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aybe I’m just getting old, but I tend to regard any new holiday songs, movies or TV shows with extreme suspicion. It may be a kneejerk reaction to the preponderance of unremarkable Christmas pop songs that start bellowing over radio or department store speakers as soon as that last fun-size Snickers bar makes its long descent into a trick or treat bag. It used to be a special thrill to hear the familiar chords of a Christmas carol in a public setting, because it meant that the holidays were imminent, but this year, my first radio encounter with “Jingle Bell Rock” happened while driving home from work on Halloween evening. Regardless of timing, the sheer volume of seasonal music can be overwhelming too, and the release of a holiday album seems to be a rite of passage required of all artists. One of the latest entries in the parade of holiday CDs actually comes from the wildly popular A&E reality show “Duck Dynasty.” The album, “Duck the Halls—A Robertson Family Christmas,” features tunes entitled “Camouflage and Christmas Lights,” and “Hairy Christmas,” in addition to more traditional offerings such as “Silent Night” and “Away in a Manger.” I admit that when it comes to my preferences in Christmas music, the dignity and elegance of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” and Nat King Cole’s “A Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting

arranged to have live turkeys dropped out of a helicopter as a promotional stunt (“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!”). For edgier fare (if it’s possible to be edgier than a mass turkey slaughter), “Home for the Holidays” and “Pieces of April” feature dysfunctional family relationships, good vs. bad sibling dynamics, and the fragile nature of family reunions, with the sacred Thanksgiving dinner as the centerpiece. Anyone who has ever been part of a family can relate to something in one of these movies… and at the very least, it will make your family seem normal in comparison. Now and then, a relatively recent IMAGES PROVIDED film captures the imagination of viewers and has the staying power to be deemed on an Open Fire)” a “new classic.” The 2003 Will Ferrell generally trump any charmer “Elf” is celebrating its 10th current pop songs. anniversary this year, and I’ll be the But who can resist first to admit that it offers the perfect the guilty pleasure mixture of outrageous physical comedy, a of checking out heartwarming redemption arc, and catchy, a song called “Ragin’ Cajun Redneck quotable dialogue. (In other words, “Elf” Christmas?” When it comes to screens both big and is the new “Christmas Vacation.”) Many small, I tend to gravitate towards my old theatergoers can’t favorites as well. The universally beloved get into the holiday trio of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” spirit until they’ve “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” have made their yearly trek to a favorite heralded the season since the ’60s, and I see no reason to improve upon perfection. play, concert or musical. The annual Even oft-overlooked Thanksgiving comes on strong in the category of TV and production of “A Christmas Carol” is movie representation: The John Candy/ a highly anticipated Steve Martin vehicle (pun intended) tradition at the “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” Goodman Theatre makes the frustrations of holiday travel in Chicago as well as entertaining, and one of the most uproarious sequences in television sitcom at local community stages, and many history was the notorious 1978 “turkey Northwest Indiana drop” episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati,” residents return every in which the radio station manager

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year to “A Fabulous 50’s Christmas” at the Towle Theater in Hammond, or the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Pops concert. Theater producers are now marrying nostalgia and novelty by bringing classic holiday shows to the stage in musical form. This season, a new production, “Elf the Musical,” will be playing at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre; “A Christmas Carol the Musical” will be playing at Theatre at the Center in Munster; and even “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” goes live at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse. Holiday music, TV shows, movies and stage productions are as big a part of the holidays as shopping, parties, and fudge headaches, and the annual flood of new releases is a trend that appears to be here to stay. So whether you prefer novelty classics such as “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” instead of “O, Holy Night”—or you would rather go see the Rockettes than “The Nutcracker” ballet— it doesn’t matter. What’s important is to try and embrace something new every once in a while. Every tradition starts somewhere…why not start one today? -KATHRYN MACNEIL -

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219.741.0435. anne-marieprince. com. More than 80 upscale vendors, crafters and direct sellers will have items for sale during this fundraiser supporting the communities of Northwest Indiana. The event also features gift bags for the first 100 shoppers, entertainment, a cash bar, concessions and raffles.

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Assessment and Stroke Screenings, 4-6pm, Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus Pavilion B, 200 E 89th 2:15-3pm Mon, Wed, Fri, Hobart NOV 25 Blood Pressure and BMI Family YMCA, 601 W 40th Pl, Hobart. Screenings, 10am-noon, 1-3pm, Hebron Ave, Merrillville. 888.909.3627. 219.942.2183. hobartymca.org. This Public Library, 201 W Sigler Rd, Hebron. methodisthospitals.org. A variety of screenings are available. Registration gentle yet effective class employs 219.996.3684. pcpls.lib.in.us. Porter required. different types of walking techniques Health Care System offers these free to improve muscle tone and flexibility. screenings. No appointment needed. DEC 6 Holly Days, 5-7pm, Central Park Plaza, Lafayette & Indiana Sts, THROUGH DEC 1 NOV 29-DEC 15 Little downtown Valparaiso. 219.464.8332. Abstraction…A Second Look— Women, 8pm Fri, Sat, 2pm Sun, valparaisoevents.com. Downtown Paintings by Tom Brand, The Center Memorial Opera House, 104 Indiana Valparaiso celebrates the most for Visual and Performing Arts Atrium St, Valparaiso. 219.548.9137. wonderful time of the year with Gallery, 1040 Ridge Rd, Munster. memorialoperahouse.com. Based holiday music, ice carvings, a holiday 219.836.1839. southshoreartsonline. on the classic novel by Louisa May village market and a live nativity. org. Artist Tom Brand’s paintings have Alcott, this play follows the March a surface glow and luster achieved sisters as they grow up during through the use of under painting DEC 11 Bone Density Screening, TONY V. MARTIN, THE TIMES America’s Civil War. and glazes, a studio technique 8am, Valparaiso Family YMCA Y “A Christmas Story” Comes developed during the Renaissance. Community Room, 1201 Cumberland NOV 30-DEC 14 A Fabulous Home exhibit boasts a new window This technique combined with his Crossing Dr, Valparaiso. 888.909.3627. 50’s Christmas, Towle Community for 2013. thoughtful sense of form, color and Theater, 5205 Hohman Ave, Hammond. valpoymca.org. Participants must be composition set his work apart. this exhibition honoring those who able to remove their shoes to have 219.937.8780. towletheater.org. This have fought for freedom and those this free screening performed on holiday show pays homage to the fighting to reintegrate into society the heel of the foot. Education and Perry Como and Andy William’s THROUGH DEC 15 E. John after their war experiences. information about bone health and Christmas specials of the 1950s and Walford Exhibit, Brauer Museum of 60s, complete with vocal arrangements the prevention and treatment of Art, Valparaiso University Center for osteoporosis also is available. and commercials from the era. the Arts, 1709 Chapel Dr, Valparaiso. NOV 20 Parkinson Disease valpo.edu/artmuseum. E. John Walford Seminar, 5:30pm, Valparaiso Family offers his take on biblical stories YMCA Y Community Room, 1201 DEC 1 Holiday Festival Vendor DEC 12 Holiday Pops, 7:30pm, through his digital collages. Cumberland Crossing Dr, Valparaiso. & Craft Event, 10am-4pm, Radisson Star Plaza Theatre, 8001 Delaware Pl, 888.909.3627. valpoymca.org. Dr. Arif Hotel at Star Plaza, 800 E 81st Merrillville. 219.836.0525. nisorchestra. org. The Northwest Indiana Symphony THROUGH JAN 5 ‘A Christmas Dalvi presents this free seminar on the Ave, Merrillville. 219.741.0435. annelatest life-changing tools now available marieprince.com. Attendees can Orchestra gets in the spirit of Story’ Comes Home, Indiana for those with Parkinson’s Disease. browse the wares of more than the season with a combination of Welcome Center, 7770 Corinne 70 upscale vendors, crafters and contemporary and classic holiday Dr, Hammond. 800.255.5253. direct sellers. The first 100 shoppers music. The audience is encouraged southshorecva.com/achristmasstory. NOV 21 Holiday for Heroes, to sing along to the beloved carols. Each year visitors come to the Indiana 5-8pm, Indiana Welcome Center, 7770 will receive free gift bags and the afternoon features entertainment, a Children should keep an eye out for Welcome Center to view the six Corrine Dr, Hammond. 800.255.5253. cash bar and concession and raffle Santa. Non-perishable food items animatronic window displays from southshorecva.com. This special baskets. Proceeds benefit the Fair will be collected for the Food Bank of Macy’s Department Store in New York evening of appreciation for the Haven Center for Women. Northwest Indiana. featuring different scenes from “A region’s police, firefighters, EMS, Christmas Story.” A variety of events military forces and Hoosier Helpers and activities also pay homage to this features cookies and hot cocoa, plus DEC 1 Holiday Market, noon-6pm, DEC 14 Pop Up Art Event, holiday classic. a chance for the heroes and their Centennial Park, 900 N Centennial 5-9pm, Lake St, Gary. 219.951.9393. families to take a free photo with Park, Munster. 219.836.6922. munster. millerbeacharts.org. Since 2011, this Santa. The event is open exclusively to org. The place to go for sure-to-bepopular event has drawn more than THROUGH FEB 9 Citizen  the heroes and their families. loved gifts, this outdoor market offers 75 local artists and more than 1200 Soldier  Citizen, Lubeznik Center a variety of one-of-a-kind items. visitors. Artists can display their for the Arts, 101 W Second St, Michigan work in empty storefronts in Miller City. 219.874.4900. lubeznikcenter. NOV 23 Feeding Hope Vendor & org. Contemporary works by military Craft Fundraiser, 9am-3pm, Avalon DEC 3 Healthy Eating and Smart Beach’s Arts and Creative District at no charge. combat veterans will be on display at Manor, 3550 E US Hwy 30, Merrillville. Moves, 3-4pm, Methodist Hospitals

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Around twenty years ago two tough little old ladies were having dinner and drinks in Crown Point, Ind., talking about the good old days and the bad old days. “Think how much fun it would be,” said one to the other. “You’d get your own director’s chair, you’d have dinner every night with movie stars. Just tell ‘em your story next time somebody knocks on your door.” Former Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley had been slamming her door on inquisitive faces for 50 years. “Come on, Lillian,” said the first lady, “What’s up with the Dillinger thing?”

illian Holley was 42 years old and sheriff when Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, escaped from the “escape proof” jail in Crown Point in 1934. Holley was serving out her husband Roy’s second term as sheriff, after he was killed in the line of duty. Five years ago they had moved from Hammond to the sheriff’s house, attached to the jail, where more than 100 prisoners could be held. (For 76 years, until 1958, county sheriffs were required by law to live next to the jail.) It was not a great time for women to be in law enforcement. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover claimed that women were not suitable to work as special agents due to their unpredictable nature. He said that even though women “probably could learn to fire a gun,” he could not imagine them “shooting it out with gangsters.” After Dillinger’s escape, Chicago Crime Commissioner Frank J. Loesch said, “That’s what might be expected of having a woman for sheriff.” After the escape, one headline screamed: “SLIM WOMAN, MOTHER OF TWINS, CONTROLLED DILLINGER AS SHERIFF.” Sheriff Holley is reported to have said, “I’m not a sissy. I can take it on the chin. But I feel that I am getting the blame for this just because I am a woman.” No wonder she decided not to talk about it. But the story spread that John Dillinger used a fake gun, carved out of wood or soap, in order to escape. (Three different versions of this pretend pistol have been reported or sold by three different people). And since 1934, the people in Crown Point, Ind., have been split down the middle on the burning question of “the gun.” Some believed rumors. Others kept their lips zipped along with the former sheriff, who refused to talk to about it for years. Sheriff Holley died in 1994, when she was 102. Did John Dillinger use a phony gun to break out

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of jail? Was a real gun smuggled into him? If so, who smuggled it? Were various law enforcement officials paid off? Here’s a new RRI (Really Radical Idea): design a divertissement that addresses the controversy, doesn’t take sides, illuminates different interpretations, and puts it all in a historical context. Oh, yeah, and DENISE DECLUE make it fun. It’s kind of like the play, “Tony and Tina’s Wedding.” Every Saturday night, a fabulous caterer would set up dinner in the beautifully restored front and lower rooms of the Old Sheriff’s House and Jail in Crown Point. Sheriff Holley describes how her husband, a Democrat, was asked to run in a Republican district, and he won. She doesn’t like living in the sheriff’s house with her twin daughters very much at all— with up to 100 prisoners in the back. And now with John Dillinger there, the place is crawling with all kinds of law enforcement. Not fun. The policeman stops to whisper to a couple of cellies at the end of the row. One of them is a fairly good-looking, middle-aged, gangster-type with a small moustache. He brags about the various banks he’s robbed including New Castle, Daleville, Bluffton, Montpelier—and how he already broke out of a couple of other jails. “A jail’s like a worm in a nut,” he says, “The worm can always get out.” “I know he’s a bad baby and a jailbreaker but I can handle him,” says Sheriff Holley. Meanwhile Dillinger maintains that he has never killed anybody, that it’s Hoover who is making such a big deal about him. He says he’s just a small-town baseball-playing kid from the corn fields.

The bell is rung for dinner, and when guests return to the dining area, they take their seats with 1930s folk, including good-looking ladies who say they are visiting the incarcerated. They are all proud that Crown Point has retrieved the FBI’s Public Enemy Number One. They talk about his history of banditry, his gangs. They talk about FDR, the Great Depression, the failure of so many banks and the Dionne Quintuplets. Just as dinner plates are being cleared away, a hubbub breaks out in the hallway behind them. The Gangster, wielding what looks like a gun, yells at everybody and forces policemen to shove them into the kitchen area. The FBI’s Public Enemy Number One is breaking out of jail! With a malevolent laugh, he slams the door on the guests and rushes away. A policeman runs to the door. “He’s taking the sheriff’s car!” he hollers. Dessert is served as another policeman releases the folks that Dillinger has locked up. They all agree it was an “inside job.” But they blame each other for helping the gangster escape. Some say the gun was real; others that it was made out of soap or wood. Sheriff Lillian points to the photo the prosecuting attorney posing with Dillinger. She swears it was a real gun that somebody smuggled in. Others maintain Dillinger conned the policemen into thinking it was real. The Prosecuting Attorney accuses Sheriff Lillian of being sweet on him. She says she’d like to shoot him herself. As waiters circulate with coffee, the actor playing The Judge asks guests how they think Dillinger was able to escape. Guests can decide the controversial history of what happened in the old Crown Point jail. The thing is, every night Dillinger will escape at a different time. You’ll never know when it’s gonna happen. A bang-up good time is promised to all. Proceeds would go to pay the good actors (and the bad ones) and to further restoration of the building. Oh, yeah, back to the little old ladies: “Well,” Former Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley finally told her pal, “it was a real gun.” A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE TIMES MEDIA CO.

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Brown County Mornings Gary Moore with James P. Eagleman Quarry Press, $40 Landscape photographer Gary Moore and writer James P. Eagleman show why Brown County has been a favorite for artists for over a century.

Penguin Drop Caps Hardcover Book Series, $22 each. Each cover of the Drop Caps series features a single letter of the alphabet, designed by type designer Jessica Hische, making these rainbow-hued classics just as beautiful to look at as they are to read. Masterpieces by authors like Jane Austen, James Joyce, and Charles Dickens have never looked so good. Available from Penguin Books or on Amazon.com

Brass swing arm wall lamp, $145. Brass furnishings fell of out favor for a while, but they are back with a vengeance, and these individually handcrafted buffed brass lamps are a perfect example of the delicate beauty that is characterizing a great deal of modern lighting. An exposed bulb keeps the look simple, and it ensures a direct light that is great for reading. Available from onefortythree.

Olivewood Cutting Board, $39.99. This beautiful marbled cutting board, made of European olivewood, would add a bit of organic elegance to any kitchen. Perfect as a serving platter for a wine-and4 cheese gathering, an everyday cutting board, or even a display tray for trinkets and jewelry, this is a versatile and durable piece that will last for years to come. Available at World Market.

“Softest Throw” in Ombré, $49. Not only are these throws cozy, they are also perfectly on-trend with their ombré shading. (Ombré, which is French for “shade,” means to have a design in which the color is graduated from light to dark.) When the winter rolls around, these soft blankets are ideal for keeping toasty. Available at West Elm.

Reversible Canvas Bins, $34.99. These organic cotton bins are perfect for corralling craft supplies, toys, magazines, pet supplies, and other odds-and-ends. Not only are they sturdy, machinewashable, reversible and heightadjustable, they are also attractive enough to leave out in the open, so all your necessary items can be close at hand. Available at the Container Store.

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“Ink 12” Giclee Print by Tracy Hiner, $39.99-179.99. Watercolor wallpapers have taken the interior design world by storm this year, but they can be quite an investment, both in terms of visual space and cost. This Tracy Hiner piece, composed with vibrant, earthy tones, will give you a taste of that ethereal, dreamy look at a reasonable price. Available from Art.com.

Que White 20” Pillow, $39.95. Every room needs some textural elements to give it a sense of depth, and there’s no easier way to achieve a rich, layered look than by adding textured accent pillows. Sheepskin and fur pillows are popular options, but this cotton loop pillow is an unexpected, modern twist. Available at CB2.

Solstice Mirror, $150. Sunburst mirrors are a tried-and-true way to add visual interest and light to a room, and they work well both in gallery wall arrangements and on their own. This particular mirror, with its spines of equal lengths and a concentric circle pattern, is an updated version of a design classic, and it would work equally well with traditional or modern décor. Available from Lulu and Georgia.

Dansk Kobenstyle White 6-Quart Casserole, $129.95. Kobenstyle, iconic lightweight enameled cookware designed by Jens Quistgaard in 1956, has a timeless design that fits any kitchen style. This highly functional piece is perfect for roasted meats, soups, and stews, and to make the oven-to-table transition even easier, the lid doubles as a trivet. Available at Crate and Barrel.

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Building Ideas: An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago Jay Pridmore and Tom Rossiter University of Chicago Press $25 Chicago based architectural writer Pridmore and photographer Rossiter trace the ways University of Chicago manifests the works forward-thinking architects to design buildings that augment traditional ideals while redefining the contemporary campus. Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten Pamela Hicks Simon & Schuster $26 A must for those of us who love reading about life among the aristocracy, Hicks, whose ancestry includes two saints, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly’s pinup and a grandmother who was not only a princess’s memoir takes through her upper crust childhood. Dreams of Duneland: A Pictorial History of the Indiana Dunes Region Kenneth J. Schoon Quarry Press $30 In this beautifully illustrated book, Schoon highlights not only the towering dunes but also the other marvels of this landscape. Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs Paul Koudounaris Thames & Hudson $29.95 Unique and sepulchral beautiful, photographer/writer Paul Koudounaris tells the story of “the catacomb saints,” skeletons discovered in 1578 in labyrinth of underground tombs in Rome.

Nate Berkus Woven Rattan Table Lamp Base, $54.99. Nate Berkus is a critically acclaimed interior designer who has a great eye for combining trendy and traditional elements. This rattan lamp joins texture, natural materials, and a classic shape, which makes it an easy way to add interest and style to any room. Available at Target.

The King’s Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds Philippa Langley and Michael Jones St. Martin’s Press $27.99 For those who love a good historical mystery, what better than the missing princes and their reviled uncle, Richard the Third. The older of the two boys, sons of Richard’s deceased brother King Edward IV, were destined to be king when Richard usurped his place and put the boys into “safe keeping.”

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CULINARY gifts Black Star Pear and It’s Spirit Black Star Farm blackstarfarms In the spring, as tiny pears buds begin to appear in the orchard, the winemakers at Black Star tie bottles over the branches in hopes that in time luscious sweet pears will ripen inside. When this happens, the pears are harvested, cleaned, the bottles filled with pear brandy from the same orchard and then PROVIDED hand labeled for Black Star pear this special limited and it’s spirit. presentation. Located on beautiful Sutton Bay north of Traverse City, Black Star Farms is a unique agricultural destination featuring two winery production facilities with adjacent tasting rooms, a distillery, Inn, dining room and café as well as an equestrian facility. Entice Ice Wine Brandy Cooking Classes Chateau Chantal chateauchantal.com With its hints of sugar and spice, this rich and full bodied dessert wine—a blend of Riesling ice wine (made from grapes after the first hard freeze) and brandy aged in oak barrels, is one of many wines made at Chateau Chantal Winery and Inn on Old Mission Peninsula, Mich. It’s a charming spot surrounded by vineyards and near the water in one of the state’s premiere wine areas. Take a class and PROVIDED stay at the Chateau Entice Ice Wine (not mandatory Brandy. for those taking classes but not a bad idea either). The 2014 schedule s already up and includes Valentine’s Treats with Grocer’s Daughter Chocolates, Wine Boot Camp and Spanish food from Tapas to Paella. European-style Christmas goodies Bit of Swiss Bakery bitofswiss.com A quarter of a century ago, when Tim and Pat Foley bought Bit of Swiss

Bakery in Stevensville, Hans Kottman, a Swiss trained baker from Austria and the original owner of the bakery taught them how to make stollen, a Christmas sweet bread filled with brandy marinated fruit and almond paste. Every holiday since, the Foleys have continued the tradition—a laborious process that includes making almost a 1,000 pounds of marzipan, marinating Christmas fruits in brandy for a month or so and then when it’s time to begin baking, rising early in the morning to begin mixing dough, blending ingredients and waiting through numerous rise cycles.

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PROVIDED Sechler’s Fine Pickles sechlerspickles.com Fall in love with these flavorful pickles, made in the traditional way since the company was founded nearly a century ago. With 54 products (personal favorites are Candied Sweet Orange Strips, Horseradish Chips—beware of their kick, Sweet Jalapenos, Apple Cinnamon Chunks and Mango Salsa) using locally grown fruit and vegetables. Sweeten ice cream, rescue abused and abandoned animals Seasons Harvest seasonsharvest.com Butterscotch, once a starved and beaten dog, now graces the label of Butterscotch Schnapps Dessert Topping since being rescued by Charlie Moore, owner of Seasons Harvest, a specialty foods producer in southwest Michigan. Moore’s company does private labels for food emporiums and so it was a simple step for Moore to create a rich and thick butterscotch with a kick topping. Seasons Harvest gives rescue shelters their own label and a deep discount to sell the toppings as a fundraising product. Butterscotch’s topping along with their pasta sauces, salsas, salad dressings, marinades, condiments and a long line of other products is also available online and at their retail store in the lakeside town of Harbert. Visitors there also get to meet Butterscotch who now is the store’s greeter.

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device devotee.

Portable Gaming

GROWS UP

Waking up early one Christmas morning and seeing a Nintendo Gameboy is one of the most clear memories from my youth. It was freeing to know I no longer had to sit, legs crossed, in front of our family’s Zenith TV to play Super Mario Brothers. I could play on the bus, the couch and even in the car; my child mind was officially beyond excited.

ortable gaming systems have come a long way since the Nintendo Gameboy, but children who wake to see one of these systems under the tree this Christmas will feel a similar joy without knowing just how far technology has come in the past few decades. Which is the best system? Let’s look at a few.

NINTENDO 2DS: $129.99 When people think of gaming on the go, they think Gameboy. Nintendo is trying to rekindle those memories with its 2DS, which features a new wedge-shaped design. It has the same dual screen setup of the 3DS but without the 3D screen, and comes with a 4GB SD card for saving game data and downloading new games. Reports indicate PHOTOS PROVIDED the plastic and ergonomics are comfortable, which is key for a product users will hold in hand for extended time. NINTENDO 3DS XL: $199.99 The fattened-up version of the 3DS is simply a bigger-screened version of the of the existing model. Now the screen is more than 4. 5 inches, but the

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overall unit is only a millimeter larger and still streamlined. On the downside, the resolution has not increased, meaning the pixel density has not been improved. Finally, the software though impressive for the likes of a simple game machine, pales in comparison to other products on the market. SONY PLAYSTATION VITA: $249.99 Sony took note of the mistakes it made with its original introduction into handheld gaming, the PSP. This go-round they decided to throw in many innovative features, including a great new display. The display, a 5-inch AMOLED multi-touch display from Samsung, might be the best on a portable gaming system, but probably isn’t as good as on your smartphone. Even though the Vita has two cameras, making augmented-reality games possible, the

images themselves are still not frame-worthy. But Sony made this system a power savvy machine. It works on wifi or cellular data, has a touch sensor on its backside as well as a quad core processor and a graphics processor inside. While the system is larger and heavier than its predecessor, the device uses a great operating system. It’s biggest disappointments are the price, and the low number of apps available for download. NVIDIA SHIELD: $299.99 The most expensive and least pocketable device, the Nvidia Shield is basically an Xbox controller with a 720p screen and an Android OS. Even though it was build as a do-all device, the focus remained on fantastic game play, and it’s here it shows it largest downfall. Nvidia has been making some of the finest graphics processors available for computers and other gaming systems, but is new to the hardware game. That means the hardware could be a lot better. The systems screen is difficult to reach because it is connected to a heavy controller. Though weird to hold at sometimes, the device features Nvidia’s own top-of-the-line portable graphics processor, making game play an absolute joy. And it has a massive battery; the device can last upwards of 11 hours. -TRAVIS KIPPER

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John Cain

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/TOP PERFORMER

Building South Shore Arts FOR TWO DECADES

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John Cain lays out on the couch in character as Truman Capote during a rehearsal for the one-man play “Tru” at Hammond’s Towle Theater. KYLE TELECHAN, THE TIMES

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oday, hundreds of people will gather at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts in Munster, Indiana, to hear a baldish twinkly-eyed, fifty-ish fellow with round wire glasses, read stories related one way or another, to Christmas. Over the years, he’s read a half dozen Truman Capote stories, Jean Shepherd’s perennial favorite, “A Christmas Story,” a few by David Sedaris, and many others, including a terrific story he wrote, “Christmas with Larry Flynt.” This year, it’s Truman Capote’s “Jug of Silver.” “Everybody has a great time,” says John Cain, who’s been hosting this event and reading stories for the past 20 years.” We actually start with wine at 11 a.m.—that’s when we open. We all laugh a lot. I really enjoy it because I get to pick the stories and nobody tells me what to do.” Obviously, nobody needs to. Besides being a witty raconteur, Cain is an excellent performer. South Shore Arts Christmas Readings Through the Ages are often sold out weeks before the show. The word is out: it’s a great way to get into the Christmas spirit and contribute to a very good cause. Executive Director of South Shore Arts, John Cain, hosts this event that raises money, to share the surprise and magic of art with as many people as possible. By all accounts he’s doing a fabulous job—more than 28,000 children and youth participated in South Shore Arts’ “everykid” program last year. More than 400 other art classes were offered, and then taught by area artists in the three South Shore Arts centers in Crown Point, Hammond, and Munster. Cain, who wins big-time awards as an arts administrator, also curates fascinating art shows. He has been executive director of South Shore Arts since 1993 and the Northwestern Indiana Symphony Orchestra since 2008. He’s a fine actor, and hopes to someday reprise the role he played four years ago as Truman Capote. Day-to-day he runs these $2.5 million dollar operations serving as kind of a year-round Santa for many area artists and lots of folks trying to figure out where they fit into this crazy world. An accomplished and talented artist and performer is not usually as good at crunching numbers and maintaining fiscal order and responsibility as he is at being an artist. John is the rare manager of an arts organization who never loses sight of the bottom line. “We all know that John is hilarious,” one long-time board member explains, “but when it comes to money, John is deadly serious.” “I was so lucky to get this job 20 years ago,” he says. “It was the chance of a lifetime. If I weren’t doing this, the only thing I’d probably be qualified to do is wait tables, because I like eating in restaurants and like being waited on, so I A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE TIMES MEDIA CO.

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JOHN CAIN’S CHRISTMAS READING SOUTH SHORE ARTS AT THE MUNSTER ARTS CENTRE 1040 RIDGE ROAD MUNSTER, INDIANA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013 JOHN LUKE, THE TIMES John Cain’s house is a museum, a treasure trove of kitschy outsider art. think I’d be good at it. I could anticipate people’s wants and desires.” See? That’s his funny take on it. But how did he get from “wherever” to here? When John Cain grew up as an only child in the 1950s, he ran and played with the rest of the neighborhood kids, but there were hints of something special out there (and in there)—somewhere. There was theater: “The lady across the street was big into community theater in Gary. She played Agnes Gooch in “Auntie Mame” in the ’50s. She also taught elementary school and my mother took me to see the Christmas play in her classroom. She gave me the scenery to take home afterwards. I played with it all winter long.” There was music: Cain learned to play the piano and the violin and sang in a children’s choir. “I played all of my mother’s Barbra Streisand albums over and over.” Cain sang along with her, and Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, and Vicki Carr. “It was the same with my father’s Ella Fitzgerald records. I knew the lyrics to every song by heart. I still have those records and play them from time to time.” And then there was Uncle Rob. “His greatest work of art was himself,” says Cain. “He was quite brilliant, very theatrical and rowdy, with a great sense of humor, and I had the feeling that I was being allowed in on his jokes.” Cain’s mother’s uncle lived outside Cleveland in a neighborhood built on the estate where John D. Rockefeller spent his boyhood. Uncle Rob’s world was a lot different from working-class Gary, Indiana. “Uncle Rob was a Noel Coward sort of figure, witty, urbane, threw his head back with rollicking laughter, and threw fabulous parties. He and his ‘friend,’ as we called him back then, traveled extensively.” And also Truman Capote: Cain was inspired by Capote’s writing years before he played him in a local production of “Tru,” four years ago. “Why do I like Truman Capote? Seriously? Do I have to spell if out for you? Let’s see . . . he was odd looking, he liked rich people, he was bitchy, he was a brilliant artist, he came from a semi-dysfunctional home (I know, who doesn’t), he drank too much . . . have I forgotten anything? Oh yes, he was gay! Do you see any similarities here? If A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE TIMES MEDIA CO.

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it weren’t for Truman Capote—well for that matter, if it weren’t for Truman and Judy and Cole and Noel and Oscar Wilde and Christopher Isherwood and Cecil Beaton and Tennessee Williams, just to skim the surface—who would I be? It takes a village, you know, and a very cosmopolitan one at that, to raise a gay child.” Cain studied theater and voice in college, and like many of us graduated without a clue as to what to do. He recalls his situation in “Christmas With Larry Flynt,” (check it out online at nwi.com/prime) a wonderful story he wrote and read in 2001 in which he describes one interminable period in summer stock theater. “I knew that a life in the theater would be hard, especially in the beginning, but this was already too much. By the time that dreadful summer was over, I knew I’d made a huge mistake, that the suffering life of an actor was not for me. Eventually he was asked to direct the Northern Indiana Arts Association (NIAA), which has since changed its name to South Shore Arts. “Everything has changed since those days,” he says. “Society has changed, and NIAA was a very social organization back then. When I came to work there in 1993, we needed a social conscience, and we needed to create excitement. There was a new board willing to create a new mission, one that was much more sensitive to what comprises our community—our region—as a whole. He says he does a lot of meetings. “You have to in order to engage people, make them interested in the organization and its needs. And I socialize. Lunches at Giovanni’s, dinners at Gamba, I tell people that I drink for a living, and I’m not exaggerating.” Is it harder than it used to be to raise money for the arts? “There is plenty of money if you know how to ask for it, it’s just not coming from the same places. Fundraising is a much more sophisticated undertaking these days. People go to school and get degrees in what I do. I, on the other hand, have always flown by the seat of my pants. But there’s an adage in fundraising that still holds true: people give to people, not to things. In other words, it’s all about relationships, so I try to

SOUTH SHORE ARTS’ CHRISTMAS READINGS THROUGH THE AGES AS PRESENTED BY JOHN CAIN 1994 “A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote 1995 “One Christmas” by Truman Capote 1996 “A Thanksgiving Visitor” by Truman Capote 1997 “SantaLand Diaries” by David Sedaris 1998 “Red Rider Nails the Hammond Kid (A Christmas Story)” by Jean Shepherd 1999 “Two by Sedaris” (“Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol” and “The Drama Bug” by David Sedaris) 2000 “A Politically Correct Holiday Reading” from James Finn Garner 2001 “Christmas with Larry Flynt” by John Cain 2002 “Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit” by P.G. Wodehouse 2003 “The Andy Warhol Diaries” 2004 “A Christmas Memory” (reprised) by Truman Capote 2005 “SantaLand Diaries” (reprised) by David Sedaris 2006 “Christmas at The New Yorker, featuring Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor” by John Cheever (and other writings) 2007 “Peanuts & Martinis” compiled by John Cain 2008 “A Christmas Story” (reprised) by Jean Shepherd 2009 “Side by Side” by Sedaris (“Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol” and “Six to Eight Black Men” by David Sedaris) 2010 “You Better Not Cry” by Augusten Burroughs 2011 “Gnome for the Holidays” compiled by John Cain 2012 “Home for the Hols” travel humor by Tina Fey and Patrick Dennis “Christmas with Larry Flynt” is an entirely original piece, but “Peanuts & Martinis” was a compilation that John Cain put together about the imaginary meeting of Truman Capote and Charlie Brown at one of Jackie O’s Christmas parties. John says, “That story had a lot of original stuff in it as you can imagine.”

keep making friends, keep maintaining friendships. It’s exhausting being nice all the time, but I have very few friends who don’t give me money.” John Cain thinks our schools are offering fewer arts options all the time, but arts organizations like South Shore Arts are expanding, trying to fill the gap. “The arts have emerged over the past ten years as one of the region’s most positive aspects of life,” he says, “and I don’t see that ever going away. People are expanding their horizons all the time, and the boundaries that separate us from Chicago are blurring with every young artist who graduates from Columbia or the School of the Art Institute or wherever they study and in whatever discipline. It’s all one metropolitan region. But it’s a vast region, so we still need arts locally to make it accessible to people and we need quality arts to make it worth their while.” November 19, 2013 |||||| PRIME |||||| 13

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