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First the book, now the movie: what Fifty Shades gets so terribly, terribly wrong in its depictions of kink.
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“We have a sexually dysfunctional society because of our limited views of sexuality and our lack of knowledge and understanding concerning the complexities and joys of humanity,” [said former Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Joycelyn Elders]. “Talk concerning procreation is not enough, because it neither addresses accurately the varied sexuality of Americans nor the broad range of sexual practice.” Facts about sex are, indeed, difficult to come by. For those interested in genuine studies of human sexuality, little has changed since the 1950s when researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson noted that most of the difficulties in studying America’s sexual habits and attitudes stemmed from fear — “fear of public opinion, fear of religious intolerance, fear of political pressure, and, above all, fear of bigotry and prejudice — as much within as without the professional world.” In addition to the situation we addressed in 2011, we can add immensely popular works of fiction confusing “kink” and “abuse” to our culture’s wealth of misinformation. — Ed Wenck
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y son was married last May in North Carolina. It was a joyous event, bringing family members and friends together from across the country. The dancing, I have to say, was mind-blowing. But this was just one of five weddings my wife and I attended over the course of the past year or so. There was one in New Mexico, another in Philadelphia. Two took place in Indianapolis. Marriage, it seemed, was busting out all over. And, for the most part, this was before our gay friends had a chance to get into the act. You’d think the last thing we need now would be a government Office of Marriage Promotion. That’s what a bill (HB 1482) being floated in this year’s General Assembly aims to do. It’s the brainchild of Rep. Jeff Thompson, a Republican from Lizton. It seems Rep. Thompson is concerned about the number of babies being born to unwed mothers — not in Lizton, mind
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you — but in other parts of the state. “Look at the example of what’s happening in this city and the number of shootings,” Rep Thompson was quoted as saying in the Star. “It doesn’t occur in my community ... But there are regions and pockets where marriage is not the norm.” While it’s gracious of Rep. Thompson to show concern for big city trials and tribulations, his idea for trying to deal with them seems (forgive the expression) out of left field. Rep. Thompson is, after all, a Republican lawmaker, a member of the Scarlet Tsunami in which our state government is currently awash. As such, it is probably not going out on a limb to say that he would doubtless characterize himself as a political conservative. In a long legislative career, during which he has been elected and reelected again and again, Thompson has, although a teacher himself, worked to undermine teachers’ unions and opposed efforts by
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gay support groups to participate in the state’s promotional license plate program. You might be forgiven, then, for guessing that, when it comes to government, Rep. Thompson would tend to side with those who claim that small is beautiful and less is more. I mean, isn’t that what conservatism is about? That government should not do for others what they can do for themselves? Something curious happens when politicians — of whatever stripe or handle they go by — find their faces in the trough of power, particularly when they enjoy super-major-
ities, as Republicans do now. They get ideas, big ones. And so, while Republicans may campaign to get government off peoples’ backs, once they get in power, they figure out ways to put it someplace else, like in peoples’ bedrooms. They just can’t help themselves. They’ll cut regulations that protect our air and water, then, the next thing you know, they want to set up ... an Office of Marriage Promotion. Marriage, of course, is a fine thing. Having been married for almost 32 years, I heartily recommend it. But the last thing Indiana needs now is an office to promote it. n
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OBAMA, COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE WRONG QUESTION P
resident Barack Obama came to Indiana last week to push his plan for two years of “free” community college. Much of the discussion so far about the president’s plan has focused on the use of the word “free,” but Hoosier political leaders took a different tack. In opposing Obama, they dusted off some old states’ rights arguments. “I think it’s the last thing the federal government ought to be getting involved in,” Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said. “It’s a state issue; and of course we have a variety of opportunities and encouragements for folks who want to improve their education.” This really isn’t surprising coming from legislative leaders in a state that initially rejected federal health care funds and then desperately looked for a face-saving way to do an about-face. HIP, HIP, hooray. It’s also the same state that brushed aside federal funding for pre-K education in the interest of preserving the state’s autonomy. It’s good to know that we’re willing to sacrifice 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds for the cause. The state’s leaders take their inspiration from those earlier advocates for states’ rights in the American South. The realization that Southern leaders’ devotion to states’ rights and the South’s persistent status as the poorest region of America during the century in which the United States emerged as the world’s greatest economic powerhouse might have been linked seems not to have occurred to Indiana’s chieftains. Nor does the fact that, of the states surrounding us, Indiana has the lowest average annual household income except for Kentucky seem to have penetrated with our leaders. The proposition that Indiana alone can prevail against the rest of the world could be an expensive experiment for the state – and a costly lesson for the people who live here. That brings us to the president’s “free” community college plan.
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Obama is wrong to call it “free.” It won’t even be cheap. It will be expensive. But that’s really the wrong question to ask about it. One of the illusions politicians of both parties like to try to sell is that decisions can be made without consequences and choices without costs. They like to say services can be provided without taxes. That tax cuts can come without cutting services or running up deficits. Or that the private sector can deliver government services more efficiently than the public sector without resorting to certain corporate practices – i.e., writing off losses and attempting to evade oversight. All of this might be forgivable if our leaders, Democrat and Republican alike, didn’t come so close to selling us the notion that we can have growth without investment. That we can get something for nothing. No rational person, conservative, liberal or moderate, believes that. Most of us know that the important question isn’t whether something has a cost but whether the benefit justifies that cost. That, of course, is the question we should be asking about Obama’s plan: Is it worth the investment? The world soon will enter into a particularly Darwinian era in economic history. Economists and demographers say developed countries will face a severe labor shortage within 15 years. The nations that can provide skilled workers – not just technicians, but critical thinkers and problem-solvers – will prosper. So will their citizens. Those countries that do not provide those workers will struggle to survive. So will their citizens. The real question with the president’s plan for community colleges is whether it brings us closer to being ready to meet this coming challenge. If it does, the president’s plan probably is worth the money it costs. If it doesn’t, it isn’t. Either way, we won’t get something for nothing. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.11.15 - 02.18.15 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? Quasney loses cancer battle Marriage equality advocates are mourning the death of Niki Quasney, one of the plaintiffs in the federal challenges to Indiana’s marriage law. Quasney, 38, died surrounded by her wife, Amy Sandler, her mother and her siblings. Niki and Amy joined the legal fight for marriage equality to be recognized as a married couple to ensure Amy and their two children would receive the benefits due to them upon Niki’s passing from ovarian cancer. When Niki testified in front of U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young last May, she said, “I am doing everything I can to protect Amy and our two children from discrimination — my children shouldn’t have to grow up being treated as inferior to children from other families. We are not asking for special privileges. We should have the same freedoms as other married Indiana couples.” Many believe Niki’s terminal illness prompted the federal court system to expedite Indiana’s cases through a system that typically takes years to navigate. Municipal candidate filings close The field of candidates running in this year’s municipal elections as a Republican or Democrat has been set. The filing period closed Friday, Feb. 6 at noon. Republican voters will choose their nominee from a field of five while Democratic voters will have only two choices on the primary ballot. The Marion County Democratic Party officially slated former U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett over the weekend. Hogsett faces a primary challenge from community activist Larry Vaughn. The Marion County GOP’s pick is businessman Chuck Brewer. Brewer is originally from New York, owns two downtown restaurants and like Mayor Greg Ballard, is a former Marine. Darrell Morris, Larry Shouse, Terry Michael and Jocelyn-Tandy Adande will join Brewer on the ballot. Deputy Mayor Olgen Williams had announced a run as a Republican but opted out citing family reasons. Independents and minor parties the candidates can file until June 30 to appear on general election ballot in November. — AMBER STEARNS President Obama speaks in Indy President Barack Obama pitched his plan for two free years of community college to a raucous crowd of students and Democratic officials during a Friday stop on Ivy Tech Community College’s campus – even as Republicans insist they’re not interested. On the heels of stops in deep-red Idaho and Kansas, Friday’s visit to the Indianapolis campus of the state’s largest community college system was the seventh the president has made to Indiana since the state’s nine electoral votes helped sweep him into the White House in 2008. But in the six years since, Republicans have come to dominate both the state’s government and its congressional delegation. Top Indiana policymakers said they want Obama to butt out of higher education funding altogether. Ironically, Obama praised the bipartisan nature of the Indiana legislature – where Republicans have a supermajority in both chambers – and urged Congress to adopt that same attitude. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 02.11.15 - 02.18.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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IS “RIGHT-TO-TRY” RIGHT FOR INDIANA?
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t sounds like an easy solution to a devastating issue: allowing a person or their family to bypass the Food and Drug Administration’s rigorous approval process to gain access to medications and devices still in the experimental stage in the hopes that it may significantly slow or stop the progression of a debilitating or fatal disease or illness. However, anything that requires government access or approval is hardly easy and often has greater repercussions that initially realized. House Bill 1065, authored by Rep. Wes Culver, R-Goshen, is a “Right-to-Try” bill. In its current form, it would allow a manufacturer to release a drug, product or device not yet approved by the FDA to a patient that meets certain requirements. The patient must be terminal and have exhausted all other approved options without success. After lengthy discussion in the Public
Health committee, the bill was amended to put all liability on the patient and essentially absolving of any wrongdoing any physician, hospital, pharmacist, manufacturer and any other entity involved in the treatment’s administration and distribution in the process should the treatment fail to work as intended. The responsibility of treatment lies solely on the afflicted. When HB 1065 came up for discussion in the Public Health committee, Culver stated he was interested in filing the legislation after the recent Ebola scare. Currently, there are no FDA-approved vaccines for Ebola and no antiviral drugs available for treatment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there are some in development but they have not been tested for safety and effectiveness. Culver wanted to make those drugs available if the Ebola scare ever spread to the Hoosier state. Many other terminal illnesses and conditions with treatments in development were added to the conversation after the committee hearing including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Duchenne is a particular form of MD that affects males and has an average life expectancy rate of 25 years. The progressive deterioration of the disease leads to paralysis, pain and eventual death. One Indiana family who testified during an amendment hearing for the bill described the process in store for their 5-year-old son. Because of his age and circumstances, the child doesn’t qualify for any of the trials currently underway for the Serapta therapeutic treatment that may slow the degenerative properties of the disease. HB 1065 could pave the way for the child to access the treatment. Many in the industry who would be affected by the bill have taken a position of neutrality on the legislation. Representatives with Indiana-based pharmaceuti-
cal company Eli Lilly said the company isn’t taking a position on the bill, but is watching its progress very closely. Representatives from the Indiana State Medical Association and the Indiana Hospital Association also testified at the committee hearing for the bill, but neither organization took a position in support or in opposition. Still, there are some questions as to whether or not this legislation is in the best interest of the state and its citizens. “Right-to-Try” legislation isn’t a new concept. The Goldwater Institute is a policy, research and litigation organization that champions many national causes and issues. “Right-to-Try” is one of many on their list. On their website, the Goldwater Institute says, “States should enact ‘Right to Try’ measures to protect the fundamental right of people to try to save their own lives.” The Goldwater Institute has championed the effort and provided guidelines for legislation that has passed in Colorado, Missouri, Michigan and Louisiana. The statute recently passed in Arizona through a voter referendum. Rep. Culver indicated he was unaware of the institute when he authored the bill, but sources say the institute contacted him after the bill began its journey though the Indiana Statehouse. And while these states have successfully enacted “right-to-try” in their states, what has some Hoosiers on edge about the legislation is an amendment a few of these states have added to clarify how its use would affect those who are receiving hospice or end-of-life care. In essence, the clarification states that a patient must be withdrawn from hospice eligibility when they begin taking the experimental treatment. The patient may be eligible for hospice at another time, but only if the experimental treatment doesn’t work. Those who work in the hospice S E E , RIGHT-TO-TRY, O N PA GE 08
“States should enact ‘Right to Try’ measures to protect the fundamental right of people to try to save their own lives.” — GOLDWATER INSTITUTE
GET INVOLVED Dolores Huerta Lecture Thursday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. DePauw University will welcome labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta to Kresge Auditorium as a part of its Johnson-Wright Lecture in Conflict Studies. Huerta’s life work has been dedicated to eradicating economic injustice, specifically among the nation’s migrant farm workers. The Dolores Huerta Foundation works for social justice through systemic and structural change. Kresge Auditorium, DePauw University, 605 S. College Ave. (Greencastle), FREE, depauw.edu Rev. Jamie Washington Lecture Thursday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m. Rev. Jamie Washington will deliver the Black History Month lecture at Franklin College. Washington will speak on “Defining Moments: Black, Christian and Gay – A Life of Learning, Healing, Growth and Change.” Washington is the founder and president of the Washington Consulting Group, a multicultural organizational development firm in Maryland. He also serves as visiting assistant professor of religion and social ethics at Winston Salem State University. Nepolitan Student Center, Franklin College, 101 Branigin Blvd. (Franklin), FREE, franklincollege.edu Patachou Foundation Speakers Forum Thursday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m. The Patachou Foundation Speakers Forum will host Veronika Scott, founder and president of the Empowerment Plan. Scott created an organization that employs the homeless in making coats that turn into sleeping bags for the homeless. Money raised from the event will support the Patachou Foundation’s mission to provide healthy afterschool meals to at-risk and food insecure children in central Indiana.
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BATTLE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Advocates rally, ACLU dissents, committee postpones votes
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ore than 200 people came to the Indiana Statehouse on Monday to rally for what they claim are the rights of business and schools to observe their religious beliefs without government intervention. They say that faith-based companies should not be forced to provide services to people if their values contrast with their own religious principals. But critics say bills that aim to protect those rights simply provide a license to discriminate. Senate Bills 568 and 101 — dubbed the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Acts — are both are meant to protect people from religious burdens imposed by state or local government, according to their authors. Congress and 19 states have passed similar language into law. The bills follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year in a case involving Hobby Lobby. The court ruled the company did not have to provide birth control as part of the employee insurance plan, a decision that relied in part on the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Anne Bonewitz made her way to the
Statehouse on Monday to make her opinion known regarding her — and other’s — faith. “Some people don’t believe in God and yet they still need to have their voices be able to be heard too,” Bonewitz said. “We are able to still have freedom to practice our faith, whatever that would be.” Bonewitz is one of the dozens of people who stayed after the rally to attend a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the bills. Lawmakers postponed votes on the legislation. Supporters of the bills say they are fighting not only for themselves but for small business owners who might otherwise have to provide services that conflict with their religious beliefs. For example, they said, businesses such as bakeries, caterers and photographers could object to doing business with same-sex couples who are marrying and should be allowed to decline to serve them. But Jane Henegar, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, spoke against the bills. “State and federal constitutions not only protect the right to believe or not to believe but to express our religious beliefs,” Henegar said. “We do not have the right to harm others.” Henegar also said some people will
abuse these kinds of laws. She said workers have used civil rights or religious freedom laws in the past to argue that they shouldn’t have to wear a hardhat at a work site or provide Social Security numbers when requested. “Our state and local governments will have to expend resources digging into whether an individual’s religions beliefs are burdened; whether they are sincerely held,” Henegar said. But the Senate Judiciary Committee received a letter signed by 16 law professors from colleges across the nation saying that religious freedom laws don’t discriminate. “Although critics might suggest otherwise, the proposed legislation is hardly radical,” said the letter, which was written on the letterhead of Douglas Laycock, a professor at the University Virginia School of Law. Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, the author of SB 568 said, the proposal “strikes a sensible balance between religious freedom and those objectors. It is a shield, not a sword. It is a protector for those who want to protect religious freedom.” n
for services. However, those rights and standards are often nullified if the patient chooses a “right-to-try” path. Kristen Jones, CEO of the Indiana Health Industry Forum also brought forth questions of fair distribution, patient burden, false senses of hope and other issues that “Right-to-Try” legislation can create. The FDA does have a process in place called “compassionate use” that people can apply for to gain access to experimental treatments not yet approved. Jones told
the committee that Indiana’s legislation would attempt to undermine that process. Congress is looking at the FDA’s process for approving drugs while the FDA is considering ways to streamline compassionate use cases. But patients and families say the process is difficult and time-consuming and time is the one thing they don’t have. HB 1065 is currently making its way through the Indiana House and if passed, Sen. Ed Charbonneau plans to carry the legislation through the Senate. n
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t was inevitable that my path would, by professional necessity, cross with E.L. James’. Though many of my fact-finding missions involve finding out unpleasant truths about humanity, there was none more unfortunate to discover than the contents of America’s love affair with 50 Shades of Grey. Dear Readers: you sons of bitches have sent me on journeys to some dark depths, but none so blacked out my remaining hope for the future than reading this lousy book. But instead of letting this devolve into a multipage rant against basic grammatical incompetence dominating the book market, I’ll instead redirect to its singular positive effect on the culture as a whole: The masses are exploring their interest in alternative sexual experiences like never before. For that one thing, I choose to be grateful to E.L. James. Throughout my last year of writing the Ask the Sex Doc column, I have discovered that most relationships succeed or fail based on one factor: the willingness to be emotionally vulnerable to one another. Couples that succeed, both in and out of the bedroom, seem to have a knack for asking for what they want from a partner who wants to explore
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their desires. In that respect, successful couples, both kinkpracticing couples and “vanilla”, (the term used to describe non-practicing people) have this and more in common. I’ve noticed a shared respect of boundaries, the desire to return to a place of emotional balance, and a desire to help each other become the person they want to be. They both get there through deeply honest, open discussions about their thoughts, feelings, desires (emotional and physical), and everything in between. Boil away all the leather and chains and things you see on TV, and kink relationships ultimately come down to a shared respect, trust, and intimacy. All the blindfolds, handcuffs and restraints do is reduce that vulnerability to very real, bodily sensations. Outside the bedroom, kinky couples are usually warm, engaging, broadly-interested and intelligent. The “play” is much, much more varied than simply whips and chains, ranging from ‘50s housewife-style play to full-on, heavy leather bondage. “The foundation it’s built upon is adult, consensual behavior that’s negotiated,” said Janet*, a local kink club leader who teaches workshops
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on safe BDSM. That negotiation is conspicuously absent from most of the two lead characters’ interactions in 50 Shades. In short, 50 Shades of Grey represents a dysfunctional, implausible relationship that is textbook “emotionally unavailable bad-boy meets inexperienced shell of a female protagonist”, all shoehorned into a “kinky” narrative. Luckily, Indianapolis was ranked the most sexually satisfied city by TIME in 2010, and we are just lousy with knowledgeable kink practitioners. If 50 Shades turned your crank, it might be time to investigate these desires a little further. But first we’re going to tell you what good kink is and what it definitely isn’t. In short, things that start their lives as Twilight fanfiction, as 50 Shades did, should stay in their poorlywritten, pixelated form where they belong: in that secret bookmark folder titled “vegetarian recipes II” or some such place.
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The Problems with fifty shades, step-by-step “The only people who use my given name are my family and a few close friends. That’s the way I like it.” — Christian Grey From the outset, Christian Grey is an evasive, intensely defensive person about who he is and what he’s about.
Even from these early introductions, his character is already way out of sync with the kink personality status quo. For someone who seems to be eyeing her as a potential submissive, he isn’t holding up his end of the most basic tenet of kink: honesty and communication. “We’re excited to talk about why we do what we do. We are excited to hear why you do what we do. We are sincerely intrigued by other stories and what makes them tick and why,” says Janet. In the process of writing this piece, I discovered people who are quite the opposite as Anastasia. In fact, most folks in the kink community interact on a first-name basis while still maintaining a Fight Club-style unspoken agreement of discretion outside of safe spaces. It all wraps into this larger idea of open and honest communication between everyone involved. Being authentic is necessary to building trust, and there can be no good BDSM without trust. “There’s this layer of, ‘Let’s get rid of all the bullshit and talk about what you’re into and why you got into kink,” says Janet. In fact, when you bring up 50 Shades around folks in the community, most are quick to dispel Christian’s authenticity as a dominant. “Honesty is expected, and it’s given by most people who play like this. New people should have that expectation, that people will talk to you.” For her part, even when prompted by Christian to explain her
feelings, Anastasia doesn’t. He just seems to “guess” exactly what she’s thinking based on a limited number of physical cues she gives— because E.L. James is a shit writer who doesn’t have the chops for anything but wordvomit style first-person narration. Neither of these people is a dominant or a submissive. They’re two people who are terrible at communication who want to work out their issues simply by using each others’ bodies like worn out pommel horses.
“How did you find me?” “I tracked your cell phone, Anastasia.” I had to take a deep breath and a long walk after reading the action leading up to this scene. First of all, Anastasia Steele is a child (literally, a college student of 21) and Christian Grey is supposed to be a mature, incontrol entrepreneur at the ripe old age of 27. After receiving a lavish gift, Ana drunk dials him in a bar, where she then proceeds to pass out after throwing up profusely. Grey shows up like a knight in sterling armor, and informs her — no big deal — he just went full Snowden on her ass to find her. Then she blacks out and he takes her to his hotel room, takes her clothes off, and puts her to bed. Digital stalking: it’s the new flowers. This should send off a million alarm bells in any woman’s head. Regardless of the “rescue mission,” I would be completely icked out by the crossed boundary and invasion of my privacy. I doubt I’d make it through the next day without filing a police report. This one isn’t even
kink-specific. No matter what, if a guy shows up at your work to try to talk to you, or shows up at the bar where you’re drunk when the most specific information you’ve given him is the city you’re in, that guy is the king of all creeps and boundary disrespecters and should not be allowed genital access of any kind. “If you are in a situation with someone new, and it does feel like fear, like ‘Holy shit, he might really hurt me!’ That’s real fear, and that’s wrong. That requires more conversation,” Janet said, referring to kink specifically. This advice is salient regardless of your sexual predilections, and Janet fears cultural phenomenons like this will lead some women to act out these submissive fantasies with unhealthy, unbalanced imposter “dominants” like Christian Grey. So to recap, there is nothing chivalrous about having your hammered ass tracked via cell signal, and there’s nothing that screams, “I am not the mature, stable partner you need” like drunk dialing a creepy guy you just met.
“Two glasses of Pinot Grigio.” — Christian Grey This is what bored housewives drink when they peruse this shit after the kids have gone to bed, not sexually competent, commanding Doms. No one has ever ordered Pinot Grigio in front of someone on a date and then gotten laid. Ever.
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“I type “Submissive” into Wikipedia. Half an hour later, I feel slightly queasy and frankly shocked to my core...I sit staring at the screen, and part of me, a very moist and integral part of me that I’ve only become acquainted with very recently, is seriously turned on. Oh my, some of this stuff is HOT. But is it for me? Holy shit...could I do this? I need space. I need to think.” — AnastasIa steele
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“Some people just want to play ’re because they curious.”
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This crusty gutter mutt of a paragraph comes in the same chapter in which Ana is presented with a lengthy slave contract — before she and Gray have even had kinky sex once. All Anastasia has seen at this point is his “Red Room of Pain” which, I’m convinced E.L. James saw one time in a movie with a cartoonish portrayal of kinksters. Once more, James proves herself as knowledgeable on the realities of kink as your average teenager after some cache-deleted Googling, which is where I put James’ sexual and emotional maturity. I know this because she has the narrowest-possible view of what kink is, and I can tell based on the desires she’s projected on her female protagonist. And she’s kind of conflating her subjects, wanting their story to be at once romantic with a rescuing knight and as cold and detached as a contractuallydictated professional relationship would be, which isn’t really possible. The reality of kink contracts is that they come long, long after a few meetings or play sessions, and are only relevant to certain kinds of kink relationships. Contractual consensual slavery, not to be confused with chattel slavery, is one of the most intensely time-consuming forms of kink play, and no one who knew what they were doing would present the contract to a virgin who hasn’t even had vanilla sex. James borrows from the BDSM playbook whenever her personal real-world kink experimentation fails or she can’t write a scene where characters ask for what they want. The sad thing is that it both totally misrepresents BDSM, and also ties it to this extremely narrow notion of that old, tired picture of BDSM where the everyone is tied up, gagged and whipped. It’s way more multifaceted than just dungeons and steel. “I know some couples who do a kind of ‘50s housewife kind of lifestyle. What works
for them is a power exchange where she takes care of him and he lets her take care of him. Not my thing, but it’s one kind of submission,” says kinkspert Janet. Moreover, in reality, the prospect of becoming someone’s slave is taken on with as much seriousness as getting engaged or moving in: it’s a really big deal. It’s not something you’d spring on a newbie who has just learned basic terms, especially if she has the same willingness to please authority as a detentionwithered mathlete after his one day of hanging with the burnouts. However, this contract is one place where James may have done a little Googling and then called the loneliest attorney in the UK for a consultation on how to write it out.
“One of my mother’s friends seduced me when I was fifteen. I was her submissive for six years.” “Why don’t you like to be touched?” “Because I’m fifty shades of fucked up.” Of course, the single most disturbing part about the book is that the object of so much sexual desire is a victim of sexual abuse, and he’s using his partner’s body and consent to work out his issues —but without really putting much consideration into why he’s into what he’s into. Instead, he seems to be using bondage and kink as a way to “get back” at his abuser—to do to others what has been done to him. Anastasia never feels in control of what is happening to her, is always having her emotions toyed with, and has been pulled into a relationship by her sexual curiosity, putting her in what we would assume is the exact same headspace Christian was in when his “mother’s friend” took him as a submissive when he was 15 years old. This is the most profoundly angering thing to me about the novel: The author fashions this character as a lingering figure that looms in the background of Christian’s sexual proclivities, completely dissolving the darkness of his sexual abuse by giving her the cute nickname “Mrs. Robinson.” He seems to be seeking to regain some sense of lost control through his sexual desires. “Some people get into it because they’re working through stuff,” Janet agreed. But again, it comes back to the necessity of dealing with these issues and being as honest about them as we can. That doesn’t mean that BDSM can ever stand in the place of actual therapy, and burdening your partner with that goal yokes way too much of one’s emotional balance to a sex act. It’s a delicate
balance that neither real-life dominants nor submissives take lightly. “A play partner would check in, like ‘What have you done before? What is your interest in this? Are there any health issues I need to know about? Any emotional triggers I need to know about?’” Worse, it propagates the notion that you have to be somehow “damaged” in some way to be curious about kink — or, rather, more damaged than average, I suppose. “Some people want to play just because they’re curious about what certain toys or things feel like,” Janet clarified.
The last 20 pages [Spoilers] After all this talk, after all the prepping and the bondage play, all the tension and the much-talked-about Red Room of Pain, Anastasia asks to do a real scene with Christian. He, for his part, informs her what her safe words will be, and then just starts wailing on her ass with a leather belt. After about four strokes, Ana seems to want the scene to continue, but more to please Christian than because she enjoys it. (“...the belt bites me again, and now the tears are streaming down my face. I don’t want to cry. It angers me that I am crying. He hits me again.”) Anastasia is only a submissive in the most literal sense: she wants to submit to the will of her master, but hasn’t yet figured out what SHE wants and does not know how to ask yet. When she says, “I don’t think I can be everything you want me to be,” she is correct, but she should have added “right now.” That’s why folks like Janet encourage you to make connections with real people in the community. The important part is finding a supportive, trustworthy group of experienced practitioners who can guide you through the process, instead of being misguided by one possessive, deeply damaged person trying to find peace through the non-consensual whipping of his partner. That’s just not kink: it doesn’t respect boundaries and it’s not built on a healthy respect and trust. Anastasia Steele’s character might have discovered a really fun, healthy, awesome supportive community of kink folks if she had gotten the right introduction. She may have been delighted to meet so many doctors, engineers, artists, and everyone in between, and could have had a really fulfilling, enjoyable experience. Unfortunately, she met Christian Grey first. But you do not have to suffer the same fate! We have put together a handy-dandy list of terms so you don’t pull an Anastasia and look like a fool when all your friends get their brand-new Fetlife accounts. S E E , N OP E O N P A GE 1 4 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.11.15-02.18.15 // COVER STORY 13
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A KINKY GLOsSARY Play Party: These are more often held in
private homes or hotels. They include socializing and “scenes” (defined later) that most often do not include penetrative sex. You can expect to need references, prior registration or to be otherwise vetted in order to attend. The larger ones include educational workshops, which are incredibly valuable. Baby steps people: begin with the first two types of events. Show up, be friendly, lead with conversation that’s suited for making any new acquaintances rather than with your crotch.
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In addition to our conversations with Janet, we also sat down with an Indianapolisbased kink educator and leather community titleholder Samantha, who put together this helpful list of terms for any newbies wanting to dip their toes in the proverbial pool. Just keep an open mind, be respectful, and have fun!
Fetlife.com
The web’s most popular social network for kink-friendly folks. This is a good resource for finding groups, clubs and social events. Janet and Samantha really want to meet you and talk, and she suggests finding the leaders of a local club and contacting them. “Most of these events are just social, for friends to chat and meet up,” she says, so don’t go thinking you’ll be hauled up on a stage to be flogged in front of strangers. Although the “Kinky & Popular” feature has become an endless parade of attention-seeking writings and lithe young not-necessarily kinky females receiving viral “loves” from legion heterosexual male users, there is real vibrant, local community to be found here. Create a profile, flesh it out as much or as little as you feel comfortable and turn your attention to the “Places” and “Events” tabs to find upcoming events and groups near your city. Use these to locate and come out to an event as soon as possible.
Slosh, Munch, Play Party: These are the most common terms for community gatherings.
Slosh:
Set in a bar, great for socializing casually and mingling freely. Not advisable to actually get sloshed.
Munch:
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(Dominant, Sadist, Master, Mistress etc.): These folks generally like to be on the active or “giving” end of activities and interactions. Past that, make no assumptions. Ask people what their labels mean to them.
Bottom
(Submissive, Masochist, Slave, Property etc.): Conversely, these folks generally prefer to be on the “receiving” end of things- in prenegotiated, agreed-to interactions. These are grown-ass adults and not obligated to bottom to you or anyone.
Switch:
Just what it sounds like. Many people’s preferences vary based on the activity, the connection between themselves and their partner, or even the day.
Negotiation:
When you meet someone with whom you’ve found a mutual, explicitly stated interest in exploring, talk! What have you done before? What did you like or dislike? It’s crucial that you don’t embellish. Everyone was new and inexperienced once, better to be honest about it. What specific activities interest you? Even more importantly: How do you want to see yourself? What do you want to feel? Surrender, struggle, endurance, trust, simplicity? Competence, control, exhilaration, adoration, protectiveness? Talk about how to get there together.
Scene: An interaction between two enthusiastically
consenting adults that has a set beginning and end, which might include but is not limited to: impact play such as spanking, caning or flogging, sensation play with clips, needles or mild electrical currents, bondage with rope or leather, dirty talk, giving/following instructions, or role play.
Safeword:
Communicates crucial information in one word. Most folks use “Yellow” and “Red.”
Yellow: Slow down / Check in with me Red: Stop immediately / I am done. Sometimes
people have difficulty being verbal while in the throes of (fill in the blank), so it is always wise to have hand signals in place that serve to get the top’s attention and to “tap out” (Waving one hand and then waving both, for example) Trust that your partner, whether top or bottom, wants you both to have an enjoyable experience! Do not be afraid to use your safeword, and do not hesitate to adjust accordingly if your partner uses it. This mutual trust is KEY.
more Resources for the Kink Curious:
Secretary (2005):
If you need a movie to watch to really get a sense of what domination and submission are really like, this is the best place to start, especially if the chains and whips freak you out. This movie is a much more intimate look at the power dynamic and the will and control of the submissive. Also, Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader are just excellent.
Your local sex shop:
I love sex shop workers. They have seen it all, played with it all, and they know how it all works. Just like me and all the other professionals working in or on the fringes of the sex business, there’s no reason to be shy around them. Always wanted to use a riding crop? Ask them which one is right for a beginner. Have questions about how to use things? They’ll be more than happy to let you know. Once pain play gets involved, make sure you get the advice of a professional before you dive right in.
Kink.com:
Before I visited Kink.com, I kind of thought I had seen and known all there is to know about BDSM as a sex columnist. Boy, was I wrong. Yes, it is a porn site, but it is run by actual kink professionals who really know what they’re doing. They cover everything from pre-play consent and discussion, and the actors are consent-aware as well, and the play runs the full gamut from very intense to pretty vanilla-friendly stuff.
Queerporn.tv: A little more inclusive than
the all-hetero Kink.com, Queerporn.tv is a kink-positive, sex-positive, ethical porn company with a hugely broad spectrum of play and pairings. They also use real people to shoot their videos, so the orange, lithe, hairless bodies of porn’s past are nowhere in sight, thank goodness.
The Ultimate Guide to Kink,
(by Tristan Taormino): This was consistently recommended to in kink forums, and seems to be a good primer on everything you need to know. For some people, it’s most comfortable to ease into it by considering it “role play,” which is thoroughly covered in this book.
50 Shades of NCSF: The National Coalition for
Sexual Freedom (www.ncsfreedom.org) has tons of great resources for the kink community, including a national directory of “kink-aware” professionals like physicians and attorneys. But the most relevant resource they have is this great page featuring links and articles aimed at Fifty Shades readers looking to get into the lifestyle. If you have questions about consent, safe play, or anything else you’re curious about, this is a great straight-talking website that tells you everything you need to know. Go to their website and click on the “Resources” tab to find the 50 Shades page.
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A&E EVENTS Midwinter Dance Festival Feb. 11-15. Butler Ballet’s annual showcase will again feature two programs in repertory, each presented three times (head to butler.edu for more information on what’s playing when). Expect to see work by resident choreographers Marek Cholewa, Patrick Hinson, Stephan Laurent, Susan McGuire, Cynthia Pratt and Derek Reid, along with Gerald Arpino’s 1965 Viva Vivaldi! Schrott Center for the Arts, $20 adult, $15 senior, $10 Butler student Speed Dating: Tonight! Feb. 12-15. Intimate Opera, that ragtag crew of opera pros and amateurs just looking for a place to sing, returns with the Indiana premiere of a 2013 comic one-act composed by the Iowa-based Michael Ching, who said in a press release that his piece “willfully and constantly crosses the borders between opera, musical theater, and even pop — kind of like American culture, which refuses to be defined in one way.” Ji-Eun Music Academy (10029 E. 126th St., Fishers), $18, intimateopera.org
Steampunk Through the Looking Glass Feb. 13-15. Lace up that corset and stoke the steampowered zeppelin — it’s time for another immersive steampunk weekend at The Columbia Club, hosted by the Circle City Aerodrome. Highlights include an “intimate interactive theater experiences” designed by Q Artistry, a steampunk cabaret created by Q and Angel Burlesque and the Steampunkaneer Hootenanny Masquerade (we’ll just leave you to imagine what that involves). A one-price weekend pass will get you into just about everything — vending areas, workshops, panels — except for the cabaret and interactive theater shows, which are separately ticketed. The Columbia Club, $65 weekend pass, cca-lookingglass.info
Indiana Art Fair Feb. 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sixty-plus artists working in a variety of media and representing a total of 21 counties will participate in the State Museum’s 12th art fair, with proceeds from sales headed to the museum’s public and school programming. Indiana State Museum, included with museum admission, indianamuseum.org S E E , A& E EVENTS, O N PAG E 19
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Your Catfish Friend: Philip Campbell q Through April 18. Art is alchemy. It can change your mood from lead to gold. Inspire you. Maybe even change your life. If you don’t believe these things, you must see Indy resident Philip Campbell’s work at iMOCA. Start with the enormous catfish, crowned with a gold lotus, circling around a boat. Carved from African mahogany, painted with high flow acrylic, the 26-panel piece fills an entire wall in iMOCA’s middle gallery, measuring 22.5 by 11.5 feet. At first, it would seem that “your catfish friend” is lounging in calm waters. But farther out to sea, as it were, you can see deep blue ripples in the water — an effect achieved by carving a series of long, deep grooves into the mahogany. The symbiosis between wood-carving and painting is seamless. (That is also to say that this seems to be a living, breathing work of art.) And so is the attention to detail, particularly in the catfish’s scales. Inspired by a Richard Brautigan poem and Japanese woodblock prints — and motivated by the artist’s desire to put a smile on people’s faces — it’s a piece to spend time with and show your children. One exhibit in the front gallery is even more child-friendly. It consists of loose blocks of wood, on which Campbell carved into and/or performed color tests to determine the final media for his mural. You are encouraged to touch these pieces. On display in the back gallery are freestanding sculptures depicting burning boats. In a beautifully produced video accompanying the piece, Campbell explains that the sculptures are meant to evoke the passing of souls. This exhibition is a high point for iMOCA. It’s arguable that the museum wouldn’t even be in Fountain Square if it wasn’t for Campbell, who, along with the late Ed Funk, helped to transform the Murphy Building into an arts hub starting in 1999. (If you don’t believe that art is alchemy, consider the state of Fountain Square a decade ago.) It’s also a high point for Shauta Marsh — and her final show as executive director of iMOCA. She confirmed this week that she has resigned from the organization and will work on a volunteer basis for Big Car Collaborative. iMOCA (Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), indymoca.org 1
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Landscape Beyond: Surreal and abstract landscape paintings by Benaiah Cusack r Through Feb. 27. It’s easy to see the influence of Susan Hodgin — a Harrison Center resident artist who died in August — on the work of her former student Benaiah Cusack. We might start with the multi-colored lattices in Cusack’s “The Harbor: a study.” Such lattices can often be found in Hodgin’s post-2010 work, whereas Cusack’s “Metamorphosis” looks like an attempt to marry some motifs in Hodgin’s pre-2010 earlier work — with its circles of bold color — with his own ideas. Alas, some of rings of paint that pop out of the fruity alien landscape of “Metamorphosis” are so thickly applied that they still seem wet. In a similar sense, some of Cusack’s paintings haven’t quite congealed as he struggles to find his own voice while sorting through all of these inspirations. Harrison Center for the Arts 2
Cold, Dark, Unsecurity t Through Feb. 27. Eleven Stutz member artists created violence-themed work in multiple media — from painting to video to installations — for this new exhibition, created in partnership with the faith-based Ten Point Coalition. Violence in society, violence against women, violence in the media. John Ross’s oil on canvas painting “Child Soldiers” is certainly a standout, evocative of Leon Golub’s work in tone if not in style. It depicts three young white children carrying automatic weapons against a flat Midwestern skyline. In “In the End” C.S. Stanley uses spray paint to depict on canvas, in grayscale, what appears to be an angel pleading with five policemen in riot gear in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument downtown. This is what martial law might look like, the artist seems to be saying, back home in Indiana. Julie Perigo’s nightmarishly colorful “Aftermaths 3
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and Altered Paths” depicts a woman trying to attach her head back onto her own cadaver, apparently after a life-ending assault. Joe Leavell’s video installation “Inundation” didn’t really tell or show me anything I didn’t already know about our violence-saturated media, but at least it created something of a soundtrack for the exhibition. Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery Katrina Murray e Ongoing. Sometimes verging on abstraction, sometimes photo-real, Katrina Murray’s work is always full of ideas, always intellectually stimulating. Her new, largely abstract work is no different. Murray was thinking about particles when she created these pieces — specifically the subatomic particles being smashed together at insane speeds in the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. “What other things would collide and make particles?” she asked me rhetorically during my First Friday visit. “For example, an argument might make a language particle.” Murray explores that idea in a group of small canvases, each of which depicts a single particle — a bug particle and a gun particle among them. And in “A Society of Particles,” you see a number of such particles, in close proximity, on the same canvas, each with its own unique color and form. (These depictions make me question using the term “abstract” to define her work — maybe particles don’t look abstract to fellow particles.) The process of composition is worth noting in her new work: sometimes she finger paints or scrapes the paint to achieve desired effects. A couple of her new paintings are unfinished — part of the fun of visiting her studios is that you can see her works in progress. (To schedule an appointment email Katrina@katrinajmurray.com.) Katrina Murray Studio at Circle City Industrial Complex 4
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evin Patterson, who was named general director of Indianapolis Opera on Monday, is putting a positive spin on the company’s recent troubles. “We’re starting with a blank slate,” he says, and with that comes the flexibility to try out new approaches. And the slate is indeed blank: Indianapolis Opera last presented a show in March 2014 — press releases teased productions in the interim without delivering — and key figures abruptly resigned without being replaced over the past two years: executive director John Pickett in 2013 and artistic director Jim Caraher in 2014. For his part, Patterson, an Indianapolis native who has managed opera companies in Austin and Anchorage, is aware that optimism can only go so far. “You’re never going to be able to say, ‘Forget everything that happened in the past! We’re a new company; we’ve got this new bald guy running it; pay attention to him,’” he says from his not-yet-furnished office at the Basile Opera Center. To regain trust, he plans to “rebuild the case statement” for the opera — figuring out why it exists and for whom — and listen to community members. “I’ll put on my asbestos underwear and go out there and say, ‘I’m sorry,’ even if I wasn’t here when it happened,” he says. Patterson has been in this kind of situation before. When he started as executive director of the Anchorage Opera, the organization was loaded with debt and bereft of vision. “I’ve worked for a number of opera companies all around the States. I’ve consulted with others,” he says. “Money is never the problem. It is mission; it is vision; it is brand.” He tells of a board retreat in Anchorage when he avoided discussing money until someone finally broke and asked about debt. Patterson revealed a number, had everyone say it together — “we are umpteen dollars in debt” — and then asked them to put that fact aside and focus on coming up with reasons why the opera should continue to exist. When Patterson left — he moved back home with his family last summer — Anchorage Opera was nearly out of debt and there was enthusiasm in the community for a new slate of shows, he says. Can he reach a similarly successful
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result in Indianapolis? There’s one key difference here: Indianapolis Opera has been out of debt since December 2014. And Patterson says the board and management have learned quite a bit from a recent study intended to gauge support for opera in the community, as well as market research conducted by the Carmel firm SMARI. The lessons learned: 1) “Quality is the key. The core supporters in the community for the opera were saying, ‘You know, the quality is starting to flag a little bit.” 2) “A huge portion of this community has no idea who the Indianapolis Opera is.” 3) In response to feedback concerning goverance and board issues, “over the past seven months, the board of the opera has essentially remade itself, reworked its bylaws and now has what I consider ‘best practice’ bylaws.” 4) “People liked Clowes Hall, but they wanted to explore other venues. And people didn’t know how the Basile Opera Center fit into the mix.” But how did Indianapolis Opera get to this point? Patterson demurs that he wasn’t around to know for sure, but he hazards educated guesses. “I don’t think you can point to any one issue and say that’s the cause,” he says. “Maybe the board got a little too distant and too lackadaisical in oversight. I think the leadership got a little tired.” And in the end, no one was having much fun, Patterson says. “Our charge is to do something that excites audiences again, keeping things relevant. I said to the board, ‘At the end of the day, we’d better be having fun. This isn’t mergers
and acquisitions; if we’re taking it that seriously, we need to step back.’” What can we expect to see on stage once Patterson, now the company’s de facto artistic director, can start doing shows in earnest? Personally, he’s a fan of “theatrically-driven” work like Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Three Decembers, and Britten’s Peter Grimes and Billy Budd. But he’s not in this to put on his favorite shows; he hopes to put on what will challenge and inspire the community, hoping that audience members will “be fundamentally changed in some way when they leave the performance.” For now, Patterson has plenty of ideas, but there’ll be more soul-searching and advance planning before the opera announces any performances, though he hopes to produce a show of some kind by mid-2015. He hopes to abandon the notion of doing a three-show season in favor of a year-round schedule — though subscriptions will remain available for the big-ticket operas. He doesn’t plan to do actual operas at the Basile Opera Center — that’ll become a venue for community programming — and is interested instead the Schrott Center as a possible venue. And he wants to get out in the community and do “low-risk, high-profile” programming. “There’s a point at which we all walk through the valley of the shadow of death — and some of us don’t make it to the other side,” he says. “With funding from Lilly, the board took a hard look at itself and asked, ‘Should we keep doing this?’ And our audiences said, ‘Yes, you should keep doing it, but don’t do it the same way; do something new.’” n
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Meet the Artists XXVII Gala Reception Feb. 14, 5-10 p.m. The library’s annual showcase for AfricanAmerican artists has been open a couple weeks, but Saturday is your chance to actually meet those artists! The gala reception includes a tribute to the inimitable Mari Evans; a fashion show coordinated by Alpha Blackburn; workshops on jewelry making, crocheting and balloon sculpting; and performances by the Urban Vibes African Drum Troupe, the Brian Reeves & Heart After God Ministries gospel choir, spoken word artists Tammy Burrus, Tony Styxx and VoCab Eyespeak, and the Bullet Proof Band. And then, yes, artists from the show will be on hand to chat, along with a bunch of local authors. Head to nuvo. net for a full list of participants. Central Library, FREE, indypl.org Indianapolis Pipe Organ Festival Feb. 15, 3 p.m. Six members of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists will perform “Music of the Americas” on St. Luke’s mighty Goulding & Wood for the ninth edition of the Pipe Organ Fest. St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, $15 adult, $10 student, advance discounts at indyago.org Loteria: Hector Duarte Feb. 16-March 20. Up next at UIndy’s gallery, curated by faculty member and Indiana State Museum chief fine arts curator Mark Ruschman, is a solo show by Hector Duarte, a Mexico-born, now Chicago-based artist whose work can be seen at the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Chicago Transit Authority’s Western Avenue Station and on walls throughout Central Mexico and Chicago (head to hectorduarte.com for a complete rundown). His most recent Indianapolis show was Unframed: Sin Fronteras at Herron in 2010. Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery, FREE, uindy.edu Inspiring Heritage Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. Two pieces by the Indy-born, Bloomington-based David Baker — the African-American Suite and the Sonata for cello and piano — are on the program for this Ronen Chamber Ensemble concert devoted entirely to chamber music by AfricanAmerican composers. Also: Undine Smith Moore’s Grist for the Mill and piano pieces by Julia Perry, Betty Jackson King and Margaret Bonds. Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, FREE, ronenchamber.org
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ing three acts. Nearly three centuries later, Handel’s music and Antonio Fanzaglia’s libretto still intrigue and retain freshness through a new production with conductor Arthur Fagen. The outstanding orchestra and cast, which alternates each performance, earned the ovation. — RITA KOHN Musical Arts Center (Bloomington)
Cardinal Stage Company: Grounded e Through Feb. 22. One of my favorite lines from Grounded goes something like “The Odyssey would be a completely different book if the hero went home every night.” The hero of George Brant’s play makes this observation when she returns to military life after an unexpected three-year maternity leave — only to find that the F-16 planes she used to fly have been replaced by drones. No longer will she be deployed around the world for a year at a time. No longer will she spend her days up in The Blue that she loves. If she still wants to be useful, let alone the “top shit” that @tremendouskat
The Cripple of Inishmaan w Through March 1. Martin McDonagh’s play, which revolves around the visit of a Hollywood filmmaker to a group of small islands off the Irish coast, circa 1934, is hilarious and heartbreaking, an Irish story of yin and yang. McDonagh makes fun of those clueless feckers who would romanticize the Emerald Isles, while also making fun of the insensitive feckers that live there. The title character, known as Cripple Billy because of his physical deformities, sees the film as an opportunity to escape, or at least change, the relentless harshness of his daily life. Phoenix newcomer Nathan Robbins embodies Billy’s physical deformities believably but more importantly also gives him just the right mix of old soul emotional fatigue and endearing boyishness. Each of the play’s nine characters is complex and important — and each of the nine actors, under the direction of Bryan Fonseca, is outstanding. I think some of the Irish culture digs went over my head, but others Thirst t
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she was before, she will live in a Las Vegas suburb, say goodbye to her husband and child every morning, sit in a chair in a windowless room for 12 hours watching a screen, and drive home across the Nevada desert again every night. Greta Wohlrabe, under the direction of Stephen John, gives a masterful portrayal of The Pilot. You forget that you are watching an actor as she tells her story in present tense from a small platform in the Waldron’s tiny, black box-style Rose Firebay. — HOPE BAUGH John Waldron Arts Center (Bloomington)
Through March 7. Fledgling theater company Khaos is sticking by its mission statement, which reads, in part, “In an effort to support actors, KCT invests its profits in their talent rather than elaborate sets and believes that professional theatre can exist without excessive frills.” That approach pays off on the whole with Thirst, Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play about strangers on a lifeboat that’s as minimalist as they come: a cast of three, no scene changes, and a run time of under an hour. Still, Khaos could’ve pared things down further by relying on the old standby of substituting plain, black clothes for realistic costumes — a sartorial blank slate. Instead, the cast looked like it just stepped out of the J.C. Penney
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landed squarely. Usually it’s depressing to be reminded that the more things change, the more they stay the same, but McDonagh somehow makes us glad to be included in the litany of woe. Life sucks and all of us are crippled in one way or another. But still, it’s life. — HOPE BAUGH Phoenix Theatre summer catalog, with nary a rumple or stain to be found on anyone, or even any ruffled hairdos. Dealing with the brunt of the dialog, Ryan Maloney and Allie Dorn do a fine job inhabiting this desperate, miserable world, though they could stand some seasoning. Despair has a wide spectrum for an actor to explore, and experience is, sadly, often the best teacher. Tyler Gordon stands out as the nearly wordless pariah of the group, his silent sailor a strangely mystical figure. It’s a pity director Veronica Orech adapted the script, changing the ending — and with it, the entire tone of the play. And I mean Romeoand-Juliet-living-happily-ever-after changed. — TRISTAN ROSS Khaos Company Theatre, 3125 E. 10th St., Ste. L
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ull disclosure: The filmmaker Betsy Blankenbaker is a friend of mine. She is not, however, an intimate friend. I knew nothing at all about her orgasms until I read her new book, An Autobiography of an Orgasm. Now I know everything. Betsy produced a documentary film based on my memoir, New York in the Fifties. Her filmmography also includes Something to Cheer About, a documentary about the 1955 Crispus Attucks team that was the first allBlack squad in the country — in any sport — to win a state championship. Her quest for great orgasms may have been subconsciously inspired by my account of “The Great Orgasm Debate” of New York in the ‘fifties, initiated by Norman Mailer. He had announced in an article in Dissent magazine in 1957 that he was in search of “the apocalyptic orgasm,” which seemed awfully ambitious; I was in search of any orgasm at all. Mailer’s article, “The White Negro,” proclaimed the new avantgarde rebel (“the hipster,” or “white Negro”) did not need the analyst’s couch because “orgasm is his therapy ... good orgasm opens his possibilities and bad orgasm imprisons him.” A flurry of letters and debates ensued — the remarkable part of it was that the word “orgasm” was being bandied about in print in the ‘50s. This was an era when a play called The Moon Is Blue caused a scandal for using the word “virgin” on a Broadway stage for the first time. We have come a long way from what now seems the Neolithic Age of sex in America. No one could have imagined back then that a contemporary, accomplished woman (she has produced four documentaries and started an orphanage in Zimbabwe), born and bred in Indianapolis (her mother served in the state legislature and her father was once this city’s director of public safety), could write about her experience demonstrating orgasm in front of forty people during a class in “Orgasmic Meditation.” To paraphrase Wordsworth: “Mailer, thou
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shouldst be living at this hour!” The poor guy was born fifty years too soon. It must also be noted that this is a serious book. The author was molested at age 6 by a teenage female neighbor, and at 16 was groped by the elevator man at the Indianapolis Athletic Club as she was on the way to a swimming class. Training for the swim team developed her muscles, and her eldest sister — a cheerleader and county fair queen — told her,
“Guys don’t like bodies like yours. You’re too big. You’re too strong, too much muscle.” As a sophomore in college, the author’s second boyfriend paid for her abortion while he went to a golf game. She gave birth to five children during her second marriage that lasted for ten years and ended after she found a letter to her husband from her best friend, calling herself his “fuck buddy” and lamenting his wife’s “lack of zeal” in the bedroom. They divorced a year later, but not because of the letter, she says, admitting she had also cheated during the marriage “and the shame of cheating added to the disapproval I felt about myself.” She made a list of “the pile” of disapproval: “I was not a sensual being. My vagina was a place of shame. My vagina was a place of death. I had never let my vagina feel pleasure.” A decade later she decided that “instead of running away from everything, including my orgasm, I decided to see if I could discover what it meant to be born into the body of a woman. I wanted to find out how to feel my orgasm, and, maybe, how to feel my life, because at that point I wasn’t feeling anything.” First she went to school — “The School of Womanly Arts” in New York City. Class began with the teacher dancing onto a stage and screaming, “How’s your pussy?” Most of the 200 women in the room jumped up and danced along with her. Betsy stayed in her seat and wondered if she should have enrolled. The course included experts in health, wellness, diet, money, career, men, communication, sex and sensuality. Surely she’d find some answers in all that. S E E , O R GA S M , O N P A GE 2 2
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Wizard World Indianapolis Comic Con Feb. 13-15. The con season gets going in earnest this week, right around the time pitchers and catchers start to report to camp. It is spring, friends. And spring brings with it a brand new con — the mighty Wizard World, which has the resources to book Mr. Bill Shatner himself as the headliner. And let’s go down the list from there, starting with the TV/film stars, who include Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries, 24), Liam McIntyre (Spartacus), Katie Cassidy (Arrow, Gossip Girl), The Bella Twins of WWE fame, James and Oliver Phelps (Harry Potter), Lou “Hulk” Ferrigno and a ton of others. As for the comics artists and writers, you’ve got John Tyler Christopher (Amazing SpiderMan), Ethan Van Sciver (Justice League, Green Lantern), Arthur Suydam (Marvel Zombies, Army of Darkness) and local Stuart Sayger (Machete). Indiana Convention Center, weekend pass $75 advance, $85 door, daily and VIP admission available from wizardworld.com Local history meet-and-greet Feb. 14, 2-4 p.m. A chance to talk local history with several recently published authors. Scheduled to participate are David Williams (Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue), Julie Young (The Famous Faces of Indianapolis WTTV Channel 4, etc.), Nelson Price (Hoosier Legends and Indianapolis Then and Now, etc.) Forrest Bowman, Jr. (Sylvia: The Likens Trial), Tom Rumer (A History of Westfield, Indiana: The Promise of the Land) and Fred Cavinder (Forgotten Hoosiers and Historic Indianapolis Crimes). Bookmamas, FREE, bookmamas.com George Takei Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. Butler’s Diversity Lecture series opens with a visit from 2012’s “most influential person on Facebook,” according to Mashable.com. We’re not vouching for the validity of the study, but Takei vaulted back into the public consciousness right around the time he publicly came out — not that he hadn’t been a prolific advocate for social justice before that, in part by reminding Americans of our shameful history of interning Japanese Americans during World War II (including Takei, who lived in camps from ages 4 to 8). Clowes Hall, FREE, butler.edu
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in Austin, Texas, “a fifteen minute practice focused solely on your partner stroking your clit.” She returned several months “Everything in class was ‘your pussy’ later for “an advanced OM workshop,” this and ‘your pussy’ that,” she writes. and volunteered to lie on a massage table “I was uncomfortable hearing her [the teacher, Regina Thomashauer] use a word and allow a class of forty men and women to watch a “stroker” bring her to orgasm. I considered vulgar to refer to a woman’s Toward the end of her research, Betsy genitals. I’d never had a name for my vawas going through menopause, and her gina, because I’d never spoken about it.” But Thomashauer used the word “with age had “been triggering new insecurities with men.” A year before her OM workreverence ... comparing it to the soul, shop she was having drinks with two something I’d never thought about eiattractive men when the one who was ther,” Betsy continues. “She was making her own age told about deciding against the point that if you were disconnected dating a woman because “he realized from your pussy, your feminine essence, he didn’t want “fifty-year-old pussy.” you were disconnected from your soul.” The men laughed and Betsy joined in, Betsy believes that her orgasm research “not wanting to reveal myself.” Now as put her on “a spiritual path” that she she was about to serve as the orgasm had previously rejected “because of the “receiver” in a class demonstration, she dogma I grew up with in the church.” thought: “I was the fifty-year-old pussy.” After graduating from “The School of The “giver” invited the forty or so men Womanly Arts,” Betsy signed up for a priand women in the class to come closer vate class in “Extended Massive Orgasm” to watch Betsy so they could “feel her with Steve Bodansky, who she’d heard orgasm.” She writes that “I didn’t recognize speak about his practice in the “Womanly the ‘me’ that was doing all this. ... I was Arts” course. Bodansky demonstrated his finally seeing that in order to change we EMO technique with an assistant named needed to expose ourselves.” Anne in her New York apartment, donning That’s what she does in this book, reporting not only on her orgasms All my life, I heard about how hard it but also on matters such as menopause. Upon is for men to find the clit, but once discovering that she has again, I was surprised to see it really congenital hearing loss in both ears and after using isn’t that hard to find if you take hearing aids for a while, “I found that I preferred not time to look at the anatomy.” hearing well to hearing everything,” she writes. One — BETSY BLANKENBAKER of her orgasm instructors advised her to admit her hearing loss to a lover, and “seduce him with the information ... latex gloves “which are recommended if Make hearing loss the sexiest thing ever!” you are not in a committed relationship She tells about taking a lover to the with the stroker.” Watching the demonstrahospital when he fractured his penis tion, Betsy learned a new lesson: “All my while having sex with her, walking down life, I heard about how hard it is for men to Fifth Avenue in Manhattan “with a ‘healfind the clit, but once again, I was suring’ jade egg in my vagina,” making love prised to see it really isn’t that hard to find to a quadraplegic, “honoring my womb if you take time to look at the anatomy.” near the Amazon in Peru.” She eventuAfter watching the demonstration, Betsy got undressed and into bed with the ally finds herself “back in Indianapolis, the place I’d been running from all my instructor and his assistant. “You’re very life” to finish writing her book. orgasmic,” Bodansky told her, describing After being taken to “a gourmet the changes in her vagina as he stroked restaurant at a nearby farm commuher with the latex-gloved index finger of nity,” her date “walked me across the his right hand: “Your clit is already peekone-lane street and through a small field ing out of the hood ... The outer lips are surrounded by mature oak trees.” They turning a deep shade of burgundy.” ended up lying on the grass and taking After “taking my orgasm to a peak” for their clothes off, where “I felt the caress the third time, Bodansky recommended of his lips on my pussy. Sublime.” that “When you self-pleasure, keep As Dorothy discovered in The Wizard researching what your body likes, so you of Oz, “There’s no place like home.” n can let your partner know.” Betsy’s research took her to a “series Dan Wakefield is the author of New York of Pleasure Intensives” in New York, and in the Fifties and Going All The Way. later to a class in “Orgasmic Meditation,”
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The Wachowski siblings’ new space opera is stupid and sometimes dull, but the action scenes are fun
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upiter Ascending was supposed to be released last summer, but the mega-expensive space opera by the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix) got pulled from the calendar to allow “additional work on the special effects” and was rescheduled for February. Everyone knew, of course, that the explanation was bullshit. I saw the film with my son on Saturday, after the barrage of negative reviews hit (around 80 percent negative on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate website). Thank God for lowered expectations. My son was delighted by the movie and I had fun. Is it a good film? No, no, no, but there’s stuff to enjoy in there. Many reviewers complained that the story was ridiculously overcomplicated, but we figured it out: Once upon a time, human beings arrived on Earth in spaceships and killed the dinosaurs so they could plant their own kind here, as they did on many other planets. Much later, a pretty housekeeper named Jupiter (Mila Kunis) gets pursued in contemporary Chicago by aliens. Turns out she is the genetic match of the recently deceased owner of Earth. The owner’s three kids (Eddie Redmayne, Tuppence Middleton and Douglas Booth) expected to inherit the planet from their mom, but the presence of Jupiter muddies up everything. Luckily, Jupiter gets protected by Caine (Channing Tatum), a studly human-canine hybrid. Bad guys snatch Jupiter. Caine gets her back. Oh, and (SPOILER ALERT): The ruling race is virtually immortal, because they ingest a serum or something that’s made out of people. I think it’s called Soylent Blue. (END SPOILER).
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Feb. 12-14. Jeunet bailed on his IU Cinema appearance — apparently he’s making a movie on the other side of the Atlantic — but five of his films will still screen in 2K DCP this week. They are A Very Long Engagement (Feb. 12, 4 p.m.), City of Lost Children (Feb. 12, 8 p.m.), Amelie (Feb. 13, 6:30 p.m.), Delicatessen (Feb. 13, 9:30 p.m.) and Micmacs (Feb. 14, 7 p.m.) IU Cinema (Bloomington), $3, cinema.indiana.edu Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: Casablanca Feb. 13 and Feb. 14. Jack Everly conducts a live performance of Max Steiner’s score while the film plays a few feet above his head. Hilbert Circle Theatre, prices vary, indianapolissymphony.org My Fair Lady (1964) Feb. 13 and 14, 2 and 7:30 p.m. The last word in grooming, presented in 35mm widescreen with pre-show fun. Artcraft Theatre (Franklin), $5 adult, historicartcrafttheatre.org
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See? Not complicated. I liked the first part of the movie the most. After too many shots of Jupiter cleaning toilets (yes, she’s a humble worker, we get it!), Caine shows up and we get to watch a heck of a dogfight over Chicago, with Caine zipping around the sky in antigravity sneakers. Very cool. Caine enlists the help of an old buddy (Sean Bean) — also cool — and the action moves to a farmhouse. The mix of recognizable places (the city, the farmhouse and the green fields) and the alien invaders is a treat. A bigger treat is getting to look at Channing Tatum, who loses his shirt and keeps it off for about 10 to 15 minutes, including some standing around and talking time. It helped to make up for the dialog, which is stuffed with exposition, but somewhat
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Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Mark Hamill and Samuel L. Jackson star in an adaptation of the comic book about a supersecret spy organization. “It’s structured in familiar, safe terms, plays for very low stakes, and appeals to no one so much as white, male teenagers with chips on their shoulders,” says Slate.
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lacking in color. When the action moves to space, the fun factor lessens. There’s still a lot of derring-do, and the visuals are sumptuous, but the computer graphics, untethered to reality, make everything look like the cover of an old sci-fi paperback novel. Lavish, but a little too creamy looking. In the midst of all the spectacle, Tatum remains suitably heroic, while Kunis too often merely seems overwhelmed. As the nastiest of the conniving space heirs, Redmayne tries to pick up the slack, evilly whispering most of his lines, with occasional shouts to show how dynamic he is. Clearly the Wachowskis are commenting on the way the upper 1 percent in our society prey on the lower classes and ... just kidding. It’s simply movie hooey, but if you’re up for a space epic and your expectations are low, Jupiter Ascending delivers for a while, then uses big battles to coast to an ending. One last thing: Parts of Chicago get trashed early in the film, but the space people tidy up afterward. Isn’t that thoughtful? n
Best Picture Showcase Feb. 14, 10 a.m. All the Best Picture candidates, screened on two consecutive Saturdays. This week: The Grand Budapest Hotel (10 a.m.), Whiplash (noon), Birdman (2:05 p.m.) and Selma (4:55 p.m.). AMC Showplace 17 and Castleton 14, $30, amctheatres.com Met Opera: Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle Feb. 14, 12:30 p.m. Tchaikovsky’s fairy tale followed by Bartok’s thriller. Various theaters, $25 adult, metopera.org Verdun, visions d’histoire (1928) Feb. 14, 3 p.m. Leon Poirier filmed his recreation of the Battle of Verdun just ten years after it happened, re-enlisting the soldiers who fought in the battle as actors. The 160-minute film was restored in 2006. This is billed as its Midwest premiere and will be presented with the original score, reduced for piano and performed live. IU Cinema (Bloomington), FREE, cinema.indiana.edu Keep on Keepin’ On Feb. 16, 5 and 7 p.m. Trumpeter Clark Terry, who just turned 94, befriends a blind piano prodigy in his 20s in a documentary filmed over five years by Al Hicks. Goodrich Hamilton 16, prices vary, goodrichqualitytheatres.com
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Three Floyds Alpha King, Dark Lord, Dreadnaught Imperial IPA and Zombie Dust were (again) named to RateBeer’s list of the world’s Best Beers, and RateBeer named Three Floyds No. 4 on the list of the top 100 worldwide. Greg Emig, owner of Lafayette Brewing Company (established in 1993) is the newly elected president of Brewers of Indiana Guild, the non-profit trade association that represents all 100 of the state’s craft breweries. Emig takes over from Clay Robinson of Sun King Brewing Company. Reelected for another year-term are: Flat 12’s Rob Caputo, VP; Black Acre’s Justin Miller, Secretary; and Black Swan’s D.J. McAllister, Treasurer. LBC’s Feb. 7’s Winter Warmer raised funds to benefit children in Lafayette. Black Acre joined the 18-brewery lineup for the first time, and Jon Lang returned for his 14th consecutive year. Tippecanoe Homebrewers Circle had its first collaborations with People’s Brewing for a 6%, 11 IBUs Kriek Cherry Stout and with Flat 12 for a very warming Lusca at 10.5% and 68 IBUs. New Albanian treated with a return of Thunderfoot Russian Imperial Stout aged with cherries and oak. New Brews & News Thr3e Wise Men’s LLS Beat Cancer Bitter benefits Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. ChillyWater introduces One Hop Wonder, a new IPA with a big aroma and little bitterness. Triton teamed with Indy’s Bee Coffee Roasters for hearty Bee Java Porter with notes of nuttiness, caramel and roasted coffee. Oaken Barrel continues its 20th anniversary year lineup of house brews with smooth and easy drinking Leroy Brown Ale on tap. BBC’s dark copper Hopstradamus Imperial IPA balances Nugget and Falconer’s Flight hops with special Pale mash for four layers of tastes to honor the French apothecary. It’s on tap in Bloomington. Function and Upland collaborated on FunctUp Belgian Black Ale. Half Moon’s Banana Porter combines Cole Porter with ripe bananas for a chocolate-banana profile. A beer smoothie? Mad Anthony introduced Hopsquatch American-style IPA featuring a new grapefruity Citra hop. Events Feb. 11, 5-7 p.m. Rock Bottom downtown brewmaster Jerry Sutherlin offers brewery tours. Feb. 12, 6 p.m. Rock Bottom (downtown and College Park) tap Fire Chief Ale to benefit Indianapolis fire Department’s Survive Alive program. Feb. 12 6:30 p.m. Upland/Jolly Pumpkin Collaboration party for Permission Slip and Persimmon Ship beers. Brewers are on site to discuss collaboration and brews. Upland Brew Pub, Bloomington. (Tours of Upland follow at 7 and 8 p.m.)
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t’s impossible to talk about the best food in Indianapolis without Jon Brooks’ name coming up. He’s the hottest chef in town, having secured one of five spots to cook at the James Beard House in New York this August. It’s no surprise, then, that he also happens to whip up some of the hottest and most delicious pepper sauce that I’ve ever had. Brooks’ hot sauce feels a lot like falling in love. Get a little on a cassava fry, the way the naive and innocent wander into loves’ thorny throes. Tasting is part flavor, part experience. Imagine someone pinching your nose with a citrus peel while you raise a spoonful of this stuff to your mouth. The suprising sweetness is what hits first, a scent closer to a blooming orange tree than its heavily vinegar-soaked cousins. It’s not astringent or sharp. Just having the container open doesn’t make your eyes burn, and it smells much closer to a pepper-heavy sambal. Once it gets in your mouth, the burn is slower than expected. I felt the heat begin to build as I crushed the pepper seeds between my determined molars. Long before you register any heat flavor or burn, a tingle picks up in the cheeks. The skin around my hairline began to tingle too, as the little sweat droplets formed. Suddenly, the burn blazed down my tongue and settled like a hot coal in my gut. And just like love, I couldn’t get enough — even though I knew this was the wrong time to be gluttonous. I felt like maybe I’d lose my grip completely, tossing that lid off of the huge container and dipping my hand in like a Winnie the Pooh in some kind of honey-hungry ‘roid rage. Like a woman posessed, I started eating two and three fries at once, piled with the red stuff. Instead of having been cooked down in a kettle, Brooks’ recipe just involves blending the peppers with a splash of water, garlic, fish sauce (and some other things that Brooks won’t give up) and letting it ferment at room temperature for a while. He was careful not to give the hot sauce a name or identity (the container was labeled “hot stuff”), not because Brooks is trying to guard any secrets or profit from his invention, but because that would leave less room to let the
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ingredients tell him how they should be used. The hot sauce is a perfect example: Blending them raw with water and leaving them alone, more or less, means you get all the subtlety of biting into a fresh habanero or Carolina Reaper peppers (which were grown in a friend’s backyard as a gift), made more mellow and interesting by the fermenation process. The phenomenon that has been Milktooth represents a change in the way diners want their chefs, menus and food to be. Brooks is part of a new generation of cooks not trying to bend every menu to their will. Instead, Brooks seems to be most happy behind the counter when he’s free to react to seasonal ingredients and make a menu that might only be “valid” for a few days at most. If you’re really, really lucky, sometimes Brooks will plunk down a plate of something you’ve either never seen before (or seen done quite like his) on your table when he’s testing new recipes. If effort and variety are reliable markers for passion, it’s hard to think of
anyone more passionately in love with food than Jon Brooks right now. He’ll be happy to tell you about all the science experiments he’s doing, like homemade Amaro, among other things. He brought out a tiny whiskey barrel in which he’d aged fish sauce for six months. Now he’s going to fill it back up with a fresh batch of hot sauce and let those flavors exchange, then refill with fish sauce again, then hot sauce, and so on. He always seems to have some kind of food-centric extra curricular going on, purely for passion’s sake, waiting to ferment itself into deliciousness. It’s the (perfectly safe and tested) roomtemp fermentation that makes the Health Department nervous, and likely why the sauce isn’t a permanent printed item on the menu. But if you know—and now you know—there may or may not be a secret menu through which you can find all kinds of Reaper Sauce-laden items. Otherwise, you can always grab a bowl of the housemade stuff for a buck. n
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Bloomington’s psych-punk four-piece Cooked Books dropped sophomore album Endtimes Forever on Indiana label Jurassic Pop yesterday. In it, the band returns to some of the fundamental, no-nonsense concepts from which it was born, resulting in an organically boisterous rock ‘n’ roll product. Time and time again, Cooked Books has found refuge in basements, writing all their songs at lower-level sessions and playing them months later for sweaty basement crowds. Keeping with all this success in the cellar, the group appropriately chose to record their second album with John Dawson at Bloomington’s infamous Magnetic South basement studio. Hoping to more accurately capture the manic madness of their live shows, the group traded a polished, clean studio sound for a more raucous, fuzzed-out one, recording everything live, directly to tape, and with minimum overdubs. In listening to Endtimes Forever, it quickly becomes clear that this rugged style of recording is really what fits Cooked Books best too. The album opens up with the call-and-response guitar licks of “Logic Stops,” tugging the listener down into the band’s blazing hot lair. Not long after, lead vocalist David Bower – who previously fronted now-defunct Bloomington acts Resting Rooster and The Vegetables – enters the picture, howling frantically over fearsome instrumentation right into the first single, “Excommunicator.” One of the album’s catchier tracks, the song blends ass-shaking elements of pop with the group’s garage core. Cooked Books also exerts their eerier side in songs like “Tap’d Phone” and “Permanent Halloween,” creating dark and dingy atmospheres with the help of swirling reverb. Their straightforward punk nature surfaces in songs like “Stealing Song,” “Cops On Film” and “Places to Live.” With all of these different sides of the band being represented in one album, one might assume that Endtimes Forever is rather fragmented. Instead, Cooked Books has honed in on their many influences to offer up a refreshing take on the traditional garage rock flavor, giving the listener a cohesive, 10-song portrait of their crunchy makeup. — SETH JOHNSON
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hough he still lives in Seattle, Damien Jurado’s music beams in from Roswell, New Mexico. (His records actually come from Bloomington, but we’ll get to that later.) Jurado’s latest album, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, is a sequel to his conceptual 2012 release Maraqopa, and shares its dreamy, unsettling universe of windswept landscapes, UFOs and silvergarbed spiritual seekers. Both albums were collaborations with musician-producer Richard Swift, who’s affiliated with such entities as the Shins, the Black Keys and Guster. Jurado and Swift played virtually all the instruments and mixed in plenty of reverb, along with fiery guitars and Jurado’s high-lonesome vocals, for a psychedelic, orchestral sound that evokes Neil Young’s ambitious early days. Currently on tour with Jason Isbell, Jurado will step out Wednesday for a solo acoustic show at Radio Radio. If you like him, catch it, because he’s ready for a break and not sure where he’s going next. More on that later, too. The 42-year-old family man and avid painter discussed his ideas and motivations in a recent phone call with NUVO. NUVO: These records are big and atmospheric. Is it hard to put the songs across live with just voice and guitar? DAMIEN JURADO: The songs begin on acoustic guitar, anyhow. They don’t become lush and full-bodied-sounding until the studio, and so really what the audience is hearing is just how they were written, in their skeletal forms. But I think the impact is pretty much the same. I think it’s still as compelling as the albums. NUVO: Can you explain the theme behind these past two albums? JURADO: Maraqopa is based on a dream I had about a guy who decides he’s just going to give up and disappear. You’ve probably heard stories about people like this. They don’t commit suicide. They just disappear and go live off the grid. And those they leave behind don’t know what happened to them. That’s basically what happens to this
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o paraphrase Jay-Z: if Chad Serhal has 99 problems, most of them are women. The ones he lost, the ones he crushes on, and the one whose therapist convinced her to leave him. Serhal wears all these wounds on his sleeve on She Does Is Magic’s sophomore LP, Strangers – a succinct, jaunty batch of rock n’ roll tunes. “It’s a little embarrassing these days,” Serhal says of his creative infatuation with the opposite sex. “I feel like I’m getting a little too old. Like, at what point do you stop writing about girls? Somehow, people like Lou Reed do it into their 40s and 50s.” His band’s new album kicks off with “’Til the Ship Comes In,” which Serhal launches into like someone shot out of a canon, “Here I come / Like a broken drum in a slow parade / Watch me march while I’m faking it.” He credits the song’s title and hook with a phrase his father often employed when encouraging Serhal to reach for his dreams. Serhal even has a tattoo of the lyric on his chest accompanying a “big-ass ship.” The track functions as a sort of rebuke to his father’s rallying cry and the notion that quality work requires self-promotion. “I’ll work on something, and then when it’s done I’ll work on something else. There’s never a period of time where I’m promoting what I’ve just done. It’s just a problem I have. I really think it goes back to some sort of ego or something,” Serhal says. “There’s things out there that are good enough to stand on their own without any help.” The bulk of Strangers was recorded in a Bloomington halfway house for recovering substance abusers – a location that doubles as Serhal’s home and place of employment. He receives free room and board as part of his payment. Serhal believes Strangers benefited from the lack of time constraints associated with home recording. “There was no pressure at all to get it done,” he says of the six-month recording process. “There was no release date. There was no clock ticking at all. So, yeah, I felt better about the whole process, because we had all the time in the world.” For personnel, Serhal tapped Steve Marino (Rodeo Ruby Love, Moor Hound) on lead guitar and background vocals,
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while more straightforward rock and roll and R&B acts have moved into the fringe. Well, you know, I’m not in on the underground I’m not in on the underground I don’t have that certain sound Or the hippest friends around You know when I play I’m out in the day Cause I’m not in the underground — “The Underground”
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Mark Walker on bass, Nathan Dynak on drums, and Sean McClure (The Bangs) on saxophone. Dynak and Walker played on SDIM’s debut LP, My Height in Heels. “[Dynak will] come up with something and I’ll tweak it,” Serhal says. “We really hawked it to death. We really analyzed every little moment until it was exactly the way we wanted it. He’s very meticulous and very serious about playing the drums. … [Walker] was a new bass player around the time we recorded the first one, and he’s been playing for three years now. McClure and Marino were new additions. “Through a connection, I found out that Sean played the sax,” Serhal says. “I saw The Bangs play once and he was the guitar/lead singer guy. I guess his main
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axe is saxophone.” On tracks like “Feelin’ that Feelin’”, “The Underground” and “WR/GH” McClure’s contributions help SDIM reach Exile on Main Street territory, if you stripped away the keyboard and whiskey. These songs are barroom burners on the surface, and should prove every bit as accessible and infectious as the descriptor implies. Speaking of accessibility, it can be a double-edged sword, a subject that Serhal addresses brilliantly on the track “The Underground.” Here, he plays with a strange inversion that has taken place within Indiana’s rock scene over the last few years: bands associated with traditionally subversive musical movements like punk or hardcore have grown in popularity
Between Serhal’s tongue-in-cheek musings on Indiana’s rock scene and honest assessments of his successes (or lack thereof) as a musician, the singer returns repeatedly to his primary source of inspiration: girls. On, “Went, Saw” he recounts running into an ex at a tribute show for The Smiths. On “Katheryn,” he pens a scathing letter to an ex’s therapist. On “Beginning of Everything” he borrows a line from F. Scott Fitzgerald to reflect on the personality traits that led him to fall so hard in the first place. Like we said, women are everywhere on Strangers. “I feel like I have muses for other things like art, but as far as music goes it’s like girls and music go hand-in-hand,” Serhal says. “I have songs every once in a while about other things, but I feel like guys just start bands to impress girls. I don’t think I’ve figured out another reason even to do it.” Valentine’s Day is a fitting release date for Strangers. After all, it’s heartache, not love, which often defines the annual Public Display of Affection Fest. Offering an alternative to the typical dinner-anda-movie fare, She Does Is Magic will play at Grove Haus alongside Memory Foam and Jon Autry and The Naval Avionics on the evening of Stranger’s release. n
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“So the cover we decided on is the girl with the SDIM,” Serhal says. “I call it ‘Windows.’ That collage was one of hundreds.” We’ve included some of the other collages here, plus a recent wood burn by Serhal.
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Editor’s note: Birdy’s Battle Royale pits 48 bands against each other in a epic battle of the bands. Each week, the top two bands progress to the next round. NUVO sends music correspondent Jonathan Sanders to survey Birdy’s Battle Royale weekly. He reports back every Monday on NUVO.net. The first night got off to a varied start as my wife and I settled in to hear the best of what Indianapolis music has to offer. The night’s winner, Timeslip, made up for their difficult opening spot on the bill by packing Birdy’s with fans of their eclectic blend of original songs, the best of which sounded vaguely akin to if Neil Diamond had initially fronted the Grateful Dead. They won based on crowd support, something other bands need to emulate if they want to progress in the competition. The strongest performance of the night belonged to Brownsburg’s The Breakes, who are known in part for the extra “e” they added to their name “just for fun.” These guys hit the stage after midnight and proved to be the only band of the night I would have immediately signed to a record contract on the spot were I to have the resources. Led by Adam Meyers on drums and lead vocals, who my wife insists bears a striking resemblance to Ben Savage with an afro, these locals brought the heat with a sound inspired by the blues rock of the Black Keys and Queens of the Stone Age. That the first and last bands were the night’s winners did not mean the rest of the bands were a wash. Among my favorites was Evansville’s Downfall. Their self-described “angsty” sound was compared by
several in the crowd to Linkin Park, but melodic hints of Alien Ant Farm shined through as well, making them a third-place finisher I hope will return. (Editor’s note: the Battle Royale offers one opportunity to third place finishers to sneak back into the competition.) Indy’s own Yarz Revenge was a bit tougher to pin down. They had serious-sounding alt-rock songs about “the good drugs they give you in the mental hospital,” but also enjoyed cutting their teeth on songs like “Chihuahuas and Fish Tacos,” which they feigned writing on the spot improv-style. They also wasted too much of their limited stage time on banter to which the audience did not respond. Her Name Is Mercy, the night’s only hardcore metal act, seemed to confuse the remaining audience, mostly a holdover from Timeslip. That’s too bad, because their music, heavily inspired by Killswitch Engage and local legends Burn The Army, was actually pretty good. Get them a gig at the 5th Quarter and this Lebanon-based band could make serious waves. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Eric Pedigo, who took the stage as a one-man acoustic act around 11:30, filling in for a no-show band. Pedigo managed to liven up the proceedings with his originals that echoed John Mayer and Jason Mraz without sounding derivative. His music would clearly shine in a more intimate setting, but not having time to advertise his presence killed any chance Pedigo had of advancing. If the bands continue to surprise like this every week, I’m in for quite a ride over the next four months. — JONATHAN SANDERS
JACOBS SCHOOL OF MUSIC RACKS UP GRAMMYS Following up on our HoosierGrammy connection story from last week: three Jacobs School of Music alumni took home Grammys on Sunday night, including: Edgar Meyer, for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for “Bass & Mandolin” with mandolinist Chris Thile; pianist Cory Smythe for Best Chamber Music/Small
Ensemble Performance, with “In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores” featuring violinist Hilary Hahn; and tenor Aaron Sheehan for his solo work on “Charpentier: La Descente D’Orphée Aux Enfers” in the Best Opera Recording. In total, 13 Jacobs School alums and one faculty member were nominated in 10 categories. — KATHERINE COPLEN
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dopting a marching band format, Jefferson Street Parade Band takes a wide variety of internationally influenced rhythms and sounds mobile. And they're incredibly fun live when you catch the group playing in march formation. Their raucous sound and colorful, rag-tag Salvation Army band costumes generate an instant street party. But Jefferson Street Parade Band is no joke. The ensemble is composed of excellent musicians and their music excels both onstage and on disc. The group will hold a release party for their second LP Consultation With Tubby this Friday at Bloomington's Blockhouse, a new recording studio and performance space. Here's a selection from a recent conversation with founder and drummer Ben Fowler. NUVO: On the first JSPB album, Juntos, the group is working in a broad range of musical styles. There are Latin American cumbias, West African tunes and Balkan gypsy sounds alongside the traditional New Orleans brass band motifs. Can you give us an idea of what your musical outlook is and why you've chosen to embrace such a wide repertoire with the group?
A CULTURAL MANIFESTO WITH KYLE LONG KLONG@NUVO.NET Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
I want to cover it. I think there are two different ways to approach playing music from another part of the world. One is to immerse yourself in a specific musical genre or culture. For instance you could immerse yourself in the folk music of Cuba for the rest of your life and never get to the bottom of it. I think that's a beautiful way to interact with music and culture. But to me, I thought, I'm a rock and roll kid from Indiana with a jazz education, and I feel the other approach is to amalgamate it all. Take something from this and something from that and try to do your own thing with it. In my own life that approach has been more inspiring. Much respect to people who do it the other way with a more ethnomusicological approach, but that's not my life.
“I get hooked on a rhythm or a melody.” —BEN FOWLER BEN FOWLER: When we started this band everyone was putting their heads together thinking about which songs we could cover. We were looking to whatever it was we were listening to. I was thinking, "Oh, we could play this Stereolab song. Or we could play this song from The Delicious," which was a band I'd been in. On the first album there were five originals composed by the band and five cover songs. The cover songs are internationally derived. We played a cumbia from Colombia called "Cumbia de la Pendejita" by Juan Piña y Sus Muchachos. I was listening to a lot of Mamady Keïta who is a djembe player from Guinea. I really wanted to play some of his music and there were a couple pieces he'd written that we learned early on. My best answer to your question is that I get hooked on a rhythm or a melody and
NUVO: Tell us about JSPB's new LP Consultation With Tubby. Will the album continue to draw from the band's outward looking musical inspiration?
FOWLER: Yes, we have a couple recordings of Mamady Keïta tunes. Our bass player Matt Romy wrote an excellent arrangement of a Brazilian song called "Canto de Xangô" by Baden Powell. There are several originals on the new album. More composers within the band are beginning to show themselves. We've been playing since 2009 and the band seems to be coalescing more into its own sound. The title of the album is taken from a song I wrote. At the time I wrote it I was listening to a lot of King Tubby who is the godfather of dub reggae. I think the title tells a story without giving away too much. And hopefully gives a nod to King Tubby himself for his masterful music. n >> Kyle Long hosts a show on WFYI’s HD-2 channel on Wednesdays and Saturdays NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 02.11.15-02.18.15 // MUSIC 31
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Cooked Books Album Release, Bishop, 18+
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Monique Rust, Jessie Phelps 8 p.m. Phelps announced this week that her band Ghosts of Kin has recently broken up, so this solo show may be the start of something brand new for this local musician. Monique Rust will headline.
Phunk Nastys, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $5, 21+
Damien Jurado, Radio Radio, 21+ Karaoke, Sam’s Silver Circle, 21+ Homegrown EDM Dance Night, Rock House Cafe, 21+
Calabrese, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Straight Up Chumps, Tin Roof, 21+ All Them Witches, Hi-Fi, 21+ Bread and Butter Crew, Megan Hopkins and Dave Vogt, Andrew Rosenfeld, Melody Inn, all-ages Luke Bryan, Randy Houser, Dustin Lynch, The Ford Center, all-ages Jazz Faculty Concert, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, all-ages Brenda Williams, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
Animal Haus, Blu, 21+ The Soil and The Sun, River Whyless, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Max Allen Duo, Union 50, 21+ Stellardaze, Dreday, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ 800 lb Gorilla, The Band Sweeney, Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Digital Tape Machine, IndigoSun, Mousetrap, 21+ Tripel, Chilly Water Brewing Co, 21+ The Expendables, Ballyhoo!, Katastro, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages BIRIMBI, Serendipity Martini Bar (Bloomington), 21+ Caleb McCoach, Dirty Secondhand, Melody Inn, 21+
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though I cared deeply for her. I knew I had to do something to fix my head, so I halted all projects I was obsessing over and getting nowhere with. I spent a week in Chicago to get some perspective, and I realized that not only had I become the thing that I told myself I would never be (a reclusive cynic) I had taken my life’s motto and in turn the people around me for granted. Everything in moderation. So, I came to her and told her what I had found out, but she had met someone. My heart dropped, but I knew then what I know now, I love her and I will do anything, to show her how much I care. So, I started finishing the songs I had written her long before. Thinking that if I wrote the right words, or melody, she would come back to me. It’s a fool’s game I know, but when you’re in love, that is the only thing that matters. I know that now. Like so many songs and artists before me have said.
Alex Calder, Missing Hearts, Hoops 10 p.m. Missing Hearts is a new project from Jacob Gardner (Raw McCartney, CATARACTS) with love at its core — a perfect new local project to check out on Valentine’s Day weekend. Here’s the origin story of this new project.
NUVO: How did this project start? GARDNER: This started as a way for me to teach the girl I was with how to play guitar, how to piece together simple chord structures, but mainly it was a way to talk about how I was feeling. I didn’t know why but I was very walled up. Frustrated with music and having writer’s block, and frustrated with myself for not being able to talk about what I was feeling. The person I was with is the most compassionate person I have ever known, and I was rubber-banding from past experiences where I felt like I had done everything for people and nothing for myself. So, I set it in my mind that I would take care of myself first and foremost. What I didn’t know is that I was also so closed up from being alone for three years. I was pushing her away and it was the worst feeling in the world, to see someone try so hard and to not be able to reciprocate that love. It’s a very cold feeling. That being said, we broke up because of this. I had to let her go because I was in no shape to be with someone, even
different about this in comparison to anything that I’ve ever done. There is an underlying functionality to all of the songs. They are made to teach someone how to play and write music. Showing her how basic chord structures and melodies can make a song. So, every part of every song is very, very simple. Anyone could play the bass parts, drums, or even the solos. Aside from that, I feel very strongly about what I’m talking about in these songs. There’s no ambiguity or stretching metaphors. I’m just trying to say what I’m feeling. I love her, I miss her, I want to do right by her. He’ll play these new songs live at General Public Collective with Alex Calder and Hoops. — SETH JOHNSON
round one continues with Ghost Holler, Scarlet Raven, Speedbird and 800 lb. Gorilla. The top two bands from each week move on to the next round. Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $7, 21+ FUNK Bootsy Collins 8 p.m. The legendary Bootsy graces another Indy stage with a special Valentine’s Day weekend show called Love, Funk and Flow – The Valentine Affair. Donell Jones and Miki Howard will join as special guests. Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages LOCALS
The Oysters, Books and Brews, all-ages Pastor Troy, Cremro, HOSSTYLE, Rock House Cafe, 21+ Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra with Rick Vale and Lydia McAdams, Athenaeum, all-ages Monika Herzig, Columbia Club, 21+ Charlie Ballantine Quartet, Union 50, 21+ Kilgore Trout at SlaughterhouseFive Day, Broad Ripple United Methodist Church, all-ages The Mitch Shiner Quartet, Chatterbox, 21+
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Joe Welch and The Hell Yes Authority, Michael Buratto 9 p.m. Michael Buratto just funded a Kickstarter campaign to record his debut full-length National Animal with NUVO music hero John Vanderslice at his studio, Tiny Telephone in San Francisco. He’ll open for Joe Welch (you know him from Born Again Floozies) at this show at the Hi-Fi.
Monumental Music Jam 6 p.m. Calling all country music fans: The Band Perry and Chris Young headline this gold ol’ country throwdown. Oh, but it doesn’t stop there. Maddie and Tae will open, and the party continues at 8 Seconds Saloon later that night. A perfect V-day show for the cowboywearing, blue jean baby in your life.
The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+ Sophie Faught Quartet CD Release, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
Bigger Than Elvis, Radio Radio, 21+
Battle Royale Round 1 7:30 p.m. We’re sending NUVO writer Jonathan Sanders to cover Birdy’s Battle Royale every. Single. Week. His first report is on page . This week,
Marvin Parish, Chilly Water Brewing Co, 21+
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The Marcus Roberts Trio, Clowes Memorial Hall, all-ages
Casey James, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+
Jefferson St. Parade Band Album Release, The Blockhouse, (Bloomington), all-ages
Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 21+
Friday Night Live: The Glenwood Drive Duo, Broad Ripple Tavern, 21+
Wet Heave, The Cowboys, The Hot Screams, Slow Coin 8 p.m. This Crush Grove local show won’t make you fall deeper in love with your crush – it will crush your ears.
General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., all-ages
The Twin Cats 9 p.m. Ward off the bad Friday the 13th vibes with the certified Good Vibes ™ of The Twin Cats.
Dustin Lynch, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Bad Luck Rave, The Back Door (Bloomington), 21+ Mind Over Mirrors, Daniel Bachman, Tyler Damon, Artifex Guild, all-ages Glen Hansard, Burskirk-Chumley Theater (Bloomington), all-ages Manners, Please, The Icks, Smokes, Melody Inn, 21+ Opal Fly, KAPOW!, Max’s On Th Square, all-ages Sixteen Candles, Vogue, 21+ DUDE!, The Rathskeller, 21+ Nick Harless, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon , Social, 21+
Bankers Life, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., prices vary, all-ages FESTS 5th Annual Indy Winter Blues Festival 8 p.m. This annual event returns to Birdy’s to help you shake off the cold with some red hot blues. Players include Governor Davis Band, Mike Milligan and Steam Shovel, Craig Brenner and The Crawdads and Blindboy and The CNI Dawgs. Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $10 in advance, $12 at door, 21+ LOCALS Jon Autry and the Naval Avionics, She Does Is Magic, Memory Foam 8 p.m. You’ve already read about She Does Is Magic’s
SOUNDCHECK new album. Other bands on the bill include Indianapolis’ Memory Foam and NYC-by-way-of-Indy’s Jon Autry and the Naval Avionics, featuring members Kurt Friedrich (Rodeo Ruby Love), Laura K Balke and Bryan Unruh (Scanlines). They’re fresh off a three-week tour and ready to close it out in their home state. Grove Haus, 1001 Hosbrook St., $5, all-ages LOVE Be My Valentine 8 p.m. The Warehouse is taking pressure off this Valentine’s Day, by planning a perfect evening for you and your one and only. Blair Clark and Heather Ramsey Clark will join a big band for a night of romantic duets; the venue will feature a champagne bar, fresh roses, petit fours and chocolate-dipped strawberries. A consummately romantic V-Day. Reservations are recommended
you’re looking to attend, grab tickets now. The IU Brazilian Ensemble will perform with samba dancers; DJ Kyle Long will spin Brazilian tunes; and his artistic collaborator Artur Silva will display new visuals. Brazilian food and beer will be served, and the Kitchen has even set up two huge screens broadcasting the Carnaval parades in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $15, 21+
Twin Peaks, Adaggios Banquet Hall and Conference Center, all-ages The Bloody ‘Ells, Books and Brews, all-ages A Musical Valentine with the IU Singing Hoosiers, Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, all-ages Hip-Hop Showcase, Rock House Cafe, 21+ Rod Tuffcurls and The Benchpress, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Hyryder, Mousetrap, 21+
Phoebe and The Mojo Makers, Dave Muskett Band, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
2nd Annual bands Against Bullies, Sam Ash Music, all-ages
Rich Cohen and Friends, Union 50, 21+
Real Talk, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+
Terry Lee and The Rockaboogie Band, Brown County Playhouse (Bloomington), all-ages
Age of Aquemini with DJ Ninja, Ace One, Ajene Tha God, Oreo Jones, General Public Collective, all-ages Bush, Theory of a Deadman, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, all-ages
Bill Lancton, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Kingmaker, Left Behind, Knocked Loose, Conquerers, Chipped Teeth, Guilt Trip, Hoosier Dome, all-ages
Thee Tsunamis, Machine Guns and Motorcycles, Tiger Sex, Party Monsters On A Train, Melody Inn, 21+
Monika Herzig Duo, Oliver Winery, all-ages
The Warehouse, 254 1st Ave. SW, $45, 21+
The Julie Houston Jazz Experience, Chatterbox, 21+
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Blooded The Brave, Nevi Moon, The Strong Roots All Stars, Sirius Blvck, Diop, The Hi-Fi, 21+
Monumental Jam After Party with A Thousand Horses, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+
Andy D, Last IV, Ghost Gun Summer 9 p.m. Like he says, “Andy D is a hurricane of sex, sweat, and day-glo.” And he’s all ours. First taking shape in Brooklyn, then Bloomington, Andy D and wife/ collaborator Anna Vision are Indianapolis rabble rousers now, and they’ve got a brand new album ready for you at this Valentine’s Night show. Last IV (check them out in Barfly) and Ghost Gun Summer will support.
Restless Heart, Indiana Grand Casino, all-ages
Nailed It, Blu, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+
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SUNDAY LOVE Joshua Radin with Cary Brothers 7:30 p.m. We briefly chatted with singer-songwriter Radin, who is touring new album Onward and Sideways.
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Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $10, 21+ LOVE Bitter Ball 10 p.m. One week after a Nellyhosted party that had local social media really ticking, new classic hip-hop station 93.9 returns to the Vogue for a Valentine’s Day party for those sans lovers – we say go find a new one at this dance party. DJ Marcus will hold it down.
RADIN: Well, it’s a completely different animal. Every note is planned out and every time signature is written in permanent ink. So there’s no spontaneity. That can be a good thing sometimes but sometimes can be rather restricting. The ISO is an incredible group of artists and it’s quite rare that I am afforded the opportunity to be around such accomplished artistry. I just tried to learn as much as possible from that experience.
Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $5, 21+ DANCE Carnaval 2015 10 p.m. This massive Carnaval party always sells out, and always is a blast – so if
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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band 6 p.m. The Big Damn Band is back with a brand new album and it is so delicious. We’ll have much more about that album next week, but don’t miss their local album release here at Indy CD and Vinyl – which is smack dab in the middle of the store’s one year new owner anniversary celebration. Get there early to grab a good spot; this one will be packed.
Friction, Root Cellar (Bloomington), 21+ World Class Assassins, Melody Inn, 21+ Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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MONDAY SONGBOOK Michael Feinstein’s The Gershwins and Me 7 p.m. Feinstein’s book The Gershwins and Me tells of how an ambitious, smart kid with a taste for the Great American Songbook moved, at age 20, from Ohio to Los Angeles and managed to score a job as Ira Gershwin’s archivist and assistant. The stage show does the same thing, only without quite as many pictures and with a few more songs.
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Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages
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Bruce McConnell Vibes Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
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Jeremiah King, Rock House Cafe, 21+
The Warrior Kings Acoustic, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+
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The (literal) ocean’s motion Anything I should be aware of before my wife and I attempt ocean sex for the first time on our upcoming vacation? Thanks! — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: My advice for ocean sex and all sex is the same: find a solid footing, stay lubricated, and avoid slimy or spiny predators and crabs. DEBBY: Avoid having sex at dawn or dusk when sharks are out? Also, try in shallow enough waters so one of you can stand (too difficult to do floating and if one of you is wearing a colorful kiddy flotation device, it’ll probably just feel creepy) but don’t do it in such a shallow place that you expose yourself to beachgoers. Your wife might want to slather some silicone based lubricant around her vaginal entrance before getting into the water since the vagina dries in water and water-based lube washes away; however, she might want to wear a black bathing suit since silicone-based lubricant can stain a little. Seriously, ocean sex is harder and more awkward than it seems. Maybe just skip ocean sex and wait until you’re back in your hotel room or grass hut?
Cake or pie? Do women prefer quick, intense sex or longer, more drawn out sex? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Uh, yes? Do I prefer my hot Sicilian sausage on my pasta, my pizza, or in my eggs-in-purgatory? Again, the answer is yes. If you’ve forgotten from the first question, sex is awesome. All sex is awesome, you just have to match the right kind of sex with the right situation. If she’s hyped up for any reason, go for the playful or intense kind of sex. If you come home to a lot of low lighting and lit candles, it’s time to put on that new Genuine record and rock the boat gently. And when in doubt, ask her, dummy! DEBBY: Do men prefer a big juicy burger or a 100-day aged beef? Depends on the dude, like anything. Some
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Absence makes the dick grow harder I’m thinking about buying my bf a fleshlight for when I start traveling for work. Is this weird or kinda sweet? And what’s the best lube to buy him to go with it? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I think it’s sweet, but I only buy gifts for people that they’re going to use a lot and enjoy every time. Nothing fits those criteria quite as well as the king of masturbation devices. It kind of depends on the tenor of your relationship; if you’ve never even acknowledged that he masturbates when he’s away from you, this might be a little odd. However, if you’re open about your entire sex lives and enjoy toy fun together, I don’t see why this wouldn’t be a nice thing to give. DEBBY: It’s kinda sweet, as long as he’s sex-toyfriendly and he has a discreet place to clean it (like, he doesn’t share a bathroom with housemates or dormmates, does it? that can get awkward - it’s a big toy and not the sort of product you can just nonchalantly tuck under your arm on the way to the bathroom). Just maybe don’t get the vajankle version unless that’s his thing. The Tenga is a pretty great penis masturbator too. Either water- or silicone-based lube is fine, but water-based may be easier to clean up. If it generally takes him a long time to come, siliconebased will last longer. Some guys use more of a lotion when they masturbate, including with sex toys.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there any sense in which your closest alliance is a gift to the world? Does your relationship inspire anyone? Do the two of you serve as activators and energizers, igniting fires in the imaginations of those whose lives you touch? If not, find out why. And if you are tapping into those potentials, it’s time to raise your impact to the next level. Together the two of you now have extra power to synergize your collaboration in such a way that it sends out ripples of benevolence everywhere you go. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The poet Rainer Marie Rilke said that people misunderstand the role of love. “They have made it into play and pleasure because they think that play and pleasure are more blissful than work,” he wrote. “But there is nothing happier than work. And love, precisely because it is the supreme happiness, can be nothing other than work.” I’m sharing this perspective with you for two reasons, Virgo. First, of all the signs in the zodiac, you’re most likely to thrive on his approach. Second, you’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when this capacity of yours is at a peak. Here’s how Rilke finished his thought: “Lovers should act as if they had a great work to accomplish.” Virgo
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show Doctor Who, the title character lives in a time machine that is also a spaceship. It’s called a Tardis. From the outside, it appears to be barely bigger than a phone booth. But once you venture inside, you find it’s a spacious chateau with numerous rooms, including a greenhouse, library, observatory, swimming pool, and karaoke bar. This is an excellent metaphor for you, Scorpio. Anyone who wants your love or friendship must realize how much you resemble a Tardis. If they don’t understand that you’re far bigger on the inside than you seem on the outside, it’s unlikely the two of you can have a productive relationship. This Valentine season, as a public service, make sure that everyone you’re seriously involved with knows this fact. Scorpio
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anais Nin wrote the following passage in her novel A Spy in the House of Love: “As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.” I recommend that approach for you right now, Capricorn. A quest for tender, compassionate attention doesn’t always have to be at the top of your list of needs, but I think it should be for now. You will derive a surprisingly potent alchemical boost from basking in kindness. It will catalyze a breakthrough that can’t be unleashed in any other way. Ask for it! Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How many desires do you have? Take a rough inventory. Identify the experiences you continually seek in your quest to feel relief and pleasure and salvation and love and a sense of meaning. You can also include fantasies that go unfulfilled and dreams that may or may not come true in the future. As you survey this lively array, don’t censor yourself or feel any guilt. Simply give yourself to a sumptuous meditation on all the longings that fuel your journey. This is your prescription for the coming week. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, it is the medicine you need most. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The German word Nachkussen refers to the kind of kiss that compensates for all the kissing that has not been happening, all the kissing that has been omitted or lost. If it has been too long since you’ve kissed anyone, you need Nachkussen. If your lover hasn’t kissed you lately with the focused verve you long for, you need Nachkussen. If you yourself have been neglecting to employ your full artistry and passion as you bestow your kisses, you need Nachkussen. From what I can tell, Pisces, this Valentine season is a full-on Nachkussen holiday for you. Now please go get what you haven’t been getting. Pisces
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THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO WIZARD WORLD
WINTER NIGHTS FILM SERIES: AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Friday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m.
Wizard World Indianapolis: Where Pop Culture Comes to Life! Come to the Indiana Convention Center or an evening of creative artists and writers. The shows will highlight entertainment of all kinds, including pop culture, movies, comics, television, toys, video gaming, original art, and MORE! This is an event for all ages you do not want to miss!
In this iconic and inspiring love story, playboy Nickie and singer Terry fall in love aboard a cruise. Already engaged to other people, the lovers decide to meet six months later at the Empire State Building. Capture the aura of romance with a love letter workshop before the film.
The Marcus Roberts Trio is known for its virtuosic style – a style that is strongly rhythmic, melodic, and filled with dynamic contrast. Although the piano is typically the focus of most jazz trios, in The Marcus Roberts Trio, all musicians share equally in shaping the direction of the music. Each trio member’s enormous individual talent is showcased along with the powerfully rhythmic group sound.
Indiana Convention Center 100 S. Capitol Ave.
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Clowes Memorial Hall 4602 Sunset Ave.
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