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FEATURES

7 We Were There – Were You?

by Mark McCoy

INTRO

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64 Biker’s Log – E’Ville Inc

by Brad Greenwell 65 Leave it in 2009 – We’re so over this stuff

by Doug Messel

8 Digits – Christmas edition

by Dylan Gibbs 10 Harpole’s and Woody’s – A retrospective Compiled by News 4U, Danny Harpole and Zak Grimes

GUIDES GUIDES 21 21 RESTAURANTS RESTAURANTS 31 31 BANDS BANDS 32 32 CLUBS CLUBS 41 NIGHT 40 NIGHTLIFE LIFE 72 TRIPS 72 ROAD ARTS & ETC. 80 ETC. 74 ARTS ROAD&TRIPS

69 Watch Evansville – No really, WATCH EVANSVILLE

by Brian Jackson

13 The CROWD – Back, better, groovier

by Dylan Gibbs

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66 Dream Gifts – And some altruism, too

by Doug Messel 68 Go Local – Revolution Ink

by Dylan Gibbs

12 Daughtry – Live in this town

by Doug Messel

EVANSVILLE

70 Peppermint Pops – EPO’s Holiday best

by Doug Messel

14 Broadway at The Centre – Lions and tiger and bears… you know the rest

by Lanea Ritterling 15 CMT Tour – Jamey Johnson & Randy Houser

by Doug Messel

77 Victorian Christmas – At the Historic Reitz Home

by Dylan Gibbs

17 Local Chef Spotlight – Acropolis’ Doros Hajisavva

by Dylan Gibbs

78 Evansville Museum Contemporaries – Goings-on with the EMC

by Matt Rowe

34 Bourbon Blog – Spirited discourse

by Tom Fischer

79 From the Stacks – More than books to check out

by Amy Mangold

36 Nutcracker Suite – Tchaikovsky’s seminal Holiday offering

by Lanea Ritterling

19 19 WINE WINE 20 20 FOOD FOOD 33 33 BEER BEER 84 MUSIC 83 MUSIC 88 88 FILM FILM

SPECIAL A TO Z SHOPPING GUIDE!

71 More Stagecraft – Civic Theatre’s Pippin

by Doug Messel

16 Creative Spotlight – Wood wizard Rod Austin

by Mark McCoy

REVIEWS REVIEWS

82 Creative Spotlight II – Local moviemaker strikes terror

by Doug Messel

40 For Him: DO gift appropriately

by Alison Sigman

83 Sore Thumbs – Gifty gifts for gamers

by Dan Woolsey

63 Briefs – A little of the ‘ol this and that

by Dylan Gibbs

FUN STUFF

94 2009 in Review: Long, weird year as usual

by Doug Messel Publisher Publisher Bashar Bashar Hamami Hamami Business Business Manager Manager Sharon Sharon Tindle Tindle

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Managing Managing Editor Editor Dylan Dylan Gibbs Gibbs

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Promoti ons Promotions Casey Casey McCoy McCoy

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95 We’re Doomed: Just look around, man

by Brandon Kaelin Graphic st Graphic Arti Artist Jaqulyn Jaqulyn Woolsey Woolsey Staff Staff Photographer Photographer Mark Mark McCoy McCoy Staff Staff Writer Writer Doug Doug Messel Messel

Contributors Contributors C4 C4 the the General, General, Paul Paul Dockery, Tom Durcholz, Fischer, Dockery, Nick Brad Tom Greenwell, Fischer, Jabez, Jabez, Brian Jackson, Brandon Kaelin,Brandon Melissa Kaelin, Kaiser, Amy Anne Mangold, McKim, Mark McCoy, Lanea Amy Mangold, Lanea Ritt erling, Matt Rowe, Ritterling, Tom Tindle, Tom Alison Tindle, Sigman, Alison Dan Sigman, Woolsey,Dan Todd Woolsey, Zachritz Todd Zachritz

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WE WERE THERE [ by Mark McCoy ]

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DIGITS WE [WERE THERE The Holidays ] [ by Mark McCoy ]

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Stillwell & Number of eggs needed for an Rodenberg 8-serving batch of eggnog

723,326

Number of times the words, “I really like it” are uttered by gift recipients each year when they are in fact lying

1659

Population of the town of North Pole, Alaska

$506 million The amount of money the nation’s Christmas tree farmers received from tree sales in 2004

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f Santa Population o a Claus, Indian

The Reitz Home

1.9 billion

Number of Holiday cards sent to friends and family each year.

Christmas is the biggest card-sending occasion in the United States.

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Number of games suggested by HowToGetRidOfStuff.com regarding fruitcakes. Examples include “Fruitcake and Catapult,” “Fruitcake and Sledgehammer” and “Fruitcake and Gun”

10,000

Approximate number of letters from children around the world answered by the elves at the Post Office in Santa Claus, Indiana.

1966

The year in which Kwanzaa was first officially celebrated

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ndles Number of ca orah held by a Men

47,835

The number of malls and shopping centers dotting the U.S. landscape as of 2004, a total that had increased by approximately 10,000 since 1990

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SOURCE: Eggnogrecipe.net; wisegeek.com; Spencer County; howtogetridofstuff.com; census.gov; wikipedia

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Harpole’s/Woody’s Retrospective evansville

landmark through the years

“I’d been around the bar business my whole life. My great-grandfather started a bar right after Prohibition. My grandfather owned one, my father owned one, so I was around it my whole life… the old Harpole’s… which was right down the street from The Pub. A guy by the name of Bob Wesselman and Jay Fuquay bought it from my dad. I went in there and took it over and ran it for ‘em for eighteen months.”

“The original liquor license at the old Harpole’s was probably one of the first issued after Prohibition, which was my great-grandfather’s. The old Harpole’s was in an old grocery store called the Blue Buggy on Division Street. My great-grandfather purchased it and turned it into Harpole’s… Rosedale was the general area. That’s when the train tracks went right down the middle of Division Street; I remember all the trains. Colonial Bread was right across the street. You could smell the bread… we figured out at one time there was like thirty-some bars between First Avenue and Willow Road – all along Division Street was where all the bars were at. You had a lot of local bars, neighborhood bars.”

“I worked for my dad; I cleaned the bar ‘till excise told my dad we were too young to be doin’ it.

Myself and two brothers… every Sunday we were back there cleaning the bar – he didn’t pay us to do it – ‘get your ass back there and get that bar clean.’”

“I saw a niche in the crowds that nobody wanted at the time – nobody wanted the college kids…”

“Addison Ellis started bookin’ my bands for me. He was out playin’ the college market, so he was familiar with a lot of the national and regional acts around the area. I started booking shows myself after he showed me how to do it – working with booking agents and bands…”

“In the beginning it was mostly national and regional acts… Velcro Pygmies, Chosen Few, The Hammerheads, bands like that. And then The CROWD was packin’ a place called The Alibi – I just made a move and went over there and hired ‘em. They were a name-stay, and were essentially my house band. We never called ‘em a house band, but basically they were. I learned a long time ago that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… But I would still have Pfreak Show – which back then were called P.S. Dump Your Boyfriend.”

“The bierstube was my idea – the only true bierstubes around this town was Haubstadt, Germania Maennerchor and St. Wendel. And all they played was ‘bop-bop-bop German music, you know? I’m thinkin’, ‘God, look at the people at this thing. Why don’t we do it with rock & roll?”

“I wish I had the claim to naming it, but I can’t. I’ve gotta give that credit to Larry Aiken. I went to Larry – I was buying a lot of radio at the time. Larry and I became friends – there’s a lot of respect between the two of us. I said, ‘Here’s what I want to do, here’s where I want to do it, this is the time I want to do it. I don’t know how to promote it and I don’t know what to call it. We were sittin’ in his office and he said, ‘Just gimme a couple of minutes here.’ And he said, ‘Suds on the Ohio.’ I’d told him I wanted to do it during Thunder – nobody was doin’ bierstubes downtown. All those people were already downtown. All the events were usually over by nine, ten o’clock at the latest. It was just a natural fit at the time – Suds on the Ohio: 30,000 gallons of liquid gold, 100,000 watts of rock & roll and YOU. I just went, ‘Wow!’ • 12 •

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”I took over the business in October of ’05, but I worked for Danny five years before. He couldn’t run me off (laughs). I enjoyed it from day one – the atmosphere, the people, being behind the bar.”

“Harpole’s shut down, and I knew the property was limitless. It was the place. We did our deal, and Woody’s opened in October of 2005.

“There was a contest [to name the bar]. When I found out Woody’s was going to be the name, I was pissed (laughing)… I had the opportunity to change the name, but I thought to myself, ‘From day one, this is the first thing – and having your own business – naming the club…’ I didn’t wanna look wishy-washy. If that’s what it was, that’s what it was. So we were Woody’s – the Hardest Bar in Town. “[With national acts] We brought in Saliva, and people loved it. People ate it up. The first one, I was so nervous I threw up in the parking lot (laughing)… as time progressed it got easier.”

“My thought process was that if I could do one rock show and one country show a month, that’d be great… and then also have the day-to-day activities and the weekend shows, college nights, things like that.” “… like Theory of a Deadman – they’re gonna be at Roberts Stadium. Randy Houser… they both played at my place within the last year. Lady Antebellum… they’re getting $50,000 a night now – a year and a half ago, they played for me for $500. I think that stuff ’s neat. And I did it to separate myself.”

- Compiled by News 4U staff. Thanks to Danny and Zak for giving their time.

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hris Daughtry finds himself in the list of American Idol finalists who didn’t necessarily drift away into obscurity. Much Like Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Adam Lambert, Doug Daughtry has managed to avoid Messel being forgotten (see Ruben Staff Writer Studdard), or even a ridiculous joke (Clay Aiken’s “career” comes to mind). He followed in the footsteps of Bo Bice as an obligatory “rocker finalist,” but managed to surpass that idea— Daughtry, surprisingly, didn’t win his season of American Idol. While the show may have brought him exposure, the freedom from the show winner’s record contract allowed him to set his own terms for success—success which, on December 20,

brings Daughtry and the band which shares his name to Evansville’s Roberts Stadium.

Daughtry, a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, was no stranger to music before his appearance on Idol. He’d been singing in local

rock bands throughout his teens, and was playing in them even more after his high school graduation in 1998. 2000 brought marriage to his girlfriend Deanna and the birth of a son, Griffin. Even with the demands of his family, Daughtry still chased his dreams, and auditioned for CBS’s Rock Star: INXS. He was rejected—fortunately, however, another show soon began its audition process: American Idol.

Daughtry’s appearance on American Idol was a massive boon to the show during its fifth season. He was incredibly telegenic, with the friendly clean-shaven head and terrific smile. His devotion to his family only made things better. He was rotated heavily onscreen through the show’s numerous auditioning rounds, finally making it to the final 12. It was here that he was listed as a major favorite to win. When he sang rock band Fuel’s hit single “Hemorrhage (In My Hands),” he was tapped as a potential successor to Fuel’s Brett Scallions. His rendition of Live’s arrangement of the Johnny Cash song “I Walk the Line” was a hiccup of controversy during his tenure on the show, but was easily surpassed.

Perhaps the greatest controversy came during his time as one of the final four contestants on the show. Daughtry was voted off in May after narrowly losing that week’s vote to Katherine McPhee. He was visibly shocked by the results—but Daughtry, who like most of the amateur musicians on American Idol used his appearances on the show to get noticed—would still come out okay.

He turned down the offer from

Fuel—which had started as a rumor, but was

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soon proven to be true—and embarked starting his own career. In November of 2006, Daughtry released their first album to solid reviews and a high debut on the charts. Its first single, “It’s Not Over,” remained high on the charts well into 2007, and Chris Daughtry proved himself a huge success—not only by Idol standards, but thanks to mainstream accolades as well.

Daughtry’s newest album, Leave this

Town, was released in July 2009. Its debut single “No Surprise,” premiered on the May 6 episode of American Idol. The album itself helped Daughtry make history as the first American Idol alum to have 2 consecutive albums at #1.

The tour in support of Leave this Town

is something that excites Daughtry, who says “We dreamed about how it would feel playing these songs to packed arenas, and we’re excited to get our chance.”

Daughtry performs at Roberts Stadium on Dec. 20. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Main tour support Theory of a Deadman and opener Cavo will be present. Tickets are already on sale at SMG Box Offices and at Ticketmaster outlets around Evansville.

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or much of the ‘90s, The Crowd dominated the local nightlife scene – a mainstay at Harpole’s Main Street Exit for five-plus years, the band known for highenergy rock blended with antics galore drew untold tens of thousands of late-night partiers during their long run. And now, original members T.J. Tanoos (lead vocals), Bill Betz (bass) and Brent Hill (guitar) have decided to make what were once four into a five-man crowd. They’ve added a couple of new faces familiar to anyone who’s been into the local music scene – former Nine Stitches drummer Joe Meleski and the hard working, always-gigging singer/guitarist Jay Johnson to the mix.

After the culmination of less than six months honing their show, the new Crowd is set to throw a massive New Year’s Party at O’Brian’s.

But calling it just a party is selling it a bit short – festivities on the 31st are a tidy, affordable package that combines the best of New Year’s into one – lots of awesome music, friends, drinks and above all, safety.

For only $70 a couple, you get into the show, a champagne toast with party favors, a room at the Jameson Inn, transportation to and from the show, an after party at the hotel and a continental breakfast the following morning.

So how did this all come about? T.J. talks about returning to Evansville after a long absence, opening his own place (T.J.’s Stockyard Inn) and how a one-night-a-week trio set evolved into the reformation of The Crowd:

“I thought I’d better have some entertainment,” he says, “so I got with Bill (Betz) and

we went out saw all the acoustic guys [playing around town]. I saw Jay Johnson, and he was funny and cool – just great. So we did Tuesday nights at the bar [T.J.’s] and people started coming out. But I never thought about doing the big thing at all [putting The Crowd back together].

But when it did come time to reform, he says, “I’m not going to do what I did before; I’m not going to play just the heavy stuff – I’m going to do some dance stuff. Brent (Hill) came out to see us on a Sunday night at Marina Pointe. And we said, ‘Hey let’s jam, let’s see what happens.’ I told him I’d been working on a set list, but that he might not like it, because he’s a heavier guy – I was showing him ‘P*ssy Control’ by Prince, ‘Word Up’ by Cameo, ‘Must Be the Money,’ ‘Jungle Love’ – I’m like, ‘People got to dance again.’ He said, ‘As long as we heavy it up a little bit.’

“We’re at the point now where we’re ready – we’ve got a killer show put together,” he continues. “We have the dance stuff, classic rock, we’ve got the heavy stuff still – Zombie and Rage and stuff people wanna listen to late at night.”

Newcomer Jay Johnson on joining the band: “First off, they’re amazing musicians. Bill and Brent – phenomenal. I’m excited about playing with these guys. It all really started with T.J. and the acoustic thing, and wanting to get back out onto the scene.”

Drummer Meleski’s no stranger to the local scene, and he’s similarly looking forward to the project: “It’s been a long time coming, hooking up with these guys; they’ve always been an exciting group to watch. We’ve got a great song list – there’s something for everybody. Anyone who’s seen them before knows what kind of show T.J., Bill and Brent put on,” he says. “And then with Jay and I getting to be a part of that, we expect people to have a great time with it. In between songs, there’s lots of ‘activities’

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The Crowd is known for – which all makes for a really great show.”

Asked about the gig on New Year’s Eve, Johnson says, “First off, it’s a reunion of The Crowd – that’s gonna be the best. Everybody’s rejuvenated.

And we’re targeting all audiences – we’re jumping from a Godsmack tune into Prince or Morris Day and the Time. There’s a huge variety; everything’s strategically placed, and it’s going to be a highenergy, good time.”

Original guitarist Brent Hill chimes in about getting back together: “If you don’t play for a while, you miss it, and realize how much a part of you it really is; you want to get back out there and do it again. And these guys are like brothers of mine, especially T.J. and Bill. And Jay’s a great guy, a great musician. Joe – we tried him out, and his attitude and his skills were just right there in the pocket, and fit right in with us. Everything kind of clicked.”

So what’s going to happen at the gig on the 31st?

“You never know with New Year’s,” says original Crowd-ster Bill Betz. “But we plan on doing some crazy things – the beer bong, the shot contest… you just never know with us and with T.J. Even on our acoustic nights, you don’t know; he (T.J.) gets pretty crazy (laughs). But yeah, we’re very excited to be back; we’ve all missed it. The new guys are really excited to be a part of The Crowd family, which is a family that’s gone on for years… and we haven’t lost our touch.”

For people of a certain age who got into the band, this is a chance to meet up with old friends – for others of a younger age who want to catch a fun show that mixes things up and entertains for real, this’ll be the time. Get with O’Brian’s at 1801 N. Green River Road – 401-4630.

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Noah Aberlin, Cassia Okenka, Snickers, Jason Simon and Chris.

It is always entertaining to experience the musical pieces in Broadway

shows, as each company has their own style and spin that they put into their production. The Wizard of Oz has several classic songs included in the show such as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “If I Only Had a Brain,” and “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.” The music contained in this story is easily recognizable even to folks •• 14 16 ••

who aren’t Broadway savvy... who hasn’t mumbled those words “ding dong the wicked witch is dead...?”

No other movie has

taken such an enormous persona as the Wizard of Oz, complete with fan clubs and valuable memorabilia.

The original movie poster from 1939 exclaimed “Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!” for the Oz movie in a charming manner.

Even though the original movie was not viewed as a box office success at the time, after seventy years it is still one of the most beloved movies to be viewed during the holidays. I’m pretty sure that most adults recall the “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore” quote as well. well.

The national tour of The Wizard of Oz uses

one lucky local dance troupe to be the munchkins in the show. This is a great way to involve the community along with providing a chance of a lifetime for local children to be part of this high profile production. production.

If you are waiting for the right time

to introduce a Broadway musical to your child, then you better not wait any longer. There isn’t a better show to introduce to a child than Oz and this production even offers a $5 discount off of children’s tickets. The costumes and colorful sets alone will grasp their attention and form a memory that both of you will always treasure.

Oh yeah, and Toto is played by a talented little dog named Snickers. If you are looking for the perfect holiday gift for a friend or helpful neighbor, look no further; no one will regret attending this classic show. This traveling production is based on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation which includes incredible performances, breathtaking special effects and dazzling costumes. costumes. The special effects are reported to be unlike any other production and each of the actors brings a fresh performance to the iconic roles. and each roles.

If you are curious, check out clips from the show at www.

wizardofozontour.com This production is selling out in other markets -- which is an indication

that this show should not be missed.

Get your tickets for this great American classic missed. Get this great American classic now.

The show is scheduled for Sunday, December 13 at 7 p.m., at The Aiken Theatre at The Centre. Tickets start at an affordable $19, $29 and $50 and are available at The Centre box office, Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 800-745-3000. Discounts are also available for subscribers and groups of 20 or more by calling 812-435-5544. A special discount of $5 per ticket is available for children ages 14 and under.

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. he Wizard of Oz will land at The Centre on Sunday, December 13, at 7:00 p.m., as part of the Old National Presents Broadway Season.

Season. This show is touring nationally and is graciously giving the Tri-State an opportunity to view one of the best-loved tales ever written and performed. performed. No other production has captured audiences for as long as The Wizard of Oz. Nearly all adults recall the classic 1939 MGM film which LANEA RITTERLING starred Judy Garland as the innocent young farm farm girl from Contributor Contributor Kansas who was knocked on the head and spun into a dream world during a tornado.

The dream takes Dorothy, along with her precious dream world tornado. The dog, Toto, to the Magical World of Oz, where she is greeted by Glinda the Good Witch.

Witch. Dorothy’s journey is one full of color and mystique, enchantment and fear. fear. She ventures along the Yellow Brick Road to Oz and is introduced to vibrant characters such as the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the evil Wicked Witch of the West.

Of course you can’t forget the awesome munchkins and flying monkeys, too. Dorothy’s dream is so captivating that when she wakes we are disappointed the dream has to end.

Back to the ‘Ville Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser

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amey Johnson and Randy Houser, both no strangers to Evansville thanks to the “Cheap Seats Concert Series” at Woody’s, are set to return this month as part of the 2009 CMT Tour. Appearing on DOUG Saturday, December 19 at 8:00 MESSEL p.m. at the Centre, Johnson Contributor and Houser bring with them a collection of songs that range from the soulful styles of Hank Williams to honky tonk behemoths.

The co-headliners share common ground. Both men developed an appreciation for music at an early age. Houser grew up in Lake, Missouri, where he began playing music around age 13 and subsequently continued through high school.

Johnson grew up in a musical family in Montgomery Alabama and was influenced early on by acts such as Alabama and Alan Jackson.

While both artists are solid acts on their own, they first earned their Nashville credibility by working as songwriters who’ve produced hits for other artists. Johnson’s credits include songs by George Strait’s “Give it Away” and Joe Nichols’ “Another Side of You.” Houser’s main

credit for another artist is the song he wrote with Johnson in 2005, Trace Adkins’ single “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.” The two of them continue to maintain a close working relationship and are excited about touring together.

Houser explains, “This tour is about 50 combined years in the making. I’ve been playing on the road since I was 15. Jamey and I both have been picking these guitars as long as we’ve been able to hold ‘em. This is a chance to show the rest of the world how far we’ve come.”

Of course, that doesn’t mean the road has been overly easy, especially for Johnson. After what seemed to be a false start in his career with

2006’s The Dollar, Johnson was dropped from BNA Records. He then separated and subsequently divorced from his wife. Following this, Johnson went into seclusion, working on improving his songwriting. He reemerged almost a year later, refreshed and ready to work on a new album. The results are clear. The new album, That Lonesome Song, was released in August 2008 to favorable reviews.

Houser’s experience songwriting made him want to focus more on performing, playing more local gigs and eventually scoring a record deal with Universal Records South. His first single, “Anything Goes,” was released in May 2008 before the following album, also called Anything Goes.

Unlike Johnson’s album, however, Houser’s work was mainly crafted by other songwriters—probably to ease him into the world of commercial radio.

For those who’ve seen both Houser and Johnson on their previous visits to Evansville, the upcoming concert is a chance to see these two artists perform again. For those who’ve never seen either Johnson or Houser—and are in need of a solid country music fix, this show won’t disappoint.

Tickets are currently on sale and run $23. All tickets are, of course, subject to Ticketmaster Fees, Handling Charges and Facility Fees. Tickets may be purchased at the Roberts Stadium Box Office, The Centre Box Office, and all other Ticketmaster outlets.

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any people do what they do for a living just because they “have to.” I know. I used to be one of them.

There are those, who whether MARk McCOy by chance, by plan, or just sheer Staff dumb luck, have had the good Photographer fortune to turn an avocation into a job; I am blessed to now be one of them.

Then, there are those who do what they do because they were “born to do it,” love it, and wouldn’t know what they’d do without it. I know because I recently met Rod Austin, and it’s an honor to introduce him to you, here, today.

Rod is a third generation carpenter and wood craftsman from Beech Grove, Kentucky. His Grandpa was a carpenter. (Yeah, now we have some John Prine queued up for you as mental background music for this Western Kentucky setting). Grandpa taught the craft to his son, who took it a bit further, and in turn, taught his own son, Rod, who, at an early age, found himself in the woodshop that Grandpa which the edges, instead of being squared off, gently built, learning the basic skills which would come to flow off like water over a rock, and in a recent piece, a be his livelihood. It’s been in his blood for so long that three-legged dining room chair, looks to me to be the his earliest memory is of accidentally launching an kind of thing that would fit right in, in something like electric sander across the workshop as a 6 year old. a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home. It’s obvious as Now 42, you view his work, his meticulous Rod is a well respected dedication to original design, and and seasoned “finish his insistence on NOT building carpenter” with a “cookie cutter” items and his soul lengthy track record of shines through his work. producing quality work.

I can tell you all you really need His day to day work is to know about Rod by reporting made up of standard my surprise of, and pride in, my finish carpentry jobs, new coffee table, handcrafted from framing and from cherry and ash! Made with hanging doors, to crown mortise and tenon joints, wooden molding, wood floors, dowels, and topped off with a nice and building staircases. teak oil finish. Undaunted by my His passion apparently less than best effort has been to utilize his to exhort that I was “just doing skills to create unique my job,” Rod was adamant that I furniture, and in taking “leave with something.” Truth is, his craft a bit further, in I left with three things; my new recent years, with the table; the honor and appreciation The highest praise for Rod’s work with help and encouragement of having witnessed a craftsman at guitars has come from an electric guitar of local musicians such as work; and a friend. he made for Evansville’s preeminent Tommy Stillwell, Blindbluesman, guitarist, Tommy Stillwell.

A lifelong music lover, in 2004 Dog Gatewood, Heath Rod began toying with the notion Eric, and D.S. Lloyd – of trying to handcraft a guitar. He handcrafting guitars. has logged countless hours reading books, talking to The furniture he creates has a uniqueness people, seeking and soaking up knowledge and with of vision, from the book matched two-inch thick each new guitar, expanding his skills. heartwood Walnut coffee table in his living room, As a practical matter, it’s noteworthy, finished with the bark still on either side, and of and a testament to his imagination and skills that • 18 •

CREATIVE SPOTLIGHT [ Rod Austin ]

whenever possible, he has made many specialized luthier tools out of various things he has just laying around the shop.

The highest praise for Rod’s work with guitars has come from an electric guitar he made for Evansville’s preeminent bluesman, guitarist, Tommy Stillwell. When I asked if it was even fair for me to ask where it ranks among his stable of brand name axes, Tommy said: “It’s right up there with my SRV Strat,” and “If I could only take one guitar to a gig, it would be this one”! The Native American accents on the guitar reflect Tommy’s Cherokee heritage. As a fan of Tommy’s band, The Amazing Soul Crackers, I can report first hand that it sounds every bit as good as it looks!

Rod Austin is a craftsman, and a genuinely nice guy. Marching to the beat of one’s own drummer can seem, at times, a hermitical journey, but the solitude of his workshop seems to be the nourishment for his soul.

He is happy, and humbled, that he can use his Godgiven talent to help musicians pursue and create their own God-given talents, and in this respect, I believe, his life has come full circle. In an odd twist, Rod doesn’t even play guitar, but he does sing. He sings the song of the tree!

You can contact Rod at: Rod Austin Carpentry 6211 HWY 256, Calhoun, KY 42327 (812) 431-7913.

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LOCAL CHEF SPOTLIGHT [ Doros Hajisavva ]

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ere again we go behind the scenes and meet another key person in the independently-owned and operated dining scene in Evansville.

Cyprus-born Doros Hajisavva is the man (along with his family as well) behind a local favorite, Acropolis Mediterranean & American Food & Spirits. The Green River Road establishment has carved out its own unique place on the map with top-notch cuisine and service, all in an environment that transports visitors to the film set-like décor inside.

To find out more about his restaurant and background, Doros and I spoke recently: N4U: Tell me how you became involved in the restaurant business.

Doros: Well, I have always cooked. And I don’t eat because I have to eat; I eat because I enjoy it.

The love of food in general. When was your first experience in a professional food environment?

Growing up in a tourist area back home (Cyprus), always working in restaurants and in bars, and meeting with a lot of tourists. Growing up there, it was always something that… in the summertime, we all worked in the restaurants, so it was a thing I grew up with. But I never thought I would have my own restaurant. My thing was to find a job somewhere and enjoy the weekends. I guess I was cursed (laughing)…

And here in the United States?

When I came to the United States, I was in New Jersey. I was going to school and working in diners there. After that, I came to Kentucky for one year, because my wife was going to school at Brescia – she was my girlfriend then. She was going to be done, and we were going to go back home. Then, we both decided to stay and go back to school. And then we started this small restaurant in Henderson… and from there, everything is history.

Your first location on Highway 41 – which you still use for special events – when did you first open there?

We opened in June of 2000. And then to Green River Road on November 13, 2003.

The inside of the restaurant is beautiful – was that first on your list, to gut it and make it look like that?

I was in love with Daryl’s (the restaurant in the building prior) – the structure, the way it looked – everything. When we bought it, we traveled around and [looked at] other restaurants to see how they looked inside.

Then we hired an interior designer, and she said, ‘I want you guys to talk to me; how do you want it to look? What do you have in mind?’ We told her we wanted it to look as Mediterranean as possible.

So from the grapevine leaves, to the colors, everything was done the way we wanted.

Where to the recipes come from?

Foods we like to eat back home, but some of them we changed to adapt to the local tastes. Like I learned about biscuits and gravy when I came to this area (laughing). Before I had no idea what biscuits and gravy [were]… so coming from the island of Cyprus, we still have people coming in the restaurant – they say, ‘Well, I like this, but I had this in another Greek restaurant, and I had the Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) – we had them with white sauce.’ And I will tell them – just like biscuits and gravy – in different parts of the country, people do different things. On the island of Cyprus, we serve Dolmades with a red sauce; on the mainland, in Greece, they make them with a white lemon sauce. But if somebody knows what they want, if they’ve had them and like the white sauce, as long as we know when they order, we’ll make it.

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That’s really cool.

I tell all my servers – people have a lot of choices, and as long as we show people respect, and treat them well when they come in, they will come back.

We have a lot of regulars, and what’s really helping us is our catering. People start seeing Greek cuisine in their everyday lives, and it’s not just a special occasion food. People will come in for their birthday or anniversary, but I’ll see them come back more often.

One of things I love about Acropolis is I can go in and say ‘Cook for me.’

Yes, we will do that… you know one of the things we do is work with a lot of non-profit organizations, and we do a lot of fundraisers and donations. And we’ve gotten to the point where the community is supporting us; my advice to anyone in the service business, in the hospitality business – we need to give to the community. We just were at the March of Dimes fundraiser; we did Greek Night for the Boys & Girls Club – people have a lot of choices of where to go – I believe you have to give back to the community in order to get.

Acropolis is located at 501 N. Green River Road • 812475-9320 • acropolisevv.com • take-out and online ordering powered by click4ameal.com available For more of our conversation about Acropolis, Greek cuisine, and yes, biscuits and gravy, find the full audio at news4uonline.com.

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REVIEW

[ Wine & Spirits ]

by Laura Perry

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Champagnes and Sparkling Wines have a long wines at and illustrious history of celebratory events. The Varsity! drink is characterized by tiny, fizzy bubbles that 687 North seem to add effervescence to any personality.

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Champagnes are made from one of three different grape types: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. Blanc de blanc champagnes are made from all white grapes (Chardonnay) and are elegant and fine. Blanc de noirs is produced exclusively from black grapes (Pinot Noir/ Pinot Meunier). Blanc de noir is concentrated with strong fruit flavors. If the champagne is not described as either blanc de blanc or blanc de noir, it is most probably a combination of All three grapes.

Varsity Liquors is excited to offer a vast and delicious selection of champagnes and sparkling wines for your holiday celebrations: Let’s review just a few choice offerings: The Moet & Chandon NV Imperial Rose Nectar is red in color and the aromas are intense and deep with ripe berries and cherry, nuanced by herbal and heady flower notes. Rated “best tasting” champagne in a blind taste test, Nectar Imperial is a sensuous champagne permeated with the flavors of candied fruits.

Nicolas Feuillatte Brut Blue Label is an elegant wine suitable for drinking as an aperitif or for accompanying an entire meal. The wine is pale gold in color, with floral aromas of fruit with a subtle predominance of pear, apple, almonds and hazelnuts.

Schramsberg 2005 Blanc de Noirs is made primarily from the red grape, Pinot Noir, and is a complex, medium-bodied, brut sparkling wine. With proper storage, this sparkling wine will be delicious for many years, even a couple of decades to come. The cool growing season of 2005 give this wine flavors of sweet ginger, white gooseberry, and a dollop of mandarin orange. Aromas of Peach Melba and toasted almond introduce hints of fresh raspberry and Bing cherry.

Veuve Clicquot Brut Yellow Label is a beautiful golden-yellow, with a foaming necklace of tiny bubbles. It is initially reminiscent of white fruits and raisins, then of vanilla and later of brioche. This wine manages to reconcile two opposing factors-forcefulness and finesse-and hold them in perfect balance.

The N.V. Pol Roger Champagne Extra Cuvee Reserve is very crisp with a touch of almond, grapefruit and apple. With a golden straw hue and fine bubbles, this wine offers a bouquet of floral and fruity aromas.

Lastly, let us not forget the Dom... The Dom Perignon Champagne is the definition of exquisite luxury and taste. First introduced in 1936, the Dom Perignon name has become synonymous with class and stature. This champagne is only produced in exceptional vintage; in 2 styles, the Brut and the Brut Rose.

All of these champagnes and sparkling wines are available at Varsity Liquors, located at 687 N. Green River Road. We look forward to seeing you!

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ricket’s is one of those places I’ve been to off-and-on for years.

As a former eastsider who spent a fair amount of time starting an evening out with friends in Newburgh and Dylan then working my west toward Gibbs the ‘Ville, Cricket’s was a place I Managing Editor always felt at home in. Whether it was the vibe of the building, the friendliness of the people – the customers and the employees – or, as likely, a combination of both, I knew Cricket’s was where I could comfortably belly up to the bar, order a cold one and a sandwich and settle in for the kind of conversation that the TV series Cheers encapsulated so well.

Now, years later, with a family life and a beer on occasion instead of as a matter of throughthe-day routine, it was like stepping back into a happily familiar time and place when I visited coproprietors Molly Graham and Brad Berkemeier.

Graham’s history with Cricket’s goes back years to when she was a frequent customer and darter; Berkemeier worked for many years with previous owner Lisa Forler, first as a cook and then as bartender. An opportunity to buy the establishment came along a couple of years ago, and when it did, Molly and Brad jumped at the chance.

In my time there on a recent evening, the care and time these two put into talking with and making sure their customers were doing well was evident. Beyond the usual small talk: “How was your meal?” or “Have a good night,” there were comments about families, how they were doing, and other things you can only associate with relationships that go beyond the usual. I was impressed.

And they took care of me, too. I asked what the most popular food item was, and Molly gave a great example. After a tornado demolished the building in 2004, customers were hankering for pizza. “[Former owner] Lisa and I would go out, and everywhere we went it was like, ‘When are you going to reopen? When can we get pizza again?’ Graham says. “I think when she did her grand reopening, and Brad’s memory might be a little better, fifty-some pizza went out of here… with two little ovens.”

Those two ovens still crank out plenty of delicious pies, brimming with cheese and toppings.

Demand for Cricket’s pizza has been so great, they’ve recently offered them pre-made and ready to cook at home, complete with instructions.

I was savoring the coldest bottle of beer I’d had at a bar in as long as I could remember (thanks to the massive ice bath they keep them in – that was Brad’s idea) when I decided to try the pulled pork sandwich. This turned out to be a great decision. Brad’s methodological approach to pulled pork demands he spend many hours with each pork • 22 •

butt, using a secret blend of injections and rubs, smoking with hard woods, steaming with apple juice, and then getting it to the point where the meat wants to be pulled, it’s so tender. The whole process takes him nearly eighteen total hours.

The sandwich was served without sauce, which I like. That way I could put just the right amount on – and it was a fantastic, complextasting, juicy pulled pork, one of the finest I’ve had.

Into about my third ice-cold beer, I look at many of the other favorites I remember enjoying at Cricket’s over the years: Grilled Tenderloin; Ribeye Sandwich; Cod Sandwich; that famous Pizza; Bacon Cheeseburger – all are still made in the same, simple open kitchen kept immaculately clean by the staff.

Entertainment is a big feature at Cricket’s and has been for years. A who’s who of area musicians have played there over the years – Troy Miller, The Jimmies, Hog-Maw Blues Band, et. al – but always on Thursdays.

Until recently, that is. Molly’s Molly Graham and Brad Berkemeir begun integrating some of the same great names onto the

Like Cheers, Cricket’s is one of those places schedule on two Saturdays a month, which helps where – if not right off the bat – by the time you leave, people out who want to catch live music, but also everyone will know your name. It’s a no-frills, fun and want to let their hair down on a Saturday, something friendly place that I was happy to revisit. It was like people with Friday morning jobs may not be able to coming back into an old familiar haunt, and thanks do. to Molly Graham and Brad Berkemeier’s hospitality, I

The darters are still well-catered to. Twice can heartily recommend you stop in for a visit too. a week for as many years as anyway can remember, dart tournaments have been held on Wednesdays Cricket’s is at 518 W. Main Street on the west side of and Saturdays (bands start after the tourneys on Newburgh. Give ‘em a call at 858-2782 for questions Saturdays). And everyone’s welcome, beginners and or carryout information. You can check out the pros alike (Brad relates that they do indeed get many Nightlife section to find out exactly what’s going on pros to throw darts there, including some from outthere and when. of-town).

One of the other long-standing events at Cricket’s is karaoke. For years, “The Sax Man” played the music for would-be Idolers, and in recent times on Friday nights Randy Marshall has brought not only the songs, but a whole routine along, and it’s been very popular. www.News4UOnline.com • Evansville December 2009

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[ What’s Cookin’ ]

Corky’s Ribs & Barbecue 1) Guide ] (Pavilion 421 N W Riverside Dr. 433-4227 Under $10/Casual/ FullBar/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

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black buggy Restaurant Lynch & Green River Rd. 473-0012 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Stoll’s Country Inn 9820 Castle Creek Dr. 812-867-7731 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/ No Alcohol/VISA,MC

BAR-B-que

Bar-B-Q Barn 1003 E. Diamond Ave. 491-9868 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA, MC bar-b-Q Shack 4430 1st Av. 401-8227 Under $10-$15/Casual/ Beer &Wine/VISA, MC

Hawg ‘n’ Sauce 1600 Leonard Rd. Mt. Vernon, IN 838-5339 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations/ Accepted/Beer & Wine/ All Major Credit Cards Hickory Pit Stop 1521 N. Main 422-6919 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations/Accepted/ Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards, Diner’s Club landmark bbQ 3901 Broadway 401-7427 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA, MC Marx barbeque & Catering 3119 W. Maryland St. 425-1616 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA, MC

The Nisbet Inn 6701 Nisbet Station Rd. 963-9305 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations/Accepted/ Full Bar/Checks/ Accepted/VISA,MC North Main Annex 701 N. Main 425-4535 Under $10/Casual/ Wine/VISA,MC R.J.’s Smokehouse 1013 S. Weinbach Ave. 421-8020 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Shyler’s Bar-B-Q 405 S. Green River 476-4599 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Wilson’s General Store & Café 11120 Broadway Ave. 985-0202 Under $10/Casual// VISA, MC,DSCVR

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Wolf’s Bar-B-Q Restaurant 6000 First Ave. 424-8891 Under$10/Casual/ Reservations/Accepted/ Checks Accepted/VISA, MC

CAsuAl THeMe

Applebee’s bar & Grill 5100 E. Morgan Ave. 471-0929 5727 Pearl Drive 426-2006 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Bar Louie 7000 Eagle Crest Blvd. 476-7069 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza 3911 Venetian Drive 853-3400 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards blush Ultra lounge & Tapas bar 615 N.W. Riverside Dr. 433-4700 Between $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Cheeseburger in Paradise 8301 Eagle Lake 475-1074 Under $10-$15/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Chili’s Grill & bar 600 N. Green River 475-1510 $15-$25/Casual/ Reservations/Accepted/ Full Bar/Checks/Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards Choo Choo Cafe & Deli 915 Main St. 429-0283 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards House of Como 2700 S. Kentucky Ave. 422-0572 Between $9-$12/Casual/ Checks/Accepted/Full Bar firefly Southern Grill 6636 Logan Dr. 402-2354 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Accepted Gator’s Hot Fish 1203 N. Main St. 461-7270 Under $10/Casual

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Hadi Shrine 6 Walnut St 423-4285 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Hooters 4620 Lincoln Ave. 475-0229 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ All Major Credit Cards Koodie-Hoo’s 231 W. 2nd St. Mt. Vernon, IN 838-5202 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Max & Erma’s 421 N.W. Riverside (Pavilion Level 1) 433-4258 $10-15/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

zoup Fresh Soup Co. 6240 E. Virginia St. 477-2664 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards

CHINese

Canton Inn Restaurant 947 North Park Dr. 428-6611 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Charlie’s Mongolian BBQ 315 E. Diamond Ave. 423-9897 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer & Wine/ VISA,MC

O’brian’s Sports bar & Grill 1801 N. Green River Rd. 401-4630 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Ollie’s Sports bar & Grill 4920 Bellemeade Ave. 401-2125 $10-15/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Red Robin Gourmet Burgers 6636 E. Lloyd Expwy. 473-4100 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Show-Me’s (West) 5501 Pearl Dr. 402-7100 (East) 1700 Morgan Ctr. Dr. 401-7459 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Steamboat Annie’s 7766 Fruitwood Dr. Newburgh, IN (812) 853-7766 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Steeplechase Café (Holiday Inn & Conference Center) 4101 Hwy. 41 N. 424-6400 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Temptations buffet (Pavilion Level 1) 421 Riverside Dr. 433-6059 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards The Granola Jar 1033 Mt. Pleasant Rd. 437-1899 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards T.G.I. Friday’s (Inside Eastland Mall) 800 N. Green River Rd. 491-8910 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards • 24 •

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China King 590 E Diamond Ave. 423-1896 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Beer and Wine/ Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards China Super buffet 127 N. Burkhardt Rd. 476-8788 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/VISA,MC,DSCVR China Town buffet 5435 Pearl Dr. 425-8146 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer & Wine/Checks Accepted/VISA, MC China Village 8423 Bell Oaks Dr. Newburgh, IN 858-8238 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/All Major Credit Cards Chopstick House Restaurant 5412 E. Indiana 473-5551 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer and Wine/All Major Credit Cards Golden Buddha 3221 Taylor Ave. 473-4855 5066 S.R. 261 853-2680 Under $10/Casual/Full Service Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Janbo Restaurant 4500 W. Lloyd Expwy. 422-8289 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Beer & Wine/ Checks Accepted/Major Credit Cards lucky Dragon Chinese 4313 E. Morgan Ave. 479-5006 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer and Wine/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

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[ Restaurant Guide ] MA. T. 888 China Bistro 5636 Vogel Rd 475-2888 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/ Reservation Accepted/ VISA,MC,AMEX Mandarin Garden Chinese 2013 Green River Rd. 476-7088 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/VISA,MC Shing-Lee Chinese Restaurant 215 Main 464-2769 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Service Bar/All Major Credit Cards Taste of China 4579 University Dr. 422-1260 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted Two Brothers 3806 N 1 St. 423-6188 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Yen Ching Chinese Restaurant 406 S. Green River Rd 474-0181 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

DelI/BAkeRy

Emge’s Deli & Ice Cream 206-208 Main St Walkway 422-3026, 422-7030 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted finn’s Café & bakery 920 Main St. 962-3694 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards fresh Harvest Deli (Inside The Old Post Office) 101 NW 1st St. 421-0407 Under $10/Casual/MC,VISA Great Harvest bread 423 Metro 476-4999 Under $10/Casual/Checks/All Major Credit Cards Jeanie’s Gelato 113 S.E. 4th St. 402-8282 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches 701 N. Burkhardt Ste C 401-5400 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Just Rennies Cookies 102 S.E. 4th St. 490-8098 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards la Sombra Cofffee Company 318 Main St. 492-4567 Under $10/Casual/VISA,MC, DSVR

Amity Jo’s 202 E. Locust St. Ft. Branch Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

Maxine’s Cafe and bakery 1322 N Green River Rd 473-3663 Under $10/Casual/Checks/All Major Credit Cards

Coffee Cottage & Café 612 Weinbach Ave. 401-1930 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA,MC

Penn Station Subs Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards (East) 137 N. Burkhardt Rd. 479-PENN (7366) (West) 5310 Pearl Dr. 434-PENN (7366) (North) 4827 Davis Lant 402-PENN (Henderson) 1111 Barrett Rd. 270-826-7361

Choo Choo Cafe & Deli 915 Main St. 429-0283 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Dujour Cafe & bakery 920 Main St. 962-3694 Under $10/Casual/VISA,MC Diamond Deli 421 Riverside Dr. Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Donut bank bakery & Coffee (West) 210 N. St. Joseph 426-1011 (North) 2128 N 1st Ave 426-2311 1031E. Diamond Ave. 426-0011 (East) 5 N. Green River Rd 479-0511 Washington Ave. 477-2711 (Newburgh) 3988 SR 261 858-9911 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Accepted

Piece of Cake 210 Main 424-2253 Under $5/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Riverview by firefly 1 Main St. 465-7206 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Roly Poly Sandwiches 5702 E. Virginia St. 962-2326 Under $10/Casual/VISA, MC

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Schlotzsky’s Deli 301 N. Green River Rd. 471-4011 Under $10/Casual/VISA,MC Spudz -n- Stuff 5225 Pearl Dr. 402-TATR Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA,MC The Granola Jar 1033 Mt. Pleasant Rd. 437-1899 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Twilight Bistro 221 Main St. 421-0606 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards

FAMIly & HOMesTyle

The Acropolis fine Greek Cuisine and Spirits 501 N. Green River Rd. 475-9320 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards black buggy Restaurant Lynch & Green River Rd. 473-0545 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards bob Evans Restaurant 1125 N. Green River Rd. 473-9022 5201 Pearl Drive 425-5100 Under $10/Casual/VISA,MC boonville Cafe 713 E. Main St. 812-897-2912 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/VISA,MC buffalo Wild Wings 713 N Green River Rd. 471-9464 5404 Pearl Drive 423-9464 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Carousel Restaurant 5115 Monroe Ave. 479-6388 Under $10/Casual/VISA,MC Charlie & barney’s 1801 W. Franklin St. 423-5355 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Checks Accepted/ VISA,MC Cracker barrel 8215 Eagle Lake Dr. 479-8788 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Cross-Eyed Cricket 2101 Pennsylvania 422-6464 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted Culver’s frozen Custard butter Burgers Burkhardt Rd. 437-3333 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards • 26 •

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[ Restaurant Guide ] Denny’s Classic Diner 5212 Weston Rd. 424-4472 19501 Elpers Rd. 867-7156 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Denny’s Restaurant (North) 4301 Hwy. 41 N. 423-9459 (East) 351 N. Green River Rd. 473-1063 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations/ Checks/All Major Credit Cards Dogtown Tavern Old Henderson Rd. 423-0808 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/VISA, MC Ellis Park-Clubhouse Hwy 41 N. (800) 333-8110 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Service Bar/All Major Credit Cards The Feedmill Hwy. 165 & I-64 (812) 874-2210 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/All Major Credit Cards flying Saucer Café (Inside the Airport) 7801 Bussing Dr. 423-1113 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Service Bar/All Major Credit Cards frontier Restaurant & bar 12945 Highway 57 812-867-6786 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Service Bar/MC, VISA Golden Corral (West) 5301 Pearl Dr. 423-4930 (East) 130 Cross Point Blvd. 473-1095 (Henderson) 1770 S. Green St. (270) 827-0345 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards The Hilltop Inn 1100 Harmony Way 422-1757 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill Hwy 261 & 66 490-9135 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Checks Accepted Hornville Tavern & Catering 2607 Baseline Rd. 963-9318 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Checks Accepted/

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[ Restaurant Guide ]

The Pie Pan 905 North Park Dr. 425-2261 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards

IHOP Restaurant 601 Burkhardt 471-0514 Under $10/Checks Accepted/ Casual/VISA,MC,Discover

Rafferty’s 1400 N. Green River Rd. 471-0024 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

k&D Dutch korner 13935 St. Wendel Rd. 963-9370 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Cash Only

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers 6636 E. Lloyd Expwy. 473-4100 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

KT’s Fire Grill 7247 Main St. 812-673-4996 Wadesville, IN $10 - $15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/VISA,MC

St. Joe Inn 9515 St. Wendel Rd. 963-9310 Between $10-$15/Casual/ Reservations/Recommended/Full Bar

kippleville (Kipplee’s Partyhouse) 2322 Division St. 476-1936 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Under $10/Reservations Accepted/ Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards

Stoll’s Country Inn 19820 Castle Creek Dr. 812-867-7730 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Checks Accepted/VISA,MC

knotty Pine Cafe 500 N. Main 423-0014 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted

Wolf’s Restaurant & Tavern 31 N. Green St. Henderson, KY (270) 826-5221 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

Koodie-Hoo’s 231 W. 2nd St. Mt. Vernon, IN 838-5202 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

zesto’s 102 W. Franklin St. 424-1416 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards

Log Inn Rt. 2 Haubstadt 867-3216 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted

FINe DININg

bonefish Grill 6401 E. Lloyd Expwy. 401-3474 $15-$25/Credit Cards/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

Marvin’s Pub 100 State Rd. 62 West Boonville, IN 490-2619 $15 - $25/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Cavanaugh’s (Pavilion Level 2) 421 NW Riverside Dr. 433-4333 $20-$30/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

Merry-Go-Round Restaurant N. 2101 N. U.S. Rt. 41 423-6388 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Checks Accepted

Cork ‘N Cleaver 650 S. Hebron 479-6974 $10-$25/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

North Main Annex 701 N. Main 425-4535 Under $10/Casual/Wine/VISA,MC O’Charley’s (East) 7301 E. Indiana 479-6632 (West) 5125 Pearl Dr. 424-3348 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards The Old Mill 503 New Harmony Rd. 963-6000 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

The Edgewater Grille 1 E. Water St., Newburgh, IN 858-2443 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Checks Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards The Jungle Restaurant/ Fat Cats Bar 415 Main St. 425-5282 Between $10-$15/Reservations Recommended/Two Full Bars/ VISA,MC

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lorenzo’s bistro & bakery 972 S. Hebron Ave. 475-9477 Between $15-$25/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards Accepted Madeleine’s Restaurant 423 S.E. 2nd St. 491-8611 $15-$25/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Red Geranium 504 N. New Harmony, Indiana 812-682-4431 Between $15-$25/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Paradise Pavilion 6299 Oak Grove Road 858-7931 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Szechwan Chinese Restaurant 669 N. Green River Rd. 479-7600 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards The White House 610 Church St. New Harmony, IN (812) 682-3455 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards

geRMAN

Gerst bavarian Haus 2100 W. Franklin 424-1420 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

gReek

The Acropolis fine Greek Cuisine and Spirits 501 N. Green River Rd. 475-9320 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Major Credit Cards

INDIAN

flavor of India 4612 Vogel Rd. 477-4482 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine 900 E. Tutor Ln. 476-5000 $10-$15/Reservations Accepted/ Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards

ITAlIAN/ MeDITeRRANeAN

Angelo’s 305 Main Street 428-6666 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

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EATS

[ Restaurant Guide ] Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano 16401 E. Lloyd Expwy. 421-0800 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/VISA, MC Dilegges Italian 607 N. Main 428-3004 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/VISA, MC House of Como 2700 S. Kentucky 422-0572 $9-$12/Casual/Reservation Suggested/Full Bar Manna Mediterranean 2913 Lincoln Ave. 473-7005 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Milano’s Italian Cuisine 500 Main Street 484-2222 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards The Olive Garden Italian 1100 N. Green River Rd. 473-2903 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Raffi’s Italian & Mediterranean 1100 N. Burkhardt Rd. 479-9166 $10-$15/Dressy Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

JApANese

fujiyama Japanese Steakhouse 917 North Park Dr. 962-4440 $10-$20/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Iwataya Japanese Restaurant 8401 N Kentucky Ave 868-0830 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Jaya’s 119 S.E. 4th St. 422-6667 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer and Wine Kanpai 4593 Washington Ave. 471-7076 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Nagasaki Inn 5720 Virginia St. 473-1442 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Required/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

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EATS

[ Restaurant Guide ] Tokyo Japan 3000 N. Green River Rd. 401-1020 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Zuki Japanese Grill & Sushi lounge 1448 N. Green River Rd. 477-9854 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

kOReAN

Jaya’s 119 S.E. 4th St. 422-6667 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted//Beer and Wine

MeXICAN

Acapulco Mexican (East) 3339 Green River Rd. 475-0566 (Newburgh) 8480 High Pointe Dr. 858-7777 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Cancun Mexican Restaurant (Henderson)341 S. Green St. (270) 826-0067 (Newburgh) 10640 SR 662 490-9936 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards El Charro 720 N Sonntag Ave 421-1986 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Jalisco Mexican Restaurant 4044 Professional Ln. 490-2814 $5-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards La Cabana 821 S. Green River Rd. 477-3351 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Las Americas Mexican 1016 S. Weinbach Ave. 475-3483 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer & Wine/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards los bravos (East) 834 Tutor Lane 474-9078 (North) 3534 First Ave. 424-4101 (East) 4630 W. Lloyd Expwy. 464-3136 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Los Toribio (Henderson) 1739 S. Green St. (270) 831-2367 2810 US 41 N. (270) 830-6610 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Moe’s Southwest Grill 6401 E.Lloyd Expwy. 491-6637 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ All Major Credit Cards Qdoba Mexican Grill 922 Burkhardt Rd 401-0800 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ VISA,MC Taco Tierra 420 S. Green River Rd. 402-8226 Under $10/Casual/VISA,MC

El Maguey - boonville 601 W. St. Rd. 62 897-2028 3250 Warrick Dr. 897-6666 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/MC, VISA

Tequila’s Mexican (Mt. Vernon) 408 Southwind Plaza 812-838-2392 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/VISA,MC

El Rio 1919 Green River Rd. 471-1400 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

pIzzA

En El Rio (Henderson) 104 N. Water St. 270-826-0099 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Hacienda Mexican Restaurant (East) 990 S. Green River Rd. 474-1635 (North) 711 N. 1st. Ave. 423-6355 (West) 5440 Pearl Dr. 422-2055 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

2 Daddy’s Pizza 329 Main St. 455-9052 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Archie & Clyde’s Roca bar 8309 Bell Oaks Dr. 490-7778 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Reservations Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza 3911 Venetian Drive 853-3400 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Reservations Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards

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Cici’s Pizza 101-B N. Green River Rd. 477-2424 5625 Pearl Dr. Suite G 962-0034 Under $10/Casual/VISA, MC Dave’s Sports Den Pizza & Pub 701 N. Weinbach 479-8887 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe 222 E. Columbia 425-2515 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards firedome Pizza & Wings 2046 Hwy. 41 Henderson, KY (270) 831-1977 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Gardo’s Italian Oven 13220 Darmstadt Rd. 812-868-8071 Under $10/Casual Gerontes Pizza 4706 Vogel Rd. 474-1700 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ Checks Accepted/VISA, MC Greek’s Pizzeria 240 S. Green River Rd. 402-4733 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Hollywood bar & Grill (East)E. Morgan Ave. (Inside Showplace Cinemas) 402-5122 (North) 4428 1st Ave. 426-0133 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Hott’s Grill 122 N. Weinbach Ave. 437-3377 Under $10/Casual/Beer/VISA, MC Kipplee’s Stadium Inn 2350 Division 479-1542 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Mama Roma’s Pizza & Wings 2008 E. Morgan Ave. 422-1212 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Mr. b’s Pizza & Wings 2611 Hwy 41 N. Henderson, KY (270) 826-1111 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer & Wine/Checks Accepted/VISA,MC Muncheese Pizza 1200 W. Colombia St. 437-3300 Under $10/Casual/Beer Only/VISA,MC

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[ Restaurant Guide ] Nick’s Pizza & Wings 900 W. Buena Vista 401-6425 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Noble Roman’s Pizza 2403 Washington Ave. 477-5347 4807 W. Lloyd Expwy. 424-0996 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ All Major Credit Cards Old Chicago Pasta & Pizza 6550 E. Lloyd Exp. 401-1400 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Ollie’s Sports bar & Grill 4920 Bellemeade Ave. 401-2125 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Pizza Chef Hwy 261 (812) 853-3338 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer & Wine/Checks Accepted/VISA,MC Pizza King (North) 2411 Stringtown 401-1060 (Newburgh) Hwy. 66 & 261 853-3368 (East) 1003 S. Weinbach Ave. 476-4941 (West) W. Franklin St. 424-7976 Under $10/Casual/Beer only (except Weinbach location)/ All Major Credit Cards Pop’s Grill (New Harmony) 516 S. Main St. 812-682-3880 $10-$15/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA,MC Roca Bar (West) 1618 S. Kentucky Ave 422-7782 (Mt. Vernon) 506 E. 4th St. 812-838-5000 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Rounder’s Pizza 510 W. Mill Rd. 424-4960 12731 N. Green River Rd. 867-7172 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Beer & Wine/ Checks Accepted/VISA, MC Samuel’s Place (New Harmony) 518 Main St. 812-682-3001 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/ All Major Credit Cards

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EATS

[ Restaurant Guide ]

puBs

Algonquin’s (Henderson) 213 US Hwy. 41 270-827-4313 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Checks Accpeted/VISA,MC

Sandy’s Pizza (Ft. Branch) 609 S. Main St. 812-753-3972 Under $10/Casual/Beer and Wine/All Major Credit Cards

Beef O’Brady’s 8177 Bell Oaks Dr. Newburgh Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/All Major Credit Cards Accepted

The Slice 2011 Lincoln Ave. 476-8518 Under $10/Casual/Beer and Wine/All Major Credit Cards

Chilly Willy’s Pub 3039 Claremont Ave. 423-0726 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Accepted

Smitty’s little Tavern 2109 W. Franklin St. 423-6280 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Corner Pocket bar & Grill 1819 N. Fulton Ave. 428-2255 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/VISA,MC

Talk of the Town 1200 Edgar St. 402-8696 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/Beer & Wine/MC

Cricket’s 518 W. Main, 858-2782 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Turoni’s Forget-Me-Not Inn 4 N. Weinbach Ave. 477-7500 Under $10/Casual/Reservations /Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

Darren’s Pub (Henderson) 713 N. Green St. 270-827-2206 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ MC,VISA

Turoni’s Pizzery & brewery 408 N. Main 424-9871 Under $10/Casual/Reservations /Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards

Dave’s Sports Den Pizza & Pub 701 N. Weinbach 479-8887 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/Checks accepted/All Major Credit Cards

Walter’s Golf ‘n Fun 2301 N. 1st Ave. 464-4472 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards

pRIVATe DININg

CJ’s & Party Place (Inside Willow Bowling Center) Virginia & Hwy 41 422-6682 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Reservations/All Major Credit Cards Just Rennie’s Catering 100 S.E. 4th St. 401-8098 $15 to $25/Casual/Full Bar/ Reservations Accepted/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Kirby’s 1113-1119 Parrett St. 422-2230 $10 - $15/Casual/Full Bar/ Reservations Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Marx barbeque & Catering Service 3119 W. Maryland St. 425-1616 Under $10/Casual/Checks Accepted/VISA, MC

fast Eddy’s burgers & beer 507 N. W. Riverside 424-ROCK Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/VISA,MC fox & Hound English Pub & Grille 5416 E. Indiana 473-5721 Between $10-$15/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards Ginny’s Place Covert & Vann 477-0789 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards lamasco bar & Grill 1331 West Franklin 437-0171 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards little Cheers Restaurant & Pub 329 Main St. 423-9740 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Old Chicago Pasta & Pizza 6550 E. Lloyd Exp. 401-1400 Under $10/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

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Ollie’s Sports bar & Grill 4920 Bellemeade Ave. 401-2125 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Red Lobster 4605 Bellemeade Ave 477-9227 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

The Marigold Bar 2112 S. Weinbach Ave.475-8780 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar

Tin Fish Seafood Restaurant Newburgh 300 W. Jennings Station 490-7000 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Metro Sports Center Pub 5820 Metro Dr. 479-5425 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/VISA, MC The Pub 1348 Division 423-2121 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/ Full Bar/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards RiRa’s Irish Pub 701 N.W. Riverside Dr.426-0000 Under $10-$25/Casual/ Reservations/Full Bar / All Major Credit Cards Roca Bar 1618 S. Kentucky Ave 422-7782 8309 Bell Oak Dr. 490-7778 506 E. 4th St. Mt. Vernon, IN 812-838-5000 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Rounder’s Pizza 510 W. Mill Rd. 424-4960 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Beer and Wine/ VISA, MC Sportsman’s billiards & Grille 2315 W. Franklin 422-0801 Under $10/Casual/Accepted/ Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

seAFOOD

bonefish Grill 6401 E Lloyd Expwy.

401-3474 $15-$25/Casual/Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Cheeseburger in Paradise 8301 Eagle Lake 475-1074 Under $10-$15/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Paradise Pavilion 6299 Oak Grove Road 858-7931 $10-$15/Dressy Casual/ Reservations Accepted/All Major Credit Cards/Full Bar • 32 •

sTeAkHOuses

Cork ‘N Cleaver 650 S. Hebron 479-6974 $10-$25/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Haub Steak House (Haubstadt) Main and Haub, 768-6462 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Recommended/Full Service Bar/All Major Credit Cards Hollywood bar & Grill 4428 N. First Ave. 423-0050 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Recommended/ Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Hornet’s Nest Old Petersburg Rd. 867-2386 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/ Full Bar/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards House of Como 2700 S. Kentucky 422-0572 $9-$12/Casual/Reservations Suggested/Full Bar Logan’s Roadhouse Steakhouse 1 N. Burkhardt Rd. 471-8403 5645 Pearl Drive 421-0908 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon 934 N. Green River Rd. 473-5468 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards longhorn Steakhouse 320 N. Green River Rd. 473-2400 $10-$15/Casual/Call Ahead Seating/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Outback Steakhouse 7201 Indiana 474-0005 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

Rookies Sports bar 117 Second St. Henderson, KY (270) 826-1106 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations/Accepted/ Full Bar/Checks/Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards Sirloin Stockade 4610 Bellemeade Ave. 473-0300 Under $10/Casual/All Major Credit Cards Texas Roadhouse E. Lloyd Expwy. 477-7427 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Tumbleweed Southwest Grill (West) 4600 University Dr. 423-9590 (Henderson) 1868 U.S. 41 N. (270) 869-9800 $10-$15/Casual/ Full Bar/VISA,MC Western Rib-Eye & Ribs 1401 N. Boeke Rd. 476-5405 $12-$18/Casual/Reservations Accepted /Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards

TAVeRNs

Bob’s Lounge 907 N. Fares Ave. 425-4929 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar Cricket’s 518 W. Main 858-2782 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar Darmstadt Inn 13130 Darmstadt Rd. 867-7300 Under $10/Full Bar/Casual/ VISA,MC Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe 222 E. Columbia 425-2515 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Checks Accepted/All Major Credit Cards Diamond Lanes 2400 Hwy. 41 N. 424-4677 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Duck Inn 4100 Pollack 479-8050 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards fat boy’s Tavern 115 N. McCreary St. 812-753-9914 Fort Branch, IN Under $10/Casual/ Full Bar/VISA,MC

Fred’s Bar Corner of Reed & Virginia 423-8040 Under $10/ Casual/Full Bar

EATS

[ Restaurant Guide ]

Gloria’s 3101 N. Kratzville Rd. 423-0138 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar Hornville Tavern & Catering 2607 Baseline Rd. 963-9318 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ Checks Accepted The knob Hill Tavern 1016 Hwy. 662 W. 853-9550 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/ Full Bar/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards Legends 1050 S. Weinbach 476-74444 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Maryland St. Lounge 2130 W. Maryland 424-2525 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar Ollie’s Sports bar & Grill 4920 Bellemeade 401-2125 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Rick’s 718 bar & Grill 718 3rd Ave. 423-0872 Under $10/Casual/ Full Bar/VISA, MC Sam & Jimmy’s Hobo Jungle 1323 S. Barker Ave. 491-6229 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ All Major Credit Cards St. Phillip Inn 11200 Upper Mt. Vernon Rd. 985-5558 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards

Sportsman’s billiards & Grille 2315 W. Franklin St. 422-0801 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards Yellow Tavern 521 Church St. (New Harmony) 682-3303 $10-$15/Casual/Full Bar/ Check Accepted

THAI

Thai Chow Rt. 1 Ft. Branch, IN 753-3878 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Required/ Checks Accepted Thai Papaya Cuisine 6240 E. Virginia St. 477-8424 Under $10/Casual/Beer & Wine/Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards

VegeTARIAN

Penny lane Coffeehouse 600 S.E. 2nd St. 421-8741 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/ Checks Accepted/ All Major Credit Cards

VIeTNAMese

Vietnamese Cusine 4602 Vogel Rd. 491-1884 $10-$15/Casual/Reservations Accepted/VISA, MC

Smitty’s little Tavern 2109 W. Franklin St. 423-6280 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/All Major Credit Cards State Street Tavern 718 State St., Newburgh,IN 490-6614 Under $10/Casual/Full Bar/ VISA,MC Stockwell Inn 4001 E. Eichel Ave. 476-2384 Under $10/Casual/ Reservations Accepted/Full Bar/Cash Only

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BANDS

[ A Listing ]

ACOusTIC Andy Norvell Adam Blythe “Blind-Dog” Gatewood Bobby Clark Byron Rohrig Calabash Chad Harvey Chad Nordhoff Chris Knight Clayton Daughtery 5th & Jackson David Fuller Dave Cogswell Dustin Kaposta J.T. Cusic Jay Johnson Jason Mann Keith Vincent Lindsey Williams Matt & John Matt Clark Michelle Shelton Mike Z Nathan Mowery Nick Gregory Nick Hamilton Rik Hilborn Rob Bennett Scott Winzinger The Stockholm Robot The Strolling Tones Rowan Tree The Last Hurrahs Troy Miller

CHRIsTIAN ROCk/ gOspel Kerusso Last Hour Euphrates Jones

COuNTRy/ sOuTHeRN ROCk A.S.R.B Aces & Eights Back In Time Common Ground Jason Clutter and the Broken Arrow Band Jason Mayfield and the One Bullet Band Joe and Line of Fire Midranger Modern Country Sons of Sisters Southern Edge Switchback Woodsboro

DJs Enok Dougie Fresh DJ Kodyman Freddy K Jon B NickkyB Randy Marshall Romey Rome Shane Breedlove Syimone

HeAVy MeTAl/ HARD ROCk Amnezia Anthem for a Massacre Ashes Resurrected Blood Tribe eXesion Deliver Us From Evil Factory Damage Far From Fallen God on Trial Gridlock Hostile Apology Killarus Kingdom Paradigum The Path Prowler

Secretariat Sister Brutal With Monday Brings Massacre

JAzz Bob Ballard Bob Minnette & the Swingcats Bookie Buchenberger Cytnthia McDonald & Bob Green Jeff Harmon Jazz Shawn Needham & the Black Sheep

RAp/ HIp HOp Boop D Bradley-T Cas One Clusoe Crispy Cyclopean Super Hero Dew Dirt D-Trick E’ville J-Fill Kanine Kasper from the K KY Prophet Lac the GoGetter Laudi Lil’ Ace Loc the Great MC Till Menace the Untouchable Mic Nuke’em Raaqim Red 13 a.k.a.

Rone Shadowman Reverend Fang Gory Scooter – Sinumatic Wayward a.k.a.

Chessmaster Whydhe Write a.k.a. Papale WSM Young Press

ROCk ‘N ROll (Stuff like ABBA to Zappa & Everything In Between) Akacia American Pie Amphigoria AMPutee Anger Wish Anywhere But Here Bad Medicine Bamboo Needle Behold the Seraph Black Tar Gravy Blind Alley Bobby Clark Band Bosko BSR Cadillac Whiskey Calling Corners Chowder Monkey The Cold Stares Dang Heathens The Dead Livers Dead Weight Deaf Megan Descent Déjà vu Desperate Measures Detail Dishonest John Do Androids Dream?

The Duke Boys Dyonosis Fifth Wheel Band Flashback Flat Stanley 4-Seamer Fuzzy Roxx Gentlemen & Scholars Gonzo’s Toybox Goodnight June Hair Bangers Ball Hard Sunday Hollywood Gutter Rats JEB Joe’s Garage Joe Smith Trio John Hussman Trio Karl’s Kids Left of Eden Leagacee Loko Davi Lucid Hue The Marlinaires McFly

Midnight Manifest MINX Namasté Never Been Caught The Painkillers Panacea Pale Runs the Ghost Pfreak Show Philpot Pieces of the Day The Pits Poptart Monkeys Quasimojo Rachel & the Jimmies The Relics Rukkus Second Story Shagadelics Six Hills Giant SixtyFourEast Six More Miles Slick Willy The Smoke Rings Static Stompbox 40 Throne of Lions The Toddlers Top Dead Center The Velcro Pygmies Velvet Bombers Union Jacks

R&B/Blues Amazing Soul Crackers Ashes & Rain Big Slick Black Widow Blues 4U Brian Hunt Hog-Maw Blues Band Hoosier Daddy Object Blue Small Train Shaggy Wonda Soulunique Stillwell-Rodenberg & Co. Roy Carter & Co. Twist of Fate Will-C Yankee Dime

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2 Daddy’s Pizza 329 Main St. 455-9052 Algonquins 213 U.S. Hwy. 41 S Henderson, KY (270) 827-4313 Ø Blush Ultra lounge & Tapas Bar 421 N.W. Riverside Dr. (Inside LeMerigot) 433-4000 Bob’s Lounge 907 N. Fares 425-4929 Ø Boney June’s Music Venue 5525 Pearl Dr. Suite D 421-6767 The brickhouse 201 W. Illinois St. 421-0024 bullock’s 401 Edgar St. 422-2800

Club Royale 2131 W. Franklin St. 401-1699 Corner Bar 2668 Mt. Vernon Ave. 423-0933 Corner Pocket 1819 N. Fulton 428-BALL Crawdaddy’s at the Water’s Edge 20 Walnut St. (Inside the Riverhouse) 422-1891 Cricket’s 518 W. Main St. Newburgh, IN 858-2782 Darmstardt Inn 13130 Darmstadt 867-7300 Darren’s Pub 713 N. Green St. Henderson, KY 270-827-2206

buster & becky’s 1000 N. Garvin 423-7616

Deerhead Sidewalk Café 222 E. Columbia 425-2515

Cecil’s bar & Grill 420 N. Garvin 589-0706

The Duck Inn 4100 Pollack Ave. 402-4835

Ø Cheeseburger in Paradise 8301 Eagle Lake Dr. 475-1074

NS Ellis Park Sports Bar 3300 U.S. Hwy. 41 N. Henderson, KY (812) 425-1456

Chilly Willy’s 3039 Claremont 423-0726

Extra Innings (Holiday Inn) 951 Wernsing Rd. Jasper, IN (812) 482-5555 Fast Eddy’s 507 N.W. Riverside Dr. 424-ROCK

Hoosiers Lounge (in Casino Aztar Pavillion) 450 N.W. Riverside Dr. 433-4100 Ø Hooter’s 4620 Lincoln Ave. 475-0229

fox & Hound English Pub 5416 E. Indiana 473-5721

Hootie Hoots Saloon & Grill Hwy 261 & 66 490-9135

Fred’s 421 Read St. 423-8040

Ø Hott’s Grill 122 N. Weinbach Ave. 437-3377

Ginny’s Place 1602 Covert Ave. 477-0789 Gloria’s 3101 N. Kratzville Rd. 423-0138

Ø Icon bar & Nightclub 111 S. Green River Rd. Suite F 471-4872

Hagedorn’s Tavern 2037 W Franklin 423-0796

The Jungle & fat Cats Bar 415 Main St. 425-5282

Hammerheads 317 Main St. 421-8492

Koodie Hoo’s 231 W. 2nd St. Mt. Vernon, IN (812) 838-5202

Hob-Nob Tavern 1400 W. Maryland 425-6159 NS Hollywood bar & Grill North: 4428 N. 1st Ave. 423-0050 East: 4706 E. Morgan Ave. (Inside Showplace East) 402-5122

lamasco bar & Grill 1331 W. Franklin 437-0171 lanhuck’s 321 E. Columbia 491-2222 Legends 1050 S. Weinbach 476-7444

leroy’s Tavern 2659 Mt. Vernon Ave. 464-8300 little Cheers 329 Main St. (812) 423-9740 Marigold Bar 2112 S. Weinbach Ave. 475-8780 Maryland St. Lounge 2130 W. Maryland 303-7196 Ø Muncheeze Pizza 1200 W. Columbia St. 437-3300 O’Brian’s Sports bar & Grill 1801 N. Green River Rd. 401-4630 Old Chicago 6500 Lloyd Expwy.

401-1400 Ollie’s Sports bar & Grill 4920 Bellemeade 401-2125 Ø Paradise Pavilion 6299 Oak Grove Rd Newburgh, IN 858-7931 The Peephole bar & Grill 2nd & Main St. 423-5171 Ø Penny Lane Coffeehouse 600 S.E. 2nd St. 421-8741

GOING OUT [ Clubs & Pubs ]

Rick’s Sports bar 1531 Green River Rd. 477-4088 NS RiRa’s Irish Pub 701 N.W. Riverside Dr. 426-0000 NS Roca Bar Newburgh 8320 Bell Oaks Dr. 812-480-7778 Rookie’s 117 Second St. Henderson, KY (270) 826-1106 Rick’s 718 Lounge 718 3rd Avenue 423-0872 Sam & Jimmy’s Hobo Jungle 1323 S. Barker 491-6229 Smitty’s little Tavern 2109 W. Franklin 423-6280 Shane & kelly’s Corner Pub 1200 N. Main 422-7030

Sidetrack Tavern 664 E. Illinois St. 423-0828 Someplace Else Main & Sycamore St. 424-3202 Sportsman’s Grille & billards 2315 W. Franklin St. 422-0801 State Street Tavern 718A State St. Newburgh, IN 490-6614 NS The Pub 1348 Division St. 423-2121 Ø Tinfish Newburgh 300 W. Jennings 812-490-7000 TJ’s Stockyard Inn 1217 Baker Ave. 402-9273 ziggy’s Pub 16 Main St. Poseyville, IN 812-874-2170

NS Show Me’s (West )5525 Pearl Dr. 402-7100 NS (East) 1700 Morgan Ctr. Dr. 401-7469

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Pick up this month’s beers at:

[ Beer Reviews]

300 N. Weinbach Ave. (812) 471-6111

MICHelOB - WINTeR’s BOuRBON CAsk Ale (St. louis, MO)

rich, and the ale is beautiful in a glass, but I can’t get past the vanilla.

it doesn’t hang out too long on the palate too long like some others of its ilk. Good stuff.

sHIpyARD pReluDe speCIAl Ale

much of it – that makes this one a bit of a dud.

gReAT DIVIDe HIBeRNATION Ale (Denver, CO)

(Portland, ME)

MICHelOB - Rye p.A. (St. louis, MO) (Available only in the Michelob Sampler)

Todd: 3 A winter tradition at News 4U HQ, this seasonal ale pours a clean amber, and tastes smooth and sweet, with a rich, molasseslike maltiness that would be more palatable if not for the overbearing vanilla accents. Nonetheless, this is a decent and drinkable brew, not outstanding but not altogether awful, either.

Tom: 2.5 Golden amber with a weak nose dominated by vanilla. Thinnish and carbonated with a very light finish. The short, sweet flavor is not bad, but fades quickly and does not satisfy. Not a characteristic bourbon beer.

Jabez: 4 This beer appearance is medium brown, and I liked the roasted malt and light nutty flavor. It did have an odd flavor that I couldn’t put my finger on, it was the vanilla. It gave the beer a different flavor which set it apart from other beers I have been drinking. A nice change.

Dylan: 2 Take the vanilla party out and this would be perhaps my favorite of the bunch – the maltiness is perfect and

Todd: 4 Deep red-amber with a rich, foamy head and nice lacing, this pale ale boasts of a fragrant hoppy aroma.

Yum. Taste is a solid, bitter IPA with a strong rye spiciness - challenging and completely in line with what a sturdy IPA should be like. With the rye addition, this one’s a real craft beer with higher aspirations. Superb.

Tom: 3.5 Bright amber color. Nose is sweet, but perfumy, with little hop presence for an IPA. Medium to thin in the mouth with evident carbonation and a mild creaminess. Taste is bigger than the nose suggests. Only a mild hoppiness, but surprisingly refreshing.

Jabez: 4.5 I just got this beer in variety pack that I purchase at Buy Low. It pours a dark amber color with a nice white head. I enjoyed the nice malty flavor and the spices from the rye. This beer was really easy to drink and look forward to purchasing more.

Dylan: 4 It’s kind of a shame this isn’t offered in six-packs. One of the more overall satisfying brews this month, I was impressed with the balance – hoppy, but not bitter, solid but not intimidating, strong-finishing but

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Todd: 3 Another clean amber ale, this one begins with a warm and comfortable aroma of clove and spice. The taste reflects this, with a strong spicy palate and smooth malty inclination.

Unfortunately, there’s little residual complexity. The sweetness is overpowering, rendering this beer decent, but not outstanding.

Tom: 4 Brownish, amber with a light tan head. Nice, sweet aroma that adds to the character and a smooth, medium mouthfeel. Flavor is sweet and complex – fruity, malty, spicy, and hoppy with an impressive lingering aftertaste. An excellent holiday beer.

Todd: 3.5 A dark red ale with a massive foamy head and super-sweet character, this one’s got a punchy, spicy tastecharacter that gives way to a firm, alcoholic burn (it’s 8.7% ABV). This one’s definitely a sipper - strong, potent, and hearty. Approach with caution.

Tom: 4.5 Dark amber brown with a thick head and an outstanding strong, malty aroma. Great texture and a full body.

Flavor is complex, yet pleasant, with a strong dry hop flavor that lingers for what seems like forever. A great winter beer.

Jabez: 3.5 This beer was a dark amber color.

It had a light spicy aroma. It had a sweet flavor with a bit of hops. It also had a wine flavor to the beer, which I didn’t care for. The beer was ok, but the wine taste just turned me off.

Jabez: 4 This beer poured a reddish brown with some what of and orange head.

It had a nice fruity aroma which it had also a fruity taste to it. The 8.7% alcohol content was also nice, which I could taste. It also had a bit of cream chocolate flavor that I really liked. The bottle is a little blah looking compared to the others but looks were deceiving.

Dylan: 3 The aroma and look are gorgeous, and evocative of the season. There are a lot of flavors competing here, though, and it’s as if the brewmaster couldn’t make up his or her mind, which is a pity, because there’s a lot of potential for greatness here.

In the end, it’s the sweetness – too

Dylan: 5 Great Divide’s offerings are consistently great, and this guy captures the spirit of the season perfectly. The high ABV warms, and balance of spice, malt and myriad intangibles conspire to create my favorite brew of the bunch this month.

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DAY TRIP

[ Bourbon Blog ]

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e’re at The Henry Clay in Louisville, Kentucky. Every year around this time, Heaven Hill holds an Evan Williams Single Barrel Unveiling and invites their Bardstown Tom Whiskey Society, comprised Fischer of devoted whiskey fans Contributor from all over the globe. Some guests have come from as far away as New York and Scotland.

Not only is this a celebration of the Evan Williams Single Barrel 2000 Vintage, tonight is also a celebration of Heaven Hill Master Distiller Parker Beam’s 50 years in the Bourbon industry. The Master Distiller of a Bourbon is much like the head brew master for a brewery, as this person is in charge of the process of bourbon making and selecting from start to finish. Parker started under his father learning the business in his footsteps and now his own son Craig follows in Parker’s footsteps.

“There is always a certain amount of pressure to hold up the torch and to keep the same profile of the bourbon that your Dad did,” Parker’s son Craig Beam tells me. Craig is also the Heaven Hill Master Distiller alongside his father Parker.

As with the previous fourteen vintages of this Single Barrel Bourbon, each bottle of Evan Williams Single Barrel 2000 Vintage Bourbon will be marked with the exact date that it was placed in oak and bottled, in addition to the exact serial number of the single barrel from which it was drawn.

Parker and Craig stand ready to “thieve” the Bourbon from the barrel, which faces us at the top stage during this grand gathering. It’s called “thieving” because they use a long instrument called a “Thief” to reach down into the barrel to get that sample for us. Before the bourbon is thieved, the “bung knocker” is necessary; a bung knocker is a wooden hammer which is aimed to cause a blow to the barrel that knocks the cork (or bung) out so that we can get inside. Heaven Hill brought this bottle straight from the distillery into The Henry Clay so that all the thirsty guests can taste it at barrel strength. Barrel strength means that it hasn’t been cut with water. By law and regulation to be truly a Bourbon, the only thing that can ever be added to a bourbon as it comes out of the barrel is water to cut • 36 •

the proof down to a more friendly level. Tonight’s proof is close to 140, which means it is about 70% alcohol, and gives us the rich, pure flavor which will eventually be cut with water before its bottling.

The trays of Bourbon are being served in elegantly-styled shot glasses. As it enters my mouth, I’m pleased once again. I’m also pleased to be in good company with several spirits writers and experts including John Hansell, editor and publisher of Malt Advocate magazine; Mixologist Allen Katz from The Cocktail Hour, Martha Stewart Living Radio; Mark Gillespie of Whiskycast Podcast, and a few others. I’m looking for Martha Stewart, but I don’t think she is here tonight. You can watch in-depth interviews with these personalities in the spirits world and hear what they have to say about the Evan Williams Single Barrel 2000 Vintage by searching for those exact keywords on BourbonBlog. com.

BOuRBON BAll MARTINI 2 oz. Evan Williams Single Barrel 2000 Vintage 2 oz. DuBouchett Crème de Cocoa 1 oz. hazelnut liquor Fill a shaker with cracked ice and blend.

Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with two Bourbon ball chocolates skewered on a pick.

Recipe courtesy of Heaven Hill Distilleries.

You’ll have the opportunity to enjoy this Bourbon for yourself in early 2010. Visit your favorite seller of fine spirits in this area and look for the bottle pictured on this page. At around $26, we believe it one of the best values you will ever find for the flavor.

If you’re looking for a treat to surprise your guests with during the holidays, check out BourbonBlog.com’s collection of Bourbon food and cocktail recipes under our “Recipes” portion. We add new ones regularly. Or, mix up the Bourbon Ball Martini below featuring Evan Williams Single Barrel.

An unabridged version of this article is online at news4uonline.com.

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Sugarplum Fairy Invasion

T

The Nutcracker Suite

here is not a better live the exquisite performance to put you orchestra. In the into the holiday spirit vivid dream, the than The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker turns Evansville Dance Theatre along into a Prince and with the Evansville Philharmonic takes her on a Orchestra will perform this journey to the LANEA RITTERLING incredible ballet on Saturday, Land of Snow, an December 19, at the Victory enchanged forest Contributor Theatre. Two performances wonderland where are scheduled: a 2:00 matinee and a 7:30 evening they are greeted by performance. The music is vibrant and flawless dancing snowflakes. thanks to the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and T h e i r its Music Director, Alfred Savia. But the exciting gift to journey also leads to the audience will be the outstanding performances the fabulous Land of by the Evansville Dance Theatre as they majestically Sweets where they are welcomed by the infamous transform the story into the traditional ballet.

Sugar Plum Fairy. The Prince tells her about their

Evansville Dance Theatre proudly daring battle with the army of mice and she rewards welcomes guest artists as their featured them with a celebration of dances. As a finale, the performers: Maia Wilkins and Michael Levine, Sugar Plum Fairy and the Cavalier dance a beautiful former principal dancers with the Joffrey Ballet, Pas De Deux. and Nashville Ballet member, Brian Williamson. The This ballet is the perfect show for your Dance Theater School’s Artistic Director, Mark Bush, child to see to fill his or her mind with the wonderful has been credited with producing “a visual feast expectations of Christmas cheer. The sets and for the eyes’ and “a bonafide costumes for this ballet are classic.” Of course, the school’s indescribably gorgeous and young student performers children and adults alike will are a fantastic vision for all always remember the fantastic audiences to watch. colors and beauty.

For those of you This ballet has been who need a refresher, The performed for decades. The Nutcracker is based on the music of The Nutcracker was story “The Nutcracker and the composed by Russian-born Peter King of Mice” written by E.T.A. Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1892, and is Hoffman. It is the grandiose the most recognizable classical story of a young German girl music of the holiday season. who has a dream about a battle The Evansville Philharmonic between a Nutcracker Prince Orchestra performs the and a Mouse King with seven compositions with perfection. heads. The show begins with The Evansville Dance Theatre a beautiful Christmas party is a non-profit classical ballet at the festive home of the and dance repertory company Stahlbaum family. The excited located in Evansville. EDT is the children, Clara and Fritz, are only pre-professional ballet celebrating the season with company and dance school dance along with the adults. in the Tri-State area, offering During the evening a toymaker instruction and performance joins the celebration and he experience with nationally brings a beautiful nutcracker and internationally recognized for Clara which makes Fritz dancers and teachers. quite jealous. Acting as many Tickets are selling fast and young boys will do Fritz you must call to reserve yours grabs the nutcracker and of today! course, it breaks into pieces.

Maia Wilkins Heartbroken, Clara watches the toymaker repair the prized possession and later she For tickets, call 812-425-5050. Prices range from $20 falls fast asleep clutching the toy and drifting into an to $37 for adults, $10 to $25 for children. elegant dream. Clara’s dream is filled with beautiful dancing and fierce battles set to music played by • 38 •

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IN THE BAG [ More Shopping ]

Coffee Sampler Basket featuring Starbucks Coffee $37.44 Available at Sam’s Club

coffee lover s essential treats such as milk chocolate éclairs, Starbucks biscotti, Lindt truffles, chocolate covered cherries, English tea cookies, and a lovely coffee cup.

Indianapolis Colts 4 Piece Barbeque Set $34.99 Available at Dunham’s Sports

The Daring Book for Girls

The true Starbucks lover will be overwhelmed with delight at all the coffee connoisseur s favorites treasured up in this generous gift basket. A stylish faux leather case holds everything needed for a little trip to coffee heaven any time of day. Including rich French roast, Starbucks ever-beloved house blend, Starbucks hot cocoa, and exotic Sumatra to go with an array of

$26.95 Available at Borders T h e manual for ever y thin g t h a t adventurous girls need to know: from female heroes in history to secret note-passing skills, science projects to friendship bracelets, the perfect cartwheel to the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking.

Indianapolis Colts bib set includes 4 tools fork tongs spatula and brush. This stainless steel BBQ set is a perfect way of showing your team pride on game day. Each utensil is branded with team artwork.

Personalized Paper Plate 10 plates for $10 Available at Hallmark Stores Give your holiday parties an extra oomph with these personalized paper plates! Show off your favorite fun

photos – your guests will get a real kick out of them. There are several themes to choose Ashley from including Sollars birthday, Contributor h o l i d a y , Thank sgiving, New Years, Baby Show and more.

When all else fails…

Every year, my husband receives a box of t-bone steaks from the Rivertown Butcher on Fruitwood Drive in Newburgh and a Showplace Cinemas gift certificate! $50 and he’s all set for a night on the town… with me!

CHRISTMAS HINTS FOR HIM

For years I have watched men struggle, waffle, and just plain give up on trying to come up with a suitable Christmas gift, let alone the perfect gift for their main squeeze. While I can’t give you a list of sure-fire gifts, I can at least tell you what NOT to do.

Don’t EVER give cash or gift card Alison Sigman

Contributor

Even if you just started dating, there is no reason to give up so quickly. This is your test to show her how well you really know her! Don’t ruin it with the cop-out/grandparents gift.

DO: Take your girl to the mall under the pretense of buying a gift for someone else. Yes, it’s a cheap ploy to get her to point out things she likes/dislikes, but isn’t that better than not knowing what to get her at all.

DOn’t guess at her footwear needs You may like those spike heels she pulls out on Halloween, but if she lives her life in sneakers and other flat shoes, then think again. Women are picky about what goes on their feet, even us shoealohics.

DO: Make friends with a shoe salesperson and set up an appointment for her to spend hours trying on every shoe she sees. The salesperson will keep track of what she likes most and the size that fits best.

Don’t buy a new scent

Don’t guess her clothing size Why? Because you will make her feel fat. Yes, we actually think like this. Buy her a size too big, she’ll think you actually see her that big. Buy a size too small, and she’ll think you EXPECT her to be that size.

DO: Talk to her friends, her mom, or do an investigation on your own to see what size she wears, and check at least five different garments to get an accurate size.

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Perfume is always a go-to gift for men. They see an empty bottle and go out and replace it. Then there are those bold fellows who try and get her something new, but remember perfume buying is a scientific process for women. We spend months testing scents, learning how they interact with our own aromas.

DO: Use the same mall ruse from the cash problem, stopping off at the perfume counter for a short spell.

There’s a chance she already has new scents she wants to try in mind and may even sample it for you.

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NIGHT LIFE

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10:00 PM Duck Inn -- Totally 80s Sing Along w/DJ Raj Little Cheers -- Karaoke Contest w/Mark Brooks O’Brians Sports Bar -- Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove

WeDNesDAy, DeCeMBeR 2

TuesDAy, DeCeMBeR 1 12:00 PM Duck Inn -- Free Pool 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty Double Dukes -- Herbie Hargis 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Nu Corp Band TJ’s Stockyard Inn – Karaoke Victory Theatre -- Jim Brickman ‘The Beautiful World Christmas Tour’ 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Karaoke w/The Experience Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Andria Reed Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Pub Quiz 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Lamasco Bar -- Open Jam Night Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke/College Night Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke 9:30 PM Old Chicago -- Lindsey Williams

4:00 PM Winetree-East -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Nu Corp Band Double Dukes -- Tri-State Single Mingle Dance Hobo Jungle -- Hobo Poker Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Acoustics w/John Gauer TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Karaoke Experience w/BK Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Michelle Shelton Fox & Hound English Pub -- Wicked Wheat Wednesdays/Nick Smith Band 9:00 PM Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza -- College Night Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Fast Eddy’s -- Karaoke w/Freddy K

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Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- Kerry & The Double D’s Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Beer Pong/Pong Brew 10:00 PM Lanhucks -- Karaoke Little Cheers -- Shane Breedlove & DJ Enok 10:30 PM Someplace Else -- College Night Karaoke/DJ Downstairs

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THuRsDAy, DeCeMBeR 3 4:00 PM TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Don & Cheryl’s Sociable Thursdays Winetree - North -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski Double Dukes -- Yellow Short Bus-Acoustic Duo 5:30 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Irish Session 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Karaoke Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Karaoke w/JoshBest & Worst Contest

8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Night w/John Hussman Cricket’s -- The WhiskersRod Bennett & Friends Double Dukes -- Karaoke w/Mama Judy 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Troy Miller & Friends Big Jon Rochner and Chris Chrockrem Lamasco Bar -- Karaoke Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke/Kerry & The Double D’s Show Me’s (West) -- Nick Hamilton TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- The Crowd Trio Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Jimmy Buffet Night

NIGHT LIFE

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10:30 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -Acoustic Session Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs/DJ Downstairs

FRIDAy, DeCeMBeR 4

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4:00 PM Winetree - Darmstadt -- Wine Tasting

TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Gasoline Alley/5th Wheel

5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:00 PM Germania Mannerchor -Christmas at Germania 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Black Widow Doc’s Nightclub -- Nick Gregory Hobo Jungle -- Open 8 Ball Tournament Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh Koodie Hoos -- Koodie Hoos 2nd Annual Karaoke Idol Contest hosted by Jason Mann 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Chilly Willy’s -- Pieces of the Day Club Royale -- McFly Cricket’s -- Karaoke w/Randy Marshall Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Hog-Maw Blues Band Double Dukes -- Deja Vu Frontier Restaurant & Bar -- Karaoke Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Woodsboro Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Southern Edge Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke • 46 •

NIGHT LIFE

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9:30 PM Corner Pocket, The -Common Ground 10:00 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Live Entertainment Fast Eddy’s -- Never Been Caught Fox & Hound English Pub -- Lindsey Williams Hobo Jungle -- Karaoke Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ Drama Lamasco Bar -- Calabash O’Brians Sports Bar -- Six Hills Giant 10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Dang Heathens Little Cheers -- John Hussmann Trio Ri Ra Irish Pub -- DK and Trey Someplace Else -- DJ Downstairs 11:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs

sATuRDAy, DeCeMBeR 5 12:00 PM Hobo Jungle -- Open Pool All Day 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:00 PM Club Royale -- Self-Made Royalty Fashion Show Germania Mannerchor -Christmas at Germania

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gROOVIN’

Michelle Shelton plays Lamasco on December 6th Show Me’s (East Side) -WWE Survivor Series/UFC Ultimate Fighter Finale Show Me’s (West) -- WWE Survivor Series/UFC Ultimate Fighter Finale 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney Victory Theatre -- Evansville Philharmonic’s Peppermint Pops 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Black Widow Doc’s Nightclub -- The Sellouts Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh Roberts Stadium -- Gaither Homecoming Christmas Tour 2009 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Club Royale -- McFly Cricket’s -- JEB Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- The Echo-Plexes Double Dukes -- Deja Vu Frontier Restaurant & Bar -- The Strolling Tones Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Woodsboro Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- River’s Edge Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz

Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Dang Heathens/Union Shovel 9:30 PM Corner Pocket, The -- Midranger Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -Justin LaGrange & John Gauer 10:00 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Live Entertainment Fast Eddy’s -- Never Been Caught Gloria’s Corral Club -- Hip-Hop Night Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ Mikus O’Brians Sports Bar -- Six Hills Giant 10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Sister Brutal Lanhucks -- Dang Heathens Little Cheers -- Scott Winzinger/Ladies Night Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Pieces of the Day Someplace Else -- DJ Downstairs 11:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs

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suNDAy, DeCeMBeR 6 2:00 PM Victory Theatre -- Evansville Philharmonic’s Peppermint Pops 4:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- Service Sundays 5:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Doc Stocker Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Troy Miller 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty

News4UOnline.com 10:00 PM Little Cheers -- Karaoke

TuesDAy, DeCeMBeR 8 12:00 PM Duck Inn -- Free Pool

7:00 PM Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Karaoke Lamasco Bar -- Michelle Shelton Someplace Else -- Karaoke

5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski

8:00 PM Lanhucks -- Punk Rock Night

6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green Double Dukes -- Herbie Hargis

9:00 PM Chilly Willy’s -- Open Mic Night w/Jarod Heim Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke

MONDAy, DeCeMBeR 7 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Jay Johnson Someplace Else -- Pool Tourney 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Chilly Willy’s -- John Hussmann Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- College Night w/80’s Music

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NIGHT LIFE

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7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Good Seed TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Karaoke w/The Experience Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Amphigoria Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Pub Quiz 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Lamasco Bar -- Open Jam Night Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke/College Night Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke 9:30 PM Old Chicago -- Lindsey Williams 10:00 PM Duck Inn -- Totally 80s Sing Along w/DJ Raj

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Little Cheers -- Karaoke Contest w/Mark Brooks O’Brians Sports Bar -- Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove

Show Me’s (West) -- Kerry & The Double D’s Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Beer Pong/Pong Brew

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10:00 PM Lanhucks -- Karaoke Little Cheers -- Shane Breedlove & DJ Enok

12:00 PM Duck Inn -- New Year’s Party w/Dizzy Hollow 4:00 PM Winetree-East -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Good Seed Double Dukes -- Tri-State Single Mingle Dance Hobo Jungle -- Hobo Poker Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Acoustics w/John Gauer TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Karaoke Experience w/BK Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Shawn Needham & The Black Sheep Fox & Hound English Pub -- Wicked Wheat Wednesdays/Nick Smith Band 9:00 PM Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza -- College Night Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Fast Eddy’s -- Karaoke w/Freddy K Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke

10:30 PM Someplace Else -- College Night Karaoke/DJ Downstairs

THuRsDAy, DeCeMBeR 10 4:00 PM TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Don & Cheryl’s Sociable Thursdays Winetree - North -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski Double Dukes -- Yellow Short Bus-Acoustic Duo 5:30 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Irish Session 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Karaoke Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Karaoke w/Josh-Best & Worst Contest 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Night w/John Hussman Cricket’s -- Common Ground Double Dukes -- Karaoke w/Mama Judy 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance

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MORE POISE, LESS NOISE [ Arts Guide ]

ection of Sarah Adams, team up with one of the rld’s finest brass ensembles for their annual istmas celebration. Boston Brass is setting new ndards in entertainment. From exciting classical angements, to breathtaking vocal harmony, to ning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new els in brass performance while treating audiences h a unique musical experience that captivates ages. The ensemble’s lively repartee, touched h humor and personality, bridges the vast ocean classical formality to delight audiences to an ning of boisterous fun, exciting knowledge and enthusiastic love of music, deftly exhibited by five sh brass players. Starts at 7:30 p.m.

enderson Fine Arts Center

0-831-9800 c 5:The Three Redneck Tenors - These real life adway and Opera stars are ready to rock your idays with classic, pop and deep-fried fest of sical delights. The familiar holiday tunes in the w include classics like: White Christmas, I’ll Be me for Christmas, Santa Baby, Blue Christmas, O y Night, and Silent Night. You’ll also enjoy holiday ofs like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer and aw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and a few other at surprises. Starts at 7:30 p.m. c 13:Children’s Nutcracker - Presented by the ldren’s Center for Dance Education, this unique iday performance begins at 3 p.m.

storiC newburgH 812-853-2815 c 4-6:Newburgh Celebrates Christmas - Christmas oling, house tours, roasting chestnuts, welcoming ta to town, and lighting the town Christmas tree n one fabulous weekend.

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2-682-3156 ough December ”cuatro amigos en monia” - Sponsored the University of uthern Indiana, turing the works Dan Brawner, ger Clayton, Alexis eman and Griffin rman.

eitz Home museum

6-1871 ough January 3:Victorian Christmas: “Christmas Circus” - Each room of the Reitz Home will be orated by different persons and businesses from area. This year’s theme is “Christmas is a Circus ictorian Christmas.”

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812-476-1383 Dec 5:Gaither Homecoming Christmas Tour 2009 - Gospel music favorite Bill Gaither and his friends invite you to join them Saturday, December 5 at 6:00pm at the Gaither Homecoming Christmas Tour for a night of singing and praise. This Homecoming concert experience offers a spectacular evening of gospel and Christmas favorites featuring an all-star line-up of gospel music’s finest voices. Scheduled to perform are: Gaither Vocal Band, Wes Hampton, David Phelps, Bill Gaither, Michael English, Mark Lowry, Larry Gatlin, Buddy Greene & Jeff Taylor, Larnelle Harris, The Isaacs, Gene McDonald, Gordon Mote, Lynda Randle, Charlotte Ritchie, Greg Ritchie, Reggie & Ladye Love Smith, Russ Taff and Kevin Williams. Begins at 6 p.m.

VAnderburgH 4H Center

812-867-6217 Dec 11-12 12:00 PM:VHS Holiday Open House & Adopt-a-Thon.

ViCtory tHeAtre

812-435-5550 Dec 1:Jim Brickman ‘The Beautiful World Christmas Tour’ - Beautiful World is inspired by Jim’s unique gift of bridging borders and cultural divides through his music. This landmark special is a lush and intimate show celebrating the way music connects and unites us. Its theme of friendship, healing and connecting cultures includes the quintessential Jim Brickman sound and unites worldwide musical influences.

Begins at 7:30 p.m.

Dec 5 & 6:Evansville Philharmonic’s Peppermint Pops - The Tri-State’s most popular Holiday event for the whole family... This season, your Philharmonic brings home two Evansville natives turned Broadway starsPaula Leggett Chase (of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Curtains) and Steve Morgan (from Mamma Mia and the hugely popular group Straight No Chaser), for this Holiday Tradition. Saturday evening performance is at 7:30 p.m. Sunday concert is at 2 p.m. Phone 4255050 for more information.

Dec 19:The Nutcracker - Come see dancing Snowflakes and adorable Bon Bons, and the radiant beauty of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier.

Artistic Director Mark Bush’s production has been hailed as ‘a visual feast for the eyes’ and ‘a bonafide classic.’ Please join the Evansville Dance Theater and their performance of The Nutcracker along with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra at the Victory Theatre on Saturday, December 19. The matinee performance begins at 2:00pm and the feature performance will begin at 7:30pm. For more information, contact EDT at (812) 473-8937 or EPO at (812) 425-5050.

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812-477-5041 Through December 25:My Father’s Love - “My Father’s Love” is more than a display of artistic ability. It’s a story that combines art, math and a miraculous process. It’s a story of how God gives us gifts and talents and how those talents are used to bring Him glory.

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812-479-0771 Wednesdays: Toddler Tales 10 a.m. and Trails and Tales at noon Dec 13 1:00 PM:Winter Bird Banding

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mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Troy Miller & Friends Big Jon Rochner and Chris Chrockrem Lamasco Bar -- Karaoke Marigold Bar -Charlie’s Karaoke Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke/Kerry & The Double D’s Show Me’s (West) -- Nick Hamilton TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- The Crowd Trio Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Jimmy Buffet Night

10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Prowler Little Cheers -- John Hussmann Trio [ Evansville Listings Ri Ra Irish News4UOnline.com Pub -- Scott Winzinger Someplace Deerhead Sidewalk Else -- DJ Downstairs Cafe -- The Sellouts

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11:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs

sATuRDAy, DeCeMBeR 12 12:00 PM Hobo Jungle -- Open Pool All Day

9:30 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke Chaos w/ DJ Dave Hamm 10:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- The Original Thong Thursdays w/DJ Jon B Fox & Hound English Pub -- John Gauer Lanhucks -- Curtis & Justin Little Cheers -Lindsey Williams O’Brians Sports Bar -Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove 10:30 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -Acoustic Session Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs/DJ Downstairs

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5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Greg Anderson 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Duke Boys Doc’s Nightclub -Karaoke w/BK Hobo Jungle -- Open 8 Ball Tournament Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh

9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost 4:00 PM Chilly Willy’s -- Calabash Winetree - Darmstadt Club Royale -- Live -- Wine Tasting Entertainment Cricket’s -Karaoke w/ Budweiser reminds you to Randy Marshall choose a designated driver.

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Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- The Dang Heathens Double Dukes -- Tabitha & Southern Fried Frontier Restaurant & Bar -- Karaoke Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- The Hiding Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Southern Edge Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Hostile Apology/Vengence 10:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- Gonzo’s Toybox Fox & Hound English Pub -- Lindsey Williams Hobo Jungle -- Karaoke Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ Ant/Dons & Divas Fashion Show Lamasco Bar -- Hoosier Daddy O’Brians Sports Bar -- Stompbox 40

5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Duke Boys Doc’s Nightclub -- The Strolling Tones Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh 8:30 PM Show Me’s (East Side) -- UFC: Penn vs. Sanchez Show Me’s (West) -- UFC: Penn vs. Sanchez 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Club Royale -- Live Entertainment

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Double Dukes -- Tabitha & Southern Fried Fox & Hound English Pub -- UFC: Penn vs. Sanchez Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- The Hiding Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Switchback Marigold Bar -Charlie’s Karaoke Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- TBA 9:30 PM Corner Pocket, The -- Fuzzy Roxx Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Live Wire DJ 10:00 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Drop Dead Darlings Duck Inn -- The Cold Stares/ Dan Conn/Calling Corners Fast Eddy’s -- Gonzo’s Toybox Gloria’s Corral Club -- Hip-Hop Night Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ KDogg Lamasco Bar -- The Funk’ O’Brians Sports Bar -- Stompbox 40 10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Prowler Little Cheers -- Scott Winzinger/Ladies Night

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Ri Ra Irish Pub -Linsdey Williams Someplace Else -- DJ Downstairs 11:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs

suNDAy, DeCeMBeR 13 4:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- Service Sundays 5:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Greg Anderson Big Band Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Troy Miller 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:00 PM Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Karaoke Someplace Else -- Karaoke 9:00 PM Chilly Willy’s -- Open Mic Night w/Jarod Heim Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke

MONDAy, DeCeMBeR 14 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Jay Johnson Someplace Else -- Pool Tourney 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Chilly Willy’s -- John Hussmann Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- College Night w/80’s Music

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NIGHT LIFE

[ Evansville Listings ] News4UOnline.com 10:00 PM Fox & Hound English Pub -- Coat-A-Kid Campaign Little Cheers -- Karaoke

TuesDAy, DeCeMBeR 15 12:00 PM Duck Inn -- Free Pool 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green Double Dukes -- Herbie Hargis 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Marlinaires TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Karaoke w/The Experience Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Object Blue Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Pub Quiz 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Lamasco Bar -- Open Jam Night Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke/College Night Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke

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9:30 PM Old Chicago -- Lindsey Williams 10:00 PM Duck Inn -- Totally 80s Sing Along w/DJ Raj Little Cheers -- Karaoke Contest w/Mark Brooks O’Brians Sports Bar -- Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove

WeDNesDAy, DeCeMBeR 16 4:00 PM Winetree-East -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Marlinaires Double Dukes -- Tri-State Single Mingle Dance Hobo Jungle -- Hobo Poker Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Acoustics w/John Gauer TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Karaoke Experience w/BK Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Calabash Fox & Hound English Pub -- Wicked Wheat Wednesdays/Nick Smith Band 9:00 PM Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza -- College Night Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Fast Eddy’s -- Karaoke w/Freddy K Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby

Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- Kerry & The Double D’s Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Beer Pong/Pong Brew 10:00 PM Lanhucks -- Karaoke Little Cheers -- Shane Breedlove & DJ Enok 10:30 PM Someplace Else -- College Night Karaoke/DJ Downstairs

THuRsDAy, DeCeMBeR 17 4:00 PM TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Don & Cheryl’s Sociable Thursdays Winetree - North -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski Double Dukes -- Yellow Short Bus-Acoustic Duo 5:30 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Irish Session 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Karaoke Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Karaoke w/Josh-Best & Worst Contest 7:30 PM Centre, The -- Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Show 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Night /John Hussman

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5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski

NIGHT LIFE

[ Evansville Listings ] News4UOnline.com Cricket’s -- The Jimmies Double Dukes -- Karaoke w/Mama Judy 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Troy Miller & Friends Big Jon Rochner and Chris Chrockrem Lamasco Bar -- Karaoke Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & KaraokeKerry & The Double D’s Show Me’s (West) -- Nick Hamilton TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- The Crowd Trio Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Jimmy Buffet Night 9:30 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke Chaos w/DJ Dave Hamm 10:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- The Original Thong Thursdays w/DJ Jon B Fox & Hound English Pub -- John Gauer Lanhucks -- Curtis & Justin Little Cheers -- Lindsey Williams O’Brians Sports Bar -- Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove 10:30 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Acoustic Session Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs/DJ Downstairs

6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green

8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Two-Tone Express Doc’s Nightclub -- Nick Gregory Hobo Jungle -- Open 8 Ball Tournament Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh Koodie Hoos -- Koodie Hoos 2nd Annual Karaoke Idol Contest FINALS hosted by Jason Mann 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Club Royale -- Amazing Soul Crackers Cricket’s -- Karaoke w/Randy Marshall Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Shaggy Wonda Double Dukes -- Linda Smith Band Frontier Restaurant & Bar -- Karaoke Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Descent Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Southern Edge Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge - Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Gasoline Alley/Second Story 9:30 PM Corner Pocket, The -Desperate Measures 10:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- Deaf Megan Fox & Hound English Pub -- Lindsey Williams

FRIDAy, DeCeMBeR 18 4:00 PM Winetree - Darmstadt -- Wine Tasting

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Hobo Jungle -- Karaoke Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ Ant O’Brians Sports Bar -- Pieces of the Day 10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Diversion Little Cheers -- John Hussmann Trio Ri Ra Irish Pub -- JEB Someplace Else -- DJ Downstairs 11:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs

sATuRDAy, DeCeMBeR 19 12:00 PM Hobo Jungle -- Open Pool All Day 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Two-Tone Express Doc’s Nightclub -- Troy Miller Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Chilly Willy’s -- Pieces of the Day Club Royale -- Amazing Soul Crackers Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- The Smoke Rings Double Dukes -- Legacee Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Descent Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Mercury Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- The Shanks/Calabash

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NIGHT LIFE

[ Evansville Listings ] News4UOnline.com 9:30 PM Corner Pocket, The -- The Relics Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Christmas Karaoke 10:00 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Jon Warren Birthday Bash – Loko Davi/Stolen Remains, more Duck Inn -- Deliver Us From Evil/ Anthem For A Massacre/Blood Tribe Fast Eddy’s -- Velcro Pygmies/ Naughty & Nice Contest Gloria’s Corral Club -- Hip-Hop Night Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ Ant Lamasco Bar -- Yankee Dime O’Brians Sports Bar -Rachel & The Jimmies 10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Diversion Little Cheers -- Scott Winzinger/Ladies Night Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Scott Winzinger Someplace Else -- DJ Downstairs 11:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs

suNDAy, DeCeMBeR 20 4:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- Service Sundays 5:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Bob Minnette’s Swing Cats Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Troy Miller 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:00 PM Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Karaoke

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Someplace Else -- Karaoke 9:00 PM Chilly Willy’s -- Open Mic Night w/Jarod Heim Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke

MONDAy, DeCeMBeR 21 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Jay Johnson Someplace Else -- Pool Tourney

9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Chilly Willy’s -- John Hussmann Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- College Night w/80’s Music 10:00 PM Fox & Hound English Pub -- Ugly Sweater Party Little Cheers -- Karaoke

TuesDAy, DeCeMBeR 22 12:00 PM Duck Inn -- Free Pool 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski

6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty Double Dukes -- Herbie Hargis 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Shagadelics TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Karaoke w/The Experience Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Jason Nellis Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Pub Quiz 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Lamasco Bar -- Open Jam Night Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke/College Night

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5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski

Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke

6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green

9:30 PM Old Chicago -- Lindsey Williams 10:00 PM Duck Inn -- Totally 80s Sing Along w/DJ Raj Little Cheers -- Karaoke Contest w/Mark Brooks O’Brians Sports Bar -Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove

WeDNesDAy, DeCeMBeR 23 4:00 PM Winetree-East -- Wine Tasting

7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Shagadelics Double Dukes -- Tri-State Single Mingle Dance Hobo Jungle -- Hobo Poker Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Acoustics w/John Gauer TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney

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8:00 PM Club Royale -- Karaoke Experience w/BK Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- The Echo-Plexes Doc’s Nightclub -- Doc The Halls Christmas Party Fox & Hound English Pub -Wicked Wheat Wednesdays/ Nick Smith Band

NIGHT LIFE

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9:00 PM Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza -- College Night Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Fast Eddy’s -- Karaoke w/Freddy K Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- Kerry & The Double D’s Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Beer Pong/Pong Brew 10:00 PM Lanhucks -- Karaoke Little Cheers -- Shane Breedlove & DJ Enok 10:30 PM Someplace Else -- College Night Karaoke/DJ Downstairs

News4UOnline.com Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Karaoke w/Josh-Best & Worst Contest 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Night w/John Hussman Double Dukes -- Karaoke w/Mama Judy 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Troy Miller & Friends Big Jon Rochner and Chris Chrockrem Lamasco Bar -- Karaoke Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke/Kerry & The Double D’s Show Me’s (West) -- Nick Hamilton TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- The Crowd Trio Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Jimmy Buffet Night

THuRsDAy, DeCeMBeR 24 4:00 PM TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Don & Cheryl’s Sociable Thursdays Winetree - North -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski Double Dukes -- Yellow Short Bus-Acoustic Duo 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- The Shagadelics

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9:30 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke Chaos w/DJ Dave Hamm 10:00 PM Fox & Hound English Pub -- John Gauer Icon Bar & Nightclub -Christmas Eve Bash Lanhucks -- Curtis & Justin Little Cheers -- Lindsey Williams O’Brians Sports Bar -- Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove 10:30 PM Someplace Else -- Show Upstairs/DJ Downstairs

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FRIDAy, DeCeMBeR 25 (MeRRy CHRIsTMAs!) sATuRDAy, DeCeMBeR 26 (HAppy kWANzAA!) 12:00 PM Hobo Jungle -- Open Pool All Day 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 5:30 PM Cancun Mexican Restaurant -- Mariachi Band 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Randy Moore & The Suedes Doc’s Nightclub -- TBA Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Karoke w/Josh 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Club Royale -- TBA Cricket’s -- Woodsboro Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Namaste Double Dukes -- Hollywood Gutter Rats Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- Common Ground Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Karaoke Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Dang Heathens/ Heypenny/Cannonhands 9:30 PM Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Karaoke

10:00 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- Lollipop Factory/Star Pupil Fast Eddy’s -- Pieces of the Day Gloria’s Corral Club -- Hip-Hop Night Icon Bar & Nightclub -- DJ KDogg Lamasco Bar -- Amazing Soul Crackers 10:30 PM Lanhucks -- Sister Brutal Little Cheers -- Scott Winzinger/Ladies Night Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Karl’s Kids Someplace Else -- DJ Downstairs

suNDAy, DeCeMBeR 27 4:00 PM Fast Eddy’s -- Service Sundays 5:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Steve Greenwell Trio Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Troy Miller 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- Karaoke Someplace Else -- Karaoke 9:00 PM Chilly Willy’s -- Open Mic Night w/Jarod Heim Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- DJ & Karaoke

MONDAy, DeCeMBeR 28 2:00 PM Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Irish Session 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski

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Ri Ra Irish Pub -- Pub Quiz 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Gloria’s Corral Club [ Evansville Listings ] -- Karaoke & Dance News4UOnline.com Mix w/DJ Stubby Lamasco Bar -Open Jam Night 6:00 PM Marigold Bar -- Charlie’s Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Karaoke/College Night Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz 8:00 PM Show Me’s (East Side) Club Royale -- Jay Johnson -- DJ & Karaoke Someplace Else -- Pool Tourney Show Me’s (West) 9:00 PM -- DJ & Karaoke Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke

NIGHT LIFE

& Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Chilly Willy’s -- John Hussmann Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- College Night w/80’s Music

9:30 PM Old Chicago -- Lindsey Williams 10:00 PM Duck Inn -- Totally 80s Sing Along w/DJ Raj Little Cheers -- Karaoke Contest w/Mark Brooks O’Brians Sports Bar -- Karaoke w/Shane Breedlove

WeDNesDAy, DeCeMBeR 30 4:00 PM Winetree-East -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski

10:00 PM Little Cheers -- Karaoke

TuesDAy, DeCeMBeR 29 12:00 PM Duck Inn -- Free Pool 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green Double Dukes -- Herbie Hargis 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Amazing Soul Crackers TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 8:00 PM Club Royale -- College Karaoke w/The Experience Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- The Moccasins

ReuNITeD AND IT Feels sO gOOD

Kirkwood’s trip west is over – for now. Hog Luv Dog & the Gas Guzzlers reunite New Year’s Eve at Lanhuck’s.

Budweiser reminds you to choose a designated driver.

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10:00 PM Lanhucks -- Karaoke Little Cheers -- Shane Breedlove & DJ Enok

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6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Bob Green 7:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge -- Amazing Soul Crackers Double Dukes -- Tri-State Single Mingle Dance Hobo Jungle -- Hobo Poker Hollywood Bar & Grill North -- Acoustics w/John Gauer TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Karaoke 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Club Royale -- Karaoke Experience w/BK Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- Canary & the Coal Miners w/Economic Stimulus Plan Fox & Hound English Pub -Wicked Wheat Wednesdays/ Nick Smith Band 9:00 PM Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza -- College Night Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Fast Eddy’s -- Karaoke w/Freddy K Gloria’s Corral Club -- Karaoke & Dance Mix w/DJ Stubby Rick’s 718 Bar & Lounge -- Karaoke w/Chaz Show Me’s (East Side) -- DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- Kerry & The Double D’s Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- Beer Pong/Pong Brew

10:30 PM Someplace Else -- College Night Karaoke/DJ Downstairs

THuRsDAy, DeCeMBeR 31 (haPPY NeW YeaR’S!) 4:00 PM TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- Don & Cheryl’s Sociable Thursdays Winetree - North -- Wine Tasting 5:00 PM Archie & Clyde’s Roca Bar -- “All About Sports” live broadcast w/Dan Egierski Double Dukes -- Yellow Short Bus-Acoustic Duo 6:00 PM Casino Aztar - Cavanaugh’s Piano Bar -- Clayton Daugherty 7:30 PM Cricket’s -- Dart Tourney 8:00 PM Casino Aztar-Hoosiers Lounge – Ricochet/New Year’s Eve Cash Countdown Club Royale -- College Night w/John Hussman Doc’s Nightclub -- New Year’s Party w/Gooch Double Dukes -- Karaoke w/Mama Judy 9:00 PM Cecil’s Bar & Grill -- New Year’s No Cover party w/Karaoke & Dance mix w/TW/DJ Frost Club Royale -- New Year’s

TROpICAl 2010

Hoosier Daddy Rings in the New Year at Tropical Isle, Evansville’s newest Downtown bar December 31st.

Bash w/Rachel & the Jimmies Deerhead Sidewalk Cafe -- New Year’s Party w/ The Smoke Rings Double Dukes -- New Year’s Party w/Sixty Four East Frontier Restaurant & Bar -- New Year’s Bash w/ Karaoke, giveaways Gloria’s Corral Club -New Year’s Eve & 50th Anniversary Bash Holiday Inn - Airport -- New Year’s Party (2 Events)-Never Been Caught & Deb Turner’s “Saturday Night Dance Party” Hollywood Bar & Grill East -- New Year’s w/ Common Ground Hootie Hoot Saloon & Grill -- New Year’s Party w/ Troy Miller & Friends Koodie Hoos -- New Year’s Party w/Karaoke, Favors, Champagne toast Lamasco Bar -- Karaoke Marigold Bar -- New Year’s Party w/Charlie’s Karaoke

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Show Me’s (East Side) -- New Year’s Party w/DJ & Karaoke Show Me’s (West) -- New Year’s Party w/Nick Hamilton TJ’s Stockyard Inn -- New Year’s Party w/5th Wheel 9:30 PM Corner Pocket, The -- New Year’s Party w/The Relics Tropical Isle at Water’s Edge -- New Year’s Party w/Hoosier Daddy

Jungle -- New Year’s Party w/Live Music Icon Bar & Nightclub -- New Year’s Masquerade w/ Gonzo’s Toybox & DJ Mikus Lamasco Bar -- New Year’s Party w/Calabash Lanhucks -- Hog Luv Dog Reunion: New Year’s Bash Little Cheers -- New Year’s Party w/Lindsey Williams O’Brians Sports Bar -- New Year’s Party w/The CROWD Ri Ra Irish Pub -- New Year’s w/John Hussmann Trio downstairs/Deafinite Entertainment Dance Party upstairs

10:00 PM Bullock’s Bar & Grill -- New Year’s Party w/Ashes & Rain Chilly Willy’s -- New Year’s Party w/Pieces of the Day 10:30 PM Duck Inn -- New Year’s Someplace Else -- Moulin Party w/Dizzy Hollow Rouge-Style New Fast Eddy’s -- New Year’s Party Year’s Eve Party Fox & Hound English Pub -- News Year’s Party w/ Budweiser reminds you to John Gauer choose a designated driver.

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INFO 2GO [ Briefs ]

FREE TAXI RIDES Being a drunk driver is horrible, but being the designated driver on New Year’s Eve is like being the sole Jewish kid at your school’s Christmas party.

Where’s the fun in that?

Instead of flipping a coin or drawing straws to see who gets to have less fun than other people, why not let Unity Taxi and Woods & Woods Attorneys take care of it for you? They’re offering free cab rides on New Year’s. Call 1-888-35-UNITY for more details.

season while visiting local shops, restaurants, and historic sites. For additional information visit www. newharmony.biz.

OAK RIDGE BOYS Classic country fans won’t be disappointed when the Oak Ridge Boys bring their Christmas concert to the Centre on Thursday, Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Along

NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTIES What if you don’t have anywhere to go on New Year’s Eve? News 4U is here to help. No, we’re not throwing a party at our office, but we do have this massive section in our magazine about Evansville’s nightlife.

It’s filled with places to go, people to see, and times to be there. If you haven’t yet, check that out before you resign yourself to a lonely night on your couch with Dick Clark and a bottle of Jagermeister.

with songs about Santa and the usual Christmas classics, they’ll be performing some of their smash hits, like “Elvira” and “Bobbie Sue.” Tickets are available through Ticketmaster outlets as well as at both Roberts Stadium and Centre Box Offices.

CHRISTMAS AT GERMANIA

KWANZAA CELEBRATION

Open your Holiday season with a wonderful German Christmas on December 4 and 5 including wonderful German food and unforgettable music from the Germania Maennerchor and Damenchor. Cost is $25 per person; seating is limited - to make reservations call 422-1915 or 424-9800. Seating begins at 7 p.m.

Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Evansville’s African American Museum holds a celebration of Kwanzaa on December 26, where participants can discover the contributions of African-Americans to the city’s history. Kwanzaa, a modern African-American holiday, carries with it deep roots steeped in ancient African culture.

CHRISTMAS IN NEW HARMONY

Christmas in New Harmony is held the first full weekend in December and is presented by the New Harmony Business Associates. This is a true family event with activities ranging from “Breakfast with Santa” to an “Ornament Make & Take” to seasonal music. Also enjoy a performance of the “Nutcracker,” carriage rides, shopping for unique artisan items at the Granary and as well as shopping at the Ribeyre Gym. Of course you won’t want to miss the Christmas Parade. Enjoy the Christmas • 66 •

PENNY LANE HAPPENINGS

Cannonhands Penny Lane Art Gallery presents art by SPiT, Literal, and Heidi Krause. Exhibit runs through January 30.

December 4 at 8 p.m. – Mariah Dawn Shepherd; December 5 at 8 p.m. – Brick Briscoe; December 11 at 8 p.m. – Cannonhands; December 12 at 8 p.m. – Keith Pluss; December 18 at 8 p.m. – Andrea Wirth; December 19 at 8 p.m. – Toby Ellis; December 26 at 8 p.m. – Piasa. Phone 421-8741 for more info. www.News4UOnline.com • Evansville December 2009

Things We Need to Leave in 2009

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. he first decade of the twenty-first century is almost coming to a close.

With one year left, I’ve decided that even with all the progress made in technology, politics and television, we need to leave a few more things behind in order to become a more civilized, less-laughed at society.

DOUG MESSEL

Vampires

I’m so tired of vampires.

Staff Writer They’re everywhere; in literature, film, television, music…I can’t take it anymore.

Admittedly, I’m not the first writer to focus on this trend, but I want it gone simply for peace of mind. For every five books or movies made about vampires, one good werewolf movie dies. Please, for God’s sake, think of the werewolves*. *I grow a beard in less than three days, so I may be biased when it comes to ill treatment of my lupine brethren.

Autotune

Autotune – it needs to stop.

It was funny the first time. T-Pain’s cameo in The Lonely Island’s song/video “I’m On a Boat” made us all laugh for weeks. But in its aftermath we’re stuck in a world where musicians and television hosts and radio personnel cash in on the success of a program that alters your voice to sound like Stephen Hawking singing pop music.

It needs to stop.

I’m tired of not only hearing EVERY person’s voice distorted with Autotune or other vocoders, but the idea of mining old pop music to sample its choruses and distort them to make them suddenly new and hip again. In fact, the only thing I’m looking forward to about Garth Brooks returning to the stage in Vegas next year is that he refuses to use Autotune. Maybe when he sells trillions of tickets, people will realize you don’t even need computer adjustments to make millions of dollars as a no-talent hillbilly*.

*I actually like Garth Brooks as a guilty pleasure and secretly pray for God to deliver me a 4x4 Ford F-350 Super Duty.

Social Networking Tropes No one cares if you’re playing shuffleboard on the john. Actually, I’m curious as to how that works, but please, don’t use Twitter or Facebook to tell me. If you’re going to update your Twitter or Facebook statuses more than eight times a day, no one cares about you more than yourself—and this sad fact is something that, unlike your Facebook status, will never change.

Also, I feel terrible saying this, but unless you contribute more effort than “I Support This!” on your Facebook profile, you are nothing more than a casual hanger-on to a trendy cause. How do you support it? Do you give money? Time? Food? No? There’s nothing more I enjoy seeing than white hipster Democrats talk garbage about free trade and child exploitation while sipping Starbucks lattes in Abercrombie sweatshirts*. *I drink Starbucks coffee and wear Abercrombie & Fitch. I also support no causes whatsoever and take pride in the fact my fashion choices are made from the woven silk of children’s crushed backbones. Just kidding.

Change amounts not ending in ten or five.

Aside from the two dollar bill, the penny is quite possibly the most useless currency in circulation.

I have never paid for anything in pennies, nor do I intend to with the advent of free money—I mean, credit cards*—coming on the horizon. Why not simplify everything to either end in 0 or 5. Throw a penny at a kid’s eye and it tickles. Throw a nickel and that little brat’s blinded for life. *I don’t treat credit cards as free money and actually have an impeccable credit rating through judicious management of money and a closely-observed payment schedule. Seriously, you can check.

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Wish List Extravaganza

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t’s the month of December, which means undoubtedly a winter holiday is approaching that requires gift giving. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or some random holiday related to Satanism, you’ll no doubt at some point be approached about buying presents for someone. With that in mind, we offer some potentially helpful ideas for those of you who are stumped on just what to buy.

DOUG MESSEL Staff Writer

For Him: If money is (relatively) not an object:

Electronics easily lend themselves toward this category because they’re always flashy and expensive.

This year, we recommend slimming down the home theater set-up from the typical multi-speaker number to a streamlined sound bar, like the Yamaha Digital Sound Projector Home Theatre System, $1,799.99.

Whether he uses the home theater system to listen to the Beatles Remasters (also a great gift idea), kick butt at Halo, or simply watch movies, this system from Yamaha will make a great gift for the man who wants awesome surround sound but not the hassle of wires and speaker placement.

Even more ridiculous runner-up: 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Less than $100: No television show has been more appropriate for men in the past few years than AMC’s critically acclaimed Mad Men. Escapism at its finest, AMC’s show delivers all the components of a great period drama: authenticity, an amazing cast, and the opportunity to go back and witness a time when the economic crisis wasn’t even an issue.

Runner-up: Tom-Tom GPS

For Her If money is (relatively) not an object: Remember those terrible Lexus commercials where the man and woman wake up on a perfectly pristine snowy Christmas morning? Yeah, I’m sure he was able to sneak a $30-40,000 dollar car outside the house.

How about doing something more realistic, like a nice vacation? While this idea doesn’t come with a concrete price tag, I’m sure your travel agent will be able to hook you up with a pretty sweet deal on airfare and hotel stays. Think outside the box—and contiguous United States—if you can.

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I’m asked my opinion on jewelry, just because I’m afraid of always being wrong. However, one way you can’t go wrong is by picking up something nice and elegant. But there are two things to keep in mind: First, bigger isn’t always better. It wasn’t really a Christmas gift, but earlier this year I picked up a classy diamond necklace that was relatively small for less than $100. The other thing is to weigh all your options. Online retailers are pretty

Altruism at Its Best I did some research and found the website www.charitynavigator.org.

It’s full of helpful information, about which charities have the highest paid officers, as well as fundraising information and overhead costs.

While most of the charities it lists are located in other cities, one thing that never changes are their tips for giving this holiday season.

Seek out leaders with competent leaders who are reasonably paid.

Look for financially strong charities Check for evidence of questionable ethical practices Consider gifts to human services charities Most importantly, trust your charity

good enough to now offer accurate representations of the merchandise on their web sites. Check online clearance deals for some great buys.

Runner-up: iPhone 3G

For Kids Money is (relatively) not an object: It’s extremely difficult to please children these days, and I believe this is because they are spoiled rotten by the very innovations in toys we came to appreciate.

Give a kid a hula hoop and they look at you like you’re stupid. I remember wanting action figures of all kinds, G.I. Joe or Star Wars or WWE “wrestling men,” as my grandmother still calls them. Kids today don’t seem to have an appreciation for the imagination playing with such toys requires. This is why you should make them re-learn how to pretend and just drop upwards of $1,000 on a custom-built swing set.

Get them a castle or pirate ship or crazy Noah’s Ark or something. I looked at all kinds of places online, and there are a lot of interesting combinations you can put together. Sure, it’s too cold to play on it now, but during the summer months (when it’s too nice outside to play Wii games all the time) your children will be less inclined to hate you.

Runner-up: Hannah Montana concert tickets and the accompanying road trip.

For less than $100: I really hate to advertise a specific store, but Toys-R-Us has this sweet online “Gift Finder” tool where you can select a ton of options to describe your kid, then get a list of things that might very well suit them.

Runner-up: A hula hoop.

For less than $100: Buy them a gift card to their favorite restaurant. They’ll love you forever.

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GO LOCAL

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One of the things the guys at Revolution Ink want to stress – in addition to their studio’s uniqueness, is their expectations for themselves in terms of customer service, and making sure their clients leave happy.

“We wanted an A-list studio that was very clean where people could come in and feel comfortable right away,” Klos says. “If you go to the mall and throw a rock, you’re going to hit someone with a tattoo or a body piercing. But back when this started in this area, that wasn’t really true. There was still a stigma about this art form. It has been changing, and we’re here to make the big change – here, it’s not thirty seconds before you’re greeted and talked to… it’s the way it’s supposed to be.”

“If you’re a middle-aged mom bringing your daughter in to get a tattoo,” chimes Travis, “we want you to feel comfortable; you don’t want to walk around for fifteen minutes and have no one talk to you.”

In addition to the original artistry offered at Revolution Ink, both through their tattoos and piercings, they do incredible cover-up work, so if you have some ink you’d like to see some improvements to, they’re happy to help

“We’re also doing some things others are not,” say Klos. “On the piercing side of things, we’re doing sub-dermal implants, which are very popular now. We’re also doing saline tattoo removal. Coming real soon, we’ll be doing cosmetic tattooing.”

Tattoos, piercings and related items are here to stay, and the number of people getting work done grows by leaps and bounds. Revolution Ink seems to be doing it the right way, through a combination of experience, dedication and a willingness to do things the right way. Stop by a say hi – they’re at 4023 E. Morgan Avenue. Give ‘em a call at 812-437-8282 and say Dylan sent you in.

Hear the full audio behind the interview at our website. There you can learn more about the apprenticeship process piercer Destiny Everheart and tattooist Bonnie Westerfield have undergone, more about the guys’ background and more ins-andouts about the tattoo and body modification world.

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nce upon a time, in Henderson, Kentucky, a small tattoo shop on Green Street began offering tattoos. The first of its kind in the area, Different Shades was the place many in the region got his or her first ink. I was one. So were thousands more.

Later, Indiana’s laws changed, and allowed for tattooing to be done legally. As time passed the quality of the artwork DYLAN increased. Methods and equipment improved. Aftercare GIBBS techniques improved. The artists themselves got better at Managing their craft. Customers demanded a higher standard of work.

Editor After many years in the business, and after much time and deliberation about how to set themselves apart from the myriad places in town, Revolution Ink was started in October by veteran artists Shad Klos and Jeff Travis, both of whom began back in the Different Shades days and in the years since, have learned much more about not only the craft, science and art of tattooing, but also about how to offer a top-quality experience to all who enter.

When I came in at 2:30 on a blustery Thursday afternoon, the shop was literally buzzing – not only with the sound of a gun being used on a client, but with half a dozen or so people milling around, waiting to have work performed. One of the first things I noticed was the lack of “flash,” or pre-drawn images that adorn the walls of many shops.

K l o s explains that this is deliberate: “This is a custom shop; you don’t really come in and look on the wall, pick something, and then we’re going to put that on your body. We talk to you; we have a consultation.

You may not get a tattoo that day. We want to make sure you’re serious about it.”

Klos says they even routinely talk clients out of getting ink. “Just this week,” he says, “we talked a young lady out of a tattoo. That does happen.”

Both Jeff Travis and Klos were active in lobbying to have the laws changed in Indiana in the 90s, and have seen many changes. Since its legalization, both name among their clients people well outside the stereotype: Doctors, lawyers, judges, 80-year-old great grandmothers. “I even tattooed by dentist,” laughs Travis.

“A lot of people may not realize how many people indulge in this,” Travis says. “It’s much more acceptable now.”

Above all, tattooing is an art and craft, and whether it’s painting or sculpture or inking, Travis applies many of the same thought patterns to his approach. “The skin is a very interesting medium,” he says. “It’s probably the most difficult medium you can do artwork on.”

Much like a mythologized marathon session Jackson Pollack engaged in at his peak, Travis too has immersed himself in his work for incredible stretches of continuous time. Asked about his longest session, without breaks, he replies, “Probably about fifteen hours of work. With breaks, I’ve probably gone twenty to twenty four hours.”

How’s the site doing? Spectacular is a weak word. People around here have been so quick to “get it” that between March of this year (when WE started tracking video-views) and now, as I write this, WE has generated over 1,400 uploads and over a quarter-million video views. Now, by global standards that may not sound like a slam dunk, but in terms of local websites it puts us in the top five overall, and by far #1 where videosharing is concerned. Not bad for a website that’s only a year old and hasn’t spent a dime on old media like radio or TV!

– This is YOUR Tube

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hen you start something new, it’s usually best to begin at the beginning.

Shotgun golf tournaments are a notable exception. But when News 4U invited WatchEvansville.com to form a partnership that included a monthly column, I thought the best thing I could do with the miserly 900 words allowed me by the control-freak N4U editor was to introduce you to WatchEvansville.com BRIAN and describe what you can expect to see in the future JACKSON because of this meeting-of-the-media.

Contributor WatchEvansville.com (abbreviated “WE”) began about a year ago because Scott Hendrickson (former production Director for Insight) and I believed that Evansville needed its own video-sharing website – one dedicated only to our little area of Planet Earth. Yeah, we know – there’s YouTube and Vimeo and Daily Motion and who knows how many more sites, but they’re all global in scope. You Tube, for instance, gets 20 hours of new up-loads EVER MINUTE OF EVERY DAY. That’s a staggering amount of content, and even if you were married to the monitor 31 you’d still miss 99% of stuff. And the fact is most of it is crap anyway.

WatchEvansville.com is different. We’re not about people or events or whatever’s going on in Hong Kong or the Honduras – all WE cares about is stuff happening HERE. The musicians, the video producers, the athletes, the hobbyists, the nut cases, the politicos – you name it, they’ve got a video on WatchEvansville.com. It’s free to join the site (and we don’t

A revamped version of the

GoTeamMagainze.com and News4UOnline.com featuring exclusive video content will launch at the

beginning of 2010.

bug you with spam, promise) and then you can upload your stuff, comment on other people’s stuff, rate videos, enter contests, lose weight and make millions. OK, I exaggerate, but you get the picture. We’ve got over 1,100 fans on Facebook, and that’s a great way to keep in touch with the site, too. Maybe you’ve seen our sign facing the Lloyd just west of Mickey D’s at Main and Division.

We bamboozled Julie Karger (former GM of the Thrifty Nickel, now CEO of Premier Marketing Services) into cutting us a major chunk of cheese to finance the whole thing, and – voila! WatchEvansville.com was born.

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What to look for as this new N4U/WE partnership develops? Well, for one thing, you’re going to see a lot of streaming video on the N4U website as WE covers events, bands, interviews and other N4U articles. WE is also participating in GoTeam Magazine – so now, instead of being limited to getting a still photo of little Johnny taking a swing at a T-ball game, you can get the whole video of the poor kid getting thrown out at first by some miracle from God that a) an infielder actually made it to the baseball and b) the throw to first didn’t wind up in the concession stand. You’ll start seeing

Brian Jackson, Creative Director/WatchEvansville.com video coverage of stories in What’s Cookin’ and Tri-State Bride, too. And it doesn’t matter to us where you watch the video – WE or News4Uonline. com or the other websites – just as long as you join the on-line streaming video party.

Your mission – should you decide to accept it – is really simple.

If you don’t already have a video-active iPhone, arm yourself with a $100 Flip camera and get familiar with Windows Movie Maker or I-Movie. Both have a learning curve comparable to sledding down Reitz Hill, and within a few minutes you, too, can be a video producer! Keep the camera with you – you just never know when Owensboro’s Executive Inn is gonna get blown to smithereens (video of which is on the site – and by the way, what is a smithereen, anyway?), or when the sign at Eastland Shoppes is going to catch fire (ditto) or you’re gonna walk in on your roomie making out with the middle linebacker’s girlfriend – need I go on? And who knows… is your video going to be The Next Big Thing? Hey, it happens! And much like the lottery, you ain’t gonna win if you don’t buy a ticket.

So here’s the bottom line. In the ‘80s it was cable TV and compact discs. Today it’s 3G and On-Line Streaming Video. Here’s your invitation to pass Go, collect $200 and move directly to the front of the line, past the velvet ropes and directly into the New Media that’s growing world-wide by 25% EVERY MONTH. It’s an entertainment/enlightenment/empowerment diesel train, and guess what? Your ticket is free! Join us on WatchEvansville. com, and keep watching News 4U and News4Uonline.com along with What’s Cookin’, GoTeam and Tri-State Bride for more. WE is totally excited about this new partnership, and by keeping in touch you’re going to get advance notice of special events, new kinds of entertainment, cool stuff the TV guys were too busy to cover and much more. Well, 12 words left before the blue pencil guy gets busy, so Peace Out! • 71 •

Home for the Holidays:

Talented Vocalists Return for Performance with the EPO

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he 2009-2010 Pops Series at the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra continues this month with the Tri-State’s most popular holiday event, their Peppermint Pops concert. On Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Dec. 6 at 2:00 p.m., “Home for the Holidays” will be performed at the historic Victory Theatre.

Alfred Savia will conduct the orchestra in its performances of several Christmas staples, including “Winter Wonderland,” DOUG “Baby it’s Cold Outside,” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”

MESSEL Staff Writer

This series of concerts is particularly notable for its guest artists. Paula Leggett Chase, an Evansville native, will return home to perform with the EPO for this concert.

Chase is a Broadway veteran, appearing currently as “Gloria Rasputin” in the revival of Bye Bye Birdie.

Her other credits include places in the original casts of such hits as Damn Yankees, Kiss Me Kate, Curtains, and others. Chase has also spent time in a recurring role as a judge on NBC’s Law & Order and was featured as “Mediva” on the 1990s PBS game show Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? Chase is thrilled to return to Evansville, and although

she resides in New York City with her husband

and children, she is still proud to call herself a Hoosier.

Chase isn’t the only talented recording artist coming back to Evansville. Steve Morgan—a founding member of a cappella group Straight No Chaser—is also excited to return home and perform with the EPO. Morgan is a theatrical veteran, with roles in Broadway productions of Mamma Mia and Good Vibrations. Morgan is also experienced with national touring productions, including the likes of The Full Monty and Seussical, the Musical.

It’s his work with Straight No Chaser that Evansville may be most familiar with, however. Their YouTube rendition of “12 Days of Christmas” led quickly to a deal with Atlantic Records. Their holiday album—Holiday Spirits—was released in 2008 and quickly became the #1 selling holiday album on both the iTunes and Amazon. com charts.

Morgan has since left the group in order to spend time with his family, but is quite excited to return to Evansville and perform with the EPO, for which Morgan’s mother formerly played cello. He resides in Bloomington with his wife and daughter.

Along with the usual musical forms of holiday entertainment, the Evansville Philharmonic’s concert will include other “festive family fun.” Santa Claus will be making a special appearance, and will be available for pictures with children for a $5 donation. Other opportunities for holiday giving at the show are available as the EPO requests that concert-goers bring non-perishable food items or monetary donations for Tri-State families in need. The Tri-State Food Bank will be on hand to collect all donations.

Tickets for the event cost $15 and are available by calling (812)4255050 as well as ordering online at www.evansvillephilharmonic.org.

Pippin The Magic of Broadway… at Civic Theatre

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ippin, a musical featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and the choreography of influential Broadway performer Bob Fosse, makes its way to Evansville’s Civic Theatre this month. The performance, which features elements of romance, comedy, and drama, is set to take the stage on weekends from Dec. 4-20 at the Civic Theatre. Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m. while Sunday shows begin at 2 p.m.

DOUG Pippin is based upon fictional accounts of the life of Pippin, MESSEL the “hunchbacked” son of Charlemagne. The story—the book Staff Writer for which was originally written by Roger O. Hirson—deals with Pippin’s attempts to find love and acceptance from his father, particularly in the face of his disability. Along the way, the show introduces the audience to a colorful cast of characters including the mysterious Leading Player, Pippin’s stepmother Fastrada and her dim-witted son Lewis, and the love interest of the show, the widow Catherine.

This particular performance of Pippin features direction from Christopher P. Tyner and choreography from Ricki Newman. Matt Hummel portrays the title role, while Kerry Newman plays Charles (Charlemagne).

Fastrada will be portrayed by Leslie Wetzel; Jessica Massey is Catherine, and Hayden Wetzel plays Catherine’s son Theo. The role of Lewis will be played by Daniel Zeller.

It sounds like Pippin features a fantastically diverse set of characters, which is something to be expected from a Stephen Schwartz musical. Schwartz is the mind behind the 2003 musical Wicked, a critical darling and spectacular Tony Award-winning show seen by millions of people all over the world. Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics for the show in the 1970’s. His score for Pippin is characterized by its 1970s rock sound, and the entire show itself has a reputation for being “merely cute and harmlessly naughty.”

That wasn’t necessarily always the case, though.

When Bob Fosse directed Civic Theatre presents Pippin, with music its initial run on Broadway in and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.

1972, it was different than the version licensed for amateur productions today. Scott Miller, a muslcal theatre scholar, states in his book From Assassins to West Side Story that the show is “somewhat emasculated” and “very different from the original Broadway production.” He goes on to say that the show “now has a reputation for being merely cute and harmlessly naughty; but if done the way director Bob Fosse envisioned it, the show is surreal and disturbing.”

Whatever the case—whether it’s a “cute” show or something with more substance—Pippin looks to be an exciting addition to the Evansville Civic Theatre’s lineup this season. The story of Pippin is all about finding fulfillment in different places, and asks one question: would you gladly trade your ordinary life for the opportunity to do one perfect act?

Tickets for Pippin are $17 for adults, $16 for seniors 65 and older, and $12 for students 21 and younger. Call 425-2800 for ticket information.

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INTERVIEW [ Tess Grimm ]

30th Annual Victorian Christmas

F

“Christmas is a Circus”

irst opened for tours in 1974, the historic Reitz Home Museum, at the corner of First and Chestnut Street in downtown Evansville, hosts its thirtieth Victorian Christmas through January 3. In keeping with the spirit of the season, I wanted to learn more about the goings-on during this popular event. So I spoke with Tess C. Grimm, a dedicated administrator and Executive Director of the Museum for over twenty years.

N4U: How many visitors do you have at the home annually?

Managing Grimm: Our goal is to have 12,000 Editor people come through the house a year, and a great majority come for Victorian Christmas.

And we hope that during Victorian Christmas that we will have 5000 visitors.

Dylan Gibbs

Talk about the theme for this year’s Victorian Christmas.

It is a circus theme; the Victorians were big on circuses.

That was a great event that they looked forward to going to. We had to think out of the box this year.

Our Victorian Christmases for the past three or four years have been filled with lots of very interesting and unusual antiques. Toys, dolls and artifacts. I think the recession, and the fact that everything is always so beautiful, and I think people thought well, ‘I’ve seen it – it is beautiful.’ We decided we had to do something different. And during this recessionary period that it needed to be something magical, and it needed to be fun. And what could be more fun than a circus?

Before television and movies, public oratory and circuses were the ultimate in entertainment.

You have said it; that is exactly right.

When I come in, what will I see?

You will see the way that the eighteen different interpret a Victorian circus theme. I think they all tried very hard to not stray from that theme. As one decorator said to me, ‘Well, you know, just about everybody has stayed with the circus theme’ [and they] tried to put into it Victorian books and signage, but we still have a lot of animals, we have a lot of merry-go-rounds, and Ferris wheels. And we have some very lovely antique circus items mixed in with more modern [items]. When they walk in, they will see all kinds of unusual clowns and marionettes and puppets and artwork. It’s just very different in every room.

These are augmentations to the Christmas items we see each year.

People will still hear about the Reitz family; they’ll still know that this is Francis Joseph’s room, this is Matilda’s room, and this is the state dining room and this is the breakfast room. They’ll see the furniture, and they’ll see the artifacts attached to the walls, and Tiffany lamps and art glass – things like that. We do have

rules – so they (the decorators) have to be extremely creative when putting up the decorations.

The circus-related items – were they recently acquired?

They are on loan. Some are from the decorators, and some are from others. I did contact the doll clubs in Evansville and in New Harmony. [We] called all around.

We have a fantastic circus wagon that is an antique; there are some very valuable circus items.

And the historic Museum is valuable as well. Not only is Victorian Christmas a fun part of the celebration of the season, it’s a way to reach back into the past and connect with those who lived in the home, beginning in 1871.

Reitz Home is always looking for volunteers to help with their endeavors; if you’re interested, please contact at 426-1871. The Reitz Home Museum is located at 224 SE First Street.

To hear the full interview with Tess Grimm, please visit the story on our website. In it, you’ll hear much about the history of the old home, Grimm’s background, and historic anecdotes about Evansville in the 19th and early 20th centuries and more.

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AT THE MUSEUM

[ Museum Contemporaries ]

T Contributor

Those pictured include: Debbie Goldman, Rachael Goldman, Ben Franz, Natalie and Conor O’Daniel, Nazan and Stan Wolfe, Traci and Mark Woodruff, Liza and Andy Martin, Candy Cooper, Karla Bowers, Debi Talley, Jeff and Kris Bosse, Matt Rowe, Peggy Lewis, Stephanie Mosbacher, John David Engelbrecht, Mary Bower, Rosemary O’Daniel, Donna Robinson, Anne McKim, Carrie Mogavero, Libbie Au, and Jane Hormuth.

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photos by matt rowe

MATT ROWE

he Evansville Museum Contemporaries wrapped up the year by coordinating arrangements for the Museum’s Annual Gala at Evansville Country Club on November 7. It’s an exciting time to be involved at the museum, as they are about to embark on a major renovation and expansion project. This year the gala honored all of the Museum’s Past Board Presidents, whose leadership has lifted the Museum to the position it’s in today. The evening included a cocktail hour followed by dinner in the club’s ballroom. It was one of the most elegant fundraising events I’ve been to this year. Club staff were up to par with attentive service and excellent food. The sold-out crowd of 200 or so of the museum’s most enthusiastic supporters, dressed in their most elegant cocktail attire, mixed and mingled. Following the dinner, Brenda Williams, of Indianapolis, delivered a live cabaret-style performance underwritten by John David Engelbrecht. Jackie Monroe graciously agreed to emcee. The gala was co-chaired this year by Jack and Laura Faber, Jeff and Kris Bosse, and The Evansville Museum Contemporaries.

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sATuRDAy, DeCeMBeR 5 Midwest Writer’s Guild Workshop 10:00 a.m., Oaklyn Branch 3001 Oaklyn Dr. Join “Writer’s Digest” publisher and editor, Jane Friedman, for a hands on lesson, including tricks an

The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Public Library system has 8 locations throughout Vanderburgh County. For more information about these or any of the other events or special events visit www.evpl.org or call 812-428-8200.

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Centre, The

812-435-5550 Dec 9-12:Scholastic Holiday Warehouse Book Sale - Everyone is invited to stock up on books, gifts, software and more, all for special prices. Times are December 9 from 12 to 7 p.m. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on December 10 and 11 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. December 12.

Dec 13:Broadway in Evansville Series: The Wizard of Oz - The entire family will be captivated as they travel down the Yellow Brick Road and beyond with Dorothy, Toto and their friends in this lavish production, featuring breathtaking special effects and classic songs. A spectacular celebration of the iconic 1939 MGM film. The Wizard of Oz will blow you away from the moment the tornado touches down and transports you to a dazzling Oz, complete with munchkins and flying monkeys. Begins at 7 p.m.

Dec 17:Oak Ridge Boys Christmas Show - The Boys Are Back At Christmas, and it’s like two shows in one as the Oak Ridge Boys kick off this big show with their world famous four-part harmonies and string of hits that span over 3 decades. Toes will be a tappin’ to smash hits “Elvira” and “Bobbie Sue” plus many more award winning songs. Then, after a short intermission, the stage is transformed and it’s Christmas! The trees are decorated, the snow is falling and the Oak Ridge Boys treat you to Christmas favorites as only they can. From rollicking Santa songs to heartfelt standards, this show is a family favorite for kicking off the holiday season.

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Evansville Civic Theatre

812-425-2800 Dec 4-6, 11-13, 18-20:Pippin - We’ve got Magic to do, just for you! One of Broadway’s biggest hits comes to the Civic stage bringing the dance styles of legendary choreographer Bob Fosse and the music of three time Oscar Winning composer Stephen Schwartz bursting with one show-stopping number after another. It’s a show about life, living, and the pursuit of happiness, and will feature a large cast of Civic Theatre veterans and newcomers! Considered a modern classic, this hip, tongue-in-cheek, anachronistic fairy tale has captivated Broadway audiences for years and continues to appeal to the young at heart everywhere. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m. Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m.

Evansville Museum History & Science

of

Arts,

812-425-2406 Through January 31:41st Annual Mid-States Craft Exhibition - The juror for this six-state competition is Jane Sauer, Director of the Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for her outstanding reputation among art collectors, museum curators, art critics, and artists, Jane has 34 years of experience as both an innovative studio artist and gallery director. She has served in leadership roles as a volunteer with the National Advisory Board to the Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Friends of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; and the American Craft Council, serving as Chair from 1997-2000.

Ms. Sauer will visit Evansville in November to make

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final selections from several hundred entries in the categories of ceramics, wood, jewelry, textiles, glass, and mixed media.

Garvin Park

812-435-6141 Through January 3:Ritzy’s Fantasy of Lights - The largest winter light show in Indiana benefits local children and adults with disabilities. The drivethrough event features a mile of sparkling lights on elaborate “fantasyland” scenes. Horse-drawn carriage rides available nightly.

Germania Mannerchor

812-477-1366 Dec 4-5:Christmas at Germania - Open your Holiday season with a wonderful German Christmas, including wonderful German food and unforgettable music from the Germania Maennerchor and Damenchor.

Cost is $25 per person; seating is limited - to make reservations call 422-1915 or 424-9800. Seating begins at 7 p.m. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Glema Mahr Center for The Arts

Madisonville 270-821-ARTS Dec 4:Community Christmas with The MCC Singers & Boston Brass - The MCC Singers, under the

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direction of Sarah Adams, team up with one of the world’s finest brass ensembles for their annual Christmas celebration. Boston Brass is setting new standards in entertainment. From exciting classical arrangements, to breathtaking vocal harmony, to burning jazz standards, Boston Brass achieves new levels in brass performance while treating audiences with a unique musical experience that captivates all ages. The ensemble’s lively repartee, touched with humor and personality, bridges the vast ocean of classical formality to delight audiences to an evening of boisterous fun, exciting knowledge and an enthusiastic love of music, deftly exhibited by five brash brass players. Starts at 7:30 p.m.

Henderson Fine Arts Center

270-831-9800 Dec 5:The Three Redneck Tenors - These real life Broadway and Opera stars are ready to rock your holidays with classic, pop and deep-fried fest of musical delights. The familiar holiday tunes in the show include classics like: White Christmas, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Santa Baby, Blue Christmas, O Holy Night, and Silent Night. You’ll also enjoy holiday spoofs like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and a few other great surprises. Starts at 7:30 p.m.

Dec 13:Children’s Nutcracker - Presented by the Children’s Center for Dance Education, this unique Holiday performance begins at 3 p.m.

Historic Newburgh 812-853-2815

Dec 4-6:Newburgh Celebrates Christmas - Christmas caroling, house tours, roasting chestnuts, welcoming Santa to town, and lighting the town Christmas tree all in one fabulous weekend.

New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art

812-682-3156 Through December 31:”cuatro amigos en armonia” - Sponsored by the University of Southern Indiana, featuring the works of Dan Brawner, Roger Clayton, Alexis Holeman and Griffin Norman.

Reitz Home Museum

426-1871 Through January 3:Victorian Christmas: “Christmas is a Circus” - Each room of the Reitz Home will be decorated by different persons and businesses from the area. This year’s theme is “Christmas is a Circus A Victorian Christmas.”

Roberts Stadium

812-476-1383 Dec 5:Gaither Homecoming Christmas Tour 2009 - Gospel music favorite Bill Gaither and his friends invite you to join them Saturday, December 5 at 6:00pm at the Gaither Homecoming Christmas Tour for a night of singing and praise. This Homecoming concert experience offers a spectacular evening of gospel and Christmas favorites featuring an all-star line-up of gospel music’s finest voices. Scheduled to perform are: Gaither Vocal Band, Wes Hampton, David Phelps, Bill Gaither, Michael English, Mark Lowry, Larry Gatlin, Buddy Greene & Jeff Taylor, Larnelle Harris, The Isaacs, Gene McDonald, Gordon Mote, Lynda Randle, Charlotte Ritchie, Greg Ritchie, Reggie & Ladye Love Smith, Russ Taff and Kevin Williams. Begins at 6 p.m.

Vanderburgh 4H Center

812-867-6217 Dec 11-12 12:00 PM:VHS Holiday Open House & Adopt-a-Thon.

Victory Theatre

812-435-5550 Dec 1:Jim Brickman ‘The Beautiful World Christmas Tour’ - Beautiful World is inspired by Jim’s unique gift of bridging borders and cultural divides through his music. This landmark special is a lush and intimate show celebrating the way music connects and unites us. Its theme of friendship, healing and connecting cultures includes the quintessential Jim Brickman sound and unites worldwide musical influences.

Begins at 7:30 p.m.

Dec 5 & 6:Evansville Philharmonic’s Peppermint Pops - The Tri-State’s most popular Holiday event for the whole family... This season, your Philharmonic brings home two Evansville natives turned Broadway starsPaula Leggett Chase (of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Curtains) and Steve Morgan (from Mamma Mia and the hugely popular group Straight No Chaser), for this Holiday Tradition. Saturday evening performance is at 7:30 p.m. Sunday concert is at 2 p.m. Phone 4255050 for more information.

Dec 19:The Nutcracker - Come see dancing Snowflakes and adorable Bon Bons, and the radiant beauty of the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier.

Artistic Director Mark Bush’s production has been hailed as ‘a visual feast for the eyes’ and ‘a bonafide classic.’ Please join the Evansville Dance Theater and their performance of The Nutcracker along with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra at the Victory Theatre on Saturday, December 19. The matinee performance begins at 2:00pm and the feature performance will begin at 7:30pm. For more information, contact EDT at (812) 473-8937 or EPO at (812) 425-5050.

Washington Square Mall

812-477-5041 Through December 25:My Father’s Love - “My Father’s Love” is more than a display of artistic ability. It’s a story that combines art, math and a miraculous process. It’s a story of how God gives us gifts and talents and how those talents are used to bring Him glory.

Wesselman Preserve

Woods

Nature

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CREATIVE SPOTLIGHT II [ Lewis Cheney ]

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ne of the most interesting things about living in Evansville is being surrounded by all sorts of creative people and not even knowing it. From artists to musicians to writers, Evansville seems to have it all. News 4U likes to pay attention to these people. This month we talked to Lewis Cheney, director of the locally-shot film VictimEYES, which premiered recently at the Henderson Fine Arts Center.

N4U: Tell me a little bit about VictimEYES. Lewis Cheney: It’s a lovely, Doug Messel touching saga of a serial killer.

Staff Writer It’s a feature length suspense/ thriller about a serial killer who gets caught as he is about to kill his thirteenth victim. He tries to kill her in haste and succeeds only in blinding her. He goes to jail for 13 months, and she’s been in her own self-imposed prison afraid to leave her house because, as she puts it “the world is not like I left it.” He’s about to be transported to prison and has a plan to finish what he started.

What was the film’s budget?

By the time all is said and done, I will have $1500 dollars into this movie. Bear in mind, no one was paid who worked on it. There are contracts in place so that if this movie makes money, we all make money. That money may not buy us more than a Happy Meal, but • 84 •

money isn’t what drove us to make it, as you will see later. Was it budgeted? No, not really. It’s a nickel and dime you sort of prospect. You start off going “Hey, I think I will make a movie.”

How long have you been making movies?

I have been making movies for over 20 years, but this is my first feature length one. I have done some

moved. I was incredibly engrossed in it. And it made me want to know how they were made. You might say—and it’s a horrible pun, but those who know me, know I would say it—I was bitten by the movies at a young age.

And to me you can’t think independent and scary movie without the name John Carpenter coming to mind. Halloween was a low budget movie that became a legend and put Carpenter on the map. But go back and look at the original Assault on Precinct 13 and see his roots.

What’s next? Any other projects you’re working on?

Next for me is working with yet another coworker and filmmaker, named Marx Pyle, who is producing and directing a short film he wrote, called Silence of the Belle. It will be shot locally and will be a cool grouping with Neil Kellen shooting it, me lighting it and Marx directing. Marx went to film school and once again, I expect to be on something else where I can learn, so it will be fun.

other short films that got aired across the state of Kentucky in the Kentucky Educational Television film and video festival and that was cool. When I got into the TV biz 24 years ago, I expressed an interest in doing these sorts of things and Leonard was very encouraging and a foundation of knowledge Who are your major influences as a filmmaker?

First is the big one, Steven Spielberg, but maybe not why you think. Jaws terrified me as a child. My legs were asleep at the end of that movie, sitting in a theater in 1975 at the age of 12, because I just hadn’t

If you had to drop money on one item as a beginning filmmaker, what would you invest it in?

A good “prosumer” camera. You need the latitude afforded to you to be able to have manual focus and manual aperature control. It’s like a painter, you can buy a cheap brush, but it won’t look as good. And as I close my movie, I will close this interview with a quote from Leonard Judd that he said over and over again to many of us he trained. “The camera is your paintbrush and the world is your canvas.”

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photos by lewis cheney

How long were you shooting?

This has been a long project. It was shot between August and October 2005, with an intended date of release being 2006. In May of 2006, I lost my mentor and good friend, former News25 Chief Photographer Leonard Judd. He had been such an inspiration to me for this project. He was there through almost the entire shooting schedule and took the behind the scenes photos. Once each week, we would have lunch together for him to catch up on how things were going in the editing process. Losing him just simply took my heart out of the project. It was hard to continue it without him over my shoulder. In fact, he died while on vacation and had the only copy of the trailer I had at the time with him. He had been showing it to his family. He was so proud to be a part of this and so proud of us, of me, and his approval meant the world to me.

So I put the project away for the better part of a year and a half; I finally got back into it towards the end of 2008. To simply cut the shots together is one thing, but to color correct each and every shot to make it look the best it can, that takes time: lots of time. Then there’s tweaking audio, adding sound effects, special effects and music. Trying to do that while having a life outside the project, plus a wife, two kids, a full time job and other hobbies, made it take a long time to finish. The result is great though and well worth the effort.

SORE THUMBS [ Gaming ]

I

hope you’ve been good this year, because the end of 2009 is full of great video game releases. But before you send your list off to the Fat Man (or if you are the Fat Man), take a second to see what I have to say about some of the biggest holiday releases you may have your eye on.

NeW supeR MARIO BROs. Wii – Wii, rated E for Everyone I would have maybe used the term “Mostly New” when talking about this game. You’ll see lots of shout-outs to previous Mario DAN titles as Nintendo plays heavily WOOlsey on the nostalgia they know you Contributor have for the mustached plumber.

While the game keeps the feel of the classic platformers, things such as balancing a platform with the remote or new power-ups give it a fresh feel.

The ability to play with up to four players is new and makes this game even more enjoyable… usually. Mario games are known for pixel-precise jumps needed to progress, and these can become more difficult when there are three other people in your way.

Still, this isn’t a game-breaking annoyance. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is definitely worth checking out, especially for families planning on playing it together.

CAll OF DuTy: MODeRN WARFARe 2 Xbox 360, PS3, PC, rated M for Mature A lot of you reading this have probably already been playing Modern Warfare 2 for a month already. In case you haven’t been able to check it out yet, add it to your list. Just like its predecessor, Modern Warfare 2 offers an exciting single-player campaign with a multiplayer component you could play for years (and plenty have).

Those two modes alone would have been enough content to call it a finished product, but developers Infinity Ward didn’t stop there. A new

“Special Ops” mode has been added, much to my delight. This mode allows two players to tackle a variety of missions and scenarios via split-screen (finally!) or online.

I’ve definitely spent the most amount of time in this mode.

Expect to find lots of explosions, violence, and even some controversy; all played-out with gorgeous visuals and sound. Keep in mind the warranted “M” rating and be sure whoever will end up playing the game can handle the content within.

Modern Warfare 2 is a wild ride that is sure to keep you playing for a long time.

leFT 4 DeAD 2 Xbox 360, PC, rated M for Mature Gamers are now able to see why Left 4 Dead 2 couldn’t be released as a downloaded add-on to the first game.

The boycott surrounding the sequel has been put to rest and the resisters have been silenced.

A new quartet of survivors has been introduced and they finally know how to hit zombies with objects.

You can now bludgeon the infected with things like machetes, chainsaws, and even guitars while trying to survive. The precision of dismemberment and allaround gore have been upgraded as well, making for some messy encounters.

Levels are much more varied, but at times confusing. Several new weapons have been introduced to help you take down the new types of special infected. Overall, this feels like a more refined and complete experience when compared to the first game. They both feel very similar, as they should, but there are enough nuances that justify the game’s release as a stand-alone product. If you wore the first game out and want more, pick this up. But if the first game never grabbed you, Left 4 Dead 2 most likely isn’t going to win you over.

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And now for something completely different…

T-sHIRTs If you or the gamer in your life are proud of their hobby, a simple t-shirt can show off geekdom instantly. There are plenty of places to buy video game shirts, both online and brick-and-mortar. Websites like myteespot.com or bustedtees.com offer options from classic games to current releases, sometimes with a little humor thrown in.

sTuFF Keep your eyes open and you can find great video game items all over.

Looking around on the Internet may lead you to sites like think geek .com, where I was able to find a “growyour-own” 1up Mushroom, Mario wall-graphics, and a handheld NES for the Nintendo fanboy. I’ve even found vinyl Mega Man figures in CVS and Street Fighter figures in Big Lots!

FIVe MORe gAMINg gIFT IDeAs Controllers – extra standard controllers for fragfests or the Nyko SureShot for gun games on the Wii Classics – be the ghost of gaming past by hunting down some classics from Craigslist or yard sales Netflix – useable on Xbox 360 and PS3 for instant video goodness Online Points – give point cards that can be used to buy games online Time – cheesy I know, but spending time with a gamer if you don’t already can mean more to them than you might think

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Slayer – World Painted Blood

[ CD Reviews ]

(American) 4

yim yameS – triBute to (aTo records) 3

Back in the late 80s, a kid from the neighborhood would show up at the bus stop every morning and say simply, “Slayer is rad.”

He was talking about the now-

PaUl DOCKery Contributor

classics, Reign in Blood and South

Yames is a pseudonym of My

of Heaven, and those of us of

Morning Jacket mainman (and

with similar feelings would nod in

Monsters of Folk sideman) Jim

agreement. That was about all you

James (itself a stage-name).

needed to say.

So you know to expect some

After some missteps in the 90s –

righteous, heartfelt Americana

Undisputed Attitude, Diabolus in Musica, Divine

from the wilds of Kentucky (well,

Intervention – the band whose influence on modern

if Louisville can be called wild,

metal is matched by only a handful of other bands

anyhow). So no real surprises here. This is James

came roaring back from hell with God Hates Us All

solo, and it’s an acoustic, laid-back offering of six

and the outstanding Christ Illusion, which saw Dave

songs. As the title references, this is a re-interpreting

Lombardo return to the drum throne. Now, with

of tunes, here all by the late Beatle George Harrison,

World Painted Blood, Slayer comes not only roaring,

shining a light on Harrison’s oft-overlooked genius.

but careening from hell in a Dodge Demon with

“Long, Long, Long” is a lonely lament, and “Behind

no brakes, a fifth of Jack in hand and an arsenal of

That Locked Door” is given a gentle, rural country

weaponry in the trunk.

vibe. “Love You To” is ghostly, with James’ vocals

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I hate using

drifting away in a dusty cloud, while “My Sweet

that phrase, but if it ever fits, it’s here – Tom Araya’s

Lord” resonates most with me, having heard it so

voice is as powerfully pissed-off as ever; Kerry

often growing up in a Beatles’ fan household. These

King and Jeff Hanneman are writing and playing

tracks are very spare recordings, rattled off by James

better and heavier than most of the snot-nosed

in response to Harrison’s passing way back in 2001.

whippersnappers who need to get the f**k off their

They’ve only now been released.

lawn – and Dave Lombardo – a 44-year-old man – is

Admittedly, serious Harrison fans may scoff at these

drumming like he’s still 19.

low-key re-interpretations, but to a new generation

Like those dismal mornings 20-plus years

tODD zaChritz Contributor

unfamiliar with this under-appreciated Beatle’s

ago, there’s no point waxing on about the band.

contributions, this could be a perfect jumping-off

Slayer is still rad, and World Painted Blood will please

point.

fans of the band who were happily surprised and

-- ToDD ZachriTZ

tantalized by Christ Illusion.

-- Paul Dockery

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and though it does reflect many of our “roots” in this

[ CD Reviews ]

Yim Yames – Tribute To

country, it’s not altogether accurate. On this series of

(ATO Records)

recordings, composers Martin and Wøllo pay tribute

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to the true Americana - the music and spirit of the Native Americans. The worlds of healing, magic, and

Slayer – World Painted Blood

ritual are reflected here in these compositions, and

(American)

with fellow ambient/ethno sound sculptor Steve

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Roach assisting, the duo explores these ceremonial

Back in the late 80s, a kid from the neighborhood

spaces with location recordings, native instruments,

would show up at the bus stop every morning and

chants, and even old 1894 cylinder recordings. “In Between Worlds” is just that -- an audio travelogue examining the spaces between the inner and outer planes, life and death, and the natural and spiritual worlds. It’s a fairly relaxing, ambient sort of sound here, and tracks like “Gathering at Sunrise” are simply beautiful and uplifting collages of chant, light Yames is a pseudonym of My Morning Jacket mainman

percussion, and an irresistibly uplifting groove. These

(and Monsters of Folk sideman)

are songs full of reverence, light, love, and peaceful

Jim James (itself a stage-name).

oneness. Wonderful.

So you know to expect some

-- Todd Zachritz

righteous, heartfelt Americana from the wilds of Kentucky (well,

say simply, “Slayer is rad.” He was talking about the now-classics, Reign in Blood and South of Heaven, and those of us of with similar feelings would nod in agreement. That was about all you needed to say.

After some missteps in the 90s –

Undisputed Attitude, Diabolus in Musica, Divine Intervention – the band whose influence on modern metal is matched by only a handful of other bands came roaring back from hell with God Hates Us All and the outstanding Christ Illusion, which saw Dave Lombardo return to the drum throne. Now, with World Painted Blood, Slayer comes not only roaring, but careening from hell in a Dodge Demon with no brakes, a fifth of Jack in hand and an arsenal of weaponry in the trunk.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I hate using that

phrase, but if it ever fits, it’s here – Tom Araya’s voice is as powerfully pissed-off as ever; Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman are writing and playing better and heavier than most of the snot-nosed whippersnappers

AARON DISTLER Staff Writer

if Louisville can be called wild, anyhow). So no real surprises here. This is James solo, and it’s an acoustic, laid-back offering of six

songs. As the title references, this is a re-interpreting of tunes, here all by the late Beatle George Harrison, shining a light on Harrison’s oft-overlooked genius.

That Locked Door” is given a gentle, rural country

Cannonhands – Laughter, Blood and Spit

vibe. “Love You To” is ghostly, with James’ vocals

(Future Destination Records)

drifting away in a dusty cloud, while “My Sweet

3

“Long, Long, Long” is a lonely lament, and “Behind

Lord” resonates most with me, having heard it so often growing up in a Beatles’ fan household. These

Some of my fondest memories of my time spent at the

tracks are very spare recordings, rattled off by James

University of Southern Indiana involved Billy Perkins

in response to Harrison’s passing way back in 2001.

and sitting in the University Center and chatting about

They’ve only now been released.

music. We were both young and excited about bands,

Admittedly, serious Harrison fans may scoff at these

new and old. Billy would sit across the table from me

low-key re-interpretations, but to a new generation

and say things like, “man, I’ve really been getting

unfamiliar with this under-appreciated Beatle’s

into Elvis Costello lately” and I would say things like,

contributions, this could be a perfect jumping-off

“you’ve gotta hear this new Anniversary record!”

point.

-- Todd Zachritz

who need to get the f**k off their lawn – and Dave

watching come up through the ranks of the Evansville

he’s still 19.

music scene when I still thought playing ska made

Like those dismal mornings 20-plus years

ago, there’s no point waxing on about the band.

Slayer is still rad, and World Painted Blood will please fans of the band who were happily surprised and tantalized by Christ Illusion.

is telling me to check out his new project with Jeremy Edmonson, another colleague who I’d remembered

Lombardo – a 44-year-old man – is drumming like

Some things never change – only now, Billy

you cool.

Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo – Between Worlds

Cannonhands is Billy and Jeremy’s new

band and it’s proven to be quite the undertaking as far

(Spotted Peccary)

as Evansville is concerned. I can’t remember a release

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that’s assembled the cast of musicians this group has.

-- Paul Dockery

Fifteen in all and what matters most is that Laughter, The sound of “Americana” is really a new development,

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Blood and Spit comes off as a wholly organic body of • 87 •

Really, my only complaint with Laughter,

distant. “Summer Insects” drops the beats entirely,

Blood and Spit is that in a way, it’s too adventurous.

and becomes even more effective and organic, like

It’s not that Perkins and Edmonson bit off more than

a paean to a lost rainforest. “Seaside” is a calming

they could chew, they certainly deliver the goods, but

affirmation, while “Kansai” is more upbeat. The

an album chockfull of 15 tracks could’ve used a little

closer, “Temple,” is a celestial gem that sparkles and

bit of editing, such as “All Best are Off.” While, “I’m a

gently lulls. This is some righteously beautiful and

survivor/Just like MacGyver” is a fun lyric, complete

timeless work, and here’s to hoping that Ethernet can

with the “oh no you didn’t!” bridge, it feels out of

continue on this splendid, nature-oriented path.

place on the record.

-- Todd Zachritz

All in all though, it’s a minor complaint

on a strong release. Once you get to the stunningly

KK Null – Oxygen Flash

beautiful chorus of “Your Highways are Bare,” with

(Neurot Recordings)

it’s arching melodies, you’ll agree.

3.5

work. It feels as though many of these musicians have

I’m very much looking forward to the next phone call

been playing together for years.

or email from Billy and co. saying, “you’ve gotta listen

The Japanese icon Null (aka Kazayuki Kishino),

Perkins has always been a great

to this!” because as it stands with the level of growth

for those not yet familiar, is a veteran guitarist

songwriter and over the years I’ve watched him

and maturation in his writing over the years, there

who’s resume reads like a “who’s who” is avant/

mature from writing simply succinct pop songs to

are great things to come.

experimental/noise musics. He’s led trash/noise

those that have more and more texture. The opening

– Aaron Distler

cut, “You Fought Wars” illustrates this perfectly with

and sludge-grind metallists Zeni Geva. He’s also

fingerpicked guitar, tambourine and Perkins’ emotive voice ringing out above the mix, cue the chorus as Edmonson’s drums explode and propel the song

groups like YBO2, Absolut Null Punkt (A.N.P.), collaborated with just about everyone of note in the

Ethernet – 44 Pulsations of Light

forward.

world of left field music for the past 25 years. This new solo release of 2006-2007 work eschews the guitar in favor of loud, unsettling electro-acoustic cacophonies. The nine untitled tracks here clock in

In a lot of ways, Billy’s approach to

(Kranky) 4 at over 49 combined minutes, and they range from Using sound as a meditative or healing instrument

near-power electronics to overloaded, fractured,

songwriting reminded me of Pete Yorn, but on

isn’t a new idea. In fact, this is likely among the

and amplified digitally-processed glitch - sometimes

Laughter, Blood and Spit he branches out, capturing

earliest applications for music itself. Tim Gray (who

grating (and unashamedly so), yet rife with an ear

the spirit of Morrissey or Echo and the Bunnymen

is Ethernet) seeks to re-establish the self-healing

for subtlety upon deeper absorption. Track four is

on “Been a Long Time” or Whiskeytown on “Habit

and trance-provoking elements of ambient sound

a particularly monolithic slab of barreling, broken

O’ Mine” featuring Christina D. Stupley on violin,

on his debut here. Beginning with the drones of

rhythms, and chaotic electro-percolations.

hearkening back to echoes of Caitlin Carey and Ryan

“Majestic,” Gray’s shimmering pulses are grounded

Adams fiddle-tinged duets.

by an underlying 808 backbeat -- a singular, simplistic

distortions and proto-rhythms, sounding quite alien

Track five is a stinging barrage of trebly

“Wait for It” is a sonic blast, bringing in

rhythm. “5 + 7 = 12” is almost melodic, as a lilting

and disorienting, while track 6 is a hypnotic space-

Bruce Nguyen in on guitar bringing back memories

loop is placed among the electronic textures and

out collision of Geiger pops and squeltchiness. Other

of the two performing as Moonlight Heist, but

field recordings. That dubby back-rhythm, combined

tracks are similarly foreign and, due to their rather

Edmonson’s drums take the song to another level

with the trancey natural landscapes, reminds me a

extreme nature, difficult to ignore or relegate to the

providing the perfect punctuation to Nguyen’s

bit of the landmark work of Wolfgang Voigt as Gas,

background. Null’s skills are evident here, as in the

onslaught of sonic discourse.

although Ethernet is more drone-based and hazy/

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listeners in gauzy noise and guitars like a lava lamp set to “destroy”. “Music of the

vocals. The Moody Blues’

Dark Torrent” is a stark, layered guitar piece that encircles itself peacefully until

“Nights in White Satin” is

a series of disorienting digital tones take over the mix. Weird and otherworldly.

also respectfully updated,

“The Hawk of Achill” brings in Al Cisneros of Sleep/Om fame for a trance-inducing

with a superb mix of organic

percussive assault that reminds of Amon Duul II-meets-Neu!-gone-evil. Amazing.

instrumentation and sleek

The journey ends with the ambient electronics of “Centre of the World,” tempering

programming.

the fires that burned so intensely on this wondrous and truly hallucinogenic rock

standouts? Depeche Mode’s

album.

“I Feel You” is trippier and -- Todd ZachriTZ

Other

better-produced than the original.

Bowie’s amazing

Collide – These eyes Before

“Space Oddity” is given a

(Noiseplus Music)

wonderfulmodernelectronic

4.5

cyber-grafting, with kaRIN’s breezy vocals pointed to the celestial heavens. Chris Isaak’s “Baby Did a Bad Thing”

This California group’s fifth full-length shines a new light on the duo’s darkly

effectively brings some smoldering, gritty rock to the table, and Fleetwood Mac’s

sensual grooves. Formed in the mid-90s amidst the industrial rock frenzy,

percussive “Tusk” is recreated, with actual marching band, and it all closes out

programmer Statik and vocalist kaRIN have steadily built a solid reputation

with another Pink Floyd classic, “Comfortably Numb.” Normally, I’d shout “heresy,”

and audience, fully independently, and their work has been instrumental in

as some things are just sacred, but Collide admirably pull it off, adding a cool and

diversifying an increasingly testosterone-laden electronic dance/rock scene. They

deep layer of mood to the song’s already-potent melancholy. A superb release, and

have befriended and worked alongside artists like Tool, Skinny Puppy, and Prince,

perhaps their best yet.

but fittingly, it’s their own work that garners them the most attention.

-- Todd ZachriTZ

These Eyes Before is a collection of ten covers, beginning with Pink Floyd’s “Breathe,” which is transformed into a lovely and fantastic soundscape with an appropriately spaced-out vibe, and of course kaRIN’s smooth and ethereal

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UNBREAKABLE (Buena Vista) In 1999, Bruce Willis and a mindblowing twist-ending to The Sixth Sense put M. Night Shyamalan on the map. One year later, the director many compared to Alfred Hitchcock, made his best movie, Unbreakable, and Bruce Willis once again climbed aboard the train. And a train is exactly what causes Willis’ character, David Dunn, to give into fate. After surviving a horrific train crash that claims a hundred lives, David learns that fate has a very important and noble role for him.

MOULIN ROUGE (20th Century fox) Baz Lurhmann’s dizzying spectacle revived and reinvented the movie-musical, a Hollywood art form that had, for all practical purposes, flat-lined! Throw in a sexy and sultry Nicole Kidman, the surprising golden tenor of Ewan McGregor and an all-you-can-eatbuffet-of-a-soundtrack and you have movie magic!

AlSO IN 2001...

MEMENTO (Newmarket films) Long before The Dark Knight, writer/director Christopher Nolan was a force to be reckoned with.

And his screenplay for this head-scratcher is one of the most original works I have ever seen. Guy Pearce stars as brain-damaged Leonard Shelby, a man who must rely on notes, photos and tattoos to reconstruct the memory of how his wife was murdered.

[ Best Movies of the Decade ]

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reetings, Faithful Readers!

2009, a year which has brought us lots of tragedy (The Orphan and The Box) and a few gems (Every Little Step and I Love You, Man), is drawing to its close and I am just one month away Chad from giving you my full assessment of Benefield the year that was. So, in preparation Contributor for the forthcoming BEST OF LIST, I decided to recap for you some of my favorite films of the past decade (not including 2009, of course, because the jury is still out and, in some cases, trying to see through those blasted 3-D glasses). Now, I realize fully that some of you out there value my opinions while others think I am full of the proverbial steaming heap that hit the fan. But nevertheless, here goes. I hope, at the very least, that you give the titles unfamiliar to you a shot. They are spectacular!

KILL BILL: VOLUME ONE (Miramax) No one tells a story like Quentin Tarantino and this is his BEST story. Uma Thurman stars as a bride gunned down on her wedding day (I hope she didn‘t spend a lot on a caterer!).

The assailants, her ex-boyfriend Bill and his band of deadly assassins, leave her for dead. But she’s alive and scribing a hit list and checking it twice. She’s going to kill those who’ve been naughty instead of nice. This is raucous fun! **Also watch the fabulous conclusion: Kill Bill: Volume Two.

AlSO IN 2001...

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (New Line Cinema) Peter Jackson’s epic endeavor gave us three straight years of Rings, Towers and Kings. Jackson’s Middle Earth masterpiece is engrossing, magical, mystical, and suspenseful. I have said this on my radio show, The Screening Room, repeatedly and I mean it. Movies haven’t been the same since Frodo Baggins and his pals left the cineplex.

AlSO IN 2003...

ROAD TO PERDITION (DreamWorks) For all its Mafia-inspired intensity and suspense, Sam Mendes’ masterful crime drama is really a story of a father and his young son and the learning moments they share while on the run for their lives. Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig shine. For me, this is a perfect film.

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WHALE RIDER (Newmarket films) Niki Caro’s tale of a young tribal girl (played sensationally by Keisha Castle-Hughes), who fully realizes her destiny and becomes leader of her Maori people, is one of the most uniquely inspirational films I have ever seen and it sports one of the best performances by a young actress ever caught on tape. This is a truly triumphant film for all ages and will make you weep with both sadness and joy!

IN AMERICA (Fox Searchlight) With this semi-autobiographical film, director Jim Sheridan (The Boxer, In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot) gives us his most complete, moving and powerful work. The story of an Irish immigrant who moves his family of four to Manhattan so he can pursue his dream of becoming an actor is as reverent to the “American Dream” as it is realistic about it. In America’s plotlines are simple and familiar. This is a film every American can relate to. www.News4UOnline.com • Evansville December 2009

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[ New Releases ] CLOSER (Sony) Warning! This is not a date movie!

Don’t curl up on the couch with popcorn and a lover and expect to enjoy this.

Mike Nichols’ in-your-face expose on the pitfalls and myths of true love will challenge you and force you to examine the nature of your own relationships.

Clive Owen, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts (in her best performance) serve up brutal honesty about relationships, infidelity in them and the terrible things humans will do and say to people they supposedly love.

V FOR VENDETTA (Warner Brothers) I’ve never seen a movie quite like James McTeigue’s V For Vendetta. Penned by the famed Wachowski brothers (who gave us The Matrix), Vendetta paints a portrait of a world crippled by a culture of fear. Plague has wiped out the United States. England is the world’s new super power and, consequently, civilization’s greatest oppressor. One man, V (played by Hugo Weaving), vows to bring Parliament to his knees and does so in a triumphant display of fireworks, rebellion and freedom.

CRASH (Lionsgate) Director Paul Haggis’ interwoven study of race relations in Los Angeles is a masterpiece. It’s a star-studded social commentary that is gritty, disturbing and painfully politicallyincorrect. No movie this decade challenged my personal belief systems more. The performances (specifically by Matt Dillon, Michael Pena and Sandra Bullock) are superb and the film contains one scene so harrowing that it truly made my heart stop beating.

AlSO IN 2005...

BROKEN FLOWERS (Focus Features) Bill Murray is at his best in writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s quirky story of a womanizer who learns that one of his former girlfriends gave birth to his son some twenty years ago. Playing the old flames . . . Frances Conroy, Tilda Swinton, Jessica Lange and Sharon Stone. Subtle humor, subtle performances and pitch-perfect delivery make this one of the funniest movies of the decade.

ZODIAC (Paramount) David Fincher’s study of the San Francisco Valley’s famed Zodiac Killer proves that he is the master of the psychological thriller. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. shine in this unrelenting hypothesis about the true identity of a killer never captured. John Carroll Lynch, who steals the show as creepy prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, gives the most frightening portrayal of a psychopath since Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS (Miramax) I am rarely stunned and NEVER speechless. But, when the credits rolled on Mark Herman’s powerful adaptation of John Boyne’s novel, I was both stunned and speechless. This harrowing tale of friendship set against the backdrop of a concentration camp in Nazi Germany tells its story through the eyes of a child.

Young Bruno (Asa Butterfield) has no concept of the atrocities being committed by his Nazi father and the other soldiers around him. But that’s the point. Most adults can’t conceive such horrors, so how could a child?

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t ents Tha le v E f o e n A Timeli nsidered Notab Co Could Be January 14, 2009: Actor

Doug Messel Staff Writer

Ricardo Montalbán dies. At his funeral, William Shatner silently whispers, “Khaaaaaan.”

January 20, 2009: Barack Obama elected President of the United States. Neither Satan or Jesus return. In fact, nothing extremely terrible or wonderful occurs as a result of this change in leadership. The world does not end… obviously.

H1N1 – God’s anger at the Gosselin family. is a product of God’s anger over Kate Gosselin being allowed to raise children.

June 10, 2009: Miss California Carrie Prejean loses her crown in the aftermath of a controversy beginning many months ago, which no one worth their weight in salt really cares about. She begins legal proceedings immediately for being unlawfully deposed. The Pageant organization counter sues— she apparently owes them money for the cost of her breast implants. God, how did we get here?

June 22, 2009: Jon and Kate Gosselin announce on their television show their intention to begin divorce proceedings. Rational people everywhere rejoice at the idea of Jon & Kate Plus 8 being cancelled.

Deluded Americans conclude that life is over—and that Barack Obama is at fault.

Michael Jackson passes away. This was indeed it. a new song or produced a hit in over 15 years. The internet itself almost crashes from the outpouring of “OMGWTF!”

July 7, 2009: Michael Jackson’s funeral is televised on many networks. Humanity, subsequently, loses its status as the most rational species on the planet.

September 13, 2009: Kanye West steals the microphone from Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards and gives a drunken speech. The television audience of twenty people discovers that Kanye West is, in fact, a jackass. President Obama is the first high-profile person to publicly make this statement.

He is vilified by West, who swears allegiance to the Republican Party. Yeah. It’s that F$#@$ing stupid.

Khaaaaan!

The entire year: Politicians attempt to agree

November 10, 2009: Carrie Prejean goes

on a method of health care reform which will please everyone. Since nothing can please everyone, all plans seem to stagnate. Doug gives up hope that he’ll be able to afford insurance after graduation—resorts to prostitution to pay his potential hospital bills. He ends up contracting syphilis and receives workman’s comp.

on television again to discuss her “sex tape.” The tape is apparently of Prejean “performing solo” for a boyfriend. The tape is not released, because she is purportedly 17, but she gets a book deal. Doug, meanwhile, throws rocks at his television because Prejean is paid to write about her life and he is not.

America still doesn’t care.

November 26, 2009: For the first time

Her memory is celebrated for several hours the afternoon of June 25.

June 25, 2009: Farrah Fawcett dies. She is The world does not end.

April 24, 2009: H1N1, or “Swine Flu,” enters the national and global conscience for the first time.

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remembered for her brave struggle with cancer for several hours during the day, before…

June 25, 2009: Michael Jackson dies. The world immediately ignores Farrah Fawcett and treats this as an international tragedy, despite the fact that Jackson was preparing for a ridiculously expensive series of concerts in London and had not actually written

since its inception, Americans forget to celebrate Thanksgiving because they’re just so darn excited for Christmas. Vengeful spirits of Native Americans involved in the Thanksgiving debacle rise from the grave, but are subdued by the Ghostbusters before they can murder everyone in New England.

November 27-December 25, 2009: Retailers, liberals, and other demonic forces declare a war on Christmas, instead urging people to celebrate the vague notion of “Holidays.” Ignore the fact that “Happy Holidays” can be a much more efficient way of saying “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,” especially given the rising cost of paper and other promotional materials. GIVE IT A REST.

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fter struggling to make it work, Horrorscopes and I are done. We broke up and I filed for a restraining order. They were becoming more painful to deal with than an hour of Jay Leno’s lame jokes, or watching Bruce Jenner trying to make expressions with his plastic face.

[ We’re Doomed ]

Halloween was pretty fun. We dressed my daughter up as a dinosaur (T-Rex to be exact), collected some candy, and then ate her candy. We watched Cannibal Holocaust with some friends and ate some of their candy while the cannibals in the jungle dismembered and ate the actors. After that disturbing Brandon movie, we came home and went to sleep. I woke up to a bunch of loud pops.

Kaelin Jarred from my slumber, I thought my furnace might be blowing up. Then a Contributor cop knocked on my door at 3:30 in the morning to explain my drunk neighbor was firing his pistol out of his front window. A few hours later, the SWAT team was parked in my front lawn and didn’t leave until he was extricated. What calamity. My neighbor is still in jail and probably won’t be my neighbor anymore. Too bad he wasn’t wearing a funny costume when the media taped him getting arrested.

I’m still sick. It started with the flu a month ago, then evolved to pneumonia. It’s pretty rad. I’ve accrued almost two grand in debt from seeing doctors, visiting the ER and purchasing multiple antibiotics and prescriptions. The last time I went to the urgent care, I waited for four hours and sat next to a guy that had a giant laceration on his head from getting hit with a cooler. I heard him tell the lady at the front desk the cooler weighed thirteen pounds. He and the lady waiting with him talked about cell phone plans for an hour or so. She thought she was hot stuff because she was like 60 and people kept text messaging her. Then a really fat lady sat next to me and encroached on my space. She was breathing really heavy, probably because her circulatory system was working so hard. Being crammed between her and the head-wound guy that wouldn’t stop talking about how expensive phone plans for Blackberrys are, I lost my cool and had a coughing fit. My face turned red and I thought my head was going to pop off. I’m sure everyone thought I had the swine flu. I should’ve coughed on all the door knobs just to make them paranoid.

So I guess I’m really doomed, especially if my upcoming x-rays turn out bad. Sounds like my neighbor is too. But aren’t we all sooner or later...

TWITTER

(I’M IMPORTANT! I’M IMPORTANT! I’M IMPORTANT! I’M IMPORTANT!) My cat just puked up a hairball. It was gross. There are chunks of food mixed in.

Before I could get a rag and the Resolve, the dog ate the chunks and licked up the slop.

Now the dog puked, and both of the cats jumped on the stove after walking through his intestinal juices. There are paw prints everywhere.

My phone is ringing; I’m not going to answer.

The baby just pooped. Some of it got on my hand while I was changing the diaper.

I puked in the trash can. I better change my t-shirt because there’s vomit on it.

She’s crying. I have a headache.

I think I’ll have frozen pizza for dinner.

The pizza was good, although not quite crispy enough. Now I’ll pig out on some candy. I hope I don’t forget to brush my teeth later :( ROTFL! This show with all these obese people doing exercises is pretty funny!

They sure do cry a lot though.

My ears hurt, I think I might have a sinus infection.

Ahhh! The baby just pooped, again. I hope this goes well.

One of the cats is eating q-tips he pulled out from the bathroom trash can. The other one is in the corner on the rug licking his privates. The baby keeps trying to put a rubber duck on his head. He seems annoyed.

Maybe I’ll pack hot dogs for lunch tomorrow. Nothing like tasty wieners to overcome a case of the Monday’s! Am I right?

Getting ready for bed.

Almost asleep. Doh! I forgot to brush my teeth. And I think the dog farted :(

*Note: Twitter is retarded. Kind of like when men wear tight, revealing shorts, sport rat-tails or continue to tight-roll their jeans in the 21st century. Don’t Twitter, people. It’s worthless, redundant and a complete waste of time. Our society is decaying fast enough, and this type of nonsensical activity is only speeding up the process. Want to pass the time? Read a book. Or listen to the new Slayer album.

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