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ELI YOUNG BAND DOWN THE THE CIVIC STAGES things to do 409in the area AT THE PAVILION LINE 13 ORIGINAL MUSICAL CALENDARS START ON PAGE 11 Feb. 14-20, 2019 FREE WHAT THERE IS TO DO IN FORT WAYNE AND BEYOND UMPHREY’S MCGEE INDIANA-BORN BAND AT THE CLYDE ON FEB. 21 ALSO INSIDE: THREE RIVERS MUSIC THEATRE SNAGS TONY AWARD-WINNING FUN HOME whatzup.com FEBRUARY 14 FEBRUARY 15 CANDLEBOX BADFISH W/ BUMPIN UGLIES GET Celebrating 25 years, the seminal grunge Baddsh: a Tribute to Sublime continues to band is best known for “Change”, “You”, channel the spirit of Sublime and “Far Behind” NOTICED! Bands and venues: Send us your events to get free listings FEBRUARY 17 FEBRUARY 21 in our calendar! SPACE JESUS W/ BUKU, TOADFACE UMPHREY’S MCGEE W/ MOSER WOODS whatzup.com/submissions Brooklyn-based producer known for Celebrating 20 years of genre-bending, dynamic live performances world-class musicianship and unmatched energic live shows MARCH 2 MARCH 17 LOS LOBOS W/ James and The Drifters WHITEY MORGAN Three decades, thousands of A modern day outlaw channeling greats performances, two Grammys, and the Waylon and Merle but with attitude and global success of “La Bamba” grit all his own Boney James APRIL 25 Classic Deep Purple with Glenn Hughes MAY 2 Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience MAY 4 Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience MAY 11 Hozier: Wasteland, Baby! Tour JUNE 11 2 WHATZUP FEBRUARY 14-20, 2019 Inside This Week Volume 23, Number 29 4Another Bazaar Evening Umphrey’s5 on the Maumee McGee Kevin7 Hambrick Blues Brothers Review6 8Down the Line 13 14USF, PFW music programs Also inside: 9 Three Rivers Music Theatre Columns & Reviews Calendars Road Notes ⁄ 10 Backtracks ⁄ 22 On the Road ⁄ 10-13 Rascal Flatts hit Midwest tour dates Bad Brains, Rock for Light (1983) this summer Road Trips ⁄ 11 Reel Views ⁄ 23 Out and About ⁄ 16 Palace: Young filmmaker captures Live Music & Comedy ⁄ 17-21 Modern country act Eli Young at authentic portrait of Indiana Stage & Dance ⁄ 25 Pavilion Screen Time ⁄ 24 Things To Do ⁄ 26 News and Venues ⁄ 21 Lars von Trier stuns with movie about Glenbrook corrals Portillo’s; Shigs in Pit serial killer Art & Exhibits ⁄ 27 adds third location Director’s Notes ⁄ 25 Clarification: The photo on the cover of our Spins ⁄ 22 Unwrap this Gift: Civic Theatre stages February 7-13 issue should have credited Strange Waters, Papa Roach, original musical comedy Pyroscope Entertainment, who participated Maggie Rogers in last year’s Weather the Fort event. FEBRUARY 14-20, 2019 WHATZUP 3 How to reach us The Maumee is the mission of bazaar Whatzup LLC 5501 U.S. Highway 30 West Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Enjoy local music and Phone: (260) 407-3198 Fax: (260) 469-1027 activities while helping [email protected] whatzup.com Save Maumee nonprofit facebook.com/whatzupftwayne instagram.com/whatzupftwayne BY MICHELE DEVINNEY twitter.com/whatzupftwayne WHATZUP FEATURES WRITER Publisher One of the many organizations dedicated to Gerson Rosenbloom keeping the local rivers vibrant is Save Maumee. The organization has been a vital part of the Editor effort to revitalize Fort Wayne’s Maumee River Jon Swerens by focusing on key areas that can benefit from the tender loving care the group has provided Calendar and Distribution Director since its founding in 2005 by president Abigail Mikila Cook Frost-King. With Earth Day the primary focus of Save Web and App Developer Maumee, the group has planted trees and, just as Brandon Jordan importantly, helped clear the areas surrounding and including the river itself. Contributing writers “Our Earth Day event, which really takes place Nick Braun, Benjamin Dehr, over the course of a weekend, is our biggest Michele DeVinney, Dennis Donahue, Evan Gillespie, Heather Herron, event every year,” said Ellen Bauman, a volunteer since 2011 and a current member of the board Jason Hoffman, John Hubner, Courtesy photo Chris Hupe, Brent Leuhold, of directors. “We always have a selected site to Greg W. Locke, Steve Penhollow, plant trees, and last year we planted 1,100 trees in ANOTHER BAZAAR EVENING HOW YOU CAN HELP Jennifer Poiry, Kevin Smith, the Heatherwood Park and Moser Park area. We To get involved with Save Maumee, visit their Rachel Stephens planted 19 different species and removed invasive ON THE MAUMEE website (savemaumee.org) and follow their species as well.” SAVE MAUMEE Distribution Noon-10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 pages on social media for upcoming events. Whatzup is distributed once per week REMOVING INVASIVE SPECIES — AND TRASH TekVenture, 1550 Griffin St., Fort Wayne Its biggest volunteer effort is Earth Day, at more than 650 locations in nine One particular species has been problematic. $8.50-$10 · savemaumee.org which is April 22. Save Maumee welcomes as counties — Allen, Whitley, Noble, Wells, many hands as they can get for the weekend Adams, Huntington, Kosciusko, Dekalb, A key effort of Save Maumee has been eradicat- and Steuben. Whatzup is distributed ing Asian honeysuckle before it does irreparable of planting plus the hours of preparation on Wednesdays and Thursdays by harm to the vegetation and wildlife in the area. participating.” beforehand in cleaning and clearing the area. Whatzup LLC. “It’s particularly invasive and not only chokes Acoustic sets include Cami & Kyle, Dakota Details about those activities will be posted out a lot of plants, but also its berries have no Boggs, Topher Beyer, and Josiah Helland. Electric on their social media platforms. Back issues nutritional value,” Bauman said. “So when the sets include elle/the Remnant, Venus in Jeans, Back issues are $3 for first copy, 75¢ birds feed on them, they feel full but have received El Camino Hot Tub, Three Cities, Totally Orange Membership to Save Maumee is $25 per per additional copy. Send payment with no nutrition. So they end up dying of starvation.” Time Machine, and Rogues and Bandits. year and helps cover the cost of tools and date and quantity of issues desired, Having received assistance from the Great Bauman also enjoys partnering with TekVen- materials needed for the volunteers who and your name and mailing address, to Lakes Restoration Initiative, Bauman said that ture and thinks the collaboration has helped gain assist with activities. Grants help defray the Whatzup LLC at the above address. Save Maumee was able to remove hundreds of exposure for both entities. costs of the trees, but membership dues Calendar listings tons of trash from the rivers and the many adja- “TekVenture’s participation has been so good cover costs of other items associated with Must be received by noon Monday the cent feeder streams. for us,” she said. “I want to give them a huge the efforts. Save Maumee holds monthly week of publication for inclusion in that Grants are just one way the organization is able shoutout because they bring us so many more meetings at Don Hall’s Gas House on the first week’s issue and, space permitting, to fund its mission. Every year, Save Maumee members.” Monday of each month from 7-8:30 p.m., will run until the week of the event. holds a fundraiser, and the last two years that Thanks to TekVenture’s involvement, there will with free coffee and tea. Calendar information is published event has taken the form of a bazaar. be plenty of hands-on arts opportunities, includ- as far in advance as space permits ing a skateboard construction demonstration and all helping to clear, clean, and plant in different and should be submitted as early as ANOTHER BAZAAR FOR THE MAUMEE 3D printing. These activities have already helped areas around the city. possible. Whatzup makes every effort to authenticate claims and accurate times This year, the Another Bazaar Evening on grow this second bazaar beyond what Save Mau- The more healthy the rivers, the more peo- and event locations. We encourage the Maumee takes place on Saturday, Feb. 23, at mee achieved last year. ple who feel comfortable visiting and the more readers to verify information prior to TekVenture on Griffin Street near the Tecumseh “We had 18 booths last year and so far we invested people are in their viability. Bauman attending events or purchasing tickets. Street bridge. Bauman has been active in plan- already have 31 this year,” Bauman said. “I’m says her own activities with Save Maumee has ning the fundraisers and was happy with how last really excited to see everything coming together.” been an entirely positive experience. Advertising year’s inaugural bazaar was received. “I couldn’t be happier to be part of Save Mau- Space reservations and ads requiring “We were just trying to do something a little bit POWER FROM THE PEOPLE mee,” she said. “From the beginning, I knew that proofs due by no later than the Monday different,” she said. “We have a lot of local bands The fundraiser augments grants and mem- I was doing something good. There’s something 10 days prior to publication. Camera- and artists involved. There will be acoustic music bership monies and helps build the Save Mau- about doing things that you don’t get paid to do, ready or digital ad copy required for four hours, from noon until 4, and then elec- mee community. While funding is vital, it’s the doing something that comes from the heart, that by noon Friday the week before publication. E-mail [email protected] tric bands from 4 until 10. We have tons of local power of people that really helps to drive the really makes you feel good. When I plant a tree, I or call (260) 407-3198.