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The Hogsett administration has been in office for 13 days. The outgoing public safety director gives some insight on how this change of attention for public safety could be a good thing for the city. And with the 2016 General Assembly underway, Schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz announced her legislative agenda.
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After we wiped our Bowie-induced tears, we got busy. This week’s music section is packed with so many chats: we talk gear and beer with Mighty Brother, country songwriting with Bedford boy Clayton Anderson, NPR with TJ Reynolds, and the future of Indy opera with soprano diva Angela Brown. Plus: a review of Sphie’s new album and dozens and dozens of concerts happening this week in Soundcheck.
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n old teacher of mine had a useful saying.
“We can’t learn anything when our lips are moving,” he said. “It’s only when we shut up and listen that we have a chance to learn anything.” I thought about that bit of wisdom during President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting on gun violence Thursday night. Earlier in the day, on the radio show I host, I’d had a similar conversation on the same subject. One of my guests was Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, the author of many of the gun rights bills that have been and are before the Indiana General Assembly. Those who read this column with any regularity know Lucas and I have clashed, often and energetically, on the issue of gun violence. We don’t agree on much when it comes to guns. While he was in the studio, though, I focused on what he had to say. He argued that, because the right to own
read a book while driving their cars. But it helped to understand how Lucas thought about the issue. It made the discussion less abstract and more human. I heard some small areas of possible agreement – on training programs, etc. They’re baby steps, but that’s how every journey begins. A few hours later, I watched the presiand carry guns is constitutionally guardent take gun questions on CNN. Skepanteed, people shouldn’t have to ask for tics on all sides of the issue, during and permission – a permit – to do so and that after the program, expressed concerns in the overwhelming burden should be on voices as loud as they were angry. government to prove any restrictions of And I thought – they’re not listening to that right are necessary. each other. I’s an intellectually plausible argument. Even if they found a point, however small, on which they might agree, they brushed it aside and said, We Americans are so worried about “It’s what’s next that really scares us.” agendas, hidden or otherwise, that It occurred to me then that the real problem we we can’t even get together and have with dealing with discuss our common problems. our gun death and injury numbers isn’t firearms or laws or even criminals. It’s trust. I don’t agree with it, of course. We Americans are so worried about We have constitutionally guaranteed agendas, hidden or otherwise, that we right to free expression, but that doesn’t can’t even get together and discuss our mean that, in the interest of public common problems. safety, we can’t restrict people’s First That became clear at a couple of Amendment rights to text, email or even points during the evening.
The president pretty much cast the National Rifle Association as political terrorists who hold government hostage. And while there is some truth to his assertion – I’ve made the same charge myself – there was something unseemly about having the nation’s chief executive demonizing other Americans. (Even if they disagree with you, Mr. President, you still have a duty to represent and respect your fellow citizens. That’s the burden of your office – and the expectation for presidential leadership.) Not long afterward, the NRA’s Christopher Cox told Fox News he wouldn’t even be willing to meet with the constitutionally elected commander-in-chief to talk about guns. Cox said he wouldn’t sit down with the president so long as our chief executive doesn’t agree that the Second Amendment guarantees individual rights when it comes to guns. (Neither did the U.S. Supreme Court for the first 220 years of our constitutional history, Mr. Cox, and the decision that supposedly affirmed your interpretation was a 5-4 one with relatively narrow implications. The fact that you might disagree with the president of the United States on any specific point doesn’t mean that your refusal to talk with him about possible ways you might be able to work with him to save lives is in any way admirable.) After I got off the air with Lucas, a listener wrote me asking what any goodhearted citizen could do to move us past a point of impasse on guns. The answer is my old teacher’s. When it comes to guns, all of us need to lower our voices, talk less and listen more. It’s only when we shut up and listen that we have a chance to learn anything. And that is the only way we will solve this problem. n
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hen David Bowie released Low, I was one month away from my 14th birthday. I’d saved up the money I’d made delivering newspapers (yes, I was a paperboy — those jobs really existed) and ever-socarefully purchased a Rotel receiver, a turntable (Technics, as memory serves) and an amazing pair of lightweight Sennheiser headphones. I’d been a casual fan before this record, but that changed almost instantly. The fragmented songs on side one were catchy and hooky in the strangest manner: This music seemed darker than anything even Black Sabbath could knit together, yet it was somehow still danceable. The crashing percussion kit in the background seemed to have
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listen hinted at something below the surface, something not distilled in the lyrics. That something, as it turns out, was Bowie’s struggles as he tried to kick cocaine — he’d gone to Berlin to get away from LA, where blow was as common as lipstick. Bowie didn’t have a taste for heroin — which, as he recalled later, was the drug of choice in that city — but Low is infused with a junkie’s weariness, the substance notwithstanding. I discovered punk and new wave not long after I purchased The entire listen hinted at something Low, and soon below the surface, something not distilled began looking down my rebelin the lyrics. lious little nose at those pals of mine who couldn’t get enough hair-metal guitar solos screechbeen wedged in the hallway of a subing through their radios. Bowie, as way station — it was the first time I’d strange and otherworldly as he could be, heard reverb that sounded claustrophofirst sporting makeup and then morphbic. Later I’d learn that the drums had ing into the kind of graceful Brit James been funneled through a pricey effects Bond would be jealous of, remained a processor called an Eventide, a machine unifying force, though. I don’t think I can that eventually became the envy of radio recall ever meeting anyone who didn’t geeks and sound techs across the globe. like some chapter of the man’s catalog. Side two was downright terrifying. For me? The weirder, the better. Bowie Ethereal voicing, bizarre lyrics — this soon began working with Adrian Belew was music originally destined for the and Robert Fripp, whose partnership soundtrack of Bowie’s starring vehicle, on the re-formed King Crimson lineup The Man Who Fell to Earth. Brian Eno delivered Discipline. The bent wailings had become involved (not coincidentally, Eno’s produced some of my favorite and skittering attacks that tore through the work they did with Bowie, on record albums by other artists) and the entire and on stage, made me a fan for life of all three of those artists, as different as they ultimately became. Now that Bowie’s gone, now that we know he had quietly slugged it out with cancer while cutting new material, I’m putting Low back on the turntable and remembering what a dark comfort this record was. The pain of adolescent rejection — by one or many — isn’t, in hindsight, nearly as extreme as stepping away from substance abuse. But by God, it felt awful then, and David Bowie seemed to channel and diffuse that pain for me with every note. n
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WHAT HAPPENED? Indiana among worst states for reproductive rights Indiana gets a D-minus on a state-by-state report on reproductive health rights by the Population Institute. If it weren’t for Indiana’s recent plan for Medicaid expansion, said Jennie Wetter, the institute’s director of public policy, the state would have gotten an F. She said too many people in Indiana don’t have access to reproductive care, and the sexeducation program for youth is sorely lacking.
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Wetter said there’s been a recent avalanche of legislation, both proposed and enacted, to restrict clinic access and reduce funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers. The state already is suffering from a shortage of family doctors. Patti Stauffer, vice president for public policy at Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, said there have been a lot of attacks on her organization lately. While many think Planned Parenthood only provides abortions, Stauffer said, there’s much more to it than that. Stauffer said 56,000 people a year are served in 23 health centers in Indiana and two in Kentucky. Most are low-income residents. Indiana prepares to move wind energy across nation Two of Indiana’s utility companies are going to start putting in new power lines so they can ship energy created by wind farms across the state. NIPSCO and Pioneer will build a 100-mile line from White County to LaGrange County, then a new 65-mile route from the Indianapolis area to Reynolds, and then on to the East Coast. Kerwin Olson, executive director of the Citizens Action Coalition, says even with this, Indiana isn’t trying very hard to make clean energy a priority. Olson says his group wants to make sure that these new transmission lines are actually going to be used to move the wind farm energy, and not to ship out excess electricity from coal plants. Olson says Pioneer, which is a joint venture by Duke and American Electric Power, is too addicted to coal. Olson says Citizens Action Coalition is working hard to drive policy toward clean energy, and change the investment pattern of Indiana utility companies so they’ll think green instead of coal. — INDIANA NEWS SERVICE Bicentennial Torch Relay: Around Indiana in 92 days The Bicentennial Torch Relay will travel through 92 counties in 92 days. In celebration of Indiana’s bicentennial, Gov. Mike Pence, Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann and many others have come together to construct a relay that will be fashioned after the Olympic torch relay. Corydon, the first capitol of Indiana, will be the beginning of the torch relay and it will end in Indianapolis, the current capitol. Purdue University engineering students and professors designed and constructed the torch. They created a “child-friendly” torch with LED lights and a larger torch with flames for adults. They both contain GPS and Wi-Fi to transmit live feed. Accompanying the travel of the torch will be a mobile visitor’s center as an interactive museum. The relay will begin on Sept. 9. The torch will average 72 miles a day and cover 2,300 miles before finishing its journey at the Statehouse on Oct. 15. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
On his first full day in office, Mayor Joe Hogsett convened a public safety summit to discuss the rising tide of violence in the city.
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ith the transition of the Greg Ballard administration to the Joe Hogsett team completed, one topic of concern seems clear to the city of Indianapolis: public safety. According to a column in the Dec. 27 issue of the Indianapolis Star, “In 2014, the city’s 135 homicides were the most since 2006. This year, the city eclipsed that mark in November.” However from the beginning of his campaign, Hogsett has made it very clear that he has an earnest desire to focus on the public safety of Indianapolis. “He wants to improve the quality of life in all the neighborhoods so that crime does not take root and flourish,” said David Wantz, the fomer interim public safety director for Indianapolis. Hogsett’s first two appointments to his city council were that of the police and fire chiefs, sending a message that he wants to follow through on his promises of reeling in the crime rate in Indianapolis. “The voters chose Hogsett as the man they wish to lead the city and I don’t
think it was a popularity contest,” Wantz said. “I think he had a clear vision of what he wanted to see happen.” But while one of the first tasks Hogsett accomplished was naming the new police and fire chiefs, he also made a bold statement by not naming a new public safety director. Rather, he named himself. On January 1, 2016, Wantz returned to his position with the University of Indianapolis as the vice president for community and government relations and special assistant to the president. “The fact that the mayor has said that he will be the director of public safety is a very bold statement that he is incredibly serious about making sure that the job gets done well,” Wantz said. By not having an individual whose only focus is overseeing all of the police and fire departments of Indianapolis, can the public safety concern really be addressed? With every shift in the city’s leadership, the position of the public safety director changes as well. There have been a variety of people, all from different career
backgrounds, who have held the position in the past. But will the mayor have time to focus on being the director of public safety while also running the city? “It will not negatively affect the situation of crime in the city because the director of public safety is a civilian,” Wantz said. “He or she cannot make any arrests.” Hogsett has also put together a threeprong plan that will work to improve the public safety of Indianapolis. According to the Hogsett Public Safety Plan, it will address neighborhood-based crime, new law enforcement strategies, and put more focus onto prisoners re-entering society after incarceration. One step in that direction was the creation of One City Indy, “an unprecedented effort to bring together talented individuals who are passionate about moving Indianapolis forward,” according to the One City Indy website. “In our democracy, elections naturally create competition between us,” Hogsett said on the One City Indy website. “And that is appropriate, until the election is S E E , SA F ETY, O N PA GE 08
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and neighborhood that lead to crime. Rather than just following an assumption, Riggs began to gather information to show what areas of Indianapolis need more attention and effort, and the data he collected may lead to more informed decisions on what steps to take next in order to improve the quality of life in Indianapolis communities. In his presentation, he shared data from six Indy “focus” areas. Data from those neighborhoods included standards of living, educational stats, student expulsions and the causes of those expulsions. “I think it resonated with people immediately,” Wantz said. “He helped for people to see just how complex the problems are in our community and it really got folks’ attention.” After eight consecutive years with Ballard as the mayor of Indianapolis, the
introduction of a fresh face with new and different ideas may seem intimidating because change can disrupt old routines. However, Wantz emphasized that the disruption isn’t a bad thing. “I believe that he needs to have the chance to work his vision,” Wantz said. “He was elected by the people of Indianapolis based on the vision.” According to the Indianapolis Star, this election was the lowest voter turnout since 2007, bringing in only 22.69 percent of Marion County voters. Regardless of the low numbers at the polls, Wantz believes the city of Indianapolis voted Hogsett into office for his political vision. “Mayor Hogsett deserves every chance to succeed and having been elected, it’s in everybody’s interest to help him achieve his vision for helping the city be the best place to live and work,” Wantz said. n
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over. But now is the time for us to come together again as we were intended to — regardless of party, or race, or faith or station in life. For we are ONE CITY.” “He wants to make sure that absolutely everybody is included,” Wantz said. “He believes that it’s more important for everybody to come together for the good of the city than to serve partisan or private desires.” In addition, Troy Riggs, a previous public safety director, was named the police chief by Hogsett. Riggs held a presentation at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) on Dec. 9 where he helped to explain the complexity of crime. According to Wantz, crime just doesn’t happen. There are things that happen, different variables in every community
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uperintendent of Public Instruction, Glenda Ritz, will focus on three aspects of the education system in the Indiana Department of Education’s 2016 legislative agenda. “I am proud to unveil a legislative agenda that focuses on the needs of students, educators, and schools throughout the state as we continue to build an education system of equity and high quality for all Hoosiers,” she said in a statement. One of Ritz main priorities is making sure schools will not be held accountable for the ISTEP scores in 2015. She said she does not want the schools and communities to be blamed for the mandated changes, raised standards and more rigorous assessments that they were faced with. “Second, it is clear that Indiana needs to reform our costly, lengthy, pass/fail, high-stakes assessment system. Simply put, we need to move on from ISTEP,” Ritz
said Ritz. Ritz said over the past six years there has been a 30 percent decrease in the number of people earning their teaching license. She wants to work toward lessening this percentage with the Blue Ribbon Commission, a bipartisan group that includes educators. “I’m about making sure we have certified teachers all over the state of “I’m about making sure we have certified Indiana for every child in every teachers all over the state of Indiana for classroom,” Ritz said. “It’s an issue every child in every classroom.” that we want to — GLENDA RITZ, deal with systemSUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION atically and that’s what the Blue Ribbon Commission will do.” “I think some of the changes that you action, regarding many items that have will see will be more easing up and more been put into place that have caused local control of what it is the objective either teachers to feel like they need to measures are that we measure our educaleave the profession and is not enticing tors with,” said Ritz. n teachers to actually enter the profession,” said. “It doesn’t inform instruction. What informs instruction is knowing where students are and where they perform in over the course of a year.” The third focus is to decrease the teacher shortage. “Going forward, we have seen several things happen regarding the legislative
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tate legislators strapped on their space flight gear and took off for the Great Unknown Tuesday, Jan. 5 with the opening of the 2016 General Assembly session. Wanna stretch the metaphors? Why not? Last year’s session was similar to 500 laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — with a RFRA crash in turn three that brought out the yellow flag until the end of the race. This year’s session
might be more in line with society’s favorite space adventure that happened long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away — the thing’s going to move at hyperdrive. Legislators only have until March 14 to reach an agreement on bills in both chambers and get them to the governor’s desk. Where Indiana will be at the end of the journey remains to be seen. Will the thing move so fast, with so many distractions, that no one sees the real weapons pointed at human rights?
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Hundreds of bills have been filed and only a select number will be heard in committee. Republican leadership and Governor Mike Pence announced their respective agendas — a short list to be addressed in 10 short weeks. Road conditions and infrastructure are top priorities for both chambers and the governor. Education issues, such as school accountability as it relates to school evaluations and teacher salaries and the teacher shortage, also have everyone’s attention. The third issue for House and Senate Republicans and the governor is addressing the drug epidemics that are having catastrophic repercussions on Hoosier public health.
but in addition with thousands of other words that add lots of conditions, caveats and exceptions. The legislation, authored by Senator Travis Holdman, (R- Markle), loosely offers civil rights protections while keeping the LGBT community back in the “second-class citizen” category. It also attempts to override any progress made in local communities. Holdman says the intent of the bill is to try and strike a balance between civil rights protections and ensuring religious liberties are held intact, specifically those with strong religious convictions that object to the LGBT community on those religious grounds. “[The bill is] walking a fine line to try and find a balance between allowing folks that have a moral objection — a religious or conscientious objection — that they be given the opportunity to be given an exemption from participating in such things as same-sex marriage, if that’s repulsive to them from a faith issue,” sais Holdman. “My goal is really to find a balance between extending protected class status for the LGBT community but at the same time providing a safe harbor for those folks who have a real moral conviction on the issue to say we can all get along on these issues and we’re going to provide a way for that to happen.” A few weeks after the text of SB 100 was released, the ACLU of Indiana came out with a statement identifying its concerns with the proposed legislation. Executive Director Jane Henegar says the overly broad religious exemptions; the elimination of local authority to create laws and the codification of second-class status for gay and transgender Hoosiers is a concern. Henegar adds that they way in which several of the religious “exemptions” are written could affect persons in existing protected classes and weaken civil rights for all protected classes. Holdman believes the ACLU’s concerns are unfounded and it’s looking for fault that isn’t there. Ultimately, Holdman acknowledges his legislation doesn’t quite strike the right balance, as conservative groups don’t believe the exemptions on their behalf go far enough. Despite the issue of LGBT civil rights being excluded from the Republican agenda this session, Holdman is confident his bill will be discussed in committee and will come to a vote this session. Whether or not it passes in its current form or with amendments remains to be seen. In an effort to find additional common ground, Holdman also filed a different version of SB 100 in the form of SB 344, which takes the T out of LGBT by removing gender identity from protections entirely.
Will the thing move so fast, with so many distractions, that no one sees the real weapons pointed at human rights?
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Freedom Indiana and its partnering organizations hosted a prayer vigil prior to the start of the session to encourage legislators to pass a civil rights law providing full protections for the LGBT community.
Civil rights for the LGBT community didn’t make the GOP cut when it came to outlining primary goals for the session. However, in the court of public opinion the issue will not go away. There is an underlying current of misunderstanding and veiled bigotry when it comes to transgender Hoosiers along with the usual conservative push against a woman’s right to choose. There are some attempts to bring more clean energy to Indiana, provide Hoosiers with a livable minimum wage and bring transportation resources to undocumented immigrants. Unfortunately, with a Republican supermajority in both chambers, the odds of those more environmental and socially-conscious bills being heard in committee are slim at best. Still, like it or not, the session is underway and all we can do is settle in to our junky-yet-reliable cargo ship and charge forward to March 14.
SB 100 “The Second-Class Citizen LGBT Civil Rights” bill When Senate Bill 100 first hit back in November, it took no time at all for people to analyze and understand what it is. Several senate bills were introduced on Organization Day — among them was SB 2, which is the Democrats’ version of a civil rights bill. It simply adds “four words and a comma” — gender identity and sexual orientation — to the existing code, allowing all of the protections currently enjoyed by those who fall under the race, color, gender, disability, national origin, and ancestry categories. The Republican version of SB 100 adds those same four words and a comma, 10 COVER STORY // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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On the opening day of session, Gov. Pence, legislators, and administrative leaders attended the 12th annual Statehouse Prayer Service, which is sponsored annually by Capitol Commission. The organization promotes prayer for those in authority in capitol communities around the country.
SB 35/HB 1079 the “ Pay-to-pee” bill Sen. Jim Tomes (R- Wadesville) introduced a bill on Organization Day that would require multiple student accessible restrooms, locker rooms and shower rooms in public and charter schools to be designated as single-sex facilities accessible only by the students whose biological gender fits the designation. That biology can be determined by their physical anatomy or their DNA chromosomal composition — at least one X and one Y chromosome for boys and at least one X and no Y chromosome for girls. Since DNA mapping takes a lot of lab time and money and the odds of public school chemistry classrooms being equipped to conduct the DNA analysis is pretty slim, the physical anatomy check would be the easiest verification. Still, the intent of this bill is under question. Sen. Tomes did not respond to NUVO’s request for an interview to better understand his intent behind the bill.
If safety is a motivating factor, studies show this kind of legislation would actually do more harm than good, specifically for transgender people. The latest National Transgender Discrimination Survey, conducted by the Williams Institute, indicates 78 percent of transgender people who were victims of physical or sexual violence at school and 65 percent of workplace victims had attempted suicide at some point. According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 72 percent of anti-LGBT violence victims are transgender women; transgender people are more likely to be victims of sexual violence in general; and transgender people are more susceptible to job discrimination. Indiana also has some of the highest teen suicide rates for both attempts and deaths in the nation according to the most recent KIDS Count data collected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. There is no evidence that transgender people or gender identity issues are linked to sexually deviant behavior. And bathroom/locker room/shower room facilities are not related in any way to sexual behavior and activity, but rather are necessities for hygiene, public health and bio-waste disposal. The issue is currently under review in the federal court system. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Jan. 27 for Gavin Grimm vs. Gloucester County School Board. The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice issued statements that such restrictions against transgender people in schools is a violation of Title IX, however a U.S. District Court judge sided with the school corporation. Tomes’ bill only applies to public schools, however House Bill 1079, authored by Rep. Tim Harman, (R-Bremen), would expand the restriction to include all public restrooms/locker rooms/ shower rooms.
SB 133 “Permission to Drive” bill Senate Bill 133 is as simple a bill as you can get, but its implications are sweeping. The legislation, authored by Sen. John Broden, (D-South Bend), seeks to establish driving permits and learner’s permits to Indiana residents who cannot provide proof of identity or lawful status in the United States, but desire the ability to operate a motor vehicle. Currently, all new applications for driver’s licenses in Indiana require substantial documentation to prove they exist in the eyes of the government and are legally eligible to be in the United States. The required documentation certifies that each license is a SecureID or Real ID, a federal requirement that was mandated by the Real ID Act of 2005. The federal act requiring additional security on the issuances of government-issued documents
like driver’s licenses and state ID cards was a direct result of recommendations by the 9/11 Commission in an effort to curb terrorist acts in America. The idea was to secure documents used in travel — specifically air travel — and documents used to enter federal buildings and offices. How did proof of ability to drive a car become the gold standard for personal identity and legal status verification? After all, a driver’s license in the U.S. started out as just that — proof that a person knows what he or she is doing when behind the wheel. That verification began at the turn of the 20th century with the evolution of motorized vehicles. Licenses were common practice across the country by 1935. The use of licenses as identification emerged in the 1970s and ’80s as a push by Mothers Against Drunk Driving as a way to identify persons of legal drinking age. Photos, Social Security numbers, birth dates and other information then grew in popularity on licenses. Other identifying marks such as holograms and bar codes were added to curb identity theft and fake ID production. After all of that and the dawn of the SecureID, the driver’s license suffers the same issue as the smart phone — its fundamental function is practically obsolete and definitely overshadowed by everything else it does. Sen. Broden simply wants to get back to the original purpose – proof of the ability to drive a car. “I’ve authored or co-sponsored this bill through the last five or six sessions,” says Broden. “But it is an important issue and the right thing to do.” Getting the ability to drive a car is a top priority for groups that support undocumented immigrants. The ability to get to work and/or school is such a simple request, but can be a monumental obstacle, especially in areas where public transportation isn’t an available option. Changes in crime, poverty rates and the economy could all see positive trends as a result. Broden isn’t sure if the bill will be heard this year, but he believes the idea has a better chance of getting some attention this year than in years past. Unfortunately with a Republican supermajority, the odds are not in this bill’s favor.
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OTHER LEGISLATIVE BILLS TO WATCH IN THE 2016 SESSION:
SB 5/SB 77 “No fetal tissue for research” bill
SB 208 “Let’s get a clean power plan” bill
Sen. Jim Tomes is one of many conservative legislators who support the “Rightto-Life” agenda that found a summer scandal regarding Planned Parenthood more than disturbing. Although investigation determined a filmed conversation about a Planned Parenthood clinic profiting from the sale of aborted fetal tissue was doctored and fabricated, the concern of it possibly happening in Indiana has prompted legislators to write bills prohibiting the act. An investigation of Indiana Planned Parenthood locations found no wrongdoing. But the fear of what could be is enough for Tomes and others to draft legislation to slay the bogeyman in the closet.
2015 ended with the world committing to do something about climate change. Although what that means for the United States and how the plan will be implemented hasn’t been determined, there isn’t any reason why Indiana can’t get started on any action. Sen. Karen Tallian’s bill, (D-Portage), would establish a clean power committee that would be charged with the task of creating a clean power plan for Indiana. Environmental groups like the Hoosier Environmental Council, Sierra Club’s Indiana chapter and EarthCharter Indiana have asked for a clean power plan for years. Tallian’s proposal is a great first step in achieving that goal.
SB 36 “Drunks with Guns” bill/HB 1056 “We don’t need no stinkin’ gun permits” bill
SB 322 “Cleaning up the marriage language” bill
It wouldn’t be a legislative session in Indiana without a gun bill or two. In an effort to address the plague of gun violence in our country, President Obama is tightening the loopholes in how guns are sold across the country. But in Indiana, there are legislators who want to relax some of the laws that are already on the books. SB 36 would eliminate the state’s ability to ask gun permit applicants about previous alcohol-related offenses. National rhetoric has concentrated on finding ways to keep guns out of the hands of those with mental health issues and yet alcoholism is a mental health disease. Of course, Rep. Jim Lucas, (R-Seymour), doesn’t see the need for a gun carry license at all and once again has called for the elimination of carry licenses in Indiana.
Sen. Jean Breaux, (D-Indianapolis), is proposing a simple cleanup of the language in the Indiana Code as it relates to marriage. Although same-sex marriage became legal by judicial rule in the fall of 2014, the language on the record books still states marriage is solely between one man and one woman. One can assume that a “cleanup” bill wasn’t proposed last year because there was still that faint possibility that another case in a different state addressing the same issue could result in a different outcome. However, with the U.S. Supreme Court issuing a deciding opinion in the Obergefell vs. Hodges case, there is no reason for the language to remain as it is.
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Expansion of the Lifeline Law
Makes $1 billion in new state road funding available over the next four years without raising taxes.
Expands the Lifeline Law to allow immunity for certain individuals who call emergency personnel when an individual is at risk of a drug overdose.
SB 67
Local Road Funding Makes immediately available $418 million in Local Option Income Tax (LOIT) reserves to local governments to help improve local roads and bridges across the state.
SB 302
Regional Cities Funding Amends Indiana law to authorize an additional $42 million in tax amnesty collections to provide funding for three Regional Cities proposals instead of two.
SB 200
A-F School Grades Holds schools harmless for their A-F accountability grade for the 2014-2015 year to accommodate the transition to more rigorous academic standards.
HB 1003 Teacher Bonuses and Evaluations Ensures that teacher bonuses and evaluations are not negatively impacted by the transition to a new test during this year.
SB 271
Indiana Commission to Combat Drug Abuse
SB 187
Standing Order for Naloxone Ensures that lifesaving overdose intervention drugs are available statewide by requiring a licensed prescriber at the Indiana State Department of Health to issue a statewide standing order (prescription).
SB 165
Codify Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) 2.0 Codifies the basic structure and overall policy objectives of the HIP 2.0 program.
SB 11
Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE Act) Creates a savings program for Hoosiers to better provide for their loved ones with special needs by allowing them to save money for disability-related costs without placing other benefits at risk.
SB 305
Add Human Trafficking to the DCS Statute Ensures that children who are victims of human trafficking are able to be served by the Department of Child Services (DCS) by adding human trafficking to the Child In Need of Services (CHINS) statute.
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• Full House and Senate sessions alternate between mornings and afternoons Mondays – Thursdays. When each chamber is not in full session committee hearings are held on individual bills. • No sessions or committee hearings are held on Fridays. • January 28 is the deadline for all committee reports.
2016 GENERAL ASSEMBLY TIMELINE According to Indiana state law, the General Assembly generates a biannual budget when in session on the odd-numbered years with the end of session lasting until April 29. On even-numbered years when money isn’t a top priority in discussions, the law requires the session to end March 16. A shorter session means a shortened timeline to get things done. With a week and a half already done and in the record books the session’s calendar is on a fast track. n
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• All eligible bills passed out of committee must be through 2nd reading by Feb. 2 and through 3rd reading by Feb. 3 to continue through the legislative process. Any bills not passed on 2nd and 3rd readings by those deadlines are considered dead for the year.
JAN. 2016 • All eligible bills from the House passed out of Senate committees must be through 2nd reading by March 1 and through 3rd reading by March 2. • All eligible bills from the Senate passed out of House committees must be though 2nd reading by March 2 and through 3rd reading by March 3.
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• No sessions are held in either chamber Feb. 4 or 5. • House and Senate chambers begin consideration of bills from opposite chambers in committees and full sessions Feb. 8. • All committee reports on bills for opposite chambers must be submitted by Feb. 25.
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• Any bills not passed on 2nd and 3rd readings by those deadlines are considered dead for the year. • Committee conferences on bills passed through both chambers with differing amendments begin March 3. • March 7 – 10 is dedicated to full sessions in both chambers
for concurring votes on bills agreed on and passed out of conference committees. • Friday, March 11 is reserved for possible full sessions in both chambers if needed. • T he 2016 General Assembly session must adjourn by 11:59 p.m. Monday, March 14.
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couldn’t have picked a better place to go than Indy Indie’s Dirty Fingernails show on New Year’s Eve. The guiding principal of this exhibit seemed to be a lack of one. Indeed the show seemed to be comprised of whatever curator Aaron Booe, with help from gallery director Bobbie Zaphirou, could fit in the Indy Indie gallery space. Or as Booe explains, “I love the clash of different styles and opposing ideas of what art is and to me the show is like one gigantic sculptural collage.” I found work by Herron students, faculty, professional artists and by artists just starting out. Four of them caught my attention, not because of their elevation above the rest of the show necessarily, but because it’s more than likely that you haven’t heard of them yet. Not that some of the 68 Dirty Fingernails artists aren’t well-known, at least in Indy circles. Others hold teaching positions at Herron and IU-affiliated schools, but might not be familiar to local art patrons. And then there are students (and former students) from Herron. Let’s start by talking about one who just graduated. I first encountered Danielle Pugel’s work at the College Invitational Exhibition at the Indianapolis Art Center in December, 2014. Pugel — who graduated Herron in 2014 with a BFA in sculpture and ceramics — won the Best in Show award in that exhibition for “Encounter,” a mixed media work that took the form of a rabbit-like being that appears to have leapt out of a Japanese manga comic strip with its birdlike purple feathers and antennae. Her work in Dirty Fingernails consists of three ceramic balloon-shaped pieces that
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refer to her dreamlife. “In dreams, whatever building you’re in, that’s you,” says Pugel, about the meaning of these works that have designs painted into their surfaces depicting houses and ladders. But Pugel doesn’t just use her ceramics skills to express her inner life these days. Her skills pay the rent. She’s the social media coordinator for the massive American Art and Clay Company (AMACO) complex on Indy’s west side. Pugel’s position allows her to take advantage of free AMACO materials (while at work in free studio space), when not answering questions online or otherwise engaged in customer service. One of her former professors, Lesley Baker, associate professor of ceramics at Herron, also has work in Dirty Fingernails. Her “Oh, Suburbia” seems at first to be just a decorative plate, the kind you might find in the collectibles shelf at your local Goodwill. (She used a recycled plate to create this particular “rework,”
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as she calls it). First thing you’ll notice is a depiction of a house and a spacious suburban yard on the surface of the plate. But then you see the huge monster’s foot in the yard, one that might represent the manifold fears of any 21st Century home dweller. You may have seen Baker’s enlarged digital print “Secret Sub” that was placed on a billboard during the kickoff 20132014 round of the Arts Council of Indianapolis’s High Art Billboard project. And you might’ve also seen her work in group exhibitions around town — at the Tiny Show at Gallery 924 for example: But because Baker hasn’t had much in the way of solo exhibitions in the Circle City (not counting Herron exhibits), she’s an artist that you might not know much about. But you should. Her work encompasses not just ceramics but mixed media, like “Bull in a China Shop” which was made mostly from wooden shipping pallets. Representing a bull, and addressing issues of both art and commerce, this sculpture was part of the 2012 Turf exhibit. It was a sculpture that seemed aware of the fact that China is the world’s largest exporter of manufactured goods, goods that travel on shipping pallets. As it happens, Baker got to witness Chinese methods of ceramics production in her residency at the Pottery Workshop, in Jingdezhen, China in 2014. It’s possible to discover new creative pathways not just by being a student, but by teaching. Such is the case of Rachel
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I love the Little Free Libraries along the Monon Trail where you can leave or take a book. I also love Katie Hudnall’s book sharing station, “Nautilus” at Eskenazi Health. Her sculpture is part of the Public Collection, which debuted last summer. (The Public Collection was inspired by the Little Free Library movement.) Looking something like a hybrid between the Cutty Sark and a giant mollusk, made largely made from reclaimed wood, “Nautilus” doesn’t neglect its functional application: ample book shelf space. Some of her works in this exhibition, like the aforementioned work, are functional, others not so much. Her mixed media sculpture “A Half Month’s Worth,” is a Rube Goldberg Project by way of M.C. Escher, a work that tempts gravitational forces to upend it. Then again, “Sea Sloom” smoothly merges imagination with functionality. With its interior spaces that close off with hatches, it could work well as a storage unit. It’s also painted with what look like superannuated nautical charts, and is fitted with porthole windows. With a few modifications, it looks like it could float on the open water. But it’s Hudnall’s works on paper that allow her imagination free rein. In the etching “Umbrella City” you see a right-side-up umbrella and an upside down one. They contain between them an otherworldly city like a clamshell. Be sure to check out the pen and ink drawing “Schematic for the Library of Things,” which seems to comprise a conveyer belt leading to (or from) a library as gravity-defying as any blueprint by architect Frank Gehry. Just how is this conveyer belt supposed to operate? Only Hudnall would know. I certainly wouldn’t bet against her building something like this. — DAN GROSSMAN Indianapolis Art Center through January 30, 820 E. 67th St., indplsartcenter.org
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Bleil, adjunct professor at Herron, whose distinctive “Teddymorph” stoneware sculptures combine teddy bear imagery with themes of yearning and spirituality. Bleil, like Baker, has been a part of group shows in Indy, but she hasn’t had any solo shows in Indianapolis outside Herron. Baker, who had a chance to see Bleil teaching students at Herron, noticed an evolution in her work — an evolution that occurred while she was teaching a wheel-turning class. “Her demonstration actually ended up coming in and changing how she worked because she wasn’t working that way,” says Baker. “It allowed her to find a new way of expressing everything.” Taylor Dickens’ way of expressing himself seems to involve throwing everything under the sun into his printmaking work. In one such mixed media work on paper on display at Dirty Fingernails (an untitled work), Dickens uses mezzotint to portray a human face in grayscale, Xerox transfer to depict three men being hanged, and silkscreen to depict three bonfires. It’s clear that some kind of struggle is going on here, one involving aspects of spirituality, in a work
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that seems torn from some illuminated manuscript. Dickens, a native Texan and now a junior at Herron, says of this work, “My influences would be my own gender identity, my sexuality, and my own familial experiences and how they all correlate.” And there is more great art to talk about in this exhibit, of course. In this exhibit with its exuberant embrace of having guiding principles, however, it was necessary to limit the discussion to four of them. But maybe, just maybe, there are some guiding principles in there somewhere. “With Dirty Fingernails I seek out artists for the show by going to studios, art schools, galleries, anywhere there is art,” explains Booe. “In that way I enjoy going to the artists directly in person and meeting them and talking with them about their work. All of the time and effort that I put into the show is out of love for the artists. Everything else is secondary to the artists because without exciting new art the show won’t be able to continue on. In the end if I was to try to constrain the show to a particular idea, theme, or taste it would keep the show from growing.” n
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friend’s Tasmanian-devillike tirades. Flanking them are Ted (Tristan Ross), a gratingly cheerful fellow employee and chip fanatic, and Patrick (Davey Pelsue), a stereotypical nerd and Steve’s intern. The most normal of the group is Dave’s crush, Juniper (Lisa Marie Smith). Ross also directs the play, and while the over-the-top affectations of Ted and Steve are funny at first, Ross has these characters taking it too far for too long. They become painful to watch, and the physical gags lose their impact. An accidental daisy chain isn’t as shocking when it lasts over a minute. Toning down the scenery chewing would give the jokes room to breathe; instead, they are force-fed to the audience. DO YOU GET IT?! HAHA! IT’S FUNNY! Smith is the only one who is not portraying a caricature, so she stands out,
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he musical revue Sondheim on Sondheim has undergone several incarnations since its origin in 2000. The final product, now having its Indianapolis premiere at Footlite Musicals, hit Broadway in 2010 for a short run. For this show, I have to agree with the initial critics that the video clips of Sondheim speaking about his works and other miscellanea are the highlights. The concert was meant to give the audience insight into Sondheim’s broad range of music, but for ardent fans, the predominance of lesser-known songs (including some that never reached the stage)
becomes tedious. That said, Footlite’s annual cabaret performance is marred by one overriding element: The vocalists cannot be heard over the orchestra. For its cabaret shows, the audience is seated on the stage for a more intimate experience, but even being a mere 10 or 15 feet away, song lyrics are often unintelligible. Furthermore, several of the cast members’ voices lack the projection needed for an unmiked performance. The ensemble cast—Lauren Bowers, Graham Brinklow, Onis Dean, Laura
Duvall-Whitson, Karen Frye, Jeff Fuller, Sarah Marone, and Larry Sommers, under the direction of Bill Hale and vocal director/conductor Paula Phelan — does present some fine moments. Sommers and Marone hit satisfying last notes in “Epiphany” (Sweeny Todd) and “Do I Hear a Waltz” (Do I Hear a Waltz), respectively. Duval-Whitson and Marone perform a nice mashup of “Losing My Mind/ Not a Day Goes By” (Follies/Merrily We Roll Along). Duval-Whitson also performs a lovely version of the ubiquitous “Send in the Clowns” (A Little Night Music). n SUBMITTED PHOTO
Dance Kaleidoscope’s show Classic Greats gave me pause when I first read the trio of dance selections: A thematic combination of Mexican architecture, Romeo and Juliet and Frank Sinatra seemed to have about as much in common as a show co-hosted by Bernie and Trump. The idea of “a meal” also immediately seemed like a weak way to loop it all together. In short, David Hochoy, you proved me wrong. The three-act performance showcased all of the dancers for the majority of the show. (Let it be noted, that kind of stamina only comes from a truly professional and rigorous training schedule.) The first act began with El Salon Mexico, an expansion of Hochoy’s trip to Mexico where he became enthralled with the architecture. The choreography used sharp angles to make the dancers into living statutes. All supported with a sharp attention to details like flexed feet, bent, angular arm and leg placements. Not to mention the intricate lifts and building compositions involving the entire cast. Romeo and Juliet was an interesting and, in my opinion, perfect choice to close the first act after El Salon Mexico. Conceptually, the shift from this very modern, angular, sharp choreography to the opening of Romeo and Juliet moved to exquisitely long lines and softer partner work. Of course Tchaikovsky’s non-linear Romeo and Juliet allows for powerful surges — like the fight scenes or the death scenes — but pairing the hyper modern El Salon with the more traditional choreography in Romeo and Juliet was risky and worth it. Frank’s Way can only be described as an amalgamation of style. From the tongue-in-cheek, sexy stories delivered in “Bewitched” and ”The Lady is a Tramp,” to ”Something Stupid’s” beautiful partner work by Aleksa Lukasiewicz and Noah Trulock, the ensemble was able to carry energy through every piece. Notably was the effortless, powerhouse quality Jillian Godwin brought to the choreography in ”That’s Life” and the playful company performance of ”High Hopes.” Frank’s Way breaks the rules of consistency and shows off one of the most important elements of dance — sheer entertainment. Overall the three acts showed clean lines and the kind of theatricality that draws new audiences into dance. — EMILY TAYLOR Up next is Voices Of A Generation: The Folk/Rock Revolution, Feb. 25 - March 6. dancekal.org
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Winesburg Indiana is a riff on the 1919 Sherwood Anderson novel Winesburg Ohio and another turn on Edgar Lee Master’s 1914 Spoon River Anthology. By purposefully mixing up where fiction ends and reality begins we’re in the company of voodoo writing. Whereas its predecessors are by one author, Winesburg Indiana is made up of stories by thirty disparate writers, some from Indiana, all weighing in to create a mosaic of what it’s like to be a Hoosier plopped down by birth or unhappy circumstance into this mythic town. Like all myths, there’s hard hitting actuality thrown into a cauldron with eye of newt and a bunch of other unsavories. Of the 41 stories there are about a half dozen repeats of characters presented in a different light. If you want a diversion with bite, read this myth-fable as an antidote to all the poignant history books coming at you per the Bicentennial of Indiana statehood. — RITA KOHN
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mystery series. The first book was See Also Murder, and the new one is See Also Deception. Marjorie Trumaine has a career that also parallels your own.
ndiana author Larry D. Sweazy writes both westerns and mysteries, and has won numerous awards for his novels and short stories. (He is a two-time winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction twice for books in his Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series.) But perhaps just as interesting is, for 18 years, he has been a “back-of-the-book index” writer for other people’s books including This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon, and Outdoor Life’s How to Hunt Everything. Roughly every other week he receives a non-fiction manuscript from a publisher, which he reads and then creates the index. The subject matter is completely random and varied – he has created indexes for science books, history, anthropology, art history, bios, etc. We spoke about his job, newest book and what’s next. NUVO: How many books a year do you usually index? LARRY D. SWEAZY: Since I’ve started, I can tell you exactly. Because, imagine that, I keep really detailed records of what I do. I am going to ship the Romanian index today and that is 824 in eighteen years. So, probably thirty to forty a year. I work two jobs. I think of myself as a full-time indexer and a full-time author. I get up in the morning and write until noon or one o’clock, and then after that I index until I’m done. NUVO: When I read See Also Murder I thought that this indexing work is such a fascinating thing for an author to do, both in the book, and in real life. With all the things you have to learn, it obviously helps you as a writer. SWEAZY: I’m always getting a vocabulary lesson. With every book I have to learn the vocabulary that the author uses. In the diverse worlds I travel in, between computer books and scholarly books and history books, I’m always learning something. Maybe I would be good on
SWEAZY: True. Marjorie is a back-of-thebook indexer, although how we go about our days is completely different. It is set in 1964, so she works the old-fashioned way with index cards and goes through physical pages, whereas I sit at the computer all day, and use software. She has to mark everything up, and type it up on an index card, and put it in a shoebox, and then go back and create a document by compiling all those index cards. It’s different for her. Of course, as an indexer, you never know what kind of books are going to come across your desk. I mean, I’m finishing up on one right now about the effect of the fall of socialism on the environment in Romania. NUVO: In Romania?
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“Jeopardy!,” on the right day, if I had the confidence to go on television. Which I don’t! But, you know, I’ve never met anyone who grew up wanting to be an
SWEAZY: (laughs) Yea, Romania. But at the same time I’m also working on a computer hardware manual that’s going to be part of the test for a certification. Two completely different worlds. So, an indexer has to be kinda curious. You never know what your next book is going to be. You attain a certain level of knowledge that is really diverse. It makes for a great sleuth.
“I’ve never met anyone who grew up wanting to be an indexer. Everyone I know who does it has just fallen into it.“ — LARRY D. SWEAZY indexer. Everyone I know who does it has just fallen into it. But it is one of the luckiest, most fortunate things that has ever happened to me in my entire life. NUVO: Let me ask you about your next book, coming out in May, which is the second book in the Marjorie Trumaine
NUVO: Tell me about your latest mystery novel (his eleventh novel, A Thousand Falling Crows, was just released and is The Library Journal’s Mystery Pick of the Month for January, 2016.)
SWEAZY: It is a little bit of a change for me, but also kind of a throwback. Because it is set in 1933 Texas, which is new to me, you know, a new century. But it features a Texas Ranger at the very end of his career. He is 62 years old, and one day he is sitting in the town square >>> and Bonnie and Clyde walk out
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<<< of the Ritz movie theatre and he follows them and gets into a shootout. He is injured — shot twice — and ultimately loses his right arm. And that is actually based on a real event. Bonnie & Clyde got into a chase and wrecked their car and the battery from the car flew back on Bonnie’s leg and really burned her leg pretty bad. And from that point on, until they died, Clyde pretty much carried her everywhere she went. Most people don’t know that story. I came across it doing research for one thing or another and it just kind of stuck with me. I thought, well that’s a great starting point for a story. I had this character, this Texas Ranger at the end of his career. What’s he going to do now? It’s in the middle of the Depression. He doesn’t have a job. He doesn’t have a right arm. He’s widowed. He’s pretty much on his own. And he ends up in the middle of robbery, which involves the janitor from the hospital where he had his arm amputated, who now needs his help. And there are girls turning up dead in fields around town, so it is kind a serial killer thing too. NUVO: Does it connect back to any of your other westerns? SWEAZY: Other than it is a Texas Ranger, no. It is this century with a the Texas Rangers, instead of the previous century. NUVO: You’ve written a lot of westerns, and have writing more mysteries later. This sounds like a combination of the both. SWEAZY: It could be. That’s what a lot of reviewers are saying, that it is a hybrid. That it appeals to both western fans and mystery fans. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. You know, all of that basic research that I’ve done of the years, with Texas and the Texas Rangers, that’s all foundational stuff. You don’t want that to go to waste. n
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ost of Wendy Lee Spacek’s poetry is based on dreams. More specifically the title for her new book comes from a reccurring dream that she has had since she was 18 year-old. In it a male doctor told her she was out of her mind, and that the only way to help her was to put antipsychotics in her vagina; leaving us with the term Psychogynecology. “It’s a combination of psychology and gynecology,” says Spacek. “It’s just a compound word that I made up. It appears in a few medical journals … There is no definition that I am aware of. To me, I was thinking of a couple of things.” The made up word is now the title of a short collection of poetry, written over the last four years. The earliest works were written during her studies as a writing student at the Art Institute of Chicago — a time when she was learning about the historical connections between psychology, women’s sexuality and mental health. The misconceptions in the medical field long labeled female sexuality as a mental health disorder, and choose reproductive organs to be a false connection to healing. In fact, adds Spacek, it’s where we get the word hysteria — from the notion of a hysterectomy. “Hysteria — being insane, the state of being crazy — the word itself is relating to a woman’s uterus,” says Spacek. “That history is still embedded in our language now.” At the time treatment went as far as forced sexual acts. A line from one of Spacek’s poems show it well: “I’m in hysterics and she’s resolved a regimen of antipsychotics to insert in my vagina” “The term Psychogynecology, what it means to me, is the intersections between femininity, sexuality, mental health, mental illness, trauma, ‘failed feminity’ or doing it wrong,” says Spacek. “Just even the context of a ‘typical woman’ is detrimental to our society as a whole.” Although many of the poems tie back to this central theme, there are related branches throughout the work.
“I am tangentially, or in a related way, interested in how nature has been defiled,” says Spacek. She explains how the same power hierarchy that is given to men over women, all humans unleash over the planet and those around us. “If you can do that to a field, that’s a step to doing that to a person — I think,” says Spacek. “I think our relationships to our environment, our immediate environment and our larger environment, is an indication of what other kinds of things people are capable of and the power to perpetrate on each other … I often think about gender and the constructions of our society that are formulated to separate people and put some groups above other groups, white people over Black people, immigrants under citizens.” Spacek is careful to mention that these are her understandings of the poems right now. That could easily change in a “I don’t know a lot about my poem while few months. In fact her understanding of I’m making it, that happens later.” them changed from when she sent them — WENDY LEE SPACEK to Monster House Publishing to when they returned, having gone through several reorderings. “I don’t know a lot about my poem while I’m making it, that happens later, says Spacek. “The way that poetry sort of works — for me and I think a lot of writers — is that you write every day and your writing is a creative experience for the most part … I’m not thinking ‘I’m going to write about this thing.’ it’s an expression of my whole self, and as an expression of my whole self it’s all of the things I am thinking about, and all the things I experience and all the things I don’t even TOP PHOTO BY @PRINTTEXT. BOTTOM PHOTO SUBMITTED. understand what I think about things Emily Gable created a series of animayet are embedded in the content of the tions for Spacek’s reading at PrintText poem. It’s totally an after-the-fact thing. earlier this month. I am still learning what these poems are about. I still don’t understand, and I’m still uncovering the connections.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // BOOKS 19
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FILM EVENTS Happy Birthday, IU Cinema! Jan. 14-16. IU Cinema is celebrating its first half decade of programming this week by screening the films most frequently requested by its patrons. The birthday celebration kicks off Thursday night at 7 p.m. with The Wizard of Oz followed by an ideal double feature on Friday night at 5 p.m. — The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. Saturday includes a morning screening of The Wizard of Oz (10 a.m.) followed by the entire Godfather trilogy starting at 1 p.m. IU Cinema, 1213 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), $3 for each screening, cinema.indiana.edu
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THE CLEAREST VIEW OF THE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE TO DATE The Big Short uses distinct direction to show the economic collapse of 2008
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t the end of The Big Short, which puts the economics of the 2008 financial collapse in understandable terms, the following words appear on screen: “When the dust settled from the collapse, $5 trillion in pension money, real estate value, 401k, savings, and bonds had disappeared. 8 million people lost their jobs, 6 million lost their homes. And that was just in the USA.” The Big Short is a snappy caper film, only this time the money is being stolen from us. Director Adam McKay co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Randolph, based on the non-fiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis. McKay and Randolph understand that most of us don’t understand economics, so they write explanations into the film. At one point, gorgeous Margot Robbie explains subREVIEW THE BIG SHORT (2015) prime mortgages while taking a bubble bath and sipping champagne. Later, chef Anthony Bourdain explains an economic N O W S H O W I N G : I N W I D E R E L E A S E RATED: R, e concept by comparing it to fish stew. Selena Gomez does the same thing while watching a blackjack game in Las Vegas. their tricks, McKay and company make That’s not all the filmmakers have up the enormity of the madness easier to their sleeves. The narrator of the film accept. Never mind that the behavior has a distinct point of view, and doesn’t of the people we follow – both socially physically enter the movie for a while. and ethically – is as dreadful, or at least Characters periodically break the fourth nearly as dreadful, as that of the desigwall and address the audience directly. nated villains. At a key meeting late in the proceedings, eccentric hedge fund manager Mark Baum interrupts a presentation to The zippy style, annotations, and ask a question, then interrupts it again, only to answer his tutorials never lessen the film’s ringing cellphone and walk out of the room. When it hap- sense of anger and outrage. pens, another character looks at us and says, “Mark Baum really did that. When we were Most importantly, the zippy style, anin Vegas he did that, he said that, he took notations, and tutorials never lessen the that call ... Now you see what I had to film’s sense of anger and outrage over deal with.” Characters also occasionally what is being done. point out inaccuracies in the film as well. The global market collapse is exI loved when that happened. plained by following a group of men who You would think that behavior like this saw what was coming and figured out would weaken the integrity of the film, how to profit from it. First up is Michael but serves to make it stronger. By reinBurry (Christian Bale), a stock guru who forcing their truths and acknowledging appears to have Asperger’s Syndrome.
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His investigative activities draw the attention of our narrator, banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), who ends up teaming with the aforementioned Mark Baum (Steve Carell) to work the system to their gain. Small-time schemers Charles Geller (John Magaro) and Jamie Shipley (Finn Whitrock) also try to get in the game, turning to ex-banker Ben Rickert (bearded Brad Pitt, who looks like Peter Dinklage’s brother) to help them appear credible. The ensemble cast also includes Marisa Tomei, Adepero Oduye, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Melissa Leo, and Karen Gillian. Everybody gives it their all, with Carell and Bale emerging as MVPs. Adam McKay is best known for his work with Will Ferrell. He directed the Anchorman movies as well as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. I’m not sure whether his everybody-inthe-pool hyper-caffeinated approach to this film is pure calculation or a mix of design and overreaching. Regardless, he has crafted the clearest, most understandable view of the financial collapse I’ve seen to date. The Big Short is entertaining, horrifying and sort of clear. When it comes to economics, sort of clear is as close as I’m likely to get, so thank you, Mr. McKay n
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to wait until Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees for a more emotional exploration of the notorious suicide site. The Forest certainly has its moments though. The film does some interesting toying with the idea of twin siblings being spiritually connected — in the same way that souls are firmly rooted in the forest. And Dormer makes you feel the weight of her sister’s presence. However, that emotional heft quickly fades away in the last act as the film essenturns into a funhouse ride. As Dormer’s character trudges tially Leaves rustle, skeletons pop out, ghostly figures float between the deep into the forest, the film trees, etc. unfortunately grows shallow. Full disclosure: I’m a horror fanatic. So, despite its January release — a time slot often reserved for lousy films — I was eager to the woods every year. Signs at the main see The Forest. It looked like a fun entry trail urge suicidal visitors to contact the in the horror genre. But this is ultimately Suicide Prevention Association. a better one to watch at home, preferably Throughout the first act, the solemn while you’re curled up on the couch with reality of the forest eerily looms over some form of alcohol. Take a drink every the film. And the filmmakers show great time Dormer’s character says she can attention to detail in depicting defining feel her sister’s presence in the woods. characteristics of the legendary locaThis is a tough kind of film to review. It tion — such as the trails of tape that has an evocative setting and an intrigusome visitors leave behind in case they ing premise. It’s the kind of bland horror abandon their suicidal plans and need flick that leaves you daydreaming of guidance back to safety. (The screenwrit- more interesting nightmarish scenarios. ers clearly did their research.) The Forest is littered with breadcrumbs As Dormer’s character trudges deep leading to a better film. Let’s hope some into the forest, the film unfortunately other horror filmmakers find them. n grows shallow. It looks like we’ll have NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // SCREENS 21
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Fantastic Food Fest Jan. 16-17, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. The festival will highlight food and drink, shopping, and cooking demonstrations and classes. It will also feature host Carmel native and Purdue grad Ted Allen — for more on Ted, see our interview at nuvo.net Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St., $15-55 Avant Brunch with Daniel Wohl Jan. 16, 10 a.m. Avant Brunch, inspired by an album or live performance, sends local chefs to craft an exclusive menu, served inside the museum. The quarterly series has already hosted some of Indianapolis’ most well known chefs.
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uilding something where there’s nothing — it’s not an easy task, but that’s what the members of the Indy Food Cooperative have done. Pogue’s Run Grocer opened five years ago to provide, as its website says, “affordable, fresh, healthy foods” to a neighborhood that had little access to such. The store has survived and is thriving five years later due to the work of many, at least according to its first general manager Greg Monzel. “Early on when the co-op began, it was really a community effort,” says Monzel. “And people from all over the community here on the near Eastside came together from different backgrounds and different associations and saying, really, we need to have a place in our neighborhood where people can get good, healthy, local food options.” It hasn’t been easy, says Monzel, who is currently serving as interim general manager, filling in after the recent departure of longtime general manager Nate Roberts.
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“It’s definitely a challenge, and we had our work cut out for us, but there’s just such a great feeling of community among our members and contributors from the beginning,” says Monzel. “It’s just a powerful thing to see people come together at a grass roots level and build something where there’s nothing.” The near Eastside, along with other areas of the city, has been underserved by traditional retail food outlets, leading to its characterization as a food desert, a problem that the Indy Food Co-op has aimed to address. “This area is still really a food desert, but we have put a dent in that desert for sure just by being here,” says Monzel. “And that was really our mission — to try to alleviate the food desert that’s here on the near Eastside, or at least work
towards that.” As a cooperative, Pogue’s Run Grocer is owned by its members, who vote on business decisions and elect volunteer representatives to the group’s board of directors. Member and downtown resident Janet Schneider said Pogue’s Run supporters take the mission seriously. “The food desert issue is something that staff, the board of directors and shoppers really care about,” says Schneider, who has also served on the co-op’s board. “As members, we ask ourselves if we are doing enough. It’s a tough issue because of its complexity.” Schneider said that the development of Pogue’s Run Grocer paralleled her own growing awareness of food issues and that as a downtowner for more than 15 years, “I was eager to support a small business that was going into a nearby neighborhood that needed access to fresh food and a bit of positivity.” Customer Service Manager Alan Walker said that Pogue’s Run Grocer has definitely been a positive force in the neighborhood. “People really love this store,” he said. “It’s a beautiful thing. It’s a wonderful
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thing. A lot of positive energy.” But getting the word out about what the store is and how the member-owned co-op model works hasn’t always been easy, Monzel said. “It’s kind of tricky trying to communicate to the neighborhood what we are and what we’re doing here because we are a member-based store, and so we have different pricing for some things for members,” said Monzel, although anyone can shop at the store.
“The roof leaks,” said Walker. “The refrigeration unit might go out, or other items might fail sometimes. I’ve seen where we’ve come to a point to say how are we going to get the funds to fix this?” Schneider also points out the challenges of competition and buying power that are inherent in the grocery business. Then, she said, “there are the everyday challenges of loitering and littering, a roof and parking lot that need repair, and lack of space and equipment to have a really top-notch deli operation, which is Pogue’s best moneymaker. But I think “This area is still really a food all things considered, Pogue’s desert, but we have put a dent Run Grocer does a good job in this area, with a fresh salad bar, in that desert for sure just by hot homemade soup station and great, classic sandwiches for not being here.” a lot of money.” Walker doesn’t diminish the — GREG MONZEL challenges but is optimistic about the viability of the co-op. “It’s been an uphill battle but sales are great, the store has thrived, But members have worked hard over we’re continuing to thrive, and we’ve the past five years to get the word out, overcome a lot of hurdles that most busiand that effort has paid off, said Walker. nesses experience,” says Walker. “I hear quite often people say, ‘Yeah, For Pogue’s Run Produce Buyer Twon I’ve been living here for years and I never Schroeder, the success of the co-op knew this store was here,’”says Walker. hinges on the difference between cost “They’re also starting to be educated as and value. far as the benefits from healthy alterna“One of the things we’ve worked on tives, and they’re beginning to reap the here is trying to say, ‘What is the value benefits. It’s very exciting.” associated with it?’” he said. “Because But the past five years have been when you get into the value, all of a challenging. Money is always an issue, sudden you have a different perspective especially when it comes to infrastrucof life.” n ture and equipment. Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. Follow her on Twitter @JKetzenberger.
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ean Manahan has been at the helm of Flat 12’s brewing for the last two years. Having cut his teeth at People’s brewing in Lafayette, he has seen the Indiana craft brewing scene shift into a commercial staple while fighting to maintain a creative spark. “There is a point where you need to be producing high quality beer, and we started doing that at Flat 12,” says Manahan. “Once you have a high quality product base then you can really, really expand. Most breweries focus on the balance between sweetness and bitter — we definitely do that at Flat 12 — but we also incorporate savory aspects of beer. It has been a nice whirlwind getting in here.” We spoke with him before the brewery’s upcoming five-year anniversary party and before some major design changes come to Flat 12. NUVO: What are some of the most interesting ingredients you have been able to use at Flat 12? SEAN MANAHAN: We do a lot with untraditional brewing ingredients — like we 24 FOOD // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
made the dog beer (a brew that is safe for dogs to drink) that was a fun thing to work on. We made a beer using squid ink; cotton candy sugar. Really the sky is the limit. We have a very knowledgable staff here so it is pretty easy to say ‘you know I am ready to make a beer with tomatillos, kiwi and mint.’ That’s on the table, so we all sit around and discuss the best way to get those flavors into a beer that’s ultimately going to taste good. It’s a challenge for us all. NUVO: Is this a turning point in any way? What do you have in the pipeline? MANAHAN: We have been established for five years and have seen a lot of things grow in the brewing community as a whole, as well as East side Indy. So for our fifth anniversary, and kind of moving forward, there is a new look to Flat 12. So with growing up and pulling ourselves up by our boot straps we have to change the look into a more mature kind of look. As far as the beers, it’s just staying on the unrelenting path of pushing the limits. A lot of breweries say this — but we really work on this — we really work on brewing beers that we like to drink and we kind of sell what’s left. We have a big group of very knowledgeable
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experienced beer nerds. Our goal is to keep making beers that we enjoy and hopefully everyone else does too. NUVO: What are some of the major noteworthy changes you have witneseds over the last five years in Indiana’s craft brewing scene? MANAHAN: Indiana’s scene, and Indy’s scene more specifically, is just exploding. You know when I started brewing (and this was in 2010, so six years ago) when People’s opened, there were only 35 breweries in the state. And now we have close to to 35 breweries within biking distance of downtown. So watching the industry grow and growing with the industry, it’s nice to see staples like People’s, like Flat 12, like Sun King. And now I find myself getting the opportunity to teach new people as they are coming in and opening up breweries. The relationships within the communi-
ty, it’s such a tight group. People before they open a brewery a lot of times they will go brewery to brewery for help and kind of asking for guidance. That has probably been my favorite thing, watching the industry grow. It’s kind of like a homecoming, it’s like a reunion every time. Watching that develop has been my favorite part of the industry. NUVO: What is Flat 12 doing that no one else is? MANAHAN: Right now were are bordering two different aspects of craft brewing. We are a commercial production facility, and we have beer being distributed in all of Indiana and surrounding states. We are the big side of things, but we are also small guys if you will. We all came from a home brewing background. We all like the experimental … we are going to push the limits on experimental beers in small batches. We are bringing out a whole new line of packaging and we are bottling up our barrel age program. We are working through developing our barrels and our sour program. It’s a lot of small side projects that keep us interested — and keeps Flat 12 interesting. All the while doing the day to day rigors of commercial brewing. n
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it’s the Groundhog Assembly rather than the General Assembly, we will see some of the same attempts to weaken Indiana’s environmental standards yet again. Watch Hoosier Environmental Council’s Bill Watch 2016 (hecweb.org/bill-watch-2016) pages for info and updates on “No More Stringent Than” (HB 1082), Right to Farm/Harm, and Energy Policy. Subscribe to HEC enews to get Action Alerts regarding these issues. If you care about the local farm-to-fork movement, then you’ll care about SB 71, which would prevent local small-scale poultry farmers from selling their products to local food establishments. A North Manchester farm family has started a petition about this bill. Recycling has been a hot issue in Indianapolis for the past year or more, and now there are two bills that could potentially have a negative effect on recycling statewide: SB 88 and SB 366 would seriously limit solid waste management districts in their ability to fund and implement recycling initiatives in their counties. Legislation to protect 10 percent of our state forests from logging has been introduced. Indiana Forest Alliance does an excellent job summarizing the bills and offering ways to take action. The Fresh Food Initiative, SB 15, is a positive bill that would bring fresh produce and unprocessed foods to food deserts – and could potentially bolster the local food movement. There are also positive things happening with transit, including SB 128 which would bring additional funding to Monroe County for transit projects. Here are a few special events that may interest you: • Transit Day, Thursday, Feb. 11, a day dedicated to mass transit advocacy. Join others from around the state to meet with legislators, share information, and build support for transit funding. • Humane Lobby Day, Tuesday, Jan. 19, an opportunity to talk with state legislators about passing laws that protect animals. And if animal rights are important to you, follow Indiana Wildlife Federation on Facebook for information on SB 109, which would allow canned hunting, and SB 195, which would authorize DNR’s authority over all wild animals. IWF opposes SB 109 and supports SB 195.
• Or plan to attend a Third House Meeting in your county. (You can find more info about those at hecweb.org.) •M ost importantly, CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS! If there is an issue, environmental or other, that you are passionate about, be sure to let your elected officials know how you feel. You can find your legislators’ names and contact info at iga.in.gov/ legislative/find-legislators/. This is a short session (it ends March 14), but that doesn’t mean it can’t have very impactful consequences. Stay engaged and be sure your voice is heard personally and thoughtfully! PIECE OUT, RENEE
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Here’s a fun and easy craft project that is best done while enjoying a glass of your favorite local wine: trophy bottle stoppers. Drill a hole slightly smaller than the threaded figurine bolt into the top of a tapered cork, then screw the figurine into the cork. Might even make a cute gift idea for mom and dad who supported you through all of those 4-H projects and soccer games. My grandpa made a lamp base out of an old wood bowling trophy. I still use it now and love having a memory of my grandpa and my family’s roots in upcycling. It’s likely that the top of your trophies are plastic and the bottom are either wood, marble or some other materials. If you disassemble the top from the bottom, RecycleForce (recycleforce.org) will take the plastic tops and you can dispose of the base in the trash. I imagine there are children’s groups and clubs that could use old ribbons and trophies, but I really don’t know who they are (I called a couple, but they weren’t interested). So, if you know of a nonprofit or club that might be interested, email me. Congratulations on being a champion recycler! PIECE OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
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The 18th Annual MLK Community Festival Jan 16, 11 a.m.-3p.m. This event at CTS music (including hip-hop appreciation), features artmaking, poetry reading, yoga and the Power of Peace Award ceremony. The keynote speaker is astrophysicist, science educator, and professor at Notre Dame Dr. Philip J. Sakimoto, Ph.D. He’ll be speaking on “The Climate Crisis.” Jim Poyser, meanwhile, will stage another edition of his “Ain’t Too Late Show” — the improvised environmental game show that one audience member called “a train wreck waiting to happen. Poyser’s creation — which has been featured on Public Radio International’s program “The World” — comes with prizes, like any good game show. Christian Theological Seminary, 1000 W. 42nd St.
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A: Sounds like you’re an over-
achiever, so here are some DIY ideas for upcycling or recycling your old awards. My favorite upcycling project that I found is to make a trophy coat rack: just attach the figurines from the top of the trophies (use four to six) to a board so the little bowlers or hoopsters are sticking out sideways. You have to find the threaded bolt-bottomed kind of figurines for this, then countersink the right-size nut on the back of the board. Doesn’t seem like a ton of work and what a conversation piece it will be!
Earth Day Indiana 2016 April 23, 2016, times TBD. Yep, we know we’re waaaaay ahead of things here, but you’ll want to get this annual event on your calendar now for two big reasons: number one, it’ll be a constant reminder through the dark winter months that SPRING MUST ARRIVE. Secondly, it’s worth noting that the event has moved to a bigger space — that’d be Military Park — for “additional exhibitors, activities, performances, and workshops.” Military Park, 601 W. New York St.
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With soulful vocals and a thick bass line, Sphie’s Limitless Extraordinaire certainly has a modern take on electric music while paying tribute to the countless dance floors that have been energized by an unrelenting tambourine track. It’s clear that Sphie’s voice is deeply influenced by soulful pop predecessors. This five-song EP showcases her talent. From beginning to end, her vocals are crisp and predominant. The production, helmed by Nicholas “Mandog” Smith, does a wonderful job of framing the singer’s voice, which is made me think of artists like Taylor Dayne, Fiona Apple and Amy Winehouse. While the layers of synth, drum and bass are lifting up Sphie’s voice, it doesn’t come across as a smattering of canned “fruity loops.” It’s refreshing to go from song to song and get a different musical experience with her singing tying the EP together nicely. Credit producer Mandog with that. The single “Breathe,” for which Sphie recently released a video, features an industrial rhythmic foundation paired with a mellow piano part throughout the song. The track definitely has a more modern appeal with its ambient backing vocals and clever use of effects. One of the most interesting elements is found in “Perspective.” Beneath her voice, there’s an intriguing string part that opens up the song. It immediately made me think of a samisen. As the track continues, I hear other textures that remind of folk music from Japan and Korea. Limitless Extraordinaire possesses an energy and pulse that could equally electrify a dance floor or facilitate daily meditations – fitting, as Sphie’s other endeavor is as a yoga teacher.
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ngela Brown has a cold. I know what you're thinking: It's January. Those bugs are going around. Normal, right? But oh, ho, when the Metropolitan Opera star soprano has a cold, it's a whole different ball game. She's en route to a drugstore for some fortifying meds when I ring her up to talk about her performance Sunday at All Souls Unitarian Church, where she'll perform a variety of pieces, with and without the choir. Despite her pedigree — top reviews for her renditions of Verdi heroines with operas across the globe, recitals at Carnegie, a Grammy nod for recent release Ask Your Mama, by Laura Karpman — she's a regular in churches around here, including “almost weekly” performances at her home church, Capitol City Seventh Day Adventist. Yes, Brown is busy: world traveling and launching her own jewelry line (It's A Diva Thang, perfectly gold and glittery). But she's an Indianapolis girl through-and-through, and that's what we spent our time talking about: her time at Crispus Attucks, learning rhythm percussion from Miss Rose at School 76, testing acoustics at Carmel's Palladium, and more. Cross your fingers she kicks this cold, because our girl's got stuff to do. Find a full version of our conversation at NUVO.net/kat.
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NUVO: I was thinking through the legacy of musicians that attended Crispus Attucks: Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard, Rodney Stepp, JJ Johnson, James Spaulding, David Baker … Angela Brown! There's some magic in that school. As someone who came out of there, I would love to hear your experience there, and what you think made it so special. ANGELA BROWN: Well, you know, Crispus Attucks was designed to set apart African-Americans. It was designed for
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segregation. So when you're in a situation where you are set apart, you can't help but have the cream of the crop there! It ended up backfiring. The powers that be that made it, it backfired, and it became a breeding ground for genius. And it just so happens they were Black! It's just because it was just going to happen. Like I said, we were set apart for segregation, but the best came out of that. It was meant for our demise, and it came about as good. NUVO: I was thinking about my mother, an elementary school music teacher, when I read a thank you to Miss Rose at School 76 [in 19 Stars of Indiana; Exceptional Hoosier Women]. It's so powerful how those early teachers can have such a hold on you. What do you remember about Miss Rose and the early days in music class? BROWN: I just remember her allowing us to sing. I remember playing on the instruments that she would bring in, and the rhythm stuff that we would have to learn. She was just a nice lady. She just allowed us to evolve and to be. She was my very first touch on anything of structure when it came to music. NUVO: The Indianapolis Opera has obviously been in a transitional period, and has had some different leadership and different seasonal things happening. What are your thoughts on the future of opera in Indianapolis? BROWN: Great! The future of opera in Indianapolis will be great. What's the saying? If you always do what you've always did, you'll always get what you always got. There has to be some changes, and someone has to be brave to bring about those changes. I'm actually on the honorary board, which means I
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don't say anything and don't go to anything, but my name is affiliated with the Indianapolis Opera. I'm very proud to have been and to be a part of this organization, even in their restructuring. Times are changing. And I do believe with Kevin Patterson at the helm that there will be some new and exciting changes to come to the opera landscape here in Indianapolis. Just keep them in prayer, keep them in your heart, keep them in your bank account. Give, give, give, because opera costs lots of money. But it's worth it, to bring the beauty that
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NUVO: What's the key to unlocking opera for someone who has never listened to it before?
BROWN: What is the lynchpin? The thing that makes them go a-ha. It's understanding it, and making it palatable. You know, being myself, and telling the story. That's why I do Opera...From a Sistah's Point of View. Not to dumb it down, because it's not about being dumb. It's about being exposed. I find that when I have some good ol' fun with it, and explain to them what's happening, they can find themselves in opera. They can find a situation – whether about love, or about loss of love, or death, or a war, or “Opera is not brain surgery, child. anything like that – or if it's about seeing themselves It’s entertainment.”” personally, whether they're Asian, whether they're Black, — ANGELA BROWN whether they're Italian, whether they're Italian, whether they're Hispanic. You can find yourself in opera. It's just about being comfortable opera does have to this great city. And with it, and not trying to make it brain that's one thing that makes Indianapolis surgery. Because opera is not brain a great city. We are the cultural mecca, surgery, child, it's entertainment. It's being in the Midwest. We have everyentertainment, that's what it is. Not to try thing. And we do it with great quality to set it up to be something like [feigns and excellence. It will be fine. Opera will be fine. It might look a little different, but hoity-toity voice], “Ohhh, only ...” Please. Give me a break. Only the rich can enjoy it will be here. it. NO. It started out with the poorer NUVO: I love this quote that you gave people in Italy. And then it was a comto another alt-weekly, The Westward, mand performance of something that about Opera ...From a Sistah's Point of was supposed to be written for the kings View. You said: “At first I thought it was and queens, and then it took off to somejust Black audiences I had to reach. But thing that became an elitist art form. But after a while, I realized white people it really started very grassroots. don’t like opera, either!” NUVO: As a Northsider, what do you BROWN: There you go! think about the Palladium as a performer?
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BROWN: I love the Palladium. I wasn't the tester for the theater, but I was doing a Christmas concert that year with David Bowden and the Carmel Symphony. The acoustician of the Palladium just happened to be there during my rehearsal. And he said, “Would you just do me a favor and sing a little bit a capella with no amplification or anything?” And I sang for him, and he said, “This building is meant for that.” It's one of the warmest places that I have sung, as far as the acoustics are concerned. Of course, when you have amplification, you have different artists that will use that facility, and they all have different needs, so sometimes you need amplification. I enjoy that space because it is so versatile. And I love how it looks. I love how it just seems to rise out of Carmel like a sphinx. I love it! I love how it's just kind of set apart. NUVO: You're most associated with singing the work of Verdi. As you've continued to sing his work, and continued to perform it in a variety of different productions, how has your understanding of him as a writer and historical figure changed? What do you think of him as a man, as a musician?
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BROWN: [laughs] Now I'm not one of those historians that will wax long about his history and how he pulled on the counterpoints and blah, blah, blah. I think that when it comes to his heroines, he loved to see a lady weepin' and gnashin' teeth. All of his heroines always have an act where they sing a LOT. Like in Aida, it's the third act. It's power-packed and full of drama. So it's the third act for Aida. In Il trovatore, I think he got a little crazy altogether, because you didn't have to sing that much in the second act. So a lot of times, one of the arias that she sings is cut, because she's saying the same thing again. It just goes from maybe 8 to 10. I'm like, “Oh my goodness. Verdi just wants to sing all of his sopranos into the ground.” I'm like, “Come on now, Mr. Verdi!” I love it. He's not a punk. You can't be a punk and sing his music. He uses your voice from top to bottom, and the middle. He works it, honey. With all that said, with all the work that you have to do, I believe that he loved women and wanted to show them off. I have to speak of what I know, what I do, what I have experienced. And I believe he loved the female voice, and wanted to show every facet, every sparkling image, every diamond that it could be. And he allows that in his music, because you have to be able to do it. He calls for a lot. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // MUSIC 29
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ou may know TJ Reynolds for his work with Undefeatable Beats, a large musical collective that combined African rhythms, and performance art with hip-hop. Or, maybe you know him as one of the architects of the (now-defunct) all-ages venue and community center United States of Mind. Or perhaps you know him from his work with true school hip-hop trio The Philosophy, or more recently as leader of the hip-hop/funk aggregate Freehand Orchestra. Reynolds' latest project NPR is perhaps his most eccentric endeavor to date, an 18-track hip-hop album composed entirely around samples from National Public Radio programming. When I spoke with Reynolds for this interview he described the project as an album-length fan letter to NPR written in the language of hip-hop. And so far Reynolds’ love for NPR appears to be reciprocal, as the nationally syndicated program Marketplace acknowledged Reynolds' tribute on a recent broadcast. If names like Diane Rehm, Terry Gross and Garrison Keillor hold celebrity status in your household, then I recommend you immediately head to tjreynolds.net where you can download a free copy of NPR. NUVO: Before we talk about the NPR album, I wanted to ask about your geographic location. You've been living in Boston the last few years, but it seems like you've maintained a very strong connection to the Indianapolis music scene. Is that correct? TJ REYNOLDS: I'm going into my fourth year living in Boston. I try to get performances together when I come back to Indianapolis. But I also try to connect with the cats that are coming up. It's cool to see the little seeds that myself and a lot of other individuals started planting when there wasn't that much going on in the city, and to be able to come back and gather the people that I knew before and to perform in front of these new crowds of people that are coming out supporting the arts. NUVO: Your new album NPR is built around audio samples and themes culled from an assortment of popular public radio programs. Can you tell us what inspired the concept? REYNOLDS: I'm a hip-hop fan and an avid NPR listener, and I don't think
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that's a very small niche. People that are real fans of hip-hop, especially golden age hip-hop, really miss hearing the type of intelligent lyrics they grew up listening to on the radio. So what are we listening to now? We're listening to something that is verbally stimulating with a whole lot of words — there's just not a beat behind it. So we're gravitating towards NPR. I would hear all the theme songs and I would always think while I was driving "oh, I want to flip that. I want to turn that into a beat." So I ended up doing one, and one turned into a couple. Then I had a vision for the project and bada bing bada boom — five years later it's done. NUVO: The production on the album is very detailed. Musically you've added many layers of sound to the NPR source material you're sampling from. How did you approach developing the theme songs and bumper music you sampled from?
Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
REYNOLDS: The skits, the intermissions, the call-ins and the interviews were in a way harder to put together than the songs. I'm used to doing songs and I know the process. But to put together the interviews and make them sound real, I was listening to dozens of shows sometimes to find the right clips and arranging them to make the conversation sound natural. I think the "A Way With Words" track was the most successful one. Even my mastering engineer was like, "Did you really call in to them? Because that was really awkward. That's the TJ I know, good job man!"
NUVO: The album features musical contributions from some great Indianapolis artists like Kate Lamont and The Comdot. What the response when [Real fans of hip-hop are] listening to was you were approaching something that is verbally stimulating musicians to contribute to the project? Did they with a whole lot of words — there’s get the concept or did they think you'd gone just not a beat behind it. So we’re too far in your love of public radio? gravitating towards NPR. REYNOLDS: There were a few people who were like, "OK man, you really love NPR!" [laughs] I think some people didn't fully understand the whole concept, and maybe I didn't fully understand it until I had a number of the tracks together. It wasn't until last year that I started to put some of the skits and intermissions together and that balanced it out and made it almost feel like you were listening to NPR. Something you might put in on a road trip and it took you through all the shows. I tried to combine the experience of listening to a hip-hop album with the experience of listening to public radio. n
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REYNOLDS: Each track starts the same but branches out into a different process. When I start with a song I listen to parts that jump out at me that I can rearrange in a way that's fresh, but still recognizable as the theme song from the show. Marinating on each show's topic gives me a direction to go in, which is a really fun challenge. To be limited in that scope made me even more creative with how I put together songs that reflected the spirit of the shows but also said what I wanted to say to the universe. NUVO: In the tradition of so many classic hip-hop LPs you have a few skits on the album. You must have listened to hours and hours of NPR programs to find these samples.
KYLE LONG >> Kyle Long broadcasts weekly on WFYI 90.1 FM Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
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GEAR AND BEER WITH MIGHTY BROTHER
Skyping over beer about the tools they use for their new album Jettison. Reprise.
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NUVO: The vocals sound really rich, was that because of a certain mic or technique?
n a Sunday afternoon in our kitchen, I set up my computer, Field Notes and fountain pen to Skype the duo that is Mighty Brother, Jake Ryan and Nick Huster. While they enjoyed flights at NOLA Brewery in downtown New Orleans, I sipped Tin Man’s Alloy American pale ale.
RYAN: Eric had a good selection of mics. [We recorded] with a Wunder CM7 into a UA610 with Avedis E27 EQManley ELOP and Empirical Labs EL8X Disstressor. HUSTER: We didn’t want it to sound like we’re in a booth, so we did [the vocals] in a big open space. Generally he put the mics above us so we had to sing up to them. He had a very specific way he wanted us to sing towards them and Jake was moving [the mic] and Eric was like, “are you moving my microphone?! That’s exactly where I wanted it, stop touching it.”
NUVO: The band is in New Orleans now, but when you’re in Bloomington what do you like to drink? HUSTER: I like Upland Dragonfly. Being from Bloomington I gotta rep that. RYAN: I really like Big Woods. I’m definitely a stout man. HUSTER: Chocolate milk stouts. NUVO: I like Sun King’s Porter. HUSTER: That’s my winter beer. If I’m going to have a night of drinking, I’ll get a six pack of pale ale. If I’m at The Tap I’ll try their seasonal. NUVO: How did the songs come together? RYAN: Some of them go back a couple of years. “Yours and Mine” was from my repertoire about two years ago, [Huster] had “West” from a long time ago. Some of them we wrote in the fall, while we’re putting together the track list. I’d have these two verses and Nick would say, “let’s finish it.” HUSTER: We’ve only been a band a year. We basically became a band to make this album. We started living together and I was hearing his stuff, he was hearing mine. We thought, “this could go together.” Here we are a year later and we’re about to release it. NUVO: The entire album flows together from start to finish, was that a part of your plan when writing? RYAN: We went into it with our own list of songs, because we’re both songwriters. We demoed each song to each other and picked which songs had a similar feel. Then we narrowed it down from there and started putting them in order. The second half of the album
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RYAN: [Huster] was there for horn day, and I was there for strings. I got to see Diederik [Van Wassener] work. He’s a great arranger.
we would, “okay we need to end in this key so it’ll make sense to start in this key, or an instrumental interlude to link them together.”
HUSTER: It was kind of fun, but not purposefully that only one of us could be there. I missed strings day, so I didn’t hear the parts until I went to record my vocals. On “Muscle to Bone” I forgot that we put strings. I did my vocals in one take because I was on this wave of energy because it was completely fresh.
HUSTER: The story arc of the album and track list we had written out last December. That was the first thing we did. The string quartet in the middle, “Reprise” which follows “Muscle to Bone,” that was just them in the studio. We listened back to it, and said, “here’s where it starts, and we’re going to cut it here. We added some reverb; it was bare minimum… “Alright you guys just play and we’ll figure out how that sounds on the album.
NUVO: How did the horn section come together? HUSTER: We worked with Lexie [Signor, Atomic Dog Brass Band].
NUVO: What kind of instruments did you play on the album? RYAN: I think there’s six guitars on the album. I brought the ones I had and the studio had this really fantastic Gretsch with a Bigsby style tremolo system. [It was] the bread and butter on “Shake the Night” and the melodies and solo on “Blue Horizon.” I brought in a Gibson SG. We used our acoustics... [To Huster] What’s your Ibanez? HUSTER: I don’t know. RYAN: Mine’s a really old Ibanez. My dad had it when he was my age. It’s
NUVO: Were you in the studio when the brass and strings were recorded?
wizened, experienced. I also brought in [for “Broken Things”] a Gibson Blues Hawk, that was my dad’s and it was the first guitar I learned on. I called it my “idea guitar.” NUVO: Where did you record? RYAN: Sleepwalk Recording in Bloomington. HUSTER: The studio was amazing. It was located in an old warehouse that he redid for his stuff.
RYAN: All her players are Jacobs [School of Music] students. Two trumpets, French horn, trombone and, interestingly, bass trombone, which adds those low swells you hear in “Elevator Man” and “Dearly Beloved.” HUSTER: We definitely believe in collaborating with the horn arranger and string quartet. How many people can we bring in to support what we’re doing to fill out our vision? n Listen to Jettison. Reprise. on mightybrother.bandcamp.com
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YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF BEDFORD … Southern Indiana stays strong for Clayton Anderson
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edford native Clayton Anderson isn’t necessarily what you’d expect from a rising star in independent country music. He’s the same guy, after all, who freely admits he first picked up a guitar and formed a band because he thought it might make him more popular with the opposite sex. But he realized quickly he’d stumbled onto something more when his band entered, then won, Kenny Chesney’s Next Big Star competition, getting to open for the country superstar in Cincinnati back in ’09. “Man, he was so awesome to us!” Anderson says of Chesney. “That was the first real lesson we got to learn about what it takes, how much it takes to put on that type of show, and to watch him work. We don’t hang out or have beers together, but any time I’ve seen him he’s always offered any support he could.” What he couldn’t have known at the time was that he was finding his footing in country music when the genre itself was at a crossroads. Growing up in Southern Indiana, Anderson says he was exposed at a young age to country songwriters like Conway Twitty, but he also was the right age to appreciate John Mellencamp, Garth Brooks and KISS. With his own performances drawing comparisons to Jarrod Neimann, Luke Bryan and Eric Church, artists who were also inspired by a similar melting pot, things start making sense after all. “I think it’s very exciting, country music is in a whole new phase of life right now, creating its new sound,” he says. “There’s still a lot that’s ‘pop’ to it, but there’s also a lot that drives back to classic country. I grew up worshiping John Mellencamp, that’s where my roots are for sure in songwriting. And if Mellencamp was coming up today, I think he’d definitely wind up more in country.” Anderson’s first trips to Nashville didn’t necessarily turn out how he’d hoped. “They told me my demos sounded solid, but too much like Luke Bryan,” he says. “Nashville’s funny that way.” So he turned back to the road, honing his chops by playing the college circuit, in turn developing a loyal fan following. “Being from Bedford, obviously 32 MUSIC // 01.13.16 - 01.20.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Bloomington was right in my back yard,” he says. “I didn’t apply to any other schools, I knew I wanted to go to Indiana. And now I have the most supportive fan base of people who graduated and moved to places like Chicago, Atlanta, New York City. We’re selling a lot of downloads in these big cities because it started there in Bloomington.” His first Nashville album, Torn Jeans & Tailgates, yielded a few songs that got minor radio play, but for the most part he was finding his way as a songwriter, unsure when to push his own material and when to rely on the songs of others. Over the years, however, he’s built up the confidence to know when he’s found a winner. “My first record I put out had a lot more “songwriter” songs on it,” he explains. “I was still a bit green, and my songs tended to be riffs on the Jerrod Neimann sound at the time, so I left most of them out. But on my last record I wrote a lot of the songs myself. And
that on Spotify we’ve had more plays than some signed artists.” It’s all about being patient, he says, and doing the hard work now to ensure his music is heard even if a major label never calls. “We could be on a major label but then we’d risk getting lost in the shuffle. There’s no guarantee, so I’d rather work hard at building our fan base. It’s been too much time and sacrifice to just give that freedom up for nothing. Then you never would hear from me. At least this way we get out there and tour, we have fans showing up from all over.” Before heading back into the studio next week to begin recording his latest project, Anderson is excited to return to The Vogue (“one of my favorite venues!”) where he’s had the opportunity SUBMITTED PHOTO to headline on more than one occasion. “We’re hoping to see another big crowd and get crazy,” he says. “It’s such a cool when you’re writing them yourself, it’s venue, I always look forward to getting a lot easier to focus on the story. The back there to see a bunch of familiar more I’ve spent time in Nashville, the faces. That’s what’s great about playing more I’ve found myself wanting to write Indianapolis — we get the people from more of my own songs. But every song southern Indiana who travel in for the I have recorded that’s not mine, I found show, and the people from Indianapolis myself thinking ‘Damn! That song was seeing us in their backyard. And it’s a written for me! That’s my life!’” fact, nobody puts on a better show than On Spotify, where his latest single Indianapolis in my book.” “Your Love is Like Country Music” has Half the fun for Anderson, it would been played more than 2.3 million seem, is in putting on a great country times, Anderson says country music leads the way in exposing younger audi- show in an intimate venue where fans are likely to remember the experience. ences to more variety than radio can “For me it’s all about playing shows, necessarily offer. that’s where my heart’s always been,” he says. “I “And it’s a fact, nobody puts on a better live for it, I couldn’t imagine what else show than Indianapolis in my book.” I’d wanna do. I remember when I — CLAYTON ANDERSON opened up for Luke Bryan one time, and he was awesome but he wasn’t as famous as he is now. Or when I saw Jason “We played a show in Minneapolis Aldean before he blew up, he played a and I look out there — I’ve never even bunch of John Mellencamp covers in been to Minneapolis! — and I can Bloomington, all these songs that we see all these people out there singing all knew. Those are the shows I like to along!” he laughs. “That’s the coolest read about. I always wanna know what thing for me, and country music is rebands felt like at the last show they had ally changing in that it’s attracting lots before their big break. What was it like? of people to hear new music on streamNo one ever asks me that.” n ing services. It costs a lot of money to play the ‘radio game,’ so it’s incredible
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terview with Mike Devol of Greensky Bluegrass: “You know, I claim to hate jam bands, sort of. I mean, Greensky’s a jam band. And I’m comfortable with this. But I went through a phase, that I’m not so much in now, where I was trying to do something to resist being categorized as a jam band. But I realized that the live show, which is where we thrive, jam bands are the best. There’s this element of impromptu, adlibbed moments that can be created on stage when you’re in a jam band and when you’re at a jam band show. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ Highlife, The Hi-Fi, 21+
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WEDNESDAY SIBS Wild Belle 9 p.m. Sister/brother band Wild Belle perfected that quirky, mid-aughts pop, with flecks of Jamaican Queens and just a little bit of Stereolab. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $15, 21+ Carey, Spissy, Plateau Below, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ BYOV, Lola’s Bowl and Bistro, all-ages Coleman, Moss and Kouts, Rick’s Cafe Boatyard, all-ages Carol Harris, Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, 21+ The Orchard Keeper, Rat Mouth, Those Dirty Horse, Hotstop, Melody Inn, 21+ Blues Jam, Slippery Noodle, 21+
Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Bologna Milkshake Humpday, Rock House Cafe, 21+ Service Industry Night, PT’s Showclub, 21+ Indiana Stonewall Democrats, tini, 21+
Latin Dance Party, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Animal Haus, Blu, 21+ #CandyShop Thursday, Tin Roof, 21+ SBG Thursday Night with Phat Kats, Southport, 21+
Mikkeller Brewery Night, 21+ Jesse Lacy on WFHB’s Local Live, all-ages
THURSDAY CELLO Shannon Hayden Album Release party 9 p.m. We premiered a brand new video for Shannon Hayden’s “Starshine” on NUVO.net on Monday. Not convinced you NEED to be at this show? Watch Hayden’s string acrobatics while taking in her haunting voice and then talk to us. (“Starshine is off her upcoming You See The World, out on February 19. Another reason to attend: You can snag the vinyl a full month early at this release show.) The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+
The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Free Jazz Wednesdays, Chatterbox, 21+
Devin Leslie and The Lookouts, Serendipity Martini Bar (Bloomington), 21+
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Thursday Karaoke, Fireside Brewhouse, 21+ Best Dam Karaoke, Wild Beaver Saloon, 21+ Thirsty Thursday with Radio RX, Rock House Cafe, 21+
FRIDAY FOLK Made in Indiana 7:30 p.m. Krista Detor, Tim Grimm, Philip Gulley and Scott Russell are booked for this folky local show.
Relesser, Native Sun, The 512, all-ages Daguerreotype, Normanoak, !Mindparade, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ The Rhaspers, Billy O’Neal’s Pub, 21+ Tiki’s Acoustic Musician Series, Tiki Bob’s Cantina, 21+ Dr. Spin, Smee’s Place, 21+ Hillbilly Happy Hour, Melody Inn, 21+ Friday Night Karaoke, Living Room Lounge, 21+ Micawber, Graveslave, Legion and Negation, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Oxbow and Moor, Wisdom and Folly, Mike Boo, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+ Rod Tuffcurls and The Bench Press, Bluebird, 21+ Breezeblocks, Vianova, Tinderbox Circus Sideshow, Melody Inn, 21+ Charlie Ballantine Group, Chatterbox,, 21+
Yvonne Allu, Chef Joseph’s at The Connoisseur Room, 21+ Afton Hip-Hop with Duane Banx, Frogg, Fresh C, Nyco Nice, Zombie Nation Music Group, Afton Hip-Hop Showcase, 21+ Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett, A Thousand Horses, The Ford Center, all-ages OJ Da Juiceman, Club Tropicana, 21+ Wine After Work, Usual Suspects, 21+
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ROCK Phil Pierle 8:30 p.m. Woomblies guitarist Phil Pierle comes to the Rathskeller – inside this time, because brrrrr – with a morethan-solid repetoire of covers in his back pocket. There’s a reason Woomblies inspire dancing on tables: Pierle’s guitar playing is splendiforous. The Rathskeller, 401 E. Michigan St., FREE, all-ages
TRIBUTES There’s a Starman Waiting in The Sky 8 p.m. As your Friendly Neighborhood Music Editor writes this, this Saturday’s event at the State Street Pub is still coming together. But count on it to honor all things Bowie – and expect plenty of tears. On the docket to play Bowie tunes thus far: Dan Snodgrass, Aaron Miller, Jared Birden, S.M. Wolf, Bob Barrick, Joy in the Sulks, Tanner Standridge, Sugar Moon Rabbit, Michael Brewer, and many more. Rest in peace, Starman. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., 21+ HIP-HOP Decades Collide: 80s vs 90s ft. Biz Markie 8 p.m. Biz Markie is touring an uber nostalgic ‘80s vs ‘90s show. Combine this with Salt N Pepa at The Vogue on Tuesday, and your week is going to be totally 93.9-ified. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages
HIP-HOP Austin Filmore, John Stamps and Friends, Flaco and Tag 9 p.m. Peep this excellent hiphop showcase in a somewhat unexpected locale: DJ Knags, Mathaius Young, Drayco McCoy, Indiana Chief & Blu, Flaco & Tag, John Stamps and Friends and headliner Austin Fillmore (Chicago) will each take the stage. Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $5 ladies, $5 guys until $10 then $10, 21+ SHOWCASE The Nightly Notable 10 p.m. Another heavy hip-hop hitter: count this Saturday’s show as the first showcase by Clint Breeze and The Groove, featuring local emcees Rehema McNeil and Drayco McCoy plus DJ Little Town. Clint Breeze is on the comeup, y’all. State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., $5, 21+
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Indiana Landmarks Center, 1201 Central Ave., $23, 21+ DANCE Old Soul Icon Party 10:30 p.m. Old Soul’s Icon Parties are some of the best dance parties in Indy. This month’s features DJ Limelight and MetroGnome spinning the music of New York City’s finest. Expect plenty of Nas, Jay-Z, and much more. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $10, 21+
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JUKE EQ Why, Sedcairn Archives 10 p.m. Though he’s relocated to Indiana, EQ Why – legal: Tyrone Smith – has a style of music — he plays footwork — that will always be closely associated with Chicago. Growing out of Chicago’s ghetto house and juke scenes, and built around dancing “battles,” footwork is typified by tightly chopped samples, herky-jerky rhythms, and off-kilter beats. Smith got started making music around 12 or 13, though he says he didn’t get good until he was 16 or 17. He and his friends would spend their time trying to decode a demo copy of FruityLoops.“We had to learn the program ourselves. We would figure stuff out by feel, we’d go to each others houses and say ‘Hey, I know how to do this, I know how to do that.’” Smith’s mixtape, Chitokyo, came out in 2013 on New York’s Orange Milk Records. Keith Rankin, co-owner of Orange Milk says ChiTokyo is full of moments emblematic of Smith’s ongoing exploration. “In the context of the whole tape and the footwork genre itself, these moments further pervert and push the style forward in cool directions.” He’ll play with Indy’s Sedcairn Archives, a project by David “Moose” Adamson incorporating juke and footwork. Keep your eyes on Lafayette’s Spot Tavern for more intriguing shows like this, plus a (very controversial) Mike Pence hotdog mural by The Droops. — TAYLOR PETERS The Spot Tavern, 409 S. 4th St. (Lafayette), 21+
Sweater Vest, Party Lines, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Clayton Anderson, The Vogue, 21+ Neglect the Alarm, Last Standing, Roberta Sparrow, XXX Smut, Melody Inn, 21+ Fontaine, Straight Up Chumps, Player’s Pub, 21+ Piano at Butler Series, EidsonDuckwall Recital Hall, all-ages Against The Grain with The Mound Builders, Bison Machine, Hailshot, , Lafayette Theatre (Lafayette), all-ages Irish Arts Academy of Indianapolis, Indy Folk Series, all-ages Milk High Club, Uh Bones, BIGCOLOUR, Joyful Noise Recordings, all-ages Cornfield Mafia, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Ballroom Technique Workshop and Dance Party, Starlite Ballroom and Dance School, 21+ Afton Local Showcase, Emerson Theater, all-ages Cari Ray, Logan Street Sanctuary, all-ages Aircobra, Lucifist, Ode Vinter, Foresaken Sights, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
SUNDAY ROCK Torres with Palehound 8 p.m. One of the hottest and best breakouts of 2015: Torres followed her mega release Sprinter with an opening slot for Garbage and Brandi Carlile. That’s some mega watt ish. And now she’s repaying the favor by bringing out the excellent Palehound, who obliterated
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the Bishop stage just a few short months ago as an opener for Mitski. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St., (Bloomington), $12, 18+ Julie Houston, Chef Joseph’s at The Connoisseur Room, all-ages Phoebe and Friends, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Eliot Bigger, Mardi Belle, Smother Party, Melody Inn, 21+
MONDAY Hail the Sun, Emerson Theater, all-ages Gene Deer, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Warbringer, Exmortus, Occult Deceiver, Catalytic, The Headquarters, all-ages
TUESDAY HIP-HOP Salt N Pepa 8 p.m. We have it on good authority that SEVERAL NUVO employees can rap the entirety of multiple Salt N Pepa songs on command. That should be enough to get you out to this killer early 2016 show — if you can find a ticket, that is. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $39.50 $75 (SOLD OUT), 21+ Cool City Swing Band, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Warbringer, Exmortus, Occult Deceiver, The Headquarters, all-ages The Island of Misfit Toys, Ratboys, Toby Foster, House Olympics, house venue unlisted (Bloomington), all-ages PBR Bingo, Sinking Ship, 21+ NUVO.NET/SOUNDCHECK
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As a queer man of color — I’m Asian — I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same fears when coming out. Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community? I’m six-foot-one, 160 pounds, fit, and very good-looking. What can I do? I might as well be a sexless monk. — ENRAGED DUDE DETAILS INFURIATING EXPERIENCE
DAN SAVAGE: “I relate to a lot of what EDDIE is feeling here,” said Joel Kim Booster, a Brooklyn writer and comedian. “The double-edged sword of living in a city with a large gay community is that the community gets so large that we finally have the opportunity to marginalize people within it.” Jeff Chu, a writer who also lives in Brooklyn, can relate: “Racism still thrives in the gay community, just as in broader society,” said Chu. “Many of us who are Asian-American come out of the closet and walk into this weird bamboo cage, where we’re either fetishized or ignored. Many times I’d go into a gay bar and see guys playing out some gross interracial porno in their heads — with me playing the part of their Chinese pocket gay. Others (the ones I was interested in, to be candid) would act as if I were wearing an invisibility cheongsam.” Chu feels there’s plenty of blame to
go around for this sad state of affairs. “It’s the gay media,” said Chu. “It’s Hollywood. (Even with all the LGBT characters we have on TV now, what images do we have of Asian-American ones?) It’s that LGBT-rights organizations still haven’t diversified enough, especially in their leadership. And it’s all of us, when we’re lazy and don’t confront our own prejudices.” Booster and Chu are right: Racism is a problem in the gay community, some people within are unfairly and cruelly marginalized, and we all need to confront our own prejudices. Even you, EDDIE. You cite your height (tall!), weight (slim!), and looks (VGL!) as proof you’ve faced sexual rejection based solely on your race. But short, heavy, average-looking/unconventionally-attractive guys face rejection for not being tall, lean, or conventionally hot, just as you’ve faced rejection for not being white. (The cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for, say, tall guys is a lot less toxic than the cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for white guys — duh, obviously.)
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amount of sex.” Booster, who somehow manages to have plenty of sex in New York’s “whitepainted gay community,” had some practical tips for you. “EDDIE should stay away from the apps if the experience becomes too negative,” Booster said. “If logging on to a hookup app bums him out, take a break. Being a double minority can be isolating, but living in a big city can be great. There are meet-ups and clubs and activities for all stripes. Join a gay volleyball league — truly where gay Asian men thrive — or find one of the many gay Asian nights at one of the gay bars around the city. They’re out there.” Chu has also managed to find romantic success in New York. “I’ve been where EDDIE is, except shorter, less fit, and less good-looking, and somehow I found a husband,” said Chu. “The monastery wasn’t my calling, and I suspect it’s not EDDIE’s either.” A quick word to “We like that you like us. But liking gay white men: It’s fine to have “preferus solely because of our race can be ences.” But we need uncomfortable at best, and creepy as to examine our preferences and give hell at worst.” some thought to the cultural forces that — JOEL KIM BOOSTER may have shaped them. It’s a good idea to make sure your preferences are actually yours and “As a stereotypically short Chinese not some limited and limiting racist crap guy, my first reaction to reading EDpounded into your head by TV, movies, DIE’s letter? Damn, he’s six-foot-one! and porn. But while preferences are alI’m jealous,” said Chu. “And that’s also lowed (and gay men of color have them, part of the problem. I, like many others, too), there’s no excuse for littering Grindr have internalized an ideal: tall, gymor Tinder or Recon — or your converperfected, blah blah blah — and, above sations in bars — with dehumanizing all, white.” garbage like “no Asians,” “no Blacks,” “no Booster was also struck by your stats. “It’s hard for me to wrap my head around femmes,” “no fatties,” etc. And while racism is a problem in the any six-foot-one, fit, VGL guy having gay community (sometimes thoughtless, trouble getting laid,” said Booster. “On sometimes malicious, always unacceptpaper, this is the gay ideal! I don’t really able), according to 2010 US Census data, consider myself any of those things as crunched by the Williams Institute at — and I have a perfectly respectable UCLA, same-sex couples are far likelier
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s my proposal: Get in touch with your madness. And don’t tell me you have no madness. We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot. Not the nights you called god names and cursed your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, chewing your nails.” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others. But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next. Virgo
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day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.” I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet slippery sensual tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet slippery sensual tender emotions and sweet slippery sensual tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat. Be grateful and understated.) Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Do you want more money, Sagittarius? Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford them? Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on. We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals. On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled. If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fate has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed. I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form — maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Good news: Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant. Pisces
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