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Ahoy, mateys!! Noble Arts Entertainment presents a night of seafaring shenanigans with murder, mirth, music, and mayhem– a feast for the eyes and ears, as well as yer gullet!!! Sit down with a cast of murderous pirates, a trio of frilly French fl oosies, and other unsavory scallywags for a Dead Man’s Party and be transported back to the days of treachery and adventure on the high seas! Sail away to the Brotherhood of the Coast, where landlubbers are greeted by stow-away Polly Perot (Sarah Cantrell) and escorted to their ship to “hook up” with the rest of their crew. After choosing a name for their vessel, they set about the task of adorning the ship’s fl ag with trheir own insignia. A shady election is held, a new Pirate King is elected - Captain Dugan “Dead Eye” Quinn (Tristan Kujanpaa), who tells his subjects: “Ye must swear al-legiance to your captain and be ready to repel all boarders!” “Yo ho, Blow the man down!” Raucous tunes and witty banter abound while swabs sip on pirate-themed cocktails and munch on some mighty tasty morsels, starting out with Tostones (fried plantain chips with banana avocado dip) and West Indies Shrimp and Corn Chowder, all served up by the naughty and nautical L’Amour sisters – Isabella ( Cathy Fasano-Chimieliewski, Elizabeth (Ra-chel Meyer), and Annette (Maureen Tanner) – Ooh La-La! Well, shiver me timbers!! Third “go-round” is Roasted Red Pepper Pesto Flat Bread, followed up by an exotic Tropical Greens Spring Salad straight from the Carib-bean, served with a Mango, Papaya and Pineapple dressing. Aye, you may have to sing a little for your supper on a couple sea shan-ties – like ”What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor?” but it’ll worth it!! And all the while “Izzy,” “Lizzy,” and “Sheba” L’ Amour keep the mugs full and tunes and jokes fl owin,’! Oui oui!! Cast members serve up a mouth-wa-tering meal, charcoal-grilled by the Brother-hood of the High Seas. Main course choices -- Jamaican Barbecue Jerk Chicken Breast or Pork Loin, served with Dirty Pirate Rice (co-conut brown rice and black beans with grilled pineapple.) For ye hearties who have room for

dessert – Aye, what else? – Key Lime Pie, a delicious end to an amazing meal.

“Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.” Thirsty pirates can ward off the scurvy with an exotic island favorite like the “Cuba Libra” (rum, Coke, and lime) or a “French Momo” (Chambord Mojito with rum, lime juice, soda, and mint) or a Caribbean killer like “Wrong Island Iced Tea” or “Dead Eye Delight” (a potent potion with a mix of four different rums, juices, almond syrup, and a splash of soda). Other spirits (ale and wine) on tap ready for the swiggin’ and for ye hearty rummies – a full bar of exotic liqueurs from every corner of the watery world. Non-alcohol-ic drinks (pop, coffee, tea) are offered as well for ye wee ones and tee-totalers. “Fi, fi , fo, fum – I smell the blood of an Englishman!!! The Pirate’s Code: Show No Mercy and Take No Prisoners ...unless it’s another pirate! This very code demands that quarter be given and honor among thieves be upheld, but one lowly seadog has broken the code and thrown the ship’s crew into chaos. A pirate captain has been murdered by one of his very own - can you help to catch the fi end before he kills again!?” Performers wander around the room and mingle with the audience, pulling them into the plot in between courses. Michael Riffe is riveting as Captain Cerberus Stone (Keith Richards, walk the plank!!) and Mad Tom (Brook Collin Hall) is straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean. A highlight of the evenin’ is a touching ballad, “Wild Mountain Thyme,” sung by Riffe and Mad Tom (Brook Collin Hall). Aye, it brought a tear to me eye, it did!

Blimey!! There is plenty of adventure, wine, women, and song to go around. Decep-tion at sea causes tempers to “swell” and, as in any good pirate story, the age-old struggle between good and evil comes into play, culminating in a swash-buckling swordfi ght. AARRGGHH! A six-course themed feast awaits your piratical presence. Half the fun of the interac-tive dinner theater experience is joining in the action of the play. Feel free to dress in your sea-farin’ fi nest’ --- an earring, eye patch, harmonica, or bandana goes a long way ---your best Erroll Flynn look! Of course, nothing is ever forced or pushed with Noble Arts Entertainment. If ye mates would rather not rub elbows with cutthroats and thieves, ye can always just sit back and enjoy. Dead Man’s Party is the latest in a series of exceptional entertainment ventures produced by Noble Arts Entertainment and the Landing Festival Marketplace (located 0.5 mile from the Geneva State Park Lodge and Con-vention Center). Advance tickets are $40 per person, which includes dinner and the show.

Call 440-466-8650 (toll free 800-519-8650) Tickets are available online at www.Geneva-Landing.com. Reservations are required for all Dinner Theater Shows. SHOWTIMES: Fri-days & Saturdays at 7:30 pm. DATES: MAY 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21.“Fair winds and smooth sailin’ to all!!”


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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY ALL YOU BLUESLOVIN’ MOTHERS !!!!!

IF YOU LOVE YOUR MAMA, TAKE HER OUT TO HEAR SOME GREAT BLUES

ON SUNDAY, MAY 8TH!!!

Sunday, May 8th - Mother’s Day Swing Brunch

Ernie Krivda and the Fat Tuesday BigBand featurig vocalist Erin Kufel (12 pm to 3 pm) * Beachland Buffet Brunch (11 am to 1 pm, special menu, limited reservations) * Swing Dance Lessons (11 am to 12 pm, Get Hep Swing Dance Company teaching)Ballroom 11 am to 3 pm - $18 for brunch buffet and show, $5 for dance lessons, $23 for entire package, $10 for show only. If you know that Scissor Girls song, “Take Your Mama” and ever thought that fi t your mother, here’s a special edition of the Beachland brunch. Jazz great Ernie Krivda and his Fat Tuesday Band will provide plenty of tunes from only the most swingin’ pages of the American songbook. For a small fee, dance refresher courses will be provided by Get Hep Swing Inc. Oh, and there will be plenty of great food!! Make this Mom’s Day a memorable one with the Beachland! It’s $10 for the music plus $8 for our special Beachland brunch buffet, and an extra fi ve dollars if you need dance lessons! Lessons are from 11 to noon; the band wails from noon to 3 pm. For more questions, or to reserve tickets, call the Beachland at 216-383-1124. Why not make a whole day of it? Stick around for the 7:00 show at the Beachland,

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SIRIUS FM MAY 5THThe Blues Foundation annual Blues Music Awards, which will presented at the CookConvention Center in Memphis, Tennessee on May 5, 2011. Performers, industry represen-tatives and fans from around the globe will have the chance to celebrate the best in Blues recording and performance from 2010. For the fi fth consecutive year, the Blues Music Awards will be broadcast live in their entirety on Sirius XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville - the next best thing to being there. They will also be subsequently broadcast on public television in the fall.

2011 BLUES MUSIC AWARD NOMINEES Among those heading the list of honorees for the 32nd Blues Music Awards is last year’sLifetime Achievement Award honoree Buddy Guy, with fi ve nominations in such categories as B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year for Living Proof, and Song of the Yearfor its title track, a co-nomination (with Tom Hambridge). Charlie Musselwhite, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee last year, also garnered fi ve nominations, in the categories of Album of the Year (for The Well) and Song of the Year (for “Sad and Beautiful World,” from The Well), among others. B.B. King Entertainer of the Year (2009) Janiva Magness garnered four nominations thisyear, and three nominations each went to Derek Trucks, Eden Brent, Joe Louis Walker, James Cotton, Nick Moss, Paul Oscher and The Mannish Boys. This year’s nominations also celebrate Steve Miller’s return to the

featuring some of Cleveland’s fi nest blues musicians, and it’s a benefi t for a good cause. Crazy Marvin is a staple of the Cleveland blues scene – always happy to see him show up at the Blues Society jams, bringing his own brand of blues with a touch of Zydeco thrown in! Beachland has a full menu available in the Tavern, and there’s plenty to do in the neigh-borhood if you feel like taking a stroll down the street. Try the Café at Arts Collinwood on the corner of Waterloo nd 156th Street (15601

Waterloo) - a cozy little café/art gallery with gourmet coffee, great food, Sat. 11:00–11:00, Sunday 9:00-5:00)Sunday May 8 –Evening ShowA Benefi t for Crazy Marvin & Blues Boy Lonnie * Vernon Jones Blues Cartel* Blue Lunch * *Schwartz Brothers* Also appearing: Butter Scotch, Hollywood Slim, Wallace Coleman, Collin Dusault, Becky Boyd, Alan Greene *Presented by Louise’s GG’s & Promotions, Vernon Jones, & Reverend Thomas Berge Ballroom 7 pm - $10

Witness a who’s who of the Cleveland blues scene, as they join forces to help long-standing veterans and friends Crazy Marvin and Blues Boy Lonnie. Marvin is one of those one-of-kind Clevelanders who is a legend in the local scene and has always been there to jump in, harmonica in hand, to help out when needed. Now he needs help, after someone stole equipment from him and he ended up in the hospital for a time, he needs some fi nancial love to get him back on his feet. Helping with this is Vernon Jones and many other folks who hope the Clevelanders who love the blues willcome on down and support this all-star local lineup!

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Cooking with Wine Tips hen cooking with wine, we are often tempted to use whatever we have around. Why not use the half opened bottle that has been sitting on your counter since Christmas? (Even if it is now May.) If you are using high quality ingredients to prepare your meal, don’t forget that wine is also one of your cooking ingredients. You would not use other old or spoiled products in your dish, why use old wine? It is often said by good cooks that you should never use a wine in cooking that you would not drink by itself. The reason is that the fl avor of the wine will intensify in the cooking process.

Do use a good wine as a cooking ingredient. It doesn’t have to be a one hundred dollar bottle of wine, but it should be an affordable version that you would drink with pleasureDo add wine a few minutes before the end of the cooking process, maybe about ten minutes before the dish is fully cooked. This will en-sure that the fl avor of the wine comes through.Do use wine to deglaze the cooking pan. This will add depth to the fi nished dish. Don’t use sweet wines, unless the dish you are preparing is a dessert. The wine will be reduced in the cooking process, and the end result will be sweeter than you intended. Of course, if that is what you want, go for it.Don’t use types of wine in your dish that you would not pair the dish with. If you are taking great care in your food and wine pairing, don’t spoil the effect by using a wine as a cooking ingredient that would not match well with the other ingredients and the end result. Cook-ing, like winemaking, is an art and a science. Experiment, but keep in mind how ingredients interact with one another. For example, tomatoes tend to be quite acid, very often a tomato sauce benefi ts from a bit of sugar or fat in order to tame the acidity. Use the same concepts when you include wine as an ingredient.

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W Cranberry Herb Sauce RecipeCranberries are spiced with herbs, sweetened with honey, and cooked in wine to make a savory sauce good with vegetables and meats.

Ingredients:· 2 small onions, diced· 4 cloves garlic, chopped· 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil· 1 package (12 ounces) fresh or frozen cranberries· 2-1/2 cups water· 2 cups dry red wine· 2/3 cup honey· 2 beef bouillon cubes· 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed· 4 whole bay leaves· 5 drops Worcestershire sauce· Dash rosemary· Dash ground red pepper

Preparation: Cook and stir onions and garlic in oil in a large saucepan over medium heat until onions are softened. Add cranberries, water, wine, honey, bouillon, thyme, bay leaves,Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, and red pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer about 1 hour or until mixture reduces by half, stirring frequently. Remove and dis-card bay leaves.

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R.I.P. LACY GIBSONBELOVED CHICAGO BLUESMAN

Blues fans were saddened by news of the pass-ing of blues singer and guitarist, Lacy Gibson, who died on Monday, April 11, 2011 of a heart attack. Born in North Carolina in 1936, Gibson moved with his family to Chicago in 1949 as a teenager. He quickly fell in love with the city’s thriving blues scene, and got “smartened up” to the ways of the blues by mentors like Muddy Waters and Sunnyland Slim. Gibson made a name for himself during the 1960s as a session player, lending his talents to recordings by art-ists like Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Magic

Slim, among others. Gibson spent two years playing rhythm guitar behind the great Son Seals during theearly 1970s, and appears on Seals’ Live and Burnin-galbum, released in 1978. Gibson’s solodebut,Wishing Ring, was released on his brother-in-law (and jazz great) Sun Ra’s El Saturn label. Gibson’s work with Seals brought him to the atten-tion of Alligator’s Bruce Iglauer,

who included four Gibson songs on 1980’s Living Chicago Blues compi-lation. Dick Shurman produced Gibson’s 1983 Black Magic Records album Switchy Twitchy, while Delmark Records released Crying For My Baby in 1996, a collection of Gibson’s 1970s recordings. Through the years, Gibson performed with some of the giants of Chicago blues, includingSeals, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, Billy Boy Arnold, and others as well as with Sun Ra. Gibson’s jazz-infl uenced style lent itself to complimenting the different styles of the artists he played with, while his robust voice brought authority to his own performances. Lacy Gib-son will be missed by his family, friends, and many fans in Chicago and around the world.

blues – and his fi rst-ever nomination – with the album Bingo, nominated for Best Rock Blues Album of the Year. Among the nominations are also two – for Soul Blues Album and Soul Blues Male Artist – given posthumously to the late Solomon Burke, who passed away in October at age 70. “The ballot is balanced between familiar names nominated because of stellar releasesand more than a dozen fi rst-ever nominees,” Jay Sieleman, The Blues Foundation’s Execu-tive Director said. “The nominations prove not only the sustaining power of Blues music, but also its ability to constantly evolve and remain relevant to today’s fans.” December 16 is an early Christmas for Blues fans. Tickets for the May 5 Award show go on sale on December 16th every year for the ceremony to be held in the spring (which I men-tion in my column every year!) Online voting begins then too. Blues Foundation members are the only fans who vote to decide which nominees will actually take home the Blues Music Award. Members also receive seating preference at the Awards show. Every year, the Blues Music Awards cer-emony itself proves to be one of the best showsof the year. After all, almost every nominee not only attends, but also performs – creating alineup comprised of the best of the best in blues all in one evening. The Blues Music Awards are universally recognized as the high-est honor given to Blues artists. The Presenting Sponsor for the 32nd Blues Music Awards in 2011 is once again The Gibson Foundation. A complete nominee list, as well as membership, DVD sales, voting, ticket and host hotel infor-mation can be found at The Blues Foundation’s website—www.blues.org.

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I try to never wish away the days, and to always gratefully accept each as the gift that it is. In the midst of a Lake Effect blizzard, I try to be thankful that we are generally safe from the wild fi res that plaque some western states. While enduring a North Coast spring in which the rainy days seem unending, I try to appreci-ate each day that we are free from drought conditions that recur almost annually in many of the states to our south. When you think about it, we are relatively safe from threats such as hurricanes, mudslides, volcanoes and tsunamis (I got that without using spell check) and other natural disasters. Oh, the things that we take for granted. Another treasure that is easily overlooked is our beautiful shoreline and the many loca-tions along which we may fi nd live entertain-ment. Seriously, the next time you have the op-portunity to enjoy a glass of Ohio wine while overlooking the water, the vineyard or the dance fl oor, take a moment to ask the people at the surrounding tables, just how far they have traveled to enjoy the gifts of the north shore. We have become a destination, a getaway, an escape. How cool is that! Just a few weeks ago, my wife Charleen and I were enjoying a glass of Chardonnay and a hand made pizza at Laurello Vineyards. We invited a young couple to share our table, as the room fi lled quickly. They were from a sub-urb of Cleveland, both were vigorously pursu-ing medical careers, he in family practice, she in internal medicine. They had been married for a year and a half and this was their fi rst op-portunity to break away from the stressful lives they had chosen. They do intend to someday visit the Dominican Republic for a true hon-eymoon, but for now they were thrilled with a weekend getaway package offered by the Geneva Lodge and Conference center. They were especially impressed by the openness and beauty of Ohio wine country. We were equally impressed by their determination and very grateful for the chance to visit with them. This is what I’m talking about; the com-bination of beautiful landscape, nice people, great food, handcrafted wines and quality live entertainment is not something that can be

found just anywhere. You will most likely fi nd one of these key ingredients missing at many tourist destinations. Along the North Coast, you can fi nd these features at several locations over the course of one weekend. As this summer approaches, rather than contributing to the shameful profi t margins of oil industry tycoons, let your dollar make a difference to those who deserve it, right here at home. Patios will be opening, festivals and outdoor concerts and events will be tak-

ing place almost daily. Every visit that you make and every person, be it a friend or total stranger, that you invite to enjoy one of our local wineries or restaurants that feature live entertainers, is another brick in the foundation which supports our unique industry. Take time for those afternoons or evenings out, while staying close to home and enjoy each day and the pleasures that can be found without wasting your entire entertainment budget on gasoline.

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Geneva on the Lake, Ohio’s First Summer Resort Located north of Geneva on the shores of Lake Erie, “America’s North Coast”, is a well loved resort destination that families have enjoyed vacationing on for generations. During the summer season, the famous entertainment strip is alive with arcades, a grand Ferris Wheel, restaurants, nightclubs, live music and more. Lake Erie offers fi shing, boating, and swimming -- often with just a short walk from your front door. Lodging includes camping, cottages, homes, motels -- and don’t forget the beautiful state lodge! Shoot a round of golf at one of the in-town or area golf courses. For family fun try one of the miniature golf courses and an afternoon at “Adventure Zone”. Geneva on the Lake is well known for the awesome wineries and sunsets. Arriving by boat? Dock within the safety of the marina at nearby Geneva State Park. For an old-fashioned lakefront getaway that has something for everyone explore Geneva on the Lake. Visitgenevaonthelake.com

Hocking Hills EventsWashboard Music Festival – June 16 – 18 The Washboard Music Festival is a celebra-tion of the local culture and Americana. The legendary Arnett Howard kicks off the Festival on Thursday evening followed by two days of music entertainment including Dixieland, Blues, Swing, Hot Jazz, Jugband, Bluegrass, Funky Creole, Old-Time Country, Ragtime and even Celtic. In addition to the toe-tappin’ music the Festival presents arts and crafts from many of our area’s Appalachian artisans; an exhibit from the Civil War era; great food; tours of the Co-lumbus Washboard Company; antique tractors and hit ‘n miss engines; Saturday Night’s parade and much, much more. www.washboardmusic-festival.com

Lilyfest – July 8 – 10 A celebration of nature held in the Bishop Educational Gardens featuring 3 acres of artisti-cally designed gardens, ponds and garden sculp-tures. The juried art show features over 70 area artists displaying, demonstrating and marketing their products. Professional horticulturists will have plants for sale and the OSU Master Gardeners will answer questions on plant grow-ing and maintenance. Musical entertainment is provided by bagpipers, dulcimers, Country and Appalachian musicians. Special tours are available for persons with disabilities. Please, no pets at Lilyfest. Lilyfest.com

Rootwire Music & Art Festival - August 4 - 7 Rootwire 2011 will feature 50+ Musical Acts, 50+ Visual Artists, 3 Stages, a Massive Live Art Circus tent, a Silent Disco Stage with 2 mixes at a time, Massive Art Installations, Graf-fi ti Walls, raised hooping and poi stands in front of all stages, Body Painting, Tipi Ceremonial Center, Workshops, Speakers, Morning Yoga/Meditation, Shower House with hot water, Fresh water taps all over the grounds, Forest Lighting, camp by your car or camp in the shaded woods – you choose.Rootwirefestival.com

African Elephant Crossing With the opening of African Elephant Crossing, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is com-mitted to the care and conservation of African elephants. The new exhibit is fi ve acres in size and was designed to hold a socially complete herd of elephants providing them with a spa-

cious and stimulating environment. The elephants will share the exhibit with several other African species, almost all of which are new to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, including meerkats, naked mole rats, an African rock python, Kirk’s dik-dik (a miniature ante-lope) and 10 different species of native African birds. The exhibit has several components, start-ing with the Crossing Gate, the Mopani Range, Savanna Range, African village, an Elephant Care & Visitor Center and Night Range. The focal point of the exhibit is the Crossing Gate representing the central educational theme of the exhibit – the delicate balance for survival between elephants and the people of Africa. The crossing consists of a series of gates that control the fl ow of traffi c, both visitor and el-ephant. Elephants will use the same crossing to periodically migrate from the Savanna Range to the Mopani Range. The crossing will give visi-tors a true feeling for the size of the elephants, as they pass by within 15 feet of them. Once through the crossing, visitors enter an African village modeled after the villages of Botswana. In the village are; the meerkat ex-hibit, the aviary, interactive educational displays and the habitats for the naked mole rats and the rock python, food and gift shops and large decks looking out over the Savanna and Mopani ranges. Behind the visitor center is the Night Range providing the elephants the option of going outside at night. On the other side of the visitor center and crossing gate is the Mopani Range. This area is more wooded, has an in-clined path perfect for exercise and foraging and also features a sand pit and a mud wallow for the elephants to roll around in. The George Gund Foundation contributed $1 million to “green” the exhibit. The result is that African Elephant Crossing is on track to be the fi rst LEED certifi ed large animal exhibit in the country. “Most people will never have an oppor-tunity to see elephants in the wild,” said Zoo Director Steve Taylor. “Few zoo animals have the capacity to connect with humans the way elephants do. African Elephant Crossing gives our elephants the best possible environment and care so that they can continue to amaze and inspire the people of Northeast Ohio as living ambassadors for their wild counterparts in Africa.” The Zoo is planning four days of festivities to properly mark this milestone in its history. The party begins at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 5 and continues through Sunday, May 8 when all moms get in to the Zoo for FREE. Scheduled over the four days will be “The Cellephants,” African drummers, Radio Disney, Beachwood Community Theater, crafts, music, Meet the Keepers and more. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily with hours extended to 7 p.m. on weekends and summer holidays. Admission is $11 per person, $8 for kids ages 2 to 11 free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. To learn more, visit clemetzoo.com or call (216) 661-6500 Watch future issues of the North Coast Voice for more Short Drive Ohio ideas!


Distinguished Writer Visits, Praises ClevelandHamill extols libraries as foundations for future

“Poets have to dream, and dreaming in America is no cinch.” --Saul Bellow

he 2010-2011 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Program Series fi nale held at Playhouse Square saved the best for last, as it welcomed renowned writer Pete Hamill. A great many prominent writers visited our city this year through this series, and although the fi rst sentence of this copy is opinion-heavy, it remains your assigned correspondent’s fact. The truth about writing is that it hits people differently, but one would be hard pressed to fi nd an individual sitting in the auditorium the night Hamill took the stage dis-agreeing with the “Pete’s-the-best” sentiment. After an auspicious introduction, Hamill humbly took the rostrum and began savoring and sharing tales of his great journeys and discoveries throughout his polymorphous career (spanning over 40 years) with the audi-ence. Earlier that day, he visited Cleveland State University to address students, extolling Cleveland as a bona fi de city with a commit-ment to keeping the written and spoken word alive, a place where engaged experiences transpire, where the blood of the artist fl ows through his or her veins. Over the numerous landscapes Hamill has covered in equally impassioned capacities as reporter, editor, novelist and screenwriter, he, with no hesitation, addressed the crowd with details of where it all started, his foundation: the public library. Anyone who has read Hamill’s bestsell-ing 1995 memoir “A Drinking Life” has inside of them pieces of his genesis as a writer with his reminisces as the son of Irish immigrants in Brooklyn whose innate curiosity about the world around him led him to the local library. “Libraries allowed the enjoyment of the wisdom of human treasure and human folly,” he told the crowd. “I had the great gift of be-ing born poor, and before the era of television. There was no comparison. Books took hold of

the imagination. Poverty isn’t a permanent scar. I didn’t feel that; I think it was because of the library. “It helped me discover a fundamental truth. Every book is a small house, and the cover is the front door. There are many places you can go,” Hamill said. Remembering one of his fi rst reading esca-pades, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Hamill told the throng, “I was with Edmond

Dantès in the Château d’If, and I had to get out to fi nd the people who had put me there.” Anyone who has ever been a part of the rapture of reading knows exactly what Hamill was conveying. To be swept away in a story, an adventure, across time, space, socio-economic backgrounds, etc., is something not quickly forgotten. There are no worries about money, as Hamill strongly attests to, neuroses involv-ing family or bills or acceptance. You’re a passenger on a voyage, and it becomes bigger, more substantial than words on a page; it actively taps into imagination, becomes an odyssey of which, Hamill stresses, the reader becomes, by bare minimum, the co-pilot. “Not having television allowed me to fi ll in the blanks,” he said, remembering taking books home before he was in kindergarten, “to create worlds, pictures beyond words. Reading fosters trust for you to feel, unlike television, which adds music and a laugh track.” Hamill gleefully recognized an ally in the love and advocacy of libraries in that of An-drew Carnegie, who Hamill said had enhanced his own intellectual and cultural development through libraries as well, and would later use his wealth and philanthropy to put up thou-sands of libraries across the country. “Libraries are processing plants for human beings. Picture Trump walking into one,” Hamill quipped to laughter as well as acknowledgement. Hamill quickly touched on his parents who had met at a dance. His father, who was

hesitant about his inability to dance, was snap-pily met by his mother’s assertion that she too wasn’t adroit. “After that,” Hamill said, “she led him farther into the rest of his life.” His parents’ nurturing expanded the creativity inside of Hamill, who pursued comic book artistry and later painting. But writing was at his nucleus and books became his fuel. Hamill illuminated that no writer goes without reading. “Like Robert Louis Stevenson said, ‘Young writers must read like predators.’ Ev-ery writer is an autodidact. Teachers, classes, courses provide insight, tools to sharpen the craft, but Shakespeare never took a writing class, neither did Hemingway. You’ve got to ‘get black on white,’ like Flaubert said. The pen becomes an iconic item, like D’Artagnan’s sword.” Sound pearls, dear readers. And all this from a self-admitted high school dropout. “One of the dumbest things I’ve ever done,” Hamill said. “Fifty-nine years later, I got my honorary high school diploma.” Thunderous applause followed his declaration. “The road to fi nd out what you’re capable of is a diffi cult one,” said Hamill, who ironi-cally has received honorary university degrees previous to the attainment of his cherished high school achievement. “I wanted to be the best Pete Hamill I could be, not in an imagi-nary ranking. I have more ideas than I’ll ever have time to execute.” One idea he has recently executed, though, is the upcoming release of his 11th novel, “Tabloid City.” Hamill spoke of a few contemporaries he doesn’t miss when it comes to reading and stirring his creative juices. He mentioned the late Roberto Bolaño; “I hear the music of his prose…” And Hamill considers Carl Hiaasen America’s Jonathan Swift; of the prodigious Elmore Leonard, Hamill said he’s the “…only guy I know who goes to AA meetings for the entertainment value. And it shows in his dialogue. “Those books stay with you longer than the dreck on television. They allow us to be complete, fuller human beings…to attain that mysterious stage called wisdom…”

With all the changes currently sweeping the culture and undoubtedly more on the hori-zon, Hamill is optimistically fortifi ed that the substance which has fi lled him will continue to fi nd others, regardless of situation or status. “Poverty? I didn’t give a goddamn,” Hamill recalled. “Money isn’t life. On the example of my life, the future of libraries is crucial to the country. And what I think is com-ing is astonishing. Newspapers, I think, are in trouble, but journalism isn’t. If we start closing libraries to build bombs, we’re in trouble.” Some seemed surprised when Hamill, tak-ing questions, though not resoundingly prais-ing e-readers, credited their potential place as tools for delivering the written word and its effects. “Use the medium, but don’t be a pris-oner to it, don’t aim low,” he said. “I love the feel of a book, the smell of a book. Remember, the piano didn’t write the music, Mozart did, Thelonious Monk did, Art Tatum did. The conventions of the book will survive—trans-ferred to the tool, not the tool itself.” Lastly, Hamill injected one fi nal shot of his humor: “There is a place for electronic devices…as long as you’re not reading tweets from Newt Gingrich.”

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May 8, 2011 marks the 100th birthday of singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Johnson — the archetypal Mississippi Delta bluesman who purportedly sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in exchange for uncanny musical prowess. In honor of the Robert Johnson centennial, Delaware’s Dogfi sh Head Craft Brewery has created “Hellhound On My Ale,” a super-hop-py brew inspired by the otherworldly soul and complexity of Johnson’s music. Produced in a small-quantity-limited run, “Hellhound On My Ale,” is 100% dry-hopped with Centennial Hops with sublime citrus notes courtesy of dried organic lemon peel and fl esh added pre-fermentation (a taste-bud tribute to Johnson’s musical mentor, Blind Lemon Jef-ferson). “Just as Johnson’s unique style was a hybrid of Delta blues, country and even vaude-ville,” said Dogfi sh founder and President Sam Calagione, “Centennial Hops are a recently developed variety that is a hybrid of Brewer’s Gold, Golding, and Fuggles hop varieties. Centennial Hops grow in the Northwest United States and have wonderful fl oral and citrus notes.” Rounding off the centennial spirit of the ale, Hellhound is brewed at 10.0 abv.Coming in early May, Dogfi sh Head’s “Hellhound” will be available in Delaware,

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she also collaborated. “Stan photographed everything since he was 16 years old and Eileen Ford discovered him,” explains Louise. “The book is about him being with people from the 60s, 70s and 80s. He knew everyone and worked with the best, the beautiful and the interesting. Stan was a larger than life charac-ter and he attracted the same kind of people to him.” Another project that Louise is working on is an anthology of her material due for release later this year. It is her work from 1979-2011. “The anthology is to provide a legacy for my son and also a tribute to Stan who adored what I was doing and helped out as much as pos-sible. It includes the music experiences I have had all these years, ranging from Louise & The Creeps through today.” Louise is motivated to keep moving forward and enjoying her time to reenter the music scene. “I think this will be very good for me,” said Louise. “It’s important to do this instead of just sitting around, grieving and mourning. I will keep creating until the day I die. My sister once told someone, “Unless Louise is able to create she has no motivation.” It is good therapy to do something you love.” For more information on Louise Robey, including an opportunity to hear her latest single, “A Woman Scorned”, please visit myspace.com/louise_robey

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ello Spring! As I’m writing this, the wind is blowing furiously and tempera- ture is about 70. I love it. The grass is growing and the fl owers blooming and all is good with the world. A couple of weeks back I mentioned about music festivals and I had the oppor-tunity to go to one last weekend with my good friend Peggy. (By the way, if you know anyone that is looking for a good sign maker or graphic artist you can contact Peggy at www.signstormers.com.) It was a small bluegrass event called the “Bluegrass Jamboree”. It was hosted by a long time bluegrass afi cionado named Mr. Charlie Lape. He’s from the War-ren, Ohio area and has been hosting bluegrass events for a long time. This particular event has been held at the Hamden Grange Hall once a month on Sat night since October. The house band is Called Vertical Limit and members are, Bill Mathis on banjo, Bob Pupp on mando-lin and fi ddle and Preston Coleman on bass. The band is primarily out of the Columbiana/Youngstown area. The other band that played was from the Steubenville area, named Lone-some Heart. Members included Rich Hoffman

on banjo and his wife Debbie on stand up bass, Buck Hawkins on mandolin & fi ddle, Jim Wet-zel on guitar & dobro, and Bob Rush on guitar. Both these bands were pure bluegrass with more combined talent than I have seen from bands in quite awhile. The sad thing is that the last “Bluegrass Jamboree” event for the season is on May 14th. Along with Verti-cal Limit The Red Lantern Bluegrass band and Deepwater Bluegrass will be playing. I have not heard the last two bands, but if they are anywhere near as good as Verti-cal limit it will be another fantastic show. I was shocked to see that all of this great music was being played right under my nose all this

time and I didn’t even know anything about it. As it turns out I was able to fi nd out about more festivals that will be coming up in the summer.

Another big Festi-val called the Valley Lake Bluegrass Festival is being held down in South-ington Ohio, near Warren on June 24-25 (camping, swimming & fi shing avail-

able) and then on August 19th, the 22nd Annual Wayne, Ohio Bluegrass Festival featuring Bluegrass Mountaineers, Matheson Family Pride, Junior Blankenship Band and many more terrifi c bluegrass players. There are many more music

festivals that are coming up this summer in the tri-state area and I will be listing the events, times, cost and any other info that I can gather on my Website www.wood-n-strings.net and Facebook page (Patrick Podpadec/Facebook or Liam Guitars/Facebook). If anyone else would like to post info about music events I would certainly appreciate it. I’m trying to get the music to the people so the people can get to the music. Speaking of my website I would like to take this opportunity to personally invite all the NC Voice readers (and their friends) to join the community page under the home page tab at Wood-Strings.net. It is very easy to join. You can add your pictures, videos and other events on there and share it on your facebook page too. It is very social and will be a good avenue for you to meet other like minded music lov-ers. You can also sign up to get my brand new Newsletter than can inform you every month of the special discounts that I will be offering to all new members. Just click on the “Join My Mailing List” icon on the top left corner of the Home Page There will be special articles that will include hot new repair tips and the latest cool gear that is out there for all of you very “hip” musicians. This past week I have been trying to get all my “ducks in a row” if you know what I mean. I’ve been spending time organizing my website and sending out emails and cleaning my shop and getting a few new tools in to get ready to do some new jobs. Sometimes I have to get ready to do a job that I know is coming up. Some jobs take a certain amount of “mental” preparation. Sometimes I have to buy or make a special tool for a certain job. One job that I have coming up is going to involve routing out a signifi cant amount of the back of the guitar and having to build a new back plate for the instrument. Due to the nature of the repair and the price of the instrument, I can’t afford to screw it up in any way. (Not that I would) It is sort of a “one shot” deal. I want to “prebuild” my back plate and have the routing jig completely built and tested on another block of wood before I put it to my customer’s guitar. After doing this I can feel confi dent that nothing will go wrong with the procedure. It makes my customers feel good and that makes me feel good too! Well, I hope to see you all at my website or maybe at the next music festival that comes are way. Until then, as my old friend Eric Robertson would say “Keep Smiling”

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Water For Elephants20th Century Fox PG13 121 min So gang, here’s another of those fl icks from a big time best seller that I assume will set off a debate about the book versus movie lovers..I’ll admit to never having read (or even heard much about) the Sara Gruen novel of love and betrayal in the years of the circus’ fading glory, but I hear I’m in the minority there. This is a period piece in more than one way. First that it takes place in a depression era traveling show but also the nearly extinct man woman sensibility. In the time of Tennessee Williams it was more common to hear a story of a young woman under the thumb of a powerful older husband and the allure of a handsome drifter.Maybe today’s more liberated women would fi nd the dynamic strange, but there’s defi -nitely a feeling of days gone by here. In the years of the depression Americans had little disposable income and the greatest show on earth took a backseat to food and shelter in the battle for those precious dollars. Also on hard luck is Jacob Jankowski (Robert Pattison of Twilight fame), who, right before graduation from veterinary school, fi nds that his hard working immigrant parents have been killed in a crash. Worse yet, Jacob learns that the farm has been mortgaged to pay his tuition. Broke and alone the young man sets out on the road eventually to fall in with a traveling circus where he catches the eye of the owners hot young wife Marlena (Reese

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spoon) and thereby the wrath of August,(Christopher Waltz) the owner him-self. There’s a dark and deadly underside of this troupe, rife with murder and other treachery and I’m guessing it’s under-played in order to keep the PG 13 rating. You can’t afford to keep the teenage girls and older women away with an “R”. Though it took a while, I became more and more involved with the characters. In this storyAugust is a truly despicable character and Waltz is one of the best in the business at playing this kind of villain. (Remember Inglorious Bastards?)Pattison and Witherspoon never quite click as the star crossed lovers but they aren’t bad and the story is strong enough to carry itself. Hal Holbrook who appears at the top and bottom as kind of narrator is a pleasant surprise as well. Good to see an American icon still working. It’s a good story and a good fi lm. I might just look into the novel.

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Dylan Dog: Dead Of NightHyde Park Entertainment PG13 117 min Uh OK…Tiziano Sklavi.Who’s he? Well apparently he’s the creator of a “wildly popu-lar” Italian comic based on the supernatural exploits of a Mr. Dylan Dog, Private Eye who chases monsters in the big easy, or as we know it New Orleans.Well, I guess I’ve been amiss on keeping up with the Paisans’ funny papers since I’ve never heard of the dude. I do know that Da-vid Hasslehoff is wildly popular in Germany; maybe it’s that kind of thing.Anyway for my fellow uninitiated, this seems to be loosely inspired by Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files about a Chicago private wizard Harry Dresden but, well, it might be a coincidence.


Brandon Routh stars as Mister Dog and Sam Huntington as Marcus his annoying zombie sidekick. Yes, folks he’s actually a zombie.You see here in this version of New Orleans it appears that there are a good many zombies walking the streets unnoticed along with vampires werewolves ghouls and late night goons of all manner.Usually they keep to themselves and Dog is left to ply his trade snapping photos of cheat-ing husbands and wives to keep the rent paid.Of course once in a while he’s going to be caught up in some kind of supernatural caper and this is one of those.Through particularly clumsy fl ashback, we fi nd that our hero has killed a lot of top vam-pires in the past and a new breed of blood-sucker is ruling the “true bloods” and now there’s a problem.Too many civilians are winding up dead missing their hearts.Sporting the patina of old time detective fl icks Dylan sorts out the evidence between ass beatings from everything that goes bump in the night.We fi nd the big deal is that shopworn plot in which some ancient demon is going to rise again to enslave some-thing or other.The old GHOST-BUSTERS gag.The acting is mediocre at best and it seems Huntington is chan-neling Screech from SAVED BY the BELL.It actually starts to devolve after about fi fteen minutes from a cheapie with a slightly inter-esting hook into a real waste of time.You probably won’t hate it but I doubt you’ll think the eight bucks plus corn was a great investment.

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Westside Steve’s Netpicks

SLING BLADE These days everybody knows the name Billy Bob Thornton.Most movie buffs, but maybe not so many casual viewers will remember his 1996 breakout feature SLING BLADE.Shot in stark black and white this is a weird little story about domestic abuse and redemp-tion and how it plays out in the lives of of a retarded adult. Karl, (Thornton) and a boy, Frank (Lucas Black).Newly released from the “nervous hospital” Karl fi nds a job and a room at a small engine repair shop. Soon he befriends young Frank as well as his mother and a gay man (rare in rural Arkansas) played by the late John Ritter. None of this sits too well with mother’s abusive drunken boyfriend Doyle (Dwight Yoakam) who now adds Karl to his list of victims. That story as well as a visit with

Karl’s estranged hermit of a father (Robert Duval) will all come to a climax at the end. Thornton wrote directed and starred in this critically acclaimed but low budget feature. It’s a great example of what you can do with a good story and a good cast that includes Thornton, Duval, Yoakam, and the deceased Ritter and J.T. Walsh. It’s worth seeking out if you’ve never seen it and a second (or more) look if you have.WSSemail [email protected]


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~ Rick Ray

Spring is still not here! Once again I have to iterate that spring is supposed to transform the earth from cold to warm! It’s still cold… and at the beginning of May!

Instead of earthquakes and tsunamis, we got damn tornados and stinking fl oods wreaking havoc across our nation! What… can’t suck us out to sea so good ole Mother Nature has to bring the sea to us?

Enough of the nature crap already!

Speaking of fl oods there also appears to be this weird downpour of drama going on everywhere. People all over seem to be all pissy at each other and fl ipping lips are running wild in the streets! Uh-oh… Johnny Lapushski doesn’t like the way Billy Jo Poparakkofus drools when she’s eating Cheerios! Then there’s the he said… she said… crap… WHO CARES? Sheesh!

Enough of the drama crap already!

Now what’s all this gasoline price crap? Does anybody really believe that Libya sup-plies us with so much oil that without their supply we couldn’t sustain ourselves? Food prices too, I suppose the price of a loaf of bread is somehow affected by Martian dust storms? Well at least one thing is still more expensive than gasoline… laundry detergent is still in the lead at about $10 a gallon!

Enough of the price gouging crap already!

I read recently that some lady was claiming to still be abstinent after 38 years. Well lady abstinence at 38 is no longer abstinence, it’s spinsterism! This leads me to a really important question; do balding men really have more testosterone and thus a higher sex drive? Well as it turns out, balding men do produce more testosterone and men who lose their testicles before their hair falls out will never go bald! Hmmm… so does this mean if I cut off my testicles my hair will grow back? Just wondering…

Enough of the balding crap already!

Sharks and giant man eating fi shy type crit-ters being found in fresh water rivers and lakes is a little disturbing too. There goes Mother Nature screwing around with things again! Well I suppose it could take such a boring pastime as fi shing and make it a little more interesting. Yeah, instead of worrying about the fi sh swallowing the bait you better be worried about the fi sh swallowing you!

Enough of the screwing with nature crap already!

Donald Trump really is thinking of running for president in 2012! Well we might as well let him in there to shake things up a bit. He’d fi t right in with his comb over hairdo and his hottie little wifeypoo would give us something pleasant to watch while he screws things up some more. I mean it re-ally doesn’t matter whose elected president anymore, at least he could keep the govern-ment from shutting down with some pocket change!

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Since millions of people are still out of work the news of Usama bin Laden fi nally getting wasted makes a nice Mother’s Day present! Yeah they could cut him up in little pieces and ship them to moms everywhere! Mom would probably prefer some fl owers but hey, times are tuff and we have to impro-vise! Just be sure to wash your hands after handling him!

Enough of my crap already!

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