Can't wait until October to get your German beer and culture fix? Then head on down to the 2012 Cleveland Oktoberfest on Labor Day weekend. Running Aug. 31 through Sept. 3, the festival is considered Northeast Ohio's largest annual outdoor fest of its kind. All things German will be in full swing for four days of authentic food, beer and entertainment. German foodies like Der Braumeister, Schmidt's of Columbus, Seven Roses, Heini's Cheese Chalet, Michael's Bakery, Frank's Bratwurst of the West Side Market, and Balaton (named Best Hungarian Restaurant by Cleveland Scene) will once again b...
Long, lithe and larger than life, former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach took the stage before a wall to wall crowd at Peabody’s Down Under. Bach is now touring on his solo album, Kicking and Screaming. His latest work was well received by the varied and nostalgic crowd, but it was the obligatory Skid Row material, “Slave to the Grind,” “Big Guns” and “Piece of Me” that really got fists pumping. Sebastian Bach is still as sexy today as he was on the back my frayed, dog eared Skid Row album from 1989. The bone structure that won his place on my bedroom wall was just as chiseled ...
Metal and comedy go together like sodomy and gunfire, just ask Don Jamieson. Best known as one-third of the hosting team behind VH1’s “That Metal Show” (along with Eddie Trunk and comedy-partner Jim Florentine), Don Jamieson has been working both the comedy and heavy metal circuit for years. Before fame, Don was just another comedian with a mullet. “I struggled in comedy clubs,” he said, “and I probably did 15 pilots of TV shows that went nowhere.” He paid the bills by writing jokes for people like Pauley Shore and Tom Green. After a few years his hard work was noticed, and he...
