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In our January 16, 1996 issue, we spoke with a couple stars from the recently released film adaptation of Cry the Beloved Country: James Earl Jones, playing an Anglican priest whose son has been condemned to death on a murder charge, and James Jarvis, the moneyed landowner whose son was murdered. Here’s an excerpt from Steve Hammer’s interview with Jones, conducted in New York City during a press junket:
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Jones: I’m a realist and I acknowledge it. ... Hollywood has some very bad habits. And racism is a part of it. Residual racism. Unconscious racism. The young directors who are coming on the scene can help that. In some ways The Great White Hope was ruined by Hollywood. By that residual racism. So often in Hollywood, to make it — I call it “greasing the penis,” you know, smoothing out the rough edges. Pardon the expression. Cry the Beloved Country is a film about redemption. Is it a “race movie?” Well, I guess I don’t know what a race movie is. Hollywood certainly tries to latch onto summaries like that, that it’s a Black movie and only Black people will go to see it. — Scott Shoger
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he remarkable new film Selma is rich in small moments of insight and ambiguity, and none is more provocative than the scene in which Rev. need. Some 9 million Americans stand to Martin Luther King. Jr., as played by lose Social Security disability checks from David Oyelowo, laments to Rev. Ralph a GOP scheme to stage another showAbernathy (Colman Domingo) that windown with their favorite president. ning black people seats at a lunch counCan there be any question that King ter means little if they can’t afford the would grieve over this dual developsandwich or read the menu. ment: Working people voting against King always connected racism and their interests, and white people refusing division to poverty and education; to accept the flowering of King’s legacy and indeed, the last year of his life was in 2008, 40 years after he gave his life to dominated by the Poor People’s March free all races from the shackles of hate. on Washington and the strike for decent pay by Memphis garbage collectors. He “To save man from the morass of planned the former but did not live to propaganda, in my opinion, is one of lead it, cut down by an assassin three the chief aims of education,” King wrote. months prior while he was carrying his “Education must enable one to sift and ministry to the latter. weigh evidence, to discern the true from A true revolutionary spends his days the false, the real from the unreal, and at odds with (even benevolent) power, the facts from the fiction.” and in danger of violent death. He asks, By those measures, education in not for blessings upon the masses and a America has indeed fallen short. King, I safety net for the poor who’ll always be am certain, would argue it must be imwith us, but for fundamental change in proved, not deprived, and not punished a system that depends on keeping the for failure to turn potential citizen-rulpoor and near-poor large in number and jealous of one another. To ask the hackneyed To ask the hackneyed perennial perennial question: What would King think of Amerquestion: What would King think of ica and Indiana today? America and Indiana today? For one thing, he’d undoubtedly use his rapier eloquence to rip up the lie that the prevailing educaers into obedient wage slaves. tion agenda serves poor and minority “The function of education, therefore, children when it sacrifices their funding is to teach one to think intensively and to to tax breaks for the wealthy and subsithink critically,” he said. “But education dies of private and quasi-private schools. which stops with efficiency may prove That’s the stone heart of Gov. Mike the greatest menace to society.” Pence’s program, as reiterated this week Lies and efficiency. Clearly, the public in his State of the State address; and it has policy “promise” we’re hearing from Capias much to do with lifting people toward tol Hill and the Statehouse rely on those the American dream as does his legal features and on the ordinary struggling fight to spite President Barack Obama voter’s assent to them. Education is the by getting 100,000 Hoosiers deprived of last thing their education programs seek health insurance. Meanwhile in Congress, Pence’s Repub- to achieve. Sadly, education is one of the best of reasons to salute Martin on his lican Party has inaugurated its new ma86th birthday. He was a true revolutionjority status with a slew of initiatives conary, driven by love, steeled by faith — and sistently targeting programs for people in exposing contradictions. n
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ven though a Ball State survey finds 52 percent of Hoosiers support making marijuana a regulated substance, Indiana may be one of the last states to legalize it. Twenty-three states have legalized medical marijuana around the nation, while Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska have legalized it for recreational use. But in Indiana, legislative leaders say they have no plans to even consider a bill to legalize pot for medical purposes. From those influential legislative leaders to unsure health effects, below are the top five reasons why marijuana probably won’t be legalized in the Hoosier state for years to come. • WE ARE A CONSERVATIVE STATE. That’s true politically and philosophically – and why you see Indiana approve some things so much later than other states. “It’s not easy to make something that’s illegal, legal” in Indiana, said Andrew Downs, director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne. Also, 80 percent of state senators and 71 percent of House members are Republicans. And according to that Ball State survey, Republicans were far less likely to support the legalization of marijuana (49 percent) than were Democrats (64 percent). • LEGISLATIVE LEADERS ARE OPPOSED. Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said legislators should wait and watch to see how the rest of
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the nation handles the controversial topic before acting. And House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said medical marijuana would cause “more family and personal disasters” than it would “issue way of relief.” “I don’t personally” think the marijuana bill should get a hearing, Bosma said. “I believe that marijuana is a gateway drug.”
marijuana and the issue is not a legislative priority, said the group’s communications director, Adele Lash. The group bases its opposition, in part, on an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine authored by scientists from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The article reviews the current state of science on marijuana’s adverse health effects, including addiction and “increased vulnerability to other drugs.” Drug Free Marion County is also looking for more information on the potential benefits of additional substances inside the marijuana plant — research that has not yet been conducted.
• DRUG-FREE GROUPS DON’T SUPPORT IT. Randy Miller, executive director of Drug Free Marion County, says his organization hasn’t developed a firm position because legalization is “so far down the road.” Drug Free Marion County’s main concerns about the issue stem from two ideas – medicine shouldn’t be approved through politics and usage might be increased if medicinal marijuana is legalized, he said. “Never in the history of our country has it happened where a substance or medicine is approved by legislation,” Miller said. “We’re not saying there isn’t value; we’re just saying we’re going about this the wrong way.” Another concern sprouts from the feedback other states are receiving. The use of edibles and vapor uses are becoming widespread, both medically and recreationally, leading to more opportunities to use marijuana among young people. “Use rates in Marion County are above state and national norms significantly,” Miller said. “Twenty percent of eighth graders used marijuana use in the last 30 days. We already have a significant problem with marijuana as it is.”
• OTHER STATES ARE HAVING ISSUES AFTER LEGALIZATION. Nebraska and Oklahoma have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out parts of Colorado’s marijuana law, claiming that federal law supersedes the state’s right to legalize pot. The New York Times reported this week that in Colorado, “amateur marijuana alchemists” are blowing up homes trying to extract hash oil but courts are unsure how to address the legalities of the actions. And other reports claim that increasing numbers of car accidents and emergency room visits in Colorado can be blamed on the legalization of marijuana. “States that have loosened up the restrictions,” Long said, “I think they are beginning to find and will find that there are consequences for that.” n
• THE HEALTH EFFECTS ARE STILL UP IN THE AIR. The Indiana State Medical Association opposes the legalization of medical
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U.S. Supreme Court takes on marriage equality The U.S. Supreme Court will consider four cases out of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. The cases stem out of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. The 6th Circuit upheld the state laws banning same sex couples from legal marriage when other Circuits had found similar laws unconstitutional in other states. The nation’s highest court had refused to hear the cases in those states, including Indiana, which allowed the rulings to stand. According to the ACLU of Indiana, same sex marriages will remain legal in Indiana throughout the review process. Should the high court uphold the 6th Circuit’s decision and determine states do have the right to restrict marriage, the only way things could change in Indiana is if the state filed a request for U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young to review his initial ruling based on the Supreme Court’s decision. Andre Carson appointed to Intel Committee Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed U.S. Representative Andre Carson (D-Indiana) to the House Intelligence Committee. “I am honored to be selected to serve on this distinguished committee at a time when our country continues to face great challenges at home and abroad,” said Carson. “This committee plays a critical role in the fight against terrorism and the protection of our national security. As a member, I am committed to keeping Hoosiers and all Americans safe, standing up for their privacy, and ensuring our intelligence agencies are operating effectively.” The 7th District congressman is the first Muslim to be appointed to the committee. Mayoral candidate filings The list of candidates for mayor of Indianapolis is slowing taking shape for the May primary. As of close of business Friday, Jan. 16, three people have filed the necessary paperwork with the Marion County Clerk’s office. Community activist Larry Vaughn filed to run on the Democratic ticket. Vaughn most recently ran for IPS school board and lost to Sam Odle. Jocelyn-Tandy Adande has filed to run as a Republican following an unsuccessful bid for Marion County Clerk last year. She also last ran for Indianapolis mayor in 1999, as a Democrat. Former Fall Creek Township Trustee Terry Michael has also entered the race on the Republican ticket. Deputy Mayor Olgen Williams just recently announced his intention to run on the Republican ticket. Former U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett , who kicked off his campaign in November, had yet to file by NUVO’s print deadline, but has already collected a war chest worth over $1 million. — AMBER STEARNS NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.21.15 - 01.28.15 // NEWS 5
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Officer Moore Memorial Blood Drive Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30 a.m. The Marion County Prosecutor’s office will host its fifth annual Officer David Moore Memorial Blood Drive at City Market. The annual event honors the life and sacrifice of IMPD Officer Moore who was killed in the line of duty in 2011. This year’s blood drive will also honor Officer Rod Bradway, who was killed while responding to a domestic disturbance report in 2013, and Officer Perry Renn, who was shot and killed on duty in July 2014. The first 100 donors will received a blue lightbulb from the David S. Moore Foundation to use as a porch light as a sign of support for law enforcement. The Platform at the City Market, 222 East Market St., FREE, donorpoint.org Mentor Screening Tuesday, Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m. Butler University will host a public screening of the documentary Mentor in the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts. The film focuses on the families of Mentor (Ohio) High School students Sladjana Vidovic and Eric Mohat, who committed suicide after suffering intense bullying. Their families sued school administrators for failing to respond to the bullying that led to the death of their children. The film was written and directed by Butler visitor professor Alix Lambert. Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., FREE Slavery by Another Name Forum Thursday, Jan. 29, 12:00 p.m. Freetown Village, IUPUI, and the Indiana State Museum will host a public forum based on the documentary film, Slavery by Another Name. The forum will include excerpts from the film, which explores the system of forced unpid labor that mostly affected southern black men from post-Civil War to World War II. IU History professor Alex Lichtenstein will lead the discussion. The forum will also feature a special performance from the Freetown Village living history museum. Dean and Barbara White Auditorium, Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., FREE
THOUGHT BITE ARCHIVE The Administration’s scheme to let Wall Street raid part of the Social Security nest egg, thus changing Social Security into social gambling, is reminiscent of what a U.S. major said after leveling the Vietnamese town of Bentra: “We had to destroy it to save it.” (from the week of Feb. 9-16, 2005) — ANDY JACOBS JR.
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At age 19, Dr. David Fankhouser participated in a Freedom Ride on May 24, 1961. He was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi where he was abused and beaten for over 40 days in jail (top left). Riders were often assaulted and buses burned (bottom left).
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he Freedom Rides throughout May 1961 made civil rights a nationwide movement for the first time, from being a city or regional issue,” summarized Dr. David Fankhouser. Tracing events forward from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1946 “Morgan’s Decision” which outlawed segregation on interstate transportation, Dr. Fankhouser Dr. David described how officials Fankhouser in southern states openly thwarted the decision, with not much of an outcry from leaders in other states or from the federal government. Not even public media gave much critical attention to the issue, except to report briefly on the first Freedom Ride sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) April 9-23, 1947. Sixteen men, eight black, eight white, representing all walks of life “
from a variety of states journeyed together across state lines. “They got to North Carolina and were beaten up,” said Fankhouser. Neither this incident nor the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott in the wake of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man, nor the 1955 Interstate Commerce Commission ruling that denounced “separate but equal” in interstate bus travel, nor the 1960 Supreme Court ruling that segregated public buses were illegal, moved southern states to compliance. In 1961 leaders of CORE took action to gain national attention. When a new set of Freedom Rides was launched May 4, Fankhouser was a 19-year-old Central State College (Ohio) student. He volunteered to ride on a May 24 bus. The new strategy to fill the jails with Freedom Riders finally gained media and national political attention. Fankhouser’s low-key description of the beatings Freedom Riders endured and subsequent 40-42 days of incarceration belies the depth of hatred by members of the Ku Klux Klan, many of whom were elected officials and police officers. In relating how
singing freedom songs solidified their commitment to each other and to the cause of Civil Rights, Fankhouser brought us to our feet on Jan. 15 at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School as we joined with him in singing “Let Freedom Sing” and felt the electricity of uniting with people in two rows of fourteen cells each enduring inhumane treatment simply because they were acting on behalf of justice and equality. Recognizing “50 years later we have made progress,” Fankhouser asked us to consider “Now, what would Martin say and do?” in the areas of justice, the economy, culture of violence, health and education, family. The audience response centered on the lack of knowledge about the Civil Rights Movement specifically and of our history in general and what Fankhouser synthesized “as our lost sense of the value of an education in a holistic sense. We do not teach history with breadth and depth, nor do we help students develop thinking skills.” When asked how teaching biology can bring his youthful experiences to bear, Fankhouser concluded, “I consider it is my duty to produce well-rounded students who will love life.” n
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et’s say that one late January evening your former spouse leaves your 2-year-old daughter alone during his custody period. He knocks on your door, begging you to talk. You decline. He does it twice more, so you call 911, thinking help is on the way. Think again.
What you’re about to read is a disturbing narrative about Megan (not her real name) and the ex-husband who harassed and intimidated her. When she repeatedly sought law-enforcement help, well-meaning officers told her they couldn’t help and notso-well-meaning officers belittled and insulted her. She called 911 at least 10 times over three months, asking for help, all the while working full time, taking care of her two children, and getting very little sleep because the slightest sound at night could be him again, just outside her window. “The common thought is, ‘Well, he’s not inside your house; he’s outside your house. So what do you care?” You care, Megan explains, because you’re afraid all the time, wondering if he’s around the next corner, behind the next window. “We were living like prisoners, and he was doing whatever he wanted.” If you read no further, at least read these nuggets of advice: •W hen officers respond to a 911 call, write down badge numbers and insist on a written report. “Officers began treating me very differently when I started asking for badge numbers,” Megan recalls. • T o get court-admissible evidence, buy a timelapse game camera, also called a trail camera (retail cost around $50). Mount it where the abuser lurks. Make sure it stamps the video with the time and date. Print the photographic evidence and insist that authorities provide help. • Call 211, a local help line that refers to agencies, such as The Julian Center (2011 N.Meridan St.) that can help. The Marion County Prosecu-
tor employs three deputy prosecutors and one paralegal within The Julian Center, and the Indianapolis Marion County Police Department has at least 18 officers stationed there, according to Peg McLeish and Sergeant Kendale Adams of the prosecutor’s office and IMPD, respectively. Anyone on the front lines of domestic abuse will confirm that exspouses are the most common abusers, and nine out of 10 times they are male. When they lose the power to control, they want it back. Megan fell for such a guy. When friends ask her what “she did” to make her former spouse act out in such a threatening manner, her short answer — in fact, the only answer — is this: “I left him.” Immense amounts of training have improved police response to partner abuse over the last generation, but as you read on, you’ll see that more needs to be done. The sidebar on U.S. Supreme Court decisions offers another view of how large the gap still is.
Calls to 911 “[The] Indianapolis Police Department was the first place I went for help,” Megan said. Officers Joshua Reynolds and K. Dancler were dispatched at 1:20 a.m. on January 16, 2014, but a record of the event wasn’t filed until March 4, following a request by Megan’s attorney. Responding officers did not alert Child Protective Services upon confirming that a 2-year-old was left untended by her father, who henceforth will be referred to as “the ex.” To their credit, these officers were the first to indicate, Megan recalls, that she was in serious danger, that they were familiar with guys like the ex, and that this sort of situation often ended badly for the woman in question. When the officers suggested that she get a protective order,
Megan realized that the ex wasn’t just being a jerk; he was dangerous. Protocol suggests that responding officers put victims in touch with a police advocate, and it often works that way. Patti (not her real name) confirmed during her second stay at The Julian Center that a female police officer who responded to her 911 call offered a police advocate to later accompany Patti back to her Johnson County home to pick up clothes and other supplies. Patti’s husband had discovered her south side address, scaring her enough to move with her son and her infant grandson back to The Julian Center. Megan, on the other hand, said she never had a female officer respond to her 911 calls—she got male teams—and she got no effective help until she went downtown and demanded it. Patti’s IMPD advocate also told her that between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursdays, she could get a restraining order or protective order from a prosecutor working at The Julian Center. Patti said she knows that The Julian Center helps many thousands of victims in addition to the ones sheltered there, but Megan said she remembers no hint of in-house lawenforcement help during her 45-day stay at the shelter.
‘Jiggle your boobs’ Megan wishes now that she known to ask for badge numbers when the ex first violated her protective order, lurking under her bedroom window at night. Megan remembers a dispatched officer who was white, 6’3” and balding who suggested that she should “jiggle your boobs” next time to keep the ex on her property until cops arrived. “If you don’t have their badge number, there’s nothing anyone can do” about such unprofessional behavior, Megan said. S E E , VICTIM, O N PA GE 1 0
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her window and record any future protective-order violations.
When told of that encounter, IMPD Sergeant Kendale Adams said, “I highly doubt that.” All officers receive regular training in domestic-abuse protocols, “Her video camera was brilliant,” said including a recent training on the hidLaura Berry of the Indiana Coalition den signs of strangulation, said Adams, Against Domestic Violence. Upon hearwho is a media relations officer, and he ing details of Megan’s story, Berry said can’t imagine any police officer risking such behavior from law enforcement such a comment. Adams also pointed is “not atypical. Had she known more out that officers must, by law, treat about her rights, though, Megan would harassment as distinct from domestic have had better response.” Berry added abuse. A series of harassment incidents that victims shouldn’t have to know might result in an arrest warrant—as octheir rights when they call 911: They curred with Megan—but one incidence should be informed by law-enforcement of physical abuse can be enough for officers. Her agency’s legal counselor legal intervention. “often has to get involved with law enA badge number would have been forcement to get them to do their jobs,” useful again the night a friend of MeBerry said. On the other hand, “we’re gan’s brought his gun and stayed overseeing really good progress.” Too many night. Even though the ex was caring women still give up when faced with for their 2-year-old, Megan said that cultural barriers that blame victims and he prowled outside her back door late the systemic barriers that remain in law that night, so she called 911 again. By enforcement agencies, Berry said, but the time a cop was dispatched to her immense progress has been made. place, the ex was long gone. According Upon hearing about the absence to Megan, the responding officer asked of official reports from Megan’s 911 Megan why she was concerned about dispatches, Kelly McBride, director of the ex when she had another man right the Domestic Violence Network, said, there with her. Megan’s male friend, who spoke on the condi“Every person I had spoken tion of anonymwith who had seen the ity because he is currently training photographs said, ‘It’s not safe for the Police Academy, recalls for you to stay there,’” that night. One of — MEGAN the officers asked, “How big is this guy [the ex]? Why don’t you deal with him?” This wasn’t the first time her “Officers should be taking a report, and it’s your right to get that report.” friend had witnessed unprofessional For women in Megan’s shoes, McBride police behavior in response to Megan’s suggests this: If officers balk at writing 911 calls — in fact, it motivated him to get police training, he said — but it sur- a report, “ask for their supervisor,” she said. “We’ve been training IMPD officers prised him: “Assault and battery does for several years now,” McBride said, not sound so great to me. I don’t want and she sees tremendous results. Still, that on my record.” if police officers refuse on scene to file Having a badge number would have a report, “Document everything and helped on another 911 call when the ex, report it immediately” by going to any again, was outside her window at night. IMPD district office to get a report filed, The dispatched cops, arriving after the ex had left, belittled her, saying, “There’s McBride said. After learning that she could have filed obviously nothing here; there’s no reason for this,” Megan recalls, and they in- her own reports, Megan checked in with four law-enforcement officers that she dicated that she needed hard evidence. either knows from high school or has One officer volunteered his opinion, recently gotten help from. None of them Megan said, that she was putting her has ever heard of filing your own report, children through unnecessary trauma Megan said, and one suggested that anyby calling 911. Frustrated with IMPD’s one who tried might not get much help response thus far, Megan decided that at a busy district police office. evening to buy a game camera, a time“All police agencies understand and lapse video recorder with night illumitake domestic violence very seriously,” nation, so she could mount it outside
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countered Jim White. (NUVO was referred to White by IMPD media relations officers.) After 40 years as a public safety officer, White is now a clinical lecturer at IUPUI. “Cops used to say, ‘Work it out.’” Now, though, “We’re all trained to provide name and badge number if asked. The response compared to 30 years ago is night and day.” A follow-up email to IMPD asking for additional response was answered more than 45 days after it was sent, perhaps because one media relations officer had been re-assigned during that time period. Because she was largely unaware of her rights on January 27, 2014, the day Megan received a protective order, the judge was powerless to extend protection to Megan’s 2-year-old daughter because the January 16 police report could not be located. Without it, there was no evidence that the ex had left his daughter alone to stalk and harass her mother. Months later, after Megan’s prosecuting attorney requested a copy, the missing police report finally emerged.
Turning point Nearly three months had passed since her first 911 call, and Megan didn’t yet know to ask for badge numbers, but she finally knew how to nail her stalker. Thanks to the game camera, she had dozens of photographs of the ex peeping in her windows, and each photo was properly marked with the time and date so as to be admissible in any court of law. “I was elated, thinking, ‘This is over. They are going to arrest him.’” Weeks of fear, sleeplessness, and frustration were about to end. Megan developed her photos and had called the police. An officer came to her house, looked at her photos, and declined to help. “He felt bad for me,” Megan said. “He said he would put out extra patrols,” but without an existing police report, he could not make an arrest. She would need to ask a judge to issue a warrant, she was told. Lying awake at home that night, seeing the ex three times outside her bedroom window, Megan decided enough was enough. “Every person I had spoken with who had seen the photographs said, ‘It’s not safe for you to stay there,’” Megan said. In the middle of the night, she gathered her two children, opened a window that the ex didn’t frequent, and climbed out. She drove to a hotel. Determined to find someone who’d take those photos seriously, “I took time off work the next day and went back to the court that issued my protective order to ask for advice.” She learned that if the ex hadn’t already violated the protective
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order, Megan would have been able to report a first violation, document it with photos, and get help. But he had violated the order, and she had already reported it, so her only recourse was to appear in court to prove the new violations.
Deputy sheriff helps As she considered the tire iron the ex left outside her bedroom window from the prior night’s stalking and the hotel bill she had just paid, Megan realized, “I can’t live like this for four months,” but she didn’t know what to do. Noticing her dismay, a deputy sheriff in the basement of the City-County Buildng scanning area asked Megan if she had been helped. She said no and showed him her photos. That deputy sheriff assured Megan that an arrest would be made, and he began writing a report. Her relief was temporarily shattered when a superior officer walked over and instructed the deputy to stop writing; that Megan’s case was out of the sheriff’s jurisdiction. When the superior officer left, the deputy finished his report and filed it, explaining to Megan that his aunt once was in her shoes, and her former stalker is now serving a life sentence for her murder. The helpful sheriff’s deputy, who asked for anonymity, said it’s unfortunate that so many police officers fail to write reports and fail to add notes to computer-added dispatch records in case there are subsequent 911 calls. He confirmed that his supervisor suggested it would be best to let IMPD deal with Megan, “but after seeing the pictures that she had and hearing her story, I went ahead” and wrote a report. If he hadn’t, and Megan had given up, “I think she would have lost her life,” he said. Police response to people in Megan’s shoes can make victims feel as if they are “one against 1,000, and it shouldn’t be that way,” the deputy said. “Never give up,” is his advice. That same deputy put Megan in touch with a victim’s advocate from the prosecutor’s office. The advocate was on her way to a dentist appointment, so she offered Megan another phone number that went unanswered. Megan left a voicemail message about photos, stalking, harassment, violated protective order, missing police report and having nowhere safe to stay. A response to that voicemail took three days, Megan said. Armed, finally, with a police report but lacking a prosecutor to process an arrest warrant, Megan called the newsrooms at Channel 8 and Channel 13 and described her ordeal. Within hours of telling her S E E , V ICTIM, O N PAGE 12
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story to reporters, Deputy Prosecutor Linda Major called Megan. Major, who works from The Julian Center, asked if the detective who had been assigned to Megan’s case back in January had contacted her. “I said, ‘Obviously, no,’” Megan recalls. Thanks to Major, Megan finally met with Detective Richard Stratman of IMPD’s North District office, ten weeks after her first 911 call. “He was very helpful.” He told her he had mailed her a letter in January — a letter she never saw. (Abusers often rob victims’ mailboxes, looking for clues on how to track them down.) Since she hadn’t pressed charges then, Detective Stratman said he could not have done more in January, but “He told me, ‘It sounds like we’ve dropped the ball in every way possible,’” Megan said. A follow-up email to both Linda Major and Det. Stratman was not answered. The prosecutor assigned to the case was “really wonderful, terrific” and was concerned that Megan’s
2-year-old daughter was not included in the protective order, so “even if he killed me, he would still have rights to her,” Megan said. Her prosecutor urged Megan to stay at night only with people that the ex didn’t know — The Julian Center was full — which meant co-workers’ couches and hotel rooms until the ex was arrested.
Arrest warrant issued Six days after Megan finally got some official help, an arrest warrant was issued, alleging felony counts of stalking, harassment, and child neglect. Megan stood outside the ex’s house at the time of arrest because he had taken their daughter home early from daycare that day. Megan said she will never forget the final insult: The arresting sheriff’s deputy suggested that Megan “stop putting my daughter through this trauma for such petty problems, and he asked if I was having a sexual relationship with [the helpful deputy]” whose name
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was on the warrant. Incensed, Megan reported those comments to the helpful deputy. “Within 10 minutes the deputy who made the comments called to apologize. He said he hates to see kids lose child support.” Usually polite to a fault, Megan finally lashed out over the phone. “I went off,” Megan admitted. “I told him I had never gotten child support, that at one point [the ex] had refused to see his daughter for three months, that I had hundreds of photos of him outside my window.” After her tirade ended, the arresting deputy apologized again. Even though the ex would soon be locked up, Megan was advised to move at least 30 minutes from his address because he would be out of jail soon. That meant she couldn’t return home, so every day she called or visited The Julian Center, only to be repeatedly told they were full — as was The Salvation Army and Sheltering Wings in Danville. On her second in-person visit, The Julian Center referred Megan to a shelter in Kokomo, but with traffic, her first drive
there took more than two hours. She knew she couldn’t commute that far, manage her family, and keep her job, so she turned around and stayed on a friend’s couch once more. Megan remembers three inperson visits to The Julian Center, where she begged for space, but intake workers never referred her to any IMPD victim advocates or deputy prosecutors who work there on the second floor. One intake worker studied Megan’s photos and said, “I really wish I could help you, but I can’t.’” Megan remembers that the reason given was that Megan wasn’t a resident of the center, and funding was tied to residents.
The Julian Center response Catherine O’Connor, director of The Julian Center since early last year, said that most intake encounters go vastly better. “That’s unfortunate, and that’s something we can continue to work on in training,” O’Connor said. “We need to be sure that we’re very,
very clear when talking with people who are not at their best.” Even though Megan eventually did find shelter for 45 days at The Julian Center, “It was never brought to my attention that those (law-enforcement) services were there,” she noted. By her third visit to The Julian Center, Megan had a prosecutor, a detective and an IMPD victim advocate from the North district office helping her. The victim advocate told Megan on a Friday that she had been promised a room at The Julian Center the following Monday. But on Monday there was no room, Megan said, and the center’s intake staff had never heard of the North district victim advocate who had promised it. “That is probably the most crushing thing,” Megan said: to count on a safe place to live — and have it vanish. So she begged again, offering to sleep on the floor. She was finally was given a shared room where for two nights she slept in one bed with her two children. “I think they do the best they can with what they have,” Megan said, but, “The Julian Center isn’t set up for people who work. Breakfast was at 9 a.m. but [her son’s] bus came at 8:45, so we couldn’t eat it. By the time I left work and picked up my kids, dinner was over.” Her assigned advocate worked to get sack lunches for the family, but her kids wouldn’t eat the over-ripe fruit, and her son was allergic to the sesame seeds in the buns. By the 40th day, the center was providing Megan’s family with three meals a day that they could eat, but by then she had spent more than $1,000 at the three fast-food restaurants where The Julian Center allowed her to buy take-out food. During meetings with her advocate and therapists, Megan remembers hearing, “It’s not that we don’t want to help you, but we’re not set up for people who have jobs and are independent.” Catherine O’Connor confirmed that Megan’s stories are “examples of challenges we face here every day.” She acknowledged that most residents are nonworking women with self-esteem issues (common factors in domestic abuse situations). Most food comes from Gleaners and Second Helpings, and much of it doesn’t appeal to children. “We work with what we have. We get a fair amount of grant support for our programming,” O’Connor said, but dayto-day operations and food are based on donations. In response to Megan’s complaint that none of her family got a pillow while living at The Julian Center, O’Connor admitted, “We’re consistently low on bedding. When families leave here, they need those things.” In response to Megan’s comments about theft and fighting by residents, O’Connor
noted that residents are understandably demoralized and not at their best. “This is not an ideal situation,” O’Connor said, yet it is safe. Anyone who fights is asked to leave. The center shelters more than 1000 people every year — at least 120 people each night — and 40-50% of them are children. “We’ve been at or over capacity for more than a year,” O’Connor said. The center also counsels more than 6,000 victims annually. Megan said she felt especially bad for mothers of babies because there was no dish soap at The Julian Center for cleaning bottles. She noted that purses and backpacks were checked every time anyone left or returned to center. “It was very much like a prison,” Megan said, adding, “You’ll sacrifice whatever you have to be safe.”
Plea bargain Life for Megan’s family is better now, yet the game camera is out again. As part of his plea bargain, the ex will wear an ankle monitor for two years. But Megan worries he’ll violates the protective order again. Since the ex had no prior police record, most felony charges against him were dropped in the plea bargain, and he was not held in contempt for protectiveorder violations, Megan said, but he is required to take a year of therapy and a year of parenting classes. Megan believes that “he got off very lightly.” Laura Berry, however, was impressed that he is required to wear an ankle monitor. “That is a huge success,” Berry said. “There are minimal sanctions for most domestic abusers,” she added. For 10 years, people like Megan didn’t fall through the cracks as often. A grant that was not renewed this year paid the salaries of several IMPD victim advocates, housed at The Julian Center, who were responsible for scanning 8,000 police reports each year, looking for keywords in order to track domestic abuse cases, explained Kelly McBride. Even if a report wasn’t labeled as domestic, the keyword search would probably find them, and the victim advocate would follow up. McBride lamented the loss of that grant because now only one IMPD victim advocate serves all police districts. Still, IMPD detectives and deputy prosecutors work from The Julian Center, O’Connor pointed out, so the center is poised to be the first stop for female and male victims of domestic abuse, whether they need shelter or not. Had Megan known that, what a difference it might have made. n S E E , V ICTIM , O N P A GE 1 4
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Supreme Court Favors Abusers If you think that law enforcement officers have a duty to act when responding to domestic-abuse calls, think again. Key U.S. Supreme Court cases “frame a daunting legal barricade that serves mainly to protect law enforcement from any legal responsibility to protect the people,” according to the website for Women’s Justice Center. DeShaney v Winnebago County: In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that law enforcement officers have no duty to act even when they know of danger, unless they created the danger. This opinion responded to a mother’s 14th Amendment argument that inaction by authorities denied the right of due process to her abused 4-year-old son, who wound up with permanent brain damage after a series of welldocumented beatings by his father. The high court denied the due-process argument, but Harry Blackmun was a dissenter, famously writing, “Poor Joshua! Victim of repeated attacks by an irresponsible, bullying, cowardly, and intemperate father, and abandoned by respondents who placed him in a dangerous predicament and who knew or learned what was going on, and yet did essentially nothing.” Castle Rock v Gonzales: In 2005, the high court ruled 7-2 that law enforcement has no duty to act or protect — even if the victim has a restraining order and even if state law mandates that police make an arrest for restraining-order violations. The Supreme Court reasoning centered on semantics: the 14th Amendment does not protect processes, and enforcing a restraining order is process. After Gonzales’s pleas were disregarded by Castle Rock police, her three daughters were found dead in the trunk of her ex-partner’s car.
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Imbler v Pachtman: In 1976, the Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors have absolute immunity from civil liability for violating constitutional rights during the course of their prosecutorial work. Imbler was released from a murder conviction after discovering that prosecutors withheld evidence and provided false testimony, but he was unsuccessful when suing those prosecutors for 14th Amendment violations. Because of this nearly 40-year-old legal precedent, “any hope of holding a prosecutor to account for disregard of your rights to justice is futile,” according to Women’s Justice Center. Despite these precedents — all of which relate to 14th Amendment arguments — there is some hope for victims of abuse using the “equal protection” argument instead. In 2000, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals opined in Macias v Ihde that women have a right to sue for denial of equal protection when police provide inferior services to women. Especially encouraging is the fact that since 2000 women living in the 9th District (11 western states) don’t have to be injured or dead to show harmful consequences of police inaction. Another encouraging Court of Appeals case from 2009, Okin v Village of Cornwall-on-the-Hudson Police Department, found that police can be held liable if they enhance the danger of private violence. Okin’s partner co-owned a bar frequented by police. When she repeatedly called cops with partner-abuse claims, she was largely ignored, so she filed suit and won. Her case offers hope that domestic-violence victims will sometimes pierce the DeShaney barriers and get protection under the 14th Amendment. — MAUREEN DOBIE
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ilbert Gottfried is still “kind of heartbroken” that he was kicked off this season’s The Celebrity Apprentice after only three rounds. “I really thought if I sold enough pies and frozen dinners that he would have me running his empire,” he said from his Brooklyn apartment, which recently became homebase for Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast! The show finds the 59-yearold comedian interviewing pop culture figures from his TV-viewing childhood. Guys like Larry Storch from F Troop, who declined to talk about the size of co-star Forrest Tucker’s package (comparable to Milton Berle’s). And Gianni Russo, who played Carlo in The Godfather films and admitted to killing two people on the show. “I guess there must be some kind of law where you’re allowed two people, and then after that murder is illegal,” Gottfried quipped. We’ll join the interview already in progress; head to nuvo. net for the full transcript. NUVO: Who else have you talked with on the show? GILBERT GOTTFRIED: We had this old talk show host, Joe Franklin, telling us that on one of his shows, he had both James Dean and Al Pacino, together. I did the math and Al Pacino would have had to have been 10. And we interviewed Adam West and he said that he and Frank Gorshin, who played The Ridder, were once kicked out of an orgy. NUVO: What’d they do? GOTTFRIED: I don’t know! They snuck into an orgy and maybe they weren’t taking it all that seriously. I heard stories that they started acting out, yelling at each other as Batman and The Riddler. NUVO: The staff of Charlie Hebdo joked about the attacks on their offices a week after the event, whereas people gave you flak for joking about 9/11 three weeks after the attacks. I wonder if you have respect for that French style of humor, which seems comparable to what you do and what some other standups do, where there aren’t any sacred cows.
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GOTTFRIED: I totally have respect for that. What happened to them is the extreme of the idea of people who just can’t take a joke, who feel like they’re going to be in charge of their own personal morality. People talk about The Great Dictator, where Charlie Chaplin mocked Hitler when the American studios were afraid to go near that subject. But before that was The Three Stooges, who did a film called You Nazty Spy!, where Moe was Hitler. What I respect about movies like that is that they made the whole idea of Hitler so much weaker than what he was by mocking it. Stuff like that has to be made fun of. NUVO: Have you ever feared for your personal safety? GOTTFRIED: Yeah. I’m very lucky, in that there’ll just be a couple idiots on the internet who get up in arms. On the internet, there’s always a new villain. So I’ve been the new villain a couple times; and the next week, someone else is. NUVO: As people dig into Charlie Hebdo’s work, they find stuff they don’t like, racist or bigoted material. It’s one
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Cleveland Orchestra Jan. 21, 8 p.m. Back for its third residency at the Jacobs School of Music, the Cleveland Orchestra will take a break from rehearsals and workshops for an open-to-the-public concert featuring Janacek’s Jealousy, Dvorak’s Violin Concerto in A minor and Ravel’s arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition. IU Auditorium (Bloomington), $28-60 public, $20-41 IU students, iuauditorium.com Indianapolis Winter Magic Festival Jan. 22-25. Magicians are traveling in from New Orleans (Michael Dardent), Chicago (Trent James), Dallas (Trigg Wilson), New York City (Eric DeCamps), Charlotte (Hannibal) and McAllen, Texas (Oscar Munoz) for the fifth annual edition of IndyFringe’s magic fest. Locals Christian and Katalina round out the lineup. IndyFringe Basile Theatre; per show: adult $15, student $12, 12 and under $8, indyfringe.org Emerson String Quartet Jan. 23, 8 p.m. The Emerson String Quartet, deemed the “world’s greatest” by TIME, has over the past 30 years released more than 30 recordings and won eight Grammy awards and an Avery Fisher Prize. They’ll play pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven at the Palladium. The Palladium, $15-65, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org
GOTTFRIED: Yeah. My favorite line of George Carlin’s was ‘It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and deliberately cross over it.’ NUVO: I wonder if you hear this kind of thing a lot, quoting from a Tweet: ‘I thought you were grating and annoying before, but you’re actually charming and funny.’ GOTTFRIED: Yes! I got that a lot on Celebrity Apprentice and when I did Wife Swap. During Aladdin, I was getting a lot of great reviews for the voice of the parrot, and they’d start off by saying, ‘I normally hate Gilbert Gottfried with a passion, but...’ My favorite review was when The Aristocrats came out and one reviewer wrote, ‘No one is more offensive and disgusting than Gilbert Gottfried.’ I thought, ‘For this movie, this is the biggest compliment.’ And I forget what it was about, but one reviewer once wrote, ‘Gilbert Gottfried is the most unpleasant thing to happen to show business since the snuff film.’ NUVO: That’s a hell of a line. GOTTFRIED: I was kind of flattered! n
Fantasy, Fate and War: A Midwinter Russian Festival Jan. 23-Feb. 7. A three-part Russian music festival kicks off this weekend with ISO music director Krzysztof Urbanski conducting Prokofiev’s Russian Overture, Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto (performed by Philippe Quint) and RimskyKorsakov’s Scheherazade. HIlbert Circle Theatre, times and prices vary, indianapolissymphony.org The Giver Jan. 23-Feb. 21. Jonas (Grayson Molin) attempts to escape his technocratic, dystopian homeland with the help of The Giver (David Alan Anderson) in this adaptation of the young adult novel by Lois Lowry. Indiana Repertory Theatre, prices vary, irtlive.com
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OPENING The Boy Next Door Jennifer Lopez just can’t resist the allure of nextdoor jailbait Ryan Guzman. Complications ensue. R, opens Thursday in wide release
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CONTINUING All reviews by Ed Johnson-Ott. American Sniper e This direct and low-key portrait of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history, leaves it up to you whether to judge him for doing his job. Clint Eastwood tells the story primarily from Kyle’s point of view: We see his amazing focus on the job; we see him struggling to reconnect with his wife and children between his four tours of duty. Bradley Cooper added 40 pounds of mostly muscle to his frame and employed an Odessa, Texas-based drawl to realistically portray the marksman. His performance is outstanding, one of the actor’s best. R, in wide release S E E , C ONTI NUING, O N PAGE 18
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FILM EVENTS Roving Cinema: The Wizard (1989) Jan. 22, 8 p.m. Indy Film Fest launches the 2015 season of its mobile cinema series with a feature-length infomercial for the Power Glove (TM). Show up early to take advantage of a selection of free-play Nintendo standup arcade games. White Rabbit Cabaret, $10, indyfilmfest.org Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Jan. 23 and 24, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human. On 35mm. Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), $3-5, historicartcraftheatre.org 16 FILM // 01.21.15 - 01.28.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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he crime drama A Most Violent Year is set in 1981, reportedly the worst year for crime in New York City. Writerdirector J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost) offers a film stylistically reminiscent of Sidney Lumet, whose great Prince of the City was released in 1981. The performance of star Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) made me think of Al Pacino in his Godfather days. Isaac plays a corrupt business owner who considers himself a highly ethical man. The world may be dirty, but he is determined to be an example of how a gentleman conducts himself. The film is easy to admire. Chandor slowly ratchets up the pressure on his central characters. He does a fine job recreating the period, along with the gritty tone associated with crime films from those days. There is enough action to balance out the slow-build narrative, including a knockout chase scene that starts in a car, then proceeds by foot through the streets, onto an elevated B train, and back to the ground again. It doesn’t feel like an orchestrated set piece; it feels like the real thing. Abel Morales (Isaac) is a former truck driver for a heating oil company who married the boss’s daughter. Anna (Jessica Chastain) has no problem with her mobster pappy. Abel is determined to steer clear of all that and she goes along with him, while cooking the books for her righteous spouse. A turf war is raging between the area oil companies. Abel’s drivers — and later one of his sales reps — are getting assaulted on the job. They want to start carrying guns, but Abel says no, even after an armed prowler comes to
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his home late one night. The aggrieved businessman has secured financing to purchase an abandoned waterfront fuel yard. Owning the facility will put him in a power position within the market. Then he learns that the Assistant District Attorney Lawrence (David Oyelowo, Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma) has been investigating the heating oil business and is about to indict him. Banks don’t like being seen financing businessman under indictment. Alternate funds must be found before the time limit on the deal expires. And the tension keeps growing. The impressive cast includes Albert Brooks — playing it serious and looking like a different person with straight hair — as Abel’s lawyer and friend. And Julian, a company truck driver whose life goes to
Assemblage (1968) Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m. From the program guide: “A recently rediscovered lost film featuring the groundbreaking dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham and his early dance company performing in a public happening in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square in November 1968.” On DCP. IU Cinema (Bloomington), FREE, cinema.indiana.edu
Winter Nights: Fargo (1996) Jan. 23, 8 p.m. Head’s up, kids: This is an OUTDOOR screening in the IMA’s amphitheater. Pack your mittens. Half-price admission and VIP seating for those who can show proof they’ve lived in Minnesota. On Blu-ray. Indianapolis Museum of Art, $9 public, $6 member, imamuseum.org
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hell after he is robbed and beaten, is played by Elyes Gabel of the TV series Scorpion. With its great cast and solid premise, A Most Violent Year sounds like a mainstream hit waiting to happen, but I suspect the film will go over best with art house viewers. While the story is fascinating, there are certain problems that keep it emotionally distant. Isaac and Chastain are outstanding, but the screenplay doesn’t fully do their characters justice. Abel is so focused on becoming the immigrant’s son that made it to the top that we never get a good look at the human being beneath the veneer. Anna is written as such a tough cookie that it’s hard to see her soul either. We never see Abel and Anna as a loving couple. We see Abel coiled into himself and Anna telling him to stop being a pussy. A Most Violent Year is very good, but it could have been devastating. n Editor’s note: We learned shortly before going to press that the opening of A Most Violent Year would be delayed a week.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Jan. 24, 3 p.m. Sci-fi vet Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come) penned the script for this goofy but smart tale of nuclear anxiety. On 35mm. IU Cinema (Bloomington), FREE, cinema.indiana.edu Night Train (1959) Jan. 26, 7 p.m. The Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema series continues with a two-hander staged in a train compartment and directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Mother Joan of the Angels). On DCP. IU Cinema (Bloomington), FREE
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rson Welles’ life is a labyrinth, but it’s one I don’t mind getting lost in.” That’s archivist Craig Simpson, who sifted through the Lilly Library’s Welles-related holdings — 20,000-plus items including correspondence, legal papers, photographs, scripts and press kits — the new exhibition 100 Years of Orson Welles: Master of Stage, Sound and Screen. It is the opening chapter to Orson Welles: A Centennial Celebration and Symposium, which will culminate with a public film series featuring talks by Welles experts such as former Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and IU professor emeritus James Naremore. Simpson got the ball rolling on the event. “I wanted to do something for his 100th birthday, so I went to (IU Cinema director) Jon Vickers and asked, ‘Hey, why don’t we have some scholars and experts come and speak about Welles and his films?’ Jon said, ‘You mean a symposium?’” The Lilly Library is one of three major repositories of material related to Welles — the other two being the University of Michigan and the Munich Film Museum. “Welles lived in anything but a neat chronology,” Simpson says, noting that he worked simultaneously in theater, radio and film throughout the ’30s and ’40s. Simpson structured the exhibition around Welles’ fields of expertise, creating cases for Citizen Kane, “Welles and Radio,” “Welles and Shakespeare on Stage,” and so on. Annotated script pages are on display from Welles’ radio plays, Citizen Kane and the stage production of the so-called “Voodoo” Macbeth, which starred an all-Black cast. Simpson’s favorite item is a page from the original screenplay for Citizen Kane in which the now-title character’s name was Charles Foster ... Craig. “It’s encouraging to see how many changes even a masterpiece like Citizen Kane goes through from its genesis to its completion,” Simpson said. Of course, Welles lived largely in the shadow of creative changes and studio interference, Simpson adds. RKO Pictures infamously excised large chunks of his second film for the studio, The 18 FILM // 01.21.15 - 01.28.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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The exhibition 100 Years of Orson Welles: Master of Stage, Sound and Screen kicks off a centennial celebration that will include an April 29-May 3 film series and symposium at Indiana University Cinema. EXHIBIT
100 YEARS OF ORSON WELLES: MASTER OF STAGE, SOUND AND SCREEN WHEN: JAN. 20-MAY 20; MONDAY-FRIDAY 9 A.M.-6 P.M. AND SATURDAY 9 A.M.-1 P.M. WHERE: T H E L I L L Y L I B R A R Y ( B L O O M I N G T O N ) OPENING RECEPTION: FEB. 12 IN THE LINCOLN ROOM OF THE LILLY LIBRARY, PRECEDED BY A LECTURE BY ARCHIVIST CRAIG SIMPSON (“100 YEARS OF ORSON WELLES”) AT 5:30 P.M. COST: ALL ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Magnificent Ambersons — an account of a turn-of-the-century Indianapolis family’s downfall. The exhibition includes rare, rough storyboards for Kane and Ambersons and “cutting continuity that shows how the studios reedited and mangled some of his best work,” according to Naremore. Not that Welles, who began directing films in Europe by the late ’40s, starting with the Palme d’Or-winning Othello, ever gave up. “He died face down on a typewriter, writing a script,” Simpson said. Simpson hopes the exhibition will help
people see Welles not as a studio failure but as a successful independent and experimental filmmaker. “People often complain, ‘Well, he never made another Citizen Kane.’ Well, he never wanted to make another Citizen Kane. He made many different great films and all kinds of different works of theater and radio. He never did the same thing twice. He was constantly challenging himself and evolving,” Simpson said. Welles did struggle to finish projects, but “thanks to the Internet Age, where we can go and find little pieces of things, we are more accepting of fragments,” Simpson said. And it’s worth noting that Welles completed 13 feature films over the course of his career, equalling Stanley Kubrick’s output. Fragments on display include items on his recently rediscovered debut film Too Much Johnson and photographs and transcripts that document the original ending from Ambersons. Welles’ unreleased, unfinished or unmade films are also represented, including Heart of Darkness and The Little Prince. The symposium’s surprise “sneak preview not to be missed” on May 1 could be a screening of Welles’ incomplete last film, The Other Side of the Wind. “Today Welles is widely regarded by film lovers as one of the two or three greatest motion-picture directors America has ever produced,” Naremore says. But, as Naremore adds and the Lilly Library exhibition shows, “he was truly a man of all media.” n
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Foxcatcher e In the late ‘80s, Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is invited to meet with millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) at his sprawling estate. Turns out the pale, out of shape man is a wrestling enthusiast and Mark agrees to train and move in with him. The dour wrestler seems like a lost boy and du Pont is determined to play a father figure, but a scene where he pops up at Mark’s bedroom in the middle of the night makes it clear he knows nothing about boundaries. Director Bennett Miller’s (Capote, Moneyball) movie remains fascinating because of the fine performances of the three key characters and the mystery of what is happening in du Pont’s head. R, in wide release Selma w Powerful, in-depth look at the three-month period leading to the landmark civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery that motivated the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. David Oyelowo tackles the nigh-impossible task of playing Martin Luther King, Jr. and manages to present a humanized portrait of the sainted leader. The movie gets a little too holy at times, and there has been controversy over the screenplay’s handling of Lyndon Johnson, but don’t let any of that stop you from seeing this heart-wrenching look at our history. PG-13, in wide release
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The Wedding Ringer u R-rated bromantic comedy. Doug (Josh Gad) is getting married to Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) in two weeks, but he doesn’t have a best man, so he turns to Best Man, Inc., a company that provides convincing fake friends for best man duties. Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart) is the owner of the company and ends up with Doug. By “ends up” I don’t want to suggest anything gay, because this film is TERRIFIED of anything gay. Kevin Hart is hyper, Josh Gad does slapstick and Kaley CuocoSweeting plays Bridezilla. If you want to wade into that, good luck to you. R, in wide release
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Support Indiana Brewers wants your help raising the limit of beer brewers are able to produce in Indiana. State lawmakers will soon introduce bills to the Indiana state legislature recommending the Indiana Small Brewers barrel limit be increased to 60,000 or 90,000 barrels — essential for continued growth. Bills include SB 276 authored by Senator James Merritt, SB 297 authored by Senator Ron Alting, SB 281 authored by Senator Carlin Yoder; and representative Ed Clere has authored a bill for introduction to the House of Representatives. Go to supportindianabrewers.com to fill out your information and automatically send your legislator an email. Patrons will also be able to fill out the form via iPad Jan. 31 at Winterfest. At Flat 12’s fourth anniversary party on Jan. 10, a stream of well-wishers sampled twelve Barrel-aged brews, three beers brewed in unique PIN-aging containers and four Sours. The event also served as a reunion to Flat 12 brewing team members who have left to be brewers or founders to other breweries. At the Jan. 17 Speakeasy event, brewer Sean Manahan and staff member Valerie Green created an intriguing whodunit event for 50 patrons in 1920s attire. Outliers celebrated its first anniversary Jan. 17 with a special release of Super Kitty Fantastico 2015 and by showcasing a new soap by Joi Body with Outliers Buffalo Jacket IPA as an ingredient. Redemption Alewerks’ Jan. 7 soft opening with guest beers on tap was a prelude to getting its license to brew on-site. To enter Indiana City’s Second Annual Home Brewer Battle, visit Indiana City’s table at Winterfest on Jan 31. Only 16 slots are available! New Brews 18th Street Brewery (Gary, Ind.) released the fourth in its eight-part series. Hunter Coconut’s richness grows from Double Milk Stout with a refreshing accent of freshly shaved coconut. Oaken Barrel’s awaited Java Stout is on tap. Twenty Below has Kevin Matalucci’s specialty Cherry Stout and Cream Ale. Half Moon Abbey Road IPA is an English-style IPA with a malty backbone balanced by generous helpings of hops for a dry hoppy finish. New Events • Jan. 22 6:30 p.m. The RAM Fishers Brewer’s Happy Hour, tapping Big White Hop IPA, a Belgian spiced ale with an American hoppy twist. • Jan. 24, 7-10 p.m. Ash & Elm Cider free Tasting Party at Indiana City Brewery’s northside building. Owners Aaron and Andrea Homoya hope to launch a cidery in Fall 2015. • Jan. 24, 8 p.m. Function Brewing first anniversary party, 108 E. 6th St. (Bloomington). • Jan. 31, 3-7 p.m. Seventh Annual Winterfest at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
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ccasionally, when you pull out a bottle of quality bourbon, you might notice the words “Bottled in Bond” printed on the label. So what does that mean? It’s the distinctly American designation for bourbon produced under the protective lock and key of the U.S. government in bonded warehouses. The Heaven Hill distillery in Louisville and Bardstown, Kentucky makes over 11 varieties of bonded bourbon, and Thunderbird in Fountain Square is bringing Heaven Hill’s leading expert on bourbon and whiskey, Bernie “The Whiskey Professor” Lubbers, to town to do a tasting — well, sort of a tasting. Lubbers’ style of “education” is far from a white-boardand-powerpoint kind of affair. But before we get to that, some background on bonded bourbon: The Bottled in Bond act of 1897 was really championed by a few Kentucky distillers who were tired of seeing the spirits being sold as bourbon that were anything but. In the late 1800s, concurrent with the massive influx of immigrants flooding in through Ellis Island, demand for the brown stuff was being met mostly by hucksters. They’d take grain alcohol, basically Everclear, and make it brown through all sorts of dubious methods — one popular way was to soak tobacco in it — and sell it as bourbon. Of course, for those familiar with the deadly consequences of drinking impure alcohol, the law also ensured that, at the very least, you weren’t going to go blind in the process of getting hammered. At the time, there was little regulatory oversight of any ingredients in either food, spirits or medicine. So dire was the straightening out of this problem to the public health that the Bottled in Bond act preceded the Pure Food and Drug Act (aka the rain on everyone’s cocaineas-medicine parade), which
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wasn’t passed for nine more years in 1906. The Bottled in Bond Act was envisioned and brought to life by Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, a fellow Bluegrass State native. That contingent of passionate Kentucky distillers is what set the bourbon market on the path to success it enjoys today. In fact, according to Thunderbird co-owner Josh Gonzales, it’s the fastest growing niche in the spirits market, enjoying the same foreign and domestic attention from collectors previously enjoyed by red wine and Scotch. What “bottled in bond” actually means in practice is that the bourbon is to be produced from one distiller in one distilling season and aged for at least four years in a government-bonded warehouse, barrelled at 100 proof (50 percent alcohol). The secondary part of being “bottled in bond” is that the excise tax, which, in the 1800s, was enforced with a somewhat scattershot method whenever a war needed to be funded (starting with the war of 1812) was collected on only the finished product at the end of the set period of time. Prior to this law change, distillers would often get taxed on whatever they happened to have in their warehouse at the time, and collectors could come and tax the whiskey at any point. That meant they were paying taxes on bourbon that they’d never get to drink or sell — the portion that evaporates during the aging process. Lubbers describes his show as a “Ken Burns documentary with a bourbon tasting.” He brings along bluegrass musician Hickory Vaught, who picks lightly as Lubbers talks, and joins Lubbers on some old Kentucky bluegrass tunes. Meanwhile, the audience tastes bourbons made in the style of the time Lubbers’ is describing. While Thunderbird has often lead the path in terms of bartender education, this time, we get a shot from the font of liquor knowledge, and a great show at the same time. If you want to read ahead, pick up Lubbers’ excellent book, Bourbon Whiskey, Our Native Spirit. n
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On party specifics: “It’s going to have people we’ve worked with a lot in the last five years. Our own DJ Jay Diff, DJ Metrognome and Slot-A from Chicago. We’re going to try and play a lot of Indiana stuff. We’re going to have raffles and giveaways. … We’re going to have ticket giveaways for Redbull Thre3style; we have five flash drives filled with 21 of the albums we’ve sponsored on the site on them, shirts, some other good stuff [to give away]. On each year: “Year one, I didn’t know what I was doing. Year one didn’t have a plan. Year two, I started taking it seriously. Year three was when I brought on a lot of people to help. Year four, we grew even further than that. … Year five is expanding on the ideas that we’ve already had, fine-tuning them even more, being more of a voice. Six is a mystery. It’s a continuation of five, but we’re looking to really expand how we showcase Indianapolis music and what our focus is on the site, to get our name out there. On the team: “We have five or six people on and off [working on the site], and we’re always looking for more people.” — KATHERINE COPLEN BDTB’s 5th Anniversary Party, Saturday, January 24, Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, 9 p.m. $5 in advance, $7 at door, 21+
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CYNTHIA LAYNE 1963 - 2015
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hock waves reverberated through Indy’s music community after family announced jazz and neosoul singer Cynthia Layne died this weekend after a long illness. Layne was a constant presence in Indy’s jazz scene, performing at Indy Jazz Fest yearly and in clubs all around town. She was regularly in demand live and on recording, releasing 2008’s acclaimed album Beautiful Soul via Owl Studios (now Owl Music Group). Layne lent her voice to collaborations with all manner of characters in Indy’s jazz scene. A public memorial is scheduled for Saturday evening at Crown Hill Cemetery. We will update NUVO.net with additional details about that memorial as more details are announced. An Ohio native, Layne will be laid to rest in her home state early next week. I reached out to players who collaborated with Layne and scene figures for their memories and thoughts. n
“I cannot think of a more talented, hard-working and determined-to-grow person. Her versatility and sense of exploration set her apart as someone who was always re-inventing herself. We’re beyond heartbroken with the loss of such a jewel and at such a young age. She was just getting started.”
— DAVE ALLEE, JAZZ KITCHEN OWNER AND INDY JAZZ FEST FESTIVAL DIRECTOR “I had the honor of knowing Cynthia and of singing with her on countless gigs over the years and recently we were in a band together called The Blue Side. As a singer the main thing you need is a sound, and Cynthia just had a gorgeous tone to her voice. But you also need empathy and when Cynthia sang a song you really felt like she believed it; she cut right through to the humanity inside the song. But, in addition to being a great musician, the thing about her that made her such a charming performer and wonderful friend was the great warmth that she possessed and the genuine caring for other people. She had a heart of gold and was always really concerned for the well-being of the people around her way more than she was concerned about herself. There was not a mean bone in her body. I loved her.” — TAD ROBINSON, LAYNE’S BANDMATE IN THE BLUE SIDE
“Cynthia was not only a world-class vocalist and performer who dazzled audiences in Indianapolis and far beyond, she was also a beautiful soul and person. I’ve known her for over 20 years and got to perform with her frequently as well as share our motherhood experiences from when all of our girls were born up to the current teenage years. I’m not sure if our community can ever recover from such a loss!” — MONIKA HERZIG, PERFORMER AND EDUCATOR “Cynthia and I knew and worked with each other for over 20 years. I was just a kid then. She was always a great singer, and a better person. There aren’t a whole lot of musicians I have more history with, more respect for, or more time spent working with. Through all the gigs, all the fun times, all the great music, the best part about Cynthia, to me, was being able to call her my friend.” — KEVIN ANKER, LAYNE’S BANDMATE IN THE BLUE SIDE, PERFORMER AND PRODUCER
“I miss Cynthia’s smile already. The idea of not seeing her at The Jazz Kitchen anymore is heartbreaking. The last time I saw her, she was singing (SANGIN) her tail off. I hugged her after the show and told her how great she was. She smiled and hugged me as hard as anything. She was a vision
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and image of effortless grace, undeniable soul, incredible strength and absolute class. Indianapolis lost an icon. They only made one Cynthia Layne and I’m so grateful I knew her.” — RUSTY REDENBACHER, PERFORMER AND DJ “One of the first Daddy-Daughter Dates I had with my Emma was at the now-longgone restaurant Urban Element on Pennsylvania Street. On this particular Friday night, Cynthia Layne was performing. When the music started, Emma (the only child in attendance) bolted out of her chair and started dancing in front of the bandstand (OK, a corner of the dining area), much to the delight of Cynthia and her band and a full restaurant of patrons. From then on, whenever I saw Cynthia, she would ask how my ‘Little Dancer’ was doing. “Over the last couple decades, Central Indiana has been fortunate to have a diverse variety of female musicians, Cynthia being one of them. Cynthia Layne was one of the best representatives, female or male, of the Indianapolis music scene. The woman could sing anything and she did. I am proud to have seen her perform as an MC and as a fan and to be able to call her a friend.” — MATTHEW SOCEY, HOST OF THE BLUES HOUSE PARTY ON WFYI “Cynthia was a dear friend to me and an amazing talent to Indianapolis and the world. To say a thousand things about how great she was or about how many people she moved with her music would not be enough. My heart is broken that she is gone and I will miss her dearly.” — ROB DIXON, BANDMATE “Cynthia was a dear friend, bandmate, a caring mother, a thoughtful composer with a voice like an angel. She selflessly gave every ounce of herself to the music and her friends. Her performances were stirring, heartfelt, emotional, soulful and often magical. We always felt her support for us on and off the bandstand. She was strong and inspirational in her courageous battle with her illness. Cynthia always looked forward to new musical and personal challenges with her beautiful smile. Our hearts and prayers go out to her family and all of her friends at this most difficult time. We love you Cynthia.” — STEVE ALLEE, BANDMATE
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“When I arrived at Butler University in 2003, Cynthia Layne was the first artist from Indianapolis I saw live. I was amazed and totally in love with what she was doing with her singing and fantastic band. When Rusty Redenbacher and I were selected as featured artists for Art & Soul, I was so excited because I knew Cynthia Layne was going to be playing after we did our interview. I got to meet her and she was so amazing. And then she sang so beautifully. “This past October, I finally worked with her on a wedding reception. Her band (Reggie Bishop, Rob PHOTO BY Dixon and Kenny Phelps) was MARK SHELDON amazing and she led them so graciously through a range of music. I just watched with a big grin and felt just like I did when I first saw her perform. She truly brought a light to music and I’m so, so, so very thankful that I can say ‘I saw her live and in person.’ She is a legend and one of the very best.” — MARC WILLIAMS, PERFORMER AND EDUCATOR “Cynthia was a beautiful person, an excellent entertainer and embodied all that was good on the Indianapolis music scene. I’m honored to have known her and call her friend. She was the FIRST vocalist to sit me down and talk with me about ‘singing what I feel,’ and I’m all the better for having her as a musician colleague!” — BASHIRI ASAD, SOUL SINGER “Cynthia Layne was pure substance. The kind of substance that fills a jazz club and outdoor venues with an embracing aura of welcome, stay a while, spread joy, do good, seek peace. Known for her silky voice carrying us into interpretations of jazz and neo-soul, known for her zest to learn, expand, express more fully the words and music of others and her own original compositions. Known for her fellowship and inspiration for others. It has been, is, and will be her spirit to keep on going, just keep on going that will sustain our entire community as we PHOTO BY absorb the tremendous loss of MARK SHELDON her continuing artistry. Up to the last she was working on new material, a new album, a new initiative. At age 51, Cynthia Layne did not give up the fight — she simply went with the eventuality of the recurrence of breast cancer. Cynthia came from Dayton, Ohio in 1987 to compete in Jazz Expo’s StarQuest. She won the female vocalist competition and never stopped giving back as a life-long thank you for the doors that opened for her and through which she walked in a singular career that took her worldwide and back home.” — RITA KOHN NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 01.21.15 - 01.28.15 // MUSIC 23
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here aren't many musicians who can list a command performance for the Dalai Lama in their bio, but Israeli musician Yuval Ron can and does. It's a strong testament to Ron's claim that his interfaith music ensemble is building bridges of peace between followers of Islam, Judaism and Christianity. And the timing of Ron's January 22 concert at the Christian Theological Seminary couldn't be more fitting. A recent rash of extremist Muslim attacks has created a virulent anti-Islamic sentiment I have not felt since the days and weeks following 9/11. If you're feeling depressed, hopeless or angry about these current events, Yuval Ron has a message of musical healing for you, regardless of which side of the ideological fence you fall on. I spoke with Ron via phone from his home in California before his performance in Indianapolis.
NUVO: The music of your ensemble seeks to bring understanding between followers of different traditions of faith. For you what role does an artist have in the movement for peace and social justice? YUVAL RON: I feel that we have an incredible responsibility and an enormous role in this movement because people look up to us. Of course we have elected leaders and politicians, but there are also leaders who come from the cultural and spiritual communities. People follow, listen and imitate those cultural leaders. I speak to thousands of new people every year. Every year there are thousands of ears and minds that I can reach and influence. The way I communicate, the values I project, the sense of harmony I bring to music has a potential to influence and inspire people. And that's not my own personal case, every musician can play that role. NUVO: I read that you've worked with a pair of neuroscientists on a project exploring sound and the brain. Can you talk about what you learned from this project regarding the role music can play in healing the body?
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RON: This is really fascinating. I learned a great deal about the inner mechanisms of the brain and how they respond to music. When you are involved with music making there are more circuits in your brain that are activated than most of the other activities we do in life. When we read, when we talk, when we write there are certain areas in the brain that are involved. When you do music there are many, many areas of the brain involved because music is involved with math, memory, emotions, personal expression, and coordination. There are an enormous amount of circuits in the brain that have to be involved. I also learned how these processes affect the brain and the study of those processes have confirmed many of the mystical teachings I've collected through the years regarding how music has been used by yogis, and great masters in the East, in India, Turkey and all over the Middle East. The way they used music for healing and to create ecstasy is now being confirmed by neuroscientists. We are living in a fabulous time where neuroscience is starting to confirm what the mystics have taught us about the power of sound to influence our well being. Now music therapists can use these studies and show them to insurance companies and hospitals to prove that what they are doing is not an illusion. It's actually working. n >> Kyle Long hosts a show on WFYI’s HD-2 channel on Wednesdays and Saturdays
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Mark Benham CD Release Show with Steve Fulton, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Raw Presents: Visionary, Old National Centre, all-ages Animal Haus, Blu Lounge, 21+ Altered Thurzdaze, Mousetrap, 21+ Open Mic Night, Books and Brews, 21+ TheSHIFT, Sphie, Legacy of Triumph, Melody Inn, 21+ Daywalkers Karaoke with Dmoses, Serendipity Martini (Bloomington), 21+
Future Rock 9 p.m. Chicago-based electronicrock group Future Rock drops by the Trap for a up-close-and-personal night of awesomeness.
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Strand of Oaks 9 p.m. Strand of Oaks’ new album HEAL is a masterpiece, a gorgeous offering on Secretly Canadian that had us mesmerized all summer. Goshen native Timothy Showalter — Mr. Strand of Oaks — told us after the release, ‘My head was moving so fast, and I wrote 30 or 50 songs in like two weeks. Songs were coming out so fast. It really was when I pared down and got those ten songs when I went, “Okay. This is going to be a record. This is not going to be a collection of songs. This is going to be a cleaned up work - or at least try to be a cleaned up work.’ “ See this man perform in a small room while you still can. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+ TRIBUTES Who’s Bad: Michael Jackson Tribute 10 p.m. This tribute to MJ features the longest-running Michael Jackson tribute band, claiming to be the only one to have formed before his death. The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $5, 21+
Murray Weirich Quintet, The Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Rachel Maudlin, The Bishop, 18+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
THURSDAY INTERFAITH Yuval Ron Ensemble Concert 8:30 p.m. Here’s a bit more from our interview with Yuval Ron, continued from page 24. “There’s a Syrian-American woman who came to one of my concerts. She told me she had been a volunteer in Gaza for seven months, and she came back so depressed from the situation in Gaza seeing all the misery in the refugee camps. When she came back to the U.S. she was filled with depression and hate. She had hate for anything to do with the Israeli government or American companies that could have any connection to the misery and suffering she witnessed in the Palestinian territory. This woman came to my concert in upstate New York,
and she told me this concert was the first time she started healing herself from that hate and depression. It freed her from the negative emotions that were holding her in a prison. She started seeing the complexity of the situation. There are good and bad guys on both sides of the conflict.” Christian Theological Seminary, $25 in advance, $30 at door, all-ages LOCALS Dietrich Jon 9:30 p.m. Locals Dietrich Jon kicked off in Nashville as a solo project of Diederik van Wassenaer, but after he relocated to Bloomington to record his debut EP and pick up bassist Connor Grimm and drummer Mark Edlin. Guitarists Austin Davis and keyboard Ryan Heimlich rounded out the lineup. They’re recording their first full-length album now. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $5, 18+
Mousetrap, 5565 N Keystone Ave., 21+ KARAOKE Live Band Punk Rock Karaoke 9 p.m. Tuesday night’s alright for karaoke at the Hi-Fi, but Thursday is about to level up in awesomeness. That’s because Tony Beemer, Francisco Valdez and Aaron Miller will be backing singers as a live band; they’ve prepped more than 30 punk standards (that’s a thing, right?) for you to pick from. They include anything from The Ramones and Agent Orange to The Stooges, Bad Brains and The Distillers. The full song list is on their Facebook page, along with a Spotify playlist for you to prep.
Hyryder, Mousetrap, 21+
Pink Droyd Pink Floyd Tribute, Vogue, 21+ The Dugan Brothers, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+ The Oysters, Books and Brews, 21+ Jake Dodds, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Laid: VIP Pre-Party, Tiki Bob’s, 21+ Dave Styrker Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Purdue Glee Club, Scottish Rite Cathedral, all-ages 4ox of Freedom, The Rhaspers, Birdy’s, 21+ Jonathan K. Bennet, Indy Hostel, all-ages DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Hillbilly Happy Hour with Dirty Blue Rivers, Melody Inn, 21+ Emerson String Quartet, Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages Mina and The Wondrous Flying Machine, Chatterbox 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon, Social, 21+ Hot Screams, Shame Thugs, Ghost Gun Summer, house show (venue unlisted), all-ages
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Flannelly V. Funkhouser 9 p.m. Noisemakers John Flannelly and Robert Funkhouser are some of Indy’s most prolific and odd experimental musicians. They’ll be weird in separate sets, and then together at a show at Big Car’s Listen Hear space on Thursday. Rob will work with percussion and John with electronics at this show.
The Whipstitch Sallies, Union 50, 21+
Knox Hamilton, Radio Radio, 21+
Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $5, 21+
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Grxzz, Diop, Indiana Chief, New Wave Collective, Xei the Ghost, Sabbatical, 21+
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Nash Walker and The Doctors, Melody Inn, 21+
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raffle. Sean Stuart, BDTB’s founder, told us in 2012, “I know a lot of artists around here haven’t had that ‘co-sign,’ which is where you see their name in an email list and say, ‘Man, I’ll check that out right away.’ And I would like BDTB to provide that co-sign for artists.” Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $5 in advance, $7 at door, 21+ TRIBUTES Scarborough Fair: A Simon and Garfunkel Experience 8 p.m. Jeb and Jock, the Guthrie brothers journey from their home state of Wisconsin to Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater to perform an evening of Simon and Garfunkel tunes. We know they’ll perform “Sound of Silence,” “Bridge Over Trouble Water,” “Cecilia” and more. “The music that we play is truly an extension of who we are,” Jock said in a press release. “Our philosophy is to do songs that we feel directly connected to. We can trace these connections back to shared experiences and feelings from our childhood.” “We think this is the reason we can be so faithful to the spirit and sound of Simon & Garfunkel, or whatever period or type of music we’re playing, including our own music,” Jeb added. “We play together as one.” Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. (Bloomington), $25, all-ages SHOWCASES Shine in the Dark 9 p.m. Shine Indy hosts showcases all around town; they’ll kick off their newest at Birdy’s on Saturday with The Prowl, The Enders, Her Name Is Mercy and Chris Probosco.
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Sutton Foster 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Tony Award winner Sutton Foster is booked for two shows at the Cabaret this weekend, a set of shows that kicks off its 2015 season. She’ll perform songs from her Broadway career and solo album Wish.
Zach Lapidus, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Rick Springfield, Honeywell Center (Wabash), all-ages A DJ Tribute to No Limit and Cash Money Records, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
The Cabaret at The Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, prices vary, all-ages
Infamous, Romanticide, Mapmaker, Crunkasaurus Rex, Sail the Seas Dry, Pickwick Commons, Emerson Theater, all-ages
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The Lemons, Chives, house venue (address unlisted), all-ages
BDTB’s 5th Anniversary Party 9 p.m. Many happy returns to Bringing Down The Band, Indy’s local hip-hop site that is celebrating half a decade of promoting all that’s local. At Saturday’s party, DJs Jay Diff, MetroGnome and Slot-Q will spin; BDTB will set up giveaways and a
Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+ Gregg and Kriss, Acoustic Catfish, Mallow Run Winery, all-ages Ambrosia, Indiana Grand Casino, all-ages Mitch Shiner, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+
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Funky Monks: Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
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from there as bandleader in many groups. He’s raked in awards and commendations for years, including Rolling Stone’s first Jazzman of the Year. Stanley Clarke stops at the Palladium with his Trio on Sunday.
Elektronik Music Festival 7:30 p.m. Eric Honour is the featured artist at this Butler music fest, so his compositions, which dissect the intersections between technology and music, will be performed by himself and others on the bill. More music and visuals are planned from Elainie Lillios, Denise Broadhurt, Noel Keith and Frank Felice, plus students of the University’s Electronic Music Studio. Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, 610 W. 46th Ave., prices vary, all-ages
DoItIndy Radio Hour, Grove Haus, all-ages Otto’s Funhouse: Open Mic Comedy and Music, Melody Inn, 21+ Industry Mondays, Red Room, 21+
TUESDAY DANCE Logic 7:30 p.m. With multiple successful mixtape releases, Logic amassed a large internet following in his early days as a rapper. His career has been heavily influenced by Frank Sinatra, hence the Young Sinatra tag in his last three tapes, most notably Young Sinatra: Welcome To Forever, which brought him into the hip-hop spotlight. Logic’s debut album, Under Pressure, was released in Oct. 2014 and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. Indy fans get the first chance to see Logic as he embarks on his “The Under Pressure World Tour” — aren’t we lucky.
Rob Dixon Quintet 7 p.m. Saxophonist Rob Dixon and his quintet featuring Steve Allee on piano, Jim Anderson on bass, and Steve Houghton on drums will celebrate the 50 year anniversary of the release of John Coltrane’s landmark recording A Love Supreme.
Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+
Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $15, 21+
The Rhaspers, Melody Inn, 21+
Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches Tavern, 21+
The Almost Heroes, Apathy Wizards, Bipolar Bears, One Day Steady, Orchard Keepers, Hoosier Dome, all-ages
An Evening with the Keb’Mo’ Band, Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Bloomington), all-ages
Isabelle Parell, Union 50, 21+
D/M Jazz 8, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
LEGENDS Stanley Clarke Trio 7 p.m. Grammy winner Clarke is of course best known for jazz fusion group Return To Forever, going on
Dynamite!, Mass Avenue Pub, 21+ Copperfield, Melody Inn, 21+ BoomBox, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ LocalMotion, Fletcher Place Arts and Books, all-ages Fistula, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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Emerson Theater, 4630 E. 10th St., $25 in advance, $28 at door, all-ages Battle of the Bands, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Broke(n), Melody Inn, 21+
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Airtight Reasoning My girlfriend likes to be choked pretty hard during sex. I’m not particularly into it, but I do it because it makes her orgasms really intense, but I don’t have a lot of experience. Is there a “right” and “wrong” way to choke someone with your hands? Thanks! — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I’m glad that you seem to understand the risk of what you’re doing. If you can just “casually” cut off your partner’s air without really giving much thought to pressure, I’m pretty sure that makes you a murderer, or at least a manslaughterer. Either way, a bad end to a good night no matter how you cut it — er, choke it? In this situation, I’d have a thorough conversation about this with your partner and spend some time in kink forums to get advice from folks who are into this thing and have been for a while. DR. D: Although I recognize that some small percentage of people are into choking (and you can often get tips on — hopefully — safer styles of choking through local kink groups), it’s not a kind of behavior I can safely recommend. Unfortunately, there are too many ways people can choke someone and accidentally cause harm or even death. These instances are rare, but they do occur. In my field, these are the kinds of cases that colleagues end up providing expert testimony on and it’s heartbreaking. I’ve heard about too many terrible situations where someone was hurt or died as a result of either an unsafe behavior or a behavior that started out safe, but something went wrong (like, in the heat of the moment the choking or hitting got too rough). Also, legally you should know that the judicial system has a very complicated case with BDSM-related activities. Often, judges/ juries find that people cannot consent to their own harm — meaning that, even if you and your girlfriend create a written contract where she outlines that she wants you to choke her, if you choke her and something goes wrong, it could legally be your fault and your contract may mean little if anything.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): During his 67 years of life, Taurus-born Leonardo da Vinci achieved excellence in 12 different fields, from painting to engineering to anatomy. Today he is regarded as among the most brilliant humans who ever lived. “His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf,” said one observer. “He towered above all other artists through the strength and the nobility of his talents,” said another. Yet on his death bed, Leonardo confessed, “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” Typical for a Taurus, he underestimated himself! It’s very important that you not do the same, especially in the coming weeks. The time has come for you to give yourself more of the credit and respect you deserve. Taurus
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): By the end of the 16th centu-
ry, nutmeg was in high demand throughout Europe. It was valued as a spice, medicine, and preservative. There was only one place in the world where it grew: on the Indonesian island of Run. The proto-capitalists of the Dutch East India Company gained dominion over Run, and enslaved the local population to work on plantations. They fully controlled the global sale of nutmeg, which allowed them to charge exorbitant prices. But ultimately their monopoly collapsed. Here’s one reason why: Pigeons ate nutmeg seeds on Run, then flew to other islands and pooped them out, enabling plants to grow outside of Dutch Virgo
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jurisdiction. I see this story as an apt metaphor for you in the coming months, Virgo. What’s your equivalent of the pigeons? Can you find unlikely allies to help you evade the controlling force that’s limiting your options?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you triggered any bril-
liant breakthroughs lately? Have you made any cathartic departures from the way things have always been done? Have you thought so far outside the box that you can’t even see the box any more? Probably not. The last few weeks have been a time of retrenchment and stabilization for you. But I bet you will start going creatively crazy very soon — and I mean that in the best sense. To ensure maximum health and well-being, you simply must authorize your imagination to leap and whirl and dazzle. Libra
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a starchy root that’s used as food by a half billion people all over the planet. No one can simply cook it up and eat it, though. In its raw state, it contains the poisonous chemical cyanide, which must be removed by careful preparation. An essential first step is to soak it in water for at least 18 hours. I see this process as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of you, Scorpio. A new source of psychological and spiritual sustenance will soon be available, but you will have to purge its toxins before you can use and enjoy it. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Italian composer
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) didn’t like to work hard, and yet he was also prolific. In fact, his desire to avoid strenuous exertion was an important factor in his abundant output. He got things done fast. His most famous opera, The Barber of Seville, took him just 13 days to finish. Another trick he relied on to reduce his workload was plagiarizing himself. He sometimes recycled passages from his earlier works for use in new compositions. Feeling good was another key element in his approach to discipline. If given a choice, he would tap into his creative energy while lounging in bed or hanging out with his buddies. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I recommend you consider strategies like his. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Each hour of every day, the sun offers us more energy than oil, gas, and coal can provide in an entire year. Sadly, much of our star’s generous gift goes to waste. Our civilization isn’t set up to take advantage of the bounty. Is there a comparable dynamic in your personal life, Capricorn? Are you missing out on a flow of raw power and blessings simply because you are ignorant of it or haven’t made the necessary arrangements to gather it? If so, now would be an excellent time to change your ways. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, 2015 is the year you can get totally serious about doing what you were born to do. You will be given the chance to slough off all that’s fake and irrelevant and delusory. You will be invited to fully embrace the central purpose of your destiny. If you’re interested in taking up that challenge, I suggest you adopt Oscar Wilde’s motto: “Nothing is serious except passion.” Your primary duty is to associate primarily with people and places and situations that feed your deepest longings. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Give up all hope for a better past,” writes Emily Fragos in her poem “Art Brut.” That’s generally sound advice. But I think you may be able to find an exception to its truth in the coming weeks. As you work to forgive those who have trespassed against you, and as you revise your interpretations of bygone events, and as you untie knots that have weighed you down and slowed you up for a long time, you just may be able to create a better past. Dare to believe that you can transform the shape and feel of your memories. Pisces
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