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Indianapolis holds key to Benjaman Kyle’s true identity PORTRAIT BY ARTIST MIGUEL ENDARA

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Benjaman Kyle was found naked, beaten and unconscious behind a dumpster at a Burger King in Richmond Hill, Ga., in 2004. He had no memories at all — didn’t know his name, his address, his friends’ names or even if he had friends. The beating caused retrograde amnesia, commonly known as Hollywood amnesia. The only thing Kyle remembers is bits and pieces of a life in Indianapolis.

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HAMMER HAMMER THROUGH THE YEARS

Steve is busy apartment shopping and preparing to take the final exam necessary to complete the training for his new job in Texas. He remembers the following column, which he wrote for the Sept. 22, 2004 issue of NUVO, as one of his favorites.

Random scenes from city life It isn’t always pretty

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BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

’m arriving at the doctor’s office at 7:45 a.m. to get some blood drawn. The receptionist had advised me to be there early, even though the office doesn’t open until 8. Otherwise, she said, I’d be waiting a few hours. When I reach the door, there are two people already there waiting. “Is this the line for Springsteen tickets?” I joke, hoping to kill the time with some conversation.

The guy looks at me with a blank expression on his face. “No,” he says, “this is the line for the doctor’s office.” “Oh,” I say. I wait silently for the doors to open.

I’m waiting in line at my neighborhood pharmacy to get a prescription filled. There are three people ahead of me: a man approximately 25 years old with an infant child in a car seat and this kind of weathered woman in her 40s. She asked the man the baby’s name and age. The man said the baby’s name is Rowan and that she’s 8 months old. The woman responded, “That’s an ugly name but it fits perfectly with an ugly baby.”

She wasn’t smiling. She might have been joking, but the child’s father didn’t laugh, nor did I. The woman was getting a heavy dose of antibiotics, huge horse pills in a giant bottle. When she paid for her prescription, she also purchased two other items: a can of Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs and a 1-gallon jug of Mr. and Mrs. T’s Bloody Mary Mix. I thought to myself, “That’s the most random assortment of items I’ve ever seen.” It could have been file folders and a dog’s flea collar, or a package of Corn Nuts and a Hallmark figurine.

Strange. The woman joked to the pharmacy worker, “I’m going to drink bloody marys and take my drugs.”

The baby, which was absolutely adorable, wasn’t really paying attention to anyone but her dad and so was not disturbed by this strange woman. But I was freaked out by her, as was the dad. You see a lot of strange things these days.

After a brutally difficult day at work, I find myself standing in line again, this time at the Kroger service desk. I need to buy money orders for rent, since the bastards at the banks

won’t let me have an account anymore. It’s Friday, I’m tired, I’m hot, I’m grumpy. There are six people in line ahead of me. All of a sudden, this elderly woman literally elbows her way to the front of the line, a store manager closely behind her. The woman has to be at least 85 years old. She looks like Bob Hope’s mom. She’s also screaming at the top of her lungs. “YOU BASTARDS SHORTCHANGED ME, GODDAM IT!” she yells. “You better fuckin’ give me my goddamn money back, you bastards.” Her volume and tone would have offended Bobby Knight. Also, it’s really strange to hear a senior citizen use any variation of the word “fuck.” The store manager tries to explain to the woman that she hadn’t scanned her Kroger card, which is why an item rang up at a higher price than it should have. “Bullshit!” the old woman says. “I don’t want any excuses, I just want my fuckin’ stuff to ring up at the right goddamn price.”

By this time, there’s a small crowd watching her yell and scream. They end up giving her the item for free, just to get rid of her. The woman behind the desk looks like she wants to scream back at the old woman but restrains herself. When I get to the front of the line, I ask the clerk, “Having a good day at work?” She looks at me like she wants to kill me, sees my smile and then starts laughing.

I’m sitting at home, enjoying a tumbler of Hennessy and talking to a young colleague.

I’m watching a documentary on the John F. Kennedy assassination. The film is showing JFK and his wife traveling happily through the Dallas streets, unaware of an impending tragedy. When JFK’s limo pulls onto Elm Street and passes the Texas School Book Depository, I start talking to the television.

“Sir,” I say, “I would strongly advise you to duck. In fact, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to hit the deck right about now.” I hear a thud. My colleague had thrown himself to the floor of my apartment, unaware that I was addressing Mr. Kennedy and not him.

When he realizes his mistake, he laughs and admonishes me not to tell anyone. “I won’t,” I say. “Your secret is safe with me.”

Only a few days left

The deadline to register to vote is coming up quickly. You have to have your application in by Oct. 4 or else you won’t be eligible to vote in this election, which as you know is the most important ever. Don’t let the Republicans scare you out of voting. Their goal is to keep the turnout low. And don’t be afraid to register to vote if you have a criminal record. As long as you’re not currently locked up in prison, state law says you have the right to vote. The Republicans don’t want you to know that fact, either. But I do. If you’re interested in stopping the satanic/fascist takeover of America, go to your nearest library or BMV branch and get the form. You can also find the form by Googling the words “register vote Indiana.” It’ll cost you 37 cents to mail in the form, which I’ll gladly loan you if you don’t have it. If you’re interested in re-electing President Bush, however, don’t bother to register. Stay at home Nov. 2 and get drunk instead. I’ll buy the booze.

You see a lot of strange things these days.

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HOPPE George Bush’s paintings

The soul of an ex-president

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BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

urt Vonnegut famously said that doing art “makes your soul grow.”

He also observed that President George W. Bush had a “psychopathic personality.” So you can’t help but wonder what Kurt would have made of the news that George has taken up painting.

It seems a hacker managed to find his way into an online stream of Bush family communications. Among the things he found there were images. These included a documentary photo of the former POTUS, clad in shorts and a ball cap, daubing at an easel. Better still, the hacker was able to reveal a couple of Bush’s paintings.

W is not the first world leader to pick up a brush. Eisenhower and Churchill were both so-called Sunday painters; Adolf Hitler actually managed to get into art school, where his work found little favor, embittering the would-be aesthete and, according to some, prompting him to take up politics.

As artists, those 20th century potentates shared a certain conservatism. They preferred,

for the most part, to paint what they saw in the landscape in front of them. Bush, if the two paintings we’ve seen so far are any indication, is up to something else.

For starters, both paintings are set in a bathroom. The first takes place in a tub. It is painted from the bather’s point of view, so we see a pair of knees jutting up from cloudy water then, further off, two sets of toes propped against the tub’s far wall. A gush of water pours down from the tap; there is a black border immediately around the top of the tub and a beige tile wall above that. A white towel hangs down from the upper edge of the frame.

The second painting is a shower scene.

A man, naked from the waist up, stands with his back to us in front of a tile wall, as water falls from a showerhead. A circular shaving mirror hangs from the showerhead and, in it, we see the reflected face of the bather. That face, it is fair to say, bears a more than passing resemblance to the 43rd president of the United States.

These images are composed in a slightly off-kilter, asymmetrical way. The technique is blunt and a little cartoonish, but not exactly primitive. It is sharp-edged and shadowless in a way that recalls David Hockney’s paintings of southern California swimming pool scenes.

The more I look at them, the more I have to say that … I kind of like them.

It is impossible to write this without being struck by our national penchant for revisionism when it comes to the lives of ex-presidents. And so Richard Nixon, the

man who created the Enemies List and tried to circumvent the Constitution, in his dotage, becomes a visionary diplomat; Jimmy Carter, reviled for being humorless and ineffective during his single term, is now a sage humanitarian; Ronald Reagan’s lies are remembered warmly as the work of a great communicator; Bill Clinton’s sexual shenanigans get redrawn as charisma.

In the matter of George W. Bush, in case we need reminding, we have an ex-prez who took office through Supreme Court fiat, flat-out lied to gin up public support for an unnecessary war in Iraq and presided over bubblebased economic policies that substituted easy credit for real prosperity. If he has been keeping a “low profile” since stepping down, that’s because his presidency can’t stand scrutiny; if he were to travel abroad, there are some countries that might try to arrest him for war crimes.

No wonder the scenes he paints happen in the most private room in the house.

Part of the charm of Bush’s paintings is their intimacy. He is literally stripped bare.

For some artists, this is an act of defiance. But that’s not what’s going on here. Rather, Bush seems to be owning up to something we’ve probably known about him from the start.

When Bush first ran for president, it was said he was the kind of guy with whom you could sit and drink a beer. That this hardly qualified him to be leader of the most powerful nation on earth was lost in the shuffle. It helped obscure the fact that he’d been an indifferent student, an absent air national guardsman, and a lackluster businessman whose political success was teed up by his fabulously well-connected parents.

Being president seemed an awful prize for Bush. It exaggerated his weaknesses and dwarfed his modest strengths. The terrorist attacks at the beginning of his first term would define his entire presidency, in part because of their horrific nature, but also because of his lack of capacity to lead the country through its state of shock. Our politics still suffers from the delusional thinking that enabled Bush’s two terms.

So while these paintings were seemingly intended only for the eyes of Bush’s family, their public unveiling turns out to be an inadvertent gift. It’s hard to think of another figure of this stature — if stature is the word — to so completely bring his image down to its proper, human scale. For Bush, growing his soul has meant cutting himself down to size.

No wonder the scenes he paints happen in the most private room in the house.

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Forward on Climate March drew some forty thousand earth inhabitants Canadians and Americans both came to Washington DC I was among the crowd, excited to shout my hopes to Obama he was absent, though, in Florida golfing with some Texas oil men still we can hope he says no to Keystone XL or else it’s game o’er Keystone XL is a pipeline to disaster, the eco-calypse day ended with a dance party on the grounds of the National Mall ya gotta guess there’s no dancing when the fuel dudes group — ‘cept on our graves this is the turning point tipping upon us the place of no return can you get in the game? can you make commitment to our Mother Earth?

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN BREATHING EASIER

On Monday, American Electric Power reached a settlement with the U.S. EPA and several other stakeholders to retire three coal-burning plants in the midwest, including one in Indiana. Altogether, plaintiffs estimated the plant retirements would eliminate 12 million tons in carbon-based emissions and 84,000 tons of sulfur dioxide. The Clean Air Task Force, which works to raise awareness of the health challenges associated with emissions from coal-burning plants estimated that the closures would avert 203 deaths, 310 heart attacks, 3,160 asthma attacks, and 188 emergency room visits per year.

Plaintiffs report that the agreement will also require AEP to install new pollution controls at its Rockport plant, as well as develop 50 MW of wind or solar power in 2013 and an additional 150 MW of wind or solar power in Indiana or Michigan by 2015, plus invest $2.5 million in efforts to improve Indiana’s air quality.

HUNGER HELPERS

The Indy Hunger Network, a collaborative, volunteer-led coalition of all the public and private antihunger programs in Indy, served 3 million meals last year, according to network president Dave Miner. They aim “to create a system by 2015 that ensures anyone who is hungry can access the nutritious food they need.” The network has posted a volunteer matrix at IndyHunger.org that outlines the many different ways people can help.

Ongoing projects include working with local farmers to increase access to fresh produce and stuffing backpacks to send home with students who do not have dependable access to food at home. IHN also encourages people facing food insecurity to call the 2-1-1 helpline for assistance.

Operators can also help connect callers to a variety of other services, from employment to health care.

FAR FROM FREE

The annual report of hate crimes reported to the FBI speaks volumes about the challenges the U.S. still faces as a nation seeking to overcome the toxic effects of racial prejudice. Of the 6,222 single-bias incidents reported in 2011, almost half (46.9 percent) were associated with racial bias; an additional 11.6 percent were associated with bias against certain ethnicities or nationalities.

The Indiana Civil Rights Commission recently posted a Youtube video “The Road to Equality,” highlighting efforts to tackle discrimination within the state. The commission handles cases related to race, sex, disability and sexual harassment, but not sexual orientation. Marion County, however, is one of a handful of Indiana counties that does expand protections to the LGBT community.

THOUGHT BITE

By Andy Jacobs Jr. BMW has been fueled for decades by water. Hydrogen: clean, cheap. The Energy Dept. (still owned lock, stock and barrel by oil) continues to push polluting carbon. I’d be nice if it would work for us.

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news Health-care costs pinch some workers

“If we are all happy and committed to doing a great job here, I’d like to think everyone benefits,”

Contracts up for renewal at airport

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

onna Byrer is a bartender at Indy 500 Grill at the Indianapolis International Airport. A single mom of a 5 year-old boy, Byrer switched to the airport from more typical bartending jobs, enticed by the family-friendly shifts that start her workday as early as 8:30 a.m.

When I express surprise at the need for a bright-and-early bartender, she laughs.

“There are three types of people who drink here in the morning: Those who fly all night, those who are afraid to fly, and those who just drink in the mornings.”

Byrer appreciates the perpetual flow of the airport traffic bringing new people to her bar stools every day. She has served celebrities and traveling executives, consoled military moms away from their families, and keeps in touch with many of her former customers by Facebook.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the airport to our community. The terminal that opened in 2008 cost $1.1. billion to build, the largest civic development project in Indianapolis history. The Indianapolis Airport Authority, the municipal corporation that operates the airport, estimates the facility’s economic impact on Central Indiana exceeds $3 billion each year. Byrer is one of 10,000 people who come to work at the airport each day.

Many of them work at restaurants and bars with familiar names like Shapiro’s, Harry & Izzy’s and Champps, which in turn are operated by large travel food companies with unfamiliar names like Areas USA. Byrer works for SSP America, which operates the Indy 500 Grill. Areas and SSP negotiated contracts with the labor union UNITE HERE, which represents their nonmanagement employees at the airport.

“I can honestly say that I am happy to come to work each day,” Byrer says. But that does not mean she is pleased with the current conditions. SSP America pays her just $4 per hour. Applying the bartender’s blunt charm to microeconomic analysis, she smiles and says, “That just sucks.”

Even when tips are added in, Byrer makes far below the estimated $35,000 annual income that the MIT-based Living Wage Project estimates is necessary for a family of two in central Indiana. (The minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour, a number that has not changed in 22 years. Often, tips are not enough to

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— Donna Byrer, bartender, Indy 500 Grill at the airport

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Donna Byrer, above, will be watching upcoming negotiations between UNITE HERE and food service companies at the airport to see if they can make progress on making health-care costs more affordable for hourly employees.

Darryl “Willie” Jones, left, who works in food service at the airport, said he earns too much for his daughter to qualify for Hoosier Healthwise Medicaid assistance, but not enough to cover insurance premiums for his work-sponsored plan, so he and his daughter are uninsured right now.

raise a worker’s salary over the poverty line. Waiters and waitresses have a poverty rate double that of other workers in the U.S., according to a 2011 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Wage and Employment Dynamics.)

Byrer is a member of the union. But she admits to ambivalence about whether it has been effective in advocating for the airport’s tipped employees. She can’t afford the company-provided health insurance, in part because SSP America refuses to deduct the premiums from tipped employees’ paychecks before taxes. Byrer hurt her back last summer and had to go to the emergency room for treatment. Now, she struggles to make payments on a $2,000 hospital bill.

Her back still causes her problems, and she has been referred to a specialist and a physical therapist for treatment. She can’t pay the fees charged by either one. The union’s contract with SSP America expires year, and Byrer will be closely watching the discussions about health insurance.

Darryl “Willie” Jones came to his airport job for family reasons, too. After the mother of his 8 year-old daughter, Aaliyah, died unexpectedly last year, Jones suddenly found himself a single dad. The evening hours of his job as a shuttle bus driver prevented Jones from caring for his daughter after school, so he took a lower-paying job as a day-shift cook at the airport. Now working at Areas USA-operated Giorgio’s Pizzeria, Jones’ daily routine begins at 4:30 a.m. He gets himself ready for work and his daughter ready for school, then drives to

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her elementary school two counties away from their home. (“I promised to let her stay in this school, and she needs that stability right now,” he says.) Then Jones rushes to start his 7:30 a.m. shift at the airport. After work, he hustles back to pick up Aaliyah after school—often turning down muchneeded overtime opportunities—and brings her back home for dinner and homework.

Both father and daughter still mourn for Aaliyah’s mother. I ask Jones if he ever had doubts about whether he could pull off the single working-dad challenge. “Only every day,” he says. He stops talking for a minute and looks away. “For so many reasons, I just wish she was still here with us.”

Jones started working at the airport after the union was already in place. At first, he did not think much about his union membership. Then, just a few months into the job, he found himself in a dispute with a fellow employee. “It was a he said/she said thing, and I didn’t do anything wrong. But my job was on the line,” he says. A union representative spoke with management, and Jones kept his job. “I found out that

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being part of a union means they can’t just push us around, that they have to give issues like this a second look.”

UNITE HERE members and organizers say there are other benefits, too. Unionized workers are paid a dollar or two more per hour than comparable non-union workers at the airport. The union members receive annual raises and say they get more and better hours than their non-union counterparts.

For most companies, a unionized workforce provides staffing stability and more experienced workers. (An Areas USA human resources executive declined to be interviewed for this article, and SSP America did not respond to messages seeking comment.)

But workers like Byrer and Jones are still struggling to get by on their current wages. Access to healthcare is a huge issue for most of the union members. Adding family members to the employer-provided health plans triggers a big increase in premiums. Jones said he earns too much for his daughter to qualify for Hoosier Healthwise Medicaid assistance, but not enough to cover insurance premiums for his work-sponsored plan, so he and his daughter are uninsured right now. In the contract negotiations coming up, the workers are aiming for a better deal.

The workers are not the only ones with a stake in those negotiations, says Pat Andrews, blogger and activist in the Decatur Township area south of the airport. “This is our government running the airport,” she says. “The airport is generally known for having low-paying jobs, and you would hope our Indianapolis Airport Authority could do more to address that.”

Byrer agrees that good pay and benefits for airport workers are in the community’s best interest. “We are the first ones that people see when they come to Indianapolis, and the last ones they see before they leave,” she says. “If we are all happy and committed to doing a great job here, I’d like to think everyone benefits.”

Fran Quigley is a clinical professor at IU McKinney School of Law, where he directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic. He is a former news editor at NUVO and remains a regular contributor.

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NEWS Checking in on the General Assembly Several bills of interest still alive

BY RE BE CCA T O WN S E N D R T O W N S E N D@N U V O . N E T (W I TH C O N T R I B U T I O N S FR OM LE SLE Y W EI DEN BE N E R A N D T H E S T AT E HOUSE FILE )

Indiana lawmakers authored more than 1,200 proposed pieces of legislation for consideration by the 2013 General Assembly.

At they near the session's midpoint, about 350 bills remain alive.

The state's biennial budget, which passed the House on Monday, is now in the hands of the Senate.

Overall, as of Feb. 25, 123 House bills have been sent to the Senate and assigned to committee. The same number of bills have advanced from the Senate and been assigned to House committees.

Once both legislative chambers have marked up the bills of the opposite chamber, they will convene conference committees for what's known as the "sausage-making" period in the final weeks of the session, a magical time when just about anything can resurface and work its way into Indiana code.

Lawmakers encourage people interested in influencing the outcome of any particular piece of legislation to contact their local representatives in the House and Senate.

The General Assembly's website (in.gov/ legislative) offers contact information, as well as a tool to identify one's representatives. Bill summaries, complete bill text, and a digest of the most recent actions lawmakers have taken will be linked to this story at NUVO.net.

Here is an update on a handful of bills, still in play as of Monday, in which our readers have expressed interest:

Budget

Gov. Mike Pence remains committed to his 10 percent tax cut, but House skepticism crystallized Monday when the leadership refused to include the cut in its version of the budget. The general attitude is that they want to see the next state revenue forecast, due out in April, before committing to policies that will reduce the state's cash flow, though there seems to more sentiment to speed corporate and inheritance tax cuts than offer an income break, observed John Schorg, director of media relations for the Indiana House Democrats. The House Democrats offered a graduated income tax, which was rejected. They also attempted to introduce Pence's proposed cut, but leadership refused to allow a vote on the issue.

The House budget would spend 2 percent more on education in the first year and 1 percent more in the second year, which would send a total of $334 million more to schools. It also increases funding for uni-

versities by 3.5 percent over two years. By changing allocations in gasoline tax, the plan would add about $250 million per year to the state's Motor Vehicle Highway Account, from which about 53 percent of the money is spent on state projects and 47 percent is sent to local governments for their road budgets.

Among many other items of interest, the House budget boosts funding for the Department of Child Services by $40 million.

Mass Transit – House Bill 1011

The roadblocks that impeded the mass transit bill from progressing out of committee last session have fallen. House lawmakers on Monday approved the bill, which would enable Central Indiana to pursue much-needed upgrades to local mass transit systems, by a vote of 56-39. It is now in the hands of the Senate.

City Council Consolidation – SB 621

The innocuous title [“Local Govermnent Issues”] on this bill belies its seismic intent — to, among other power consolidating efforts, strip the at-large council seats from the Indianapolis-Marion County City County Council. Authored by Sen. Michael Young, R-Indianapolis, the bill passed the Senate on 33-14 vote and was scheduled to be heard Tuesday in its first House committee meeting.

Department of Child Services Oversight – SB125

This bill would enact reforms to help abused and neglected children. It passed the Senate unanimously and is now in the hands of the House.

Reproductive Rights – Senate Bills 489 and 371

Legislators authored 12 bills pertaining to abortion and reproductive rights this session; as of Monday, two of these bills were still poised for possible advancement.

Senators voted to eliminate one of two vaginal ultrasounds required by Senate Bill 371, but the bill's primary purpose, to tighten restrictions on clinics dispensing the abortion-inducing drug, RU489, is still in effect. Senate Bill 489, which supporters say pertains to "informed consent" and detractors call "misinformed consent," insists that the Indiana State Department of Health take a more active role in publishing the brochures distributed to women preparing for abortion, and that the pamphlets be printed in color with information and pictures "that are available at no cost or nominal cost to the state department."

Filming Farms - Senate Bill 373 Mainstream farm lobbyists insist that this bill is necessary to protect farmers from misguided activists who would sensationalize modern agricultural techniques and foment unfair attacks on the ag industry.

Detractors call the bill, which prevents the dissemination of photos taken on a farm without written consent to anyone outside of law enforcement, the "ag gag,” and are concerned that it will make it increasingly difficult to blow the whistle on operations flouting regulations to protect the workers, the environment and animal welfare.

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the key to Benjaman Kyle’s true identity

BY NAT HAN BROW N ED I T ORS@NUVO.NET

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hey already had a John Doe in the hospital. They couldn’t take on a second one. BK just made sense. After all, that’s where he was found — Burger King. And that’s how Benjaman Kyle got his name on that first day of the only life he can remember clearly.

Kyle was found naked, beaten and unconscious behind a dumpster at a Burger King in Richmond Hill, Ga., in 2004.

Initially, those who found him thought he was dead.

Artist Miguel Endara heard about Benjaman Kyle’s plight and decided to put his artistry to work, creating this portrait, composed completely of dots: 2.1 million of them, in fact. Endara sells a limited edition of the print, with 50 percent of the proceeds going directly to Kyle. miguelendara.com/art/benjamankyle

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Kyle had no memories of how he got there.

Actually, at that time, he had no memories at all — didn’t know his name, his address, his friends’ names or even if he had friends. He spent months being shuffled between hospitals, homeless shelters and drug rehabilitation centers before he was diagnosed with retrograde amnesia, commonly known as Hollywood amnesia.

“Mostly, I felt kind of lost,” Kyle told me in a recent phone call from his home in Jacksonville, Fla. “You see this in movies. People pound their heads on the wall and say, ‘Who am I? Why me? Why me?’ And I never did that. I was just trying to figure out who I was.”

Retrograde amnesia is extremely rare, but it’s an oft-used plot device for movies and television shows. Check out any soap opera and you will likely see a character with this or another form of amnesia. Retrograde amnesia works backward by erasing your most recent memories first and moving further into the past. This happens because neural pathways for fresher memories are weaker because they haven’t been recalled as many times as older memories.

“There’s not a whole lot of information available about why this happens,” said Stephen L. Boehm II, director of the neuroscience program at IUPUI. “In most cases of amnesia, you can trace it back to a head injury. It’s rare for someone to be found some place with no memories going back as far as they can remember. It gets even more bizarre if there’s no indication of a head injury. Those cases are far and few between.”

Naked in limbo Kyle was found without a stitch of clothing and absolutely no possessions. With no ID, no driver’s license, no birth certificate and no social security number, Kyle was caught in limbo. The hospitals wouldn’t allow him to stay any longer. He couldn’t get a car, a job or an apartment. Homeless shelters wouldn’t let him stay because he didn’t have a social security number. So, he took to the streets.

Three years passed. Three years of not knowing his true name, sleeping on the streets and ultimately realizing that he was very, very alone. Only a handful of memories resurfaced — a few memories of Denver and a few of Indianapolis, which Kyle thinks are from his childhood. He also believes he’s exactly 10 years older than Michael Jackson — that would make Kyle 64 — and that his first name could very well be Benjaman, even with the odd “a” in there.

“The only thing I can say is how do you

know your name is (yours)?” he said. “It’s one of the things that seemed to stick with me.

It’s like my birthday. I was born 10 years to the day before Michael Jackson. That’s how I remember. I associate stuff.”

Most people don’t believe Kyle’s story when they first hear it. People across the Internet dismiss it as a hoax or a publicity stunt.

“When I meet people, I never tell them my story,” Kyle said. “They just look at you so weird. There was an old guy I met on the streets. I told him my story and he said, ‘This is the biggest load of bullshit.’ He didn’t believe me and turned around and walked away.”

Nothing happened for Kyle until 2007, the year he met a nurse at a homeless shelter. She knew someone in the office of U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, a congressman from Georgia.

“His office started making phone calls,” Kyle said. “That’s when FBI got involved and when they started fingerprinting me.”

Surely, the FBI could help Kyle, right?

Didn’t they track down Dillinger, Capone, and the Unabomber?

“The FBI fingerprinted me, and that came up negative,” Kyle said. “They’ve fingerprinted me five times now and the last time they said if nothing came up, then there was nothing. They have nothing else they can search. Fingerprints have been sent to INTERPOL, Canada and South America.

They came back negative. I am in the CODIS (Combined DNA Index System), the federal DNA database. If they come up with a close hit from anyone that gets entered into that database, my name will show up.”

Benjaman Kyle is the only person listed in the FBI’s missing persons database whose whereabouts are known.

tribes or wars I’ve never heard of and then I found Benjaman’s Wikipedia page.”

Wikstrom’s initial reaction to Kyle’s story was somewhere between disbelief and humor — he’d found his subject.

Wikstrom emailed Kyle and they planned to meet in Savannah, Ga. “Benjaman and I had dinner one night at a restaurant by a homeless shelter he was trying to get into, but he was having difficulties because he didn’t have a social security number,” Wikstrom said. “After that first dinner, it became evident that there wasn’t anything funny about this story. Benjaman’s story — there’s a sense of incredulousness about it.

Telling his story had to be a call for help.”

Kyle was hesitant, but he allowed Wikstrom to make a documentary about him. Wikstrom went back to Florida to assemble the film crew of his two best friends and make preparations. “(When we were ready) I called the woman he was staying with and she said he left and was walking on Interstate 95,” Wikstrom said. “The situation he had arranged with the woman under whose care he was staying was coming to an end, so he had to move. This was right at the beginning of the documentary and before the filming had started. He didn’t call and tell me about this. The only thing that was going on with him was this documentary. He walked half way from Savannah to Jacksonville. And then a police officer picked him up.”

After this surprising move, Kyle settled in on the streets of Jacksonville and Wikstrom began filming. Local media caught wind of Kyle’s story and once again began to swarm. Kyle’s story was broadcast around the Jacksonville area and some local good Samaritans came to his aid.

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A place to stay — and a job

In 2007, the media storm hit.

Newspapers, radio, CNN, BBC and even Dr. Phil stepped in. But even they couldn’t solve the mystery. Because of all the media attention, Kyle’s story came to the attention of a young Florida college student and amateur filmmaker who would soon become Kyle’s only champion.

John Wikstrom was researching potential topics for a film he would make for one of his college courses.

“I was two weeks late on picking a subject,” Wikstrom said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles. “I went on Stumble Upon and I said to myself, ‘I’m going to spend three hours here and at the end have a subject.’ I hit the Stumble button and I kept seeing articles on Ethiopian

Benjaman Kyle does have a few early memories. He wasn’t a complete tabula rasa when he woke up. Specifically, he remembers areas of Denver and Indianapolis. He enjoys looking at Google Street View and trying to remember things.

Here’s what he told me he remembers about his early life and Indianapolis: • I think I was born in Indianapolis.

• The old trolleys with the cables, they traveled into the bus barn and so did the Greyhound bus.

• I was born 10 years to the

“Someone called me up and offered me a place to stay,” Kyle said. “Another guy called me up and offered me a job, but he’s paying me out of his pocket because he can’t put me on the payroll.”

The place to stay is a shed behind the sheriff’s office and the job is washing dishes in a restaurant.

“I’ve had this job since May of 2010 and I’m still sleeping in the shed,” he said. “Sometimes I feel like I’m in a trap. Most people can go out and get another job. Well, I can’t.”

Wikstrom completed his documentary Finding Benjaman about Kyle’s situation just over a year ago and it drew much acclaim.

day before Michael Jackson (the late pop star was born Aug. 29, 1958).

• I have very vivid memories of being in Denver. We formulated that I was there in 1976 (he would have been about 28). My memories of Denver seem to end in about 1985.

We know I was there in 1976 because I remember attending a Blood, Sweat, and Tears concert in Red Rocks. I remember the fireworks.

• I remember the Soldiers and Sailors Monument and the Circle Theatre.

Wikstrom was invited to show his film at the Cannes and Tribeca film festivals.

After the film was finished and things began to normalize, Wikstrom didn’t just bid adieu to Kyle. He decided to take even more action and started a website, FindingBenjaman. com. He also started a petition to bring Kyle’s situation to the attention of the president. Unfortunately, the petition ended in December with about two-thirds of the necessary number of signatures. In November, Wikstrom also helped Kyle host an Ask Me Anything event on Redditt.

“When something comes up, I try not to get my hopes up. It’d be like a rollercoaster,” Kyle said. “During this petition drive, I didn’t get any hopes until we were about halfway through. I guess I just started hoping again. I was pretty down when it didn’t go through.

But, in the last year and a half, John’s got more done for me than anyone else has in the last seven and a half.”

But, Kyle’s situation remains virtually unchanged. In the past year, because of efforts by a Florida state representative, Kyle was awarded a Florida legacy identification card, which is a step in the right direction. Kyle still has no social security number though.

“Right now, I just need a social security number just so I can exist,” Kyle said.

“I can’t get an apartment and I couldn’t vote in this last election.”

Wikstrom continues to maintain the FindingBenjaman.com website and receives a constant flow of emails with potential leads and people just wanting to help. The help and following have been unexpected, but Wikstrom said he tries to filter through all of them. He also has plans to make a follow-up documentary.

“One of the things that struck me the most about Benjaman’s story is that he didn’t have an advocate — Benjaman didn’t have anyone in his corner,” Wikstrom said. “That’s the role I fell into and I fell into gladly. He’s become a good friend of mine. Our lives have intersected in that way and I guess I’m a part of his story and he’s a part of mine. I got married last month and Benjaman was at the wedding.”

If you ask Benjaman what’s the best possible thing in the world that could happen to him, he won’t hesitate before answering, “Win the lottery! A million dollars!” You can’t help but smile. But that quickly fades when he adds still excitedly laughing: “I buy a Powerball ticket twice a week. The funny thing about it, if I hit the big one, I can’t collect it.”

If you think you might know this man, contact editors@nuvo.net.

• I remember being in the Indiana Theatre, in the lobby looking down and seeing the concession stand and being amazed that they sold ice cream.

• I’m convinced I was raised Catholic. I was on the Archdiocese of Indianapolis’ website, but I didn’t recognize any of the churches I could find online.

• There was a big Woolworth store on the circle, too.

• I saw the marquee in Fountain Square, of course it’s been redone a bit, but

it’s basically the same. I remember seeing that.

• The big cemetery, Crown Hill. I remember that.

• There’s a masonic temple close to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.

• The state fair, a stand that sold grilled cheeses and a pint of milk for about a quarter. I think it was operated by the Indiana Dairy Board.

• There used to be a big Burger Chef downtown.

• I remember looking at the state capitol building.

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First Friday, by the show Eco-Logic @ SpaceCamp MicroGallery Four artists will give their take on our changing planet at SpaceCamp this month in a show curated by Flounder Lee and funded in part by an IUPUI Institute for Art and Humanities Research Grant. Michael Brody’s contribution explores the life cycle of palm oil trees in Costa Rica; Caleb Charland’s photographs show how LED lights might be entirely powered by fruits and vegetables; Jason Ferguson’s Koe responds to the way in which the coastline of the Netherlands has been divided into a series of dikes in order to address flood threats; and Carsten Schneider and Suzanne Hensel’s Vogeltrommel (Birdy Drum) depicts wild birds that have been trained to play (human-made) musical instruments. (Reception March 1, 7-10 p.m.; open select weekend hours through March)

Beyond Vernacular @ Gallery 924 Herron grads Matt Hutton and Cory Robinson graduated with BFAs in woodworking before earning post-grad degrees and returning to academia as professors.

They’ve employed digital fabrication techniques and made use of materials beyond wood, like steel and acrylic, in creating the work collected in their joint show Beyond Vernacular. (Reception 6-9 p.m., on display Tue-Fri through March)

Packet Switcher @ Herron Owen Mundy’s work resists the thumbnail sketch. He’ll tell you that he “investigates public space and its relationship to data,” offering up his work in order to aid the ordinary person in hacking his way out of the technological morass. He’s created a Facebook app designed to help users recover

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their data, several series exploring the impact of militarism on daily life (the Bedford-born Mundy once worked as a photographer for the U.S. Navy) and he founded the Bloomington-based nonprofit Your Art Here. Packet Switcher collects a variety of his recent work, including “dystopian visualizations of anonymous network data,” according to press release. (Reception Feb. 27, 6-9 p.m., including a 6 p.m. talk by Mundy; on display Mon-Sat through April 13)

Uptown Girls @ Harrison Center for the Arts That’s UPtown as in the neighborhoods of Herron-Morton, Fall Creek Place and Kennedy King. And the girls are Linda Adele Goodine and her studio assistant, Kyle Channing Smith.

They’ll be mounting a bunch of photos in the Harrison Gallery they took in the former church in which Goodine lives and works. Keeping with the theme in the Gallery Annex, photographers Jonathan Frey and Robert Evans will have photos of women and businesses that make their home in the UPtown region. Also on the docket: Kipp Norman’s TRASH, using materials he discarded while working on other projects, in the City Gallery; and in the Underground, Underground Chic, a group show curated by William Denton Ray and Quincy Owens.

Selections from a Human Circus @ Indy Indie Art Gallery Local photographer (and frequent NUVO contributor) Mike Allee has the run of Indy Indie this month with a collection of 13 images taken in Europe and the U.S. No actual circus performers are pictured; Allee’s subject is rather the circus of human life in all its glory and/or squalor. The circus vibe will be enhanced Friday at an opening featuring DJ Jay Diff, juggling by Krembo from the Blue Monkey Slideshow and plenty of popcorn. (Reception March 1, 6-9 p.m.; on display Thu-Sat through March)

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reCYCLE pARTS @ Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery

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It looks like a steam-punk caterpillar, with a bulbous, glass beaker-shaped head, oldfashioned driving goggles for eyes, and an elongated body made mostly from calipers, or bicycle brakes. Aptly named “Caliperpillar,” it’s Indy-based artist Matt Sommers’s submission to reCYCLE pARTS, a fundraiser/art show opening Friday at The Stutz.

The show’s premise is relatively simple: Take bicycles destined for the dump, tear them apart, and allow sculptors, photographers and painters to wheel away as many parts as needed. 20 local artists, given two months to create their pieces, are participating; sales will raise money for local and international bicycle charities.

Sun King Brewing Company is partnering with the Stutz Artist Association on the show, which, according to Sun King’s Heather Hall, was inspired by a similar program run by Chicago-based bike company SRAM. “They have done some major art shows where they have taken their very high end, very chic, very flashy bike components and had artists construct sculptures,” she says. “We thought to make the SRAM concept our own by taking bikes that are no longer usable and turning them into art.”

Welder and photographer Sara McCracken’s contribution is an abstract photograph, “Breaking Away,” that pictures, among other elements, a carbon fiber disc and brake wires. The end result shows a whirl of colors blurring together in a way that suggests speed and vitality. “I decided, for myself, that I wanted the art to reflect not the sad old bicycle parts we had, but the lives they lived before,” she says.

Most of the aged bikes used for the show came from the backlot of Freewheelin’ Community Bikes, where kids learn to repair and maintain bikes, with the chance to earn a bike of their own after putting in enough time and effort.

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Matt Sommers, “Caliperpillar,” is among the 20-plus pieces that were created from cast off bike parts for reCYCLE pARTS.

While plenty of elderly and abused bikes have found new life at Freewheelin’, a few are beyond saving. It was those cast-offs that Hall and her husband, who designs bike wheels for Indy-based SRAM subsidiary Zipp Speed Weaponry, tore apart in order to give artists raw material for their pieces.

“We (Sun King) really love bringing different elements of the community together, bringing cycling enthusiasts together with people who enjoy art,” she says. “It points out the commonalities between the two.”

A portion of the sales from the artwork, as well as from the beer provided by Sun King, will benefit Freewheelin’, INDYCOG and World Bike Relief.

— CAREY SHEA

Opening reception March 1, 5-9 p.m.; on display Mon-Fri, 1-5 p.m., through March 29

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Susan Neville, seen here holding her icon of the Virgin Mary, will read from her book Iconography as part of a First Friday event related to Ludmilla Pawlowska’s show Icons in Transformation, a painting from which is seen at left.

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Russian-born Ludmilla Pawlowska’s paintings and sculptures are much more abstract and colorful than traditional Eastern Orthodox icons, and are sometimes made of very unusual materials. One is made of mirrored glass; looking into it, you can or imagine that you are the icon.

Pawlowska’s 180-piece show, Icons in Transformation, arrives this week at the Episcopal Church of All Saints, after stops at the Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, among other European venues.

And who better to cast light on Pawlowska’s work than Susan Neville, whose 2003 essay collection Iconography — which began as a vow to write during the 40 days of Lent — documents her experience making an icon of the Virgin Mary during a class at downtown’s St. Andrew Rublev School of Iconography?

Neville, a professor of English at Butler University and a frequent contributor to NUVO through the ‘90s and ‘00s, will read from Iconography Friday as part of a First Friday event related to Pawloska’s show at All Saints, which opened Feb. 1.

Call it an all-Butler night: Paul Valliere, a professor of religion at Butler, will also be in attendance to talk about and lead a tour of the artwork on display.

Icon-making is an activity intrinsically tied to the Eastern Orthodox religious tradition.

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But Neville describes herself in the book as “not Catholic — not even a Protestant — not a Buddhist, or a follower of Islam, not New Age, not Wiccan, not Nationalist, not an art critic.” So why did she take the class?

“If you look at the eyes of icons looking at you and then start looking around at people, you’ll see them as icons,” Neville told told me from her office crammed with books, Adam Zagajewski’s Without End and James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake among them. “People think of icons as something that you worship. But it’s actually more of a window.” A window onto the soul perhaps — and to that end, it’s of interest that Pawlowska’s work is largely abstract, save for one identifiable human feature: the eyes.

As Iconography closes, Neville relates a story of going to the Joy for All who Sorrow Church to get her icon blessed. She witnesses there a mother and father grieving for the loss of their first child. Looking into their eyes, she said, she saw that “the social masks are gone and there are the icon eyes again.”

What’s Neville’s latest literary project? It seems that another loaded word — like icon or fabrication — has garnered her attention.

“The word that I’m fascinated with is curate,” she said. “Everyone’s using it.

It feels the same way that it felt when I started thinking about fabricate. At that time you could hardly read an article that it wasn’t in. And it seems that curate has become such a word. I mean, we have curated beers.”

— DAN GROSSMAN

First Friday program includes 7 p.m. talk

by Paul Valliere and 7:30 p.m. talk by Susan Neville; show open through March 24 @ Episcopal Church of All Saints, 1559 Central Ave.; allsaintsindy.org

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Made for Goodness and Why This Makes All the Difference Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu HarperCollins, 2010 Reviewed by Richard McGowan Written by Noble Peace Prize winner, chair of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Butler degree holder, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and his daughter, Mpho Tutu, herself the executive director of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage, chair of the board for the Global AIDS Alliance, and an Episcopal priest, Made for Goodness is tonic for troubled times.

The Tutus invite us to “the practices of goodness—noticing, savoring, thinking, enjoying, and being thankful.” Their invitation is often in the form of anecdote, both personal, gentle, and touching as well as harsh, horrid, and hateful.

Readers learn of Bishop Tutu’s enduring regret that he did not comfort his father as the elder Tutu lay dying, Mpho’s inattentiveness to the wont of her house help, Bishop Tutu’s boyhood experiences, Mpho’s community service as becoming acquainted with the figures in recent South African history, including Allen Boesak, Ambrose Reeves, the Mogopa people, and Phila Portia Ndwandwe. Those figures, among others, are cited as models of moral goodness.

Of course, moral evil is very apparent in a book about the days of apartheid. People often ask Bishop Tutu, “What makes you so certain that the world is going to get better? This book is my answer.” The answer is largely spiritual.

Nonetheless, Made for Goodness need not be read from inside the circle of faith. The book has value for anyone who wishes to experience the psychology of goodness and hope. As such, the book promotes peace, individually and politically.

— Richard McGowan is instructor of business ethics at Butler University.

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Perry Riley Jr. raises roughly 3,000 gourds a year on his Indiana farm, then turns them into works of art.

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Before you adorn your gourd, you must first dry it. That’s according to backwoodsman, farmer, educator and gourdsmith Perry Riley Jr., who will bring his latest gourd-based creations — along with a few paintings, drawings and prints — to Dewclaw this month.

Riley Jr. lives in a 16-room cabin on a 160acre farm in rural Indiana near the Illinois border. He built the cabin himself, in part using recycled wood, and he grows his own food on his homestead. (Since 1987, Riley Jr. has been involved with the Ver Sacrum Art Studio in Kingman, Ind., which restores 17th and 18th-century log structures.)

And, of course, Riley Jr. raises gourds, roughly 3,000 a year on a seven-acre plot.

He’s stored away roughly 10,000 dried gourds in a semi-trailer and other locations on his property, separated by size and shape into trash cans.

Riley Jr. dries his gourds by stacking them into a pyramid shape on an elevated surface. The configuration allows air to flow freely over the surfaces of the gourds.

Once the gourds are free of mold and dry, Riley Jr., who has a master’s degree in printmaking from the University of San Antonio, brings his painterly skills to bear on the gourds, decorating them using watercolors, fabric dyes, oil paints or printing inks, and sometimes incising or burning gourds to create more complex textures. He’s earned multiple first and second places awards for his piece at the Indiana Gourd Show.

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Riley Jr.’s work intentionally gestures toward primitive icons and techniques, with particular attention to the art and culture of the American Southwest.

“I think when you look at my work, especially when you see it in person, it has this incredible sense of residual history,” says Perry. “It has a sense of age and I enhance that as much as I can. I keep pushing myself and my boundaries of time and space.”

The modern world nonetheless infects his personal iconography, in the form of flashlights, lampshades and other contemporary tools that figure in his designs. Riley Jr., born in 1970, was, after all, raised in the 21st century, even if he grew up in rural Indiana.

“There were not a lot of playmates because there wasn’t really anyone around. My sister was a lot older than me too,” he says. “That left me playing in the woods a lot as a child and having a very observant eye about what was going on around me and constantly questioning a lot of things. Like why certain trees grew in certain places. That kind of set a passion for a deeper understanding of the underlying principle of things.”

Riley Jr. is still questioning the natural world, according to Carla Knopp, the owner of Dewclaw, where Riley’s show The Things That Come To Pass will open Friday. “Here is someone who has really engaged in his own investigative work,” she says. “He’s really developed something.”

—DEVIN ZIMMERMAN

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The Grascals Friday, March 8. at 7:00 p.m.

2013 Grammy nominee and two-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainer of the Year Award.

Admission is free. Childcare provided.

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The Lyons @ Phoenix Theatre From starting her own theatre company, Bloomington’s Oasis Productions (“It was me and my check book”) to working with prison audiences through her InterAction Theater (whose projects included educational programs on HIV-AIDS prevention), Diane Kondrat has certainly left her mark on Indiana’s theater culture over the past 25 years as an all-around impresario. But she may be best remembered as an actress capable of giving, in last year’s August: Osage County at Phoenix Theatre, a “tour de force performance with soul-stirring range” (David Hoppe in these pages).

She’s relocating this year to Portland, Oregon, but before she goes, Kondrat is saying goodbye with roles on stage at Bloomington’s John Waldron Arts Center (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf) and the Phoenix Theatre (The Lyons).

The Lyons, a dark comedy about a family with a dying dad, a domineering mom, a closeted gay son and an alcoholic daughter, makes its Midwest premiere this month with Kondrat in the lead as the aforementioned “domineering mom.”

Here’s The New York Times on The Lyons: “If you stood in the Cort Theater lobby and listened to the laughter that rises in close and regular waves, you could easily pretend that the time was the 1960s, and that you had just dropped in on the latest hit by Neil Simon, directed by Mike Nichols.” I spoke with Kondrat as she prepared for her final bow at the Phoenix.

NUVO: What will you miss most about living and working in Indiana?

DIANE KONDRAT: The people I work with. Bryan Fonseca [artistic director at the Phoenix] kept me alive. I moved to Indiana with a five-year-old and a threemonth-old. I found out that Brian was paying his actors, even if they weren’t Equity. That fact allowed me to have gas money. And the combination of the dogwoods and the redbuds in the spring between Bloomington and Indianapolis.

NUVO: And what will you miss least?

KONDRAT: I’m so excited to be moving to a town that’s made fun of because it’s so liberal after living in a state that’s made fun of because it’s so conservative. That’s what I won’t miss about Indiana: the Republicans.

NUVO: Are you at all scared to start anew?

KONDRAT: The basis of theater is so undependable that the fact that I get work seems like a miracle to me anyway.

So to just try to get miracles going in another place doesn’t seem that crazy.

NUVO: What’s been the most challenging role you’ve taken on?

KONDRAT: That would certainly have to be Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Winnie is, I think, pretty much regarded as the best role for a woman in the English-speaking canon.

And the lines for Winnie were really interesting to learn, because she didn’t really go logically to her conversation. So I had to find little crazy ideas that would let me move from one moment to the next. Beckett’s poetry is fabulous. I remember trying to learn one line, and I couldn’t get it. And by re-writing it by hand, I realized that the line was a mirror image of itself. That if you bend the line in the middle, it will matchup with itself word for word. So I had to go to really extreme measures not only to make sure that the character was believable, but to even learn the lines. It was an Oasis production I did in Bloomington.

NUVO: Why Portland?

KONDRAT: My daughter is living in Portland, and she’s jumping up and down waving her arms saying come to Portland, and my son is in Seattle — and there are the waterfalls.

NUVO: What plans do you have for once you get there?

KONDRAT: They have citywide auditions in April. There are a lot of theatre companies there. They have a lot of equity houses and a bunch of non-equity houses. And if nothing happens, I will commission a new piece — and produce it myself.

—KATELYN COYNE

Feb. 28-March 31 @ Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre, Phoenix Theatre; tickets $18 on opening weekend; thereafter $28 adult and $18 for 21 and under; phoenixtheatre.org

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For some 25 years — and well before DIY became a catchphrase to describe anything that bears the marks of borderline obsessive creativity — Alison Bechdel labored away on her Dykes to Watch Out For, a comic strip about a group of mostly lesbian characters living in a mid-sized American town that was syndicated (by Bechdel herself) to mostly LGBT publications. Then came her 2006 graphic novel Fun Home: A Family

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Tragicomic, which chronicled, in part, her bisexual father’s suicide, and 2012’s Are You My Mother: A Comic Drama , which turns to her relationship with her still-living mother, by way of Freud, Virginia Woolf and plenty of therapy.

The first book earned her mainstream acclamation; the second confirmed that she still has plenty of ground to cover.

The recipient of a 2012-13 Guggenheim Fellowship, Bechdel will appear at the Indiana State Museum with the support of a wide range of IUPUI groups, notably the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute.

7 p.m. @ Dean and Barbara White Auditorium, Indiana State Museum; free but tickets required (iupui.edu/~iahi)

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Schumer is accustomed to bouncing between cities and platforms; recent notable appearances include a stint on Last Comic Standing, a recurring guest spot on Delocated and a 2012 Comedy Central special. But with exposure comes criticism. She received death threats after making a joke about Jackass star Ryan Dunn, who had recently died in a car accident, during Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen. (Dunn’s Jackass compatriot Steve-O was also on the dais during the show.) We asked her about the situation last week; the full

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interview is on nuvo.net. Her response: “We love to burn women at the stake; it’s like the Salem Witch Trials. [But] it didn’t feel personal — it’s bigger than me and any one woman.

People have aggression toward women.” But she’s over it now, and focusing on her work: “I love standup ... but I’ve been acting since I was a little girl. If I was only doing standup, I know I would start to hate it. And if I was only acting, I know I’d be craving standup.” To her credit, she can do both handily.

8 p.m., tickets $32.50 (plus fees), amyschumer.com War that depicts three Jewish men — one a Confederate soldier, the others his former slaves — pondering the future in the light of the violence and injustice that has defined their recent past. The New York Times noted that the play, which opened on Broadway in 2011 and has since been staged in many a regional theater, has “few equals in its arresting strangeness.”

March 5-24, times vary; tickets $25-55; irtlive.com

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THEATER YELLOW WALLPAPER Q ARTISTRY, THROUGH MARCH 9 e In NoExit and Q Artistry’s adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s creepy short story, husband and wife rent a country house for the summer, new baby and nanny in tow. John, a physician, has diagnosed Charlotte with nervous hysteria, but they disagree on the best treatment regimen — so the bedroom meant to be a retreat instead becomes a prison. Supported by a strong cast, Julie Mauro nails the nervous physicality of the increasingly unhinged Charlotte. Her slender, graceful fingers trace the furniture to ground her, yet nervously flutter at her throat; her bored pacing becomes watchful slinking.

The set’s odd angles and the production’s ominous soundtrack add to the disorientation and tension of the piece, but Michael Burke’s hideous yellow wallpaper is the show’s other star. The pattern in Charlotte’s room is a Rorschach blot for the demented, and enhanced by lighting and projections, the paper undulates and appears to breathe, as if it has captured the life of the woman trapped by it.

Director Ryan Mullins’s adaptation is faithful; the additions made to flesh out the script only serve to heighten our doubt about and empathy with each character.

Charlotte’s suffering is exacerbated by her lack of creative exercise and autonomy, but her family clearly cares about her, and her treatment is based on the medical theories of the time — proof that the best of intentions can have frightful results.

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Hoosier Bard is staging Measure for Measure over two weekends at IndyFringe: last weekend’s worked from Shakespeare’s “original script,” and this weekend’s shows (Feb. 28-March 2) will go off of Thomas Middleton’s 1621 adaptation, the first written version of the play.

Shakespeare’s “uncensored” version (see below for my qualm with that modifier) turned out to sound a lot like the one we’ve been hearing for years. All your favorite lines were still extant, like Pompey’s description of the carnal act as “Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.” The basic structure was the same too, and just as problematic as always; Coleridge called it “the most painful — say rather, the only painful — part of his genuine works ... the single exception to the delightfulness of Shakespeare’s plays” and “a hateful work” that leaves “our feelings of justice grossly wounded.” Maybe that’s all by design; the Biblical concept of just recompense, or talion, may have been designed, in its time, to avoid overzealousness in punishing the transgressor (better an eye for an eye than an eye for two eyes and a pinky toe). But it strikes any thinking person as a brutal, ugly transaction. So when the capricious king enlists his subordinate to restore that Biblical concept to his kingdom — having him condemn one of his subjects to death for impregnating his (allegedly) soon-to-be wife out of wedlock, according to the rule of a long unenforced law — the results can only play out viciously, with the impotent masses remaining always at the will of a king/director/God pulling the strings. If this is the stuff of comedy, we may well be in Beckett territory.

But if one doesn’t think too much about the moral of the story, the comedy can work well, as it did in Hoosier Bard’s interpretation, which saw Escalus played exceptionally loudly and lasciviously by Bill Wilkison. What I once read as the Elizabethan equivalent of a fat joke — “your bum is the greatest thing about you” — took on quite the homoerotic cast as delivered (and acted out in cheek-cupping fashion) by Wilkison, all the better to illustrate the ways in which the powerful are corrupted by their appetites in the absence of any lawful curb. And any play that puts a dildo to good use as a prop is A-OK in my book. But the cast’s sincere rendition of the play’s tragic elements was doomed from the beginning, mostly because, as Coleridge put it, the play can be so “hateful” and unsparing, and it’s hard to relate to characters in such an atmosphere of hate. I was particularly puzzled by why Scott Russell played his Claudio so straight, given that he’s conniving enough to send his virgin sister to convince the duke’s surrogate to commute his death sentence by employing her feminine wiles.

Two caveats: 1) Because Hoosier Bard refers to itself as the “the theatrical arm” of the New Oxford Shakespeare Center and the vehicle by which the center’s leadership might “test editorial theories in the laboratory of performance,” the average spectator might expect a given production to be of “Oxford quality,” if you will. After all, the center, staffed with top Shakespeare scholars, is hard at work on a new version of Shakespeare that will be used by readers the world round. Why wouldn’t the theatrical arm of the center be just as well-funded and -staffed? But Measure for Measure is, in reality,

a smartly-directed, enthusiastically-acted production staged by student and community talent — and by no means an expert production.

2) Unless the center’s staff managed to score a dictaphone recording of the 1603 performance of Measure for Measure at the Globe, it’s a little bit disingenuous to bill the production as the “original, uncensored” version of the play. Scholars have been trying for centuries to tease out Shakespeare’s contributions to the script from Middleton’s; to quote one scholar’s reaction to a claim that Shakespeare was responsible for an exact number of lines in the play, “It takes a brave man to produce so precise a result from an admittedly corrupt text.”

— SCOTT SHOGER

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to draw a through-line between Akhnaten’s distant approach to leadership and the kind of irresponsiveness and brutality that led to Mubarak’s overthrow, I’m not convinced that those parallels were best drawn by projecting a slideshow of images of the Egyptian uprising, which seemed to distract attention away from Glass’s music during the overture.

— SCOTT SHOGER

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAYS MAHLER AND SCHUMANN HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE, FEB. 22 e I can only presume most of those who braved Friday’s nasty weather were avid Mahler lovers, as their response to baritone Thomas Hampson’s performance of five songs from the composer’s cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) was electric. The standing applause continued long enough that Hampson, podium guest Joana Carneiro and her scaled-back orchestra gave them a sixth song from the cycle, the short, utterly delightful “Rheinlegendchen.”

Born in Elkhart, Ind. and raised in Spokane, Wash., Hampson has became a scholar in the German folk and art song — and a Mahler specialist. His interview with Michael Toulouse during the pre-concert Words on Music revealed a consummate background in the Austro-Germanic styles and traditions.

Hampson and Carneiro gave us a vivid portrayal of the Mahler song style, Hampson modulating his voice to perfection, and the orchestra, with mostly reduced strings, showing its matching colors.

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IU Opera’s Akhnaten IU OPERA: AKHNATEN MUSICAL ARTS CENTER THROUGH MARCH 2 e We’ll have plenty more in these pages next week about Philip Glass’s 1983 opera Akhnaten, which is being staged in a groundbreaking collaboration between IU Opera Theatre and the Indianapolis Opera, starting with a two-weekend run in Bloomington, and closing with two dates, March 8 and 9, at Clowes Hall. For now, two thoughts on the opening night production.

1) Bravo to the largely student cast and orchestra for making it through the endurance test that is any long-playing Glass-work. Glass, at least in his early stuff, uses his singers as instrumentalists — even percussionists — and it’s quite the challenge to imbue every chorus of “ahs” with some manner of forward motion and drama. And the orchestra is has its own mountain to climb in playing those endless, circling riffs (the trumpets, in particular, have no chance to rest in the original score). That it all came together with very few missteps testifies to the talent level of those studying at IU. 2) I found the use of slides and projected images to be rather clumsy and lacking in the sort of gravitas and invention that informed the clever, Egypt-meets-modern sculpture set design. While it makes plenty of sense

There is a longing projected in much of Mahler, for something beyond the everyday, for what lies ahead — a quality no better exemplified than in “Das himmlische Leben.”

As the harp plunks its way into silence in the key of D major, there is an ineffable sadness, a yearning that is far more telling to me than the overwrought, almost maudlin way Mahler’s later works — the Ninth Symphony and the song cycle Das Lied von der Erde — deal with his death obsession. In any case, the audience was clearly moved. I heard that one young lady was in tears as she stood in line at the break for Hampson to autograph her justbought CD(s) of the singer.

Though vigorously applauded, the post-intermission selection — Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61, with the full orchestra back on stage — didn’t match the success of the Mahler. Of the composer’s four symphonies, the second is perhaps the least familiar, though its third movement, an Adagio espressivo, is the most moving, most heartfelt slow movement in Schumann’s orchestral oeuvre.

And Carneiro and her players achieved the most success with it, revealing all its manifest beauties in a carefully nuanced reading. Its three faster movements showed a bit more raggedness and imprecision, especially at the symphony’s start. However, the “famously” difficult string work in the following Scherzo, taken at a “safe” tempo, was rewarded with a goodly amount of precision.

—TOM ALDRIDGE

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A PLACE AT THE TABLE r

The nonfiction advocacy film A Place at the Table addresses the problem of hunger in America. You don’t see listless victims waiting for help here – the production instead focuses on bright-eyed well-spoken individuals from big cities and small towns struggling to improve their plight.

The statistics are startling – filmmakers Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush tell us that one in six Americans don’t get enough to eat, and that half the children in the country – half – will rely on federal supplemental food assistance at some point.

50 million Americans routinely deal with food insecurity – not knowing where their next meal is coming from. And what they eventually get is not necessarily healthy. The film states that processed food prices have gone down as fresh food costs continue to rise. That may not remain true now – from what I’ve seen, it appears that the cost of most everything is going up of late. But I think the basic point remains true: food that’s bad for you is cheaper and more accessible than food that’s good for you, making it more likely that hungry Americans will end up dealing with obesity, diabetes and other health problems.

So what’s up? The filmmakers’ maintain that in the late ‘70s the problem was more or less under control, due to well-funded food stamp and school cafeteria programs. But in the ‘80s, funding was cut and the burden shifted from the government to charities and the private sector. Is their contention correct? I dunno. Jacobson and Silverbush do not present opposing points of view.

A Place at the Table contains interviews with lots of individuals determined to do what they can to eradicate hunger in America. Recognizable names include beloved actor and activist Jeff Bridges and Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio. You’ll hear lots of interesting, engaging and touching remarks. The most poignant comes from an expert who states that the primary question is not “Why don’t people have enough to eat?,” but rather “Why are people poor?” Could it be that the current problem with hunger comes from the disappearing middle class and the widening gap between the rich and the poor? Chew on that for a while. — Ed Johnson-Ott

THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)

Indy Film Fest’s Roving Cinema series lands on Indy Reads Books this week for a digital presentation of The Neverending Story, a bullied kid which takes refuge in the land of Fantasia, where he glides through the skies atop his trusty friend, Falkor the Luckdragon. Feb. 28, 7 p.m. @ Indy Reads Books, $8, indyfilmfest.org

FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3-D

The Mexican Consulate in Indianapolis is partnering with downtown’s IMAX theater to present the 3-D story of the monarch butterfly, which annually migrates from Mexico to Canada and back (a trip which spans two to three generations). Opens March 1 @ IMAX Theatre in the Indiana State Museum; $9.50 adult, $7.50 senior, $6 children

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FOOD Uplands region gets the respect it deserves Designated American Viticulture Area Feb. 12

BY HOWARD HEWITT HEWITTHOWARD@GMAIL.COM The Indiana’s Uplands region being declared an American Viticulture Area is good news for all Midwestern wineries.

The U.S. wine industry is driven by tourism. For those who take wine seriously and want to learn more about wine, hitting up AVA-designated areas assures a level of serious winemaking and even quality.

Michigan leads the way in the Midwest with four AVAs. The Ohio River Valley AVA is shared by Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Kentucky has no other designated grape production area and Indiana did not until the Uplands announcement.

“It just kind of affirms what we already know: that we have some excellent grape growing regions and they’re unique here in the Midwest,” said Bruce

Bordelon, viticulture specialist at Purdue University. “The Uplands region is different than southwest Indiana. Posey County and Gibson County have different climate and soils. There really is a difference in the grapes that we grow and the quality that we get between regions. It’s those little minor differences that makes vintages special and make our varietallabeled wines special.”

Oliver Winery, near Bloomington, is one of the Midwest’s largest, and with production in the 400,000-case range, business is good. But Oliver embraced the Uplands news every bit as much as the other eight wineries in the Uplands.

“It allows us to qualify as a true viticulture area and raise the level of awareness that there is something special about this region,” said Kathleen Oliver, executive vice president of Oliver Winery.

“Hopefully, we’ll be able to capitalize on that by saying there is something really unique about these wines. We are producing great quality wines; we can do it just like Napa and Sonoma. We are something special. And it gives us the opportunity to look for a more premium price.”

Jim Butler of Butler Winery fame spent nearly 10 years working to achieve the AVA designation. He agreed that Indiana has a niche with white Traminette and red Chambourcin wines that are grown throughout the Midwest and excel in the Uplands region. But he also sees other wines doing well and a future for more

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Purdue’s Bruce Bordelon (left), Kathleen Oliver of Oliver Winery (center) and Tim Butler of Butler Winery celebrate the Upland region’s American Viticulture Area designation.

traditional plantings.

“Late harvest Vignoles and Vidal does wonderfully,” Butler said. “We’ve been doing Chardonnel. I think we’re going to see some more viniferas (think traditional wine grapes) planted. It takes four years to plant a vine and then get your first crop.

It’s going to be a decades-plus process to zero in on those varieties that are going to give us the product that we want.”

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music They’re getting the band back together

Mike’s House reunites every 10 years

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usician John Sheets helpfully suggested a headline for this story: “Unsuccessful Rock Band Gets Back Together to Play Jazz Venue.”

The band Sheets is referring to is Mike’s House, which he and Charlie Hopper started in 1986 as a songwriting project and which, while never that successful, earned some attention on the local scene before breaking up in the mid-1990s.

Over the years, Mike’s House released three cassettes of their catchy, hookfilled tunes (and another under the name Marj’s Basement); had a dustup with MTV, which changed the name of one of its shows, Mike’s House, after receiving a letter from the Indianapolis band’s attorney; and opened for the likes of the Tannahill Weavers, the Judybats, Vulgar Boatmen, Twopenny Hangover and others.

“We were around long enough to drive away an audience for a lot of bands,” Sheets joked.

And now they’re back –– for three nights only –– to revive the semi-magic. To commemorate Hopper’s 50th birthday, Mike’s House will be playing The Chatterbox on Feb. 27, the Melody Inn on March 23 and the Knickerbocker in Lafayette on April 20.

These shows continue an unusual streak for the band: Mike’s House emerges from dormancy to play the Chatterbox every 10 years, since Hopper’s 30th birthday in 1993.

“Basically, my wife surprised me on my 30th birthday to start it off,” says Hopper.

“She and I were walking down Mass Ave. after work in 1993 and strolled past the Chatterbox on a winter’s evening. It was all lit up and welcoming and she said, ‘Why don’t we stop in here for a drink?’ which sounded so urbane, and wasn’t something we’d typically do, so I said, ‘Sure! Yes, sure.’”

They went inside and “I had that dreamlike moment where we saw some people we know sitting at a table: ‘Oh, hi, look, it’s –– and it’s ... and ... and...,” because, of course, I was slowly realizing I knew practically everybody in the Chatterbox and Mike’s House was all set up onstage and ready to play, and there was my accordion and guitar all set up.”

When Hopper turned 40, they decided to play the Chatterbox again. Afterward, they chatted with owner David Andrichik.

Hopper said, “Gosh, that was fun! We should do it again.” And Andrichik chuckled “and said with humorously fake enthusiasm, ‘Yeah! Maybe in another 10 years!’”

So here it is, another 10 years later.

These days, Hopper is a principal at Young

& Laramore and on the side writes a phenomenally entertaining blog for McSweeney’s called Dispatches from a Guy Trying Unsuccessfully to Sell a Song in Nashville.

Sheets, who retired from music in 2010 after stints with the Phantom Lures and Punkin Holler Boys, sells musical instruments for a company called Black Mountain Musical Enterprises.

The remainder of the original Mike’s House was filled by a revolving cast of musicians. Brett Cantrell and Scott Westervelt of the band Phyllis will fill those roles for these shows.

Over lunch last month, Hopper said he’s happy for this brief reunion for two reasons. One is simple nostalgia. It’ll be nice to get back onstage, he said, to play and cook mac and cheese for the audience –– something Mike’s House used to do during shows and will do again at at least one of the upcoming gigs.

“The other thing is, I think they’re really good songs,” he said. “I think John wrote songs that should have made him money and made him famous. They capture these elusive feelings cleverly and kind of humorously. They’re pretty profound in a very catchy way. I was always trying to catch up to that. I think my songs were a little rambling and a little less concise.”

This time out, they’re even talking about recording a few new songs. So in the coming months, you may see the headline “Unsuccessful Rock Band Puts New Songs on the Internet.” If you do, you’ll know which band we mean.

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Chatterbox, 435 Massachusetts Ave. Wednesday, Feb. 27 8 p.m., 21+

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A CULTURAL MANIFESTO

WITH KYLE LONG

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

Kuti to discuss his new project and the current state of afrobeat music.

NUVO: Tell me the meaning behind the title of your new album, No Place for My Dream.

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Femi Kuti

Like father, like son Femi Kuti visited Chicago’s Metro nightclub on a painfully cold winter night. Kuti arrived on stage visibly shivering, but wasted no time heating things up. The reigning prince of afrobeat led his seven-piece ensemble through a blistering set of familiar favorites and new material from his soon to be released LP, No Place for My Dream.

At age 50, Fela’s eldest son is still an electrifying performer. Kuti had no trouble setting the dance floor off, while working himself into an entranced fervor, chanting and screaming his impassioned message of social justice.

Before the show, I caught up with Femi

FEMI KUTI: It’s a story about my life. I set out with all these good intentions of world peace, love and togetherness. People around me would say “There is no place for this dream. Great men have had this dream; why do you think your dream is any different? Don’t waste your time.” But I said “No, I’m determined to keep this dream.”

As much as I tried to explain my view, I was discouraged. But I want people to dream and I hope the title will make you think a lot and dream.

NUVO: Over the last several years there’s been an explosion of interest in afrobeat music.

Does that surprise you?

KUTI: I’m not surprised. When I was a young boy, we listened to everything from America and around the world. But no music really touched us like my father’s music. It had something more meaningful. Other things we heard had love stories, broken hearts, blah blah blah. They all sounded the same, repeating the same lyrics.

My father was always talking about the suffering of the people. His music meant something. So I’m not surprised that many young people want to identify with this kind

of music, especially considering the crisis we are facing globally. Young people want to be identified with something that is meaningful. Because of this, afrobeat will always grow with each new generation.

NUVO: Why is the message of social commentary such an inseparable component of afrobeat music?

KUTI: Because Fela, the founder of the music used that concept as the basis of his creation.

He set out to use music to fight evil and corruption, to stand up for justice. He paid a very huge price for that. But he never backed down, he never compromised, he never surrendered. People feel the impact of this foundation. Every generation that hears this music becomes very strongly attached.

NUVO: What’s the current state of the club your father established, The Shrine?

We have a free disco night which 2,000 people attend every Friday. It’s free because we understand people can’t afford to come every week. But music is not only for the rich. I play every Thursday and Sunday. I play for free on Thursday and charge two dollars on Sunday.

The government has tried to close The Shrine several times. The last time there was a very big outcry internationally, and ever since then we have had peace. The government now, especially the state government, is trying to make friends with my family. They built a museum in honor of my father. So, things are looking quite bright. There’s so much international press now with Fela! on Broadway, so many people are talking about afrobeat. That keeps people from persecuting the family.

“It’s free because we understand people can’t afford to come every week.

But music is not only for the rich.”

–– Femi Kuti

KUTI: The Shrine is not just a club –– it’s a place where we use music to pay homage to great people. It was built to honor great people like Martin Luther King, (Nelson) Mandela, (Patrice) Lumumba, (Ravi) Sankar: people who have fought for freedom. That is the basis of The Shrine.

It’s still there and it still has a lot of support from the people. It’s standing strong.

NUVO: You’re 50 years old and you’ve had an amazing career.

What’s next for you?

KUTI: I would love to build a studio in Nigeria. I think if I build a studio, then I’m obliged and willing to work with as many young artists as I desire. I think that’s what I want to do in the future: build my studio and help young artists with their music.

LISTEN UP Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net.

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The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave 10 p.m., $3, 21+

The Vogue has jettisoned Retro Rewind for the month (possibly forever?) in exchange for Glow Wednesdays, a black light party soundtracked with retro jams. Now pay attention to this cover charge structure: ladies get in free, gentlemen are $3; college students and industry employees are free. But those who wear neon attire, no matter the job or gender are free all night.

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Thursday

REGGAE DIRTY HEADS, SHINY TOY GUNS, MIDI MATILDA, OH NO FIASCO Vogue Theater, 6259 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., $20 advance, $22 at door, 21+

A bit of a strange pairing for headliners Dirty Heads and Shiny Toy Guns this Thursday at the Vogue, but an enjoyable oddness. Shiny Toy Guns, whose fiery single “Le Disko” exploded off first album We Are Pilots. Reggae group The Dirty Heads is a consistently touring group who melts in hip-hop and ska. Well, maybe this pairing isn’t so strange: they’re both from Southern California, after all.

ROCK IMAGINE DRAGONS, ATLAS GENIUS, NICO VEGA

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St .

7:30 pm., sold out, all-ages Imagine Dragons exploded in 2012, after teen bildungsroman The Perks of Being a Wallflower picked up emerging radio jam “It’s Time” for the trailer. But they would have hit big regardless –– their catchy rock anthems integrate hip-hop breakdowns, laid in by album producer Alex Da Kid for new album. We spoke with Imagine Dragons the last time they were in town, in an opening slot for AWOLNation; the crowd packed the Egyptian Room for the opening act (which

music fans know does NOT happen enough). Now they’re back with a sold out show featuring Atlas Genius and Nico Vega.

Log on to NUVO.net to read our interview with Imagine Dragons.

HIP-HOP MURS, PROF, FASHAWN, BLACK CLOUD MUSIC

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect ST. 8 p.m., $15, 21+

This West coast performer is a different breed of rapper. Unsatisfied with the status quo and pushing for positive progression, Murs shines above the popular glitz and glamor rap music of today. Collaborating with his contemporaries like Slug (of Atmosphere), Fashawn, and 9th Wonder, Murs is an alternative hip-hop hero.

Bonus: Murs mentioned that his DJ, Foundation, is an Indianapolis native.

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Read our interview with Murs online at NUVO.net.

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Sour Mash at Moon Dog Tavern, 21+ The Kickback, Hotfox, Rodeo Ruby Love at the Melody Inn, 21+ Rupmke Mountain Boys at the Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+

Friday

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Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 8 p.m., $8, 21+

Ah, the Cash Bash. Is there a better tribute to the Man in Black than to sit around enjoying his songs interpreted by through our talented locals? Speaking of those locals, bands on deck include Shelby County Sinners, The Blue Collar Bluegrass Band, The Nosey Joe Band and Bigger Than Elvis. Wear your best black.

OTHER FRIDAY PICKS

Howard, Lewis and Lovins, Elephant Quiz at the Mousetrap, 21+ Crawling from Beneath at the Emerson Theater, all-ages Tug Fork River Band at the Hoosier Dome, all-ages Caswell Sisters Album Release at The Jazz Kitchen Chris Tomlin, Louie Giglio, Karl Jobe at Bankers Life, all-ages New Old Cavalry, Glostik Willy, Funky Junk at the Vogue, 21+ The Pass, Baliff at DO317 Lounge, all-ages Jayne Bond at Latitude 39, all-ages

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SOUNDCHECK Shed at the Emerson Theater, all-ages The Twin Cats at the Mousetrap, 21+ The Pale Sky, Among the Brave, As Seasons Die, Farewell From the Gallows, Lucifist, No Shelter, Therlot, Through Scarlet Eyes, Ursa Minor at the Emerson Theater, all-ages Audiodacity at Birdy’s Bar and Grill, all-ages

Saturday

ROCK GASLIGHT ANTHEM, THE BOUNCING SOULS

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Much has been made about New Jersey garage punk rockers Gaslight Anthem copping a bit of Bruce Springsteen’s style. The guys make no bones about their love for the Boss (in fact, their early albums are packed with references to his catalogue), but we maintain that with the release of Handwritten last July, they’ve fully come into their own. Soaring anthems, forlorn ballads, ‘50s nostalgia, Jersey landscapes: Handwritten is brimming with their love of their home. We’re expecting a Hurricane Sandy song on the next release, for sure.

Bonus: Author Nick Hornby contributed liner notes for the album.

A GOOD CAUSE BETA CELL BASH

La Revolucion, Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St. 6 p.m. (silent auction), 8 p.m. (show) $10, 21+

We love the Beta Cell Bash, which combines local art and local music for a cause that effects plenty of locals. Twelve bands will pack the stage throughout the night, including highlights Goliathon, Jenn Cristy and Mother Grove; this year, it’s a tribute to the Beatles.

There’s too many artists that have contributed art to name, but we can promise you’ll find something you like. All funds raised go to the Indiana chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. This is the ninth year of the Beta Cell Bash.

OTHER SATURDAY PICKS

My Yellow Rickshaw at the Rathskeller, all-ages The Midtown Men at Clowes Memorial Hall, all-ages Stella Luna and the Satellites at Latitude 39, all-ages Veseria, The Hangdog Hearts, Chemicals and Vibrations at Monkey’s Tale, 21+ Living Proof at Ale Emporium, all-ages

Sunday

JAZZ HOT JAZZ FOR COOL KIDS Indianapolis Public Library 3 p.m., all-ages

“These are kid-friendly performances,” says Ann Friedman, children’s librarian at IPL. “But, they are real performances, which I think is good for kids. You don’t have to sit that still, you can come and go, but it’s a first exposure to sitting somewhere and watching a concert.” This Sunday up-and-coming trumpeter Wade Baker and his quintet will perform.

Log on to NUVO.net to read our review of the February edition of this show.

OTHER SUNDAY PICKS

Eric Dill at Carmel High School, all-ages Blessed Feathers, Young Buffalo at the Bishop, 21+ Indianapolis Women’s Chorus at Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis,all-ages

Monday

ROCK THE HIVES, THE ZERO BOYS Vogue Theater, 6259 N. College Ave. 7 p.m., 21+

Those in attendance will enjoy a blistering demonstration of the fine art of rockmanship by Swedish sensations The Hives. This performance will be an especially historic one, as opening the show is Indy punk legends The Zero Boys, whose “Civilization’s Dying” was covered by The Hives in 2010. Will we see a joining of the bands? Will Howlin’ Pelle and Paul Z trade verses? Maybe.

Will our asses get owned? Definitely.

–– JEFF NAPIER

Log on to NUVO.net to read our interview with The Hives.

OTHER MONDAY PICKS

The Seedy Seeds, The Ridges at DO317 Lounge, all-ages Caveman at the Bishop, 21+ Big Band Tribute to Stan Kenton and Vocal Tribute to Songwriter Harold Arilen at the Jazz Kitchen, 21+

Tuesday OTHER TUESDAY PICKS

Helado Negro, special guests at DO317 Lounge, all-ages Shivering Timbers at Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your power animal is not the soaring eagle or the shrewd wolf or the brave bear. No, Taurus, it’s the rubber chicken. I’m serious. With the rubber chicken as your guardian spirit, you might be inspired to commit random acts of goofiness and surrealism. And that would reduce tension in the people around you. It could motivate you to play jokes and pull harmless pranks that influence everyone to take themselves less seriously. Are you willing to risk losing your dignity if it helps make the general mood looser and more generous? Nothing could be better for group solidarity, which is crucial these days. (Thanks, Gina Williams.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the language of the Huron Indians, “orenda” is a word that refers to the spiritual power that resides in all creatures and things. If you’ve got enough of it, you may be able to declare at least partial independence from your own past.

You can better shape the life you want for yourself rather than being so thoroughly subject to the limitations of your karma and conditioning. I happen to believe that your current supply of orenda is unusually abundant, Gemini. What’s the best use you can make of it?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I lived in Santa Cruz years ago, some of my published writings were illustrated by a local cartoonist named Karl Vidstrand. His work was funny, outrageous, and often offensive in the most entertaining ways. Eventually he wandered away from our colorful, creative community and moved to a small town at the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, near where the Space Shuttles landed. He liked living at the fringes of space, he told journalist R. D. Pickle. It gave him the sense of “being out of bounds at all times.” I suggest you adopt some of the Vidstrand spirit in the next three weeks, Cancerian. Being on the fringes and out of bounds are exactly where you belong.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The history of your pain is entering a new phase. Gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, an emotional ache that has been sapping your vitality will begin to diminish. You will free yourself of its power to define you. You will learn to live without its oddly seductive glamour. More and more, as the weeks go by, you will find yourself less interested in it, less attracted to the maddening mystery it has foisted on you. No later than mid-April, I’m guessing that you will be ready to conduct a ritual of completion; you’ll be able to give it a formal sendoff as you squeeze one last lesson out of it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When looking for a book, you may discover that you were in fact looking for the book next to it.” Italian writer Roberto Calasso told that to The Paris Review, and now I’m passing it on to you.

But I’d like you to expand upon its meaning, and regard it as a metaphor that applies to your whole life right now. Every time you go searching for a specific something -- a learning experience, an invigorating pleasure, a helpful influence -- consider the possibility that what you really want and need is a different one that’s nearby.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At least once a day, a cell in your body mutates in a way that makes it potentially cancerous. Just as often, your immune system hunts down that dangerous cell and kills it, preserving your health. Do

you understand how amazing this is? You have a vigilant protector that’s always on duty, operating below the level of your awareness. What if I told you that this physical aspect of your organism has an equivalent psychic component? What if, in other words, you have within you a higher intelligence whose function it is to steer you away from useless trouble and dumb risks? I say there is such a thing.

I say this other protector works best if you maintain a conscious relationship with it, asking it to guide you and instruct you. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to deepen your connection.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some rules in the game of life don’t apply to you and can therefore be safely ignored. Do you know which ones they are? On the other hand, do you understand which of the rules in the game of life ar e crucial to observe if you want to translate your fondest dreams into real experiences? To recognize the difference is a high art. I’m thinking that now would be an excellent time to solidify your mastery of this distinction. I suggest that you formally renounce your investment in the irrelevant rules and polish your skills at playing by the applicable rules.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter,” wrote the Persian mystic poet Rumi.

“It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

I think you’re like that winter garden right now, Sagittarius. Outwardly, there’s not much heat and flash. Bright ideas and strong opinions are not pouring out of you at their usual rates. You’re not even prone to talking too loud or accidentally knocking things over. This may in fact be as close as you can get to being a wallflower. And yet deep beneath the surface, out of sight from casual observers, you are charging up your psychic battery.

The action down there is vibrant and vigorous.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When you come right down to it,” says religion writer Rabbi Marc Gellman, “there are only four basic prayers. Gimme! Thanks! Oops! and Wow!” Personally, I would add a fifth type of prayer to Gellman’s list: “Do you need any assistance?” The Creator always needs collaborators to help implement the gritty details of the latest divine schemes. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you would be an excellent choice to volunteer for that role right now -especially in tasks that involve blending beautiful fragments, healing sad schisms, furthering peace negotiations, and overcoming seemingly irreconcilable differences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the movie Fight Club, there is an animated scene at the very end that required an inordinate amount of time to produce. Each frame in this scene took the editors eight hours to process. Since there are 24 frames in each second, their work wen t on for three weeks. That’s the kind of attention to detail I recommend you summon as you devote yourself to your labor of love in the coming days, Aquarius. I think you know which specific parts of your creation need such intense focus.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I have decided to rename the constellations that have domineered our skies too long,” writes an Internet denizen named Hasheeshee St. Frank. He gives only one example. The Big Dipper, he says, shall forevermore be known as The Star-Spangled Gas Can. I invite you to come up with additional substitutes, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to reshape and redefine the high and mighty things to which you have given away too much of your power. It’s a perfect moment to reconfigure your relationship with impersonal, overarching forces that have wielded a disproportionately large influence over your thoughts and feelings. How about if you call the constellation Orion by the new title of Three-Eyed Orangutan? Or instead of Pegasus, use the name Sexy Dolphin? Other ideas?

Homework: What would the people who love you best say is the most important thing for you to learn?

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