ZOMBIES TAKE OVER TOLEDO!

Zombieeees!

Just your normal, average, everyday zombie crew at the bar.

Searching for humans. Luckily I was disguised as a zombie to escape from the "Party Rock"ers

The Zombie Bar Crawl in downtown Toledo this past weekend turned out to be a huge, disease-infested, bloody mess of awesome fun. Loads of zombies, infected beings and tortured souls took to the streets as we Toledoans brought in the holiday weekend with great energy and enough fake blood to fill your mom's swimming pool. If you weren't able to make it out, take a look at these pictures and be sure to join next fall because each year gets bigger and better! Keep an eye out for more upcoming events from the City Paper and join our Morning Buzz to find out what's going on week-to-week in your area. Go to the Toledo City Paper website to sign up. And of course if you are out and about at a local event and see me shooting photos, come say hey, get a photo and be a part of our awesome blog. You'll pretty much be famous. And I'm out of here. -BEAT

Jon Hendricks plays with Trombone Shorty

We may be a little far away, but just the audio of Jon Hendricks getting on stage to perform with Trombone Shorty is worth a view. What an absolutely amazing show — complete with this super-cool surprise!

Joan Baez

by Sandor Slomovits

Michigan Theater / November 1

Joan Baez last visited Ann Arbor in November of 2008, just a few days after President Obama’s election. Her first words that night were, “Yes, we did!” A lot has happened in the past three years, and the people who’ve gotten teed off at President Obama, and the Democrats in general, probably won’t be in the audience when Baez returns this month. Their loss, because a Baez concert is a remarkable event. Sure, her pipes, now just past seventy, are not quite what they were, but Baez’s slightly diminished voice is still better than most, and the years have not stopped her growth as a singer and interpreter—and in those departments she had few peers to begin with. Besides, with Baez it was never only about the soaring range, the astonishing beauty and clarity of her voice. It was about the depth of character that her voice carried and conveyed—and that doesn’t diminish with age.
$27-$69. 7:30pm. 603 E. Liberty St. 734-668-8463. www.michtheater.org

Concession Stand

by Jason Webber
Answer This! (3 stars)

What It’s About: Everyone knows a guy like Paul Tarson (Christopher Gorham). He’s that encyclopedia of useless information who you want on your team in games of “Trivial Pursuit.” Problem is, he’s a 30-year old manchild who has no idea what he will do after grad school (again, we all know someone like this guy). But the citywide pub trivia tournament just might be his ticket to proving that he’s more than a one-trick pony. Maybe.

What We Like: The main reason everyone in the region will want to go see this film is because it was shot at and endorsed by the University of Michigan—first time they’ve ever officially lent their name to a film. There’s live footage of a U of M football game (Let’s Go Blue!) and plenty of U of M landmarks on display. Having said that, “Answer This!” is also a pretty cute-n-quirky coming of age film that may not be exactly groundbreaking but is perfectly entertaining. We’ll take it!

Opens Friday, October 21 at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.

Dangerous fish, rockers, politicians and patriots.

There's been a lot going on the last few weeks. And now that the chaos has calmed (well, with Halloween and our City Politics issue coming up, not really...but since I already started the sentence, I'll roll with it). We have videos from four very different events. I'm talking from interviewing the attorney general in Columbus to talking with a local rocker at Frankies to watching a chef clean a 40-pound Asian Carp to the first day of Occupy Toledo different. Random — yes. Kind of awesome — we think so. You be the judge. If you like what we're doing with short videos around town, let us know what we should be filming more of. It is, after all, for you, the reader. We're not hard to find — hit us up on Facebook, shoot us an e-mail, drop off a letter (even though the last time that happened, the author classified me as an "inconsiderate asshole." Hey, you can't win them all). The point is, if we are going to do this, we want to do it right. Help us out.

Video One: Chef Marcel cleaning an Asian Carp



Video Two: TCP's Julian Garcia interviewing Dean, singer/guitarist, of Mindfish



Video Three: Walk-through of the first day of Occupy Toledo



Video Four: Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine talking about the grandparents scam

CITY PAPER WEEKEND @ Frankies

Jason and Laura of JL Entertainment Services, Inc. in Perrysburg and Toledo City Paper's very own, handsome Julian. All good lookin' people.
Some die-hard fans out for support from left: Casey Malone, Brandon Boltz, Heather Hoffman and Liz Boltz. Great People.

CITY PAPER WEEKEND @ Frankies

Hey all, checkout some of the festivites from last weekends event at Frankies in Toledo. City Paper Weekend was excellent if you missed out. Here are some shots of a great local band The Hemline Theory