Cracker Brings Its Acoustic Show to MGM Northfield Park — Neon Room on Oct. 12
After indie rockers Camper van Beethoven broke up in the late ’80s, singer-guitarist David Lowery approached childhood friend Johnny Hickman about starting a new band. The duo began writing songs together and even played a few shows as the David Lowery Group before forming the alt-rock act Cracker with drummer Greg Weatherford (since replaced by…
Legendary Puerto Rican Singer José Feliciano to Appear at Cleveland Convención Hispana Saturday
Internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning Puerto Rican musician José Feliciano, (“Feliz Navidad”), will appear Saturday at Max Hayes High School for La Convención Hispana, an event hosted every three years by Cleveland’s Hispanic Roundtable. Feliciano will sit for a Q&A with none other than — wait for it — José Feliciano, the Cleveland attorney and civic leader who…
5 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, OCT. 4 Ronnie Baker Brooks/Ben Miller Band The son of Chicago blues legend Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Baker Brooks has established himself as a prodigious talent and has performed with some of the greatest Blues artists of our time, BB King, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Koko Taylor as well as Blues rock legend Eric Clapton.…
Ohio Abortion Rates Hit an All-Time Low
Abortion rates have declined in Ohio once again. A new report released by the Ohio Department of Health found that 20, 425 women had abortions last year, down by 2 percent from the year prior. This is the fewest number of abortions performed in the state in the last 40-plus years, after the procedure was…
Paul Shaffer to Perform and Speak at the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts on Oct. 13
Paul Shaffer spent 33 years fronting the World’s Most Dangerous Band as David Letterman’s music director, and he’s also recorded with many of the world’s top musicians and served as musical director and producer for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. He chronicles his career in his best-selling memoir, We’ll Be Here…
Mexican Piano Prodigy Daniela Liebman to Perform as Part of Tri-C’s Performing Arts Classical Piano Series
Mexican prodigy Daniela Liebman has already created a legacy for herself. She’s performed with more than 25 orchestras on four continents. At 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, she’ll perform as part of the 2019-2020 Performing Arts Classical Piano Series presented by Cuyahoga Community College. Seating at…
GWAR’s Use Your Collusion Holiday Tour Coming to House of Blues in December
Earlier today, shock rockers GWAR announced the details of its upcoming Use Your Collusion holiday tour that features support from Unearth and Savage Master. The tour will hit several cities in the Midwest, and it includes a Dec. 29 stop at House of Blues. “Suck my candy cane and swallow my nog! GWAR are ready…
Wednesday Brownbag Concerts Return to Trinity Cathedral and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Week in Cleveland
The 42nd season of Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concerts gets underway at Trinity Cathedral on October 2 with violinist Mary Beth Ions and her colleagues in the Amethyst String Quartet. A freewill offering is requested, and you can pack a lunch. On another Wednesday Noon series across the Cuyahoga, weekly organ recitals continue and run all…
Bob’s Hamburg Celebrates 88th Anniversary in Akron with 10-Cent Burgers Sunday
Bob’s Hamburg, the other famous burger joint out of Akron that’s not Swensons, is celebrating 88 years in business Sunday with a deal good enough to make a broke college student weep. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., the storied restaurant’s new owners, Josh Sines and Jeremy Caudill, are slinging classic hamburgers for 10 cents…
The Ultra-Positive Browns Podcast — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
Baseball is over for the year. Plan the Super Bowl parade! Andre and Zac talk Browns, Beckham, Chubb and what’s ahead for the Indians. Subscribe to A to Z on iTunes here or stream below.
Great Lakes Theater Embraces All That Makes ‘The Music Man’ Great
The Music Man is a pure celebration of music – one that is so full of heart, comedy and romance that it has continued to capture the hearts of audiences since it first premiered on Broadway in 1957. Great Lakes Theater embraces all of these wholesome qualities—including the charm, whimsy and playfulness—that have driven adoration…
Domestic-Violence Prevention: Celebrating Progress, Marking Lives Lost
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Domestic Violence Awareness Month begins today, and advocates are gathering at the Ohio statehouse to reflect on progress made to help survivors while remembering lives lost. The Ohio Domestic Violence Network is honoring Rep. Laura Lanese, R-Grove City, with the Croucher Family Award for Outstanding Leadership for her efforts to include $1…
The Black Keys Christen Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse With a Hard Rocking Performance
The Black Keys took a four-year hiatus between 2015’s Turn Blue and their new album, Let’s Rock, and during that time, singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach recorded an album with the Arcs and released a solo effort. Both are solid releases, but something about playing with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney brings out the best in Auerbach.…
Land Acknowledgement at Convergence-Continuum Should Set Example for Cleveland
Tremont’s Convergence-Continuum Theatre this weekend staged Heirloom, a solo performance written by and starring Mike Geither, a local playwright who teaches at Cleveland State University. Heirloom was a harrowing probe into Geither’s family history of rape and incest and the bouquet of psychological effects emanating therefrom. The play was unique not only for its content…
Ohio City’s Market Avenue Pop-Up Pedestrian Park Closing After Three Months
The pop-up pedestrian-only park at Ohio City’s Market Avenue is closing after three months – or, rather, reopening to cars. Yes, the yard games, patio furniture and metal barriers are being packed away so cars can drive through the street starting tomorrow morning. Reviews of the pop-up this summer have almost universally positive, with the…
Cedar Lee Theatre to Screen ‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ From Oct. 11 to Oct. 13
The Cedar Lee Theatre has just announced that it’ll be the exclusive Cleveland venue for a limited theatrical run of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. A continuation of the AMC series Breaking Bad, the film follows Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and chronicles what happens to him after the events of the show’s series finale. The…
Hot Chicken Takeover Announces Opening Date of Oct. 8 for Crocker Park Shop
Hot Chicken Takeover, the Columbus-based restaurant that specializes in Nashville hot chicken, has announced the opening day for its Crocker Park location, the first in Northeast Ohio. That date will be Tuesday, October 8. Since launching five years ago as a weekend-only pop-up, the homegrown startup put down roots on the second floor of the…
Cleveland’s Pokémon Pop-Up Bar Canceled Over Licensing Issue, Allegedly Happening Next Year Under New Name
The event-planning company Viral Ventures was supposed to bring a Pokémon-themed pop-up bar to Goldhorn Brewery in Cleveland this upcoming weekend. “We were contacted months ago by the organizer asking if we’d be interested in having the event, so we went back and forth and arrived on a date,” Goldhorn Brewery owner Rick Semersky tells Scene. “It…
Local UN Youth Climate Summit Rep Wants to Bring Better Version to Northeast Ohio
Elena Stachew is a 28-year-old PhD candidate at the University of Akron’s Biomimicry Research & Innovation Center and a member of the Cleveland hub of the Global Shapers Community. She was one of 500 people between the ages of 18-29 selected from a pool of more than 7,000 applicants to attend the United Nations Youth…
Telescope Network at Ohio State University Shows a Star Being Torn Apart in the Grips of a Black Hole
A network of telescopes based at The Ohio State University helped researchers there and elsewhere around the country record an astonishing and rare sight: a star being shredded by a black hole. Scientists, including some at OSU, published their findings about the event in The Astrophysical Journal last week. Images captured by the National Aeronautics…
New Matchmaker for Ohio Farmers, Landowners
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Beginning farmers in Ohio can struggle to acquire property for production, and it’s sometimes difficult for aging farmers to find someone who will continue the legacy of their land. However, a new tool might help both find the right match. Heartland FarmLink is an online resource that connects farm seekers with landowners…
Gap Band Founder Charlie Wilson Coming to MGM Northfield Park — Center Stage in January
Still touring in support of 2017’s In It to Win It, Gap Band founder and solo artist Charlie Wilson continues to be relevant. Earlier this year, he received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Made For Love,” a duet with Lalah Hathaway. In 2018, he was nominated for three 2018 NAACP Image…
Orhan Yegen, Famed Turkish Chef of Sip Sak in New York City, to Host Dinner at Blu
Cleveland Independents has cued up the fourth installment of its popular Chef+ Series. Next up will be Orhan Yegen, a Turkish-born chef who made a splash in New York City when he opened Sip Sak in 2004. He recently opened Lokanta in Astoria, Queens, earning a visit and a two-star review from Pete Wells of…
Cleveland APL Looking for New Homes for 170 Animals Recently Rescued From Hoarders
The Cleveland Animal Protective League is currently inundated with a large horde of cats and dogs, after about 170 animals were taken from unsafe home situations over the course of the last month. Many of these pups and felines were found starving, dirty and covered in fleas. The most recent batch of hoarded dogs came…
Cleveland Musician Toobe Fresco Hopes Local Talent Will Gravitate to His New Recording Studio
Growing up on the East side of Cleveland, rapper Toobe Fresco listened to music all day long as a youth. He wrote his first song at age 10, and in seventh grade, he started 3 Kingz, a hip-hop group. In the wake of that group’s breakup — it dissolved when Fresco realized his bandmates were…
Report: Water Pollution Laws Poorly Enforced in Communities of Color
Low-income communities of color — such as Flint or Newark, New Jersey — are much more likely than white, more affluent towns to suffer with polluted water for years, according to a new report. The study, called Watered Down Justice, analyzed Environmental Protection Agency data for 200,000 violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.…
Skyline Chili is Officially Planning to Come Back to Brooklyn in 2020
When the Skyline Chili location in Brooklyn closed in July, Cleveland-area chili-topped spaghetti fans were rightly saddened. The restaurant had been at Ridge Park Square for decades, only to unceremoniously lose its lease. At the time, Skyline officials did say they wanted to open a new spot in 2020. Now the city of Brooklyn is confirming that…
Rock Hall’s New Chairman Says Inductions Will Air Live in 2020
Earlier this week, John Sykes, the new Chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation told the Los Angeles Times that next year’s ceremony will air live on HBO. That’ll mark a departure from years past as HBO has aired the ceremony a few weeks after the event takes place. The 2020 Inductions…
Plain Dealer’s ‘Case Closed’ is Most Ambitious Piece of Cleveland Journalism in 2019
Friday, the Plain Dealer and cleveland.com published the fifth installment of a major story. “Case Closed” began Monday as a harrowing account of a woman’s rape and its aftermath. But like the best investigative reporting, it has now taken aim at a structure of injustice, probing the chronically under-resourced sex crimes division of the Cleveland…
What You Need to Know About This Weekend’s IngenuityFest
An annual event that pairs music and art, IngenuityFest aims to “ignite the creative spark among artists, makers, and entrepreneurs through joy and collaboration.” This year’s theme, Dreamscapes, provides “an entire fantasy, vividly imagined” at the 350,000-square-foot Hamilton Collaborative. Indie rockers Speedy Ortiz headline the main stage tonight, and King Buffalo has the honors tomorrow…
Platform’s ‘Bragging Rights’ Homebrew Competition Release Bash at Heinen’s to Help Kickoff Cleveland Beer Week
On Friday, September 13, Platform Beer Co. held its fourth annual Bragging Rights homebrew competition in partnership with Heinen’s. Judges (this writer included) were tasked with evaluating a number of entries in order to crown a winner, who would go on to have his or her recipe scaled up, brewed at Platform, canned, and sold…
In Advance of Next Week’s Show at the Grog Shop, Melvins Drummer and Redd Kross Bassist Talk About Touring Together
Grunge icons who formed in the early 1980s in the Seattle area, the Melvins continue to nurture their own particular brand of doom metal. On last year’s Pinkus Abortion Technician, the band teams up with bassist Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and bassist Jeff Pinkus (Butthole Surfers), both of whom play on all of the songs.…
Cleveland Hopkins Airport Second Worst in J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Survey of Mid-Size Airports
There are great airports, good airports, and the rest. Cleveland Hopkins, once again, and not surprisingly, is among the rest. Literally, according to J.D. Power’s 2019 survey of customer satisfaction of mid-sized airports in North America, where Hopkins fell second to last in the rankings, notching a 755 out of 1,000 on the point scale.…
Comedy and Commentary in ‘Into the Breeches!’ at Cleveland Play House
There’s an old saying in theatre that “the show must go on.” Cleveland Play House, which is the longest running nonprofit professional theatre company in the U.S., has taken this to heart. Over the past 104 years, no matter the status of the world, CPH hasn’t missed a single season. When commissioned to write a…
Kirsten Docter and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Will Premiere New Viola Concerto by Jesse Jones
For many years, Jesse Jones has led a double musical life. In one, he serves on the composition faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory and has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His works have been performed by ensembles including the American Composers Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony, the…
Destination Cleveland To Once Again Promote Cleveland’s Beer Scene at the Great American Beer Festival
We all know that Cleveland has some pretty fantastic breweries. To help get the word out to the rest of the country, Destination Cleveland has attended the Great American Beer Festival in Denver for the past couple of years to promote Cleveland’s craft beer scene. Earlier today, the organization announced that it’ll again be attending…
Cleveland Reaches Settlements With More RNC Protesters, Total Payouts Approaching $1 Million
The City of Cleveland has now settled with 12 of the protesters from the 2016 RNC whose activities in the “free speech zone” included Gregory “Joey” Johnson lighting an American flag on fire in an act of peaceful, protected speech. The payouts total $925,000. Other lawsuits remain outstanding. Johnson had barely lit the flag when…
6 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27 Jerry Paper On his latest album, last year’s Like a Baby, Los Angeles-based singer and producer Lucas Nathan, who records and tours under the name Jerry Paper, delivers one infectious synth pop tune after another. Album opener “Your Cocoon” features wonky vocals and funky bass riffs, and laid-back tracks such as “Grey…
Report: 329,000 Ohio Kids Stuck in Pockets of High Poverty
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Economic expansion after the Great Recession of 2008 has done little to get Ohio children out of high poverty neighborhoods, according to a new report. A data snapshot from The Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that 13% of the state’s children live in areas where 30% of residents are below the poverty…
The Top 11 Challenged, Banned and Removed Books from Libraries and Schools in 2018
The final week in September is Banned Books Week (Sept. 22-28 this year). And to raise awareness for the event, the American Library Association publishes an annual list of the most challenged books from the previous year, compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, “in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and…
‘The Bachelor’ is Filming an Upcoming Episode in Cleveland Next Month
The upcoming season of The Bachelor is filming in Cleveland next month, the reality show insider blog Reality Steve reported. Slated to be the fourth episode of the season, the Cleveland taping apparently is set to include the Browns, (we’re imagining Baker Mayfield tossing a football around with some of the contestants), and most likely some…
The Power of One Connection: Changing the Trajectory for Foster Kids
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio-based restaurateur Jeff Ruby of Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment has wined and dined celebrities and dignitaries alike, but food isn’t his only passion. He’s also committed to helping vulnerable youths. Ruby grew up without a father in his life, and says he was on the wrong track until a football coach stepped…
Closed for Improvements, the Grocery OHC will Reopen in the Coming Months
[image-1] Fans and neighbors of The Grocery OHC (3815 Lorain Ave.), a green grocer and café in Ohio City dedicated to locally produced food, likely have noticed that the shop has been closed. Owner Rachel Kingsbury shut the doors in late June – and the assumption very well could have been that the shop would…
In ‘Copenhagen,’ Physics and Philosophy Collide
This much is certain: In 1941, atomic physicists Werner Heisenberg, a German, and Niels Bohr, a Dane, met in Bohr’s home in Copenhagen for a visit. World War II was raging across Europe. Denmark was an occupied country. Germany appeared invincible. What is uncertain — what has tantalized historians, biographers and the science community for…
Cross the Bridge to Piping Hot Soups and World-Class Noodles at Dagu
When it opened in late July, Dagu Rice Noodle in Asia Town became just the second U.S. location for this massive Chinese export, which is said to have approximately 300 locations spread across that country. The Cleveland site follows one in Las Vegas and preceded, by just a few weeks, another in Greater Los Angeles.…
Band of the Week: Andy Grammer
MEET THE BAND:Andy Grammer (vocals, guitar, piano) OUT ON THE STREETS OF SANTA MONICA: Singer-songwriter Andy Grammer started busking in the streets of Santa Monica. He says he learned a couple of key things from that time period. “Back then, I learned if you have something magic, people will stop,” he says. “I learned that…
Savage Love: Crossed Off
I’m a 35-year-old bisexual man in a LTR with a man. My question, however, has to do with my parents. As an adolescent/teen, I was a snoop (as I think most of us are, looking for dad’s porn stash, etc.). I was probably 12 or so when I found evidence of my dad being a…
A Star is Reborn in Fresh Judy Garland Biopic
There’s no doubt that Renée Zellweger took the titular role of Judy Garland to show the world she’s not done yet. And, truly, watching her play a woman riddled with addiction and doubt gives viewers a front-row seat onto one of the Oscar winner’s greatest performances of all time. Judy opens Friday at select theaters.…
‘Villains’ is a Minor Work in the Horror-Adjacent Sphere
Villains, a dark home- invasion comedy starring Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan and Kyra Sedgewick opens Friday at the Capitol Theatre. The squeamish will be relieved to note that unlike many of its torture-porn forebears, the film features only one moment of serious gore and only one gross-out scene. (And even that comes with a…
Early Feedback on Cleveland’s New Micro-Mobility Rides
We’re roughly one month into a six-month trial period during which e-mobility startups are incrementally adding electric scooters to city streets. Four vendors have been permitted to operate during this pilot phase under strict legislative guidelines from the city designed with safety at top of mind. Among them is a requirement that all devices be…
Get Out: Everything You Should Be Doing in Cleveland This Week (Sept. 25-Oct. 1)
WED 09/25 Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to…
