginosis and yeast infections. She shrugs, gives me a script, the symptoms…
A Jewish Master and His Two Emancipated Slaves Confront Their New Identities in ‘The Whipping Man’
If you ask most people who the first African-American of the Jewish faith was, they might say uber-entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. And while “The Candyman” did indeed convert to Judaism in the late 1950s, he probably was preceded in that category by many others. This thought, and many others, are triggered by The Whipping Man…
Monsters, Meaning and Marriage: Laura and Gary Dumm Tackle Environmental Issues Through Art
Lifelong residents of Cleveland, artists Laura and Gary Dumm have been married for more than 40 years. Gary, an illustrator, and Laura, a painter, also have been collaborating for many years. Their latest joint effort, a collection of new paintings, opens with a reception this Friday, Oct. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. in BAYarts’…
Band of the Week: Seratones
MEET THE BAND: AJ Haynes (vocals), Connor Davis (guitar), Adam Davis (bass), Jesse Gabriel (drums) STRAIGHT OUTTA SHREVEPORT: Haynes describes Shreveport as a “very big small town” where there’s not a lot for teenagers to do. “That’s why we did our own thing,” she says in reference to her bandmates, most of whom she’s known…
Woodstock Joins the Northeast Ohio Barbecue Parade with Mixed Results
The recent arrival of places like Mabel’s BBQ and Proper Pig has provided Cleveland diners not only with the boundless delights of expertly smoked meats; it has also served as a sort of master class in the art and craft of barbecue itself. For many of us who grew up eating — and enjoying —…
Seven Clambakes to Hit This Fall, Because Cleveland Loves a Clambake
Strangely enough, Cleveland just might be the clambake capital of the world. What we take for granted as an autumnal rite is pretty much neglected in other Midwestern cities. But here, as the leaves begin to turn and temperatures drop, clams, mussels, lobsters and other shellfish become ubiquitous. Here are some local options: Grumpy’s CafE…
The Inside Story of the East Cleveland 3, 20 Years After Being Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
Eugene Johnson is walking north along Strathmore Avenue in East Cleveland, just a stone’s throw from his childhood home, a familiar street in one sense but, now, an entirely different universe in another. It’s a hot afternoon in September, and families are gathering on front porches as children meander home from school. Those who lived…
‘Birth of a Nation’ Depicts Slavery’s Cruelty in Graphic Detail
At the conclusion of Birth of a Nation, the riveting new drama about Nat Turner, an African-American slave who met a tragic end after he led an 1831 slave rebellion, we learn that Turner’s body was flayed, beheaded and quartered in the wake of his hanging. His enemies believed that by physically destroying Nat’s body…
