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his is it. The New England Patriots and New York Giants are heading to Indy to play in the Super Bowl. Millions of dollars have been spent and thousands of hours of preparation by civic leaders have all led up to this. The reward for Indianapolis, besides the media attention and money spent with downtown merchants, is to disrupt the lives and annoy the living hell out of anyone who lives or works anywhere near Lucas Oil Stadium. Please understand that all of next week I must leave for work at least an hour early and arrive home at least an hour late. The bus system may be free, but it is trashed with detours. I’m in no good spirits about this occupation of our city by rich people. Allow me to vent: First of all, dismiss the idea that “the eyes of the world are on Indianapolis.” Nothing could be further from the truth. No country plays NFL-style football except the United States and nobody but Americans care about the Super Bowl. To the rest of the world, “football” is what we call “soccer” and our “football” is an incomprehensible and violent sport designed to sell beer on TV. The rest of the planet could care less about football and the Super Bowl. To them, it’s just one of those bizarre American weaknesses that defies common sense, like Newt Gingrich or Snooki. Now that we’ve established nobody outside our borders cares about the game, we can get a better understanding of it. Barring a Janet Jackson-style nipple slip on TV, the rest of the world will barely notice the game even occurred. Since we’re free from the burden of global ambassadorship, the people of Indianapolis are free to greet the inevitable scorn of our East Cost brethren with a little good-natured fun. We’ll never get into P. Diddy’s party or hang out with Charlie Sheen or even get to apply makeup to John Madden. That means inventing our own games to amuse us. Number one, always give visitors the wrong directions. The city got off to a good start when they
added confusing new street signs downtown, turning Meridian Street to Bills Street and Ohio Street to Jets Avenue, guaranteeing wrong turns by anyone with dependent on GPS. They even had a sign on Meridian Street with arrows to landmarks pointing in the wrong direction. One would have to cross the complete surface of the earth to have found the Canal Walk by walking east on Ohio Street from Meridian. Alas, the signs were corrected. Since Indianapolis streets are confusing even when there are not 100,000 strangers walking around, there’s no shame in directing visitors in the wrong direction. Make them angry enough and the Super Bowl will never come back here, which is what we want. Secondly, play into every stereotype Easterners might have about us. Go out and buy some novelty teeth that make you look like you stepped out of Deliverance. Instead of a belt, wear a rope tied around your waist. If you come in contact with a visitor, be sure to use the worst grammar possible and speak as if your education didn’t extend beyond the second grade. Ask them where they’re from. Then, no matter what they say, respond with “Where’s that?” When they try to explain where New York is on the map, look confused. If they elaborate even more, ask them if New York is near London or do tigers roam the streets. “Do you guys have hamburgers there?” is an appropriate response regardless of location. Make up stories about unsolved murders and incidents of violent crime. Discuss ancient Indian curses against tourists. Whatever it takes. It’s bad enough that the state and city increased my taxes to build that ugly new football stadium; now they’re asking us to be ambassadors of goodwill to Patriots fans, for God’s sake! I won’t be able to get to work on time or go anywhere downtown for weeks, but I should extend a hand of legendary Hoosier hospitality? Sure, the NFL has dropped a few selective dollars into the community, and restaurants and hotels downtown will benefit from the Super Bowl, but I won’t. The event is a convention for rich people and the media, not us. We are specifically excluded from joining in on the fun. There’s nothing we can do to stop the Super Bowl from invading our town but we are under no obligation to facilitate the disruption and near-closure of our city. The best we can do is to ensure it doesn’t happen again and we can live our lives in peace.
They’re asking us to be ambassadors of goodwill to Patriots fans, for God’s sake!
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f you have yet to visit TURF, the art pavilion created by the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association at the old city hall building on Alabama Street, stop procrastinating. Go! There are plenty of things to love about TURF. But, first of all, credit is due Mark Ruschman and the IDADA team responsible for coming up with the TURF concept and then realizing it so fully. If, in some cockamamie way, we have the Super Bowl to thank for this energizing bit of civic inspiration, so be it. Rarely has the pursuit of pigskin been put to better use. Depending on your vintage, you may know the old city hall building as the former Indiana State Museum. I remember going there on Saturdays with my son. We were hypnotized by the graceful to-and-fro of the Foucault Pendulum, awed by the size of Pacer Rik Smits’ feet imprinted on the museum floor and thrilled (in a campy way) by the life-size diorama of prehistoric hunters closing in on a wooly mammoth, haplessly wallowing in a frigid swamp. But the State Museum decamped for new, swankier quarters in White River State Park. The old city hall was abandoned. Then, when the Central Library underwent its expansion, library services found a temporary home there. Completed in 1910, the old city hall has the feel of a four-story mausoleum. It’s built of limestone and fitted with Roman Doric columns. Step into the building’s great rotunda and you’re almost guaranteed to say, “They don’t make ‘em like this anymore!” Since 2008, when the library left for its new and improved digs, old city hall has stood empty, a great, gray pile in need of a little love. In a city that has thoughtlessly demolished a large portion of its historic architecture over the years, this has been a cause for concern. Surely some use could be found for this stately antique. This is where IDADA comes in. As reported by Scott Shoger in NUVO’s Jan. 11 issue, it was Jason Zickler who had the idea of using the old city hall for a large-scale exhibition of installation art to coincide with the Super Bowl. When the IDADA team actually toured the building, they knew they’d found the perfect site. I’m not exactly sure why, but I know that nothing serves contemporary art so well as an historic setting. Put contem-
porary work in a bright, white modern box and it hums. But when you find it in a place that was built long ago, by people whose only link to present tastes and concerns was their sense of ambition, new art is so vivid it practically snaps when you look at it. That’s the way the TURF show feels. This is due, of course, to the fact that the works on view are almost always interesting and, in many cases, downright extraordinary. Every one of the 23 participating artists/groups has a room of their own, and the batting average of mind-blowing works by such practitioners as Greg Hull, Artur Silva, Jeff Martin, Casey Roberts, Anila Agha, and Lobyn Hamilton is all-star caliber. On the afternoon we visited, there was a steady stream of visitors, including many families. As we explored the galleries on the first and second floors and checked out the Skyline Club café, it was hard not to be overcome by how pleasurable it was to finally have an authoritative art center downtown. Downtown already has a number of galleries and the Artsgarden. But none of these have the heft and scope, the sense of destination that TURF brings. TURF is the most palpable reminder yet that our downtown has many things, but one asset it sorely lacks is a truly public cultural center, a place where citizens of all ages and backgrounds can go for arts and cultural experiences. While TURF is all about the experiential qualities of the visual arts, it’s not hard to imagine the old city hall being able to accommodate a range of activities that might include small ensemble chamber music performances, film screenings, and live black box-style theater, not to mention rehearsal and public meeting spaces. And while we’re at it, why not commission Kipp Normand, whose “Fanfare for Mayor Charles Bookwalter” installation, recalling the politician whose vision led to creation of the city hall building is a TURF highlight, to create a permanent exhibit for visitors on the history and folklore of Indianapolis? A center like this would provide the burgeoning numbers of downtown residents and other citizens with a variety of free cultural opportunities that would, in turn, spark greater synergies with such existing arts resources as the symphony, IRT and Cabaret at the Columbia Club. It would also create a dynamic focus of activity linking downtown with the Mass Ave district. Finally, using the old city hall for creation of a downtown cultural center would revitalize an important part of the city’s architectural and civic history. I can’t think of a more solid cornerstone upon which to imagine what comes next for Indianapolis. TURF runs through Feb. 5 and is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Admission is free.
Nothing serves contemporary art so well as an historic setting.
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Wisconsinites who hate Walker forgot one thing: find someone to run anti-piracy bill sinks into the high seas of a metaphor Italian cruise ship captain is shamed by not going down with it Canada’s bummed it won’t get to sell its oil to Asia via us Mitt Romney’s fifteen percent tax rate is a one percent’s masturbate Perry endorses Newt Gingrich — which could be more trouble than it’s worth Romney’s vast wealth due to acrobatic tricks of avoiding taxes easy to assume that snowfall in Seattle would make folks sleepless Boomer lives up to its name, shattering high school backboard to pieces we mourn the passing of Maggie Harry — bright light too soon extinguished
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Even after completing two tours of duty in Afghanistan, Army Ranger Cory Smith won’t slow down. He’s now about halfway through a 565-mile run home to Indianapolis from the base where he was discharged in Georgia. “We need to shine a light on the fact that, on any given night, 107,000 veterans are sleeping on the streets and that 18 veterans take their own lives each day. … if more Americans are aware of the struggle that our brave military men and women undergo, they will demand more,” said Smith. Thumbs up to Smith for running to shine a light on the considerable challenges vets face in terms of unemployment, homelessness and service-related health challenges. And thumbs up to Congressman André Carson for providing Smith a national platform to broadcast his message by hosting him at Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address.
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he day before President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada’s request to expand its Keystone pipeline system, a Hoosier engineer received word federal authorities dismissed his claim that he was terminated from the pipeline project for raising safety concerns.
“It’s not that I’m opposed to pipelines. I’m opposed to this pipeline. They have already built one (Keystone Phase One) and they’ve proven they can’t live up to their own quality standards.“
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The rejections are not deterring either company’s or the whistleblower’s plans to advance their respective agendas. For TransCanada this means completion of the pipeline. For Michael Klink, a 59-year-old civil engineer from Auburn, Ind., it means that the company will rectify his litany of safety concerns. And, if possible, that he could once again work in the field of pipeline inspection. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline, if completed, will stretch more than 2,000 miles from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Obama’s Jan. 18 rejection was based on
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the notion that officials need more time to evaluate the project’s environmental impact. TransCanada officials said the company would reapply for the permit for its XL extension. And, in a statement issued after the permit denial, officials added, “Plans are already underway on a number of fronts to largely maintain the construction schedule of the project.” In short, TransCanada said it would continue to work with the State of Nebraska to reroute the pipeline around the Sand Hills, one of the largest and most ecologically diverse wetland ecosystems in the United States. When this process is complete, company spokesman Terry Cunha said the company would re-file for the permit. “The rest of the route has already been reviewed and approved,” Cunha said, adding that the company hopes that officials will be able to expedite the approval process by using the data collected during the past 40 months of project review. The goal, he said, is to re-start construction by the first quarter of 2013. According to a statement by TransCanada President and Chief Executive Russ Girling, the company aims to have the pipeline in service by the end of 2014. TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline, known as Keystone Phase One, was finished in June 2010 and already carries tar sands oil
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across the border to refineries in Illinois. In February 2011, Keystone Phase Two was finished, which moves oil from Steele City, Neb. to Cushing, Okla. It was during construction on the Phase One link of the pipeline that Klink raised questions about the structural integrity of the pipeline that, he claimed, led to retaliatory firing.
A whistleblower’s story
In March 2009, Klink began working as a civil inspector in North Dakota for Bechtel Oil, Gas & Chemicals, one of the subcontractors TransCanada employed on Keystone Phase One. Klink discovered foundation problems at the Edinburg station near the Canadian border. He says rebar material was built to the wrong specifications and installed incorrectly, compromising the ability to support a 6,500-horsepower, high-voltage, multi-ton electric motor. Then, without fixing the problem, he said TIC of Wyoming, another contractor hired by TransCanada, signed off on the work. The miscommunication of duties between Bechtel and TIC continued throughout his involvement in the project and TransCanada did not alleviate the confusion, Klink said. In an email Klink saved, a Bechtel
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employee had to ask TransCanada to call TIC on behalf of Bechtel to tell TIC employees that when Bechtel told them to stop work due to safety or quality they were to do so immediately. Klink cited numerous occasions when TIC employees defied the orders of Bechtel employees when quality and safety was a concern. He said in some cases his quality-control concerns would be addressed after he did some convincing in staff meetings. But, in other cases, he said he experienced defiance from TIC employees and no support from Bechtel. “I was continually harping at them,” he said. “Sometimes they would get frustrated and say, ‘Go ahead and fix it.’ It was to the point that I was a problem because they didn’t want to hear from me anymore. I voiced my opinion over and over in those large meetings with supervisors.” TIC did not respond to a request for comment. In addition to the concerns he personally raised, Klink said interoffice emails show extensive cover-up measures construction crews went through to prevent the mistakes from being seen by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the federal agency that deals with pipeline safety.
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with the pipe to tell you when it was made, the steel content and more, and they gave it to us in Chinese,” he said. “Well, to tell the truth, my Mandarin is not very good.” In an interview with the Omaha World Herald, Cunha responded to these claims by saying that all piping used on the Keystone project is manufactured in North America and India. Klink said he reported his concerns to Bechtel and TransCanada during weekly telephone conferences. “TransCanada [was] informed, heard about the problems and elected to do nothing,” he said. Cunha rejected Klink’s claims. “We use multiple quality control and inspection processes during the manufacturing and construction stages,” he said via email. “If a concern is raised we investigate immediately. If corrective action is required, we act.” Hashing out the details The company offered a more detailed Klink filed a complaint on March rebuttal upon receiving the news that OSHA 22, 2010 with the U.S. Department of had rejected Klink’s claim, emphasizing the Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health company’s commitment to safety: Administration (OSHA) under whistle“Other inspectors who raised issues durblower provisions of the Pipeline Safety ing construction continued to be employed Improvement Act of 2002. by Bechtel. Other inspectors stopped The company and officials with OSHA work when it did not meet specific stanargue Klink was released from the job dards, and continued to be employed by because work on that portion of the project Bechtel. When concerns were elevated to was winding down. TransCanada, the company and its repMichelle Michael, a spokesperson for resentatives acted on those concerns and Bechtel said, in an emailed response to took appropriate action.” questions, that Klink’s job was to raise any The statement later continued: concerns about contrac“There were approxitors’ performance and, mately 800 inspectors when he did, his concerns hired to oversee the were taken seriously and safe construction of appropriately addressed. Keystone, in keeping “As is common in the with TransCanada’s construction industry, high workplace stanassignments end when a dards and to ensure project phase is completcompliance with all — Terry Cunha, TransCanada ed. This was the case with applicable codes and Mr. Klink,” Michael wrote. regulations.” If that were the case, Klink countered, his position should have been eliminated. Instead, Business as Usual he said was replaced by another civil What strikes pipeline proponents as odd inspector out of Texas. with the uproar over Keystone XL is that so Since then, Klink said Bechtel has not much oil already crosses from Canada into offered him any more assignments. His the U.S. It is, according to the U.S. Energy efforts to find new assignments within the Information Administration, the nation’s company have been ignored. No. 1crude oil supplier. In response to his blacklisting claim, According to the EIA, as of last OSHA found “insufficient evidence to September, Canada shipped more than 2.3 evaluate whether Respondent’s failure to million barrels of crude oil to the U.S. each rehire Complainant was, in fact, discrimiday. Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela natory,” apparently satisfied with Bechtel’s follow, respectively, as the next largest response that “providing documentation exporters of crude oil to the states. on positions post-complaint was extremely Between 2010-2035 U.S. refineries need voluminous and irrelevant.” for crude oil is expected to decline by 7.8 In addition to the complaints of retaliapercent as reliance on biofuels and other tion, Klink’s testimony to the DOL outlined non-petroleum liquid fuels increases, environmental concerns. according to the EIA. He said he witnessed frozen chunks of earth Some analysts suggest that diminishing and rock being pushed on top of the pipe, supply in existing oil fields and perennial congouging the coating where rust could start to flict in oil-producing regions of the Middle form, as well as poor compaction around the East and Africa will likely intensify efforts to pipes, possibly allowing them to flex. develop a more stable supply for the still con“If the pipes would twist, that is when siderable crude oil demand that remains. you have a major disaster that would be And, pipeline proponents argue, if like the Deepwater Horizon,” Klink says. imports from Canadian pipelines to U.S. “That is one where you will have an explorefineries are slowed, the production sion. When the pipe snaps, you are going capacity will be filled by other avenues to have flammables inside the tar sands oil – either by rail or tanker, both methods that can spark and ignite it.” with much spottier environmental records Klink also claimed the piping used was of than pipeline shipment.Sen. Richard Lugar cheap quality, that it would split and crack authored the North American Energy when welded. He said the paperwork for Security Act that passed Dec. 16, compeleach pipe was written in Chinese. ling the Obama Administration to act on “There were reports that would come a construction permit for the Keystone XL In an email from PHMSA to Bechtel on Sept. 23, 2009, PHMSA warned Bechtel that their representatives would be arriving in one week to inspect the Roswell and Carpenter construction sites. “Things were hurried and covered up and were put away so PHMSA wouldn’t see them,” Klink said. “When the PHMSA inspectors came, I was sent home because they didn’t want me talking to them.” Bechtel instructed inspectors to leave all communications with U.S. officials to their supervisor, Klink said. Not that it would have mattered for him, the day Bechtel received PHMSA’s email was Klink’s last day on the job. Klink’s assignment was terminated three months earlier than he expected it to be. He claimed his repeated complaints led to his early dismissal.
“Safety is a top priority for us.”
pipeline in 60 days. After President Obama denied the extension, Lugar issued a news release. “The studying time is done,” Lugar said. “The environmental concerns are addressed. The job creation, economic and energy security arguments are overwhelmingly in favor of building it. The President opposing pipeline construction is not in the best interest of the United States. I pledge to continue to fight for job creation, increased national security and economic prosperity for Indiana and the United States.” Gov. Mitch Daniels also supports the North American Energy Security Act. His office did not respond to emails or phone calls, but he did issue a statement following the permit denial. “President Obama once again acted against middle class jobs and again to protect foreign energy interests over the interests of Americans,” Daniels said. “With national unemployment over 8 percent, a project that will create over 20,000 jobs and secure our nation’s energy future should be Washington’s top priority.” Much debate is afoot about how many jobs the pipeline will realistically produce. TransCanada offers a detailed breakdown of its projection that the 17 pipeline segments planned to cross the U.S. would result in 13,000 construction jobs and 7,000 manufacturing jobs. A report by Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute (GLI) estimated that, at best, the pipeline would employ 379 people in
those states for as long as the project takes. And then there’s Klink, who strongly feels that doing his pipeline job may have cost him future employment opportunity. He has been unemployed since 2009. He suspects bad recommendations from Bechtel may be to blame. Now he works part time as homeroom supervisor at Dekalb High School. “Having owned my own business for over 20 years, I never want to get into the politics of everything. I just wanted to be out in the field where you can make a difference and make things happen,” Klink says. Klink says he did something other construction workers didn’t have the integrity to do. He publically spoke out against the Keystone Pipeline project. “There were probably five of us that all complained (internally) about problems,” Klink says. “But to be honest, they were just too fearful that they wouldn’t have a job (if they spoke out) like I have gone through. In a way, I can’t blame them. My convictions were just a little bit stronger than theirs. I’m standing up for those who can’t stand up.” Klink’s attorneys at the Washington D.C.based firm Clifford & Garde, well known for representing whistleblowers, were unphased by the DOL/OSHA ruling. “We were not surprised that DOL/OSHA did not find in Mike Klink’s favor and suspect it may have been difficult to find people who would put their own jobs at risk to back him up,” the firm’s Sandy Shepard CONTINUED ON PG. 10
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said in an email. “We today (Jan. 19) filed an appeal of OSHA’s decision with the Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the Department of Labor and are requesting that his case be assigned to an ALJ and set for a hearing.”
Klink undeterred
Klink wants to return to pipeline work. He is not an activist or environmentalist, he said, but remains driven by his concerns that the issues he witnessed while on the job will result in a larger, potentially catastrophic failure.
“If the pipes would twist, that is when you have a major disaster that would be like the Deepwater Horizon. “ — Mike Klink
“It’s not that I’m opposed to pipelines,” Klink says. “I’m opposed to this pipeline. They have already built one (Keystone Phase One) and they’ve proven they can’t live up to their own quality standards. They (TransCanada) did the design. They did the specifications and they can’t even live up to what they wanted done.” He is haunted by the fallout from the July 2010 oil spill in Marshall, Mich. More than 1 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River from a pipeline owned by Enbridge Liquids, another Canada-based company. The spill, described as the largest oil spill in Midwest history, is proving to be nearly impossible to clean up because of the carcinogenic chemical benzene, which is also found in tar sands oil. Benzene’s acute toxicity makes it a hazard to workers doing the cleanup and to nearby landowners. Bitumen, an ingredient in the tar sands oil similar to asphalt, also is harder to clean up because the bitumen is heavier than water and sinks into rivers and other water bodies. Conventional spill cleanup relies on procedures that contain and skim oil on the top of the water. If significant quantities of oil sink below the surface, it is much more difficult to recover, as the Michigan cleanup has demonstrated. “Don’t say that a spill can’t happen in our neighborhood (the Midwest), because it has happened in Marshall,” Klink said. “Drive up there and look at the water, dead animals and what it has done to the people there. A spill can happen anytime and anywhere.” TransCanada has reported 14 oil leaks at pipeline pumping stations on Keystone Phase One. The pump stations, which are large facilities on 5 to 10 acres of land along the route of the pipeline, increase the pressure of the surging oil and send it shooting to the next station 50 miles away. One incident happened on May 7, 2011, at the Ludden pump station in Brampton,
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The Boreal Forest in Alberta, Canada contains the largest area of wetlands of any ecosystem of the world in addition to its lar ge supply of tar sands oil.
N.D., where approximately 400 barrels of crude oil were released, according to PHMSA-issued corrective action order. Klink says he spoke with a farmer near the Ludden pump station who witnessed a 60-foot geyser of tar sands oil spraying into the air. In addition, a 10-barrel oil release May 29, 2011, at the Severance Pump Station in Doniphan County, Kan., resulted in another PHMSA corrective action order. Federal officials concluded that the spills reported by TransCanada so far are “start-up issues that occur on pipelines and are not unique.” Mike’s wife, Deb Klink, said that when she hears such stories, she understands why her husband put his livelihood on the line. “Mike told me after meeting the people in the area it really broke his heart what was being done,” she said. “His story had made us all aware of the issues (with the Keystone pipeline) and we need to stand up and do what we can.” Klink says he was motivated to share his story not only to ensure a safe future for his kids, but also to stick up for people in midAmerica whose voices are not being heard. “My kids give me a lot of credit for speaking up and standing up for others. I can’t teach them to do something and not do it myself,” he said. His daughter, Kendra Klink, said she’s proud to think her dad risked his job to tell the truth. “Your parents always tell you to do this or that and you grow up thinking, ‘Well, you do it,’ ” she said. “Then here is my dad acting on what he has taught us. He is standing up for the little guy, standing up for people that are being wronged and being their voice. He is able to help these people and these farmers that were bullied
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The Alberta oil sands have been in commercial production since 1967 and is reported to produce two to four times more greenhouse gases when refined than conventional oil because of bitumen, a thick and sticky semi-liquid in the soil similar to asphalt.
into signing these TransCanada agreements without the knowledge or facts of what exactly they were signing.” “We just hope the right people listen,” Deb Klink said. Klink said that, while the pipeline is a “nightmare of bad cover up decisions,” he just wants people to look at the issue with common sense. “I believe that if people would take the politics out of it and look at the issue from a common sense point of view, they will see that I am right,” he said. “Another year or two will not make the difference because that resource [tar sands oil] is still going
to be there. I just pray every night that our Congress will see the light.” If U.S. officials and TransCanada decide to build the Keystone XL pipeline, he said he wants them to do the job right. He said he is willing to be part of a review board with representatives from the federal government to write new pipeline standards to ensure problems do not happen again. “If people really think they are going to make money off of this and they really think it is that important to build, then just do it right,” Klink said. “That is what is such a sad state of affairs. If you are going to do it, do it right. Don’t do it half-assed.”
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Climate change is killing us, but because death is rather an overdetermined enterprise, it takes a little effort to tease out exactly the ways in which it’s doing so. Dan Ferber is engaged in that hard hat and shovel kind of work. His book, Changing Planet: Changing Health (2011), co-authored with the late Paul R. Epstein, explores the complex links between global health threats and climate change, not only looking at the spread of such diseases as asthma, malaria and sleeping sickness, but the next genera-
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tion of threats to our food supply, oceans and forests, not to mention the epic storm events we’re bound to face on a globe tipped out of balance. Ferber has a knack for explaining complex arguments and situations in a way that’s no more complex than need be; he’s done so for NUVO upon occasion, including a 2009 cover story about the deleterious impact of a CAFO and its manure lagoon. His subject for the opening salvo in Butler’s
James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics is “Impacts of Climate Change on Global Health.”
helping Biharis, a stateless population of approximately 300,000 persons that has been stranded in refugee camps in Bangladesh since the state was created over 40 years ago. The Village Experience , which has a storefront in Broad Ripple, is involved in microfinance projects, free trade marketing and humanitarian tourism. Circles Indiana is teaming up families trying to move out of poverty with middleand upper-income allies. Building Tomorrow raising awareness and funds to build and support schools in Uganda. WHEN: Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m., free WHERE: Athenaeum Theatre, 401 E. Michigan St. INFO: provocate.org, john.clark@gmail.com
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You’ve been driving around roadblocks for, seemingly, years to make this happen. The Super Bowl Village finally opens its sidewalks Friday. You’ve likely heard about a zipline running in tandem down Capitol — the longest temporary zipline in the U.S. We’re excited to note Randy Finch and Derek Maxfield from the Food Network program Ice Brigade will ice sculpt through the duration. ESPN is broadcasting from Pan Am Plaza starting Jan. 30, very large roman numerals are already arranged throughout the grounds and there’s some sort of immersive video game experience that involves a dome and XBOX 360. Of course, there’s also plenty of music; flip to the music section for more, but suffice to say that Bret Michaels is the headliner Friday night, with Patti LaBelle (Saturday) and Dierks Bentley (Sunday) taking top honors for the weekend. WHEN: Jan. 27-Feb. 5; hours vary (open at 3 p.m., Jan. 27); concerts are free, some activities are not WHERE: downtown on Georgia St. (and surrounding streets) INFO: indianapolissuperbowl.com, 866-849-4635
WHEN: Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., free WHERE: Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University INFO: butler.edu, 940-6505
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Cue the martial NFL Films music, drop your voice to gravelly, masculine voiceover level and read this sucker out loud: “From the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field to the halcyon sunshine of Joe Robbie Stadium, the pigskin reigns supreme, that prolate spheroid whipping arcs through the air, cutting spirals from flicked wrist to gloved hand, in rocky backyards as on carefully-manicured turf. Travel to this pantheon of gods and demigods, this Mount Olympus of gridiron fury, this Valhalla for the warriors of our Sunday afternoons with the NFL Experience. There shall be trophies and Super Bowl rings and NFL shields. There shall be a Colts interactive museum. Enjoy an icy-cold Bud Light utilizing the Bottoms Up draught technology, which shall get beer into your tummy with lighting speed. Visit an NFL locker room with innovative ‘Real Smell’ technology. Shower nude with real NFL players, their glistening pecs and…wait, we’re getting away from ourselves. The NFL Experience is a super-fan’s destination, or something to do if you don’t have a grand to spare for that Rolling Stone party.” WHEN: Jan. 27-Feb. 5; hours vary (open at 3 p.m. Jan. 27), $25 adults, $20 12 and under, free for 2 and under WHERE: Indiana Convention Center INFO: indianapolissuperbowl.com, 866-849-4625
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Krajeck, Amy Locklin, Elizabeth Weber, Bonnie Maurer, Jennifer Lemming, Deborah Sellers, Joyce Brinkman, Ruthelen Burns, Joseph Heithaus and Norbert Krapf. It’s as free as the rest of TURF
(meaning it’s entirely free), and there are open mic sessions scheduled from 2 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m.; to sign up contact Bonnie Maurer at bmaurer@ibj.com.
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Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Anniversary Celebration The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is celebrating its first anniversary with a substantial day of programming, kicking off with the unveiling of the library’s newest acquisition, the Schehr Collection, which contains Vonnegut first editions, as well as original copies of magazines that printed his work. We’ll list the rest by timeline: 1 p.m.: A panel of Japanese Americans tell stories about being interned in U.S. camps during WWII. 2 p.m.: Lisa Newman, granddaughter of Hoosier radical and labor organizer Powers Hapgood, discusses her grandfather — and, of course, her grandfather’s relationship to Kurt Vonnegut, whose political philosophy was shaped by Hapgood.
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@ Indiana Landmarks Center Back in November, the Indianapolis Men’s Chorus — that stalwart crew of 40 volunteer singers under the direction of Greg Sanders — did their part for the “It Gets Better” anti-bullying campaign by recording their performance of “The Promise of Living” from Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. The results — recorded, filmed,
Hapgood inspired the character Kenneth Whistler in Vonnegut’s Jailbird; here’s a prime quote, from the protagonist’s answer to a question by the House Un-American Activities Committee: “I repeated what my one-time hero, Kenneth Whistler, had said in reply to the same general sort of question long, long ago. Whistler had been a witness at a trial of strikers accused of violence. The judge had become curious about him, had asked him why such a welleducated man from such a good family would so immerse himself in the working class. My stolen answer to Nixon was this: ‘Why? The Sermon on the Mount, sir.’” 4 p.m.: Kevin Schehr tells stories about some of the items in the recently donated Schehr collection. 7 p.m.: A staged reading of Vonnegut’s only play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June , by the Heartland Actors Repertory Company . WHEN: Jan. 28, 1 p.m., all events free, except Happy Birthday, Wanda June, tickets which are $45 WHERE: Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, 340 N. Senate Ave. INFO: vonnegut library.org, 652-1954 edited and produced by WFYI — will premiere Sunday at a fundraiser for IndyChoruses, the umbrella organization that includes both the Men’s Chorus and Indianapolis Women’s Chorus, both members of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses. The event will include a silent auction, appetizers and musical performances, closing with the film’s premiere. WHEN: Jan. 29, 6 p.m., $45 WHERE: Indiana Landmarks Center, 1202 Central Ave. INFO: indychoruses.org, 855-8706
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The annual tribute to Mpozi Tolbert, the Philly-born Indianapolis Star photographer and DJ who died at age 34 in 2006, happens to coincide with the Super Bowl madness this year, meaning that one of Mpozi’s old buddies, ?uestlove, can drop by as guest of honor and DJ. Tolbert was one of the first people to photograph The Roots when the group launched in the late ‘80s as The Square Roots, and he provided background vocals on the group’s 1995 major label debut. The remainder of the bill is packed with old friends, including Philadelphia’s Way Back Machine, Cosmo Baker, DJ Indiana Jones, DJ Limelight and a Mpozi
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A church review by Phil van Hest Being a new resident of Indianapolis and a Los Angeles refugee, I’ve noticed that folks around here are very religious. They’re religious about football, drinking, their lawns — and sometimes even God. My opinions on the first three are pretty solid, with only God remaining “undecided.” My formative years were spent as an atheist, until I realized that what bothered me about “religions” was their claim to truth. Being an Atheist seemed like committing the same error as those religions so confident in their belief; merely saying “Nuh-uh” to the faithful’s “Yuh-huh” feels less than constructive.
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Full disclosure: As a child, my mother took me to a Unitarian-Universalist church a few times. I remember being bored, resentful of missing Sunday morning cartoons and confused by the “Jesus Without the Jesus” message. One morning I locked myself in the bathroom and declared, “I’m not going, and you can’t make me!” A mere 20 years later I found myself pulling up a hand brake at the UUI and casting an eye at the significant volume of colorful bumper stickers in the parking lot. Maybe it’s because “Unitarian” makes me think of “Librarian,” but I was not expecting this to be noisiest and most vibrant group of people. Behold! They were! To kick off the service we had a band in full swing, a crowd alive in song, and a minister clapping and bouncing around like a child who is next in line for the big ride. The Parish Minister, Rev. Stephen Sinclair, is 58 years old, but he carries the eager enthusiasm of spirit outside time. I loved this place. A lot of churches discuss the cultivation of diversity and acceptance as polite concepts, but this house of worship is in full flower. Lesbians in the front row, the gay minister with an admitted affinity for AA, a cabaret-style song break (“Is That All There Is?”), and “black drag queen wisdom” from a documentary ( Paris Is Burning) to highlight the week’s theme of personal acceptance. This place had it all – and a daycare to boot. Here, the plate was not passed around at the end of the service like an afterthought. Giving happened right at the beginning and was framed by a palpable sense that these people were all
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truly building something together by choice. No pulpit, no pews, no pretense. From behind a music stand, Rev. Stephen laid forth his ecstatic exhortation for wild and precious understanding. His words came easily, naked and fun. The man is a natural comic. He owns his truth, without a need to possess yours. Sweet Lordee Geezus did I appreciate the hell out of that. I laughed in this church—out loud, frequently, and with a lot of company. We laughed together when an associate told us we could sit, and then said, “Whoops! Could you all stand again?” We cried together as Rev. Sinclair listed the names and ages of service people who died in the last week in Afghanistan, and reminded us of the unknown names of the dead Afghani men, women and children. The simple bravery of this remembrance pushed on my insides, and again I was not alone. This Minister is a natural force, and the service he provides is quite a ride. One need not seek fellowship here, for it has been found.
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DAVID N. BAKER 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION MUSICAL ARTS CENTER, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, JAN. 21 q David Baker is an icon. He’s earned his monthlong birthday celebration, which began Dec. 21 at the Jazz Kitchen and has included a worldwide homage at the Jazz Educators Conference in Louisville. At the MAC, Baker’s IU colleague Tom Walsh presided over a panorama of Baker’s multifaceted storied 60-year career as a jazz player, composer, educator and innovator of public programming. Baker’s giving nature overrides his accomplishments; that endears him to everyone. Embracing adversity is part of his game plan. Living with and through music everyday is the status quo, along with gratitude for the opportunity to grow and share. Students, now colleagues, shared their gratitude through words and their talents, playing Baker’s compositions representing several styles — classical chamber music, bebop and big-band jazz ensemble playing — drawn from among his 2,000-plus works. “Aspects of Andy” is an exceedingly complex musical biography; “Homage a L’Histoire du Soldat” turns Stravinsky into a contemporary sound and sensibility. David Baker’s 21st Century Bebop Band showcased diverse musical takes with “Harlem Pipes,” “R.S.V.P., Mr. Moody” and “The Aebersold Strut.” David Baker’s Indiana University Jazz Ensemble with IU alumni guest soloists closed the program with the resounding sounds of “Terrible T” and “Screamin’ Meemies.” With no intention of retiring, David Baker will continue innovating ways of “being generous” in all walks of life. His dedication keeps us centered with the past; his passion moves jazz ever forward. Jazz endures because David Baker wills it and acts on it — everyday. Baker was awarded the President’s Medal of Excellence by Indiana University for his accomplishments; in his statement, IU president Michael
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VISUAL ART THE NEW NATURALISTS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS IN THE REALM OF NATURAL HISTORY HERRON SCHOOL OF ART + DESIGN; THROUGH FEB. 16 e The New Naturalists present art from “contemporary artists who are deeply interested in places where nature and culture meet” and posits that contemporary artists have become the new naturalists, according to the press release. This is a strange idea, but the exhibition backs up its claims by presenting a diverse array of interesting artwork that engages the natural world and fosters reflection. Most of the art in this exhibition is of the variety that feels impenetrable until you read all of the label text, at which point it not only makes sense, but feels highly insightful and relevant. PHOTO BY CROWE’S EYE PHOTOGRAPHY
Dance Kaleidoscope in Cynthia Pratt’s “Quiet Storm.” McRobbie noted that Baker, who was one of the first African-American professors at IU, “is an innovative and virtuosic performer, a prolific composer, a dedicated jazz educator and an Indiana University treasure.” McRobbie also announced that the university will match donations up to $100,000 to a David N. Baker Jazz Scholarship Fund, established by the Jacobs School of Music in recognition of Baker. — RITA KOHN
ISO SYMPHONIC HITS PROGRAM NO. 10 HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE; JAN. 20-21 t In this weekend’s concert, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra featured only one “symphonic hit”: Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, conducted by yet another Brit, Leo Hussain. The suite from Prokofiev’s movie music to Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60, opening the program, was an enjoyable non-hit. Between those two, we heard, in the ISO’s first performance ever, soloist Vadim Gluzman in the least satisfying of Shostakovich’s concertos, his Violin Concerto No. 2 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 129. Still, the Mozart was worth the wait. While Hussain gave us a smoothly energetic, well shaped first movement, he made his players more articulate in the ensuing, triplemeter (three beats to a measure) Andante. He then picked a notably faster tempo than usual for the fiery, G minor Minuet. All these approaches worked to reveal the symphony’s greatness. ISO principal clarinetist David Bellman got to highlight his instrument beautifully in the Finale’s second subject. Regrettably, some of the solo work misfired the first time around in Friday’s Lt. Kijé, but was corrected in its repeat. Otherwise, Hussain’s orchestra managed the score with unexceptional lyric clarity. Although Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto contributed lots of flash and dash in the solo violin part, this work comes across as the composer imitating himself — with inferior inspiration yet. All his trademarked mannerisms are there, but without much of anything for the
listener to cling to. Gluzman’s penetrating tone was dominant throughout, often enough to cover the strings in back of him. — TOM ALDRIDGE
DANCE DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE: SUPER SOUL — MOTOWN AND MORE INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE; THROUGH JAN. 29 e Dance Kaleidoscope’s Super Soul: Motown and More packs quite a few different styles of soul into three world-premiere suites. Costumes reveal as much about each choreographer’s “take” as did the moves. Svelte reigns with Cynthia Pratt’s choice of form-fitting velvet jumpsuits for her suite titled Quiet Storm. The addition of fedoras scintillates “Trouble Man,” leading into sleight-of-hand, tongue-incheek, eyebrow lifting, hip swinging coupling renditions of “I Say a Little Prayer for You,” “You’ve Got a Hold on Me,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “ABC.” Nicholas Owens’s suite, Mo’ Soul, incorporates the gyrating, fast-paced look and feel of dance clubs with swishy satins in rainbow colors, giving life to the memory of what he heard growing up. Songs for the suite include “Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing,” “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” “P.Y.T,” “Sexual Healing” and “Knocks Me Off My Feet.” The program closes with David Hochoy’s in-depth exploration of the music of Stevie Wonder. Clad in shimmer-like swimsuits with multi-hued cummerbunds, the company, with two guest dancers, spotlights Stevie Wonder’s classic period, adding nostalgia and pathos and preparing us for action, not mere talk. Cutting a wide swath through Wonder’s body of work — including “I Wish,” “For Once In My Life,” “Ngiculela” and “You Haven’t Done Nothin’” — Hochoy’s illustrates Wonder’s keen observations of life, with attention to
A few artists stood out. The way James Balog composes his photo montages with overlayed small printed images that combine to create large-scale images is a well-established technique, but his depictions of giant trees are unique. The image is created by scaling the tree, giving the viewer a total view rather than the neck craning, ground-up image of a tree one is accustomed to. Other highlights include Sam Easterson’s “Animal Vegetable Video,” which provides a twist on the human love of watching videos of animals in their natural habitats: This time, the sheep is wearing the camera and we see the world more or less as the animal does. Amy Stein’s photographs are staged recreations of stories from a town that borders on state forests, parks and game lands where intersections
between the “wild” and the “civilized” are as common as they are jarring. — CHARLES FOX WINTER TALES (AFTER MARK PESCOVITZ) BY LINDA ADELE GOODINE WITH LEARNING CURVE BY MARK RICHARDSON HERRON SCHOOL OF ART + DESIGN; THROUGH FEB. 2 e Linda Adele Goodine and Mark Richardson may share at least a couple things in common — they’re married and both work at Herron — but their artwork is largely divergent. They’ve each been afforded half the Marsh Gallery in this joint exhibition, and the entire package is enticing and impressive. Goodine’s photographs may invite and allure — due to their large size, appealing compositions, rich saturated colors and striking subject matter — but they inspire a sense of discomfort upon walking up closer and looking more carefully. Animal skins, teeth on the winter ground, frozen sedum, and vulnerable partially clothed young women confront the viewer. Each photograph is a curious, dreamy moment cloaked in mystery and plucked from the artist’s imagination, fleshed out enough to convey a scene and a feeling, open-ended enough to allow viewers to complete the story. Richardson’s portion of the exhibition takes a biting look at pedagogical and didactic materials. Clay forms with snarky titles and messages investigate the process of achieving knowledge and our preoccupation with “right” and “wrong” perspectives and methods. Titles such as “Learning to Read,” “A Good Education Is Hard to Come By,” “A Different Perspective or That’s All Wrong,” and “Rusty Brain Scan” lend an interesting context to his oddly beautiful clay artwork and lead to a questioning of education’s place, methodology and availability in our society. — CHARLES FOX
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Chef Joseph’s offers high-quality comfort food BY N E I L CH AR L E S N CH A RL E S @N UV O . N E T If there were ever to be a James Beard award for enduring the slings, arrows and vagaries of the restaurant business and emerging unbowed, then the top place would most certainly go to Chef Joseph Heidenreich. Having survived restaurant closings, unimaginable illness and fickle business partners, Chef Joseph remains almost impossibly upbeat and optimistic about his life and career. Six months ago, with the closure of his flagship restaurant, Agio, on Mass Ave, Joseph was facing the prospect of unemployment and an uncertain future. Amazingly and fortuitously, a series of unlikely events conspired to put this talented chef back in business at the helm of a striking and potentially spectacular establishment in the heart of downtown. Situated, more or less, at the corner of Ohio and Delaware Streets, The Connoisseur
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It began as a social practice art project: Corey Jefferson, a ceramics instructor at Herron, made 100 bowls and had local artists and community members decorate them. Now it’s become a fundraiser for Second Helpings, the Indy-based non-profit dedicated to food rescue, hunger relief and culinary education. The whole lot of bowls will be available for purchase beginning at 11 a.m., Jan. 28; all are food-safe and will be priced between $50-100. But that is most certainly not all: the event, which costs $5 and takes place at Second Helpings headquarters (1121 Southeastern Ave.), will also include five tastings of soup created by a selection of notable Indy chefs, including Greg Hardesty (Recess), Regina Mehallick (R Bistro), Luke Caenepeel (Pogues Run Grocer), Kathy Jones (Iazzo’s), Roger Hawkins (Circle City Soups) and DeWitt Jackson (Colts executive chef). Finally, a few of the bowls will be autographed by celebrities; a silent auction for them will kick off at 1 p.m. More info at secondhelpings.org. If you have an item for the Culinary Picks, send an e-mail at least two weeks in advance to culinary@nuvo.net.
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Room occupies the ground floor of one of Indy’s iconic buildings. Entering the restaurant, you could be fooled into thinking that you had walked onto the set of a baroque opera. Burgundy and crimson abounds from the plush carpets to the dramatic draperies. This luxurious color scheme is balanced by acres of wood which add even more warmth to an already warm atmosphere; a striking, wall-to-wall bar dominates the back of the room and wine bottles are displayed behind glass in a floor-to-ceiling array. Unconstrained by the former limitations of a strictly Italian menu, Chef Joseph is now able to let his imagination run wild. Open for lunch only, the kitchen offers a constantly rotating selection, featuring a handful of appetizers and main courses, drawing upon wide ranging global influences. Using locally-sourced ingredients wherever possible, including a number of amazing offerings from The Smoking Goose, the menu might feature anything from a duck meatball sandwich with pepper sauce to a perfectly roasted flounder, or Memphis-style pulled pork BBQ with Puerto Rican black beans. This is very high quality comfort food with nicely judged portions, harmonious and yet seemingly disparate ingredients, the kind of food you think might not work at first, but then turns out deliver an explosive punch of flavors and textures which less accomplished chefs might eschew out of sheer fear of failure.
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Chef Joseph Heidenreich and his red grouper tempura sandwich.
With prices for small plates in the $8-$10 range, entrees from $12-$20, this is fine dining for a modest budget. Service is polished, informative and friendly. Evenings are currently reserved for special events. Whether you want to stop in for a quick bite or linger for three hours, this is definitely on my Best Of list for lunchtime indulgence. On a personal note, I am absolutely delighted to see Chef Joseph back on the scene, especially at such a terrific establishment, and I’m sure there are many who will share my sentiments.
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features malt notes of roast, coffee, and caramel; Aries American Wheat is light with a citrusy finish. Triton has Sin Bin Ale, Muletide Raspberry Bourbon Stout and Sweet Georgia Brown. Fountain Square’s Jan. 21 Grand Opening introduced Count Nibula Chocolate Stout and Workingman’s Pilsner.
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Three Floyds posted a review of 2011 production at ThreeFloyds.com. Now at 20,000 barrels of house brews and specials, credit for 5,000 barrels increased production over 2010 is given equally to head brewer Chris Boggess and assistant brewers, the packaging staff headed by Travis Fasano [see True Brew pages 179-180], and Chef Mike Sheerin, whose “great artisanal hand crafted cuisine built for beer.” Munster is becoming an even more alluring destination.
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Up to four bottles of Upland’s Belgian sour Gilgamesh can be reserved at gilgamesh.eventbrite.com starting at noon (Eastern Time) today and will be available for pickup at Upland’s Bloomington Brew Pub or Indy Tasting from Feb. 1- 22. Gilgamesh won the gold medal in its category and runner up for Best in Show at Chicago’s Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beers November 2011.
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Sun King opens its “Local Underground” tent for Super Bowl Week through Feb. 5. It will be temperature controlled with beer, food, live music and television.
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Winterfest tickets are sold out online. General admission might be available at Crown Liquors and Central Indiana breweries. The latest word seems to be “yes” on pouring homebrews at Winterfest. If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.
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MOVIES A Dangerous Method BY E D JO H N S O N - O T T E JO H N S O N O T T @ N U V O . N E T
y (R) A Dangerous Method finds director David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, The Fly, The Dead Zone, Videodrome) tabling the disturbing freak-o-rama imagery that helped build him a cult following, instead taking a very civilized, mostly low-key approach as he tells the fact-based story of therapist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and patient turned colleague turned mistress Sabrina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). The other primary story follows the wary friendship between Jung and Freud (Viggo Mortensen). The film begins in Zurich in 1904, as Speilrein is brought to Jung’s clinic for treatment. The young woman suffers from an anxiety disorder, hysteria and Lord knows what else. No one will accuse Knightley of playing it safe during the segment. She jerks about wild-eyed, screaming, sobbing and laughing, flailing about as she tries to escape her keepers. She appears to have
muscle spasms, and she frequently juts out her lower jaw while growling and generally acting feral. In short, she looks like someone desperately trying to turn into a werewolf. Spielrein soon meets Jung, and let’s pause to talk about the actor for a moment. 2011 was a banner year for Michael Fassbender, as the grim Magneto in X-Men: First Class, an even grimmer sex addict in Shame and for his work here. In the first two films, Fassbender is clean-shaven and appears handsome, but severe and intimidating. In A Dangerous Method, he sports a mustache which — this is so bizarre — makes him resemble Bob Saget. How disconcerting it is to watch discussions about the intricacies of the human mind between the co-star of Full House and a wannabe Werewolf of London. The evolving relationship between Jung and Spielrein is consistently interesting; Spielrein, an aspiring doctor herself, proves a worthy peer to Jung, though her eyes still get buggy when she feels threatened. The only tepid aspect of the relationship comes when it turns sexual: The pair get a little S&M thing going that seems more mechanical than erotic, at least on Jung’s side of the bedroom. The relationship between Jung and Freud is engaging, if more predictable. Jung greatly admires Freud and enjoys becoming friends with such a major figure, but finds Freud’s incessant sexual interpretations constricting. Freud, played by Mortensen with just the right amount of
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authority and self-satisfaction, appreciates Jung, but finds his interest in pursuing ESP and other supernatural subjects disturbing and potentially damaging to their stillcontroversial profession. Eventually both storylines meet, as is no surprise when a respected doctor has a mistress in the same field and an aristocratic wife (Sarah Gadon) who becomes aware of the extramarital hijinks. A third storyline involves a mentally ill colleague
of Freud’s, psychiatrist Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel), who stirs the pot with his disdain for social oppression. A Dangerous Method is talky, which is to be expected for a film based in part on a stage play, but most of it works. Intellectually and emotionally stimulating, it doesn’t boil, it simmers. Except for the part where Spielrein goes batass crazy, of course.
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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
There are plenty of rear projection shots in The African Queen, but make no mistake that much of the film was shot on location in the Congo and Uganda, where Katherine Hepburn reportedly kept a bucket close at hand for any between-take nausea. The rest of the film was completed in England, where it was produced, director John Huston having left the U.S. to avoid the ire of the House Un-American Activities Committee. It earned Bogart his only Oscar, for portraying a gruff Canadian captain; Hepburn holds up her end of the deal as a missionary initially offended by Bogart’s forthrightness. Part of the IMA’s Winter Nights series; preceded by an animated short, The Gorilla Hunt (1938). Jan. 27, 7 p.m. at The Toby at Indianapolis Museum of Art; $9 public, $5 students and members. 105 minutes, 35mm.
The theme for the new season of Eric Grayson’s Vintage Movie Night at CONEY ISLAND (1917), Garfield Park is “Fallen Idols,” and few fell so far as rotund film comic Fatty Arbuckle, who was accused in 1921 of the murder of Virginia Rappe, a
model and extra who died in his hotel suite after an alleged sexual assault. FATTY AND A jury later cleared Arbuckle of any wrongdoing, but the damage was done; MABEL ADRIFT (1916) sensational stories about Arbuckle in Hearst papers sunk his career and his films were banned, although he did stage a brief comeback as both director (under a pseudonym) and actor before his 1933 death. Coney Island follows Arbuckle around the titular resort, including run-ins with the Keystone Kops and various amusement park rides; Fatty and Mabel Adrift depicts a honeymoon trip to the shore taken by Fatty, Mabel and Fatty’s dog, Luke, who rates equal place at the dinner table and in Fatty’s heart. Jan. 28, 7 p.m. at Garfield Park Arts Center; $3. 25 minutes and 34 minutes.
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A fugitive ex-cop (Sam Worthington) is standing on a ledge, but things are not as they seem. I won’t reveal the big plan, but — like Tower Heist — it involves doing something illegal on top of a tall building while scores of New Yorkers are looking up. Yes, the plot is silly as hell, but it’s also entertaining, exciting and fun. Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Edward Burns and Ed Harris costar. 102 minutes.
Much has been written about the nudity in this drama, especially the glimpses of Michael Fassbender’s penis. Hope the skin does it for you, because the sex scenes aren’t very sexy. Brandon (Fassbender) is a sex addict, and his constant pursuit of orgasms is compulsive, not erotic. When Brandon’s sister (Carey Mulligan) shows up to stay for a while, patterns are disturbed and everything turns ugly — er, uglier. Interesting and well-acted, but man, what a depressing story. 99 minutes.
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or the last thirty years, legendary hiphop group Run-D.M.C. has racked up honor after musical honor. They were the first rap group to go platinum and first to be nominated for a Grammy Award. They were the first to sell out a whole arena tour. Honored as the Greatest Hip-hop Group of all time by MTV and VH1, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009. Their impact on the culture and history of hip-hop is practically immeasurable. The trio includes Joseph “Run” Simmons, Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels and the late Jason “Jam-Master Jay” Mizell, whose decade-old murder remains unsolved. Run has gone on to a successful solo music career, an active ministry, and a three-year run as star of MTV reality show, Run’s House. D.M.C.’s post-Run life has been a little more complicated. After leaving RunD.M.C., McDaniels experienced a myriad of health issues, including a bout with depression that left him almost incapacitated. He credits a well-timed radio play of a Sarah McLachlan song (“Angel”) for saving his life. On his journey out of depression, McDaniels decided to investigate his heritage, culminating in his discovery that he was adopted out of foster care. His subsequent work with children in foster care and the founding of a summer camp has earned him a Congressional Angels in Adoption Award. IUPUI student Godfrey Cocker met McDaniels about a year ago in Indianapolis. They immediately connected over their shared interest in African social justice issues. Their friendship culminated in the creation of a benefit event for House of Restoration Africa, Coker’s nonprofit. HORA responds to immediate needs of families in West Africa, and proceeds from the D.M.C. event will benefit the nonprofit directly. I spoke with McDaniels during a long, wide-ranging conversation about the history of hip-hop, the importance of arts education and his new musical output (he also rapped for me several times). They may call Simmons the Reverend, but McDaniels does his own share of proselytizing.
D.M.C.: I met Godfrey about a year ago in town. He said he saw me, but was afraid to come over to me. But I saw him looking, and I said, “Hey man what’s up?” We started talking and he started telling me he was from Africa. He asked me if I was familiar with what was going on there, with the diamonds and Sierra Leone and the kids. And I said, “Yeah man, I’m familiar, because I read a book about two or three years ago (Editor’s note: McDaniels is referencing Memoirs of a Boy Soldier , by Ismael Beah ). And in the book, [Beah] told a story about how the rebels came and killed everyone in his village, and him and his friend were caught in the middle. [They were] just living day to day, hiding from the rebels and hiding from the government soldiers. They were just trying to eat and survive, but they got caught by the rebel soldiers and were tied up and getting ready to get murdered. He said he had a cassette tape of RunD.M.C. in his pocket and the rebel leader said, “What is this?” And [Beah] started explaining hip-hop, and [the rebel leader] made him and his friends perform the song and they got set free. And he said, “Yo, RunD.M.C. and hip-hop saved my life.” NUVO: How did that feel [to hear that]? D.M.C.: Man, it was crazy. He was doing a book tour, and they didn’t tell him and they flew me out there and had me walk out on stage. And he was crying and yelling, “This is unbelievable!” He was telling me about how much that old school hip-hop meant to kids in Africa. So, to make a long story short, Godfrey started telling me the same thing. Old school hip-hop was positive and had messages, not like this new stuff. And he told me that he was doing something where he was bringing sneakers to the kids, to give them [shoes]. And he was telling me about the kids and the diamonds, what Run-D.M.C. and hip-hop means to the youth. He told me the horror stories, and told me about how the rebels come in and they cut the kids hands off. He said, “Man I wish you could do something,” and I said, “Whatever you want me to do.” He looked at me like I was crazy. I said, take my number, and decide what you want to do, and I’ll be there, free of charge.
“There’s not a generation gap in hip-hop now, [there’s] an information gap.”
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NUVO: I was just talking to TJ Reynolds [earlier today], who is in one of the five bands that’s going to have the chance to open for you. He said the really special thing about your music is that it’s just as fresh when you play it the last time as it was to hear it for the first time. D.M.C.: Old school isn’t a time period, it’s
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a consciousness. So old school doesn’t mean old, it means better than all of the hip-hop that comes after it for eternity. The reason why it is as relevant now as it was relevant then is because it’s coming from the same place of whatever struggle, whatever emotion, whatever problems exist in society eternally. NUVO: The same basic truths. D.M.C.: The struggles I had then are the same trouble that kids have now. But the problem with hip-hop now is that there isn’t any dialogue between the older cats and the younger cats. And when I walked in there and talked to Godfrey [Coker, the founder of HORA], we were able to have a dialogue. When you have the old and the
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young coming together to serve a purpose, you’ll have change. There’s not a generation gap in hiphop now, [there’s] an information gap. My generation was taught at a young age that it’s about no excuses. We use our creativity, whether it’s rapping, dancing, spoken word, shooting a video. If we could use communication and creativity, then we can have change and make it better for everybody. NUVO: I can understand why people listen to you, D. D.M.C.: That was the whole purpose of creating hip-hop in the first place. They look at a young person and say, “Don’t you say nothing, you don’t know anything.” So what we did was to say, “Oh they don’t want to give
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SUPER INDY also can respect, then we can have change. Run-D.M.C. came along and started rhyming about, “Be cool, go to school, don’t mess with drugs and thugs and you’ll be cool.” [Now] these rappers rap about being drug dealers and how it’s cool with all this swag; it makes the kids think, “Oh I don’t have to go to school, college isn’t cool, I’ll go be a drug dealer and make a lot of money and drive a Bentley.” But, no, you can’t. Because most drug dealers are in two places, in jail or dead. But when I came along and [starts rapping “Sucker MC”]
us a chance?” And we took our turntables down to the park, busted the light poles open, funded it until the police said, “You kids can’t come down and have a concert!” But we did it so we could be heard and noticed. And once we were able to record and make records, it wasn’t about show business, it wasn’t about trying to make money. It was beautiful when [the money] came, but the reason why the old school generation changed the world was because we changed the communication. We changed how black and white people related to each other. We didn’t just make celebrities. We made it possible that [the world] can look at hip-hop music and say it’s not a fad. The reason why was because we made the politicians and educators and the people that were running the world [listen]. They didn’t just say, “Oh LL [Cool J], and Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys and De La Soul have a hit record and are on MTV. They said do you hear and see what these young people are doing? And it was good. And that’s the thing that makes it possible for hip-hop to do what it does today.
I’m D.M.C. in the place to be I go to St. John’s University And since kindergarten I acquired the knowledge And after 12th grade I went straight to college
NUVO: Right. D.M.C.: And with Run-D.M.C., our whole thing was to never let our culture forget that. NUVO: What young MCs are filling that role right now? D.M.C.: It’s kind of funny now. Theres a lot of groups doing it underground. When we did it, it was in your living room, on the radio. You know Lupe Fiasco? NUVO: Yes, he’ll be here for the Super Bowl as well. D.M.C.: The reason why I like him is because he’s a young person doing it. You know what I’m saying? He went from, “I’m good, look at me, I’m the best MC, I love girls and parties,” but [then] his music started taking a serious political and economic and social tone. People [got] kind of got scared of him. He’s talking about the political structure. And for him to be this young, exciting guy, he took it where other young rappers were afraid to go. [Those rappers] take the easy way out, and make the records about the drinking and the partying; he’s not doing that. He’s a young person, and he’s paying attention to the politics that are in his world. And he’s doing something about it. That’s powerful. That’s inspirational. That’s motivational. So Lupe Fiasco gets my vote as an innovative game changer. NUVO: ?uestlove is a really interesting character who is not afraid to get into politics and is very communicative with his fans [about his views]. D.M.C.: Yeah [the Roots] aren’t afraid to address the issues. And that’s powerful, because when you look at hip-hop culture, it’s coming from the youth, the street. The everyday young guy. They’re not just making records like, “Look at my car, I’ve got money.” It’s a powerful thing when you’ve got people in entertainment, not being preachy, but addressing the issues. And when you look at the Roots, Lupe, Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy and countless others, it’s no different than when you look at the rock and roll icons that did it, [like] Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, John Lennon, James Brown. Even Marvin Gaye, who was a love guy, a sexy love singer, he did, “What’s Going On.”
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Fogerty and Lennon and Neil Young, they sung about the Vietnam War, civil rights, women’s rights. They sang about the political and social issues that were relevant to their community. NUVO: This is a particularly interesting time, with the [Occupy movement] D.M.C.: For us, it’s not just about entertainment, although for a lot of people it is. Some people, whether it’s rock or hip-hop, they say, “Yo I just want to get in the business to get rich and famous.” But they don’t realize creatively and artistically, there’s a responsibility that you can’t forget about. There’s a respect for artists and entertainment. The politician can’t really get that, the religious people can’t really get that. Whether it’s Fogerty, Lennon or KRS-ONE, we are representatives of the people. The core audience that buys your music, those are the common folk that really don’t need the division and the separatist medium of politics. If you’re a Democrat and I’m a Republican, if you’re a Catholic and I’m a Protestant, we’ve got beef right there. But with music...[it’s not there]. Somebody once said, “Music succeeds where religion and politics fail.” Somebody also recently said to me that every revolution begins with the arts. NUVO: And you can trace that through history. D.M.C.: Chuck D of Public Enemy once told me, “The most powerful thing about this hip-hop is the art of communication, the power of communication.” There’s always a microphone. We’re making videos. Hip-hop is on movies now. And as the medium of communication grows, so does your responsibility. And that’s something Chuck told me. And that’s something that me and Run and Jay always said. We said,
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“We’ve got to watch what we do, what we say, and what we project to our audience.” NUVO: In the age of social media, it’s so easy to fire off your thoughts without thinking, I’m thinking about Kanye and his tendency to stir up... D.M.C.: Yup. That’s what I’m talking about with responsibility. You have a right to your freedom of speech, you know. This isn’t about freedom of speech. It’s about genocide, it’s about homicide, it’s about evolution. Everything you say and do will impact somebody. For me, since I’m a little old school now, you know I’m not going to say something until I understand what it is that I’m saying or why I’m going to say it. If I walk into a rally, a bar, a party, even a bar mitzvah, I’m always conscious that when the microphone comes on, I’m not going to say, “Yo, man buy my records.” I’m going to say someone that will touch that little kid, I’m going to say something that will help that person struggling with alcohol. A couple of years ago I found out I was a foster kid. First, I found out I was adopted, [then] I found out I was also in foster care. And I spoke out. And now I get emails and tweets from all over the world saying, “Thanks for looking out for these orphans, these kids.” NUVO: You think every individual has the chance to do what you’ve done, if the right person reaches them. D.M.C.: Exactly! Hip-hop is inspirational, motivational, and educational. If we possess these issues we deal with and live with globally, whether it’s the Occupy [movement], the kids in Sierra Leone, the problems with foster care in America, where kids go from group homes to jail, if we can address these problems with images and concepts that [kids] can understand and
And some of those kids will put the guns and the drugs down, and get high school diplomas and go to college. So many kids tell me, “Man, I had a problem. I was out of high school, [but] just because you’re telling me education was cool, saying I can drive my car and have my jewelry and my fresh sneakers.” [This kid] was like, “I was just in one element of this hip-hop stuff.” And he went and got his GED. And he went with his GED and was able to take community college courses. He walked in and saw a whole world of possibilities that he never thought existed before. And that representation and information, that artistic communication led some of these [kids] places they had never been. The problem is that they sit and think, “Man I’m stuck in the hood. I’ll always be in the hood. I can’t do nothing about changing this poverty for me.” We told them no, if you can’t rap or play basketball like LeBron James, here’s what you can do: pick up a book and become a doctor, lawyer, scientist, something. Before Run-D.M.C. came along, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash were talking to kids saying, “Man, it may be messed up in the ghetto, but be something, anything, by any means necessary.” And if you do that, you change your existence, and you’ll change your family’s existence. You change [that] and you’ll change your neighborhood’s existence, and you’ll change your city’s existence. NUVO: That’s something that the Super Bowl has done for Indy in some ways, revolutionized entire Indy neighborhoods. D.M.C.: When we were coming up, before managers and record labels, we would organize the block party, the park jam. Once we could go inside venues, we would go neighborhood P.A.L. or to the Elk Lodge. You could pay five dollars on a Saturday night and come and see DJ AJ, DJ Jam Master J, Grandmaster Wizzard Theodore and Grandmaster Flash. It was just a little dream [to perform live], but it kept us from killing each other and selling drugs and tearing the neighborhoods down, and we used creative competition [in that way]. I just want to give everyone the chance that I had. That real good hip-hop and that real good rock and roll, it does something to change the community. And that’s what it’s about. It’s just a pleasure because [the result of] everything that was given to me [through] hip-hop] and [having] the pleasure of being D.M.C., is being able to do something for these kids in Africa.
SUPER INDY NUVO: Tell me about what you’re working on right now. D.M.C.: About two weeks ago, I dropped two new singles. I’m probably going to drop another two singles in the next few months. I want to put out an album by summer. An album, you know? I never critique another person’s creativity, but even the young people come up to me and say, “Yo D.M.C., what happened to albums?” Right now everything is so iTunes and single-based. When you give someone an album, you’re not just giving somebody an album from you. You’re giving someone a lifetime experience of memories. That’s the album experience. I’m working with some of the best singers and musicians I can find. NUVO: Can you give me some details on those musicians? D.M.C.: I’m working with Sebastian Bach and Nick Morris from Mötley Crüe. The new lead singer from Sublime, he’s on there, I’ve got a song that I do with Wayne Static of Static-X. [I’m working with] Travis Barker of Blink182 and Chuck D of Public Enemy. A couple other high profile names, but I want to make sure I get them completely signed on before I announce them. A lot of hip-hop is just beats. I’m really working on actual musicians, which makes the process that much more explosive and spontaneous. NUVO: Talk to me about the JAM Awards D.M.C.: We wanted to create something that would represent Jam Master J’s legacy as a DJ and a musician, so we created the JAM Awards, where his wife gives a scholarship to keep music in school.
don’t want to just be learning “See Jack Run.” You’ve got to use bait, something that will be creatively and innovatively constructive to these kids’ existences. You pull the music courses out, and that’s about seven or eight kids that will drop out immediately. J always said, “Man, when I used to go play drums and guitar, and when my teacher was teaching me to play flute, that is something that contributed to where I am today.” NUVO: If you had a message to legislators about this issue, what would you say? D.M.C.: They must make the arts part of all school curriculums. Because, if you don’t, you are failing our children. Music, arts, drawing, dance, spoken word, poetry, film making – you must include the arts as a priority in every school, from the ghetto to the top. NUVO: So, this show is part of a series of multi-continental performances, correct? D.M.C.: Yes, you know me and Godfrey hope to go to Africa and go to Sierra Leone, to do a two or three day tour. He was always big on collecting sneakers, and I’m still doing things with Adidas, so me and Godfrey and Adidas are going to do something big. We’re going to personally deliver the sneakers to kids in Africa. We’ll do a conference and some workshops. You know, there is a problem with a lot of international hip-hop. With the negative, drug dealer, gang-banger image dominating hiphop right now, a lot of people think that’s what you have to do to be hip-hop. Which is crazy. I was talking to people in Brazil; they’ll see drug dealer rap, saying, “I’ve got kilos and guns and (excuse me) my bitches and my hoes,” and they’ll see fifty rap videos like that, but then they’ll see Tribe Called Quest, and Run-D.M.C. video, and they’ll be captivated. Globally, we have a problem because a lot of kids think that hip-hop has to be negative to be down. So, when I do go into other countries and perform, I’ve got to do some workshops, to speak to those audiences. All of those guys in the Battle of the Bands, I’ll sit down and we’ll kick it and rhyme. I’ll ask them what they like and they can question me. Forget about who is the best, whether it’s Jay-Z or Eminem or Run-D.M.C.. I’ve got to explain to people why hip-hop does what it does.
“They must make the arts part of all school curriculums. Because, if you don’t, you are failing our children. ”
NUVO: D, I’ve got to tell you, that is close to my heart. It’s a rough time for arts education right now. D.M.C.: We’ve only been doing it for about five or six years, since he passed away. We have a saying, you just can’t give out turkeys on Thanksgiving. A lot of times, when you have celebrities or musicians, the only time [their old] neighborhoods really see them is on Thanksgiving giving out turkeys or Christmas giving out Coke. You’ve got to continue to be interactive and involved with your community so you can prevent the music courses from being taken out of school. Jay used to say, “One of the things that made me want to go to high school and do good in it was so I could go to music class. Me being in music and playing in the band and learning instruments was one of the reasons that I was able to be a great DJ and know rock and jazz and everything.” A lot of kids, music is the base that keeps them on in school. If you tell a kid, “Listen, you can’t be in this program unless you get A’s and B’s,” they’ll go get those [grades] without even thinking about it. The problem is when the government and the state take away the thing that is necessary for the productivity and contribution [to society] for these kids. The kids
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The Super Bowl has provided local artists with amazing opportunities to perform for brand new audiences from all over the country. Three of these Indianapolis bands will have the opportunity to open for D.M.C. one of the biggest hip-hop artists of all time, Three Naptown groups (including TJ Reynolds and the Freehand Orchestra, Kool’s Bazaar and Blackberry Jam) will compete in the Super Bold Battle of the Bands this Friday at the Madame Walker Theatre. I spoke to one of those band’s leaders, TJ Reynolds. Reynolds’ rhymes contain the many of the same socially conscious ideas as D.M.C.’s, including meditations on rights, healthy relationships and the importance of arts. He’s also encouraged and taught arts education programs, helped found a cultural collective (United States of Mind) and a African drum performance group (Positive Repercussions) that frequently performed at schools and after-school programs. With some Super Bowl events topping out at over $1,000 per ticket, this show may be the best value in town. Two Atlantabased bands, Quita.Dream and Willie Hen and the Rose Parade, will also compete in the battle. Fan voting will determine which two acts will open for D.M.C. at a benefit show for nonprofit House of Restoration Africa one week later. NUVO: Exciting about Run-D.M.C. Are you a fan? Is that even a question? TJ REYNOLDS: Run-D.M.C. is one of the pillars of hip-hop. There’s one of the groups that if you took them out, then hip-hop would just crumble. It’s cool because older music can sound dated but you put them on and it’s just as fresh as when it came out the first time. NUVO: What does it mean to you as an artist to get this kind of exposure?
TR: We’re hosting the Super Bowl, but [there’s] not really events for the community of Indianapolis. We might benefit financially, but...(trails off). Listen, I’m in Northwest High School right now, and the kids love Drake. They listen to Drake all the time. And he is coming for the Super Bowl, but he’s playing a private party. He’s not reaching the people that are supporting him and his fans. So, that’s why this is a cool opportunity, to be more street level. NUVO: Do you have any other plans for the Super Bowl? TR: My plans are busking. I’m going to try to look as official as I can and go in set up in the Convention Center and freestyle. [I’ll] set up some fresh cyphers and show off the other side of the city. That’s some of my favorite types of performances, just freestyling and being in the moment and communicating with people. [We’ll] gather like 100 people and get the crowd going. NUVO: Thoughts on the other bands ? TR: I’m really excited, because I think that the lineup is awesome. If this wasn’t a battle, this would be a great show. It’s almost too bad it’s a battle, but it adds some excitement and a cool story to it. Kool’s Bazaar and Blackberry Jam, they’re family. We’ve never played with Kool’s Bazaar, so that’s cool [that we’ll have the opportunity to do so]. And the groups from Atlanta are cool and definitely on a different kick, you know? I think that it’s a really complimentary show, a complimentary lineup. NUVO: Super Bowl predictions?
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TR: As an artist, it’s exciting because I think I can bring kind of the message of what I’m about in hip-hop to a little bit of a wider audience. That’s exciting; just to be able to meet him and have a chance to rock on the same stage is just one of those things that you carry as one of your accomplishments. TR: I found out about it in late December, towards the end [of the month]. Somebody called me up and said, “Hey there’s this contest, you guys should enter.” I was on the road, driving across the country. I had to kind of scramble and get some band members together to apply for [the contest].
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TR: Man, as much as I don’t want to publish my predictions, but if New England comes in here and wins the Super Bowl, man.... (unhappy grumblings). It’s cool. It’s exciting, everyone’s getting excited about putting on a good face and changing things up.
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Big Head Todd talks the blues Indy’s a party town for the Monsters BY RO B N I CH O L S M U S I C@N U V O . N E T As Big Head Todd and the Monsters were getting ready to start a four-day East Coast run of shows last week, I talked via phone to Todd Park Mohr as he was hanging out before a show in Connecticut. He and the band (all original members, who’ve been together since 1986) come to Indianapolis on January 29 playing the Verizon Stage in the Super Bowl Village. We talked with the Colorado native - now living in Chicago - about his recent Robert Johnson “songbook” album, what teams he follows in the NFL, and what he means when he says “a song belongs to everybody”. NUVO: With your recent 100 Years of Robert Johnson album, you called the band the Big Head Blues Club. Talk about that project. TODD PARK MOHR: Obviously, it’s all Robert Johnson material and are songs from a really special time period. That is a fascinating and wonderful part for me. I loved the group nature of recording it, with a lot of musicians involved. They were very spontaneous and fast sessions; it took just three days and was fun to do something that was very uninhibited and about making the moment right. We were in Memphis, which is fabulous place to be, especially for blues music. (Editor’s note: Todd will be a part of a concert to honor blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin, to be held February 24 at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, Heavy hitters like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Levon Helm and dozens more are on the bill, honoring the life of the influential guitarist from Howlin’ Wolf’s band. Sumlin died in December, 2011, and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards paid for Sumlin’s funeral. ) NUVO: What are you listening to these days?
TPM: I listen to a lot of blues before 1945, like Charlie Patton, Son House, and Mississippi Fred McDowell. I am kind of obsessed with that era right now. I listen on my iPod. I like my shuffle. I also like having access to lots of individual songs and to be able to listen to stuff immediately. NUVO: Any new music in the pipeline? TPM: I have been performing some new material both solo and with the band, we are going to be in the studio in the fall for a release for early next year.
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NUVO: Coming back to the state so many times, you must have some things you like about Indiana? TPM: We have some friends in Indiana who like to drink a lot of tequila ( laughs). It’s a party town. We have been coming there 20 years now. It’s always a lot of fun for us. NUVO: In the next two months, you are on the road a lot. Is that what you do, or is that busier than normal? TPM: We do tours in moderate doses these days, but still play 80 or 90 shows a year. Most of those are on weekends, so I am at home a lot during the week, and have a pretty decent family, so I can’t complain. The upcoming three months are going to be a little bit busy. NUVO: Tell me about the quote I recently read from you, describing a song as something that “belongs to everybody.” TPM: Nobody really owns songs. When an artist does a song, you add a verse here or there, but you are rendering the tradition and hopefully adding something of your own in there, which is totally different idea from the pop, hit song mentality. I guess it is more of a communal idea. The music and the language is a traditional thing, rather than something that you pretend is original. Just a different way of looking at it. NUVO: Since it’s the Super Bowl, do you have a favorite NFL team? TPM: I am a fair-weather Broncos and Bears fan. For the last six years, I have been living in Chicago, so the Bears have become the only team I can watch on TV. I thought I better root for them.
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Indy jam band gets picked up by ESPN BY K A T H E RI N E C O P LE N K CO PL E N @N U V O . N E T Not every artist playing downtown will be performing as part of a concert series. The Twin Cats, who frequently pack the Mousetrap in Broad Ripple, will perform live as the house band for ESPN’s SportsNation every day leading up to the Super Bowl. I spoke to Nicholas Gerlatch, the Cats’ excited saxophone and E.W.I (Electronic Wind Instrument) player. NUVO: Tell me about your ESPN performance. NICHOLAS GERLACH: We have been asked by the ESPN show SportsNation to be the house band for their show during the week leading up to the Super Bowl. They will be taping the show every day live at 5 p.m. at the Pan Am Plaza downtown. We will be playing for about 30 minutes prior to the show each day to get the crowd warmed up and then will be playing in and out of commercial breaks during the show. It is similar to role that the band plays on late night network TV shows. We are also playing two shows on Saturday as well. The first is in the Super Bowl village on the Pepsi stage at 3:15. Later that night we will be playing at the Mousetrap. That show starts at 10:30 p.m.
Russ Baum’s folk-energy B Y K A T H E RI N E C O P LE N KCO PL E N @N U V O . N E T Russ Baum will be performing at the Ugly Monkey for ten nights leading up to the Super Bowl. Baum, who calls his music “folk energy,” will perform with Huck Finn every day starting Friday at the Ugly Monkey in the Coors Light tent. Baum has moved all over the state, but currently calls Carmel, Ind. home. He expects huge crowds every night, including passionate people and large groups of media. He says he won’t change his performance style though. “I create music in a moment and I expect it to move minds or to move bodies.
NUVO: When did you find out you landed this gig? NG: We found out last month that we were being offered the job. We had known it was a possibility for a while. It was pretty tough to keep it a secret. NUVO: What is the most exciting thing about the playing the Super Bowl? NG: I’m a huge sports fan, so having the opportunity to showcase our music at one of the biggest sporting events in the world is a dream come true. NUVO: What’s your team? NG: Everyone in the band is a Colts fan except for me. Phil, our keyboardist, has Colts season tickets. I am a huge Cleveland Browns fan, because, apparently, I hate myself. If you are asking me, who I think is going to win the Super Bowl, well, it’s pretty wide open but I think it’s going to be Patriots vs. Green Bay in the Super Bowl with Green Bay winning it all. (Editor’s note: This interview was conducted prior to Green Bay’s elimination. )
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NUVO: What other artists are you excited to see performing around the city? NG: I am actually really excited to see a lot of the other bands that are we are playing with the day before the Super Bowl in the Super Bowl Village. Here Come the Mummies and Umphrey’s McGee are the two bands I’m most looking forward to seeing that day. THE TWIN CATS will perform at Pan Am Plaza during the taping of “SportsNation” and at the Super Bowl Village on Saturday, February 4 at 3:30 p.m.
Preferably both!” Baum said. Baum’s music draws heavy influence from artists like Green Day. He names their track “Going to Pasalaqua” from 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours as his favorite song. “It inspired me to believe in love,” he said. When he’s not making music, he’s hanging out with his son, who is almost three. “I spend a lot of time with my son Taylor, and yes, he’s named after the guitar company. We laugh a lot and visit friends,” said Baum. Baum has a few Super Bowl predictions as well. “It pains me to say it, but I feel like the Patriots are going to see another Super Bowl ring,”said Baum “Luckily, I am horrible at predicting most games, so please take this as a bad omen for New England.”
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Talking football with Fuel Hard rock lineup finally settles down BY TAYL O R PET ERS M USIC@ N UVO.NET The band Fuel first appeared in 1998, and were largely known for their hits “Shimmer” and “Hemorrhage (In My Hands).” After American Idol star Chris Daughtry (now of epoynomous hard rock quartet Daughtry) performed an Idol-ized version of their hit “Hemorrhage (In My Hands),” iTunes downloads of that track and the rest of Fuel’s discography shot up. Daughtry was even offered the lead singer position for the band. It’s been difficult to keep track of who has actually stayed in the band due to their erratic lineup changes, including the temporary departure, and subsequent return of their original lead singer, Brett Scallions. I spoke with Brett about their various members and his Super Bowl predictions, in advance of their Super Bowl Village performance. NUVO: How does it feel to be playing at the most popular American sporting event of the year? BRETT SCALLIONS: I’m a huge football fan, any time I get to be around that world, it’s a good day. Go Giants! NUVO: I was going to ask who you were rooting for. BS: Actually, I’m a Colts fan, unfortunately with Peyton being out this season it’s been pretty harsh. Also, I lived in New York for about eight years, and living there I became a pretty big Giants fan, so I’m hoping that they can make it to the big game. NUVO: I know the band has been through a few iterations over the past few years. Could you update us on the current lineup?
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BS: Well, it’s myself, I’m one of the founding members. There’s Brad Stewart on bass, he’s originally from Shinedown, and Ken Schalk on drums, and he’s from a band called Candiria originally. On lead guitar we have Andy Andersson, and he also plays in a band called Black Robot, who are also on the rise. They’re great players, and we have a lot of fun. When you come out to see a show, it’s a free-for-all. We’re not playing to a click track or backing tracks of any sort; it’s just four guys on a stage just going for it. NUVO: I’ve read you guys have been working on some new material possibly for a new album. What sort of direction will you go? BS: I’ve been writing for about the past year or so, and as soon as this tour is over we’re going in to the studio to start work on a new album. It’d be nice to have a few new tunes out by summer. I’m really not in any kind of direction. I’m open to all music and all styles. The artists that I grew up on, they were very broad in their styles as well, like Led Zeppelin and the Beatles. They would play the heaviest song possible, and then they’d turn around and play a country song. I’m not saying that Fuel’s going to become a country band, but at the same time, I’m open to beautiful music, you know? That’s what it’s all about. FUEL Fuel will perform at the Super Bowl Village on Tuesday, January 31 at 9 p.m
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Best of Indy winners integrate new electronic sound BY G RA N T CA T TO N M U S I C@N U V O . N E T If you’re wondering how they do it on the Southside, ask Stereo Deluxe. This Indybased hard rock outfit has been at it since 2005 when, right out of the starting gate, they won Indy’s Battle of the Bands at The Patio. Since then, they’ve released two fulllength albums, toured across most of the U.S. and received NUVO’s Artist of the Year honors three consecutive years in a row. With a fast-paced guitar rock sound that’s heavy on the kick-drum and loaded with machismo, Stereo Deluxe has a raw but well-structured sound. Listen to them long enough and you’ll hear echoes of guitar rock legends from AC/DC to Guns n’ Roses, but with the modern day tightness of The Strokes and the thumping, bassslapping intensity of Muse. We caught up with the band’s lead singer and guitarist, Jay Elliot, last week to talk about the band’s new guitarist, their latest single, and of course, their upcoming performances for the Super Bowl. NUVO: So what are you guys up to at the moment? JAY ELLIOT: Well, we recently had a lineup change, so we’ve been trying to get our new guitar player up to speed. Our old guitar player [Ben Tatum] left the band in August and we replaced him earlier this winter with Robert Kermeen. Like I say, we’re just kind
of getting our new lineup together and hope to be in the studio for a release this summer. But, at the same time, we’re not trying to rush anything out. We’re just trying to make sure the quality is there and hoping to get in the studio as soon as possible. NUVO: How has Robert’s presence influenced the band’s chemistry? JE: Well, it’s still taking shape. But we’re definitely looking forward to working on new material with Robert to see what kind of influence that brings. Him being so new to the fold right now, we’ve really been trying to focus on getting him caught up with all of our existing material, to give him a good reference of how we have done things in the past. So when we start writing together as the new group, he’ll have a little bit of a frame of reference as to where we’re coming from, but then we can also move forward into new territory into places that we haven’t really gone before. NUVO: You recently released a single, “Evil Twin.” Does that song represent a step into new territory? JE: I think you’ll hear a little bit more of an electronic sound. If you listen to “Evil Twin, there’s some synth/keyboard on there, which is something we’ve never really done before. We’ve always been pretty much straight-up guitar rock. We’re trying to delve into newer sounds and trying to expand our musical palette, while still maintain the identity of the band in a sonic respect. A couple of the new songs incorporate a heavier use of guitar effects. It’s less stripped-down, I would say. NUVO: How do you feel to be playing the Super Bowl in your hometown? JE: If you asked me 10 years ago would I be playing at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis, I’d have said you were crazy. But 10 years from now, I’ll be able to say I played the first Super Bowl in Indianapolis. I think it’s really kind of a sentimental thing, just being proud of our city and proud of this big experience that’s getting ready to happen. STEREO DELUXE Monday, January 30, Super Bowl Village on the Pepsi Stage, 5 p.m., all ages 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 01.25.12-02.01.12 // music
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Editor’s note: This compilation was released as part of Super Bowl celebrations by the Culture and Arts Programs Committee to showcases Indy’s local talent. It is available for free to download and stream and will be housed online at MusicalFamilyTree.com. Okay, Indianapolis has had some embarrassments as it prepares for the Super Bowl (the poster, the logo, the theme song commercial of sorts), but this is not one of them; in fact, this might help us save face. We’ve got some great musicians in this city, and this state: maybe you didn’t know. We do. These 46 songs, performed by 46 Indiana artists and bands, offer some serious variety. Impressively, this is the kind of play list that you can listen to, in its entirety, and want to repeat. Even if you consider yourself an avid music connoisseur in Indianapolis, there’s a decent chance that you haven’t heard some of these local bands. Slothpop opens the mix; they’ve got an Indie folk/electronic sound, and Kristin Newborn is easy to listen to. Vulgar Boatman is more pop; “You Don’t Love me Yet” is the kind of song that could make almost anyone’s soundtrack to life. Mr. Kinetik’s “Our City” is a straight-up tribute to Indianapolis: be proud, people. Been in Greencastle lately? Hopefully you’ve heard Tad Robinson: he’s smooth— simple blues, the way Indiana is simple: it’s not, quite, but it comes off that way. We like seasons. We like rainstorms, and what comes after them. Neon Love Life: damn,
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e Rusty Redenbacher has been the man in Indy for a long, long time. As a kid, he took hip-hop into the rock clubs with his Coalition Collective. He later forged a path with The Birdmen of Alcatraz that proved to be the same blueprint that 90 percent of the nu-metallers use to make millions later in the ‘90s. It was the same story with The Mudkids, who created a distinctly Midwestern rap sound that dudes like Kanye and Rhymefest later made a mint on. Turns out, all this history has been but a prelude to Rusty’s new album, The Tinkerer, which may just be his golden ticket. At the very least it will go down as the best, most original, Indianapolis album of the past few years. Just as Prince would record entire albums by himself, Redenbacher does so on this concept album full of monsters and weird science. Redenbacher explores the monsters that we are, that other people are and what we all perceive each other to be. It’s a well-worn concept, but Redenbacher makes it work with some truly inspired music. There’s nary a wasted note on The Tinkerer; Redenbacher makes every second count, and in the process shows off his many talents. “Frah Ken Steen” builds on the classic
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these girls rock. Trust me, every girl ever has wanted to be in an all-girl band and this group is a perfect example of why. It’s cool: let these songs make you feel good. This mix is working; you might be shocked that you don’t skip over any of these tracks. Everything, Now! contributes a totally rocking track, “Why Believe?” Look them up. All of Indiana should be proud to have produced Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s. Go to any country and the world and you’ll probably see signs for this band. They get around, and they satisfy. They’re #45 on a list of 46, and that may indicate that you will, for sure, make it all the way through this list, and you will be rewarded with nonstop excellent music, all from our little crossroads state. The final track, “One Way Ticket,” by Frank Glover, is a good reminder that jazz is alive and well in Indiana, as it has been for some time. This state is home to some tremendous jazz musicians; if you need a reminder, head to the Chatterbox on Mass Ave. just about any weekend of the year. Congratulations Indiana, you’re full of incredible music. — MICAH LING
“Frankenstein” riff that Q95 listeners know and love. From there, it turns into a sublime rap decree that hasn’t been seen since the days of Public Enemy. Instant classic. All through the album, Redenbacher brings his considerable production and DJ skills to the fore, mixing Fleetwood Mac, Sabbath, ELO and even Full Metal Jacket and Beavis and Butthead into a tough as leather soundscape. “It Comes and Goes” and “My Migraine” show off Redenbacher’s often overlooked R&B side. “Dunwiddit” and “The Funk” show off the best MC in the Midwest. The Tinkerer is already getting airplay on X103; “Iron Man Monster Factory,” which features a Nirvana sample turned into an industrial beat, blows away most anything else that station has in rotation. It’s “Shake” that should be the viral international blockbuster. It’s a exhilarating dance-floor stomper. It sounds like “Hey Ya”- era Outkast and “Kiss” - era Prince made a baby and that baby joined Cypress Hill and made a song. Redenbacher’s 10,000 hours of effort can be seen here in spades. If there is any justice in this world, The Tinkerer will be the soundtrack of the summer of 2012. -JEFF NAPIER
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SOUNDCHECK It’s an exciting time to be in Indianapolis. Over the next 14 days, the city will be filled with the rich, the famous, those famous for being rich, and of course, the almost 900,000 citizens of our fair city. There’s plenty to do and see, including an entire mini-village constructed on Georgia Street and an eleven day tent party at Sun King. We couldn’t possibly include all of the events happening in the city this week, so be sure to check out nuvo.net for more complete listings.
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SUPER CELEBRATION SITES There are 20 Super Celebration sites including Anderson, Bloomington, Broad Ripple, Carmel, Columbus, Fishers, Fountain Square, Greenfield, Greenwood, Franklin, Indiana Avenue, International Marketplace, Mass Ave., Keystone Crossing, Lafayette-West Lafayette, Muncie, Noblesville, Plainfield, Richmond, Shelbyville and Zionsville. We’ve got dozens of Super Bowl related events posted at all of these site online at nuvo.net.
Thursday
VARIOUS ARTISTS SUN KING LOCAL UNDERGROUND TENT OPENS Sun King Brewing Co., 135 N. College Ave. various times, various prices, 21+
For 11 days leading up to the Super Bowl, a heated, enclosed tent will keep attendees warm and the tunes loud.. Featuring Stereo Deluxe, Woodstove Flap Jacks, Mr. Kinetik and Rusty Redenbacher, Oreo Jones, Goliathon and many many more, Sun King is showing that Indy has more than its fair share of talented local musicians. The events are $5 before 5 p.m., and $10 after that time. No worries— there will be TVs everywhere, so you can keep tabs on the big game. You’ll nosh on snacks from Chef JJ’s Big Green Bistro while you do it. EDM ALTERED THURZDAZE WITH ANA SIA The Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave. 9 p.m., $5, 21+
Shy Guy Says, Mutiny, KYU-BIK will join San Francisco’s Ana Sia for a night of lasers and super-loud bass. Sia, who just released Surreal Estate on her own label, has trekked to Coachella, Lollapolooza, and the Electric Daisy Carnival. This dubstep queen has a personalized blend of “global slut psych-hop,” whatever that means. I think it means you’ll dance your pants off at this IndyMojo event.
Friday
BATTLE ROYALE SUPER BOLD BATTLE OF THE BANDS The Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave. 7 p.m., $5, all ages
This is one of the best deals in town for those looking to catch some of the Super Bowl glitz for an extremely low price. The first 300 people through the door with a college ID are free and all others are $5. The participators in the battle have already been decided, but the prize is still up for grabs. The top two winners of this battle will open for old school hip-hopper D.M.C. at a show later in the week, which will benefit House of Restoration Africa. VARIOUS ARTISTS SUPER BOWL VILLAGE OPENS
Super Bowl Village, Georgia St. and Meridian St Various times, free, all ages
The most pored-over piece of the Indy Super Bowl puzzle opens for business today. There will be ten straight days of free music, from progressive rock to hip-hop, jam and folk. The newly-overhauled Georgia Street is the new crown jewel of Indy’s Downtown. We’ve got interview with plenty of Super Bowl V illage performers, including Sixpence None the Richer, Fuel, O.A.R., Big Head Todd, Stereo Deluxe, and
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Ana Sia more. Over 65 artists and groups will take one of the two Super Bowl Village stages on either end of Georgia Street. LOUNGE THE HUDDLE AFTER HOURS Circle Center Mall, 130 S. Meridian Times vary, cover charges vary, 21+
This smoke-free dance club/ultra lounge was created specifically for the Super Bowl in the empty space left by Nordstrom’s in Circle Center. Super Bowl organizers have tricked out the space with a full bar, VIP section and full sound and light production. Some of NUVO’s favorite DJs will perform in the space regularly throughout the next several days, including DJ Indiana Jones, DJ Lockstar, DJ Action Jackson and DJ MetroGnome.
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With what began as a side project for Something Corporate’s frontman Andrew McMahon, Jack’s Mannequin has become a full-fledged band in their own right. Just months before the release of their debut album in 2005, McMahon was diagnosed with leukemia. He’s since made a full recovery and now helps run a charitable foundation for young adults diagnosed with cancer. CHRISTIAN THE ROCK AND WORSHIP ROADSHOW
Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St. 6 p.m., $10, all ages
This fourth annual Christian music tour will showcase bands MercyMe, Tenth Avenue North, LeCrae, Disciple, Hawk Nelson and more. Headliners MercyMe are worship music grandfathers. Together since 1994, this praise band logs up to 200 tour dates per year. SOUL SUPER SOUL CELEBRATION
Madame Walker Theatre Center, 617 Indiana Ave. 7 p.m., $36-$46, all ages
Soak up a tribute to some of the soul greats at this event, hosted by NUVO Jazz Notes guru Chuck Workman. The event includes tributes to Phyllis Hyman, Luther Vandross and Marvin Gaye (who was name-checked by D.M.C. in our music lead as that “sexy love guy.”) and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the historic Walker Theatre Center. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 01.25.12-02.01.12 // music
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Breakthrough: the butt-scanner! Plus, imminent gay takeovers
Anti-Theft ID Breakthrough: For people who become stressed when asked to prove their identities by biometric scans of fingerprints, hand prints or eyeballs, Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology has developed a chair frame that authenticates merely by sitting down: a butt-scanner. Professor Shigeomi Koshimizu’s device produces a map of the user’s unique derriere shape, featuring 256 degrees of pressure at 360 different points and could be used not only to protect vehicles from theft but also, when connected to a computer, to prevent log-ons by those with unauthorized posteriors.
Compelling Explanations
• Imminent Gay Takeovers: (1) Mayor Jose Benitez of Huarmey, Peru (population 16,000), speaking at the opening of a water works in November, warned residents about strontium in the water, which he said suppresses male hormones. He reminded residents that nearby Tabalosos, which is lately popular with gays and lesbians, shares the water supply and that Huarmey could turn gay, too. (2) A November report by Muslim scholars at Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council (Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala), presented to the Saudi legislature, warned that ending the ban on females’ driving would cause a surge in prostitution, pornography, divorce and, of course, homosexuality (and the scholars added that, within 10 years, the country would have “no more virgins”). • California state legislator Mary Hayashi of Hayward pleaded guilty in January to misdemeanor shoplifting. Police said she had walked out of a Neiman Marcus store in October with over $2,400 worth of unpaid-for merchandise, caused, said her lawyer, by a benign brain tumor that might have affected her decision-making. (Miraculously, and just in time for the legislative session, the tumor, said the lawyer, is “no longer affecting her concentration or her judgment.”)
Ironies
• Because this past Christmas fell on a Sunday, nearly one Protestant church in 10 in the U.S. reported having canceled Sunday services that day out of fear of low attendance, as parishioners remained at home with family. (The poll, by Lifeway Research, noted also that other churches, while not canceling, had left services to their second-string clergy.) • Retired sheriff Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. was arrested in November in a suburb of Denver and charged with distributing methamphetamine to men in exchange for sex. Sullivan, who had a distinguished career as Arapahoe County sheriff, was booked into the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Center, named for him after he retired in 2002.
• Eldon Alexander, 36, and Ms. Korin Vanhouten, 47, had two different encounters with Ogden, Utah, police on Dec. 15. First, they were issued misdemeanor citations after being accused of shoplifting at a WinCo Foods store. They were released and walked out to their car in the parking lot, but summoned the police when they discovered that while they were busy shoplifting, someone had broken into their car and stolen a stereo. (The shoplifted items were worth about $25, the stereo about $60.) • Sheriff’s deputies arrested novelist Nancy Mancuso Gelber, 53, in December in Bryan, Texas, after she had allegedly arranged a hit on her husband. (The “hit man,” of course, was an undercover officer.) Gelber said she had walked in on the husband romancing with one of her friends, and the couple were in the process of divorcing (complicated by his having removed her from his health insurance just as she was scheduled for expensive surgery). Gelber is the author of the 2010 “crime thriller,” Temporary Amnesia, and told the “hit man” that she was quite familiar with investigative procedures (though obviously poor at spotting undercover officers).
The Litigious Society
• Jesse Dimmick filed a lawsuit in Topeka, Kan., in October against Jared and Lindsay Rowley -- whom he has been convicted of kidnapping in a notorious 2009 episode that resulted in his being shot by police. Dimmick broke into the home and held the couple hostage at knifepoint, but now says that, during the siege, the couple made him an “oral contract,” “legally binding,” that they would help him hide if he would sometime later pay them an unspecified amount of money. According to the lawsuit, since Dimmick was subsequently shot (accidentally, said the Topeka police), his injuries were the result of the Rowleys breaching the contract to hide him safely. (Police, who had surrounded the home, arrested Dimmick when he fell asleep.) • The two men who heroically pulled a woman out of a burning car wreck in 2009, and surely (according to a highway patrol officer on the scene) saved her life, have sued the woman for the emotional and physical disabilities that resulted from the episode (brought to light in an August 2011 Associated Press report). David Kelley and Mark Kincaid not only stopped voluntarily to help, but were the only ones on the scene capable of pulling the woman to safety. (The fire was so hot that it melted Kelley’s cellphone.) Kelley said he has suffered serious breathing problems and cannot avoid horrific dreams reliving the episode. The woman, Theresa Tanner, subsequently admitted that she deliberately crashed the car that day in a suicide attempt. • Former 11-year-veteran police officer Louise McGarva, 35, filed a lawsuit recently, asking the equivalent of about $760,000, against the Lothian and Borders Police in Edinburgh, Scotland, for causing her posttraumatic stress disorder. Officer McGarva was attending a supposedly routine riot training session that got out of hand. She said she discovered that she had developed a debilitating fear of sirens and police cars.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The coming week is likely to be abnormally free of worries and frustrations. I’m afraid that means you’re not going to have as much right to complain as you usually do. Can you handle that? Or will you feel bereft when faced with the prospect of having so little to grumble about? Just in case, I’ve compiled a list of fake annoyances for you to draw on. 1. “My iPhone wont light my cigarette.” 2. “The next tissue in my tissue box doesn’t magically poke out when I take one.” 3. “I want some ice cream, but I overstuffed myself at dinner.” 4. “I ran out of bottled water and now I have to drink from the tap.” 5. “My cat’s Facebook profile gets more friend requests than me.” 6. “When people tell me I should feel grateful for all I have instead of complaining all the time, I feel guilty.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The state of California was named after a storybook land described in a 16th-century Spanish novel. The mythical paradise was ruled by Queen Calafia. Gold was so plentiful that the people who lived there made weapons out of it and even adorned their animals with it. Did the real California turn out to be anything like that fictional realm? Well, 300 years after it got its name, the California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 visitors who mined a fortune in the precious metal. Your assignment, Taurus: Think of the myths you believed in when you were young and the fantasies that have played at the edges of your imagination for years. Have any of them come true, even a little? I suspect that one may do just that in the coming weeks and months. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Bill Moyers’ DVD The Language of Life, poet Naomi Shihab Nye is shown giving advice to aspiring young poets. She urges them to keep an open mind about where their creative urges might take them. Sometimes when you start a poem, she says, you think you want to go to church, but where you end up is at the dog races. I’ll make that same point to you, Gemini. As you tune in to the looming call to adventure, don’t be too sure you know what destination it has in mind for you. You might be inclined to assume it’ll lead you toward a local bar for drinks when in fact it’s nudging you in the direction of a wild frontier for a divine brouhaha. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Renowned comic book writer Grant Morrison claims he performed a magic ritual in which he conjured the spirit of John Lennon, who appeared and bestowed on him the gift of a new song. I’ve heard Morrison sing the tune, and it does sound rather Lennon-esque. The coming week would be a good time for you to go in quest of a comparable boon, Cancerian: a useful and beautiful blessing bequeathed to you by the departed spirit of someone you love or admire. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” said Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.” I predict that sometime soon, Leo, you will prove that wisdom true. You will finally learn the brilliant question whose crucial answer you got years ago. When it arrives, you will comprehend a mystery that has been churning in the semi-darkness all this time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shedding is healthy -- not just for cats and dogs and other animals but also for us humans. Did you know that you shed thousands of particles of dead skin every hour? And just as our bodies need to shed, so do our psyches. I bring this up, Virgo, because you are in an unusually favorable phase to do a whole lot of psychic shedding. What should you shed exactly? How about some of these: old ideas that don’t serve you any more, habits that undermine your ability to pursue your dreams, compulsions that are at odds with your noble intentions, resentment against people who did you wrong a long, long time ago, and anything else you carry with you that keeps you from being fully alive
and radiant. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the price of freedom and aliveness is eternal shedding. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to research published in the journal Psychological Science, many people are virtually allergic to creative ideas. When asked to consider a novel proposal, they’re quite likely to reject it in favor of an approach that’s well-known to them. (More info here: tinyurl.com/3oor4nq.) This could be a problem for you in the coming weeks, Libra, since one of your strengths will be your ability to come up with innovations. So it won’t be enough for you to offer your brilliant notions and original departures from the way things have always been done; you will also have to be persuasive and diplomatic. Think you can handle that dual assignment? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away shadows,” said St. Francis of Assisi. I’m afraid that’s an overly optimistic assessment. In many circumstances, just one ray of light may not be sufficient to dispel encroaching haze and murk. Luckily for you, though, there will be quite an assortment of sunbeams appearing in your sphere during the com ing weeks. Here’s the complication: They won’t all be showing up at once, and they’ll be arriving in disparate locations. So your task will be to gather them all up and unite them so they can add to each other’s strength. If you do that successfully, you’ll have more than enough illumination to chase away any darkness that might be creeping around. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Elizabeth Alexander says that in order to create a novel, a writer needs a lot of uninterrupted time alone. Poems, on the other hand, can be snared in the midst of the jumbled rhythms of everyday chaos -- between hurried appointments or while riding the subway or at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew. Alexander says that inspiration can sprout like grass poking up out of the sidewalk cracks. Whether or not you’re a writer, Sagittarius, I see your coming weeks as being more akin to snagging poems than cooking up a novel. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A true poet does not bother to be poetical,” said the poet Jean Cocteau. “Nor does a nurser y gardener perfume his roses.” I think that’s wise counsel for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’s important that you do what you do best without any embellishment, pretentiousness, or selfconsciousness. Don’t you dare try too hard or thin k too much or twist yourself like a contortionist to meet impossible-to-satisfy expectations. Trust the thrust of your simple urges. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Collectors prefer wild orchids, says William Langley, writing in the UK’s Telegraph. Orchids grown in nurseries, which comprise 99.5 percent of the total, are tarnished with “the stigma of perfec tion.” Their colors are generic and their petal patterns are boringly regular. Far more appealing are the exotic varieties untouched by human intervention, with their “downy, smooth petals and moistened lips pouting in the direction of tautly curved shafts and heavily veined pouches.” Whatever your sphere or specialty is, Aquarius, I suggest you model yourself after the wild orchid collectors in the coming days. Shun the stigma of perfection. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): While doing a film a few years ago, actress Sandra Bullock stumbled upon a stunning secret: Rubbing hemorrhoid cream on her face helped shrink her wrinkles and improve her complexion. I predict that at least one and possibly more comparable discoveries will soon grace your life. You will find unexpected uses for things that were supposedly not meant to be used in those ways. Here’s a corollary, courtesy of scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, that describes a related talent you’ll have at your disposal: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody ha s seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
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