Most Popular

Most Viewed
Most Commented
Entertainment
  • Porn yesterday
    Filmmaker spoofs adult-movie industry with retro take on bad shots and awful acting.
  • Built Like a Schlitz Brickhouse
    Slavic Village watering hole pours a tall mug of beer on the cheap.
  • Nude Awakening
    A few minutes of full-frontal bare-nakedness helps college coed channel his pansexuality.
  • Border Patrol
    East Side studio scouts surrounding states for artists to join its biggest exhibit of the year.
  • Brain Food for thought
    Jewish expert explains Einstein's passion for Judaism in Maltz Museum lecture.
"Most Popular" tools sponsored by:
Recent Articles

Recent Articles By Cris Glaser

  • Dino-Mite!
    T. Rex & company grunt, gnash, and cavort through millions of years of history to re-enact the life and times of the dinosaur.
  • China Dolls
    A trip to the Orient inspires New York band's name. But its music is purely all-American post-punk.
  • Wanna Bet?
    Racetrack wets gamblers' whistles at new lounge and sports bar.
  • Leather & Laces
    A costumed Ohio City steps up to the starting line for its annual run and bar crawl.
  • Studio City

National Features

  • Broward-Palm Beach New Times
    Ganja of the Seas

    The aging hippie who was the first target of the War on Drugs is out of jail and talking up a storm.

    By Brantley Hargrove
  • Dallas Observer
    The Man Who Would Be King

    Freddy Haynes seemed a shoo-in to lead the NAACP. Then Obama's pastor came to town.

    By Jesse Hyde
  • Phoenix New Times
    Visions of Allison DuBois

    There's no proof the real-life Medium has ever cracked a case, but her fans don't care.

    By Megan Irwin
  • Westword
    Don Becker's Last Stand-Up

    Denver mourns the loss of its favorite one-armed, bipolar comic/poet/playwright.

    By Adam Cayton-Holland

At 25, acoustic rocker Rachel Shortt has fronted a tween band, couch-surfed from coast to coast, and even slept underneath the Detroit Road bridge in Rocky River for a few nights. On her fifth CD, Shortt Stories, the Cleveland native chronicles her past in an angst-packed capsule. "My music is a direct reflection of everything that happens in my life. Parental supervision wasn't a necessity in my household. I reached out to music when I was young, because it was the only outlet for the things that were going on with me. Ever since, it's been my way of filtering out my negativity," says Shortt, whose influences range from the Beatles to Sheryl Crow. "When it comes down to it, I gear toward the angry."In concert tonight, with DJ Hatchet and Steven Carriker on the bill, Shortt waxes nostalgic about her three-year stint in Seattle before she returned home in March. "I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal," she says. "In a way, I'm a modern-day gypsy. I go wherever life takes me." The concert starts at 9:30 tonight at the Closing Room, 13813 Lorain Avenue. Admission is free. Call 216-688-1760 or visit www.myspace.com/theclosingroom.
Sat., June 21, 9:30 p.m., 2008

About Us | Work for Cleveland Scene | Esubscribe | Free Cleveland Classifieds | National Advertising | Privacy Policy
Problem With the Site? | RSS | Site Map
©2008 Village Voice Media All rights reserved.

Cleveland Scene Insiders

  • Local food, music and news blasts
  • Free Stuff

buy, sell, trade (1,525)
musician (1,066)
rentals (783)
jobs (1,494)
adult entertainment (2,165)
Free Classifieds Cleveland, OH