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Small farmers are continuously trying to find ways to remain viable in this world of CAFOs and big corporations. So when an Indiana farm discovers a way to sell their free range farm fresh chicken to restaurants with the blessing of the Board of Animal Health, other government entities try to stand in their way by any means necessary.

Your purchases — or lack thereof — can influence corporate behavior. Lori Lovely clues us in on both boycotts and “buycotts.”

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Ahoy, fair music lovers. Join us on a little roadtrip to Bloomington for interviews with R. Ring and Bonnie “Prince” Billy before their B-town dates. Kyle chats with producer and DJ Scott Matelic; Alan Sculley talks booze and the lack of it with Jason Isbell, and we’ve got dozens and dozens of concerts for you to see in Soundcheck.

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INDIANA POLITICS AND THE THREE STOOGES A

n old joke says that politics is show business for ugly people.

Here in Indiana, politics is a cross between a soap opera and a situation comedy, all ham-handed dialogue, Machiavelli-as-a-moron maneuverings and logic-defying plot twists – and performed by people who aren’t often mistaken for George Clooney or Brad Pitt.

Consider the machinations in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Indiana.

Just a few short days ago, doctors

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could have prescribed the campaign as a sedative.

Three candidates on the Republican side – former state GOP chair Eric Holcomb, U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Indiana, and U.S. Rep. Todd Young, R-Indiana – and one Democrat, former U.S. Rep. Baron Hill, D-Indiana, were vying for the seat. On the charisma scale, they collectively kept the needle buried in the yawn category.

Time to cue the laugh track.

As the Indiana General Assembly’s elephantine efforts to negotiate the maze of adding civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens to state law without offending social conservatives stomped to a stop, Stutzman sent an opinion piece around to the state’s news organizations urging conservatives to “stand up.” In the name of all that’s godly, Stutzman said, Hoosiers need to deny their LGBT friends, family members and neighbors equal protection under the law.

Hill saw an opening. Within minutes, he fired off a response.

Hill and other Democrats see Stutzman as the second coming of Richard Mourdock. Mourdock was the Republican who knocked off sure-betfor-re-election U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, in the 2012 primary and then, through a series of ill-advised public pronouncements, proceeded to lose to Democrat Joe Donnelly in the fall – but not before costing GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney his last shot at claiming the White House with a spectacularly ill-timed and inflammatory debate discourse on God, rape and reproductive rights.

Some Democrats call Stutzman “Mourdock Junior,” a reference both to Stutzman’s boyish demeanor and to the fact that the two occupy a similar spot

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Young would divide up enough votes between them to give Stutzman the nomination, which might lead them to disaster in the fall.

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When Gov. Mike Pence tossed Lt. Gov. John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam Sue Ellspermann overboard as his runSchool of Journalism, host ning mate this year, Holcomb yielded of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 to some behind-the-scenes urging. He Indianapolis and publisher dropped out of the Senate race and of TheStatehouseFile.com. agreed to replace Ellspermann. That will give him the unenviable responsibility of prying Pence’s foot out of his gubernatoon the ideological spectrum, somewhere rial mouth. just to the right of Genghis Khan.

Holcomb’s move cleared the field for Stutzman and Mourdock also have a Young to dispatch Stutzman in a headshared gift for self-destructive utterances. to-head contest.

A few years ago, when Republicans in Ah, but there was a wrinkle.

Congress shut down the federal govIt turns out Young may have come up ernment to try to win a political battle two or three signatures short in one conover health care they’d lost in legislative gressional district of the required numvotes, litigation and national elections, ber to put him on the primary ballot.

Stutzman stepped before TV cameras Democrats and Stutzman are cluckto proclaim that the shutdown wouldn’t clucking that “rules are rules” and tutend until Republicans “got something” tutting that Young’s name shouldn’t be for their efforts. He couldn’t say what put before the voters. that “something” might be.

Everyone else is just grateful that In other words, Stutzman said putting worthy successors to the Three Stooges widows’ checks and the world economy finally have been found.

There’s another old joke that speaks to how desperate some people, including (and maybe Hill and other Democrats see especially) politicians, are to Stutzman as the second coming live in the spotlight.

A boy ran away to join the of Richard Mourdock. circus. The circus masters put the lad to work running along behind the elephants and donkeys with a shovel collecting the fragrant in peril was more about political extordroppings the animals left behind. tion than it was a stand on principle.

The boy’s friends told him it was a Rhetorical pratfalls such as that are lousy job and that he ought to quit. why Hill and his team so desperately “What!” the boy exclaimed. “And give want to run against Stutzman.

They also account for the reason many up show business!” n business-oriented and more centrist Republicans were worried Holcomb and

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possible Hillary and I got our contact lenses from the same optometrist.

Anyway: If Hillary possesses a Midwestern sense of humor, the chances are pretty good, given our mutual roots, that this is something I should know about.

The problem, of course, is that we in the Midwest are given neither to the endless self analysis of our southern cousins, nor do we favor the self promotion of our eastern kin. This lack of articulation can befuddle outsiders.

When it comes to the funny, they may look at us and wonder if there’s anything going on.

We, sly devils that we are, know better.

If you ask me, the Midwestern sense of humor is primarily a mordant dish, garnished with a dose of slapstick. Garrison Keillor doesn’t call his Minnesota If you ask me, the Midwestern sense dream town Lake Woefor nothing. He of humor is primarily a mordant dish, begone gets our cloudy earnestness, tender rituals and garnished with a dose of slapstick. the way even the simplest things can get suddenly out of hand. what I saw of the debate, humor — or Keillor is a contemporary of Clinton; the sense thereof — was in short supply he’s not alone. Think of Bill Murray — on both sides that night. another Chicagoland boy, from Wilmette But I was intrigued by King’s char— and Indianapolis’ native son, David acterization of what he considered Letterman.

Hillary’s more approachable side. What Murray has evolved with age, from beI wondered, did he mean by a Midwesting our hippest class clown to our great ern sense of humor? melancholic, an artist whose humor is I am a Midwesterner, born and bred — about the necessity of sentiment and just down the road, in fact, from where how bound it is to be ravaged by time.

Hillary grew up in Park Ridge. I saw my Letterman is another sentimentalist, first movie (“Prince Valiant,” I think it forever fond of his hometown, and its was) at the Pickwick Theater there. It’s associations, like the 500, and the long departed Atlas Supermarket. But while these things are formative for him, he also, like Murray, understands how idiosyncratic and, ultimately, evanescent they are. People like thinking of him as a curmudgeon, but he’s a softy at heart.

Maybe this sentimental streak is what John King was getting at when he referred to Hillary Clinton’s Midwestern sense of humor: That soft spot we know will double as a banana peel when we least expect it. That’s what cracks us up.

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he other night, just before the Democrats’ presidential debate in Milwaukee, CNN political reporter John King was expounding on Hillary Clinton. Why, he was asked, does Hillary seem to have such a hard time connecting with voters?

King recalled how he had first covered the Clintons back in ’92. In those days, he said, it was not unusual for Hillary to mingle with reporters at the back of the campaign’s chartered plane, freely sharing stories and exhibiting what King called her “Midwestern sense of humor.”

If only, he suggested, she could find that groove again.

I guess we’ll have to stay tuned to find out whether this will come to pass. From

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WHAT HAPPENED? Business community asks House for LGBT civil rights After the full Senate refused to hear a bill extending civil rights to the LGBT community, a coalition of Indiana businesses is asking lawmakers to repeal the existing bill and extend the rights of the LGBT population. Indiana Competes, which is made up of more than 475 Indiana businesses and associations, sent a letter Monday to House Speaker Brian Bosma and each of the other 99 members of the Indiana House of Representatives. Indiana Competes said one of the reasons to end the legal discrimination is to continue our economic growth. Senate Bill 344 would have offered protections to gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals but not transgender people. It passed a Senate committee with a 7-5 vote, but was never called before the full Senate due to a lack of support by legislators. Similar legislation, Senate Bill 100, would have extended rights to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, but the Senate committee did not hear it.

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#KEEPCHICKENONTHEMENU Family farmer fights legislative wingnuts

State vows to help laid-off workers from Carrier, UTEC Gov. Mike Pence wants to ensure more than 2,100 Hoosiers will not be without jobs as two Indiana industries announced their relocation to Mexico.

United Technologies and Carrier Corporation, both known for their work in manufacturing heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, announced the shift to Mexico last Wednesday.

Pence’s administration said both announcements were made without advance notification to the state. The Department of Workforce Development reached out to employees of both companies to offer “rapid response” services, such as “jobseeking, training and education resources,” according to Pence. The governor also requested that the Indiana Economic Development Corporation reviews ask incentive contracts previously offered to the two companies to evaluate options available to recover taxpayer investments.

Indiana ranks fifth in first-time child abuse cases According to the 2016 Kids Count in Indiana Data Book released Monday, a child is abused or neglected once every 20 minutes and half of the children are under the age of five in this state. “About 90 percent of the child abuse cases reported in Indiana in the most recent year were first-time cases,” said Glenn Augustine, Indiana Youth Institute Interim CEO. About 10 out of every 1,000 cases in Indiana are the report of a first-time abuse compared to about seven out of every 1,000 cases nationally. Indiana has a mandatory reporter law, which requires anyone who believes a child is a victim of abuse or neglect to call and report the case. The Kids Count in Indiana Data Book also showed some improvements in the state. The Indiana teen birth rate reached the lowest recorded point. The data book includes additional facts, information and resources regarding child abuse and neglect, teen pregnancy and other noted topics.

The Indiana Youth Institute encourages community leaders, policymakers, youth workers, educators and child advocates to view the data book as they continue to impact the lives of Indiana children.

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hich came first: the chicken or the egg? That is a difficult question to answer. But when it comes to who has the governmental authority to regulate an industry, the law is supposed to make that question an easy one to answer. When it comes to who can sell chicken to restaurants in Indiana, that answer is apparently harder to find.

When Zach Hawkins decided he wanted to make a living as an Indiana farmer in 2013, his dad, Jeff Hawkins,

On the Hawkins Family Farm in North Manchester, IN, Jeff Hawkins and son, Zach, raise and process chickens.

Their operation is now the center of legislation aimed at shutting down a component of their business.

was at a crossroads. The Lutheran minister — who had once found the same type of spiritual cultivation on the farm as he had in his congregations — was beginning to think about the future of the Hawkins family farm. Retirement was on the horizon and scaling back operations was under consideration. Cultivating the land, growing produce, raising livestock, and sharing the harvests of their labor had been a part of the family’s history for six generations. However no one in the

family had been completely committed to the family farm for total livelihood. As Jeff was considering scaling back, Zach was contemplating a total commitment to the Hawkins farm.

One thing that Jeff quickly realized, however, was that if the farm was going to be Zach’s livelihood for him and his family, the operation was going to have to up its game.

The Hawkins farm, located in North Manchester, operates an on-farm store

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GET INVOLVED Patachou Foundation Speaker’s Forum Thursday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m. The Patachou Foundation will host Jordyn Lexton of Drive Change as a part of its speaker series. Lexton is a former Rikers Island teacher who started Drive Change to rehabilitate young adults in New York who are facing the negative impact of the criminal justice system.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett will introduce Lexton as well as announce a new member of his administration who will be dedicated to addressing food security in the city.

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family operation could qualify for exemption status under the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA), which is the guideline for the country on poultry processing.

The PPIA requires all poultry — whose final destination is to be human food — be slaughtered and processed in a facility with continuous inspection, or rather an inspector looks at all birds before and after it is slaughtered. The U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains a food inspection program through the Food Safety and Inspection Service that maintains inspectors all over the country in processing facilities. Twenty-five states have a state inspection program — Indiana utilizes BOAH inspectors.

However, the PPIA also has an exemption program for smaller farms and enterprises. A typical large poultry processing plant might produce 200,000 chickens per day. The exemption establishes guidelines for producers that are only processing 20,000 chickens or less per year.

Hawkins Family Farm “I’m a farmer and I do everything averages about 4,000 chickens per year.

I can to promote agriculture of all The federal exemption status allows small sizes, but I said I’m also an old nurse processors to forgo and I can’t do anything that would having an inspector on the premises all jeopardize food safety.” day every day to look at every single bird — SEN. JEAN LEISING, R-OLDENBURG antemortem and post mortem, however they do have to adhere to a stringent set of regulations regarding Jeff sought the answers to those quessanitation, facilities, recordkeeping, tions from the State Board of Animal and other standards. The facility must Health (BOAH), the government entity also be inspected at least twice a year that oversees livestock operations for the state. It was through BOAH that Jeff and all products must have a specific learned the new rule didn’t particularly label indicating it was processed at an apply to their situation, but that their exempt facility. But also according to the offering seasonal vegetables, fresh eggs, and frozen meats — pork, beef, chicken and turkey products. It is also a community-supported agriculture farm (CSA), which allows growers and consumers to share in the risks and the benefits of farming and locally grown produce and meats. Participants receive a box of farm goods once a week. In a perfect world, those ventures are only enough for a family farm to break even. However the world is far from perfect and Jeff and Zach knew they would have to venture into new territory in order to be viable as a sustaining business.

One potential for diversification came in 2014, courtesy of the state legislature.

“There were some changes in the law that loosened up some of the processing of chicken availability for farmer’s markets and roadside stands,” says Jeff.

“After that I started to inquire does this apply to us, in what way, and does it open up for us to sell to restaurants?”

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Kheprw Institute Monthly Book Discussion Sunday, Feb. 21, 1 p.m. The Kheprw Institute will host its monthly book discussion to examine Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s book, Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. The book discussion is held in collaboration with IUPUI’s urban education doctoral program.

Kheprw Institute, 3549 Boulevard Place, FREE, kheprw.org

Kenya Carnival Saturday, Feb. 27, 12 p.m. The Global Interfaith Partnership will host its annual Kenya Carnival at Second Presbyterian Church. The carnival is a fundraiser for Student Education Program of the Umoja Project (STEP UP), which supports secondary education for students in Kenya. The carnival will feature games, crafts, food and other entertainment.

Second Presbyterian Church, 7700 N. Meridian St., kenyacarnival.com

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The reality of bird by-bird inspection As described by the National Research Council Committee on Public Health Risk Assessment of Poultry Inspection Programs, antemortem inspection “refers to the examination of live poultry to detect signs of disease. The USDA inspector observes the flocks between the time they arrive at the slaughtering plant and the time birds are hung on the slaughtering line. Because antemortem inspection is discretionary, it is conducted not bird by bird but on samples selected from flocks or groups of birds in their crates.”

Often referred to as “bird-by-bird” inspection, this refers to the postmortem appraisal of carcasses on the slaughter line. The examination is organoleptic, which means inspectors use their senses of sight, touch, and smell to assess each bird (some people call it the “poke-andsniff” test). Inspectors look for lesions, tumors, bruising, imperfections, and other signs of damage or disease. Regulations allow inspectors to review up to 35 chickens per minute, which can give them only seconds to do all this work on fast-moving lines. Even if they are given more time, however, inspectors using traditional “bird-by-bird” procedures are not able to detect the presence of salmonella and other pathogenic microorganisms. Microbes are not visible to the naked eye.

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Protection section tab is a link to a .pdf titled “Mark Guide – Animal Products.”

All of the information provided there indicates the BOAH is responsible for all animal products processed and sold for human consumption, including poultry.

Nowhere does it say that the ISDH has the authority to intervene in the sale of animal products.

Sen. Jean Leising, (R-Oldenburg), got involved in the discussion on the issue when she was contacted about the issue

by Sen. Amanda Banks (R-Columbia City).

restaurants within state lines only.

With some guidance from BOAH, Jeff and Zach developed their processing facility in adherence to the strict standards outlined in the exemption guidelines.

“We did our due diligence,” says Jeff. “I constantly asked, ‘Now this says we can do this, right?’ and they said yes. The Board of Animal Health to their credit really worked with us well.”

BOAH conducted the biannual inspection and signed off on the facility.

The Hawkins men were “We did our due diligence. I on their way to beginning to sell their chickens to constantly asked, ‘Now this says we restaurant. can do this, right?’ and they [the A farm-to-fork restaurant in Roanoke, Indiana Board of Animal Health] said yes.” became the first customer of the Hawkins chicken.

— JEFF HAWKINS, HAWKINS FAMILY FARM The problems began, however, when the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) got involved. “[Sen. Amanda Banks] said that she “It has been their custom to not allow had a restaurant in her district that anything but officially inspected poultry wanted some language changed in the to be sold to restaurants and for restaudepartment of health code and statute in rants to buy it,” says Jeff. “So they said, Indiana,” says Leising. “Because she had ‘you can’t do this.’” a farmer that wanted to sell uninspected That began a back and forth discuschicken to major restaurants and they sion of “Yes-I-can/Oh-no-you-can’t “ wanted a language change in our current with the ISDH. Jeff cited the exemption state code.” under which he was operating and the Leising told Banks no and went on to seal of approval from the BOAH. The investigate the situation herself.

ISDH claimed it was still illegal and de“I’m a farmer and I do everything I can manded the Hawkins stop selling their to promote agriculture of all sizes, but chicken to restaurants. Jeff researched I said I’m also an old nurse and I can’t the law, combing through Indiana code do anything that would jeopardize food to find where it said he was out of line, safety,” says Leising. but couldn’t find it. When he asked for The issue became the subject of an ISDH to provide the statute, no one there interim study committee on agriculcould find it either. ture and natural resources where Jeff According to Jeff, the exemption under Hawkins and Pete Eshelman, owner of which his farm operates had not been Joseph Decuis restaurant in Roanoke, utilized on Indiana for decades. Dewere able to present their case — illusspite its 45-year existence there was no trating the value of the farmer-restauramechanism for farmers to learn about it teur relationship, the safety and security and apply for it, so no one had — until involved in the process and the legal the Hawkins did in 2014. But regardless statutes under which they were operatof inactivity, the law remains valid. ing. The other agencies involved testified On the ISDH website under the Food as well.

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“Out of turn she called back the Board of Animal Health and chastised them asking, ‘How could you do this? How could you allow them to do something that is illegal?’ and they testified that they followed the law. She didn’t hear any of that.”

Jeff says Leising came back to the committee meeting the following day claiming the practice was illegal according to ISDH — a few days later Jeff received a cease-and-desist order to stop selling Hawkins chicken to restaurants.

Ultimately the Attorney General’s office got involved, at the request of Sen. Banks on behalf of Hawkins farm, to provide clarification of the laws and statutes involved. When the AG’s office issued an advisory opinion stating that the interpretation of the law by the farm and the BOAH was accurate and that the ISDH had no jurisdiction, the cease-anddesist order was rescinded.

Two bills were proposed this year, one in the Senate and one in the House, to close what Leising believes is a loophole in the law. Senate Bill 71 would have prohibited restaurants from serving poultry from operations that are exempt from antemortem and postmortem inspections and prohibited exempt operations from selling to restaurants. That bill died in committee. House Bill 1267, which is still active, would give ISDH new authority over food inspection and processing while prohibiting restaurants from selling and meat, including poultry, that has not been inspected antemortem and postmortem under a state inspection program. The legislation is currently assigned to the same committee where SB 71 died.

Leising is convinced allowing exempt processing facilities to sell to restaurants presents a food safety risk. Leising could not provide any specific instances where food safety was an issue and there is no evidence of any problems in other states.

She also believes that the farm-to-table movement isn’t as strong as it thinks it is.

While attending a conference in Denver last month , Leising spent time with a bakery manufacturer that provides buns to McDonald’s restaurants. The marketing manager shared his thoughts on the

“Chefs and farmers are after a common goal to create the best food possible. Legislators need to help the foodway systems in our country because promoting direct foodways creates a healthier societal dynamic.”

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Leising is convinced allowing exempt processing facilities to sell to restaurants presents a food safety risk. She also believes that the farm-to-table movement isn’t as strong as it thinks it is. farm-to-table movement.

“He said that this new modern movement is led by 6 percent of the population. They had done some extensive research on it because obviously they have a big business and they want to know,” says Leising. “And then he said that 20 percent of the population follows those 6 percent leaders of the movement and that leaves 74 percent of us just planning on having a quick lunch today in the middle of our work day and we know we’re going to be eating safe food because we live in the United States. I know when I travel, that isn’t always the case.”

However in Indiana, the farm-to-table movement is growing and farmers, restaurateurs and consumers are interested.

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“Chefs and farmers are after a common goal to create the best food possible,” said Alan Sternberg, executive chef at Cerulean in Indianapolis. “Legislators need to help the foodway systems in our country because promoting direct foodways creates a healthier societal dynamic. It allows people access to a diverse arrangement of nutrient-dense foods and creates a more sustainable livelihood for farmers. Real reform needs to come in the form of subsidizing farms that are good stewards.”

Cerulean is one of many farm-to-fork restaurants that are supporting Hawkins farm and their legal right to sell their chicken to restaurants. Ten restaurants in Indianapolis and northern Indiana are buying and serving Hawkins chicken. n

Language matters Part of the controversy over this issue has to do with the verbage used to describe it.

According to Sen. Leising, the poultry from the Hawkins Family Farm is uninspected.

While it is true that the chicken is not subject to antemortem and postmortem inspection, the farm is and its facility is under federal regulations for operation and the facility is inspected twice a year.

According to Zach and Jeff Hawkins, their farm is an “exempt operation” and their chicken is labeled as such. That means their facility is exempt from the “birdby-bird” inspection requirement, but still operates under federal regulation.

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HOW “ETHICAL CONSUMPTION” CAN CHANGE CORPORATE BEHAVIOR

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n the words of 19th-Century English author, editor and economist Walter Bagehot, money is power.

Many factors influence how consumers invoke their monetary power, but increasingly, perhaps, personal ethics determine spending habits.

Questionable practices such as animal testing and the personal moral actions of corporate executives, from big game hunting to discrimination, can — and maybe should — affect consumer choices.

Last year saw the slaying of Cecil the lion, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, a “controversial” Starbucks holiday cup and many more divisive issues that pitted the public against their conscience and against companies they perceived to be in conflict with their ideologies.

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doing business Consumers support — or don’t support — issues with their dollars, states Dr. Terry J. Schindler, assistant professor of management at the University of Indianapolis.

According to the 2003 and 2008 General Social Surveys, “ethical consumption” increased seven percent in those five years, with the largest proportion of consumers (30 percent) who chose products in accordance with their personal ethics falling between the ages of 45 and 54.

That trend has continued in the ensuing years, believes Josh Driver, founder of Open for Service, a non-profit inclusive network aimed at promoting businesses and organizations that won’t turn away people based on sexual orientation, gender, race, disability, or political/religious affiliation. He anticipates seeing “more and more” of this tendency. “People are looking to support businesses in line with their morals.”

Conversely, Schindler believes these

ethical shopping inclinations are generally short-lived, and always after the fact. “They always arise after something has happened, never before. Do you investigate companies?” he asks. Do consumers intentionally practice corporate responsibility? Usually not, he says, unless they hear that a company has done something wrong; then they stop patronizing that business.

That raises deep philosophical questions. “Do morals, ethics and beliefs change?” Schindler contemplates.

He suggests that our moral codes are pretty much developed by age 6-10 and are formed in response to what we’re exposed to. Most people change their ethical behavior only in response to significant emotional events that raise everyone’s values, such as the terrorist attacks on September 11 — but even that can be a temporary deviation.

Another game changer in purchasing is the impact of social media. “Social media is huge,” Schindler continues.

He describes it as “mob mentality” and >>>

<<< a “feeding frenzy,” questioning whether people are truly upset over an issue or just joining in. “In many cases, it’s emotional highjacking, trying to elicit empathy. It’s peer pressure.”

Peer pressure, or social consensus, can have a very real impact on businesses, behavior and even beyond. The power of social media after a Minnesota hunter killed Cecil the lion in Africa led to the closure of his dental practice for an extended period of time. The outrage expressed by millions worldwide in regard to trophy-hunting, particularly of endangered species, inspired some air-

ethical dilemma starts with a cost/benefit analysis: what does it cost me to do what’s right or wrong?”

When faced with an ethical dilemma, consumers must examine their motives.

Why are they making a purchase from a specific company? Price and convenience are the most common reasons.

However, Schindler says, the depth of a person’s ideology influences their decision-making. “It’s a matter of what’s important to people.”

People who choose products based on ethical criteria often do so because they believe that their actions have an impact.

Those with the greatest feeling of personal control are also more likely to participate in ethical consumption (43 percent) compared with those who felt they had less control (18 of people ages 45-54 percent).

If the consumer has a chose products according strong ideology, watchto their personal ethics. dog groups, which — ETHICAL CONSUMER primarily work to raise awareness, can have significant impact. Animal rights groups, lines to establish policies against transcivil rights advocates and others work to porting animal “trophies” and motivated bring about cultural change by making it legislators in some countries, including acceptable — expected, even — to conAustralia and the U.S., to ban importasider ethical issues when doing business. tion of lions killed in canned hunts.

“It’s about personal integrity,” Schindler As a result of the uproar, the Conservsummarizes, while acknowledging that ing Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act many people are able to rationalize their behavior when it doesn’t align with the passed the House of Representatives in moral majority.

November. This Global Anti-Poaching Act increases penalties for wildlife traffickers, making them comparable to those faced the cost of ethics by weapons and drug traffickers. It also Does it pay to be ethical? According to targets countries that don’t do enough to Schindler, businesses that are perceived stop poaching. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife as ethical outperform the S&P Index.

Service, which suspended importation Driver conducted surveys of his supof elephant “trophies” in 2014, is also porters and found that most experienced working on new regulatory protections increases in business after posting the for lions.

Open for Service stickers. “Out of 6,000 businesses, 87 percent report customers choosing sides came because of the sticker,” he indicates. A mobile app resulted in an adWhile the killing of Cecil prompted an almost unanimous outcry, Schindler ditional 20 percent increase in new customers and coupons texted to phones says other issues raise ethical dilemincreased sales another 11 percent. mas. “Whose rights get protected? For Perhaps a better question is: Does it example, when Native Americans propay to not be ethical? test the Redskins [football team] name, In 2011 GoDaddy experienced a whose rights prevail? It’s a matter of mass exodus of customers after CEO individual rights vs. ethical universalBob Parsons posted a video of himism.” Right or wrong, he muses, sociself killing an elephant. People for the etal norms drive the answers.

Ethical Treatment of Animals was one Universal values in society comof those customers, and the group monly include not harming others or encouraged others to leave with them. the environment; honesty and integrity; “People went nuts,” recalls Ingrid and individual rights. Honesty is always Newkirk, founder and president. “Lots number one, Schindler says. Other values of people canceled their contracts, or principles include trustworthiness, respecting the rights of others, the Golden wouldn’t do business with the company. It was huge.”

Rule, due diligence and product safety.

“What determines business ethics is social ethics,” Schindler says. “Every S E E , E TH ICA L , O N P A GE 1 2

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Similarly, The Calgary Zoo severed ties with Safari Club International, the hunting group with ties to Cecil-slayer Walter Palmer, refunding their deposit for the use of the zoo as a venue for their annual fundraiser.

Boycotts can inflict an economic blow.

The Ethical Consumer estimates that a 2011 boycott of the state of Arizona in response to its passage of controversial immigration laws cost the state $141 million in just seven months.

Likewise, Indianapolis business owners anticipate long-lasting economic repercussions from RFRA in the form of loss of conventions and tourism, as well as reduced business investment.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a state law that stipulates that “a governmental entity may not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion... [unless it] (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.”

Twenty states have existing RFRA laws and 16 more have proposed similar legislation. Opponents of the law claim it targets LGBT people.

Within a week of RFRA being signed into law, Memories Pizza, a familyowned restaurant in Walkerton, was

Do consumers intentionally practice corporate responsibility? Usually not, unless they hear that a company has done something wrong.

force, a tech company that acquired Indianapolis-based ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, promised to “dramatically reduce” its investment in Indiana and to stop sending its employees to the state for various programs.

Angie’s List withdrew its plan for a $40 million expansion with planned workforce additions.

Despite being contractually bound to Indianapolis through 2020, GenCon initially threatened to pull its popular gaming convention if the governor signed “Out of 6,000 businesses, the RFRA bill.

That would have 87 percent report customers cost the city $50 million in annual came because of the sticker.” economic impact.

The American — JOSH DRIVER FOUNDER OF OPEN FOR SERVICE Federation of State, County and Municipal asked by a local TV station if the busiEmployees conference did leave, taking ness would refuse to cater a same-sex its $500,000 of business with it. wedding. Their response — that they’d The Christian Church (Disciples of deny service — was followed by a blitz of Christ) contemplated finding another negative reviews on Yelp, fake orders and location for its 2017 General Assembly threats, which caused the restaurant to convention that generates $5.9 million close temporarily. and draws around 8,000 people to InRFRA has proven bad for the state’s dianapolis. The church decided to keep economy, resulting in travel bans and the convention in Indianapolis after boycotts of Indianapolis. Last fall the lawmakers passed a “fix” to RFRA, claimIndianapolis Star reported that Salesing the legislation could not be used as a

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defense for discrimination.

Visit Indy, the city’s nonprofit organization to promote tourism, released information to the Associated Press last month indicating the city probably lost 12 conventions and more than $60 million in associated revenue because of RFRA. The NCAA is evaluating potential effects the discriminatory bill might have on hosting the Men’s Final Four basketball tournament scheduled in 2021, which is projected to bring $71 million to the city, and the Women’s Final Four scheduled this year, expected to generate $25 million.

Correspondingly, the Big Ten men’s basketball playoffs in 2020 for $8 million and women’s basketball play-offs in 2017-2021 at $2 million per year are in jeopardy, as is the Big Ten football conference in 2016-2021 at $16 million per year.

Altogether, the Center for American Progress estimates the impact of RFRA on Indiana’s economy at $256.4 million over the next six years.

take the money and run Regarding consumer power over companies, consumer activist Ralph Nader once said, “Most people think that you’ve got to reduce sales a lot, but if you reduce any company’s sales >>>

<<< from two to five per cent you’ve won. Having said that, it is very hard to reduce a company’s sales by five per cent because it takes a massive degree of organization.”

One form of organization is a boycott. A boycott, as defined by the Albert Einstein Institute, is the “withdrawal or withholding of economic cooperation in the form of buying, selling or handling of goods or services, often accompanied by efforts to induce others to do likewise.”

Boycotts — a form of company-based purchasing — offer people an opportunity to exert economic pressure on businesses through the process of actively rejecting a product and encouraging others to follow suit.

Boycotts are as American as apple pie, beginning as long ago as 1773 in response to the Tea Act (eventually leading to the Boston Tea Party). A boycott of Montgomery, Alabama’s public trans-

corporation on a defensive footing, generating potentially damaging publicity and giving its competitors an unearned opportunity,” writes Dale D. Buss in Ethics and Economics: Holding Corporate America Accountable.

The Harvard Business Review says that in order for a boycott to be successful, the customers must care passionately.

“The main driver is moral outrage.”

In addition, the cost of participation must be low and alternative sources of a product must be readily available. The issue, like the message, must be clear and simple. Boycotting fur, for example, is easy to understand.

Christianity Today published results of two polls, one indicating that 78 percent of consumers avoided or refused to buy from certain companies because of negative perceptions, the other stating that 48 percent based their decisions on unethical or unlawful business practices.

And finally, media helps. Widespread media coverage can even be a recruitment tool, informing and attracting others who are passionate about an issue. Social media of consumers avoid certain can intensify the situation by spreadcompanies because of ing news faster over negative perceptions. a broader platform — CHRISTIANITY TODAY and simultaneously making it difficult for companies to control the message. portation system lasted 13 months after When media coverage is figured into Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955. the mix, companies may be more likely And they have only become more to concede, according to King’s report. common since the “radical” 1960s that PETA is the master at getting media made them commonplace, reports IN attention for boycotts. When Whole Fashion, which describes the boycott Foods CEO John Mackey wouldn’t as “a well-respected, effective and legal listen to polite appeals to stop sellmeans of nonviolent protest, as well as a ing rabbit meat, PETA joined others vehicle of change.” in demonstrations and followed up by In fact, Maurice Schweitzer, a profiling formal complaints with the Fedfessor of operations and information eral Trade Commission for misleading management at U.Penn’s Wharton School, calls them “shockingly common” consumers over the myth of “humane meat.” Due to the publicity, Newkirk and says almost every major company reports that some suppliers canceled has been boycotted at some point. Two contracts or refused to deliver goods examples he gives include Procter & over objections to the way animals Gamble for their treatment of animals were treated. In the end, Whole Foods and Kentucky Fried Chicken for their pulled rabbit meat from its inventory. treatment of chickens.

Do they work? Yes and no.

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THE FOUR KINDS OF “ETHICAL CONSUMPTION” Ethical Consumer magazine outlines four types of ethical buying:

POSITIVE BUYING Choosing ethical products like energy-saving lightbulbs.

NEGATIVE PURCHASING Avoiding products you disapprove of, such as factory-farmed meat and dairy.

COMPANY-BASED PURCHASING Targeting a business and avoiding all the products made or sold by that company.

For example, many animal rights advocates boycott Jimmy Johns because CEO Jimmy John Liautaud is a big game hunter.

FULLY-SCREENED APPROACH Evaluating both products and companies in order to select the most ethical.

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Similarly, when Target faced a media blast over its contribution to a group that supported a political candidate who opposed same-sex marriage, the company tried to defuse the issue by selling gay marriage greeting cards.

According to Ethical Consumer, once boycotted, a company often loses customers for life; few consumers return to a brand. Maybe that’s why many corporate executives eager to avoid bad publicity and loss of revenue resulting from boycotts make concessions.

According to Marshall Glickman, owner of Glickman Global, a nationwide survey of business execs indicated that they consider boycotts more effective than class-action suits, lobbying and stand alone letter-writing campaigns. In addition to lost revenue, boycotts create an image problem for the companies under fire, and the impact of that negative publicity can linger for years.

In fact, companies are more likely to give in to demands when their reputation is at stake than when profits are at risk, according to a report on the social movement of boycotts by Brayden King that studied 221 boycotts between 1990 and 2005.

“Boycotts don’t tend to work in the way people think, meaning by hurting the bottom line,” says King. British Petroleum didn’t suffer financially as a result of boycotts after the massive 2010 oil spill. The bigger cost was the money spent in an attempt to improve its image.

Other times, all is seemingly forgiven.

Michael Vick paid his debt for dog fighting, Schindler says. Currently playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the quarterback earns millions and appears to have put his past behind him, to the consternation of animal rights advocates. Halliburton, Enron, the Catholic Church, baseball: all had “a failure,” as Schindler

Every ethical dilemma starts with a cost benefit analysis: what does it cost me to do what’s right or wrong?”

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lists, transparency and naming names

on issues ranging from sustainability to civil rights to animal rights. And they aren’t stopping with individual companies; they want to change industry practices. However, as PETA has learned, sometimes targeting a well-known company with a large market presence and industry leadership can convince the rest of the industry to fall in line. This tactic was successful in their 2009 “McCruelty” campaign against McDonald’s over unethical practices of slaughtering chickens.

the flip side

The other aspect of ethical consumerism is support for “good” companies and products. A “buycott” is an attempt to induce shoppers to buy products or services from approved companies as a reward for aligning with the activists’ of consumers base their ethics.

It’s a more posibuying decisions on tive form of activism, perceived unethical and one Driver favors.

“Picketing is negative; or unlawful business blacklists are polarizpractices. ing.” He was also infuri— CHRISTIANITY TODAY ated by the free publicity some companies describes it. Some can fix and recover, were getting for turning away people. he says. Some can’t.

When he saw questions on social meRegardless of the eventual outcome dia asking what businesses do and don’t and corporate response, it’s clear that discriminate, he got the idea for Open activists are taking matters into their for Service. Allowing businesses to selfown hands by trying to force compadesignate their policy of service helped nies to align with their point of view

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him build a directory of 6,000 businesses worldwide … and growing.

“It’s celebrating instead of shaming,” Driver explains, adding that many use the directory “like a safe space map” that allows them to avoid discrimination and make educated purchasing decisions.

Unlike the passivity of social media, this offers an active way to get involved.

For business owners who welcome everyone, Driver says it’s an inexpensive way to gain thousands in free marketing.

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For years, PETA has maintained a list of companies that do not test their products on animals. It has become a handy reference guide for animal rights advocates in an ever-changing world where once-ethical companies may come and go on the list.

There are other lists and other companies. “Most ethical companies understand the value of corporate social responsibility,” Schindler says. He names several longstanding members of ethical corporation lists: Campbell’s, Cummins, Target, Pepsi, Google, Duke Energy, GE, Aflack, UPS and the Colts. “Dupont just got back on the ethical list,” he notes.

One group is asking for another list.

American Atheists, based in New Jersey, is campaigning to pass legislation called the “Patients’ Right To Know Act,” requiring medical providers who refuse to provide certain services on religious grounds to inform their patients in writing of all services not available. The act would also require health providers to inform insurers of the religiously motivated restrictions so insurers can pass on the information to consumers.

Can you legislate ethical behavior?

Schindler ponders. In an article in the Journal of Consumer Behavior in 2007, William Low and Eileen Davenport suggest that individualized political action in the form of personal boycotts, while simple and easy, “will never be as effective as legislation and regulations when it comes to changing things.”

Others, such as Dietlind Stolle, Marc Hooghe and Michele Michelatti, in a 2005 article for the International Political Science Review, use historical examples to demonstrate that consumers do have power to influence corporate conduct and government policy.

Whether or not it brings about change in the behavior of others, how we choose to spend our money should support our beliefs, values, morals and all the things that matter to us.

As Henry Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm, says, you can’t buy integrity. “You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.” n

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omething momentous happened in Cuba last August. The American flag went up — for the first time in 64 years — at the building that is now the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba.

Former Indy resident Artur Silva witnessed this flag raising along with Spanish artist Elena Lavellés. In December of 2015, Lavellés and Silva returned to Cuba, along with CalArts MFA student Elizabeth Webb to work on the documentation that would become Transaction Boundaries.

This exhibition, at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) uses the reopening of relations between the U.S. and Cuba as a lens to explore — through video, photography, and sculpture — issues of economic justice and religion amongst the white-sand beaches and rolling mountains. How the artists had to transport the work is also a story in itself.

The raising of the flag over the U.S. Embassy, according to Silva, raised many questions. And Secretary of State John Kerry raised a question or two in the speech he gave at the ceremony.

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property that the revolution has taken from some of the people that are now in Miami which turns out to be seven billion dollars,” says Silva, currently also working toward his MFA at CalArts.

There’s the large question of how the opening of relations with the U.S. will change Cuba. How far will the Socialist government adapt to the influence of the behemoth free-market economy to the north to which they’ve just reestablished relations?

The combination, or syncretism, of seemingly irreconcilable ideas — whether they be economic or religious in nature — is a major theme of this exhibition. In another video you see Santería sculptures, made in China, facing the Mariel Harbor, a harbor in the process of being transformed into a center of capitalist enterprise, construction cranes spanning the horizon.

The anguished history of Santería and its presence in Cuba (Santería is a mix of

West African religion and Catholicism) is another theme.

“This show for me is rather personal,” says Silva. “I grew up in Brazil. And [this is the] culture that I know and am familiar with. Some of the popular culture of Brazil is connected to West Africa. Candomblé is a religion that was created in Brazil through the mixing of people … of the slaves who created Candomblé (also known as Santería). They were stripped of their identity, their name, everything.

So out of that comes this subversive creative revolutionary, to be assigned a new representation for your God or Goddess.

That’s incredibly powerful.”

In the exhibit you don’t see Yoruba sculptures used in Santería ceremonies but rather the molds that are used to create the sculptures.

“We decided to show the molds because the molds had the meanings of impressions, of shaping,” says Lavellés.

To describe this mixing of various cultures and their belief systems that led to Santería, it makes more sense to talk in terms of routes than roots, according to Elizabeth Webb.

“Roots implies such a static [thing], routes implies evolution and change,” says S E E , C U B A , O N P A GE 1 6

Late in April 2015, Katrina Murray suffered a brain injury in a car accident, an injury that rendered her unable — initially — to create art. Murray’s work as a painter varies widely. Widely, but not wildly, because there’s a grand unification theory, as it were, apparent in her work. Her subjects range from dead-on representational portraiture and landscape (albeit with strange, subdued palettes) to the interplay of electrons at the subatomic level.

This latter subject, given full expression in her 2014 series, “Particle Physics,” might be described as abstract and/or expressionistic. On the other hand, there’s no way to know for sure that things actually look at that level. Unless you paint happy faces on your electrons and protons, things are pretty much bound to look abstract.

Beyond a certain advanced point in physics, research becomes so speculative that the language of mathematics can no longer contain it.

At that point, physics becomes as much an art as a science.

Yet Murray’s work suggests that things can work the opposite way for artists. There is science — in the sense of color theory, in the sense of an exploratory mind at work — in her art.

And then there’s her sheer willpower to overcome her injury. Take, for example her most recent, “Concussion Series,” a series that she completed while recovering. While not yet able to return to oil and canvas, she has been able to create collages.

She writes of this work on her website: “My efforts turned to magazine pages fed through a paper shredder and a glue stick. The next iteration was mixing and matching images from magazines to make new images. Then I began cutting up old paintings and gluing them with book binding glue to sub-straights made before the accident ... For me art making has always been a catalyst for healing.”

“Trees” is a particularly beautiful example of her collage work, where you see color bands of black, blue and red where the soil should be.

Normally, it’s enough for me to end a review like this with a poetic image, an image that reflects how the art inspired me. It typically isn’t a reviewer’s place to go much beyond that. But I’m saddened, frankly, that her work isn’t attracting buyers like it should. If there ever were a time to stick my neck out and ask art patrons to support a great local artist, this is it.

— DAN GROSSMAN Circle City Industrial Complex by appointment, katrina@katrinajmurray.com.

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Webb. “We were thinking a lot about that in terms of travel by sea but also in terms of trade, trade routes. Companies own certain trade routes. So in terms of identity where is the ownership of identity?”

Unfortunately, the route that Webb, Lavellés, and Silva had mapped out this December for voyaging from Florida to Cuba and then returning on the same ship was a rout — because of bad weather off the Florida coast.

“Arturo had this idea several years ago to transport these Santería sculptures to the U.S. from Cuba,” says Webb. “So we chartered a Canadian flagged vessel because there are fewer restrictions in terms of traveling to Cuba … When he was coming down from another part of Florida and he was rounding Cape Canaveral to pick us up in Key West, he got caught in a terrible storm. And [it] rendered his vessel un-sailable.”

So the three artists flew into Cuba, paying for round-trip tickets almost at the last minute, an expensive transaction that they didn’t anticipate. And then later at the Havana marina they had to arrange passage back to the United States on a boat, a voyage that they wished to

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make by sea to preserve the integrity of their artistic project. They found a yacht captain who was willing to take them back. But whether or not they’d sail on the yacht wasn’t entirely up to him.

“Luckily we met some really wonderful people at the U.S. Embassy that just opened and they were able to communicate with the U.S. Coast Guard and do sort of an unheard of thing and amend the coast guard document to allow us to travel,” says Webb. “It was all very last minute and we didn’t know if we were going to get back until we were actually on the boat.”

This potential bureaucratic snafu was a boundary that they wouldn’t have been able to cross before the opening of the U.S Embassy last year.

But it’s an experience that relates to the idea of this exhibition, and to crossing boundaries put in place by ideology and history. And the legacy of the slave trade and colonialism in the Americas, of course, is not just specific to Cuba.

“These conversations to me connect very well with Ferguson and other spots in the country where awful things are happening,” says Silva. “Although it happened in history, it’s a very current conversation to have about how people are represented.” n

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ormer Butler ballet dancer Lindsey [Pitts] Croop was sitting in the green room of the Detroit Opera House last week peeling banana between rehearsal and the technical run through later that evening.

“It’s where all the snacks are so it’s my favorite hang out” laughs Croop.

Croop is now in her fourth season with the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH), a company out of New York whose primary focus is diversity and accessibility.

As she sat preparing for three performances in Detroit, Croop was already thinking about her return to Indiana — it would be the first time (since a year after she graduated) that she would set foot in Indy. Croop, along with DTH, will perform at Clowes Hall at Butler University.

For Croop it will be a chance to debut everything she has learned in a place that built her technical foundation.

Croop speaks rather nostalgically of her time at Butler, where she was a dance and journalism major. From Midland, Texas, she found herself drawn to the variety of classes she could take; things like Slavic and Spanish character as vivid examples of dance classes that have formed her approach to ballet.

“I feel like [we are] looking like at dance through a very holistic approach … so I can really understand what each person in the entire company does,” says Croop, nodding to the way DTH has helped her build on her experiences at Butler as a dancer.

Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, DTH was once called “one of ballet’s most exciting undertakings” by The New York Times. (Mitchell was the first African-American principal dancer at New York City Ballet.) The company has since performed all over the world, in the White House, trained thousands of young dancers, and most importantly given a glimpse of representation where there was none.

The idea of representation was something that was a constant hum in Croop’s mind. Croop is mixed, and for her, finding a community in and around herself was a constant struggle.

“Sometimes growing up I felt like I didn't have anyone necessarily to relate to,” says Croop. “Sometimes my white friends would be like, ‘oh you're Black.’ and I would would be like, ‘oh, okay.’

And my Black friends would be like, ‘oh you’re mixed aren't you?’ I think there are certain cultural differences that I guess children especially aren't afraid to get into immediately … For me specifically and in the town I grew up in, I felt like I was racially more comfortable in the white community.”

As a child — from the time she was held as an infant, soothed by dance to the years of rigorous pointe classes — Croop only saw slivers of diversity in her passion. Therefore she only saw a minuscule representation of herself. It wasn't until she did an internship in college that she was able to find herself in her artwork.

“With the Black community there was so much pride,” says Croop recalling the internship. “And it was really celebrating the beauty of it … That was a part of me that I felt like I was always trying to fit in other places instead of celebrating those parts of me. So at DTH … I felt like I was truly able to be myself and accept myself. I think for other people on the stages, S E E , B ALLE T , O N P A GE 1 8

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Lindsey Croop, “I have learned that you really have to love yourself and really love what you are doing. In being an artist, and choosing to be an artist you really have to focus on your passion and what drives you.

I feel like you can’t find your true passion unless you love yourself for everything — the goods, the bads, all of that.”

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t The Phoenix Theatre is part of the National New Play Network, which presents “rolling world premieres” of new scripts. The play is produced in three or more theaters within a 12-month period.

This gives the playwright an opportunity to work with different creative teams and fine-tune the script. Pulp by Joe Zettelmaier, on stage now, is part of that process, so whereas most reviews’ primary focus is on the actors and production, a few words on the story are apropos here.

“Pulps” were the successors of the penny dreadfuls: sensationalistic, fictional stories in ratty magazines that were popular through the 1950s.

Zettelmaier sets his story in 1933 around an alcoholic, washed-up private investigator, Frank Ellery.

He is approached by a “dame,” pulp romance writer Desiree St. Clair, to solve the murder of her agent. Besides St. Clair, the other suspects are the deceased’s only other clients: sci-fi writer Bradley Rayburn, super-hero wannabe Walter Cranston-Smith, and horror fanatic R.A. Lyncroft. The play is a collection of stereotypes, reflecting the shallow characterization often found in the cheapest of pulps. While it’s meant to be a send-up, from a script standpoint, it doesn’t deliver. Something of this nature should have more humor written into it, (And yes, I got the point that the author hates critics.)

That being said, the saving grace of the show is the excellent work by its actors and designers. In other hands, it could have fallen flat.

The production opens with period video footage and a look at the revolving stage’s four sets featuring each character. This is a riveting setup from director Bryan Fonseca, lighting designer and technical director Jeffery Martin, and set designer Bernie Killian. Fonseca goes on to direct Eric J. Olson (Ellery), Joshua Coomer (Rayburn), Michael Hosp (Cranston-Smith), Ian Cruz (Lyncroft), and Angela R. Plank (St. Clair) through scene-chomping after scene-chomping scene. Each actor takes his or her character to the limit of camp. Hosp and Cruz especially commit to making their characters so over-the-top that their scenes help propel the languid plot, the gangly Hosp as his bumbling, masked alter ego The Cloak and Cruz as a maniacal summoner of sleeping demon-gods.

The show is worth seeing for the outstanding talent of the performers and creative team alone.

And the amazing raspberry coconut cookie-cakes at the concession stand.

— LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON The Phoenix Theatre, 749 N. Park Ave., phoenixtheatre.org, $20 - $33

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OTHER ART EVENTS IN INDY CELEBRATING DIVERSITY ART & SOUL EVENTS Feb. 18 Bashiri Asad: African American R&B, soul, and folk music from 1970-2000 Feb. 19 Ben Rose: spoken word, protest chants, music Feb. 20 Asante Children’s Theatre: a poetry music mix followed by a forum on Any Given Child, a discussion about arts education in Indianapolis Feb. 24 Kevin Johnson: music inspired by Langston Hughes Feb. 25 Krash Krew Dance Ministries: Gospel and hip-hop dance routines

“I guess a lot of time in the Black community people feel the burden of if it hasn’t been done it won’t be done. So I have seen little girls who are like, ‘I didn’t know I could be a ballerina.”

Feb. 26 Jared Thompson and Premium Blend: jazz music.

The Hendersons, Hubbards and Hancocks would be proud.

Feb. 27 Art & Soul Closing Ceremony: a performance by the LifeJourney Gospel Choir and a tribute to marriage equality. Poetry and music will be performed

by Mariah Ivey and Jared Thompson.

All events are at the Indianapolis Artsgarden 12:15 pm

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The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee and the Arts Council of Indianapolis revealed a new piece of public art late last year, but now that bearable weather is on the tip of our tongues make sure you go see this installation if you have not yet. The steel standalone piece entitled “Talking Wall” was created by Bernard Williams, a Hoosier artist hoping to highlight African-American history in Indianapolis. The sculpture is on the corner of Blackford and Michigan streets.

“The collection of symbols is an open-ended conversation about the Aftrican American history of Indianapolis,” says Williams in his artist’s statement. “I’d like to think that elements may be added to this work as it moves toward its final presentation. Even after the sculpture lives for a while, other elements may be added. The sculpture is a conversation, a ‘talking wall’ of sorts.”

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Artwork created by prominent local African-American artists will be on display at the Central Library. A meet the artists event (with 21 local artists, 2 youth visual artists, 5 local authors and 10 local fashion designers) will be held on the first Friday in March from 6 – 9 p.m. where the artists will be available for questions and to discuss commission work.

Through March 26, Central Library, 40 E. St. Clair St.

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Lindsey [Pitts] Croop used to do summer intensives with Milwaukee Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Ballet Austin and The Ailey School. After Butler she was part of Nashville Ballet’s second company. This is her fourth season at DTH.

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when they see Dance Theatre of Harlem it’s a powerful statement. I think dance is a universal language so everyone can connect to the beauty of it. It can bring all races together and all people together. And you can connect on something other than your differences. You can connect on beauty and inspiration and transient power.”

The lineup that DTH has planned for the Indianapolis tour stop (in each city they pull a few variations from their repertoire) seems to connect with that power. One of the pieces to be performed is Divertimento, a mashup of three couples each representing a different period of classical ballet. It’s technically stunning.

One of Croop’s favorites in the Indy lineup is Front Porch by Ulysses Dove, a ballet written out of heartbreak and loss as a means to heal. The score has no count or music, it is only bells.

“That allows a lot of play with your artistry, and artistic decisions you can make,” says Croop. “I think everyone has dealt with loss and can connect with it … Usually I try to bring myself to a place where I have someone in my heart and dedicate the piece to them. it feels like a gift or a release to something.”

Coming Together by Nacho Duato, in contrast, will showcase an energetic series where the dancers are barefoot.

Croop has been told by audiences that this one is exhilarating because the dancers never stop moving.

For Croop, a few things stand out about the way DTH interacts. She adds that most dancers in professional companies define themselves individualistically and are rarely able to in the context of an entire company. “[DTH] broadened me in that way as a person and as a dancer,” says Croop.

She calls the other six female dancers and seven male dancers “family.” She

also notes that the entire ensemble is composed of performers and athletes from around the globe.

“That is something that I love more and more all the time,” says Croop. “One for me, where I grew up there wasn't a lot of diversity. I think I just didn't know any different at the time. For me coming to Dance Theatre of Harlem and being around dancers who are culturally diverse and I just feel like it helped me connect with myself. I am more solid in my being … I feel like especially in African-American culture sometimes it’s hard to find things to have pride in. So much focus is put on the struggle. And there has been a struggle. So I feel like having something positive to bring to the community, to inspire. I guess a lot of time in the Black community people feel the burden of if it hasn't been done it won’t be done. So I have seen little girls who are like, ‘I didn't know I could be a ballerina.’”

Offering that point of access is what keeps Croop with the company. For example, she was able to speak at the White House with Michelle Obama. And on a smaller, but just as powerful scale, Croop told a story about visiting Honduras for a performance a few years ago.

She prefaced it with comparing the living conditions to the U.S., then putting that in relation to things that are not seen as necessary, like artistic spaces.

“There was this little girl who saw us dance and asked her family to move to the U.S.,” says Croop. “It was us coming and working with them that was her being like, ‘I want a better life. I want to dance. I want to pursue dance.’ That led her parents to move.”

The family came to a DTH show in New Orleans this past fall.

“I can’t believe that this simple performance I did had this impact on their life, says Croop.

“I feel like with our performances — since we do such a broad range of ballet there’s an entry point for everybody. So the very classical ballets that might be stuffy — to someone, of any race — who hasn't seen a ballet before. It’s a little bit like going to an opera; It’s intimidating.

We take classical movement and mix it with an urban movement vocabulary.

Or we will do ballet to a score of James Brown and Aretha Franklin. So I feel like in every piece there is something different and fascinating. I don't know, I feel like it is very representative of the American culture as a whole — what America has become … Americans are known for our energy or our rawness.

Dance Theatre of Harlem does a great job of capturing that while still including all of the technicalities and refinements of classical ballet.” n

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ndiana lost at Michigan State Sunday, and the murmurs about Tom Crean being overmatched started again.

Most of the time, I dismiss those grumblings as being from fans who watch and react with passion to what they see and understand about basketball, which often is not much.

I saw some Tweets about second half adjustments, adjustments that appear to be lacking — so I dug back a couple of years to see how Indiana fares during the first five minutes of the second half as compared to the rest of the game.

Many Indiana fans recall Bob Knight saying the first five minutes of the second half is the most important stretch of the game. They infer that a lack of success during that period equates to Tom Crean being outschemed by his counterparts.

Some rudimentary research that suggested Indiana has indeed had some trouble this season in the first five minutes of the second half. Then I dug into the 2014 and 2015 Big Ten seasons — 49 games should provide an accurate snapshot. The non-conference and postseason games were eliminated from the sample because the opposition is different from year to year, as is the focus of the players.

If one’s going to make a case that Crean’s halftime adjustments cause issues leading to Hoosier losses, two questions need to be answered: Does Indiana fail to compete during that period — are the first Tom Crean five minutes of the second half a reliable indicator of the game’s outcome?

The answers are imperfect, but not entirely unimportant:

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only outscored its opponents in that span three times (versus Northwestern in 2014, and Minnesota and Rutgers in 2015). It can be surmised from the previous two bullet points that Crean is out-schemed more often as the season progresses.

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first half is 16-28-5. When Indiana wins it’s often despite what happens during this period.

• The Hoosiers are 10-3 this season and have outscored opponents by an aggregate 17 points during the first five minutes of the game. Indiana has been outscored by a total of three in the first five minutes of the second half. Even with the same players on the court (that’s at least likely for both sides), Indiana is almost two points worse in the first five minutes of the second half than the first five of the first half.

• Indiana has not outscored any of its last six opponents in first five of half two (IU tied both Minnesota and Michigan) in 2016 while winning three and losing three games. In that same five-minute chunk, IU outscored opponents in six of its first seven games of the 2016 Big Ten season (all wins).

• Interestingly, during the final six games of the last three seasons, Indiana has

Those four points beg the question — how relevant are the first five minutes of the second half? As it turns out, they are pretty damn relevant.

Minus two losses in 2014, Indiana has lost the first five minutes of the second half in every single game they’ve gone on to lose.

In conference games over the past three seasons, when Indiana wins the first five minutes of the second half, the Hoosiers are 14-2. When Indiana loses that period of the game, they are 9-20. During the four games Indiana has tied its opponent, the have won three and lost one.

This season, when Indiana wins or ties the first five minutes of the first half, the Hoosiers are an immaculate 8-0. When that doesn’t happen, they are 2-3.

There is a third question, and that is whether Crean’s schemes are responsible for Indiana failing during that crucial five minutes. Can it be the players, several of whom have been around for a majority (if not all) of the games during this truncated period? Only people in the locker room understand whether it’s players or strategy to blame for the proportionate failures of the Hoosiers to effectively compete during a window when the coach should be able to have a profound effect.

None of this definitively shows anything about Crean or the Hoosiers, but it does validate the suspicion that Indiana has difficulty during the five minutes immediately following halftime adjustments. n Kent Sterling hosts a sports-talk show on CBS Sports 1430 weekdays from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. and covers all Indiana sports at kentsterling.com.

... when Indiana wins the first five minutes of the second half, the Hoosiers are 14-2.

When Indiana loses that period of the game, they are 9-20.

March 6, 4:30 p.m. V. Maryland All home games at Assembly Hall, 1001 E. 17th St., IU Bloomington, prices vary, iuhoosiers.com IU women’s basketball Feb. 18, 7 p.m. V. Minnesota Feb. 27, 4 p.m. V. Penn State All home games at Assembly Hall, 1001 E. 17th St., IU Bloomington, $2-5, iuhoosiers.com Butler men’s basketball March 2, 8:30 p.m. V. Seton Hall March 5, 2:30 pm. V. Marquette All home games at Hinkle Fieldhouse, 510 W. 49th St., Butler University, prices vary, butlersports.com Butler women’s basketball Feb. 19, 7 p.m. V. Seton Hall Feb. 21, 2 p.m. V. St. John’s All home games at Hinkle Fieldhouse, 510 W. 49th St., Butler University, $3-7, butlersports.com IUPUI men’s basketball Feb. 17, 7 p.m. V. Omaha Feb. 25, 7 p.m. V. South Dakota Feb. 27, 1 p.m. V. IPFW (Fort Wayne) IUPUI women’s basketball Feb. 21, 2 p.m. V. IPFW (Fort Wayne) Feb. 25, 7 p.m. V. South Dakota State Feb. 27, 7 p.m. V. South Dakota All home games at The Jungle (IUPUI Gym), 901 W. New York St., IUPUI, $4-7, iupuijags.com The Big Ten Tournament March 10-13, times vary. Where else should this tourney be played but Indianapolis? Where? ELSE? The other great part of this: there’s a downtown bar assigned to each team so that Hawkeyes can get hammered with other Hawkeyes and Buckeyes can yell stupid things at other Buckeyes.

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Michael Moore is more of a showman than a journalistic filmmaker. It’s safe to say that people don’t watch his documentaries to see a fair and balanced presentation of facts. They flock to theaters to see him pour his playful personality into serious social issues and perform dramatic “stunts,” like wrapping crime scene tape around Wall Street.

Moore’s major stunt in his new film involves taking Americans — especially those in power — on a guilt trip across the globe, illustrating how inferior the U.S. is in comparison to many other countries. Where to Invade Next is often eyeopening and infuriating, but it doesn’t have the sharp “edge” of Moore’s earlier work.

The film follows Moore as he “invades” a slew of countries, eagerly gathering ideas that he believes America should adopt. From the free education in Finland to the decriminalization of drugs in Portugal, his findings are quite appealing. And the film will frequently make you fidget in your seat out of frustration that our country doesn’t support some of these ideas.

All of Moore’s films are about what’s wrong with America. This one is refreshing in the sense that it optimistically searches for solutions. And it’s willing to look far and wide for them.

Where to Invade Next is enlightening and engaging, but it lacks the thrillingly “cinematic” moments of Moore’s other films. Why doesn’t he personally confront any American politicians about other countries’ ideas the way he attacked former NRA president Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine? While the lack of confrontation is part of the film’s appeal, I found myself growing tired of Moore’s gleeful globetrotting and getting hungry for edgier, more “dangerous” moments.

Maybe Moore is getting soft. Instead of following him as he busts through the doors of big companies and demands to grill fat cat CEOs, the film shows Moore seeking out people with peaceful ideas.

Where to Invade Next comes to the surprisingly hopeful conclusion that the American Dream isn’t dead — it’s alive outside of America.

Those hoping for a hard-edged, classic Moore documentary may be a bit disappointed by this one. He doesn’t sink his teeth deeply into the subject matter like he usually does. This is a breezier, more lighthearted effort. But, after years of an angry, sharp-tongued Moore, maybe a softer version of the filmmaker is what we need.

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LITTLE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL The Witch: slow, deliberate and — did we mention slow?

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he Witch: A New-England Folktale is the debut feature of writer-director Robert Eggers, who goes to great lengths to present an accurate portrait of Puritan life in 1630 America. The social constructs, the speech patterns, and the animal imagery are reportedly spot on, so prepare yourself for grim people with an uncompromising belief system struggling to live up to the expectations of their God, while fighting off the forces of the Devil. Understand, while the film falls into the horror category, most of it is more creepy than scary. This is art house horror.

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specified, the impression is that it’s over a difference in interpreting their faith. The family ends up trying to build a new life on a field in the middle of nowhere.

William may know his Bible, but he’s not very good at building, or tracking, or shooting. Wife Katherine (Kate Dickie) is faithful to the point of nearhysteria. Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) is their eldest daughter, a bright, assured teenager. Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw) is a few years younger – he’s just hitting

Imagine devoting your life to a severely demanding religion, only to be evicted by your fellow believers and end up isolated, except possibly for a witch hiding in the woods … or perhaps in your family. experience. His film is paced deliberately, which is critic-speak for slow, which means you will need to be patient. Study the details of his meticulous production.

Concentrate on the olde English speaking style, because it’s easy to get lost if you’re not paying attention.

Here’s the story: More than 60 years before the Salem witch trials, William (Ralph Ineson) and his family are exiled from a Puritan community. The reason isn’t

puberty. Younger siblings Mercy (Ellie Grainger) and Jonas (Lucas Dawson) are an inseparable duo. There’s a newborn child as well.

We learn that Dad and Mom traveled here from England. The transition from being part of a community to trying to scrape by on the family’s makeshift farm is taking its toll on Mom. Dad’s feeling what fathers feel when they can’t provide enough for their families. Oh,

and on top of the tension and growing weirdness, there appears to be a witch living in the woods.

Welcome to Little House on the Shining.

Eggers, whose work here was influenced by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers, keeps the film’s visuals firmly grounded, up until the moment when something awful happens and we see a sequence of events that don’t make sense. From that point on, you will have to decide whether various images you see are examples of the supernatural or visualizations of psychosis.

I was fascinated watching the parents try to hold themselves and the family together as their world grows ever more horrific. Imagine devoting your life to a severely demanding religion, only to be evicted by your fellow believers and end up isolated, except possibly for a witch hiding in the woods … or perhaps in your family.

Eggers’ film is well cast. The actors playing the parents and the two eldest kids are very good, and the ones playing the younger pair remain credible throughout the proceedings. Mark Koven’s score blends period music with electronic sounds. It’s effective without being overwhelming.

The Witch was a hit at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. I respect the film, but despite Eggers’ best efforts, I had to fight off boredom at several points. I’m concerned that trailers for the movie will draw in a crowd expecting a much busier – and scarier – experience than the film provides. As I noted before, The Witch is more creepy than scary. And it’s deliberate. As in slow. n

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arked in a generic white utility van atop the crest of Bloomington’s Hunter Avenue, Paul Shoulberg (director and screenwriter for The Good Catholic) sits shotgun anxiously dangling a walkie-talkie from his right hand.

Somewhere below him, maybe three blocks down the hill, his starring actor Zachary Spicer has just completed a lumbering jog to the bottom. Following him, a four-man camera crew hanging off the edges of a golf-cart comes to its stop. Peering through his glasses, Shoulberg tries to put a bead on his leading man. And that shouldn’t be hard because Spicer ran the length of the street wearing a priest’s habit.

The catch — and when you’re shooting a movie like The Good Catholic there’s always a catch — is Spicer’s footwear. Battling lower back pain which borders on debilitating, the only way Spicer could make the run is in a pair of sneakers, shoes which could not be in the shot.

“Did you get anything?” Shouldberg pleads to his walkie.

“Yes…” camera director Justin Montgomery crackles back, “but you’re not going to like it.”

“Yeah…” Shoulberg mutters sarcastically.

“Do you want to come down here and take a look at it?” Montgomery queries.

“If it’s not any good,” Shoulberg answers, the talkie close to his mouth, “then I don’t see the need. We need a shot, and Danny’s going to end up waiting for us in the church.”

The “Danny” in question is one Daniel Glover, and he is the one member of the cast and crew of The Good Catholic — a feature film currently being shot in Bloomington by almost entirely all IU grads — who should not be left waiting around for the rest of the team to show up.

“Ideally we would shoot this run maybe eight or ten times,” says Shoulberg.

“Then we would have enough footage in the editing room to get exactly what we want. But when you’re on an 18-day shooting schedule, you have to make decisions. Some directors would prefer to get these sort of external shots just right.

But my most important concern is the story. What is most integral to the story?

Every decision I make has to come with that in mind.”

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driving his film. This tale is personal. It’s effectively the story of his late father.

“He was a priest who met Mom when she was a nun,” says Shoulberg, speaking of his parents. “They left the church together, but they remained very involved in the church throughout their lives. They were very liberal parents, so I wasn’t exposed to any of that weird judgmental stuff. But faith still played an enormous role in Dad’s life.” Having survived two previous bouts with cancer, when Shoulberg’s father fought the disease for the final time three years ago, he returned to his home state of Kansas. Witnessing his father’s demeanor as that faith faced its strongest test would linger with the filmmaker long afterward.

“I remember spending time with him the week he was dying,” says Shoulberg.

“And he was so at peace. People would come in to see him, and he was comforting them. I was blown away by what I saw, and I realized that there’s value to this. His faith wasn’t my path, but seeing what it did for him made me realize that there’s tremendous value which comes

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from believing in something.”

Rather than tell a purely biographical tale, the director opted to fictionalize the story, his most prominent change was transforming the female love interest from a nun into a college student, Jane (played by Wrenn Schmidt).

Attempting to offer peace to straying

alive,” says Shoulberg. “People have partiers in a college town, young Daniel been telling me for 15 years: ‘This is the (Spicer) and his elder priests (played by story you should be writing.’ But after Glover and Scrubs’ John C. McGinley) hold a series of late-night confessionals. you watch someone die, the themes in this film become clear. Before that Enchanted by Jane’s talkative personality, Daniel falls for Jane and finds himself happened, I wouldn’t have been able to trying to answer fundamental questions conceive so much of what this film is really about.” about love, faith, and God. “[Despite fictionalizing the story] what is still central is this idea I wanted to convey of priests as very normal For Shoulberg, the story behind people who experience great moments as well as petty The Good Catholic is more than a ones. We carry this perception vehicle driving his film. This tale in our minds that they always sit around in front of the is personal. It’s effectively the altar contemplating the fate of world, but the truth is story of his late father. that they spend their days talking about what they heard on the radio or what they Lesser filmmakers, those without the had for dinner, just as we do. I’m not peace granted them by their fathers, interested in either making fun of the may have stayed on Hunter Avenue for Catholic Church or promoting it. I just the rest of the day, angrily determined wanted to show these people as they to a 15-second jog just right at the are: people.” Asked what he thought expense of the bigger idea. For Shoulhis father would think of the film, berg, however, the stakes are too high.

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grasping. So when we were talking to him, we were trying to use emotional descriptive words, and that was something or local production company No that he couldn’t really translate to food.”

Exit, any space in the city can Eventually, they were able to meet potentially be transformed into a on the idea that the show is about performance venue, no matter how big two people coming together. Lewey or how small. This will again be the case elaborates, “So the idea was, ‘With each when they present a dinner-theater course, why don’t we have the focus be show in the middle of Indianapolis about two things coming together that restaurant Mesh on Mass. aren’t usually paired together?’” For Described as “A Romance in Four example, Lewey explains that the second Courses,” the alternative Valentine’s Day course will consist of a bruschetta salad paired with a sweet and sour meatball. Since the pre-selected menu does “Why don’t we have the focus be consist of unlikely pairings, however, Lewey adabout two things coming together mits that it may not be for that aren’t usually paired together?” everyone. “I’d have to say it’s definitely for foodies. Ya — TOMMY LEWEY know, people who are very open to trying new things and not necessarily afraid of a pre-selected menu,” says Lewey. event was inspired by Mesh’s diverse A collaboration between a chef and a menu and the interpersonal relationdirector/choreographer is in step with ships forged while dining with loved the recent direction of No Exit, explains ones. With this in mind, the show is Schooler. Late last year, Schooler took accompanied by four courses of food over as the production company’s and wine pairings, each coinciding with executive director, filling the shoes of the progression of one couple’s relationGeorgeanna Wade Smith. Upon receivship around a table. Alongside the pair of ing this new role, he told NUVO arts performers (Jonathyn Carey and Simon Pawlak of Butler University’s dance program), there will also be live musical accompaniment provided by Brian Grimm from Madison, Wisconsin.

For the production, award-winning director and choreographer Tommy Lewey of No Exit teamed up with Mesh on Mass chef Aaron Bender to craft a four-course menu to accompany his choreography. In addition to being a part of No Exit, Lewey is also a server and bartender at Mesh, meaning he chats food on a daily basis.

But even for him, the process of curating this menu with Bender was difficult.

“We had an initial meeting with the chef, and it was a little bit awkward at first,” recalls Lewey of the first time he and No Exit executive director Lukas Schooler chatted with Bender about the show’s menu. “As visual and performing PHOTO BY ZACH ROSING artists, we have a way of describing things Tommy Lewey in a past No Exit performance. that non-artsy people have a hard time

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editor Emily Taylor, that his hope was for No Exit to “break out” of the “formulaic method of what it means to be a theater company.” Taking this into consideration, he’s quite excited that the company is collaborating with a chef for the first time ever.

“This is an opportunity for us to broaden the idea of who can perform, what performance is, and how art can manifest itself,” says Schooler, who also works as a server at Mesh on Mass.

“Chefs are artists as well. Chef Bender puts just as much thought and work into a dish as we do for a performance.”

With years of experience working in the restaurant industry, Schooler admits that he’s wanted to set a performance in a restaurant for years but just never had the resources “I’ve been working in restaurants since I was 15. I come from a family of restaurateurs, so I have always had that desire,” says Schooler. Unlike most other dinner-theater, this production is unique in that the menu and the show directly speak to each other.

“Traditionally, you’re sitting down in a cabaret setting, and you’re enjoying a meal while watching a performance,” says Schooler. “But, that performance could literally be anything, and that dinner could be a selection off of a wide menu. So they’re not necessarily speaking to each other.”

Like other No Exit productions, this romance will also allow audience members to feel a part of the show, being that it won’t be set on a stage but rather in the middle of a restaurant.

“It’s not just sitting in a chair and watching something for two hours,” says Lewey.

“You actually get to feel like you’re participating in the show yourself, which makes the audience engaged and active.” n

Hawkins Farm chicken at sweet potato dumplings from Rook

Fighting for the small farmers The #Keepchickenonthemenu movement (see News, P.06) is an attempt to bring attention to an effort to prevent a small farm from selling its chicken to restaurants. The Hawkins family farm is legal under federal law and is active in supporting and supplying farm-to-table restaurants. Why are chefs so open to using such products?

“I thought it was a great product, and I am always on board to support small local farms. We source from lots of different Indiana farms at Patachou, Inc. I think the difference is in the quality of the product. When you start with great ingredients you don’t have to do much to them to make great dishes. I also feel very strongly about the relationships made and built with smaller farmers. Seeing them hand-deliver things to you personally and knowing them on a first name basis.”

— TYLER HERALD, PUBLIC GREENS URBAN KITCHEN, PATACHOU, INC. “Here at Rook we believe and support our local community. We want to source as much local ingredients as we can. Being an Asian-inspired restaurant it’s a little harder to do, but we try as best we can. Our chickens, beef, pork, lamb, eggs and most of our produce are from local farmers here in Indy. It’s a big part of how I envision Rook to be. These farmers are our friends, neighbors or even family members. They do it because they are passionate and believe in good products. They do it to make a living. I personally love the fact that I know the person that raised the animal I am cooking at the restaurant or even at home. It brings relief knowing that they took care of that animal and gave it a clean and healthy life that eventually makes the dishes I prepare taste even better…

The quality is way better than what you can get at grocery stores. You can tell by taste, texture and even the the looks of it.”

— CARLOS SALZAR, ROOK Several farm-to-table restaurants in Indianapolis and northern Indiana are participating in the #keepchickenonthemenu movement by featuring Hawkins chicken in one signature dish on their menus, including Cerulean, Milktooth, Public Greens Urban Kitchen and Rook.

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CARNECERIA/RESTAURANT GUANAJUATO Tucked into the back of a Latin market on Pike Plaza Rd., the Restaurant Guanajuato serves some of the best Mexican food in Indy. If burritos and tacos are your thing, then you will not be disappointed. The real highlights are the traditional coastal dishes.

The oysters, seafood cocktails, and ceviche make the perfect appetizer, and the Molcajetes de Mariscos, a hot rock bowl filled with snow crab legs, prawns, shrimp, and tilapia is enough to feed two. Although the portions are large, the prices are low (the Molcajetes sells for $19.99). For those who enjoy margaritas, there is a full bar with top shelf tequilas, and for the beer drinkers a selection of Mexican and domestic.

5210 West Pike Plaza Road, Indianapolis PHO 36 Walking into Pho 36 you may be struck by the simplicity: A counter and a few tables fill the small room, and the walls are practically bare. The food however, is anything but simple. The complex flavors of the pho broth, which is prepared for days, and served with noodles and your choice of meats and vegetables, are mind-blowing, and worth the trip to the west side.

Accompanied by bean sprouts, fresh mint, and cilantro, a small portion sells for $6.99 and is perfect for one.

Although the Pho is the obvious star, the Bahn Mi deserve equal praise. With beef, pork, and chicken options, these sandwiches are topped with carrots, jalapeños, cilantro, and chicken pate’. This is one of the best sandwiches in Indy, and at $3.75 for a six-inch, one of the best deals.

9655 East Highway 36, Avon

PERILLO’S PIZERIA I know not everyone is willing to drive an hour for a good pizza, but for those who share my unconditional love for a good pie, this is a drive you should make! While most places are trying to find “the next big thing” in gourmet pizza, Perillo’s, in New Salem, is serving the classics to perfection.

Available in NY style and deep dish Sicilian, the pizzas are a throwback to east coast pizzerias of old.

The cozy dining room is homey and welcoming, and is the perfect place for a date night. If you’re not in the mood for pizza, the oven baked sandwiches and pastas are equally as delicious, and make sure to save room for a cannoli.

Beer and wine are available with a rotating selection of locals, domestics and imports.

3839 Moller Rd., Indianapolis OPA! From the décor to the flaming Saganaki, Opa!, Avon’s new Greek restaurant screams authenticity.

The large menu ranges from Mediterranean favorites such as

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402 E. 4th St., Bloomington FALAFEL’S MIDDLE EASTERN GRILL Falafels blends a number of Middle Eastern cuisines, representing the different cultures and flavors found in Jerusalem. The Hummus with olive oil, tahini, and paprika, served with freshly baked pita is an obvious choice, but the Babganush, the eggplant version, is every bit as delicious. The shawarma (available in chicken, or beef and lamb) is cooked on a rotisserie making it juicy and tender. All of the proteins are seasoned to perfection and are served either as an entrée with asparagus and a side or as a pita sandwich. For dessert there’s gelato and house baklava, but best of all is the Turkish coffee. The aroma of the cardamom, that bittersweet flavor, definitely a place for lovers of the Turkish brew.

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5 S. Broadway St., North Salem HAVANA CAFÉ Hands down the best Cuban sandwich in Indy. Seriously. Havana Café, located at 38th and Moller, specializes in Cuban and Caribbean favorites such as fried plantains, fried yucca, oxtail, and empanadas.

The slow-roasted pork, used for the Cuban sandwich, is as juicy and flavorful as any I’ve ever tasted, and the rice and beans are cooked and seasoned to perfection. Everything on the menu is delicious, and with an average entrée price of $10 or less, makes it totally worth it. After enjoying a wonderful meal, be sure to indulge in one of their specialty coffees, the perfect way to end a fine Cuban meal.

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1. King Dough, 2. Sushi Haru, 3. OPA!, 4. Pho 36, 5. Falafel’s Middle Eastern Grill gyros, dolmades, hummus, and calamari, to savory greek pastries, and house specialties featuring lamb, beef, and chicken. For the pickier eaters, otherwise known as children, there are a number of American offerings, such as a cheeseburger with fries, making this a perfect family dining destination. To pair with the food offerings, beer and wine are offered, as well as coffee drinks for after dinner.

7900 US-36, Avon MY THAI CAFÉ Bloomington is full of amazing Asian restaurants, and My

Thai Café is one of the best. The pork dumplings, served fried or steamed, are perfect every time, so too are the spring rolls, and the chicken satay with cucumber and peanut sauce. The flavorful curries have balance between the coconut milk and spice, and the Tom Yum is amazing, with flavors of Lemongrass, Galangal root and Kafir Lime leaves.

Most dishes are available with chicken, pork, or tofu making the menu extremely vegetarian friendly, and for the drinkers, beer and wine are available. Thai iced teas and coffees are also available and the average dinner with a

430 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington RUSH HOUR STATION There are always plenty of sandwich shops in college towns, but not many like this. Rush Hour station fuses Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese flavors to create a wide variety of proteins and sauces, with which to create your own sandwich. Beef, chicken, pork and even Spam are among the pristinely prepared proteins, and the sauces range from lemongrass to BBQ. The Pho is also amazing, and if you’re having a bad day, try the anger management, a spicy broth made with soy and chili, served with peanuts and a protein of your choice.

There are a variety of noodle and salad entrees available, and I’m sure they’re amazing, but I’ve never made it past the sandwiches! Vietnamese and Thai iced coffees and teas are available.

421 E. 3rd St., Bloomington NO COAST RESERVE While people in Bloomington know all about No Coast, It won’t be their secret for long. Opened in 2013, but recently relocated to a beautiful spot on the square, the

goal is to highlight fresh ingredients available in Bloomington.

Under the umbrella of the Butchers Block Butcher Shop, they are able to source fantastic fresh seafood, such as oysters, clams, and crab legs, and with the new smokehouse operation, are curing their own meats. The menu changes with availability of ingredients, and there is a rotating list of beers and wines to compliment any dish. Prices are great, but this is not a budget dinner, this is destination dining.

105 N. College Ave, Bloomington KING DOUGH PIZZA In a town that’s knows its pizza, there’s a new king. After moving into the spot vacated by the closing of Max’s, King Dough has certainly filled the void. The wood fired pizzas come in many unique and delicious varieties such as “Stinky Pete” with olive oil, cherry tomato, garlic, and four different cheeses or “Grape and Gorgonzola” with grapes, gorgonzola, prosciutto, arugula, and honey. All of the ingredients are made fresh daily, and it shows in the final result.

Starting out of a makeshift food truck their concept has always been simple, “pizza is pizza; but at the end of the day you can still do something special with it!” And that’s exactly what they do.

108 W. 6th St., Bloomington SUSHI HARU New to the Bloomington scene is this wonderful sushi spot.

Although it’s not large, the food speaks volumes. The fish is some of the freshest I’ve had in Bloomington, and the menu varies from basic rolls and Sashimi, to chefs specials like eel steak and salmon.

There is private seating available, but the joy for me is to watch the chefs at work behind the sushi bar.

These experts greet every guest who enters, while craftily slicing and arranging fish in beautiful geometries on the plates.

A very nice selection of beer, wine, and sake complement the menu well, and prices are great as far as sushi goes.

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You’ll remember back in the fall that NUVO did a pretty big cover story on Indy’s contract with Covanta. Here’s the briefest of summaries on that story:

Covanta is the company that burns Indy’s trash for steam that it can turn into power and sell. They signed a new agreement with Indianapolis, a contract that includes a recycling plan that critics are calling inefficient at best, and there are questions about the lack of public discussion regarding that contract.

That contract’s also inspired a lawsuit. The lawsuit and its appeals are over a year old: Two paper companies and an Indy citizen are taking the city of Indianapolis to court. …

That suit notes that Indy’s got the potential to be throwing away a very large stack of taxpayer dollars, along with any possibility for the city to improve its recycling programs.

In fact, what’s become the most contentious clause of the contract prevents Indy from improving its recycling capabilities through 2028 — or pay a penalty of $4 million per year. Every year. Through the end of the deal.

— NUVO, NOVEMBER 4, 2015 On Feb. 10, we learned that the new city administration had put the deal on hold.

Here’s a portion of the press release:

Indianapolis – Mayor Joe Hogsett announced today the City of Indianapolis and Covanta Indianapolis, Inc. have reached an agreement to temporarily suspend a proposed Advance[d] Recycling Center (ARC). …

“Leadership begins with listening, and I believe Indianapolis deserves a true community conversation before we move forward with any waste and recycling plan,” said Mayor Hogsett. …

Mayor Hogsett announced that the city will gather information over the next 90 days to assist with a reassessment of plans for an ARC facility. To facilitate this deliberative process, the Hogsett administration will meet with local groups and key stakeholders, ensuring that all voices are included in a conversation over the future of recycling in Indianapolis.

Covanta Indianapolis has offered information-gathering assistance to city officials during the suspension of the ARC, and Covanta’s preexisting service agreements with the city will remain in effect. The Office of Corporation Counsel will continue to defend the city’s ability to negotiate with Covanta in pending litigation.

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Recycling old discs

Q: Renee, Here’s Ed the Editor asking a question I know you have an answer for — my blatant setup is: How can I get rid of old, lousy, scratched-up CDs and DVDs in a really artful way?

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A: Ed, Funny you should ask! Seriously, over the

years I’ve received several questions about CD and DVD recycling and I’ve finally found the coolest answer yet. Indiana artist, Leticia Bajuyo, is collecting CDs and DVDs — more than 10,000 of them — for a large art installation at the Indiana State Museum in celebration of Indiana’s Bicentennial.

Do you have unwanted CDs and DVDs to donate?

There is a collection receptacle at the Indiana State Museum Information Desk 1, just inside the doors of the underground garage entrance. You may also contact Leticia through her web site to donate or drop off at Hanover College or Notre Dame.

Fun Fact: Sony DADC, located in Terre Haure, IN, was the first CD manufacturer in the United States.

They produced their first CD, Born in the USA, in September 1984.

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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

Q: Hey! Does the recycle symbol on a package mean that it is made from recycled materials or that I can recycle it?

by putting in non-accepted materials, overflowing, or leaving materials outside of the bins, even when they’re full. If your favorite bin is full, try calling the Mayor’s Action Center to see if it can be emptied soon. And be sure to follow the directions on signs and from the City when using the public recycling bins.

Thanks for making recycling a priority and for treating the public bins the same way you’d treat them if they were on your own property.

Who moved my bin?

Q: Renee, I’ve used the recycling bins located in the parking lot of Sam’s Club on 86th Street for several years. I went to drop off recycling this morning, and all the bins were gone. Can you tell me if they’ve been relocated, and if so, where?

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A: Patricia, I believe the bin in question has been

moved across the street, but there’s an important underlying PSA here. They didn’t move the bin just to keep you on your toes. Unfortunately, the owner of the Sam’s Club property asked for the bins to be removed because they were being contaminated and overfilled.

It’s extremely important that we be respectful of the drop-off locations and don’t misuse this public service

Recycle when you can’t recharge

Q: Renee, Where do you recycle just plain old, regular alkaline batteries?

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A: Hi Jeff, happy to answer your question, free of

charge!

Interstate Batteries has eight locations in Indiana that will accept all types of batteries for recycling. Their web site claims that they actually recycle more batteries than they sell!

Lighting Resources has a location in Greenwood (498 Park 800 Dr.) that accepts batteries for recycling during business hours (weekdays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.) for a small fee per lb. Batteries go to a smelter where the metals are safely removed and recycled.

Their sister company, EZ on the Earth, has battery recycling kits for sale (at ezontheearth.com) that allows you to safely collect and recycle batteries.

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— CARIN

A: Hey Carin! The answer is yes. The recycle symbol

means both of those things.

Marketers are using the symbol more and more now, which can be misleading. Look for the small print that says, “Please recycle,” or, “Box is fully recyclable.” Text like that below the symbol typically means that the box is made from virgin materials, but the manufacturer hopes you will recycle it.

I prefer to seek out products that say, “Made from recycled materials,” or, “50% PCW,” AND they’re recyclable.

Plastics have different recycle symbols that indicate what type of plastic they are. Most local recyclers accept plastics 1-7 now, except for EPS foam.

Regardless, if a product has a recycle symbol on it, it’s fairly safe to say it can go in the recycle bin.

We’ll keep you updated as the next 90 days unfold.

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hen Jason Isbell walks on stage these days, fans are quite literally seeing a changed man.

In January 2012, Isbell went into rehab to kick an alcohol addiction that had been a regular part of his routine for years. He sees the results of that decision every night when he performs with his backing band, the 400 Unit.

“It’s made a huge difference,” Isbell said of his sobriety in a recent phone interview. “First of all, I can hear myself. I know a lot of people don’t realize this, but the first thing to go when you’re drinking is your hearing. Obviously, by the end of the night, your vision can be blurry, too.

But the hearing goes first. I was spending a lot of time yelling and trying to hear myself through the course of the night.”

PHOTO BY DAVID MCCLISTER Jason Isbell Isbell also can deliver some of his best shows because his songwriting hit drinking lifestyle had done and how he new heights on the two albums he has was finding a way to a better life as a sober, made since going through rehab – 2013’s recovering alcoholic. It earned him three Southeastern and Something More Than top awards last year from the Americana Free, which was released last July.

Music Association – Artist of the Year, Southeastern was a watershed album Album of the Year and Song of the Year for for Isbell, who began his career in the the tune “Cover Me Up.” Drive-By Truckers and wrote several standout songs (“Decoration Day,” “Never Gonna Change”) during his tenure in that ac“My voice is a lot stronger, a lot claimed band from 2001 to 2007.

Isbell went solo after his split younger sounding than it was with the Drive-By Truckers, releasing three solid albums – [when I was drinking].”

Sirens of the Ditch (2007), Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (2009) — JASON ISBELL and Here We Rest (2011) – before Southeastern presented a different side to his music.

Given what Southeastern did for him, it Instead of the hard-hitting, plugged-in would only make sense that Isbell wouldn’t country-tinged rock that had characterbreak the mold created with Southeastern ized his first three albums, Isbell, for the on “Something More Than Free.” And inmost part, downshifted on Southeastern into more of a spare, often acoustic setting, deed, the latest album sticks largely to the same acoustic-leaning, laid-back sound with a collection of sharply drawn, often of that previous album.But don’t think lovely songs. Written in the aftermath of that Something More Than Free took on his decision to quit drinking – and as he its musical personality because it was the was falling in love with his future wife, right career move for Isbell. fellow musician Amanda Shires — the “Whatever album I’m putting out at lyrics showed an unflinching honesty and the time is going to be exactly where I provided a window into the damage his

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am because I’ve got to go out and play it a lot and I certainly don’t want to be up there on stage wishing I was playing something different,” Isbell said.

Isbell seems to draw from sources outside of his life, using his realistic and finely detailed prose to tell stories that are flush with emotion and livedthrough truths. “Speed Trap Town,” about getting out of a too-small town and away from a state trooper father who put the speed trap into the town, and the title song, which draws a picture of a man who is still searching for more in life, but sounds ready to accept that the work-a-day life he leads might have to be reward enough, sound like they should resonate with most any listener.

Gently assertive country songs like “How To Forget,” “If It Takes A Lifetime,” “24 Frames” all of which come with strong vocal melodies and plenty of smartly applied instrumental touches from violinist Shires and the 400 Unit (drummer Chad Gamble, keyboardist Derry deBorja, guitarist Sadler Vaden and bassist Jimbo Hart) that nicely enhance the basic structures of the song.

Isbell and the 400 Unit are now in the middle of a lengthy tour cycle behind the current album. They’re playing about a half dozen songs from Something More Than Free, several tunes from Southeastern and rounding out the live set with a few songs from Isbell’s first three solo albums and tunes from his time in the Drive-By Truckers. The emphasis on newer material means the shows lean more toward quieter songs, a situation that could slow the energy of a show. But Isbell said he hasn’t had many occasions where he felt he should have rocked up his show.

“But it’s really been incredible how the crowds seem to be just as excited for the slow, sad songs as they are for the old rockers.” n

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY SMELLS GREAT If there’s one trait you don’t necessarily expect from your average bearded, road-traveling, cultishly followed folk singer-songwriter, it’s delicious smells. And if it’s one product you don’t expect that beardy road traveler to be slinging, it’s a ... signature perfume. Leave that for your Justin Biebers, your Selena Gomezes, your Britney Spearses and J.Los. Adjust your expectations, friends, and then pocket some Eau de Oldham in the form of the folkie’s Sanae Intoxicants’ scent Bonnie Billy. Think: Egyptian jasmine, French mimosa, and the rare, exotic oils of Mukhallat and kewda, plus oud, a.k.a. the scent of the Agarwood tree.

We ran a portion of our interview with Will Oldham in last week’s issue, but since the show’s tonight in Bloomington, we’re using any excuse to squeeze in a little more Bonnie “Prince” Billy into these pages. A snippet of Oldham’s perfume thoughts fits the ticket.

“One thing that I like most about going to London is that there’s a perfume store there called The Arabian Oud, which Matt Sweeney and I wandered into for the first time maybe 10 or 12 years ago because we thought it was a music store. But apparently oud also means wood [in addition to a stringed musical instrument]. There are scents that these folks I think specifically in Arabic culture or countries, they use this oud wood for perfume purposes. We started going in there; that’s really when I started to appreciate [perfume]. I never really liked Western perfumes or colognes very much.

I never understood why they were considered nicesmelling, really. But these smelled great. So I’m looking forward to having three days in London so I can go to Arabian oud and restock up on crazy perfumes. I like the smells of everything. I’m grateful that I have a functioning olfactory system.”

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knew immediately that Kelley Deal and I were going to get along, but I don’t think it had anything to do with me.

Lately, I’ve been getting a little bummed out on bands. I’ve gone to enough house shows starting three hours late with five bands on the bill.

The magic has worn down.

But from the second Deal answered the phone with a wild hello, the excitement was back. Her warm-hearted ecstatic energy lifts you up. By the time our call ended, it was obvious to me why there would be people lining up to collaborate with her.

This positivity radiates from her newest band R. Ring. Both Deal (The Breeders, The Last Hard Men, The Kelley Deal 6000) and bandmate Mike Montgomery (Ampline) are decades into careers putting out music that is consistently idiosyncratic and innovative. Their combined superpowered songwriting ability comes through on every new R. Ring song.

It would be easy for someone with as prestigious a career as this duo to slip into nostalgia, to coast on their own success. Instead, they created a musical world for themselves that is not centered on spectacle and self-aggrandizement, but instead rooted in creating and en-

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gaging with other humans around them.

They maintain a relationship with music that makes it about connecting and communicating with the active community of people in their lives.

R. Ring plays the Bishop on Thursday.

NUVO: You recorded a song with Lil Bub, right? Can you tell me a little bit about that?

DEAL: Well, how I met Mike – well, there are a lot of Mikes in the story. So Mike Montgomery of R. Ring and I got invited to play a show at Russian.

NUVO: Russian Recording?

DEAL: Well at the time I didn’t know it was a recording studio. I just thought it was a venue. So Mike either knew already or looked it up and checked it out. So we went there and the whole outfit, the whole venue was so nice and the opening bands were fantastic! You could tell there was a ton of talent in the room. Later we were sitting [in the studio] and Mike [Bridavsky] was working on his computer and I asked him, “What exactly are you doing?” And he said, “Well I have an online store and it’s getting busy.” And I said, “Really, what do you sell?” and he was really downplaying the whole thing and he said, “Well I have this cat…” and I looked at the cat and I said, “OH MY GOD IT’S LIL BUB! I KNOW THAT CAT! IT’S REALLY SWEET!”

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So he invited me over to see Lil Bub the next day. Then when they were getting ready to do the show Lil Bub asked if I could do an episode and I was really honored to get to be a part of it.

NUVO: So you moved to Ohio at one point right?

I’m looking forward to going on tour and letting her have the run of the place.

NUVO: Do you feel cooped up when you’re not on tour?

DEAL: You know, I’m ready to get out of town, oh yeah. It’s really nice. When you’re touring you’re like “Phew! I’m ready to get home.” But when you’re home you’re like, “Man. Can’t wait to go out on tour!”

NUVO: Do you think that’s a Midwest thing? 'Cause Dayton’s not the biggest town in the world. Do you think being a musician in the Midwest makes you want to go out into the world more?

DEAL: Well I grew up in Ohio, in Dayton.

And I did work at Hughes Aircraft in the '80s. And at that time I had like a topsecret clearance and shit? [laughs] isn’t that weird? Then I moved back home, because I was homesick, and I worked for some defense contractors here. And then that’s when I was asked to play with The Breeders. And then I did move to St. Paul for six or seven years when I went to rehab.

Speaking of cats, I gotta tell you, my cat and I are in a love/hate relationship.

DEAL: I think so! It’s not to say people in New York or LA don’t like to tour but there is something about when you get to those bigger cities there are so many people and so many opportunities really close to what you are doing that you don’t really have to go anywhere. It’s kind of nice that we’ve got to get going.

NUVO: How so?

DEAL: Well, when we first got together, we both brought songs to the union, and it started really slow. We got six songs to open up for our buddies' CD release

DEAL: We both have cabin fever and she’s kind of mad at me all the time so

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party. I had a couple new things that happened to have been released and also some Kelley Deal 6000 songs and he had some songs he’d been working on, and things he’d been working on with other people but hadn’t been recorded for anything. So it was really fun to take those songs and rifle through them, find out how we could arrange them, and make them compelling enough to do live. And that was really fun! And of course we have the awesome Shellac cover that we do. I was like, “We gotta do this song and you have to sing it Mike.” And he was like, “What? I can’t sing a Steve Albini song. I’ll be an asshole. Who do I think I am?”

NUVO: Has Steve [Albini] heard you sing it yet?

DEAL: I don’t think he has. I know his wife has, Heather. But I don’t know if she likes it. She hasn’t said anything.

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effect. It sounds really cool. So she’s joining us on these four shows and we’re doing this so that we can organize and put some music out there so we can do some recording. Cause we’re going to go into Mike M.’s studio to do some recording after that.

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NUVO: What makes a band “Midwest?”

DEAL: It’s something about work ethic.

They show up and they do the work and they’re ready and they have their gear and they didn’t forget anything or expect anything. I don't know, it’s just some sort of work ethic that the Midwest people have. Maybe it’s a bad thing almost.

Maybe we should be way more “whatever.” But I really liked it.

“My next person I’d really love to collaborate with is this chick called Kim, to get this Breeders album done.”

NUVO: I'm a big believer that there is a special intimacy between people who are in bands together. Do you think it’s a unique type of intimacy?

DEAL: It really is! I’ve been reading about David Bowie’s death — KELLEY DEAL and one the things that someone pointed out to me that really got my attention was that he was a great collaborator. I think that’s what got him up in the morning.

NUVO: These R. Ring songs seem to That’s what he did. Whether it’s playing have a uniqueness to them because sax on Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild since there are just two of you, each Side” or getting Stevie Ray Vaughn to song seems to be approached a little difgo guitar on “China Girl” or whether it’s ferently with the setup. Is there freedom playing with Iggy. And he can be like, because it’s just the two of you?

“Whatever, I’ll play keyboards with Iggy DEAL: Yeah! So we did a cover with the on this tour.” I love that! skateboarder Kristian Svitak of “Mr. There is this really pure form of sitDNA” by Devo. So Kristian joined us on ting down with a guitar and singing and drums and so we started incorporating writing where the whole creative process this element of having another person happens within that circle. And I respect around and so we invited other drumthat but that doesn’t vibrate for me. That mers to play with us. So we started playdoesn’t hum for me. I really like other ing with drummer and sometimes we people. I loved doing the Short Crush don’t. On this tour we’re going to be song with Anna and Ben, and my neighplaying with a cellist and a drummer. bor Nick Eddie. That’s a song we just did The drummer is this guy Leo Deluca during football a game. We just did it on (Misra Records) and he plays a Cajon. my little recorder. And we came up with And we have a gal named Lori Goldthis song called “Short Crush.” We were smith. I first met her because she was like, “Let’s do this song with Ben, who the cellist touring with Nirvana. And The opened in a band when we played at RusBreeders did whole tours with Nirvana sian Recording! Let’s get that drummer to during their In Utero tour when they had drum for us because he’s amazing!” a lot of cello. Mike and I ran into her again NUVO: Whom do you want to collabowhen she and her friend opened up for R. rate with next?

Ring in Seattle and we invited her to join us that night. She asked, “Well what do you DEAL: My next person I’d really love to want me to play?” And we said, “Anything!” collaborate with is this chick called Kim, Cause she’s got this noise thing going to get this Breeders album done. n where she puts it though an amp and adds

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s a beatmaker, Scott Matelic's work in the early 2000s set a standard of quality for hip-hop production in Indianapolis that has yet to be surpassed. As a DJ, Matelic is equally impressive. His creative open format turntable work at parties like Multiform and Let Go! opened up space for a variety of alternative sounds on Indianapolis dancefloors and influenced a multitude of local DJs – myself included.

Matelic currently resides in New York City, but he maintains a close connection with the Indy scene, in part because his family ­— including father, musician Ron Matelic who I profiled in a cover story last year – still lives here. I caught up with Matelic at the WFYI studios while he was back home in Indiana visiting family.

NUVO: Around 2000, in the early days of the internet, I used to listen to an online underground hip-hop show out of Denver, Colorado called Basementalism.

I remember they used to constantly play a track called Year of the Sex Symbol by an MC named Sole. I didn't realize it at the time, but you produced that beat. "Year of the Sex Symbol" became a sort of anthem in underground hiphop at that time and it helped establish the California-based Anticon label as a major force in underground music. You also produced beats for Sage Francis' work on Anticon. How did you get connected with Anticon?

MATELIC: It was all internet-based. In the late '90s I was very much into the record culture. I remember there was an online email list of hip-hop samples that existed before sites like Who Sampled or Rap Sample FAQ. Through that email list I connected with a guy named Moodswing9 who used to work with Sole. I sent him a tape of beats and he passed it along to Sole. Sole called me and selected a few different things.

It was exciting. That was when Anticon was on the come up and people were checking for them. I was just excited that people would hear my beats. I was super thankful.

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you were making beats for Anticon. Did it take a while for people to start connecting you with the work you'd done for Anticon?

MATELIC: Through those early releases, people were reaching out to me. I don't know, I feel like I squandered some of those opportunities. I was trying to work on solo stuff back then as opposed to collaborations. But it exposed me to a lot of people and I'm very thankful of the opportunity those guys gave me.

NUVO: I believe it was in 2004 a full instrumental LP of your beats titled Primitive Pessimist was released in Japan. How did that release come about?

MATELIC: Sage Francis had a show in Bloomington in early 2002. I opened up for him and I wanted to have something to sell. So I put some instrumentals together that I'd been working on. Most of them were made with the intention of having someone rap on them. So initially I didn't want it to be perceived as an

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Wooten's "In This World." So I was super bummed and my friend who I was with was from Philadelphia said, “Let's go back to Philly and go to this party on Saturday night.” We did and it was one of the Hollertronix parties with Diplo and Lowbudget. It was insane to me, those guys were playing all different genres and people were very receptive to it. They were playing crunk, which was big at the time, with Nu Shooz and dancehall. So from there I was like I want to do something similar to that. I'd been hanging out with Paren and he and I decided to try to do a party at the Casba with a similar vibe which became Multiform.

“It was dance music, but still rugged and hip-hop in a way.”

NUVO: You mentioned Diplo who has become one of the — SCOTT MATELIC most influential forces in contemporary pop culture, I remember Diplo played at your Mulitform party at the Casba. album. It was just a collection of beats I I believe he was on tour with RJD2 at was making for people at that time. the time. How did you wind up getting I produced the CD myself, I burned Diplo to play the Casba? them. Then, there was a website in MATELIC: I'd known Diplo through the Michigan that latched onto it, I can't email list I referenced before. He liked even remember the name. From there the Year of the Sex Symbol record a somebody in Japan got ahold of it and lot. I'd met him a couple of times and they approached me about rereleasing he was always very cool with me. He it in 2004. I took some things off and happened to be touring and I was like, added some new material. So that's how "Yo, you should come though and play it came about. after the RJD2 show" which was across NUVO: Around the mid '00s you started the street at the Patio. So he came DJing more often in Indianapolis. I through and played some records. It remember you started a weekly party at was a lot of fun. the Casba called Mulitform with Paren.

NUVO: As a producer you developed a What prompted you to begin focusing reputation for creating downtempo hipmore of your energy on DJing? hop instrumentals with a very expansive MATELIC: It stemmed from a trip I took sound. Around 2009 you switched gears to Philadelphia with some friends in and released an EP of uptempo dance 2003. We went to New York City initially music for Crossfaded Bacon titled Party and I ended up leaving the records I'd People. The music on that EP referenced brought in a taxi cab. [laughs] It was Baltimore club music and other high heartbreaking. I lost a copy of Billy energy club styles. Can you talk about

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MATELIC: At the end of 2005 I moved to the Philadelphia area for five months with a DJ friend of mine named Emynd who is the head of Crossfaded Bacon.

I spent a lot of time in Philadelphia on the weekends going to clubs. That's where I was really exposed to Baltimore club music which at that time was really starting to jump off. During the peak hours at parties you would hear 20 minutes of Baltimore club music and it was just insane. I really latched onto it.

It was fun. It was dance music, but still rugged and hip-hop in a way.

NUVO: The last major work you released was a project called Gold Metal with Jay McElfresh. Gold Metal issued an LP titled Drop Out City on Rad Summer in 2013. That work is unique in your catalog as it's not strictly a samplebased production. Am I correct that the Drop Out City album featured all live instrumentation?

MATELIC: It's a mixture. A lot of the drums are sampled. It was a chance to do something I don't normally get to do, incorporating live instruments. Jay had just moved back to Indiana from Austin, Texas where he was in an indie rock band. So he had access to guitars, he also had a Kimball organ, and he had a Crumar synthesizer from his neighbor in Seymour, Indiana that's featured prominently on the album.

So we had all these toys and we'd just noodle around and figure out stuff that sounded cool. That was a lot of fun. It took us awhile to finish it because Jay moved to Brooklyn in the middle of it. We started it in 2006 and Jay moved to New York in 2008.

We didn't finish the album until I moved out there in 2010.

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NUVO: You haven't released much music in the last few years, but you did have a beat on the new Comdot LP titled "Aqua." It's an amazing beat. It sounds like a lost hip-hop classic from the '90s.

I know you're playing lots of weekly DJ gigs in New York, does that leave you much time to make new beats? Any chance we'll see a new Scott Matelic release in 2016?

MATELIC: Yeah, right now I am focused on making hip-hop beats. I'm trying to make as many beats as I can. There are a few MCs on the East Cost that are interested, but I like the hometown guys too.

I have some old material I started working on while I was living in the Philadelphia area around 2005 that I want to release. I've been saying I'm going to release these tracks for a few years, but hopefully it comes to light soon. n

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Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. (Bloomington), $20 advance, $25 door, all-ages PARTIES The Sinking Ship is Turning 5 7 p.m. Calling all beer enthusiasts!

Enjoy all kinds of brews, and definitely plan on skipping school the next day — you’re going to want to sleep in. There will be a wide range of brews on tap like 3 Floyds Zombie Dust, Scarlet Lane’s Hell, and Triton Barn Phantom. It’ll be a birthday bash you won’t want to miss.

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Dave Palmer, Thee Rockefeller Shieks, Folkicide, Major Matt Mason USA 10 p.m. The Rockefeller Sheiks will be shaking things up a bit with their alternative rock, lo-fi sound.

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Self-dubbed “weirdest band in the world” Folkicide, will give you a culture shock of folk music that you can pick up on cassette after the show, since they’re got new copies of Legion Lesions on hand.

Major Matt Mason USA was a late, great addition. And, ladies and gentlemen, your headliner: Dave Palmer.

State Street Pub, 243 N. State St., 21+ Those Manic Seas, Saint Aubin, Brother O’ Brother, Melody Inn, 21+ Blues Jam, Slippery Noodle, 21+ Smooth Hound Smith, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Bring Your Own Vinyl, Lola’s Bowl and Bistro, all-ages Mike Stud, OCD: Moosh and Twist, Futuristic, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Tim Brickley, Jazz Kitchen, 21+

Hey Marseilles, Bad Bad Hats 9 p.m. Minneapolis indie pop Bad Bad Hats is uber catchy – like, get picked up on tour with Third Eye Blind catchy (come on, no one can deny the catchiness of Third Eye Blind in the ‘90s); Seattle chamber poppers Hey Marseilles has a self-titled full length dropping this month, leaving their strings in the background for a more electro pop sound. This is a night of sleek pop at its finest.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, $10, 21+ ROCK R. Ring 8 p.m. We’ve got a big-ass profile on the Goddess Kelley Deal and her new project R. Ring on page 31.

The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $10, 18+

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Service Industry Night, PT’s Showclub, 21+

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The Flying Toasters, Joe’s Grille, all-ages Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch, The Ford Center, all-ages Neighborhood Concert Series with JCA Composers Orchestra, Schrott Center for the Arts, all-ages Particle, City of the Sun, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Manic Focus, Misadventure Mike, HighFives, Kite, various locations, all-ages Turtle Matt, Mousetrap, 21+ Oh, Sleeper, Rival Choir, Church Tongue, Infamous, Venerations,Hoosier Dome, all-ages Architecture Aviva, Doktra, Rob Funkhouser, Melody Inn, 21+

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Iron Diamond 10 p.m. Okay, what do you get when you pit two hair metal cover bands against each other on the same stage? Possible over-hairsprayed meltdown? Possible magic?

Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, 21+ MAGICK Lloyd and Harvey’s Wowie Zowie Show 10 p.m. There’s nothing this variety group can offer you that you won’t enjoy watching. Come laugh at comedians, jive with dancers and hum along to some dandy humming hummers. You’ll either be entirely confused or left in awe. Wowie Zowie.

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Promoter Will Lazy Hawk Schlosser and his wife Bebe Bangs renewed their vows at a Valentine’s Day weekend show this weekend at the Melody Inn. Congratulations! on stage singing Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” with his boo thang. My god, we hope he brings Miranda along for the Indy show.

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $12 advance, $15 door, 21+ JAM Papadosio 10 p.m. This is the type of band that brings out the sage and glow sticks. Dosio bounces from jam to folk to dance, and makes it all work. Plus: light shows!

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages

Goldie & Exquisitely Yours, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Mars Royal, Legacy of Triumph, The No Good Riders, Birdy’s, 21+ Zanna Doo, The Rathskeller, 21+ Chemical Envy, Thee Rockefeller Sheiks, Bucko, Melody Inn, 21+ I The Mighty, Emerson Theater, all-ages Indy’s Best: Local Showcase, Emerson Theater, all-ages Jesus Twin Record Spin, State Street Pub, 21+ Among The Compromised, Heart land Heretics, Gypsy Moonshine, Sinking Ship II, 21+

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Chives Release Show 9 p.m. Chives is 100 percent one of our favorite local bands. Let them be yours at this 7-inch release show, and grab some sweet merch ‘cuz they’ve got limited copies of Drip 7-inch on-hand at the show.

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Phillip Glass Afterparty with Rob Funkhouser 7 p.m. After enjoying a peaceful, minimalist evening with Phillip Glass, one of the most important and influential classical composers ever, at the LOEB Playhouse, venture over to The Spot to see local percussionist Rob Funkhouser use pots and bowls to create a melodic and percussive ensemble that will leave you mesmerized. Funkhouser has been composing and performing his unique drumming style for several years now. His talents will transcend and enlighten listeners, and help them recognize the beauty and magic in things as simple as kitchenware.

General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., $5 or pay what you can, all-ages

Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages

D.I.V.E., 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+

Anderson East 9 p.m. Country singer and Miranda Lambert boy toy Anderson East dropped Delilah on Elektra Records last year; this Sunday, he appeared

Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $10, 21+ ROCK

Jason Isbell, Shovels and Rope 7 p.m. See our full profile of Jason Isbell on page 29.

Then cue up Southeastern and prepare to cry through “Elephant.”

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ICON: Dr. Dre Edition 10:30 p.m. We profiled Old Soul founder Doug Morris last week on the eve of his Dilla party, but … Morris has a party about every week around these parts. This time it’s a celebration of all things Dre, which means cuts by World Class Wrenkin Cru, NWA, Snoop Dogg, 2Pac, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Eminem, The Dogg Pound and more will be dropped by DJs Indiana Jones and Metrognome.

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The Icks, Jackson Vanhorn, Dani House 8 p.m. We’re stoked on the Icks’ latest release, a 7-inch we’ve kept in rotation on Sunday nights at Alt1033. Oh, you didn’t know your Friendly Neighborhood NUVO Music Editor spun local music on Sunday nights on Alt1033? Now you do.

State Street Pub, 243 N. State Ave., prices vary, 21+ DANCE Drinks, Donuts and Dancing: Deck’d Out Indy Launch Party 8:30 p.m. New party planners Deck’d Out want to lure you to the Hi-FI with donuts and beer to introduce their new social-event-

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Future 8 p.m. Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, this boy is up to somethin’.There’s no doubt he’ll have the crowd in awe or even tears, depending on your devotion.

Make sure to get your ticket to the hip-hop genius’ Purple Reign Tour before it’s too late and it’s all sold out — oops, it already is.

Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages DEIDOLZ Lee DeWyze, Wakey Wakey 8:30 p.m. Where do American Idol winners go when they “graduate” from Simon Cowell’s singing academy? Well, sometimes the Grammys (Carrie Underwood performed Monday) and sometimes smaller rock clubs like The Hi-Fi. We frankly prefer the smaller rock club route, which is why we’ll see Lee DeWyze in the Square on Sunday, with a batch of new songs from this month’s new album Oil & Water.

Clayton Anderson, Sheila Stephen, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+

The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, $12, 21+

Indy vs. Dayton: Involuntarys, GBR, Duderus, Grand Mammoth, Melody Inn, 21+

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My new girlfriend blurted out that she had a cuckolding past with her ex-husband. She says her ex badgered her into arranging “dates” with strangers and that he picked the guys. Her ex would then watch her having sex with a guy in a hotel room. The ex only watched and didn’t take part. I am really bothered by her past. She says she did it only because her ex pressured her into it and she wanted to save her marriage, so she agreed. But I suspect she may have enjoyed it and may have been testing me to see if I wanted to be a cuck. What should I do? I am really torn by my feelings toward her.

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about those other men being her ex-husband’s idea/fantasy and not hers.

As for whether she’s testing you: That’s a pretty easy test to fail, CINOVA. Open your mouth and say, “Cuckolding isn’t something I would ever want to do. The thought of you with another man isn’t a turn-on for me. Not at all.” It’s an easy F. What should you do? If you can’t let — CONFUSED IN NOVA this go, if you can’t get over the sex your girlfriend had with her ex-husband and DAN SAVAGE: You suspect she may have those other men, if you can’t hope she enjoyed fucking those other men? had a good time regardless of whose idea I hope she enjoyed fucking those other it was, if you can’t take “I’m not interested men — and you should too, CINOVA. Bein cuckolding you!” for an answer — if cause even if cuckolding wasn’t her fantasy, you can’t do all of that — then do your even if she fucked those other men only to girlfriend a favor and break up with her. delight her shitty ex-husband, anyone who She just got out from under a shitty huscares about this woman—and you do care band who pressured her into “cheating.” The last thing she needs now is a shitty Anyone who cares about this woman boyfriend who shames her for “cheating.”

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should hope the experiences she had with those other men weren’t overwhelmingly negative, completely traumatizing, or utterly joyless. about her, right? — should hope the experiences she had with those other men weren’t overwhelmingly negative, completely traumatizing, or utterly joyless.

And, yes, people will sometimes broach the subject of their own sexual interests/ fantasies using the passive voice or a negative frame because they’re afraid of rejection or they want an easy out or both. (“My ex was into this kinda extreme thing, and I did it because I felt I had to.” “That’s gross.”

“Yeah, I totally hated it.”) But cuckolding is almost always the husband’s fantasy — it’s rare for the wife to initiate cuckolding scenes/relationships —so odds are good that your girlfriend is telling you the truth

It’s always a little frustrating to read columns where we hear only one side of the story. Maybe you could solicit letters from both partners? A couple would agree in advance what the problem was and both send in a letter, but they should not read each other’s letters. Keep up the great work!

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Because the painter changed his or her mind. Early images were replaced, painted over. I suspect that a metaphorical version of this is underway in your life.

Certain choices you made in the past got supplanted by choices you made later. They disappeared from view. But now those older possibilities are re-emerging for your consideration. I’m not saying what you should do about them. I simply want to alert you to their ghostly presence so they don’t cause confusion.

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Since your words flow out of it, you use it to create and shape a lot of your experiences. Your mouth is also the place where food and drink enter your body, as well as some of the air you breathe. So it’s crucial to fueling every move you make. You experience the beloved sense of taste in your mouth. You use your mouth for kissing and other amorous activities. With its help, you sing, moan, shout, and laugh. It’s quite expressive, too. As you move its many muscles, you send out an array of emotional signals. I’ve provided this summary in the hope of inspiring you to celebrate your mouth, Taurus. It’s prime time to enhance your appreciation of its blessings!

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Coloring books for adults are best-sellers. Tightly-wound folks relieve their stress by using crayons and markers to brighten up black-andwhite drawings of butterflies, flowers, mandalas, and pretty fishes. I highly recommend that you avoid this type of recreation in the next three weeks, as it would send the wrong message to your subconscious mind. You should expend as little energy as possible working within frameworks that others have made. You need to focus on designing and constructing your own frameworks.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Old Testament book of Leviticus presents a long list of forbidden activities, and declares that anyone who commits them should be punished. You’re not supposed to get tattoos, have messy hair, consult oracles, work on Sunday, wear clothes that blend wool and linen, plant different seeds in the same field, or eat snails, prawns, pigs, and crabs. (It’s OK to buy slaves, though.) We laugh at how absurd it would be for us to obey these outdated rules and prohibitions, and yet many of us retain a superstitious loyalty toward guidelines and beliefs that are almost equally obsolete. Here’s the good news, Cancerian: Now is an excellent time to dismantle or purge your own fossilized formulas.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well,” said the philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. In accordance with your astrological constitution, Leo, I authorize you to use this declaration as your own almost any time you feel like it. But I do suggest that you make an exception to the rule during the next four weeks. In my opinion, it will be time to focus on increasing your understanding of the people you care about -- even if that effort takes time and energy away from your quest for ultimate self-knowledge. Don’t worry: You can return to emphasizing Thoreau’s perspective by the equinox.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are entering the inquisitive phase of your astrological cycle. One of the best ways to thrive during the coming weeks will be to ask more questions than you have asked since you were five years old. Curiosity and good listening skills will be superpowers that you should you strive to activate. For now, what matters most is not what you already know but Virgo

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Poet Barbara Hamby says the Russian word ostyt can be used to describe “a cup of tea that is too hot, but after you walk to the next room, and return, it is too cool.” A little birdie told me that this may be an apt metaphor for a current situation in your life. I completely understand if you wish the tea had lost less of its original warmth, and was exactly the temperature you like, neither burning nor tepid. But that won’t happen unless you try to reheat it, which would change the taste. So what should you do? One way or the other, a compromise will be necessary. Do you want the lukewarm tea or the hot tea with a different flavor?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Russian writer Ivan Turgenev was a Scorpio. Midway through his first novel *Rudin,* his main character Dmitrii Nikolaevich Rudin alludes to a problem that affects many Scorpios. “Do you see that apple tree?” Rudin asks a woman companion. “It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit.”

Ouch! I want very much for you Scorpios to be spared a fate like that in the coming weeks. That’s why I propose that you scheme about how you will express the immense creativity that will be welling up in you. Don’t let your lush and succulent output go to waste.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Asking you Sagittarians to be patient may be akin to ordering a bonfire to burn more politely. But it’s my duty to inform you of the cosmic tendencies, so I will request your forbearance for now. How about some nuances to make it more palatable? Here’s a quote from author David G. Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”

Novelist Gustave Flaubert: “Talent is a long patience.”

French playwright Moliere: “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” Writer Ann Lamott: “Hope is a revolutionary patience.” I’ve saved the best for last, from Russian novelist Irène Némirovsky: “Waiting is erotic.”

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you ask for help it comes, but not in any way you’d ever know.” Poet Gary Snyder said that, and now I’m passing it on to you, Capricorn. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to think deeply about the precise kinds of help you would most benefit from -- even as you loosen up your expectations about how your requests for aid might be fulfilled. Be aggressive in seeking assistance, but ready and willing to be surprised as it arrives.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): For a limited time only, 153 is your lucky number. Mauve and olive are your colors of destiny, the platypus is your power animal, and torn burlap mended with silk thread is your magic texture.

I realize that all of this may sound odd, but it’s the straight-up truth. The nature of the cosmic rhythms are rather erratic right now. To be in maximum alignment with the irregular opportunities that are headed your way, you should probably make yourself magnificently mysterious, even to yourself. To quote an old teacher, this might be a good time to be “so unpredictable that not even you yourself knows what’s going to happen.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the long-running TV show M*A*S*H*, the character known as Sidney Freedman was a psychiatrist who did his best to nurture the mental health of the soldiers in his care. He sometimes departed from conventional therapeutic approaches. In the series finale, he delivered the following speech, which I believe is highly pertinent to your current quest for good mental hygiene: “I told you people something a long time ago, and it’s just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

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