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APRIL 16-22, 2015 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- April 16, 2015 whatzup Volume 19, Number 35 ou ready yet? Because it all begins this weekend when Record Store Day ushers in a steady stream of musical events that will last well into autumn here in wild, wonderful northeast Indiana. YWhether it’s just about every local band you’ve ever heard of playing at an independent store near you, a full weekend of bands at Fox Island, the always popular summer festivals hosted by Headwaters Park, roots Wooden Nickel Records & Music rock at the Botanical Conservatory, the Foellinger Theatre’s amped up summer concert series or any number of equally fine musical events, Our 33rd Year in The Fort! you’ve come to right place for keeping tabs on it all. Celebrate our 8th Annual Record Store And not just the music the coming months have in store – the Fort Wayne Day at All Three Locations area boasts an immensely talented, ever-growing theater community as well as a thriving arts scene. And again, you’ve found the right vehicle 420 Record Store Day Live Music All Day at for finding out what and where. Exclusives! No. Anthony Store Take this week’s whatzup, for instance. We’ve got the Kratt broth- FREE GOODIE BAGS! 8:15 ...............................Robert Harrison ers, a steampunk take on Around the World in 80 Days, idiosyncratic • 600 Goodie bags will be given away 9:00 ....................................Sunny Taylor Huntertown artist Mark Phenicie and a bunch of rockin’ high school starting at 8 a.m.! 9:30 .................................David Todoran kids calling themselves The Union Project – and that’s just the feature • Available at all three Wooden Nickel 10:00 .................................Trichotomous locations while they last. Hippopotamus stories appearing on pages 4 through 7. • One bag per family please. 10:45 ................................Indiana Jones There’s so much more, and you’re going to want to take a look at all of & the Rio Piedras it to decide how best to allocate your time over the coming weeks. So OVER $2,000 IN GIVEAWAYS! 11:30 .................................Casket Sharp 12:15 ......................Farmland Jazz Band read on, have yourself some fun and tell ’em whatzup sent you. • You may enter once at all three stores! 1:00 ...........................Alicia Pyle Quartet • No purchase required to enter! 1:45 ..............................................U.R.B. • Prizes include: 2:30 ......................................Fort Wayne inside the issue • A Dave Grohl Signed Fender Guitar Funk Orchestra • features FLIX ................................................ 16 • A Crosley Record Store Day Exclu- 3:15 .....................................John Minton Woman in Gold sive Ramones Turntable & Possum Trot Orchestra 4:00 ............................Rogues & Bandits SCREEN TIME ...............................16 • A Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti WILD KRATTS LIVE! ......................................4 4:45 ............................The Union Project Exploring the Cult of Kratt Furious Muscle Kids Working Their Way to a Billion Bucks Super Deluxe Edition Box • A $250 Wooden Nickel Records & 5:30 ........................................Sum Morz PRODUCTION NOTES .................... 17 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS .............5 Music Gift Certificate 6:15 .................................The Kickbacks Bringing Steampunk to the Stage Merrily We Roll Along • A 50th Anniversary Beatles U.S. 7:00 ..........................................Jafunkae MARK PHENICIE .........................................6 ON BOOKS ..................................... 19 Albums CD Box Set 7:45 ................................YOUMINUSME Observer, Collector, Artist The Man Who Couldn’t Stop 8:30 ..............................Billy Youngblood THE UNION PROJECT ................................7 WOODEN NICKEL T-SHIRTS! Also at North Anthony Store: Sol Schooled on the Classics • calendars Buy any of our 11 different Wooden Kitchen food truck and a beer tent fea- Nickel T-shirts on Record Store Day and turing RSD sponsor Dogfish Head Beer we will make a $4 contribution to the LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ...................9 run by Old Crown. • columns & reviews Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church food MUSIC/ON THE ROAD ...................14 drive. Saint Nicholas will be on location Also free Old Crown Coffee and free cookies available inside the store begin- SPINS ...............................................8 ROAD TRIPZ ..................................15 at our North Anthony location accepting Forever the Fallen, Inventions food donations for their food drive. ning at 8 a.m STAGE & DANCE ...........................17 BACKTRACKS ..................................8 More Details at www.woodennickelrecords.com Suicide, Suicide (1977) ART & ARTIFACTS .........................18 OUT & ABOUT ...................................9 THINGS TO DO ..............................18 If It’s Spring It Must Be Sol Fest Shop Early at All ROAD NOTEZ ................................. 14 Cover design by Greg Locke 3 Fort Wayne Wooden Nickel Music Stores for Best Selection 3422 N. Anthony 3627 N. Clinton 6427 W. Jefferson 8am-9pm 9am-8pm 10am-8pm 260.484.3636 260.484.2451 260.432.7651 April 16, 2015 ------------------------------------------------------------------www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ------------------------------Feature • Wild Kratts Live! ---------------------------- 3 Rivers Co-op Natural Grocery & Deli ................13 20 Past 4 and More ................................................12 The Alley Sports Bar/Pro Bowl West ......................5 all for One Productions ...........................................17 Beamer’s Sports Grill .............................................11 Exploring the Cult of Kratt Kat Bowser ..................................................................5 By Steve Penhollow cute. unique abilities of various animals. C2G Live/The TV Show ...............................................7 “I think I do remember seeing them for Watson said his wife Erin crafted home- C2G Music Hall............................................................6 Every year, the Academy Awards pres- the first time and thinking, ‘God, they are made power suits for her sons (each suit Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits ...............10 ents its “In Memoriam” segment during the hot,’” said Tina Kerns Bopp of Fort Wayne. corresponding to a particular Kratt brother’s Oscar telecast, and every year a few names “And I loved the lemur.” favored color) and that these get-ups really Columbia Street West ............................................10 are bewilderingly absent. Everybody loves the lemur. made the boys stand out while standing in Cute By Nature Jewelry .........................................18 The segment, which pays tribute to Hol- Fort Wayne’s Scott Watson said his son, the autograph line after the Chicago show. lywood celebrities and heavyweights who Grant, dressed as Zoboomafoo last Hallow- Between the last episode of Zobooma- Dicky’s 21 Taps ........................................................10 have recently passed away, is governed by een, even though the show that bears his foo and the first episode of Wild Kratts, there Dupont Bar & Grill.......................................................9 an odd set of rules that can sometimes mean name went off the air in 2001. was a nine-year lull (during which the Kratts Embassy Theatre .....................................................15 the omission of a seem- brothers tried other proj- ingly obvious name or ects that didn’t quite Fort Wayne Civic Theatre .......................................17 two. catch on). Fort Wayne Dance Collective .................................12 In February, the Os- The drought was Fort Wayne Museum of Art ......................................3 cars failed to mourn the hard on rabid young passing of Jovian. Kratts fans and even Fort Wayne Musicians Association ......................12 Jovian was a lemur. harder on their parents. Fort Wayne Philharmonic/Pops ..............................15 He played the title “She couldn’t find character in Zobooma- anything that satisfied Green Frog Inn ..........................................................11 foo, a short-lived but her,” said Clark of her IPFW Dept. of Theatre/Merrily We Roll Along ........17 much-loved children’s daughter, Elizabeth. Latch String Bar & Grill ..........................................10 show that was created Elizabeth is a “fact by and starred wildlife gatherer,” Clark said, The League/Blues Bash 2015 .................................7 biologist brothers Mar- who keeps a journal Mad Anthony Brewing Company ..............................2 tin and Chris Kratt. of information culled The Kratt brothers from the Kratt brothers’ NIGHTLIFE ............................................................ 9-13 perform April 23 at the shows, Jack Hannah’s Northside Galleries ....................................................5 Embassy Theatre. Into the Wild and other O’Reilly’s Irish Bar & Restaurant .................. 11, 19 While Jovian never sources. appeared in a feature That’s the bedrock Pacific Coast Concerts ...........................................13 film (another of the WILD KRATTS LIVE! beauty of the Kratt PERFORMERS DIRECTORY ...................................12