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HOMELESSNESS IN INDIANAPOLIS The first thing you see when you walk into The Jungle is a small ceramic plaque that says “Welcome Friends.” Walk further into The Jungle and you’ll see a small tree in the middle of the clearing. Little American flags are pushed in to the flesh of the tree and a small wooden cross dangles from one of its limbs. “There’s only three rules in The Jungle,” a man says to me, smiling from beneath his large moustache. “Get wood. Get water. Keep the camp clean.” BY NATHAN BROWN

37 CLASSIFIEDS 12 COVER STORY 23 FOOD 39 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY 05 HAMMER 07 HOPPE 26 MUSIC

COVER PHOTO, OF WHITEY, A RESIDENT OF THE PINE STREET ENCAMPMENT, BY MIKE ALLEE.

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ARE SCHOOLS THE PROBLEM?

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The recent Mind Trust proposal aimed at revamping public schools in Indianapolis has energized discussion in the city about how and why we educate our kids.

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22 SPACES, 22 REVIEWS We visited each and every installation at TURF: IDADA Art Pavilion, open through Feb. 5 at the Old Indianapolis State Museum, weighing in on each with a star total and a few words. REVIEWS BY CHARLES FOX AND DAN GROSSMAN

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CHEF DAN’S SOUTHERN COMFORT We found Chef Dan’s Southern Comfort food truck at the corner of Market Street and Capitol Avenue, its nose staring straight at the Statehouse dome. Inside that venerable building, Republican legislators were licking their chops over the prospect of busting the unions with so-called Right to Work legislation. But out on the street, workers and legislators alike were having their appetites tempted by the richly seasoned aroma wafting from Chef Dan’s mobile kitchen. BY DAVID HOPPE

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THIRTY YEARS OF THRASH Anthrax founder and guitarist Scott Ian ranks 2011 in the top ten ever for the band. Why was it so great? The reunion of the band with old vocalist Joey Bonnadella is just one reason. BY WADE COGGESHALL

from the readers Regarding Hoppe’s “Schools as scapegoat” column, appearing this week: The current emphasis on “higher order thinking” is such that once again basic skills are shortchanged. In fact with the tracking system currently in place we have went to a one size fits all model that in effect fits few. Kids with more ability are held back by those with less. Those at the lowest end of the scale are simply overwhelmed by the so called “inclusion” model and all the talk of failing is based on tests which are neither standardized properly nor subject to any checks on validity. The result is we spend weeks, if not the entire time we have kids, teaching them how to pass tests which have no real meaning and do not really fit the cookie cutter curriculum we are forced to teach. Seriously, people learn what’s going on before you criticize what’s happening.

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HAMMER Thrift stores aren’t what they used to be Cultural anemia on display

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

y wife had some old clothes she no longer wanted so we made a trip to a local thrift store to donate them, hoping they would have some use for someone else. We then went inside the store, not looking for anything in particular but wanting to see if there was something we wanted. As recently as a few years ago, just about everything I owned came from thrift stores. There seemed to be a neverending supply of cool old books, knickknacks and household items from the 1960s and ’70s that looked irresistible. I had a pink alarm clock and AM radio that might have come from a teenage girl’s bedroom circa 1965. I had plaster busts of John F. Kennedy and enough paperback novels to stock a drugstore, all with original prices of 25 to 75 cents. But a decade of shows like American Pickers and Antiques Roadshow, combined with the realization by even the dullest among us that old junk may have some value on eBay, has hit our local thrift stores hard. Previous generations left us wonderful items that make for enticing antiques. We have failed our children and greatgrandchildren by bequeathing crappy artifacts which will be burned or shredded instead of treasured. What we saw at the store was depressing. Thrift stores still have the same dust and urine smells I remember from years ago but the quality of stuff people donate to them has lessened considerably. With the exception of a souvenir plate from the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and a few lonely vinyl records that have survived, unwanted, for 50 years, almost all of the other items we saw dated from the late 1990s and afterward. As recently as 15 years ago, one could find box upon box of eight-track tapes, lovingly baked in the heat of the glove compartments of Volkswagens and Oldsmobiles. Even then, they had no use except as curiosities but they were fun to examine. Their direct contemporary descendants in modern thrift shops are VHS tapes, available by the hundreds, just as useless and unwanted to us as the eighttracks. Want 15 copies of the two-tape

set of Titanic? Or any movie with Winona Ryder? They’re yours for the taking, along with dozens of probably hilarious workout videos with Jane Fonda, longforgotten Hollywood blockbusters and even more box-office duds. They may be a treasure trove to collectors 20 years hence, but to us, they were depressing relics of a bygone, pre-9/11 era. Rivaling the VHS tapes in thrift-shop popularity and technological obsolescence are the CDs, once valued and kept under glass at thrift stores to deter shoplifters. Their value has diminished so quickly that it’s no longer cared if you shove a few into your coat pocket. Jewel sold 12 million copies of her debut album, Pieces of You, in 1995. Probably 2 million of those were accidentally scratched or otherwise destroyed. Another 4 million sit abandoned in boxes or dusty CD racks in homes across America. The remaining 6 million are in thrift shops with a $1.99 price tag, begging your awareness. My wife had long since lost her copy and was delighted to see so many of them in stock, noting she received the album when she was 10 years old, which disturbed me for some reason. The album’s subtitle, “What we call human nature in actuality is human habit,” reminded my wife of the writings of Karl Marx. I’ll never look at Jewel the same way again. All the best sellers of the golden era of crappy pop music, 1992-2000, were there. Backstreet Boys, Blind Melon, the Spin Doctors and Amy Grant, all beloved in their time, all discarded by their owners. Then there’s the graveyard of vintage software and tech books. Feel an itch to play NBA Live 2001 on your PC or a tutorial on how to use Netscape Navigator? Your wish is their command. Have an urgent need to learn the ins and outs of the confusing operating system Windows 98? There’s a 600-page book on the subject just waiting for you. There are massive, telephone-directory-sized books on how to do things that nobody needs to do anymore: write grant proposals in 2002, use Outlook Express 2003, why you shouldn’t vote for John Kerry in 2004. Let’s leave undiscussed the most depressing artifacts: discarded 1997 Little League trophies, souvenir coffee mugs from weddings in 1999, handmade clay sculptures made by grade school kids back when Ronald Reagan was president, the tombstones of outdated TVs and landline phones. Sourcing them to their roots is a sure route to madness. If we judge a culture by the things it leaves behind, our generation is by all standards a failure. We have committed many sins toward the future but leaving behind 30 years of ugly, useless antiques is surely among the worst. I hope that future generations will forgive us all for having such bad taste.

We have failed our children by bequeathing crappy artifacts …

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HOPPE Are schools the problem Or is it us?

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

he recent Mind Trust proposal aimed at revamping public schools in Indianapolis has energized discussion in the city about how and why we educate our kids. This is good, particularly to the extent it actually encourages us to come to grips with the essential question of what it means to be an educated person. This, unfortunately, has been a dimension sorely lacking throughout years of educational theorizing, and the political game-playing that too often masquerades as educational reform. For decades now, Americans have been unhappy with the way our schools have been performing. At first it was that schools were too regimented; they bore down on individuality, encouraged conformity and put kids on tracks determining who was college material and who was not. This led to a lack of structure, “open” classrooms and a break-down in supposed standards. Kids were advanced from one grade to another without acquiring basic skills so that their self-esteem remained intact. All the while, educational and behavioral theorists were hard at work, creating what has amounted to an industry devoted to telling us how children learn and what they should be taught. These ideas and practices have found their way into schools and school systems in various ways. Some have been implemented with success, even here in Indianapolis. But, in the end, nothing, it seems, has really worked. Read the papers, listen to the news: our schools are chronically failing, in crisis, letting us down. If you are a parent, with a school-age child, this sort of information affects your life now, today. It can determine where you choose to live (if you have that choice) and the everyday quality of your life. Your son or daughter will only be in first grade, or eighth grade or a junior in high school, once. There are no do-overs in school careers. Personal futures are on the line. If these stakes weren’t high enough, there is an even larger socio-political agenda driving the collective discontent with schools. America likes to think of itself as a self-made society. No matter who you are, or where you come from, the story goes, you should have a chance to succeed. Education plays a crucial part in keeping this story

alive. Families have proudly pointed to their first generation to go to college, to “better” themselves. For them — for all of us, really — education is considered transformative. And so, for example, schools have become a tool for social interventions when parents are considered too dysfunctional to adequately raise their kids. We use preschool and full-day kindergarten to try to create as much distance between kids and their parents as possible with the hope that, in this way, the kids can excel or, more to the point, escape their origins. The transformative power of education is the cornerstone of the American dream. It reflects the rationalism at the core of our founding documents, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. For Americans, education fixes things, is the solution for every problem. Poverty, violence, environmental short-sightedness: We want to believe that if people are educated they will make these things better by making better choices. At least that’s what we hope. Because if education’s not the transformative answer to our social problems, then we might have to come up with new ways of governing ourselves or, for that matter, new ways of living. This belief in education as our great social fixer — the thing that, if we can get it right, can save our cities, reinvent our economy and energize our communities — has turned our schools into theaters where all our collective anxieties about these things have come to roost. Whatever bugs us about contemporary life — whether it’s the coarsening of discourse or diminished sense of opportunity — schools must be to blame. Schools have become the default scapegoat for our seeming inability to get a handle on the larger social and cultural issues that bedevil us. We act as if we believe that if the schools were better, our society would, by definition, be better, too. This makes sense on its face. But at the risk of playing chicken-and-egg, maybe we have it backward. Sure, it would be great if we could create a first-rate school system — whatever that might be. Families, the city, the state and nation would all benefit in countless ways. But our seeming lack of ability to reform schools to anyone’s lasting satisfaction might also be a reflection of a larger, deeper social malaise, a symptom, instead of the cause we keep insisting it is. The simple fact that we continue to evade trying to define what it means to be an educated person — substituting this macro definition for such micro issues as the validity of testing, the role of teachers unions, standards of accountability and parental options — reveals not only a lack of vision, but an abdication of responsibility when it comes to the lives of our kids, not to mention the perpetuation of our form of democracy. The problems in our schools have less to do with what happens in the classroom than with what’s going on with us.

Schools have become the default scapegoat for our seeming inability to come to grips with larger social and cultural issues.

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN FORCE FEEDING Watching Gov. Daniels deliver his final State of the State address last week as a sea of angry protestors howled outside the room, one was struck by the powerful emotion of the situation. Here is man who professes an undying love of Indiana and says a right-to-work law will be of great benefit. Outside, scores of Hoosiers disagreed. RTW boosters did not feel compelled to pick up their placards for a counter demonstration. Maybe that’s not how the economic development community rolls. Still, to disregard the depth of emotion running against this initiative threatens to further erode faith that government truly is of and for the people. Maybe RTW is right for Indiana, but let’s not force feed the issue when so many Hoosier workers are crying foul. Put it on the ballot — let us decide as a state what policy on this contentious issue we feel is truly in our best interest.

SOIL SLEUTHS Identifying and correcting environmental injustice is a substantial way our community can honor Dr. Martin Luther King. Here in Indianapolis, high lead levels in neighborhoods already suffering from high unemployment and low graduation rates threatens to exacerbate a host of social ills by undermining local children’s ability to concentrate and learn. Improving Kids’ Environment and IUPUI have partnered to administer an EPA grant offering free soil testing to residents of the Martindale-Brightwood and NearWest neighborhoods. Residents in these neighborhoods can call 2531312 or email ike@ikecolation.org to arrange a test and information about how to reduce lead-related risk.

KILLING THEM SOFTLY Our state’s legendary agricultural prowess also has a murderous dark side, according to Purdue University research published this month in the journal PLoS One. A two-year study of bee deaths in Indiana found in all affected hives the presence of insecticides that coat nearly all the seed corn and about half of the soybean seeds in the U.S. The talc contains insecticide levels at about 700,000 times the amount necessary to kill a bee, the researchers said. They note that most fruit, vegetable and nut crops need bees to successfully pollinate, but that a series of threats — including insecticides and mites — continue to plague the insects. Co-author and honey bee expert Greg Hunter noted that the U.S. loses about a third of its honey bees each year.

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news Indiana’s environmental gains, losses Several I-69 lawsuits pending BY RE BE CCA T O W N S E N D RT O W N S E N D @ N U V O . N E T

s right-to-work protests echoed through the Indiana Statehouse following Gov. Mitch Daniels’ final State of the State address last week, The Nature Conservancy stepped forward to give the governor a pat on the back. “Governor Daniels’ announcement tonight about the creation of the Bicentennial Nature Trust is the capstone of a truly extraordinary conservation agenda for his administration,” the group’s state director Mary McConnell said in a news release issued after the address. “From the establishment of Goose Pond in Greene County to his visionary Healthy Rivers Initiative to protect and make accessible a hundred miles of floodplain along the Wabash River, Governor Daniels has created a legacy that will be cherished by Hoosiers for the next 200 years.” As a sequel to the statewide parks system the state established on the 100th anniversary of its founding, Daniels said his administration identified $20 million in existing state funding to establish the trust meant to inspire additional private donations of money and land “in a continuing statewide surge of conservation” as the state nears its 2016 bicentennial. The state’s Bicentennial Commission, chaired by Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman and former U.S. Congressman Lee Hamilton, will oversee the project. Daniels noted that his administration plans to supervise the conservation of more than 50,000 acres by the end of 2012. He offered the 8,064-acre Goose Pond near Linton, Muscatatuck Bottoms, which targets more than 25,000 acres, and the Wabash Corridor, which is set to protect more than 43,000 acres along the Wabash River, as highlights. Regarding I-69, Daniels did not have much to say except that it will soon be open from Evansville to Crane Naval Base. Within the next few weeks and months, however, a group of federal and administrative law judges will weigh in on several pending complaints issues by the Hoosier Environmental Council, Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads

and scores of property owners against the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Indiana Department of Transportation and Indiana Department of Natural Resources. Here is summary of what the courts will consider:

CARR et al v. U.S. DOT, INDOT and FHA

Cause No. 1:11-CV-1031-SEB-DML The lawsuit takes the current set of I-69 environmental impact studies to task, suggesting that they are based on outdated data and did not take proper account of the region’s fragile and porous karst terrain or the affected historic and archaeological sites. In addition, the suit alleges: “INDOT and FHWA and their contractors have engaged in a pattern of entering onto private property without permission or knowledge of the landowners for archaeological investigations and removing artifacts from those private properties without consent from or the knowledge of the landowners, in violations of State and federal law.” The first third of the 63-page lawsuit introduces each of the plaintiffs and outlines their personal concerns with the project. This litany of complaints centers on the irreplaceable quality of life, place and environment the plaintiffs enjoy on properties affected by the project, as well as the environmental burden the highway’s construction and operation would place on local land, water and air resources. The suit then moves into specific counts, charging violation — and in some cases multiple violations — of the Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, the Administrative Procedures Act and the Transportation Act. “Plaintiffs have no adequate remedy at law,” the suit states. “Unless this Court grants the requested relief, the defendants’ actions will cause irreparable harm to the environment, to plaintiffs’ and their members’ interests, and to the public in violation of federal law and contrary to the public interest. No monetary damages or other legal remedy could adequately compensate plaintiffs, their members or the public for these harms.”

Several decisions on I-69 complaints are pending

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JURISDICTION: U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana – Judge Sarah Evans Barker CURRENT STATUS: The court has scheduled a hearing on a Motion for Preliminary Injunction at 10 a.m. on Feb. 8 in Room #216 of the U.S. District Court at 46 E. Ohio St. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES: If granted, the motion would prevent further implementation of design, construction or land acquisition until the trial is completed.

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Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. By Rebecca Townsend

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Gov. Mitch Daniels and Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman on Jan. 10 in the chambers of the Indiana House of Representatives prior to his final State of the State address

HEC v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and INDOT

Cause No. 1:11-CV-0202-LJM-DML Construction on Section Three, ranging from Washington to Newberry in southern Greene County, is ongoing, but not yet near completion. HEC contends the Corps is in violation of the Clean Water Act because it did not conduct an independent analysis of how the construction will affect water crossings and wetlands. The federal and the state government contend they are in compliance with the law. JURISDICTION: U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana – Judge Larry J. McKinney CURRENT STATUS: Arguments regarding a Motion for Summary Judgment will be heard at 2 p.m. on March 16 in Room #349 of the U.S. District Courthouse in Indianapolis. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES: If granted, the motion would require the Corps to conduct an independent analysis of environmental impacts. A victory for HEC could halt activity around waterways until the Corp’s independent review either validates or rejects the existing plan. Another interpretation holds that the Clean Water Act’s requirements for evaluation of and selection of the least damaging alternative may mean killing the project or using a different route.

HEC v. the Army Corps of Engineers

Cause No. 1:11-CV-1387-SEB-DLK The issues in the case are essentially the same as those raised by HEC in the other federal case it brought against the Corps, but apply to construction in the waterways of Section Two from Oakland City to Washington. “The Corps basically just relied on the environmental studies done by INDOT with no independent assessment,” said Tim Maloney, HEC’s senior policy director. Rather than offer a critical analysis,

Political Potpourri for the week of Jan. 9 By Abdul-Hakim Shabazz House committee passes smoking ban bill By Jacie Shoaf

Shepard’s Legacy State of Judiciary By Sandie Love Senate targets nepotism By Alec Gray

Maloney said, “they just rubberstamped what INDOT approved.” JURISDICTION: U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana CURRENT STATUS: Complaint filed. Defense response due Jan. 17. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES: This decision will dictate what happens with Corps permit review process. See previous case.

HEC and Property Owners v. INDOT and the IDNR

Administrative Cause Numbers: 11-067W and FW-25881 This complaint, which combined two separate complaints on similar issues, questions the validity of flood plain construction permits on the East Fork of the White River in Section Two. Among the issues the petitioners hope to debate: whether the construction “will cause unreasonable harm to life, safety and property …” They also claim construction approval was given without securing flood easements and that the staged permitting pursued by INDOT allowed construction to proceed before all easements were secure to complete the project … (which) “exceeds the Department’s authority and is therefore unlawful.” JURISDICTION: State administrative proceeding before an administrative law judge CURRENT STATUS: A Jan. 18 conference call between the judge and the parties in the case is expected to set a hearing date. POSSIBLE OUTCOMES: The administrative law judge could order the permit overturned or changes in the permit to address the petitioners’ objections.

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Editor’s note: While researching this story we met a wide variety of individuals who had an intimate familiarity with homelessness. This story is meant to acclimate the reader with a population that eludes many of us; people we may stereotype or even refuse to acknowledge. Yes, mental illness and substance abuse can be found among their ranks, but so can advanced degrees, children and ongoing careers. Considering that one out of two Americans is poor or low-income according to the latest census data, many of us are simply one paycheck away from joining them.

he first thing you see when you walk into The Jungle is a small ceramic plaque that says “Welcome Friends.” Walk further into The Jungle and you’ll see a small tree in the middle of the clearing. Little American flags are pushed in to the flesh of the tree and a small wooden cross dangles from one of its limbs. “There’s only three rules in The Jungle,” a man says to me, smiling from beneath his large moustache. “Get wood. Get water. Keep the camp clean.” Next to me, a woman is showing off her two gold rings. One is from Kmart and the other is from a pawnshop. “He even started crying when he gave me this one,” she says, referring to her boyfriend.

The Jungle is one of the many homeless camps around Indianapolis. These two people are part of the camp’s population that usually hovers around six. It’s the cleanest and most organized camp in Indianapolis, according to its members. The Jungle has a large outhouse; the ground, even though it’s dirt, is swept; there’s a small makeshift kitchenette with a plethora of pots and pans; and there’s a large building where wood is stored. I’m with Melissa Burgess and Marie Turner, members of Horizon House’s Street Outreach Team (SORT). They are checking on their clients who receive medical treatment at Horizon House. The next encampment we go to isn’t as nice. It’s by railroad tracks, as are a large majority of the camps, and is hidden behind thick brush. We push our way through to find a tarp strewn over the ground. “Knock, knock,” says Burgess. No response. She lifts the tarp and there’s a sleeping bag on the dirt and leaves. We leave to search for the next camp. On the way, Burgess drives by the Pine Street Bridge camp. She doesn’t want to stop because it’s dangerous, especially at night. “Drugs, alcohol, violence … ” “And rats!” Turner says, stopping Burgess in mid-sentence. One of the men living at the Pine Street Bridge camp eats road kill. The city wants

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Images from Indy encampments including the one called The Jungle.

to clean up the camp, which includes setting traps or putting out poison for the rats, but one concern is the man might eat the dead rodents. If that happened, he could inadvertently poison himself. We drive by the Pine Street Bridge camp, park next to more railroad tracks and search again. Most of the camps are empty, but we find in one a nervous-looking man who refuses any assistance offered to him. We approach another camp, duck underneath brush and limbs and almost have to crawl to get to it. I stand up inside and I see a dead body. Oh my god, I think to myself. They must see it, too. Why are they only walking by it? Burgess sees the look on my face. “It got me the first time, too,” she says. I go up to the body and see that it’s only a mannequin. A cigarette dangles from the lips, its arm is propped up on a crutch and its head is a shaved coconut. No one else is there. “Watch out for the booby traps,” Burgess says a moment before I almost trip over a well-hidden trip wire. She tells me how people sometimes will sharpen the roots of a bush to a point and put a trip wire in front of them. “Sometimes you get guys who are vets and it’s almost like Vietnam,” Burgess says.

The issues The homeless population is a transient one and, therefore, it’s not easy to get an exact head count. The last official count conducted by the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) in Marion County took place on Jan. 27, 2011. On that night, CHIP identified 1,567 people without permanent housing. That number doesn’t include everyone, such as those on the edge of homelessness who might be staying with friends or family. “The 1,500 is folks who sit neatly within the HUD (Housing and Urban Development) definition,” says John Joanette, executive director of Horizon House. “You have sofa-surfers who aren’t counted in that 1,500. That is very much on the low end of who is dealing with homelessness on any given night. That 1,500 are folks who are living on the street and the folks who are living in shelters.” Joanette estimates between 4,500 and 7,500 people in Marion County experience homelessness every year. “They’re counting individuals they see on the streets,” says Cheryl Herzog, development coordinator at the Daysprings Center. “I think those numbers you see are an underestimate.”

Similar to almost every homeless service organization, the center offers more than just a bed for the night. “We’re connected to educational institutions to try to get kids and adults in classes,” Herzog says. “We have life skills training here. We work with Art with a Heart; we try to provide recreational opportunities for the children. We also work with other service providers like Holy Family shelter. We work with different organizations for mental health and counseling. Anything they need, we make.” School on Wheels, for instance, visits the center four days a week to provide homework support for children. For 10 years, School on Wheels has provided tutoring and supplemental educational resources to kids experiencing The families and children homelessness and to make sure all kids have backpacks, school uniforms and supThe night the CHIP survey was conductplies, according to chief executive and ed, 248 people under the age of 18 were founder Sally Bindley. counted. This was “When the kids the third-largest age come home from group among those school, we want to counted. But, those make sure they do 248 were also the their homework and youth who fit within study for their tests,” HUD’s definition of Bindley says. “Just homelessness. because they’re homeThe McKinneyless doesn’t mean Vento Act requires their job as a student public schools to needs to suffer.” identify students School on Wheels without permanent provides daily acahousing. Under this demic tutoring for act, 2,925 children children and is present were identified as in 12 homeless shelliving in homeless ters in Indianapolis. conditions in Marion Bindley said they County in 2011. have seen up to 500 Of those, 938 chilchildren every year dren were under 8. and the numbers have The reason most been increasing. of these children “Since this time last weren’t counted year, our numbers are on the night of up.” Bindley says. “We the CHIP survey is have 34 more kids.” because 90 percent More children mean of them were doumore strain on funds bled up with family and supplies. or friends. “When you look at Individuals aren’t — Sally Bindley, School on Wheels what we’re available the only ones who to do, we have under experience homea $600,000 budget,” lessness; entire famiBindley says. “It costs lies do as well. us $1,000 to put a child through our proThe night of the CHIP survey, 155 famigram. We need more tutors, more supplies. lies were counted, totaling 444 people. We’re looking for more volunteers right The Dayspring Center is an establishnow. We’re looking to increase our donament offering housing to families only. The tions to address this growing.” center has 14 rooms onsite, but can house School on Wheels is the only provider more by utilizing rollout beds and cots for of academic services to homeless chillarger families. dren in Indianapolis. “Annually, we assist 150 families and we “When a family becomes homeless, see about 450 kids,” Herzog says. there’s a lot of factors, a lot of differEven though those numbers are large, ent spokes in the wheel,” Bindley says. most families have little desire to utilize “There’s a lot of service providers and Dayspring, she explains, adding that the we’re all working on our own little piece.” decision comes down to what support Regardless of whether CHIP’s numbers reflect an exact count, the report captures some the underlying causes of homeless in Indianapolis: 416 people in shelters and 41 people on the streets cited losing their jobs as the reason for their homelessness. With the slumping economy, it should come as no surprise that this was the No. 1 reason cited in the CHIP report for homelessness. Other reasons cited for the cause of homelessness were “asked to leave,” “evicted” and “other.” Over half, 51 percent, of people in the CHIP report cited problems with alcohol or drugs: 425 people cited alcohol problems and 379 cited problems with drugs.

When the kids come home from school, we want to make sure they do their homework and study for their tests. Just because they’re homeless doesn’t mean their job as a student needs to suffer.

systems they are able to marshal. “The only difference between them and us is that we have a support system with us,” Herzog says. “If you lost a job, you might have family who will assist you financially or put you up. We’re a last resort for them. They really don’t want to come here. What’s hurting them most is the job market. Fifty percent of adults who come here are working; they just don’t make the income to support housing for their family.”

workshops based on the 12-step recoverans are homeless on any given night, ery program. Program participants are according to the Hoosier Veterans offered individualized case management Assistance Foundation. to help with mental-health issues or barHVAF provides a multitude of services to riers preventing them from obtaining and homeless veterans, including a variety of maintaining stable, permanent housing housing options. and employment. “We have a little over 200 vets (as tenParticipants can stay in the program for ants) that are male and female,” says up to two years. Debra Des Vignes, the HVAF public relations coordinator. “We have apartments and homes all across The money and Indianapolis. We have the housing 13 properties, one with multiple homes, The Coalition so if you count that for Homeless we have 18.” Intervention and The most recent Prevention has taken addition to HVAF’s the reins in leading housing options Indianapolis and is Manchester its homeless service Apartments, which is organizations in comattached to HVAF’s bating the problem of headquarters in homelessness. downtown. CHIP is an orgaWith these new nization that brings apartments, the together the city’s foundation can prohomeless service vide housing options organizations to help to 51 more veterans. them better serve cliThis brings the numents and work toward ber of veterans they a common goal. can house to just In 2002, CHIP over 200. But, it’s developed its still not enough. “Blueprint to End “I think we’re see— John Joanette, Horizon House Homelessness,” a ing more (vets),” Des plan to end homeVignes says. “During lessness in 10 years. the winter months the “The first need is extremely high. The need is at the (Blueprint) to End Homelessness rolled highest it’s ever been. We have a waiting list out in April 2002,” says Michael Hurst, of about 100 vets who still need housing.” CHIP program director. “The goals and The foundation also offers what they call strategies in it were designed to be cartheir REST program — residential, employried out over 10 years. With all of the ment, substance abuse treatment program. changes that occur within a community, It is a 22-bed housing program paired in 10 years it can be obsolete pretty fast.” with structured class work and educational

This is the broader conversation of inequities and also about the disparities of wealth in our country. The American dream, that’s a sham anymore.

The vets “… to care for him who shall have borne this battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” — Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address On the night of the CHIP count, 262 veterans were homeless in Marion County. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates about 3,600 veterans are homeless on any given night in Indiana. In Marion County, about 700 to 900 vet-

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disrepair, rehabilitate them as needed and housing. There are 20 or so organizations make them available at affordable rents that apply and get that funding. They can to homeless families,” Blueprint 2 reads. do housing with that money but it can’t be “The concept is simple; the process is not. used to provide services.” The city is willing to make these houses Indianapolis receives the 3.2 million available for such from the Department purposes, but there of Housing and Urban is a cost — $2,500 Development (HUD) for nonprofits with every year with the 501(c)3 designation. stipulation that no And there has to be a more than 20 percent willing owner. “ of that money can Blueprint 2 asks go to services. HUD for the assistance of also provides about faith-based organiza$800,000 worth of tions in purchasing grant money that can these houses, mainbe used for services. taining ownership A lot of homeless and also engaging service organizations tenants to address in Indianapolis rely on any issues that might private donations and prevent them from grants for the majority staying housed. of their funding. One homeless man, “There isn’t nearly who name is withenough resourcing,” held at his request, Joanette says. “We do — Michael Hurst, CHIP had similar ideas that a lot with every penny came out of his work. that comes in the door “There’s plenty of at Horizon House.” abandoned homes Kay Wiles, superviaround that the city owns that they’re sor at the Homeless Initiative Program, ready to tear down that they don’t even echoes Joanette. take the initiative to tear down,” he says. “We’re almost 100 percent grant fund“Homeless people, drug addicts use these ed,” Wiles says. “We don’t get a lot of donabuildings to get high, to stay out of the tions. The amounts of funds aren’t going weather, everything else. Why not start a up in the pot and there are more people program — like I said, I’m the superintenrequesting funds from the pot. So the pie dent of a construction company — why pieces are getting smaller and smaller.” not start a program to rehab these houses? Another resource that is more abundant Teach the people a trade.” and readily available is abandoned houses that could be utilized to provide housing. According to Blueprint 2, between Defining success 8,000 and 10,000 abandoned houses exist in Indianapolis. I’m waiting outside the doors of Horizon “It makes much more sense to catch House. It’s 11:30 on a mid-November houses before they fall into such hopeless morning and exceedingly cold outside.

There’s not dedicated funding in Indy to address the issues that will help individuals get out of homelessness.

On Nov. 11, 2011, CHIP released a draft of their new plan, Blueprint 2. “One of the goals that is laid out in the new plan is a lesson learned from last one,” Hurst says. “You can have great ideas about ending homelessness, but if you don’t have steady funding, nothing’s going to happen. So, this offers a proposal for an increase in state sales taxes of one quarter to one half of a percent that would go to a permanent fund.” Hurst emphasizes that the idea is simply a proposal. Julie Marsh, Domestic Violence Network chief executive, isn’t sure the public will be willing to accept this initiative. “It’s a bold move, but we don’t know if it will fly,” Marsh says.

If the goal is to create a large pool of money quickly, the tax increase could do that, but other alternatives need to be considered, Marsh says. According to Blueprint 2, Indianapolis, the 12th largest city in the nation, does not provide tax dollars to battle homelessness. All larger cities in the U.S. make public funds available according to Blueprint 2. This disparity is what prompted CHIP to call for the tax increase. This discussion brings up the larger problem, which is dwindling funding and resources for homeless service organizations. “There’s not dedicated funding in Indy to address the issues that will help individuals get out of homelessness,” Hurst says. “Indianapolis gets about $3.2 million and nearly all of that is restricted to providing

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Left, starting from the top: An encampment; two men enjoy a Saturday night at the Pine Street camp; Andrew, a resident of the Pine Street camp; during our visit, an individual, who asked to remain anonymous, provided a truckload of chopped wood to Pine Street residents to burn for warmth in the evenings. Right: front row: Leah and Whitey; back row: Devonte and Essence: residents of the Pine Street camp.

There are five others waiting in line. They have large, stuffed backpacks and sleeping bags. Two of the men are animatedly discussing possible job opportunities. The others look stoic. Joanette, executive director at the Horizon House, opens the door, greets me and leads me around his organization’s building. The building’s main room is where the clients stay. Its high ceilings and open floor layout allow everyone to be seen easily. Off that room is a small hallway where hot coffee and donated baked goods are available. There’s also a small room where laundry machines and telephones are available for client use. But, most importantly, it’s warm. Joanette explains that clients can use Horizon House as their permanent address to receive mail and also to register to vote. He unlocks a door and shows me an area where clients can get their hair cut. He shows me the section of the building that houses a branch of IU Health Center where clients receive medical care. He shows me the large room with computers that are used to help clients develop their professional skills, create a resume and search for jobs. “My goal each and every day is to work myself out of a job,” Joanette tells me. “That’s what success looks like. The way our staff, and myself included, move forward is that we focus in on the successes we can see and support them.” About 20 percent of Horizon House’s clients work at least part-time. Some of them also attend college. “We measure success, especially with the demand on our services, by seeing the steps each individual takes each day here, big or small,” Joanette says. “Just to get someone in off the street, that’s a huge success.”

Horizon House and other organizations doing similar work find jobs for their clients every day. They enroll them in schools. They give them a hot meal. They give them socks, shoes and a winter coat. They show them how to write, read and use a computer. These organizations provide services that many of us take for granted every day. Joanette shows me all of this in his building and tells me what’s available through other service providers. It seems like every detail has been thought of, but I still have to ask, “Why are people homeless?” “I think we have to go back to what the root causes are; we need to look at educations,” Joanette says. “We need to look at underprivileged individuals without a great education and no great support. “The short-term look is having the resources to work with the barriers in one’s life. What my agency does is we intervene once those issues have taken place — the education issues, the addiction issues. The long-term look is ‘We’ve got to solve the systematic problems.’ Until we have those things solved as a whole, all we can do is put a Band-Aid on these issues. All we can do is fight every day for those resources that will change people’s lives.” He continues: “The average age of a homeless youth is 7. The average age of a homeless person is 8. These kids start out already at a deficit. There’s just not adequate opportunities for people in our society. And then there’s veterans. How can we expect them to give what they give for us to be a free society and then not give them the adequate resources? That’s just unconscionable. “I think this is the broader conversation of inequities and also about the disparities of wealth in our country. The American dream, that’s a sham anymore.”

Marie’s story Marie Turner had everything she could want. She had more money than she knew how to spend, three children, a job she loved and a lot of free time. “I just had too much money and not enough to do,” Turner said. “Then, my stepmother introduced me to crack cocaine.” It was a textbook case of addict behavior after that — she was evicted, bill collectors began calling and her children’s father took the kids with him to Indianapolis. “After about three months of living in Columbus (Indiana) without my kids, I was going crazy,” Turner said. “I decided with my boyfriend to move to Indy. I didn’t have any place else to go. So, we came here.” Turner and her boyfriend lived on the streets for a few days in Indianapolis before chancing upon an encampment of other homeless people on White River Parkway. “They let us stay there,” Turner said. “We were a big happy family.” After a few nights in the camp, Turner and the others had a surprise visit during the night. “It was snowing and cold and they scared us to death,” she said. The visitors were two outreach workers from Horizon House. “They sat with us and offered us food and water. They introduced us to Horizon House and said we could come there and take care of some of our needs. We all went to the Horizon House the next morning and started utilizing their services.” She continued to live on the streets and feed her addiction for another year after that night. Horizon House eventually helped Turner find

a job in a factory. She saved enough money after a few months to afford a car and an apartment. Turner took six others from the camp with her to her new place. “I was fighting my addiction at the time,” Turner said. “Unfortunately, my friends wanted to continue their struggle. So, my friends and I, we parted our ways. I got my kids back. I got everything back on track.” Turner worked various jobs over the next few years. She was clean, had money and, most importantly to her, she had her kids again. Years after her first encounter with Horizon House, Turner heard about a job opening there. “I went in and interviewed,” she said. “I actually started crying in the interview and told them how much it would mean to me. Had it not been for Horizon House that night I could’ve died. Anything could’ve happened.” Turner now does the same job as the people who found her that night. She’s an outreach worker in addition to working the front desk some days. She also volunteers to be on call one week a month to be notified by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department if they find someone who is identified as homeless. “I’ve been on both sides of the desk (at Horizon House) and it sucks,” she said. “You can’t imagine what someone has to go through to sleep outside — gather your belongings, get up off the freezing-cold concrete. Everybody’s situation is completely different. Because they’re homeless they’re not crazy or have a drug problem. They’re people.” — NB For more interviews with homeless individuals, see nuvo.net

Here are five main organizations. If you’d like, clip this out and carry it around. Who knows? You might encounter a homeless person – or know someone headed that direction – who might need this information.

Horizon House

1033 E. Washington St., 317-423-8909 Services: Alcoholics Anonymous group; assessment and referral services; case management; civil legal services; clothing distribution; computer literacy; employment placement program; financial literacy; food service; housing placement and assistance; info port library classes; job readiness training; laundry; mail pickup; medical care; mental health counseling; probation services; restrooms; showers; street outreach; support groups; temporary storage; transportation; telephone access; veteran’s services; women and children’s area.

Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation (HVAF)

964 N. Pennsylvania St., 317-951-0688, hvaf@hvaf.org Services: transitional housing; employment services; Residential, Employment, Substance Abuse Treatment Program (REST); case management; Homeless Prevention & Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP); Veterans Service Center: “on-site supportive services to homeless and near homeless veterans. Services include food, clothing, personal hygiene items, household goods, drop-in shower facilities, transportation, housing and employment assistance and financial benefits counseling,” according to their website.

Wheeler Mission Ministries

205 E. New York St., 317-635-3575 Services: Center for women and children; men’s residential program; S.T.E.P.S. Program (Steps Toward Economic and Personal Stability); emergency shelter; food service (lunch to previous night’s occupants, dinner at 5 to 5:30); work therapy; winter contingency program; mental health services; Health Care Hebron Addiction Recovery Program for Men; Higher Ground Addiction Recovery Program for Women

Dayspring Center

1537 Central Ave., 317-635-6780 Services: emergency shelter for families; food and clothing; case management; recreational and educational opportunities for children; Wellspring Cottage for “…families that have graduated from an emergency shelter program, who need extra time to address more deeply rooted issues that led to their homelessness. For example, drug addiction, insufficient skills, large debt, or lack of education,” according to their website.

Holy Family Shelter

907 N. Holmes Ave., 317-635-7830 Services: emergency shelter; breakfast, lunch, dinner; telephones; laundry facilities; transportation; case management; job referrals; job training; childcare program; parenting classes; nutrition classes; medical services; legal assistance; counseling; GED preparation course; domestic violence counseling; financial literacy/recovery program; addiction treatment; recreational programs; transitional housing.

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THURSDAY

Dance Kaleidoscope’s ‘Super Soul’

@ Indiana Repertory Theatre Dance Kaleidoscope’s latest production is a collection of three world premieres, all of them with rather a good deal of soul: Wonder-full, choreographed by DK honcho David Hochoy and featuring the Stevie Wonder songs “Superstition” and “Isn’t She Lovely”; Quiet Storm, choreographed by Cynthia Pratt, with a score comprised of soul classics such as “Say a Little Prayer for You” and “I Gottcha”; Dance Kaleidoscope’s Melanie Schreiber and Mo’ Soul, choreographed by Nicholas Owens and including the songs “Knocks Me Off My Feet” and “P.Y.T.” One-hour highlights concerts on Jan. 24 and 25 at noon are affordable alternatives to the full-scale production; they run $6 a ticket, including a Q&A with Hochoy.

THURSDAY

Winter Magic Festival @ IndyFringe

Indy Magic Monthly head Taylor Martin came up with a crafty idea last year: Why not bring in some of the nation’s top musicians as they make their way to Columbus, Ohio, for the annual trade convention Magi-Fest? And so he did; and so he will do so again this year, with a weekend of magic on the IndyFringe stage. In town for the weekend are Philadelphia’s Ran’D Shine; L.A.’s Brothers

NUVO: What led you to curate REPRESENT? KISHA TANDY: I have a BA in history and Masters of Library Science, and I appreciate art, especially work that presents African American history. I previously worked on two other major art exhibitions: Heritage Spectrum, in 2006, featuring the work of Herron School of Art and Design Spectrum students, and Our Own Artist: The Paintings of William Edouard Scott, in 2007. The latter was a retrospective of Scott, an Indianapolis native.

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NUVO: What motivated your choices for the show?

Lessons learned from tragedy: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple

TANDY: Although most of the artists included in REPRESENT live in Indianapolis, there is representation from artists from Richmond, Bloomington, Gary and Elkhart. A consideration was showcasing existing pieces in the museum collection, and it was important to include female artists.

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@ Christian Theological Seminary

Not that we’ll recommend reading The Indianapolis Star very often, but they were certainly the paper of record well before we were around, including when Jim Jones was first making his name as a dynamic, color-blind pastor working in children’s homes and preaching a gospel of social justice to his flock. A trip through the paper’s archives (summarized here from an article from the Star’s StarFiles blog) would yield stories of a 22-year-old Jones organizing outings for orphans in 1953; or, the tale of the great monkey fundraiser, when Jones imported monkeys from India and South America and sold them door to door. In 1955, he founded The People’s Temple, which went on to run a daily soup kitchen and offer employment assistance. Jones was named director of the city’s Human Rights Commission in 1961, which addressed issues of discrimination and race relations; he and his wife had by then adopted eight children of various races into their so-called “Rainbow family.” The family and 100-plus members of Jones’s congregation decamped for Ukiah, Calif., in 1965; the rest of the story is better known, ending in 1978’s Jonestown massacre. CTS professor Scott Seay will lead a discussion focused on Jones’s Indianapolis years on Thursday, joined by fellow CTS professor Webb Cardwell and Marian Towne, author of The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana, a memoir told to Towne by Catherine Thrash, an Indianapolis native who joined The People’s Temple in 1958. WHEN: Jan. 19, 7-8:30 p.m., free WHERE: 1000 W. 42nd St., 924-1331, cts.edu

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Hello Dolly! review by Rita Kohn The Dixie Swim Club review by Rita Kohn

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WHEN: Jan. 19-22, times vary, $15 adult, $8 student (five-show pass available for $60) WHERE: 719 E. St. Clair St., 522-8099, indyfringe.org

museum’s permanent collection, REPRESENT, opening Jan. 21, shines a light on both emerging and well-known art by Hoosiers of African descent. Kisha Tandy, who co-curated REPRESENT with now-retired Indiana State Museum fine arts curator Rachel Perry, answered a few questions about the exhibition. — Rita Kohn

WHEN: Jan. 19-29; 7 p.m. Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri. and Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun.; $25-37 WHERE: 140 W. Washington St., 635-5252, dancekal.org

of Two Minds, a mentalist duo that has purportedly mentally transmitted a thought across the Las Vegas Strip; Jania Taylor, an Ohio native whose humor draws from her plight as one of the few female musicians in magic’s old boys club; Indy regular Jared Sherlock; and Dallas magician Trigg Wilson, who was last year’s top-selling act at the festival. Shows run through the weekend; check indyfringe.org for times.

NUVO: How does the ISM support and encourage Indiana artists generally, and artists of color specifically?

Lobyn Hamilton, “Dark Fantasy,” part of REPRESENT.

SUNDAY

REPRESENT: Celebrating Indiana’s AfricanAmerican Artists @ Indiana State Museum

From William Edouard Scott’s early French easel paintings to current artists who paint, photograph, sculpt and make textile, ceramic or collage artwork, the Indiana State Museum’s new exhibition REPRESENT portrays the essence of the black influence on life in America through images, objects, film and more. Featuring 40 works of art from the Evidence Dance review by Rita Kohn Shame review by Ed Johnson-Ott

TANDY: Historic and contemporary art is collected by ISM curators. The ISM continually exhibits work by Indiana artists, including the current exhibit, Heartland Art: Selections from Your Indiana Collection. Contemporary artists of color, like Ron T. Shaw, currently on display in Heartland Art, and REPRESENT artist Linda Gray, have been included in previous ISM exhibitions and are part of the ISM’s permanent collection. In addition to the aforementioned exhibitions, the museum featured African- American artist John Wesley Hardrick as part of its four part series, Curator’s Choice, in 2007. The ISM art collection does not contain a large number of works by African Americans. However, collecting African-American art and history is part of the museum’s long-term collecting strategies. REPRESENT has allowed us the opportunity to add new pieces to the permanent collection. WHEN: Jan. 21-July 15, free with museum admission (members free; adults $7; kids $4; seniors $6.50) WHERE: 650 W. Washington St. in White River State Park, 232-1637, indianamuseum.org

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TURF: IDADA Art Pavilion by Daniel Axler Creme de les Femmes showcase by Paul F. P. Pogue

SATURDAY

The Encyclopedia Show @ Irving Theater

The Encyclopedia Show is a live

variety show that features musicians, writers and other, er, creatives presenting an original piece on a topic chosen for them ahead of time out of, indeed, an encyclopedia. The concept got off the ground in Chicago, and it’s now taken root in Indy; this is the fifth local edition of the show, which is on a bi-quarterly

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Chef Neal Brown

SUNDAY

Slow Food Indy annual pitch-in

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@ Wheeler Arts Community A growing community of local farmers, food artisans, and slow food advocates affiliated with the Slow Food Indy chapter are working to make Indianapolis a more food-friendly place. This Sunday, Slow Food Indy will hold its annual meeting, with the goal of bringing even more local food-friendly folks to the table. Members and nonmembers alike are invited to share a dish (along with their own dining ware), their ideas, and their questions for a group of panelists who will speak to next steps in furthering the Slow Food mission of “good, clean, fair food for all” here in Indy. In anticipation of the gathering, Slow Food Indy president Tyler Henderson, farm manager for Growing Places Indy, spoke with me at length about Slow Food Indy, its successes and challenges as his presidency and three-year board term come to an end. While the organization is a relatively small one, run by a volunteer board of nine, the organization has high hopes for continuing to bring awareness to the joys and health benefits of sustainably grown local food — from the chickens at Gunthorp Farms to the lettuce at Seldom Seen Farm. While Slow Food Indy can’t necessarily take on the industrial food system, it can help fundraise and work closely with local efforts to help increase appreciation for local food. “Part of our fundraising is to raise money to help either members or just people who are trying to make a better local food system,”

schedule at present. All topics for this week’s edition are concerned with the future, including time travel, utopia, premonitions, weather forecasting, aging, the afterlife, genetic engineering and Rapture forecaster Harold Camping. Erin Livingston is

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Henderson says. Typically, Slow Food Indy runs one or two events a year, both fundraising and social in nature. “I think what Slow Food Indy and slow food in general has going for it is a very clear and I think very noncontroversial goal and mission and message, which is just good clean fair food for all; and I haven’t met someone who thinks that’s not a good idea,” Henderson says. “I think sometimes there can be a bit of debate on how to get to that point, but the general spirit is that people should eat better, more wholesome food that’s better for themselves and their health, better for the environmental health, and better for the local community.” Henderson sees that change happening from the ground up. “We’re just trying to promote let’s say a smaller more localized food system. I don’t know how we really go about starting conversations or having conversations with Dow or Monsanto or the Farm Bureau,” Henderson says. “It’s working reasonably well at the national level; they’re doing work related to the Farm Bill and the school lunch program, so those are big issues that can be tackled on a national scale. In an ideal world, someday, we’d have the funding and time, one paid staff member, to work on institutional things.” I also caught up with one of the panelists, Chef Neal Brown, to get his take on the local food scene and its challenges. “I come from sort of a business angle that says the challenges of being a chef are that the demand for organic and for sustainably farmed produce outstrips the supply. And that makes it sort of problematic for guys like me that want really good quality stuff at a really great price,” Brown says. “Personally I think we’re sort of at a critical mass. I think we’re better off than we were five years ago and I think we’re better off than we were two years ago and so forth...” Tyler Henderson’s wife Laura, with whom he runs Growing Places Indy and the Indy Winter Farmers Market, will moderate the panel this Sunday from 2-4 p.m. at the Wheeler Arts Community, which will include chef Neal Brown, managing partner of Neal Brown Hospitality (encompassing his restaurants plus the annual Dig IN event), Greg Gunthorp of Gunthorp Farms; Lisa Harris M.D., CEO and medical director of Wishard Health Services; and David Robb, who manages Harvestland Farm. — Julianna Thibodeaux WHEN: Jan. 22, 2-4 p.m., free (bring a dish and diningware) WHERE: 1035 Sanders St., contact tylerhenders@yahoo.com for further info, slowfoodindy.com 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 01.18.12-01.25.12 // go&do

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22 spaces, 22 reviews A full accounting for TURF We visited each and every installation at TURF: IDADA Art Pavilion, open through Feb. 5 at the Old Indianapolis City Hall, weighing in on each with a star total and a few words. Reviews by Charles Fox (CF) and Dan Grossman (DG). Numbering corresponds to each artist’s space number in the pavilion.

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John Himmelfarb, “The Road Leaves a Trail Behind” 1. GREG HULL, MEDITATED TERRAIN r Hull makes smart use of the physical positioning of his space, which is the entry to all of the other spaces on the first floor. He literally builds a bridge from the lobby into the area where the installations are located, complete with an artificial terrain and a waterfall created from monitors displaying video of cascading water. Meditated Terrain is effective in setting the tone for the rest of the installations through being inviting yet slightly unsettling. (CF)

2. ARTUR SILVA, CULTURE IS A GUN y Exploring “intersections of popular culture with politics,” as Silva puts it in his artist statement, is likely a fertile arena of artistic exploration. With its multitude of old television sets displaying a rather paltry montage of bright colors and images of Kanye West, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and guns, however, Culture Is A Gun lacks meaningful engagement with its subject matter and comes off feeling like a cheap Nam June Paik rip off. The Space Invaders arcade game and solitary monitor in the corner displaying another of Silva’s art videos feel thrown in. This installation grabs attention but does little to keep it. (CF)

3. NICK ALLMAN, COFFEE TABLE w The latest in Allman’s Unintended Function series is easily his bravest and most ambitious piece to date. The artist creates a scenario in which a 1930s refrigerator has fallen through the ceiling and crashed into the wooden floor, lying slightly propped open with power cord in tow from the floor above. This is one of the most striking installations in the entire venue, and Allman’s superior craftsmanship is well-

utilized: his custom-built wood floor, complete with “damage” from the refrigerator’s descent, and the “ruined” ceiling are so well-executed that the entire situation feels completely believable. The fact that it is presented as a functional item, a coffee table, lends a humorous sense of utility to the installation. (CF)

4. JOHN HIMMELFARB, THE ROAD AHEAD LEAVES A TRAIL BEHIND e Himmelfarb’s installation consists of an orange steel sculpture of an army tank-like machine that feels rugged and quizzically useful, presented in front of a backdrop of decrepit found fuel tanks and barrels. The contrast of the gleaming, new metal object with the metallic wasteland is striking, and there is great beauty contained within both parts of the installation. The wasteland backdrop and the sculpture are both quite intriguing in the gallery setting. One quip: White walls would have given far better emphasis to the installation than the gray the artist chose. (CF)

5. LORI MILES, WAITING FOR THE ELECTRICIAN (OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM) t Although the narrative Miles presents in her artist statement is not especially clear — it presents a cynical view of human relationships with a mechanical cockroach as a stand-in for a person — this installation certainly has a lot to chew on. The viewer becomes a part of the “relationship” by sitting in a vibrating comfort chair across the room from a mechanical cockroach, sharing the space with a series of monitors displaying cryptic content, and a mass of wires jutting in and out of the drywall like a gigantic network of veins. (CF)

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6. C. THOMAS LEWIS, BETTER OR WORSE? r Masterfully placed projections emit light in the forms of human eyes, spirals and portions of the vision exam onto surfaces cut in exactly the shapes of the projections — the human eye examples are the coolest and creepiest. Referencing Dada and surrealism while calling perception into question, Lewis creates a very strange and unsettling environment complete with a soundtrack begging the incessant questions, “Better or worse? A or B?” (CF)

7. JAWSHING ARTHUR LIOU, THE INSATIABLE e Liou pairs an audio track of bells and wind with a dozen videos filmed at a night market, transposed onto a moving video projection shaped like a snake or dragon. The juxtaposition of the frenzied, modern-day market with the ancient symbolism of the snake and dragon is fascinating. The video literally slithers across the screen, and the combination of the sound and the visuals evoke an eerie, Blade Runner-esque feeling. From a distance, or without reading the label, the video montage is so seamlessly executed that the content it is derived from is not readily apparent. (CF)

8. KATHRYN ARMSTRONG, ECHOES r Armstrong continues her examination of art as a transformable subject, injecting unexpected visual elements into the gallery setting that feel simultaneously deliberate and accidental. Like Carl Andre, her sculptural works allow for viewers’ touch, but in Armstrong’s case a footstep will permanently alter the exhibition, churning up her colorful

dusts and carefully placed porcelain shards that are arranged throughout the gallery floor. This is part of the experience: over time, viewers incurably alter the space and make it their own due to their physical presence, and their “echoes” remain. (CF)

9. LAUREN ZOLL, PERSPECTIVES ON INDIANAPOLIS i Zoll’s way of “responding to the context of Indianapolis,” as she describes it in her artist statement, makes little sense conceptually or visually. Her artist statement is as flurried and difficult to digest as the visual space of the exhibition, which includes gross off-tint paint splatters and oddball text. This is highly personal, travel-based artwork striving for conceptual richness and cultural relevancy and utterly failing to hit the mark. (CF)

10. CASEY ROBERTS, CROSSROADS e Roberts’ installation consists of a life-size diorama of a wolf on a snowy mountain contemplating whether it should make music with a drum set — a huge step out of the norm for the artist — and a video of a man who decides to live as an animal in nature. Roberts describes the idea of looking for change in his artist statement, and that idea is well-represented in this installation. Roberts’ odd, surreal brand of humor injects a lighthearted charm into the artwork, while calling notions of authenticity and artificiality into question. (CF)

11. JEFF MARTIN, SWITCH V2.0 w Local viewers may remember Martin’s Switch concept from the inaugural exhibition at iMOCA’s current space, but recreating it on a larger scale was a solid decision for an art exhibition catering to both locals and visitors from the world over in town for the Super Bowl. After all, it is one of the most memorable pieces of art exhibited in Indianapolis in recent memory. The installation consists of a great number of light-sensing nightlights arranged floor to ceiling in a tight grid on each wall of the space. Viewer’s bodies, shadows and movements trigger the lights in their respective shapes. The effect is stunning, and this is certainly one of the most crowd-pleasing and enjoyable installations. Black walls would be better than gray to emphasize the lights, but this is not a big issue. (CF)

12. ANILA QUAYYUM AGHA, MY FORKED TONGUE e The paper cut-out letters that you see dangling down from the ceiling in this installation, on hundreds of pieces of thread, are from the Urdu, Hindi, and English alphabets. The shadows created by these letters overlap one another on the walls. The takeaway here might be that languages, as well as the cultures they derive from, do not develop in a vacuum. American English — and American culture — is no exception in this regard. (DG)

13. BRIAN JAMES PRIEST WITH CHRISTOPHER ISERI, STARDUST TO STARDUST w First you see a black spiral of a galaxy drawn on an opened paper roll that resembles a giant Torah scroll. As your eyes become more accustomed to the dim light, you can see pieces of bone-like shards of charcoal on the paper. The artists created this drawing by scraping a life-sized skeleton built out of charcoal against the paper until it disintegrated. This act of creative destruction alludes to the fact that all carbon atoms — which make life on earth possible — were born in the bellies of stars. This installation also reminds us that our tenure on this planet is just a temporary one. (DG)

14. JAMIE PAWLUS, SANCTUARY (APOCALYPTIC CONSIDERATIONS) r According to the Mayan calendar, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Among the preparatory goals Jamie Pawlus has, she says, is to read the writing on the wall. Among the slogans and refrains painted on the walls here is the chorus from the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Perhaps this refrain takes on new meaning in the face of the apocalypse, but more important than having such refrains at hand — in preparation for a post-grid age — is the taking care of certain bodily functions. So it’s fitting that the centerpiece here is the life-size outhouse, glowing with a mysterious interior light, that Pawlus dubs “Sanctuary.” (DG)

15. AND 23. MIKE LYONS, A RAPID VALIDATION y Many in the business world might aspire for the corner office, but installation artists aren’t office workers. Mike Lyons was given two corner spaces to work with on the IDADA Pavilion’s second floor, one of which appeared a little cramped. Lyons attempted, admirably, to make full use of the larger space by recreating an artist’s studio there. In the smaller space, I wasn’t sure what was going on. Lyons looks at art making, he says, as “an opportunity for self-improvement and selfmaintenance...” But I saw his recreated studio as a lost opportunity for visitors to come in and make their own art, or at least to come in and amble around. Instead, you’re not even permitted to enter. (DG)

16. JEREMY TUBBS, BTFSPLK TECHNE t Jeremy Tubbs considers Joe Btfsplk, a character in the Lil’ Abner comic strip, to be a true Stoic. You may recall, if you’re of a certain age, that Al Capp depicted Btfsplk as one shadowed by an ever-present black cloud. With this depiction in mind, Tubbs recreated a black cloud sculpture that you can stand under while contemplating your own predetermined destiny, if you like. This cloud is attached to wires that were designed to whisk the cloud from one point to another in the installation space. Unfortunately, this cloud was fixed in place on opening night, due to mechanical problems. (DG)

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Anila Quayyum Agha, “My Forked Tongue” 17. JUSTIN CHASE LANE, EDGE OF TOWN t

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Edge of town certainly succeeds in creating an on the outskirts feel. You step into this space that, with its black walls and mechanical detritus on the floor, may make you think that you’re in a broken down warehouse. But what redeems this installation, and makes it worth your time, is the hole in the wall through which you see the light of day. You also see — and hear — through this hole, a passing train. (DG)

The panels incorporated into this installation feature images of Indy’s architectural gems. The backsides of these wood panels, used in the tower-like centerpiece, are bare and unvarnished—and clearly visible to the viewer. It’s as if an architect designed just a building’s façade and left the interior to the occupants. You might have hoped that this architectural firm, which designed the current Indiana State Museum, would have put a little more thought into an installation that is supposed to showcase Indy’s architectural gems to the world. (DG)

18. LOBYN HAMILTON, VINYL DOWNPOUR r Through a giant water spout protruding from the wall near the ceiling of this installation space, you see a downpour of vinyl EPs and LPs, frozen in time, dropping down all the way to the floor. You also see a four-foot-high splash surrounding the downpour, composed of numerous album sleeves. (Just try imagining a liquid containing the repertoire of Kanye West, Pat Boone, and Barry Manilow.) The individual discs that comprise this sculpture are part of Hamilton’s massive record collection which he uses more for his unique, dead-on portraiture than for listening. (DG)

19. HOLLY STREEKSTRA, STEP ON THIS SIDE OF THE CURTAIN q When you step beyond this curtain, you find yourself in a Victorian parlor. In the center of the parlor is a table on which rests a spirit trumpet and a chalkboard. As the lights flicker, and as a strange scent wafts into your nostrils, you hear the manipulated recording of a séance, recorded in 1936, designed to contact Harry Houdini. And when you look around the room, you see that the wall mirror doesn’t reward you with your own reflection. You might find yourself thinking, at some point, that you’re in a dream. I mean the kind of dream where you find yourself looking around for something real, to convince yourself that you’re not dreaming. (DG)

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21. LESLEY BAKER, BULL IN A CHINA SHOP e Lesley Baker constructed this giant bull in a china shop out of used shipping pallets: unyielding, dangerous, and dirty material. But the fact that just about everything we buy in stores is shipped on such pallets — much of it coming from China — gives this installation a multiplicity of possible meanings. Such meanings might not have emerged in this installation if Baker had used a different material like, say, paper mache. (DG) 22. KIPP NORMAND, FANFARE FOR MAYOR CHARLES BOOKWALTER w This installation employs defunct musical instruments as bricks to build “a palace made of junk,” in honor of Charles Bookwalter, who served as Indianapolis mayor from 1906-1910. The “palace” resides in the space in the Old City Hall building which would’ve been his office — if he’d won his reelection campaign. Bookwalter never was able to move into this office because the building was completed in 1910, the year of his defeat. This is ironic, because he’s the mayor who proposed the building’s construction in the first place. Normand’s “fanfare” may be a silent one, but it’s nevertheless a brilliant evocation of an overlooked corner of this city’s history. (DG)

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THEATER RADIO GOLF INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE; DIRECTED BY LOU BELLAMY; THROUGH JAN. 29 q Metaphor is the soul of art, and playwright August Wilson was a master of metaphor. In a cycle of ten plays, each one set in a different decade in the lives of 20th century AfricanAmericans, Wilson found material that not only enabled him to chronicle the trajectory of the African-American experience, but to plumb the moral geography that finally and necessarily confronts all Americans, no matter who they are. Radio Golf is the last, culminating, play in Wilson’s cycle. Set in 1997, in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the play pivots around Harmond Wilks (James Craven), a successful real estate developer who, with his partner, Roosevelt Hicks (David Alan Anderson), is on the verge of tearing down a section of the blighted neighborhood in order to build a high-rise block of condominiums and chain retail stores. Wilks believes this project will propel his bid to become the city’s first black mayor, an ambition keenly shared by his wife (Austene Van), a PR professional with political ambitions of her own. The deal is all but done when a couple of local characters show up: Sterling Johnson (Terry Bellamy), an ex-conturned-handyman and Elder Joseph Barlow (the splendid Abdul Salaam El Razzac), an old-seeming street person, who is wise as he is cunning. Wilson creates in Elder a kind of chorus, with a voice calibrated to forge a conscience in Harmond Wilks’ as yet uncreated soul. In Wilson’s hands, Elder’s character is no less brilliant for its being familiar. But the same can be said for the entire ensemble, who, within the confines of a single inner city redevelopment office, are able, through Lou Bellamy’s seamlessly adroit direction, to enact the ways in which power impinges on personal identity and distorts the stories we use to give that identity shape and what we tell ourselves is substance. A mystic power resonates through this naturalistic setting. Radio Golf is a language-rich play, with crackling dialogue that, by turns, is funny and breathtakingly eloquent. The virtuoso cast is nothing short of marvelous. It’s a brilliant way for the IRT to begin 2012 and sets a high standard other theaters will do well emulate throughout the rest of this year. — DAVID HOPPE CURRENT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS PHOENIX THEATRE; DIRECTED BY BRYAN FONSECA; THROUGH FEB. 12 t In his program notes, Bryan Fonseca alludes to how the screwball comedies of the 1930’s helped audiences get through the Great Depression. There’s a similar impulse at work in his production of Current Economic Conditions — the desire to find a humanizing humor in an otherwise grim situation: the lack of meaningful career opportunities for American college graduates. Lily Booker (Maria Souza-Eglen) holds a degree in anthropology and has just been laid-off from her menial job with a New York publishing firm. Broke, she is forced to move in with her parents (Charles Goad and Jen Alexander) until she can put her life back together. But in today’s job market, this is going to be difficult. Misadventures ensue as Lily finds herself learning more about her parents than she’d like, dealing with dead-end job interviews and trying to have a love-life when neither she nor her boyfriend (John Goodson) have jobs or a place of their own. Writer Don Zolidis sets up the action through a series of vignettes that play like sketch comic blackouts. The talented cast is adept at making the most of these situations;

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there are plenty of laughs, especially in the play’s farcical second act. But Zolidis fails to make Lily a strong enough character to provide a real rooting interest. Unlike so many young adults in her situation, she’s a self-absorbed ditz who actually does appear to be unemployable. Souza-Eglen’s nuanced energy manages to make this rather pathetic waif a reasonably sympathetic character. And Charles Goad turns in one of the best caricatures of henpecked fatherhood since Paul Lynde’s turn in Bye, Bye Birdie. – DAVID HOPPE THE PILLOWMAN PRESENTED BY PAPERSTRANGERS PERFORMANCE GROUP AT BIG CAR SERVICE CENTER; DIRECTED BY MICHAEL BURKE; THROUGH JAN. 21 t I’m tempted to structure The Pillowman along Freudian lines: There’s the Ego, or Katurian K. Katurian, a writer of grotesque fairy tales, often involving children, the most compelling of which being “The Pillowman,” about a gentle giant made of pillows who, upon arriving upon the scene of an adult trying to kill him or herself, goes back in time to try to convince the child version of that adult to kill him or herself. Then there’s the Id, Katurian’s brother Michal, a developmentally-disabled young adult who revels in the world of Katurian’s stories, inhabiting them with the investment of one who incompletely distinguishes fact from fiction. And, finally, we have the super-ego, rendered here as a “totalitarian police state,” as it is knowingly described by its representatives, the bad cop, bad cop team of Tupolski and Ariel, who have brought in both brothers for interrogation concerning crimes that eerily match the plot of Katurian’s largely unpublished short stories. But that’s just one reading, and there are many, because The Pillowman is about storytelling — both on the page and in “real life” — as well as the ways we interpret the stories of others. In one sense, it’s about a writer’s nightmare that people might assume his or her sickest ideas and stories represent, say, wish fulfillment or, even worse, a diaristic account of crimes committed; a police state, which has little or no sense of humor, would take such a literal reading. On another level, the play is a ripping black comedy, full of great zingers and playful stereotypes. Paper Strangers presented Martin McDonagh’s play effectively enough to allow one to puzzle over the source material. But it was very cold in the garage bay of the Big Car Service Center, and that brings me to a key point: If you’re going to make the audience sit in a 55-some degree garage for three hours, why not go all the way, using the industrial, stark surroundings to realize the feel and themes of the play? Try to disorient and shock us, because, otherwise, why couldn’t we watch the action in the relative comfort of another space? The staging restricted action to a corner of the garage bay, which allowed for a certain degree of black box-style intimacy, but not much else interaction with the space itself. Regardless, performances were generally solid: Matthew Goodrich was convincing as Katurian, if somehow pensive and restrained; Ryan Mullin’s Michal carried himself effectively, and the brothers’ emotional sparring in act two was gripping. Spencer Elliot as Ariel played the bad cop a bit too stereotypically to make us believe him when he departs from that stereotype; Patrick McCarney was often funny as the better, if not quite good, cop of the duo. I’ll confess to being a bit tired of DIY visuals using an overhead projector; they seemed a bit too crude, juxtaposed against McDonagh’s polished words, and didn’t really enchant as intended. — SCOTT SHOGER

FOOD Chef Dan’s Southern Comfort Little bit Southern, little bit Cajun BY D A V I D H O P P E D H O P P E @N U V O . N E T We found Chef Dan’s Southern Comfort food truck at the corner of Market Street and Capitol Avenue, its nose staring straight at the Statehouse dome. Inside that venerable building, Republican legislators were licking their chops over the prospect of busting the unions with so-called Right to Work legislation. But out on the street, workers and legislators alike were having their appetites tempted by the richly seasoned aroma wafting from Chef Dan’s mobile kitchen. On the streets since November, Chef Dan Carter has been gradually building a following for his take on Southern-style cookery. “I come from a family of cooks,” says Carter, who grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. “My grandmother had a farm and she made everything from scratch.” Carter got his first restaurant job at 13. By

17, he was a kitchen manager. After attending culinary school in New Orleans, he set out to make a mark of his own. “It was great to see all types of cooking techniques in New Orleans. It made me want to do this more.” Carter describes his menu as offering “a little bit of Southern with a little bit of Cajun New Orleans cuisine.” “A lot of people think of Cajun as spicy,” he says. “Cajun is just highly seasoned. That’s basically what I do. I highly season my food so you can have that taste you will never find anywhere else.” On the day NUVO visited, Chef Dan’s Southern Comfort was offering a variety of hot sandwiches, including a catfish/shrimp poboy ($6/$7), BBQ pulled pork ($6), open face meatloaf with potatoes ($7) and Southern fried chicken ($6). There were also Chef Dan’s wings with fries ($6), mac ‘n’ cheese ($3) and peach cobbler ($2). We sampled the pulled pork and Chef Dan’s wings, along with the mac ‘n’ cheese and an order of the cobbler. The pork, served on a white bun, was juicy and tender with a dollop of sweet sauce, sporting a smoky afterglow. The mac ‘n’ cheese practically defined comfort food: a secret blend of several cheeses and, we guessed, paprika, that made for a multilayered flavor effect. The wings consisted of five plump fried chicken servings. The batter seemed to emphasize butter over seasoning; I would have preferred a little more spice and

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beverage of civilization. Brewer Caleb Staton describes the journey to this huge brew: “Continuing our adventure into the realm of sour ale brewing, we designed a recipe to create an Upland version of a traditional Flanders Red. Melding flaked maize into a turbid mash and adding Belgian candi sugar during a long kettle boil, we prepared this ale for epic proportions. We then incorporated wild yeasts and other acetic and lactic acid, producing microorganisms for a year-long oak fermentation in bourbon barrels which had previously been utilized to age beer.”

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relied on a side of hot sauce for that extra kick. The wings were served with fries, which were snazzily enhanced by a generous sprinkling of Chef Dan’s Mississippi BBQ rub (for sale on-site and at such classy venues as Goose the Market, the Good Earth and Georgetown Market). We finished up with peach cobbler, a thick, rich and satisfyingly silky confection that came close to being a bread pudding with a dash of cinnamon. Chef Dan’s Southern Comfort truck is available for lunches and dinners and, in addition to the Statehouse, can be found at such sites as the City Market, the WFYI

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y (PG-13) There’s a scene in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a mostly low-key drama dealing with the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, where a boy imagines his father falling to his death from the World Trade Center. A shot depicts the father plunging through the air in slow motion, his limbs flailing, heading face first towards the camera. We all have memories of fleeting news shots of human beings falling to their deaths on that dreadful day. But director Stephen Daldry (The Hours) decided that wasn’t enough. He had to jazz it up a little. So he digitally creates a “Wow!” moment, presenting a point of view never seen — thank God — in any actual footage of the tragedy.

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There’s something about the transition from black and white to color within a film that can really make the reds luridly pop and the blues seem deep as the ocean — especially if you’re dealing with three-strip Technicolor, as in this otherworldly British fantasy, completed in 1946 by the writing/directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and lensed by Technicolor expert Jack Cardiff. In what might seem a slightly unexpected choice, the scenes on Earth are rendered in color and scenes in heaven in black and white. Special effects are impressive in an in-camera, pre-CGI sense; the waiting room in heaven realizes an Art Deco vision of the future, and a final courtroom scene is memorably staged in a giant, canyon-like space, large enough to accommodate all the peoples of the world — notably American and English, because the film originally was borne out of propagandistic aims to achieve a post-war Anglo-American rapprochement. But it’s not all about color and set design: The story, concerning a British aviator (David Niven) whose death in a crash has been postponed because of a clerical error — giving him time to fall in love with Kim Hunter — is mystical, funny and emotionally resonant. 7 p.m., Jan. 20, at The Toby; $9 public, $5 IMA members and students. 104 minutes; 35mm. — Scott Shoger

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Adepero Oduye plays Alike (ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old girl living with her parents and sister in Brooklyn. Alike is quietly, but firmly establishing her identity as a lesbian and is eager to find a girlfriend. Meanwhile, her parents’ marriage is strained and further tension is added when Alike’s development is brought into question. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor and tenacity. 84 minutes. Read Ed’s review Friday at nuvo.net.

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Carnage is adapted from Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning play God of Carnage, a product of the Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? school of writing. It deals with a tense meeting between two sets of parents that starts off very progressive and polite. Before long, however, bits of ugliness emerge. You know where it’s going and in real life you would quickly head for the hills rather than suffer through such an encounter. But this is fiction, and it’s fun watching the veneer of civilization fade and the fangs come out. It’s even more fun watching four gifted thespians enjoying an opportunity to act their fannies off. Roman Polanski directs the story quite efficiently, aside from some unnecessary close-ups here and there. The film stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz. The set-up: During a playground fight, Kate and Christoph’s son picked up a stick and wailed on Jodie and John’s son. Jodie and John initiated the meeting of the parents to address the incident in an adult, evolved fashion. Kate and Christoph, though appearing appropriately uneasy, adopt a similarly refined tone. But Kate keeps her coat on and Christoph keeps taking business calls on his phone. Jodie and John notice. Soon the first inappropriate remark slips out and the devolution begins. It’s all very stagey, but that’s part of why the production is so entertaining. Yes, serious issues are discussed, but the appeal is the spectacle of the meeting. The artificiality of the oh-so-grown-up summit and the revelation that people can be rude, crude and downright savage — it’s all so ... obvious. But juicy! And everybody emotes all over the place! Best of all, it’s short. The film runs a brisk hour and twenty minutes, just long enough to get the job done without becoming bloated, like so many works in this genre. — Ed Johnson-Ott

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tion of an individual with Asperger’s, or just wooden readings from a neophyte. Playing an estranged couple, Viola Davis makes her cameo appearance count and Jeffrey Wright is heartbreaking as a troubled soul touched by Oskar’s trek. As the parents, Hanks twinkles as Super-Dad and Bullock gets a wonderful scene late in the film. Extremely Loud punched my emotional buttons, but not always in the way the filmmakers intended. 9/11 was the biggest shared experience of most of our lives. The memories of that day — the tragedy, heroism, pain, confusion, and above all the humanity — are sacred. I’ve yet to see a fic-

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What cheap exploitation. I’m surprised he didn’t shoot it in 3D. Extremely Loud, based on the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, tells the story of 11-yearold Oskar Schell (played by newcomer and Jeopardy Kids Week champion Thomas Horn), who is trying to deal with the loss of his devoted father (Tom Hanks) in the Twin Towers on what he calls the “Worst Day.” Oskar states he might have Asperger’s syndrome (the “might have’ allows writers to milk the syndrome without being fully pinned down by a formal diagnosis — The Big Bang Theory has been doing this for years). Dad spent great amounts of time coming up with games and puzzles to draw his son into social contacts with others. Oskar finds what he decides is a clue from his late father, a key in an envelope with the word “black” on it. The kid sets out to contact everyone named Black in the New York area, determined to solve his dad’s puzzle and get ... a message? Closure? Whatever it is, he breezes past his distant mom (Sandra Bullock) each day to pursue his quest. They weren’t close before 9/11. Now they’re like strangers. There’s more. Max von Sydow becomes Oskar’s traveling buddy about halfway through the story. He’s mute, communicating through a note pad and the “yes” and “no” tattooed on his left and right hands. The character is contrived, like much of the movie, but von Sydow makes him seem genuine. Thomas Horn is effective as Oskar, though I’m not sure if his performance is a skilled depic-

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tional movie about 9/11 that seemed necessary. Documentaries about the NYC attacks, the United Flight 93 hijacking and the overall tragedy have done justice to the events. There are scenes in Extremely Loud that are moving and others that are mawkish. The sense of community that never seemed stronger than in the days after 9/11 shines through on occasion in the movie. I appreciated some of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, but not enough to make up for Daldry’s ham-handed manipulation and that miserable falling-dad shock that reduces one of the most nightmarish images we’ll ever witness to a video game special effect.

Meryl Streep plays former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and she’s terrific. The look in her eyes, the timbre of her voice, her gait, etc. I kept waiting for the film to become as exceptional as its star, but The Iron Lady remains a mostly standard-issue bio-pic. Nevermind the politics, the Thatcher we see here was a fascinating individual. She believed that contemporary society was suffering from focusing on individuals and emotions rather than ideas. She gets off some crisp quotes on the subject. The film hops back and forth in time, telling Thatcher’s life story along the way. But its starting point, and home base throughout the story, is with Thatcher in her elderly days. Fragile and sometimes unfocused, she has frequent exchanges with the ghost of her beloved husband Denis (Jim Broadbent). Thatcher is tended to by cheerful professionals, and her daughter Carol (Olivia Colman) drops by often (Carol’s twin brother Mark is away in South Africa), but she is lonely and increasingly frail and... What would the tough, shrewd leader think of a film that tries to make a highly controversial subject more sympathetic by first presenting her as determined, but frail and fading? I suspect she would cry foul, asking why the writer and filmmaker opted to present her through a haze of emotion instead of focusing on ideas. I’m glad I saw The Iron Lady because of the remarkable Streep, along with the performances of several other cast members. What a shame the surrounding film is so ordinary. — Ed Johnson-Ott

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nthrax, not the biological weapon but the pioneering thrash metal band, celebrated its 30 th anniversary in 2011. Guitarist Scott Ian, who founded the group with bassist Danny Lilker in New York, easily ranks last year in the top 10. “It was a really good year,” he says with a chuckle during a recent phone interview. The reasons are many, starting with the release of their 10 th studio album, Worship Music. It’s Anthrax’s first new material in eight years and marks their reunion with singer Joey Belladonna, who performed on their classic ’80s releases and hadn’t recorded with the band since 1990’s Persistence of Time — not counting 1991’s Attack of the Killer B’s EP. Much of the set sounds like the band’s savage melodicism of yore. And while John Bush, Belladonna’s replacement, was a powerful vocalist in his own right, followers have clamored for new Belladonnaled songs since Anthrax (rounded out by drummer Charlie Benante, bassist Frank Bello, and guitarist Rob Caggiano) toured with him as far back as 2005. Belladonna didn’t commit initially, however, leading to a back-and-forth between him and Bush (and another singer, Dan Parker, who mysteriously left after performing with the band from 2007-09). Ian can’t say if it was a case of something finally convincing Belladonna to rejoin the fold permanently. He says everyone sat down as a band and discussed whether or not to go forward. They agreed if they stayed together, they wanted new material and not to just tour behind the old music. “Everybody agreed it was what everybody wanted to do,” Ian says. So far fans seem to be on board with that decision. Worship Music has enjoyed nearuniversal critical acclaim, and Ian says fan response to the new songs they’ve played on tour has been the same. “It’s the opposite of the usual, when a band breaks into a new song and people go for a beer,” he says. “For us it’s been the opposite. I feel like people leave for a [bathroom] break when we play something they’ve probably heard us do 20 times. People have really taken to this record.” Performing with fellow thrash luminaries Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth at Yankee Stadium over the summer also made 2011 a memorable year for Ian (becoming a father helped too). Collectively known as “The Big

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Four” of thrash metal, Ian has repeatedly stated the reason for the bands’ staying power in a mercurial musical landscape: “We’re all really good at what we do.” Though Metallica went through a bit of an eyeliner phase and Megadeth embraced MTV a bit too closely, The Big Four have done a good job of not neglecting their roots, while still branching out. Ian was adamant his group had nothing to do with glam metal acts like Mötley Crüe and Poison, even as they began to eclipse groups like Anthrax. What Anthrax was doing, Ian says, was much more valid. “At the time, that was said from a much more defensive posture,” he says. “Now I can say it because it’s true.” During those youthful days, though, the members of Anthrax were too busy doing what they were doing to worry or

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even realize they were at the forefront of a musical evolution. “I find with anything in life, when you’re in the middle of something you’re not really paying attention to the ripple effect that it’s causing,” Ian says. “Twenty years later maybe you can put things into context. But at the time, we had no idea.” They had the same mindset, really, in the eight years between new albums. Despite the vocalist carousel that was endured, Ian was never truly concerned that Anthrax would disband. “We were pretty much working nonstop that whole time,” he says. “Most of that time we were on tour. I never really had any fear that the band wasn’t going to be able to continue in some way, shape or form. It was just a case of figuring how to continue in the best possible way, and

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that was with Joey.” For now the drama seems confined to the stage, which Anthrax plans to be on for the rest of this year. “Everybody’s in a good place right now,” Ian says. “It’s all we ever want to do, is just work. We just want to be a band. Right now we’re being afforded that opportunity again.” There are currently no predictions when the next album will drop. “I think I can safely say our next record will be out sooner than eight years from now,” Ian says. ANTHRAX Testament, Death Angel Egyptian Room @ Old National Centre 502 N. New Jersey St. Friday, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m., $25, all ages

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Sutiweyu Sandoval began his musical journey on the dance floor, studying the science of beats and breaks while earning his stripes as a b-boy. In 2009, Sandoval decided to focus his attention on music, both as a DJ and producer. Looking to his Central American heritage, Sandoval reinvented himself as K. Sabroso, developing a music style based on hip-hop breakbeats while incorporating textures from Latin American music traditions. K. Sabroso will be releasing his debut LP, Perfect Taste, on Spring Strut records this spring. Until then, check out his five top records.

SYSTEMA SOLAR Self-Titled LP “Colombia’s style of music known as cumbia has never quite matched the global popularity of Cuba’s salsa or the Dominican Republic’s twin threats of merengue and bachata. However, the last few years have seen a massive resurgence in the popularity of this small country’s most popular genre with a younger generation of musicians incorporating electronic influences into the sounds of a previous era. This album showed an amazing application of drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers to a style of music I used to think of as tame.”

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he third time certainly is the charm. Aaron Bruno, lead vocalist and mastermind behind AWOLNATION is no stranger to the music scene. After somewhat unsuccessful attempts fronting other bands and the resulting collapse of record labels and spiraling legal matters keeping beloved songs from being released, Bruno followed his own heartbeat. Signing with Red Bull Records, taking on the moniker AWOLNATION and setting out to release an album of his own, he created the monster hit “Sail” and an album that is impossible not to dance to. AWOLNATION’s first EP Back from Earth was released in May 2010, with their debut album Megalithic Symphony coming less than a year later. The first single, “Sail,” debuted at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart in February of 2011, catapulting AWOLNATION’S career somewhat overnight. It’s difficult to be specific about the perfect mixture of pop, melodic rock and hip-hop (and nautical inspiration) AWOLNATION has created, but that is part of what makes it so wonderful. I spoke with Bruno about his recent success, his upcoming show at the Vogue and his future musical plans.

way. At the same time, I always really loved pop music. More importantly than music, I feel like life experiences have influenced me to do what I do. Since I’m such a huge music fan I listen to everything. I’m not genre specific. Jeff Buckley was a huge one for me vocally. Not that I’m half the singer he is, but when I heard how well and how confidently he sang in his falsetto, it really gave me the confidence to explore singing in a more feminine way. NUVO: As an aspiring musician myself, I dream of what it would be like to have a huge crowd sing my songs back to me. How would you best describe the experience of having your own work verbally reciprocated at live shows? BRUNO: That’s a good question. It’s acknowledgement that you’re reaching people when they can be singing so loud that you can actually hear them sing back. The first time that happened for us was in Austin, TX. We went to play a show, and it was when “Sail” started to take off. I always thought [“Sail”] was such a strange song and a strange choice to play on the radio [so] I didn’t have any expectations for it to necessarily do well. So when it ended up doing well and the crowd ended up singing it louder than the whole PA system, it was really stunning. It’s always really special to hear your song like that. NUVO: I’m sure it gives you a break from singing which is always nice. BRUNO: Yeah, it really is. The vocals are extremely demanding. When I wrote a lot of these songs, I guess I didn’t ever think that I was going to be able to play a bunch of shows, so I didn’t really put a lot of thought into how hard it would be. It’s a work in progress for sure

NUVO: Were there any specific vocalists who influenced your vocal sound over the years?

NUVO: How would you compare what people hear on your record to what people will experience at your live shows?

AARON BRUNO: Most strongly would be the stuff that made me fall in love with music when I was younger: Michael Jackson, Prince and a lot of the punk rock scene. Nirvana and Kurt Cobain [were] a huge thing for me. I grew up in the hardcore punk rock scene around singers that did a lot of screaming, but in more of a melodic

BRUNO: It’s what I would want to see happen at a show for a band that I really liked a lot that sounded like this. It’s heavier, in a different way. We accentuate the parts that matter most and do our best to replicate the record with a lot more intensity and a lot more intimacy.

I made the record myself, but with the band we become a family and a cohesive team so that makes a huge difference too. I love the ‘90s energy of alternative music, and it seems like it’s getting a little closer to that too.

the chance to be released. My first goal was to simply release songs and not have them sit on a hard drive forever. I can’t necessarily pick one thing that I’m most proud of. I’m just thankful to be able to sell out shows. It blows my mind.

NUVO: Will your show on January 19 at the Vogue be your first time in Indianapolis?

NUVO: With the large success of Megalithic Symphony and a mini musical ‘nation’ forming under your thumb, I am dying to know if you have any interesting plans for vocal collaboration in the future.

BRUNO: It will be our third time actually. It’s a great venue. It’s the perfect size. Playing in front of more than twenty people is a big luxury to me. It gets really wild though. The security guards definitely have to work hard. NUVO: Having been in more than one successful band over the years, and experiencing the highs and lows of the music business, what would you say is your most personally satisfying musical accomplishment to date? BRUNO: The first two bands I was in didn’t really work out the way I wanted them to, although I’m proud of the work and learning experience I gained from it. First and foremost, I’m grateful to have a third opportunity to get my music out there with the help of the people that really believe in it. That’s really special to me. All I wanted was to release these songs I had recorded because the last band I was in ended up putting a lot of heart and soul into songs that never even got

Melancholy pop Communist Daughter to play at Mel B Y K A T H E RI N E C O P LE N KCO PL E N @N U V O . N E T Communist Daughter is a six-piece folk rock band from Minneapolis making their way to Indianapolis this Sunday. Lead singer Johnny Soloman’s melancholy lyrics are backed with slow-building folk ballads that tell a story of his own addiction, relapse and recovery. Nineties experimental rock fans will undoubtably wonder about the origins of their name. As one of those, I did. NUVO: Tell me about your band name. Is it related to the Neutral Milk Hotel song? JOHNNY SOLOMAN: Communist Daughter, as you suspected, comes from the Neutral Milk Hotel song. My old band played a secret show of Neutral Milk Hotel covers one night and we chose that as our name. When I decided to play out solo I stuck with the name. I had no idea I would one day be touring under the name. NUVO: You’ve released an EP of cover songs. Which modern artists are you influenced by? SOLOMAN: Although we take our name from Neutral Milk Hotel, I think some of our more prominent influences, like the Beach Boys and the Walkmen, shine through. I’ve always been a huge fan of real lyricists. That’s where the covers of the Hold Steady and the Mountain Goats come from.

BRUNO: Vocal collaborations are tricky, because it has to make sense. I’ve been working with a few different up and coming rappers that have a lot of beats that I like. That may not be great for AWOL, but they seem like they could be great for a good emcee, or just someone different in general. I just don’t want anyone to get sick of this. I feel like “Sail” has become such a huge hit that in some cities people are like “Geez man, I’ve heard this song a lot.” That’s obviously the goal, but I want to keep things fresh and more importantly than working with anyone else I’m just making sure that the next record is going to be great and hopefully a step above this one. AWOLNATION Thursday January 19 with White Wives, The Epilogues The Vogue 8 p.m., $16, 21+

NUVO: I’d love to hear a brief history of your band. JS: Adam, our bass player, and I were in a band called Friends Like These together; it kind of fell apart when I stumbled a bit with addiction and jail time. I ended up moving to a small town and writing a bunch of songs about where I was in life and the struggles I was having. I called up Adam and some of my other friends from the Twin Cities scene and we put a group of guys together to play the songs about two years ago. But, it didn’t really come together until I met Molly and had her join [in] singing with me. After the debut came out and made a little splash, I ended up going to rehab. I’ve been sober for a year, and it has been this year that the band really has started to slug it out in clubland.

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SOLOMAN: Every song just starts with me and an acoustic guitar. If it isn’t interesting enough right there it doesn’t matter what we do to it. Everybody in the band has been making music our whole adult lives, so we kind of approach this as an ensemble putting the song first. Minimalist approaches work best, but it’s great to have a group of musicians that can fill up the room. Also, Molly and I play a lot just as a duo. It’s a good way for people to first hear the songs and their lyrics. Somebody recently said we had a Simon & Garfunkel meets Fleetwood Mac vibe (which I thought was pretty great). I think we will actually be playing a stripped down version in Indianapolis, so it’ll be a good introduction [to our music].

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Progressive pop rockers Squid The Whale from Detroit, Michigan are coming to the Hoosier Dome (with The Composure from Pittsburgh, Penn.) in support of their new EP, New War. This will be the group’s first time in Indianapolis, as they’ve only been together for a little over a year. Fans of Fall Out Boy and the sugary side of alternative rock may want to take note of this show. Also on the bill are indie hip-hop crew Indian City Weather, Auburndale, and Jump The Shark. -KELSEY SIMPSON ORCHESTRAL MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND AND TIME FOR THREE Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument Circle 5 p.m., $25, all ages

The clear, beautiful voice of Shara Worden is the obvious star of My Brightest Diamond, but it’s nicely complemented by a variety of instruments and a rotating group of people. In earlier years, Worden’s toured with Asthmatic Kitty label buddy Sufjan Stevens and twee rockers The Decemberists. Her music blends elements of opera, cabaret and rock with some overtly classical overtones. It should be a perfect fit with the ISO’s Time for Three, a trio of string instrumentalists who experiment with a variety of musical influences themselves. There will be unlimited food, cocktails and true musical talent.

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In the 20-some years that they’ve been together, the Lemonheads have rotated members and gone on a series of hiatuses. But you can’t keep a great rock album down, and 1992’s It’s A Shame About Ray was most certainly one of those. The album (released right around the time the Lemonheads released an extremely popular cover of “Mrs. Robinson”) cracked the indie glass ceiling, letting the Lemonheads eek through into radio and eventually leading to their huge festival performances. They’ve retained only one original member since that time (founder Evan Dando), but the sound is the same. They’ll play their breakthrough album in its entirety along with a select few other songs from their discography at this Friday show. ROCK SHE DOES IS MAGIC, DMA, JASCHA

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Thunderous drums (and other various percussive instruments) and visual effects combine at this punk rock percussion show. They’ve performed live with Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Used, No Doubt and the grandfathers of modern percussion troupes, Stomp.

Friday & Saturday BLUES SHARON LEWIS & TEXAS FIRE Slippery Noodle Inn, 372 S. Meridian St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

One of the strengths of the Chicago blues scene is its roster of female singers. Even though the Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor, died in 2009, singers like Sharon Lewis keep the city strong. Raised in Texas and living in Chicago for over 30 years, Lewis began performing in the early ’90s. She’s appeared on several blues compilations and recorded with her band Texas Fire Everything Is Gonna Be All Right in the early ’00s. This weekend will be her CD release for her Delmark album The Real Deal, a solid collection of Chicago blues with Texas grit and covers of Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine” and Van Morrison’s “Crazy Love.” – MATTHEW SOCEY

Sunday ROCK COMMUNIST DAUGHTER Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

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Locals Only, 2449 E. 56 St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

University of Indianapolis, 1400 E Hanna Ave 5 p.m., free, all ages

Come out for a night of experimental rock and roll with three interesting Indy bands. David “Moose” Anderson (of the defunct Jookabox and interesting side projects) will play with Jascha, whose evolved from a single singer, to a community project to a full-blown band. They’re currently on Standard Recording, playing really (really) unplugged Elvis Costello indie pop with a bit of a dark edge. Their percussion is reminiscent of the drum/bass/accordion combo of the Bowerbirds (who, consequently, they’ve opened for). She Does Is Magic is referencing the Sting song you think that they are, but the similarities end there. Their mix of ‘60s garage rock with little bits of punk is entirely listenable.

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Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., $10, 21+

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The Museum of Clean Plus, predator drones vs. cattle rustlers Obsessions: (1) Don Aslett, 76, recently opened the Museum of Clean in Pocatello, Idaho, as the culmination of a lifelong devotion to tidying up. Highlights are several hundred preelectric vacuum cleaners plus interactive exhibits to encourage kids to clean their rooms. Aslett told London’s Daily Mail in December that people who don’t understand his dedication must never have experienced the satisfaction of making a toilet bowl sparkle. (2) Also starting early in life, Dustin Kruse, 4, is so knowledgeable about toilet models and plumbing mechanics that the Kohler Co. presented him with an advanced-model “dual flush” commode for Christmas. Dustin, a fan of the Kohler showroom, has been known to explain toilet technology to other showroom visitors.

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• Predator drones are an important weapon against terrorists in Afghanistan, Yemen and other countries, but in June, an unarmed predator was employed

stateside to help catch cattle rustlers. The Department of Homeland Security owns eight predators for surveillance and occasionally assists local law enforcement. The cattle rustlers had been arrested, then jumped bail and holed up on their vast ranch near Lakota, N.D., but the predator spotted their exact location on the property, leading to a raid that ended without bloodshed. • Government Inaction: India’s legendarily plodding government bureaucracy had long stymied a snake charmer named Hakkul (a villager in Uttar Pradesh state), who had sought a snake-conservation permit, which had been authorized at one level but delayed locally. In November, finally exasperated, Hakkul walked into the land revenue office in the town of Harraiya with several sacks of snakes (including cobras) and turned them loose, sending clerks and visitors climbing furniture or fleeing. Recent news accounts report that “almost all” of the snakes had been rounded up. • A December news release from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned of the dangers of Campylobacter jejuni bacteria infections on a sheep ranch, but apparently only among workers who used an old-style (19th century) method of castrating the animals. CDC strongly urged that workers stop biting off the sheep’s genitals and instead use modern tools. • From U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s periodic list of the most “unnecessary, duplicative and low-priority projects” that the federal government currently funds (announced in December): $75,000 to promote awareness of the role Michigan plays in producing Christmas trees and poinsettias; $48,700 for promoting the Hawaii Chocolate Festival; $113,227 for a video game preservation center in New York; and $764,825 to study something surely already done adequately by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs -- how college students use mobile devices for social networking. Also on Sen. Coburn’s list: $15.3 million in continuing expenses for the famous Alaskan “bridge to nowhere” that was widely ridiculed in 2005 but apparently refuses to die.

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• Convicted serial rapist Steven Phillips was exonerated in 2008, one of a continuing string of wrongly convicted Dallasarea “criminals” proved innocent by DNA testing, and under a formula by state law, he was awarded about $4 million, tax-free, for his 25 years behind bars. Recently, Phillips’ ex-wife filed a petition in court demanding a portion -- even though the couple had been divorced for the last 17 years of his incarceration, and the ex-wife had remarried and had a child. (The ex-wife claims it was Phillips who originated the divorce and that she had given up on him only because he had revealed a “disgusting” history as a “peeping tom” and flasher.)

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treated at a hospital, doctors discovered and removed two “huge” tumors in D’Amato’s abdomen that had so far gone unnoticed. The tumors were not cancerous but had they not been found, they would soon have disabled him. (2) At a home in Taylorsville, Utah, in December, one housemate who was pursuing a mouse in the kitchen accidentally shot another housemate. As police investigated, they discovered a 13-year-old girl hiding in a closet. A third housemate, Paul Kunzler, 28, was then arrested and charged with carrying on a months-long sexual relationship with her.

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• John Whittle, 52, was charged in December with robbing a Wells Fargo Bank in Port Richey, Fla. According to police, Whittle ordered a beer at the Hayloft Bar shortly after 1 p.m., then excused himself, and a few minutes later, returned to finish his beer. In the interim, police said later, Whittle had walked down the street to the bank and robbed it. • In December, Russell Mace, 55, was caught soon after robbing a Union Savings Bank branch in New Milford, Conn. A bank employee had spotted Mace acting “suspicious” in the parking lot, and indeed, he said, Mace entered, robbed the bank of about $3,000, and fled to a waiting car. Police, however, identified the car, which they had noted from Mace’s recent arrest for shoplifting. (The “suspicious” behavior the bank employee had noticed, he told police, was Mace, pants down, defecating, in plain view among parked cars.)

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• (1) A 28-year-old man in New York City quietly excused himself the morning after his wedding in November (at a hotel following an elaborate reception), took a taxi to a Harlem River overlook, and jumped to his death. According to a relative, the man’s suicide note mentioned that he “couldn’t take it anymore.” (2) Luna Oraivej, 37, was ordered in 2010 by a court in Seattle to take an anger- management course to settle a charge of domestic violence, but in December 2011, she sued the creator of the course because a fellow attendee had stabbed her in the arm during a class-

room dispute. (The instructor was playing a video of “Dr. Phil,” and Oraivej had urged the classmate to listen to Dr. Phil’s message, but the classmate apparently could not bear it.)

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• Rookie Mistake: Tyechia Rembert, 33, was arrested and charged with robbing a Burger King drive-thru cashier in York, Pa., in December but only after making police officers’ job easier. After her clean getaway, she called the restaurant to reassure herself that none of the witnesses had noted her car’s license plate number. None had, but using cellphone records, police traced that call to Rembert.

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