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As part of NUVO’s runup to our 25th Anniversary Issue, we’re taking a look back over our last 25 years. We began Oct. 1, 2014 — 25 weeks away from our birthday in March of 2015.

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As the Colts get ready to head to Denver for a playoff matchup, we look back to Jan. 2004 — the month that saw the Indy version of the blue and white actually both host and win a postseason game for the first time. Who’d we beat? The Denver Broncos, that’s who — and this was back when Peyton Manning wasn’t wearing that hideous orange jersey.

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NUVO then ran a series of bullet-point editorial blurbs called “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down.”

Here’s a sample from the Jan. 7, 2004 issue:

THUMBS UP: Judge Sarah Evans Barker.

Federal Judge continues to put heat on Sheriff Frank Anderson and other citycounty officials to solve the problems of the overcrowded and understaffed Marion County Jail and Lockup. (NOTE: NUVO gave a Lifetime Achievement Cultural Vision Award to Judge Barker in 2014.)

THUMBS DOWN: Poll numbers are good, but election year begins with people still dying by the score in Iraq post-Saddam’s capture.

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March 25, 2015, NUVO turns 25.

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“When it comes to the Gospel message, Christian conservatism as practiced by the GOP legislative and executive powers has it all backwards.”

Activists and lobbyists weigh in on their environmental hopes and fears for 2015.

So if a band’s not old enough to drink beer while they talk gear, we default to homegrown soda.

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WE ‘EFFED UP!

As for the Colts, they’d get an extensive column the following week from David Hoppe, who celebrated the playoff run (the team followed the Denver beat-down with a win over the Chiefs) as a welcome distraction.

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s a Christian, I find it repugnant, indeed sinful, to allow my tax dollars to fund the salary of State Sen. Scott Schneider, who, along with the majority of his colleagues, is a chronic and professional liar in violation of the Law of Moses.

Christians do believe in repentance and absolution, of course; but not as much as Schneider et al. take pride rather than shame in their incessant misrepresentations and calumnies regarding their election opponents and the targets of their un-Christlike policies, I see no warrant for denying me the right to discriminate against them in accord with my religious faith.

If Schneider carries through on his promise to propose legislation allowing Hoosier service providers in the public realm to turn away, for religious reasons, citizens whom they deem to be homosexual, then let him do so without my contribution to his wages, his use of my Statehouse, and that portion of his lunch and greens fees that may be left to me after the lobbyists – straight or gay – have delivered their supply.

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“I have decided to stick with love.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

DAN CARPENTER EDITORS@NUVO.NET Dan Carpenter is a freelance writer, a contributor to Indianapolis Business Journal and the author of Indiana Out Loud.

mobilized on behalf of marriage equality.

Retaliation for the defeat of marriage discrimination (by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court, yet) is the obvious motive for this typical Schneiderism, and one more occasion for regret that his bright young opponent Tim DeLaney was unable to penetrate the skulls of enough voters in 2012.

The gesture in and of itself will do more harm to the credibility of Schneider and the GOP supermajority than it will wreak upon gay couples and families. But what’s infuriating about it is that it manifests a larger perversion of religion that poisons the party’s entire agenda, in grievously practical ways.

When it comes to the Gospel message – love thy neighbor, judge not lest ye be judged, see to the little children, exalt the poor and bring low the rich – Christian conservatism as practiced by the GOP legislative and executive powers has it all backwards.

And they lie about it.

Drug-testing welfare Christian conservatism as practiced recipients has not turned up by the GOP legislative and executive abusers of drugs or welfare in any appreciable numbers. powers has it all backwards.

Raising the minimum wage has not hurt either employers or low-income workers.

The inheritance tax that was repealed, At least I shall have my symbolic vicleaving a 10-figure hole for the rest of us tory. As shall he, and his colleagues, and to fill, was not the doom of the family perhaps our pietistic governor, whose farm, only an irritation to the wealthilove for sinners may just not be expanest of heirs. Tuition vouchers have not sive enough to bring him to veto yet rescued poor kids from failing schools; another Hoosier hate law. they’ve enriched private schools at the I say symbolic, because the applicaexpense of the schools serving those kids. tion and enforcement of a statute based Same-sex marriage has been no threat to on bedroom behavior, not to mention “traditional marriage;” if anything, it has the constitutionality of same, are ludistrengthened a battered institution. crous propositions aimed at feeding the Lies, damn lies and these guys. It’s bigot constituency and distracting the been said nothing grieves God more masses from the state’s real problems. than the bearing of false witness. And Unlike my gesture, however, this one surely only God knows where the multicould do some real harm, adding to plying consequences stop. So let me put Attorney Greg Zoeller’s already lengthy a stop to my role as accessory. If I can’t anti-gay legal bills and further alienating recall my senator – et al., et al. – then the business and academic sectors that send me a refund. n

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ong ago in an almost forgotten presidential primary debate, U.S. Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings, D-South Carolina, delivered a classic line about Ronald Reagan.

It wasn’t the things that the Gipper didn’t know that created trouble, Hollings said. Rather, Hollings continued, it was the stuff that Reagan “knew for sure that just wasn’t so” that was the problem.

I’ve thought about Hollings’ jest as we approach the 2015 session of the Indiana General Assembly.

This session promises us proposals that will protect the “rights” of Christians to celebrate Christmas in public schools and on courthouse lawns and to refuse service to gay people because doing so will violate their religious principles.

Doubtless, we also will see Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, RFort Wayne, continue his efforts with other state legislators from around the country to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

Driving these initiatives is the unshakable conviction that something is wrong with the moral workings of the universe and the law if social conservatives aren’t allowed to use the power of government “to inflict” their “views on others.”

Behind that conviction is still another one: No matter how pugnacious their behavior is in regard to attempting to inflict those views on others, social conservatives are always the victims. Unless they’re given free rein to use government’s power to persecute others, they somehow become the persecuted themselves.

Nothing – neither facts nor logic – can derail this entrenched sense of victimhood. If anything, contrary evidence just heightens their sense of martyrdom.

Long’s attempt to rewrite the Constitution, he says, springs from concerns over the national debt and what he calls federal government overreach.

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awakened when Barack Obama became president. That the federal government’s deficit in relation to our gross national product has steadily declined during the Obama years hasn’t lulled Long back to his untroubled sleep of earlier days.

Then there’s the ongoing campaign by state Sen. Jim Smith, R-Charlestown, to “save” Christmas, even though the constitutional guidelines for religious displays are clear. If teachers and other public officials want to open the door to one faith tradition, then they have to open it to all faith traditions. If they’re not comfortable with giving Satanists the same space on the courthouse lawn or in the classroom they give to Baptists, then they have to close the lawn or the classroom to celebrations of faith.

Smith seems to think Christians are being mistreated if they aren’t given preferential treatment before the law – and that the Indiana General Assembly has the authority to trump the U.S. Constitution.

Last, there’s the curiously named “religious liberty” bill championed by state Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, which would allow businesses to discriminate against gay Hoosiers.

I say “curious” for two reasons.

First, how will business owners test whether someone is homosexual before denying him or her service?

Second, it’s interesting that homosexuality triggered this need for Christian business owners to keep their hands unsullied, rather than murder, adultery or lying – about which I seem to recall the Bible speaking clearly.

Schneider’s bill is a response to the failed attempt last year by social conservatives to use the state constitution to prevent gay citizens from entering into contracts to provide love and support for each other and the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to support same-sex marriage bans in states.

Again, because they aren’t allowed to persecute others, social conservatives see themselves as the persecuted.

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Schneider’s business discrimination bill As the Indiana General Assembly reconvenes for business, one state senator has announced his intentions to, from his perspective, close the gaps in Indiana’s “religious liberty framework.”

Senator Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, said he will file a bill that essentially would allow businesses to deny the sale of their goods or services to same-sex couples for their weddings based on the religious beliefs of the business owner. The bill is believed to be in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let stand a district court’s ruling that Indiana’s marriage law denying same sex marriage was unconstitutional. According to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, similar laws are either under consideration or expected to be filed in state legislatures this year including Michigan, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and Utah.

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y this time next year, Indianapolis will have a new mayor establishing his or her reign on the top floor of the City-County building. Today marks the beginning of that journey to the corner of Market and Alabama streets. Major party candidates may now file their declarations of candidacy for the municipal primary in May. Independents and minor party candidates may also file petitions of nomination for the November general election.

So who will be on the ballot in May and/ or November and what aspirations do they have for the future of the Circle City?

Joe Hogsett It was mid-July 2014 when Joe Hogsett resigned as U.S. attorney. He formed his exploratory committee one month later, allowing him to start raising money for his municipal run. Hogsett’s quest became official in November when he announced his candidacy on a cold evening in Dr.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Washington Township Trustee Frank Short quickly stepped aside and threw his support behind Hogsett after spending months preparing to go toe-to-toe with State Representative Ed DeLaney (D-Indianapolis).

DeLaney held onto his mayoral dreams until early December, announcing he would instead focus his attention on the Indiana General Assembly.

Hogsett is no stranger to politics and is very familiar with the victories and defeats of running for public office.

His resume highlights his success as the campaign manager who helped Evan Bayh reach the governor’s mansion. From there he was first appointed then eventually elected to the Indiana Secretary of State’s office. His history also holds unsuccessful attempts for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and Indiana Attorney General.

In his November announcement, Hogsett stated he intends to spread the city’s wealth of infrastructure by addressing streets and sidewalks in neighborhoods outside of the downtown district. Crime,

community policing and rebuilding the community’s trust of the city’s law enforcement will also be high on Hogsett’s agenda if elected. He touched on education and job creation without getting into the specifics of charter schools sponsored by the mayor’s office or initiatives with Indianapolis Public Schools.

And if campaign fundraising is any indicator of success, Hogsett is way ahead of the game. As of Monday afternoon, his campaign has raised more than $1.4 million, the highest amount raised by an Indianapolis mayoral candidate going into an election cycle.

Rev. Charles Harrison A name considered by some as a potential catalyst for change is Rev. Charles Harrison, senior pastor at Barnes United Methodist Church. Harrison formed his exploratory committee for a possible run for mayor Dec. 4, the same day Ed DeLaney announced his withdrawl from the S E E , C A N D I D A T E S , O N P A GE 0 6

Pence meets Israeli Prime Minister Gov. Mike Pence met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem after spending Christmas in the city with his family, a trip paid for by the nonprofit advocacy group Christians United for Israel. “We discussed ideas on fostering shared growth between Indiana and Israel through partnership and cooperation,” Pence said in a statement after the meeting. But the leaders also discussed international politics. In an edited video of the public portion of the meeting, Netanyahu told Pence that “Israel and our civilization is under attack” from Iran, from Islamists and from the Palestinian Authority. He urged the international community to reject a proposal to create a Palestinian state by withdrawing from Judea and Samaria. Pence assured the leader that “support for Israel in the United States has never been stronger.”

Pence reportedly declined a private meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

White still banned from public office An appeals court threw out three of former Secretary of State Charlie White’s six convictions in a case involving voter fraud but left in place his sentence, which prohibits him from serving in elected office. White was sentenced in 2012 after convictions on six counts that involved where he was living when he registered to vote, collected his pay as a member of the Fishers Town Council and applied for a marriage license. The felony convictions made him ineligible to serve. But the Indiana Court of Appeals said two of the convictions violated doublejeopardy principles, which the attorney general’s office had acknowledged in its arguments in the case.

And the court said a perjury charge should have been dismissed because it was based on the street address White claimed on a marriage license when only his county of residence actually mattered. The court left in place Class D felony convictions for perjury, voting in another precinct and theft.

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Publishing 101 Saturday, Jan. 11, 2 p.m. Indy Reads Books will host a seminar on publishing original work. Mountain Springs House CEO Allison Bruning will lead the discussion on how to navigate the publishing world, what to look for when seeking out a publisher and pitfalls to avoid. The talk is designed for people who have written or are planning to write original works and seek to get them published.

Indy Reads Books, 911 Massachusetts Ave., FREE Dr. David Fankhouser Lecture Thursday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Brebeuf Jesuit College Preparatory School will host Dr. David Fankhouser as a part of its Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. “I was a Teenage Freedom Rider: A Presentation by Civil Rights Activist, Dr. David Fankhouser” will explore his experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. At age 19, Fankhouser participated in the Freedom Rides that brought attention to southern U.S. states that refused to support the law prohibiting discrimination on interstate public transport.

Brebeuf Jesuit, 2801 W. 86th St., FREE Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Thursday, Jan 15, 12:30 p.m. The Indiana Civil Rights Commission and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Indiana Holiday Commission will host the state’s 24th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Indiana Holiday Celebration at the Indiana Statehouse. The festivities will include remarks from the governor’s office, student recognitions and performances, and an awards presentation.

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Joe Hogsett, Rev. Charles Harrison, Sam Carson and Bob Kern are all potential candidates for mayor of Indianapolis. Hogsett and Carson have officialy declared their candidacy while Harrison has committed only to an exploratory committee.

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race. Harrison is also one of the founders and clergy leaders behind the Ten Point Coalition, a citizen-based organization designed to reduce violence in Indianapolis though active community engagement and the fostering of education and employment opportunities.

In a Facebook post reacting to a recent newspaper article about Indy’s 2014 homicide rate, Harrison expressed his desire to see more funds invested in neighborhood-based programs such as community policing, youth mentoring and job training to counteract root problems that lead to crime and violence. Harrison also indicated that he would support increasing IMPD’s ranks by 300 officers and funding an additional $6 million to cover overtime in order to put more officers on patrol in high crime areas.

The Methodist pastor has made no commitments (as of NUVO’s print deadline) to an official run for the city’s top political seat. Nor has he selected a political party if he were to make any commitment to running. A campaign finance report had not been posted by the Marion County Clerk’s office as of noon Monday.

A Republican candidate Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

I swear I just saw a tumbleweed roll across my desk.

(Calls to the Marion County Republican Party to inquire about the search for a successor to Mayor Greg Ballard were not returned by NUVO’s print deadline.)

A few of the GOP names that circulated early as mayoral prospects have already stated publicly they will not run for mayor including State Sen. Jim Merritt (R-Indianapolis), Indiana Sports Corporation president Ryan Vaughn, and former State Republican Party chairman Murray Clark.

Sam Carson The Carson surname is one that carries a lot of weight and respect in Indianapolis. Sam Carson is the son of the late 7th District Congresswoman Julia Carson (and uncle to Julia’s successor and grandson Congressman Andre Carson). Carson, who was defeated in the 2011 Democratic primary for mayor, is running this year as an Independent. Carson says he is a Democrat in principle at heart, but became disillusioned with the local party following his first mayoral run in 2011. By entering the race as an Independent, Carson says he can continue to campaign and carry his message through the community over the course of several months leading up to the general election.

Carson’s agenda covers a wide range of topics from education to public safety to economic development to race relations to neighborhood investment. In order to move Indianapolis forward, Carson believes several things need to be “taken back” including separating the city’s police department from the sheriff’s department, eliminating the mayor’s sponsorship of charter schools, killing the idea of a new Marion County Justice Complex and doing away with funding for bike lanes and cultural trails in the city.

Instead, Carson says he would concentrate on paving sidewalks in underserved neighborhoods, developing partnerships between inner city schools and historically black colleges to inspire young people and creating ways for law enforcement and the public at-large to hold each other accountable.

Carson says he is also fairly certain that he will be the only mayoral candidate that would actively lobby the state legislature for the legalization of marijuana.

Bob Kern Bob Kern has made a bid for Congress in multiple districts over multiple years only to fall short in the primary every time (except the first, when he secured the Democratic party’s nomination in 1998 and eventually lost to Rep. Dan Burton in the former 6th District). Kern attempted a mayoral run in 2011, but was removed from the ballot due to ineligibility. Kern believes that the law prohibiting him to run for mayor as a convicted felon has changed. (Kern, under his former name of Bobby Hidalgo, served a year in prison for forgery and theft convictions.)

However, NUVO couldn’t find any change over the last four years to Indiana Code 3-8-1-5 that prohibits a person convicted of a felony that has served a year or more in prison from being a candidate for state and local offices. The statute does not apply to federal offices (which is why Kern has been able to run for U.S. Congress nearly every election cycle since 1998).

Still, Kern says if elected he plans to be a friend to and advocate for law enforcement, believes all public officials should be drug tested and will voluntarily submit to drug tests while on the campaign trail. Kern also plans to run as a Democrat, providing Joe Hogsett with at least one challenger in May – if he can somehow stay on the ballot.

Is that it?

The field for the next mayor of Indianapolis looks very narrow at the starting line, but there’s still plenty of time for a dark horse or an unknown to throw a hat into the political ring and widen the pool. The deadline to file as a major party candidate for the primary is noon Feb. 6. Independents and minor party candidates have until noon June 30 to file their petition for nomination. n

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hen I tell people how much I enjoy visiting local karaoke bars, the look I sometimes get implies I should be part of a 12-step program.

Something like “Hi, I’m Jonathan, and I’m a karaoke addict. I mainline Katy Perry and Adele for kicks.”

Not that there is anything untoward about getting behind a microphone and belting out tunes to entertain a drunken crowd. I’ve been doing it for years, and unless I find my way onto America’s Got Talent, odds are those sojourns are the only way I’ll ever live out my rock and roll fantasy. Grab that mic and for five minutes you’re a star, whether you can sing or not.

And trust me, no one cares if you can sing.

Sure, it’s a bonus if you can hit the high notes of a Whitney Houston song or growl like Disturbed’s David Draiman. But once everyone’s drunk enough, it’s just as fun being dragged up front for a group singalong to “We Are The World.” Yes, this has happened to me. And yes, that song goes on forever.

I grew up in a small town in Southern Indiana, Tell City, where karaoke was something that happened in bars just every once in a while. Only recently did any local bars start booking a regular show, and the town was so small every singer knew each other. Hazards of small town karaoke: you can’t hold a contest often because the same singer or two would win every time. Because of this, people tended to play it safe, choosing a song or two to sing regularly, rarely stepping out from their comfort zone.

Obviously I couldn’t wait to get to Indianapolis, where aside from hitting the freelance writing hard, I could go to karaoke bars seven nights a week if I

wanted, competing against the best singers at every opportunity. I pictured myself as a karaoke hustler, sneaking in and shocking everyone when they saw this 300-pound bearded giant hit the stage and nail every note of Hozier’s “Take Me To Church.” I saw karaoke titles in my future, because no one would hear me coming.

My in-laws were having none of it.

“Don’t expect this to be like Tell City,” my mother-in-law said as she drove my wife and me to the Monkey’s Tale the week we came up to sign the papers for our new condo. The implication was that on the mean streets of the Indy karaoke scene, people were going to be cruel. Knife-youin-the-nuts cruel.

So I braced for the worst.

Then I heard “Aunt Susan” singing Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and knew immediately this was exactly like Tell City. Once you hear a crowd cheering on an octogenarian as she sings “I want your ugly / I want your disease,” you know they’re down for anything.

It didn’t take long for Kat, my editor here at NUVO, to hear that I was the city’s latest wannabe karaoke star, and that I lived off the high I got each time I found a new bar where the microphone was open to anyone with lungs. So she set me loose on the city’s karaoke scene with the task of putting together a new list of best places to sing any day of the week. I, of course, agreed immediately, and set out to find the places where everybody knows your name – and what song you’re known for.

The first thing I noticed was that I was right about the level of competition. That first night at The Monkey’s Tale, I left

empty-handed, not placing in the top three of that night’s second week of Monkey Idol.

Sixteen people competed and no one played it safe, which meant a level of competition that was at once intimidating and exhilarating.

In Indianapolis I didn’t have to sing the easy songs.

In fact, taking risks was openly encouraged, as singers informally battled each other to see who could come up with the riskiest performance. When I returned to battle the Monkey Idol gods in mid-December I fared better – placing third – but I knew I’d have to continue to step up my game if I ever want to be a champion singer here.

Each bar had its quirks too, which made me feel like a cultural karaoke anthropologist everywhere I went.

At Metro, for example, the bonus is that you can sing while backed by actual radio jocks who put in effort to make a professional show out of a ragtag bunch of singers. While the dance party raged on upstairs, those of us adventurous enough to take up the challenge sang everything from “With A Little Help From My Friends” to Alanis’ “You Oughta Know,” all while Chris Van Sickle, who produces the Smiley Morning Show on WZPL, kept up banter with the audience while blasting upbeat dance tags between singers. Packed in like sardines, we loaded up with beer and let everything out. Being new in town, it was three hours in before I even realized I was in a gay bar (not that anyone in the place gave a shit who was or wasn’t).

At the Hi-Fi in Fountain Square, where they’ve been hosting karaoke only since early last year, the atmosphere was the complete opposite. When I arrived, expecting a long wait before singing, there were only 10 or 20 people in the place, which meant I had four beers in me and five songs under my belt before the hipster crowd really got the place moving. The best thing they have going is that singers can take the

stage where national touring bands play, living the rock star dream in a venue where high quality sound is guaranteed. Once you belt out the opening lines of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” in that setting, there’s no going back. Except on Tuesdays, since you know you’ll definitely be doing Hi-Fi karaoke again.

My favorite spot in those first two weeks of karaoke newness had to be Downtown Olly’s, which has the benefit of being a gay sports bar, a fantastic diner and hands down the best place to let your inner singer fly. Take the stage beneath a sea of yearround Christmas lights and face the giant screen on the opposite wall, and you’re immediately at home. And the variety of singers was impressive as well! My first night there I heard an extremely grizzed guy sing a slurred-yet-awesome rendition of “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” after which Aunt Susan of Monkey’s Tale fame belted out the best (and only) version of Ricky Martin’s “Shake Your Bon Bon” I’ve ever heard. Later, a dude sang “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” like he was starring in his own cabaret act. What more could you want?

The week before Christmas, Kat hooked up this humble, legally blind freelancer (me) with a photographer willing to log some serious karaoke miles. And thus the inaugural Naptown Karaoke Crawl was born, as photographer Michelle Craig and I set out to visit as many karaoke spots in a single night as we could handle. She was apparently under orders to make sure I was photographed singing, and she made sure to request her favorite songs once she realized I am a veritable karaoke jukebox.

“Once you hear a crowd cheering on an octogenarian as she sings ‘I want your ugly / I want your disease,’ you know they’re down for anything.”

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Metro (left), The Monkey’s Tale

At Dear John’s Pub, we found the closest thing to Tell City I’d experienced in the Circle City. Dear John’s is a quiet Thursday pub where an older-skewing crowd of Eastsiders still desire to push the karaoke envelope. Thus, we were serenaded by the best version of Pink Floyd I’ve personally ever heard from anyone who could easily have been my grandmother. I responded with my take on Johnny Cash’s “Hurt,” kicked up with more than a hint of the Nine Inch Nails version, and was told that I’ll be hunted down and dragged back if I don’t make a return trip there in the new year.

Emboldened, we moved on to Peppers Brew Garden & Eatery on 56th Street, where I became known, for at least the third time, as “NUVO Guy.” The place was decked out for Christmas, and the karaoke DJ seemed particularly in the holiday spirit, his halls decked in the most resplendent ugly Christmas sweater I’d ever seen. Though there were only a handful of revelers at the early hour of 10 p.m., those who were there made the best of it in true karaoke tradition.

The DJ put together a chorus line and commenced dancing to strains of Sinatra, as the three men bellowed the words of “New York, New York.” My kind of place! It was an atmosphere you don’t find often, with those in the audience clearly having as much fun as those slinging the microphone.

Later that night we made return trips to the Monkey’s Tale in Broad Ripple and Metro downtown. Monkey’s Tale was packed (typical), and the couple who were manning the DJ booth clearly enjoyed helping karaoke veterans and newbies alike come out of their shells. In the half hour, we were there everything from Rocky Horror to “No Diggity” was fair game. When I took the

stage to sing “Copperhead Road” by Steve Earle, the DJ backed me with his tambourine. It was a nice touch, and a perfect counterpart to the more behind-the-scenes DJ work on Tuesdays when they host their weekly Monkey Idol contest.

Metro, of course, was packed body to body when we arrived well after midnight, but it’s a place where you’re a regular once they’ve seen you there a few times. I found a spot against the wall to stand, nursing a beer while watching a lively pair serenade us with Salt ‘n’ Pepa’s “Push It.” Getting my chance to sing one final song just after 1 a.m., I chose one by Sam Smith, and was gently chided for not singing the DJ’s favorite, “Take Me To Church.” “You ruined my night!” she laughed, smiling. “You better come back and sing that one next time!”

I wound down my karaoke journey with a Sunday evening stop at Zonie’s Closet on East Washington. The oldest school karaoke spot of the bunch, their DJ still chose to stick with a printed book of available songs, though it was certainly the thickest of those I’ve seen. The place was packed with regulars who knew each others’ songs and were lively about joining in when the time was right.

I readily soaked it all in.

While I’m still technically the new guy in town, I’m ready to say Indianapolis is my new karaoke home. These are my people.

They know my not-so-secret favorite pastime, and share it, even revel in it. We are karaoke fiends, and we’re not afraid to shout it from the rooftops of dozens of pubs and clubs in town.

And in Indianapolis you can become one of us, any day of the week. What more could you want? n S E E , KA RA OKE, O N PA GE 1 0

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Here’s a bit about some of our favorite places to grab the mic in Indianapolis. The next page has comprehensive listings of all manner of karaoke hotspots. Please note that bar schedules change frequently. Hit up NUVO.net’s music calendar for the most up-to-date listings.

The Monkey’s Tale 10 p.m. The Monkey’s Tale loves to tout that they were featured as NUVO’s number one place to sing in Indianapolis the last time we went around and quantified the karaoke scene. They’re definitely the coziest, tucked away off the main Broad Ripple strip, and they attract a lively crowd of Indy’s best singers. Their Monkey Idol contest is still in full swing for at least the next few weeks, where for a $3 entry you can slug it out to win $100 and an entry for the February Main Event contest worth $1,000. But bring your A-game, because the singers here come to play.

If contests aren’t your thing, they have open karaoke on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, along with Karaoke Wheel of Fortune on Wednesdays: Spin the wheel, find your genre!

Drinks are reasonably priced by Broad Ripple standards, and they have daily drink specials. Most nights start at 10 p.m., and they stay open well into the wee hours.

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Downtown Olly’s 9 p.m. Olly’s has history that runs deep in Indy, dating back to the days where gay bars had to operate in the dark, figuratively and literally. Now they’re the best 24-hour diner / gay sports bar / karaoke lounge in the city, as you can experience for yourself on Wednesdays and Sundays at 9 p.m. each week, as well as on Saturdays after the weekly drag show. They have the best drink prices in town ($2 domestics and well drinks), so you can get in plenty of liquid courage without emptying your bank account. There’s nowhere else in town where you can sing, eat a full diner breakfast and drink $2 shots of house tequila – and where you’ll be a regular by your second visit.

822 W. Illinois St.

Metro Nightclub 10 p.m. At Metro, you can enjoy a full nightclub experience upstairs, or on Tuesdays and Thursdays stay on the ground floor for karaoke led by Chris Van Sickle (Smiley Morning Show). It is a small karaoke space, so get there early if you want to sing more than one song, but once the place gets crowded it won’t matter how many you’ve sung, you’ll be dancing and singing along with everyone else too. Karaoke starts at 10 p.m. and continues until they shut the place down. Drinks are reasonably priced, including $6 domestic pitchers the nights I was there. And their selection of songs is very up to date, including Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space,” if that’s your jam.

707 Massachusetts Ave.

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10 p.m. Tuesday night is karaoke night at the Hi-Fi, where for one night of the week, everyday folks can take the stage and pretend we’ve got rock star moves

while a crowd of Fountain Square regulars cheer you on. Karaoke starts at 10 p.m, but when I was there, the place really didn’t get jumping until around 11:30 p.m.

So if you like to sing get there early so you can get a couple in before the list gets really long. Drink prices are reasonable for beers, and they’re known for their extensive whiskey selection. Bonus: It’s way easier to find the Hi-Fi now that they’re in new first-floor digs.

1043 Virginia Ave.

Dear John’s Pub 8 p.m. This laid-back Eastside venue brings together a down-home atmosphere, affordable food and drinks and a quiet group of regulars who simply love to sing.

The clientele skews a lot older than the likes of Metro or Monkey’s Tale, but if you really like to sing get here at 8 p.m. and you’ll have more than you can handle by the time they close on Thursdays. Or use Dear John’s as your start to a great karaoke crawl, hitting some of the more crowded downtown spots later. There’s plenty of parking in a well-lit, video-monitored lot, so you don’t have to worry about your car while you’re sitting at a table contemplating which Guns ‘n’ Roses song you want to sing.

7941 E. 30th St.

Peppers Brew Garden & Eatery 10 p.m. Another place you might visit on your way to another more crowded karaoke bar, Peppers offers you a chance to sing on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 p.m. The DJ has a wide selection of songs, and is as capable of having as good a time as any members of his audience. They stay open until 3 a.m. seven days a week, but if you’re still needing to sober up, they’re conveniently located across the street from an IHOP. Peppers isn’t the place to take your vegetarian friends, unless they want a house salad. But if you’re into burgers and wings and love singing, this may be your new favorite hangout spot.

9105 E. 56th St.

Zonie’s Closet 8:30 p.m. Karaoke at Zonie’s is a weekly Sunday event. And the karaoke DJ is certifiably old school, the only one I’ve found so far in Indianapolis who exclusively uses a large book of available songs, and who plays said songs off CDs. But his selection is extensive, and sometimes it can be fun to browse through a songbook and find something off the beaten path.

Drink prices are affordable ($3 beers, $10 fishbowls the night I was there) but make sure you bring cash, or prepare to bite the bullet on ATM fees. Karaoke starts at 8:30 p.m., and by midnight the place had a respectable crowd and a long list of waiting singers.

1446 E. Washington St.

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The Indianapolis Art Center’s winter exhibition lineup also includes a solo show of work by Catya Plate, whose “Button in the Garden of Earthly Delights XV” is pictured here.

Indianapolis Art Center: 2014 College Invitational Exhibition Through Feb. 1. I can only imagine the difficulty for art students these days, faced with a bewildering array of possibilities, trying to pick an area of concentration. But the 11 artists participating in the Indianapolis Art Center’s 2014 College Invitational Exhibition — grads and undergrads currently enrolled in art degree programs throughout the state — seem to be doing just fine. And their prominent placement in the IAC’s main gallery as part of its Winter Exhibition Series seems well-deserved.

Samuel Gillis’s large and largely abstract mixed media painting “Society Rules” evokes Willem de Kooning’s most iconic work with its brusque gestural strokes of paint and faint suggestion of facial features (but without the suggestions of misogyny that this iconic painter was known for). There were also the wavelike ripples in the canvas itself and the conceptual content suggested by the title that went beyond the merely derivative.

The Best in Show winner is anything but abstract: Danielle Pugel’s stunningly inventive mixed media sculpture “Encounter” takes the form of a rabbit-like being that appears to leap out of a Japanese manga comic strip. But this is no ordinary rabbit, what with its birdlike purple feathers and antennae.

Another standout is Jennifer Niswonger’s oil on canvas painting “Death of a Virgin,” which portrays a beautiful young woman as you might find her in a hospital bed or in a coffin in shades of bruised blue and plasma pink. This depiction features some radical foreshortening: just look at her enormous hands resting peacefully on her belly.

Maybe it’s the tension between virginal beauty and deathly decomposition makes the painting provocative. Maybe it’s the peaceful smile on her face.

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Vanishing Points: New Work by Justin Vining e Through Jan. 30. Not to worry, Justin Vining fans.

There are plenty of paintings here that conform to his signature style. Take the mixed media on paper “Wyeth,” which takes its inspiration from an Andrew Wyeth painting but goes off on its own in a wildly colorful direction. The hills seem to undulate to a musical rhythm and the farmland in the foreground looks like a patchwork quilt. His newest paintings, however, aren’t only more subdued — a number of them are basically in grayscale. And as for the thematic content, well, let’s just say he’s headed into grayer territory there as well. In the oppressive “Fading Slowly,” we find a rural farmhouse bathed in blinding sunlight with the night rushing in from all four corners.

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Andrew Koeling: Acute Acts of Defiance t 2 Through Jan. 30. Koeling builds up his 5 wall-hanging works of epoxy, layer upon layer, on canvas, impregnating each layer with designs in “Figures Attacked/Rescued” by Will Lakey acrylic and ink. The ink and the acrylic contort and bleed as the work is being created so there’s tive imagination, taking cues from an element of chance to how things come out.

Renaissance-era art as well as her The process of creation is interesting in personal mythology, is at work here. itself and the final products have a three Funkyard Coffee Shop and Gallery dimensionality that would look very cool inside hip places of worship, Dirty Fingernails: Group Show mimicking stained glass with their 4 r glossy surfaces. Certain pieces might Through Jan. 23. This is described as “a nonremind you of Neptune’s atmosphere. juried show… not being filtered through Or conjure microcosmic Edens that can someone else’s taste.” But since one of be found on the tips of all our noses. the works consists of clippings of anuses Or wherever your imagination will take and penises cut from various porn rags and you. But to title this exhibition “Acute Acts of personal ads and taped on the gallery wall Defiance” while underscoring that definition (“Fundamental Forms” by Naylor Musko), I with verbose wall text seems a little over the couldn’t help wondering if there was top to me. This process-based abstraction is not any filter at all. But, there is some great an artistic call to arms by a long shot. work to be found here. Herron Art Bank “See graduate Danielle Pugel’s “See Creature” by Creature” wall-hanging sculpture Danielle Pugel Totems: Laura Levine e 3 — a gold sea creature with the Through Jan. 30. I first saw Levine’s framed head of a fish, body of a snake, and birdlike feathers sculpture “Moses and the Burning Bush” hanging at for a tail — was surely a standout. Pugel won a “Best the Harrison Center’s Magnificent Amber exhibition last of Show” designation at the 2014 College Invitational month. Intrigued by its mix of sculpture and painting Exhibition still running at the Indianapolis Art Center.

— and by how this work popped out of the wall — I Indy Indie Artist Colony wanted to see more. Fortunately, her show at Funkyard, which opened in December, is up through the month.

Kristy Childress and Will Lakey: In the freestanding painted ceramic sculpture “Mother 5 I will Wake in the Real e Seas,” you see an aqua blue female figure with dozens Through Jan. 30. A Hoosier native who has lived of seaweed-like arms jutting out from all points on her elsewhere for the last 12 years, Childress transforms body (in addition to her regular arms). On a similar her memories of her home state into abstracted theme is her wall-hanging framed sculpture “Daphne,” depictions of houses and landscapes. In the mixed which alludes to Greek mythology (its subject is in media painting “Arboreal Excavations,” torn pages the process of being turned into a tree). An inven-

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A&E EVENTS Mound at Large: Trenton Doyle Hancock Opens Jan. 9, 6-11 p.m.; through March 20.

Hancock’s body of work is populated by a race of people known as the Mounds, engaged in an endless battle with the Vegans. Hancock explained in an Art21 interview that “Mounds are these half-human, half-plant mutants that came to life about fifty thousand years ago, when an ape-man masturbated in a field of flowers.” Like Atum! This mini-retrospective, the second show at iMOCA’s new CityWay location, will include a selection of prints, drawings, collaged felt paintings and site-specific installations. A mustsee, particularly for those interested in artists who cultivate complex cosmologies (Hancock acknowledges Henry Darger as a key touchstone). iMOCA CityWay, FREE, indymoca.org

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River City Jan. 8-Feb. 1. The National New Play Network annually funds the development and production of new plays. Premiered on a “rolling basis,” playing three to five theaters, Diana Grisanti’s River City is the latest. The plot, from Phoenix press materials: “Shaken by her father’s death, Mary sets off to uncover three generations’ worth of family secrets buried in the West End of Louisville.”

Phoenix Theatre, prices vary ($22 opening weekend), phoenixtheatre.org Kate Boyd Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m. Butler’s Kate Boyd makes good on a recital postponed from December 2014.

She’ll perform sonatas by Alban Berg and Prokofiev, plus works by Schubert and Chopin.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall at Butler University, FREE, butler.edu Prostate Dialogues: Tales of the Tallywacker Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. Storytelling Arts of Indiana presents Spelman’s one-man show about coping with prostate cancer.

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The Story of My Life Jan. 9-25. A cabaret two-hander, if that’s a thing, featuring Tim Spradlin and Graham Brinklow as old friends reuniting to sing a few tunes and share stories in the theater of the mind (one friend has died as the play begins, so a meeting on more solid ground would be impossible).

Footlite Musicals, $20, $10 Thursday, footlite.org

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ou’ll have to head to Collegeville, Minnesota to see the original copy of the Saint John’s Bible, the first hand-written and -illuminated Bible created since the advent of the printing press. Saint John’s Abbey and University commissioned Donald Jackson (calligrapher to Queen Elizabeth!) to create the massive tome.

But the next best EVENT thing is now on display at the Indiana THE SAINT JOHN’S Interchurch Center: BIBLE: AN EXHIBITION an exhibition of 25 OF FINE ART PRINTS giclee prints of pages from the Bible — so W H E N : O P E N S J A N . 6, 6:3 0 detailed that you “can 8 : 30 P . M .; T H R O U G H J A N . 3 1 see the raised gold W H E R E: I N D I A N A I N T E R C H U R C H leaf,” says curator C E N T E R, 1100 W. 42N D S T. Ginger Bievenour — plus a facsimile of the EVENTS: Pentateuch (the Bible’s • JAN. 10, 10 A.M.-2 P.M. first five books). The CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP (CALL show will be comple923-3617 TO RESERVE SPACE) mented by a month’s • JAN. 1 3 , 6 :3 0 - 8 :3 0 P.M. worth of programming LECTURE: THE BIBLE AS A (see sidebar), includMIRROR OF THE AGES WITH ing a calligraphy workPETER THUESEN shop, a lecture on the • JAN. 2 1 , 6 :3 0 - 8 :3 0 P.M. Bible’s impact on the PANEL DISCUSSION: JUSTICE world, a panel discusIN THE FIVE BOOKS sion on social justice (FEATURING A PANEL OF and the Pentateuch RELIGIOUS LEADERS) and a storytelling • JAN. 27, 6:30-8:30 P.M. event featuring Asian STORYTELLING: ASIAN CREcreation stories.

ATION STORIES (FEATURING Bievenour, a former STORIES FROM HINDU, BUDDIST executive director AND SIKH TRADITIONS) of the Hoosier Salon who now curates the Indiana Interchurch Center’s gallery, which hosts approximately six exhibitions a year, says the Saint John’s Bible was perfectly suited to the center’s mission of fostering “interfaith understanding.” The Bible may have been commissioned by monks, she notes, but it was always “meant to be accessible to people of all faiths.”

Jackson and his team worked on the Bible —

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(Far left) An illustration accompanying The Ten Commandments from the Saint John’s Bible.

(Above) The frontispiece to Genesis “reflects the seven-day progression of the Bible’s Creation story, with seven vertical strips, one for each day,” according to the Library of Congress.

(Left) A calligrapher works on the Saint John’s Bible using a custom-made quill.

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which is two feet tall, three feet wide and numbers over 1100 pages — from 1995 to 2011.

The frontispiece to Genesis exemplifies that syncretic, open-ended approach by bringing together images from a variety of traditions, from Arabic calligraphy to cave painting. Bievenour says all of the books’ illustrations/illuminations are “dynamic and complex” and tend to challenge or play off of more traditional representations of Biblical characters. Take Adam and Eve,

who are depicted as African and “are a departure from what you might think of from the Renaissance, where Adam and Eve are characterized as two white individuals covering their private parts with a fig leaf,” she says.

It all makes for an extraordinary reading and viewing experience that bridges centuries — and faith traditions. “When the printing press came into being in the 15th century, the idea of doing a handwritten Bible with illuminations took a

backseat,” she says. “At a time when technology makes everything so easy and accessible, having something that was done by hand using the old methods — they made their own quills, they used blocks of color from the 19th century that were carefully squirreled away for future use — there’s something about that that’s both appealing and compelling. It’s a very up-to-date version, however. You see images of the Twin Towers, the DNA helix, a view of Earth from outer space.” n

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The Babadook This Australian haunted house horror has been a slow-burner on the festival and art house circuit.

You’ll only have two chances to see it here.

Indiana State Museum IMAX, Jan. 9 and 10, 7 p.m.

Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson was the first director brave and powerful enough to adapt a Thomas Pynchon novel.

Opens Friday at Keystone Art

FILM EVENTS Viva Las Vegas (1964) Jan. 9 and 10, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Elvis plays a racecar driver.

Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), $3-5, historicartcrafttheatre.org The Wizard of Oz (1939) Jan. 9, 8 p.m. The IMA’s Winter Nights series continues. On Blu-ray.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, $9 public, $6 member, imamuseum.org

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CONTINUING Ed Johnson-Ott. The Gambler y No, it’s not nearly as good as the 1974 original starring James Caan. But this version, with Mark Wahlberg in the starring role, has some good moments. Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) is a university English lit professor with a sorta relationship with a student (Brie Lawson). Jim spends most of his free time gambling big money. His mom bails him out when things get wildly out of hand, 16 FILM // 01.07.15 - 01.14.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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Foxcatcher doesn’t answer any lingering questions about eccentric murderer John du Pont — and that’s a good thing

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Selma David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King, Jr. in a two-plus hour epic chronicling the Selma and Montgomery marches in 1965.

Taken 3 Liam Neeson is still out to clear his good name.

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saw Foxcatcher in mid-December.

The movie surprised me. I had read about the strange real-life incident that puzzled the world. The key figure in the tragedy didn’t explain himself at the time and has since passed away.

So I knew that if the filmmakers were honest, there would be no answers in the movie. What surprised me was how engrossing the story without revelations turned out to be. My essay on the film was already written in my head.

Then, just last week, the only central individual in the situation who is still alive went online and trashed the director of the film for misrepresenting him.

And with that, Foxcatcher became even more interesting.

In the late ‘80s, Olympic gold medalwinning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is invited to meet with millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) at the sprawling estate he calls home. Turns out the pale, out of shape man is a wrestling enthusiast interested in starting a training facility.

He wants Mark and his brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo), who also won Olympic gold, to move in with him. Dave declines.

He’s quite happy living a wonderful life in Colorado with his wife (Sienna Miller) and kids. But Mark agrees to the proposal and becomes part of du Pont’s weird world. Du Pont is a fiercely intense fellow with an odd presentation style. He has issues with his mother (Vanessa Redgrave), who considers wrestling a “low” sport and disapproves of his aspirations.

The relationship between du Pont and Mark is curious. The dour wrestler seems but matters get even worse. Wahlberg is okay, but John Goodman is terrific as a gangster.

R, in wide release Into the Woods r Disney adaptation of the popular Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical. The story is a twist on the tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel

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like a lost boy in need of a mentor or father figure. Du Pont appears determined to take on that role, but a scene where he pops up at Mark’s bedroom in the middle of the night makes it clear he knows nothing about boundaries. It also suggests something sexual, if only on du Pont’s part.

Over time, things take an ugly turn, as du Pont grows displeased with Mark and starts verbally abusing him. He slaps him in the face as well — shocking. Brother Dave eventually gets drawn into the wrestling program. Tensions build, and I’ll leave it at that.

As I said, no answers for what happened were provided in real life and filmmaker Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) doesn’t create any. But the movie Huttlestone) and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy) tied together by a baker and his wife (James Corden and Emily Blunt) and their interactions with a witch (Meryl Streep). Lots of fine performances, but Streep is a standout. When she comes onscreen the movie crackles with energy. Beware, the vitality of the first half fades notably during the second half.

PG, in wide release Unbroken t Angelina Jolie directs the fact-based story of Olympian

remains fascinating because of the fine performances of the three key characters and the mystery of what is happening in du Pont’s head.

Then the real Mark Schultz went online last week and attacked. He took particular issue with the scene where du Pont visited him in the middle of the night. It never happened, he said, and he asked Miller to cut it because it implied something sexual was going on when, in fact, there wasn’t. Miller refused, saying he needed the scene to show du Pont’s increasingly invasive encroachment on Mark’s privacy and personal space.

His initial complaints were clearly expressed, but he kept posting, threatening to ruin Miller’s career and ranting, “Everything I’ve ever said positive about the movie I take back. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.” I wonder if Mark realizes how tweets like that make him sound less like an aggrieved adult and more like the lost boy depicted in Foxcatcher? n and WWII hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell, who survived a plane crash and spent 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewman (Domhnall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock), only to be captured by the Japanese and sent to a prison camp. The hellish tale of survival is well staged. The survival at sea portion works best – the prison camp experience, as horrible as it is, lacks the immediacy needed to make the goings on visceral. The film is good, but it doesn’t quite move above that.

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Wabash Brewery and taproom opened Jan. 2 as Indianapolis’ first 2015 craft nano-brewery with a specialty niche for patrons to customize their events with a brew crafted by brewer/owners Damon Carl, Matt Kriech and co-owner Nic Stauch, who share Wabash College connections and credit their new enterprise “to the helpfulness of Indiana’s brewing community and our wives.” The trio customized a storefront space at 5328 W. 79th St. with the intention of filling growlers and howlers for take-home on Thursdays 4-8 p.m., Fridays 4-9 p.m. and Saturdays 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Their four core beers represent their collective years of fine-tuning homebrews and naming them pays homage to the multiple aspects of “Wabash.” Waapaahsiiki, a Blonde Ale is a tribute to the Miami Nation. 503 Amber Ale designates the river’s mile-length from source to mouth (Ft. Recovery to the Ohio River). Cannonball Pale Ale alludes to a fictional train in an 1882 song with connections to Purdue and Indiana State, both located along the Wabash. Portage Porter reminds us the Wabash and Erie Canal link the Great Lakes to the Ohio River.

Expect to taste Wabash Brewery brews at Winterfest Jan. 31 and at “Beers Across the Wabash Festival” in Lafayette. More at wabashbrew.com.

Taxman Brewing in Bargersville opened their Gastropub. More at taxmanbrewing.com New on Tap, In Bottles & Cans Twenty Tap is pouring a specialty collaborative Three Floyds and Chicago-based Half AcreBrewery Anicca American IPA, single hopped with Mosaic, known for its “cornucopia of fruit flavors.” Also on, Figure 8 Apostasy, an earthy fruity Black Saison; Mad Anthony Smoked Rye Stout; and Kevin Matalucci’s own Twenty Below Hefeweizen; along with 34 other brews.

The RAM’s seasonal Mr. Brown Ale is on Downtown and Fishers.

Daredevil greeted 2015 with a vigorous 8.5% ABV Muse Belgianstyle Golden IPA. Coming Events Jan. 7, 4 p.m. MashCraft tapping Any Port in the Storm, a Porter to satisfy anyone’s sweet tooth.

Jan. 8. Daredevil launches their second Anniversary Road Trip at Twenty Tap, followed by Jan. 15 at Pizzology on Mass. Ave and in Carmel, Jan. 22 at Tomlinson Tap Room, Jan. 23 at La Margarita and Jan. 26 Beer Dinner at Black Market. Call 822-6757 for reservations.

Jan. 9. Indiana City releases Beast of Laurey’s and announces it’s now open seven days a week.

Jan. 10. Triton at Chef JJ’s for a five-course Beer Dinner.

Jan. 10. Flat 12 Bierwerks fourth Anniversary party features special tappings and local food trucks all day, live music from The Midtown MadMen and the Circle City Deacons.

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YOU CAN’T BEAT GEORGE’S MEAT

Mesh on Mass’s charcuterie dude tells how it began

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esh on Mass is a massive restaurant. The undulating stairs take you up from the ballroom-size dining room up to a gorgeous, expansive space. The kitchen is no exception, with a huge staff working under head chef Jessica Sciortino. The back of house staff is a small army, with people filing in and out of the walk-in all day. Hanging from one tall shelf in one corner of this big refrigerator is the career-long passion of Mesh chef George Turkette: a few carefully trussed meats tightly bound with a spindly web of cotton twine.

Duck, pig, venison are each butchered from the whole animal, seasoned to control and construct their decay. In a few months or a year, they’ll be cut down, sliced and plated on one of the five hundred or so plates that go out every Friday.

Turkette has been at it during a successful run at a few of Indy’s most noteworthy restaurants, like Cerulean and Pizzology under Alan Sternberg and Neal Brown, respectively. Who could have guessed that it all started with the contagious passion of one Fort Wayne food truck owner.

It wasn’t until he got into cooking classes with Andrew Smith of the food truck Affine that Turkette, 25, started to hone his craft. “I was working during the day and going to class at night,” Turkette, “but nine times out of ten, I would stay after class and help.”

Smith, for his part, gave his students the most comprehensive study course that you possibly could. “He would bring in a whole pig and break the entire thing down. Watching a whole pig get broken down was just the coolest thing. Maybe that’s the cannibal in me,” Turkette laughs.

Duck prosciutto was Turkette’s first project that he took on with Smith, trussing the breasts with the creamy white fat cap.

Turkette’s comprehensive early study of the art of making a whole animal into a variety of preserved meats carried over into his restaurant jobs. “Every restaurant I’ve worked in, I’ve expanded the charcuterie program,” he says.

Starting at Neal Brown’s Pizzology,

Turkette shows off his months-in-the-making work, and it’s friggin’ delicious.

Turkette added a few new goods to the lineup of house-made meats like mortadella. Then, he moved to Cerulean under head chef Alan Sternberg, who gave him free rein to make the kind of charcuterie he wanted to (you should be able to get Turkette’s Cerulean charcuterie for a few more months), which lead to his current gig at Mesh.

In the same way that some people garden to get away from the daily stress, Turkette likes charcuterie because it requires so much time. “With prosciutto, for example, you’re not going to wait a year and be disappointed.” In a previous life, Turkette was a computer science and math major before heading off to cooking school. In that way, the raw numbers game of charcuterie appeals to the science half of his brain. After all, charcuterie is merely the process of orchestrated decay, using salts and seasonings to make sure it cures to the perfect flavor and texture. “I like numbers. I’ve always been a nerd.”

And he also likes to cure in numbers, carefully planning out the prep steps and then stringing up multiple meats in the walk-in to keep each other company. “I like to keep multiple projects going at once.”

But just because he’s good at it doesn’t mean he’s immune to the occasional failure. “I found this veal leg in the freezer, and I tried to cure it like a country ham almost, just with veal. I had never seen it

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done before and it just failed miserably.”

So what does “failed charcuterie” look like? Well, you can’t always tell. “It can look really bad or look fine, but when you smell it, it’s bad,” Turkette says.

And he’s also not a rarity among chefs with a specialized craft that he uses in every job he works. “Most chefs, I think, have something like this,” he says of his curing acumen.

Turkette let me sample some of his cures, and if you’re wondering whether or not they’re heavenly, well, they are.

His care in organizing good flavors at the beginning of the process has a tremendous payoff at the end. One that I was most excited about was his coffee and cherry venison. It slices a dark, vampiric red shade that brightens when you hold the little discs up to the light. The acidity and bite of the coffee and fruit neutralizes some of the natural gaminess, and actually comes off as very balanced overall.

But if I had to make a recommendation, I would tell you to return to Turkette’s roots and get a few slices of the duck. The richness and salt are in perfect balance, with that velvety layer of fat melting in your mouth. No matter what you taste, though, you can know that it’s coming from Turkette’s purest passion, which he keeps tightly bound in string, hanging from one small shelf in one corner of a very, very large kitchen. n

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DRINK AND DEVOUR THE DEEP FREEZE

January is known to be when the high season of the service industry comes to a screeching halt. Frozen tumbleweeds roll across our social calendars. The only appealing words seems to be “blanket” and “couch” and “fire.” Don’t take this winter lying down! Get bundled up and enjoy the nightlife, as there are plenty of fun things to do while there’s snow on the ground.

American Psycho Dinner Jan 20, 7 p.m. You can thank the fine folks at Thunderbird for giving you multiple reasons to leave your house this January. First, there’s this American Psycho dinner, which, while you won’t leave axe-murdered (probably), will be a kind of dinner-and-a-movie kind of thing. Chef Whitmoyer is whipping up a four-course pre-fixe menu for you to enjoy while Patrick Bateman paints New York red with the blood

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Battle of the Blaze Hot Sauce Eating Competition Jan. 15, 7-9 p.m. Sriracha Indy and Lava Lips are putting on the first annual Battle of the Blaze Hot Sauce Eating Competition a week from Thursday. The contest is only open to ten folks (all of which are already signed up), but you can still buy a ticket to drink Triton beer and get a little free pizza. Contestants will taste hot sauces in increasing scoville units, until they can’t take any more. It’s also just a fun chance to go down and see one of Indy’s most fun little shops where, yes, all they sell is hot sauce and tiki bars. Or were you planning on trying to stay warm from the outside like a dummy?

Lava Lips, 4915 N. College Ave., lavalipsindy.com Devour Downtown Jan 19-Feb 1. Christmas is over, sure, but it’s about to be the most wonderful time of the year (again).

Twice a year, for two weeks, Indianapolis’ best restaurants put together a wallet-friendly menu in which you can try a delicious pre-fixe meal, including dessert.

Chances are, at least half (if not all) of your downtown dining bucket list will be participating, with everyone from Acapulco Joe’s to Cerulean putting out Devour menus. There are some larger national restaurants that participate as well, like Fogo De Chao and Weber Grill, but we know you won’t miss the opportunity to support a local business. devourdowntown.org

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Bernie Lubbers’ Bourbon Thru Bluegrass concert, part tasting and part storytelling. of his victims. No word on whether you’ll be able to drop your business card (Silian Grail on bone, of course) to win a free dinner.

Thunderbird, 1127 Shelby St., $40, thunderbirdindy.com Bourbon Thru Bluegrass Jan 26, 5:30 p.m. The history of bourbon is a long and storied one, intertwining with fickle alcohol policy in the government and pop culture in the larger world. Bernie Lubbers is the guy in whiskey education, both as a brand ambassador for Heaven Hill Distillery, an author and a “whiskey educator.” He also performs the history of bourbon through folk and bluegrass music, performing with his buddy Hickory Vaught. It’s part music, part tasting, and part comedy show, and the $30 ticket will get you in for the cocktail hour at 5:30 with some light snacks, followed by the tasting and show. If you’re in a hurry to read up on the fascinating history of bourbon, get Lubbers’ book, Bourbon Whiskey, Our Native Spirit.

Thunderbird, 1127 Shelby St., $30, thunderbirdindy.com

Chefs’ Night Off: “She Don’t Eat Meat But She Sure Likes to Bone” Feb 22 5:30 & 7:30 p.m. Yes, it’s obvious by now that we are big fans of the CNO concept of letting line cooks take over the cooking at these multi-course dinners. Last year’s vegetarian dinner was by far their largest and most diverse, so they’re rolling out a second to challenge a new set of chefs. Vegetarians often bear the brunt of chef frustration, but for this dinner, meatless meals are going to take center stage, with the city’s most talented sous and line chefs putting a high-end spin on vegetarian food. The July dinner was outstanding, and tickets have been flying for this second round. If you’re not familiar, head over to nuvo.net/food to catch the review for that dinner. Two words: watermelon prosciutto.

Get tickets at eventbrite.com Garden Table, 908 E. Westfield Blvd., $45, thegardentable.com — SARAH MURRELL

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— MARY

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My best advice is to simply be more mindful. When you are continually conscious of your actions and your waste, you will find more and more small ways to green your life.

Stop making excuses for why you don’t always use reusable shopping bags, a refillable water bottle or a reusable travel mug. My trick for remembering these items was to punish myself when I forgot them. Left my bags in the car? Either walk back out to get them or only buy what I could carry in my arms. Forgot my mug at home? No coffee that day. I bet that would have some of you remembering your mug within a day or two!

If you’re already good about remembering your bags, water bottle and mug, try finding one more disposable item you can replace. Mine from 2014 was plastic utensils. I got a set of camp sporks to keep in my car, purse and backpack. In a year, I probably saved 30+ plastic spoons and forks by having my spork on hand.

The start of a new year also means the start of a new legislative session in Indiana. Be active with your legislators (look them up at iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/legislators/) so they know that environmental issues like energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, clean air and water, public transportation, and recycling, are important to you. Follow organizations like Hoosier Environmental Council, Sierra Club, Indiana Recycling Coalition, and Citizens Action Coalition to understand what’s happening with the Indiana General Assembly. Then contact your legislators when important topics come up.

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Remind me: Can I toss plastic grocery bags and the plastic bags that hold the newspaper into my recycling bin from Republic — or do they need special treatment? Thanks!

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A few months ago I would have answered this question differently, but the recycling industry is continually changing and I’m pleased to report that you can put plastic bags and plastic film in your Republic curbside recycling bin. At the moment, you cannot put plastic bags/film in your Rays curbside recycling bin, but I expect that to change soon and will do my best to let you know. Same goes for Rumpke.

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hat does 2015 hold for the environment — particularly in the Hoosier state?

For some answers, we reached out to four different groups: Earth Charter Indiana, Sustainable Indiana 2016, the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign for Indiana and the Hoosier Environmental Council. We asked each group two simple questions: NUVO: What’s your organization most concerned about for 2015? What’s giving you hope for the upcoming year?

JIM POYSER, Earth Charter Indiana, replied: “For Earth Charter Indiana, we are concerned with a variety of challenges facing our community: homelessness, food insecurity, violence, civic apathy. We work for a just, peaceful and sustainable world that understands the connections between all these issues, connections that reveal solutions. Given that 2014 will likely be the warmest ever recorded, we can put aside squabbling about climate change and grasp the reality that we are actually in a climate crisis. Building resilient communities — sustainable food systems, water conservation, robust transit options, and an emphasis on renewable energy — should be our number one priority.

“What is giving us hope is each other, the belief that we can collaborate for the greater good of creating a local, liveable and just Indiana. One need go no further than our local schools, where savvy students are engaged in sustainability solutions on a grassroots level, aided and abetted by local non-profits and supportive businesses.”

Here’s the email response from JOHN GIBSON of Sustainable Indiana 2016: “Sustainable Indiana 2016 is concerned that currently available solutions to our social, economic and environmental woes are largely unknown. Knowing what is possible based on what some Hoosiers are

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already doing will, we believe, kindle hope and promote replication of working models. Therefore, in 2015, we will launch a rigorous informational campaign that challenges the status quo, reveals practical alternatives and connects Hoosiers who are ready to create a new happiness for themselves and generations to come.

What gives us hope is meeting people around Indiana who are already doing what the skeptics say is impossible.”

JODIE PERRAS represents the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Her take: “Sierra Club and the Beyond Coal Campaign are most concerned about restoring Indiana’s energy efficiency program and halting the power grab by Indiana utilities in the Statehouse. For the past two years, utilities have sought to increase their control over the energy that powers our homes and businesses, in contrast to other states, where consumers are getting more choice and control. We want to restore the authority of the State of Indiana to set energy efficiency goals that utilities must meet, and we want to see an annual report card on how well utilities are doing at reducing energy demand and saving ratepayers money through efficiency.

“We are also concerned about rumors that utilities will try to roll back solar power by reversing the hard-fought 2011 net metering rule, which allows solar power owners to get credit on their bills for the electricity they send into the grid to power their neighbors.

“Finally, we’re concerned about groundwater pollution under the coal ash ponds at the Indianapolis Power & Light Harding Street plant and that neither IPL nor any government entity has a plan yet for monitoring that pollution and ensuring that drinking water is protected in nearby neighborhoods. U.S. EPA is expected to announce new coal ash rules this week that may provide a path forward to protect Hoosiers from coal ash pollution across the state.

“We have hope because thousands of

Sustainability in 2015

Indianapolis residents spoke up in 2014 to tell IPL that it’s no longer acceptable to burn coal in Marion County in the 21st century. By 2016 Indianapolis residents will be breathing cleaner air because of IPL’s decision to end coal burning at the Harding Street power plant.

“The cost of solar power is falling dramatically and we know that solar power will soon be winning in the marketplace.

New wind farms are being proposed and utilities across Indiana are installing solar farms or buying solar power to generate electricity more cleanly and responsibly.”

Finally, we received this from JESSE KHARBANDA, executive director of the Hoosier Environmental Council: “HEC agrees with the assessments by our ECI, SI2016 and Sierra colleagues. We’d add: “Our concern: In the backdrop of three major environmental disasters in the U.S. in this year alone, Indiana lawmakers may advance legislation that ironically weakens — or disables — the ability of Indiana’s technically-trained environmental regulators from reacting swiftly and methodically to heading off vulnerabilities to our air and water in our state. The immense clout of ideological lawmakers, unduly influenced by powerful economic interests, is tied to a great need of the public interest community and the media to show how public policy matters, such as this controversial legislation, matters to the health, finances and quality of life of Hoosiers.

“That which gives us hope: In every walk of life, we see Hoosiers who care about how air & water pollution — as well as climate change — affects their fellow Hoosiers. These roots of care, whether in HEC’s Greening Your Community Initiative or ECI’s youth climate work or Sierra’s mobilization of citizens around energy issues, hold promise that a statewide grassroots movement can be created in Indiana that ultimately pushes back against troubling public policy, and works to advance a new vision for our state.” n

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arrington Clinton sits leaned back in his computer chair, listening to a track he’s mixing in his parents’ home. As it plays, a look of approval unwinds across his face as he bobs his head to the rhythm of the track.

It’s in this home office-turned-makeshiftstudio that the sounds of Clint Breeze, Clinton’s solo project, come to fruition.

The night before, Clinton played drums at the Sirius Blvck album release show at The Hi-Fi at the request of Sirius Blvck. His drumming was praised by many audience members after the show and reciprocated with many bashful “thank yous.”

The success of that kind of show could infect an artist with a bit of hubris, but I detect no ounce of it in Clinton as he sits mixing. All that can be found is a desire to finish Listen, his sophomore album as Clint Breeze. In this project, Clinton plays producer and electronic musician under a stage name that is a combination of his last name and a plaque his father created in high school engraved with the words “cool breeze.”

Clinton’s roots in music lie in church performance, jazz bands and local groups like State Park. Playing drums in a multitude of genres has been vital experience, which he has drawn on to develop his musical identity. For Listen, Clinton collaborated with 13 local artists over five months to create a 12-track album which ventures into many genres such as hip-hop, jazz, indie rock and dance.

“My music is a product of all the kinds of music that I like,” Clinton say. “If I make a song and I can’t just sit and listen to it at my own leisure, then it’s not good. I just try to create stuff that I would think is really dope.”

Clinton doesn’t collaborate in person with artists; everything is created by sending music back and forth between him and collaborators electronically until songs are finished. This method of collaboration isn’t by choice, he says. It’s due to the lack of a proper studio and equipment.

In the makeshift studio, mixing levels, adding percussion and synth to songs, Clinton operates like an observer, pulling his influences and styles together to create a cohesive product. Though

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he’s a drummer, Clinton has to rely on his MIDI keyboard to make drum beats since he doesn’t have the equipment to record his own drums.

“I was reluctant to get a microphone and voice my own self, whether it be rapping, singing, spoken word,” Clinton said. “With Listen and Clint Breeze, you’re listening to me whether it’s projected through an instrumental or projected through someone else’s voice.”

Clint Breeze released his debut album, Evolve, five months ago. It’s an album that brought Clinton some success and fed a drive to release his follow-up album in the same year.

“Once I started getting positive feedback from Evolve, I got really hungry,” Clinton said. “I got on a huge binge and I wrote five or six songs for Listen within a few weeks.”

A key difference between the production on Evolve and Listen is the focus on the bass levels in Clinton’s songs, something one of his Listen collaborators, Dominique Glenn, pointed out was lacking in the artist’s debut album. In Clinton’s eyes, Evolve had a more experimental aesthetic. But with Listen, he wants his hip-hop and soul influences to shine

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through. He thinks that an emphasis on bass levels will help showcase those.

Emcee Devin Dabney has collaborated with Clinton on both Clint Breeze albums. On Listen he’s featured on two songs: “No Sleep” and “Cookin’.”

“He’s not trying to be popular with the music he creates and I think that’s the greatest thing about him. He’s just trying to be himself and I believe that’s the best way to be an artist,” Dabney said.

“His sound is really unique, it actually inspires me to write something I haven’t written before. Or to do something I haven’t done.”

When I sat with him in the studio, the production of Listen was nearing its end. Clinton dropped the album officially on December 30. Tape label Holy Infinite Freedom Revival plans to release both Evolve and Listen on cassette. Clinton hopes to start a crowdsource fund and release his music on vinyl in the future.

“The way I write, it blooms like a flower.

It’s not short, stagnant and choppy. I’ll come up with something and it’s just rapid fire from there,” Clinton said. “I’m just trying to put out something that’s very organic and straight from the heart." n

Flaco spent New Year’s Eve releasing his latest mixtape, IKWYDLS, which seems just about right for the Muncie rapper. If Flaco is the weirdest emcee working in Indiana right now, then he’s also the most prolific.

So it makes sense that he would squeeze in his third mixtape of the year just before the calendar turns, on a night when most people are nowhere near the Internet.

IKWYDLS has been dubbed Flaco’s first official foray into hip-hop surrealism, but unofficially, he’s been making surreal rap for a minute now.

Aesthetically, IKWYDLS utilizes many of the same techniques as Cheto, the ADHD mixtape Flaco dropped in July, just with new content and better execution. He’s become a master at flipping different rap sounds into his own, manic stripped-down style, exemplified on tracks like “COLONEL CHI,” a take on Chicago drill with wobbly tones that practically sound drunk. “Oh my God, I made a banger by an accident,” he wails in his first verse, which is how the best Flaco songs feel: totally random at first, until you listen and realize, oh shit, this is kinda hot.

The emcee’s grind is well-established –– this is his 10th full solo tape –– but working the local scene can be exhausting, and after four years of doing nothing but putting in work, Flaco sounds ready to make a move.

“Try to tell a broke nigga to have some patience,” he spits matter-of-factly on “reaching,” just two songs after lamenting “gotta promote, or a local nigga I’ll remain” on “CIRCA 88” and calls Indiana a “hip-hop Himalaya” on the bonus track.

While Flaco has always boasted crazy bars, each track on IKWYDLS sounds like a fully realized song, and not like you opened “Thong Song” and a clip from Caddyshack in two different YouTube tabs. That is to say, compared to the constant cribbing and ad-libbing of his past work, the songs on IKWYDLS sound almost reserved. On Cheto, even Flaco’s simple songs felt wacky, almost always laced with some kind of novelty, be it in sample or song. There are a number of remarkably low-key songs on IKWYDLS, including “Paradise,” the tape’s single, which features a single sample loop, some boom-bap drums, and pitcheddown vocals. By dialing things back a tad, Flaco gives the listener some headspace to digest his many styles, and to hear his laser sharp rhymes.

IKWYDLS represents a step forward artistically for the young rapper – something that coincides with a apparent desire to step out of his local scene as well.

The best way to make a change is to get started, and by dropping a new tape with a new mindset on the literal first day of the new year, Flaco is doing just that.

— ADAM LUKACH

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VONDEYLEN: I had to EQ out the low-end because it covered everything up.

NUVO: What did you use to record the last album?

ot every band that’s worth paying attention to in Indy is old enough to drink locally crafted beers. Such is the case with the trio of musicians in The Breakes. But we can make do – even in our beer features!

When Adam Meyers, Collin VonDeylen and Adam Vorndran sat down with me at Shoefly Public House, we sampled some tasty house bottled sodas instead.

(I highly recommend the cranberry lime rickey.) While there, we discussed their album, their recording techniques and of course, the gear they play.

VONDEYLEN: We used a PA board that we ran all the drums into and mixed.

Originally, we ran the guitar and the bass in at the same time, but it sounded like garbage. We went back and recorded those separately. We got the guitar sound with two condenser mics. The bass we just went direct. The vocals we went to a friend’s house and she has a really nice mic.

MEYERS: It’s not a Neumann. I think it was an Audio Technica [large diaphragm] condenser.

NUVO: Let’s talk rigs. What equipment are you using?

VORNDRAN: I use a Gibson Les Paul Studio. It’s been heavily modified – it’s got a Bigsby (Vibrato) with one Burstbucker and one P94 pickup. I also have a Fender 72 Tele Thinline Reissue with humbuckers. I put baritone strings on it and tune it down to C. My pedal board is a standard Crybaby wah pedal, a Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz, Fulltone Deja Vibe and a BBE Sonic Stomp My amp is a 65-watt Egnater Renegade head and a Bugera 4x12” cabinet.

VONDEYLEN: Nothing exceeded eight tracks. For our current setup we bought two eight input interfaces so everything goes right into Pro Tools.

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really pushes the cab and has a great, poppy sound. I’m using a Fender 4x10” cab.

often. The last time we made demos I just took it off. I didn’t want it on there.

NUVO: Do you use any effects? Any overdrive or fuzz like Adam [Vorndran]?

VORNDRAN: It was just hi-hats and [the Zildjian] crash.

VONDEYLEN: It’s a Fender Precision. I played it in a music store, loved it, and paid a thousand bucks for it. It was pre-owned and had custom work done – custom finish, custom pickups. No one really knows what its story is, but it’s really cool. The whole neck was redone and relic’d. I also have a white Mexican Fender P-bass that I drop tune to C.

VONDEYLEN: I bought the cheapest fuzz pedal I could find. It’s a Digitech. I wasn’t going to spend $150 on an MXR.

MEYERS: I have Zildjian hi-hats as well.

They’re really bright. I wish I had something darker, but these sound pretty decent.

MEYERS: We wanted it to sound like crap.

NUVO: Do you have a favorite snare that you like to borrow?

VORNDRAN: It has a J-bass pickup, too.

NUVO: Maybe scour Ebay and build a frankenstein.

MEYERS: I don’t really know my stuff that well. I play a Ludwig Keystone, a 4-piece kit. It’s a 24” bass drum, a 16”x16” floor tom and a 9”x13” rack tom. The snare drum varies. It’s whatever I can mooch from a friend. Half of my kit is from other people. I break pedals a lot. Right now, it’s an Iron Cobra.

VORNDRAN: You can literally just switch necks with Fenders.

VONDEYLEN: [Vorndran] has to tell people what [Meyers] plays after shows.

VONDEYLEN: I was going to build one myself, when I found the newest one.

MEYERS: It’s just I break it so often I don’t know what it is. I have a Zildjian fast crash, which I use as a ride. Then some sort of a Sabian crash, but it sounds like shit. I try not to hit it that

NUVO: What is your main bass?

VONDEYLEN: I like the P-bass bodies, but I really like jazz necks. I wish I could find one.

NUVO: What amp do you use?

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VONDEYLEN: And it does. I just wanted it to sound gritty.

NUVO: Tell me about your kit, Adam.

MEYERS: Right now I have one of my friend Chris Kelly’s DW snares. It’s really nice. I’m about to get a DW Collector’s Series dark nickel snare. I’m real excited about that because it sounds a lot darker than the other ones I play.

NUVO: Do you guys try different instruments in the studio?

VORNDRAN: Adam has a Japanese Fender Stratocaster. My real secret is on the last track [on “Free of Defects”], a hidden track called “The Binge,” we used our old bass player’s solid-state Peavey keyboard amp. I put in some overdrive and got a great tone with that Strat. I tuned the low E to Eb. It was beefy.

MEYERS: It was a heavy piece.

MEYERS: We bought a lot of new microphones — SM57’s, a Beta 52 for the kick and a Neumann TLM 102. It’s still a large diaphragm, just the baby of the line. It sounds fantastic.

NUVO: Are you in the process of recording right now? Writing?

VONDEYLEN: Next week we’re going to start recording.

NUVO: Do you have the songs written?

MEYERS: No, we were planning on having them all written, but I don’t know …

VORNDRAN: Jack White says he works best creatively when he doesn’t prepare.

MEYERS: Honestly, I feel that once we get in there it will be way more fun to write in the studio. And I think the songs will develop more creatively if we do it that way, too.

NUVO: Where are you going?

MEYERS: My basement. Again. The only thing left in my bedroom is my bed.

Everything is just our equipment and a big desk.

VONDEYLEN: At this point we’ve invested quite a lot in studio equipment. It’s fun.

MEYERS: We’re hoping to get creative this time around. n

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manda Reyna and her accordion have become crowd favorites in our city's Latin music scene. Over the last year, Reyna's norteño-flavored band Escolta 13 became a familiar name on concert bills at local clubs like Chispas, while also building a fan base across the Midwest.

Escolta 13's quick rise in Indy's Latin music ranks is due largely to the ample charisma and instrumental proficiency of Reyna. I met up with her before a headlining gig at Chispas nightclub to discuss her love for all things accordion.

NUVO: How did you get started playing the accordion?

AMANDA REYNA: It all started when I was 12 years old. When I was young I used to watch my grandfather play the accordion. I also had a cousin who played the accordion and I started messing around with my cousin's accordion, pushing the buttons and making noise. There are two types of accordions, button and keyboard.

I started out playing on a keyboard accordion. I played the keyboard accordion for about a year, but I really wanted a button

A CULTURAL MANIFESTO WITH KYLE LONG KLONG@NUVO.NET Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

the time I was 16 I started my first band and I was playing at bars and cantinas and places I wasn't even old enough to be in.

From there I've been in many bands and played in many places.

NUVO: You mentioned that it's unusual for a woman to play accordion. Has that been an obstacle for you?

REYNA: Yes, at first. When I was younger some of the bands wouldn't even give me a chance. Some people would say, "You're just a girl, how can you play the accordion?" But others would welcome me to play. That's something I think every singer or musician has to deal with. Some people will give you an opportunity and some won't. I've had both experiences and I'm thank“They sold dozens and dozens ful to those people who gave me an of tamales to raise money to opportunity. Since I've been playing never had any musicians talk buy my first button accordion.” I've bad about how I play. They've always — AMANDA REYNA had something good to say.

NUVO: Tell us about your current group Escolta 13. accordion because that's the kind that all the accordion players in Mexican regional music and norteño music played. I was like, "They're playing the buttons. I want to play the buttons too!"

But my family didn't have the money to buy a new accordion so my mom and my family got together and made tamales.

They sold dozens and dozens of tamales to raise money to buy my first button accordion. But I didn't know how to play it because I had learned on the keyboard accordion. My family was so supportive, though. Within a year I started picking it up. I don't read music so I learned by listening to other musicians.

I got the button accordion when I was 13, and from 14 to 16 I lived on my accordion. I would come home from school and play the accordion. I played music and listened to music day and night. By

REYNA: I joined Escolta 13 last August.

When I joined the group their music was more versatile, but since then we've taken a direction to focus on norteño music. We're doing really good with this band. We've traveled a lot this year. In my first year with them we did shows in Missouri, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan, Chicago, and later this month we'll be playing in the Bronx, New York.

It took me years with other bands to get out of the little towns we were playing in. It's going really well. People say we're the "consentidos" of Indianapolis. Do you know what that means? It means we're the preferred ones. [laughs] n >> Kyle Long hosts a show on WFYI’s HD-2 channel on Wednesdays and Saturdays NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.07.15 - 01.14.15 // MUSIC 23

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The Keepin’ It Deep guys have a special talent for snagging huge national acts as they ping-pong from coast to coast ­— probably because John Larner and Slater Hogan are legends themselves.

And don’t forget the local support; Manic, Adam Jay, John Larner, Tyler Stewart, Ashley Ross, Clay Collier, Deanne and Grenadine have all taken over the stacks at Blu. Blu Lounge, 240 S. Meridian St., 21+ BEST OF INDY Russ Baum and Huck Finn

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Sabbatical, 921 Broad Ripple Ave., $5, 21+

Winteractive Tour Send-Off 10 p.m. We’ve got a chat with John Stamps and Freddie Bunz, two of the guys heading out on this slightly different version of the Ghost Gun Summer tour, on NUVO.net now. Dirtbike, Stakzilla and Blu Bambu will assist on this show, which features four members of the original Ghost Gun Summer tour (Sirius Blvck will not play), plus a special guest set from Ace One. This show kicks off a new Indiana hip-hop tour, featuring Bunz, Ace, Stamps and Blu Bambu.

They’ll wind their way around the South for a few weeks.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, $5, 21+ HIP-HOP Writer’s Block Producer Showcase 9 p.m. The producer’s showcase schedule breaks down like this: doors at 9 p.m., music until 10 p.m., open decks from 10 – 10:30 p.m., featured performances from then until midnight. If you’re even the slightest bit interested in the ins and outs of becoming a producer, this is the event for you. The event occurs monthly at Sabbatical, and

Latin Fever, Blu Nightclub, 21+ Dime Store Hustlers, Jessee and The Hogg Brothers, Melody Inn, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+

HIP-HOP G-Eazy, Kehlani, Jay-Ant, Kool Joh 8 p.m. Bay Area rapper G-Eazy announced his From The Bay To The Universe Tour will continue into the new year for a second North American tour run.

G-Eazy, who released These Things Happen in June, has since sold 125,000 copies of the album and has been streamed on Spotify 50 million times after debuting on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and Top Rap Albums Charts at No. 1, while garnering the No. 3 position on both the Billboard 200 and Top Digital Albums Chart. His success continued throughout the summer, which including G-Eazy embarking on his first European tour, performing on multiple dates of the “Drake vs.Wayne Tour” and his late night TV debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

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Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $25, all-ages

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Figure 9 p.m. Josh Gard is making us electronic fans drool at the opportunity to see him up close and personal at the Mousetrap.

Gard’s DJ name is Figure, and he’s played at some of the biggest music festivals around the world, including Tomorrow World and EDC. But this is a chance to see one of the best live DJs in the business less than 50 feet away, a chance we don’t recommend passing up.

Westgate Live Session 9 p.m. Wet Socks and Chieftain take over this live session at Westgate.

The Mousetrap, 565 N. Keystone Ave., $8, 21+

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8 p.m. Bloomington readers, let us tell you about Russ Baum and Huck Finn. The irrepressible group was voted number one in all over Indianapolis by our readers in last year’s Best of Indy poll. Number-freaking-one. Why wouldn’t you go see the number one-voted live band from Indy at the Bluebird? There’s no good reason not to, is what we’re saying. Unfortunately, their performance at our Best of Indy party was cut off by a massive storm, so they didn’t get to perform for their many fans. But they’ll have plenty of space and time at the Bluebird to celebrate, so make time and space on your calendar to go see them. (P.S. They also have a skeleton. You’ll understand when you get there, we promise.)

Dahlia Revolt, Melody Inn, 21+ Adam Klein and The Wild Fires, Union 50, 21+ Unions, The Cowboys, Bishop, 21+

FRIDAY HIP-HOP Sirius Blvck, Oreo Jones, Nightcab, Birdbath 9 p.m. Blvck and Jones won’t be joining the boys on the Ghostgun Summer tour this time, but they will perform at the Bishop with Birdbath and Nightcap in Bloomington on Friday. DJ Littletown, who jumped on the decks at Blvck’s album release show, will DJ. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $6, 21+ TRIBUTES

The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. (Bloomington) , 21+

Bill Lancton’s Santana Tribute 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. The first of two tribute shows this weekend at the Kitchen is guitarist Bill Lancton’s Santana Tribute, which showcases music by Santana (of course), Tito Puente and Dizzy Gillespie (and maybe a couple of others, too!). Lancton is joined by Allen Turk Burke (Hammond organ), Gerardo Becerra (percussion) Jesse Wittman (bass) and Vince Jackson (drums).

Should be a fiery one.

Thirsty Thursdays with DJ Cory James, Bartini’s, 21+

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $12 for 7:30 show, $10 for 9:30 show, 21+

Otis Gibbs, Deer Park Manor (Bloomington), 18+ DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Noise!, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Bang! With Cool Hand Lex, Revel, 21+ St. Aubin, Brooks Ritter, The Savvy, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon, Social, 21+ Chemical Bomb Police, Pork and Beans Brass Band, Those Dirty Horse, Melody Inn, 21+ Mike and Joe, The Vogue, 21+ Friday Night Vibe, Bartini’s, 21+ Trackless, Union 50, 21+ Jim Piela Group, Indy Hostel, all-ages Friday Nights, Blu, 21+

SATURDAY LOCALS Champs Elysees, Dietrich Jon, Pnature Walk 6:30 p.m. These three Central Indiana bands take the mini-stage at Vibes for an early, free, all-ages show. Those are literally our favorite kinds of shows.

Vibes, 1051 E. 54th St., FREE, all-ages

Westgate, 6450 W. 10th St., all-ages DANCE Animal Haus 10 p.m. Featured by NUVO as Indy’s best weekly house event in 2010, this event continues to provide regular opportunities for house fans to experience the

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SOUNDCHECK TRIBUTES Mathew Street Band plays The Beatles 7:30 p.m. The wonderful JCC is celebrating its 100th birthday with this (and more) performance. Mathew Street and his band will recreate the Beatles set list from their Indiana State Fair stop. That show was exactly 50 years ago, so there’s some nice, round number synchronicity at play. They’ll play a couple of other Beatles favorites, too.

Blue Note Tribute Band 7 p.m., 9 p.m. Trumpeter Clifford Ratliff has prepared a tribute to the music produced and released by Blue Note Records in the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $12 for 7 p.m. show, $10 for 9 p.m., 21+ LOCALS

Arthur M. Glick JCC, 6701 Hoover Road, $20, all-ages

Chives, Wet Heave, The Hot Screams, The Icks 9 p.m. That title of this event? Four reasons to come out to this new all-ages space.

Bring your earplugs.

ROCK

Kismet, 1039 S. East St., donations accepted, all-ages

Sam Law, Bleeding Keys, Shiny Penny 9 p.m. Samuel Lawton’s first solo album Recharged is a true solo effort – after all, Lawton did write, record and mix each song. He’ll be accompanied

by Bleeding Keys and Shiny Penny and The Critical Shoes.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, $10, 21+ SHOWCASE Punk Rock Night 9 p.m. Well, it’s kind of Punk Rock Night – but it’s really Hardcore Night, with As Seasons Die, Shut The Fuck Up, Danny Greene and Meth Mullet lined up to take the stage.

Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $6, 21+

day night at the Melody Inn has a long tradition of hosting some of the best electronic music in the city. After an original run between 2005 and 2007 during which they hosted some of the nation and world’s biggest drum and bass acts, IQ Entertainment’s Broke(n) Tuesdays are back at the Melody Inn. Organizer Jay-P Gold says this time around he wants to widen the sonic range with as much “weird shit” as possible, ranging from footwork and jungle, to broken beat techno, and of course no small amount of drum and bass.

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DANCE Blend Saturdays 11 p.m. Matt Allen, voted by you, wonderful NUVO readers, as your favorite DJ in Indy for two years running, brings his remix video production to Landsharks on Saturdays. Format is Top 40/EDM/club.

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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+ Gorilla Music Battle of the Bands, Emerson Theater, all-ages

Landsharks, 810 Broad Ripple Ave.

Katie Krauter, Indy Hostel, all-ages

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Suited Up Saturdays, Bartini’s, 21+

Real Talk 10:30 p.m. A-Squared and Action Jackson’s monthly dance night has exploded. Now you can find just about anybody who’s anybody on the White Rabbit dance floor on the second Saturday of the month – or in Greg The Mayor’s photos the

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Nailed It, Blu, 21+ The Josh Oldham Band, Broad Ripple Brewpub, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+ Benefit Reading+Busman’s Holiday, Upfolk, Backwash (Bloomington), all-ages

Flatfoot56, Brick Assassin, Social Damage, Crack Lung, Brother O’Brother, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Simpleton and Cityfolk, Rathskeller, 21+ Yeager Quartet, Thirsty Scholar, all-ages The Josh Oldham Band, Broad Ripple Brewpub, 21+

Stripe and Casba shots will help get you out on a Sunday.

Casba, 6319 Guilford Ave. FREE, 21+ Service Industry Sundays, Saddle Up Saloon, 21+ Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+

Glenwood Drive, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+

Dynamite!, Mass Ave Pub, 21+

McLovins, Mousetrap Bar and Grill, 21+

Hot Jazz for Cool Kids, Indianapolis Public Library, all-ages

SUNDAY OPEN MIC Mac’s Open Mic 9 p.m. Come all ye faithful to Jon Wood’s open mic on Sundays at DJ’s. The drinks are cheap, the music is great, the people watching unparalleled. Rub the bear skin rug hanging for luck on your way out.

DJ’s Lounge, 1707 Prospect St., FREE, 21+ DANCE Reggae Revolution 10 p.m. More than 16 years later, Danger and DJ Indiana Jones are still spinning reggae and reggae-infused beats at Casba.

We’ve been dancing our asses off to their carefully chosen beats for almost as long. Reggae Revolution is not only Indy’s longestrunning dance night, but one of the only places to be still dancing all night as the weekend winds down. If you’ve got any energy after a long weekend, head over to Casba. Maybe the $2.50 Red

Barcelo Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+

Gosh Pith, Marcus Alan Ward, Melody Inn, 21+

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1. Know your own parts It still amazes me how few people know the anatomical structure of their own genitals. Do you know how many men and women think there is only one opening in the female body through which both urination and sex and menstruation happen?! Or the number of women who have a complete misunderstanding of their own reproductive cycles? Just as you wouldn’t throw open the hood of a strange car and start going to town on the pipes and bolts without consulting a manual, you shouldn’t try to improve your sex life without getting good and familiar with your own body’s basic mechanics.

2. Know your partner’s parts.

You and your partner have the same genitals, more or less?

Lucky you! You only have to study once! But if you’re trying to get down in that heterosexual way, you should take some time to read up on the finer points of your partner’s genitals.

For instance, most men know that the clitoris is sensitive, but most don’t know that the attached nerves actually extend much farther than the visible clitoris. And most women know that kicking a dude in his balls will make him keel over in pain, though many of those same women have no idea what to do to/with the testicles during a pleasurable experience.

That’s, well, nuts, especially when we have more information at our disposal than ever before.

3. Talk about sex. Say the words.

Find whatever language you’re comfortable with talking about sex and then use it. Either way, you have to hear yourself say words like “penis” or “vagina” or “clit” or “cock” a few times before you are no longer embarrassed to have frank discussions about sex, naming the parts as you go. Why? Because here’s a very unhelpful phrase: “I love it when you put your thingy inside my no-no.” On the other hand, here’s a phrase that will improve your sex life: “I get goosebumps all over when you touch my clit lightly with your fingers during foreplay.” If you’re not ready to get specific with your language, you’re not ready to raise your sex game.

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5. Get comfortable being naked You don’t have to go whole-hog, as it were, and just start strutting around your house in your birthday suit. But you should stand naked in front of a mirror and learn to do so without immediately letting your brain tell you how you should feel about the shape of your body. Any person worth their salt in bed knows that all different bodies can have all different kinds of sex, and appearances are rarely correlative to performance. Start by sleeping naked more often and see how it goes.

6. Sex is kinda gross. Get over it.

Whether or not anyone wants to admit it, there are occasional moments of ick when you’re really getting down like you mean it, at some point in your life. Being cum-glued to your sheets, clothes, or, God forbid, the tanning deck on a cruise ship is not the cleanest you’ll ever feel, but you get over it. Whether it’s sweaty, sticky midsummer sex or midwinter sex where you’re just trying to avoid each other’s frozen toes, there will always be lots of sticky fluids and a variety of smells, and they’re all fine. If you don’t eat pussy because you’ve always thought vaginas were “gross,” shame on you. If you don’t give head because cum is “gross,” shame on you. Frankly, good sex requires loving sex, moles and all.

7. Give yourself a reason to laugh Did you try edible underwear only to have it melt into a weird sticky merkin? Did you experiment with that kama sutra book and end up screaming “MY KNEE DOESN’T BEND LIKE THAT!” These are hilarious moments in sex, and if you’re lucky, you’ll have a lot of them. Sex can often be funny, and experimenting with sex means you’ll encounter things you haven’t before. I encourage you to laugh about this, because sex is often taken so damn seriously that we forget that it should be fun.

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Combining solutions I have always been very clean and fresh downtown, in fact, men always talk about how there’s no smell down there, but recently my boyfriend ejaculated in me and for a day or so later there was a smell down there. Is this unheard of? Could it just be our chemicals mixing together? Any suggestions? (Sidenote: I have an obgyn appointment scheduled.)

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: It’s definitely a thing, but not really something I would worry about unless the smell is gross.

Then go to your doctor.

DEBBY: Was it a bad small? Or just a scent? Look, vaginas have a scent to them, but you probably wouldn’t notice yours because (a) it may be quite mild, as is often the case and (b) you live with it.

Semen mixed in a vagina can definitely take on its own scent. I find it kind of fascinating, actually, and most of the time it’s almost a sweet, yeasty kind of scent that both partners may notice, but again mild.

Less commonly, vaginal infections are to blame. Trichomonas (“trich”) is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that doesn’t usually cause symptoms in men (and many men never even get tested for even when they supposedly get tested for “everything”), but in women can lead to vaginal odor, especially of a fishy kind.

Then there’s bacterial vaginosis (BV); women with BV often notice a particularly icky smell soon after a man ejaculates inside of them. Glad you’ve got an ob/ appointment scheduled for. If the problem persists, however, you can get a second opinion from a healthcare provider with particular expertise in vaginal and vulvar health. FInd one through the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Health and Disease (ISSVD) on issvd.org.

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— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Sexy Saturday Gift Certificate. One whole day of round-the-house nudity and whatever comes afterward.

You can even up the ante by writing “NO CLOTHES PERMITTED” on your homemade certificate, which I think is legally binding if you get the letters straight enough. Have a lawyer look at it though, just to be safe.

DEBBY: These things always depend on who you are and your personalities as individuals and as a couple.

Naked-in-a-bed would be a great gift for a lot of people. Other people give each other books like Great in Bed or Moregasm or Position of the Day Playbook with a promise to go through and try new things together.

Stocking stuffers? An old boyfriend’s dad once gave me glow in the dark massage lotion which was … well, awkward (and it remained unopened during our entire relationship since it was from HIS DAD!). Coming from you, massage lotion would have a sexier and notawkward meaning. You could also just give him regular clothes that you think he looks sexy in; people have a way of wearing what their partner thinks they look hot in. Other gift ideas: condoms and lube (if safer sex is your thing), vibrators, a night at a hotel, an invitation to ditch work and play hooky, and free pass to try that thing together you’ve been less inclined to do but know he’s really into into (as long as you’re at least moderately into it; don’t do something that would horrify or pain you, unless pain is your thing). Frankly, just a nice day together where you’re in love and all over each other is time pretty well spent, if you ask most people. It’s nothing to take for granted. And for all of you who have been with your partner for a long time and forgotten the little things, bring back something you’ve lost: after-work massages, lingering in bed on the weekends, massaging his scalp, rubbing her feet, a lot more kissing during sex, and a lot more cuddling afterwards. Keep the intimacy and affection going; it matters.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Novelist E. L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. You’re more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Doug Von Koss leads groups

Champions, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who “had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem.

You finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways ... to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form ... to bring your purely fourth-dimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

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where an extended drought led to water-rationing for much of 2014. But in December, a series of downpours arrived to replenish the parched landscape. Now bursts of white wildflowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They’re called shepherd’s purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I’d like to give you a metaphorical version of this good stuff. You could use some support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you’re feeling. Any ideas about how to get it? Brainstorm. Ask questions. Seek help.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Actress Uzo Aduba’s formal first name is Uzoamaka. She tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a kid. One day she came home and said, “Mommy, can you call me Zoe?” Her mother asked her why, and she said, “Because no one can say Uzoamaka.” Mom was quick to respond: “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, and Michelangelo, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.” The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: This is no time to suppress your quirks and idiosyncrasies. That’s rarely a good idea, but especially now. Say NO to making yourself more generic.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If you have built cas-

tles in the air,” said philosopher Henry David Thoreau, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure first, and later the bottom. But I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock and roll music for the first time.

“When Mockingbird first heard rock / He cocked his head and crapped / What in the hell is that? / It sounded like a train wreck / Someone was screaming / Someone’s banging on garbage cans.” Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves — “all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you — maybe even fulfill you.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when a White Rabbit scurries by. He’s wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. She follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground.

Her descent takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights.

Not once does she feel fear. Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip. Finally she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are positively oceanic

these days. You are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. As much as it’s possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I’m tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse. Dream big, you crazy wise dreamer.

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