soin 12172015

DECEMBER 17, 2015 — Issue 94A News and Tribune Publication

TOP THREE: Story time with Santa at Huber's SHOW: 'Nutcracker' performing in Louisville

New 'Star Wars' comes out tonight. Look inside for more, you must

EDITORJason Thomas

DESIGNClaire Munn

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SoIn will not be published next week due to the holidays.NEXT SOIN:

ON THE COVER:

CLARKSVILLE — It’s back

by popular demand. Derby Dinner

Playhouse is presenting the clas-

sic holiday musical Irving Berlin’s

“White Christmas,” running through

Dec. 31. For ticket information call

812-288-8281 or visit derbydinner.

com.

Irving Berlin’s “White Christ-

mas” follows a couple of World War

II GI’s turned song-and-dance men

as they pair up with a sister act to

produce a Christmas Eve show in an

effort to save a struggling Vermont

lodge owned by their former com-

manding officer. The result is a sparkling package filled with splashy dance numbers and treasured tunes

that will take audiences back to a

time when life was simpler and snow

was on everyone’s Christmas wish

list.

Based on the timeless 1954 film starring Rosemary Clooney and Bing

Crosby, this heartwarming musical

adaptation features seventeen Irving

Berlin songs and a book by David

Ives and Paul Blake. The romantic and dazzling score features “Happy

Holidays,” “Sisters,” “Blue Skies,”

“I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm,” “Let Yourself Go,” “White

Christmas” and more.

Irving Berlin’s “White Christ-

mas” is directed by Lee Buckholz,

with choreography by Heather Paige

Folsom and Musical Direction by

Scott Bradley. The cast will include Jillian Prefach, Matthew Brennan,

Brittany Carricato Cox, Paul Kerr,

Elizabeth Loos and more.

Dreaming of a white ChristmasSOIN THE KNOW• WHAT: ‘White Christmas’• WHEN: Through Dec. 31• WHERE: Derby Dinner

Playhouse, 525 Marriott Drive, Clarksville

• INFO: For ticket information call 812-288-8281 or visit der-bydinner.com

May the force be with us ... to never have to live through the hype of an-other “Star Wars” movie ever again.

Sure, you could say we’re feeding the frenzy

with today’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” blowout. Guilty as charged.

Guess we’d feel a little left out — and you

might feel in the dark — if we didn’t take

advantage of Community Newspaper Holdings

Inc.’s out-of-this-world movie-related content.

See what I did there?

Special tip of the hat to Heather Bremer, managing

editor - digital at the Anderson Herald Bulletin, for steer-

ing the coverage. We only have space inside these pages

to include some of the highlights. You can find all the content at newsandtribune.com, including official “Star Wars” trailers — if you weren’t lucky enough to score

tickets to opening night. CNHI’s coverage proves it’s a small universe

out there: Two stars of the film franchise have Indiana roots. Jake Lloyd (Little Anakin) is from Indianapolis, and Adam Driver (the bad guy in “The Force Awakens”) is from Mishawaka.

How about them apples, James Dean?While the latest iteration of “Star Wars”

might be overhyped, consider this num-ber: 4,486,158,822. That’s the amount, in dollars, of the worldwide box office take for the

franchise. Oh, and there are an estimated 300 billion stars in our galaxy.

Looks like the stars are aligned for another movie.

— Jason Thomas is the editor of SoIn. He can be reached by phone at 812-206-2127 or email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopThomas.

Going hyperspeed into ‘Star Wars’

JASON THOMASSoIn Editor

Tweet or Facebook us and your idea could be our next SoIn feature.

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PAINT THE TOWN GET ROWDY WITH RHODY• WHAT: PaintNite• WHEN: 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21• WHERE: Wick’s Pizza, 225 State St., New AlbanyWith instruction from talented artist, Lacole

Offutt, you can make a painting worthy of hanging. This week’s painting is “Winter Wreath.” Regular price is $45, but use code WICKS20 at checkout to get $20 off. Go to https://www.paintnite.com/pages/venueevents/view/louis-ville/126686 to see the schedule and buy your tickets. To get your creative juices flowing, Wicks will have $3 margaritas and martinis and $2 pints and bottles of domestic beer.

• WHAT: Alan Rhody concert• WHEN: 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19• WHERE: Jeffersonville Township Public Library,

211 E. Court Ave., JeffersonvilleA special concert featuring Louisville native Alan

Rhody will be from 3 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Jeffersonville Township Public Library, 211 E. Court Ave., Jeffersonville. Rhody, who now resides in Nashville, has written many award-winning songs, most notably "I’ll Be True to You," which was recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys. For more information on this program, visit jef-flibrary.org or call 812-285-5635.

GOTTA GO: Interested in seeing your event in our 3 To Go? Email SoIn Editor Jason Thomas at [email protected]

• WHAT: Story time with Santa• WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 19, Sunday,

Sec. 20• WHERE: Joe Huber’s Family Farm

and Restaurant, 2421 Engle Road, Starlight

Santa will be making one of his favorite stops at Joe Huber’s Family Farm and Restaurant to read “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Times: Saturday, Dec. 19, noon to 4 p.m. (story time at 3 p.m.); Sunday, Dec. 20, 3 to 6 p.m. (story time at 5 p.m.) Simon Huber migrated from Baden-Baden, Ger-many in 1843 and settled in Starlight with apple trees ready to plant.

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ALBUMS: BOOKS:MOVIES:DEC. 22é “Time and Time Again”

by Ben Elton “Air” by Vincent Laforet

DEC. 18é “Royalty” by Chris Brown

“Tell Me I’m Pretty” by Cage the Elephant

DEC. 18é “Star Wars: The Force

Awakens” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”

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ENTERTAINMENT This week's entertainment releases

LOUISVILLE — The Louisville

Ballet is once again proud to present

its annual holiday treat for the entire

family, The Brown-Forman “Nut-

cracker.” This production celebrates

the magic and beauty of the season

by taking audiences on a beautiful

journey through the world of the

Sugar Plum Fairy, according to a

Louisville Ballet news release.

“Louisville has such a strong con-

nection to this holiday tradition and

I love being part of that experience,

especially since it is such a high-

quality production,” said Robert Cur-

ran, artistic and executive director

of the ballet. “It is such a pleasure

for Louisville Ballet to deliver

The Brown-Forman Nutcracker to our community each year. Brown-Forman Corporation’s support for this production is exceptional; I am so grateful for their commitment to this beautiful production and to our company.”

This season Louisville Ballet welcomes Val Caniparoli, Brown-Forman Nutcracker choreographer, back into our studios to update and refine his choreography with the Company.

Louisville Ballet received a gener-

ous one million dollar gift from the Brown-Forman Corp. in 2008 to create this beautifully updated pro-duction, which premiered in 2009. Choreographed by Val Caniparoli and designed by world-renowned set designer Peter Cazalet, this produc-tion celebrates Louisville by includ-ing hometown elements like the St. James Fountain and Derby Jockeys. Master illusionist Marshall Magoon created illusions specifically for this ballet that complete the magical experience.

Dancing with sugar plum fairiesSOIN THE KNOW• WHAT: Brown-Forman ‘Nut-

cracker’• WHEN: Through Dec. 20• WHERE: The Kentucky Cen-

ter, 501 West Main St., Louisville• INFO: Single tickets are avail-

able via The Kentucky Center. Call 502-584-7777, purchase online at kentuckycenter.org or visit the box office located at 501 West Main St., Louisville

LOCAL SOIN HAPPENINGS | 7SoIn | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015

Feeling left out? Send your establishment’s and/or orga-nization’s upcoming events/new features/entertainment information to SoIn Editor Jason Thomas at [email protected]

LIVE MUSIC AT WICK’SWHAT: Live on StateWHERE: Wick’s, 225 State St., New AlbanyFriday, Dec. 18: Goldylocks; Saturday, Dec. 19: Juice Box

Heroes; Saturday, Dec. 26: The Killer Lips

LIVE MUSIC AT NAPHWHERE: New Albany Production House, 1736 E. Main St.,

New AlbanyFriday, Dec. 18: Alienation, Adalid, 2ILL, TTE, Kidd Breezy,

Sasha Renee, Demintid, Kid Lou, 6:30 to 11:30 p.m., $8 ad-vance/$10 door; Sunday, Dec. 20: Austin Jones, Run2Cover, Gnarly Quinn, Lucy, 7 to 11 p.m.; $12 (all ages)

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PHOTOS AT LIBRARYWHAT: ‘Just Photographin’ Around” by Bob Dorzback exhibitWHEN: Through Jan. 31WHERE: Jeffersonville Township Public Library, 211 E. Court

Ave.The Jeffersonville Township Public Library, 211 E. Court Ave.,

will host a photography exhibit by Bob Dorzback. The exhibit “Just Photographin’ Around” will be on display beginning today, Thursday, Dec. 3, through Jan. 31. An opening recep-tion is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, in the second floor gallery. Dorzback has been an avid amateur and semi-professional photographer for over 15 years and currently

resides in Louisville, according to a library news release. He is an engineering graduate of the University of Kentucky, is self-taught in photography, and has served as vice president and president of the Louisville Photographic Society (founded in 1941). His photography centers on his love of the natural, the everyday normal, as well as the unusual, capturing both truth and spontaneity in his images.

SENIOR ANGEL TREEThe Senior Citizen’s Angel Tree Project is officially underway

and the community is invited to participate by adopting an Angel. The project will serve 506 elderly and disabled individuals this year from local long-term care facilities and homebound care management clients in Clark, Floyd, Harri-son and Scott Counties. LifeSpan Resources has sponsored this annual Christmas Holiday project for 27 years wherein gifts of clothing, toiletries, candy, music, etc. are purchased for these very special “Angels.” Angels can be adopted on-line from the agency’s website: lifespanresources.org, via Facebook or directly from LifeSpan. Most Angels request a sweat suit, gown or pajamas, socks, underwear, candy, and toiletries (lotion, powder, deodorant, Kleenex). For more information contact Earlene Bennett, Coordinator, at 812- 206-7904 or by email at [email protected].

CHRISTMAS DANCEWHEN: 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19The Auxiliary to VFW Post 3281, Floyd County, will host a

Christmas Dance, 7 to 11 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Post Home. 232 E. Fifth St.. New Albany. Burning Bridges Band entertaining. Public welcome.

LIVE NATIVITY SCENEWHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19WHERE: Unfinished Church, 1412 East Elm St., New AlbanyUnfinished Church, 1412 East Elm St., New Albany, will host a

live nativity scene, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, fea-turing camels, donkeys, sheep and lambs. Free hot chocolate and coffee will be provided.

CHRISTMAS PARTYWHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 19WHERE: The Wilbur M. Ruby Post 204 of the American Legion,

412 N. New Albany St., SellersburgThe Wilbur M. Ruby Post 204 of the American Legion, 412

N. New Albany St., Sellersburg, will sponsor its annual Children’s Christmas Party, 11 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, at the post. Santa arrives at noon and presents each child with a gift. Hot dogs, cookies and punch will be served to all in attendance. For more information call 812-246-4064.

UNDERGROUND STATION UPDATEDevelop New Albany welcomes The Olivet to downtown

New Albany. The Olivet will be opening in Suite 11 of the Underground Station at Market and Bank streets. Opening date will be announced at a later time. The Olivet will be offering the following items and much more: ultra premium olive oils; aged balsamics; whole spices; specialty gourmet foods; handmade chocolates and candies; unique gifts.

— developna.org

NEW ALBANY — Look-ing for something free and fun for young ones to do over the holiday break? The Carnegie Center for Art and History can be of assistance. On Wednesday, Dec. 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Carnegie Center will feature craft activities along with re-freshments. Day at the Museum is open to the first 100 children and pre-registration is required. All children must be accom-panied by an adult. Please call 812-944-7336 or email Delesha Thomas at [email protected] to register.

During 2015, the Carnegie Center was committed to pro-moting sustainability, through its participation in YES Fest! and via its own public art pro-gramming, according to a Carn-egie news release. Continuing along those lines, it has invited Lynn Quire of Good Garbage to lead this year’s Day at the Museum craft-making activities. Quire started her nonprofit, cre-ative reuse center two years ago and her business has expanded into a new space located on Louisville’s Frankfort Avenue. In 2014, Good Garbage was voted “Most Creative Business” in Louisville Magazine’s Best

of Louisville issue. This will be a great opportunity to meet Lynn and learn more about her business and the sustainable ser-vices Good Garbage provides. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History, a department of the New Albany-Floyd County Pub-lic Library, is a contemporary art gallery and history museum that offers a full schedule of changing exhibitions, the New Albany Public Art Project, and other educational programs. The Carnegie Center also features the permanent local history exhibits.

Day at the MuseumSOIN THE KNOW• WHAT: Day at the Mu-

seum• WHEN: 11 a.m. Wednes-

day, Dec. 23• WHERE: Carnegie Center

for Art and History, 201 E. Spring St., New Albany

• INFO: Call 812-944-7336 or email Delesha Thomas at [email protected] to register

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“Star Wars” has been filling science-fiction fans’ heads with ideas of how technology could evolve in the future since 1977.

Some of these ideas have been made a reality, such as holograms, heads-up displays and bionic append-ages, according to Gadget Review.

But what about actual light sabers or traveling at light speed?

What about interplanetary travel to other galaxies?

What about droids and cyborgs like those we’ve seen throughout the franchise?

While fans may think it’s all possible in due time with technologi-cal advancements, scientists with knowledge of the inner workings of our universe disagree.

The Herald Bulletin asked Jeffrey Dick, THB columnist and Na-tional Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Center for Electrochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, what he thought of the technology featured in the “Star Wars” franchise.

LIGHT SABERS: IMPOSSIBLE!

“Light sabers are usually thought to be some pretty high-powered lasers. Because light has no mass, it would be pretty hard to make something out of light that could be used as a sword.

“Besides, this would require a type of reflector on the end of the saber to reflect the laser beam back. Another problem is the amount of power that would have to go into a laser of meaningful use.

“For instance, the use of plasma could be a possibility, but that re-quires temperatures like those on the sun. Can you imagine hooking your little saber into a nuclear reactor just to use it? Doesn’t sound very safe.”

LIGHT SPEED: IMPOSSIBLE!“According to Einstein’s General

Theory of Relativity, which has been upheld through many experiments, reaching the speed of light is not feasible.

“Say you’re traveling along in a

spaceship and approaching the speed of light — Einstein’s theory predicts that your mass would start to ap-proach infinity and time would start to approach zero. Can you imagine what zero time is like?

“It’s the same with gravity. Black holes are thought to have an infinite gravitational field, which means that not even light can escape them (hence, ‘black’ hole). According to Einstein’s theory, time stops in a black hole. Time stops. What could that be like?”

INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL: POSSIBLE.

“With the best spaceships we have

now, hopping over to Mars in eight months is completely possible. How-ever, it’s a different story when we talk about other solar systems.

“The closest star is Alpha Cen-tauri, which is about 93 million miles (4 light years) away. A light year is the distance that light will travel in one year.

“Want to know something cool? That means that the light that we see now from Alpha Centauri is really a depiction of what Alpha Centauri was like 4 years ago. Because we can’t go the speed of light, reaching this solar system might be possible in a lifetime.

“In Star Wars, wrinkles in the

fabric of space-time (wormholes) are used to travel through the universe. Is this possible? Perhaps, but the jury’s still out on that one.”

HUMAN-LIKE ROBOTS AND DROIDS: POSSIBLE.

“Artificial intelligence has been heavily pursued and debated; however, in the grand scheme of things, we are probably pretty far away from that.

“Ever since fantastic stories like “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov, people have gained a lot of interest in whether or not human-like robots, capable of feeling empathy and love and desire and shame, are actually possible.

“Of course, we also run into many ethical issues as to how we may con-trol and treat these robots. We must remember that nature has spent mil-lions and millions of years, through processes of trial and error, crafting life the way it is now.

“It would be presumptuous to believe that the task would be simple. As far as I know, there are no physical laws that prohibit this from occurring; however, even in humans, we don’t know what physi-cally causes feelings of impulse and whimsy. If we don’t understand it ourselves, it’s going to be pretty hard to recreate in a computer.”

Are we close to seeing the technology in ‘Star Wars’?

BY THE NUMBERSNotable numbers and figures about the “Star Wars” franchise13 hours 37 minutesRun time for all six movies already released1138Number frequently used in George Lucas films to pay homage to one of his early short films$786,535,665Worldwide box office for “Ep. IV: A New Hope”$534,058,751Worldwide box office for “Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back”$572,625,409Worldwide box office for “Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi”$1,027,044,677Worldwide box office for “Ep. I: The Phantom Menace”$648,200,000Worldwide box office for “Ep. II: Attack of the Clones”$848,998,877Worldwide box office for “Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith”$68,695,443Worldwide box office for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”$4,486,158,822Worldwide Box Office for movie franchise300 billionEstimated number of stars in our galaxy

— Kelly Dickey, The Herald Bulletin

BY DEVAN FILCHAKThe Herald Bulletin

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SOIN THE KNOWWhere to watch “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in Southern Indiana:NEW ALBANY• Regal New Albany Stadium 16• Address: 300 Professional Court, New Albany• Phone: 844-462-7342CLARKSVILLE• River Falls• Address: 951 E. Lewis and Clark Parkway, Clarksville• Phone: 812-284-6255

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