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COMPLETE TRF48 SCHEDULE @ WHATZUP.COM 14-20, 2016JULY FORT WAYNE PRIDE Page Four ARTIST RICK WILSON Page Five AFO’s SHARON HENDERSON Page Five SOUNDS OF TOUCH Page Six ALSO INSIDE Vandolah’s Don’t Stop Giving Up Actor Gavin Drew Pride Fest Art & Entertainment Calendars Headliner FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE WWW.WHATZUP.COM FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE Music, Movie & Theater Reviews DEV 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com -----------------------------------------------------------------July 14, 2016 whatzup Free Movies Volume 20, Number 48 Foellinger Outdoor Theatre alf-way through the Three Rivers Festival, we find ourselves 3411 Sherman Blvd., Fort Wayne with so much on our art and entertainment plate that we couldn’t fit it all in. Literally. We had to condense one of our The Good Dinosaur theatricalH reviews for this print edition (the full version can be read at Wednesday, whatzup.com) and delete Greg Locke’s ScreenTime column (also avail- July 20 • 9pm able at whatzup.com) altogether because we just simply ran out of space. Free movies brought to you by: One can only conclude that it’s not just the weather that’s sizzling hot in northeast Indiana this time of year. You can glance at the contents below to get a sense of what’s inside this issue, but for a fuller understanding of all that’s available in the days and weeks ahead, you’ll need to read the columns and reviews, pore through the calendars from Live Music & Comedy to Arts & Artifacts and check out the advertisements that help pay for it all. As you’re looking through the aforementioned calendars, keep in mind that the print version of whatzup includes only those events that we can squeeze Monday, Sept. 19 • 8pm • $25/$40 into the allotted space. Online, you’ll find full calendars listing events well AN EVENING WITH into next year and beyond. And if you subscribe to our daily blast, what- zup2nite, you’ll get it all in your inbox each morning. WISHBONE ASH So read on, have fun and tell ’em whatzup sent you. GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR TICKET INFO & MORE inside the issue ALL SHOWS ALL AGES • features CURTAIN CALL ................................ 17 Hair CURTAIN CALL ................................ 17 FORT WAYNE PRIDE ...................................4 Beauty and the Beast Fearlessly Pushing Forward FLIX ................................................. 19 RICK WILSON ...............................................5 The Secret Lives of Pets Indiana Landscapes SHARON HENDERSON ..............................5 An Enduring Legacy • calendars SOUNDS OF TOUCH ...................................6 Carrying the Motown Torch LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ....................8 JA MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 12 Z • columns & reviews Z ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 15 THINGS TO DO ............................... 16 SPINS ................................................7 STAGE & DANCE ............................ 18 W Vandolah, Swans Saturday BACKTRACKS ...................................7 ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 18 The Godz, Godz 2 (1968) O Cover by Greg Locke July 16 OUT AND ABOUT ...............................8 Rick Wilson paintings: Wild Flowers Along the Trails at Hungry? Here’s a New Event for You Pokagon (page 5); Sunset Over the Waves – Indiana 7-10 pm R ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 12 Dunes (page 11) Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory K Live jazz and the city’s best YLHZRIWKH75)¿UHZRUNV S Food/beverage available for purchase No reservations needed Lawn chairs encouraged $5 adult; $3 child age 3-17; Discount with a TRF button 1100 S. Calhoun St. (260) 427-6440 www.botanicalconservatory.org July 14, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: --------------------------- Feature • Fort Wayne Pride --------------------------- Allen County Public Library/Rock the Plaza .....................9 Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery..................................18 Beamer’s Sports Grill ..........................................................8 Bell Tower Auctions ..............................................................3 C2G Live/The TV Show ......................................................13 C2G Music Hall......................................................................3 Fearlessly Pushing Forward Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits ............................9 By Steve Penhollow ity. So we’re hoping to match that on Friday tival, Fort Wayne Pride will transform part Castle Gallery Fine Art .....................................................18 night by putting in something new and dif- of an adjacent parking lot into a food cor- When the Fort Wayne Pride festival de- ferent.” ridor of sorts. You might even go so far as to Columbia Street West .........................................................9 buted modestly in Freimann Square in the Filling the need for something new and describe it as a food aisle or a food avenue. Cute by Nature Jewelry ....................................................10 mid 90s, the Summit City was not widely different this year will be singer, songwriter Just don’t call it anything that would infringe DeKalb Outdoor Theater...................................................13 perceived as a place where acceptance of and rapper Dev, known for her work with on the TRF brand. LGBT Hoosiers was the norm. the hip-hop duo, The Cataracs, and for her “We will have pretty much every kind Embassy Theatre ..................................................................6 Organizers and participants were filled single, “In the Dark.” Local acts Night to of festival food and drink that people could Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory ..................3 with trepidation about how the festival Remember and D.j. Trend will also perform want,” Fultz said. “We will have trucks and Fort Wayne Civic Theatre .................................................18 would be received. trailers, not just from Almost two decades around here, but from Fort Wayne Dance Collective ...........................................10 later, Fort Wayne Pride has all over the region.” Fort Wayne Musicians Association ................................10 grown almost bigger than Returning com- Fort Wayne Parks Dept./Free Movies ................................3 its mission. It has joined the ponents include a pantheon of beloved Fort vendor market, a Fort Wayne Parks Dept./Little River Band ....................17 Wayne festivals and has be- beer tent, workshops, Fort Wayne Parks Dept./Sounds of Touch .....................16 come as essential to many a cornhole tourna- Fort Wayne Summer Music Theatre ...............................18 residents’ summertime rev- ment, a KidSpace, a dance party, a drag Fort Wayne Pride ................................................................17 els as Germanfest and Greek Fest, to name just two. show and music all Hamilton House Bar & Grill .................................................9 “That’s something we day on Saturday. Honeywell Center/Ben Folds ............................................13 have always tried to push In light of Honeywell Center/Frank Caliendo ...................................16 for,” said Nikki Fultz, direc- the mass nightclub tor of Fort Wayne Pride. “We shooting in Orlando, Latch String Bar & Grill .......................................................8 Fultz said, the Fort Nick’s Martini & Wine Bar ....................................................8 Clockwise from top left: Dasan Valentine, Wayne Police De- NIGHTLIFE .......................................................................8-11 Dev, CODEX, last year’s crowd, Alise King partment is provid- ing extra security at Northside Galleries ..............................................................3 have always tried to include many festivals this Pacific Coast Concerts ........................................................2 straight allies. summer, including PERFORMERS DIRECTORY .............................................11 Obviously, this is Fort Wayne Pride. an LGBT Pride Fort Wayne Sweetwater Sound ....................................................... 9, 20 Festival, but it’s Pride has always of- Three Rivers Music Theatre/Hair .....................................18 become more of a fered a high level of Wooden Nickel Music Stores ..............................................7 celebration of di- security, she said. versity in general. “I always knew WBOI 89.1/Issues & Ale .....................................................9 Not just diversity there was potential WXKE 96.3 .........................................................................19 of sexuality and for something like gender, but diver- that to happen,” she sity overall.” said. “I mean, not The festival on that scale, but I drew 12,000 at- have always been whatzup tendees to Head- aware that somebody Published weekly and distributed on Wednesdays and can come into any Thursdays by AD Media, Incorporated. 2305 E. 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