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“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” — James Whistler

EXHIBITS: Student works at TMA 4 YOGA: Jennifer White on football 8 ON THE ROX: Will Lucas and Thankyouaga.in 9 ON THE SIDE OF PRIDE: Coming Out Day 10 HALLOWEEN: Haunted Hydro in Fremont 13 COMICS: A ‘Severed’ heads up 18 TV: ‘Pop Up Video’ returns 19 McGINNIS: A tribute and apology 22

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Toledo resident credited in feature film

By Emily Tucker Toledo Free Press Staff Writer news@toledofreepress.com

When local writer and producer John Dorsey watches Chris Lance’s feature film “Buffalo Diamonds,” he will see his name in the credits.

Dorsey sold the rights to a short film he created 12 years ago to Lance, an entertainment entrepreneur and one of his close friends.

Dorsey wrote and produced the original short film that “Buffalo Diamonds” is based on. Dorsey said his name is in the credits even though he will not receive any royalties from it.

“I sold the rights [in 2008] because I wanted to work on longer projects,” Dorsey said. “I didn’t want to make it into a feature-length film, but Chris did.”

Dorsey said his short film was lowbudget and shot during a two-day period during late evenings.

“I was working with a producing partner, and the whole process to complete the film went on for a few months,” Dorsey said. “We had cameras and actors, but we didn’t know what to do. I just ad-libbed a story and came up with characters on the spot.”

“Buffalo Diamonds” revolves around two washed-up video game champs who need money, Lance said. Dorsey’s short film, which goes by the same name, is about two competitive card players.

“I used to work in Hollywood, and to have a [short] film made into a featurelength film is ridiculous,” Dorsey said.

Dorsey said he has been friends with Lance for about 13 years. They met when Dorsey cast Lance in one of his films.

“I started out as an actor, which is how we became friends,” Lance said. “As I got more involved with film production, I remembered that film and wanted to buy it.”

Lance said he put the film aside for a couple of years because he was working on another project. Filming for “Buffalo Diamonds” finished in August, and the movie is being edited. The release date is spring 2012.

Dorsey and Lance have worked together on other projects. In the early 2000s, Lance produced Dorsey’s first offBroadway play, “Moon Magnets,” at The Producers Club. Lance said it was part of a stage project he was doing at the time called “Music, Dance and Plays in Celebration of Summer.”

After taking a break from movies, Dorsey said he has returned to film production. He is working with a partner he went to college with at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. They are creating a new television series.

Dorsey is a Toledo Free Press Star contributor who edits the publication’s Poetry Page. Dorsey’s poetry has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. O

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4 Art

“I paint with shapes.” — Alexander Calder

Students contribute nearly 100 works to TMA exhibit.

By Jason Mack

Toledo Free Press Star Web Editor jmack@toledofreepress.com

Work from local student artists will be on display near work from the icons who inspire them in the exhibit “4 Art: Student Art from Bowling Green State University, Lourdes University, Owens Community College and the University of Toledo” opening Oct. 21 at the Toledo Museum of Art. The exhibit will display nearly 100 works in the Community Gallery until Jan. 12.

“The concept of being in an exhibit to represent the college is an honor in itself,” Lourdes student Christina Young said. “To think about it being in a museum in the same building as Picasso, Roethlisberger and O’Keeffe, that’s the stuff dreams are made of.”

Young is a senior at Lourdes majoring in fine art. She plans to start graduate school next fall.

“It’s all I know how to do,” she said. “I fell into it. I’m blessed with a natural talent, and I’m here to learn why I do what I do. Lourdes is awesome.

They keep making it better and I keep wanting to learn more.”

She enjoys watercolor, acrylics and ceramics, but Young is mostly an oil painter.

“I like the color and intensity of oils and the fact that you can push it around,” she said. “It’s amazing what you can do with some of it.”

Young, a realist, will have two oil paintings in the art museum. One is a landscape and the other is from a black-and-white photograph of an abandoned house. She is one of five Lourdes students in the exhibit.

“It’s exciting, because it’s going to be a busy time for the museum,” said Lourdes art department chairperson Erin Palmer Szavuly. “It gives us an opportunity to have people see what we’re doing over here, because we are kind of a secret.”

BGSU also has alumni entered in the exhibit, including ceramic artist Greg Pugh, who is employed by the university.

Pugh developed an interest in art during high school and quickly gravitated toward ceramics.

“When I was 17, I took a couple of clay classes,” he said. “I had an opportunity to go to

Alfred in New York because my grandma went there. It was a really good ceramics program.

Since then I’ve been interested in ceramics.”

Pugh graduated from BGSU in 2010 with a degree in 3-D art. He now works there as a research technician on a 3-D mastering project. He and his colleagues are working to make a hightemperature ceramic body that can be adapted to a powder-based, rapid-prototyping platform.

“It’s basically taking a digital file and taking it through a digital scan splicer,” Pugh said. “It’s a 3-D printing program that will slice it into a thousand layers. Each layer is 0.04 centimeters thick. The machine will stack those layers on top of each other, gluing them together to form a 3-D object. Ours is a powder-based system. Powder is spread in hundreds of layers and glued together.

It’s like a highly-modified inkjet printer.”

The piece Pugh entered in the exhibit is a pot he designed on an iPad with an app called iDough.

“I modeled it on my iPad, exported it and printed it on a ceramic 3-D printer,” he said.

“I modeled a little pot. It took me almost four hours to model that little tiny thing on the iPad. It’s kind of a rudimentary process, and it’s not very accurate. These were the first ceramic prints from an iPad. No one has done that.”

Pugh is excited to have his creation on display at the museum.

“A lot of artists, you end up showing at shows that just other artists end up seeing,” Pugh said.

“Being in a museum is a really great honor, because a wider range of people get to see it. That interests me more as an artist getting it out there to nonartists.”

TMA will host an opening reception Oct. 21 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. College students with a valid ID receive a free parking token and admission to The Egypt Experience. TMA is located at 2445 Monroe St. “That’s the party part about what we do,” Young said. “I’m excited to see the responses.

We put stuff together and make a statement, and that’s our voice. When people see it, that’s where we’re heard. To see that received is going to be pretty cool.” O

Lourdes University student Melinda Hallenbeck’s “Mirrored Perspective.” illustration courtesy Toledo Museum of Art

“In art, as in love, instinct is enough.” — Anatole France

Gray Gold

By Shaul Storey Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

With so much happening in Toledo’s thriving art scene, fueled by locally owned art supply stores like the Art Supply Depot on St. Clair Street, there is a buzz in the air.

Most of the eccentric community that anchors Downtown converges on the side street bars, where creative energies are flowing. There is a strong cord that connects those T-Town Love T-shirts to Artomatic419!, Art Corner Toledo and the Supply Depo; it all echoes this simultaneous craving for freedom, expression and art. An artist told me once that to rebuild a city you must first restore and invest in art, because it will give birth to culture, and from culture comes a society.

GRAY When you visit Downtown and experience Downtown Latté to 20 North Gallery, it is hard not to feel the inspiration emanating from the endless paint strokes of art scattered throughout the area.

This young, condensed, art-soaked atmosphere is what struck me immediately when I stepped off the train that brought me here from Chicago last fall. Jerry Gray, Toledo’s version of William Ivins, is a sharp-eyed curator who has been a staple in Toledo’s art scene since opening Bozarts Fine Art & Music Gallery in July of 2009. His own show, “Gray Gold,” opens at 6 p.m. Oct. 21.

Shaul Storey: In your third year promoting shows, hosting events and making a name for yourself as a curator, what’s the biggest difference between showing your own art as opposed to showing others’ art?

Jerry Gray: The biggest difference would be in the fact that I actually curate my personal exhibitions. When I work with other artists, I invite them into Bozarts as a peer and allow them full reign over what they want to display and how they want to install their work. Bozarts is an opportunity for local artists to create an

Bozarts exhibit focuses on owner’s work.

environment for their work to be experienced, giving them control to transform and dictate the atmosphere. This approach, I believe, prevents Bozarts from becoming sterile and keeps things interesting.

Storey: When were you bitten by the art bug?

Gray: My grandfather owned one of the only art supply stores in the city for a long time, from the late ’60s until it closed in 2002.

This is when I encountered a lot of new ideas, fresh images and materials. This store was key in developing my aptitude and appreciation for the arts.

Storey: Since I moved from Chicago to Toledo in the fall of 2010, Bozarts has presented itself as a dominant part of Toledo’s culture. What changes have you seen in the art community since Bozarts’ first art showing back in July ’09?

Gray: It’s hard to answer this question without it sounding like I’m saying Bozarts is a reason for these changes. But I do think the main changes I’ve seen in the arts community over the last few years have come from individuals taking the reins on their own and filling voids they witness in their community. I am very proud of being able to include myself in this group but it consists of dozens of people doing a multitude of work toward their passions.

Storey: Who are your top five visual artists in Toledo?

Gray: Yusuf Lateef, Jason Vahle, Devicious. com, Anthony McCarty and everyone with TTown love shirts.

Storey: What’s your favorite cereal?

Gray: Fruity Pebbles.

Storey: Brunette or blonde?

Gray: Purple.

Storey: Rap or hip-hop?

Gray: I like either that is fun, intelligent, word smithing and of course has a beat I can dance or groove to.

Storey: When will people get a chance to check out your show?

Gray: I’m showing my own work at Bozarts Fine Art & Music Gallery, 151 S. St. Clair St., on Oct. 21. Gray Gold” features a collection of new works along with a peppering of some older pieces I believe are relevant with the exhibition. O

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”Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” — Lionel Trilling

Tango ensemble offers workshop, show The Mandrágora Tango Ensemble is coming to Toledo from Minneapolis for a night of dancing, music and lessons.

“It’s a kind of music that speaks to a lot of people,” bandleader Bob Barnes said.

“It’s pretty obscure, but those of us that have been bitten by the bug have been bitten pretty hard. We like to preserve some of the old stuff but also make it a living tradition and try new stuff. You can’t break the rules unless you know them.

We like to be able to play very traditional tango, so when we play alternative or electronic tango, we have a solid founding in the tradition.”

Barnes will provide a musicality workshop before the show from 6:307:15 p.m. with advice on how to pause while dancing.

“It’s the only Latin music without drums,” Barnes said. “When people dance to it, the big thing is how to pause and stop, the dramatic pauses you see in the cartoon stereotypes. A lot of tango dance teachers teach you all the dance moves. I give a lecture that teaches people how to stop moving. I explain how musicians think about tango music to help the dancers think about it the same way we do. You get a better synchronicity between us.”

Barnes played tango music alone for 14 years before starting the Mandrágora Tango Ensemble in 2001.

“About 25 years ago, I bought a cassette

of Ástor Piazzolla,” Barnes said. “He’s sort of the master of Argentine tango. I’ve been playing the accordion since I was a kid.

This music was so powerful, sexy and emotional. I decided this was what I wanted to do. I played it in secret for years. I didn’t realize tango was a living art form until I met other musicians and tango dancers that wanted to dance to the live music. Ten years ago I started the band, and we’ve had a Sunday night gig for 10 years. We play for 80 to100 people every Sunday.”

The weekly shows are a milonga played every Sunday night at the Loring Pasta Bar in Minneapolis. Barnes is an accomplished accordion player but plays a squared-off version of the instrument called a bandoneon in the Mandrágora Tango Ensemble.

“It’s very different from accordion, and it’s really frustrating as an adult to learn a new instrument,” Barnes said. “It’s frustrating to start way back at square one with an instrument, but I think I’ve done a good job.”

The performance Oct. 20 is from 7:3010:30 p.m. at the Toledo Party Hall, located at 4052 Airport Hwy. Tickets are available for $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Contact Jennifer Jarrett at jjarrett0628@yahoo. com to purchase tickets.

Visit MandragoraTango.com for more information. O — Jason Mack

Pride of Toledo Chorus competing in Houston The Pride of Toledo Chorus is heading to Houston to compete against Sweet Adeline International groups from around the world. The 65th Annual International Convention and Competition runs from Oct. 17-23.

“We’re absolutely ready to go,” director Kay Seymour said. “I’m a very organized director. I know their limitations and I know their high levels. I pick songs that I think showcase them well. We’re prepared, and I think the music we picked is going to be good for us. It fits our personality. The girls are excited about it.”

The Pride of Toledo Chorus has 85 members ranging in age from 16-86.

“We have all kinds of backgrounds, including people with doctorates and people one step away from being on welfare,” Seymour said. “It’s a total mix of age and socioeconomic status, but the one thread is the music.

That’s what brings us together and gets people in the door.

What keeps them there is the friendships, the camaraderie and the common goal. This

group is pretty competitive.”

The group sings music from the turn of the century to modern day, but its main focus is on traditional barbershopstyle music.

“The young kids we have, amazingly enough, they love the old stuff,” Seymour said. “I’m staying with a 24-year-old, and she loves this stuff. We try to give something fun, but that comes out in our visual. We use more modern choreography and costuming that is more up-to-date.”

With members from as far away as Pittsburgh and Ft. Wayne, Ind., the Pride of Toledo Chorus usually only performs five or six times per year with quartets singing two or three times per month. This includes performances at the Toledo Zoo, Toledo’s Mud Hens games and the Region 17 competition. The Pride of Toledo Chorus won Region 17 in 2010 to advance to the 2011 International Convention and Competition with performances of “Cry Baby” and “There Goes My Heart.” “‘Cry Baby’ is just a fun, ornery

song about a whiney guy that’s in your life,” Seymour said. “The ballad is more of a tear-jerker. It’s about a lost love. So we’ve done two sides of our art form.”

For the International Convention and Competition, Seymour swapped “There Goes My Heart” for the song “No, No, Norman.”

“I’ve had those picked and we’ve been working on them for a year,” Seymour said. “I also picked out our top 10 package should we be lucky enough to get there. I don’t foresee that.

I’m very knowledgeable on the international level and I know what it takes. We’re very good, but I don’t foresee we’ll be able to break that top 10. If we make the cut, we don’t care where we come in. We’d be so excited.

“It’s my quest to get them back into the top 10, but it doesn’t happen overnight.

They’ve changed directors a couple of times, and that can be tough.

They are a great chorus.”

Visit PrideOfToledo.org for more information on the chorus. O — Jason Mack

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The ties between yoga and football. ootball. This one word describes my family’s weekends for months. These two syllables also describe the atmosphere of countless other American households. I never liked football until my husband took the time to help me better understand the game while watching the Super Bowl more than a decade ago. Now football is part of my anxiously awaited Jennifer fall repertoire and, believe it or not, football easily relates to yoga.

Football plays are often complex and intricate, a single play taking significant preparation. And then it’s over. Yoga poses are much the same. One pose can take years to master. And then you’ve done it. Your goal is met. There’s an ironic letdown that accompanies this glorious feeling of triumph.

As yogis we can forget to enjoy the journey it takes to get to a single, successful posture, and, as football fans, it’s challenging to enjoy watching beautifully executed plays if the desired goals are not achieved.

Often we fail to remember that many less complicated postures are the physical and mental preparations for more challenging poses. Similarly, some football plays are only called as preparations for other, more rewarding plays.

Yet another way a football play is like yoga is the all-important concept of team. It takes several working parts, or players in the case of the game, to create a properly working play. These parts can be readily equated to our bodies. It takes our various body parts working as a team to create a single, beautiful pose. To examine these unorthodox though apt connections between football and yoga, we’ll take a deeper look into one of yoga’s most celebrated plays — I mean poses — fierce pose.

In English, “Utkatasana” is typically translated from Sanskrit as “chair pose.” However, “powerful” or “fierce pose” is a more accurate interpretation.

We’ll use this less common translation of fierce pose, not only because it better relates to football, but also because this name helps get the practitioner into the mindset required for this pose.

Fierce pose has many variations. Some (for example, one-legged and twisted chair poses) are seriously challenging, or fierce.

These poses are typically used as prep poses for other, more complex ones. Twisted chair

pose, for instance, has exactly the same architecture as the arm balance side crow pose. Thus, it’s important to intrinsically understand side crow’s twisted sister, a variation of fierce pose.

We’ll start by tackling a more simplified version.

To begin, stand with your feet parallel and hipdistance apart. Sit powerfully into your imaginary chair. Feel the length in your lower back and strength in your lower abdomen as you slightly tuck your tailbone and release it toward the floor.

Take your thighs as close to parallel to the floor as possible, keeping your thigh bones parallel to each other.

Don’t allow your toes or knees to wander out. If you sit deeply enough into this pose your knees will jut slightly past your feet and your core will lunge forward a little, but try to keep your core upright as much as possible.

Imagine helium in the heart, lifting your upper spine skyward, shoulder blades sliding down away from your ears and firming into your heart center.

Maintaining length in your lower spine and engagement in your core (and with breath still flowing evenly in and out of your nose), extend your arms overhead shoulder-width apart with palms facing each other, pinky sides of your arms rotating slightly in to activate the triceps.

Allow your front ribs to feel knit together in the front, but continue to open your shoulders by pulling your arms back further; possibly alongside your ears or maybe even behind them.

Keep your chin parallel to the floor and find balance in your feet. For a moment, pick up your toes and make sure that you aren’t sitting too heavily into the balls of your feet.

Breathe deeply as you hold your fierce pose for five to eight breaths.

On your final inhalation, straighten your legs and exhale as you return your arms to your sides. Feel the personal power you’ve tapped into by sitting in fierce pose.

With another glorious fall weekend of football watching ahead, take the time to truly enjoy the game (even if your favorite quarterback gets sacked), and also take a moment to tap into your own personal power with fierce pose. O

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“All art is a revolt against man’s fate.” — Andre Malraux

Thankyouaga.in T

he city has been abuzz for the last few weeks about its native son Will Lucas, founder and CEO of Creadio and thankyouaga.in. Surviving a busy week of press flurry about his radio business and phone applications, he is living in the moment. But allow me to give you a bit of back story about Lucas’ experiences growing up in Toledo, the enrichment he received from its resources and how he gives back to his city.

So far, life’s journey has been interesting for the young man who embarked on a radio career at the tender age of 17. While he was in high school, he attended a Teen Summit where he met Charlie Mack, the program director of the then-new urban radio station in town, The Juice FM 107.3. After explaining his interest in the music industry, Lucas became an intern at the station and soon hit the airwaves, quickly dominating his time slot.

He later began professionally writing and producing music, but inside was a young entrepreneur who didn’t know exactly what he wanted to be; he just knew he “wanted to be great.” Today, a mature Lucas is focused and the world is about to take notice of how great he can be. He is known on the airwaves as King Keyser, a popular radio personality playing Hip-Hop and

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Will Lucas making noise while collecting the good.

R&B weekdays from 7 p.m.-10 p.m. on Toledo’s Hot 97.3. He is the founder of Kings Academy, which holds an annual lock-in for young boys featuring professional male mentors who take the time to come out and encourage the youth in the program. The many hats worn by Will Lucas have helped fuel his entrepreneurial spirit and as a result he is inventing technology capable of impacting the world.

Let’s start with his business-based radio program Creadio, a radio service that offers radio programming tailored to companies, complete with advertisements exclusively for and/or from that company. Lucas has currently secured accounts with 100 McDonald’s across the country and all six Toledo-based Andersons stores.

Pushing his career beyond music is his creation of phone applications, or apps.

Having no prior knowledge in application development, Lucas began educating himself by reading books while actively searching for a developer. After months of searching and a disappointing lack of response, he found a developer through the power of networking. It could not have come sooner, as this crucial piece to his puzzle was discovered the day after he conceived his current project, thankyouaga.in. Imagine social

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media that is made up of good news only. The concept is like Twitter in function, but unlike Twitter it is exclusively reserved for the positive news in your life. The application is available through iPhone in Beta form and just recently became available for Droid phones.

Martini Rox: Describe thankyouaga.in and what do you want it to do for the world.

Will Lucas: Thankyouaga.in is the emoLUCAS tional connection of Facebook, the microblogging functionality of Twitter, along with the reward mechanism of Foursquare, all put in a big bucket of “thankyouaga.in is collecting the good.” Negative news is easy to find, but with thankyouaga.in it’s a super-long stream of constant flow of good news.

Martini Rox: What stage are you in with thankyouag.in and how can people get this application?

Will Lucas: The first step is to go to thankyouaga.in. It goes live to the public and it will be in the Apple app store and on Google’s app store on Nov. 15. Already looking to the future, Lucas will launch vinyu.com, a “check in” style phone application that will allow users to socially network with friends through locations they check into around the city. Will Lucas is a product of Toledo’s vast resources and actively gives back to his community.

He is featured in October’s issue of the business magazine Black Enterprise, on stands now.

As we continue on ... O

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“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.” — Kary Mullis

Coming out

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n honor of National Coming Out Day, which was Oct. 11, I wanted to dedicate this column to my coming out story in hopes that it will inspire those still “in the closet” to step out, or provide others with a new perspective on being a member of the LGBTQA community.

Attending Catholic school for 12 years and only playing with the kids around the block did not provide me with many opportunities to interact with members of the LGBTQA community. My only impression of gays and lesbians growing up was negative because my family and friends never talked about it and my education preached that it was a sin.

That being said, even though everything around me told me being a lesbian was unfavorable, I couldn’t help but constantly question whether I was normal or not sice I was drawn to women more than men.

Does every girl think about these things? Is this just a phase you go through while growing up? If I were a lesbian, would every good thing in my life disappear? Would my family still love me? Would I be cast out from everything I know to be “normal?”

Questions like that ran through my head every time I thought a girl was extraordinarily pretty or I caught myself dreaming about beautiful actresses.

A personal story in honor of National Coming Out Day.

Regardless of how many times a week I questioned my sexuality, coming out or even exploring was never an option. None of my friends were trying to kiss girls, no one in my family was gay, no one in school let it ever become a thought.

So I continued on through elementary school, junior high, high school and even a little bit of college dating boys and seeming to be boy crazy, only to be tortured by the opEmily tions I never had. I never had the option to think it was OK to be a lesbian. I never had the option to date a girl in high school without public humiliation or expulsion. My life was conditioned to be boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl.

I did date some amazing men who were compatible with me on nearly every level, but there was something significantly huge missing.

It was as if I was just going through the “normal”

motions when it came to my dating life but I never saw myself being truly happy.

Rooted deep inside, I always knew that I was a lesbian but it wasn’t until I had my first girlfriend that it all made sense.

I discovered a sort of bliss that I never knew existed. It was a happiness that never faded and once I found it I knew I was never going to let it go.

I came out December 2009 to my immediate family and closest friends.

Now, nearly two years later, I could not be more loud and proud. To be me feels good and to advocate for others who just want to be themselves feels even better. It can be a very harsh world out there for those that dare to step out of the “closet,” but to take that risk means to potentially gain the dating experiences you were meant to have or even the love of your life.

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my life to accept, I continue to tell myself the people that are meant to be in my life weren’t there for me just because I was straight. They were in my life because they love me, all of me, including the lesbian me. There is just something so liberating about being able to truly fall in love, start a family with the woman that I fall in love with and share that love with the world around me. O Emily Hickey is an advocate for the LGBTQA community through Toledo Pride and OutSKIRTS Toledo. For more information, visit www.toledopride. com or OutSKIRTS Toledo on Facebook.

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Spooky video games for Halloween

By Michael Siebenaler Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toeldofreepress.com

Halloween horrors await with two recent video games full of visceral content and endless action in crowd-pleasing multiplayer modes or single player blood fests.

“F.E.A.R. 3” (Warner Brothers) This horror first-person shooter features single player, multiplayer (including cooperative play), and online play (with a pass card) that expands when players unlock multiplayer modes and maps (six total). The four multiplayer modes (three maps per mode) are f***ing run, contractions, soul survivor and soul king — each is available for a four player maximum. One to four players can enjoy the multiplayer mode with optional headsets Time manipulation, psychic powers and slowmotion mode options all factor into a great experience bending reality into a uniquely twisted world.

John Carpenter and writer Steve Niles contribute to this continuing series involving a very dysfunctional family with different brothers who confront their mother, Alma Wade. Enough suspense and scares for previous fans while the excellent shooting controls provide easy aiming and fluid movements that blend into each action scenario with minimal flaws (***1/2, available on PC, PS3, Xbox 360, rated M for blood and gore, intense violence, partial nudity, strong language). O

“Shadow of the Damned” (Electronic Arts) This one-player action horror game has mini games, boss battles and puzzles among the main storyline where weapon upgrades and item collection. The main character Garcia Hotspur constantly quells the demon world, so the demon lord takes his girlfriend Paula, luring Garcia through that world to get her back. Garcia uses “light to beat the dark” in the combat system, which also includes melee attack options when ammunition is low.

The Suda51 team and developers from No More Heroes and Resident Evil also created interesting combat situations and secondary characters like an ex-demon named Johnson who helps Garcia and upgrades weapons. The Johnsonpedia provides helpful information while success depends on razor-sharp player reflexes and quick reaction times.

The challenging combat system requires player adaptation, especially during the boss battles.

Bottom of Form Players can throw logic out the window with bone shooting guns, teeth firing rifles and constant hard alcohol consumption that boosts health without impairing movement, aim, or overall gameplay. The male-centered violent style and largely immature content limits its appeal, but the core audience definitely gets enough variety throughout the game (***, available on Xbox 360 and PS3 with special editions, rated M for intense violence, nudity, sexual themes, strong language, and blood and gore). O

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”Art is science made clear.” — Wilson Mizner

Artoberfest

By Jason Mack

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The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is bringing German culture to the Glass Pavilion on Oct. 21 with Artoberfest, presented by the 2445 Series.

“When we sat down for this event, one of our directives from [TMA director] Brian Kennedy was everything we do must seek to add value and connect with art,” said Nabeel Jabarin, development officer for planned giving at TMA. “I gave those parameters to the TMA Cultivation Committee. Through a lot of discussion, different things came about like flashlight tours and how to have the event in the Glass Pavilion. Having it on Fridays is successful for us since people are already out and the museum is already open.”

While the event is centered in the Glass Pavilion, the highlight is a scavenger hunt involving art in the Glass Pavilion and the main museum.

“I am really excited about the scavenger hunt,” said Dustin Hostetler, a Toledo artist and member of the TMA Cultivation Committee. “I have purposely not looked at the questions and answers yet, because I want to take part the night of the event. It’s a great excuse to rediscover some of the pieces in the museum’s collection.”

The scavenger hunt involves art centered around the themes of Artoberfest. The art included depicts people drinking, objects used for drinking or art made of objects used for drinking.

“It draws people across the street to the main building to look at the collection,” said Dana Syrek, development officer for foundation and corporate funding at TMA. “It makes looking at the collection fun and accessible and part of the evening activity instead of something separate.”

The hunt will take approximately 30 minutes. Participants receive a free raffle ticket for a drawing to win one of five glasses made for the event by Jeff Mack, the manager of the Hot Shop at the Glass Pavilion.

“The glasses I created for this event were inspired with the idea of function first and foremost,” Mack said. “They are things I want people to enjoy using. For the event, the plan-

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ning committee picked out works of art for a fun museum-wide scavenger hunt that focuses on October-festive themes relating to the table, abundance and celebration. I looked at these works of art for inspiration, in some cases translating the glass directly from paintings.

Such was the case with the roamer design, borrowed from Pieter Claesz’s “Still Life with Oysters,” or the tall flute form taken from Diego Velazquez’s “Man with a Wine Glass.”

Mack made the glasses in the furnace at the TMA and will be demonstrating glass blowing at Artoberfest.

There will be a sample of German beers and wines available in the Glass Pavilion “Bier Garten” along with a cash bar from Heidelberg Distributing, which is a sponsor of the event along with the TMA Cultivation Committee and Toledo Free Press Star.

The menu for Artoberfest includes streuselkuchen, currywurst, German potato salad, potato pancakes, chive creme friache, apple chutney, cheese, pretzels, smoked almonds, fruit and crackers.

Toledo City Councilman Steve Steel and Old West End Records owner Ben Langlois will provide the German music for the event.

“We both play accordion, which is not a common instrument in the music scene these days,” Steel said. “Me and Ben are going to do sort of a dueling accordion-type show. In general, we’ll be doing sort of German-type polka music.”

Steel and Langlois have known each other for years, but Artoberfest will be their first live performance together.

“We’ve never played together publicly, but we’ve been involved in a number of projects where our paths crossed a lot,” Steel said. “We’ve jammed together before, but we’ve never actually put it together as a show. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Artoberfest will run from 6-9 p.m. Oct. 21.

Tickets are available in advance at $15 for members and $25 for nonmembers. Tickets at the door cost $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers. On Oct. 21, nonmembers buying tickets can apply the $30 to the cost of a membership, which is $55. To purchase tickets in advance, call

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“It’s a really stimulating way for people to interact with and celebrate art and each other,” Mack said. “This is the traditional time for the harvest festival, the Oktoberfest, especially in this region with its strong agricultural roots. It only makes sense for the museum to

want to participate in that.”

Following Artoberfest, a flashlight tour of the museum is available at 10 p.m. at $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers. There are 100 tickets available, and flashlights are not provided. The tour takes approximately one hour.

“They take you to different parts of the museum you normally don’t get to see as well as highlighting some objects that look considerably different by flashlight than they do by the light of day,” said membership sales manager David Urbank. “One of the statues, by using the flashlight the shadow looks like the horse is galloping.” O

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Haunted Hydro Fremont attraction offers Ghoulabration, Hell Gate.

By Mighty Wyte TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAR STAFF WRITER star@toledofreepress.com

The Haunted Hyrdro in Fremont has expanded and improved its classic Halloween haunts. New this year in the Hydro is the “Teleport to Terror.”

“You enter a teleportation machine; it’s a big tunnel that takes you to another dimension of fear. Inside you’ll find a room filled with doors.

It’s a big circle and you don’t know where each door takes you,” said Haunted Hydro owner/operator Beth Turner.

With such a massive amount of square footage to cover, Turner said that on any given night there are at least 35 actors at the haunt.

“The theme this year is the 100-year curse,” Turner said. “It’s the building’s 100-year anniversary and our 22nd year in operation here.

We’re featuring ghosts from Hydros past. We researched old rooms and scenarios and things that have worked for us in the past. We brought all that back in a new way, in a new format.”

The Haunted Hydro is again featuring zombie paintball, tarot card readings and a wicked little gift shop selling Hydro shirts, hoodies and oddly enough, underwear.

“We have the Wheel of Misfortune again this year, hosted by ‘Nemesis’,” Turner said. “And of course we still have the ‘Twilight Zone’ monsters roaming the courtyard entertaining our guests as they wait in line for the haunts.”

The Hydro itself isn’t the only haunted attraction. In a bigger and longer outdoor walkthrough dubbed “Hell Gate,” visitors have the chance to experience two brands of exhilaration.

“We have about 20 actors in ‘Hell Gate’,” Turner said. “We added more walkthrough action down by the river and we walk you into the woods this year.”

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10:30 p.m. on Sundays. The “Ghoulabration” pre-show starts at 7:30 p.m. and features T3 Fire Toys and the Trio of Fire group.

“They are one of the few licensed fire exhibitionist groups in Ohio,” Turner said. $12 buys a ticket to either The Haunted Hydro or Hell Gate; $17 provides admittance to both. With the $21 Monster Bash ticket, visitors enjoy both haunts, a free round of Zombie Paintball, a Monster energy drink, a souvenir photo and a $2 coupon good for any gift shop item or tarot card reading.

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MUSIC

“A picture is a poem without words.” — Horace

O Kyle White: Oct. 20.

O Pilot Radio: Oct. 21.

O Jeff Stewart & the 25s: Oct. 22.

O Mark Mikel & Brian Albright: 9 p.m. Oct. 22.

The Ark This small venue offers a showcase for lesser-known acts.

316 S. Main St., Ann Arbor. (734) 761-1451, (734) 761-1800 or www.theark.org.

O Trevor Hall, Cas Haley: 8 p.m. Oct. 19, $15.

O James Keelaghan: 8 p.m. Oct. 20, $15.

O Ellis Paul, Peyton Tochterman: 8 p.m. Oct. 21, $15.

O Enter the Haggis: 8 p.m. Oct. 22, $17.50.

O Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group: 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 23, $20.

O Andy McKee, Stephen Bennett, Antoine Dufour: 8 p.m.

Oct. 24, $30.

O John Francis: 8 p.m. Oct. 25, free.

O Tim O’Brien, Bryan Sutton: 8 p.m. Oct. 26, $22.50.

Bar 145 This new venue features burgers, bands and bourbon, if its slogan is to be believed. 5304 Monroe St. bar145toledo.com.

O Dueling pianos: Wednesdays.

O Killer Flamingos: Thursdays.

O Jeff Stewart: Tuesdays.

O Moving to Boise: Oct. 21.

Basin St. Grille

A variety of rock, soul, pop and alternative acts perform at this bar. 208 S. First St., Ann Arbor. $3-$20 unless noted.

(734) 996-8555 or blindpigmusic.com.

O Karaoke: 9:30 p.m. Mondays, no cover.

O Matthew Sweet, the Shadowboxers: 9 p.m. Oct. 19.

O The Slackers, Deals Gone Bad, Matt Wixson’s Flying Circus: 9 p.m. Oct. 20.

O Yelawolf, DJ Craze, Rittz: 8 p.m. Oct. 21.

O Phantogram, Exitmusic: 9 p.m. Oct. 22.

O honeyhoney, Joshua James, Levi Lowrey: 8 p.m. Oct. 23.

O Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers, Jon McLaughlin, Chris Koza: 8 p.m. Oct. 26.

Bronze Boar Be sure to check out this Warehouse District tavern’s namesake, overhead near the entrance. 20 S. Huron St. (419) 244-2627 or www.bronzeboar.com.

O Open mic night with Chris Knopp: Mondays.

O Luke James: Tuesdays.

O DJ Jerod: Wednesdays and Thursdays.

O Crucial 420: Oct. 21.

O See Alice: Oct. 22.

Caesars Windsor

This Toledo standby has been revived with more than 20 different flavors of martinis and live, local music. 5201 Monroe St. (419) 843-5660.

O Jeff Stewart: Oct. 19.

O Dangerous Mood, Johnny Hernandez: Oct. 20.

O Distant Cousinz, Scott Fish: Oct. 21.

O Jump Line: Oct. 22.

O Don Binkly: Oct. 26.

If you have your passport, consider hopping the Detroit River for this casino’s entertainment offerings. Ticket prices, in Canadian dollars, are for the cheapest seats; attendees must be 19 or older. Caesars Windsor Colosseum, 377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor, Ontario. (800) 991-7777 or www. caesarswindsor.com.

O Battle of the Blues bands: 7:30-11 p.m. Wednesdays through Nov. 9.

O Duran Duran: 9 p.m. Oct. 22, $60.

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This family-friendly eatery dishes up live performances … and Chicago-style pizza. 7131 Orchard Centre Dr., Holland.

(419) 491-0990.

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Dan Herron, the Buckeyes’ senior starting tailback, led the Buckeye offense with 23 carries for 114 yards and a touchdown in a 17-7 win over Illinois. The Buckeyes are now 4-3 and will host undefeated Wisconsin next Saturday. We congratulate Dan Herron and the Ohio State Buckeyes for their outstanding performance.

A different band performs each week. 702 E. Broadway St. (419) 754-1903.

O DJ Lamont: Tuesdays.

O Devious: Thursdays (also open mic night)-Saturdays.

This local, family-owned enterprise offers food, drinks and music in a sleek atmosphere. 405 Madison Ave. (419) 2463339 or icerestaurantandbar.com.

O Tim Bowman: 6 p.m. Oct. 20, $10.

O Dan and Don: 7 p.m. Oct. 21 and 28.

O Mike Fisher: 7 p.m. Oct. 22.

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Signature drinks, such as pumpkin martinis, plus live local jazz performers. 301 River Road, Maumee. $5 weekends for cafe seating. (419) 794-8205 or www.degagejazzcafe.com.

O Gene Parker & Friends: 7-10 p.m. Oct. 19 and 26.

O Leo Darrington: Oct. 20.

O Zach Brock & the Magic Number: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21-22.

O Michael Peslikis: 7 p.m. Oct. 25 and 27.

Live music is on Saturday’s menu; the genre varies, along with the cover charge. Karaoke is on tap 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, and a DJ starts spinning at 9 p.m. Fridays. 26611 N. Dixie Hwy., Perrysburg. (419) 874-9058 or jjsperrysburg.com.

O John Barile and Bobby May: 8 p.m. Oct. 25.

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The Distillery Karaoke is offered Tuesdays, but paid entertainers rock out Wednesdays-Saturdays. 4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www.thedistilleryonline.com.

O Gregg Aranda: Tuesdays.

O Kyle White: Oct. 19.

O Nine Lives: Oct. 20-22.

O Nicole and Mic: Oct. 26.

Doc Watson’s Named in honor of the owners’ forefather, this bar and restaurant serves a variety of dishes and entertainment. 1515 S. Byrne Road. (419) 389-6003 or docwatsonstoledo.com.

O The Berlin Brother: 10 p.m. Oct. 21.

Fat Fish Blue Serving blues and similar sounds, as well as bayoustyle grub. Levis Commons, 6140 Levis Commons Blvd., Perrysburg. (419) 931-3474 or fatfishfunnybonetoledo.com.

O Ali Seibold: 8:30 p.m. Oct. 22.

French Quarter J. Pat’s Pub Live entertainment after 9:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays. Holiday Inn French Quarter, 10630 Fremont Pike, Perrysburg.

(419) 874-3111 or www.hifq.com.

O The Late Show: Oct. 21-22.

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Kerrytown Concert House This venue focuses on classical, jazz and opera artists and music. 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich. $5-$30, unless noted. (734) 769-2999 or www. kerrytownconcerthouse.com.

O Aurea Silva Trio: 8 p.m. Oct. 26.

Manhattan’s This “slice of the Big Apple” in the Glass City provides entertainment most weekends. 1516 Adams St. (419) 243-6675 or www.manhattanstoledo.com.

O Open mic: 9 p.m. Monday nights.

O Jam session hosted by Tom Turner & Slow Burn: 8 p.m.

Tuesdays.

O Cliff Millimen: 7 p.m. Oct. 19.

O Dick Lange Trio, Quick Trio: 6 p.m. Oct. 20.

O Dick Lange Trio: 6 p.m. Oct. 21.

O The Good, the Bad & the Blues: 9 p.m. Oct. 22-23.

O Steve Kennedy: 7 p.m. Oct. 26.

Mickey Finn’s A variety of genres to wash your drinks down with. Open mic nights, 8 p.m. Wednesdays, no cover; $5-$7 cover other nights. 602 Lagrange St. (419) 246-3466 or www. mickeyfinnspub.com.

O Rock the Stage, featuring local bands: 9 p.m. Thursdays, free.

O Stonehouse, Indigo, Magic Jackson: 9:30 p.m. Oct. 21.

O KrashKarma: 9:30 p.m. Oct. 22.

Cam Gordon, UM sophomore linebacker, accounted for eight tackles and a forced fumble in a 28-14 loss to interstate rival Michigan State. Michigan will host Purdue next Saturday for Homecoming weekend.

We congratulate Cam Gordon and the Michigan Wolverines for their outstanding performance.

“A painting that is well composed is half finished.” — Pierre Bonnard Mutz @ The Oliver House This pub offers handcrafted brews … and live entertainment. 27 Broadway St. (419) 243-1302 or www. oh-maumeebaybrewingco.com.

O Open mic hosted by Breaking Ground: 10 p.m. Wednesdays.

O Karaoke: 10 p.m. Thursdays.

O DJs Aaron Brown and Nate Mattimoe: Saturdays.

O Breaking Ground: 10 p.m. Oct. 21.

One2 Lounge at Treo Live music starts at 7:30 p.m. 5703 Main St., Sylvania. (419) 882-2266 or treosylvania.com.

O BBB: Oct. 20.

O Skip Turner Band: Oct. 21.

O What’s Next; Raq the Casbah: Oct. 22.

Ottawa Tavern Casual meals with weekend entertainment. 1815 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www.otavern.com.

O Shivering Timbers, Faux Paus, Moz Goes: 10 p.m. Oct. 20.

O The Town Monster, the Wildbirds: 10 p.m. Oct. 22.

Our Brothers Place Take in a movie with margaritas on Mondays, or laugh at Thursday comedy nights … but music takes center stage most nights. 233 N. Huron St. www.ourbrothersplace.com.

O Wayne: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

O DJ: Fridays.

O Smooth jazz and R&B: Saturdays and Tuesdays.

O Karaoke with Walt McNeal: 4 p.m. Sundays.

Pizza Papalis Get slices with a topping of entertainment. 519 Monroe St. (419) 244-7722 or www.pizzapapalis.com.

O Chris Knopp: Oct. 21-22.

Robinwood Concert House A home for the avant garde and untraditional, this Old West End venue hosts artists on the experimental end of the musical rainbow. 9 p.m., 2564 Robinwood Ave. $5 donation, unless noted. www.toledobellows.wordpress.com.

O Jaap Pieters & Travis Bird, Matthew De Gennaro: Oct. 19.

O Allos Musica Trio, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq: Oct. 22.

Spicy Tuna This sushi bar offers occasional entertainment to accompany the fishy dishes. 7130 Airport Hwy. (419) 720-9333 or spicytunasushi.com.

O Karaoke: 10 p.m. Saturdays.

O Jeff Stewart: 6-10 p.m. Oct. 20.

Stella’s Nouveau cuisine gets a helping of music Thursdays through Saturdays. 104 Louisiana Ave., Perrysburg. (419) 873-8360 or www.stellasrestaurantandbar.com.

O C.J. Manning, Lesli Lane: Oct. 20.

O Eddie Molina, Cookie: Oct. 21.

O Eddie Molina, Charlene Ransom: Oct. 22 and 28.

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Table Forty 4 Upscale dining plus live entertainment is a welcome combination. Bands start at 6 p.m. Fridays and 9 p.m.

Saturdays. 610 Monroe St. (419) 725-0044 or www. tableforty4.com.

O John Barile and Bobby May, Joe Woods: Oct. 21.

O The Jaeglers: Oct. 22.

A branch has opened at the previous Maumee Chop House, 1430 Holland Road, Maumee. (419) 897-6811 or www. maumee-chophouse.com.

O Calen Savidge: 7 p.m. Oct. 19.

O Jeff Stewart: 9 p.m. Oct. 21.

O Suburban Soul: 9 p.m. Oct. 22.

O Joe Woods: 7 p.m. Oct. 26.

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O DJ Ghost or DJ MZ Ghost: Saturdays.

O Eddie Ortega: Oct. 21.

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Uptown Night Club 160 N. Main Street, Bowling Green O Rewired presents The Carnival Dubstep, Industrial, Drum & Bass. Wednesdays. 9 p.m. - 2 a.m., 18+, no cover.

The Village Idiot Tunes combined with pizza and booze, some would say it’s a perfect combination. 309 Conant St., Maumee. (419) 8937281, (419) 740-2395 or www.villageidiotmaumee.com.

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Wesley’s Bar & Grill A huge variety of beers helps wash down the entertainment.

1201 Adams St. (419) 255-3333 or wesleysbar.com.

O DJs Folk, Mattimoe and Perrine: Fridays.

Yeeha’s Country and rock with a little “Coyote Ugly” style. 3150 Navarre Ave., Oregon. (419) 691-8880 or www.yeehas.com.

O Small Town Son: Oct. 21.

O Rachael Timberlake: Oct. 22.

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‘Severed’ heads up season’s horror comics

By Jim Beard Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer star@toledofreepress.com

Horror comics have been haunting readers for decades, but precious few of them have managed to conjure the creeps the way a good scary movie can. Ed Katschke, our comics medium at Monarch Cards & Comics, said there’s still a ghost of a chance for modern horror comics to rise up and populate our nightmares. Two current projects head up his panicky picks for Halloween. “’Severed’ from Image Comics is the tale of 12-year old Jack Garron who, while growing up in the Midwest during the Great Depression, has run away from home in search of his missing father,” he said. “During his journey he has gained the attention of a sadistic serial killer who is bound and determined to serve him up as his latest victim ... and I do mean ‘serve.’ Writers Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft have crafted an engaging and suspenseful narrative with pitch perfect attention to period detail and dialog. The illustrations by Attila Futaki are rich, with a muted color scheme that makes some segments look ripped from old newsreels while others are imbued with a sense of dark menace.

“The horror angle is what will pull most readers in and it is quite well done, but I really enjoyed Garron and the various characters he encounters even more. ‘Severed’ is so good that they could easily ditch the serial killer storyline and it would be just as, if not more, entertaining.”

Katschke also noted the difficulty in crafting horror comics from fright films and retain their shock value.

BOOM!Studio’s new “Hellraiser” title, according to Katschke, manages to sequelize the infamous movie series to “terrifying effect.”

“Written by ‘Hellraiser’ creator Clive Barker and Christopher Monfette and picking up where the second film in the series left off, the book follows the continuing adventures of Kirsty Cotton, a former victim of the nefarious puzzle boxes which open gates to Hell, and her companions, collectively called The Harrowers, as they match wits against Pinhead and his grotesque minions,” Katschke said. “Many modern horror icons don’t translate well to comics, as the conventions which make them scary on the screen don’t play out well on the printed pages, but the excellent writing and hauntingly atmospheric art on display here are guaranteed to provide a few well-placed chills.” O

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“Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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By Jeff McGinnis Toledo Free Press Star Staff Writer PopGoesJeff@gmail.com

The show had a deceptively simple concept: Play music videos both new and old, adding little information nuggets on top which complemented — and undercut — the action onscreen.

It was called simply “Pop Up Video,” and it became a phenomenon.

“Pop” ran for six seasons (1996-2002), though reruns have aired consistently in the years since. And those eyars have seen massive changes to its home network, VH1, and the music business in general. The rise of YouTube and iTunes, the “American Idol” era, THOMPSON the dominance of hip-hop.

American music is just as important — and selfimportant — as ever.

And now, like a sheriff returning to an out-ofcontrol saloon, “Pop Up Video” is back. On Oct. 3, the show began an all-new season on VH1, with a fresh batch of music and artists available to both highlight and make light of.

So, why resurrect “Pop Up Video” after nearly a decade of absence?

“I think that it is actually the perfect time, when you look at music videos,” executive producer Woody Thompson said in an interview with Toledo Free Press Star. “It’s an interesting thing, because ‘Pop Up’ came out at the time when the Internet was just emerging, and email was just emerging, there was no real texting. So, I think, at the time it came out, it feels like, now, looking back, it was really ahead of its time.

“Now, for it to come back and hopefully establish itself again as the original, kinda snarky voice of text, is kind of an interesting play. If it was up to me, I would have kept it on the air the whole time. But I think that we’ve allowed 10 years of music videos to go by, and there was quite a lull there.”

Indeed, for a while it seemed that music videos were drifting from the public consciousness. Networks like MTV and VH1 devoted

more and more time to vacuous reality shows and less time to the programming that launched them. But videos are gaining traction once more.

Thompson credits Lady Gaga specifically for bringing “renewed interest to the art form.”

“It’s a good time to come back and be a little bit nostalgic — if you can be nostalgic about the late ’90s and early 2000s,” Thompson said.

“We’re doing 300 videos right now, but there’s plenty of videos to mine.”

All the new material to cover excites Thompson, who has been one of the driving forces behind the show since co-creating it with Tad Low in 1996. Though he’s extremely enthusiastic now about the revival, Thompson was hesitant when he was first approached about bringing “Pop Up Video” into a new decade.

“I haven’t been watching music videos at all. I kinda lost touch with the music business — I’m not as much a music fan as I am a pop culture fan and news fan. So, I was a little nervous, because in the last decade, not very many people have talked, to me at least, about a music video that they have watched and that I need to go see,” Thompson said.

“And then, I started realizing what we missed in the decade, and felt like there was ample material. And they asked if we needed to go back and mine the past. And I said, ‘Well, let’s get this out there.’ There’s a whole new generation of kids who have never heard of ‘Pop Up Video’ and have never seen it. So we have a chance to capture them, and the best way to capture them is to give them current music.”

For anyone who watched “Pop” in its heyday, the first few episodes of the revival have felt like coming home — the show’s format and structure have remained basically unchanged from its original run. Thompson said there was a “surprisingly short” debate about whether to alter the formula.

“It’s all about the writing. So, if the writing’s not gonna change, and it’s all about legibility, there’s not much that you can do. So we all kinda decided, let’s start with the writing. Let’s make sure that we can get a team together that can pull it off, and get the research, and pull off that tone and the timing,” Thompson said.

Thompson described his writers as “a band of

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misfits,” a varied group of individuals who collectively give the show its signature tone.

“What I try to do is build a writers’ room of kind of eclectic savants, who bring very different interests,” Thompson explained. “We have 22-year-olds on the staff and we have 45-year olds on the staff. We have men and women, we have black and white, we have goth kids, we have kids who don’t listen to music at all, we have some hiphop freaks. And we all sit in a room together.”

From a list chosen by the network, the staff sits and watches the videos, tossing out ideas, jokes, comments and potential leads for interviews. Despite the show’s fun-loving tone, the writers take the facts they report very seriously, often talking with several individuals involved with the production of each subject.

“We do call directors and producers, but we are also aware that there are like 15 people in the business who do almost everything, and so getting 25 calls from us a week is probably not gonna work for Dave Meyers,” Thompson said of the prolific video director.

So, they seek out alternative sources of information. “Facebook and Twitter have been a godsend, because back-up dancers have nothing to lose. And those are the girls and the guys who are talking to us more often than not.”

It’s up to the individual writer to whittle the facts down to about 40-70 nuggets of information. And there’s always the question of tone — finding the balance of fitting both the show and the video in question.

Of course, sometime events in the real world drastically change the tone of the story the “pops” tell. Such was the case with an early video of the new season: “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse.

“That was one of the first videos we wrote, and we wrote it last summer, before she passed,” Thompson explained. “And we took the video back, and had to rewrite — we had a lot of information there about her coming out of rehab and still being in trouble — so we had to go back and rewrite it.

“I think that video walks the line for us. It’s respectful, but it also —we’re not gonna pull any punches. We are gonna tell you what she has done in her past, how many times she has run out of rehab and how much trouble she was in.”

But no matter what the subject matter, Thompson hopes viewers will once again enjoy the smart and sarcastic nature of his staff ’s pop culture creation. “The tone has always been one, I hope, of confidence — you think that you trust the conductor of this reference train, and that you just sit back and let it take you on a ride.” O

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Survivor

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

Author to talk about female genital mutilation.

By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

Soraya Miré will never forget the sound of scissors, cutting the flesh between her legs as she underwent ritual female genital mutilation (FGM) as a teenager.

“The pain was horrendous,” Miré, who was 13 at the time, recalled years later during an appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” “I struggled to get away, but I was held down by three people, including my mother.”

Four years later, Miré left her native Somalia to live in France and later the United States, where she is now an author, award-winning MIRé documentary filmmaker, recipient of the U.N.’s Humanitarian Award and activist raising awareness of the ritual cultural practice she calls child abuse.

“God will never give you anything you cannot handle, I know for sure right now,” Miré told Toledo Free Press Star in a telephone interview. “I was given a chance to go to the Western world, where I saw how other people lived and what it means to be a woman.”

Reconstructive surgery and years of therapy

helped Miré recover from her physical and emotional wounds, but healing will be a lifelong process.

“Those early years with my doctor were a foundation of the strength I have and the recovery I’ve made thus far, but as any trauma survivor could tell you, the flashbacks come back without notice,” Miré said. “There are times you feel overwhelmed with the pain inside. My job is to stay strong and help others because I’ve been helped.

I’ve been so lucky to find hope in this world.”

Miré will appear in Toledo on Oct. 20, as part of a nationwide book tour to promote her new memoir, “The Girl With Three Legs.” The free event is set from 7-9 p.m. at People Called Women bookstore, 6060 Renaissance Place.

The title refers to a belief in some cultures that if a girl’s clitoris is not cut it will grow. That belief led to Miré being shunned by her classmates until she had the operation.

An estimated 135 million women and girls, mainly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are affected by FGM, which is performed with the purpose of keeping a woman’s honor and purity intact until marriage, Miré said.

“No one came and asked our consent. Honestly, we couldn’t say ‘Stop.’ This was a mutilation. We were told this was our destiny,” Miré said. “So my job became to never forget, to always be persistent to talk about those young girls that are going through this every day. It’s a crime, it’s shameful, it needs to be stopped. It’s

child abuse. This is my life mission. As long as FGM continues, I’m going to be shouting from rooftops, making films and keep writing my story, going to everywhere I can.”

Miré hopes her story inspires people going through any kind of struggle.

“Anyone who is feeling like there is no hope, I want to give that hope to them,” Miré said. “I think reading about my life and seeing how difficult it was and yet somehow I found these angels who, without their help, I couldn’t be here today.

I want my readers to know whatever they are facing, they too will find amazing souls who will help them through their problems just as I did.”

Before Miré’s appearance, from 6:30-7 p.m., local organization Nirvana Now! will host “Sistas Movin’ On: SPEAK OUT! Support and Sisterly Love for Women Incest, Child Sexual Abuse and Rape Survivors,” an opportunity for survivors and co-survivors — partners, mothers or sisters struggling to know how to support and react to what loved ones have experienced — to speak to other survivors about their experiences.

“It’s an opportunity for women to talk privately and yet publically,” said Nirvana Now! founder CeCe Norwood, who plans to host SPEAK OUT!s from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each third Thursday of the month at the bookstore. “I have been working in this field for more than 30 years now and one of the things I have learned that’s a key component for folks on their journeys to

recovery is they have to talk about it publicly. If a person does not do that, they end up stuffing all those feelings and emotions inside, which leads to all kinds of negative effects.”

Norwood, herself a survivor of sexual violence, said she hopes the event will be empowering, liberating and show survivors that happiness is possible again.

“In our world, there is this notion that once you are sexually violated that somehow or another your life is over, but it’s not,” Norwood said.

“It was wrong, it was horrible and you’re going to go through all kinds of hell for the initial part of it, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”

Gina Mercurio, owner of People Called Women, said there has been a good response.

“Her [Miré’s] focus is violence against women and a lot of the people connected to the store here care very deeply about those issues,” Mercurio said. “I think it will be a fabulous event.”

Event sponsors include People Called Women, Nirvana Now!, the University of Toledo Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program and UT Women’s and Gender Studies Department. O

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hen I first met Dr. Lisa Wolford Wylam, it was hard not to be intimidated by her intellect and academic pedigree. But it was harder still to not immediately be put at ease by her demeanor and kindness.

Her knowledge of and experience in the theater arts was virtually unparalleled.

Wolford Wylam’s writings on JEFF performance art and directing theory were numerous and revered. By the time I first met her, she commanded incredible respect in her field.

She was my favorite professor when I began attending undergraduate theater classes at Bowling Green State University in the late 1990s.

One of the most insightful and passionate teachers one could hope for, she opened my eyes to a wider variety of theater arts than anyone else I encountered during my time in academia.

She soon became a very close friend and consistently encouraged me in my studies. Lisa and I could spend hours talking in her office. How was this possible? Easy: Lisa was also a huge, huge professional wrestling fan.

No, I’m not kidding. This brilliant, insightful and challenging writer and teacher was also a die-hard follower of the mat wars. She and I spent much time dissecting the minutia of the art form — as she and I both thought of it.

That’s the thing — even though she genuinely enjoyed wrestling on a superficial level, she also insisted on looking deeper, and understanding why it worked as it did, and what it meant as a cultural movement. Lisa helped me see the levels beyond the surface, and in doing so, helped me understand how anything in pop culture can be understood in such terms.

It was Lisa who encouraged me to move past my undergraduate work into post-graduate theater studies at BGSU. I had been considering grad school, but for journalism (my original major), not theater. But Lisa said she saw potential in my writing and ability for analysis. She went to bat for me and campaigned hard to earn me a place in BGSU’s grad program.

There was a problem, however, and that problem was me. From the outset, I felt like I was completely out of place, pretending to be a grad student instead of actually being one. Surrounded by individuals much more intellectually gifted than me, and who I didn’t feel nearly as comfortable around as I did with Lisa, I felt like my graduate work was never up to par.

Lisa encouraged me to perservere, insisting that everyone felt this way and I would grow into it. But throughout my two years in higher education, that gnawing feeling of being a fraud — a populist writer in academic clothing — per-

A tribute — and an apology — to a friend.

sisted. I did my studies, I took my tests, I wrote my papers, I passed my classes. But I never really belonged.

When my two years were up, all that was left was to write my thesis, another activity which I felt ill-prepared for. I remember meeting with Lisa at Grounds for Thought in Bowling Green, where we discussed once more my topic — wrestling, of course. She was passionate and encouraging about my work, saying she thought I was on the right track.

I would never see Lisa again.

Not long after, I fell into a deep depression. The reasons are myriad, including a heartbreaking loss, feelings of inadequacy in my studies and more. I spent a good six months doing little more than the bare minimum necessary to live.

That primary bout would finally recede at the end of 2003, though I continued to struggle with depression for another four years until finally seeking treatment in 2008.

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POP GOES THE

CULTURE

During that time, work on my thesis slowed to a trickle, then stopped. I’m sure if I simply had notified Lisa of what was happening, she would have understood, but I was so ashamed of myself that I couldn’t face her. I kept telling myself that I didn’t deserve to talk to her until the thesis was finished. To hell with a degree — I missed my friend. But in the twisted psychological headspace I was in, I had to face this dragon alone.

I never finished the thesis. Part of it still sits on my hard drive. But as my unsuccessful attempts to complete it grew in number, so too did my shame. Lisa went to bat for me. She believed in me. And I let her down.

Now, I will never get a chance to apologize to her. She eventually relocated from BGSU to York University in Canada, where she directed the theater studies MA and Ph.D programs.

Suddenly, last week, word came that Lisa passed away on Oct. 7.

I was a coward. I couldn’t face her and explain my failure. And it cost me one of the great friendships of my life.

I’m sorry, Lisa. The biggest regret I will ever have is not that I didn’t finish what I started, but that you’ll never know how much I loved and missed you. O Email Jeff at PopGoesJeff@gmail.com.

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