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HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY, INDIANA YOUTH GROUP

As the youth and staff at Indiana Youth Group (IYG) will tell you, “Everyone is welcome at IYG.” Located in a small grayish house on the northeast side of Indianapolis, IYG provides a safe haven where self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth are empowered through programs, support services, social and leadership opportunities, and community service.

B Y D IA N A ENSIGN

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REPUBLICAN BOONDOGGLE OVER TRANSIT

What transit advocates need from this legislative session is permission to hold a vote on whether people in Indianapolis and nearby suburbs are willing to pay the extra taxes necessary to support expanded public transportation. You’d think this would be the easy part.

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20 YEARS OF POINTLESS POINTS

This weekend ComedySportz Indianapolis will celebrate twenty years of laughter with a gala event at the Athenaeum. After two decades in business together — and a series of ups and downs that included a serious health scare — owners Mia Roberts, Lynn Burger and Ed Trout have learned that comedy is indeed a serious business. BY KATELYN COYNE

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THE GOOD DR. VINE

Richard Vine has always tried “to do what seemed like the natural thing to do.” And that sense of purpose has shaped a career including a ten-year run as a winemaker and 36 years in academia, with two decades of jet setting in the mix. Chatting with NUVO by phone, Dr. Vine described the trajectory of his career as a combination of taking advantage of available options while staying true to his original roots. BY RITA KOHN

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TESLA ARMADA

Adam O’Sullivan skipped law school for this. This being Tesla Armada, a prog-rock quartet with a penchant for lulling melodies that take dark, twisty turns. The room they practice in is a cramped, wood-paneled space connecting the garage to O’Sullivan’s Speedway house. It’s unadorned except for the band’s gear, including a tall lamp used by singer/guitarist Chris Wallace as a mic stand, sans shade. BY WADE COGGESHALL

ARTICLES

Perspectives in Education: notes from the field GAbdul: The best argument for school choice Blues at the Crossroads at Clowes Commuter Essays: New every Thursday Bicycle Diaries: New every other Friday

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Responses to Hammer’s departure: Happy Days are here again, the Bush depression is ending finally thanks to Obama and the Democrats. Good for you, Steve. I have also left Indy, a few years ago now, but I kept up with your columns every week. You are the only one worth reading in the entire town.

— HammerLess NUVO.NET

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IPS programmed to fail?

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David Hoppe’s commentary “Programmed to fail: IPS’ next superintendent” (Jan. 23-30) reinforces the ideas of many locals who, as he stated, have the “… the generally held view that IPS is broken--…” The idea [that] IPS is broken and needs fixing is the basis for the current local school reform debate. This assertion leaves unchallenged facts showing wealthier communities have better educational opportunities than low-income. It doesn’t make sense then to compare schools across these communities and then pronounce IPS as failing. Urban schools produce academic failure at alarming rates. Yet, this happens inside a system designed to essentially predetermine winners and losers: one set of schools have the resources for [success] and another set of schools [does] not. Thus, the “failure” of urban schools is not actually the result of failing. Urban schools like IPS are not broken; they are doing exactly what they are designed to do. Here’s the question: has our public school system ever made its actual mission to educate all children equally and effectively? The obvious answer is no. Reality reveals decades of fiscal, political, and structural policies which deliberately undercut and demean urban public schools. This doesn’t excuse poor academic outcomes in many urban schools, but suggests advancing past 20th century ideas based on “fixing failure.” According to The Art of Critical Pedagogy [by Jeffrey M. Duncan-Andrade and Ernest Morrell], on which most of this letter is based, there are two reasons why school failure in urban districts continues. 1. The Politics of Failure: Perpetual urban school failure is tolerated because deep down our nation subscribes to the belief that someone must fail in school. Here, failure results from the inferiority of the student, the family, or her/his culture and community. Indeed, this deficit-mod-

el of students is built into most schools through the existence of a largely unchallenged system of grading and testing which by its very design guarantees failure for some. 2. The Economics of Failure: Public schools are America’s socio-economic sorting machine--where economic futures are cast and people are sorted into their future roles. In short, some people must fill the least desirable places in society. It’s important they feel they deserve to be in those positions or, basically, that there is a formal mechanism (urban schools) to justify their place there. In effect, the high-stakes nature of this sorting process plays itself out behind the talk of opportunity and the myth of school-based meritocracy suggesting all students compete under similar rules with equal opportunity. Still, in the game of education, some families/students have high levels of social, political, economic capital. This guarantees an unfair competition and [produces] the same unequal outcomes. To change public education, citizens must challenge the myth of meritocracy and the hype about “opportunity.” The few exceptional urban students who combine fortitude and fortune to succeed in under-resourced schools play an important role in this myth making, confirming for the public that opportunity exists for anyone who wants it bad enough. This opens the door for others to say the reason some fail is simply because they and their families do not care about education or they haven’t worked hard enough. This is, of course, untrue. The stratified nature of our current society creates a “social pyramid” with no room at the top for everyone. This requires people to be sorted, and schools are the “mechanism” used to resolve this messy social “conundrum.” The fact that opportunity exists (currently defined as all children having access to public schools) helps maintain the story of a democratic and meritocratic society where competition churns the cream to the top, ultimately benefiting society as a whole by rewarding the most deserving. Still, those benefiting most from this sorting process look, talk, think, and act most like those who already have power. This is inequality by design and well documented. Our IPS plays a role in the perpetuation of this rigged social lottery: the nation’s poorest are the most likely to be denied access to a quality education and blamed (directly or indirectly) for their academic “failure.” Thus, with consistency, IPS disproportionately produces the citizens who will hold the least desirable and least mobile socio-economic positions and these positions will be mainly occupied by residents emerging from the district’s poorest communities. If IPS is criticized as broken, then these failures mean IPS is in fact successful at enabling the results it’s designed to produce. We can’t call schools designed to fail “broken.”

— John Harris Loflin EDUCATION-COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM

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HAMMER Appreciation for fans, foes

Reflecting on a print legacy

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

ince the announcement I was leaving Indianapolis appeared in NUVO and in a story on indystar.com last week, I’ve been flooded with emails, text messages and Facebook posts that almost exactly reflect the reaction I’ve gotten from readers for the past 20 years. My favorite reaction came from a reader of David Lindquist’s very well-done story on me at indystar.com: “This will help the city’s ranking.” That commenter gets a +1 from me for brevity, accuracy and wit. Another: “Hammer’s incoherent ramblings won’t be missed.” Fair point. Other commenters, while claiming to despise me, nevertheless brought up stories they didn’t like that I’d written 15 years ago. They trashed the music coverage that I stopped doing seven years ago. I haven’t written a single story on local music since 2006, but some readers are still pissed off. People have long memories in Indianapolis. The story by Lindquist meant a lot to me. Dave came to town in 1998 after The Star’s previous music writer, Marc Allan, moved on to other assignments. I was prepared to make fun of this new guy Lindquist but had to stop after meeting him and talking to him. He’s exactly what a good journalist should be: dedicated to accuracy, funny and with good intentions toward every assignment. We slogged through dozens and dozens of shows together, many of them at what was then called Deer Creek Music Center. Sometimes the shows were amazing, but most of the time they were average, boring performances by superstars or ex-superstars, interesting only to their mostpassionate fans. People think that getting free tickets to 100 concerts a year is a really cool thing, and it is. But until you’ve actually dragged yourself out of the house and driven through traffic to attend those 100 shows, you don’t realize that it’s just another job. Interviewing James Brown and shaking his hand in 1996 was one of the great experiences of my life. So was watching Prince perform at the Convention Center with Chaka Khan and members of Sly and the Family Stone. Pearl Jam at their peak was an awesome band. But having to see Fastball, the Black Crowes, Britney Spears and ’N Sync? Not so much. It sure feels like work when you’re trying to write a piece on the opening act to ’N Sync or interviewing the bass player from some national jam band. Lindquist and I put in some hard miles

together and the fact that he’s still doing it is a testament not only to his skill and dedication but his mental stability. Dealing with musicians gave me a perforated eardrum, mental illness and a substance-abuse problem that took me the better part of a decade to shake. But I take great exception to the adjective he applied to this column. He called it “left-leaning.” I also was angered by a list of “the most liberal reporters in Indianapolis,” allegedly put together by members of the Tea Party of Indiana and posted on indianabarrister.com. I finished in 10th place. TENTH! I feel like my career has been in vain if I only rank as Indy’s 10th most-liberal reporter. Friends, not only am I “left-leaning” and “liberal,” I’m a straight up socialist with Marxist-Leninist tendencies. Matthew Tully of The Star, who ranked first on that list, never advocated the nationalization of the oil industry. Jim Shella of Channel 8, who also is supposedly more liberal than me, never called for a workers’ revolution to topple the George W. Bush regime. I did both of those things. What would it have taken for me to reach No. 1? Kidnap Patty Hearst? Lead a sit-in at Sen. Dan Coats’ office until a Peoples’ Commission on Truth and Reconciliation pays reparations to the descendants of slaves and the victims of Reagan-era predatory capitalism? Man. Do I need to pay membership dues to the Communist Party USA? Will that bump me up the list? Clearly, I have been ineffective so far. There were also laudatory words for me from at least one of my heroes, Dan Carpenter of The Star, who has been the writer to whom all those aspiring to greatness must be compared. The man is a living legend and an oasis of sanity in our city’s media. His kind words sincerely warmed my heart. But it was the compliments from the people who know me best that really touched me. I received so many words of praise from my co-workers in Indianapolis. Many of them thanked me for being so helpful, so friendly and so positive. This marks a change in my life, being described as friendly, positive and helpful. I wasn’t always that way. But my job downtown, where I started working in 2007, changed that. I showed up to work every day. I almost always played by the company rules. And I tried to help as many people as I could. My coworkers, all of us proud members of the Communications Workers of America, are folks just like you and me. Some are single moms coming off public assistance and determined to lift themselves and their children out of poverty. Others are older folks who, like me, found themselves in their 40s, jobless and with little hope. They helped me as much as I helped them. I’ve got six or seven more columns left before I leave the pages of NUVO for good, but I’m out of time for today. We’ll talk more in the coming weeks.

I feel like my career has been in vain if I only rank as Indy’s 10th most-liberal reporter.

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Because Ideas MatterRecommended Readings by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Butler University Defending Jacob William Landay Random House, 2012 Reviewed by Larry W. Riggs This is the third book by Landay, a former prosecutor. It’s the first one I’ve read, and it is good enough to motivate me to read the other two. The book is legally and psychologically complex and convincing. Jacob is the 14-year-old son of Andy Barber, an assistant district attorney and head prosecutor. When one of Jacob’s classmates is found murdered, Andy, as chief prosecutor, is in charge of the investigation. Andy’s longtime underling and protégé points out that, since the victim is connected to Andy’s son, Andy’s role may become ethically questionable. The protégé has a point, but he is also voraciously ambitious and, Andy assumes, after Andy’s job. When suspicion focuses on Jacob, Andy is taken off the case, and his expertise as a prosecutor complicates his role as a father. As the plot unfolds, we are never sure whether Andy is right to be certain of Jacob’s innocence, or in denial. Through legal maneuvering, psychiatric evaluation of Jacob, increasing tension between Andy and his wife, and a very intense trial, our ambivalence about Andy and Jacob grows. Landay regularly suspends the narrative and gives us excerpts from a grand jury proceeding in which Andy is being questioned by his former protégé. We are not sure just what is at issue before the grand jury and how it is related to Jacob’s case. Landay’s technique works very well; it heightens the tension while preserving the ambiguity. This is a good read with interesting real-life implications and a shattering ending. — Larry W. Riggs is professor of French at Butler University.

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HOPPE Republican boondoggle over transit Why they don’t want you to vote

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

nother winter, another session of the Indiana General Assembly. And another round of pleading for a 21stcentury mass transit system in Indianapolis. Mass transit advocates are reasonable people. They are not asking for the moon and stars. At the moment, they’re not even asking for buses and light rail, although this comes next. No, what transit advocates need from this legislative session is permission to hold a vote on whether people in Indianapolis and nearby suburbs are willing to pay the extra taxes necessary to support expanded public transportation. You’d think this would be the easy part. Such a vote does not mean that a better transit system is a done deal. It simply means that you and I and everybody else will have the chance to vote on whether we want to pay for it. If you think you’re hearing a lot about transit now, just wait. Should the time come for us to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to a mass transit tax increase, you’ll need ear plugs just to limit the volume to a dull roar. So it’s not as though some sort of mass transit boondoggle is being foisted on us. This isn’t like going to a zoning meeting, where everyone complains about the plans for yet another oversized, boring building in a neighborhood trying to preserve what’s left of its character and charm, only to find out said building is going up, no matter what the neighbors think. What the legislature is being asked to do is approve a hoop for transit advocates to jump through. A rather wiggly hoop at that, given the all-too famous reluctance of voters in these parts to say yes to higher taxes. In other words, this is about democracy, selfdetermination and local control. The kinds of principles every Hoosier politician who’s ever stood up and barked in front of a crowd loves to champion. But this sort of bow-wow oratory has its limits. Last year, the proposal to let us vote on a tax increase to fund transit was scuttled when a Republican added an anti-union rider to the bill. That made it politically radioactive as far as many local Democrats were concerned and the bill was voted down. This year, Republicans have yet another kind of mischief up their sleeves. They don’t like the Democrats’ majority in the

Indianapolis City-County Council. So, just as their peers are trying to rig state and national elections by rebooting the rules in their favor, Indiana Republicans have attached proposals to the transit legislation aimed at tipping the balance of power in Indianapolis toward our Republican mayor, Greg Ballard. Republicans want to give Ballard greater control over the city-county budget, limit spending by elected county officials, and eliminate the council’s ability to confirm mayoral appointments. Most of all, a bill sponsored by Indianapolis Sen. Michael Young would cut the council’s four at-large seats, reducing the size of the City-County Council from 29 to 25. Wouldn’t you know those four at-large seats are what give Democrats their current council majority? For his part, Ballard has been remarkably coy on this issue. Asked whether he supported Young’s proposal, the mayor demurred, telling The Indianapolis Star, “I learned a long time ago not to comment on any state legislator’s bills. … We’ll let the process go on.” Thanks for your leadership, Mr. Mayor. Young’s poison pill could again make it impossible for Democrats to cast the votes necessary for a transit bill to succeed. As mentioned above, this Republican game playing echoes the kind of anti-voter sentiment that seems to be the latest craze among Republican pols. Prior to the 2012 elections, Republicans did whatever they could to make voting as difficult as possible for people in traditionally Democrat-leaning districts. This resulted in achingly long lines at polling places in states like Florida, Virginia and Ohio. The expectation was that long waits would discourage voters who would give up and go home in frustration. Republicans would then have a better chance of winning, even though their numbers were, in fact, smaller. This ploy didn’t work. So now Republicans are floating an idea to rejigger the way states are counted in the electoral college. A state’s electoral votes would not be based on the popular vote, but would be divided according to the number of districts won by a candidate. Since most states have more rural and suburban districts than urban districts, this would mean that large urban populations would be discounted. In the last election this would have made Mitt Romney president. Anti-urban bias is already rampant in Indiana. Republican super-majorities in the House and Senate reflect this. We live in a state that looks with suspicion at city life and considers efforts to bolster and enhance urbanity, such as better mass transit, a self-indulgence. That’s a dangerous game. As Urbanophile blogger Aaron Renn has noted, the metro Indy area accounted for virtually all of the state’s net economic growth during the past decade. Indiana’s future is inextricably tied to our city’s continued well-being. But when it comes to that well-being, Republicans think they know what’s best for us. They sure don’t want us to vote.

It’s not as though some sort of mass transit boondoggle is being foisted on us.

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

I-70 was site of a fifty car, truck chaotic pile-up a Canadian man killed, multiple lives were forever altered nearby, elephants disembarked their trailer and shivered in the cold snowy conditions and a hell-bent hurry were cited as causes perfect example of the tragedy of the carmons — er, commons and t’was not the sole interstate suffering such a horrific fate in Michigan three were killed in a thirty car chain-reaction crash near Cincinnati some one hundred vehicles were tangled together the state motto of Indiana is “Crossroads of America” I keep thinking of those massive beasts, cold, confused, helpless to forget

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN LEVEE LOQUACITY

Catch a glimpse of open government in action on Thursday, Feb. 7, when representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Louisville District and the City of Indianapolis host an open house to answer questions on the latest phase of levee work in the Indianapolis North Flood Damage Reduction Project — the piece that runs south along the White River from the Kessler Bridge to the Rivera Club. No formal presentation is scheduled, but representatives will be available for public questions from 5 to 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 6050 N. Meridian St. As per the more controversial segment further south near Rocky Ripple, a Corps spokeswoman said Tuesday that no plans have yet been finalized, but emphasized the Corps’ position that, once completed, the project “would not inundate them (Rocky Ripple residents) or a create a fish bowl of any kind; it would be status quo.”

MASS TRANSIT ACTION

Indiana Citizens’ Alliance for Transit asks all in support of modernized mass transit in Indy to join them at the Statehouse for a Transit Day rally next Wednesday, Feb. 13. “Whatever your motivation for supporting transit … this is the day to show up and let those who represent you know how you feel,” ICAT Coordinator Kim Irwin said in a news release announcing the event. “Let’s make sure they hear us loud and clear.” Attendees are asked to meet at 10 a.m. at the Indiana History Center for a briefing before the 11:30 a.m. Statehouse rally. There is no cost to participate, but those interested must register at indianacat.org/transit-day/.

FORGIVENESS SCHOOL

Thumbs up for genocide survivors working to promote forgiveness as a means to global conflict resoluton. Eva Moses Kor, a Holocaust survivor, and Kizito Kalmia, a Rwanda Genocide, survivor held the recent workshop “Forgiveness: The Power to Change the World” with the support of Ian McIntosh of IUPUI’s Office of International Affairs, the United States Institute of Peace, Center for Interfaith Cooperation, and the Amohoro Project for Forgiveness and Peace. “Wow, I am a human being again,” Kizito said, explaining his experience with the liberating effect of forgiveness. The 80 participants who attended the day-long workshop, and an additional 40 on a waiting list, underscored Indy’s interest in promoting peace. “Forgiveness is not forgetting,” concluded one of the events break-out groups, “though it may be a different way of remembering.”

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news State jobless fund deficit nears $2 billion Workers cast as “sacrificial lambs”

BY FRA N Q U I G LE Y E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T

f this was supposed to be a vacation, Renissa Pinner was not enjoying it much. Pinner, a teacher assistant with a preschool program on the southwest side of Indianapolis, had been laid off in June. The layoff was a common occurrence during Pinner’s 12 years working for the not-for-profit Head Start provider Family Development Services. The company relies on federal funding that does not allow it to pay all of its employees during the summer months. But the blow of the layoffs was always softened by Pinner receiving unemployment insurance benefits through the federal-state program that provides a safety net for workers who lose their job through no fault of their own. Pinner’s unemployment checks were a fraction of her usual salary, but they helped. “A couple hundred dollars a week is a lot better than nothing,” she said. Then, in the summer of 2012, Pinner received a notice from the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. The state had ruled that she was on “unpaid vacation,” and terminated her unemployment benefits. Worse yet, the state agency demanded Pinner pay back the benefits she had received so far that year. “That was my only source of income,” she said. “It really, really put me in a bad spot.” Pinner fell behind on her utility and car payments and fielded threatening calls from creditors. But Pinner’s church helped her out, and her landlord agreed to be patient on the rent until Pinner was able to be rehired. Her co-workers were also cut off from unemployment benefits. One colleague, a pregnant mother of three, could not make a rent payment and was evicted from her apartment. Pinner let the family move in with her. The laid-off workers found prospective employers reluctant to hire people who were hoping to resume their longtime job in just a few weeks. Some of the Family Development Services worker had their cars repossessed and struggled to meet basic needs. “You are talking about three months of groceries people are not able to buy,” Pinner’s co-worker Lubie Gurnell said. Gurnell, who has driven buses for Head Start students for 31 years, was able to avoid foreclosure on her home last summer only by dipping into savings she had set aside for retirement. She said she is not sure how long she and her colleagues can endure an annual pattern of multiple months with zero income.

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Renissa Pinner (left) and Lubie Gurnell are among many Indiana workers who have been blocked from receiving unemployment benefi ts when they are laid off in summer months.

not getting paid for it,” Gurnell said. Most of “A lot of people left the job this year the affected workers have appealed the rulbecause of the unemployment issue, and you ings, which were upheld in late December by need qualified people to run these programs,” the state’s review board for unemployment Gurnell said. “We are all going to be in trouble insurance. Attorneys for the workers say if this keeps happening.” they intend to appeal those decisions to the Unemployment insurance claims are paid from a federal trust that is funded by employ- Indiana Court of Appeals. The workers and their supporters say ers paying premiums in the form of payroll Indiana lawmakers have knowingly undertaxes. When an individual state’s employers’ funded unemployment insurance for many fund contributions do not cover the amount years, and now are demanding laid-off of unemployment claims coming from that workers pay the price. Historically, Indiana state’s workers, the state government borapplied the lowest unemployment tax rate rows from the federal trust fund to pay the on employers allowed by law, along with claims. In part due to the recession and setting the amount of employee wages subresulting job losses, Indiana and many other ject to the tax at the lowest allowable level. states have been borrowing heavily from the Insufficient employer contributions were federal trust fund for several years. As of late December, according to the U.S. Department digging Indiana into a hole, and state and federal officials knew it. of Labor, Indiana owes For example, U.S. $1.8 billion to the U.S. to Department of Labor reimburse unemployment reports show that, at the insurance claims above its end of 2007, Indiana was employers’ contributions. underfunding unemThe surprises last sumployment by 22 percent mer for Pinner, Gurnell compared to recomand hundreds of other mended levels. When the Indiana school bus drivrecession hit in 2008 and ers, teacher assistants, 2009, and Indiana was and school cafeteria workpaying out $3 or more in ers were the culmination unemployment benefits of events that began in the for every $1 collected Indiana General Assembly from employers, the in 2011. In March of — Lubie Gurnell state’s deficit was explodthat year, the General Head Start Bus Driver with ing. Indiana has slightly Assembly passed and Family Development Services raised the amount it colGov. Mitch Daniels signed lects from employers, but a new law that slightly the U.S. Department of raised some employers’ Labor still said the state is taxing employers contributions to the fund and reduced benat a rate well below recommended levels for efits to some laid-off Indiana workers. The adequate financing. new law included a provision that barred “Clearly, Indiana legislators hate tax Indiana workers from receiving unemployincreases, which is why they underfunded ment insurance benefits if they were not the unemployment insurance tax fund being paid because of their employers’ “regto begin with,” said Rick McHugh, an ular vacation policy and practice.” attorney with the National Employment The Indiana Department of Workforce Law Project. McHugh represents several Development cites this law as the basis for dozen Anderson, Ind. school bus company cutting off Pinner, Gurnell, and the others. employees who had their unemployment The workers don’t see the connection. benefits cut off this summer. “You can’t call this a vacation when we are

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“So now Indiana is making unemployed workers the sacrificial lambs,” he said. Indianapolis attorney William Groth, who represents Pinner, Gurnell, and several other school-year workers appealing the decisions, said he recognizes Indiana’s need to address the imbalance in the unemployment insurance trust fund. “But it is unconscionable that the state feels it should pay down the unemployment insurance trust fund deficit by excluding otherwise deserving workers from benefits,” Groth said. Indiana Department of Workforce Development spokesperson Joe Frank said the agency is simply applying the new law as written by the legislature. Judging from the agency’s arguments in front of the review board, it also appears that the Department of Workforce Development feels that employers like Family Development Services have been receiving a free ride at the expense of the trust fund. During the appeals of the summer 2012 cut-offs, Department of Workforce Development Deputy Commissioner Joshua Richardson introduced records showing the companies’ employees had drawn far more benefits than the companies had contributed to the trust fund. Yet the companies had paid all the State of Indiana had asked of them, worker advocates respond. And it was the workers, not the companies, who had their checks stopped. “This is happening because the legislators and the Daniels administration decided to reduce the trust fund deficit without raising taxes on employers, and I don’t know if it is any more complicated than that,” Groth said. Pinner and Gurnell are back at work now, but they are worried about what this summer will bring. They consider themselves fortunate to have weathered the unexpected loss of weekly checks last year, but they are not sure what they and their coworkers will do if the state’s decisions are upheld. “I wish they could realize how devastating this was for people, and how it caused a lot of hardship,” Pinner said. “This is people’s livelihood you are messing with.” Mass transit bill takes first big step by Natavia Howell Pence names Lake County judge to head DCS by Samm Quinn

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NEWS Sisterhood in Solidarity Activists around the world — including several in Indianapolis — will take to the streets Feb. 14, embracing the transformative power of dance with the One Billion Rising movement to raise awareness of the worldwide plague of violence against women. The action launches on the 15th anniversary of V-Day, an annual action celebrated with performances of Eve Ensler’s “Vagina Monologues.” So far, V-Day organizers report raising more than $90 million, enabling global-scale education and outreach. Now Ensler has called for The Rise. By late January, events were set in 190 countries. “One Billion Rising is about simply rising, dancing, and not staying silent when one billion women around the world are experiencing patriarchal violence,” Mary Kate Dugan, president of the Indiana National Organization for Women, said in an email exchange. NOW is helping to organize a dance action at noon, Feb. 14 on Monument Circle. “We believe every day should be violence awareness, but on V-day we dance,” said organizers of the Julian Center event, which will kick off at 3 p.m. “We dance with the nation and we dance with the world to show we are rising against this global problem.” Consider these statistics provided by the Julian Center:

In 2012 the Julian Center provided shelter to over 1,100 women and children who were fleeing or made homeless by domestic abuse. [Since Beacon of Hope opened in 2009, they’ve helped an additional 4,000.] In Indiana, one in every seven women is a victim of rape. “I hope that One Billion Rising opens the conversation about violence and sexual assault on all levels of the community,” Angela Leisure, another organizer of the Downtown event wrote in an email. “This has got to stop. We won’t hide in silence any longer, together we are stronger and more powerful than we are alone, and we don’t have to be alone … “We are not willing to remain Victims forever. I am a Victor, I am still here, I will not be told to sit down and shut up ever again… “Strong women, and strong men are speaking up, they are speaking out against the small, weak people who have to resort to this kind of pervasive violence to keep women in line, and under control.” Such awareness-raising activities have made a difference, said Terry Moore, executive director at Beacon of Hope. “Domestic violence is no longer a best keep secret,” she wrote. “I want to see more companies, organizations, churches, and individuals get behind all of us working tirelessly to make our communities a safer place. I want domestic violence awareness to be out there just as much as cancer awareness because we are losing too many lives to domestic violence – 63, to be exact, from June 2011-July 2012.

Strike! Dance! Rise! WAYS TO GET INVOLVED • Download the music, posters, stencils and other materials at onebillionrising.org • Learn the dance (via the illustrious choreographer Debbie Allen’s free tutorial at TinyURL.com/OBRdance) • Buy a shirt or other stylin’ OBR accessories at vday.spreadshirt. com. (Act immediately to receive by Feb. 14.) • Clothe yourself in red, hit the streets and dance! OTHER RELATED HAPPENINGS INCLUDE • The 15th anniversary performances of the Vagina Monologues Feb, 21-23 at The Church Within, 1125 Spruce St., in Fountain Square. • Tune in to “Ending Violence Against Women,” a webinar from 1-2 p.m., Feb. 9., featuring Eleanor Smeal, founder of The Feminist Majority Foundation and two-time president of the National Organization for Women. Register at globalsolutions.org/evaw • Ongoing lobby to re-engage U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., with the Violence Against Women Act. (U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., is a co-sponsor.)

One Billion Rising – Indy ALL EVENTS SET FOR V-DAY, FEB. 14 • Dance Strike Feb. 14, 2013 | Noon Monument Circle • One Billion and Rising with Demia Feb 14, 2013 | 12:45 p.m. Butler University Mall • The Julian Center Rises Feb 14, 2013 | 3 p.m. 2011 N Meridian St.

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Back row: Mary Byrne, Christie Clayton, and Ginny Babbitt In the drawing: IYG founders Chris Gonzalez and Jeff Werner

Indiana Youth Group

Celebrating 25 years of providing a safe haven for LGBTQ youth

s the youth and staff at Indiana Youth Group (IYG) will tell you, “Everyone is welcome at IYG.” Located in a small grayish house on the northeast side of Indianapolis, IYG provides a safe haven where self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth are empowered through programs, support services, social and leadership opportunities, and community service. “The first time the youth walk through the door, IYG tells them they are OK. That makes all the difference in the world for them,” Executive Director Mary Byrne says. Seventeen-year-old Yriel, a gay Hispanic youth attending a small, college preparatory Catholic high school agrees. “This place saves lives,” he says.

IYG’s beginnings Indiana Youth Group began in 1987 when Gay and Lesbian Switchboard operators weren’t allowed to assist callers who were under 18. At the time, the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard was a help line where people could call in for information, resources and support on LGBTQ topics. In response to the dismal suicide, homeless and dropout rates of self-identified LGBT youth in Indianapolis, Chris Gonzalez and his partner Jeff Werner opened their living room on Thursday evenings to give LGBTQ youth a place to go and talk.

One of the oldest continually running LGBT youth service organizations in the country, IYG has grown and accomplished much over its 25-year history. With an ongoing commitment to helping Indiana’s LGBTQ youth, IYG has opened an activity center, implemented youth, school and community programming, supported or formed gay-straight alliances (GSA) and educated business leaders, churches, social workers, health care professionals, school counselors, juvenile criminal-justice workers and many other organizations through LGBT Cultural Competency training. Byrne notes that most youth struggle with the normal craziness of adolescence. “But when you add on top of that this aspect of themselves that they don’t quite understand,” she says, “and then when they start understanding it, they can’t talk about it with anyone. It results in total isolation. Many of the youth are between a rock and a hard place. They need to talk to someone, but they have no idea who is safe.” IYG offers them not only safety but also self-acceptance, confidence, mentoring, leadership opportunities, resilience and community.

Transforming lives at-risk The youth who arrive at IYG come from diverse ethnic, racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. They are also highly at-risk, says IYG Program Director, Christie Clayton. “LGBT youth are at higher

risk for suicide, homelessness, alcohol and drug abuse, and other at-risk behaviors.” To counter these risks, IYG offers a variety of programming. Clayton notes that IYG has discussion groups where the youth can talk about coming out, problems with their families, school or relationships. IYG also offers interesting programs like ‘Ask a Doc,’ where medical students come in and field questions on health topics. Clayton emphasizes that at IYG, it’s not strictly LGBTQ programs. “We have all different kinds of programs, including art and writing programs, so that they can have self-expression.” The youth also create informal knitting clubs, movie and book discussions, scrapbooking, and other interest groups. In addition to the staff and volunteers who remain on site with the youth at all times, the facility also maintains a strict no smoking and no drinking policy. “We even have dinner. It’s always a good thing for adolescents to have food,” Byrne says. She is quick to add that there is nothing as important as the youth feeling accepted and loved at home. “If these kids don’t have that love, that’s when you get eight times the amount of depression and suicide, five times the amount of at-risk behavior, three times the amount of tobacco use, and so on.”[see sidebar, right] She emphasizes that the bottom line is helping the youth accept themselves. “I hope that when they leave here they can say, ‘I’m OK.’ And when you have that

base good feeling about yourself, you’re not going out and doing risky things. You are not as depressed, and you do not feel like you need to end it all. We want them to feel good about themselves and become healthy, happy adults … Isn’t that what everyone wants?”

If experiencing a high level of parental rejection, LGBT youth are… • 8.5 times more likely to... attempt suicide • 6 times more likely to report high levels of depression • 3.5 times more likely to use drugs • 3.5 times more likely to... engage in unprotected sex Source: Ryan, C., Huebner, D., Diaz, R. M., & Sanchez, J. (2009). Family rejection as a predictor of negative health outcomes in white and Latina lesbian, gay and bisexual young adults. Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 123, 346-352.

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Meet the youth NUVO spoke with five youth at IYG:

JOE, age 19, graduated from a private Catholic high school and self-identifies as a gay male. “I started coming here the summer before my senior year, 2011,” he says. “The main reason I came here was because there was no GSA [gay/straight alliance] or anything like that at my school. Everything was hush-hush, you really didn’t talk about it and there was no need to talk about it. I didn’t know anybody who was also LGBT ... I came here to connect with other people.”

KACEY, age 17, attends an Indianapolis charter school. She self-identifies as lesbian. “Before we moved,” she says, “I went to school in the middle of the cornfield and almost everyone was a farmer, and it was very conservative and very traditional. [A] hometown, backwoods kind of school. It wasn’t really OK or safe for me to be out. So when I was 16, I came here. We had moved away from the school ... and I kind of found a home away from home at IYG.”

The “coming out” process is not about sex YRIEL: “When I came out, I first posted it on Facebook, because that was the easiest way.” He laughs. “I started getting text messages and calls from people. Most of them were positive though.” Pausing, he says, “Then, the hardest part was coming out to my mom. I remember, it was one morning and we were driving to school. I told her, ‘Mom, I like guys.’ She stopped the car. Turned the lights on. And then she asked me if I knew how to use a condom. And she started having this sex conversation. It was uncomfortable.” SHAWN: “[Having an older sister who had already come out] made it a little easier for my parents because they realized ‘OK, we have one more child who identifies as LGBT.’ That made it a little easier on me. My friends, most of them are really supportive. I did lose a couple of friends, but I realized maybe it’s for the best.” JOE: “I really began to think about the idea when I was about 14, in eighth grade. I didn’t know what to think of it. For the longest time, up until about my junior year, I went back and forth … Maybe I should tell someone. Maybe I shouldn’t. It wasn’t until the end of my junior year that I actually told a

SHAWN, age 19, graduated last year from South Port High School. He is a black male who self-identifies as gay. “When I started coming to IYG, I started getting more acceptance from my friends and more accepting of myself, he says. So I guess you could say that helped with my self-esteem and also helped me feel like I belong somewhere with a community of my own.”

single soul face to face … Then I told a group of friends I was really close with. For some reason, I thought it would be the worst, but they were actually OK with it. I can remember one of my friends said, ‘Joe, you must have balls of steel to be telling me this. I have nothing but respect for you.’ So, when it comes to my friends, they know and for the most part they are perfectly OK with it. I’ve never gotten a bad comment about it. “But when it comes to my family, on the other hand, that’s where the issues arise. I feel like I’ve given signs. I have hinted that I might be gay. I mean there are certain things I’m interested in that your average [heterosexual] guy is into, but there is other stuff that you typically don’t see. I guess one reason I haven’t told them is because my sister would be OK and same with my mom; they have a variety of friends who are gay or LGBT, but when it comes to my dad, he is sort of the lone one out when it comes to my family and his family. He is the lone conservative Republican out of all of them. We were talking about marriage awhile back and he said, ‘I think it’s only between a man and woman.’ “But I think that’s hypocritical because he’s divorced. Why should he be able to say what he thinks constitutes marriage . . .. His opinions scare me. Sometimes, I feel like he doesn’t actually love me. I’m always afraid that something like this might make that very obvious.” He is silent for a moment, then adds: “He supports me in a number of ways. He is the

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YRIEL, a 17-year-old senior at a Catholic high school, is Hispanic and self-identifies as gay. “I was really shy at first and my grades at school were just OK. Most of them were Cs and Ds. I was really, really shy when I came here. I just sat in the corner and didn’t talk to anyone and avoided everyone. Then, little by little, I started talking to the staff and then I joined IYG youth council. It gave me an opportunity to put my voice out there and make my ideas come to life. I grew from there, and I’m a new person thanks to IYG.” Yriel’s grades, he happily reports, are now mostly “A”s.

one paying for my apartment and allowing me to live there. I don’t want to be ostracized. I don’t want to be rejected.” MICHAEL: “I’ve been thinking about [coming out as a female-to-male transgender] for as long as I can remember, since I was a small child. … All my friends were lesbians and I had that group of friends. I was afraid if I came out I would lose that and it wouldn’t be the same as it used to be because I wouldn’t be one of them. Coming out at school was hard because I was on a girl’s sports team and I’m in choir. I do a lot of things that are gender specific. At the time I came out, I was becoming more involved in things so my name was known. “It’s just hard to come out and change everything, change your name and... I started to tell people at school and I started to tell my friends…I’ve lost a lot of friends, friends I didn’t think I would lose at all. I tell people and they’re fine if it is just a small group of people, but they tell other people and a lot of people know and a lot of people come to me and ask me about it in very rude ways and they ask me if I’m the “he/she” that goes to (name of school withheld). If I ever have to go to the bathroom, people watch me to see what bathroom I’m going to go into. I used to be in a weights program, and I’ve quit that because I got tired of

MICHAEL, a 16-year-old, is a junior in an Indianapolis public high school who came out in his sophomore year. Soft-spoken, Michael self-identifies as Female-to-Male transgender. “This place just really helped me get through things, especially in school. It’s really, really hard to go through a transition when you’re in high school. If I’m having troubles, I can talk to Christie [Clayton] and she’ll help me get hold of someone… if I ever need any references, she’s always there. She always has everything you need, and even if you don’t ask for help, they come to you and ask you if you need it. That’s what’s great about this place. It changed my life. I know I wouldn’t be where I am today without IYG.”

people asking what locker room I was going to use. I wouldn’t even use the locker room; I would use the handicap bathroom. It’s just been really hard. “My mom is supportive for the most part. She is getting a lot better than she was in the beginning. She is learning to accept me for who I am. Learning to tell her friends and making it easier on me so if someone asks her she is not embarrassed. It’s not just me coming out. It affected my best friends at the time, which is why I’ve lost them. It affected my entire family in ways I can’t control and ways that kept me from coming out for a really long time because I didn’t want to hurt anyone else.”

Parents must also “come out” IYG Executive Director Mary Byrne would like funding to support IYG programming to help parents come to terms with their child being gay, lesbian, or transgender. “Because the acceptance and rejection by parents is so important to the self-esteem of these young people, we want to have a program to help parents, she says. It is a unique situation because it ends up that a parent has to come out too.” Byrne acknowledges that it may take an LGBT person a long time to come to terms with who they are. Yet, they may expect others to be OK with it overnight. “There’s a lot of

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information that people need to receive and issues they have to work through,” she says. “If you are a parent, are you going to put a picture of your son with his boyfriend on your desk at work? Are you going to talk to your pastor? Is it going to come up at church? Are people going to be OK with you having a lesbian daughter? There are ramifications to parents and families when a child comes out.” Byrne adds IYG programs that help parents will ultimately benefit the youth. “The youth come here, but they all have to go home.” IYG advocates on behalf of LGBT youth in schools, in the community, and through family support service. Byrne explains that the mission of IYG includes creating many safe places in the community for the young people going out into it. “We have a lot of speaking engagements, conferences, and cultural competency trainings. We are willing to come to any business, social service agency, any church, any group that wants to learn and become more welcoming. We are very willing to come out and speak to them, and we can customize our training for that group.”

Gay-Straight Alliances: helping in the schools Graham Brinklow is the IYG education outreach coordinator. “I have two aspects to my job,” he says. “My main job is to facilitate the gay-straight alliance network and I go out to schools and help them start or re-start GSA or give them ideas on how to change things in their schools or communities.” A gay-straight alliance is a club for LGBT youth and their straight allies who meet to see what they can do to reduce homophobia and transphobia in their schools. Brinklow says the GSA tries to educate. “Sometimes it’s a support group or socializing group or they might do advocacy in their schools, trying to change

policies or educate their schoolmates on LGBT “In order for you to be welcoming and stereotypes, such as not calling someone a fagfor a teenager to know that you might be got or dike and things of that sort.” a safe person to talk to, you have to start The second part of Brinklow’s job is LGBT talking to all youth in a way that includes Cultural Competency training. He explains that LGBT youth.” IYG talks to organizations about basic terms Ginny Babbitt, IYG volunteer coordinator and phrases in the LGBT community. “We adds, “We are such a youth friendly city and so give them a basic knowledge, such as etiquette many nonprofits are focused on youth work. I towards trans or gender-variant members of would like to collaborate more and bring LGBT the community, or what they can do to help into the other youth organizations. We have students or youth or adults.” our differences, but in general we’re all workBrinklow speaks ing for the same cause with college classes, of building confidence especially for edufor youth who will be cation and social going to college in a work majors. He few years and, hopehas also done trainfully, avoiding the brain ing for colleges, drain within Indiana. churches, departWe can work at ment of social serkeeping these youth vices, future foster involved in the busiparents, the Marion nesses here in Indy if –– IYG Executive Director Mary Byrne County Juvenile they’ve had a positive Justice Department experience growing and front-line caseup here.” workers, the EEOC, sexual assault caseworkers, along with a wide variety of businesses and organizations. “I tweak the training and specialize it for SHAWN: “I’m going to college for social work. I certain groups,” he says. “I also work with hope to be a case manager either at a hoshomeless shelters and domestic violence shelpital or IYG. I hope to get my BA and then ters and do trainings for them as well ... trying masters at IUPUI. And I hope to give back to talk about proper support and housing for to the IYG community.” gay men or trans women ... depending on how feminine they are, sending them to some of the JOE: “I want the all-American dream: a nice city shelters is not safe.” career, a husband beside me, kids, family and friends. I do not know quite what I want to do for a career anymore, but my main intention is that I want to help people. This “The very first thing is don’t assume that place is helping, and so I want to give back. all teenagers are heterosexual,” Byrne says. I want to be involved with the community “Instead of asking, ‘Do you have a boyfriend or and try to make this place as great as it can do you have a girlfriend?’ You might ask, ‘Are be and just be there for people. IYG has been you dating anyone?’ Words are very important there for people. It has made me want to when you want to convey to a young person strive to be the best I can be.” that you are OK with whoever they are.”

They need to talk to someone, but they have no idea who is safe.

Future dreams

How you can help

Ways to assist IYG’s mission: 1. Go to www.indianayouthgroup.org and make a donation. “That is something we’re always going to need to keep doors open and expand our services,” Byrne says.

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2. Volunteer. If the money is scarce and concerned citizens have three or four hours a month, they can come in and help work with youth or help with a fundraising event or bring in food. “There’s a wide range of ways people can help if they want to be physically involved.” Byrne says.

3. Organize LGBT Cultural Competency training in your school, church, or organization. “You’re sending a great message if you’re willing to have us talk to your agency, business, or congregation about LGBT youth,” Byrne says.

YRIEL: “I want to go to college and get into nursing school. I also like math so maybe accounting or become a college professor. That’s my dream.” MICHAEL: “For a long time I thought I wanted to be a firefighter, and I finally passed my physical tests and I was so excited... I still don’t know. I want to go into public speaking but what would I do with that? Since I was a little kid, I wanted to go into politics but with my situation ... it’s really unheard of. People are supportive of it, but the entire country is not supportive. I’m not going to give up on my dreams. I’m just trying to figure out what I can do that is realistic.” KACEY: “I don’t know what I want to do right now. I’m majoring in psychology. I hope to go to IUPUI. I don’t really know what I would do with psychology yet. I’m interested in mental diseases, and I always had this picture in my head of getting into the FBI and doing profiling, as a field agent... but I’m not sure. I don’t want to limit myself and that’s where I get stuck. But right now, psychology.”

IYG saves lives YRIEL: “This place has saved many lives. It kept us away from drugs and all the bad things out there. It educates us ... how to prevent things from happening.” KACEY: “I agree that IYG saves lives because I couldn’t tell you how many times somebody had either come to me or one of my friends talking about how depressed they were and how they didn’t feel the drive to keep going and were so depressed that they were contemplating suicide. Christie’s door is always open. This place does a lot of good. If people helped us financially, then we could keep going and do more good. And the better our society will be.” • Visit: www.indianayouthgroup.org • LGBTQ in need could also contact The Trevor Project, a 24-hour, 365-days-a year hotline at 1-866-4U-TREVOR for LGBTQ youth in crisis (i.e. suicidal, homeless, abused, or just if they have questions and are too embarrassed to ask anyone they know); or online at www.thetrevorhelpline.org.

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Naked Boys Singing @ Theatre on the Square The title says all you need to know about Naked Boys Singing, Theatre on the Square’s February show. They are men, they will be naked and they will sing for you if you’re nice. And former NUVO theater critic Lisa Gauthier just loved it to death when it was staged at the Phoenix in 2004: “It teases you about your natural inclination to stare at seven penises proudly presented, and it pokes fun at the penis itself.” That’s a mouthful there: “penises proudly presented.” Through March 2, tickets $20-25, tots.org

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5X5: Revolutionize Your City @ Big Car Service Center This week, Big Car will become the first host in a year-long series of four idea-pitching events that come with quite the reward. At each 5X5, five speakers will present his or her idea via five slides and using a maximum of five minutes to make the pitch. All ideas must somehow involve the arts. The winner — as decided upon by a judging process coordinated by the hosting organization — will receive $10,000 to make that idea a reality. The host is also in charge of designing each event and selecting the finalists, which Big Car is doing in collaboration with tech and design outfits Dreamopolis, Idea Architects, IndySpectator, KA+A, The Levinson Center, SmallBox and Verge on selecting presenters and the winner. Big Car is calling its 5X5 event Revolutionize Your City: Art + Technology = Innovation, and, as such, solicited ideas that bring together technology (primitive, high-tech or anywhere in between) and art. the other organizations presenting 5X5 events this year are People for Urban Progress (also involved in this week’s Jabberwocky, incidentally), IndyHub and the Harrison Center for the Arts. The Central Indiana Community Foundation, the Efroymson Family Fund and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation are funding the events and grants. 7 p.m. @ 3819 Lafayette Road, free, bigcar.org

Shoshana Bean: Get Happy, the Streisand Songbook @ The Cabaret

The Lincolns: Five Generations of an American Family @ Indiana State Museum

It is as it sounds: Shoshana Bean, a Broadway vet who was in the original Broadway cast of Hairspray and who took over Idina Menzel’s role in Wicked on Broadway and in a national tour, will sing all her faves from Streisand’s repertoire, including “Cry Me a River,” “On a Clear Day” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” The three-night run precedes the Feb. 12 release of her second album, O’Farrell Street, a Kickstarter financed soul and R&B record.

The State of Indiana just happens to possess one of the world’s largest collections of Lincoln artifacts, the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, donated to the state in 2008. And now it’s time to show it off. An exhibition opening Saturday at the Indiana State Museum will feature more than 150 objects that together tell the story of Lincoln and his extended family, from his mother and father who established their homestead in the early 19th century to his last direct descendent. The show includes the largest-ever exhibition of pages from “sum book” since its pages were separated, a copy of a land grant given to the President’s grandfather in 1780 in Louisville; a German porcelain figure belong-

Feb. 14-16, 8 p.m. @ The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle; tickets $35-55 ($12 food or beverage minimum); thecabaret.org

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Meet the Artists 25th Anniversary Celebration @ Central Library

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Brazilian Carnaval @ The Jazz Kitchen It’s that time of year again: Carnaval, Brazil’s gift to the world, which is best celebrated in the Indy area at The Jazz Kitchen with Cultural Cannibals. The Kitchen’s show will feature the IU Brazilian Ensemble, a 25-plus drummer samba band led by IU professor Michael Spiro; DJ Kyle Long playing authentic Brazilian music; visuals by artist Artur Silva (Long and Silva together make up the Cultural Cannibals, of course); a menu featuring Brazilian food; and a bar churning out the caipirinhas at $5 a pop. 10 p.m., tickets $12, culturalcannibals.org

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It’s the 25th anniversary of Meet the Artists, The Indianapolis Public Library’s outstanding showcase for the state’s AfricanAmerican artists. Titled World Outside My Window: A Silver Soiree, the show opened last Friday. But this Saturday is the event’s opening gala, a music and entertainmentfilled event starting from 5:45 p.m. and 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; and 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 art show is up through March 23 and includes work by Eric Shelton, Jerome W. Chambers, D. DelReverda-Jennings, Brittany Tate, Michele Wood and Michael Gillespie. 5:45-10 p.m. @ 40 E. St. Clair St., free, imcpl.org

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Jabberwocky @ IndyFringe Theatre

ing to Mart Todd; a desk set from the LincolnHerndon Law Office in Springfield, circa 1850; and a letter from the President’s son Robert Todd Lincoln to a friend dated 1870. Copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment are already on display and will remain so until March 2. Feb. 9-August 4, included with regular museum admission ($9 adults, $8.50 seniors, $5 children), indianamuseum.org

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This month’s Jabberwocky, which offers us ordinary folk a chance to tell a story in front of a crowd of other ordinary folk, is being coordinated by People for Urban Progress and is on the theme of urban adventures. PUP is certainly one of the most adventurous organizations out there, prowling the alleys and tributaries of our city on the search for that which can be reused, from the seats at Bush Stadium to the roof of the RCA Dome to those coin-operated parking meters that disappeared when parking was dubiously privatized. PUP will line up several guest tellers, but the second half of the program is given over to audience members, who are encouraged to share a three to four minute story about urban adventuring. Jabberwocky is presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana and IndyFringe Theatre. 5:30-7:30 p.m., free (with appetizers and cash bar), storytellingarts.org

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ComedySportz Indianapolis 20th Anniversary Gala @ Athenaeum Theatre This weekend ComedySportz Indianapolis will celebrate twenty years of laughter with a gala event at the Athenaeum. After two decades in business together — and a series of ups and downs that included a serious health scare — owners Mia Roberts, Lynn Burger and Ed Trout have learned that comedy is indeed a serious business. The trio met in the late ‘80s when, while in their early twenties, they were all working with a little theatre called Way Off Broadway. “We were doing Paradise Now,” Ed Trout recalls. “It was an updated version of the 1960s activist theatre, dealing with AIDS and Apartheid…the current issues of 25 years ago.” And then the troupe agreed to perform the show — a serious drama, to be sure — at a late night fundraiser for battered women. “We were going on at 3 a.m. after this big, raucous band,” Trout says. “We looked at the crowd and it was like ... they’re not going to get it. So we just did an improvised set together. From that came a group called Below the Belt. [It] was sort of half sketch and half improvisation.” This Second City-esque comedy troupe had very humble beginnings. “We rehearsed in people’s living rooms,” remembers Roberts, who joined the group after running into a friend at a gay bar.

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“Our first show was at Tomorrow, which was a bar that was on Meridian Street,” says Burger. The troupe found themselves performing in a number of restaurants and bars that have since gone the way of history. As the players jumped from location to location, they eventually learned about ComedySportz, an improv comedy format developed in Milwaukee in the early ‘80s that features two teams of improvisors (or actletes) playing various improv games for points awarded by the audience. The concept has been licensed to independentlyowned ComedySportz operations located in cities throughout the U.S. (as well as in Manchester and Berlin). “We were in a transition period with Below the Belt,” says Roberts. “It was a good time to do something different. If we could have children come to the show and it was family-friendly, we thought that would be more marketable.” ComedySportz Indianapolis made its first home at Theatre on the Square, then in Fountain Square, where the group performed late night shows after TOTS regular season shows were done for the night. Each night they dragged out four painted flats to set up within the confines of whatever scenic design was on stage. Trout recalls the most difficult of which was the set for Nine, which “had a big fountain in the middle of the stage.” “Ron Spencer was very kind,” says Roberts. “He took us in… and allowed us to perform a lot. He charged us hardly any money. He understood that we had this vision, that we had this dream.” But they lost their space six months later, when TOTS moved to Mass Ave and could no longer accommodate the group. The team found a new home in a store-

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front on the corner of 30th Street and Kessler Avenue, a less than ideal location that soon gave way to a dream space downtown. “This space right before us was Raleigh’s Dinner Theatre,” says Trout. “I had been in a few musical cabarets here, and I always thought it would be great for us. One day I was driving by and there was a for-lease sign in the window.” The trio pounced on the location at 721 Massachusetts Avenue, where they still live today. “We were here before Mass Ave was cool. Up here [on the northeast end of Mass Ave] it was kind of tumbleweeds,” says Burger. But the trio didn’t care, because the move offered three important advancements: greater visibility, increased media coverage and double the audience capacity. And over time, ComedySportz began to see the area change. More businesses — and in particular, family-friendly businesses — opened over time on the Mass Ave. “We were a family-friendly venue and I think that opened it up for other people to look at the area and see it not just as a bar hang out,” says Trout. “Silver In the City opened, as did Nurture and Mass Ave Toys. It’s not a night club hang out place, like Broad Ripple; it’s a little more urban family.” “As the years go on,” adds Burger, “we’ve come to represent a certain amount of stability. When we first came down here, we saw a lot of places come and go quickly, and they still do to some degree. But more and more, places are coming and becoming viable.”

However, it wasn’t always a smooth road. Roberts and Trout remember watching the events of 9/11 on a tiny television at the office. Both were working full-time for the theater at the time. “Ed and I couldn’t pick up the phone that day or the next day or the next week or the next month,” recalls Roberts. “The entire country was just sad, and we’re here selling comedy. We started taking a hit financially, and we couldn’t afford for both of us to work here. That’s when I went and got a [different] job. I really think we could have lost our business during that time.” Roberts found work as a legal secretary while Trout held down the fort at the theater. Burger continued to work as an accountant for the Indiana Sports Corporation. Six months after Roberts started her new full-time job, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “It really is very good that I’m the one that went to get the other job,” says Roberts, “because at the time [Ed and I] were both living without health insurance. Otherwise, I don’t know where I’d be.” ComedySportz will donate a portion of the proceeds from the 20th Anniversary Gala to the Indiana chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. “A lot of other fundraising organizations get a lot more recognition,” says Burger. “But there are a lot of diseases that don’t get attention. It’s really great to help an organization that needs help because they don’t get the same attention.” “Almost everything you donate to them is used to help people in the state of Indiana who have MS,” explains Roberts. “People who can’t pay rent; people who can’t get to a doctor’s office because a lot of people [with MS] can’t walk. The money you raise for them really stays in Indiana, and they help a lot of people. But [the gala] is not just a fundraiser for MS; it really is a celebration of 20 years in business.” With four full-time employees, a slew of contracted actors and performances every single weekend, the owners of ComedySportz Indianapolis certainly have a lot to celebrate. The gala, which will take place down the street from ComedySportz’s home, will honor those who have served ComedySportz with longevity awards starting from five years of work. In addition, the troupe will hand out awards for most valuable player, best referee, and best musical improviser among others. The awards ceremony will be followed by an All-Star ComedySportz game/performance. “It’s a nice trophy, and at the top it’s a horse butt,” grins Roberts. “It’s a horse’s ass, because you know, we’re acting like horses’ asses… you get it.” — KATELYN COYNE

Saturday, Feb. 9, 6 p.m. (includes awards ceremony and All-Star match) Tickets: $20 general admission, $17 student and seniors at indycomedysportz.com

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A&E REVIEWS The saga of the three (former) apprentices Last week’s cover story on tattoo artist Conan Lea and his studio, Voluta Tattoo, included a few paragraphs on recent drama in his work life. According to Lea, three of his apprentices quit on him last August while he was on vacation, allegedly making off with the studio’s customer database in the process. When we began reporting the story last fall, the former apprentices declined to comment on the situation without offering further explanation. After we published the piece last week, however, they told us that they were advised at that time by their lawyer to stay mum because Lea had filed a lawsuit against them, and that, the lawsuit having been dropped, they’re ready to talk. In the interest of fairness, we’d like to give them space to tell their side of the story. It’s also a good chance to say more about what they’re up to now. But first the reveal: the former apprentices, unnamed in the story, are Laura Black and Dina and Gerrit Verplank (sister and brother, respectively), and they together founded Firefly Tattoo Collective last year. Here’s there take on several elements from last week’s story: a) According to Lea’s account as printed in last week’s story, “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 Firefly artists dispute this storyline, saying that they finished their apprenticeships under Lea and began working as independent contractors a year before they left. They say that Lea placed inordinate demands on them at the meeting mentioned in the story, and that Voluta had become a hostile environment by the time they left. Moreover, they say that only two of the artists — Laura Black and Dina Verplank — quit their jobs at the studio, whereas Gerrit Verplank was fired. b) They report that they made $75 per hour at the beginning of their apprenticeships, not $125 per hour, as Lea reports in the story. Only two of the artists were making $125 an hour at the end of their time at Voluta; one artist was making $100 an hour. Lea verified the above facts when reached yesterday, noting that the artists were independent contractors for a year, that Gerrit Verplank was fired and the stated salaries are accurate (though he disagrees with the notion that his demands were unreasonable, saying that he had crafted an employee evaluation document modeled after those of Apple and Google). c) They cited Lea’s internships on their online biography pages in the interest of “taking the high road” and avoiding unnecessary drama. They have since cleansed their website of any mention of Lea. d) They didn’t steal the studio’s client database or compromise clients’ personal information when they left the studio. As Black puts it, “When we left, we did not

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steal any clients, but we let everyone know that we wouldn’t be there anymore, and let everyone have the opportunity to do what they wanted to do.” Gerrit Verplank adds, “And it was all done through e-mail; there was no stealing of anything.” Lea denies this interpretation, claiming that the artists stole a hard drive containing client information, and that, regardless of how the information was used, it was still a theft of property that belonged to him as the owner of Voluta Tattoo. Short of hiring a detective, we’ll have to leave our reporting on this issue with this public airing of opinions. In the end, the artists say they are “grateful” to Lea for launching them in the business, but the time had come for them to leave, and they were by no means required to work for him forever simply because they had served apprenticeships under him. “It’s like having a baby with someone and then divorcing,” Dina Verplank says. “You’ll always be grateful for that child, but that doesn’t mean you have to like that person.” Their new venture, Firefly, located in a mellow, lilac-painted space in downtown’s Academy at Lockerbie, is run as a collective, with equal ownership and equal investment by all three and decisions made collectively. While each may take on just about any piece, they have specific styles and interests. Gerritt Verplank says he’s best at “realism portraiture”; a Lincoln tattoo on the back of his business card attests to his skill as an illustrator. Black’s work is informed, as she puts it, by “fine, ornate detail”; she’s also expert in the art of pyansky, or Ukrainian egg painting, a practice that requires a steady hand and significant investment of time. Dina Verplank, who says she “creates art every single day,” is moved to create “colorful, whimsical, flowing, bright” work, both as a painter and tattoo artist, though that’s not to say she’s not willing to do a zombie tattoo. In the end, they say they’re more comfortable at Firefly than Voluta. “Since we’ve left, we’re better artists; we don’t stress,” Dina Verplank says. And they’re committed to moving forward after their strained departure from Voluta: “This is the last we are going to publicly talk about it,” Gerritt Verplank says. “My focus is on my family, my children, my clients and my art.” — SCOTT SHOGER

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Next to Normal at Phoenix Theatre

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NEXT TO NORMAL PHOENIX THEATRE, THROUGH FEB. 24 r Without the Phoenix Theater, Indy audiences would likely have to wait for years to see fresh-off-Broadway shows like Next to Normal, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Tony-winning musical that offers a visceral and striking journey through a mother’s madness. The show’s small cast of five is largely believable. Charlie Clark gives a forceful performance as Dan, the husband of a depressive wife who’s struggling to make the right choices for his family. Olivia Huntley as the daughter, Natalie, gives an at first predictable performance of angst-ridden teenager-dom that eventually blossoms into a more realistic and painful take. Will Hutcheson, who gives a menacing portrayal of son Gabe, has a voice that soars above the rest, adding to his power, and giving heft to his sense of desperation. As mother Diana, Emily Ristine — and her pristine voice — carries the show, even if the doe-eyed actress seems altogether too young to have birthed two teenagers. Kitt’s score has a lilting, yet melancholy quality that informs moments of both hope and of despair. Unfortunately, no one in the show quite digs into the emotional depths implied by the score, and director Brian Fonseca is likely to blame. This dark musical calls for more than just pretty singing. The cast just seems too sane, and when hope and optimism flood the final number, it feels inauthentic and unearned. — KATELYN COYNE

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There are two ways to enjoy The Musical of Musicals, a spoof of musical theater divided into five parts, each of which takes down a different, very familiar, creative force, including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Musical theater nerds who geeked out at Tom Hooper's Les Miserables while insisting that nothing comes close to a live stage production, will catch every nod, dig and jab made to all their favorite shows. But patrons who have no idea who Kander and Ebb even are will still enjoy seeing the time-honored traditions of musical theater ripped to shreds. In other words, even if you're not a super-fan, the Actors Theatre of Indiana's latest production is good fun. The founding members of the company — Cynthia Collins, Don Farrell and Judy Fitzgerald — are joined by the hilarious Dave Ruark as they each take turns portraying familiar musical theater archetypes: the ingénue, the villain, the sage diva, the strapping young lad. Ruark fits in well with the group; they all play the material for cheese and for laughs. But it's Brent E. Marty, as the sassy piano player who guides us from genre to genre, who stands apart. A fixture of Civic Theater's creative team and music director for the show, Marty plays a feisty musical theater fan whose every glance, sigh and giggle acknowledges all the devices employed by practically every traditional music. His engagement and energy ties it all together. The IRT's resident dramaturge, Richard J. Roberts, employs his vast knowledge of theater history as the show's director, wringing every bit of comedy out of the book. — KATELYN COYNE

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Paco Racru, “Mujer Luna,” from Al Sur De La Frontera

VISUAL ARTS AL SUR DE LA FRONTERA ATHANAEUM ARTSPACE r Sponsored by the newly-created Nopal Cultural Center, the broadly-based Al Sur de la Frontera (South of the Border) showcases the work of contemporary Latino-American artists, with a particular focus on pieces depicting contemporary Mexican life. The show's stated goal is to show work that Latinos can relate to, and to make non-Latinos more aware of the existence of said art. Indy-based photographers and artists — both Latino and non-Latino — are included, as well as artists based abroad. I enjoyed seeing Indy-based Elizabeth Guipe Hall's encaustic collage work, based on photos taken of the Zapotec peoples in Southern Mexico — alongside the paintings of the Jalisco, Mexico-based Paco Racru, whose figurative paintings of young women, especially "Mujer Luna,” whetted my taste for more. The photography on display, such as Maria Moreno's Jugando Al Immigrante: La Bestia — a series of unflinching black and white photos of Latin American immigrants — doesn't quite jive with painted work, but that may be in part because the Athenaeum ArtSpace is a challenging place to show art — and, by extension, to draw out coherent similarities and differences as a curator. Or maybe the theme is a bit too broad: Can you imagine a show called North of the Border that wouldn't be impossible to curate? Nevertheless the Nopal Cultural Center's goal is a worthy one — to advocate for and show work by Latin American artists in the Indianapolis community — and this show's definitely worth a look. — DAN GROSSMAN

BLACK LIGHT HARRISON GALLERY AT HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS THROUGH FEB. 22 e Black Light shines a spotlight on Indy’s AfricanAmerican artists, a number of whom are among the best artists, full-stop, working in the city. Courtland Blade brought a generous sampling of his oil paintings to the show, including new pieces like “The Terminal,” which shows an airport tarmac with airplanes and towers but devoid of people. Some might see a sense of isolation in his work; some might see a sense of wonder; everyone should agree that Blade has a great sense of color. Mike Graves’s is facile with collage, a talent which also serves him well in his work as a deejay. His Sister Soul series of 60s and 70s soul singers, created in collaboration with Leslie Dolin, portrays women like P.P. Arnold, whose portrait is composed on a canvas of green-streaked music sheets. Vinyl records conveyed this music to the masses, and Lobyn Hamilton uses smashed up vinyl records as his paint to compose his on-canvas portrait of Angela Davis entitled “Davis with Artwork by Emory Douglas.” The other medium Hamilton uses, brilliantly here, are paper cutouts of artwork by Douglas, who was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party. You may be familiar with all the aforementioned artists, but the biggest delight for me came in seeing, fot the first time, the work of Jerome Neal, whose oil painting “Cheers” seemed to depict a crowded, ‘20s-era street scene combined with a private dreamscape. Neal’s “Fast Pitch of Space Explore Mission,” depicting half a dozen astronauts on a spacewalk, is truly out of this world. — DAN GROSSMAN

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Jerome Neal, “Cheers,” from Black Light LANDSCAPE: STUCTURAL, ETHEREAL RAYMOND JAMES STUTZ ART GALLERY THROUGH FEB 22 w This show involves two photographers — one who digitally manipulates his images and one who doesn't — and one painter. So what's the connective tissue that binds this work together (aside from the notion that all are working in landscapes)? Let's start with the painter. I think of the paintings of Marna Shopoff more as cityscapes than landscapes because the subject of her work is so often, but not always, urban architecture. The walls depicted in her "Internal Walls of Collage" seem to melt away into a dream-like construction zone, while "sky scraper between" looks like a skyscraper of the mind, untethered by any connection to Newtonian physics. The dreamlike quality of such work connects Shopoff, I think, to the manipulated photography of Wug Laku, where gravity also doesn't seem to apply. Take, for example, his kaleidoscopic "Enter, Exit," where the rural landscape hangs above you — upside down — while the sky in the center of the composition bubbles up into the stratosphere. Many of the relatively more conventional photographs of Ginny Taylor Rosner, which focus on groupings of wind turbines in Northern Indiana, were taken from a passing car. In the excellent photograph "In Motion" you see a flock of birds passing in front of the wind turbines. Rosner was hoping to capture such an image, she says, when the birds suddenly flew up in front of her. If you will it, one prominent statesman once said, it is no dream. — DAN GROSSMAN

C. THOMAS LEWIS: FROM NOW ON GALLERY 924 THROUGH FEB. 22 r Who can deny that the same contraptions and widgets that enable engineers and artists alike to pursue their ostensibly innocent happinesses are — depending on how much energy they use — accelerating the pace of climate change? Of all of C. Thomas Lewis’s “video map” installations in From Now On, the one that best addresses this tradeoff is also the largest and most compelling in this show. Taking up an entire wall of the Gallery 924 space, the projection shows a plethora of spinning gears morphing into images of suburbia and farmland as seen from above. You also can see the gears morphing into images of flooded land and heavy weather over the course of half an hour. I admire the technical know-how married to imagination that motivates Lewis’s installations, which include a tree which died in last year’s drought onto which is projected video of those spinning gears. The tree is said to offer hope, coming alive with “moving imagery” projected upon it, according to Lewis. But I didn’t find it particularly hopeful; it felt somehow overwhelmed by the gears. One thing is clear: This isn’t art for art’s sake. And another thing: The show didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know about climate change. But it’s to the artist’s credit that his installation spends less time providing easy answers than provoking questions. — DAN GROSSMAN

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MUSIC IU OPERA: HANDEL’S XERXES MUSICAL ARTS CENTER, THROUGH FEB. 9 e With his opera Xerxes, Handel was leaps ahead of his time, yet a few skips behind ours. When the opera opened in London in 1738, the atypical music and libretto were coolly received. The work, set in Persia around 486 B.C., languished until 1924, after which multiple productions have since taken place, surely none of them as sprightly as this current staging. Stage director Tom Diamond has added a capriciously balletic Amore, a.k.a. Cupid, to guide us through the twists and turns of a tale of two brothers loving the same woman and two sisters loving the same man. Amore’s presence is a brilliant stroke that fittingly interlaces with the absurdities of events, frailties of logic and depths and breadths of love. While based on two known episodes in the life of King Xerxes, the rest of the events are purely fictional. But no matter, it’s a universal story involving love and power, fickleness and miscommunications, luck and foolishness. When Romilda mocks Xerxes for his poetic musings about the plane tree (akin to our Sycamores), she sets into motion events that threaten not only her happiness and her life but that of her lover and a host of others. How it all unravels is what delights, abetted by fine singing by seven leading characters, as well as excellent playing by an on-stage orchestra conducted by Gary Thor Wedow, an amazing set by Robert Perdziola with lighting by Patrick Mero and zestful choreography by Jacques Cesbron (danced and mimed expertly by a Ballet Theater soloist). By all means attend one of the remaining performances on Feb. 8 and 9.

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Steven Stolen’s forte is in putting together a program to get us thinking about the essentials of being human. Reflecting on the broad scope of Benjamin Britten’s compositions on his centennial, Stolen performed two programs, Britten: Silly and Sacred and Britten: From Ireland, before segueing to 20th century American folk and pop music. Opening with Britten’s bluesy, cabaret interpretation of W.H. Auden’s cryptic poem “Tell Me The Truth About Love,” Stolen showed how what Britten heard translated into his compositions — in this case, connecting the Auden piece to Henry Purcell’s reflective Evening Song. Stolen was at his best with a medley of American Folk Songs…on the Sad Side, in arrangements by Rick Walters (also one of two pianists for the show, along with Catherine Bringerud) and Brian Stanley. The stories aren’t pretty: “On the Banks of the Ohio” details the 19th century murder of a young woman who scorns her lover’s proposal; in “Bury Me Beneath the Willow,” a jilted groom laments his lost love; and with “The Streets of Laredo” [also known as “The Cowboy’s Lament”], we hear of the need to tell and re-tell a dying person’s story so his life was not in vain. On a more hopeful note, Stolen ended the show — which also included songs by Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers and Harold Arlen — with a lush setting of “We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder.”

Appearing in town less than two years after guesting with the Cleveland Orchestra at Carmel's Palladium, Emanuel Ax all but conquered Friday’s Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra concert with his reading of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G., Op. 58, easily the finest of Beethoven's “five.” Guest conductor Giancarlo Guerriero all but matched Ax’s achievement, taking his players along for a perfect ride. Ax not only senses what the music needs to do to reveal its full expressive qualities, he does it with a matchless keyboard touch. All notes are distinct but wedded together in a perfect legato. The concerto’s keyboard challenges mastered, its beauty, its drama, its congenial warmth were all there in Ax's reading. Following the break, Guerriero conducted Strauss’s wellknown tone poem Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration, 1889), in which a slow “tristamente” gives way to a dramatic outburst, carrying on a bit long before the transfiguration theme appears and then swells to a climax strongly alluding to Wagner. Guerrero handled the ensuing Francesca da Rimini of Tchaikovsky even better. Much credit should be given to our flutist trio — Rebecca Price Arrensen, Robin Peller and principal Karen Moratz — for their enduring workout in supplying those harmonized, decorative figurations throughout the love section and during the piece’s dramatic bookends. The program opened with the performance debut of Dunes, a musical pictorial of California’s Death Valley, by William Brittelle (b. 1976). Lasting about ten minutes, Dunes made a much better impression when accompanying various shots of the valley on video, which we saw only during the pre-concert Words on Music.

— RITA KOHN

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BOOKS WHEN VAUDEVILLE CAME TO JOPLIN BY CYNTHIA S. GILLARD r Gillard shares a charming private/public story pulling the reader into the world of turnof-20th-century rough-and-tumble Joplin, Missouri. Based on the real life of her grandparents, Clifford Hastings and Adella Marie Lawton, the novel unfolds as a coming-of-age narrative from Adella’s point of view, revealing the mores of a lead and zinc mining community in the context of national and world events including the temperance crusade and World War I. Gillard takes into the daily routines of narrow minded, small town America where the musically talented Adella grows into a beautiful young woman with a different vision for her life than what’s expected. Much like the theatrical cliff-hangers presented in the elegantly appointed theaters of Joplin, not until the very end do we learn 19-year-old Adella’s final choice — will she marry the dashingly handsome leading stage actor Hastings, ten years her senior, or will she choose a stable existence in Joplin over traveling town to town across the Midwest to bring live theatre to people hungry for melodrama, comedy and tragedy? No peeking allowed, just turn the pages. Oak Park, Ill.born Gillard trained in ballet and performed in plays and musicals. She now is a partner in the Elkhart, Ind., law firm of Warrick & Boyn with degrees from Kalamazoo College and Notre Dame Law School. A published writer on legal matters, this is Gillard’s first self-published novel available at all the usual sources. — RITA KOHN

A&E REVIEWS LAST CALL IN THE CITY OF BRIDGES BY SALVATORE PANE; BRADDOCK AVENUE BOOKS w Michael Bishop. He reads comic books, plays Nintendo, drinks highballs as he Tweets. Last Call in the City of Bridges chronicles his relationship with a pastor's daughter, his coming to terms with the demons of his childhood and his difficulties living in a post-Facebook world. Salvatore Pane is an Assistant Professor of English at University of Indianapolis, and Last Call is his debut novel. A Scranton, Penn. native, Pane vividly depicts a stark, post-industrial Pittsburgh, but his real focus is on a network of pop culture and social media that has no particular geographical location because it is, in a sense, everywhere. His spontaneous-seeming, tongue-in-cheek prose makes this novel both remarkably funny and quite readable. In a chapter that details the night of the 2004 presidential election, Michael and his roommate Oz escape to a cabin in the mountains of New York where they spend their time bingeing on entertainment in the form of comics, video games and film. In times of trouble, Michael turns to mentors like an Barack Obama given an Obi-Wan-like translucence and Kanye West piloting an Escalade rocket ship. Last Call explores in detail the incredible effect of the internet, particularly social networking, on our generation. In a chapter titled "On the Defining Moment of Our Generation" Michael explains that "the shared experience of the 21st century" isn't tragedy or war or politics; it's Facebook. Social networking allows all of us, Michael included, to seek understanding and validation. Throughout Last Call, Pane masterfully interpolated moments of honesty and tenderness into a narrative largely given over to the bleakness of a generation limping on crutches of pop culture and social media. At one point, Bishop and Oz's discuss whether or not it was appropriate to include the Ewoks in the Star Wars saga. That they agree upon a couple things — a shared admiration for the Ewoks' tree houses and communal living arrangements — points to the friends' yearning for social networking in a different sense. — JOSEPH FITZPATRICK

FOOD AND THE CITY BY JENNIFER COCKRALL-KING; PROMETHEUS BOOKS e Cockrall-King introduces a history of urban agriculture that projects a path towards a healthier, greener, more sustainable future. Urban agriculture is nothing new. Trendy craft sites and DIY-ers have been growing smaller plants and herbs for years. It’s delicious, it’s simple, and it’s fun. Food and the City argues that if more of us took on a share of our own food supply we would reap numerous benefits. By spreading the small-scale farming trend into the major cities of western nations like

the U.S. And Canada we can cut transportation emissions, improve overall health, be prepared for emergency situations, and become reconnected with our meals. She illustrates that the negative consequences of our own industrialized food system are tied to so many other issues in our lives healthcare, globalization, etc. Repairing a connection to the food on our plates is a way to combat global economic issues while strengthening our local communities. The small-scale urban farming that she calls for action to support is the future that we now need to adopt. By showing how our food sources got out of control, and how some of us have developed our own sources, CockrallKing inspires readers to start fixing our broken food system. She exposes a history of urban agriculture that shows a promising future for North Americans stuck in the current harmful system. Pointing to the success of current models like the urban gardening in Cuba and in Paris, readers have a vision of how agriculture and city life can become harmonious. — JORDAN MARTICH

BUTTERFLIES OF INDIANA: A FIELD GUIDE BY JEFFREY E. BELTH e Come on. Do you really need me to say anything about this book, but the title over and over again? It’s a guide to butterflies of Indiana, people! What else do you need? You either are a butterfly person or you aren’t, though it’s really difficult to imagine non-butterfly people even exist. Let’s try it out. Hi, my name is Jim. I love Indiana basketball and locally made beer — but I’m not really into Indiana butterflies. Tried to smear one on my toast this morning, didn’t work. Who needs ‘em? Lucky you, butterfly lover. This book features nearly 150 species of butterflies and skippers (no, that’s not a friend of Barbie), with over 500 color photographs and plenty of prose, including a bit about the natural history of butterflies. Hmmmm… Sounds like a Valentine’s Day present for a special someone! Nothing says “romance” like a butterfly! Now if I could just find the jam. — JIM POYSER

THE PERMACULTURE HANDBOOK PETER BANE; NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS e You survived the Apocalypse. Now own the book that will ensure you survive the ecoApocalypse. Bloomington-based Peter Bane has created one of the most comprehensive approaches to ecological design ever wrapped into one tome. And what a tome it is! Nearly 500 pages, filled with photos and illustrations, The Permaculture Handbook is, literally, the one book you’ll need for the desert island you might find yourself stranded on. It encompasses the essential “R”s — resilience, recovery and restoration — rendered in Bane’s accessible, straightforward prose. In its entirety, this book is the answer to those who think we can’t solve our enormous problems. In fact we can, by going small and getting smart, one aspect of our lives at a time. — JIM POYSER

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Asad: Set in war-torn Somalia and featuring a cast made up entirely of Somalian refugees. “Asad” is the tale of a young boy in a fishing village who must decide whether to follow the path of many of his peers and become a modern-day pirate or become a fisherman. The well-done story features fine performances from all, particularly the kid and the old man who mentors him. Buzkashi Boys: The national sport of Afghanistan is Buzkashi, a polo-style game played with a dead goat. Yes, you read right. The story follows two boys, one a street urchin who dreams of becoming a Buzkashi player, the other the son of a blacksmith who disapproves of the friendship. The boys are charmers and the tale of the costs of realizing a dream is touching. The best of this year’s nominees, even with the dead goat business. Curfew: A suicidal man gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to babysit his nine-year-old niece for the evening. The story ain’t subtle, and it goes exactly where it looks like it’s going, but the dialogue is sound and the acting between the adult man and the young girl is so spot-on that the structural flaws are forgivable. Death of a Shadow: This sorta steam punk film is the most romantic of the nominees. Nathan dies as a soldier in World War I, but an otherworldly collector captured his shadow and cut him a deal: he gets a second life in exchange for capturing 10,000 shadows. The Twilight Zone tone of the film seems at odds with the romantic elements of the story, but it all comes together in the end. Henry: Concert pianist Henry is thrown for

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a loop when Maria, the love of his life, disappears abruptly and he starts flashing back to earlier points in his life. Strong acting and a sure directorial hand steady the familiar entry.

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Adam and Dog: Man and dog bond for the first time in this in this delightful story set in the Garden of Eden. The artwork is fresh and attractive without feeling overthought. The story is crisp, clean and gently moving. Fresh Guacamole: The shortest of the animated nominees shows how to make guacamole out of a diverse set of ingredients ranging from a hand grenade to dice. Is the filmmaker making a statement with his choice of ingredients? I didn’t have time to analyze. I just sat back and watched the zippy computer-generated preparation of the imaginative dish. Head Over Heels: The most poignant and visually arresting of the films is this tale of a married couple who have grown so far apart that he lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling of their floating home. The story is effectively told, but the images are the strongest part of the story. Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”: Plucky Maggie gets dropped off at the Ayn Rand Daycare Center, where she tries to protect a cocoon from butterfly-smashing unibrow baby Gerald. Charming, poetic and funny. Paperman: Black and white story of a NYC office worker who encounters Miss Right and tries to reconnect with her. Nice retro drawings, though the paper airplane hijinks look machine made. A diverting minor offering. — ED JOHNSON-OTT

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VIEWS ON VERMEER (2010)

A 52-minute documentary about the impact of Vermeer’s work on contemporary writers, painters, photographers and architects. Preceded at 6 p.m. by a docent-led tour of Vermeer-related works. Feb. 7, 7 pm. @ The Toby, Indianapolis Museum of Art; $5 public, $3 member; imamuseum.org

THE SHARED ETHNOGRAPHY OF JEAN ROUCH

An IU Cinema film series featuring rarely-screened and unavailable on DVD work by Jean Rouch, the French documentarian and anthropologist. Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.: Moi, Un Noir (1955), which chronicles a week in the lives of men and women who immigrated from Niger to the Ivory Coast, with Les Maitres Fou (1955), a ecstatically edited short documentary about the city of Accra. Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m.: Jaguar (1967), an “ethnofiction” staged by three men from Niger. All films are free but ticketed and at the IU Cinema in Bloomington.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

Stanley Kubrick’s landmark trip beyond our world and our reality. “Open the pod bay door, Hal.” “Sorry, I can’t do that, Dave.” Feb. 8, 7 p.m. and Feb. 10, 2 p.m. @ The Toby; $9 public, $5 member

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956)

The quintessential Hitchcock plot (and title). James Stewart learns something he shouldn’t have about a planned assassination, putting wife Doris Day and their kid at risk. Wait for the cymbal crash. Feb. 8 and 9, 2 and 7:30 p.m. @ Artcraft Theatre, Franklin; tickets $5 with discounts available; historicartcrafttheatre.org

URBAN ROOTS (2011)

A documentary on urban farming in Detroit, which has the more vacant lots than any other U.S. city. Part of the Interfaith Eco-Film Series. Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m. @ Epworth United Methodist Church (6450 Allisonville Road), free, epworthindy.org

FOOD The good Dr. Vine

REVIEW THE CURIOUS WORLD OF WINE: FACTS, LEGENDS, AND LORE ABOUT THE DRINK WE LOVE SO MUCH BY RICHARD VINE A PERIGEE BOOK, 2012 e

Serendipitously named Purdue prof publishes book on wine history BY RITA KOHN RKOHN@NUVO.NET Richard Vine has always tried “to do what seemed like the natural thing to do.” And that sense of purpose has shaped a career including a ten-year run as a winemaker and 36 years in academia, with two decades of jet setting in the mix. Chatting with NUVO by phone, Dr. Vine described the trajectory of his career as a combination of taking advantage of available options while staying true to his original roots. He grew up in the vineyards of upstate New York and worked his way through the ranks to be named a winemaker with the Taylor Wine Company, a job which in turn led him into academia: “An opportunity arose to start a research program in viticulture —winemaking — at a university. They were looking for people from the wine industry; there weren’t very many wine academicians in the 1970s.” Vine designed a “win-win situation” for himself where he would help Mississippi State University with research and development for their wine program while gaining his own academic degrees. After earning his PhD, he took a job at Purdue University in 1990 to develop their program in enology — the study and making of wine. When Vine came to Indiana two of the state’s nine wineries had recently closed. Of the remaining seven, two were doing well and five were struggling,” according to Vine. Three decades later Indiana has 60 wineries. Vine points to the state’s gold and silver medal winners, and claims that “Indiana stands side-by-side with wines from California,” which produces about 89 percent of all U.S. wine.

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Dr. Vine credits Purdue with encouraging that growth: “Purdue itself has a very good name as a pillar for progress. Purdue engineers have a fine image. When we designed the program to grow the wine industry we had to make sure it was an image builder and would be economically viable. “ The Purdue program is funded with five percent of the State’s wine sale excise tax. It’s a hands-on program that gives back to communities by “walking” a potential owner of a winery through the legal and economic requirements of starting a company, and ensuring the business plan shows sufficient capital for continued growth. Dr. Vine has also brought his expertise to bear on a broader scale: In 1985 he was invited by American Airlines to select their wines to be served aboard flights. “It was one of the services airlines had, serving fine food and wine,” he says. Along with selecting wines

appropriate towards the country of destination he trained the personnel in the art of serving properly. “It was important to be destination appropriate,” and toward that end, he points out, American Airlines was the first to bring attention to Argentina Malbec and wines from Chile. He’s no longer working that job: “9/11 changed a lot. I had 21 absolutely wonderful years selecting wines worldwide for American Airline flights, but by 2006 it was over.” As a cheerleader for Hoosier wineries, Dr. Vine advises that “any reader with a mindset that Indiana wine is not good needs to take another look and another taste.” He points to the small New Albany-based River City Winery, whose Vignoles 2011 — a “truly delicious white wine” — took The Indy International 2012 Best of Show over 2,399 other entries from the USA and worldwide.

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Beware of this delightful ‘little book.’ Give it a glance, and before you know it, you’ll be sucked in for a satisfying hour or two. Vine’s ebullient personality translates to print; yes, we’ve met him at wine events. A chatty sort, he mixes bits of gossip with historical facts; surrounding innuendo with conjecture as he tells cautionary or risque tales. And through it all you’ll learn about wine and meet the personalities from the rise of civilization to the “Revenge of Two Buck Chuck.” I kept earmarking my favorite bits, appearing on the page in thumb-or two-thumb lengths, until sticky notes stuck out everywhere. Of course I looked for Indiana’s wine story, and, yes, the Vevay venture is there, along with the rise and demise — and eventual re-rise — of other wine making enterprises that now bring world-wide prestige to the 19th state. The thrust of the book is aptly summed up by the closing anonymous quote: “Drinking wine is the second-most fun one can have without laughing.” Marjorie Nafziger’s sprightly pen and ink drawings add greatly to the enjoyment, as does Pauline N euwirth’s zesty page layout. Dr. Vine is Purdue University professor of enology emeritus; his winemaking career began in 1958 in N ew York State, and his academic work started in 1977 at Mississippi State University. You’ll find this book at Mass Ave Wine Shoppe, as well as reputable booksellers. — RITA KOHN

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dam O’Sullivan skipped law school for this. This being Tesla Armada, a progrock quartet with a penchant for lulling melodies that take dark, twisty turns. The room they practice in is a cramped, wood-paneled space connecting the garage to O’Sullivan’s Speedway house. It’s unadorned except for the band’s gear, including a tall lamp used by singer/guitarist Chris Wallace as a mic stand, sans shade. That doesn’t seem to inhibit the band’s creativity. They do a run-through of their song “Kegel,” all woozy, stuttering, circular rage with pile-driving lapses. Another, “Mr. John Lochness,” is all roiling rhythm changes and Eddie Van Halen-worthy fret fire. Indeed, both Wallace and guitarist Luke Pollock play much of their parts with a tapping technique, in which a string is fretted and vibrated in one motion instead of the traditional way of fretting it with one hand and picking it with the other. Both are self-taught. Wallace discovered the guitar through his dad’s stringed-instrument repair shop and Pollock followed in his footsteps after moving to Avon from the Ben Davis district in junior high. “I don’t know if everything we play is practical in theory, but it sounds cool,” Wallace says while the rest of Tesla Armada are seated on a couch in O’Sullivan’s living room. “We have fun doing it.” Tapping was the execution Wallace and Pollock took in their former band The Phoenix Lights. Being a fan of artists like Tool, O’Sullivan kept hearing about them as an undergrad at Indiana University, but wasn’t seeing any evidence of their existence. “Everybody that liked music would talk about them,” O’Sullivan says. “I wouldn’t see anything on them, but it was like everyone had heard of them.” Eventually someone showed him a YouTube of the band. “It was these guys finger-tapping and playing all these ridiculous polyrhythms,” O’Sullivan says. The drummer started mining his network to find Wallace, determined to start a band with him. By then The Phoenix Lights were no more, and Wallace wasn’t interested in pursuing another collective after the way that one ended. “It left a sour taste in my mouth,” he says. But if O’Sullivan can be described as anything, it’s determined. He didn’t start his own commercial/residential painting business and be promoted to new car sales manager at a Ford dealership (after a year and a half) without a little drive. O’Sullivan focused

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some of that motivation on persuading Wallace to play music again. Eventually Wallace agreed, if Pollock was in the ranks too. That was no problem. After they struggled to find a competent bass player, O’Sullivan begged to have his friend Sean Barry fill out the ranks. The concern was he had only been playing for six months at the time. But after half that time Barry already had Tool covers mastered. “He’s better than all of us now,” Pollock says. Strangely enough O’Sullivan, who grew up in Avon too, was in a band with Wallace in junior high, but didn’t remember him. Ditto Wallace. Perhaps they were trying to block it from memory. “It was a horrible band that played Weezer and Papa Roach covers,” Wallace says. “That’s what was cool in eighth grade.” They’ve come a long way with Tesla Armada, a name Wallace derived from the story of the Philadelphia Experiment and its alleged ability to jump dimensions. In fact O’Sullivan, who learned his chops playing in the drumline of Avon’s Black and Gold Marching Band and in the jazz band, had his own learning curve the first time he rehearsed with Wallace and Pollock. Coming from a mostly metal background, O’Sullivan was used to double bass and constant fills. “They started playing and I was like … ‘fuck’,” he says. “What am I going to play? They’re going to kick me out of the band. It was the first time in my life I was ever picked on. I was hazed for like the first 20 practices. Not only were they as good as I thought they’d be, but for the first time in my life I’m the worst person in the band.” Turned out Wallace and Pollock’s non-

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practical way of playing didn’t initially jibe with O’Sullivan’s “German mind” – his strict adherence to counting the music’s measures. “I finally learned to let go,” O’Sullivan says. “After we wrote some songs, I just started forgetting to read music and embrace the feeling. When it became less structured and more free-flowing, it got so much better.” That was essential because unlike many young acts, Tesla Armada rarely turn the first idea introduced into a fleshed-out song. Instead bits and pieces of inspiration are painstakingly crafted into something everyone agrees is worthwhile. “We’ll all write at home. Then it becomes a huge collaboration, but still disconnected,” Pollock says. “Then it all comes together, but different from the way we played it before.” O’Sullivan’s contumacy has paid off –– especially in getting the band recognition. Initially local promoters wouldn’t even book them. They had to start out playing in friends’ garages. But enough people attended and spread the word that now they’re choosing where they’ll perform. Meanwhile O’Sullivan was engaged in “serial killer-type” stalking of labels and musicians he loves to take notice. Atlantic and Warner Bros. Records were two that did. Tesla Armada played a showcase for both in Atlanta. It was a cattle call of sorts, but label reps ended up talking with them far longer than any of the other potential signees. The response was ultimately what you’d expect for Tesla Armada’s pedigree from companies with this type of bottom line: You’re incredibly talented but not commercial enough. One A&R guy there noted he’d signed Circa Survive, one of Tesla Armada’s favorites.

Meanwhile O’Sullivan was engaged in “serial killer-type” stalking of labels and musicians he loves...

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They didn’t make him any money. Undeterred, O’Sullivan has worked tirelessly to conquer another seemingly impenetrable frontier –– radio. Tesla Armada have received some airplay on satellite radio and locally on X103. B97, Bloomington’s Top 40 station, added their song “Smallest Girls.” O’Sullivan heard it while at a gas station there. He got a free Slurpie from the attendant for his achievement. “If we can get on Sirius I know it’s going to be massive,” O’Sullivan says. “A lot of bands that have blown up started there. People actually want to hear good music nowadays.” That German mind is useful in another way. O’Sullivan is just a couple months away from paying off his mortgage. Just don’t think he wants to sell cars the rest of his life. “The whole goal has been to make enough money to buy a few franchises, like Jimmy John’s, so we can go on tour and know we’ll have jobs when we get back,” O’Sullivan says. “That’s why so many bands fail.” Meanwhile, Tesla Armada figure they have eight or nine songs ready to be recorded. Barry knows an IU student who will record them in a studio there for a class project in the next couple months. That gives them the feeling that this year or next could be a breakout time for them. For now, though, they have to be content with what they’ve got. O’Sullivan relates how one of his co-workers, a debutante from the South, attended a Tesla Armada show. He recounts her description, with the accent. “The whole place was quiet and peaceful. Everybody was holding hands and swaying. Then their band came on and it was like the devil came out and started stabbing everybody.” His reply? “Yeah that was pretty cool, wasn’t it?” Stream four songs by Tesla Armada by scanning this code with a QR code reader.

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Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

PRIME time at Dunaway’s Once the domain of exclusive loft parties and quasi-legal warehouse raves, electronic dance music (EDM) has emerged as a dominant force in contemporary pop music. This newfound fame has come at a high price for some longtime EDM advocates, who feel the music has sacrificed its soul in exchange for commercial gains. A group of local DJs are working to remind Indianapolis of the genre’s roots. PRIME is a monthly electronic music event founded by a collective of Indianapolis DJs called 317Techno. The DJs of 317Techno are Taylor Norris, Adam Jay, Justin Haus, Rebecca Ciaglia, DJ Shiva, David Hodnik, and Andrew Hizer. PRIME distinguishes itself from the plethora of electronic music nights currently en vogue in clubs throughout the city by focusing on the underground roots of house and techno music. I spoke with 317Techno DJ and PRIME event organizer Chachi Guerrero to learn more. NUVO: Tell me a bit about yourself as a DJ; how long have you been spinning? CHACHI GUERRERO: I have been spinning for almost 10 years. I started out playing Latin music. I got into it while working at Latin clubs when I lived in Florida. With Latin music, it was easy for me to have a good time and feel comfortable with the format, since that music comes from my roots. My heritage has influenced me immensely in what I do. I probably learned how to dance –– merengue before I started walking. So it is important for me to sometimes show that in my DJ sets –– but in a very subtle way. After I moved to Indianapolis in 2004, I shifted my focus to underground house and techno music. These two genres really spoke to me in a different way than any other music.

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We have had the opportunity to bring amazing DJs from all over the country, like Nigel Richards from Philadelphia and Audio Injection from L.A. We also showcase Indy’s own talent too. At our next event on Feb. 16, we’re featuring some amazing talent from the home of techno, Detroit. [We’re bringing] Project 313 and Corbin Davis. These guys have been in the underground scene for a really long time. Locals Justin Haus and Andrew Hizer are also on this lineup representing Indy. This is a great chance to come and experience what we’re all about.

“The EDM scene is not the same as it was ten years ago.”

NUVO: What is 317Techno? GUERRERO: 317Techno is a group of techno and house DJs from Indy who decided to join forces to promote the underground side of those genres –– not the “Top 40” EDM you hear on the radio and in clubs these days. We felt that there was a lack of this genre in the city. There wasn’t a team of people who were devoted to this type of underground music, so the 317Techno group was created. NUVO: Tell me about 317Techno’s PRIME event. GERRERO: Our PRIME events are held at Dunaway’s Downtown once a month. The venue offers a very intimate surrounding, which allows the speakers to hug you in a different way. People come to our parties for the music, not just to show off. During the warmer times, we host the party on the rooftop of the venue, where you can dance and let go while enjoying the city’s skyline.

NUVO: When we spoke before the interview you said, “The EDM scene has damaged the true meaning of underground music.” Could you elaborate on what you meant by that?

GUERRERO: The EDM scene is not the same as it was ten years ago. It’s become so mainstream that the original meaning and essence have deteriorated. So many pop songs use house beats now and Justin Bieber is singing dubstep songs. Beyond all its popularity, underground dance music was and still is a form of expression that you feel. Most of the underground music is purely instrumental; there’s hardly any lyrics. So it’s all about what the music transmits to you. EDM has been around for decades already and people are just now starting to take notice –– but I feel they don’t appreciate its main roots. This may be a weird example, but it’s like having a fast food burger versus eating a burger from a health-conscious restaurant with organic beef and produce. Fast food places are so much more in your face that you just go for them.

Chachi Guerrero

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Erin McKeown at Irving Saturday BY RACHEL HANLEY M USIC@ N UVO.NET Erin McKeown is busy. The singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, open Internet activist and writer has built a career on bridging her presence across genres and projects. As an activist she’s working to connect legislative policy, music and the social connectivities of the Internet. McKeown serves on the board of the Future of Music Coalition and has spoken out against anti-piracy bills like SOPA. She served as a fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where she helped organize policy and music around the public’s use of the internet. In her musical focus alone, she’s able to effortlessly balance blues, folk and rock with a serene and intelligent voice. Over 12 years of performing have made her a prolific guitarist and songwriter, with a grace that extends into all facets of her life. McKeown will play the Irving Theater on Saturday, February 9. But before that, she kindly exchanged some emails with us. NUVO: Manifestra is your seventh studio album; what did you find challenging about composing this one? ERIN MCKEOWN: In many ways, Manifestra was my least challenging record to write since it represents a melding of my political and musical lives –– lives I tried to keep separate for a long time. NUVO: With so many records under your belt, would you say the songwriting process has gotten any easier? MCKEOWN: I definitely have a writing process and it usually starts with a rhythm; either a loop I’ve made or something I have heard somewhere and grabbed for inspiration. I keep a wall of phrases in my studio. Once I have a rhythmic idea I look to that wall and see if anythings fits or matches up in an interesting way. NUVO: About two weeks ago, your first-ever music video “Proof” was released. What does this signify to you as a grass roots artist?

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MCKEOWN: Since the “Proof” video was part of my crowd-funding project, it certainly signifies that I was the recipient of many generous contributions by my fans. I’d never been given the budget to make a video by any label I’d worked with. I guess they never saw the potential in it, but my fans aren’t in it for profit. Just art. NUVO: In the behind the behind the scenes take via Paste Magazine, I learned you actually had to learn the whole song backwards. What’s its like learning to sing a whole song backwards? MCKEOWN: It was a fascinating experience. I had to do it one piece at a time and stay patient. It took about two months of working on it every day. NUVO: It seems like your recent fellowship that paired activism with the Internet is almost perfectly tailored to your strengths. How have your studies at Harvard permeated into Manifestra? MCKEOWN: I would say it is more the opposite. The lessons I have learned, as an independant musician on the road for many many years, made me a unique contributor to a community like Harvard. NUVO: How instrumental has the Internet been in your evolution as a musician? MCKEOWN: My career growth is inextricable from the growth of the Internet. Nowadays, it is my storefront, my best advertisement, my distributor and my most important creative tool. NUVO: How does a large Internet fan base translate into a live, breathing audience? Do you generally lose or gain fans in the transition from screen to seat? MCKEOWN: I have generally seen that a large Internet audience doesn’t translate into a large live audience. The practices and people are quite different. One of the few ways I have seen people move from one to the other is with crowd funding. So far, that has been the most successful way of converting internet users to live bodies and vice versa. Jordan Martich contributed to the reporting of this article.

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REVIEWS PETE CALACCI THE OTHER SIDE SELF-RELEASED

t About halfway into his album The Other Side, the debut effort from Indiana singer/songwriter and guitarist Pete Calacci, there’s a song called “Headed for the Stars.” The cut is a big, fat, radio-friendly and familiar-sounding original piece of rock and roll –– effectively channeling a Tom Sholz-like guitar and the sound of late ‘70s-era Boston. Who would have guessed this sonic homage to a nearly 40-year-old self-recorded iconic rock album would come out of Indiana? The Other Side’s soundscape is both a product of how Calacci –– a carpenter who works at the BP Refinery in Whiting during the day –– recorded the album and played a lengthy musical stint in an Indianapolis cover band. This solo work was created in his apartment, and he played all the instruments –– other than a couple background vocals and a keyboard –– and mixed it himself. Far from a lo-fi, sounds-like-he-used-a-boombox effort, the record is clean and loud and full of hooks and riffs that surface by surprise. I hear Paul McCartney and Wings, some Beach Boys and Beatles harmonies. The pop of Matthew Sweet and Marshall Crenshaw. I hear The Band. I like what I hear. And this record sounds good loud. Calacci spent his early twenties living on the Southside of Indy, playing in a band called Stage One at clubs like The Backstage, Bentley’s and The Vogue, so he came by his ‘70s and ‘80s influences honestly. The Other Side is an album whose music hits harder than the lyrics, and Calacci uses his guitar to give the heart of the record a loud, electric, amped-up sound that never really goes away,

The opening “Cold Hearted Woman” rocks like The Cars and Matthew Sweet –– a power pop confection that enters into Tom Petty’s neighborhood. But the record never strays far from its essence –– a full-on, “let’s-rock” guitar album. Calacci’s voice sits just atop the guitar on most songs, aching and arching just enough to allow genuine and welcome cracks as he both reaches during the rockers and guides the ballads. An acoustic guitar and his own harmony (and doubletracked) vocals give the punchy electric guitar a pairing to nicely enable a marriage of power chords with ragged vocal sweetness. “Secret” has an underlying gentleness swathed in a pair of pop/rock dueling guitars. “Fear” echoes a soaring “Behind Blue Eyes”– era The Who. Calacci’s acoustic duo bandmate Kelly Skaggs sings on “Carpe Diem” and “Want Me Too.” This is an album that demands its loudness. Think about driving down the road in an old Buick Skylark with the cassette player turned up as loud as the damn Sparkomatic would go. That’s the sound of this album, guided by Calacci’s electric guitar playing, and his ability to create one of the fullest, play-it-loud rock albums of the new year –– by himself. –– ROB NICHOLS

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e Emerging out of a side-project/tape from 2009 called Open Sex on Every Street Corner, which was essentially a 30-minute, three-chord jam, Thee Open Sex now includes members of Bloomington outfits Apache Dropout and Landlord, as well as Magnetic South’s own recording jedi John Dawson and lead singer Rachel “Miss Mess” Weidner. That kind of genealogy should leave very little doubt as to the general sound we’re talking about here: heavy rhythms and mind-bending guitar fuzz explorations reined in by a bit of pop structure. Although clocking in at a mere 30 minutes, the album still manages to seem epic, traversing a variety of weird sonic landscapes while retaining a consistent mood. The result is a coherent statement, rather than a simply a collection of songs. This album demands that you listen to it from start to finish. The second track on the album, “I Do Not Know What,” is, in my mind, quintessential Kraut-influenced psych-rock, marching forward at a seemingly inexhaustible pace, never changing, never breaking into a chorus, with only Weidner’s haunting, disassociated voice to provide a landmark of any sort to let you know that time has passed. In fact, this album owes a tremendous amount to Weidner and her ability to tread the line between sugar-pop vixen and pagan enchantress, providing continuity and a certain sensuality to this series of hard-edged electric guitar voyages.

After three full-on doses of psych-fuzz that build in intensity, the album takes a sharp turn with the fourth song, “Gimme Away.” It’s a dark surf-rock interlude that would almost seem out of place on this album except that it ends up being kind of refreshing. It’s a palate cleanser –– and an example of the different directions this album can take in a very short space. “Live Dead” is a truly bizarre cut that starts with a maniacally simple snare beat combined with long, slowly unraveling guitar notes and splashing cymbals that seem to crescendo along with Weidner’s disembodied wail. The song builds and builds, sounding like a deranged invocation to long-lost gods of psychedelic rock and roll. Like Jefferson Airplane in their mid’60s best, unleashed and asking for no one’s permission to get as weird as possible. The album is capped off by the somewhat oddly named “Maximum Rock n’ Roll II.” Weidner’s voice is the focal point of this track, leading it over the hyper-sonic fuzz and repeated rhythm that make this a fun, almost sugary coda to this album. –– GRANT CATTON

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SOUNDCHECK Wednesday

GOTH SOIREE ROUGE

Indy’s Jukebox, 306 E. Prospect St. 10 p.m., free, 21+

Head to the goth industrial night at the Jukebox. You’ll see Archaotic, Reverend Puke, DJs Copper Top and Krazy Karoline. Send requests into their event page on NUVO.net to hear your favorite progressive dark music or classic favorites.

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Bob Marley Tribute at the Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The Bears of Blue River, Charlie Patton’s War, Swales at the Bishop, 21+ The Hooten Hallers, Tilford Sellers, The Wagon Burners at the Melody Inn, 21+ Lotus, Moon Hooch at Jake’s (Bloomington), 21+ Gallo at Sabbatical, 21+

Thursday

ROOTS JOEL HENDERSON, JUSTIN LEWIS DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave. #215 8 p.m., $10, all-ages

Bouncing from Atlanta to Chicago to Indiana to Louisville, Joel Henderson has seen a lot –– and it all filters into his gentle folk. He’ll be accompanied by fellow Louisvillian Justin Lewis, who says you know you’re from Louisville, “when you leave the city but can’t stop talking about it” (louisville.com). Henderson released his last album Locked Doors and Pretty Fences in April 2012 in Indianapolis.

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ANNIVERSARY DADA 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St. 7:30 p.m., $18 advance, $20 at door, 21+

Hard to believe Dada’s 1992 debut Puzzle is already 20 years old. “For right now I think dada is about digging into our roots, examining and celebrating –– enjoying it a little bit more,” said bassist Joie Calio on a introductory press release as the group kicked off their tour in Hollywood on Wednesday, Jan. 23. They’ll perform at Birdy’s with Jerad Finck and 7Horse. ROOTS SUN COUNTRY, CALEB MCCOACH, THE DEAD FRETS The Melody Inn, 3826 N Illinois St 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Sun Country is a Cincinnati band wrapping up a couple dates in Indy –– they like to sing songs about animals and whiskey. Do you like animals? Do you like whiskey? (More specifically, do you like loping, melodic pop-with-a-fiddle?) You’ll like ‘em. The Dead Frets are an amalgamation of various Indy bands we dig, including Household Guns, Christian Taylor and Homeschool and The Kemps. Of note: Indianapolis songwriter Caleb McCoach will surely play tracks off his upcoming album, Vanity, scheduled for release later this year. Stream three tracks from that album now on his Bandcamp page and see McCoach in his new arrangement: a three-piece.

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Seluah at the Bishop, 21+ Company of Thieves (acoustic) at the Hoosier Dome, all-ages Trivia Night with Rocket Doll Revue at the Sinking Ship, 21+ Sun Country at the Melody Inn, 21+ Cyberoptics at the Mousetrap, 21+

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ROCK MODOC, SHELBY COUNTY SINNERS, VERDANT VERA Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect 9 p.m., $8, 21+

Log on to NUVO.net to read Nashville band Modoc’s High Five albums. SINGLES SMILEY’S WHEEL OF MEN Cadillac Ranch, 39 W. Jackson Place 8 p.m., free, 21+

Do you need a Valentine’s Day date? The Smiley Morning Show has a plan to get you one –– or kill you. Not really sure. Men, climb on the spinning wheel of death and meet your doom or potential life partner. At least come out and get a strong drink before chatting up some hotties. PARTIES BEBE BANG’S BIRTHDAY BASH The Rock House Cafe, 3940 S. Keystone Ave. 9 p.m., $7, 21+

Check out Veseria, Phoenix on the Fault Line, Party Lines, Mr. Clit & The Pink Cigarettes and Model Strangers at the Rock House Cafe in celebration of promoter Lazy Hawk’s wife’s birthday. Happy birthday, Bebe Bangs.

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French hip-hop artist Wax Tailor, a strong voice from the psychedelic trip-hop and baroque hiphop genres, will be performing in Indy Thursday. His latest and fourth full-length album, Dusty Rainbow From the Dark, takes listeners on an escapist journey inspired primarily by the enchanting perspective of the young. –– DEVIN ZIMMERMAN

Noise (open mic piano cabaret) at the White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Wooden Wand, Elephant Micah, Lylas at the Bishop, 21+ Jimkata at the Mousetrap, 21+ Local Band Showcase at the Hoosier Dome, all-ages Juicy with Buck Rodgers at Blu Nightclub, 21+ Hip-hop Night at the Emerson Theater, all-ages The Meridian, Kyle Mcord at 1001, 21+ Sixteen Candles at the Vogue, 21+

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Saturday

CLUB OPENINGS QREME GRAND OPENING Qreme Nightclub, 235 S. Meridian St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Qreme is Indy’s newest club –– a hotspot on S. Meridian formerly occupied by Ice Lounge. At first, we wondered if this was sponsored by Pharrell Williams, who famously marketed his crème liquor Qream (”Inspired by royalty, I created this silky drink to celebrate the beautiful, independent and sophisticated women of today. It is a truly elegant experience for the modern day queen and her court of friends,” said Pharrell). But no, this is totally different. They plan on hosting college nights, specialized drinks nights and other events. Take note –– there’s a strict dress code. ROOTS LILY & MADELEINE

DO317, 1043 Virginia Ave. #215 4 p.m., 7 p.m., sold out, all-ages

Two weeks ago, sisters Lily and Madeleine hit the front page of Reddit and immediately sold out both shows scheduled at the DO317 Lounge. We’re sad that we won’t be able to bring a bunch of people to see them, but are confident they’ll add more shows very soon. Log on to their bandcamp page to download their Paul Mahern-produced EP The Weight of the Globe, a beautiful folk creation with Lily’s gently strumming guitar and Madeleine’s soft piano.

OTHER SATURDAY PICKS

Shed Album Release Party at Vision’s Sports Pub, 21+ Karnevel at the Rathskeller, 21+ Elizabeth Souza and Ipanema at the Jazz Kitchen, 21+ A Memory Down at Rock House Cafe, 21+ Brazilian Carnaval (turn to Go&DO) at the Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Kaleidostars, The Please Please Me, Chadwick at Radio Radio, 21+ Punk Rock Night with Mad Anthony, Maravich, As Seasons Die, Killer Looks, Noise at the Melody Inn, 21+ Bossa Nova, Brazilian Dinner at the Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The K-Holes, Call of the Wild, Fire Moose at Russian Recording, all-ages Buster Eagle, E.A.R.T.H., Dead Birds Adore Us, Cobalt, The Hired Guns at Indy’s Jukebox, 21+

Sunday

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We always look forward to showcases presented by XRA and Flannelgraph –– you could call them brother labels, both out of Bloomington, Ind., and both chiefly concerned with positive pop and folk. We mean positive in the best way: you feel good listening to these bands. Catch husband&wife, Frank Schweikhardt, She Does Is Magic, Living Well and Wet Blankets at the showcase, which will feature Upland beer and lots and lots and lots of records to buy.

OTHER SUNDAY PICKS

Old Truck Revival at Union Jack’s, all-ages June’s Got the Cash – Tribute to Johnny Cash – at Daddy Real’s The Place, all-ages Umphrey’s McGee at the Bluebird, 21+ Moe. at the Lafayette Theater, all-ages

Tuesday

JAZZ MARDI GRAS FAT TUESDAY The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., $15, 21+

Music, fun and babies buried in cake. There’ll be a New Orleans style brass band, Half Brass. The summer shrimp boil is back just for the night. Make reservations online at thejazzkitchen.com. ROOTS KEN STRINGFELLOW, LAURA K. BALKE DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave, Suite 215 7:30 p.m., $12, all-ages

“A quick history lesson: Stringfellow’s name will always be first associated with The Posies, and he keeps the band alive. As recently as last month, they played shows at Peter Buck’s Todos Santos Festival in Mexico. After making their major-label debut in 1990 with Dear 23, and recording two more albums, including 1996’s Amazing Disgrace, they were dropped from Geffen. The Posies went back to their original label, Pop Llama for 1998’s Success. Then the band disbanded for a while...” Read our interview with Stringfellow on NUVO.net.

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Pushing the personhood envelope California activist Jonathan Frieman finally got his day in court in January, but a Marin County judge quickly rejected his argument that he is entitled to use the state’s carpool lanes accompanied only by a sheath of corporate papers in the passenger seat. (During the 2012 Republican primaries, Mitt Romney famously asserted a corporation’s general right under the law to be treated as a “person.”) The judge decided that the state legislature’s carpool law was intended only to reduce traffic clutter and that driving with no passenger except corporate papers was unrelated to that goal. Frieman told reporters that he had been carrying the papers around for years, hoping to be challenged.

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have been charged with sexual assault (according to India’s Association for Democratic Reforms). In fact, the association reported in December that 162 of the lower house of Parliament’s 552 members currently face criminal charges. The problem is compounded by India’s notoriously paralyzed justice system, which practically ensures that the charges will be unresolved for years, if not decades. • Many Japanese men seem to reject smartphones in favor of a low-tech 2002 Fujitsu cellphone, according to a January Wall Street Journal dispatch -- because it can help philanderers keep their affairs from lovers’ prying eyes. The phones lack sophisticated tracking features -- plus, a buried “privacy” mode gives off only stealth signals when lovers call and leaves no trace of calls, texts or emails. A senior executive for Fujitsu said, “If Tiger Woods had (this phone), he wouldn’t have gotten in trouble.” • China’s national legislature passed a law in December to establish that people have a duty to visit their aged parents periodically. China’s rapid urbanization has not developed nursing homes and similar facilities to keep pace with the population, and sponsors of the law said it would give the parents a legal right to sue their children for ignoring them.

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