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This phenomenon Woccurs so dramatically, in fact, that we find it increasingly difficult to squeeze it all into a 20- or 24-page publication, even one as spectacularly and tastefully well- done as whatzup. Fortunately, there’s whatzup.com, where you’ll find even more great stuff to see, do and hear than these printed pages can accommodate. Based on the number of unique daily visits whatzup.com is attracting, word is get- ting out. By going to whatzup.com, opening the menu (the three parallel lines at the top left) and clicking “Web Statistics” under the Advertising header, you’ll be able to see that more than 2,100 people a day are going to the site, up about 50% from a year ago. And with the improvements we are making to both the desktop and mobile versions of the site, we anticipate a similar increase occurring over just the next couple of months. No doubt, a lot of you prefer being able to pick up and keep the print version of whatzup, and we’re putting just as much effort as ever into the weekly print pub- lication and will continue to do so. But even print readers should bear in mind that the website’s calendars include many times more listings than what the print version can accommodate, and many of those listings include live links that enable users to get more information, or even purchase tickets, right then and there. So enjoy this issue if you’re holding the paper-and-ink version as you read this. But also, when you have a moment, go check out whatzup.com. After all, we don’t want you to miss anything. inside the issue • features ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 12 FLIX ................................................. 16 Kedi BATTERY DANCE ........................................4 Display of Creative Force SCREENTIME ................................. 16 Disney Scores Another Mega-Hit BROADWAY AT THE EMBASSY ..............5 Immersive Romance CURTAIN CALL ................................ 19 One Foot in the Gravy LARRY McCRAY ..........................................6 Expressions of Soul • calendars • columns & reviews LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ....................8 SPINS ................................................7 MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 12 Nadia Reid, Ty Segall ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 15 BACKTRACKS ...................................7 ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 17 Argent, All Together Now (1972) STAGE & DANCE ............................ 18 OUT AND ABOUT ...............................8 A Little Help From His Many Friends THINGS TO DO ............................... 19 Cover by Brandon Jordan PICKS ............................................. 10 Battery Dance photos by Darial Sneed Bernadette Peters & The Boston Pops, Rocktopia Once photos by Joan Marcus Kat Bowser watercolor Live at art Classes Starting Don Hall’s APRIL 6th Guesthouse beginner & intermediate adult students / 18yrs+ Pop rock blues Standards watercolor basics ~ ~ ~ design & technique Friday & Saturday, MARCH 24-25 ~9pm-12:30am 1313 W. 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Normally the residency is only diligence by serving them with the arts. We DeSomer Fine Art Studio .......................................................3 rience of a lifetime. Htoo is a junior at South three days. But this year Battery Dance will have to listen to the community. There is a Dupont Bar & Grill....................................................................8 Side High School and a student dancer in be here for six days. great need to keep the arts at the forefront of the outreach program of Fort Wayne Dance Battery Dance artistic director Jonathan economic development to serve people of all Embassy Theatre ..................................................................13 Collective. On April 1, Htoo and 24 other Hollander will give a lecture titled “Arts and ages in the community.” First Presbyterian Theater/The Children’s Hour ...............18 student dancers will take the stage with Economic Development” on March 31 at Dance is just one way to do that. Kolk- members of Battery Dance, the New York Cinema Center. Hollander is the founder of man added that there are many ways for peo- Fort Wayne Civice Theatre/One Foot in the Gravy .............18 City-based dance company that will wrap up Battery Dance and is considered one of the ple to be involved in dance without actually Fort Wayne Dance Collective/Battery Dance ..................18 its six-day artist in residency with FWDC. most influential and creative choreographers dancing. In addition to the Fort Wayne Musicians Association ...................................17 specially created dance Fort Wayne