OCT. 3-9, 2013 Saturday, Oct. 12 • 7:00pm CASH ‘N CLINE TRIBUTE $12 Adv., $15 D.O.S. Saturday, Oct. 19 • 8:00pm COCO MONTOYA $25 Adv., $30 D.O.S., $40 Gold Friday, Oct. 25 • 8:00pm STRING SHIFT $20 Adv., $25 D.O.S., $30 Gold Saturday, Nov. 2 • 8:00pm ANTHONY GOMES Ticket Prices TBA Saturday, Nov. 16 • 8:00pm JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR Ticket Prices TBA GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR TICKET INFO & MORE ALL SHOWS ALL AGES 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com --------------------------------------------------------------October 3, 2013 whatzup Volume 18, Number 11 ON SALE NOW! he Haunting Season is upon us, as you could probably tell from this week’s cover which features what’s reputed to be the ghastliest, most ghoulish haunt in all of Indiana, maybe anywhere. Columbia City’s Haunted Jail definitely Tisn’t for the little ones, but the rest of you, go experience the adrenaline rush that comes from having the ever-loving daylights scared out of you. Mark Hunter has the story on page 4. On page 5 you’ll find Michele DeVinney’s piece on local troubadour David Todoran, now, thankfully, back on the music scene after an absence of several years. Todoran’s Zig Zag Railroad was one of the first Fort Wayne bands we saw playing live back in 1996 when we launched this little venture, and it was an expe- rience that told us we were onto something good: the Fort Wayne music scene was (and is) something well worth covering and promoting. Glad to have you back, Dave. On the same page is Deborah Kennedy’s story on Jason Wells, a singer-songwriter who is playing CS3 next weekend. His is a story that should inspire local musicians who are wondering whether they should keep their day jobs. If you’ve got the talent and the drive, Wells proves you can make it work. There is, of course (and as usual) a whole lot more: Susan Burns’ review of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, CD reviews, Picks on Filter and Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, etc., etc. So read on, make your plans, go out, have a good time and tell ’em whatzup sent you. • features CURTAIN CALL ............................... 19 Five Women Wearing the Same Dress PRODUCTION NOTES .................... 19 COLUMBIA CITY HAUNTED JAIL .............4 Little House on the Prairie: Mary’s Story Blood on the Killing Floor CLASSICAL GRASP ...................... 22 DAVID TODORAN .......................................5 Made-in-America Orchestral Music Back on the Scene SCREENTIME ................................ 22 JASON WELLS ...........................................5 Cloudy 2 Tops Box But May Fall to Gravity A Choice Well Made • calendars • columns & reviews KARAOKE & DJS ..............................7 SPINS ...............................................6 Bob Dylan, Belle and Sebastian LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ...................8 BACKTRACKS ..................................6 MUSIC/ON THE ROAD ...................13 James Gang, Rides Again (1970) ROAD TRIPZ ..................................15 OUT & ABOUT ...................................8 MOVIE TIMES ................................16 Frights and Fun for the Entire Family ART & ARTIFACTS .........................18 PICKS ............................................ 12 Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, Filter STAGE & DANCE ...........................19 ROAD NOTEZ ................................. 13 THINGS TO DO ..............................20 Cover design by Greg Locke FLIX ................................................ 16 Haunted Jail photos on cover and page 4 by Don Jon Jase Spiegel Photography Sunday, November 3 • 7pm Embassy Theatre 800.745.3000 Box Office | | ticketmaster.com a presentation October 3, 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ------------------------------- Feature • Haunted Jail ------------------------------ 3 Rivers Co-op Natural Grocery & Deli ....................9 20 Past 4 and More .................................................23 The Alley Sports Bar/Pro Bowl West ....................15 ARCH/Haunted Tours...............................................21 Beamer’s Sports Grill .................................................8 C2G Live/The TV Show ................................................7 Blood on the Killing Floor C2G Music Hall.............................................................2 By Mark Hunter out the building, if you last that long. cious.” Calhoun Street Soups, Salads & Spirits .............11 The story goes that in 1884 a man named And more viscous, when you consider Castle Gallery ............................................................18 The blood of countless victims blackens Charles Butler, in a drunken rage, killed his all the blood flying around. The walls are CLASSIFIEDS ............................................................23 the walls of the killing rooms. Screams echo wife with a bullet to her back, was arrested gooey with the stuff. Why wouldn’t they be? in timeless loops through the dank corridors and lodged in the Whitley County Jail un- The jail dentist’s office alone makes Dex- Columbia Street West ................................................9 in a fruitless search for their Dicky’s Wild Hare ..........................................................8 point of origin, for safe harbor Deer Park Pub/Craft Beer Festival .........................21 back in the lungs of the hapless hordes who produced them, the Digitracks Recording Studio ..................................15 innocents who over the years had Dupont Bar & Grill.....................................................11 wandered into the 140-year-old building seeking nothing more Earthen Treasures Natural Food Market .............23 than an evening’s entertainment Fort Wayne Dance Collective ..................................19 and instead finding eternal terror. Fort Wayne Musicians Association .......................23 Zombies stagger blindly down hallways in an endless hunt for Fort Wayne Philharmonic .........................................15 living food, their clomping, stiff Fort Wayne Youtheatre ...........................................19 gait a harsh and unpleasant re- Halloween Express ....................................................18 minder that this, the Columbia City Haunted Jail, is the home of Haunted Hotel/The Haunted Cave ............................3 Deimos Nosferatu. The Haunted Jail ..........................................................2 That’s right. Hide the kids, IPFW/Community Arts Academy ...........................18 flip off the flip-flops, crate the puppies – everyone’s favorite IPFW/Dept. of Music ...................................................9 vampire is back, and he’s re- IPFW/Dept. of Theatre .............................................19 arranged his humble abode and Jam Theatricals/Hello Dolly ........................................3 recruited new companions for your screaming Latch String Bar & Grill ...........................................11 pleasure. It’s lon- COLUMBIA CITY HAUNTED JAIL ger, darker, more NIGHTLIFE ............................................................. 8-12 7-9 p.m. school nights Northside Galleries ..................................................15 claustropho- bic and goose- 7-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday til his execution. ter’s workshop look like a microchip factory. Pacific Coast Concerts ............................................15 bumpier than you Oct. 3-6, 9-13, 15-20 & The deathless I mean, how do you slice someone’s femoral PERFORMERS DIRECTORY ....................................10 remember. The Deimos Nos- artery while excising a rotten molar? Oct. 22-Nov. 1-3 But the real terror of the Haunted Jail Skully’s Boneyard......................................................11 vampires and feratu, then a zombies, stalkers 116 E. Market St., Columbia City resident of a lies not in what you see, but in what you Snickerz Comedy Bar ..................................................8 and inmates at quiet town on the don’t see. And there’s plenty you won’t see Sweetwater Sound ..............................................9, 24 the Haunted Jail Tix: $13-$18 eastern seaboard until it’s too late. For one thing, there’s no have been scar- www.columbiacityhauntedjail.com of the United reason to wait for your eyes to adjust, be- WBYR 98.9 The Bear..................................................7 ing the livers out States, caught cause they won’t. Vision is the last sense Wooden Nickel Music Stores .....................................6 of people for more than a decade. This year wind of the scheduled public demise of you’ll need to survive a trip through the jail. WXKE Rock 104 .......................................................11 they’re hungrier and more ruthless than ever. Butler and decided to attend. Upon arriv- You’ll use your eyes, to be sure, but you’ll So if you think you’re brave enough (and ing, Deimos ran afoul of the police and was wish you hadn’t. The scenes those innocent you know you think you are) scurry on over beaten, booked and lodged himself. That orbs will fall upon will make you want to rip to the jail and test your mettle. night, as the ghost of Charles Butler rattled them from their sockets and fling them into The first change you’ll notice is the through the jail, the true nature of Deimos a meat grinder (which, conveniently enough, whatzup towering Grim Reaper and his vulture. emerged, and he began