A CD Release party is planned for November 13, 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm at Bills Bistro on Spy Run. The CD, "A Cool Cat in a Dog's World" is a compilation of many favorite local jazz artists, all of whom have donated original work to benefit the Learning & Development Center behavioral programs for Autism sufferers. Steve Smeltzer, local Fort Wayne cartoonist, has donated his talent for the Album cover.
Autism Spectral Disorder or ASD is a neurological order that manifests itself in a myriad of symptoms. THis CD also features, young Matt Savage, the 10-year-old jazz pianist and Autism sufferer who was recently featured on The TODAY Show, 20/20 with Barbara Walters, Montel Williams, The View, NPR, PEOPLE Magazine and others. All proceeds from the sale of the CD which can also be purchased online at www.songbirdpromotions.com go to aid Autism organizations. Please come out on November 13th! to hear LIVE jazz at Bill's Bistro and purchase your copy of this incredible CD.
You can obtain additional information on the project on the HOME page of www.songbirdpromotions.com, or by contacting Cathy Serrano, at 260-428-2203.
Support local musicians, Ask for THEIR CDs in your favorite store! Link
Some cities are hip. Others aren't. But 'unhip' cities are trying to change their image and attract young professionals. Link
Miles from his frenetic San Francisco life, Ethan Watters discovered a new way of looking at being single. While hanging out in the Nevada desert, he saw his tight-knit group of city friends sitting around a campfire and realized they formed a tribe — an urban tribe.[...]
In a new book, "Urban Tribes: A generation redefines friendship, family and commitment," due out Wednesday, he outlines his ideas about clusters of friends who do everything from weekly dinners to fix-it projects together.The author, a freelance writer in his late 30s, hopes his memoir-ish social commentary will spark conversation about the longer period of time people are spending single — to help create a picture of what it looks like to be unmarried into your 30s. Link
FortWayne.com and Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne have teamed up to provide the best Arts and Entertainment calendar around. You can find information on everything from Acrylics to Zydeco from Arts United member organizations. Check it out today and explore what’s going on in the Fort Wayne area with the help of the FortWayne.com Arts & Events Calendar! Link
Each Wednesday Night at 9:00 p.m.
Beginning Wednesday, October 8, 2003
at Midtowne Place – Thirsty Camel, 120 1/2 W. Washington Blvd; Ft. Wayne, IN, 260-420-0027
Live DJ - Open Mic – Games and the popular $25 Clap-off continues!
Kickin’ off Wednesday, October 8th choosing the $100 Grand Prize Poet Clap-off Winner!
The third annual Romanian Festival will be held at the Scottish Rite Auditorium from 2pm to 7pm on Sunday, October 19, 2003.
The festival combines Romanian and Macedonian music, Balkan dance, Romanian food and drink. It is a benefit for child relief programs in Romania and supports St. Mary's parish programs. Tickets are $15. Children 12 and under are free.
Festival organizers expect 1,000 to 1,500 people to attend the festival.
Many participants are descendants of Romanian families that moved to Fort Wayne in the early 1900s.
For more information or tickets contact:
Becky Flesher at 432-5917 or Simon Dragan at 723- 5131
More festival information is available at www.romanianorthdoxchurch.org
A local live music showcase will be held this Saturday, October 11, at Legends Sports Bar (4104 N. Clinton St.). Hosting the event will be Matt Jericho from local radio station X102.3. Everyone involved with the showcase will be volunteering their time and talents to bring attention to the great and diversified music that Fort Wayne has to offer.
This unique event is sponsored by FortWayneMusic.Com. A local all volunteer staffed website dedicated to promoting all genres of Fort Wayne's music scene. This is the first of many showcases that FortWayneMusic.Com will sponsor. Plans are to have a showcase once every four months featuring Fort Wayne's hottest and upcoming music artists.
Diversity is something that this live music showcase will not lack. There is something for everyone's taste in music from Acoustic Soloists, Hip Hop, Ska, Pop Rock, Murder-Core, Punk Rock, to Classic Rock. The showcase will feature half hour sets from the following acts: Adam Baker, Adam Atherton, Kevin Hiatt, Andromeda, Northern Kind, Homeless J, Tri-State Killing Spree, the Fang, and Cookie Puss. The show starts promptly at 8:00 p.m., and goes on until 2:30 a.m. Admission is $5.00 for those 21 and over.
Come on out and support your local live music scene.
For local bands interested in playing a future showcase, make sure you come to this show and bring a promo pack or CD with contact information and give it to one of our staff members.
For more information on the showcase, go to www.FortWayneMusic.Com or email feedback@fortwaynemusic.com.
The Showcase is brought to you by: FortwayneMusic.Com, Legends Sports Bar, Iggy's Subs, and X102.3.
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Doors open at 8p - show starts at 9:30p
Midtowne Place - The Thirsty Camel
120 1/2 W. Washington Blvd.
Michele Michelle Productions presents:
The First Annual "Black Walk Affair" (dress attire black only)
This is a Boys & Girls Club Charity Fundraiser
Featuring the Smooth Jazz sounds of Ft. Wayne's own
Ty Causey and W.R. Sanders with Special Guest Appearance by Chicago's
R&B, Pop & Latin Syncopation Vocalist, Cristina Sanchez
Cristina is a two-time winner of famed "Show-time at the Apollo."
Also a vocalist background performer for R. Kelly, Paulina Rubio, Monica and with the recent Heather Headley promo tour.
Ticket Cost is $10.00.
Purchase tickets now at Thirsty Camel or the Boys & Girls Club of Ft.Wayne. For more info. call Robin at 260-804-1584. or Email Michelle Michelle Productions
Celebrate the music of the British Isles with Rosewood in a beautiful natural setting
Join the Parks and Recreation Department for a free performance of traditional music by Rosewood on October 11, 4-6 p.m. at Lindenwood Nature Preserve, 600 Lindenwood Avenue.
What better setting than the woods to enjoy a beautiful autumn evening, listening to music from the British Isles? Rosewood, a five-member troupe, is well known for its traditional music using a lap dulcimer, guitar, cittern, whistle, banjo and bass.
Bring your blankets and lawn chairs for a unique event at Lindenwood. For more information, call 427-6005.
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For more information:
Sarah Nichter
Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation Manager
Information & Development Office: 427-6024
Fax: 427-6020
Email: sarah.nichter@ci.ft-wayne.in.us
Notes from the Sprawl Debate, by Matthew J. KieferMost Americans don't think much about the design of the built environment, odd though this may seem to those who do. But every so often broader issues bubble up into public discourse. The debate over sprawl, until recently confined to land use planning circles, seems to be everywhere now: at town meetings, in daily newspapers, and in latte lines at Starbucks. Link
By Virginia PostrelWhy the creative shall inherit the economy. Link
by Christopher SwopeIs a gay population an engine of urban revival? Cities are beginning to think so. Link
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Tuesday 9/30 Dirty Pretty Things 6:30 When Night is Falling 8:30 Wednesday 10/1 When Night is Falling 6:30, Dirty Pretty Things 8:15 Thursday 10/2 I Capture the Castle 6:30, Dirty Pretty Things 8:30 Last Shows for Dirty Pretty Things, When Night is Falling, & I Capture the Castle
We encourage all our friends to see “Lost in Translation” at Cinema Center. We need your support.
Lost in Translation
"Tart and sweet, unmistakably funny and exceptionally well observed."--Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times. "Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson give performances that will be talked about for years." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. "How to sing the praises of Lost in Translation without drowning out its subtle pleasures?"-- Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post. "Johansson is lovely and funny and sarcastic and sincere, and Murray is nothing short of great."--Richard Roeper. “Four Stars!” Roger Ebert. 102 min., Rated R. Friday at 7PM & 9:15PM, Saturday at 2:00, 4:15, 7PM & 9:15PM, Sunday at 2PM, 4:15PM, 6:30PM & 8:30PM Monday at 6:30PM & 8:30 PM, Tuesday at 6:30PM & 8:30PM, Wednesday at 6:30PM & 8:30PM, Thursday at 6:30PM & 8:30PM.
For everyone hoping to see “The Trip” this week-end, please understand that since we have the opportunity to present “Lost in Translation,” one of the most acclaimed films of the year, we are postponing for a couple of weeks presentation of both of the last films of our Lesbian/Gay Film Series. Both “The Trip” and “Family and Friends” will come to Cinema Center, just on a slight delay from the dates we had planned. We will keep you posted!
Lost in Translation
Opens Friday October 3rd Any lingering accusations of nepotism that may have followed Sofia Coppola in the wake of her 1999 directing debut "The Virgin Suicides" should be entirely dispelled by "Lost in Translation," a brave and accomplished study of love and human connections that establishes the young Coppola as one of the most acute talents of her generation. Patterning her film on the time-honored premise of lonely strangers in strange surroundings finding solace in each other's company (the current Claude Lelouch film "And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen" is another variation), Coppola manages to transcend all the usual romantic clichés, almost daring the audience to second-guess her by framing the picture around two figures who would normally have nothing in common if not for the fact that they're both Americans simultaneously suffering the culture shock of a first-time visit to Japan. Aging movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has arrived in Tokyo to shoot a whiskey commercial while recent college grad Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is simply tagging along on a job with her photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi). Both manifest obvious feelings of alienation in this neon-encrusted, digitized collision of modernity and antiquity, but it's their shared alienation from life and love that brings them together. In stark defiance of formal narrative, Coppola's film follows a course more akin to the movies of the French New Wave than anything American; it's directionless but not aimless, the course of the story dictated by the spontaneous evolution of a relationship that transcends sex, romance and even friendship. Given that so much of the picture must be shouldered by the two performers, one cannot help but be awed by what Murray and Johansson have crafted, generating the kind of on-screen chemistry that rarely graces American cinemas without the intermediary of subtitling. It's been years since Murray has been this funny or this affecting, and he has certainly never been this understated. Johansson is equally impressive, measuring Murray scene for scene with a canny blend of soulful sadness and cunning confidence. But this is still, first and foremost, Coppola's film. At 32, she is roughly the same age as her father was when he made "The Godfather," and there is no reason to doubt that she is any less in command of the medium than he was at the same stage. Her voice is distinctive, her style utterly unique. It is her understanding of things far beyond her years, however, that impresses most--her ability to convincingly tap into the rarest of emotions and communicate them to a mass audience. Ostensibly, "Lost in Translation" is a film about love, albeit one which has the audacity to ask what love is--and the courage to leave the question unanswered.
What: Artist reception and exhibition opening for Allison McGowan's 'Tailored Texture" show.
When: October 4th 6-9pm
Where: Charlie Cummings Clay Studio at 4130 South Clinton Street
Charlie Cummings Clay Studio was one of the new stops on this year's Trolley Tour. A new exhibition will start October 4th and run until October 25th. The artist reception will be a chance to meet Allison, view her work and enjoy free food and live music.
For more info visit Claylink.