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INDY LOVES HAITI

A surprising number of local organizations are working to aid Haiti, a country devastated by natural disasters, disease and poverty. At the center of those groups is Amy King, who through ProvocateHaiti, is helping those organizations find and support each other. BY NATHAN BROWN COVER PHOTO BY BRANDON KNAPP

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ANOTHER HOLY WAR?

A proposed bill allowing creationism to be taught in Hoosier schools appears to be the next salvo in the ever-expanding culture wars. BY ROBERT ANNIS

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KEEPING THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY

Anne Waldman has read her poetry in some unlikely places: On train tracks near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Production Plant near Denver, Colorado; on makeshift Occupy Wall Street stages. Her performance style lends itself well to such wide-open settings: She sings and shouts her work, often with musical accompaniment. These days that music is provided by her son, Ambrose Bye, who will accompany Waldman Wednesday during her 7:30 p.m. appearance at Butler’s Robertson Hall. BY DAN GROSSMAN

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SUPER ROUND UP

Where were you this weekend? That question spurts from the mouths of every person in this town right now. It was an absolutely thrilling (dare we say, super?) weekend for nightlife in Indy and NUVO was out to experience it all. From the uberpacked LMFAO show on Friday that literally closed downtown streets to George Clinton’s funky Broad Ripple Super Fest and everywhere in between (including an extremely weird R. Kelly after party), we’ve got the best and worst of Super Bowl entertainment collected here.

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from the readers: You are my favorite film critic; I always love what you suggest to see. The rotten movies you shred for the same reasons I do, if I unfortunately have to view one. But your list of football films (Movies, “Football in Film,” Feb. 1-8) had one missing; ‘We are Marshall”(the true story of a small college that suffers the loss of practically the whole team & their supporters in a horrific plane crash while en route to a game). It’s not only football, but an uplifting story of an entire town coming together after huge tragedy. I left the theater feeling proud to be American, & proud to be a football fan. Maybe you didn’t like the film as much as I did. Maybe you never had the chance to see it since you have so many movies on your plate, I don’t know. Yet it remains one of the best ever in my book. Check it out, keep doing what you do so well and save us money at the box office by warning of Hollywood Clunkers! Thank you and have a great week.

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HAMMER Super Bowl post-mortem What, exactly, did we get out of it?

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

he New York Giants are the kings of the NFL. Indianapolis proved itself to be a genial host city for the Super Bowl, especially when temperatures approached historic highs. Jimmy Fallon has given us his seal of approval. And my email inbox and the NUVO website are full of nasty messages condemning me for my last few columns, which were less than laudatory about the prospect of an invasion of Super Bowl tourists. Only a few astute readers got the point of my satiric screeds over the past two weeks. It’s not that I was against the Super Bowl per se. I was as indifferent to the game as I am any football match featuring two teams with whom I have no emotional investment. And I’m not opposed to Indianapolis putting its name forward as a great place to do business and to visit, either. The city seemed to meet or exceed expectations in that regard.

No, the concept I am vehemently against is the one beaten into our heads over and over by local media, that only an event like the Super Bowl could validate the city’s existence and prove our worth to the rest of the nation. Or, as Dan Carpenter, the local dean of journalists, wrote in Sunday’s Indianapolis Star: “I hope I am far from alone in feeling insulted by the insinuation I’ve waited all my life for the circus, tents and all, to come to town.” Now that the visitors have left our city and the excitement of the game and its events begins to fade from immediate memory, what exactly did the Super Bowl bring to Indianapolis, aside from thousands of visitors and a few memorable events? Unless you were a server who worked 18-hour days last week, odds favor your paycheck being the same after the Super Bowl as it was before. And, while the influx of visitors certainly paid taxes on all the goods and services they consumed while here, their money may have been just enough for the city to break even once the increased police and public safety expenses are factored into the equation. We’ll be paying interest on downtown capital infrastructure investments into the next millenium. Realize, too, that this is as good as it gets. Even the most optimistic projection has us getting the Super Bowl back in 10 years, if ever. There won’t be another event comparable in size ever again. We will never have an Olympic games or a World Cup, or a national political convention.

So we’ve mortgaged our financial future for what, exactly? A few free concerts and stunning aerial shots of the city on TV? We could have bought an infomercial promoting the city for far less money than it takes to host a Super Bowl. Michael Hicks, an associate professor of economics at Ball State University, has studied the impact of Super Bowls on host cities and said that we could expect between $300 million and $400 million of revenue, counting everything. While that isn’t anything to scoff at, it’s also not the entire story, either. Even if every penny of that money were to be applied to paying down the debt we owe on Lucas Oil Stadium and the red ink remaining from the RCA Dome, we’re still $400 million-$700 million in the hole. Another Super Bowl, he found, would have no net economic impact on the city due to the event’s displacing of other events that would normally be here such as conventions and the like. The true impact of the game on our city is, at best, an educated guess. What it proved for certain is that our local media has no shame in becoming unpaid spokespersons for the NFL and its commer-

cial enterprises and that they received much praise from the citizenry for doing so. It also proved that the media, save for Mr. Carpenter, seemed to unite as one in agreement that this event was the best thing to ever happen to the city and we should all be grateful to our civic leaders for bringing it here. The truth is more ambiguous. Our city functioned quite well for decades with no NFL team whatsoever and, in fact, in some ways we were better off financially before the Colts ever came here. As Mr. Carpenter writes, a generation ago we had locally owned department stores, banks and merchants who kept their money in Indy instead of sending it to corporate headquarters out of state. The Colts, of course, aren’t to blame for this. The destructive power of Reaganomics played a leading role in the death of locally owned businesses and the redistribution of wealth to mega-corporations. But to think that a single week in the national spotlight would cure all or even some of our woes is pure folly. If you enjoyed the Super Bowl week, good for you. It’s over now. Our underlying problems haven’t gone away and it’s time we started focusing on them.

Odds favor your paycheck being the same after the Super Bowl as it was before.

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Peyton Manning: champion

This doesn’t happen very often

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e grew up in New Orleans and came of age in Tennessee. Who would have guessed that Peyton Manning had so much Hoosier in him? If ever there was proof for the contention that Indianapolis is America’s northernmost southern city, this may be it. Manning (most of us call him Peyton) made this his adopted home in less time than it takes most newcomers to find Meridian Street. There’s an undeniably weird alchemy that can take place between a truly great athlete and the town where he or she lives. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the athlete is not only playing for a team, helping it to win, but, in some way, is also representing the larger community. It’s easy, even justifiable, to put down the fans’ tendency to over-identify with their favorite team — to say “we” instead of “they” when talking about the outcome of a game or a coaching decision that, in fact, is completely beyond the fans’ control or ken. But something different happens when a true champion comes along. The champion actually raises everybody’s game a little, even if only on a subliminal level. This doesn’t happen very often — maybe once in a generation, if you’re lucky. Peyton Manning has been that kind of champion for Indianapolis. In an era when most quarterbacks are nothing more than game managers, executing plays sent to them from coaches sitting in skyboxes above the field of play, Peyton has called his own games at the line of scrimmage. In this, he most resembles the leader of a great jazz band. There is art in what Peyton does. It hasn’t always worked the way he has wanted it to; sometimes his vision exceeds his grasp. But a Colts game featuring Peyton Manning under center has never been anything less than an experiment in mastery. Peyton Manning, in other words, has provided this otherwise arts-skeptical city with what I would call an aesthetic experience on every weekend of football season for over a decade. When you think about all the people — not just football fans, either — in Indianapolis who have had the chance, at one time or another, to have experienced this … well,

it’s hard not to think that, somehow, a little bit of that mastery has rubbed off. That should be enough to explain Peyton’s place in this city, but there’s more. The guy’s made us laugh. No athlete in memory has been such a viral media presence. Peyton’s pitilessly dry, self-deprecating sense of humor expressed through scads of TV commercials and, memorably, on Saturday Night Live, has always felt just right, fitting along the lines of such local humorists as cartoonist Kin Hubbard in the early 1900’s, author Kurt Vonnegut (another Peyton fan, by the way) and comedian David Letterman. Then there’s the charity work, starting with purchasing athletic gear for local public high schools and culminating in a major contribution to the St. Vincent’s children’s hospital bearing his name. And did I mention a certain stadium? Now that we’re rubbing the Super Bowl pixie dust from our eyes, we might recall that without Peyton, without the way he elevated a previously hapless team, there would have been scant support for a publicly funded downtown football stadium. It’s an indication of just how corporate the economics of pro sports have become that money, not local history, determined the naming of this massive landmark. It should be named what people call it: The House that Peyton Built. Peyton himself, of course, is part of this corporate culture. He’s been lavishly — some would say obscenely — rewarded for the way he plays what is, finally, a game. Corporate culture has a momentum of its own. Local stories, memories and sentimental affections are rarely able to stand up to the force that gathers at the bottom line. So for all Peyton Manning has meant to Indianapolis, the story he has created here appears to be coming to an end, hastened unceremoniously by injury. The financial calculus that made Peyton ridiculously rich now makes it impossible to take a chance on keeping him around. My son calls me from his home in North Carolina where, every day, he follows the news about Peyton on the Internet and via sports talk radio. He is a man now, but when Peyton started playing for the Colts my son wasn’t even old enough to have a driver’s license. He wants to talk about what’s happening and I hear resignation and regret in his voice. He knows the Colts will likely draft a new quarterback, the aptly named Andrew Luck, this year. He understands this means the odds are Peyton Manning will never play another game in an Indianapolis uniform. For my son I sense that this is not only the end of an era — it’s the end of a certain relationship he’s had with his hometown. Things will never be quite the same. My son also knows, of course, that this is the way things go. Change happens, usually in ways we can’t control. You get used to it as best you can and try to look forward to what comes next. Losing a champion, though, is tough to take.

A Colts game featuring Peyton Manning has never been anything less than an experiment in mastery.

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

Mitch Daniels signs right to work bill in a land where business always wins Zuckerberg’s Facebook goes public — now there is a redundant remark! brave GOP will fight any tax hike including the “Buffet rule” bill Pfizer recalls birth control packs; you might name your baby Placebo dozens of soccer fans die in stampede; Egypt takes sports too gravely massive crack spreading in Antarctica will make iceberg Mothership U of Vermont bans sale of bottled water — go Catamounts! Save earth! I’m bitter about proposal to regulate sugar as toxin Don Cornelius takes the soul train out of this world, into the next as of this week we agree we will no longer use the term “super”

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN THE BEST SUPER BOWL EVER

Congratulations, Indianapolis! Your name is now synonymous with rockin’ party! The city looked great and people had fun — truly people from all over the world. A brief sampling of the extensive menu of countries from which media managers encountered reporting crews included England, Hungry, Mexico and several Asian nations. The game was broadcast in at least 10 languages, indicating the ever-more entrenched way the Circle City is entwining with global culture. Our iconoclasts love to bluster that once the show is packed up and rolls out of town, the afterglow will fade away into a hangover of debt. Smart money, however, says that week-long commercial for the city was priceless. (If we don’t start rolling over stadium financing arrangements to a point where it gobbles too much cash flow.) Now if a legislative savior could only emerge in the Indiana General Assembly and get us rolling on our mass transit plan, we’ll be able to take our game one step higher WHEN the Super Bowl returns.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH LOVING BOOBIES?

The Super Bowl (via the Federal Communications Commission) censors them, but the ACLU has stepped up yet again to assist students beleaguered by hysterical administrative drones. The administrators complained that a plastic bracelet sporting the “I BOOBIES” phrase in support of the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund was disruptive to the educational environment at Monticello’s Roosevelt Middle School. After threats of expulsion, the offending student’s father filed suit with the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana — Lafayette Division.

FREE RIDE, FREE CHOCOLATE

If a Tuesday morning commute threatens to snuff the romance out of Valentine’s Day, IndyExpress is out to sweeten the deal for riders making the trip from Carmel to downtown. On Feb. 14, morning rush hour riders “get a free trip downtown, chocolates donated by the Carmel Meijer and the chance to fall in love with the convenience of an Express Bus commute.” They’re also registering riders for a free giveaway — a donated overnight stay at the Hilton downtown and dinner for two at McCormick and Schmick’s. Check indyexpressbus. com for more details. And while we’re pimping ongoing promotions, if you love Central Indiana and you have any talent with a video camera, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors is celebrating its centennial with a HoosierLove.com video contest. Prizes range from $500 to $5,000. Deadline is Feb. 21.

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news Another Holy War brewing in Hoosierland? BY RO BE RT A N N IS E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T

proposed bill allowing creationism to be taught in Hoosier schools appears to be the next salvo in everexpanding culture wars. Many parents, teachers and scientists are up in arms over Senate Bill 89, which they believe would introduce shoddy science standards and set up local school boards for costly litigation. Although the bill doesn’t specify where creationism is to be taught, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, said he hoped it would be taught alongside evolution in science class. An avowed Christian who believes the Bible is the literal word of God, Kruse dismissed evolution, saying Darwin himself discounted his theories on his deathbed. Galileo goes to jail: and other myths about science and religion, published by Harvard Press in 2009, called the Darwin deathbed conversion story a myth. Kruse said he introduced the bill at the request of several pastors and a Sunday school class he taught. He introduced a similar bill in 2000 while in the House, but it never got a hearing, he said. The bill passed the Senate 28-22, but underwent some significant changes. A lastminute amendment by Sen. Vi Simpson, D-Bloomington, softened the bill, striking creation science and changing “must require” creationism to be taught to “must offer.” The amended bill also allows other religious theory to be taught in the classroom alongside Judeo-Christianity, including Islam and Scientology. Simpson said she hoped the addition of the other religions would scare off local school boards. If that doesn’t make school boards wary, the thought of expensive lawsuits likely will. The ACLU of Indiana is already gearing up for battle.

Abdul’s Legislative “Half Time” Report Right to Work

Yes, it passed both chambers, but the fight isn’t over yet. I am hearing opponents are planning to file a lawsuit to stop it from going into effect. The argument, if I have this right, is that right to work violates Article 4, Section 22 of the state constitution, which prohibits lawmakers from passing any local or special law … “Relating to

“It is unconstitutional to teach religious belief as scientific fact or theory, and this unconstitutionality is not lessened by the inclusion of several religions,” said Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana. An ACLU of Indiana spokesperson refused to disclose if its attorneys had been discussing the bill with potential clients. Kruse acknowledged the state and local school boards would be sued if the bill passes and is implemented on the local level, but refused to cave to “ACLU intimidation.” He admitted that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down similar requirements in the past, but believes the current court, skewed heavily to the right, might destroy the separation of church and state. IPS School Board member Elizabeth Gore learned about the bill last month during a legislative committee meeting, but said the entire board hasn’t yet discussed it. She didn’t know enough about the bill to decide if she’d support implementing it if it became law. The Indiana School Board Association has yet to take a stand on the issue or offer any advice to school boards who might consider it. A call to ISBA Executive Director Frank Bush wasn’t returned Monday morning. While the threat of litigation might prevent the bill from being implemented in most school districts, critics say it shouldn’t go forward for other, more basic reasons. Hoosier science teachers and scientists seem to be overwhelmingly opposed to being forced to include creation theory into their teaching. In 2006, the Indiana Academy of Science passed a resolution opposing teaching “explanations that depend on concepts relating to the supernatural,” such as intelligent design or creationism. Parent Mike Robinson explained his opposition to the bill. “That stuff should be handled at home; teaching kids about God isn’t the school system’s job,” Robinson said. “Science class should teach kids about things that fall under the scientific method — things that you can observe, record and replicate — you can’t do that with creationism, no matter what they tell you.” In the end, the concern over SB 89 may be a moot point. House Speaker Brian Bosma is known to be reluctant to push the bill in his chamber and, as of Monday, no hearing on the bill has been set. fees or salaries, except that the laws may be so made as to grade the compensation of officers in proportion to the population and the necessary services required;” The logic being applied here is that by passing RTW, which says an employer cannot compel an employee to pay union fees as a condition of employment, the legislature is violating that section of the Constitution because it is a special law relating to fees.

Mass Transit

Although it’s “dead,” nothing is dead in the Indiana General Assembly until you see a body. And proponents tell me they are working behind the scenes to move something forward. The problem won’t be convincing outstate lawmakers, but the problem is the Marion County delegation, particularly those township Republicans who don’t think their constituents are get-

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The life of SB89

01/26/2012: Committee report: do pass, adopted.

01/04/2012: First reading of SB89, authored by Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn: referred to Senate Committee on Education and Career Development.

01/30/2012: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed. Amendment 1 (Sen. Vi Simpson, D-Bloomington), prevailed; voice vote. Amendment 6 (Sen. Timothy Skinner, D- Terre Haute), failed; Roll Call 93: yeas 14, nays 36.

01/05/2012: Sen. Travis Holdman, R-Markle, added as second author. 01/17/2012: Sens. Mike Delph, R-Carmel and Jim Banks, R-Columbia-City, and Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis added as coauthors.

01/31/2012: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 108: yeas 28 and nays 22; Referred to the House under Rep. Jeffery Thompson, R-Lizton, sponsorship and cosponsor by Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero.

ting a fair share of the mass transit, even though they are paying increased taxes for it. There are other lawmakers who are so vehemently opposed to tax increases that they refuse to let voters have the decision to do it for fear they might actually vote for a tax increase.

Smoking Ban

This did pass the House by a 2-1 margin. Now it’s up to the Senate where no clear lawmaker consensus can be found, even along party lines. Some senators want a total ban, some want no ban, some a ban with exemptions. Watch the amendment process on this one, it will be a wild ride.

Miscellaneous Bills

Other bits: I don’t see cursive writing or creationism efforts getting anywhere. The credit creep bill (addressing the rising

number of credits mandatory to graduate at Indiana colleges and universities) will likely pass, it will just need some tinkering around the edges. And I don’t see drug testing of lawmakers getting out of the Senate; welfare recipients, yes, lawmakers, not so much. –ABDUL HAKIM-SHABAZZ

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DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Player’s Association, greets Indy’s City-County Council President Maggie Lewis a t the protest outside the downtown Hyatt. PHOTO BY MARK LEE

Spectators packed downtown streets all weekend.

Perhaps the most significant news last Friday flew by unnoticed by most local media otherwise occupied with celebrity sightings. DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Player’s Association, announced that the players’ association would boycott the Hyatt until it addressed its local labor issues. Indy’s City-County Council President Maggie Lewis joined Smith at a workers’ protest to reiterate her long-standing boycott position. She said the hotel can expect “no love from the city-county president” and that she refuses to attend meetings at the facility until the protestors’ concerns are addressed. Unite Here has long been pressing for unionization of Hyatt staff. Recently they helped file suit on behalf of contract laborers of Hospitality Staffing Solutions, a contractor providing services such as housekeeping and restaurant stewarding to several hotels downtown. Hyatt General Manager Brian Comes said during an interview in his office last Friday that the hotel petitioned the National Labor Relations Board last year for a secret ballot election so employees could determine if they wanted union representation. He also

said the average wage of hotel employees is about $12 an hour extensive benefits including healthcare, education reimbursement and free meals at work. Comes said when Hyatt terminated its relationship with HSS, the hotel worked to find them positions at other downtown hotels or transition to its new temporary staffing supplier. Hyatt also added 30 new employees to its permanent workforce of around 300, Comes said. On the street, the word from current and former Hyatt employees was different. They said many “temporary staffers” actually work for Hyatt on a full-time, long-term basis. They also said they felt intimidated in their efforts to unionize and that low wages prevented heads of households from spending adequate family times because wages were too low to allow a regular full-time job to cover an average family’s needs. Former employee of the year, Karl Fredericksen, said he was fired in December for a nine second video clip of him with his eyes closed during a quiet moment in the hotel. Otherwise his multi-year second, he says, was spotless. He believes it is company retaliation for his alliance with Unite Here. He’s taking his case to court. –REBECCA TOWNSEND

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Super Bowl semiotics.

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Street performer Benanne Twigg draws stares from strollers on Monument Circle.

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Evangelicals amped up downtown proselytizing efforts.

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Amy King with Davidson, in Fondwa, Haiti, April 2011. Davidson was orphaned by the earthquake; in the disaster, his hand was cr ushed. Indiana-based Kevin Kathman met Davidson while Kevin was volunteering for Artist for Peace and Justice, performing limb therapy at St Damien Hospital. Kevin and his wife Julie are in the process of ado pting Davidson.

Editors note: On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti. An estimated 3 million people were affected, and a global outpouring of charity donations, good will and volunteers flooded Haiti. Locally, more than half of Indiana households donated to relief efforts. But, this is not a story about the earthquake nor is about the millions of dollars raised. This is a story about one woman’s love affair with Haiti and how that affair has impacted her home city of Indianapolis and the world.

affords and I love the fast Internet connection. I’m way more efficient here, but Haiti has, even in the midst of chaos, what matters: family, tradition, colors, dancing, music, more family, working together.” I asked her if her heart was in Haiti and she answered in a dreamy, drawn out, “Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.”

ou should come to Haiti with me!” Amy King said with such sincerity and enthusiasm I thought it might propel her right off her seat as we sat and chatted at Calvin Fletcher’s Coffee House on a blustery January evening. King wore an over-sized fleece pulled over her scrubs. She’d just come from the VA hospital where she works as a nuclear medicine technologist in the radiology department. That’s her job in one world, but in another world, Amy inhabits a small village in Haiti. She volunteers on a medical mission, leading responsible tourism trips, visiting orphanages or simply enjoying some rum and freshly caught lobster. “Trust me,” King said. “I want to live here and I love the convenience that America

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When I meet someone, I can’t just talk to someone and have a normal conversation. I immediately see what they have to offer and what they need or what the need is…

King brought that passion back to the States in the form of the web site Provocate-Haiti, which features a vast amount of articles King and others have written, on everything from the history of Haiti, to local initiatives in Haiti, to recommendations for books about Haiti. “This web site is how I’ve taken the last two years of chaos in my mind and it’s actually becoming something, like this real

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idea of having the local community work together to help this global initiative,” King said. “The future idea, when I don’t have to work at the hospital every day and I can do this and really spread this idea, it would be so every state could have a Provocate idea.” In addition to this web site, King is active in social media, including Twitter and Facebook. “I love networking probably more than anything on earth,” King said. “As soon as I meet someone, I connect with them on Facebook and — Amy King connect them to the people who I think they could have great synergy with. When I meet someone, I can’t just talk to someone and have a normal conversation. I immediately see what they have to offer and what they need or what the need is and I immediately am in my head connecting them.”

Via Facebook and Provocate-Haiti, King compiled a list of approximately 300 people and organizations that were either working in Haiti or had an interest in Haiti in doing so. In the process, she forged and facilitated relationships that have changed the way groups in Indiana are working in Haiti. As King is fond of saying, there are “10,000 groups in Haiti doing 10,000 different things,” — she means this figuratively, of course but her goal is to connect those groups. “There are three huge water groups working in Haiti and none of them knew that all three of them are right here in Indianapolis,” King said. “It just so happens that one of them does purifiers, huge water purifiers, that can give water to a community of 5,000. And another does bucket filtration for individual houses. “So, it ends up that they complement each other perfectly, but they didn’t even know the others existed. Whenever a connection like that is made, it makes me so happy. It’s like the fuel that keeps me going.”

On a medical mission Amy began going to Haiti in 2007 when she joined St. Thomas Aquinas for a medical mission in Belle Riviere, Haiti.

“I love what they did,” King said. “They take a team in and it’s not evangelizing at all. It’s only medical care.” While there, King worked as a triage nurse. She and about a dozen others worked side-by-side with Haitian nurses and doctors for five days at St. Thomas Aquinas’ twin parish, St. John Marie Vianney in Belle Riviere. “I went with the idea that I could check Haiti off the list and maybe next year go on a trip with the Timmy Global Health,” King recalled. “(I wanted to see the world) and I wanted to do it through a medical mission because that was my career — and still is.” However, the plan of checking Haiti off the list quickly morphed into something else. “I went on the first medical mission and, I can not explain it, but something happened and I totally fell in love with the country,” King said. “Everything went right.” King returned to Haiti with St. Thomas Aquinas in 2008 and 2009. But, in 2008, not everything went so smoothly. On Friday, Feb. 15, 2008, the group flew from Indianapolis to Atlanta to Miami to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but was stuck at Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport because Haitian customs had confiscated their supplies. The supplies weighed almost one ton and included important medicine and equipment for a team of 17 medical professionals. On Saturday, the group was still waiting. Haitian customs wanted documents from the Haitian minister of health, who was out of town for the weekend. Sunday, the group was still held up. They decided to visit Holy Angels hospice to spend time with children. The next day, Monday, most of the staff of the medical mission stormed in to the Minister of Health’s office. He referred them

to the Director of Pharmacy, who referred them to the Director of Protocols, who referred them back to the Minister of Health. “I can’t even make this stuff up,” King wrote in her journal. “(We) decided we couldn’t get the meds back because we couldn’t show proof of some expiration dates.” They attempted to contact the U.S. Embassy, but it was closed because of President’s Day. Resigned, they gave up for the day and went to Petionville for dinner. On the way back, the car was pulled over by police and one of the authorities

Whenever a connection like that is made, it makes me so happy. It’s like the fuel that keeps me going. — Amy King

pointed a machine gun inches from King’s face. Luckily, the documentation they had on hand appeased the police. On Tuesday, a few people from the medical mission went back to customs where they were told they could have their supplies, but they’d have to pay a tax. They decide not to. On Wednesday, one of the men on the mission negotiated the release of the group’s supplies for $156 U.S. dollars. They decided to scrap the idea of going to Belle Riviere and made plans to travel to the slums of Cite Soleil the next day and directly

distribute medical help and medicines. The area where they worked was rife with gang members, but many Haitians still sought the group’s assistance. “(There were) burns, shingles, goiters,” King wrote. “They were grateful, we were thankful. So exhausted, so fulfilled!”

Establishing a clinic One of the medical doctors on those trips to Belle Riviere was Dr. Steve Zentner who works at St. Vincent Immediate Care Center in Fishers, IN. Dr. Zentner, accompanied by his wife, has been going to Haiti on large medical missions since 1996. After years of many subsequent trips he began to see recurring patterns that troubled him: lack of constant care for those who needed it, lack of follow-up appointments and lack of time to see everyone who needed care. “We were coming in once a year,” King said. “Swooping in and who knows if they were taking their medicines correctly because there wasn’t any follow up.” Dr. Zentner thought there had to be a better way of providing care. He began communicating with doctors at a hospital in Fond Des Blancs, Haiti, where he would often send the seriously ill patients who came to Belle Riviere. He hoped to convince the Fond Des Blancs doctors to staff the clinic in Belle Riviere at regular intervals. “They came back with how much money they wanted,” Dr. Zentner recalled. “It was beyond our budget. So, that pretty much died right there. Then, I found out that when medical students graduate in Haiti, they’re required to do a one to two year residency. I called around about that and never heard anything back. So, that kind of ended.” Years passed and Dr. Zentner was still

AMY KING AT A GLANCE

Born in Owensboro, KY, 1979 Grew up in Marion, KY, and in Fort Branch, IN Went to Purdue University and IUPUI B.S. with a major in Nuclear Medicine Technology Has worked at VA Hospital since 2002 Lives downtown Indianapolis Indy favorites: enjoying all the Broad Ripple breakfast joints, running on the downtown canal, summer nights at Symphony on the Prairie and shopping at The Village Experience.

WANT TO HELP HAITI?

Surgery team at Heartline Field Hospital in Clercine, Haiti, one week after the earthquake. Patient was cooking when the quake hit; she was burned by the oil and fire.

• email Amy with any contacts or resources for Haiti: (rolaking@hotmail.com or amy@ provocate.org) • Join Amy in Haiti through The Village Experience, March 3-10 (social justice and solar lights in Port au Prince, rural development project in Fondwa, art with street kids in Jacmel, hike to Bassin Bleu and more - $1399 plus air, all meals included) (www.experiencethevillage.com) • Sign up for an adventure expedition through Travelcology / Tour Haiti: surfing, kitesurfing, mountain biking, hiking, exploring, bird watching, forts and historical tours, coffee tours, snorkeling, boating, yoga. (facebook.com/ MountainBikeHaiti and facebook.com/TourHaiti) • Support The Village Cooperative scholarship program: Can’t get to Haiti yourself but would love to live vicariously through a college ambassador? Donate to this program and a local student will get to travel with Amy or Kelly, and the best part is that it’s fully tax-deductible. • Support Friends of Belle Riviere by donating towards a chlorine generator • Contact Amy if you’d like to donate towards medicines, sewing machines, fish farms, chicken coops, motorbikes, container gardens, school supplies, computers, or any other income generating project. • Come to our FREE screening of Rescue at the IMAX on Feb. 15. • Come to our next Provocate-Haiti networking meeting (Feb. 16, 6 p.m. at Big Car Service Center).

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troubled by the same problems. Then, staffing changed at the Fond Des Blancs hospital and Dr. Zentner began a line of communication with Dr. Inobert Pierre, the medical director at the hospital. “I decided to bring up the possibility of staffing the Belle Riviere clinic once more,” Dr. Zentner wrote in an article on ProvocateHaiti’s website. “This time I was amazed by the idea’s reception. Dr. Pierre thought it was a great idea and was willing to accept whatever fee we thought was reasonable.” In the summer of 2010, the Belle Riviere clinic started to open weekly, staffed by doctors recruited by Dr. Pierre from Fond Des Blancs. “We essentially put ourselves out of work,” King said. “After 15 years of going to Belle Riviere, Haiti, there is a phenomenal story of turning things over to the Haitians who can totally hold a functioning medical clinic every week.” Dr. Zentner doesn’t plan to return to Belle Riviere since there’s no longer a need for him, but he stays in contact with Dr. Pierre because St. Thomas Aquinas still provides much of the clinic’s operating costs. The clinic’s budget hovers around $10,000 annually — enough to maintain a staff of doctors, a dentist and a stocked pharmacy. “The community is like 8,000 people in the surrounding villages,” King said, “and they just thought they were going to see a doctor once a year. To know that they can come in once a week for their care, everyone is healthier and benefits from it. It’s providing jobs for the Haitian doctors and nurses.”

The quake “On Jan. 12, 2010, I’m out walking my dog, an evening just like this — snow on the ground, sun setting,” King said. “I get a message from my grandma and she says ‘Amy, turn on the TV, there’s been a really bad earthquake that hit Haiti and it’s devastating.’ And I was literally glued to the television.” What King saw: a phantasmagoria of razed buildings and pleas for help, bodies and blood, screams and sirens. It was another blow in a series of unfortunate events that began unfolding in 1492, when Christopher Columbus claimed the country for the Spaniards, who subsequently exploited the land and people for gold and slaves.

because he’s been working in international affairs his whole life. The more he was asking around, the more he found out how many people work in Indiana, in Indianapolis and in Haiti. “So he said, ‘I’m really looking to spearhead this organization that would organize all the various groups because I love nothing more that to support the independent local community and I have this global initiative that I love with all my heart and soul.’ To connect the two, and using a term of John Clark’s, which is ‘glocal,’ global and local, it just hit.”

Launching Provocate-Haiti

Woman and child at a little store near Gros-Morne where Amy and friends had stopped to change a flat tire during the Travelcology/Tour Haiti adventure expedition, January 2012.

Centuries passed and Haiti saw more foreign rule, occupation, exploitation, debt and disease. All of this only compounded the worlds’ — and King’s — desire to help. “I got my name on a list to get down to Haiti and I actually got down six days after the earthquake with a team of surgeons,” King said. “Honestly, my medical skill set was not enough to help the patients at that time. What I was really able to do, and this has been the pivot point of my life, I started posting about what was happening on social media and getting connections and posting about our needs. I was getting incredible positive response and incredible traffic to the site as well. Literally, the earthquake changed my life as far as social media goes.” After returning home, King was emotionally drained. One of her godchildren had died in the earthquake and she attended the burial while in Haiti. Images of broken, dead bodies stuck in her mind. “Since the earthquake I’ve grown up so much,” King said. “Haiti’s been my

FREE SCREENING OF RESCUE 3D

The Indiana State Museum’s IMAX is offering a free screening of the new documentary, Rescue, on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. Amy King will speak at this screening. Rescue was originally meant to draw attention to how the modern world has incorporated technological innovation into rescue and relief efforts. The documentary, however, took a drastic turn when an earthquak e in Haiti presented filmmaker Stephen Low with an opportunity to film real life rescue and relief operations . On the first day of filming, Low’s team followed members of the Canadian Disaster Assistance Response Team into action. The team had similar opportunities to record the efforts of the US military , Air Force and Canadian Navy. The cooperation of these groups enabled Low and his team to track volunteer efforts in re-supply, search and rescue, emergency services management and food and water drops. Rescue is unique in that it remains one of the only IMAX-format films to document a natural disaster.

teacher. It’s been the best and the worst parts of my life.” Regardless, King pushed ahead with an idea she had. An amateur photographer, King decided to host an exhibition featuring her photographs of Haiti. Her first show was in March at the Athenaeum, only two months after the earthquake. Her second show was in May near Purdue University’s campus in West Lafayette. “I have had two art shows to raise awareness,” King said. “Again, advertising through social media and then telling the story through pictures. I was raising money to go right back to Haiti.” Every cent King profited went straight to Haiti. It was at her art show at the Athenaeum that she met Provocate’s founder and IUPUI SPEA visiting professor, John Clark. “He said, ‘I have this idea that I’d love to do,’” King recalled. “Over half of Hoosier households donated (after) the earthquake in Haiti and that kind of blew his mind

According to Low, “The fidelity of the IMAX format will bring audiences around the globe into the very heart of this recent human tragedy — they will feel the weight of the disaster as we did and they will become part of the amazing rescue efforts we witnessed and recorded first hand.” Low continues, “It was heartbreaking to witness the destruction in Haiti…W e cannot prevent natural disasters. But, thanks to the resilience, training and dedication of rescue professionals – the impact on those in disaster zones is lessened. These people, and their skills, are the focus of Rescue. Not the disaster itself. The rescuers, and the organizations and governments that enable their humanitarian efforts, truly deserve our admiration, and respect.” Rescue will show on the IMAX screen through June 1. Ten cents from every Rescue ticket sold will support American Red Cross Disaster Relief to help those affected by disaster anywhere in the world. For more information, visit rescue-film.com; for IMAX screen times, see: imax.com/oo/imax-indiana-state-museum.

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The idea of Provocate came to Clark after 20 years of working at large think tanks like the Hudson Institute, which was located in Indianapolis until 2004. “I realized there is an awful lot of talent and brainpower working around the world and the community and if you could mobilize those people, you could have a think tank,” Clark explained. Provocate helps create a local infrastructure to talk about ‘glocal’ issues. Provocate also seeks to connect people to issues that they’re passionate about and educational and entertainment opportunities. “It gives them an opportunity to make themselves better and smarter,” said Clark. In the summer of 2010, King and Clark jointly launched Provocate-Haiti and, over the next year, everything seemed to come together perfectly for them. They partnered with the Haitian Association of Indiana to launch Creole classes; King met with senator Lugar and his staff; she met with congressman Carson and his staff; she lobbied for Haiti at the CARE conference; she helped launch the Midwest premiere of New York filmmaker Alexandia Hammond’s documentary Strange Things Children of Haiti at the IMA; she helped organize Bloomington’s Haitian film festival; she held another art show in January; and ever since the beginning of Provocate-Haiti, King and Clark held monthly networking meetings. Somewhere in all of that, she made another trip to Haiti in May of 2010 to do art therapy with her mother at an orphanage in Cap-Haitien. “It was obvious she had the energy and

Filmmakers in Haiti: one of the only IMAX-format films to document a natural disaster.

Impossible, and he led a blind man to Mount Everest — he made the Guinness Book of World Records. We had a professional kiteboarder. We had several triathletes. We had an adventure filmmaker. We had a travel writer for Lonely Planet and Bradt travel guides. We had, the main guy Philip, he’s on the board of directors for the chamber of commerce in Manhattan.” As always, the group stayed in local hotels, ate at local restaurants and used local guides to transport themselves and all their gear. The athletes set out to experience the wonders that Haiti could offer, but at the same time they sought to educate the Haitians about their sports. “We went to leave the mountain bikes with the Haitians so they (could) learn the mountain bikes, have a garage, and there’s these mountain bikes that you can rent now,” King noted. “There’s a person there who can fix them now. Our kiteboarder took in a trainer kite and actually taught the kids on the beach how to catch the wind and left it with them.”

the experience from her trips to Haiti,” Clark said. “She had the trust of these different groups. Everybody trusted Amy. I told her Provocate was at her disposal. So, in some ways, I’ve always thought that Amy saved me. It would’ve just been overwhelming [for me], a source of defeat and depression, doing what she does naturally.”

Partnering with Village Experience In the midst of the flurry of activity that King and Clark experienced in 2010, King forged a relationship that would re-define her involvement in Haiti. In mid-2010, King met with the owners of The Village Experience in Broad Ripple, sisters Kelly and Anne Campbell. “You can go into their store and they have art pieces, jewelry pieces, kitchen wares from 35 different countries around the world, and they didn’t have Haiti,” King said. “We had several destinations we were involved in,” Kelly Campbell said. “Amy came to us and said we need to do more Haiti. At the time, I wanted to go to Haiti and couldn’t find an outlet that was wasn’t religion-based or medical.” Kelly and King worked together to plan a trip based on responsible tourism. “Responsible tourism means traveling the world in a manner that gives back to the communities you are visiting,” Kelly wrote in an article on Provocate-Haiti. “It involves leaving a positive footprint and forging lifelong relationships. The Village Experience finds locally owned and operated hotels, looks for familyrun restaurants, works with tour operators employing locals, and helps artisans to more fully develop their handicrafts for resale.” And that is what they did while they were in Haiti in April of 2011. Their experiences included assisting with rebuilding projects; spending a day learning about micro financing and how local Haitian women had started their business thanks to a small loan; and visiting the Arts Creation Foundation for Children, whose artwork is now for sale in the Village Experience.

GET INVOLVED PROVOCATE-HAITI Provocate-Haiti exists to encourage discussions around new ideas for solving problems. They are a website for global and local initiatives, education, entertainment, policy and culture. Amy King: rolaking@hotmail.com John Clark: 2.jon.clark@gmail.com haiti.provocate.org ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Donate to the reconstruction of Belle Riviere’ s parish center, St. Jean Marie Vianney, which was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake. St. Thomas Aquinas has been involved in Haiti for over 21 years by providing Haitian teachers’ salaries, installing solar panels, providing water filtration systems and much more. Joe Zelenka: jze@att.net 4600 N. Kenwood Ave. staindy.org/church/section.php?page=2-56 THE VILLAGE EXPERIENCE Sign up for an international responsible tourism trip or visit their shop in Broad Ripple for fair

“I want to get you there” Heartline Field Hospital provided post quake medical care to a neighboring orphanage, whose inhabitants included this boy.

The trip’s success enabled King and Kelly to take their first group of responsible tourists to Haiti the following month. “I want to tell you that the energy of every single Haitian that we met was palpable,” King said. “Because they’re so excited to show off the beautiful side of Haiti. They’re so excited to see 10 tourists come in and buy their products and their crafts and their rum and their lobster fresh from the beach that you can watch them cook. It’s income-generating. It is pumping money in to the economy while also enjoying the beautiful parks.” King still works closely with the Village Experience. The team is planning future trips to Haiti.

Tourism and adventure sports

trade products from around the world. Amy King will lead the next trip to Haiti on March 3-10. Kelly Campbell: kelly@experiencethevillage.com 6055 N. College Ave. experiencethevillage.com DOVE MISSIONS DOVE Missions is a youth outreach program that exists to serve abandoned, abused and orphaned children in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Greg Howland: ghowland@tds.net http://dovemissions.org MEDICAL MISSIONS SOUTH HAITI Volunteer in Haiti as a medical professional. This group has made 14 trips since 2005 and tak en about 60 volunteers and doctors to Haiti. Dr. Michael Blood: mbloodmd@yahoo.commmshaiti.org KIDS AGAINST HUNGER Kids Against Hunger exists to reduce the number of hungry or starving children throughout the world. Volunteer to help pack meals for children here at home or abroad. Angie Mollenkopf: angie@kidsagainsthunger.net kidsagainsthunger.net

King’s most recent trip to Haiti involved pairing responsible tourism with adventure sports. Through Facebook, King connected with a group called Travelcology, a “sustainable, engagement marketing agency that connects people, passions, and projects through brand-integrated adventure and volunteer travel experiences,” according to their website. King saw potential for a project. In January of this year, she coordinated a responsible tourism trip for 13 people that included professional mountain bikers, hikers, backpackers, kiteboarders, surfers and more. “We had a woman who had just done a 3,000-mile rickshaw race across India, who is an ESPN freelancer and has worked for Tour de France and the Olympics,” King said. “We had a guy named Jeff Evans who was just on a reality show called Expedition

DOTS IN BLUE WATER In June of 2011, a group of South Adams High School students went to Haiti to install w ater purification systems they had developed. Over the course of a school year, students developed a system that could treat 55 gallons of contaminated water in a single minute, enough to provide a day’s worth of drinking water for over 2000 villagers. Dots in Blue Water is planning a second trip to Haiti for June 2012. Michael Baer: scienceguy5204@yahoo.com facebook.com/pages/Dots-in-Blue-Water

In King’s perfect world, she would stay in Haiti for two weeks a month, every month. But, in this world, she has only 20 days of vacation a year provided by her job at the VA hospital. Ever since she started going to Haiti, she’s used all of those days to go there. She’ll never stop going, she’ll never stop loving this country and most importantly, she’ll never stop recruiting others. “Anything you want to do in Haiti, I want to get you there,” King said. “I want to get you to Haiti if you want to get your hands dirty. I want you to go to Haiti if you want to build something. I want you to go to Haiti if you want to teach. I want you to go to Haiti if you want to do a medical mission. I want you to go for responsible tourism.” She paused, then added, “And when people go, I want them to enjoy the local food, the local flavor, the singing, the dancing — make sure they dance! I just want them to go.”

saintmalachyparish.org

BAN MWEN DWAM Ban Mwen Dwam is a group that seeks to advocate for Haiti, the rights of Haitians and encourages all Haitians to work together for a better Haiti. Sabine Cadet-Lorgeat: marthecadet@yahoo.com facebook.com/BanMwenDwam?sk=info ST. MALACHY HAITI MISSION St. Malachy provides medical assistance for the St. Marguerite Parish in Port Margot, Haiti, and supports the St. Teresa School. Sign up for their Run/Walk for Haiti on April 28. Beth Lewis: blewis@stmalachy.org 983 E. County Road 750 North, Brownsburg

Kelly Campbell, center, co-founder of The Village Experience.

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THURSDAY

IU Opera’s ‘Albert Herring’

@ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre 1947’s Albert Herring is situated early in Benjamin Britten’s career, after his 1945 breakthrough, Peter Grimes, and at the cusp of an enormously productive decade that would see the completion of Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As with Grimes, Budd and Death in Venice, there’s a tendency to read a autobiographical impulse into Albert Herring; the critic Clifford Hindley, among others, views Albert’s attempt to escape from stifling, English provincial culture into a more Bohemian milieu as being “the parable of the ‘com-

ing out’ of a young gay man set against the oppression of smalltown respectability.” That’s just one interpretation; one might read the coming-of-age story as more universal, or perhaps focus on the opera’s musical merits, its balancing of stuffy, cliched, Old World styles with the looser, freer, more naturalistic musical language spoken by Sid and Nancy, a liberated couple that helps Albert to unloose his inhibitions and ties to his community. IU Opera is presenting Albert Herring in the more intimate confines of the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre , as opposed to the Opera’s usual home at the Musical Arts Center. Feb. 9, 10, 11 at 8 p.m.; Feb. 12 at 2 p.m.; $25 adult, $12 student Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington music.indiana.edu/operaballet

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SATURDAY

REPRESENT Family Day @ Indiana State Museum

REPRESENT, the State Museum's all-caps exhibition of visual art by African-American artists who have lived or worked in Indiana, has been up since Jan. 21. But Saturday's family day — an afternoon's worth of concerts and talks inspired by the show — is a good time to visit for those who missed it amid the Super Bowl hubbub. The day kicks off with music and dance by Napoleon Williams and True Friends True Praise, Krash Krew Dance Company and Counter Culture (11 a.m.); talks by REPRESENT artists Jay Parnell (12:30 p.m.) and Carol White (1:15 p.m.) will follow, with griot drumming (12:30 p.m.) in the meantime. A cultural organizations fair featuring arts and civic organizations will also open at 12:30 p.m., along with a workshop on adrinkra cloth. The afternoon will wind up with a screening of Colored Frames (2 p.m.), a documentary about the last 50 years in AfricanAmerican art, and music by soul legend Billy Wooten and the Vida Bole' Ensemble (also 2 p.m.). Guided tours of REPRESENT will be available from 12:30-4 p.m.

IRT managing director, WFYI radio host and Meridian Song Project director Steven Stolen somehow had time enough to spare to share his talents on Valentine's Day, putting together a singles-welcome, couplesapproved program populated by both love songs (“Dream a Little Dream”), anti-love songs (“I Hate You Darling”) and wilted-love songs (“A Fine Romance”).

Feb. 11, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; free with museum admission ($7 adult, $4 child) Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St. indianamuseum.org

Feb. 14, 8 p.m., $25-45 ($12 food or beverage minimum) The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, Ste. 516 cabaret.org

Steven Stolen, stealing a moment.

TUESDAY

Steven Stolen's 'Isn't It Romantic'

@ The Cabaret at the Columbia Room

TUESDAY

Lucky DeLuxe

@ White Rabbit Cabaret

A lonely puck.

largest crowds for a Tier 1 junior hockey game. A portion of proceeds from advance ticket sales will head toward several charities, including, but not limited to, the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital, Damar Services, The Villages and the United Way.

A top Valentine's Day pick for the adventurous couple, Lucky Deluxe's Getting Lucky: A StandUp Show from a Lay-Down Lady combines those kissing cousins — comedy and burlesque — into a one-hour, Fringe-approved monologue/dance routine/concert. DeLuxe, aka Susanna Lee, worked the stand-up circuit before she started shaking that which God gave her; now she plays festivals in both the comedy and burlesque world, including the Ventura Comedy Festival, the New Orleans Burlesque Festival — and, later this year, London's World Burlesque Games, as one of only 14 American competitors. Her Getting Lucky premiered last year at Kansas City Fringe; this is its first performance in Indy.

Feb. 10, 7:05 p.m.; $9-19 (plus applicable fees) Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St. indianaice.com

Feb. 14, 8 p.m., $8 advance (laughstub.com), $10 door White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St. getluckydeluxe.com

10 FRIDAY

Indiana Ice's 'Pack the House for Charity' night @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse

This marks the 18th year the Indiana Ice have hosted a Pack the House for Charity night, an event that continually draws some of the

Lucky DeLuxe’s come-hither pose.

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has racked up the Tony nominations throughout a career which kicked off in the late '60s, and she's more than comfortable in this concert setting — her 1996 Carnegie Hall debut has generated a couple records, not to mention a follow-up engagement at the Royal Albert Hall. Feinstein has been busy with a TV show (Michael Feinstein's American Songbook), tribute record (The Sinatra Project), new stage musicals and his Manhattan nightclub.

As one could've predicted, this has been sold out for a while; Peters and Feinstein are proven Broadway talents, and one might credit Feinstein's position as artistic director at the Center for the Performing Arts for making this possible. Peters

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Bernadette Peters and Michael Feinstein

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The Second Liberian Civil War was brought to an end not by the gun nor outside intervention, but by the women of Liberia — in peaceful demonstration, in prayer, staging strikes, forcing Liberian president Charles Taylor to negotiate peace talks and, ultimately, bringing an end to 14 years of bloodshed. Leymah Gbowee organized the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace in 2003, the umbrella group coordinating all opposition to the war; she was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in 2011, recognized for her “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women's rights to full participation in peacebuilding work.” Gbowee now serves as executive director for Women Peace and Security Network Africa , a Ghana-based NGO, and she was recently appointed by Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lead a peace and reconciliation effort in Liberia. Gbowee will give a free talk on women's rights and non-violent protest at UIndy's Ransberg Auditorium.

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Filmed during toward the end of the heyday of three-strip Technicolor, John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952) renders rural Ireland in bright, verdant greens, most of them captured on location in the village of Cong, County Mayo, a stand-in for Innisfree. It was a valentine and return to his homeland for Ford; not un-coincidentally, the story itself concerns the return of Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an Irish-American boxer who accidentally killed a man while on the job and is hoping to settle down in a simpler land. Mary Kate (Maureen O’Hara) complicates things, and the course of their courtship is itself complicated by a jealous brother who challenges Thornton to fisticuffs. Screening Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., at the Toby at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. 129 minutes; 35mm print courtesy of UCLA Film and Television Archive. Preceded by the animated short Giddyap (1950). Prior to The Quiet Man, film historian and IMA projectionist Eric Grayson will present a 90-minute course on color in film, featuring examples of early color processes including stenciling, two-color Technicolor and more obscure formats. The unique opportunity to see early color formats on actual film is free; attendees are encouraged to register by calling 955-2339. Feb. 10, 5:30 p.m., at the Toby at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Once again, Landmark Keystone Arts will present programs of live action and animated shorts nominate for an Academy Award — and, once again, it’s a one-week only event. The animated program features films from Canada, the US and UK, including an entry by Pixar; the live action lineup draws from Ireland, Germany, India, Norway and the US. Each program is separately ticketed. The live action slate runs 167 minutes; the animated, 79 minutes.

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Top: Tarkington Park Tennis Shelter architectural rendering, 1957; left, En-Ar-Co Service Station, 1937; right, Pierre’s model home at the 1954 Home Show.

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This past October, the Tarkington Park Tennis Shelter was torn down by IndyParks to make way for a modern toilet facility. The shelter wasn’t just an outmoded latrine, though the city treated it as such; it had been designed by one of Indianapolis’ great architects, Edward Pierre, who worked from the 1920s through the 1960s. This destruction might have been prevented if IndyParks had known more about the building’s architectural importance, according to Carol A. Street, the archivist for Architectural Records for Ball State University Libraries. An exhibit of Pierre’s diagrams and designs entitled “Civic Pride Begins in your Backyard,” open at the Blackline Studio for Architecture through March 2, can be seen as a riposte of sorts to the city, which has historically been all too inclined to ignore its architectural history. “The Tennis Shelter was a little modernist jewel box,” says Street. “It was a sympathetic building to its environment and it matched all the architecture surrounding it.” Also objecting to the shelter’s destruction was Vess Ruhtenberg, rock musician and architecture aficionado. His prompt action during that time made the shelter demolition an issue in last fall’s mayoral race. “When they took down that tennis shelter, I called The Recorder and The Indianapolis Star and all the TV stations, and I just waited at the corner waiting for people to show up to interview me,” says Ruhtenberg, who was on hand at the exhibit’s Friday night opening. “By the next day, I was with Melina Kennedy, basically doing a press conference on the site. I ended up opposing our own mayor, who insisted there’s no such thing as a historic toilet.” go&do // 02.08.12-02.15.12 // NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER

Ruhtenberg — whose grandfather Jan Ruhtenberg was an active modernist architect — lives in a small Westside house that was designed by Pierre. “It’s a small house, but it’s built like a great mansion or a fortress built to last a hundred years,” he says. “The house was built in 1946, in a neighborhood filled with post-World War II houses. It’s the oldest house in the neighborhood but it looks like the newest.” In addition to photographs and diagrams of Ruhtenberg’s house and the Tarkington Park Tennis Shelter, other examples of Pierre’s designs on display at the Blackline include an Art Deco-style fire station on Washington Street. But the generous selection included in the exhibit represents only a fraction of the Pierre & Wright Architectural Records, a collection of drawings, photographs, 3-D models and ephemera from architectural firms run by Pierre and his long-time business partner, George Caleb Wright. While Pierre incorporated Art Deco and mid-century modern motifs into his work, his work wasn’t defined by either of these styles, according to Craig McCormick, a partner in the Blackline firm. “He also created historical houses in the Meridian Kessler neighborhood, so he was kind of a chameleon,” says McCormick. “I think it’s also important to stress how engaged he was in the local community. He’s the one who came up with the idea to decorate Monument Circle during Christmas. You see a lot of grand mansions that he designed, but he also was very concerned with creating housing that the average person could afford.” — Dan Grossman “Civic Pride Begins in your Backyard” can be viewed through March 2 at the Blackline (1043 Virginia Avenue, Studio #211) during office hours, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

A&E FEATURE Anne Waldman

Keeping the world safe for poetry BY DA N G RO S S MA N E D I T O RS @N U V O . N E T Anne Waldman has read her poetry in some unlikely places: On train tracks near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Production Plant near Denver, Colorado; on makeshift Occupy Wall Street stages. Her performance style lends itself well to such wide-open settings: She sings and shouts her work, often with musical accompaniment. These days that music is provided by her son, Ambrose Bye, who will accompany Waldman Wednesday during her 7:30 p.m. appearance at Butler’s Robertson Hall. Bye grew up with Waldman in the environs of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, which Waldman co-founded, along with the poet Allen Ginsberg, in 1974. (She currently directs the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. Ginsberg was an extraordinarily influential poet in Waldman’s life; her friend and colleague, he even referred to Waldman as his “spiritual wife.” Reading Waldman’s and Ginsberg’s work, it’s not hard to see why they shared such a close kinship. Both are expansive in thematic terms as well as in the line length of their free verse, and they can both be seen as part of a visionary current that stretches back to Walt Whitman and William Blake before him.

Alternative poetics But the first poet Waldman studied with, Howard Nemerov, was a very different cat, a respected Blake scholar who wrote well-crafted formal verse that often crackles with dry irony. Nemerov was Waldman’s professor at Bennington College, where she received a B.A. in 1966. “He was part of a generation of male poets who had come of age around the war so the war was very critical in their larger view,” says Waldman. “I identified him somewhat with my father’s generation. My father had served in World War II. On the other end you had the Beats who I was reading and discovering and who I had encountered in high school who were forging a kind of alternative poetics for a number of reasons, who were more political in ways and investigatory. I think as a younger woman, coming of age at a particular time — with the backdrop of the Vietnam War — my experience was going to be very different. So I was more drawn to experimental forms, forms that I could engage in and invent in a way and work with.”

Largely because of her association with Beat poets such as Ginsberg, Waldman is often referred to as a postBeat poet, but her work can’t be so easily categorized. “It was never a problem to reconcile these influences, because of course one loves and admires so much the huge range of poetry of the past. It informs everything one does,” she says.

Insurmountable Ezra One of these influences is Ezra Pound, who inspired Waldman as she composed her three-volume, thousand-page epic Iovis. Recently published in its full form by Coffee House Press, Waldman describes Iovis “a feminist project taking on war and patriarchy.” “It’s a traditional postmodern epic,” she says. “It’s a huge chaos. It’s something I had to do and I dedicated it to my son. And in a way it’s for his generation. This is where we were for the last twenty-five years. But it also links to other times.” Recently, Waldman has been involved with work more directly related to Pound. “I’ve been working with the composer Steven Taylor who worked a lot with Allen Ginsberg,” says Waldman. “We’ve developed this ‘Poundatorio.’ It’s called Cyborg on the Zattere. It takes on the knot of Ezra Pound, from his radio broadcasts, the fascist broadcasts. We also have him in a cage at Pisa which is similar to a cage at Guantanamo.” Pound is fraught poetic territory, largely because of his radio broadcasts in ltaly against the Allies during World War II — for which he was put on trial for treason — and because of the antiSemitic tone evident in portions of his work, particularly in The Pisan Cantos. Because of such issues, Waldman does not fully embrace Pound’s work. “But the poetry’s so insurmountably powerful and fantastic,” she says. And I’m especially drawn to the Pisans and it fits with the whole idea of this project. I think it’s a conundrum when people loved it and it just brings all these things up, from the Occupy movement to the antics of our financial realm.”

Occupy poetry Waldman supported the Occupy movement by helping to organize protests calling attention to a certain irony. In December, two events occurred simultaneously in New York City: under the directives of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, police cleared out Occupy Wall Street home Zucotti Park while, not too many blocks away, Philip Glass’s Gandhi-themed opera Satyagraha played at the Metropolitan Opera, with sponsorship by the Mayor’s Bloomberg Family Foundation. To spell out the irony, Bloomberg’s foundation subsidized an opera that implicitly praises Gandhi’s nonviolent challenge to economic inequality while Bloomberg himself cracked down on activists in his own town. Lest Waldman seem strident in her activism, take a look at her 1982 music video, “Uh, Oh, Plutonium,” in which Waldman,

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clad in a yellow jumpsuit, dances against a green screen on which you see, among other horrors, the Taj Majal being incinerated by a nuclear blast. Waldman wrote the poem for a protest near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant in Denver. “I performed it on the tracks where they were bringing the plutonium in on a train and then it morphed into something else,” Waldman says. Somebody in the last year asked me, ‘Where’s your yellow jump suit?’”

ODE TO A LIBRARY CARD Ah modest microcosm gateway to vast diamond worlds vital imaginations An admission ticket, a permission You powers are so much more satisfying than television or the internet and quieter We want to unplug & sign up now O library card You connect us to outer space,

WHAT: ANNE WALDMAN WITH AMBROSE BYE IN THE VIVIAN S. DELBROOK VISITING WRITERS SERIES WHERE: EIDSON-DUCKWALL RECITAL ROOM, ROBERTSON HALL, BUTLER UNIVERSITY WHEN: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 7:30 P.M., FREE

ancient histories, modern too, engrossing fiction, wild poetry diverse languages, tantalizing cultures, deep politics, traveling from the Jurassic along unfathomable future neural pathways Marvelous library card Friend to the citizen, unlocking the universe Endless source of panoramic knowledge Panacea to all ignorance & ill! Anne Waldman

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VISUAL ART BODEGA GALLERY SHOW BODEGA; THROUGH MARCH 31 w Brian Presnell created the Bodega popup gallery just in time for February’s Super-packed First Friday. It offers a physically straightforward introduction to the maze-like Murphy Art Center, justifiably called the epicenter of the local art scene. The newly finished space is masterfully crafted, with all the accoutrements a fine art gallery should offer and the notable feature of reclaimed vintage wood integrated into the drywall. Art from local artists is wellselected, of high quality, and comes together in a diverse but cohesive way. It’s a rare treat to see a plentiful grouping of art from selftaught, Louisville-based artist Joel Pinkerton, whose excellent character assemblages — crafted from wooden objects and kitchenware — suggest Southern folk art traditions as well as H.C. Westermann’s work. Presnell plans to feature some new art in the space for March’s First Friday, and after that the fate of the space remains to be seen. Featuring the art of Presnell, Pinkerton, Justin Cooper, Casey Roberts, Mike Graves, FAB Crew, Brian Myers, Corey Jefferson, Jeff Miner and Darren Strecker. — CHARLES FOX HARD TARGETS IMOCA; THROUGH MARCH 17 e According to the exhibition text, Hard Targets “seeks to revise and complicate our timehonored stereotypes of male athletes and athleticism (as aggressive, heterosexual, hypercompetitive, and remote) by presenting alternative, possibly more democratic, interpretations of subjects frequently revealed to us only in authorized and frankly commercial images.” We see something in the art here often lacking from media and advertising images of statuesque athletes — vulnerability. Catherine

Opie’s images of young football players embody this vulnerability the most. Cary Leibowitz’s felt pennants and rubber football challenge masculinity by portraying traditional sports objects in feminine colors and emblazoned with phrases suggesting homosexuality (“Go fags!”; “Homo State”). At the momentous occasion of Indianapolis hosting its first Super Bowl, taking a critical look at sports’ role and identifying power in our society through the eyes of some exciting contemporary artists certainly feels apt. The exhibition is curated by Christopher Bedford, chief curator of the Wexner Center for the Arts. Featuring the art of Leibowitz, Opie, Mark Bradford, Cary Leibowitz, Glenn Ligon, Joe Sola, Hank Willis Thomas and Jonas Wood. — CHARLES FOX STEPHEN PECK: THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE STUPID SHARED HERITAGE; THROUGH MARCH 14 e The Best Things In Life Are Stupid presents a refreshingly broad, crisp and varied grouping of prints from Indianapolis-based artist Stephen Peck. Thematically, the artwork moves from advertising references to documentarystyle photographic imagery, from cityscapes to pop iconography, all while retaining the artist’s bold style of blocky shapes and saturated colors. A series of prints depicting various birds — seagull, blackbird, crow, raven and owl — features a visual representation of each bird above its name, bringing into focus the metaphorical connotations of various birds. These connotations are then blurred by the placement of each bird print in close proximity to the others. Indeed, all of the prints are all presented very elegantly in black frames, hung very close together, almost salon style. This style of presentation works very well within Shared Heritage’s confined gallery space, and this is the strongest exhibition this gallery has featured thus far. By appointment only; email: info@sharedheritage.com at least a day in advance. — CHARLES FOX

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THE DAVINCI PURSUIT MINI EXPERIENCE WUG LAKU’S STUDIO AND GARAGE, FEB. 3 t It’s inconveniently true that we need a more science-savvy citizenry like polar bears need sea ice. Inconvenient, because science is as appetizing as rancid broccoli to most of us. The daVinci Pursuit, a new local nonprofit, dishes up a fusion cuisine solution: Use the arts to add spice to science learning by engaging our senses. Their first “mini experience” served tapas of sound, sight and touch. Harpist Melissa Gallant and computer musician Michael Drews played an improvisational duet, with Drews digitally sampling and altering Gallant’s acoustic music — sort of a cyborg jam session. Engineer John Anderson’s “drawbot,” suspended like Spiderman on computer-controlled strings, drew fractal patterns as it wall-crawled. Designer Scott Cover’s cast-molded miniature building blocks, engineered for high stress tolerance and precision fit, exemplified how science and art can snuggle. Mark Kesling, daVinci Pursuit’s CEO, has a full pantry of ideas for future projects. Next on the menu: the “reflection/refraction flash sculpture” event at Big Car. See http://www.thedavincipursuit.com — GARY WEIR SCIENCEOLOGY: JEFF GEESA AND RYAN SZESZYCKI PRIMARY GALLERY; THROUGH FEB. 17 r Scienceology, a new body of work from Chicago-based Herron alumni Jeff Geesa and Ran Szeszycki, takes a hard look at human knowledge. The artwork is done in micron pen or acrylic on masonite, with a few canvases and a large collaborative site-specific drawing. Sarcastic titles such as “Constan’t,” “Benign Intervention,” and “Calculating Insanity” abound. There is almost no color present in this body of work; Geesa told me that he defaults to black, white and grey for aesthetic and metaphorical reasons. The artists state that they are making art about knowledge and ignorance — and celebrating both. This is clear when considering the overall effect of the body of work —there are pieces that seem to be about the realization of finite ideas, as well as those that seem to symbolize the jumbled human mind. Some of Szeszycki’s artwork consists of literally meaningless combinations of Greek symbols and numbers. Painted to appear as chalkboards, the pieces lightheartedly resurrect the feeling of wandering into a classroom

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of math or physics and having absolutely no idea what is going on. A little more didactic material may have helped to make clear to the general audience what I gleaned from talking with the artists. This exhibition may leave viewers scratching their heads, but in this case that is sort of the point. — CHARLES FOX UNDER FURTHER REVIEW: SUPER BOWL GAME CHANGING MOMENTS: PAINTINGS BY MATTHEW EICKHOFF INDIE INDY ART GALLERY; THROUGH FEB. 25 u You have to give Matthew Eickhoff credit for his ambition. He likes to paint large, often on 84” by 40” wood panels. And he knows his football; each panel is accompanied by a detailed written blurb for each “game changing moment” that he portrays in oil. The trouble is that his artistic technique, in these paintings at least, falls short of his ambition. In one painting, “The Tackle” (depicting a “game-changing” moment in Super Bowl XXXIV), there’s something odd and insect-like about the helmet of the defender who’s tackling the receiver. Elsewhere you see shoes on the same player mismatched, unsteady yard lines on the football field (as if you’re viewing them underwater) and poor choices in terms of color and composition. In one depiction a football player’s yellow helmet seems to disappear into the yellow tights of a teammate. Even more critically though, the proportions and motions of many of the depicted football players themselves seem awkwardly rendered. There are also problems in terms of the subject matter. In “The Clutch Kicker” you see a rather obvious display; one player jumping for joy while another of the opposite team sulks. Considering all this, it seems hard to justify the big league price points for this work ($1,500-$3,000). — DAN GROSSMAN A FAST THING SLOW: PAINTINGS BY PHILLIP LYNAM HARRISON GALLERY AT THE HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS; THROUGH FEB. 24 e While the lion’s share of paintings here are abstract, they have a rhyme and reason about them. In the acrylic on panel “Overcranking,” you see concertina wire-like spirals against a backdrop composed of alternating strips of gray and blue. There’s no discernible object being depicted here, but you

get the sense of fluidity and motion hinted at in the title. In “glassplate,” however, you see something completely different: a young woman’s face peeking out from a dark, nightmarish backdrop that looks like it might have been stolen from Francis Bacon’s studio.The woman’s face — drawn with white colored pencil and graphite and painted over with acrylic — is so skillfully rendered that it looks like there’s a real woman peeking out from behind the panel. (Lynam uses here an old public domain photograph as a reference.) In the acrylic on panel “1893,” however, Lynam achieves a synthesis of his representational and abstract approaches. In the painting, lines emanate out of a single point near the bottom of the panel. Follow these lines upward, and they explode into a crosshatched display of red lines against a subdued, whitish background. This image seems like it could have been conjured up through the curious, ecstatic eyes of a child looking up at a Ferris wheel for the first time. — DAN GROSSMAN

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Sweazy’s multi-layered debut thriller novel plunks you square into the fictional central Indiana town of Dukaine, population 3,000 except when tomato harvest brings in 4,000 migrant workers “straining the demand on every service…especially the

police department.” Weaving the story through flashbacks and the present, a dozen interlaced characters traverse events and relationships between 1985 and 2004 and between Mexico and Carlyle County, Indiana. The Devil’s Bones starts with an abduction and ends with a disappearance. In between, it’s a jumble of intrigue, political ambition, cultural hatred, murder, arson, drugs running and revenge. As with his award-winning Josiah Wolfe Texas Rangers series, Sweazy delivers dimensional characters whose good parts and flaws are genuine, and spirals events so we’re only one step behind police officer Jordan McManus as he tries to extricate himself from a past that threatens his present. In the tradition of Agatha Christie, Sweazy leads us down several paths to establish motives, and supplies us with hair-raising incidents on the way to solving who and why. – RITA KOHN THE THOUSAND-YEAR FLOOD: THE OHIOMISSISSIPPI DISASTER OF 1937 BY DAVID WELKY University of Chicago Press, $27.50 e Rain took up a month-long residency along the Ohio River Valley beginning late December 1936, initially over-spilling the River’s banks onto the floodplain. Soon the unabated downpour overburdened the River, which unleashed 165 billion tons of water over towns, villages and cities in 196 counties in 12 states. On January 24, 1937, now known as “Black Sunday,” from Cairo to Portsmouth, the Ohio River was two to

three times above flood stage, rising to 80 feet in Cincinnati. From West Virginia to Louisiana, 1,495,287 people were directly affected, immediately made homeless or eventually returning to a house no longer habitable, with belongings long-since washed away. Some people stuck it out and miraculously survived. Others did not. Some businesses, industries and farms ceased operation entirely, some limped along to partial recovery. It was an unprecedented disaster bringing $25,565,680 in worldwide contributions. Indianapolis, along with other cities far enough away from the Valley became Red Cross sheltering locations and supply centers for clothing, food and medical care for flood refugees. David Welky’s well-researched, plain-speaking book follows a quest to understand why this unlikely disaster happened and what we have learned — and have failed to learn — from it. Welky’s approach is both anecdotal and chronological, sharing the real travails of people living through the disaster, while contextually showing why previous personal choices and governmental decisions made on all levels led to raging flood conditions. While almost every affected community has produced its memory album of the ’37 flood, Welky’s book is the first to assess effects from Pittsburgh to Cairo, and the first to examine our collective attitudes towards living with nature as opposed to trying to conquer the unconquerable. — RITA KOHN

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BY N E I L CH A R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T What’s in a name? Not much, apparently. With a grandiose name like Revolucion, I would expect a restaurant to be, if not exactly revolutionary, then at least somewhat divergent from the ordinary. Sadly, that’s not the case in this newish cantina/ tacqueria south of Fountain Square. It’s a bit of a hybrid, serving tacos, burgers, even English sausage rolls, as well as a small but good selection of local beers and a slew of tequilas. If this sounds like a recipe for success, it should be. Sadly, however, Revolucion falls short on most counts. Let’s start with the drinks. Any place with forty-odd tequilas on the list should know a thing or two about margaritas. Upon being informed by a friendly enough bartender that his margies were “killer,” we were disappointed when the ensuing libation was prepared with a pale green mix dispensed via spigot from a large plastic vessel on the bar. The flavor was acidulated, citric but not citrus: on a

scale of one to ten, it was a solid one. I’m surprised that, with Libertine and Ball and Biscuit just up the road, Revolucion doesn’t make a more concerted effort to produce a higher-quality product. As for the beer selection, half of the tap selections were unavailable, leaving just the ubiquitous Sun King for our enjoyment, and this was a Saturday. As for the food, we were informed that the sausage rolls were currently unavailable, as it wasn’t cold enough outside. What? In all my years of sausage roll consumption, I never knew that these flaky English delights were seasonal. At two for $7, the tacos were a serious disappointment, really quite humdrum. The shrimp taco consisted of a handful of curled and mealy salad shrimp thrown into a double tortilla, along with a little lettuce, some onion and a lonely sprig of cilantro. There was no evidence that the crustaceans had been introduced to a grill or to la plancha; there was no spice, no flavor. In fact, any real flavor derived from a sweet mango salsa, which did serve to mitigate the blandness – but only slightly. Sadly, the fish tacos fared no better. We were informed that the fish in question had at one point been a tilapia, but it was hard to tell. The flesh was unpleasantly soggy and fishy tasting. Carne asada tacos lacked any kind of depth of flavor, or complexity, and tasted disturbingly like hot Italian beef.

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A taco assortment at Revolucion.

A side of guacamole consisted of roughly half an avocado (good value at $5.95?), almost obscured on the plate by a mile-high mound of toasty tortilla chips. If you’re going to cut corners, why not save a buck or two and serve half as many chips? The two highlights of our visit were the music and the funky décor. I love Mexican folk art and its ironic, almost kitschy, aesthetic. So, visually at least, Revolucion is bright and lively. Unfortunately, however, the same just doesn’t apply to the food.

BEER BUZZ BY RITA KOHN

SAD NEWS

Brazil, Ind.’s Bee Creek Brewery’s closing brings sadness. They made every effort to become a sustainable operation, connecting brewing to the environment with utmost care. We are grateful they served us, lament their closing and wish them all the best for the future. This is their posting: “It is with great sadness that the Bee Creek Brewery announces the decision to close its doors. As a small, independent brewer faced with the increasing cost of grain and packaging, we found it impossible to produce and sustain a quality of beer that had become a benchmark of excellence. Mark, Frank, Julie and the entire Bee Creek family wish to thank our distributor, our customers, and all of our establishments for their unwavering support during five fantastic years of operation. To all those devoted friends and family that have been a constant strength we bid you a very special “THANK YOU.” You have been our pillar in the uncertain times, the fun times, the great times. We know that you will be there to encourage us in all future endeavors.”

EXPANSION NEWS

Great Fermentation education program classroom space is expanding. New classes begin Feb. 21 and Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. www.greatfermentations.com Iechyd Da Brewing Company is a new brewery to open April 2012 in Elkhart; http://iechyddabrewingcompany.com/ Owner Summer Lewis posted: “We’re in the construction and permitting phase currently. Once complete, we’ll have a 7bbl brewhouse in our building along with a 50 seat pub located at 317 N. Main St. We plan to have 7-10 beers rotating on tap, plus two handpulls. We’ll also serve house made soda. There will be a simple food menu

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FOOD: u ATMOSPHERE: y SERVICE: u consisting of pizzas, hot sandwiches and snacks like soft pretzels, made fresh in house. Iechyd Da (Yacky Dah) is a Welsh toast equivalent to saying Cheers. The vibe of the place will be downtown comfortable — a place to have a casual Friday business lunch, bring your laptop and work over a pint or gather friends to play Scrabble or chess on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” Tin Man Brewing, 1430 W. Franklin St., Evansville is expected to open summer 2012, according to owner Nick Davidson and brewer Sean O’Rear. It’s a production brewery with a canning operation. More at: http://www.tinmanbrewing.com/ Note: Evansville’s Tin Man Brewing is not to be confused with homebrewer Gary Kirkmeyer, whose business card reads: “Tinman Brewing Co., Galveston, IN.”

ADVANCE NOTICE

Indiana State Fair Indiana Brewers’ Cup 2012 craft beer competition entries accepted June 8-22, 2012; competition July 6-7; info at brewerscup.org.

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Sinking Ship, 4923 N. College Ave., Flat 12 Brewery Night, 7-10 p.m.

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Purchase $35 tickets at rileypeds.org/ WellsConference for the 2ndAnnual “Heart of the Brews” event on Feb. 24, at Omni Severin, 40 W. Jackson Place, downtown Indianapolis, 6:3010 p.m., to benefit research at the Riley Heart Research Center. Beer tastings provided by Sun King, Upland, Barley Island, and Bier.

FEB. 10

Great Fermentations, Monthly Friday Night Club meeting and Chili Cookoff, 5-7 p.m.

FEB. 10-11

5th annual Cincy Winter Beerfest, $35, cincybeerfest.com If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.

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Super Bowl Village

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Super Bowl Village

Super Bowl Sightings “Where were you this weekend?” That’s the question on the minds of every person in this town right now. It was an absolutely thrilling (dare we say, super?) weekend for nightlife in Indy and NUVO was out to experience it all. From the uber-packed LMFAO show on Friday that literally closed downtown streets to George Clinton’s funky Broad Ripple Super Fest and everywhere in between (including an extremely weird R. Kelly after party that you’ll have to go online to read about), we’ve got the best and worst of Super Bowl entertainment collected here.

Super Bowl Village

PAT MCAFEE’S LACES OUT The Vogue

The only question I found myself asking upon arriving at The Vogue for Pat McAfee’s Super Bowl shindig was, “Where’s the swimming pool?” I know, ha ha. Pat McAfee swimming jokes - how original. But think about it. If any Internet-savvy punter with a knack for good times and late night swims in the Broad Ripple Canal were to host a pool party, wouldn’t McAfee be the obvious, if only, choice? At least the presence of a pool would have given party goers who paid the $25 cover something to do other than sheepishly stand around looking frightened of the dance floor. But the underuse of the facility wasn’t McAfee’s fault. He can’t help it if the stiffs who attended his party were afraid to shake their groove thang and ruin his good intentions. Pat, seriously, rent out Holiday World next time. -JON R. LAFOLLETTE

PEPSI FAN JAM Pepsi Coliseum

Lights dazzled and an excited crowd watched B.o.B., Gym Class Heroes and the All-American Rejects take turns on the stage Thursday evening for the Pepsi Fan Jam. The event was free and open to the public, a Super Bowl gem among the mix of pricey entertainment options All three bands opened their sets with new singles and as the night went on the crowd became more enthusiastic. music // 02.08.12-02.15.12 // NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER

-MAMIE SILVER

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B.o.B. performed first with his single, “Strange Clouds,” Followed by a performance of favorite “Airplanes” (sans covocalist Haley Williams, unfortunately) and “Magic.” Gym Class Heroes played a variety that included the new “Ass Back Home,” featuring Neon Hitch and the crowd-pleaser “Cupid’s Chokehold.” By the time The All-American Rejects took the stage with their new single “Beekeeper’s Daughter,” the crowd was feeling the music. Although the performances could have done without the excessive filler comedy between bands and All American Rejects would have done better to not try an onstage collaboration with Gym Class Heroes and B.o.B., the night was an overall success

For DJs, the Super Bowl heralded a week of non-stop work. So, the majority of my interaction with Super Bowl-related festivities occurred behind my turntables. Foremost among these activities was a spot performing in the Super Bowl Village. I was ultra-hyped to represent global music culture on the same stage as crowd-pleasing pop acts like LMFAO. I was also extremely curious to discover how the music of Fela Kuti would go down with football fans. Crowd reactions to my set ran the gamut of human emotion - from laughter and disdain to jubilant excitement, the latter exhibited particularly from the South Asians in attendance, who were shocked to hear bhangra tunes blasting in the Village. Overall, it was an amazing experience, but I’ll never believe it was mere coincidence that a Department of Homeland Security truck rolled up to the stage immediately after I launched into a brief set of Arabic tunes. -KYLE LONG

FRIDAY D.M.C.’S BENEFIT FOR HORA Madame Walker Theatre

Unfortunately, the D.M.C. show at the Walker Theatre suffered a variety of setbacks throughout the course of the show. Although the man himself put on an energetic, thrilling performance (laced with his thoughts on adoption, old school rappers and so much

more), the theatre was less than half full. The planned after party was canceled, and nary a celebrity (that I could see) was in attendance. The possible complication of exbandmate Reverend Run’s NFL-sanctioned gospel event at Clowes may have dragged some would-be attendees away, but they were missing out on an absolutely excellent take on Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s In the Cradle.” With every benefit concert, the overwhelming importance is the boost the organization the event supports gets. In this case, the very-worthy House of Restoration Africa received a healthy chunk of funds, a boost in awareness and the momentum to continue to do great work here and abroad. -KATHERINE COPLEN

JOYFUL NOISE LISTENING PARTY Murphy Arts Center

As downtown buzzed with Super Bowl buzz, Fountain Square had an electricity all its own Friday night. Celebrating the opening of their new office space in The Murphy Arts Center, the lads of Joyful Noise hosted a listening party for the recently released of Montreal album, Paralytic Stalks. The event was open to the public, and those who climbed to the top of the Murphy Center maze were not only treated to new music from the enigmatic Kevin Barnes, they were witness to a live video Q&A session between Barnes and myself. Barnes was polite, answering both my questions and a couple from the eager audience, still glowing after the final neo-classical strains of Paralytic Stalks. The real winner of the evening was Joyful Noise, who not only opened their humble space to a room full of appreciative music fans, but made Indy residents aware of their continued embrace of the local community. -JUSTIN SPICER

SATURDAY GOLIATHON

Sun King Tent

Obviously there have been plenty of entertainment options around the city over the last couple weeks. If you didn’t feel like standing shoulder to shoulder and paying too much for watered-down beer in the Super Bowl Village, Friday night at Sun King was a great alternative. The popular brewery hosted a tent party for the duration of the festivities leading up to the game. Friday featured live music by local band Goliathon. Their name fits them well. The quartet, which has been playing together since 2008, has a molten brand of Southern stomp down cold. The rhythm section is impeccably solid, the singing a bluesy howl, the guitars equal parts woozily melodic and hard as nails. You'll want to go see them around town before they leave and potentially never return. Sun King has the right idea when it comes to tent parties. The massive tent, set up just outside brewery doors on College Ave., had low lights, plenty to eat (from JJ’s Big Green Bistro) and drink (you can guess what that would be) and great sound. (Editor’s Note: The various seating options were also very appreciated by this writer with tired feet.) Goliathon played to a full tent and appreciative crowd, who was happy, full and ready for a weekend of partying. -WADE COGGESHALL

LEATHER AND LACES Regions Tower

I walked into the Leather and Laces party fairly late in the evening, when a boozy haze had already descended over the dance floor. The event, which a maze of VIP side rooms with extremely protective guards, featured a bevy of girls in lingerie (dancing, serving cocktails, working the bar, just being goodlooking), cupcake towers and a crowd of men with a predatory gleam in their eye. Hugh Hefner’s original reality TV trio (the very blonde Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson) hosted the event, which mostly meant sitting on comfortable leather couches. Outside of the Girls Next Door, we spotted a Root or two, enjoyed (and were terrified by) the antics of Cirque USA performers and tried the sushi circulating the room. As the night went on, things got sleazier (read: gropier), but the soundtrack was never less than excellent. The trio of DJs spun the top dance singles until the wee hours. Drunken tweets from definite crowd favorite and ex-Indianapolis resident Kendra can sum up the night for most attendees: I’m faded n I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. (4:13 a.m.) I’m hurtin. (2:00 p.m.) I’m hungover. (2:02 p.m.) We feel you, Kendra. -KATHERINE COPLEN

NFL HONORS NIGHT RED CARPET DIARY Murat Theatre at Old National Centre

5:21: Set aside principles for photo with Jon Hamm. He asks my name. I tell him it’s Kate. He shakes my hand and looks searchingly into my eyes before being pulled away. 5:22: Girl next to me observes Jon Hamm smelled like vodka. I say this is a good thing, as my chances with him will certainly increase if his judgment is impaired. 5:28: Photograph Billy Baldwin, even though he is clearly the lesser Baldwin. 5:34: Expect Dwight Freeney to do a spin move. He does not. 5:36: No love from Tim Tebow. Assume he senses my religious confusion. 5:40: Greg Ballard, followed by Mitch Daniels. Mitch asks guy next to me if there's anything Hoosiers can do to make his stay better. I say, "Veto Right to Work." But only in my mind. -KATE SHOUP

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Supposedly, it cost $1800 for a ticket to this invitation only event at the Fairgrounds. Maxim’s theme this year was a “Salute to Heroes,” so, in a fun twist on the idea, they had a gaggle of assorted hotties in spandex superhero costumes bobbling around the event and taking pictures on the red carpet with celebs. A few of those included Indy’s own Jim Irsay,

Jeff Gordon, Greg Jennings, (most of) The Roots, Guy Fieri and Mike Epps, among others. The actual party was just a few degrees short of mayhem; free Heineken and Patron cocktails flowed, Ludacris did a set and a few DJs spun, all in a dark, expansive space that seemed just a tad too big. The bars and booths along the outer walls seemed to be miles away from the action. Maybe if you were from out of town (and rich), an event like this would be worthwhile, but even with the celebs and free beverages, I don’t see how you could justify $1800 for a ticket to this party. -GRANT CATTON

the show, but that’s not what got me most excited. No, it was when Madge brought out 45 members of my high school’s drumline to hammer out the transition from “Give Me All Your Luvin’” to “Like a Prayer” that had me jumping up and down in my seat. Drummers from Avon, Franklin Central, Fishers and Center Grove practiced with the Queen of Pop all week in secret. The Butler Chorale and Indianapolis Symphony Choir joined in the performance as well for “Like a Prayer.” Even Madonna supports the Indy music scene! -KATHERINE COPLEN

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SUNDAY ROLLING STONE BACARDI BASH Crane Bay

Last night, the Bacardi Bash was a little weird. Maybe surreal is the word I’m looking for. Lots of beautiful people drinking a lot of Bacardi. LMFAO, Gym Class Heroes, Lupe Fiasco and Cobra Starship took the stage throughout the evening, but first, we caught them (and a few other celebs) on the red carpet. Below, we rounded up our favorite encounters. The cute, shy rom-com star Anna Faris brought her father, Jack. They’re rooting for the Giants. Later in the evening, Faris was “helped” out after maybe too much party rocking. American Idol’s Paul McDonald had a fairly novel reason for his Giants support. “Come on, he’s like the best looking guy that married the best looking lady and already has won a bunch. What more does he need?” he said. True Blood’s Joe Manganiello is even better looking in person. And he’s a little obsessed with the Steelers (even directing a documentary about diehard fans in 2007) But, this weekend he’s rooting for the Giants. “Necessary Roughness’” Mehcad Brooks also brought his father. When asked if we could grab him for a moment, he warned us that our request would technically qualify as assault, and then let out huge, bellowing laugh. London’s Neon Hitch, who’s currently on tour with the Gym Class Heroes told us, “I’m beyond tired. I don’t believe in sleep anymore. I’m not human anymore. I’m an animal.” She had a massive feather headdress to match to confirm. The ravenous guys (and one lady) of Cobra Starship smashed the appetizer tray. Kevin Hearn and Tyler Stewart from Barenaked Ladies were hilariously sarcastic, singing the “Canadian alphabet.” The glitterati seemed to enjoy themselves, as did we. How could we not – Bacardi mojitos were everywhere. -KATHERINE COPLEN

MADONNA’S BIG GAY HALFTIME SHOW Super Bowl Halftime

The biggest shared musical experience of the weekend was the spectacle that was the Super Bowl halftime show, which ran heavy on the glitz, gold and guys. Madonna, who promised days ago to “bring gay to the Super Bowl,” rode in on a throne of muscled men, and for twelve minutes, dominated the stage. Pop stars M.I.A., Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo Green joined her at various parts of

This was the ideal tailgate: great finger food, free booze, plenty of entertainment. Not as many celebrities as the night before, but the emphasis here seemed to be more on the comfort of the fans. Scores of drooling dudes got to have their pictures taken with Maxim hotties in cheerleader skirts and tank tops on the red carpet. That alone was a spectacle worth watching. A decent cover band got the crowd revved up little by little (and the aforementioned free booze helped) and Jermaine Dupri capped things off with a killer set on the turntables, turning it into a straight up dance party. Attendees also got to stuff little Crown Royal bags full of goodies to send to soldiers overseas, as per the “Salute to Heroes” theme. There was plenty of comfortable seating in the tent, and the space seemed to be just about the perfect size. Tony Siragusa, Kasey Kahne, and Kyle Busch seemed to be the only stand-out celebs. This was a great way to spend the pre-game hours. -GRANT CATTON

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I’ve got to admit straight away that I really didn’t explore this event at all. I know there was food from celebrity chef John Besh and a sizeable collection of Giants and Patriots memorabilia, but I didn’t see any of it. I was too busy waiting against the stage to see two of my favorite bands perform. And from the moment the show started, every person on stage killed it. Bloomington’s Main Squeeze, who won the highly publicized DO317 band popularity contest, brought high energy funk to an eager crowd, and then did a very sweet (and very excited) meet and greet with fans in the front rows. The Roots played, hands down, the most energetic show I’ve seen in months. Their infectious energy, which vibrates from the small screen when they play on Jimmy Fallon’s show, was overwhelming. Special shout out to Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” Bryson, who absolutely dominated the sousaphone. Although ?uestlove, the undeniable star of every Roots show, looked a bit beaten down (understandably so, as the man performed over ten shows this week), he still managed to stun during a dual drum solo with auxiliary percussionist F. Knuckles. I can barely write about Jane’s Addiction performance, as it kind of defied description. From start to close, the godfathers of alternative rock completely demolished the stage. Shred master Dave Navarro prowled the stage shirtless, Perry Farrell screeched a perfect set and harassed Patriots fans and twin girls made out in bondage-themed lingerie onstage. I was in altern-heaven. -KATHERINE COPLEN

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Household Guns

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This week NUVO writer Grant Catton profiles Household Guns, an Indy-based alternative guitar rock band getting ready to head into the studio to cut their second album this spring. WHO: Household Guns are Shawn Woolfolk (guitar and vocals), Ben Masbaum (bass and vocals), Dave Hall (drums). WHERE: Based in Indianapolis, however Masbaum is the only native Hoosier. Woolfolk is from L.A. and Hall is from the streets of Pittsburgh, Pa. WHEN: Formed in the spring of 2010. RECENT GIGS: Broad Ripple Music Fest, Mustache Bash Next scheduled to play at Melody Inn on March 9 with Chicago-based funk outfit Freddy T and the People

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SOUND: Their 2010 debut album, Mano y Monarch, is all over the place in terms of styles, but the tag “lo-fi” seems to best encompass this band’s smoothly paced, moody, far-out vibe that relies on slow, rolling bass lines, repeating guitar riffs, and spacey sound effects which complement Woolfolk’s haunting falsetto. Live, however, they take on a more hard rock, in your face vibe with lots of muscular riffs, piercing guitar solos, and drums which thunder with punk attitude. BACKGROUND: Though the band is only two years old, both Woolfolk and Masbaum are well steeped in the Indy music community. Woolfolk works for local recording label Joyful Noise Records and used to play with local acts We Are Hex, A Caesar Holiday, Little Boots and Drusilla. Bassist Masbaum has played with Lafcadio, A Caesar Holiday—where he met Woolfolk—

and currently works Large Bee as well. The band is so well connected they helped put together a secret concert called Incest Fest back in 2006 for musicians who were in two or more local bands. WHY YOU NEED TO LISTEN: The recent departure of guitarist Andy Rittenhouse left Household Guns as a trio for much of 2011. However, they are in the midst of integrating keyboardist John Muylle (formerly of Everthus the Deadbeats) into the fold and are preparing for a studio stint this spring to cut a new album. The band is already full With Woolfolk’s lead guitar chops, Masbaum’s bass, and Hall’s dynamite drumming, but the addition of Muylle brings a level of precision and classical music training that Masbaum says has already helped the band get better as a whole. “As learned as (Muylle) is, with his musical theory background, he challenges us to step up our game,” Masbaum said. Woolfolk says he expects the new album to be much more of a defining work for the band than Mano y Monarch , which was “sort of a hodgepodge of ideas.” After they finish recording, the band plans to go on a tour that will likely include a date in Brooklyn, N.Y. where they’ve already been invited to play a gig. The stars appear to be in line for Household Guns to create an incredible album. They’ve got the depth of musical talent and, with two years and an album under their belts, they’ve had time to mature as a band. Furthermore, the addition of a keyboardist should allow them to fully realize the spacey alternative sound that marked their album. KEY TRACKS from Mano y Monarch “So Far” — Woolfolk’s falsetto is at its eerie best in this spacey synth-ballad. “Primrose Path”— this wonderfully layered lo-fi gem, has a great acoustic riff that evokes the sentimental brightness of fond memories. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH: Woolfolk’s father, Andrew, played saxophone in the legendary soul group Earth, Wind & Fire, and as a teenager he auditioned as a guitarist for The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Despite the name, none of the band’s members are gun aficionados, nor do they actually have any household guns.

JAZZ NOTES JAZZ NOTES by Chuck Workman, the producer/host of the Saturday Evening Jazz Show from 6 to 8 p.m. on 88.7 WICR-FM

It’s that time of year when chocolates, roses, and cards combine for the annual rite of Valentine’s Day. Some local venues which offer jazz on their menu will serve up the gentle side of the genre with romantic sounds fitting for the occasion. A free lunch time performance on Valentine’s Day at 12:15 p.m. in the Artsgarden will be offered by the dynamic vocalist Brenda Williams. The Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra’s Big Band Valentine’s Day Concert and Dance concert and dance takes place at the Anthenaeum Theatre. The IJO will play selections from the Great American Songbook about love, romance and the heart. Reserved intimate table seating will be available, as well as a cash bar and concessions. Tickets are $20 in advance and avaliable online. The Jazz Kitchen will showcase guitarist Bill Lancton’s quartet with dining seats available for 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for $15. Popular vocalist Cynthia Layne’s trio will perform at 7 p.m. The Jazz Kitchen has added Valentine’s specials to its regular menu. Sullivan’s Steakhouse at Keystone at the Crossing will run an early Valentine’s package consisting of a three-course dinner for two for just $89 from Saturday, Feb. 11 to Tuesday, Feb. 14. Gentle swinging jazz will be played Valentine’s Day in the bar by bassist Joe Deal and pianist Bruce Paulson from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations in advance are suggested. Rick’s Café Boatyard will celebrate

Valentine’s Day beginning Friday, Feb. 10 to Tuesday, Feb. 14 with a special $80 dining package for two. Seating each day starts at 11 a.m. Dave’s Trio will offer soft jazz on Valentine’s Day from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Reservations are required. Two new albums have been released just in time for Valentine’s Day with an emphasis on romance. Marc Staggers made a big impression on those at the Super Soul Celebration concert. Fans were comparing him to Luther Vandross. His new album, Key to My Heart, on Expansion Records fits the mood for the holiday with R&B overtones. Former Beatle Paul McCartney’s new album, Kisses On The Bottom on Concord Records, was released this week. McCartney composed the lead track “My Valentine,” which he delivers with conviction. His killer backup band features Diana Krall (piano) Eric Clapton and John Pizzarelli (guitar, respectfully) and the London Symphony Orchestra. Super Art and Soul is a month-long series of diverse performances for jazz fans. Contemporary saxophonist Gregg Bacon will play Saturday, Feb. 11 at 1 p.m. The John Harden Project plays jazz, nu-jazz and fusion; they’ll play on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 12:15 p.m. Cynthia Layne’s contemporary vocal stylings will take the stage on Wednesday, Feb, 29 at 12:15 p.m. All Super Art & Soul events are free.

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REVIEW BASHIRI ASAD

The Space Between Independently released

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Bashiri Asad has paid his dues in Indianapolis. Over the past few years the singer has been a regular fixture in clubs across the city, as both a solo artist and also as lead vocalist for Xenobia Green. No stage has been too big or small for the singer. You might catch Asad playing an intimate gig at the Chatterbox or spot him opening for Musiq Soulchild at the Vogue. Either way, it’s Asad’s ability to maintain a consistent level of excellence in all projects (combined with his devotion to classic R&B sounds) that have earned him a position as one of the preeminent voices of soul music in Indy. Asad’s latest work,an independently released six-track EP, finds the singer in peak form. While I wasn’t totally captivated by every song here, the high points are substantial enough to earn this EP a big recommendation. “In the Air” starts things off on an interesting note. The spoken word track finds poet Tasha Jones rhyming over a vocal chorus from Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” “Loving You” recalls the classic Spinners hit “Could It Be I’m Falling In Love,” while adding on a cascading gamelan-like gong riff. EP closer “The Space Between” is the clear standout here and it’s Asad’s most

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fully realized work yet. Everything comes together in this tender love song: the songwriting, the production and Asad’s confident, mature vocal performance. It’s not hard to imagine this song making major waves in the neo-soul scene.

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Rolling Stone publisher Matt Mastrangelo We had the chance to speak with Rolling Stone publisher Matt Mastrangelo last week. We caught up with him again at the Rolling Stone Bacardi Bash, where he was entertaining the artists including B.o.B., Lupe Fiasco, Gym Class Heroes and Neon Hitch. Last week, he told us he did dig those performers, but we wanted more. So, we made him name his top five albums on the spot. A transcript of our conversation is below: NUVO: I love to turn to people that are really embedded in the music scene and ask them the five albums that they can’t stop listening to right now. Could you name your five off the top of your head? MM: Well, I would have to say my favorite Beatles album would be Revolver by far, [I] absolutely love it. Paul Simon[‘s] Graceland. Put on Paul Simon, put on that album, and just let it go. It’s one of those things where it’s just like, “Wow, the workmanship and the craftsmanship is so good.” NUVO: What else? MM: The Kanye album from last year, I forget the name of it. The red, it’s a red album.

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Mastrangelo greets Alyssa Milano at the Bacardi Bash

NUVO: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy MM: (claps his hands) Master, it’s a master. The thing that I find interesting about music right now is that the full album is really hard to get. So what have I got? I’ve got Paul Simon, I’ve got Kanye – NUVO: The Beatles’ Revolver MM: I love the Kings of Leon album from last year ( Editor’s note: The album is Come Around Sundown) and Adele’s 21. I think the Adele album is still right on top. -MAMIE SILVER

REVIEW: FIVE YEAR MISSION

Year Two Gelatinous Productions

New from a collection of Star Trek aficionados hell-bent on giving each episode of the original series its own song, this lively tribute group based out of Indy continue their assignment on Year Two. This 17-song album is as sprawling in length as the interstellar territory explored by Kirk and the gang. While initial expectations of eight minute epics and weirdo sci-fi synth are understand-

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able given the subject matter, this nerdrock quintet are just as interested in poppunk and surf guitar as they are in futuristic deep space exploration. “Arena” is as energetic and catchy as anything They Might Be Giants came up with, “The Squire of Gothos” pays homage to brand of mariachi punk Green Day dabbled in before finding politics, and top track “Space Seed’s” easygoing pop flair is so strong melodically you would think these kids have every Fountains of Wayne record memorized (along with the periodic table). Add a star to the rating if you know whatever the hell a Gorn is.

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NUVO writer Micah Ling reviewed City and Colour and the Low Anthem a few months ago. She wrote, “Green’s voice is stellar. And it needs to be for these sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hopeful songs.” They’ll appear with Rhode Island’s The Low Anthem, who recorded their last album in the absolute last place that would come to mind, an abandoned pasta sauce factory. You’ll be able to read what Micah thinks of them live online this week.

Thursday

DANCE PARTY ANDY D, MODERN MOTION, VARIOUS HANDS The Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+ The great big antics of great big performer Andy D will take over the Mel’s small stage this Thursday. Modern Motion will join AndyD’s cabaret-turnedelectro-dance-party-pop. Indy indie boys.

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TREK FIVE YEAR MISSION ALBUM RELEASE Locals Only, 2449 E. 56 St. 9 p.m., $8, 21+

Year Two, the Indianapolis trekkie band project, was premiered at Starbase Indy in December, but is being widely released this Saturday. The band (who narrowly missed out on the the Do317 opportunity to open for Jane’s Addiction) has reached some pinnacle of Trekkie success:

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they just opened for William Shatner in New Orleans at the Wizard World convention. While there, they met dream girl Adrianne Curry, who is currently filming a nerd Make A Wish competition reality TV show. (Yeah, we don’t understand it either) The lucky guys in Five Y ear Mission filmed part of the opening episode with Curry. They’re armed with their new album and stories to match. See our review of Five Y ear Mission’s Year Two on page: 30. ROOTS CHEYENNE MARIE MAIZ

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St. 9:30 p.m., $10, 21+

She appeared on a 10’’ with Bonnie “Prince” Billy and joined Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore on the Dear Companion tour. Last year, she was chosen by NPR as one of their “Discoveries of SXSW 2011.” She’ll pop into Indy to support her new album, We Don’t Need, with a Friday evening show at the White Rabbit with Andrew Combs. ROCK EVERYTHING, NOW!

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We don’t like to play favorites here at NUVO, but we’ve got to give Everything, Now! props for consistently creating new, interesting records and always performing an unexpected, eclectic set. They’ll be releasing a limited pressing of their newest album Do It On the Moon on Friday. The aptly named Christian Taylor-fronted band America Owns the Moon will accompany, along with Learner Dancer and Vacation Club. JAZZ ELIZABETH SOUZA & IPANEMA, GRITO DE CARNIVAL

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Five Year Mission and Ipanema will perform light, tropical music during a show at 8 p.m. Chicago Samba will take over at 10 p.m., with the sounds from Brazil. Plan on samba-ing your night away to pagode, olodum and bossa nova tracks. Elizabeth Souza will join in the Chicago Samba crew, who will channel the energy of Carnaval.

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Wednesday POP ROCK ASOBI SEKSU

TIM BRICKLEY QUINTET

Chatterbox Jazz Club, 435 Mass. Ave. 10:30 p.m., free, 21+

Tim Brickley has been performing with his quintet for over 20 years, and he’s definitely got a soft sport for the Chatterbox, calling it, “[his] jazz Valhalla.” Brickley’s a jack-of-all-musical-trades, playing inStep into their favorite venue, and you’ll undoubtably be treated to a great show . HIP-HOP MASHUP MONTHLY Locals Only, 2449 E. 56 St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

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They’ll perform with the weird rockers of Chandelier Ballroom and punky Stagnant Pools, both of Bloomington. The show is sponsored by Spirit of ‘68 Productions. NUVO writer Grant Catton caught them in November and remarked, “Between [bassist Cam Thompson’s hardworking bass-playing], the strong drum work, wild synth ef fects, and Steve Elmlinger’s falsetto, there’s not a bare frequency or a moment of wasted space.” Asobi Seksu is a dream pop duo out of NYC that’s migrated away from their shoegaze roots to a mellower sound.

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Plus, corrosive spit Your Government Knows Best: A 2007 federal energy- independence law required companies that supply motor fuel in the U.S. to blend in a certain cellulose-based ingredient starting in 2011 -- even though (as the Environmental Protection Agency well knows) the ingredient simply does not now exist. A New York Times reporter checked with the EPA in January and found that the companies will still have to pay the monetary penalties for noncompliance (and almost certainly the even-stiffer penalties for 2012, since the ingredient is still two or three years from development). “It belies logic,” said a petrochemicals trade association executive.

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• Two dozen religious leaders in India’s Karnataka state are, as usual, protesting the annual, centuries-old Hindu ritual in which lower-caste people roll around in food leftovers of uppercaste people. “Hundreds” performed the exercise at temples, according to a January Times of India report, believing that contact with sophisticates’ food will alleviate pernicious skin conditions. • Far away from Karnataka, in the urban center of Calcutta, India, engineers are trying to save the historic Howrah Bridge from collapsing due to corrosion from spit. A half-million pedestrians (aside from the frenzied vehicle traffic) use the bridge every day and frequently spit their guthka and paan (half-chewed betel leaf and areca nut and slaked lime) onto the steel hangers that hold up the bridge -- thus reducing the hanger bases by 50 percent in just the last three years. (Engineers’ immediate remedies: cover the bases in washable fiberglass and conduct an education campaign in which “gods” implore pedestrians to hold their saliva until they’ve crossed the bridge.) • On Nov. 5, the 220 inhabitants of Coll, an island off the coast of Scotland, endured the first “crime” that any of the residents could remember. Someone vandalized the public lavatories at a visitors’ facility, doing the equivalent of about $300 damage. A constable was summoned from a nearby island to investigate, but seas were rough, and he had to wait for two days for the ferry to run. One Coll resident vaguely recalled an incident at a pub once in which a man threatened to throw a punch (but didn’t), and another remembered that someone took whale bones left on a beach by researchers (but later gave them back). According to a Daily Telegraph report, the culprit is “still at large.”

Latest Religious Messages

• The U.S. Air Force Academy last year installed an $80,000 rock garden/fire pit on its campus for use by several “Earthbased” religions (pagans, Wiccans, druids, witches and various Native

American faiths). For the current year, only three of the 4,300 cadets have identified themselves in that group, but the academy is sensitive to the issue after a 2005 lawsuit accused administrators and cadets of allowing too-aggressive proselytizing on behalf of Christian religions. For the record, the academy currently has 11 Muslim cadets, 16 Buddhists, 10 Hindus and 43 self-described atheists. • In separate incidents during one week in December in Polk County, Fla., four church pastors were arrested and charged with sex-related crimes involving children, including Arnold Mathis, 40, at the time working for the Saint City Power and Praise Ministry in Winter Haven, but who has moved on to the Higher Praise Ministries in Lake Wales and who was allowed to work for the church despite a sex-crime rap sheet. • Just two weeks before the January worldwide Internet protest against proposed copyright-protection legislation, the Missionary Church of Kopimism in Sweden announced that it had been granted official government status as a religion (one of 22 so recognized), even though its entire reason for being is to celebrate the right to share files of information -- in any form, but especially on the Internet. Swedish law makes such religious recognition easy, requiring only “a belief system with rituals.” The Kopimism website demonizes “copyright believers” who “derive their power by limiting people’s lives and freedom.”

Milestones in Government Regulation

• According to recent consumerprotection rulings by the European Food Safety Authority, sellers of prunes are prohibited from marketing them as laxatives, and sellers of bottled water are forbidden to offer it as preventing dehydration. In both cases, the commissioners referred to the underlying science of the body to defend their decisions, but the rulings were still widely derided as anti-common-sense. Members of the European Parliament complained, especially given the current precarious state of the European Union itself. One parliamentarian challenged an EFSA policymaker to a prune-eating contest: If it’s not a laxative, he said, let’s see how many you can eat and not have your “bowel function” “assisted.”

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• (1) In December in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan, a group of luxury car enthusiasts gathered and began a caravan to nearby Hiroshima, but one of the drivers, changing lanes, hit a median barrier and spun across the highway, resulting in a chain-reaction pileup involving 14 cars, including eight red Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes-Benz. Drivers suffered only cuts and bruises, but “some” of the vehicles were reported “beyond repair.” (2) David Dopp of Santaquin, Utah, won a fundraising raffle sponsored by the non-profit organization “teamgive” in November -- a Lamborghini Murcielago, valued at about $380,000. He picked up his prize on Dec. 17, but six hours later,

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he spun out of control, knocked over several fence posts, and disabled the Murcielago’s front end.

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• Logan Alexander, 63, a school security guard in Trenton, N.J., who was fired after pleading guilty in 2007 to twice inappropriately touching students, was later sued by a third girl for similar behavior but settled that lawsuit in 2010 by agreeing to pay the girl $12,500. Recently, according to a December report in the Trenton Times, Alexander filed a lawsuit against the Trenton Board of Education, demanding that the board pay the $12,500 to the girl because, after all, Alexander was “on duty” when he committed the inappropriate touching.

Least Competent Criminals

• In Bennington, Vt., in December, Adam Hall, 34, was accused of vandalizing his ex-girlfriend’s car, including scratching the word “slut” into the hood (except that the word was spelled s-u-lt). Hall initially denied any involvement until an officer handed him a sheet of paper and asked him to write the sentence, “You are a slut.” Sure enough, Hall spelled slut “sult” and was promptly charged with malicious mischief.

The District of Calamity

• In November, the Washington Times reported that the Washington, D.C.-area Metro transportation agency had hired, as a

financial consultant, a woman with multiple convictions for bank fraud and who had been implicated in one of Washington’s largest heroin rings. Furthermore, even when the agency learned of her record, it neither disciplined her nor removed her from her finance responsibilities. According to the Times, Metro has other lax management issues. A Maryland state attorney recently revealed that a Metro employee had been “storing” 70 unaccounted-for pieces of Metro property (including computers and televisions) at his home for years, and following that news, according to the Times, other employees began sheepishly returning similar property. • Update: Hon. Marion Barry, 75, former four-term mayor (and one-time famous cocaine user), is now in his second post-prison term as a Washington, D.C., Council member and announced in January that he will run for another four years. In December, the Internal Revenue Service filed a new lien on a home Barry owns in Washington, based on unpaid income taxes from 2010. Barry is currently making payments out of his council paycheck for D.C. and federal taxes back to 1999 after pleading guilty in 2005 to failure to file tax returns at all for the previous six years. The very next year, 2006, he failed to file for 2005, and after getting caught then, he subsequently failed to file for 2007. On the D.C. Council, Barry is a member of the finance and revenue committee.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century author and hermetic magician whose work has had a major influence on Western mystery schools. The great secret of Homework: Write yourself a nice long love letter. Send a copy to me if you like: FreeWillAstrology.com.

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