CLEVELAND, Ohio - As Northeast Ohio’s DEVO continues its probable final rounds of live shows, the local labor-of-love fan convention and annual gathering of spuds known as DEVOtional — happening from Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, at the Beachland Ballroom — is halfway to 50 and thriving. Tickets are available now at devo-obsesso.com .

The event, celebrating 25 years, began as an informal gathering of in a long-gone and forgotten bookstore, semi-recalled DEVOtional co-founder Michael Pilmer, who also runs the website. “Just a dirty little room with some weirdo UFO books and stuff in it,” he said, describing the Akron location at the turn of the century.

The first DEVOtional brought only about 35 people who had found each other online in “old news groups and these archaic ways to comm

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