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Snarp Farkle March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 3 By Alex Bevan E very year about this time the Ghost of hands into the back pockets of your jeans sweating...yes... perspiring freely and worrying the thought that you had not applied Danny Boy rises up and prowls the streets and push yourself into the rebirth. No more too much sun block. and taverns of this fine, fair land we call whining, no more sniveling, no more home. Miller Lite trucks are painted blaming the weather. It’s time to get Come On... Nature’s own stimulus package is evergreen, Budwieser wagons careen cracking! gnawing on the inner helix of your DNA and through town pulled by staggering, lurching you can’t resist. Clydesdales, Rolling Rock bottles get an Why? Don’t you hear the grand sucking extra “33” and even the most sober and noble of sap rushing up the Maple Tree trunks and The time for dreaming is over. 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Even though the science types and with Ugly Sticks and whispering The muse is waiting for you to take her Google mongers won’t admit it. It’s the first “Steelhead....Steelhead” in breathy bourbon hand. day of Spring. laced tones? Wasn’t there a moment that No dancing lessons required. Feel it in your bones. It’s time to live you sat longingly looking at your lawn Just listen to your heart! again... so take a deep breath... put your lingering on the notion that you would one day be out there mowing and
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O K. When we talk Classic Rock we 80’s. Many of the songs are contemporary know we’re going to rock with the music demonstrate and will be considered future classics. we’ve known and loved most of our lives. as they The members of RAMM are Ron But, when it comes down to the musicianship embark on Ondercin lead guitarist and backing vocal; of classic rockers, the members in RAMM their new Jerry Tyler lead guitarist and backing vocals; can arguably be the most respected line up musical Nick Ondercin bass and lead vocals; and ever. That’s a pretty bold statement adventure Greg Bowman percussion and lead vocals. considering all of the thousands of great reflects how Add it all up, and you have over a hundred musician’s out here on the North Coast. But well the band will perform together. “When RAMM: years of musical experience. The previous as you read on and learn about these guys, you play with different people, you find out From left to right Greg Bowman, Ron bands they were recently known in were Sun Ondercin, Nick Ondercin, and Jerry Tyler you’re probably going to remember their strong points and kind of play off of Rush and Liquor Box. But the history goes Look for them to be playing many gigs this somewhere along the way that you were that, it helps everybody,” Ron speculated. well beyond that. Dating back in 70’s with year. influenced by one of them. Another strong asset this band possesses Jerry Busch recording on his Demo Tapes If you remember bands like Satellite, is the incredible vocal range by Nick and going. As you see what’s going over well and album that led to great bands like Teaser and Wisp, and the legendary EZ Crossin’, you Greg and the harmonies that compliments what songs everyone’s doing well and so EZ Crossin’. know we’re talking about truly seasoned the entire sound. They are nailing vocals to on.” “Ron Ondercin has got to be the most players. These guys are as professional as it the likes of Robert Plant, Joe Walsh, and RAMM will be appearing at The Wagon meticulous guitarist I’ve ever known” says gets. And now with RAMM it’s business as Paul Rodgers. “We really want to promote Wheel Saturday March 7 and At Witz End Jerry Busch who also played with him on the usual to showcase perfected classic rock something with rich vocals and harmonies in Friday March 20. When you check them out, WMMS All Star album. “I was so happy to tunes that we can’t get enough of. By the front but not too loud and find out how it be careful that you may get addicted to them hear Ron, Nick and Jerry are playing way, don’t confuse the term ‘classic rock’ will come together,” Nick explains. “What and follow them wherever they go. One thing together. They will be the band in demand exclusively with old tunes from the 70’s and direction you think you’re going in the for sure, it will be a classic treat! this summer.” The chemistry the members beginning is not always the way you end up
March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 9 Biker’s Ball! be. Fact number two…we have a rule about call the off air show that goes on when we are Oldies 102.5 the show. Most of what you hear is not playing songs. Sometimes, Mark says, it’s 97 FM; planned or scripted. We like to keep it real. thousand times better then the on air show. I Women Who So almost all of what you hear every say it’s quite scandalous. That is why Wine and of morning from 6 to 10 AM on Star 97.1 is coming soon to the website on course your what I may be hearing for the first time star97.com we will have the off air red hot when Mark tells a story. Fact number 3…We show . S ee you at 6AM with the Mark Allen Cleveland really do have a Media One news room. and Friend’s morning show. Cavs!! Some people think that it’s a place of make 107.5 FM The Fox; believe but I am sitting in it as I type these If you would like to contact Jeremy you Red Cross Heroes Breakfast fun facts. Fact number four…We really do can send him an email From The Media One Studios and the 2009 Biker’s Ball! have surprise guests. Sometimes people just [email protected] sit down in the studio that we have never Keep listening to your favorite Wake up with Mark Allen and met or heard of. Kind of funny when you’re Media One station for details on St. Friends. interviewing someone on a live 50 thousand From A Dusty Country Road with Patty’s Day Fun, the 2009 Home watt station and you have no idea why there Roger McCoy Show at Ashtabula Towne Square, the By Rick Palm Greetings again from Jeremy James, are there to see you! Fact number five…we It has been almost three years ago when I was Red Cross Heroes Breakfast and program director for WREO Star 97.1 on mess up. No one is perfect and we have our lucky enough to be asked to bring on many other upcoming events: your FM radio dial. Lots of stuff happens days where nothing seems to go the way we Confederate Railroad at Jewels Dance Hall in ESPN AM 970 WFUN; behind the MIC on the Mark Allen and imagined. But just like you in your work day Austinburg, Ohio. Prior to their performance High School Basketball Playoffs, Cleveland Friend’s morning show that you never get to we have to just keep going. We will make I was relaxing outside on the patio with Indians Games, & March Madness Fun! see or hear. While I will not tell you all the each other laugh and try to lose composure Scony and Dave Hatfield when a long blonde Star 97.1; secrets, I can let you know some fun facts but in the end we make a great morning haired country boy sat down next to me and 2009 Railfest and Women Who Wine! that are very true about our morning show. team to get you up and get you moving asked, “Why won’t country radio play 98.3 The Bull; Fact number one…unlike Bruce Springsteen, every morning. independent artists? Are you all scared of us Red Cross Heroes Breakfast and theÊ2009 and Jennifer Hudson, we are live as live can And finally fact number 6, There is what we or something?” I reared back in my boots
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Each artist will She passes the torch to young Chicago guitar that has probably influenced every female perform a 30-minute set with the hero Ronnie Baker Brooks (son of rock singer that has come along since. Tommy Castro Band, and the show Lonnie Brooks), who keeps Although she started out as a folk singer, she closes with an electrifying jam the fire burning. Last but gravitated towards the blues and guaranteed to light any blues not least – Magic Dick, the experimented with the styles of Bessie lover’s fire! innovative harmonica player Smith, Odetta and Big Mama Thornton. In Tommy Castro is the real deal, who strongly distinguished 7G>8@=DJH:7AJ:H76C9 doing so, she shed some light on a whole a charismatic performer who the J. Geils Band sound. genre of traditional American music that had commands the stage, banters Subsequent to J. Geils, Winghouse been previously overlooked – that of the with the audience, and takes no Magic Dick has jammed with Sat. March 7th female blues singer. 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T here is no way to truly know how big of After the Ohio Canal was complete the Irish The Celts were known to enjoy festive a role the Irish and their descendents played laborers poured into Cleveland only to be gatherings of the Clans but the Irish drinking in the early roots of North East Ohio but it shunned and forced to live in the undesirable problem had its roots in seven centuries of was significant. There were men with Irish areas. “Whiskey Island” was such an area, oppression. The Irish reached for the liquid surnames in the Connecticut Land Company, the marsh land at the rivers mouth, swamp narcotic which had the power to make any who founded this entire region. Cleveland’s with a peninsula. In its first heyday though, day seem tolerable, even if only for a first mayor was a man named Alfred Kelley, it was said to have had 13 saloons. That moment or two. If the truth be known, spirits but for the most part the Irish were not being a considerable amount since it was saved more Irishmen than it ever ruined, but, prominent, quite the opposite, they were the only a mile long and a third of a mile across unfortunately, those kinds of statistics were laborers. at its widest point. It was from the first, and never compiled. Historically speaking, the “luck of the for many years remained the wildest, The Irish who inhabited “Whiskey Island” Irish” was not something anyone would bawdiest section of Cleveland. were, indeed, hard-drinking, brawling, and want. The two largest migrations were While much has been made of the race’s often lawless men, but then, they had plenty produced by extreme inhumane conditions fondness for, and tendency to indulge in, of reasons to be all three. They were rootless which, if they survived the “coffin ships”, “spirit waters”, most of what has been outcasts of society, a shunned and largely despised group of men. Daily living fluctuated between rage and despair; they needed their bottles and brawls to stave off madness. As if they didn’t have enough to deal with already, “Whiskey Island” was the very heart of the swamplands in which resided the trepidation of the malaria- carrying mosquito. One question in many minds was what would destroy the Irishman’s body first, malaria or diarrhea. Living on that patch of land in the 1820’s took serious stamina just to survive. The Irish and Scots-Irish worked the Docks, the Foundries, the Mills, and later started small businesses. They labored as farm hands in the rural areas until they could invest in their own. Then of course they had their hand in the lucrative production and running of “spirits” during prohibition. As families ventured out from their original settlements and became entrepreneurs, whenever possible, the Irish became accepted and were no longer shunned or mistreated. Just as the bottle made life bearable so did the love of and music. The Irish and Scotch- Irish brought with them to America a rich heritage which included their music and dances. The term Celtic music encompasses Irish traditional music, traditional music of Scotland and the Shetland Islands; Cape Breton Island and Maritime Canada; Quebec; Wales; the Isle of Man; Northumberland (northern England); Brittany (northwestern France); Cornwall; and Galicia (northwestern Spain). The term, though widely used, is often shunned by many traditionalists. At issue is the lack of many common threads uniting the “Celtic” peoples listed above. Universal characteristics of Celtic musical 16 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 forms include jigs, reels, hornpipes, and slow pieces to the blend. Cincinnati, and other venues airs. Much of the music is typified by strong, At first, the initial over the summer, the Boys repeating melodies in a set rhythm, which reaction was announced their arrival to the reflects a background as music to dance to . slightly hesitant, world loudly, cheerfully, and Ballads are also common. Largely through but that was soon aggressively. Sort of a, “Okay the immigration of the Scotch-Irish, Celtic overshadowed by folks, we’re here…follow us music was the foundation for Appalachian the explosive sets or get out of our way. We’re folk music in the United States. and shows the gonna tear it up!” mannerism. From the thump of the Bodhrán to the airy boys were One thing every crowd can rasp of the wooden flute, celtic music is churning out with expect is aggression, known by its instruments. The fiddle is the mind-blistering adrenaline, and FUN from the mainstay of most Scottish and Irish music. energy. first note to the last. The instrument is exactly the same as a April of 2008 Early 2009, the band sought violin; fiddle is simply the term used in saw the boys in to round out the sound and traditional music.The bodhrán is the the studio putting supplement TK’s pounding heartbeat of Irish music. This ancient together their rhythms with some low end. framedrum is traditionally made with a first smash After determined pestering wooden body and a goat-skin head, and is album “Sixth from Chris Wall, the boys played with a double-headed stick called a and Porter”, and decided to give him a chance cipín , tipper , or beater . The modern Irish the work and a trial by fire - playing a word bodhrán is properly pronounced bow- received rave pub show on Friday the 13th rawn . The fretted instruments Mandolins, reviews from just days after getting called to citterns, bouzoukis, and guitars, are mostly newspapers, come out. Everybody used in accompaniment and for rhythmic radio stations, immediately hit it off backing. There have been harping traditions etc. all over the that night, including in the celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland, Midwest and east coast. The theme of the the audience. The Wales and Brittany for hundreds of years and CD and the band’s outlook on life centers band became a in Ireland it was closely tied to the old around the plight of the Working Man, with a quartet again. aristocracy and ‘high’ culture. Most celtic bit of a rebellious undertone. “It’s an all-for- What once harps are small, and can be played on the one, one-for-all outlook on life that we want started with two knee. to foster with our fans”, says Derek. guys and a guitar The pipes oh yes the pipes. Several forms “Nobody gives you anything in this life. You has fleshed out of bagpipe are used in celtic music. The work for what you get and our fans are the into full-fledged basic instrument has a bag of air, inflated by embodiment of that. I think that’s why we jams; with Paul blowing through a blowpipe. Arm pressure relate to each other so closely.” hammering on guitar or on the bag sends air through a reed on a With a glimmer in their eyes that says, bodhran, Derek singing and jamming on the fingered chanter which makes the sound. The “Watch out! Here it comes again!” and a harmonica – or hitting his drumsticks on usual range is about two octaves. The cocky swagger, they took the festival circuit anything within arm’s reach at a show – Scottish highland pipes are the loudest, by storm. Playing in Cleveland, Dayton, Chris on bass laying out the low end, and played standing, usually in pipe bands. The chanter has eight holes and plays a distinctive ‘pipe scale’. There are two tenor drones, tuned an octave below the chanter and a bass drone a further octave down. The Irish Warpipes are similar, but have only one tenor drone. More popular in Ireland, and a lot quieter are the bellows-powered uilleann pipes. So after a bit of background and explanation we must make mention of Irish Rock that brings forth a twist on the traditional with a very contemporary hard core appeal. It’s in your face, kick your ass, feel good shit, and one band recently making their way through the region and getting asked to return are The Kreellers. The Kreellers , as a band, were formed in March of 2008. Previously, the Detroit based duo, Paul Bruno and Derek Wade took a look around, made the sign of the cross, and stepped off the cliff into the unknown. Paul and Derek already were wowing crowds with their unique style of traditional Celtic music, but they felt something was missing that would bring the band to the next level. Paul’s energetic guitar playing, the cornerstone of the band, was supported by Derek’s mind-blowing vocals and harmonica jams, and occasionally backed with either of the boys playing the bodhran. TK was added to the band in March and the band hit the ground running and never looked back. Playing a drum set that is as original as his style of playing, the band (or “The Boys” as they affectionately refer to each other in e-mails and blogs) completely re-wrote every song they’d had in their repertoire and added a few new original March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 17 TK’s chest-pounding rhythm providing the backbone. The crowd provides the foot stomping and screaming, and everyone comes away from the experience hungry for more! When asked how the music gets brought to the table as to what songs they will do Paul replied, “It is pretty much a mutual agreement on what we are going to play. We try to keep our music true to the traditional spirit with our own personal spin on it. Being that we are on the road so much, and have full time jobs, we have a hard time finding the time to practice. Usually I will come up with a song idea, give Derek a call and run it by him. If he likes it, we usually will end up going over it on phone for about 20 minutes and then bring it to TK , our drummer who can pick up on anything real quick. Same goes for our new bass player Chris. They have to be about the easiest bunch of quick learning musicians we have ever worked with. We will come up with a song sometimes as quick as a day before the show and end playing it onstage the next night. Most of our music is trial by fire. We try it out on stage and watch the crowd’s reaction. If the vibe is good, we will keep it.” Things haven’t been completely smooth sailin for The Kreellers as Paul mentions, “We recently have had a couple of members come and go over the past year, a bass player, a fiddle player, and most recently a bag piper. All were fantastic musicians but had different goals and ideas in mind. We have recently added an awesome bass player who could have not been a better fit. He is one of us. Of course, we are always looking for a great fiddle player or piper that might just happen 18 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 to come along!” (216) 383-1124 1oth Anniversary show! The heavy Celtic Rock doesn’t work with 10:00 pm every Celtic environment and even though the Renaissance festival • Tuesday March scene is 17 not the The House of right fit Blues (Cambridge The Friendly for The Room) 308 Euclid Ave Music Store! .#-'41#& Kreellers Cleveland )'0'8#106*'.#-' Paul says Pre-Parade party “We 9:00 am String Prices really do not look • Tuesday Lowest in Town! good in March 17 tights!!” Flannery’s Pub In-Store Repairs They have 323 Prospect earned their Ave E spot in the Cleveland Over 50 Years of Irish/Celtic (216) 781- Festival 7782 2:00 pm Musical Experience scene as well - 7:00 pm as many well Karaoke Equipment known pubs • Tuesday March 17 and that’s a great way to kick things off. 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Nite Starz Medina 9:30pm Karaoke Saturday March 14th McIntyres in Cleveland 9:30pm is Back! We can’t go without making mention of Every Friday local Cleveland legends The Boys from the County Hell . This eight piece Irish Try Our Prize Winning rock band was formed in the cold Cleveland Winter of 2000. Created as a tribute to the )4'#5;$+-'4$74)'4 legendary Pogues, their live sets are things of Wishing Greg a legend, perhaps put best by the Associated 3rd Place Winner at the Press, “It was all out, balls to the wall, take Speedy Recovery. 2007 National Hamburger Festival no prisoners...these guys had the crowd from (Creative Toppings Category) the first note and didn’t lose them all night.” Stop In and Show This was bedlam. For nine years they have toured the Mid-West, performed at the New Your Support. #&3 )) -* #&- York, New York Casino in Las Vegas, and Tues: $3 Nine-inch Pizza even played a St. Patrick’s Day performance in Bankok, Thailand. Their reputation even In Our Thoughts, Wed: 25¢ Wings made its way back to the Pogues themselves, Thurs: $1 Burgers and they were hired by founding member Spider Stacey as his backing band for a Mid- Jim and Sage &+0'+0%#44;176 West tour. Comprising the band is an all-star cast Voice Magazine. 9G&GNKXGT from the Cleveland rock scene featuring 9KPVGT*QWTU Doug McKean (lead vocals, guitar), Dave Monday - Closed McKean (drums), Aaron Pacitti (banjo), Tue.-Thurs. - 4pm to Midnight Chris Allen (mandolin, guitar), Tom Prebish Friday - 4pm to 1am • Saturday - 3pm to 1am (bass), Ryan Foltz (whistle), Nick Sunday -Closed Stipanovich (accordian), and Chris 2K\\C Yohn (Fiddle). Check them out at www.thebfch.com or 9KPIU catch a show in honor of the grandest party /QTG day of the year! • Friday March 13 The Beachland Ballroom 15711 Waterloo Rd Cleveland March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 19 ARONE’S FRestaurant a n d S aint Patrick (Irish: A Naomh Pádraig ), said to have STEP been born Maewyn Succat was a Roman B women, some of whom became nuns in the Britain-born Christian missionary and is the off as a slave to Ireland. Patrick worked as a /&& O face of family opposition. He also dealt with V patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of herdsman, remaining a captive for six years. - ,0# the sons of kings, converting them too. E Kildare and Columba. When he was about He writes that his faith grew in captivity, , Patrick’s position as a foreigner in Ireland LOUNGE sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and and that he prayed daily. After six years he was not an easy one. His refusal to accept BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived heard a voice telling him that he would soon gifts from kings placed him outside the for six years before escaping and returning go home, and then that his ship was ready. normal ties of kinship, fosterage and affinity. T,)&&#( -"U to his family. After entering the church, he Fleeing his master, he travelled to a port, Legally he was without protection, and he later returned to Ireland as a missionary in two hundred miles away he says, where he says that he was on one occasion beaten, KARAOKE CONTEST the north and west of the island, but little is found a ship and, after various adventures, robbed of all he had, and put in chains, 0 ,31 ( - 3 known about the places where he worked returned home to his family, by this time in Not your same old contest! perhaps awaiting execution. and no link can be made between Patrick his early twenties. Anyone Can Win! Pious legend credits Patrick with and any church. By the eighth century he Patrick recounts that he had a vision a Sing a song, pick your lucky number banishing snakes from the island, though all had become the patron saint of Ireland. The few years after returning home: & you can be the next Winner. evidence suggests that post-glacial Ireland 5 cash envelopes to be given away with Irish monastery system evolved after the I saw a man coming, as it were from never had snakes; one suggestion is that random amount of cash. time of Patrick and the Irish church did not Ireland. His name was Victoricus, and he snakes referred to the serpent symbolism of develop the diocesan model that Patrick and carried many letters, and he gave me one of the Druids of that time and place, as shown the other early missionaries had tried to them. I read the heading: “The Voice of the for instance on coins minted in Gaul. Legend establish. Irish”. As I began the letter, I imagined in also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish The available body of evidence does not that moment that I heard the voice of those about the concept of the Trinity by showing allow the dates of Patrick’s life to be fixed very people who were near the wood of people the shamrock, a 3-leaved clover, with certainty, but it appears that he was Foclut, which is beside the western sea— -H *5HHM*5FHM using it to highlight the Christian belief of active as a missionary in Ireland during the and they cried out, as with one voice: “We ‘three divine persons in the one God’ (as -5H '5F7< second half of the fifth century. Two letters appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and opposed to the Arian belief that was popular K=H<,C7?=BW,C6=B*FC8I7H=CBG from him survive, along with later walk among us. Much of the Declaration in Patrick’s time). hagiographies from the seventh century concerns charges made against Patrick by DAHC5A St. Patrick is said to be buried at Down onwards. Many of these works cannot be his fellow Christians at a trial. What these $ 99 Cathedral in Downpatrick, County Down, Corned Beef Dinner 8 taken as authentic traditions. Uncritical charges were, he does not say explicitly, but alongside St. Brigid and St. Columba, $ 99 acceptance of the Annals of Ulster would he writes that he returned the gifts which Irish Stew 7 although this has never been proven. The imply that he lived from 340 to 460, and wealthy women gave him, did not accept $ 99 Battle for the Body of St. Patrick Reuben Sandwich 6 ministered in what is modern day northern payment for baptisms, nor for ordaining demonstrates the importance of both him as Ireland from 428 onwards. priests, and indeed paid for many gifts to CC8-D97=5@G a spiritual leader, and of his body as an The two Latin letters that survive, which are kings and judges, and paid for the sons of object of veneration, in early Christian -5HIF85MH By Sage Satori Organ and Tissue Donation 1;P?M*CP?M in Support of Life Through improved surgical techniques P eter Kingsley is internationally Professor both at Simon Fraser University has a tremendous intelligence of its own. and drug therapies, more lives are being in Canada and at the University of New The only trouble is that we keep saved. These improvements have caused recognized for his groundbreaking work on the waiting list to grow at a rapid pace. the origins of Mexico. With his wife he interfering; keep breaking it up into tiny However, the number of organ donors emigrated from England to has not kept up with the increased need. western spirituality, pieces, scattering it everywhere. Our minds People on the waiting list are not waiting philosophy and Canada in 1995, then from always trick us into focusing on the little for a cure to be discovered; they are waiting for a gift of a lifetime. culture. Through his Canada to the United States things we think we want — rather than on What can you do? You can help by joining writings as well as in 2002. In 2008 Peter and the energy of wanting itself. If we can bear The Ohio Donor Registry. lectures he speaks Maria Kingsley moved to to face our longing instead of finding straight to the heart Asheville in North Carolina. endless ways to keep satisfying it and and has helped to Peter Kingsley’s work is to trying to escape it, it begins show us a transform many bring back to life, and make glimpse of what lies behind the scenes. It people’s accessible again, the opens up devastating perspective where understanding not extraordinary mystical everything is turned on its head: where only of the past, but tradition that lies forgotten fulfillment becomes a limitation, of who they are. right at the roots of the accomplishment turns into a trap. And it He is the author of western world. does this with an intensity that scrambles three books which, in Crafted thousands of thoughts and forces us straight into the the space of only a few years ago as a system present. years, have exerted the capable of bringing a most profound and far- human being to the Some of Peter’s articles can be read on !;FF *'$# reaching influence experience of his website and his books may be 2IFF@L??*'$# outside as well as inside reality, this purchased through the site as well. QQQ*C@? ;H==IG academia. He lectures very tradition is www.peterkingsley.org widely—speaking to Native immensely American elders and physicists, powerful in its professional scholars and immediacy and followers of different spiritual directness. And it traditions, healers and medical matters to us now practitioners as well as people more than we can who very simply are aware of imagine because it the need to wake up to a contains inside itself reality greater than the one the secret—the we are used to. original meaning and After graduating with sacred purpose—of honors from the University the world we live in. of Lancaster, England, in An excerpt from one 1975, Peter Kingsley went of Kingsley’s articles on to receive the degree of THE SPIRITUAL Master of Letters from TRADITION AT THE King’s College Cambridge ROOTS OF before being awarded a PhD WESTERN by the University of London. CIVILIZATION He has worked together with follows: many of the most prominent What we call human figures in the fields of classics nature means being and anthropology, philosophy pulled by the nose in and religious studies, ancient a hundred different civilizations and the history of directions and both healing and science. The ending up going recipient of many academic nowhere very fast. awards, he was a Fellow at the But although there Warburg Institute in London and is no reasoning has been made an honorary with our passion, it March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 21 By Chad Felton I t was a Saturday, last year, and I had where all domestics run you a $2.00 from 6 p.m. to midnight, a seemingly perpetual regrettably watched Ohio State lose a happy hour anyone of a bibulous nature crucial game to Penn State, a fact which can surely appreciate. most likely still sits sour in the stomachs The Shamrock could be classified as a of Buckeye fans. There was no further true throwback, an old school relic, a stark need to exacerbate the pain by contrast, a wagon circled by a siege of “up- contributing large outlay for beers after and-coming,” fashionable chain places the game. I promptly took my frustration conforming to what’s believed, for the and left the watering hole I was moment, to be popular. “The Shamrock patronizing and headed for a new isn’t hip and because of this fact, it has sanctuary. never been in the vulnerable position to be The Shamrock Inn in Mentor eased my replaced by the next hip thing,” Chick agony with its featured Sick Saturdays, says. where beers and low-shelf shots are an “It’s a fact in this industry that a lot of uncostly 75 cents, a price that would make bars come and go,” Seitz says, suppressing Dionysus himself incredulous. a smile, “and Mentor is no different. But Remarkably, the Shamrock has the Shamrock is still here, baby.” managed to fly under the radar for more Not exactly spacious, the Shamrock is than 34 years, yet its presence stands narrow and compact. Thankfully lacking strong. “I was coming here more than a the customary Irish bar kitsch, the walls quarter of a century ago, back when I was are simply adorned with tattered sports a pup getting ready to graduate from pennants, schedules, and other typical bar Mentor High,” remembers Jeff Seitz, wine accessories; the bar had one billiards table, importer and distributor for Private a Touchscreens juke box, a newly placed Reserve. “I cut my drinking teeth here, pole (which never fails to attract tipsy you could say. I have been a lot of places females who dream of dancing), dual in my travels while working over 30 years hoisted televisions bookending the bar in the food and beverage industry and the itself, stains on the carpet older than I am, Shamrock still remains a sentimental and bathrooms, though not exactly out of favorite.” Trainspotting, certainly leaving something “We’ve always been one of Mentor’s to be desired. One notes the minutiae and best kept secrets,” claims Marty Chick, concludes, resoundingly, ‘”Who cares?” A the Shamrock’s ostensible bartender. “hole,” in this case, is a term of Ambience, atmosphere, and nuance? endearment, and suitably, patrons refer to Forget it. You’ll also find no self- the Shamrock, affectionately, as “Mentor’s aggrandizement, no bling-bling, no trendy favorite dive bar.” décor or Jager girls circling with “We may not be the biggest or the ludicrously overpriced shots, no live DJ or best,” Chick says matter-o-factly, with no coordinated/contrived special events. The trace of self-deprecation, “but we get folks Shamrock has none of these things and in the door ‘cause we have what people that’s exactly what its appeal has been for want---cheap prices.” Dionysus would decades. The bar’s sustained success is indeed, be proud. notable, considering it never advertises and is rarely, if ever, promoted; it relies solely on word of mouth. “We don’t get The Shamrock Inn is located at into the glamour or glitz like other joints 7500 Mentor Ave. in Mentor. and we never have,” Chick explains. Call 440-946-3111. The bar also hosts Discount Mondays and Wednesdays, sponsored by Master Pizza (the bar’s next door neighbor), 22 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 The following are a few believed to be Irish toasts that have been past down for generations: Banshe Ingredients: We drink to your coffin. May it be built from · 1 shot Irish whiskey MON.- FRI 10:30am-7pm the wood of a hundred year old oak tree that · 1 shot Irish Mist $1.25 DOMESTICS & WELL DRINKS I shall plant tomorrow. Mixing instructions: HAPPY HOUR Pour over crushed ice. Lightly stir. Here’s to a long life and a merry one. DINE-IN A quick death and an easy one. 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Colcannon gelatin T he second largest island of the British The potato was introduced to Ireland by This dish goes well 1/3 cup Irish whiskey or Isles, Ireland, not only boasts coastlines in Sir Walter Raleigh who brought it from with boiled bacon or Irish Mist all directions, but the interior is dotted with Virginia. The Irish peasants rapidly adopted red meat. It can also 10 ounces whipping lakes, streams, and its longest river, the it as a filling, economical crop. In addition, be eaten on its own cream Shannon. These wet areas, coupled with the potato lent itself well to Irish kitchens, with an extra knob of 3 ounces crushed walnuts heavy rainfall, have given Ireland lush, which were generally limited to a cauldron butter on top. green grasses, earning it the appellation “the and a griddle. It eventually came to be the Separate the yolks from Emerald Isle.” main food crop of the poor. The reliance 1 lb cooked potatoes the whites of eggs. In a The rich, fertile pastures gave rise to upon potatoes as a staple crop made the Irish 1 small onion bowl, cream with yolks dairy farming, and early on the Irish were vulnerable to poor potato harvests. Disaster 1/2lb cooked green with the sugar. raising oats, barley, and wheat – grains that struck in the Great Famine of 1845, caused cabbage Heat the coffee until hot remain staples in their diet today. Ireland’s by a blight which spread easily from crop to 2 tablespoons cream but not boiling: add the Celtic culture developed strongly, for the crop. By 1851, 1 million people had died, 2 oz butter gelatin and dissolve it in island remained free of the Roman two million had fled to North America, and Salt and pepper the coffee. Add this mixture to the yolks and influences that were affecting other another three million were left destitute. sugar. Beat well and put the bowl over a pot European peoples. In fact, it wasn’t til the Today, the Irish diet is not as dependant on To Cook: Chop cooked cabbage roughly. of boiling water. Continue beating until arrival of St. Patrick in the 5th century that potatoes, and disease-resistant strains help Chop onion and mixture begins to thicken. remove from heat, Christianity spread, and with it came the ensure that such a disaster will not recur. But cook gently in the and when the bowl has cooled a monks who dutifully recorded the Irish potatoes do remain a featured ingredient, and butter until soft. little, place it over customs and folkways. From their scripts, the Irish consume more potatoes than any Drain the cracked ice and we know that Celtic diets included a wide other European country. potatoes, season continue stirring. range of soured milk drinks, curds, cheeses, Today, Irish cuisine can be divided into and beat well. When the mixture is and rich butter. two main categories – traditional, mainly Add cooked on the point of setting, Because a man’s wealth was judged by simple dishes, and more modern dishes onion and whip the cream and the size of his cattle herd, cows were raised served by hotels, etc. for the tourists. cream. Fold in fold it in. Add the mostly for the dairy, but rarely eaten as beef. the cabbage. whiskey or Irish Mist. Instead pigs and sheep were eaten for their There are many Irish dishes involving Serve hot. Lastly, fold in the meat, and every part of the animal found potatoes such as Colcannon, Champ, Irish well-beaten egg whites. some use in the kitchen. Salted slabs of stew and Boxty. A dish most particular to Bangers in Pour into a souffle dish bacon became a favorite part of the Irish Dublin is coddle, which uses boiled pork that has a double Rum Sauce diet, and fat in all forms, from butter to lard, sausages. Ireland is famous for the Irish thickness of parchment was a valued seasoning. breakfast, which consists of pork, eggs, and paper tied around it: the paper should come Irish meats also came from the potatoes. Traditional Irish breads include 1 lb Shannon Traditional Sausages up 3 inches above the top of the souffle dish. woodlands, in the form of venison, wild soda bread, wheaten bread, and hot cross (Bangers) Oil a jam jar or bottle and press it down boar, and geese. There are many references buns. 2 oz rum (white or dark) into the center of the pudding. Leave to to fulacht fiadh, sites for cooking deer which Traditional Irish food has a strong 2 1/2 tablespoons dark set. Remove the paper collar by consisted of holes in the ground filled with emphasis on meat and butter, leading to brown sugar easing around the circumference water. The meat was placed in the water and increasing health problems such as obesity with a knife dipped in hot water. cooked by the introduction of hot stones. and heart disease. Ireland has one of the Cook sausage until lightly Remove the jar or bottle, and fill Woodsy herbs and plants like sorrel, highest rates of heart disease in the world. browned in a skillet with a the center with 1 cup heavy cream, leeks, watercress, berries, and hazelnuts Government efforts to combat this have little oil. Drain on paper whipped, sweetened with 1 were gathered. Salmon, shellfish, and included television campaigns and towel. Slice sausage into tablespoon granulated sugar. You freshwater fish were harvested from the educational programs in the schools. three equal parts. Steep in can also decorate the exposed sides rivers and seas. Honey seems to have been In tandem with these developments, the rum for 2 hours. Sprinkle of the pudding with crushed widely eaten and used in the production of last quarter of the 20th century saw the sugar over rum and sausages walnuts, pressed on with the palm mead, a honey wine. emergence of a new Irish cuisine based on making sure they are covered of your hand. From the middle ages, until the arrival of traditional ingredients handled in different with liquid. Cook in 325 C 4 servings the potato in the latter half of the 17th ways. This cuisine uses more fresh oven for 15-20 minutes or century, the dominant feature of the rural vegetables and hand-made cheeses. Seafood until bubbling. Serve with economy was the herding of cattle. The has gained popularity in Ireland, especially cocktail sticks. meat produced was mostly the preserve of due to the high-quality shellfish [Dublin Bay Serves 6 to 8 24 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 W ith their song “Cosmic Riddles” Jagermeister and will contain the band‘s being placed on the MTV show newest material. With standout tracks like “Undressed“, Yellow No. 5 shot to the top “ Feel This ” already being placed in a of the central Ohio rock scene in 2000 Toyota commercial, the music of Yellow with their “Self Titled” debut album. Since No. 5 proves to appeal to the fans and the then Jeremy, (vocals/guitar), Cory, industry at the same time. The band is self (drums), Jeff,( guitar) and Rob, (bass/ managed and does business through their support vocals), have went on to play own label, Spin World Records , and B.M.I. many prime venues with Lovedrug, Red (Broadcast Music Incorporated) for radio Wanting Blue, Stroke 9, Jimmie’s Chicken and film royalty licensing. They’ll be Shack and Bobaflex, to name a few. performing regional Ohio events until the Immediately after releasing their next album is released. At a Yellow No. second full length, “Everyday is 5 concert you can expect a great rock Different”, and signing on with Curt show and if you’re 21 or older you’ll get Mangan Strings and Jagermeister in 2004, free gear from Jagermeister! Check them the band hit the road covering several U.S. out at The Cove Nite Club on Friday, and Canadian cities from Toronto to March 13th and visit the band’s website Atlanta. (Let’s bet they have some at: www.yellowno5.net. Also, join them stories to tell about that trip.) Yellow on: www.myspace.com/yellowno5 to hear No. 5 has also been featured on national some of the tracks they will be and international compilation CDs as performing. well as a Downhill Mountain Bike DVD. The next record, aiming for a spring ’09 release date, will be pressed by 2B?!IP? %?H?P;IHNB?*;E?Y Torn Days are Back! QQQGSMJ;=?=IG=IP?HCN?=FO< And Ready to Tear %?H?P;M-LCACH;F0I=E0IFF,CN?!FO< it up at The Cove on $LC+;LNB- Taken with guests White Pepper, Phoenix Rising, & Soul Shaker March 14th 1;NOL>;S +;L=BNB .OHE@?MN Averis, Kill The Fall, The Farchill Hooligans, The Black Elevators, The Black Stallions, The Tumors, The Rottens, Stickmen, F eatured in previous issues of the before the scar”. They completely blur the Pirates of The Burning River, The Roller Rockers, North Coast Voice, this three piece power lines between alternative and hard rock The Molemen, The Shinanigans trio hails from a small town in Ohio where creating a sound that captures their the members formed while they were in audience and keeps them hooked. The raw $LC+;LNBJagermeister Party with Yellow No. 5 and special guests high school. Since then, they have made the guitars, thumping bass, and meaty drums road their home by sharing the stage with support the powerful vocal melodies and TheBella Donna, Peril Eyes, Stealing Griswold & More even more powerful lyrical sentiments. top local and national acts all over the TORN DAYS & RUMBLEDADDY country. They have gained popularity by Torn Days have been voted best new 1;N+;LNB shattering any preconceived notions of modern rock band by The Lookout With Special Guests what they are supposed to sound like. The Magazine. They have given tremendous Shatter Sindrome, Walking Edith Park & more support to the American Breast Cancer band stretches the boundaries for a sound Years of Fire - PLUS -Resist, that’s everything modern rock should be: Foundation with donations from every CD $LC>;S+;LNB hard, hooky, and full of energy! This is why that is purchased. They recently finished up Shichorde, The Renegades, Ruled By Reason, For Those Torn Days stands head and shoulders above their national tour and are featured on with Honer, Leviathan, Bright Lights and Busy Signals, today’s field of cookie-cutter rock hundreds of radio stations throughout the Craving Core practitioners. United States. www.torndays.com So clearly, Torn Days have thrown away X-BAND & FLAGSHIP AND SHOVED the rulebook with their album “the cut 1;N+;LMN March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 25 of Wales, to jokes about his ex- wife. His pacing is off, and he clears his throat nonstop through his entire routine (often to keep his overzealous fans from shouting band out his punch lines). He has was. performed his brand of And comedy, in front of audiences now from the New York University The Thompson Center to Jimmy Kimmel Live . One of his most famous gags is the “Zipper Lips,” in which he asks an audience member a question. If the audience member doesn’t By Jim Ales respond, Hamburger derides Amazing Rondini Brothers will them for being a “zipper lips.” A I t’s not Swing. It’s not Rockabilly. It’s open for America’s $1 Funnyman, Neil common phrase used by the not Jazz. It’s not Punk. It’s The Amazing Hamburger at The Grog Shop Tuesday comedian is “But that’s my Rondini Brothers! Named after the March 10th at 9pm. life!” signature Rondini accordion while quickly Neil Hamburger’s jokes range from Originally founded in the and thinking of a name for the band to land their variations of “Why did the chicken cross the summer of 2006, the Amazing captivating audiences with their on-stage first gig. Dave Rondini was staring at the road?” to celebrity targets, such as Michael Rondini Brothers formed with the intent of antics and peculiar – sometimes downright famed instrument’s nameplate as he was on Jackson, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, The bringing something to the Cleveland music creepy – lyrics. As word continued to spread, the phone trying to answer what the name of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Diana, Princess scene, the likes of which had not previously demand for all things Rondini began to existed. After some experimentation Dave skyrocket, and the boys hit the studio. (guitar/vocals) and Chad (piano/accordion), “We’re not striving for one aesthetic decided to expand the sound and scope of thing,” Red expands on. “I think everything the project. was born organically and we weren’t looking With their vision including wailing, in- to achieve one certain type of sound or look. your-face brass, former Seven City Kings With the different types of music and band mates Ryan Hoover (Trombone/ instruments we play it’s more than just a Trumpet/Vocals) and Red Taylor (Trumpet/ celebration. We are trying to create this world Guitar/Vocals) were added to the lineup in and invite people into it.” And what a world November, 2007. After several tryouts and it is. With a seven piece band age ranging auditions, the four decided on drummer from 21 to 32 years of age, not only willing, Benny Heckler, violinist Dan DiMatteo, and but encouraged to sport fake mustaches and bassist Mitchel Martin for the final lineup. play the kinds instruments live to the public, Drawing from influences spanning funk, Dave says “you have to have a certain rockabilly, jazz, punk, classical and integral fiber within yourself to do it vaudeville, the group molded and formed effectively.” their own special brand of “Ragtime Rock ‘n The brass section of the band is all Roll.” classically trained musicians. In fact Red has “I think the driving spirit of this band is a bachelor’s degree in music. With all the we don’t see in a lot of today’s music is ‘the formal training they have including opera, presentation’ ” Dave explains. “Because we their musical taste range all over the place. live with multi media method of transmitting Chad a classical pianist who for many years information, it’s not just music, but music played as a solo, is accustomed to huge with video. With the advent of the internet grandiose climaxes brings a special level of you can now see, hear and sometimes talk liveliness to the band. Dan has been playing where you can have a two way violin since the age of four, spent the communication through your computer. majority of his career playing in restaurants Back then, it was just a one way in Downtown Cleveland to patrons at their communication with the radio. Because of tables. They’ll take anything from 16th all that’s out there now, it’s important to century dramatic craziness to modern times provide a presentation for the live show. I classical that will bring a certain level of remember going to concerts and with the energy to their performance. They create band sounding like the album, and visually their own posters to promote their shows that there was nothing stimulating. So when you present the variations of the theme. come to see our show, it will be almost like a With their first full-length album, Strange variety show.” Machines and Other Curious Contraptions After months of carefully crafting their now released and a tour of the mid west to distinctive sound, the motley band of follow, the Rondinis are poised and ready to “brothers” brought their act to the masses. continue on their path to a surprise “coup-de- Naturally, they began to gain exposure globe.” through regular gigs at several local spots 26 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 R ICHARD CHAMBERLAIN roles in the movies The Three Musketeers the web. ACME Sound Partners. Others on the reigns as King in the National Tour of The Four Musketeers , The Return of the Lovingly “ripped-off” from the creative and production teams include David Monty Python’s SPAMALOT Three Musketeers , Towering Inferno , internationally famous comedy team’s most Brian Brown (Hair & Wig Design), Gregory Richard Chamberlain wears the crown of Strength and Honour , and I Now Pronounce popular motion picture, Monty Python and Meeh (Special Effects Design), Elaine King Arthur when he takes the stage at You Chuck and Larry . the Holy Grail , Monty Python’s McCarthy (Projection Design), Joseph A. PlayhouseSquare, part of The U.S. Bank Star Aside from acting, Chamberlain has long SPAMALOT is the winner of three 2005 Campayno (Make-Up Design), Larry Performance Series for a one week been known for his interest in environmental Tony Awards including Best Musical and Hochman (Orchestrations), Glen Kelly engagement March 31 through April 5, affairs. He lobbied in Sacramento CA and in Best Director (Mike Nichols), as well as the (Music Arrangements), Todd Ellison 2009. Washington D.C. to save the Tuolommne Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards (Musical Supervision and Vocal Richard Chamberlain has created a River flowing from Yosemite National Park for Best Musical. The original cast recording Arrangements), Michael Keller (Musical singular position with the world of mini- in California. His efforts helped to win a of Monty Python’s SPAMALOT Coordinator), Peter Lawrence (Associate series, having starred in some of the most “Wild and Scenic” designation for the river. recently won the 2006 Grammy Award for Director), Tara Rubin (Casting), and Gene dramatic and powerful productions in the He also narrated a widely acclaimed Best Musical Show Album. O’Donovan (Production Manager). history of television. Over the last two Audubon television special about the Directed by Mike Nichols, Monty Monty Python isn’t a person, but a group decades Chamberlain has starred in six of the poaching of animals in National forests. One Python’s SPAMALOT features a book of British actors and writers (and one most acclaimed mini-series: “Shogun,” of his special projects was an Audubon by Eric Idle, based on the screenplay of American) that performed their famous “Wallenberg,” “The Thornbirds,” “The special about Hawaii’s precious ecology. In Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Monty comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus Bourne Identity,” “Dreamwest,” and 1989 he was the principal speaker at the San Python creators Graham Chapman, John on the BBC from 1969 to 1974, with “Centennial.” “Shogun” earned Chamberlain Francisco Ecological Convention. Richard Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones subsequent international fame and success. a Golden Globe Award as Best Actor, as well also narrated cinematographer Don Briggs’ and Michael Palin, with music and lyrics by as an Emmy nomination. He received film The Grand Canyon , Its History , and the Grammy Award-winning team of Mr. another Golden Globe Award, Emmy Fragile Ecology . He also worked with past Idle and John Du Prez. Casey Nicholaw is SPAMALOT will play PlayhouseSquare’s nomination, and a People’s Choice Award for Mayor Jeremy Harris in television the choreographer. Palace Theatre March 31 – April 5, 2009. his work in “The Thornbirds.” commercials to educate the public against Monty Python’s SPAMALOT is Performances are Tuesday – Friday evenings Richard Chamberlain became a dumping waste into the storm drains of produced by Boyett Ostar Productions. at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., household name overnight in 1961 when he Honolulu, protecting Hawaii’s pristine Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and and Sundays at 1:00 and 6:30 p.m. played the title role of Dr. Kildare, a part he waters. He has also been very active with the the Knights of the Round Table, and their Tickets range in price from $27.50 - $82.50 played for five years. He has traveled the environmental group, The Outdoor Circle in quest for the Holy Grail, Monty Python’s and may be purchased globe performing in numerous productions Honolulu. Frequently, he donates his talents SPAMALOT features a chorus line of by calling (216) 241-6000 or by visiting on stage, television and in films. He has most to The Honolulu Symphony, doing numerous dancing divas and knights, flatulent PlayhouseSquare.org. recently toured as the title role in the US narrations on classical and contemporary Frenchmen, killer rabbits and one legless For discounts on groups of 20 or more, call premier of Scrooge , and played the king in works. knight. (216) 664-6050 or (800) 888-9941. The King and I for Hawaii Opera Theatre. His adventure away from acting has been Set and costume design for Monty On screen Chamberlain has guest starred on his love of painting and sculpture. His works Python’s SPAMALOT is by Tony Award- www.MontyPythonsSpamalot.com “Will & Grace,” “Nip/Tuck,” “Hustle” and can currently be viewed at Celebrity Gallery winner Tim Hatley, lighting design is by “Desperate Housewives” and has played in Lahaina and Wailea on Maui, as well as on Hugh Vanstone and sound design is by March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 27 By West Side Steve The story Oscar Redux isn’t So the Oscars are yesterday’s news, literally. Well last week’s news by now but… 19GHG=89 Rather than spend time gloating I guess I’ll -H9J9 kick myself for being too much of a wuss to drop a C note on the trifecta (or whatever Saturday 14: they call it with five). Detroit Beach Boat Club • 8:00 PM No real surprises happened despite a couple Beer God's Place of curious snubs, namely Eastwood’s GRAN Sunday 15: Detroit St. Paddy's Parade TORINO and DARK KNIGHT. Even though The Works Michigan Ave. at Rosa Parks I liked those (as well as THE WRESTLER) Monday 16: The Hooley House • 6-9PM New Irish Pub in Mentor better than the ones that made the cut I can’t Monday 16: WWW.WBWC.com • 10PM pick a truly unworthy entry. Co-hosting “Island Time” Radio Show A few things surprised me and a few things With DK St. Paddy Special didn’t but I can’t think of a shocker. Tuesday 17: Akron Hibernians Matinee A few observations: 1:00 PM • K of C Hall • South Akron Sorry but I don’t get the landslide for Tuesday 17: On Tap • 6:00 PM SLUMDOG especially the best song win. Montrose Huge St. Paddy's Party That Bollywood stuff is pretty grating. Wednesday 18: Treehouse Bar Frank Langella’s NIXON was the best acting Tremont • St. Paddy recovery party job on the board, but politics gave Sean Penn Friday 20: McCarthy's Ale House 7:00 PM the win. Penn’s an above average actor but a Saturday 21: Bootleggers • 8:00 PM world class A-hole. groundbreaking; Medina Ohio Rt.18 at 71 • Rodeway Inn Speaking of politics even though WALL-E there’s a young KKK K9GHG=89GH9J9 7CA was a visual masterpiece I think it was the girl, Coraline ham handed environmental “message” that (Dakota got the win. I liked BOLT a whole lot better. Fanning) You gotta love Ben Stiller’s take on Joaquin uprooted to a Phoenix. strange new *-121&##. ," Rumor has it that Demi Moore spent the home by her “too evening patrolling the party she and busy to be fun” Madonna hosted with a bouncer to eject parents. anybody not on the guest list. I wonder If One day she finds Penn and Bruce Willis tried to crash? a secret Oh, and Jennifer? Don’t worry; most of us passageway to a think Angelina is a skank. completely All in all the Academy did better than last different world. In previous flicks it’s a B years all time ratings low, although I can’t clothes closet or a tornado in Kansas it’s not really imagine why. Maybe because there a new hook. was no Michael Moore, Al Gore or Keanu The new world looks much like the old one Reeves in sight and that’s a good thing. but for the fact that Mom and Dad are the Fired Up 1;N+;L=B perfect parents and everything that was dull Screen Gems • PG13 • 90 min or creepy before is now magical and Maybe I was just worn out from the hyper exciting. serious messages and heavy drama of the Coraline But there is a downside. You see all the Oscars. Maybe it’s because the week after Focus • PG • 100 min people in the new world have buttons the awards is one of Hollywood’s dumping So since nothing worthwhile opened this instead of eyes and it seems her “other” grounds. Whatever the reason, I decided to -J?HCHA,CABN week I’m going to turn you on to a little gem mother (both moms are Teri Hatcher) really write up one of the two most recent (and JGNIJG from last week’s openings, CORALINE, an wants to sew them on to our little heroine’s inconsequential) comedies. oddball animated feature taken from Neil own peepers. Hmmmm… Tyler Perry? I think not. Let’s Gaiman’s equally oddball novella. As a matter of fact it’s becoming clear that see, maybe FIRED UP? Let’s see. Who stars 1;N+;L=B It’s been said that Gaiman writes fairy new Mom is more than a little, well, wicked. in this one? Oh nobody, but what’s it about? tales for grownups and that might be so; I’ve If it sounds a little pat, remember that this is Ahh who cares; they can surprise me. I held read his American Gods and there’s a touch Gaiman. His work is spectacularly unreal my nose and marched right in. of that in CORALINE. More on that later. but on the downside it may feel weird just Well here’s the deal. Nicholas D’Agosto and As CORALINE begins, showcasing surreal for weirdness’ sake. Not that it isn’t Eric Christian Olsen (who looks like but is stop action animation you’ll immediately interesting or fun but just a bit hard to probably not one of the Olsen twins) are think of Tim Burton. There are similarities fathom at times. Shawn and Nick two studly high school but this one is the handiwork of Henry Selick Still as always there is no place like home athletes on a mission to nail every girl in NI and Dan Casey and not nearly as dark or and this combination of a well-told tale and America. They devise a plan to infiltrate a musical. amazing animation is one I’m pretty sure cheerleading cam to obtain access to www.lostsheepband.com you’ll enjoy. 28 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 hundreds of hotties from all over the country then bail before camp’s over. The first thing you’ll notice is that these guys look more like extras from MILK than jocks. The second thing that pops out is the cheesy 306 dialog and right after that the shockingly bad acting. Yes dear friends, in five short minutes you know you’re strapped into one of the worst movies of the year. But wait, as time went by and the shock from the bad acting and script began to wear off (BTW It doesn’t get better but you become accustomed to it, like marriage or prison) I actually stopped actively hating the movie. Sure I knew exactly what was coming; these bums are gonna come to self realization, bond with the cheerleading squad and find true love and blah blah blah but by the end I Home of the Hoover was actually rooting for them. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a piece of crap but I must admit it goes in my guilty 2 HAPPY HOURS! pleasures folder with my Belinda Carlisle box set. 7:30-10:30am There are a lot more gay jokes, vulgar sexual & 4-6:30pm innuendo and cuss words than you’d expect in a PG 13 (plus they repeat the F U gag Daily Specials about fifty times, lest we forget) so you may Open 7 Days • 6:30am-2:30am not want to let little kids go. But to kill some time? I’m just saying… Full Kitchen Menu Breakfast Served 7-10:30am C+ 7377 Lakeshore Blvd. WSS Mentor [email protected] 440.257.3557 Lake County's Most "O@@SbM2;P?LH Screwed Up Country Band! 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What the hell is this phrase miles away, but now rotting in warehouses supposed to mean anyway? because we can’t drive them here! No lassies and ladies it’s not about what Here’s another one. “When shopping check you’re going to wear to your favorite pub on the garment labels for ingredients like St Patty’s Day, and for god’s sake the term organic cotton and even bamboo.” An Irish Pub Joke... “green underwear” means the color green not “moldy college dorm grundies”! An Irishman, an Englishman and a Someone please tell me how the hell cotton Scotsman go into a pub. Each orders a can be gotten by any other means than “Going Green” doesn’t even mean what you pint of Guinness. Just as the bartender organic? Inorganic cotton? What, do we leave in the toilet after a night of green beer secretly get cargo ships of Martian Cotton? Lifeline of Lake County hands them over, three flies buzz down and sauerkraut! Huh? Never mind. and land-- one, two, three-- in each of How about those shipments of Plutonian March Mania 2009 Plums? “Hey bartender, give me a shot of the pints. No my Celtic-wana-be’s here’s what I found that Jupitarian Jubilee Jumping Juice”! Friday, March 6th • 7:30 p.m. that the eccentric ones of ultimate La Malfa Party Center The Englishman looks disgusted, pushes knowledge want us to do to be “Green”. Is it or is it not grown… on a plant… in the Fundraiser to Aid Lake County Low his pint away and demands another... the ground… on earth? How can you get any “Think before you eat.” Yeah what a Income Families Scotsman picks out the fly, shrugs, and greener than that? concept! How in hell could we possibly not All You Can Eat Buffet & Open Bar takes a long swallow. think before we eat? Well I guess if you’re a And the last time I tried to wear bamboo Contact: 440-354-2148 politician, lawyer or a Jesus Obama fanatic jeans I couldn’t even bend my legs! 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Well then again… cash” if you want to “get green” because it ain’t going to be conveniently cheap! “Buying locally means our purchase will support local farmers.” I’m all for that but Don’t believe me? Just take a look at dieting its friggen February for god’s sake and all stuff, health foods, vitamins, and my the smart farmers from around here are in favorite… deadly mercury vapor filled light Florida picking their noses and sipping on bulbs! And they’re not even from Mercury! margaritas! Hmm, bartender bring me some of that So where are the fruit and veggies going to Jupitarian Jubilee Jumping Juice and let’s come from in the winter? We’re supposed to conveniently think about it some more! eat them to stay healthy aren’t we? But of 30 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 March 4 - 18, 2009 Fundraiser Benefit for Hospice of the Western Reserve SUN., APRIL 19 $ 5 Call for Band Listing March 4 - 18, 2009 www.northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 31 LIVE ENTERTAINMENT FEATURING: Fri., March 6 - Keith 6th Annual Ice Wine Festival Sat., March 7 - Whooz Playin Fri., March 13 - Whooz Playin Saturday, March 7th & 14th, Noon-5 p.m. Sat., March 14 - Fretless $5 per person at each winery. Fri., March 20 - 2 Aces Sat., March 21 - LochErie - Reuben’s at the Winery Celtic Music In Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day Wed., March 25 - Keith Fri., March 27 - Tom Todd Celebrate the luck of the Irish with us. Enjoy Reuben sandwiches March 17th & 18th, Sat., March 28 - Tom Todd served with coleslaw, chips and pickle. Entertainment Saturday, March 21st by LochErie, have a great time with their varied Irish/Celtic music selection (no Reuben Entertainment plays on sandwiches this day). Music plays 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Wednesday & Friday No reservations necessary. from 7-11 p.m.; Saturday from 3:30-7:30 p.m. Normal Business Hours: Monday & Tuesday Noon-6 p.m.; Wednesday & Friday Noon-11 p.m.; Thursday & Saturday Noon-8 p.m. SERVING A VARIETY OF APPETIZERS, GRILLED SANDWICHES, AND DELICIOUS ENTRÉES. OPEN WEDNESDAY NOON-6 P.M.; THURSDAY NOON-8 P.M.; FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOON-11 P.M.; SUNDAY 1-8 P.M. CALL 440-298-9838 FOR MORE INFORMATION or www.grandrivercellars.com JOIN US FOR LIVE MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY, SATURDAY, & SUNDAY! Fri., March 6 Unchartered Course (Light Rock) Sat., March 7 7 Castaways (Rockn Roll) Sun., March 8 Akin for Jazz 5750 S. MADISON RD. (RT. 528) • MADISON, OH • 44057 Fri., March 13 Trilogy (Rock n Roll) -ST. PATRICK’S DAY WEEKEND –March 20th, 21st, 22nd- Sat., March 14 Corned Beef & Great Music Available all weekend! Blues deVille (Rock n Blues) Celebrate the luck of the Irish with corned beef sandwiches and dinners all Sun., March 15 weekend long. Enjoy traditional Celtic music by the Forsythe Band on Friday Stan Miller (Jazz) evening and rock out with the Stone River Band on Saturday. Mal Barron will Fri., March 20 finish the weekend with smooth jazz on Sunday afternoon. Enjoy an added Sat., March 21 Stone River feature on Friday evening with the Ziemba Family Dancers from the Leneghan Band (Rockn Roll) School of Traditional Irish Dance. Reservations recommended.Y%?H?P;Y Arthur, Texas, through her social persecution Watch the Games on our BIG SCREEN! GUhifXUm AUfW\&,h\ in high school (where she attained the status of outcast), to her tragic premature death at Now Serving age 27 from a heroin overdose, Janis is a genuine rock icon. Much has been written Homemade Pizzas about her life; her many failed love affairs & Sub Sandwiches and the excesses of drugs and alcohol are legendary. She lived the rock lifestyle to the utmost and paid the ultimate price. 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