UPFRONT COVER SP TLIGHT #tickettalks See more featured Ticket events, page 5 SATURDAY 8.22 Journey Art Gallery Canton “Picnic” opens Friday at the Black Box Theatre at GlenOak High School 6 FEATURES 10 Brian Kenny Cleveland comic finding his footing; Akron show Aug. 27 12 Red Sun Rising Akron rockers go national with new release; Kent Stage gig Aug. 29 REGULARS 3 Five Qs Five questions Little Chicago Clothing Co. founders 4 On the Beat MARTI JONES’ LATEST Local singer looking for opportunity after Aerosmith experience An exhibition of new oil paintings by Canton’s Marti Jones, including this self-portrait, will open from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Journey Art Gallery at 431 Fourth St. NW in downtown Canton. Jones, also known as a vocalist, will be in attendance. 6 Grub Kate’s Place is first-rate dining experience in Louisville ON THE COVER JUST ANNOUNCED Brian Setzer Orchestra The Babys, Nov. 14, 8:30 p.m., (Christmas Rocks Tour), Nov. 20, Tangier, Akron, $25 at $40 at THINGS TO DO 5 $75, $52.50, $44.50, on sale 10 330-376-7171. a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster. George Winston, Dec. 6, 8 WEEKEND GUIDE 17-21 Katt Williams, Oct. 10, p.m., The Kent Stage, Kent, $40 MOVIE LISTINGS 20 7:30p.m., Akron Civic Theatre, gold circle, $25 reserved, ar THE SCOOP 21 $99.50, $79.50, $59 and $47, on www.thekentstage.com. #TICKETTALKS 23 sale 10 a.m. Friday at 330-253- Crystal Bowersox, Nov. 7, 8 2488. p.m., The Kent Stage, Kent, $20 Jeffrey Osborne, Oct. 2, 8:30 at www.kentstage. CONTACT TICKET p.m., and Oct. 3, 7 and 9 p.m., Sam Bush, Oct. 16, 8 p.m., Dan Kane, Repository Entertainment Editor @DKaneREP Tangier, Akron, $45 to $65 at The Kent Stage, Kent, $30 at LISTENING TO: Blush, “Teething” [email protected] PUBLICITY PHOTO 330-376-7171. www.kentstage B.J. Lisko, Repository Ticket Designer, Staff Writer @BLiskoREP Anna Gallucci, April Deming and Vanilla Fudge with Paul I Brian Setzer Saul Williams, Oct. 1, 8 p.m., Red Sun Rising, “Polyester Zeal” [email protected] Justin Edenhofer of “Picnic” Fayrewether, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., The Kent Stage, Kent, $21 at NEXT WEEK Tangier, Akron, $35 to $45 at 330-376-7171. www.kentstage Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam, Oct. 17, Tangier, Street Corner Symphony, Nov. 8, 7 p.m., KICK IT WITH TICKET ONLINE Rusted Root, “Jeckyll and Akron, $45 to $65 at 330-376-7171. Musica, Akron, $15 at Ticketweb.com. Hyde,” Loverboy, Blu Comedy Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy, Nov. 18, 8 p.m., Lovedrug, Nov. 25, 9 p.m., Musica, Akron, facebook.com/tickettalks @TICKETTALKS @TICKETTALKS Night and more! Tangier, Akron, $25 to $40 at 330-376-7171. $10 at Ticketweb.com. 2 G Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 G #TICKETTALKS — Five Qs — Canton pride fuels T-shirt business Greg and Amy Eiber feature local flair with Little Chicago Clothing Co. BY DAN KANE REPOSITORY BOB ROSSITER Repository entertainment editor “We want to be the billboard I Amy and Greg Eiber launched Little Chicago Clothing for Canton, Ohio,” Greg Eiber Co. in November. The store’s T-shirts focus on Canton said about Little Chicago Cloth- and favorite local spots, Stark County and Ohio. ing Co., the local T-shirt compa- ny he launched in November with his wife, Amy. Greg Eiber, a 1994 Canton South High School graduate, and Amy, an Akron native, do their own design work and screen-print the shirts them- selves at home. Their images — about 30 so far — focus on Can- ton and favorite local spots, Stark County and Ohio. The T-shirts run $22 to $27, and may be viewed and pur- chased at www.littlechicago- clothing.com. Additionally, Little Chicago shirts are available at the Mainstream Boutique in North Canton and Marshall’s Antique Warehouse in Canton. Little Chicago Clothing Co. will have a booth at the Deli Ohio Flea Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in downtown Canton. 1. What made you decide to launch a T-shirt business now? Amy: “Akron has a couple of companies that design promoting Canton? ley, Cuyahoga Valley.” rigid and that’s not what we T-shirts, there are companies for Amy: “Little Chicago was the Greg: “The T-shirts that are wanted to do. We researched a Columbus and Cleveland, and nickname for Canton back in really selling well for the ladies lot of different brands, styles and there was nothing for Canton. Prohibition days. It’s about are the ones with arrows on colors and we washed the heck We figure this is our home, we’re halfway between Chicago and them. Another is our Stark out of them. Our shirts are more not going anywhere and we’re New York City and it was a fre- County Lover design, which has of a vintage type, softer and excited about the rebirth of Can- quent stop for mobsters. We a silhouette of Ohio with all the more comfy. They feel like ton. There was nothing cool out wanted to pay homage to that counties and Stark County is a they’ve been broken in.” there, especially for women, to part of Canton history.” heart. We’re going to keep com- show off community pride.” ing up with new designs con- 5. What are your Greg: “Every time someone 3. What are some stantly. What we have right now, day jobs? puts on one of our T-shirts, of your popular T- we might not have next year.” Amy: “We’re both they’re advertising Stark County. shirt designs? teachers for Canton This is about loving this commu- Amy: “The Mother 4. What kind of Local. He teaches nity. We want to have partner- Gooseland shirt is shirts do you use? seventh- and eighth- ships with local artists and busi- easily one of our Amy: “Most of our grade social studies and I teach nesses downtown. We’re build- most popular designs. We have a shirts are American visual arts, grades five to eight. ing our brand. We’re not just Fawcett Stadium design, since Apparel brand. Our Our big goal over summer vaca- screen-printers, but we’re cer- that (name) is now history. We main focus is we tion was to print more inventory. tainly open to things we can do have a Hall of Fame City design want them to look nice, be flat- “We’ve been really busy — a for charitable causes.” inspired by Canton and football. tering to different body types, good problem to have!” We have a script Canton. There’s wear well and hold the print.” 2. Why did you a recent one that says The Valley Greg: “We want great designs Reach Dan at 330-580-8306 or I Pictured are a few T-shirt designs name it Little Chica- because there are so many val- but we want comfortable shirts, [email protected]. go if it’s all about leys — Tusky Valley, Sandy Val- too. A lot of them are thick and On Twitter: @DKaneREP from Little Chicago Clothing Co. #TICKETTALKS G Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 G 3 ON THE BEAT Local singer has ‘Rock Star’ moment Galchick looking for break after incredible story, performance at Aerosmith show he movie “Rock Star” was loosely based on the story of Akron-na- JESSE GALCHICK LIVE tive Tim “Ripper” Owens and his I Sept. 5 - Royal Docks Brewing Co., Thiring as the singer for metal Canton icons Judas Priest. In the I Sept. 12 - The Barrel Room, North B.J. film, Mark Wahlberg plays LISKO Canton a singer in a tribute band I Oct. 9 - Gallery 121, Massillon who is later hired by the band he’s emulating. In MORE INFO one of the closing scenes, while performing, I View Galchick’s performance at the Aerosmith show at Wahlberg hands the mi- www.facebook.com/tickettalks. crophone to a fan who has bj.lisko I www.facebook.com/jessegalchickfans come to know and emu- @cantonrep.com late him. Massillon’s Jesse Galchick had her own “Rock Star” moment at Aerosmith’s recent “I have a really old soul. concert in Canton. As the band wrapped You put on some Ray up its encore and the smoke bombs began to clear, the 21-year-old singer/songwriter Charles or Elvis or Johnny and her manager did something bold. Cash in front of me I’ll As Aerosmith was set to take its final bows, Galchick’s manager Steve Green listen to it all day long.” turned to her and said, “Are you ready?” Green got the pair front-row tickets af- ter discovering meet-and-greet tickets JESSE GALCHICK had sold out. They had hoped to use the brief meeting for Galchick to showcase been playing guitar and writing songs her voice to the band. now for about nine years.” Instead, along with the tickets, Green Galchick grew up in Beloit before mov- also had a T-shirt made that said, “This is ing to Massillon. The 2012 Massillon Janis Joplin” on the front and “One Washington High School graduate discov- Minute Please” on the back. ered she had an ear for classic rock ‘n’ roll, The shirt landed at the feet of Aero- blues and country at an early age. smith singer Steven Tyler. “I was the type of kid that was the weird “The smoke was coming toward us,” kid that listened to all the older music,” Galchick recalled. “It was like a movie.