Wednesday, June 25, 5:00-7:30 p.m.
The Landing (100 Block of Columbia Street, between Calhoun and Harrison)
You've heard a lot about the Downtown Blueprint for Tomorrow....you've seen the construction beginning for the Grand Wayne Center and Downtown Library expansions....come check out the progress on the rest of the plan at a special Open House held during the monthly Downtown Block Party....and join in the free food and live music.
Free Parking (if you leave after 6 p.m.) in the City-County Building Parking Garage on Calhoun. Rain date - one week later, same time, same place. (Because this is held in conjunction with the Block Party, you must be 21 or older to attend.)
The Block Party is hosted by the Downtown Improvement District and sponsored by The LandPlan Group, LLC, PBI on the Landing, Nakos Law Office and Patterson Riegel Advertising. The band will be Tres/Martini Fish, food by Columbia Street West and the radio sponsor is X102.
"Smart City" host Carol Coletta talks with the best and brightest civic leaders, artists, entrepeneurs, architects, planners, inventors and more every week for a penetrating discussion on urban issues that affect us all.As the result of local efforts, Carol Coletta's Smart City Radio Show has been added to Northeast Indiana Public Radio's WBOI 88.7 & 91.3 FM. It premieres Monday, July 28 at 3pm!
June 7, 2003 Richard Florida, H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and J. Thomas Cochran, Executive Director, U.S. Conference of Mayors Real Media Stream.
Friday, June 13
6 - 9 p.m. (new time!)
Free to Museum Members / $6 Non-Members
Media Sponsor: Whatzup
Food: Bill's Bistro
Acoustic Music: Greg Baum
Music: Karaoke provided by "Come Sing With Us Karaoke" at 6 and 8pm.
Special Entertainment: Members of Fort Wayne Danceport Chapter 246 will demonstrate ballroom dancing from 7-8pm in the auditorium.
Media Sponsor: whatzup
Print Sponsor: Advantage Document Solutions
Original One-Act plays from local playwrights:
Denise Buhr, Ngozi Rogers, Darren Turney
The PULSE OPERA HOUSE in Warren, Indiana
June 13, 14, 15, 2003
Friday, June 13th:
7pm 'Don't Touch Your Soul' by Ngozi Rogers
8pm 'Girls Won And Boys Too' by Denise Buhr
9pm 'Invasion of the Mothman' by Darren Turney
Saturday, June 14th:
7pm 'Don't Touch Your Soul' by Ngozi Rogers
8pm 'Girls Won And Boys Too' by Denise Buhr
9pm 'Invasion of the Mothman' by Darren Turney
Sunday, June 15th:
2pm 'Don't Touch Your Soul' by Ngozi Rogers
3pm 'Girls Won And Boys Too' by Denise Buhr
4pm 'Invasion of the Mothman' by Darren Turney
Please Note:
There will be talk back/question answer sessions after each performance!
COST:
$5 per session/play or $10 for all 3/entire evening
DIRECTIONS:
Take 69 toward Indy, take Exit 78 Warren/Huntington turn left, follow
Indiana 5 for about 3 miles, the Opera house is on the right across the
street from Napa Auto Parts.
CONTACT:
Cynthia Smyth-Wartzok 260.375.2442
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Play Info:
'Don't Touch Your Soul' by Ngozi Rogers
> Since YOU are the only person you can't get away from- You two (or three) had better get along! A look at the internal struggles of one woman.
'Girls Won And Boys Too' by Denise Buhr
> Takes a look at the popularity of girls basketball in Iowa in the 1950's...
'Invasion of the Mothman' by Darren Turney
> A look at the dialectic process or human reactions to events like the Mothman sightings.
Source: Cinema Center
Wednesday 6/11 - "Big Eden" 6:15 (Last Show for Big Eden!), "Bend It Like Beckham" 8:30
Thursday 6/12 - "Sex, Lies & Videotape"
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Fort Wayne Cinema Center Movies for 6/13-6/19
--City of God, Bend It Like Beckham, Slacker, and Manny & Lo
City of God
"Four Stars!"--Roger Ebert “A Powerhouse! It moves with whiplash
velocity. Sometimes a movie comes along and just floors you, its images
burn so deeply. ‘City of God’ has the scent of a classic.” -Peter
Travers, Rolling Stone. "Scorching and powerful! 'City of God' shares
the same attitude and fondness for tall-sounding tales as 'GoodFellas.'
Filled with frenetic visual rhythms, its mood swings synchronize with
the zany, adrenaline-fueled impulsiveness of its lost youth on a
rampage. Experience this devastating movie." -Stephen Holden, NY Times
136 min., Rated R for strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content
and language.
Friday at 8:30PM, Saturday at 7PM, Sunday at 4:15PM,
Monday at 6PM, Wednesday at 9PM
Bend It Like Beckham
"Pure exuberant fun! Makes you feel good and laugh out loud.." Roger
Ebert "One of this year's brightest, funniest, and most refreshing
films. 'Bend it Like Beckham' scores."--Time.
112min., Rated PG-13.
Friday at 6:15PM, Saturday at 2PM & 4:15PM, Sunday at 2PM,
Monday at 8:30PM, Wednesday at 7PM
Cinema Center & IPFW present “Indie Wave Films”
Films are on Tuesday s and Thursday s and begin at 7:30pm. General
Admission for these films is $4.00. Tickets are $2.00 for Students,
Seniors & Cinema Center Members. Some of the movies will be presented
as a video projection and will be free to all.
The course continues on Tuesday, June 17th with Slacker and
Manny & Lo on Thursday, June 19th.
Slacker Tuesday, June 17th
Written and Directed by Richard Linklater. Weird, unique satire about
various contemporary drop-outs in Austin, Texas, who—like the beatniks
of the ‘50’s and hippies of the ‘60’s—have formed their own subculture.
They’re loaded with thoughts and ideas, none of which they seem
capable of acting upon. Shot in a free-form style, and featuring a
large cast of nonprofessional actors. (This will be presented as a
video projection and is free.) 1991, 97 min., Rated R.
Manny and Lo Thursday, June 19th
Wise, warm comedy-drama is fresh and unexpected: a notable debut for
writer-director Lisa Krueger. Orphaned 11-year-old Manny (Scarlet
Johansson) and her more naïve 16-year-old sister Lo (Aleksa Palladino)
sleep in model homes and drive about in an old station wagon, until
it’s obvious Lo is pregnant, so they kidnap a prissy woman (Mary Kay
Place) to help with the delivery while hiding out in a woodsy cabin.
Family values delightfully but authentically turned upside down.
1996, 97 min., Rated R.
City of God
Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Paulo Lins, "City of
God" is a thrilling drama about the rise and fall of gangsters and drug
dealers in Rio de Janeiro's slums. That many of them are children,
ranging in age from nine to 14, is just one of the many shocking
aspects of this movie, which, like "The Sopranos," manages to strike
notes of black comedy amidst the horror. Turning on a dime from drama
to humor is never easy, and rare in the movies, but director Fernando
Meirelles displays so much technical control that he pulls off
virtually anything he sets his mind to. Divided into chapters and
spanning two decades from the '60s to the '80s, the film has a nominal
"hero," the honest Rocket (Alexandro Rodrigues), a budding
photojournalist who's avoided the criminal life but is connected, in
various ways, to many of the hoodlums who reside, like him, in the slum
known sarcastically as the City of God. He's the link between the
movie's opening and closing but, if there's a stand-out character in
"City of God," it's the 14-year-old killer Little Ze (Leandro Firmino
de Hora). A vicious murderer who hates almost everyone, this
frightening killing machine, as rendered in de Hora's intense
personification, is the stuff that nightmares are made of.
Uncompromising in its realism--many of the actors were
non-professionals, recruited from Rio's slums--and offering no quarter
to anyone, including the cops, who are all depicted as uncaring and
corrupt, "City of God" is, nonetheless, exhilarating movie-making. It's
in love with life even as so many of its protagonists die. The film
eventually runs out of steam--with so much energy expended on screen,
how could it not?--but it never fails to impress. It's a remarkable
achievement. Portuguese-language; subtitled. Running time: 136 min
Rated R for strong brutal violence, sexuality, drug content and
language.
Bend it Like Beckham
Anyone who has ever battled conventional wisdom and struggled in the
face of adversity to fulfill their dreams will find solace and
validation in "Bend it Like Beckham," a rare picture that endeavors to
commune with the human spirit rather than exploit it. Nothing speaks
more to the triumph of writer/director Gurinder Chadha's (writer
director of the wonderful "What's Cooking") than the fact that one need
not be English, Indian, female or even a soccer fan to appreciate its
messages. Cryptic though it may be to many Americans, a movie title
like Bend it Like Beckham is as good as gold in the UK. A rough
American facsimile might be something on the order of "Dunk it Like
Shaq." But cultural unfamiliarity with things pertaining to English
soccer should in no way dissuade American moviegoers from treating
themselves to what is arguably one of the best sports films in years as
well as one of the year's most refreshing surprises--an exhilarating
tale of individual triumph that skillfully blends comedy, romance,
drama and pointed social commentary. The focus of "Bend it Like
Beckham" isn't the famed English soccer star of its title, nor his
legendary ability to "bend" a kicked ball, but rather a pair of
18-year-old soccer-playing girls--one English, the other
English-Indian--who bond over the inability of their respective
families to appreciate their passion for the sport, only to later
discover that they are both falling for their coach. But their coach,
Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), sees them not only for who they are but for
who they want to be, a confidence that inevitably invites deeper
feeling from them both. Though it might appear that "Bend it Like
Beckham" is falling back on a time-tested melodramatic love triangle
cliché, the narrative texture is actually far richer than it appears.
Though the Indian portions of the story echo many of the same issues
already voiced in movies like "East is East" and "Monsoon Wedding,"
there is something in the athletic quest that gives "Bend it Like
Beckham" the feel of a female "Rocky," an oft-abused comparison which
nonetheless has relevance here. "Pure exuberant fun! Makes you feel
good and laugh out loud.." Roger Ebert "One of this year's
brightest, funniest, and most refreshing films. 'Bend it Like Beckham'
scores."--Time. 112 min., Rated PG-13.
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Source: Cinema Center
by Karen Goldner
Roots has a bunch of kayaking opportunities, including every-other-Tuesday evening. Check out their website for details.
Saturday June 7th, 8-10 pm
Naked Clay Cafe, 5925 N. Clinton (on the left just north of St. Joe Ctr.)
Phone: 260.482.2332
Submit poetry for preview to Carrie and receive a free drink Fax: 483-4495
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Source: fortwaynemusic.com
6/3/2003 8:34:56 AM The Greenway will create a park like setting along the banks of the Ohio River connecting three municipalities: New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville. The project area is approximately seven miles in length and includes land access to the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife and Conservation Area.
The connection of each community to one another is a project that involves state, federal, and local funds. The estimated cost, allocated over the construction phases, will be approximately 50 million dollars. Major construction features include access through floodwalls and bridges spanning Mill Creek and Silver Creek. Recreation features and access routes, including a roadway and a combined bicycle and pedestrian walkway, will be constructed in phases culminating in a seamless project.
One of the primary aims of the project is to provide actual and visual access to the Ohio River. The project will include overlooks, picnic areas, and historical interpretation. It is envisioned that each community will coordinate activities with one another and create a "people?s place" with active and passive recreation. The area will be transformed from a series of disconnected and in some cases, unplanned landscapes into an attraction that highlights the cultural resources, business community, and recreational opportunities that are possible. The quality of life in the entire region will benefit from the Greenway?s success.
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Source: Ohio River Greenway Development Commission
Courtesy: INdiana Business e-magazine
June 7, 2003
One Summit Square, Downtown Fort Wayne at Wayne and Calhoun
FREE!!
Come Downtown to DIDFest and celebrate the arts with performances on stage all day, and FREE evening entertainment from the Fort Wayne arts community, including: the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Fort Wayne Ballet, Embassy Theatre, Cinema Center, New Millennium Jazz Orchestra, and more!
While you are there, enjoy hands-on family activities at KidDID and visit some of Fort Wayne’s favorite restaurants at Taste of the Town. Click for more info and a schedule
UPDATED
20 artists; 1 Gallery; A Million things to say.
Opening Night: Friday, June 6th. 5-10 pm
Where: 1915 South Calhoun St., The Bercot Building
Come enjoy an evening of art, food, drinks and blues. The theme of the show is 20 artists in their 20's, with older artists also featured. Artists include Jason Stoupa, Nathan Ables, Salomon Borenstein, Jen Idle, Nick Fabini, Mike McNabb, Ali Lonas, Whitney Hill, Paul Demaree, Jill Henderson, Jared Spicer, and Tracey Row. The blues band Black Cat Bone will be playing from 7:30-9:30 pm. The Munchie Emporium will be providing a cash bar as well as snacks, and The Firefly Coffee House will be providing coffee. The show will last for four weeks, open Tuesdays through Fridays from 11am-5pm and Saturdays from 10am-2pm.
Sponsored by Mad Anthony Brewing Company, The Firefly Coffee House, and Wayne Press.
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For questions or more info call 260-456-9739 or email KBERCOT@cs.com