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Yet another perk of having a Super Bowl coming to your town: a massive installation project going into the old Indiana State Museum. Almost two-dozen artists have created one-of-a-kind installations, with the hope of getting sports-lovin’ folks to check out Indy’s thriving art scene. We interview five of the artists. B Y S C OT T S H OGE R

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ANGEL BURLESQUE AT DELUXE The new Deluxe room in the Old National Centre was the place to be on Friday night, as the sold-out crowd was treated to a raucous and rich show comprised of 20 separate acts. Performers from Indianapolis, Bloomington and the headline act, Red Hot Annie, from Chicago, paraded to the stage, mostly one at a time, but sometimes in larger troupes and took off (almost all of) their clothes. Not one act disappointed; all the individual segments were entertaining and fun; and a few standouts were absolutely sublime. B Y J I M P OY S E R

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NEW DOC ABOUT LOCAL RADIO Naptown Rock Radio Wars: A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio in Indianapolis is a spirited documentary co-produced by David Fulton, Brad Schuchard and Al Stone and directed by David Fulton. Full disclosure: I watched an earlier version of the documentary a few weeks ago and offered some suggestions to Brad and my old buddy Dave. I have not disqualified myself from reviewing the film because I’m old and ornery enough to say what I really think no matter what. B Y E D J OH NS ON- OT T

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from the readers Regarding Hammer’s “New ideas for a new year” column (Jan. 4-11): Myspace jokes, really? Saggy pants? Young kids and their damned “Rock and Roll” music? I’m getting the feeling you ranted this in to your Dictaphone and had your great-granddaughter steno it in to your Smith-Corona cause you couldn’t figure out that pesky MS-DOS prompt.

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STEALING ANOTHER DAY The band Borrow Tomorrow has been dealt a few blows, including the loss of one of their members. But the boys are bouncing back with a new album and a big show at the Vogue this Friday. B Y W A DE C OGGE S H A LL

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HAMMER The meaning of Dr. King Day

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

ext Monday, America will celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which was first observed as a federal holiday in 1986 after being signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. Schoolchildren around the world learn about the achievements of King and he serves as a worldwide source of hope and inspiration for all those who struggle against injustice. There is no eternal flame at his gravesite in Atlanta, and there doesn’t need to be, because the fire of inspiration he lit keeps burning after more than 50 years. He is rightly praised for his efforts to end segregation in the United States and his efforts were so successful that it boggles the mind to look back even five decades and understand just how deeply ingrained was the curse of racism in our country and to what extent it was institutionalized. Less than half a century ago, there were still restaurants, bus stations and stores with separate entrances for white and “colored” people. It’s not hard to find pictures of restrooms labeled “For colored ladies only” or of hotels who would not accept anything but whites. There was even a chain of three restaurants in Salt Lake City, Seattle and Portland, Ore., called “Coon Chicken Inn” whose mascot was a grotesque representation of a thick-lipped, wide-eyed black man holding a plate of fried chicken. Only in the late 1950s did public outrage force the closure of the last of the three stores. The justice system was so deeply stacked against black men and women that it was nearly impossible for whites to be prosecuted in any places for the murder of black citizens. Grand juries would simply refuse to indict a white person for the crime. And all-white juries granted a free pass if, for some reason, a prosecutor brought such a case to trial. Forget about the right to vote if you were a black person living in the southern United States. Impossible literacy tests and poll taxes took care of that. Yes, it’s hard to imagine the America that existed before the civil rights movement, where whites ruled unchallenged and an entire nation of African-American citizens simply accepted their fate, because to do otherwise meant certain imprisonment or death. It seems like a scene from a scary movie and completely unreal. Of course, there were many heroes besides King who fought the battle against discrimination. One of the most

underrated was President Lyndon B. Johnson, who bucked the wishes of his fellow southerners and parlayed the assassination of JFK into the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fully aware it would cost his party dearly for half a century or more. We celebrate them all on the King holiday, all of the men and women beaten with clubs, attacked by police dogs and drenched by fire hoses as they protested the denial of their rights. Civil rights would have inevitably become an issue without King; but with him as a moral leader, the transition was far less bloody and violent than it would have been otherwise. Even as we celebrate the legacy of King, we should also never forget that our own federal government spied upon and harassed him throughout his life. The FBI wiretapped his telephones wherever he went and planted listening devices in his hotel rooms to uncover details of his personal life. The knowledge that King was a serial womanizer in the style of JFK or Bill Clinton has been mostly suppressed but is a fact that his closest aides, not to mention the FBI files and tapes, fully corroborate. To make history even more complicated, the wiretaps were authorized in writing by Robert F. Kennedy in his capacity as attorney general in his brother’s administration. To his credit, Kennedy was later ashamed of having done so, but it was on his authority that the FBI’s harassment of King was made legal. The government harassment of King continued until his death. The troublesome files and tapes of his sexual escapades have been sealed by a federal judges, but they remain a testament to just how badly the government, specifically the FBI, wanted to discredit him and ruin his efforts to bring about peaceful change. Entire libraries have been written about King so to attempt to summarize his legacy in a few words is a foolish endeavor at best. The lessons the nation learned through him were immense. The governmental response of harassing and tormenting him remains a source of great shame and a reminder to never fully trust the government. But his achievements stand tall as a moral victory for American values, as represented in justice, peaceful protest and opposition to needless military action, for King in his later years was as much a peace activist as a civil rights activist. So whether you have a day off work for the King holiday or not, it’s worth your while to take a few moments to reflect on the legacy of this remarkable man who endured such suffering, achieved a few victories and returned home to a grave in Georgia. We owe him immensely.

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HOPPE The unmaking of the president Obama, the unboss

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

n early 2008, when Barack Obama was running for president, some of his critics took pleasure in pointing out that the young senator from Illinois hailed from Chicago, a city known for its “machine” brand of politics. Obama, they suggested, owed his rapid rise through the Democratic ranks to connections with the city’s mayor, Richard M. Daley, son of a previous Chicago mayor, the legendary Richard J. Daley, also known as Hizzoner or, as another Chicago legend, the journalist Mike Royko, put it, Boss. Over the holidays, I read Royko’s 1971 take-down of the elder Daley, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago. Published when Daley was entering the sixteenth of what would finally be 21 years in office, Royko’s book is a relentlessly focused attack on Daley’s reputation as a mayor who made Chicago, as signs on its borders proudly proclaimed, “the city that works.” Royko doesn’t deny Daley’s accomplishments. As he points out, they are plainly visible for all to see: Chicago’s downtown, the Loop, was revitalized and its skyline reinvented; a vast network of expressways connected all parts of the city and suburbs; a new airport, O’Hare, connected Chicago with the rest of the country and the world. But this juggernaut of progress had a cost. As Royko observes: “Behind the highrises are the crumbling, crowded buildings where the lower-income people live. No answer has been found to their housing problems because the real estate people say there’s not enough profit in building homes for them. And beyond them are the middle-income people, who can’t make it to the high-rises and can’t stay where they are because the schools are inadequate, the poor are pushing toward them, and nothing is being done about their problems, so they move to the suburbs. When their children grow up and they retire, maybe then they can move to a lake front high-rise.” As Royko makes clear, Daley was able to get big things done in Chicago by keeping a vise-like grip on power, what Chicagoans came to call “clout.” Daley ruled the city as a despot, which meant that things got done without the niceties of democratic process. In Chicago, connections and pay-offs were a part of doing business. Contractors were enriched, people were put to work and Daley kept it running by maintaining a steely discipline, often enforced by his police department, which operated in a kind of extra-legal zone.

Reading Boss today, one is outraged by Daley’s egregious treatment of racial minorities, the disadvantaged and anybody else who didn’t advance his bare knuckle agenda. But Royko’s book also raises bigger, enduring questions about democratic governance. What would Chicago have been like if instead of command decisions, every building project would have been subject to rounds of community meetings and a conscientious process aimed at consensus? Would there be an O’Hare Field? It was built in spite of people’s concerns about noise and traffic congestion. A John Hancock skyscraper? Planners and architecture buffs argued such a big building would ruin the neighborhood’s historic character. Or, for that matter, a Picasso on the city’s Civic Center Plaza? The public thought a statue of baseball player Ernie Banks made more sense. Fast forward to 2012. We are faced with a clutch of big picture issues, from implementing strategies to save the planet, to providing universal health care and viable forms of public transportation. We know these things are important. But a power outage at the top keeps them in a state of perpetual stalemate, subject to the me-first whims of special interests and squeaky wheels. Without clout, democracy has a way of chasing its tail. That’s how things have gone since President Obama took office. He said he was going to change the way things were done in Washington. He called for a new era of civility, for bipartisanship, when what he really needed was more old-fashioned clout. It’s turned out that whether he’s dealing with health care reform, the economy, or global warming, Obama lacks the political will, the real power, or both, to govern effectively. Not even making Boss Daley’s son, William, his chief of staff, in place of current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, has helped. Which makes Obama’s New Year’s Eve signing of the National Defense Authorization Act, a law that makes United States citizens subject to arrest and indefinite detention by the military, more than a little ironic. The Obama Administration has said it would never take full advantage of this law but, as the American Civil Liberties Union has pointed out, the law has “no temporal or geographic limitations.” Meaning a President Romney, let’s say, could find the law’s open-ended language a handy way of disappearing someone who was particularly annoying (mind your manners, Newt Gingrich!) When this law was originally presented to Obama, he said he wouldn’t sign it. Then a bipartisan group of senators, including Republican John McCain, Independent Joseph Liebermann and Democrat Jim Webb, pressed the issue and Obama backed down. Again. Obama’s now accused of grabbing power when it appears as likely he merely caved to pressure. This supposedly made man from Chicago must have old man Daley rolling in his grave.

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U.S. Navy saves Iranians from pirates just like a movie! recess appointment of Cordray means Obama can still yes we can Bachmann pulls out of Presidential race — something tells me she’ll be bach

Star reporter suit claiming ageism to go to jury of old young her peers Newt blames Barack for bad economy; has he forgotten George Bush? South Bend Chocolate chief nabbed for concealed gun — he craved security! richer countries have higher drug use because, um, they can pay for it? self-immolations in China set to compel Dalai Lama back sighting of hybrid sharks means climate change makes for some strange bedfellows

THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN STIFFING LOW-INCOME WORKERS

Downtown hotel workers have filed what proponents say is “the broadest wage and hour case in the history of the Indianapolis hotel industry.” The suit targets 10 Indy hotels, including the Marriott, Hyatt, Westin, Conrad, Embassy Suites, Canterbury, Holiday Inn and the Omni, as well as Hospitality Staffing Solutions, the contractor which provides services such as housekeeping to the hotels. Attorneys for the plaintiffs have requested class-action status, which, they say, if granted would entitle the workers to as much as $10 million. Martha Gonzalez is a plaintiff, who claims, as do her fellow complainants, that she is forced to work through breaks and work before clocking in. Most of the workers bringing the suit are employed in jobs that start at $7.25 an hour without benefits. Workers’ advocate Unite Here notes that, in 2010, the federal government fined HSS and the Hyatt Indianapolis $50,000 for record-keeping and training violations.

RIGHT TO SESSION

For better or for worse, Republicans have made it their goal to use their majority in the Indiana General Assembly to pass right-to-work legislation. It’s an issue of fairness; not forcing people to join unions if they want to work in particular companies or fields, says Rep. Douglas Gutwein, R-Francesville, who passed the bill out of committee Monday. For better or worse, Democrats have employed extreme measures to undermine the bill’s progress. Last session this opposition resulted in the Democrats’ five-week exodus out of state. This session, although they are still dead set against RTW, Democrats ended a weeklong standoff by appearing on the House floor Monday. Will Indiana gain jobs or will this undermine collective bargaining rights, the state’s average wage and the livelihood of the middle class? The relative wisdom of leadership in ignoring the scores of Hoosier workers who have traveled from all corners of the state to protest the bill will be judged by history. In the meanwhile, it’s about time that all of the representatives gather in the venue designed for debate and hash out the details not only of this bill, but of the entire slate of legislation Hoosiers want heard.

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Though not exactly victims of the middle-class squeeze, the NFL Players’ Association still depends on its collective bargaining strength to grapple with the whims of team owners. Maybe players aren’t known for their astute assessments of political policy, but they made their position on right-to-work efforts crystal clear: “’Right-to-work’ is a political ploy designed to destroy basic workers’ rights. It’s not about jobs or rights, and it’s the wrong priority for Indiana.”

THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr.

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ep. Douglas Gutwein, R-Francesville, must have hoped for a break when he headed for his House Ag and Rural Development Committee meeting on Tuesday morning. Minutes before the ag meeting, Gutwein chaired the Employment, Labor and Pensions Committee where lawmakers voted to advance the right-to-work legislation riling labor opposition statewide. Democrats, who had voiced their opposition to the bill by boycotting House activities last week — including the hours of hearings Gutwein held — objected to fasttracking the bill without more deliberation. Accusations of dictatorship and other less-than-flattering name calling followed. The ag committee offered a break from the personal attacks, but it also opened the door to another contentious bill — an innocuously titled piece of legislation HB 1091: Agricultural Operations. In short, it addresses meth and frivolous lawsuits against farmers. The committee voted 9-3 to advance the bill, but several witnesses noted various concerns. The House is now clear to hold floor debate on both right-to-work legislation and the CAFO/meth bill. As reports of fomenting unrest among the Democrats continue Tuesday afternoon, though, it is unclear how soon any legislative efforts will advance.

Punitive or Protective

Vigilante Justice

Farm interests including Indiana Farm Bureau and the Indiana Pork Producers argue HB 1091 is essential to protect producers from a cottage legal industry bent on kneecapping confined feeding operations. Rural watchdogs claim the bill will have a chilling effect on plaintiffs’ willingness to bring justified concerns to court. In an email circulated before the hearing, public interest attorney Kim Ferraro of the Hoosier Environmental Council took her rhetoric one step further: “Given the significant hurdles already in place that limit the ability of CAFO communities to protect themselves,” she wrote, “this is probably the most repulsive, underhanded and unjust piece of proposed legislation I’ve ever seen.” She did not go so far in her testimony to the committee, but emphasized several areas that opponents of the legislation consider weaknesses.

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First, she said, the legal mechanism to protect farmers from frivolous lawsuits already exists in federal and state law as well as the ethics code governing attorneys. “We already have right-to-farm (legislation protecting farmers’ ability to pursue their occupation without baseless interference),” Ferraro said. “No other industry is afforded these protections (included in the proposed bill) … It seems the purpose is to have a chilling effect.” Majority Floor Leader Bill Friend, R-Macy, who authored the bill, is a fifthgeneration farmer. In 2000, his farm modernized its swine production segment into a confined feeding operation. He has had no problem with lawsuits, complaints or violations, he said, but in meetings throughout his district he said he heard stories of difficulties with both frivolous lawsuits and rampant examples of squatting meth makers holing up in sleepy areas of rural property to engage in the nefarious activities associated with their addiction. “I’ve always opposed the bad actor. … I want them out of business,” Friend said. “If people are paying fines just as a cost of doing business, I want rules stringent enough to get rid of them and allow someone of a different temperament to do the job.” In addition, Friend said he did not want to deny Hoosiers access to the legal system, but he also does not want to see courts clogged with baseless cases. “Seventy-five to 80 percent of producers do a very good job,” said Barbara Sha Cox, a rural resident and longtime CAFO watchdog. But when property owners are deprived of the enjoyment of that property, she added, “We do need to not have intimidation where we feel scared to go to court.” Other proponents of the legislation emphasize how delays in expansion projects, which often require hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to advance, can handicap or even bankrupt producers as legal delays unfold. In addition to offering more robust protections for ag-based victims of frivolous lawsuits, HB 1091 would allow farmers to detain meth makers for “a reasonable amount of time” not to exceed two hours. House Ag Committee members did not focus much on the concerns of CAFO watchdogs, concentrating more on fears for the safety of farmers who may try to intervene in meth-making operations and the potential for Wild West-style vigilante justice. Rep. Kreg Battles, D-Vincennes, was successful in his attempt to amend the bill to remove a provision that would have allowed a judge to award punitive damages in addition to court costs for a wronged farmer. Battles said the amendment should bring the bill into line with current state law preventing frivolous lawsuits. HB 1091 would have been the first state law to allow punitive damages for filing a motion, said Warren Mathies of the

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Rep. Don Lehe, R-Brookston, (left) chairs the House ag committee, which heard HB 1091 on Tuesday. Co-chair Ron Bacon and Rep. Douglas Gutwein, R-Francesville, (from middle to right) were also among the participating lawmakers.

Indiana Trial Lawyers Association. Mathies also testified against the bill, suggesting that the committee look to the state’s AntiSLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) for guidance on how to tailor the bill to move for speedy dismissal of baseless claims. Friend said he would explore adding a motion-to-dismiss amendment as the bill proceeds through the legislative process. After the hearing, he said he does not believe existing law provides adequate provisions to make targets of baseless lawsuits financially whole because the law states that courts may not shall require plaintiffs to cover defendants’ attorneys fees and court costs. Justin Schneider, a Indiana Farm Bureau staff attorney, testified that he has personally witnessed several cases where judges decline to award court costs to defendants because of a fear that it will somehow look bad. Michael Platt, executive director of the Indiana Pork Producers, represents about 3,000 pork producers statewide and about 75 percent of regulated CAFOS in state. He testified that he is seeing more attorneys file suits against CAFOS with the “express purpose of delaying and disrupting industry expansion.” While IPPA favors industry players adhering to the laws and rules governing CAFOS, as well as citizens’ ability to go to court, Platt said “we don’t support efforts to delay development. … If cases are frivolous, we want to make sure the producer is made whole.”

Sorting through the rhetoric

Outside of the Statehouse, in rural counties across the state, the subject of this bill translates to a real issue of justice for both farmers and the neighbors of CAFOs. “Several nuisance lawsuits filed …

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often (target farms) with good records with no history of complaints,” said IFB’s Schneider. “Not all but the majority.” And, he noted, the cases are expensive to defend. Cox, who tracks CAFO construction and complaints, disputed the proponents’ claim that the majority of the suits filed against CAFOs are baseless. But neither side had handy a list of the active lawsuits currently pending with the operations’ environmental compliance history. Though NUVO could not compile such a list on deadline, efforts are now underway to complete such an analysis. Check NUVO. net for updates between weekly printings.

HB 1091 Synopsis First, the bill “provides that if a court finds that an agricultural operation that is the subject of a nuisance action was not a nuisance and that the nuisance action was frivolous, initiated maliciously, or groundless, the court: Shall award the expenses of litigation, including reasonable attorney fees, to the defendant in the action …” Second, it “allows an owner of real property that is used for agricultural purposes, who has probable cause to believe that a specific individual is manufacturing methamphetamine on the property, to detain the person.”

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ike a striated cross-section of sedimentary rock, the building at Alabama Street and Ohio Street shows its history at a single glance. Constructed as the city’s first dedicated city hall, it later passed into the hands of the state, which used it for the Indiana State Museum, filling the building’s windows with limestone blocks, installing drop ceilings and dioramas. When the museum relocated, the building reverted to the city’s ownership, making it a natural place for the Central Library to temporarily relocate; the library’s signage remained in the building until earlier this month. And now, for the three weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, the building — fallen into some disrepair in recent years, but still viable — will house an unprecedented exhibition of installation art, created by a roster of local and regional artists. TURF: IDADA Art Pavilion, a free event which runs Jan. 14-Feb. 5, will feature the work of 21 artists, 19 of them from Indianapolis and its surrounding counties. The first two stories of the building will be occupied by a range of experiential art — from video art to immersive, multi-sensory environments; from kinetic sculpture to diorama. Shortly after it was announced Indianapolis would be hosting the Super Bowl, TURF was in the works. Four key IDADA members — former IDADA presidents Mark Ruschman and Jason Zickler, 2011 president Abbey Pintar and 2012 president Kenan Farrell — started by spitballing ideas, with the notion of showcasing the visual arts community and drawing attention to the city. Ruschman, the TURF project coordinator, remembers Zickler asking, “What about the old City Hall building?” The rest of the crew naysayed, but as soon as they got in the building,

they thought it perfect. Then the city came on lation will consist of a grid of motion-activated board, handing over the space for the duration nightlights, in an expansion on a similar piece of the event, essentially for free. “A series of mounted at iMOCA in 2009. “I don’t think anyhighly unlikely things happened in a very short one from Indiana thinks that. I think it’s a good period of time, and all of the sudden we had foot to put forward for the Indianapolis commuthis building,” Ruschman said. nity. In terms of the art world in general, this is Installation art seemed a natural choice, a good way to show that we’re progressive and according to Ruschman: “For the organization, we have original ideas as good as anyone else.” it goes back to the realization that if we were TURF was intended to be a showcase for local to create an art fair in such close proximity to artists — on their home turf — from the beginall the galleries and studios and independent ning. The application process was open only to artists, it would take away iDADA members residing from all these other things in Marion County or the going on in the city.” Thus, doughnut counties. (One artthe goal is to bring in visiist each from Bloomington tors to enjoy all the instaland Chicago ended up in lation art in the space, then the Pavilion, nominated in a arm them with information separate process by IDADA enough to explore the other member galleries.) Seventy arts districts. applications rolled in; they Indianapolis has hosted were then evaluated by installation events in a five-member jury pool, recent memory, including consisting of representatives —Mark Ruschman Installation Fest, which was from IDADA, the IMA, the TURF project coordinator held in various locations Art Institute of Chicago, the through the ’90s (on Mass Arts Council of Indianapolis Ave and Dorman Street and 21c Museum Hotel in and at City Market), and Installation Nation, an Louisville. Ruschman notes that artists weren’t initiative of Primary Colours wherein installations restricted in terms of subject matter: “The only are housed in portable shipping containers. Still, thing I said as a curator is I don’t want fire, and if according to Jeff Martin — a coordinator of both there’s water, I want it filtered.” Installation Fest and Installation Nation, as well The project has a total budget of $160,000, as an artist included in TURF — installation art up from an estimate of $150,000. Each artist has remains “a fairly new medium” to the city, with been allotted a $2,000 stipend for his or her work. “only a few people doing installation art excluRuschman estimates that the line items for artists sively” on a local level. and for construction costs are about equal, even “I don’t think that, when Indiana is brought with Wilhelm Construction on board as a sponsor. up, people start thinking of cutting edge art, A roll call of usual suspects on the philanthropic by any means,” said Martin, whose TURF instaland cultural scene have contributed toward the

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“The only thing I

said as a curator is I don’t want fire, and if there’s water, I want it filtered.”

project, including the Efroymson Family Fund, the Central Indiana Community Foundation and the Buckingham Foundation. TURF is officially characterized as a joint effort between IDADA, the Super Bowl Host Committee, the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Mayor’s office; although IDADA is the prime mover behind the project, Ruschman reports that all parties involved have been supportive. In all, it’s a unique opportunity for local artists — particularly those who lean towards installation work — to show what they can do, according to Ruschman: “A lot of those artists have freely admitted that they don’t have as many opportunities to do their work, as opposed to someone doing just painting or sculpture or photography, where they just need a space to mount it on the wall and do an opening. They may have to go out of town or look for a museum gallery or an alternative space. Speaking as a former gallery owner, I think part of it is the economics of it; more often than not, you’re not going to find installation work in commercial galleries. Typically, it’s a serious commitment of time, energy and space, and sometimes you only have two of those.”

TURF: IDADA ART PAVILION 202 N. Alabama St. (old Indiana State Museum and City Hall) Open Tues.-Sun. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. from Jan. 14-Feb. 5; free Opening gala Jan. 13, 6-11 p.m.; $35 IDADA members, $50 non-members; buy tickets at turfindy.eventbrite.com More info at idadaartpavilion.com

nila Quayyum Agha swears she wasn’t trying to sound any devilish, reptilian overtones when she gave the title “My Forked Tongue” to her TURF piece. But if art imitates life, one might see her installation — which consists of letters from English, Hindi and Urdu alphabets strung on metallic threads and held in place by beads — as a diagram of the linguistic twists and turns that a phrase can take on the path from one’s mouth to another’s ears. Say, a culturally-loaded phrase like “forked tongue.” According to Agha, when she titled her piece she was thinking only of her life as a speaker of three languages — English, Hindi and Urdu — that she learned while growing up in Lahore, Pakistan. As she puts it in an artist’s statement to “My Forked Tongue,” she spoke at home a sort of pidgin English which melded all three of her tongues, although she inadvertently became part of the country’s elite because of her skill in speaking and writing in an unadulterated Queen’s English. When she moved to the U.S. in 2000, to study for an MFA in fiber arts at the University of North Texas, linguistic difficulties made it difficult for her to adjust: “Even though I spoke English ok, it was the body language, the slang of the American language. A lot of times it just went over my head: You miss the nuances, the jokes, the references to television shows.” She had “defense mechanisms in place,” she told me while sitting outside her installation, but she felt “very excluded.” “My Forked Tongue” was a year or more in gestation before she started to realize the

piece — to cut out letters (by hand), to string them together, to install them in different formations given the size of a particular gallery (she’s hung the piece, which is comprised of many strings of letters, in circular and diagonal formations at different shows; this is first time it’s been constructed in a rectangular formation). “I was thinking of how difficult it is to move to a new country,” Agha said. “You become a hybrid of everything and belong to nothing. The idea is that there’s something we can touch and feel and participate in, but still we’re outsiders.” She hopes to expand the piece to include other languages — Chinese, Russian — so that it might represent a global situation, a world full of outsiders and liminal figures. Agha felt very much like an outsider when she moved to Indianapolis in 2008 to take a job as professor of drawing at Herron: “I would go to Starbucks to get a coffee, and I’d speak, and people would turn around to look. Maybe they’ve gotten used to me or I’ve gotten used to them, but it used to be very clear that I was an alien.” Her impression of Indianapolis was that was “really tiny,” compared to the city she had just moved from, Houston, which seemed to have a more vibrant arts scene, not to mention more writers who wrote about and critiqued art. Her first year here was, additionally, something of a trial by fire: She broke her ankle early in her first fall semester at Herron, and was challenged to adjust to her job and a new city, without friends or family, while negotiating the world with a wheelchair and then crutches.

JAWSHING ARTHUR LIOU INSATIABLE

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ime is not linear. Time is cyclical. That which has happened will happen again. And again. And again. Case in Point: Jawshing Arthur Liou — video artist and area head of Digital Art at Indiana University, Bloomington — says he’s making art without purpose again. We might think of it as a return to his beginnings, when, in 2002, he brought a series of videos called Things That Are Edible to the J. Martin gallery for his first show in Indianapolis. It was a playful series of work. One video featured a knife chopping onions against the background of a ‘70s kung-fu movie. Another depicted the voyage of a refrigerator across an ocean, depicting the idea of how a migrant to a new country still maintains a connection to her homeland via her diet.

But shortly after the 2002 show, his newborn daughter, Vivian, was diagnosed with leukemia. Liou dealt with her illness in the only way he knew how. His work began to take on a darker tone, to deal with disasters and the body. “As an artist, one thing you can control is the work, and the work becomes this sort of reflective area in life,” Liou told me while bathed in the light of projectors in his pavilion space. “Artwork is a mediating tool that puts things in perspective, that allows for making progress.” His 2006 series Blood Work depicts the microscopic cellular struggle that was then taking place within the body of his daughter. Tiny babies crawl across a field of red blood cells, energetic at first, then gradually subsumed by a great wave of gray in one video. In another, a young child

ANILA QUAYYUM AGHA MY FORKED TONGUE Space #12

Over time, she’s come to define Indianapolis as “a really great city,” which has “wonderful people who want it to grow, who want to improve the cultural tone.” Agha says she was “bored in Pakistan” when she made the move to the U.S. She had been working in Lahore as an assistant manager for brand development at Levi Strauss, having been promoted up the ladder after starting as a product developer. But she felt there was a glass ceiling, and, besides, she didn’t find the corporate culture appealing. Her undergraduate work was in textile design, and she says she has a good understanding of the totality of textiles, having worked in a factory and mill. She worked as a model to put herself through school, which she says was “not a very pleasant experience,” because it “made her feel like an object.”

whispers “I’m going to get better” and other supplicating phrases on the soundtrack. On this linear plane, Vivian’s death prompted another sea change in Liou’s work: “After she passed away, we sort of lost our religion, in a way. But, call it coincidence or fate, there was a longing for spiritual and religious practice. We grew up with Buddhism but never practiced it. But we’re now profoundly influenced by it, and it’s actually saved our lives, my wife and I. Just like a hungry person wants to eat, there’s that very primal instinct and desire to see images of Buddha, to hear chanting. Things like that comfort us. It’s a long process, but just like when my daughter was diagnosed with an illness, I can’t help making work about it.” The video “Improbable Waves” started out as “formal practice” for Liou, who was trying to animate a wave in a friend’s oil painting. “But the more I went on with it, it became a reflection of a mourning and recovery process,” Liou said. The video uncannily merges the texture of oils with the undulations of waves. A recent trip to Tibet marked the culmination of Liou’s Buddhist practice and work. His video records a pilgrimage on a path circling Mount Kalias, a mountain held sacred by Buddhism, Hinduism, Bon and Jainism. Filmed in ultra high-def on a trip funded by his Efroymson Fellowship, Liou’s video will premiere this March at FotoFest in Houston. And now, Liou returns to food. “Insatiable,” a high-res video that will show in his pavilion space, consists of video taken from a high-rise building overlooking an

Textiles continue to influence her work: She often uses thread in her pieces, which is something of a loaded element to work with, according to Agha: “In a sense, I’m trying to elevate this whole domesticated element of the thread and the needle, which has usually been used to denote women, putting craft into dialogue with fine art.” Not that she’s trying to make that point in a didactic way: “I don’t want to be the kind of person telling people how to think. I think you have to make them feel it. For me, in my work, I have to have symbolism that creates a layering; and if people are interested enough, they’ll start looking at the layers to try to figure out the meaning behind things.”

open night market in his hometown of Taipei, which was then animated in After Effects, such that the market seems to be encased within a sort of slow-moving, worm-like shell. “The obvious reading is to see the world as an organic entity,” Liou said. “I originally thought of this organic machine — both mechanical and organic — that’s floating in the sky like a dragon.” Liou completed the video during an artist’s residency in Taipei: “I decided to give myself a break and some breathing room from my artwork, and I decided to go back to my food series. The whole series is about returning home.” He grew up in a city 20 miles south of Taipei, then studied and worked in the capital until he came to the U.S. at age 25. Liou came to concentrate solely on video in 2002. Since then, his work has been seen in major shows across the globe: Art Hong Kong, Art Taipei, Art Tokyo; in the leading new media gallery and at three museums in Taiwan. Sadness recurs too; Liou points to it even in the supposedly purposeless “Insatiable,” whose unsettling, industrial soundtrack accompanies footage of tiny creatures, viewed from stories above, slowly trudging down a crowded path between market stalls. “It’s as if aliens, have come to Earth and taken a snapshot; it’s about taking that God’s eye view. It’s all very interesting, but at the same time, there’s some sadness to it; we can never stop being hungry, greedy and so on.”

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FANFARE FOR MAYOR CHARLES BOOKWALTER Space #22

ipp Normand is building a shack for Charles Bookwalter, a place for the former mayor to go when all else is lost. It’s a concatenation of various old, damaged materials: two pump organs, Gramophone horns, broken trombones, snare drums, scrap metal, scrap wood and all manner of reclaimed junk. Bookwalter will rise resplendent. We’ll cede the floor to Normand — lover of junk, restorer of old buildings, professorial and bearded local fixture — to tell the story in a moment. Think of Normand, regaling you as he climbs about the old city hall, pointing out points of interest like the Department of Public Works safe that has remained anchored in the building for over a hundred years. Listen to him telling of Indiana history while regretting the building’s state of disrepair. Step with him over with pieces of detailed plasterwork falling from the fourthfloor ceiling. Attend to his words, for he knows that of which he speaks; a real estate development manager for Southeast Neighborhood Development, he works to rehab old houses on

the southeast side; prior to that he worked for Indiana Landmarks and the Historic Preservation Commission, for which he assessed the preservation issues in the old city hall building when ownership of it reverted to the city in the mid-’90s. In any case, take a listen as he tells a good story from Indianapolis history: “Prior to 1910, when the City Hall was finished, city offices were scattered around Indianapolis. They did some business in the Marion County Courthouse; prior to that time, county commissioners were very powerful, and the county government was more of a presence in the city than the municipal government … The city, not nearly as powerful as the county government, was becoming more prominent, and by the turn of the 20th century, and by the time Charles Bookwalter took office in 1906, he thought it was essential for a city as large and prominent as Indianapolis — being the capital of the state and the county seat — to have a proper city hall. “So he led the cause to build a proper city hall, and at the laying of the cornerstone for the building that was the City Hall, there’s

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an inscription from a speech he made that day where he said, ‘I am myself a citizen of no mean city.’ Today, we’ve lost the sense of what the word ‘mean’ actually means; it means rude, ignorant, poor, less than average. He said Indianapolis is not rude, poor and ignorant, and we ought to have a civic building that represents our stature of an up and coming city, a real place. “There was, of course, lots of haggling over the cost of the building and the design. It was designed with every modern amenity of the day: high-speed elevators, telephone connections in every room. It was also built in this wonderful beaux-arts style, which refers to classicism but was also a modern elaboration upon it. “Along comes election time, and Bookwalter had an opponent named Lew Shank, who ran against Bookwalter primarily by saying that Bookwalter was building a palace for himself, spending all kinds of money on a ridiculous building. Shank was a populist, a yee-haw kind of guy who used to speak in colloquialisms, tell colorful stories. “The citizens of Indianapolis proved them-

selves to be quite mean after all, and they voted Bookwalter out of office. He was never actually allowed to serve in the building that he had caused to be constructed. Shank was inaugurated, and he was the first one to give the speech at the dedication. He moved into the mayor’s office, put his boots up his desk and proceeded to go on to his career as mayor. “The space in which I’m doing my installation is on the second floor, and from what I’ve read about the building, that’s where the mayor’s office was located. So I’m building a palace for Charles Bookwalter, out of junk, inside the mayor’s office. The piece is called ‘Fanfare for Mayor Charles Bookwalter,’ because he never got his ceremonial time to occupy that office. I think it was a great gift to give to the citizens of Indianapolis, although, of course, we paid for it. In my mind, it’s a similar tragedy that it sits in disuse and deterioration now, where the city can’t figure out what to do with it, where it’s an albatross to them.”

or 10 years following Houdini’s death, his wife and friends held an annual séance, at midnight on Halloween. Holly Streekstra — assistant professor of sculpture at Herron and Houdini expert — explains: “He had a deal with his wife that, if in fact there is an afterlife, whoever died first would come back on this date of the séance and reach through with this code that only they knew.” When the 10th year rolled around, it was unsurprisingly evident that Houdini wasn’t going to reach back, reverse Orpheus-style, through the ether. But they still made a show of it, recording the séance in a scripted, theatrical style. The tape found its way to an LP in the ‘60s. And the disc — now in the public domain — recently found its way into Streekstra’s hands. The recording has now become, in part, the soundtrack to Streekstra’s pavilion installation, “Step On This Side of the Curtain.” The installation recreates a Victorian séance replete with flickering chandelier, musty, florid odors and subtle, unsettling infrasonic tone. “I took out any mention of Houdini, because this is not about Harry Houdini,” Streekstra said. “I’ve been studying magic for my recent work, and Houdini has influenced a lot of what I’ve looked at, but he isn’t the sole thing, and I didn’t want this to be about him. So I just used him as a point of departure for thinking about this idea of what we believe and how we choose to suspend our beliefs to be entertained, because that’s really what magic is: Somebody performing deceit for

people who want to be deceived for entertainment purposes.” Visitors will need to literally step on the other side of the curtain to access Streekstra’s space: It’s a line of demarcation that marks one’s willingness to suspend belief. Once inside, visual cues will, as Streekstra put it, “bring you into another place and time”; i.e. a dusty, musty Victorian parlor, a la Miss Havisham’s abode in Great Expectations. The space includes a fireplace with hearth and mantle; a table with chalkboard and spirit trumpet (a long, horn-like implement intended to amplify the voices of the dead); a chandelier flickering in an illogical manner; old chairs and ferns. A flickering chandelier will make it difficult to take things in at once; a scent cannon will produce a mix of incense, perfume and must (“kind of nasty, but distinctive,” Streekstra says); and an infrasonic tone, i.e. a tone below the the limit of normal hearing which can be unsettling for those who can perceive it, will underlay the Houdini soundtrack. It’s all toward the end of creating a disorienting experience, Streekstra says: “Installation art is a great opportunity to make immersive art, to make an experience that you are fully inside of. If I can make people get to that place of what do I believe at this moment and where am I — if they forget for a moment that they are in an art installation, if they go somewhere else for a second — that’s what I’m hoping to achieve.” And there’s an underlying thesis at work: “This is trying to find a space outside of a capitalist mode, and even if it’s for a second, it’s

LAUREN ZOLL Space #9

auren Zoll is pitching paint-dipped eggs against the wall, though she’s not sure if it’s permitted. It wasn’t part of her proposal for the pavilion; but after all, installation work can be site-specific she’s working on an offshoot of her mistint” series, which involves the creative use of paints rejected by consumers because they weren’t quite the right shade.

Zoll enters her windup, unsure of her aim, and the eggs hit with a satisfying splat, a mixture of yolk and charcoal gray paint oozing down the wall. Two eggs land in almost exactly the same place; another gets away from her and lands high and outside. Zoll removes much of the egg with a putty knife, concerned about the potential for a rotten egg odor; she’ll eventually cover the paint splotches with

HOLLY STREEKSTRA STEP ON THIS SIDE OF THE CURTAIN Space #19

in some way trying to create a new world, a new kind of commodity, a new kind of thinking about how we engage with the world.” Streekstra has long been interested in creating opportunities for spectators to lose themselves. Born in Wisconsin, she worked in theaters — as a stagehand, set designer, lighting technician — while studying visual arts: first in Minneapolis (“a great theater town,” where she earned her undergrad; then at Louisiana State University, where she

varnish as an added protection. Zoll can’t stand football — “I hate it so much that all I want to say is when it’s on television, I objectify all the men in tight pants” — but her work today certainly involves a little bit of muscle: “When you guys were photographing, and I saw photos of myself, I saw the athleticism involved, and I thought of, unfortunately, Richard Serra and some of those athletic guys.” Things have a way of coming back to sports in Indianapolis, even when they would seem ostensibly far removed. The reading and misreading of Indianapolis is central to Zoll’s installation. In one corner are the mistint splotches, created using locallysourced eggs and paints; above each splotch will be painted a word, person’s name or country that can be made using the letters in Indianapolis (Poland, India, Spain; Ana, Lisa, Ian). In another corner is a piece inspired by a visit to Germany in 2010, during which she rode in a taxi whose car stereo happened to have the brand name of Indianapolis. She recorded her conversation with the Hungarian driver about the radio; it plays from speakers of her own design, with a framed photo of the car stereo illustrating the soundtrack. It’s all about exploring the interstices of life: “There’s so much to be learned from things when they’re one off: one off, two off, three off. There’s more complexity, more information … The nature of art lies in between categories: You can’t name it; it needs to be thought about more or considered more.” Zoll is presently working on a three-

picked up an MFA in sculpture. After living in Boise, Idaho for a year, she moved to Indy to take her current job in 2010. Her interest in theater led to her interest in magic, she says, while time spent with her grandmother, an antique dealer, helped pique her interest in history and material culture. She’s studied Houdini’s papers in both Berkley, Calif., and Washington, D.C., photographing diagrams and drawings she’s now incorporating into collages.

plus year project that will be realized this November at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, when her work will occupy the video gallery in the contemporary art wing. She’s essentially been layering black paint on a canvas, letting it dry (or not dry) as fate would have it, choosing to paint in conditions too cold or hot to let the paint set as intended. A video record of the piece — which she calls “filmic,” rather than documentary in any sense — is in the works. Zoll has never called herself a painter, though she looks to painters for inspiration, and when she sees a good painting, “it’s like none other.” She started out working with scrap metal during her high school years, which she spent in Carmel. While earning her BA in liberal arts at the College of Santa Fe, she worked with blacksmiths on iron pours and the like. She studied metalsmithing while earning her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, though her work was largely performance art at the time. Her speakers for the TURF installation are her first work in metal for some time. “I grew up here welding, putting metalwork and scrapwork together. To be able, years later, to make work that relates to Indianapolis on another scale, collecting sound and being able to show that year — I did research, and now I’m able to show that research. We were all here working late last night, and I realized, I’ve never worked late with a bunch of other people on an install in this city.”

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THURSDAY

Sam Harris

‘Current Economic Conditions’

@ The Cabaret at the Columbia Club

@ Phoenix Theatre One might think of Current Economic Conditions , which

will receive its world premiere at the Phoenix this week, as a sort of Living Newspaper production, ripped from the pages of real, downsized American life. The play centers on the twentysomething Lily Booker (Maria Souza-Eglen), who enjoyed a vibrant social life and successful job before being fired and moving in with her parents. Don Zolidis, who wrote the comedy and was involved with the casting and staging process, will be in attendance for Thursday’s premiere.

AIDS activist at the behest of Elizabeth Taylor. Moving to theater by the late ’80s, Harris has starred in some of your bigger musicals — Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat — earning a Tony nomination along the way. Harris opens the Cabaret’s season with a collection of Broadway and pop classics; Hammerstein, Sondheim, U2 and Lennon are mentioned by name in the news release.

FRIDAY

Sugar, don’t bite.

Sam Harris got his start on Star Search when that was still a thing, becoming grand champion in the show’s premiere season with a rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” A contract with Motown followed, along with a Top 40 hit, “ Sugar Don’t Bite ,” in 1984. He co-created the TBS soap opera, Down to Earth, around the same time, and became an outspoken

Jan. 13-14, 8 p.m., $45-65 (plus $12 food or beverage minimum) 121 Monument Circle, Ste. 516; 275-1169; thecabaret.org

PHOTO BY BILL SIMMONS

Lily (Maria Souza-Eglen) spars with a difficult author (Bill Simmons) in ‘Current Economic Conditions.’

Jan. 12-Feb. 1; $25 adults, $15 for ages 20 and younger; $15 for Thurs. shows (all ages) 749 N. Park Ave., 635-7529, phoenixtheatre.org

The Pillowman?

FRIDAY

paperStrangers’ ‘The Pillowman’ @ Big Car Service Center

Katurian writes gruesome short stories that bear eerie resemblance to a ongoing series of child murders. He also happens to be living in a police state, and the forces that be want an explanation for the similarities between his fiction and real life. The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh’s (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) first play not set in Ireland , was nominated for a Best Play Tony in 2005. It arrives at the Service Center courtesy of Paper Strangers Performance Group , directed by Paper Strangers artistic director Michael Burke. PHOTO BY LAUREN B. PHOTOGRAPHY.

James Craven as Harmond Wilks in ‘Radio Golf.’

FRIDAY

‘Radio Golf’

@ Indiana Repertory Theatre NUVO cover dude David Alan Anderson is a key player in the IRT’s production of Radio Golf ,

which premieres Friday after three days of previews. August Wilson finished the play, the final installment in his 10-play, centuryspanning Pittsburgh Cycle, just months before his death in 1995. The playwright is a favorite of the IRT, which staged his Pulitzer Prizewinning The Piano Lesson (fourth in the cycle) last season. Radio Golf, which takes place in the ’90s,

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concerns an African-American real estate developer and mayoral candidate challenged by moral quandaries while working on a massive re-development project. James Cravens plays the real estate developer, Harmond Wilks; Anderson plays his friend, Roosevelt Hicks, a bank vice president helping to finance the re-development project, which would involve the construction of high-rise apartment buildings and retail such as Whole Foods and Barnes & Noble in the pre-dominantly African-American and “under-developed” Hill District. Jan. 11-29 (in previews Jan. 11 and 12); $25-35 140 W. Washington St., 635-5252, irtlive.com

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Jan. 13-14 and 19-21, 8 p.m.; $10 3819 Lafayette Road, 615-481-4420, paperstrangers.org

500 Clowns.

SATURDAY

500 Clown’s ‘Frankenstein’

@ The Studio Theatre at The Center for the Performing Arts

Local jazz drummer Lawrence Clark will discuss Indiana’s jazz tradition — including, of course, the history of Indiana Avenue — as part of the Rhythm! Discovery Center’s MLK Jr. Day festivities. Following Clark’s talk, drummer Gene Mankiewicz will lead a group in playing jazz standards, including a few written by Hoosiers. Admission is free throughout the day (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) at the Rhythm! Discovery Center.

500 Clown has nothing to do with the Indy 500. Nor does it include 500 Clowns. 500 Clown is a Chicago-based company that uses old-school circus arts and vaudeville techniques — as well as new-school performance art and modern dance — to tell long-form narratives. The company debuted with Macbeth in 2000; Frankenstein, their current production, involves the attempt by three clowns to construct Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. Madcap hijinks ensue, clowns are propelled to Cirque de Soleil-ian heights and one poor clown is forced to play the creature before the proceedings are through. Media coverage has been pretty darn positive over the years: the Daily Herald called Frankenstein “fiercely clever and monstrously funny … a bold, compassionate and often dangerous distillation of Mary Shelley’s horror novel about arrogance, obsession and irresponsibility.”

Jan. 14, 1 p.m., free 110 W. Washington St., Ste. A; 275-9030; rhythmdiscoverycenter.org

Jan. 14, 8 p.m, $38 355 City Center Dr., Carmel, 843-3800, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org

SATURDAY

‘The Rhythm of Indiana Avenue’

FREE

@ Rhythm! Discovery Center

ISO Classical Series No. 9 review by Tom Aldridge East Side Story review by Dan Grossman

Ron Kern and Mike Stroup review by Charles Fox Stephanie K. Upchurch review by Charles Fox ‘The Study of Light’ review by Charles Fox

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MONDAY

MLK Jr. Celebration

@ pretty much everywhere

@ Madame Walker Theatre Center The Madame Walker’s MLK Jr., celebration kicks off with a 9 a.m. free community breakfast at the Indiana Urban League (777 Indiana Ave.), followed by their annual Freedom Walk from the Urban League headquarters to the Madame Walker Theatre Center , which takes off at 9:45 a.m. A 90-minute celebration program, following at 10 a.m., will feature dancing by Libada Dance Company , an appearance by Madame C. J. Walker (played by Vicki Daniels ) and a short speech by Amos Brown. Indiana Black Expo Indianapolis Chapter president Thomas Griffin will host. Jan. 14, 9-11:30 a.m., free 236-2099, walkertheatre.com PHOTO BY DICK DEMARSICO/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1964.

SATURDAY

MLK Jr. Celebration

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@ Christian Theological Seminary The Peace Learning Center is the prime mover behind the MLK Jr. Day celebration at CTS, which will feature African drumming, art workshops, family yoga, hip-hop poetry and a free lunch. Community groups will be on hand, educating about volunteer opportunities — and the Peace Learning Center will do what it does best, presenting a program on peacemaking and conflict resolution strategies. Jan. 14, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., free 1000 W. 42nd St., 924-1331, peacelearningcenter.org

MONDAY

‘Celebration Gospel Festival: A Tribute to Dr. King’ @ Madame Walker Theatre

The stage is always packed for the

Indianapolis Symphonic Choir’s annual

gospel show, which features members of the

Indianapolis Children’s Choir , as well as singers from over 50 area congregations .

Jan. 16; 7 p.m.; $10 regular, $15 VIP 617 Indiana Ave., 940-9057, indychoir.org

MONDAY

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Bring a canned good for Gleaners Food Bank on Monday and receive free admission for one person for an attraction at White River State Park . Those attractions are the Indiana State Museum,

Indianapolis Zoo, IMAX Theatre, Eiteljorg Museum, NCAA Hall of Champions and Victory Field . Family-friendly events are in abun-

dance at each venue: the Indiana State Museum will host live music, poetry, performance art and films; the Eiteljorg has, as always, the RB Annis Western Family Experience (climb in a real, live stagecoach); the IMAX is screening the 3-D film Rescue, concerning the efforts of emergency response workers around the globe; the Zoo has animals; the Hall of Champions has athletes; and Indians mascot Rowdie will be at Victory Field from 11 a.m.-noon. But that’s not all: Call ahead to check if we don’t mention your favorite destination, but just about everywhere seems to be free Monday. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis ? Free from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. General admission is always free at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, but it’s rare to see it open on Monday, as it will be from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Jan. 16 for a celebration featuring storytelling by Khabir (concerning a Guinea prince who survived enslavement), drumming by Dr. Djo and free admission to special exhibitions on ancient Nigerian and American Indian art. The Indiana Historical Society is also free; check out You Are There: Robert F. Kennedy Speaks , as well as musical, spoken words and dance performances. And the Kennedy-King Memorial stands stalwart at 16th Street and College Avenue; add it to your list of destinations if you haven’t been.

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Cathy Tolzmann and Kevin D. Smith in Souvenir.

MUSIC ISO CLASSICAL SERIES PROGRAM NO. 9 HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE; JAN. 5-7 r The first full January weekend was warm, and the Circle a bit more crowded than might have been expected. Was it the weather or the three program choices which made the difference? For me, the reappearance of guest conductor and Briton Mark Wigglesworth made a significant difference and always has since his Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra debut about a decade ago. This time, he was joined by Georgian (Republic of) guest pianist Yefim Bronfman to end the program with Brahms’ huge, granitic Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83. Preceding it were two other repertoire favorites: Sibelius’s “The Swan of Tuonela” from Four Legends of the Kalevalá. Op. 22 (1893) and Sir Edward Elgar’s Variations on an Original Theme (“Enigma,” 1899). Among the Finnish composer’s most popular pieces, “The Swan” is famous for its extended English horn solo, beautifully realized by ISO acting principal Timothy Clinch. Wigglesworth’s orchestra held their end of the bargain in conveying Sibelius’s wistful mood with finely shaped balance. Elgar’s most popular orchestral mainstay is his “Enigma” Variations. All 14, including the flashy, triumphal coda showed our orchestra at its best, Wigglesworth deserving much of the credit. As performances go, the Brahms Piano Concerto disappointed. Bronfman, although possessing a flashy, note-sure technique, tended to smear his pianistic display with overpedaling, muddying his textures and burying many of his leading lines. — TOM ALDRIDGE

DANCE ANGEL BURLESQUE DELUXE; JAN. 6 e The new Deluxe room in the Old National Centre was the place to be on Friday night, as the sold-out crowd was treated to a raucous and rich show comprised of 20 separate acts. Performers from Indianapolis, Bloomington and the headline act, Red Hot Annie, from Chicago, paraded to the stage, — mostly one at a time, but sometimes in larger troupes — and took off (almost all of) their clothes. Not one act disappointed; all the individual segments were entertaining and fun; and a few standouts were absolutely sublime.

Headliner Red Hot Annie proved her mettle, especially in the second act, with her “ArtTease-T” dance, a highly conceptual piece involving a canvas placed over her torso. The painting was of her torso, fully clothed in a dress. Using paint, she slowly “removed” the garment, by applying flesh-colored paint with a brush to the canvas. A brilliant, deconstructivist artform, in more ways than, ahem, one. Rod Tollhouse received a standing ovation (from yours truly) for his performance piece. The sole male in the Angel Burlesque troupe (other than host Jeff Angel), Tollhouse held his own, entering the stage in a bathrobe, fresh from a bath or shower. He began to apply lotion on his hands, slowly awakening to the tactile sensations of his skin. His character arc from perfunctory getting-ready-for-the-day (or night) to ribald masturbation was nothing short of masterful; the audience was roaring with laughter, appreciation — and encouragement. Don’t miss their next show, Jan. 30, at Crackers: SuperBra XLVI. — JIM POYSER

THEATER SOUVENIR: A FANTASIA ON THE LIFE OF FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS BUCK CREEK PLAYHOUSE; THROUGH JAN. 15 e Florence Foster Jenkins was a terrible singer convinced she was a nightingale. Embraced by New Yorkers who found her so bad she was good, she eventually began releasing records of her tortured warbling and, in 1944, played a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. Stephen Temperley’s 2005 Souvenir is a broad, affectionate, funny two-character production focusing on Jenkins’ oblivious caterwauling and the relationship between the songstress and her accompanist, Cosme McMoon. As Jenkins, Cathy Tolzmann commits fully to her character. At first her singing sounds impossibly overdone, but listen to the playing of Jenkin’s record during the play — it’s the real Jenkins you’re hearing and proof positive that Tolzmann isn’t exaggerating. Her physical presence is perfect: She resembles frequent Marx Brothers’ foil Margaret Dumont and the legendary drag queen Divine, and I mean that as a compliment to all three performers. Watching Jenkins glide around the stage, maddeningly self-absorbed most of the time, with only occasional remarks about her audience (she complains of “the modern mania for accuracy”) is a treat.

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Kevin D. Smith ably plays accompanist Cosme McMoon, tickling the ivories and sharing his thoughts on being tied to such a memorably eccentric figure. During the first act, McMoon mostly alternates between being mortified and astounded. The dynamic between the actors is funny and sweet, but I wondered what was left to do for the second act. Nevermind, we are presented with a stunning recreation of the Carnegie Hall performance as well as a beguiling look at McMoon’s evolving relationship with Jenkins and his concept of what constitutes socially acceptable music. The swing toward camp and sentiment in act 2 is a lot to swallow, but Tolzmann and Smith pull it off. — ED JOHNSON-OTT TWO ROOMS ACTING UP PRODUCTIONS AT TOTS II; THROUGH JAN. 22 w Lee Blessing’s challenging script plays out in two rooms. In one, an American hostage in Beirut, Michael, endures three years of captivity. In another, his wife, Lainie, removes all furniture in an attempt to identify with her husband’s daily struggle. On a practically bare stage, the tragic story unfolds, and we are forced to examine our own opinions on the Middle East, American government, foreign policy and the media circus. Director Brian Nofke and a cast of four extremely talented actors make simple but effective work of the material. Purposeful lighting design, also done by Nofke, helps to guide our focus in each scene, letting us catch moments as subtle as the glistening of sweat and spit on the American hostage’s sallow-looking hand. As the hostage, Sam Fain brings an everyman quality to this ordinary guy going through an extraordinary situation. He

plays Michael as hopeful and resilient, with a boynext-door presence. LisaMarie Smith, as Lainie the “grieving widow whose husband is not dead yet,” is exquisite in her mourning, craftily avoiding the temptation to go over the top in her grief. Scott Greenwell, as a story-hungry reporter, and Beverly Roche, as a heartless government contact, are at odds in their arguments over Lainie‘s course of action. Each so thoroughly commits to their role and viewpoint that, although I came in with my own ideas about the government and the media, I found myself questioning those beliefs as the play went along. Blessing allows for only one certainty in the script: that we’re doomed to make choices blindly, acting with insufficient information. Acting Up Production’s Two Rooms is an ambitious, delicate play. Timely and intimate, it is unquestionably one of the best shows happening now in Indy. — KATELYN COYNE

VISUAL ART ... DREAMED AND NOT PERCEIVED: RECENT WORK BY SUSAN HODGIN HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS; THROUGH JAN. 27 w In Susan Hodgin’s oil on canvas painting “The Sublime” you can see dried drips of paint, not all that unusual in abstract work these days. But, from the viewer’s perspective, some of the paint drips seemed to have rolled upward. The takeaway here might be that, when it comes to the sublime, the normal rules of gravity don’t apply. In a show providing a generous selection of Hodgin’s work over the past two years, you can perceive a quest for the sublime as a source

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of inspiration and power. You can also sense, in these paintings, a creative tension between Cubist-like building up of volume and freeform expressionism. And you can often, through this tension, perceive a particular landscape through the abstract lens of her painter’s eye. “See Rock City,” with its enticing mosaic of bold color unveiling itself from a gray cloudscape, recalls certain landscapes of the American West, while “It was hot the day we visited the cliff dwellings” refuses you the comfort of a horizon line. The glowing yellows that dominate this composition give you instead the impression of sunlight hitting sandstone. And in the standout painting “Ceiba,” you can just barely make out the canopy of a Ceiba tree as it might appear in your dream long after you originally perceived it in the wild. — DAN GROSSMAN

Another standout, a collage/print by Jennifer Padgett entitled “108 Mist Monster,” masterfully combined a number of printmaking techniques. The composition, a mountainous landscape dwarfing several humanoid subjects in the foreground, looked like it might have been a page ripped out of an antique edition of Herodotus’ Histories. Kudos to Padgett for helping keep alive an antique (but not necessarily antiquated) way of making art! All this great stuff on display made me wonder: Will some gallery owner now step up and host a Rejected from Art School Rejects show? — DAN GROSSMAN

ART SCHOOL REJECTS INDY INDIE ARTIST COLONY; THROUGH JAN. 27 e These pieces didn’t make the 2011 Herron Undergraduate Show cut, and some were of such quality that they made me wonder at the mindsets of the judges doing the cutting. Rebecca Cisneros’ oil on canvas paper “Andrew”— a portrait of a twenty-something Herron model — outclassed most of the portraiture on display in the Herron show. Cisneros’ composition was painterly yet fluid; the subject of the portrait seemed to send off electric sparks on the dual-colored background. Rachel Linnemeier’s acrylic on canvas “What do you Sphinx” — funnier than Cisernos’ piece, if less expressive — portrayed two diminutive Sphinx cats with dead-on realism against a black background.

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Yes, you can find good sushi in the Midwest BY N E I L CHA R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T For some years now, Indianapolis has been fortunate enough to be home to an impressive number of sushi and panAsian restaurants of varying degrees of quality. Foremost among these has been Wasabi on 82nd Street and, upon moving back to town a few months ago, we were delighted to find that the owner of Wasabi had opened a new establishment on 116th Street in Fishers. It’s great to see such a talented restaurateur establishing an outpost in an area that could use a place with more challenging menu items. From a generous sampling of dishes consumed during a recent visit to Wild Ginger, my wife and I enjoyed very fairly priced nigiri sushi, fashioned from striped bass, sea urchin, surf clam and unagi (eel), all of which were admirably fresh and elegantly proportioned. Like the best sushi preparations, the ratio of fish to impeccably

sticky rice was spot-on. Prices ranged from $5.50 - $8.95 for two pieces. Also stellar were two maki rolls accompanied by some of the best Ponzu sauce I’ve tasted for a while. These were the Mistake Roll ($7), a spicy tuna roll deep fried in tempura batter, and the Flaming Shrimp Roll ($12), a wonderful creation consisting of shrimp tempura and cream cheese wrapped in rice, seaweed and a spicy crab salad, with the whole thing rolled in foil and set on fire. This reminded us of some of the masterful torched maki dishes at Oishi in Boston (only a lot more affordable). Similar to its sister restaurant, Wasabi, Wild Ginger’s wine cellar is well thought out, extensive and reasonably priced. With a dozen or so outstanding sakes, and a wide selection of top notch California reds and whites, including the hard-to-find PlumpJack Cabernet, this list is something of an oenophile’s dream. As far as sushi in the Midwest is concerned, I think it’s time to set the record straight: I’m pretty tired of reading blogs and comments by self-styled sushi experts who insist that it is impossible to find good, fresh fish and/or sushi in cities such as Indianapolis because of our distance from the ocean. The simple fact is that, for quite some time now, fleets of big, silvery, aluminum objects with wings on them have been rushing fresh

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Nigiri sushi at Wild Ginger.

fish from all over the world to markets all across this country. Think about this: We are closer here to Atlantic Bluefin tuna than are the inhabitants of Los Angeles or San Francisco. Equally, we are closer to Santa Barbara than the inhabitants of New York. Over the past decade or so, I have been fortunate enough to enjoy outstanding sushi in this city, frequently better than higher priced and swankier offerings on either coast. We should count ourselves lucky.

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It’s a Flat12 Bierwerks weekend. Saturday, Jan. 14, from noon-6 p.m., the brewery will celebrate its first anniversary with a cookout featuring local food, live music and special surprises. Also on the bill is the tapping of Winter Cycle, a Double IPA, which is a bigger version of Half Cycle IPA, with a different hop bill and juniper berries added to give it its own unique character. Flat12 now distributes to more than 300 bars and restaurants throughout Indiana. That’s not all: on Jan. 12, from 4-7 p.m., and Jan. 13, from noon-8 p.m., Flat12 will present a slew of speciality and barrel-aged brews. Sun King is initiating a blog to feature in-house news, insights about its brewing and brews, staff interviews and more at sunkingbrewing. com/blog.php

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Crown Brewing’s 200th batch, Zythos Pale Ale, with Zythos as its only hops ingredient, is very drinkable with low alcohol and bitterness. Zythos is a new Northwest U.S. hops blend with tangerine, citrus, floral, pine and grapefruit character. Tickets for Brewers of Indiana Guild Winterfest, Jan. 28, State Fairgrounds Ag/ Hort building are now available via brewersguildofindiana.com. VIP access at 3 p.m. costs $50; general admission at 4 p.m., $35. Winterfest closes at 8 p.m. You’ll find several Indiana breweries that opened in the past year making their debut at this year’s Winterfest, including, in Indianapolis, Fountain Square and Triton, and statewide, Bare Hands (Granger), Bulldog (Whiting), Cutters (Bloomington), Four Horsemen (South Bend) and Mobreki (Madison).

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Upland added a new 150-BBL fermenter and another 150-BBL bright tank respectively named Gamera and Billy Squier, “for reasons only Caleb Staton, Upland head brewer can explain.” Their new site will have the capacity to brew over 18,000 barrels starting in May, with space for over 40,000 BBLs over time. The existing 11th Street site will be a sours-only brewery. Flat12 Bierwerks has doubled production capacity with new fermenters and brite tanks. Plans are to begin distributing bottled products to the Indiana market this year. They report, “What began as three founders has grown to include seven full-time and ten part-time employees.” Oaken Barrel is doubling its brewing capacity by month’s end.

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Sinking Ship, 4923 N. College Ave., 7-10 p.m., Triton Brewing Company Night

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Great Fermentations, 5 p.m., monthly Friday Night Club meeting includes The Indy Beer Meetup Group.

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MOVIES Naptown Rock Radio Wars BY E D JO H N S O N - O T T EJO H N S O N O T T @N U V O . N E T

e (NR) In the beginning there was WIBC, and it drew crazy-high ratings. Then WIFE came along, playing the hits of the day, including lots of killer British Invasion tunes. And WIFE grand poobah Don Burden looked down on what he created and said, “It is good, guys.” So the WIFE Good Guys ruled the rock ’n’ roll roost for years, until WIBC fought back, turning their FM station into WNAP, a counterculture enclave staffed with long-haired bad boys. “Good Guys?”, they sneered, “We don’t need no stinking good guys!” And so was born the Naptown Rock Radio Wars. Naptown Rock Radio Wars: A History of Rock ’n’ Roll Radio in Indianapolis is a spirited documentary co-produced by David Fulton, Brad Schuchard and Al Stone and directed by David Fulton. Full disclosure: I watched an earlier version of the documentary a few weeks ago and offered some suggestions to Brad and my old buddy Dave. I have not disqualified myself from reviewing the film because I’m old and ornery enough to say what I really think no matter what. After the earlier screening, Dave abruptly asked how many stars I would have given that cut of the movie. I immediately said, “three and a half,” because I just knew. After watching the current edition, I waffled over whether to give it three and a half or four stars. Dave intends to go on the festival circuit with the film, and it will require tighter editing for that audience. But I’m not part of that audience. I grew up listening to Indianapolis rock radio, I love learning how media works, and I savored every morsel Dave and company fed me. So I’m giving four stars to this, the director’s cut of the film. I look forward to seeing the tighter mainstream edition sometime in the future. Naptown Rock Radio Wars tells a great story, adroitly mixing talking heads with images, footage and lots of music from the era. Kudos to Brad Schuchard for his stylish editing. After an intro by noted authority Allen Deck and some welcome background by Indiana State Museum historian Dale Ogden (both dear long-time friends — thus ends my

full disclosure), the story gets laid out in detail by the people who lived it. WIBC was a massively popular AM station in the early ’60s. They had an FM station too, but nobody knew what they played because no one listened to FM back then. Upstart AM station WIFE made its dramatic entrance right when the British Invasion was reinventing rock music. Don Burden ran WIFE and, according to the interviewees, was a dynamo and a tyrant. “Difficult to like, very intimidating, but he was a heck of a businessman” said one Burden survivor. He would take employees to restaurants and move the group up to five times, until he got the table he wanted. “We would troop along and be very embarrassed,” said one exasperated veteran. It’s a shame there wasn’t more footage of Burden — he’s a fascinating pit bull. WIFE enjoyed astounding success for years, with incessant jingles that pounded the call letters and station numbers. There were constant contests and, get this — the station sped up the records to stuff more music in with all the ads, patter and promos. Bastards. 12-year-old me used to wonder why the songs that sounded so snappy on WIFE seemed a bit draggy when I bought and played the singles. Now I know. Bastards. Years later, WIBC finally fought back with WNAP, the first successful FM-only rock station in the U.S. With it came a tribe of groovy broadcasters who made the conservative AM staffers bristle. But the public loved their new, counterculture-style approach to music. Fans of the Buzzard should appreciate reunions with many of its most famous faces. FYI: Reb Porter has weathered the years very well. He was good-looking then, and he still looks studly. Naptown Rock Radio Wars covers more — pirate station Radio Free Naptown, the emergence of rock stations WNDE and Bill Shirk’s WXLW, and the inevitable decline of both WIFE and WNAP. It’s all interesting and fun, and it goes beyond nostalgia. Those were days when choices were relatively few and shared experiences were common. Radio was a big part of our community, and Naptown Rock Radio Wars captures the spirit of those times. You did good, Dave. Naptown Rock Radio Wars plays Saturday night at the IMAX downtown at the State Museum. The early show is sold out, though some VIP packages remain. A 10 p.m. showing has been added.

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FILM CLIPS LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (NR)

John Stahl’s lurid, neurotic 1945 melodrama stars Gene Tierney as a femme fatale who will do just about anything to corner the affections of her beloved. Filmed by legendary cinematographer Leon Shamroy in a bright, saturated tones, Leave Her To Heaven is the second installment in the IMA’s Winter Nights series of Technicolor films. Tierney was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her work. Variety declared at the time of the film’s release that “(s)umptuous Technicolor mounting and a highly exploitable story lend considerable importance to Leave Her to Heaven that it might not have had otherwise.” Co-presented by the Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival. Jan. 13, 7 p.m., at The Toby; tickets: $9 public, $5 members and students. 110 minutes; 35mm.

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A 1965 advertisement for WIFE featured in ‘Naptown Rock Radio Wars.’

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The Newports and Jerles attended Delta High School near Muncie. As far back as junior high, the elder Newport, Andrew, had a band called The Headless Weebles. He once convinced the school principal to let them play in front of the student body. “When you play your first gig at age 14 in front of 800 people, you’ve got some issues playing clubs when you’re 30 to almost no one,” Andrew says. Robert Newport and Jerles followed suit, BY W A DE CO G G E S H A LL forming their own semi-successful band in M U S I C@N UV O . N E T high school named The Fever. After graduating from college, Robert moved back in he walls of Klipsch Music Center’s with his parents, unsure of what to do next. backstage corridors, where the undis- During a holiday gathering, he suggested to tinguished rarely get to venture, is Andrew that they start a band. Andrew said lined with candid photos of many of the sure, thinking he wouldn’t hear any more legends who have performed there during about it. Two weeks later Robert called and its incarnations as Verizon Wireless and asked when they were going topractice. Deer Creek Music Center. The brothers recruited friends to join, It’s a veritable gallery of some of pop none of whom lasted long. Robert met music’s best ever. It’s also where a rock ’n’ Randall Trumbull through his college roll band from Indiana draws its inspiraroommate and invited him to play bass. tion while rehearsing and, recently, recordSerendipitously, he bumped into Jerles ing its debut full-length album. for the first time in four years. Borrow “Anytime you hit a creative wall, all you Tomorrow was born in the winter of 2007. have to do is look around to remind yourThey recorded a couple of EPs, the secself to get your head out of your ass,” says ond being Retrospective in November Andrew Newport, drummer for the group, 2009 in Nashville, Tenn. While they felt it Borrow Tomorrow. was the best they could He’s joined by his do at the time, they also guitarist brother Robert thought they were capaNewport, singer/guitarble of more. “The quick and ist Chris Jerles and bass“Nashville was the the easy have ist Shawn Canary. It’s a turning point,” Jerles mild December evening, says. “We went from never been the and the members are wanting to do an album showing off their practo all roads lead to an roads we’ve gone tice space at Klipsch. It album.” is indeed upscale digs Borrow Tomorrow down, for better compared to some of spent the next year poolor for worse,” the other places where ing resources, playing they’ve rehearsed. more shows to finance — Chris Jerles At one point, they recording and writwere so desperate for a ing new material. They place to play, they used figured they’d have to a storage unit. During the summer. Sans air compose upwards of 25 songs just to get 10 conditioning. good enough for an LP. “We’d sweat our asses off,” Andrew says Production for the record that would while nursing a beer and lounging on a become Too Far to Feel began on Dec. couch in the Klipsch green room. “No part 18, 2010. For the next three months of being in a band is worth doing that.” band members and their producer, Kyle And yet Borrow Tomorrow hasn’t stopped. Ferguson, spent nights, weekends and holiThey’ve dealt with the common pitfalls of days at Klipsch crafting what they hoped professional musicians: multiple car breakwould be a masterpiece (Andrew’s job as downs, stolen gear, forgetting equipment at building manager for the Center opened up shows and scrambling for replacements, cartheir practice space.) No one complained. rying 300-pound subwoofers up 40 steps to There are lots of textures on Too Far to play for nine people. They’ve even endured Feel, running the gamut from slide-blues death in their close circle. heat to haunting, piano-driven solitude. “If you look back at some of the bullshit “It was an opportunity to have a lot of we’ve plowed through, we probably space to be creative and try some different should’ve quit a long time ago,” Andrew says. things,” Ferguson says. “Not everything “If any of us were smart, we would have.” worked, but it was good to have the time “The quick and the easy have never been and space to do it. The result is a product the roads we’ve gone down, for better or we’re all thrilled with. We’re glad we took for worse,” Jerles says. “But we don’t want the extra time.” to be a flash in the pan. Our goal in life is Aside from Andrew, the rest of Borrow to make a living playing music. That is our Tomorrow was seeing the finished Too dream. That is what we’ve worked toward Far to Feel for the first time the night of every single day.” this interview. Copies were delivered ear-

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lier in the week. Conspicuously written in the liner notes is,“Dedicated to Randall Trumbull. You’ll forever grace the stage as a permanent fixture in our memories and in our hearts.” Though his playing and influence are all over the album, Trumbull left the band last February to care for his ailing wife. Robert found Canary through friends of friends. “We auditioned some bassists but none came close to what Shawn brought to the table,” Jerles says. “He was enthusiastic from the get-go.” Canary went so far as to study Trumbull’s pedals by watching a YouTube video of him performing, then showed up at his audition with the correct gear. “I didn’t want to have to worry about changing something,” Canary says. The group still wanted Trumbull to have some type of role. He’d attend shows and help out behind the scenes when there was time. But everyone could tell Trumbull was struggling with being the only caregiver for his wife. They expected to hear at any time that she had died. Instead Jerles got a call from Andrew one morning. It was Trumbull who had died. “He was just carrying such a burden for so long,” Jerles says. “If you ever need proof that life isn’t fair, that’s it.” In Robert’s mind, if Borrow Tomorrow was always on a downward trajectory, it would prompt some sort of re-evaluation. But they always seem to turn those adversarial corners. “Just when we think this really sucks,

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the life gets kind of pumped back into us,” Robert says. Case in point: Last spring Andrew got a call from Live Nation asking if Borrow Tomorrow would like to open for Bob Seger, who was performing at Conseco (now Bankers Life) Fieldhouse. Though Andrew initially thought it was a joke, the answer was an ebullient yes. They spent the next week rehearsing their 28-minute set dozens of times. “We practiced everything from walking on stage to guitar changes to tuning to what you’d do if you shit your pants,” Andrew says. “We tried to think of every conceivable scenario.” The actual concert was a wonderful experience. “It’s something we’ll never forget, but nobody’s life ended (that night),” Andrew says. “We won’t be saying 25 years from now, ‘I opened for Bob Seger once.’ We said before the concert, this is going to be incredible, but make no mistake, there’s not going to be any red carpet waiting for us when we walk off that stage. It was an honor to get to do it, but it’s not the ultimate goal.” Editors Note: Andrew Newport is employed at the Klipsch Center.

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Now that we are in the new year, there will be some changes of interest on the local jazz scene. New events are appearing and some of the older ones are beginning to disappear. One of those new event debuts Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. It’s a collaborative event between the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation and the Rhythm Discovery Center, and will be held at the Rhythm Discovery Center. This program, titled the Rhythm of Indiana Avenue, will feature Indy Jazz Hall of Fame drummers. Lawrence Clark III will host a discussion of Indianapolis jazz tradition and the history of Indiana Avenue at 1 p.m., in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following the discussion, Gene Markiewicz will lead a group of local jazz artists performing jazz standards written by local composers and musicians. “Jazz has had a global effect on music in the 20th century and the heart of jazz is its rhythm and syncopation. That makes it unique,” says Michael Kenyon, executive director of the Rhythm Discovery Center. “The Indianapolis Jazz Foundation presents the rich history of jazz in Indianapolis to the community throughout the year. We are excited to host this event that will celebrate some of our local artists and their stories,” he said. The Rhythm Discovery Center has made admission to the center free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for this special program. One of the first jazz albums for 2012 came from local artist, jazz pianist, composer and educator Frank Puzzullo. It was released by local label Owl Studios. Puzzullo is no stranger on the local jazz scene, even though he’s actually based in Muncie. Crescent City Prayer is the title of the record Puzzullo dedicated to New Orleans and the nine years he lived and worked there. Let any concern about whatever happened to bebop be assuaged. Puzzullo’s album is keeping the flame alive with a cooking, take-no-prisoners quintet. Puzzulo contributed six originals and

arranged two standards for this release. Mark Buselli’s trumpet and Andy Fusco’s sax make up the front line. Buselli’s playing is relaxed and flowing and Fusco’s alto sax complements Puzzulo’s hard swinging bebop lines. Bob Bowman’s bass and Joel Spencer’s drums and driving swing and bop accents propel the quintet to a high level. Opening track “You Do” is a freewheeling bebop romp that sets the tone for the whole record. Puzzullo’s solo shows a reflective and sensitive side on the ballad “Spring is Here.” There is a cultural loss of Indy’s jazz on going in our community. One reason for this is there is no physical repository or building for deceased jazz artists from Indy who gave this city a worldwide reputation for its jazz legacy. Where are the instruments of those Indy jazz legends today? What about the numerous sheets of paper that hold the notes of jazz compositions that may or may not have been played for the public, or for music educators to pass on to their students? I am sure that there are numerous tapes in this city of local artists who recorded their gigs that are deteriorating. They hold a treasure trove of sounds that music students and educators could benefit from. Photos of the past jazz artists performing and the legendary jazz clubs that locally no longer exist are invaluable documentation of the golden era of Indy jazz. There are other urban cities where jazz thrived and that also claimed a share of this nation’s musical art form. Unlike Indy, some have repositories for this art form called jazz museums. I can’t help but wonder how we can pass on a jazz legacy to future generations when we can’t preserve for them the past on which to build. Could there be a museum devoted to jazz and our local legendary performers for the public to enjoy and future musicians and music educators to use as a reference source to maintain Indy’s reputation? Let’s keep our legacy alive in the world jazz community.

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Benefit event showcases hip-hop talent of all kinds w BY DAN IEL L E LOOK M USIC@ N UVO.NET Saturday evening was the second annual running of The Circle City Experiment. Conceived by De Gud Life as a presentation of the five elements of hip-hop, the event showcased local artists of various skill, age, and craft on the (appropriately) underground stage of The Harrison Center for the Arts. Proceeds from the event benefited Colour Blind, Inc., an organization dedicated to “squashing the ‘ism’s” (sexism, racism, classism) of today’s culture and society. The show began just after 8 p.m. and concluded promptly at 10, early enough to allow guests to still attend other Saturday night events later in the evening. The start time and venue choice also meant that the little ones could come along, too. Knowing this, event organizers established a “kids’ table” stocked with coloring pages and crayons to keep them entertained. Element one: beat boxers Kicking off the Circle City Experiment, beat boxers Tony Styxx and DV8 took the stage to drop beats with their mouths and vocal chords. During the 10-minute performance we heard, among many other things, a popular dubstep replication and an “It’s-a me, Mario!” sample from DV8, as well as a run of the familiar chorus from “Iron Man” that led into an impressive drum-and-bass spurt from Styxx. Element two: DJs It only seemed appropriate that local hip-hop’s favorite DJ return to man the decks for the second year in a row at The

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Circle City Experiment. DJ Metrognome, with the assistance of Mr. Kinetik, kept the tracks running with no interruptions and zero complications throughout the night. Their table of equipment, in plain and unobstructed view at stage left, served as a constant reminder that the show simply could not go on without the music. Element three: breakdancers I was disappointed to see only one segment of breakdancing at this year’s Circle City Experiment. Last year’s show featured so many dancers with so much movement and activity that they performed in the middle of the room with the audience gathered in a rowdy circle around them. A shortage of breakers in 2012 left local dance expert Edge with full responsibility of representing the third element of hip hop. “Just play anything,” he instructed DJ Metrognome as he took the stage. “Anything?” Metrognome replied with a hint of disbelief and then added, “Are you ready for a challenge?” Apparently, he was. As the dubstep set in, Edge gave a modern interpretation of “the robot” comprised of a striking mix of glitchy, disjointed moves and smooth, fluid hip-shaking. With a constant smile and animated expressions, the euphoria Edge felt from performing for the crowd radiated into the audience and made for one of the best moments of the night. Element four: graffitti and street art Art from local artists surrounded the perimeter of the room where the Circle City Experiment was held. The works varied in style, size, and medium from threedimensional collages covered in stickers to expansive canvases with mysterious graffiti symbols. Just before intermission, gallery artists Justin Quello, Erica Parker, Darrin Spells, Robert Bentley, & Nick “Mandog” Smith were called to the stage, each carrying a piece from their collections. They took turns introducing themselves and gave a brief statement about their inspiration for the art. My personal favorite: Nick “Mandog” Smith (who is also a producer). (Editors Note: Check the piece out online and more photos from Mallory Talty) Element five: Emcees Unquestionably, the stars of the show were the emcees. The Circle City

Experiment consisted of five emcee/cypher groups of various sizes and each group performed two rounds to beats selected by DJ Metrognome spontaneously. The Heartbreak Hippies made an unscheduled appearance, kicking off the cypher portion of the night. I’ve got to shout out to their most active member, Vynee, for the “proper way to hold a mic” demonstration, an animated and lively performance on stage and limitless crowd energy for the remainder of the night. Lonegevity (from “working man’s hip-hop” duo Hinx Jones) received early applause from the crowd as he rapped about staying clear of substance abuse, being well-educated, and the declaration that he doesn’t have an ego; he just tells it like he sees it. Blake Allee smashed the freestyle category when he asked for a common noun from the audience and delivered a rap about balloons on the spot. If awards had been given, the fourth cypher group (consisting of Pope Adrian Bless, Tony Styxx, Theon Lee Jones, Rehema McNeil, and Devon Ginn) would have easily won for best performance of the night. Their segment, also probably the longest in duration, was performed entirely a capella—with the exception of an occasional beat from the mouth of Tony Styxx. Ooo’s, ahhh’s, whaaat’s and wow’s erupted sporadically from the mouths of spectators during the set to express aston-

ishment, shock and awe. Although the entire batch of artists were breath taking, my favorites included McNiel’s assessment of the current state of hip-hop in her poem “We Were Born Into This Game” and Lee’s “Narc in the Dark,” where he used narcotics as a metaphor for hopes, dreams and aspirations, again and again shouting, “I want to be your pusher!” Another unscheduled treat: Alchemy, beatboxer/emcee DV8’s father and local muralist, opened the second half of the event and re-taught us our ABC’s in a touching, almost spiritual, delivery of his verse. The Circle City Experiment II proved to be just as successful as the first one exactly one year ago. The event provided fans of local hip-hop a safe venue to gather and enjoy art together. It raised funds for a deserving organization that holds the same values as De Gud Life. And most importantly, it honors and brings together rookies and veterans from a variety of crafts to learn, collaborate, and shine together. Kudos to De Gud Life for investing in the next generation by putting together such a high quality, fun event. SEE THEM AGAIN Many of these artists will be performing around the city for the Super Bowl. Check out calendar listings on NUVO.net

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r The Elect occupies an easy-going and unassuming patch of the jam band universe. They will never be the hippest kids in the room, as they offer up a stew of classic sounds and passionate performances that audiences really respond to, but jaded writers like me tend to dismiss. My first reaction to their new CD, Minutes In Between , was mild indifference. I gave it a shot, though, when I saw Paul Mahern’s production credit. It would seem that the front man of punk legends The Zero Boys would have better things to do than produce a hippie project. But, Mahern uses his time in between the Datura Seeds and behind Mellencamp’s recording console to make Minutes In Between a bit more clearer and punchier than the band’s previous efforts. The highs are dizzying and the lows are ponderous. The band took advantage of the opportunity to rerecord several of their older songs. The result is a surprisingly solid album that will keep their fans happy and make them a few new ones. Newer material like “Wasted and Gone” and “Don’t Let Your Memories ...” sit comfortably

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Wednesday ROOTS MAX ALLEN BAND

Coaches Tavern, 28 S. Pennsylvania St. 10 p.m., free, 21+

Max Allen will play an acoustic set tonight at Coaches. If you haven’t seen this NUVO cover dude yet, don’t miss your chance to see a strippeddown acoustic set at Coaches tonight. He’ll also be appearing on the local stage in the Super Bowl Village, which will undoubtably be much more crowded than this laid-back show this evening. SOUL JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St., Bloomington 8 p.m., $10, 18+

There’s post-punk soul in Bloomington tonight, where JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound are per forming live at the Bishop with supporting acts The Vallures and Green Room Rockers. This is the first time leading act (and Chicago natives) JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound has played in Bloomington. They’re supported by rocksteady punks of the Green Room Rockers and the Motown-belting ladies (and one gentleman) of the Vallures, who harken back to the days of the

Ronettes, the Shangri-Las and the Supremes. The show is presented by LWFHB-FM and Spirit of ‘68.

Friday ELVIS! THE ELVIS TRIBUTE ARTIST SPECTACULAR

Pike Performing Arts Center, 6701 Zionsville Road 8 p.m., $56 - $23.75 fees, all ages

This event marks the first of two shows this weekend honoring the birth of the King. The Elvis Tribute Artist Spectacular features a touring ensemble featuring Shawn Kush (named the firstever Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist and the World’s Greatest Elvis by the BBC), Cody Ray Slaughter (“The New Prince of Rock ‘n’ Roll”), Donny Edwards (“The Next Best Thing to the King”), D.J. Fontana (Elvis’ original drummer) with The Sweet Inspirations and The Fabulous Ambassadors accompanying. This show is on a national tour and celebrates the music of Elvis era by era. ROCK BORROW TOMORROW WITH THE JEREMY VOGT BAND AND CHAD MILLS The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., $9.75 + fees, 21+

See our feature on page 26

SOUNDCHECK the King in a not-so-class way. NUVO Barfly guy Wayne Bertsch says, of this event (of which he is an organizer), “I love the King’ s music, but what I really love about this show every year are the non-rockabilly bands who put whole new twists and turns on the Elvis Presley catalog. Ska versions of “ Blue Suede Shoes” or “In the Ghetto” should make this an [amazing] event.” Don’t miss more information in Barfly below. JAZZ THE RHYTHM OF INDIANA AVENUE Rhythm! Discovery Center, 110 W. Washington St. 1 p.m., free, all ages

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Donny Edwards SINGER SONGWRITER CARA JEAN WAHLERS, BUTCH RICE, SUZETTE WEAKLEY Lazy Daze Coffee Shop, 10 Johnson Ave. 7 p.m., free, all ages

Feeling like an early night? Check out singer songwriters Cara Jean Wahlers, Butch Rice (of Louisville) and Suzette Weakley at 7 p.m. for an all ages, non-smoking show. Grab a latte and enjoy the acoustic stylings of these three singer-songwriters. Wahlers, who most recently released the soundtrack to “Paradise Recovered,” has garned considerable acclaim for her album Goodnight Charlotte (including the title Best Local Release of 2011 by NUVO and a pick as one of the T op Ten Local Albums by David Lindguist of the Indy Star.) Butch Rice has been surrounded by music for as long as he can remember and playing it for almost as long. Louisville Music News described his sound as, “lush, with sweet heartbreak.” Suzette Weakley is a singer-songwriter organizer; she regularly hosts the Bloomington Songwriters Showcase and started the BloomingTunes songwriting competition. She also makes music of her own.

Please see Jazz Notes on page 27 for more information. The program begins at 1 p.m., but admission is free all day. ROCK NAPTOWN ROCK RADIO WARS PREMIERE

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Monday GOSPEL CELEBRATION GOSPEL FESTIVAL: A TRIBUTE TO DR. KING Madame Walker Theatre, 817 Indiana Ave. 7 p.m., $15 VIP seating, $10 regular seating, all ages

Singers from over 50 area congregations, the Indianapolis Public School system and the Symphonic Choir join to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in song. The event will take place, fittingly , near Dr. Martin Luther King St. (in the Madame Walker Theatre).

Saturday ELVIS! ELVIS BIRTHDAY BASH Locals Only, 2449 E. 56th St. 9 p.m., $8, 21+

Our pick to celebrate the birth of the King this weekend is happening at Locals Only and will feature the Circle City Deacons, The Danny Thompson Trio, PK and the Big Stir and Toe Knee Tee performing the classic work of

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Spiders can be cads Plus, jumping on mom’s coffin

Intelligent Design: If the male nursery web spider were a human, he would be sternly denounced as a vulgar cad. Researcher Maria Jose Albo of Denmark’s Aarhus University told Live Science in November that the spiders typically obtain sex by making valuable “gifts” to females (usually, high-nutrition insects wrapped in silk), but if lacking resources, a male cleverly packages a fake gift (usually a piece of flower) also in silk but confoundingly wound so as to distract her as she unwraps it -- and then mounts her before she discovers the hoax. Albo also found that the male is not above playing dead to coax the female into relaxing her guard as she approaches the “carcass” -- only to be jumped from behind for sex.

The Continuing Crisis

• Son Theodore Zimmick and two other relatives filed a lawsuit in November against the St. Stanislaus cemetery in Pittsburgh for the unprofessional burial of Theodore’s mother, Agnes, in 2009. Agnes had purchased an 11-by-8-foot plot in 1945, but when she finally passed away, the graveyard had become so crowded that, according to the lawsuit, workers were forced to dig such a small hole that they had to jump up and down on the casket and whack it with poles to fit it into the space. • Managers of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., decided recently to relocate the statue of Abraham Lincoln that since 1895 had occupied a seldom-visited site and whose advocates over the years had insisted be given more prominence. It turned out that the most viable option was to swap locations with a conspicuous 1906 statue of Dr. Alexander Skene. Lincoln is certainly universally revered, but Dr. Skene has advocates, too, and some (according to a December Wall Street Journal report) are resisting the relocation because Dr. Skene (unlike Lincoln) was a Brooklynite, and Dr. Skene (unlike Lincoln) had a body part named after him (“Skene’s glands,” thought to be “vital” in understanding the “G spot”). • The two hosts of the Dutch TV show Guinea Pigs apparently followed through on their plans in December to eat pieces of each other (fried in sunflower oil) in order to describe the taste. Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno underwent surgery to have small chunks removed for cooking, with Zeno perhaps faring worse (a piece of Storm’s “bottom”) compared to Storm (who got part of Zeno’s abdomen). • A December New England Journal of Medicine report described a woman’s “losing” her breast implant during a Pilates movement called the Valsalva (which involves breath-holding while “bearing down”). The woman said she felt no pain or shortness of breath but

suddenly noticed that her implant was gone. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore discovered that, because of the woman’s recent heart surgery, the muscles between the ribs had loosened, and the implant had merely passed through a rib opening. (They returned it to its proper place.)

Convoluted Plans

• A balaclava-wearing man “kidnapped” Julian Buchwald and his girlfriend in 2008 in Australia’s Alpine National Park as they were picnicking. The man separated the couple, tore their clothes off and buried them, but Buchwald escaped and rescued the girlfriend, and they wandered around naked for days before being rescued. The balaclava-clad man, it turns out, was Buchwald, whose plan was to convince the woman by his heroism that she should marry him (and more immediately, to have sex even though they had both pledged to remain virgins until marriage). Buchwald was convicted in Victoria County Court and sentenced in December to more than seven years in prison. • Laurie Martinez, 36, was charged in December with filing a false police report in Sacramento, Calif., alleging that she was raped, beaten bloody and robbed in her home. It turns out that she had become frustrated trying to get her husband to move them to a better neighborhood and that faking a rape was supposed to finally persuade him. Instead, he filed for divorce. Martinez is employed by the state as a psychologist. • After 12 almost intolerable months, Ms. Seemona Sumasar finally received justice in November from a New York City jury, which convicted Jerry Ramrattan of orchestrating a complex and ingenious scheme to convince police that Sumasar was a serial armed robber. Ramrattan, a private detective and “CSI” fan, had used his knowledge of police evidence-gathering to pin various open cases on Sumasar as revenge for her having dumped him (and to negate her claim that Ramrattan had raped her in retaliation). Ramrattan was so creative in linking evidence to Sumasar that her bail had been set at $1 million, causing her to spend seven months in jail. (Said one juror, “If I had seen this on TV, my reaction would be, ‘How could this really happen?’”)

People With Issues

• Prominent Birmingham, Ala., politician Bill Johnson describes his wife as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” but he revealed in December that, while on temporary duty recently as an earthquake relief specialist in New Zealand, he had clandestinely donated sperm to nine women (and that three were already pregnant). Becoming a biological father is “a need that I have,” he told a New Zealand Herald reporter, and his wife had been unable to accommodate him. Asked if his wife knew of the nine women, Johnson said, “She does now.” Indeed, Alabama newspapers quickly picked up the story, and Mrs. Johnson told the Mobile Press-Register that there is “healing to do.”

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Least Competent Criminals

• Not Ready for Prime Time: The unidentified eyeglass-wearing robber of an HSBC Bank in Long Island City, N.Y., in December fled empty-handed and was being sought. Armed with a pistol and impatient with a slow teller, the man fired a shot into the ceiling to emphasize his seriousness. However, according to a police report, the gunshot seemed to panic him as much as it did the others in the bank, and he immediately ran out the door and jumped into a waiting vehicle.

Recurring Themes

• James Ward’s second annual festival of tedium (the “Boring conference”), in November at York Hall in east London, once again sold out, demonstrating the intrinsic excitement created by yawninducing subject matter. Last year’s conference featured a man’s discourse on the color and materials of his neckwear collection and another’s structured milk-tasting, patterned after a winetasting. This second edition showcased a history of the electric hand-dryer and a seminar on the square root of 2. • Last month, News of the Weird informed readers of the woman who wanted to “be at one” with her recently deceased horse and thus stripped naked and climbed inside the bloody carcass (posing for a notorious Internet photo spread). Afghan slaughterhouse employ-

ees surely never consider being “at one” with water buffaloes, but a November Washington Post dispatch from Kabul mentions a similarity. U.S. slaughterhouse authority Chris Hart found, as he was helping to upgrade an antiquated abattoir near Kabul, that the facility employed a dwarf, “responsible” (wrote the Post) “for climbing inside water buffalo carcasses to cut out their colons.” (Nonetheless, the slaughterhouse is halal, adhering to Islamic principles.) • No Longer Weird? One would think that classical musicians who carry precious violins, worth small fortunes, on public transportation would be especially vigilant to safeguard them. However, from time to time (for example, in 2008, 2009, 2010 and May 2011), absentmindedness prevailed. Most recently, in December, student MuChen Hsieh, 19, accompanying a 176-year-old violin (on loan from a foundation in Taiwan and worth about $170,000) on a bus ride from Boston to Philadelphia, forgot to check the overhead rack when departing and left without it. Fortunately, a bus company cleaner turned it in. (Most famously, in 1999, the master cellist Yo Yo Ma left his instrument in the trunk of a New York City taxicab.)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A Swedish man named Richard Handl decided to conduct a scientific experiment in his kitchen. Would it be possible to split atoms using a homemade apparatus? He wanted to see if he could generate atomic reactions with the radioactive elements radium, americium, and uranium. But before he got too far into the process, the police intervened and ended his risky fairy-tale. I bring this to your attention, Libra, as an example of how not to proceed in the coming weeks. It will be a good time for you to experiment around the house -- refining your relationship with your roommates, moving the furniture around, and in general rearranging the domestic chemistry -- but please avoid trying stuff as crazy as Handl’s.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Live out of your imagination, not your history,” says Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. While that’s always true, it will be especially crucial for you to remember in 2012. This is the year you can transcend stale traditions, Taurus -- a time when you can escape your outworn habits, reprogram your conditioned responses, and dissolve old karma. You will be getting unparalleled opportunities to render the past irrelevant. And the key to unlocking all the magic will be your freewheeling yet highly disciplined imagination. Call on it often to show you the way toward the future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1878, Thomas Edison perfected the phonograph, a machine that could record sounds and play them back. There had been some primitive prototypes before, but his version was a major improvement. And what were the first sounds to be immortalized on Edison’s phonograph? The rush of the wind in the trees? A dramatic reading of the Song of Songs? The cries of a newborn infant? Nope. Edison recited the nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” When you make your own breakthrough in communication sometime soon, Scorpio, I hope you deliver a more profound and succulent message.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Comedian Steven Wright says his nephew has HDADD, or High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. “He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.” I’m predicting something like that for you in the coming week, Gemini. You will encounter more things that are dull than are interesting, but those few that fascinate you will awaken an intense focus that allows you to see into the heart of reality.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect you may soon find yourself in a situation similar to the one that 19th-century American President Abraham Lincoln was in when he said the following: “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” In other words, Sagittarius, you may not be picky about what you want, but whatever it is, you’ll prefer it to be authentic, pure, and distinctly itself. Adulterations and hodgepodges won’t satisfy you, and they won’t be useful. Hold out for the Real Thing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As I contemplate the most desirable fate you could create for yourself, I’m reminded of a lyric from one of my songs: “We are searching for the answers / so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.” Here’s what I’m implying by that, Cancerian: This is not the right time for you to push for comprehensive formulas and definitive solutions. Rather, it’s a favorable moment to draw up the incisive inquiries that will frame your quest for comprehensive formulas and definitive solutions. That quest is due to begin in two weeks. For now, raise your curiosity levels, intensify your receptivity, and make yourself highly magnetic to core truths. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A writer -- and, I believe, generally all persons -- must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource,” said author Jorge Luis Borges. “All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” I agree that this advice isn’t just for writers, but for everyone. And it so happens that you are now in an astrological phase when adopting such an approach would bring you abundant wisdom and provide maximum healing. So get started, Leo: Wander through your memories, reinterpreting the difficult experiences as rich raw material that you can use to beautify your soul and intensify your lust for life. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye,” said the poet William Stafford. “If you look straight at it you can’t see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.” As I contemplate your life in the immediate future, Virgo, I’m convinced that his definition of poetry will be useful for you to apply to just about everything. In fact, I think it’s an apt description of all the important phenomena you’ll need to know about. Better start practicing your sideways vision.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Last summer, before the football season started, sportswriter Eric Branch wrote about a rookie running back that San Francisco 49er fans were becoming increasingly excited about. The newbie had made some big plays in exhibition games. Would he continue performing at a high level when the regular season began? Were the growing expectations justified? After a careful analysis, Branch concluded that the signs were promising, but not yet definitive: “It’s OK to go mildly berserk,” he informed the fans. That’s the same message I’m delivering to you right now, Capricorn. The early stages of your new possibility are encouraging. It’s OK to go mildly berserk, but it’s not yet time to go totally bonkers. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In summer, the pickleweed plant thrives in the saltwater marshes around San Francisco Bay. In many places, bright orange patches of the dodder plant intermingle with the pickleweed’s sprightly jade green, creating festive displays that suggest nature is having a party. But there’s a secret buried in this scene. The dodder’s webby filaments are actually parasites that suck nutrients from the pickleweed. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I’ll ask you if a situation like that exists in your own life. Is there a pretty picture that hides an imbalance in the give-and-take of energy? It’s not necessarily a bad thing -- after all, the pickleweed grows abundantly even with its freeloader hanging all over it -- but it’s important to be conscious of what’s going on. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “That in a person which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness,” said the writer Antonio Porchia. I invite you to keep that challenging thought close to your heart in the coming days, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, it is an excellent moment to tune in to your wildest goodness -- to describe it to yourself, to cherish it as the great treasure it is, to foster it and celebrate it and express it like a spring river overflowing its banks.

Homework: How could you change yourself in order to get more of the love you want? Testify by going to RealAstrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.”

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