Springsteen, Dylan, Aretha and Cash: Remembering the Rock Hall’s Opening Concert: CLE Daily

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🏈 Browns Sacked: The Browns lost a chance to take over first place in the AFC North, losing to the Steelers, 27-6. Deshaun Watson was sacked eight times. The Browns (5-3) play the Saints next week. Here are DMan's Thoughts.

🎬 Ohio's Hollywood Roots Get Their Close-Up: WKYC's Betsy Kling moderates Behind the Camera: The Golden Age of Hollywood with Northeast Ohio-native biographer Scott Eyman, tracing the state's ties to the movies from the birth of Warner Bros. in Youngstown to stars like Clark Gable, Doris Day and Bob Hope. The Greater Cleveland Film Commission fundraiser is Friday, Nov. 6, at the Cleveland History Center, 10825 East Blvd., with the panel at 8 p.m., after-hours museum access, hors d'oeuvres and a raffle. Tickets start at $75.

💀 Cleveland's Dia de Muertos Celebration Turns 22: Cleveland Public Theatre's free Dia de Muertos celebration fills its Gordon Square campus Saturday with eight altars, Aztec dancers, mariachi, a folk art market and the Procession of Skulls and Skeletons from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m., led by grand marshal Willie Colon. New this year, free tickets (with a suggested $10 donation) are required to see the altars inside the renovated Joan Yellen Horvitz Performing Arts Center.

🥩 A Brazilian Steakhouse Is Coming to Legacy Village: Fogo de Chao opens in 2027 in the former Brio Italian Grille space in Lyndhurst, serving its all-you-can-eat Churrasco Experience, with gauchos carving picanha, filet mignon, ribeye and lamb right onto your plate. It's the chain's second Ohio location, after Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus.  

ICYMI: Remember your favorite Cleveland concert? Local music figures revisited theirs, from Springsteen at the Allen Theatre in 1974 and U2 at the Agora in 1981 to The Black Keys at Beachland Tavern in 2002. Of Paul McCartney at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1990, journalist Matt Wardlaw says simply, "Absolute magic."

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Today's Trivia

The First Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, initially built in 1853, is more commonly known as what?

History: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opened in 1995 with a nearly seven-hour concert at old Municipal Stadium.

By Michael Norman 

On Sept. 2, 1995, a sold-out crowd of 57,000 packed Cleveland Municipal Stadium for The Concert for the Hall of Fame, a 6-hour, 40-minute show that celebrated the museum’s grand opening and was televised by HBO. Norman, who covered it for The Plain Dealer, calls it his favorite musical moment in more than 30 years of writing about local music.

• The Lineup: Forty-one artist combinations played 68 songs, with Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Bob Dylan, the Kinks, John Fogerty, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and John Mellencamp on the bill. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played together for the first time in almost a decade, and Springsteen backed Berry on the opening “Johnny B. Goode.”

• The Moments: Dylan showed up as a surprise guest and dueted with Springsteen on “Forever Young,” Cash and Mellencamp teamed up on “Ring of Fire,” and Al Green’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” stole the show, Norman says. The night ended around 2:10 a.m., after Berry played “Rock and Roll Music” in a different key than his band.

Worth Noting: The concert doubled as a farewell to the old Stadium, which was demolished soon after, and with the Browns planning to move to Brook Park in 2029, Norman hopes the lakefront site commemorates the show. The full show streams on the Rock Hall’s YouTube page.

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Talk of the Town

University Hospitals' websites and MyChart are still down. A week after a cybersecurity incident, UH says the vast majority of appointments and procedures are continuing as normal and urges patients to keep their appointments, though some elective procedures were rescheduled and offices are calling patients directly. UH hasn't said what caused the incident and expects disruptions to continue "for the foreseeable future."

Ohio's early voting is on pace to break a record before Tuesday's election. Nearly 1.19 million people had voted early as of last week, heading toward the 1.47 million cast in 2022. About 235,500 mail ballots had been requested but not yet returned.

Cleveland wants your opinion on its license plate reader cameras. The Community Police Commission is taking input on whether police should keep using their 100 Flock cameras, which the commission ordered paused starting Jan. 1. An online survey is open until Nov. 16, and focus groups are Saturday, Nov. 14. 

More Cleveland toddlers are getting tested for lead. In the first year of a city pilot that put tests in pediatric offices, testing for children under 2 rose from about 69% to nearly 80%. It isn't yet known whether the program continues for a second year, and gaps remain on the east side and in refugee communities. 

Tony's Burger Shop at Van Aken District has closed. Chef Anthony Zappola let his five-year lease end to simplify, saying "two restaurants are better than five." He also sold the Willoughby location and is keeping Lox, Stock and Brisket in Van Aken's Market Hall and Tripi Italian Specialties in Ohio City. 

Things to Do: Looking for more fun this week?

🏀 Cleveland Cavaliers at Home (Nov. 2 and 6): The Cavs are back at Rocket Arena twice this week. On Monday, they face the Oklahoma City Thunder, and on Friday they take on Cleveland legend LeBron James and the Philadelphia 76ers. Monday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m. $42-$2,846. Rocket Arena, 1 Center Court, Cleveland. nba.com

🏈 Akron Zips vs. Ohio Bobcats (Nov. 3): College football fans, here's a chance to catch two Ohio teams on a Tuesday night, when the University of Akron hosts Ohio University. 7 p.m. $20-$135. 375 E. Exchange St., Akron. gozips.evenue.net

🎭 Hadestown at Playhouse Square (Nov. 3-6): Broadway's Tony Award-winning Best Musical comes to Cleveland, telling the love stories of Orpheus and Eurydice and of King Hades and Persephone through inventive sets and captivating melodies. 7:30 p.m. $36.30-$150. Connor Palace, 1615 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. playhousesquare.org 

🏓 Pickle in the Land (Nov. 5-6): Pickleball fans, this one's for you. Huntington Convention Center turns into a pickleball hub, presented by Akron Children's, with elite players and amateurs on the courts, senior brackets Thursday and singles brackets Friday. Starts at 9 a.m. Thursday. Free to spectate. 300 Lakeside Ave. E., Cleveland. clevelandsports.org

Friday's Trivia Answer 

This peninsula on Cleveland’s near west side got its name from a distillery built there in the 1830s. Whiskey Island

Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor

November is made for long dinners, so consider this your nudge to work through our 50 Best Restaurants list.

It spans steakhouses, street food, brunch and more. The editors flagged some must-orders, including Cafe Everest’s jhol momo, Tita Flora’s pork sisig and the pizza at Il Rione, which they say is worth the wait.

Pick a spot you haven’t tried, book a table this week and bring someone who has never been. Cleveland’s dining scene keeps getting better, and the best way to say thanks is to show up hungry.

— Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor

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