Vol. 31, No. 22
A Question of Style
Why the mayor needs a makeover
By Mike Tobin
Empty Promise
St. Luke's joins the growing list of hospital casualties
By Lydialyle Gibson
The Edge
Council Sharpening Legal Long Knives
Letters to the Editor
God Is Our Cream and Sugar; Talk's Cheap at the Free Clinic; An Officer and a Gentleman; Masquerading Peach Melba;
Come Pere and Contrast
Goodwill and bad blood abound as Northeast Ohio legends Pere Ubu and the Numbers Band set to share the stage again
By Carlo Wolff
Down on the Clowns
Esham Smith put acid rap on the map, but has had to watch Detroit's white rappers get all the glory
By John Benson
Belle and Sebastian
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (Matador)
By Michael Gallucci
BT
Movement in Still Life (Nettwerk)
By Heath K. Hignight
Joe Lovano
52nd Street Themes (Blue Note)
By Harvey Pekar
Qwasi Qwa
Shaking Hands With the Governor (self-released)
By Jeff Niesel
Soundbites
Cracker
Saturday June 3, at the Oden
Split Lip Rayfield, with Myshkin and the Tumbleweeds
Monday, June 5, at the Beachland Ballroom
By Brian Baker
Juliana Hatfield, with Rosavelt
Thursday, June 1, at the Grog Shop
Thomas Brinkmann
Friday, June 2, at Speak in Tongues
Bad Religion, opening for Blink 182
Sunday, June 4, at Blossom
Shivaree Timbres
Shivaree. Friday, June 2, at the Symposium
The Swing Dance
Sex sells, but no one was buying David Schisgall's take on suburban swinging. Arthouse audiences are changing that
Sex Pistols
The Lifestyle is a touching, groping homage to the suburban swing set
By Andy Klein
In Sotto Voce
Understated Severance the Restaurant whispers "style"
By Elaine T. Cicora
Side dish
Flying Burritos, Brother!
Impressionism Rehashed
Russian and Soviet artists have the style down pat, but the results are often bland
By Charles Yannopoulos
Greeks Bearing Gifts
Lysistrata, a 2,400-year-old comedy, still packs a wallop
By Keith A. Joseph
Stalker Fiction
Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry
By Robert Wilonsky
One to Grow On -- and On
The Cleveland Botanical Garden Flower Show
By Ginger Burnett
A Legend Points Toward Retirement
Dark Wave Dance Cave
@ The Winchester
Fri., April 19, 9 p.m.
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