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March 20-26, 2014 MARCH 20-26, 2014 -------------------------------------Feature • Beer Bourbon Bacon Festival ------------------------------------ Everything Goes Better with Bacon By Chris Hupe of the sun on a consistent, daily basis and lect Indiana and Kentucky bourbons.” Pitchfork Music that his favorite sound is the start of Germanfest, the traditional open- All of the beverages listed above are bacon frying. “If you record the sound of ba- Beer. Bourbon. Bacon. These three ing event of Fort Wayne’s festival season at probably reason enough for most to drop con in a frying pan,” Waits said “and play it things in and of themselves are enough to Headwaters Park. But, with the seemingly anything they might have already planned for back, it sounds like the pops and cracks on make most people’s mouths water like Pav- endless winter we have had this year, giving March 29 and hightail it over to the Botani- an old 33-1/3 recording. Almost exactly like lovian dogs, but when you put them together just about everyone in the area a horrible case cal Conservatory, but the kicker is, of course, that. You could substitute it for that sound.” with live music and call it a festival, well, of cabin fever, it seems the organizers of the the addition of bacon to the mix. With all Of course, the biggest and probably now you’ve got something that is not only Beer Bour- due respect most famous proponent of bacon over the unique to Fort Wayne, but also a gathering bon Bacon to the egg, last decade has been comedian Jim Gaffigan that is sure to leave just about everyone sat- F e s t i v a l BEER BOURBON BACON FESTIVAL bacon may who brings it all together by saying bacon is isfied. c o u l d n ’ t 5-8 p.m. Saturday, March 29 be nature’s “the most beautiful thing on Earth.” The idea for a Beer Bourbon Bacon Fes- have picked Foellinger Freimann Botanical Conservatory most perfect Riethmiller said there will be a number tival “came way back in October when we a better 100 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne food. Forget of bacon-themed treats offered at the Beer were meeting with our investors from New year to start about the Bourbon Bacon Festival, including offerings York and Dallas,” said Dave Riethmiller, co- partying a Tix.: $35 ($10 designated driver) fruits and from local favorites Eddie Merlot, Main- general manager of event sponsor WXKE.. little earlier brownpapertickets.com vegetables street Bistro, Trolley Bar, Chops and Shigs “J.J. Fabini, my co-gm, has always been a than usual, nutritionists in Pit, but to find out exactly what they are, big craft beer and bourbon guy, and we had if only to help us relieve a little stress and claim are better for you, this meat product you’ll have to attend the event. To add more heard how bacon fests had been taking off boredom and give us a reason to forget about has inspired more people than bananas, local flavor and uniqueness to the mix, Ri- on the East Coast. We decided to put our the weather for just one evening. apples, carrots and blueberries combined. ethmiller did reveal that “all of the vendors own festival together and add the bourbon.” Patrons attending the festival should, Bacon’s awesomeness was recently summed will be using Ossian bacon in their offer- It’s such a simple and brilliant idea that first and foremost, “expect to sample some up by magician/reality star Penn Gillette ings.” it’s a wonder why nobody had thought of it excellent craft beers, over 40 of them,” said who said, “Bacon is so good by itself that The Beer Bourbon Bacon Festival takes before now. Riethmiller. Selections from Mad Anthony to put it in any other food is an admission place Saturday, March 29 at the Botanical You’re probably saying to yourself, Brewery, Bells Brewery, Sierra Nevada of failure. You’re basically saying, ‘I can’t Conservatory. The Rock 104 DJs will be “Festival season doesn’t start in The Fort un- Brewing, Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw there mingling, eating, drinking and talking til the summer, and nobody really wants to Granite City, 3 Floyds Brewing, Dark Horse in bacon.’” music with everyone, according to Rieth- get out of the house until it warms up.” Most Brewing, Summit City Brewerks, Kona Music icon Tom Waits also recently miller, and the Jug Huffers will provide live years, you’d be correct. The usual signs of a Brewery, Quaff On Brewery, and many more commented on bacon, not for its taste, but, music for the occasion. Tickets are on sale at pending summer of fun are the appearance will be available to sample, along with “se- strangely enough, for its sound. He told brownpapertickets.com. JIM DANDY THIS Proudly presents in Fort Wayne, Indiana TO THE SATURDAY! Legendary Southern Rockers! RESCUE! BLACK OAK ARKANSAS Saturday March 22 • 8:00 pm c2g Music Hall • Fort Wayne, Indiana Tickets on sale now at all 3 Wooden Nickel Records / Fort Wayne, Karma Records / Plymouth & Warsaw, Orbit Music / Mishawaka, Audio Specialists / State Road 933-South Bend, all Ticketmaster locations, Charge by phone 800/745-3000 or online www.ticketmaster.com Jim Dandy & Black Oak will autograph your old albums, 8 tracks, ticket stubs, t shirts, posters etc. after the show! Proudly presents in South Bend, Indiana ON SALE Sunday April 27, 2014 • 8:00 PM MARCH 21! Club Fever • South Bend, Indiana Tickets on sale Friday March 21 at 10am at Orbit Music / Mishawaka, Audio Specialists / State Road 933 North - South Bend, Karma Records / Plymouth & Warsaw, LaPorte Civic Auditorium Box Office / LaPorte, Wooden Nickel Records / Fort Wayne, Morris Performing Arts Center Box Office / South Bend, and all Ticketmaster locations, Charge by phone 574/235-9190 oronline www.morriscenter.org and www.ticketmaster.com 21 AND OVER ADMITTED! Proudly presents in Elkhart, Indiana ON SALE NOW! STYX SPECIAL GUEST HEAD EAST Thursday April 3, 2014 • 7:30 PM The Lerner Theatre • Elkhart, Indiana Tickets on sale now at the Lerner Box Office,charge by phone 574/293-4469 or online www.thelerner.com, Orbit Music /Mishawaka, www.amifw.com | 2300 Meyer Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46803 | (877) 428-2610 Audio Specialists / State Road 933 North-South Bend, Karma Records / Plymouth & Warsaw, Wooden Nickel Records / Fort Wayne, and the LaPorte Civic Auditorium Box Office 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com -------------------------------------------------------------- March 20, 2014 whatzup MARCH 29, 2014 | 8PM Volume 18, Number 32 EMBASSY THEATRE very so often we publish an issue of whatzup that covers so much ground that we’re certain that every single reader will find something worth doing E in it. This is one of those issues. Start with our cover story. The ballet appeals to a segment of our readership; bal- let with sword fighting cuts a somewhat wider swath. Looking for something a bit less refined? Beneath It All (page 6) provide the harder stuff, while Zanna-Doo! (page 5) cover pretty much everything, as long as it’s something you can dance to. We cover community theater, specifically the Arena’s production of The Dixie Swim Club, from two angles: Jennifer Poiry-Prough’s feature on Susan Domer (page 5) BIZET’S and her theater review (page 18). We’ve even got classical music covered this week Saturday, March 22 • 9:00pm with Ed Stevens’ column on the Philharmonic’s upcoming Masterworks concert (page 20). ANDREW CONSTANTINE MUSIC DIRECTOR BLACK OAK If none of those topics do it for you, here’s one that’s guaranteed to pique your AMIT PELED CELLO interest: bacon. Who doesn’t love bacon? Nobody, that’s who. And the folks at Rock ARKANSAS SELECTIONS FROM CARMEN 104 are one-upping the world’s favorite food by pairing it with the world’s favor- BIZET $26.50-$33 BLOCH SCHELOMO ite beverages: beer and bourbon. Read about that one on page 2 and then tell us SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO. 5 there’s nothing to do here in the Fort. Saturday, April 12 • 8:00pm And there you have it, a little something for everyone, all highlighted in the area’s TICKETS START AT $17 one and only free entertainment weekly. That’s us. Tell ’em we sent you. IU’S ANOTHER ROUND 481-0777 | FWPHIL.ORG Formerly Straight No Chaser • features CURTAIN CALL ............................... 18 $20 Adv., $25 D.O.S. The Dixie Swim Club CLASSICAL GRASP ...................... 20 GO TO OUR WEBSITE BEER BOURBON BACON FESTIVAL ...................2 So Much Drama at the Phil FOR TICKET INFO & MORE Everything Goes Better with Bacon ALL SHOWS ALL AGES MADGE ROTHSCHILD ON BOOKS ..................................... 22 MASTERWORKS ROMEO AND JULIET ....................................4 Dexter’s Final Cub Fort Wayne Ballet Mans Up SCREENTIME ................................ 22 ZANNA-DOO! ..............................................5 Give Wes’ Latest Time To Grow Performance made possible by support from: MADGE ROTHSCHILD Partying Till You Drop FOUNDATION SUSAN DOMER ..........................................5 Persistence Pays • calendars BENEATH IT ALL .........................................6 Bigger Stages Ahead LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ...................8 KARAOKE & DJS ...........................12 • columns & reviews MUSIC/ON THE ROAD ...................14 ROAD TRIPZ ..................................15 SPINS ...............................................7 MOVIE TIMES ................................16 The Great Dictators, Carnifex, Guided by Voices, St. Vincent ART & ARTIFACTS .........................18 BACKTRACKS ..................................7 STAGE & DANCE ...........................19 Queensrÿche, Empire (1990)
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