THIS WEEK JAN. 30 - FEB. 6, 2013 VOL. 23 ISSUE 46 ISSUE #1090
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ONE OF A KIND, FINE ART TATTOOING
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Getting an appointment at Voluta Tattoo is a process. The studio has no phone. The door is always locked, and walkins are forbidden. Six years ago, I waited months for my first appointment with Conan Lea, the owner and founder of Voluta. His studio is in the Stutz Business Center, in a single, high-ceilinged room the size of a spacious loft. It’s clean but not tidy, like the living room of a busy art professor. B Y EM M A F AESI C O V ER PHO T O O F C O N AN LEA’S W O R K IS SUB M IT T ED
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LEAVING TOWN
On Jan. 16, I received a phone call and an email I had been looking forward to for months. It was from a hiring manager at the large telecommunications company where I am employed, making me a formal job offer for a senior technical support position that I, and 700 other applicants, had applied for in November. I accepted the job.
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FIRST FRIDAY: MEET THE ARTISTS
Check out the 25th anniversary of Meet the Artists, The Indianapolis Public Library’s outstanding showcase for the state’s African-American artists. Titled “World Outside My Window: A Silver Soiree,” the show kicks off Friday from 5:45 p.m. with a gala reception featuring music by Staci McCrackin and the Euphony Band and Lamar Campbell and the Spirit of Praise Gospel Choir, a fashion show coordinated by designer Alpha Blackburn; and a reading by Indiana Fever center and children’s book author Tammy Sutton-Brown in the Learning Curve, just to name a few!
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THE BIRDS ARE WATCHING US
Tuesday at Butler, Marzluff, professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington, will share his remarkable research on corvids — crows, jays, ravens and magpies — trying to make sense of how creatures with a brain the size of your thumb can be so darn smart. BY JIM POYSER
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TITLE FIGHT AT THE HOOSIER DOME
Ned Russin, bassist and vocalist of Title Fight, is living the dream, touring around the country and playing in front of people. BY TAYLOR PETERS
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LETTERS “Obama fights back” Had to laugh. At one moment Hammer gushes about this part of the Inaugural Speech, “We cannot...treat name-calling as reasoned debate.” And then less than a dozen sentences later calls a group of Americans worried about our unsustainable debt accumulation, “...ignorant, gun-waving hillbillies...” I guess that knee-jerk reflex to hateful name-calling is just too hard to control, isn’t it Hammer? Kind of makes your whole commentary ‘unreasoned,’ at least according to our beloved president. With love for your humorous column,
— Parker King INDIANAPOLIS
Four more years of Odumbo - It’s like chemo, if it doesn’t kill us it just might cure us.
— Uh.And.Um NUVO.NET
“Ruminations of the Pence inauguration” Hammer, you should be so lucky. Pence will come up with some drivel like teaching creationism as science in Indiana schools and figuring out how to make incomes drop even more for the middle class. Get ready for mostly what you predict, nothing, occasionally interrupted by stupidity resulting in moving Indiana back into the 1800.
— “Indy Star” NUVO.NET
What’s the matter Stevie? Governor Pence didn’t invite you the party and the buffet? It really must rankle you that a Republican is in office again. I guess that Hoosiers aren’t so stupid after all. The only thing I’m surprised about is that you, the walking Heart-Attack waiting to happen, didn’t actually have one yet. Well I’m not too worried judging by your habits on the Circle. It can’t be far off. And when it does happen I will mourn. I won’t have someone so nutty to read and laugh at.
— Adam West NUVO.NET
“Mike Pence: Evangelical and Social Darwinist” I am utterly ashamed that I did not realize that Pence’s budget isn’t worth a “pence.” While I am usually more concerned with legal issues and less concerned with budgetary matters, Mr. John Krull has made it resoundingly clear that I should pay close
attention to budget concerns as well. It is rather troubling for me, who is a product of the inner-city public schools and is now an attorney, to see a governor intentionally disenfranchisizing struggling schools. I would assume that Governor “Dense” would provide more funds to struggling schools and less to those schools doing well. I anticipate the governor shall argue this is a merit-based distribution of funds; however, Mr. Krull is correct that this is social darwinism. (Mr. Krull, you rock! I loved your article and would be honored to meet you one day! Take care!)
— D.B.
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Nearly every idealogue is an “evangelical” — someone who tries to convert others to his views. So I’m not sure why to make an accent on his being an evangelical when in fact nearly every person — consciously or subconsciously — tries to make converts to his belief system. Just call him a conservative Protestant. But I agree that it seems inconsistent for a conservative Protestant to develop a funding formula that may disadvantage the poor.
— Nate NUVO.NET
About bicycle adventurer, Scott Stoll I would like to know if Scott is better off for his trip? Are you better off in terms of your health, your mind, and your finances? How many years did this consume of your life? How did this affect your relationships with your family and friends? In general, are you better off after your trip? And why land in Milwaukee, with all the places in the world you landed in Milwaukee, doesn’t make sense to me.
— Alex NUVO.NET
If you had any idea what the bike culture in WI was like you wouldn’t question his landing spot. It RULES the midwest. Why don’t you come tonight and ask him these questions in person!
— Trish NUVO.NET
Trish, I don’t live in Indiana ... Were my questions offensive. Maybe the book will answer these questions.
— Alex NUVO.NET
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HAMMER Lone Star State lures Steve Hammer Announcing a Texas transfer
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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET
n Jan. 16, I received a phone call and an email I had been looking forward to for months. It was from a hiring manager at the large telecommunications company where I am employed, making me a formal job offer for a senior technical support position that I, and 700 other applicants, had applied for in November. I accepted the job. As a result, this weekend I will board a plane and arrive in San Antonio, Texas, leaving behind Indianapolis, my beloved hometown, for a few years at minimum. I’ve signed so many non-disclosure agreements and deal with so much proprietary information at my job, some which would expose me to civil and even criminal penalties if disclosed. As a result, I’m not sure what I am legally allowed to say other than I will be a high-level technical support analyst in the network operations division of my company and, with overtime, could be looking at as much as a $70,000 a year raise over what I earn now. I’d turned down two such job offers in the last year. But with President Obama safely re-elected, and the economy picking up steam, accepting the offer and moving to Texas seems like the best move for me and my family at this time. As a result, after consultation with my NUVO family, I will cease writing this column by the end of March, at which time I hope to return to Indianapolis to celebrate my new life at a party with my friends, family and you, the readers who have meant so much to me over the past 20 years. Columnists of any kind rarely have a 20-year run in print media. Either they get fired or they take better jobs or they simply get burned out. I am proud of the fact that only a few writers in Indianapolis have equaled my two-decade stint in print — all of them legends. That degree of longevity puts me, by that measure only, in the same league as Dan Carpenter of The Indianapolis Star, Deb Paul of Indianapolis Monthly and my mentor and hero, the late Tom Keating, whose daily columns in The Star from the 1960s through the 1980s inspired me to become a writer and
have my own voice be heard. When I started doing this column in 1993, there weren’t very many unapologetically liberal or progressive voices in the local media of Indianapolis. And there certainly weren’t any outrageously provocative figures ready to challenge The Star’s conservative coverage or mock the Hoosier State’s pompous politicians. Sometimes my outrageousness cost NUVO readers and, just as importantly for any newspaper, advertisers. It is to Kevin McKinney’s credit that, as editor and publisher, he has never once censored any of the nearly 1,000 columns or 3,000 stories I’ve written for this newspaper. I still have eight more columns to write for NUVO, so this isn’t a goodbye. It’s just an announcement of breaking news in my life. I’m very excited to see what challenges San Antonio and my new position have in store for me. Being selected over so many applicants is humbling to me and I’m eager to start my life over in a new state, albeit a very scary and Republican one. I’ve watched the Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination enough to know how they treat liberals in Texas so I am rightly concerned for my safety. Since I’m no Jack Kennedy, I’m pretty confident that there are no Lee Oswalds laying in wait with the back of my skull visible in their rifle sights. Prior to my departure from the Indianapolis office of my company, I sent a lengthy email to my coworkers, some of whom are discouraged by working in an ever-changing environment for not a whole lot of money. To answer their most frequently asked question, I told them I don’t know why I was picked for this lucrative new job and they weren’t. I concluded the email with this thought, which, despite its excessive capitalization and boldface type, honestly reflects my views, not only about my job but about America — still the greatest country in the world in terms of freedom and opportunity: “If you play by the rules, act with integrity and show up to work every day, you WILL get a shot at a better life. Whether you make that shot depends on how well you’ve prepared for it. You are here because you were selected over of hundreds of other applicants who also wanted to work here. The company believes in you; it spent thousands of dollars training you. Your manager believes in you; his or her own job is dependent upon your doing well. Your friends, family and coworkers believe in you; they love you and want you to do well. The only other thing is to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.” I’ll have much more to say in the next eight weeks, but I’ll be doing so from San Antonio, Texas, where I’ll be busy at my new job and trying to turn the state Democratic. Until then, as always, thanks for reading and may God bless you all.
I will cease writing this column by the end of March.
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HOPPE Women in combat
The latest career option
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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET
ur country was founded through revolution. But the United States often seems more inclined to absorb change than embrace it. Take last week’s decision by the Pentagon to allow women in the armed forces to serve in combat roles. The announcement was described as “a watershed” and “monumental.” It was also seen as being inevitable — more a matter of getting in step with the drumbeat of history than an attempt at social engineering. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were reportedly unanimous in their support of the idea. Their recommendation was expected to have a number of consequences, including (among those that are intended) the opening of new job categories and the creation of greater opportunities for women to advance to senior levels of command. According to Anu Bhagwati, a former Marine captain and executive director of the Service Women’s Action Network, “Every time equality is recognized and meritocracy is enforced, it helps everyone, and it will professionalize the force.” There was a time, of course, when the idea of American women serving as combat infantry would have been considered ludicrous, if not downright impossible. Such reservations, though, were purely prejudicial and had little to do women’s actual capacity to fight. History, dating back to before the time of Christ, is rife with examples of women warriors. More recently, since 2000 A.D., women have been included in Israel’s fighting force. And American women have found themselves in the thick of the action on any number of occasions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some observers have wishfully suggested that integrating women into combat units will help change the military’s male-dominated culture. But, given the fact that men, in the persons of the Joint Chiefs, are the ones opening this door, it seems likely that their decision is based less on an expectation of change, than on a shared sense that the cultural status quo can be perpetuated, if not enhanced. In the 1970s, when women were entering the workforce in ever-increasing numbers, earning positions for themselves in previously male-dominated fields, like the law and financial services, as well as on corporate boards, there were more than a few optimists who thought this might be the start of a kind of revolution from within. Women were different, or so the thinking went. As they were more fully integrated into the workforce, America’s ways of
doing business couldn’t help but change in ways that would be liberating not just for women but for everybody. Women would temper competition, create more forgiving workplaces and inspire innovation. Heck, they’d even instill better ethics. Whatever. Not only did women not bring an end to the rat race, they actually seemed to kick it up a notch or two. It turned out that the measure of a woman’s effectiveness was not how much she could change a workplace, but how well she could fit in and, ultimately, beat men at their own games. While women have shown an ability to excel in virtually any field, very little about American workplaces has truly changed. On average, we still get less vacation time than workers in other industrialized nations. Paternity leave is still a sore point with many employers. And women still continue to make less than men holding the same or comparable jobs. What’s more, the rage for productivity has meant that fewer workers are now expected to devote more time to their jobs — or else. What’s a boss, even a woman boss, not to like about this state of affairs? Making combat available as a kind of career option to women begs another question, this one having to do with our continuing dependence on a volunteer fighting force. The idea of making military service an elective choice came into being after the draft debacle during the war in Vietnam. The draft, under which military service was supposedly the compulsory duty of every young, red-blooded American male, turned out to be a sham, a game in which only some were called, and even fewer chosen. Where, during World War II, the draft proved to be a great democratic leveler, stirring kids from all walks of life into a great martial stew, Vietnam exacerbated differences between races and classes through a system of deferments that blatantly favored the upwardly mobile. Rather than reform it, Americans opted instead for the voluntary scheme we have today. The results of this decision have created a kind of restless muttering just below the surface of our national consciousness. Wars now are fought in our name, but at a comfortable social distance, with little or no shared sacrifice. Instead of a military that blurs American class differences, we have one that has created a warrior class of its own. And so it follows that the ban on women in combat is finally being lifted. Whenever they have been given the chance, women have proven there’s no field in which they can’t succeed. Now that the military is one more option after high school, it seems unfair — and a waste of talent — not to give them a fighting chance. The Joint Chiefs aren’t dumb. They can see that when it comes to making war, putting women in the line of fire won’t change anything, except the gender of some of those we call heroes.
It seems unfair — and a waste of talent — not to give women a fighting chance.
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by Wayne Bertsch
HAIKU NEWS THUMBSUP by Jim Poyser THUMBSDOWN I attended the field hearing for IPL’s Harding upgrade plan the proposal: to improve pollution controls, reduce mercury plan will cost hundreds of millions of dollars passed onto ratepayers those in attendance didn’t think that was fair, nor do they support coal coal, while a cheap source of energy, is a source of greenhouse gases greenhouse gases are warming the earth, making the weather chaotic … acidifying oceans, intensifying invasive species… causing deeper droughts, more raucous rainstorms, and a melting Arctic Sea why can’t we progress into the future instead of mulling the past? this is our moment our time to tell kids we changed things for the better
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SUSTAINABLE LEGACY
The latest chapter in the ever-evolving story of sustainability in Indianapolis unfolded this week with the announcement that, with the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. will install 26 charging stations for the city’s expanding fleet of electric/hybrid plug-in vehicles at three of the city vehicle fleet locations. “IPL’s participation in our electric vehicle initiative is crucial to our plan to transition away from foreign-oil dependence and save about $12,000 over the life of each city vehicle,” Mayor Greg Ballard said in a news release announcing the gift, adding the stations will enable the city to begin its fleet upgrade with the goal be completely “post-oil” by 2025. Officials estimate that $1 will cover the cost of carrying one of the city’s all-electric vehicles for about 100 miles.
CULTIVATING FEAR
More than half of stalking victims do not report the crime, which, according to the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault, is defined as “any unwanted contact (including texts and harassment via social media) that communicates a threat or places the victim in fear.” The behavior — a crime in all 50 states — is highly correlated with more aggressive forms of abuse, including murder. One study found 76 percent of intimate partner femicide victims had been stalked by their murderer. Erik Scheub of INCASA told the Indiana News Service that stalking can be hard to identify and prosecute because it’s a series of events that instill fear. Technological advances further complicate the issue as stalkers increasingly rely on spyware, GPS and hidden cameras. Scheub advised victims to report stalking behaviors to the police and keep track of the incidents in an evidence journal. Resources for victims and advocates are available at stalkingawarenessmonth.org
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?
Cancers of the respiratory system killed more than 4,000 people in Indiana in 2010, according to the state health department’s most recent mortality report, which charts the state’s leading causes of death. Chronic lower respiratory diseases, such as emphysema, nabbed another 3,800 more. In fact, these two conditions were the state’s leading causes of death after heart disease. The American Lung Association of Indiana has thrown down the gauntlet: these issues must be surmounted one step at a time — literally. The annual Fight for Air Climb will have corporate, friends and family, and fire teams ascending the 768 steps (35 floors) of Downtown’s Regions Tower up to three times to raise money to support the nonprofit’s work. A postclimb party is planned at Tomlinson Tap Room. The first of nine free training classes begins this week at the National Institute for Fitness and Sports for registrants of any age and ability. For more information or to register, visit www.IndyFightForAir.org.
THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. Obama announces radical departure from normal U.S. foreign policy: Skip unnecessary military action in other people’s countries. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 01.30.13-02.06.13 // news
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news Court rules against WCI Foxhound Training Preserve
State action on penning appears unlikely
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hen the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Project Coyote and the Animal Welfare Institute asked the Marion Superior Court to consider the offseason possession of coyotes by the WCI Foxhound Training Preserve, the petitioners said they hoped the case would help lead to an end of the practice of penning in Indiana. Judge David Certo in November issued a default judgment against the nonprofit facility for illegal possession of coyotes during closed season, acknowledging that dogs had, on at least one occasion, killed a penned coyote. The practice of chasing an animal until it collapses of exhaustion and is subsequently mauled to death is a violation of the hunter’s code because the prey is confined and has no chance of escape, said John Melia, a California-based attorney who represented ALDF. But despite the judgment and ethical concerns, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources has taken no action against WCI, which is the only registered training facility of this kind in the state. Supporters say the purpose of penning is to train dogs to chase coyotes within a safe
Marriage amendment not priority
Bills linger in committee BY O L I V I A CO V IN G TO N E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T The Republican leaders of the Indiana House and Senate both said a constitutional same-sex marriage ban is not on their list of priorities for this year’s legislative session. Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, on Thursday told reporters he has not decided whether the pro-
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area, without trespassing and without fear of their dogs being hit by vehicles. “The DNR has not received any complaints against WCI, other than those filed through this lawsuit or the rule-making process,” said Phil Bloom, an IDNR spokesman. The DNR issues field trial permits for sanctioned field trials at the facility, which borders the state-owned Hillenbrand Fish and Wildlife Area. Richard “Red” Bedwell, co-owner of WCI, said that the coyotes “come and go through holes in the fence” and are not therefore technically possessed. Coyotes can climb his six-foot-tall welded wire fence, but “animal rights people” keep cutting holes in his fence, forcing continuous patching jobs, Bedwell added. He said he was bewildered with the judgment and accusations of unsporting activities, claiming coyotes aren’t killed. “I don’t understand it,” he said. “If we were doing something wrong, I’d understand. If we were doing what they claimed, I’d be right there with them.” But possessing wildlife without a permit in the off-season is unlawful, Judge Certo said. “Portions of the fence not adjacent to trees are buried underground so coyotes cannot dig under the fence and escape into the wild,” Certo noted in his judgment. Further negating claims the coyotes are free to leave by climbing the fence, he added that the fence is reinforced by a single-line electric wire at the base, which is activated even when field trials are not taking place. Certo also noted that, within the fenced perimeter, the facility features a 50-by-50-foot holding pen for holding coyotes purchased from trappers. Bedwell said that local farmers support WCI. “They call and want us to come,” he said. “Coyotes are killing their calves. Farmers expect us to kill coyotes, not just hear dogs bark.” He added that the state helps by supplying road kill to feed the coyotes, noting “DNR backs us 100 percent.” The DNR’s Bloom denied that the agency posed amendment will get a vote this year - and then dismissed the issue. “Anybody have a real question, an important question?” he said. Two measures seeking to amend the Indiana constitution to ban same-sex marriage, civil unions or similar legal statuses were introduced in the House - including one by Rep. Woody Burton, R-Whiteland, and one by Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero. Bosma sent them both to the House Judiciary Committee. “All we’ve done is assign (the amendment) to committee as required, so our focus is on career development,” Bosma said. Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, has assigned an identical measure to his chamber’s Judiciary Committee, but he said his caucus also has not yet discussed how it will handle the amendment. “It’s not the highest priority, obviously,” Long said. The two leaders’ lack of interest in a
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Lawmakers push to legalize raw milk sales by Tyler Gribbons Dickson delivers his first State of the Judiciary by Tyler Gribbons House leaders join forces for job skills bill by Jesselyn Bickley
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STATE OF JUDICIARY: BY THE NUMBERS In the past decade, the state’s courts have considered almost 2 million criminal and civil cases filed. Of these, the Court of Appeals and the Tax Court decided appeals on about 2,400. Of the cases appealed, 40% proceeded to the Indiana Supreme Court. Between these and other cases submitted for consideration, the Supreme Court considered about 1,100 cases and issued 90 full, written decisions. 315 trial judges, 92 full-time magistrates, 63 full-time and part-time commissioners and referees, nine smallclaims judges, 70 city and town court judges, and 21 appellate judges and their staffs accomplish this work. PHOTO BY SHAWN MCCREADY VIA FLICKR
Officials do not appear too worried about coyote penning, though ethical concerns remain.
provided such support. “Generally speaking, the DNR is supportive of anyone who abides by the rules and regulations spelled out in Indiana Code and Indiana Administrative Code that pertain to DNR’s scope of responsibilities,” he said. Regarding the lack of action on WCI’s off-season killing of wildlife, Bloom offered no comment. Melia said he believes that “penning would be over if the DNR properly applied the possession regulations.” But, he added, he thinks anti-penning legislation is the ultimate answer. Thirty-nine states have already outlawed running pens. In 2011, State Rep. Linda Lawson, D-Hammond, and Rep. David Cheatham, D-North Vernon, introduced legislation to stop penning. House Bill 1135 would make the practice a Class C Misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine or 60 days in jail. The bill did not emerge from its assigned House committee. same-sex marriage ban is a departure from previous sessions - especially in the Senate, where Republicans have repeatedly approved such a ban in recent years. In 2004, Bosma declared a constitutional same-sex marriage ban “the most critical piece of the people’s business.” He led House Republicans, who were then the minority party, in a walk-off after thenDemocratic Speaker Pat Bauer of South Bend refused to allow a vote. The proposed amendment was approved by both the House and the Senate in 2011. That was the first move in a three-step process. The exact same amendment must win passage in the House and the Senate again in either 2013 and 2014. Then, voters would have the final say in a November 2014 public referendum. At least one faith-based group is encouraging lawmakers to let the iniative die. Upon HJR6’s filing and assignment to the
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More than 3,000 Court-Appointed Special Advocates serve the interests of more than 18,000 children involved in abuse and neglect cases in 73 counties. 54 problem-solving courts to better address the root causes of crimes and issues in cases involving veterans, drugs, re-entry, mental health and children in need of services. 12 news special-needs cases are expected to open in 2013. Almost 100 court interpreters work statewide to facilitate the courts’ work with people who have limited English proficiency. 692 people admitted to practice law in 2012, bringing the state’s total number of attorneys to 18,228. In 1986, criminal cases represented 93% of the docket. In 2012, criminal cases represented 37% of the docket following constitutional changes expanding the court’s jurisdiction. Bullet points pulled from Chief Justice Brent Dickson’s first State of the Judiciary Address, delivered Jan. 23, 2013.
House Judiciary Committee, The Interfaith Coalition on Nondiscrimination issued a statement that its members were “disappointed and saddened that elected officials have filed this discriminatory bill.” With a membership including churches, synagogues, clergy leaders, and individuals “who embody a rich diversity of faith traditions mirrored in every Indiana county,” the group said: “We do not demand adherence to one particular view of God, and we firmly believe our state ought to show the same justice and respect. Changing the Constitution to legalize one view of marriage (a religious rite) is detrimental to all of us.” Olivia Covington is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news service powered by Franklin College journalism students and faculty. NUVO added the interfaith coalition’s comments.
Time to start the tough love by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz Bosma frustrated with marriage amendment by Lesley Weidenbener Perspectives in Education: Tarrey Banks
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Because Ideas MatterRecommended Readings by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America Cameron McWhirter, St. Martin’s, 2011 Reviewed by John Ramsbottom Who under the age of 30 can say what the title NAACP stands for? Not only is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (founded 1909) too easily overlooked today, its early history seems to coincide with a period of defeat for black Americans. The main effect of Cameron McWhirter’s deeply felt narrative is to remind us that, given the entrenchment of Jim Crow in the South and pervasive discrimination in the North, the precedent set by the NAACP at the end of World War I was essential to ensuring a different outcome in the wake of World War II. During the summer of 1919, violence on a scale not seen since the Civil War was visited on communities across the United States, from Texas to Washington, D.C. Abetted by the ongoing campaign against “Red” subversives, white mobs targeted black neighborhoods; the difference now was that ordinary citizens, many of them veterans, armed themselves and fought back. Leaders of the NAACP, both white and black, tirelessly crisscrossed the country, building the total membership to nearly 100,000 while defending blacks falsely accused of “massacring whites.” Although circumstances varied, one factor was constant—the reluctance of officials, including President Wilson, to intervene. Citing the toll of lynchings and destruction over a few months, McWhirter argues convincingly and in harrowing detail that, without a national organization dedicated to denouncing racial injustice, the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s could well have failed in the face of local hatreds and political indifference. — John Ramsbottom is visiting professor of global and historical studies at Butler University.
Go to www.butler.edu/BookReview for more recommendations by the faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University.
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Conan Lea works on a long-time client at his Stutz Business Center-based Voluta Studio.
A LOOK INSIDE CONAN LEA’S VOLUTA TATTOO BY EMMA FAESI EDITOR S@N UVO. NET
etting an appointment at Voluta Tattoo is a process. The studio has no phone. The door is always locked, and walk-ins are forbidden. Six years ago, I waited months for my first appointment with Conan Lea, the owner and founder of Voluta. His studio is in the Stutz Business Center, in a single, highceilinged room the size of a spacious loft. It’s clean but not tidy, like the living room of a busy art professor. Lea dresses casually, T-shirt and ink-spattered jeans shrugged over a tall, strong frame. I remember how gracious he was when I walked in for our first session. He takes your coat as you enter, asks you what you want to listen to, offers water and tea. For a dude in the tattoo industry, his body is barely modified: just a labret piercing and two handspansized tats, one on each arm. The lighting is velvetydim, save for the bright tattoo lamps that light his clients. Lanterns hang along a wall of windows; paintings sit on easels; art and anatomy books spill out of the shelves. The floor is the color of toasted almonds; the walls are deep turquoise and muted orange, with accent colors swirling and blending together. They’re hung with larger-than-life canvas prints of Lea’s work. There are dozens of them, each one unique. Lea only does custom, fine art tattoos; no two pieces will ever be alike. The prints all contain a hint of the person wearing the tattoo (known as the collector in the industry): the tilt of a chin, half of a grin, an earring, a lightly flexed bicep. The sole way to get in touch with him is via email, which he checks for a total of fifteen minutes each day. The emails he doesn’t get to within a week, he erases. When you send him one, you receive an auto-response explaining this system, which is his way of declaring what he calls “email bankruptcy.” An automatic message explains: “I was answering 25 hours of email per month! Trying my best to answer everyone helped no one.” One client piqued his interest by asking him to reproduce an abstract painting by her grandmother. Another got his attention by showing him an
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Lea adjusts the music, lights and temperature of his studio to the needs of each client. (above); Some of Lea’s first awards were for his supermodels and pinups. (below)
XX-ray, which he used to inspire a depiction of the surgical instrud mentation supposedly under m the t wearer’s skin. I convinced Lea to be my artist by offering him a job that another tattoo artist said would be impossible: a colorful spiral galaxy. He typically works with three out of five clients with whom he meets. By the time I finally got in the door and under the gun (industry lingo for the tattoo machine), I felt like a member of a very exclusive club. That’s the way he likes it. His studio has been called the best in Indianapolis by bloggers and reviewers. Jason of uncrate.com said, “Conan Lea L and his staff are all artists, painters-illustrators-sculptors. p They transfer all their experience Th into creating a custom piece of art…Go nowhere else.” Ask him art… about the high praise, and he’s quick abou defer: “No. I’m going on record. to de Monte [Agee]’s the best.” Agee has been tattooing in Indianapolis for 15 years and curIndian works out of Altered Image rently w on the South side. He says he Tattoo o flattered but doesn’t “believe anyis flattere one could really be called the best.” together briefly, shortly The two worked w to Indianapolis. after Lea moved m “Conan iis a great artist,” Agee told I worked with him, and me. “Even when w he’d only been be tattooing for a few years, he showed a lot of talent.” portfolio is atypical; one will have to Lea’s portfo
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look elsewhere for kanji, tribal dragons, barbedwire armbands, hearts-and-daggers or Looney Tunes characters. Some of his tattoos look like watercolor paintings brushed on skin, with soft lines that coil along the body. Others like richlysaturated pastel drawings, or leap off the flesh with the crispness of pen-and-ink. A garden scene lit by a glowing full moon spreads across a woman’s back; a bright-white Celtic-style knot pattern that seems to hover over the wearer’s skin. A man’s chest becomes a snakeskin; giant peacock feathers gracefully curve around a torso. Fiery limbs blend into swirls of air and water, tricks of depth and movement find an American flag enveloping a man’s entire arm and colorful chakras kiss a spine. Lea’s life has been a soap opera lately. Just prior to boarding the plane home from a family vacation last August, he learned that three of his four apprentices had left his shop to start their own. Lea was devastated and furious: “I just want to know what I did wrong.” Lea’s boyish face and bright blue eyes show weariness beyond his forty years as he talks about what he perceives as a betrayal. The way he tells it, he took in three young Indy natives who had never held a tattoo gun and taught them to be world-class tattoo rock stars making $125 an hour through unheard-of paid apprenticeships. He stopped taking new clients so their appointment books would fill up with people seeking him. He spent time, money, and trust. As they neared the end of their apprenticeship, he asked them to step up their game and submit to a quarterly reviewing process. Then they left. The bio on his website admits he’s hard to work for, and that he demands a lot of his apprentices. I contacted the three former apprentices, who declined to comment, but thanked me for my interest. All three continue to cite their apprenticeships with Conan Lea; one artist’s bio describes the apprenticeship as “rich and reward-
ing.” Lea’s August 2012 posts to social media and the Voluta website accuse the apprentices of stealing the studio’s client database. Lea takes himself and his work very seriously, but if a man you’ve just met is going to make a change to your body that cannot be easily erased, it doesn’t hurt for him to have a heart surgeon’s sense of gravity about the situation. “I get to become a permanent part of you,” he said. “When you get undressed at night and your mate looks at your skin and my tattoo, they’re looking at me and my work.”
From boot camp to ink slinging
Raised in Oxford, Ohio, by a Marine and a tough-as-nails mother, Lea didn’t consider tattoos or tattooing in his childhood and teen years. Oxford is a small college town outside of Cincinnati and Lea grew up loving nature, animals and art. He signed up for the Marines at age 17, leaving for boot camp three days before his high school graduation, and served for six years. Desert Storm broke out right after his stint in boot camp. Part of his service involved collecting body parts and personal effects from fallen soldiers so their remains could be sent home. It’s a life he’s long left behind: “I do all I can to not be a Marine anymore,” he said. He’s consciously trying to raise his two daughters without fear or anxiety: “I don’t want to fear-parent. I don’t need to be tough.” There was a three-year period in between the end of Lea’s military career and the start of his tattoo career. “I was trying to find what I was going to do next in life,” he said. “I tried selling cars. I was terrible at it. I couldn’t find anything I was passionate about and tattoo was like lightning in my hand.”
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One of the author’s tattoos is the center photo in the above spread of tattoo art by Lea.
His first tattoo as a tattoo artist was a Taurus bull. “It looks like a donkey with horns,” he said with a wideopen laugh. “It’s really bad.” He started slinging ink as an amateur when his Marine buddies, impressed with the drawings he did in his free time, talked him into it, put the equipment in his hands and offered to be guinea pigs. “I am responsible for way too many poorly done lower back tattoos,” he said, laughing. “Men get them too, you know.” Getting an apprenticeship in a working shop is the first step to becoming a legitimate tattoo artist. “You have to pay your way in,” Lea said. “Tattoo gives you access to the big four that everybody wants: money, popularity, status, and power. The guys at the top are protecting it. It’s an old-world trade and it has to be handed down.” Lea says he went shop-to-shop in Cincinnati with his fine-art portfolio of colored pencil and graphite drawings — and got laughed out of most tattoo parlors. He eventually met Adam Bruce, who took him under his wing in 1999 for an apprentice fee of $5,000, the standard at the time. It was a year-long, “traditional roughneck apprenticeship,” as he put it, involving everything from cleaning the toilets to wiping the counters in the front room. Tattoo is the only art form that invariably involves blood, and tattoo artists (Lea being the exception) are generally a rough bunch. After earning the trust of his mentor, an apprentice is allowed to make patterns, which are the guidelines the artist transfers on to skin as a road map to the tattoo. At the next stage, an apprentice is allowed to tattoo an orange, banana or pigskin. None of those surfaces are anything like a breathing, squirming human, but at least it puts a tattoo gun in an apprentice’s hands, according to Lea. Eventually, Lea was allowed to bring in friends willing to undergo his early ink ministrations. He worked up to doing a handful of tattoos in a day. He built his portfolio by running down to a one-hour photo at the end of his sessions and developing the five to seven photos he took, wasting the rest of the roll, and sticking them in a photo album. He still has his first book, but when I told him I wanted to see it, he smiled and said, “Yeah. It’s something to see, all right.”
A mosquito-like touch
Lea moved to Indiana when his ex-wife got a job in Columbus. He founded Voluta in 2006 after bouncing around a few Indianapolis and Columbus tattoo parlors, including New Breed, Sacred and Skeleton Crew. Like any artist, he craved his own space, and he was tired of the vibe of most shops, where there was constant hustle, bright lights, loud music and a crowd milling around the lobby. Voluta Tattoo is different. Lea adjusts the music, lights and temperature for a client. His eyes stay fixated on your tattoo once he begins, although he can maintain a conversation and work at the same time. He has a light touch that feels more like being bitten by mosquitos than being stabbed with needles. James Flynn, who has been a client of Lea’s since 2001, collecting everything from black tribal designs to a colorful octopus, said, “He’s always attuned to your mood and your level of pain or discomfort. He treats customers like life-long friends, so it’s a personal experience, not just a business transaction.” Margot Finn, who travels from Ann Arbor, Mich., to see Lea, has a large, complex fractal design covering most of her back. “He built the design in layers to get the effect of patterns repeating from the smallest level to the largest ,” Finn said. “He managed to capture the randomness of fractals by creating a design that isn’t entirely predictable or symmetrical.” Finn got to know Lea well enough to invite him to her wedding. He couldn’t make it, but he dropped off two paintings as a wedding gift the next time he was in Michigan. All of the clients I spoke with see Lea not just as a tattoo artist, but as a friend, and view their relationship as a collaboration. Lea is an anti-marketing marketing genius. His clients receive individualized care and attention, and they go out in the world and share their experience. “You do one good tattoo and ten people will want you to tattoo them,” he said. Kat Borgelt (she of the fierylimbed tree) waited two years for a tattoo from Lea, and she didn’t mind a bit. Her first email to him said, “I’m not e-mailing to schedule an appointment, but to say thank you. Thank you for finally ending my search for the perfect studio.”
I hadn’t heard all the hype when I first reached out to Lea. Voluta was just barely open, and I surprised to find the studio had an email-only policy, though I appreciated it after getting tattooed. It was nice to have my Lea’s full attention, uninterrupted by phone calls or random visitors showing up unannounced, asking you if it hurts, asking your artist how much it would cost for a cover up. Lea still has one apprentice learning the craft under him: his “wife,” Michele, an adorable, nononsense blonde with creamy skin and clear, playful eyes. They’re not technically married, but they might as well be. She has a strong right brain, an easy rapport with his daughters, and she isn’t shy about putting her foot down. Teaching her is easy and natural for Lea. Michele takes her work seriously, and she’s gotten good at it. I ask Conan Lea at what point in his career he began to consider himself “good.” He paused, glancing to the ceiling: “Just now, I think.” He’s finally in a place where he feels like he can grow. The most recent bout of drama with his apprentices has liberated him; since he’s not putting all of his energy into being a mentor, he’s free to focus on himself as an artist. Lea is scheduled to be at the Motor City Tattoo Expo in Detroit in February, the Paradise Tattoo Artist Retreat in Albuquerque in March, the Hell City Tattoo Fest in Ohio in April, and the Amsterdam Tattoo Convention in the Netherlands in May. On the home front, he has plans to invite big-name tattoo artists he admires — names like Jeff Gogue, Timothy Boor, David Cordon, Bob Tyrrell, and Jo Harrison — to hold guest chairs in his studio. He dreams that Indianapolis could become the hub of the tattoo world. “I want Voluta to have a cluster effect,” he said. “You go to L.A. to become an actor because of the cluster effect; that’s where it’s all happening. My intention is to electrify this place. I need artists to inspire me now. Painters, illustrators.There’s a movement and I love the p eople in it and we’re going to explode.”
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A First Friday smorgasbord, clockwise from top left: Jerome Chambers, “Control for Book” and D. DelReverda-Jennings, “Hypnotiqu e” at Meet the Artists; Courtland Blade, Black Light at Harrison Gallery; Mark Lee, “Ian and Ambrose” at Indy Indie; and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie at iMOCA.
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It’s a good week for art not made by old white guys, starting from the 25th anniversary of Meet the Artists, The Indianapolis Public Library’s outstanding showcase for the state’s African-American artists. Titled World Outside My Window: A Silver Soiree, the show opens Friday at the Central Library and features Eric Shelton, Jerome W. Chambers, D. DelReverdaJennings, Brittany Tate, Michele Wood and Michael Gillespie. A gala reception for the show will take place Feb. 9 featuring music by Staci McCrackin and the Euphony Band and Lamar Campbell and the Spirit of Praise Gospel Choir; magic by Walter King, the Spellbinder of Magic; poetry by Kadeisha Ricks, the ever-beautiful Tasha Jones and Gabrielle Peterson; a fashion show coordinated by designer Alpha Blackburn; and a reading by Indiana Fever center and children’s book author Tammy Sutton-Brown in the Learning Curve. The Harrison Center for the Arts is also devoting its Harrison Gallery this month to the work of Indy-based AfricanAmerican artists, including Courtland Blade, Bruce Armstrong, Lobyn Hamilton, Mike Graves and LaShawndra Crowe. Called Black Light, the show is, as usual, just one of many in the Harrison space this month; Gallery No. 2 has 48 portraits (underexposed) by Samuel Levi Jones and the City Gallery has Brian Allee’s found object assemblages. And now to the city’s Latin-American community: opening Friday at the Athenaeum ArtSpace, Al Sur de la Frontera (South of the Border) realizes the visions of two Latin-American artists,
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Daniel Del Real and Eduardo Luna, who last year formed the organization NOPAL in 2012 to promote Latin-American culture through art and music. Their show will feature more than 10 artists along with music by Los Semilleros and the DJ El Cameron Electronico, host of Espanglish Night, at the Melody Inn. And wait, there’s more: this month’s iMOCA show will, in part, explore issues of Native American identity by ex- and re-appropriating images originally taken mostly by old white guys. Turn to pg. 16 for more on Jose De Gregorio, who will occupy the middle room of iMOCA. For now, we’ll talk about Native American artist Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie’s Double Vision, presented in partnership by iMOCA and the Eiteljorg, and featuring vintage photographs (late 19th and early 20th century) of Tuskegee and Dine tribes that have been reprinted and altered by Tsinhnahjinnie. The photos were originally printed on a small scale as photo cards, stereopticons and cabinet cards. For the show, she digitally altered the images by adding colors foreign to the photo’s original sepia color scheme, then printed them at a much larger size (up to five feet tall) and on a shiny fabric material instead of paper, so that, according to an iMOCA press release, the people in the photos take on a certain life as they billow from the wall. Tsinhnahjinnie was selected in 2003 for the Eiteljorg’s prestigious Native American Fine Art Fellowship. Now a quick roundup of the rest, on a particularly busy First Friday. Gallery 924 has C. Thomas Lewis’s From Now On, a video mapping project exploring climate change through five projections on five surfaces, one of which is a 14-foot oncelive maple tree. Lewis’s video work was last seen at TURF, where his installation consisted of video maps of eyes and spirals. Down the block at Indy Indie Art Gallery,
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love is the topic of the day — or LOVE, as the show’s title has it — considered by a group of artists including Carla Knopp, Cassie Kerns, Brian Fick, Pamela Bliss and (NUVO photographer) Mark Lee. Over at the Vonnegut Library, Iraq war veteran Malachi Murphy will exhibit art made on what he calls “combat paper,” homemade paper made from military uniforms. Murphy is the manager of the Under the Hood Cafe at a GI Outreach Center outside of Fort Hood; he says that he decided to opt out of volunteering for another tour of duty (his third) only after discovering that he could write and make art. Heading over to Fountain Square, Heartland’s office/screening space will present Jonathan Frey’s Heartland Film Festival award-winning short film Kipp Normand, about the titular found object artist. The film will screen approximately every 15 minutes between 6 and 10 p.m., with both Frey and Normand in attendance, and popcorn available for purchase. Primary Gallery has Ways To Be a Mountain by Herron instructor Amory Abbott, who has returned to the fine art world after working in tattoo design and book illustration. SpaceCamp MicroGallery has The Problem with Men by photographer Justin Clifford Rhody, an itinerant artist and musician who makes his home in an ‘87 Volvo, according to a recent vice.com slideshow of his work. And over at the Circle City Industrial Complex, Todd Matus will exhibit We Study War, a collection of photos of the Indiana War Memorial, while Carla Knopp will try to sell off the remainder of the late Greg Brown’s work at a “mega-thrift” art show. All work will be available for between $10$20, with all proceeds headed to Gleaner’s Food Pantry, and all work available for no charge on the sale’s closing day (Feb. 9).
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It was a bit of surprise when Chuck Klosterman was named the new writer of The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist column in June 2012. In part, because he’s a writer known for defending the indefensible (Billy Joel, Poison, Vanilla Sky), someone given to pondering on whether or not Motley Crue will, in the hindsight of history, finally get the respect they just might deserve — and the advice columnist weighing in on ethical dilemmas is often called upon to make a clear-cut decision in the present. But mostly it was a surprising choice because one expects that column to be a bit staid and dull, living as it does in the sort of Op-Ed climate of the Times that continues to give column space to stultifying, predictable and often mendacious guys like Thomas Friedman and David Brooks. So, thank you, Chuck Klosterman, for gunning for the post, and for this rather compelling argument on why advice columns should exist: “This seems like the most interesting job possible. It examines actual problems and asks straightforward questions about how people should or should not live. It directly engages with the world of ideas, and it seems simultaneously objective and subjective.” Klosterman will open the Vivian S. Delbook Visiting Writers Series Thursday; also on the calendar are novelist Jennifer Egan (March 20) and poet Albert Goldbarth (April 1). 7 p.m. @ Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University; free and open to the public; butler.edu
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Jose Di Gregorio’s TrA @ iMOCA When NUVO last profiled Jose Di Gregorio, it was 2004, and he was a Herron student interested in Karaoke, provocation and absurdity. His crowning achievement may well have been his Karaoke Box, a wooden box with room enough for Di Gregorio to sit and perform songs on a bullhorn for a dollar donation while hidden from the public eye. Benefactors were also rewarded with a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. “It wouldn’t necessarily be the song you requested,” he said in the 2004 piece, which noted that “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Sunglasses at Heart” were among the ‘80s ballads in his repertoire. Di Gregorio left Indy after graduating with a BFA in 2006, then made a stop to teach English in South Korea before moving to Sacramento to raise a family. He returns to Indy this week with TrA, an installation at iMOCA consisting of ten mandala-esque “celestial portals” mounted on the walls of a room painted entirely black. Inspired by a trip to a science museum with his daughters, the piece is, in part, Di Gregorio’s effort to translate the planetarium experience to a small room with four walls — and to, in particular, conjure up that moment when a sky full of stars is, at the flick of a switch, overlaid with a network of connect-the-dots lines that define the constellations. TrA is the abbreviation for Triangulum Australe, a relatively tiny, triangular, threestar constellation with which Di Gregorio became obsessed following his visit to the planetarium. TrA is essentially a sciencebased effort, and Di Gregorio
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calls himself a proud “atheist or humanist,” though he does subscribe to some of the ideas associated with a traditional mandala, notably the Net of Indra, which maps the concept of eternal return on a sort of celestial spider’s web: “When I read what the Net of Indra is I think that it makes perfect sense: the notion of interpenetration, that all phenomena is interconnected,” he told me last week. “I can dig that, but overall, it’s not a spiritual experience for me.” At the same time, his work is as much about, to paraphrase, just doing the work and seeing where it ends up. “How many lines can I put in a circle?” he said he asks as he creates a “portal.” “How many lines can I put so that it becomes so saturated that you can’t even see through it?” His ten portals progress in complexity from the first disc, which has no diametrical lines; to the second, which has two; to the tenth, which is, as he puts it, saturated with lines to the point that “it’s just madness” to try to draw out patterns. But while Di Gregorio can talk geometry and spirituality if you’d like, he remains something of showman, a guy who wants to provoke you in one way or another. His hope is that his installation is “imposing,” such that “you walk in and it’s so black that black is saturating every bit of light.” iMOCA Executive Director Shauta Marsh (who, incidentally, authored that 2004 profile of Di Gregorio for NUVO) told Di Gregorio last week that the room, after having been painted entirely black in preparation for his arrival, had become “heavy metal.” Di Gregorio answered, “Fuck yes, heavy metal! Can you have a better show than Heavy Metal Planetarium?” — SCOTT SHOGER
Feb. 1-March 16 (opening reception Feb. 1, 6-11 p.m, with Di Gregorio in attendance) @ 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 5; in conjunction with Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie’s Double Vision; indymoca.org
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Q Artistry’s Grendel @ Irvington Lodge Grendel — the most formidable opponent Beowulf faces in an Old English epic poem you probably had to read in, say, 10th grade — is said to be descended from Cain, and like with Cain (or any other Biblical character for that matter), one can spend an awful lot of time and effort in filling in the blanks of the story, with greater or lesser fidelity to the original, offering creative glosses, interpretations, illustrations and whatnot. It’s impossible to say what Grendel was even supposed to
look like, according to the original text — was it a dragon that walked like a human? or a Berserker, the Norse equivalent of a PCP-addled maniac? In John Gardner’s 1971 retelling of the legend, Grendel, the titular character becomes a misunderstood creature coping with the big questions of the world and finding his fellow creatures — including his mute mother (of Grendel’s mother fame) and a pernicious, nihilistic dragon — of very little help. Q Artistry’s Grendel is based on a script by local playwright Joanna Winston (who has also adapted another foundational legend, Gilgamesh), which was in turn based on Gardner’s novel. Jonah D. Winston will play Grendel. Feb. 1, 8-9, 15-16 at 8 p.m. @ 5515 E. Washington St.; tickets $17 general admission, $15 senior and student; qartistry.org
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Permit me, your friendly A&E editor, to use this column for a petty complaint. To that woman who brought her annoying, chatty kid to last year’s awesome Meridian Song Project concert of Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters: Now when I think of that concert, which was great and consistent with the high quality and adventurousness of singer/arts administrator/radio host Steven Stolen’s project, a lot of what I remember is someone going to the trouble of bringing
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to new music and cross-genre fertilization. The residency will effectively begin this weekend with the world premiere of New Amsterdam co-director William Brittelle’s Dunes, written by Britelle during a visit to Death Valley last year. Videographer Stephen S. Taylor filmed Britelle while he created and did research for the piece; the results can be viewed below and will be shown during the ISO’s pre-concert Words on Music program. Dunes is only one of four pieces on this weekend’s program; also on the bill is Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, performed by Emmanuel Ax, playing for the first time with the ISO in more than a decade; Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration; and Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini. Feb. 1, 8 p.m.; Feb. 2, 5:30 p.m.; tickets $20-75 (discounts available); indianapolissymphony.org your kid an activity bag, an act which failed to communicate the hint that you might want to remove your kid from that quiet sanctuary so we all could enjoy and focus on those dense songs. Just saying. Though Stolen’s project may make its home outside a theater setting (in the Trinity Episcopal Church), it’s theater/cabaret/concert hall-quality work, and a kind of delightful waltz through Stolen’s back pages, a la his eclectic WFYI radio show, Stolen Moments. This month’s program will feature songs by Benjamin Britten (in his centenary year), with American folk songs in the mix. And to be sure, it’s not at all a stuffy occasion; your kid is certainly welcome if he keeps quiet, and the same goes for any of your friends. 7:30 p.m. @ 3243 N. Meridian St., free, facebook.com/meridiansongproject 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 01.30.13-02.06.13 // go&do
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Forgiveness workshop @ Indiana Interchurch Center FREE
It’s a question every country is likely to face in the aftermath of a civil war or any significant strife: How can people who have just met on the field of battle — be that a literal or figurative meeting — possibly live alongside one another peacefully? One can look to present-day Libya, where the military leadership of Misrata, the city that suffered the heaviest toll during the campaign to overthrow Gaddafi, took prompt revenge following the war against Bani Walid, a nearby city that was home to members of Gaddafi’s army. And we can call that act of revenge “ethnic cleansing,” because the Misratans have made Bani Walid into a ghost town, forcing the evacuation of its more than 50,000 people, many of whom are members of the Warfalla tribe, an ArabBerber group with distinctly darker skin than the majority of Libyans. Which is all to say that the acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing
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Susie Park with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra @ The Palladium We first heard about the East Coast Chamber Orchestra a few years back from one of its founding members, Nick Kendall, the violinist who isn’t Zach de Pue in ISO Ensemble-in-Residence Time for Three, as well as one of the chief creative minds behind the ISO’s Time for Three series. It’s a con-
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that took place in Rwanda in the ‘90s and in Europe in the ‘30s and ‘40s were by no means isolated occurrences, and it remains important the we continue to talk about peace and reconciliation and learn from our histories. This weekend offers a chance to talk forgiveness with two survivors of genocides: Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who now leads the Amahoro Project, an advocacy group for reconciliation in Rwanda; and Eva Moses Kor, a Romanian survivor of the Shoah who founded the Candles Holocaust Museum. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. @ 1100 W. 42nd St., free and open to the public, lunch provided (RSVP required to zkalima@yahoo.fr or imcintos@iupui.edu)
ductor-less string orchestra, made up of 20-, now 30-somethings like Kendall, that operates on a shoe-string — “the last time I played with ECCO, I got a check for 14 dollars,” he joked in 2010 — and plays a forward-looking repertoire. Susie Park, a 2002 Indianapolis International Violin Competition Laureate, will join ECCO for pieces from across the repertoire: Arvo Part’s ever-popular Fratres, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade in C Major, Britten’s Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge (this is a big week for Britten in Indy) and Geminiani/ Wiancko’s Variations on La Follia. 7:30 p.m. @ The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, tickets $10-50, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org
ISO: Black History concert @ Hilbert Circle Theatre
will feature spirituals performed by baritone Lawrence Craig, a rendition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech set to Barber’s Adagio for Strings, selections from Duke Ellington’s imposing classical suite Black, Brown and Beige and Michael Abels’s Dance for Martin’s Dream. Kevin McBeth will conduct.
The 28th edition of the ISO’s annual Celebration of Black History concert, a free but ticketed event taking place Tuesday,
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A&E FEATURE Mike Tyson is not here to settle scores His one man show is just “entertainment” BY SCOTT SHOGER SSHOGER@NUVO.NET One doesn’t often start an interview for an entertainment feature by asking about the interview subject’s rape conviction. But Mike Tyson has always been an extraordinary guy, and his time in Indianapolis plays a part in his theatrical monologue, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, which opens a national tour Feb. 13 at the Murat Theatre at the Old National Centre. (It was originally scheduled as a two-day run in Indianapolis, but the Feb. 12 date was canceled last week.) Tyson’s on-stage retelling of his life includes, as The New York Times put it in a review of the show’s Broadway run, “a strident denial that he raped a Miss America contestant in 1991, a crime for which he served three years in prison.” Those three years were, of course, served in Indiana; he was convicted in Marion County for a rape which occurred at Canterbury Hotel. Undisputed Truth first premiered in Las Vegas; Spike Lee took over as director prior to the Broadway premiere, and it’s the Leedirected version of the show that will tour the country. The Nederlander Organization, the producer of the tour, has said that the fact that the tour will open in Indianapolis is entirely coincidental, a product of efficient tour scheduling. But it remains an inauspicious place for Tyson to make his case, seeing as his “undisputed truth” has been, well, successfully disputed in a court of law. Which brings us to the interview, a phone conversation monitored by Tyson’s publicist, with Tyson on a speakerphone line that rendered him sometimes difficult to understand. I threw a couple questions at Tyson to begin: Does he have anything in particular to say to the people of Indianapolis, and will it feel any different to play Indianapolis than anywhere else? Tyson answered with a drawn-out “No.” He continued, “That was just a moment in time. It’s going to be awesome, since they saw me then, and now they’re going to see me now; they’re going to see the contrast and difference. They saw me coming out of there in handcuffs, and now they’re going to see me as an entertainer to just entertain them. I don’t look at it as bad placement as an opening for me.” Is the rape part of the monologue? “Yeah, that’s an element.” Why does he revisit those parts of his life, night after night? “It’s just a form of entertainment, and I think that when the people in Indiana hear it, they’re going to be entertained by it.” Tyson’s publicist later followed up to clarify that while Tyson considers the show to be entertaining, as a whole, he doesn’t view the period of his life that included the rape
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Spike Lee came on as director of Undisputed Truth in 2012 after the show’s Las Vegas premiere.
conviction to be entertaining, or the way in which he recounts it, to be entertaining, in particular. That was my understanding of Tyson’s words as well, though there’s something to a quip a colleague made when I explained the situation: “You think you’ve got it bad; try being Mike Tyson’s publicist.”
Working with Spike
I asked Tyson what Spike Lee brought to the show when he came on as director for its Broadway run. “I can’t say he didn’t change anything. He’s put a great deal of his emphasis into the Broadway play [as a form] now, because he’s got a real knack for it.” And did he ever push Tyson into uncomfortable emotional territory for the better of the play? “Yeah, he’s gonna work you; it ain’t no buddy buddy with Spike. You’ve got to come to do a job.” For that matter, is there anything Tyson doesn’t feel comfortable saying on stage at this point? “No, everybody knows my life; they can tell if I’m lying or not; they know what I did and didn’t do during episodes of my life. You can’t lie to the audience.” I decided not to ask Tyson about the nature of celebrity and the business of monetizing, in a sense, his life story and paying people to watch him to proclaim his truth, partly because I thought the question might be a bit unfair. I did put this to him: It’s hard enough to honestly take stock of one’s life and speak one’s truth, so why would he add in the complication of doing it on stage? “Don’t get me wrong; it’s really tough, extremely tough,” he said. “That’s why I’m doing it, and that’s why people want to see me doing it. I won’t do nothing if I won’t risk humiliating myself; that’s just what it is, where it has to be very precise, there has to be perfect timing, for it to be successful. I’m a rush junkie or something. It just has to be right.” And so Tyson thinks of himself as an entertainer at this point? “Big time; I don’t take nothing personal.” And has he always thought
of himself as an entertainer, even as a boxer? “Definitely. And it’s not like boxing; there won’t be all kinds of distractions because I’ll be with my family and that’s my working team and my production team. It’s a family-owned business, and that’s what we do. I’m at this moment in life where I can be happy working with my family, and like I was discussing earlier with someone, success is different for me. Other people’s success is making a lot of money, getting a girl, a big mansion, a fancy car. My success is staying out of prison, being devoted to my wife, being involved in my children’s life, being an upstanding citizen in society. That’s success for me; that’s what I want.” And how does he control his anger at this point so that he might stay out of prison? “I cherish what I have to lose now.” Does he still find training pigeons therapeutic? “Yeah, definitely; watching the pigeons fly too. A hawk was chasing them the other day; they have drama in their world too.” And how does he stay level on the road? “I travel with my family. I don’t get out of character much.” Not a lot of late nights on the town? “It’s been three years, probably four years, since I’ve been out after ten o’clock at night.”
word “charm”). He joked about wishing he “had one of those James Cagney voices, Edward G. Robinson voices,” growling as he imitated them. So how does he deal with a voice he hates on stage? “I have a voice coach who teaches me about projection; we go over lines and warmups before I go on stage. I don’t go in there cold turkey; I’m not that talented. I’m not just winging it.” As Tyson embarks on a different stage in his career, is he concerned about the mental and physical legacy of boxing. “Extremely. Extremely concerned. If you happen to look at my early pictures from when I was first — MIKE TYSON boxing at age 14 and 15, you will find that I speak better now than when I first started. The punches to the head may have worked to the reverse for me. But to be honest with you, there’s something different with me, there’s something slowing down a little; people say to me, ‘Whoa, you’re slowing down a little, Mike.’” Is that getting in the way of getting performances? “No, absolutely not, but you’re more conscious of it than before.” Would he have done it again if he had a choice? “Listen, I didn’t care; if I would have died, I would have boxed. That’s what I wanted to do. The security of somebody knowing my name and that I was good at something: I’d have given my life for that. I come from nothing; I come from the gutter. And now somebody’s telling me I’m great and the best in the world at something. Hey, you can take my life.” Tyson recently created the Mike Tyson Foundation to aid at-risk youth in situations similar to that he grew up in. “It’s about giving kids a fighting chance. I have a great
“It’s been three years, probably four years, since I’ve been out after ten o’clock at night.”
I hate my voice
Has Tyson gotten comfortable with his voice, both literally and figuratively, particularly when on stage? “Hell, no. I hate my voice; I don’t like my voice; it’s a very noticeable voice. My voice pisses me off.” I asked Tyson if his voice was part of his charm at this point, which he didn’t go for (and, for my part, I was surprised I used the
affinity with these kids; I was once one of these kids, and I was given a chance by Cus D’Amato [Tyson’s first coach]. If people have a great support system, they have great support; and regardless of all the crazy things I did in my life, I had a great support system. And when I decided to use that support system, a lot of great things turned out in life.” And what does that support system look like? “You need to be there for them. We piggyback with other organizations in getting them medical support or school assistance. If it takes a nation to raise children, everyone helps; we all put in our two cents and everyone helps.” The New York Times, which was generally unimpressed by Undisputed Truth, did allow that it was occasionally funny. I asked Tyson about what he thinks are the funniest parts of the show. He said, “When I’m digging on Robin” — meaning Robin Givens, the TV star he married 1988 and divorced in 1989, or his Don King impression. Tyson is doing other work in the entertainment industry; he was preparing last week to play a death row inmate on an episode of Law and Order: SVU. “That’s going to be awesome; that’s my favorite show since it first came on.” How will he prepare? “I don’t know, but in a situation like this, unfortunately, I know a lot of people who have spent time on death row and eventually got released because they were wrongly sentenced. We talked a lot about it; it’s pretty gut-wrenching stuff.”
MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH Wednesday, Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m. (Feb. 12 show has been canceled) @ Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
Tickets $29.50-59.50 (plus fees), with $300 VIP option with meet and greet av ailable
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If you harass crows while wearing a caveman mask, as modeled by John Marzluff above, they will remember your misdeeds.
The birds are watching us
And we are, in caveman masks, watching the birds BY JIM POYSER JPOYSER@NUVO.NET John Marzluff watches birds and birds watch him. Sometimes they scold him, even swooping dangerously by his head, but only when he wears his caveman mask. Tuesday at Butler, Marzluff, professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington, will share his remarkable research on corvids — crows, jays, ravens and magpies — trying to make sense of how creatures with a brain the size of your thumb can be so darn smart. And yes, I said caveman mask. One of Marzluff’s best-known experiments involved capturing crows while wearing a caveman mask. After about ten minutes, he let the bird go, and any subsequent interaction in that same area would result in crows scolding and yelling at him — but only when he wore the caveman mask. Over time, Marzluff and his research associates found that more and more crows would scold him — over further and further distances — demonstrating both horizontal and vertical social learning behavior, just one indication of the highly intelligent nature of these birds. Marzluff lives in Seattle; we spoke by phone in anticipation of his upcoming visit. NUVO: I’ve heard you say that you study crows because of their “variable behavior repertoire.” What do you mean by that? JOHN MARZLUFF: You might think of quick responses to novel challenges in their environment; for example, when new foods are made available, a new crop or a new source of human refuse. Take something like Cheetos. How does an animal respond to a bright orange pile on the sidewalk? Most animals
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would go right by, not even give it a second chance. A crow will take a look, take a peck at it, sample it and incorporate it into its diet – if it’s edible or avoid it if it’s a dangerous thing. So they are always testing their environment. Another example is the comings and goings to a night roost. Crows, if they are harassed in one area, will avoid that area … they won’t continue to go back to a bad situation, such as a farmer protecting his field with a shotgun. They’ll immediately shift their behavior, and all the other birds associated with those pioneer learners will follow course — and they’ll be a lot safer because of that ability to adapt. NUVO: Your response reminded me of the description of a human toddler: constantly testing their environment. MARZLUFF: Corvids are quick, even quicker than we are when we are very young, at incorporating these reinforcements from their environment – be they positive or negative – into their routine. That’s what makes them able to survive with us. NUVO: A lot of your research is about the social learning strategies in crows. MARZLUFF: It’s quite simple. They communicate mainly by demonstrating. Birds that have had an experience and gained knowledge act in a different way. They go to the food without hesitation or stay away from a danger. Other birds key upon the actions of those knowledgeable individuals. They are watching extremely closely everything in their environment, including one another. When they see one crow swoop down to a food source that they have no idea about, they are right there with them. They don’t hesitate. They teach through demonstration … With respect to learning through demonstration, we humans demonstrate a lot of things, but we don’t model excellent behavior probably nearly to the extent that crows and other animals do. There’s such a high survival premium on doing the right thing and having reliable knowledge … NUVO: A lot of human social interaction now takes place on platforms like Facebook. Are there any comparisons you can make of crows to human obsession with social networking?
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MARZLUFF: Information spreads extremely rapidly through a crow society. There aren’t sending messages through the ether to each other. Maybe it’s the antithesis of Facebook. That is, they get face time with one another. And they do it every night gathering at large roosts, up to a million or more individuals in some places. They’re chatting and screaming and yelling and I don’t know what all is going on, but they are all there and participating face to face. I saw an extreme example of this just a few nights ago watching the local roost. They came in and sat in the higher trees – and there are about 5 or ten thousand birds; it’s Hitchcockian. What they do just as it’s getting dark is all land on a new softball field. It’s artificial turf so they aren’t foraging. They are standing shoulder to shoulder – thousands of birds – blackening the ground. They are getting face time. It’s the opposite of what we now are doing. We’re avoiding those close, tight encounters where a lot of important biological signals are given off. I think we’re missing out on that kind of close, personal communication that these crows are doing every night. NUVO: We have massive roosts here in Indianapolis. MARZLUFF: We don’t fully understand the social dimension of it, but the direct benefits are pretty clear. One thing they are doing is reducing commuting costs among the group. They may be foraging in several places during the day. They come to an intermediate place to spend the night so the amount of travel for each individual bird is minimized. NUVO: They are worrying about their carbon emissions! MARZLUFF: Exactly! Secondly, they are being in a protected place, a relatively safe spot that doesn’t have many owls, for example, a major night predator. Plus, there is safety in numbers. And there may be some thermal benefits from the heat island effect – they’re using our carbon footprint.
NUVO: Is it fair to say that the encroachment by humans led to crows being so intelligent? MARZLUFF: It made them more abundant than they otherwise would be. The way we change the landscape plays perfectly into their hand. We make exactly what crows want: a mixture of land covers. In terms of challenging them and causing them to evolve with us … you can’t imagine a more unpredictable environment than one caused by humans. One day it might be forest, the next day it might be a field. Or, the temperature fluctuates widely. All the things we do happens on a quick time pace. For a bird to be able to respond to us — especially when it lives 20 or 30 or more years — they have to be able to learn and remember and adjust. So I think living with a smart animal makes you smarter. Or it makes you extinct. Unfortunately we’ve done both. They were pretty darn innovative before we were here, though. This has been their lifestyle to forage in rich but unpredictable places, be they buffalo kills or tidelands or whatever. They were ready for us when we came on the scene. NUVO: What can we learn from crows? MARZLUFF: The animals we share the world with are watching us very closely. Their brains are finely tuned to our activities. They remember what we do. They learn from our actions, how to take advantage of us or how to avoid us. They are very very keen on what we are doing. My suggestion is that we use that same lens when we look at the wild animals around us. We don’t just ignore them. We don’t do things we know are destructive to them. We think carefully about what we’re doing and how that might affect them. Just as they are thinking carefully about what they are doing and how they might affect us. JOHN MARZLUFF Tuesday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m. Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University
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A&E REVIEWS MUSIC INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: SAINT SAENS AND MUHLY HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE, JAN. 24-26 e The last time we heard the Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 (“Organ Symphony”), in 2009, we were introduced to the Circle Theatre’s newly installed, revamped, refurbished Wurlitzer theater organ. While Martin Ellis returned Friday to repeat his excellent Wurlitzer-keyboard-andpedal work, the guest podium artist this time was Jun Märkl, a conductor we always look forward to. There were a few minor slips in the orchestra’s precision in the so-called “trio” section of the third movement— the woodwinds off-track here and there — but not enough to compromise Märkl’s energetic, fast-paced vision of the work. With cellist Zuill Bailey returning for the third time to the ISO, we’ve come to realize that, among other purposes, it was for a commercial recording on the Telarc label, the first two having already been released. This time, however, Bailey opened the concert with two disparate works: Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra (1915) by Swiss composer Ernest Bloch, and the U.S. debut of the Cello Concerto by Nico Muhly (b. 1981 in Vermont). Bailey’s solo part was as well rendered as consistent with his locally proven artistry. While Muhly’s first two movements were joined at the hip, with the cello weaving a line in and around punctuated chords, the final movement became a further study in minimalism. Will Muhly’s Cello Concerto become a repertoire piece? I have no idea; critical judgment of a work at first hearing has tended to be historically inaccurate. For more review details visit nuvo.net. — TOM ALDRIDGE
Still emotional all these years later, recalling the moment he realized it wasn’t a pesky tree root impeding his digging but a 9 foot tusk, Buesching described his roller-coaster emotions speaking at the exhibition’s opening on Jan. 24. The rest of his extended family remains equally excited about the initial find and the succeeding uncovering of 80 percent of the bones of a “an Ice Age icon.” After reporting his find to the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, faculty, students and volunteers excavated the skeleton over a period of years. In 2006 the Buesching family transferred rights to the ISM, which began investigating the best way to mount and exhibit the skeleton. Named after Fred Buesching, Dan Buesching’s grandfather and founder of the family business, Buesching Peat Moss & Mulch, Fred the mastodon is mounted on a metal frame customized and crafted by the museum’s mountmaker and sculptor Mike Smith. Ronald Richards, paleontology curator at the Indiana State Museum, reminds us not to confuse mastodons with woolly mammoths. Mastodons, the older species, are believed to have originated in Africa 35 million years ago and to have entered North America about 15 million years ago. “Though the mammoth was taller, the mastodon was a bulkier animal,” Richards said. This fall, the mastodon will be the centerpiece of a new exhibit, Indiana’s Ice Age Giants: The Mystery of Mammoths and Mastodons, presented by IMI. For now, you can visit Fred on his own. — RITA KOHN
THEATER A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, THROUGH FEB. 17 r Sondheim’s musical farce is a delightful, overlong romp through the lives of culturally elite Swedes, complete with young lovers, a bumbling count, a sardonic countess and a fantastic Greek chorus of singers commenting on every bit of action. Unfortunately, Sylvia McNair fails to fully realize her role as the washed-up actress Desiree, so while her rendition of the musical’s most memorable number — “Send in the Clowns” — is beautifully sung, it falls flat because of a lack of emotional connection with her character.
MUSEUMS FRED, THE ICE AGE MASTODON INDIANA STATE MUSEUM, ON EXHIBIT e Arrested in mid-movement, head raised and tilted in danger-alert mode, the 9-foot-tall Fred inspires awe in his new home at the Indiana State Museum. Fred’s journey from a late Ice Age forest to the museum is amazing. He seems to have been felled at age 33 in head-to-head combat with another mastodon, presumably over territorial rights, as determined by analysis of radiocarbon dating and by observations of a fatal blow to his skull. And there he rested for some 13,000 years in what would have been a pre-historic lake until a day in 1998 when Dan Buesching went about his usual work of digging up peat moss on his family’s farm just west of Fort Wayne.
Thankfully McNair is matched by fantastic fellow performers who fully embody both comic and tragic elements of their characters. As Fredrik Egerman, James Rank gives a heartfelt portrayal of a pathetic older man seeking a renewal of his youth. Rank’s overwhelming charm is matched wonderfully by Grace Morgan as his hopelessly naïve child-bride. Outstanding comic performances from Glenn Seven Allen and Jacquelynne Fontaine as Count and Countess Malcolm add another delicious layer of duality to the production. And Fontaine Syer rounds out the ensemble nicely as Madame Armfeldt, giving a stunning rendition of “Liaisons.” The show runs closer to three hours than the front of house staff is willing to admit, but the opportunity to see Sondheim’s masterpiece performed by a talented cast and a full orchestra is rare. — KATELYN COYNE
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MOVIES A Royal Affair e I’m generally not a costume drama man. Too many characters to learn, too much restraint and stuffiness, too much talking, too much prissiness and too many costumes. But A Royal Affair worked for me. While most of the elements I dislike are part of the sumptuous production, there are only three characters you really need to follow, and that made a world of difference to me. The fact-based story is clear, crisp and interesting. I would have appreciated a bit more information on the mechanics of the government – watching a king being treated in a dismissive, near contemptuous fashion by his council, then later seeing him bark out orders to them during a hissy fit and having those orders instantly followed makes you wonder where the power lies in the palace. The king in question is Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard), a real ninny. His
majesty has mental problems, we hear whispered. What we see is an obnoxious young numpty with poor impulse control used to getting his way. The council is used to using the king to rubber stamp their bad policies. Throughout the surrounding countries, the Enlightenment is being embraced and progressive thinking is in vogue. But Denmark in this part of the 1800s remains a backwards nation. The king has been furnished a queen, beautiful Brit Caroline Mathilda (Alicia Vikander), but the two don’t hit it off. She arrives in Denmark in a sullen, pouty mood and her demeanor doesn’t improve when she meets her betrothed. He doesn’t like her either, preferring the rowdier, cheerful women he encounters while carousing. Their initial union consists of a hand job and a rape. The queen gets pregnant as a result of the assault and from that point forward, the two keep their distance, content to exchange sneers and the occasional insult. When the king’s behavior gets too far out of control, German-born physician Johann Friedrich Struensee, is recruited to control his majesty. Struensee is a freethinker, but the Council doesn’t know that. His recruiters do – they share his mindset and hope he can influence the king to drag the country back into the sunlight. Struensee and King Christian hit it off – Christian develops a non-sexual crush on the reassuring doctor/father figure/ pal, and indeed, Struensee gets the king to
stand up to the council and force through some progressive policies. While the council seethes, Queen Caroline interrupts her slow burn long enough to fall for Struensee and before you know it, it’s bodice-ripping time. To tell the truth, given the queen’s personality, I suspect she insisted on her bodice being removed properly and neatly folded during her royal dalliance. Obviously, getting frisky with the queen is not a smart thing to do. Poor Struensee, free-thinking with his crotch instead of his head. But I guess that’s just what happens when your facial expression is almost always sly and your Mick Jagger lips have a built-in smirk. As much as I appreciated the clarity of the story, I felt the production had a few missing pieces. Who enforces the king’s edicts when what he demands infuriates the council used to controlling him? We see soldiers at the ready, but isn’t there an officer who acts as liaison between the troops and the palace? And shouldn’t we meet him? The three principal figures from Denmark’s history are interesting, but not terribly likable, which I found refreshing. A Royal Affair has lots of talking and very little action. It runs 2 hours and 17 minutes, which seems a bit long, though I couldn’t point to what I’d edit. The subtitles may put some viewers off, but you’re more sophisticated than that, aren’t you, idealized reader?
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APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
— ED JOHNSON-OTT
Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War masterpiece about a military operative on an illegal excursion into Cambodia to deal with an officer who has set himself up as a god with a local tribe. Is the film a journey into insanity? A visualization of an acid trip? Yes, yes and yes to your interpretation too. Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duval, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper, Sam Bottoms and a very young Larry (Laurence) Fishburne. Feb. 1, 7 p.m. @ The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art; tickets $9 public, $5 members; imamuseum.org
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BY NEIL CHARLES NCHARLES@NUVO.NET I knew we were onto something good when I realized that the only sound I could hear in this busy little strip-mall eatery was the repetitive incantation of an Australian TV infomercial extolling the benefits of a patented butttoning work-out. Otherwise, all was silent, save for the thirty or so diners digging in at tables laden with fish and beer, Bloody Marys and oysters, shrimp and tequila. Ignoring the absence of sun, sea or heat, we were back in Mexico, soothed by the aquatic décor, surrounded by families who love their shellfish. A generous first course of crunchy, fresh shrimp ceviche ($12.99), a dish both zestily refreshing and perfectly seasoned, set the tone. Easily enough for two and served with crunchy corn tortillas and plenty of lime wedges, this was a solid effort. It was preceded by a savory little bowl of seafood soup, a whole prawn cooking gently in the liquid, and a dish of salsa whose very color gave me pause. Consisting almost entirely of chopped habanero, this zingy concoction delivered enough heat in a single droplet to ignite my palate for a good five minutes. If you like it spicy, go for it, but if not, consider yourself forewarned. Half a dozen oysters on the half shell ($9.50) were fresh and briny, but not especially interesting, in all likelihood originating in warmer waters. For the price, however, I’m not complaining. An additional side order of fish ceviche ($8.99) rounded out the first courses. Although I’m generally not a big fan of photographs on the menu, in the case of La Casa de los Mariscos they are practically indispensable for the Spanish-challenged diner. Although our young and enthusiastic server was eager to help, going as far as showing us picture of the latest catch on his smart phone, we still found ourselves relying on the pictures to guide us. If there’s a single indispensable destination dish pictured on the menu, it has to be the Molcajete Korita ($22.99), a huge superheated bowl fashioned from what appears to be volcanic rock, replete with all manner of sea creatures including squid, crab, shrimp, octopus and green lip mussels, all cooking away gently in a rich and deeply flavored broth as they make their way to the table. Easily feeding two as a main course, this is a star dish, not only only for the presentation. Keen to try some fish (as opposed to
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ed Russin, bassist and vocalist of Title Fight, is living the dream of a pretty specific but sizable group of people. The people are those that got swept up by punk and hardcore around the time they were in junior high or early high school, and started bands because of it. The dream is sticking it out with that band, getting really good, touring around the country and playing in front of people who get as excited about Minor Threat as you did when you first heard them. Title Fight formed around 2003, when several of the members were still in middle school. The band is brothers Ned and Ben Russin along with Jamie Rhoden and Shane Moran. They’ve all played with other people over the years, but they keep returning to that Title Fight lineup. “I think the most natural thing is for us to play together, because we understand each other very well,” says Russin.
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They hit their creative stride together early on. Speaking about the band’s composition over the years, Russin says, “It doesn’t feel like our process has changed that much at all.” Although, “the songs we have been writing have progressed,” they still put those songs together in roughly the same way as when they were younger. And they work quickly. In September of last year they released their sophomore album, Floral Green, which followed barely a year after their debut full-length Shed. Russin says it was almost by accident that the two albums came out so quickly in succession. “We had no idea that we were going to do Floral Green close. We got home [from touring] and we looked at our schedule and realized we had a couple of months,” so they could either start working on a new album right then or wait until 2013. “We took the challenge and decided to really go for it and do a record in four months.” Indeed, Russin says the band relishes challenges. Though Floral Green doesn’t stray too far from the emo-inflected hardcore style Title Fight is known for, it does feature slightly more ambitiously structured songs as compared to the scrappy bursts of Shed. “There was definitely a conscious effort to try something different. We’ve always been trying to write something new, we don’t want to do the same record again.” Though he’s proud of Floral Green, he says he was a little worried about releasing it so soon after Shed.
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“Another thing that worried me was that it’s not like we weren’t happy with Shed, it’s not like ‘Okay everybody, that record was okay, but here’s our new record that’s actually good.’” Surely another reason why Russin doesn’t want to put Shed too far in the past was the fact that it gave Title Fight the opportunity to work with Walter Schriefels (of foundational hardcore groups Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today and Quicksand) as producer. Russin got in touch with Schriefels via email, and the relationship grew from there. “And that’s something that’s still really amazing to me, [Schriefels] knows all those guys from all those bands that I’ve looked up to since I was like 13 years old.” Russin’s drive to create relationships through music comes out in Title Fight’s commitment to the local scene in WilkesBarre, Penn. Talking about how music scenes have changed since Title Fight began he says the Internet has been a great tool, but that it’s also changed the dynamic of communities like Wilkes-Barre. “Because of online promotion, sometimes you’ll go to a show and it’s like there are people from 45 minutes away in every direction and they’re all coming together, but it’s not really a scene.” Of course he values the opportunity to reach more people, but at the same what he thinks is really important is, “the community aspect, working together toward a common goal.”
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Recently, Russin started writing a weekly column for an arts paper in Wilkes-Barre, The Weekender. The subject of the column really establishes where Russin’s interests lie: the community. He sees the column as “a way to get people excited about things” and encourages people to get involved. “Our town is very small, and any new person coming in, it probably seems like this group of people who all know each other and are all friends. It might make some just feel like outsiders.” Russin wants to avoid this, wants to help welcome everyone. “You can be a kid with a guitar and you could record on your computer, and you could put it online, and you could go play with your favorite band. There are just amazing opportunities and I don’t want people to not take advantage of them.” Title Fight is on tour right now, and Russin expects that they’ll keep working just as hard. They might even have some new music later this year (though “no promises” on that he says). Either way, “We’re going to try to stay busy like we always do, we’re going to tour, and we’re going to keep doing the same stuff we’ve been doing.”
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Gallo at Sabbatical Gallo is a new project from brothers Kinski and Rodax Gallo Rodriguez, formerly of the rock en Español group Monte Negro. Gallo is set to release their debut project this February; it’s an ambitious trilogy of three full-length albums. The trilogy is a response to the hurdles confronting artists who create bilingual or Spanish music in America. It’s also an opportunity for the brothers to explore their wide range of artistic influences. “We grew tired of having to explain our stance. So we did Fuego an album fully in Spanish, Phoenix Rising fully in English, and Mamawe fully bilingual,” says Kinski Gallo Rodriguez. I spoke with Rodriguez as he prepared for a tour that will bring Gallo to Sabbatical in Broad Ripple on Wednesday, Feb. 6. NUVO: Can you tell me about your new release? You’re simultaneously issuing three albums –– that seems ambitious.
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Brown Bird at White Rabbit Saturday BY WADE CO GGESHALL M USIC@ N UVO.NET The story of Brown Bird is, so far at least, one of near-constant metamorphosis. David Lamb started the band in 2003. By the time MorganEve Swain met him on tour in ‘08, while a member of another band, Brown Bird had already gone through a few lineup changes. It wasn’t long before the two decided to stay together. “We realized very quickly that, musically, we worked together,” Swain said during a recent phone interview. “As we got to know each other, we realized we hold a lot of the same beliefs and listen to a lot of the same kind of music.” Sonically, their first record together, 2011’s Salt For Salt, is steeped in backwater folk and blues. It’s an effort that caught the attention of National Public Radio, which named it one of the best folk albums of 2011. Problem is, Lamb and Swain don’t think of themselves as a folk act. Lamb’s upfront acoustic guitar and foot percussion, along with Swain’s violin, cello and upright bass, make such comparisons seem natural. Nonetheless, “We got tired of being called a folk band,” Swain said. “We never really thought of ourselves that way in the first place.” Fans may be surprised when they hear Fits of Reason, the new album due out April 2 on Supply & Demand Music. The biggest change? Brown Bird has gone electric for this set. Lamb is playing electric guitar now and Swain has added electric bass to her arsenal, though the upright is still very much part of the mix. It’s just a better fit to who they are. Turns out the music that initially connected Lamb and Swain includes ‘60s and ‘70s international psych-rock and even stoner and doom metal. “We hear that in our music,” Swain said. “I don’t know how many others do.” Brown Bird already displayed their new amplified sound at the legendary Newport Folk Festival, in their home state of Rhode Island, last year. It didn’t prove to be nearly as controversial as a certain famous troubadour’s performance there in 1965. If that seems like too much mercuriality for one band, other aspects of Brown Bird look to stay the same, at least for now. One of which is that Lamb and Swain plan to remain a duo. “We made a conscious decision to strip it down to just the two of us,” Swain said. Aside from having multiple instruments they could utilize on their own, there were previous band members who didn’t even dwell in Rhode Island, while Lamb and Swain live together. “The two of us were always writing and bringing it to the rest of the band,” Swain said. “During the process we’d often think, ‘This already sounds good the way it is. I don’t hear so-and-so’s instrument.’ We realized the writing process was a lot easier with just the two of us. We definitely don’t feel like it’s holding us back in any way. It also makes touring a lot easier too.” As well, much of the scorched earth soul-searching on Salt For Salt car-
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ries over to Fits of Reason. On Salt For Salt’s “Bilgewater,” Lamb sings, “When every day is like a war You find no strength from your usual source There’s no peace, there’s no rest Your fortitude is feeling put to the test When everyday is like a war between the will to go on And a wish that the world would spiral into the sun Turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along.” Lamb is Brown Bird’s chief songwriter. He cites writers like Plato and Christopher Hitchens as inspiration, but it’s also his upbringing in Illinois –as the son of a preacher –– that influences his lyrics. Swain said he left the church after graduating high school. “He realized the beliefs they were teaching weren’t the ones he held,” she said. “That’s paved a way for him as far as what he’s attracted to lyrically and spiritually. He’s always researching stuff like that and learning about different religions and cultures –– how our stories weave together in different belief systems.” A lot of the motifs permeating Salt For Salt are also on the new record, but, “I don’t think it’s as apocalyptic,” Swain said. “A lot of those themes are a running thing with us.” She adds those who swoon over Brown Bird’s existing discography shouldn’t fret over the new direction undertaken on Fits of Reason. “I don’t think it’s so drastic that it doesn’t sound like Brown Bird anymore,” Swain said. “It’s definitely in the same vein as Salt for Salt. We just hope it features more of our other influences. It’s more of an evolution than a departure.”
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q West Lafayette band broken light takes off on the first side of the vinyl with “Dawn of Nothing,” a mixture of shoegaze and hazy pop. Members Eric Komenda, Brent Smith, Dylan Schwab and Brad Threlkeld blend instrumental elements to create a singular sonic theme throughout the song. Komenda’s voice fits perfectly with the laid-back rock vibe, melodically similar to Death Cab for Cutie. They mix the melancholy lyrics with a comfortable, grooving tune. Earthgrazer’s contribution, “Violet and Hum,” trades the chilled tones and atmo-
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spheres on side A for a more energetic and riff-centric track. The post-rock band hails from both Chicagoland and West Lafayette, though their creative influences range much wider. Evan Fife, Mike Ashenbrener and David Woods build catchy and progressive rock songs with their unique sound. The 7’’ vinyl comes in a variety of designs including rainbow-splattered, coin-flip, colorsplit and clear. By randomizing and individualizing the 7’’s, Jurassic Pop Records has made the basement/garage pop sounds of West Lafayette something for the rest of the Midwest to lust after. (Editor’s note: Log on to NUVO.net to read an interview with label head Jeff Mather.) –– JORDAN MARTICH
Blackouts as a band worth your time. These tracks bring back memories of punk’s stint on the backs of bands like NOFX; cargo shorts, 30 cases of beer and shitty tattoos. Since their formation in 2011, Justin Firebaugh (guitar, lead vocals), Gary Warren (bass and vocals) and Matt Jones (drums and vocals) have worked to become a prominent part of Indy’s underground scene, like playing Punk Rock Night at The Melody Inn. The album is available via the band’s website. –– JORDAN MARTICH
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Sleeping Bag is booked for the first Drink or Die show of 2013 at The Sinking Ship in South Broad Ripple. It’s a new venue for multi-genre club night Wasted Wednesday, previously held at the Melody Inn.. The night will start out with the ambient shoegaze of Todd Heaton’s Street Spirits, and the noise and distortion-saturated tunes of Fountain Square’s Ancient Slang. Sleeping Bag’s release Women of Your Life received positive vibes from publications like VICE, Spin and Buzzine last year. They join a host of prominent artists on Joyful Noise Recordings. Drummer Dave Segedy began the project solo, eventually calling on guitarist Lewis Rogers and bassist David Woodruff to layer the songs with melody. The hazy, droning rock paired with pop hooks and stiff, wooden vocals caught the alternative music scene at the perfect time. Drink or Die has piggy-backed the Wasted Wednesday shows onto The Sinking Ship’s $1 beer night. Fans get into the show for free to enjoy cheap Pabst Blue Ribbon and Indiana-based jams. Partnering with The Sinking Ship and Butler Scion, Drink or Die can create these stacked free shows and still afford to pay the bands. “A group of people getting off the Internet and coming together to have a drink and watch some bands is a very powerful and important thing,” James Lyter of Drink or Die says. Using the collective connections of Lyter (Male Bondage, Chaotic Neutral), Kevin Schatz (The Classless), Patrick Mitchell and Nick Selm, they formed the loosely organized Drink or Die. Over the past year they’ve teamed up to book shows with headlining artists including The Downtown Struts, The Dopamines and Kentucky Nightmare. “While we’re all punks at heart; the Venn diagrams of our interests show lots of diversity,” Selm says. Each show features an outstandingly talented regional or national act propped up by local bands. The past Wasted Wednesdays at The Melody Inn brought a diverse crowd into the historic bar to listen to groups making waves on local and national levels. Drink or Die seeks to use the years of running, booking and playing shows to strengthen the music scene in Indianapolis. “We want to see more centralization and unification in the local scene,” Selm says. “Indianapolis has a huge problem with decentralization. Everything is so spread out that it’s easy to miss out on stuff.” (Editor’s note: Selm is a long-time contributer to NUVO.) “Between all the things happening in Fountain Square, and what seems to be blossoming in SoBro, it feels like we are on the cusp of something very cool,” Lyter says. –– JORDAN MARTICH
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PUNK TITLE FIGHT, SIRIUS BLVCK, CITIZEN, BIG THINGS Hoosier Dome 7 p.m., $12 advance, $15 at door, all-ages
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The Vogue Theater, 6259 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., $20 advance, $22 at door, 21+
Keller Williams is a solo artist that just can’t travel alone; through the years he’s grabbed The String Cheese Incident; Moseley, Droll and Sipe; and the Keels duo to round out his easy, roots sound. His latest album is a collaboration too: titled Pick and recorded with the Travelin’ McCourys. We’re a little bit partial to his 2010 covers album Thief, in which Williams grabs the best singles from Kris Kristofferson, Ryan Adams, Marcy Playground and the Yonder Mountain String Band. He’ll be at the Vogue at a show presented by IndyMojo. FIRST FRIDAY FREE ENERGY, AMI SARAIY & THE OUTCOME
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Philly rockers Free Energy have energy to spare, so they’re giving it away. This former buzz band-turned-actually-consistently-talentedgroup has yet to hit their major breakthrough,
SOUNDCHECK but we expect it any day now. Grab their single “Bang Pop”from debut Stuck on Nothing, and head out to DO317’s First Friday show for the free-est energy you’ll see this weekend. They’ve got a new album –– Love Sign –– and do our favorite thing: play rock music that also functions like dance music. Go if you like: Weezer, The Cars, Mates of State. DJ JUICY FRIDAYS Blu, 240 S. Meridian St. 10 p.m., 21+
Allow us to extend our official congratulations to DJ Buck Rodgers, who came out on top of the Red Bull Thre3style regional qualifier, and who will soon be on his way to compete for top honors in the main event. But before he leaves, party with him at Juicy Fridays at Blu, where he’s just been announced as the new resident DJ. BLUES BLUES AT THE CROSSROADS Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave. 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
Who’s the father of modern Chicago blues? Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters? We heartily endorse co-parenting, in this and every other instance. This Friday at Clowes, celebrate these daddies of blues with a tribute by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who’ve backed Tinsley Ellis, James Cotton, Bob Margolin and Jody Williams.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
© 2012 BY ROB BRESZNY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Wageni ni baraka is a Swahili proverb that means “guests are a blessing.” That’s not always true, of course. Sometimes guests can be a boring inconvenience or a messy burden. But for you in the coming weeks, Aries, I’m guessing the proverb will be 98 percent correct. The souls who come calling are likely to bestow unusually fine benefits. They may provide useful clues or missing links you’ve been searching for. They might inspire you to see things about yourself that you really need to know, and they might even give you shiny new playthings. Open your mind and heart to the unexpected blessings. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I feel my fate in what I cannot fear,” said Theodore Roethke in his poem “The Waking.” I invite you to try out that perspective, Taurus. In other words, learn more about your destiny by doing what makes you feel brave. Head in the direction of adventures that clear your mind of its clutter and mobilize your gutsy brilliance. Put your trust in dreams that inspire you to sweep aside distracting worries. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s the First Annual Blemish Appreciation Week -- for Geminis only. One of the best ways to observe this holiday is to not just tolerate the flaws and foibles of other people, but to also understand them and forgive them. Another excellent way to celebrate is to do the same for your own flaws and foibles: Applaud them for the interesting trouble they’ve caused and the rousing lessons they’ve taught. I may be joking a little about this, but I’m mostly serious. Be creative and uninhibited as you have fun with the human imperfections that normally drive you crazy. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I turn my psychic vision in your direction, I see scenes of heavy rain and rising water, maybe even a flood. I’m pretty sure this has a metaphorical rather than literal significance. It probably means you will be inundated with more feelings than you’ve experienced in a while. Not bad or out-of-control feelings; just deep and enigmatic and brimming with nuance. How to respond? First, announce to the universe that you will be glad and grateful to accept this deluge. Second, go with the flow, not against it. Third, promise yourself not to come to premature conclusions about the meaning of these feelings; let them evolve. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I want to know more about you” may be the most potent sentence you can utter in the coming week. If spoken with sincere curiosity, it will awaken dormant synergies. It will disarm people who might otherwise become adversaries. It will make you smarter and work as a magic spell that gives you access to useful information you wouldn’t be able to crack open with any other method. To begin the process of imbuing your subconscious mind with its incantatory power, say “I want to know more about you” aloud ten times right now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My hotel was nice but the neighborhood where it was located seemed sketchy. As I returned to my room after a jaunt to the convenience store, I received inquiries from two colorfully-dressed hookers whose sales pitches were enticingly lyrical. I also passed a lively man who proposed that I purchase some of his top-grade meth, crack, or heroin. I thanked them all for their thoughtful invitations but said I wasn’t in the mood. Then I slipped back into my hotel room to dine on my strawberry smoothie and blueberry muffin as I watched HBO. My experience could have something in common with your immediate future, Virgo. I suspect you may be tempted with offers that seem exotic and adventurous but are not really that good for you. Stick to the healthy basics, please. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A West Coast DJ named Shakti Bliss wrote a remarkable status update on her Facebook page. Here’s an edited excerpt: “In the past 24 hours, I did yoga in a bathtub, hauled furniture by myself in the rain, got expert dating advice from an 11-year-old, learned
the lindy hop, saw a rainbow over the ocean, had thrift store clothes stolen out of my car by a homeless man, made a magic protection amulet out of a piece of cardboard, was fed quinoa soup by the buffest 50-year-old South African woman I’ve ever met, bowed to a room full of applause, and watched two of my favorite men slow dance together to Josephine Baker singing in French.” I suspect that you Libras will be having days like that in the coming week: packed with poetic adventures. Are you ready to handle more than the usual amount of stimulation and excitement? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, called himself a Christian. But he also acknowledged that there weren’t any other Christians like him. He said he belonged to a sect consisting of one person -- himself. While he admired the teachings of Jesus Christ, he had no use for the supernatural aspects of the stories told in the New Testament. So he created his own version of the Bible, using only those parts he agreed with. Now would be an excellent time for you to be inspired by Jefferson’s approach, Scorpio. Is there a set of ideas that appeals to you in some ways but not in others? Tailor it to your own special needs. Make it your own. Become a sect of one. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day,” said writer Elbert Hubbard. “Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” Judging from my personal experience, I’d say that five minutes is a lowball figure. My own daily rate is rarely less than half an hour. But the good news as far as you’re concerned, Sagittarius, is that in the coming weeks you might have many days when you’re not a damn fool for even five seconds. In fact, you may break your all-time records for levels of wild, pure wisdom. Make constructive use of your enhanced intelligence! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Most humans have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” said Aldous Huxley. If that’s true, Capricorn, it’s important that you NOT act like a normal human in the next few weeks. Taking things for granted would be a laziness you can’t afford to indulge. In fact, I think you should renew your passion for and commitment to all your familiar pleasures and fundamental supports. Are you fully aware of the everyday miracles that allow you to thrive? Express your appreciation for the sources that nourish you so reliably. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Poet Jacob Nibengenesabe was a member of the Swampy Cree, a First Nation tribe in Canada. He wrote shamanic poems from the point of view of a magical trickster who could change himself into various creatures. In one poem, the shapeshifter talked about how important it is to be definite about what he wanted. “There was a storm once,” he said. “That’s when I wished myself / to be a turtle / but I meant on land! / The one that carries a hard tent / on his back. / I didn’t want to be floating!” By the end of the poem, the shapeshifter concluded, “I’ve got to wish things exactly! / That’s the way it is / from now on.” I hope that will be the way it is from now on for you, too, Aquarius. Visualize your desires in intricate, exact detail. For example, if you want to be a bird for a while, specify what kind. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you sleep, you have at least a thousand dreams every year. But if you’re typical, you may recall only a few of them. Doesn’t that bother you? To be so ignorant of the stories your subconscious mind works so hard to craft? To be out of touch with what the Iroquois call “the secret wishes of your soul”? Now is an excellent time to develop a stronger relationship with your dreams, Pisces. It’s high time to explore the deeper strata of your life’s big mysteries.
Homework: Talk about how you infused your spiritual path with eros and humor. Go to Freewillastrology.com; click on “Email Rob.”
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