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We continue to receive feedback on Shannon Cagle’s cover story “Death of a newsman: the passing of Rick Dawson,” a first-person account from a woman who watched her spouse fight and lose his battle with depression (NUVO, Feb 19-26). Here’s a sample: This is a tragic story. But it is valuable information and perhaps it will help other families. She should be commended for helping to break down the barriers and stigma of depression and other mental health issues. We need to do a better job. — Jarrod Reid via Facebook Beautifully written essay that will save someone. Ms. Cagle, I’m sorry for you and your children’s loss.
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In response to David Hoppe’s online column “What’s so hard about mass transit?” (NUVO.net, Mar. 1), we received the following: It would be far more convincing if Hoppe cited a study that stated light rail is not for Indiana’s municipalities. Light rail is not for everyone, but to say it is a boondoggle when there have been successful implementations of it across America (LA, Salt Lake City, etc comes to mind) is being dishonest. -“Jason” via online comments
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t’s high time the National Rifle Association held its annual convention in Indiana. Lord knows the state has earned the honor. Long ranked as one of the loosest states for gun traffic by federal authorities and firearms control advocates, Indiana has widened the lanes in recent years as its Republican majority has grown more reactionary and special interests such as the NRA have ratcheted up their influence. Good to see it’s generated tourist dollars. Hard to see much sense in it otherwise. You’d think there might be some soul-searching from a state that’s tagged by the feds as a major exporter of guns used in crimes elsewhere, owing to its exemption of “private” sales from background checks and its lack of caps on the number of weapons that can be purchased at one time. You might hope that a gunrich state would take mass shootings in schools and workplaces as a hint to try some approach other than expanding the “right” to bring guns in one’s car to schools and workplaces. You might expect a tough-on-crime state to respond to news reports of felons wrongfully obtaining gun permits in some way other than closing off the record of those permits to the public. You might wonder why any state government facing a crisis of urban violence, such as that in Indianapolis, not only would ease restrictions on where guns can be carried but actually would forbid local governments from making their own rules in that regard. You would not be familiar with how the mind of Indiana governance works. What’s a stain of shame to many of us, including such radical incendiaries as police chiefs and emergency room physicians, is a badge of honor to the majority of our political leaders. 4 VOICES // 03.05.14 - 03.12.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Former Gov. Mitcher Daniels stamped his bona fides by opening state parks to firearms while Gov. Mike Pence reacted to the Sandy Hook massacre by saying, in effect, don’t get carried away. This was shortly after his election victory over Democrat John Gregg, who made sure voters knew he was “Biblequotin’ and gun-totin’.” It is tough out there for Moms Against Guns, I’m here to tell you. The list of favors to the gun lobby and Second Amendment fanatics is long and always lengthening; but the topper has to be the law enacted late in Daniels’ administration permitting householders to use force against any police officer or other public agent they believed to be unlawfully entering their home. This daft and potentially deadly sop to the fantasy frontier spirit came in response to an Indiana Supreme Court ruling against a man who’d fought with invading police. If they’re wrong, the court said, you have to complain or sue later; you’ve no inherent right to get physical. Providentially, no upstanding, licensed, rage-crazed homeowner has tested the home-is-your-castle law so far. And to our relief, much of the other gun legislation is mostly symbolic as well. Nobody has been checking Dad’s trunk when he’s come to pick up Junior; and if a House bill now pending passes as expected, nobody will be allowed to. It’s simply one more endorsement of a gun culture and a gun lobby that have made our communities a mine field that no number of gun control laws ever could sweep clean even if three ghosts visited the Statehouse tonight. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, rightful Hoosiers. The way this legislature figures, you make us safer wherever you tote. Oh, uh, but the Statehouse is off limits, of course. n
WHAT HAPPENED? Just in case … preparing for the extremes The Indiana House on Monday approved a proposed constitutional amendment from the Senate meant to protect the rights of Hoosiers to hunt and fish, but still has a long road before it’s put into the Indiana Constitution. The resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Jasper, said the proposal is meant to “protect well-funded anti-hunting extremists from intervening in the right to hunt and fish.” Opponents said Senate Joint Resolution 9 is unnecessary. Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, said he can’t imagine what group could convince Indiana lawmakers to outlaw fishing and hunting. “How likely is that to really happen?” he said. Still, representatives supported the measure by a 79-16 margin. The resolution already passed the Senate, though it was amended to remove farming as one of the constitutionally protected activities. So, like HJR 3, it must be passed by in one more legislative session before it can proceed to the voters. Chemical concerns A chemical spill in West Virginia earlier this year that left more than 300,000 residents unable to drink their tap water has prompted the Indiana League of Women Voters to ask the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for stronger oversight of the state’s 9,581 aboveground chemical storage tanks. The vast majority of these tanks are not subject to regular government inspection. In Indiana, 2,613 of these tanks are located within so-called “zones of concern” for the protection of public water systems, the letter said, noting that 42 Indiana municipalities sources their tap water from lake or rivers. Most communities are unaware of the location of aboveground chemical storage tanks and do not know which tanks are located near their municipal water intakes, wrote Amy Olson Miller, president of the League of Women Voters of Indiana, urging IDEM to initiate a tank inspection program. Cash to change local food culture Indy Food Council, which aims to provide equal access to healthy and nutritious food, enhances ecology, and creates meaningful economic and civic opportunities, is soliciting proposals for its 2014 round of Indy Food Fund and Indy Food Fellows. Grants range from $500 to $10,000 and loans from $25,000 to $2 million are available to support “catalytic projects that improve the Indianapolis food system and neighborhoods.” The council is also supporting matching grants of $3,000 to support student fellowships at local organizations seeking to build a healthier, more sustainable food system. For more info, see indyfoodcouncil.org. Proposals are due by 5 p.m. March 14 at info@indyfoodcouncil.org.
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Mayor Greg Ballard lobbies for tougher gun crime sentences in his State of the City Address
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ayor Greg Ballard’s 2014 State of the City address might be summed up in three words (with apologies to Warren Zevon): business, guns and money. But not necessarily in that order. The address, delivered in The Christel DeHann Performance Hall on the U. Indy campus, was preceded by an invocation from the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation’s Senior Rabbi Brett Krichiver. In stark contrast to a prayer given prior to a recent debate on samesex marriage at the statehouse, Krichiver exhorted the crowd to remember the discrimination suffered by our LGBT neighbors. After a slick promotional video scrolled through Ballard’s Greatest Hits (Indy’s Super Bowl, lower oil use by the city and the like), the Mayor began to “outline a way forward for our city to ensure that future generations choose to ‘Live Indy’.” That slogan (arguably a lot less cornpone than the State’s clunky new “Honest-to-Goodness Indiana” tagline) is essentially shorthand for the buzzword “livability.” It’s about ensuring that residents, present and potential, have dining, fitness and entertainment options right outside their urban doors — and guaranteeing said residents feel safe enough to venture outside said doors. Job One? Figuring out how to keep Circle City residents from shooting each other. Indy’s murder rate hit 125 in 2013, and the vast majority of those killings were caused by firearms. The city’s already seen over two-dozen gun murders in 2014, including a 15-hour stretch that tallied eight deaths. The Mayor’s first order of business on that front: more cops. To pay for more — and more diverse — recruits in IMPD uniforms, the Mayor again expressed his desire to ditch the local homestead tax credit. By Ballard’s math, homeowners under the 1% tax cap would see an average increase of two bucks monthly. Secondly, said Ballard, “It is also time for us to engage in some straight talk. This current pattern of violence is rob-
bing us of an entire generation of young men of color and it must stop. I have been meeting with leaders in our AfricanAmerican community for many months. There are no easy answers, but shortly we will announce a plan to address the many root causes of this violence.” One of the leaders the Mayor has been consulting is the President of the Indianapolis Ten Point Coalition, Rev Charles Harrison, pastor of Barnes United Methodist Church. Rev. Harrison was unwilling to share his knowledge of the details of Ballard’s initiative the day after the address, but he said that the Mayor’s been speaking with black leaders about “the quality of life issues that [are] driving the violence … we have a couple generations of particularly African-American men who are in a state of hopelessness, and because of that desperation, we see them doing desperate things.” “We’ve had very honest conversations with [the Mayor] about the root causes driving this violence,” Harrison said. “From joblessness to education, broken families, missing positive male role models in the lives of many of these young men, those are some of the major root causes that we really have to address.” The other bullet in Ballard’s chamber? Tougher sentencing. “I am asking our state lawmakers to stand with our police, make our city safer and pass my proposal to keep convicted gun criminals in prison longer,” said Ballard, thanking state Senators Jim Merritt and Mike Young “for carrying this legislation for me. Criminals who use a gun while committing a crime need to serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars.”
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That’s OK by Rev. Harrison: “Some of the concern in the community is that there are no real serious consequences for this senseless violence. Do we need to send a message that this is not going to be tolerated? We’re dealing with a desperate situation out here, and we may need to take desperate measures … I do support that.” Ironically, against the backdrop of an escalating number of deaths by firearms, the city will host the NRA’s national convention this April. “I would love to see the NRA become a part of this conversation,” said Harrison. “We have a large number of illegal guns on the streets, in the hands of people who have no regard for human life. [The NRA needs] to become a positive part of a conversation about how to address this problem.” n
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INSIDE THE AUTISTIC BRAIN Temple Grandin brings a different way of thinking to a local appearance
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NUVO: You see things in pictures — nonverbally — correct? TEMPLE GRANDIN: I see everything in pictures. I also want to emphasize that there are people who are not autistic who see in pictures. Thinking in pictures is kind of a continuum; on the extreme end, when I design equipment, I can test-run it in my head. But my mind kind of works like Google for images: put a keyword in, then I start getting a whole lot of images. I had no speech until about age four and I had all the autistic behaviors. I was very lucky — I was able to get a lot of early intervention with a lot of one-onone teaching. NUVO: Your mother’s going to be speaking at the conference. What did she do for you when you were diagnosed? GRANDIN: She always knew how much to push me. When I was eight years old, I knew how to shake hands, I had table manners — these things were just taught back in the ‘50s. … I see too many kids that get a label: Little Tommy’s got autism, so he doesn’t have to order his own food at a restaurant, or learn how to shop, or even learn how to shake hands. When I was eight years old, my mother had me be a little party hostess. That taught me social skills. NUVO: We’re having a debate right now
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emple Grandin, PhD, is an inventor, professor and bestselling author. She was the subject of an Emmy-award winning movie that aired on HBO. She’s also autistic. Grandin will be speaking at a conference in Greenwood on March 7th, along with her mom, Eustacia Cutler and behavioral specialist Dr. Jed Baker. (It’s a ticketed event, but attendees can earn continuing ed credits — see the event website below.) As the Indiana state legislature wrangles over potential replacements for Common Core education standards, we decided to check in with someone who, despite a complete inability to grasp abstract concepts such as algebra, still managed to invent humane slaughter equipment used on over half the cattle in the United States.
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FOR MORE INFO For more on Temple Grandin’s appearance in Greenwood: fhautism.com/attend-a-conference/ indianapolis-in-march-7/ in our country and in our state regarding Common Core and replacing it with another set of standards that apply to all students. I’ll bet you wouldn’t want to paint every student with the same broad brush. Let’s take, for example, skills in algebra – this is a specific area of study that gave you a lot of difficulty. GRANDIN: I would have never gotten through algebra. I think there’s a lot of kids that can’t do algebra but they can do geometry. Algebra was something that just didn’t make any sense to me at all. [With] Common Core, people think you’ve just got to do drills ... In my work with animals I’ve developed a system for assessing whether a meat packing plant’s doing humane slaughter. You don’t tell them how to build stuff but you’ve got to achieve certain outcomes. Okay, you’ve got a fourth grader, at the end of the year he’s got to learn long division; don’t tell me how I’ve got to teach it, I’ll just make sure the kid knows long division when he gets to the end of fourth grade. That’s an outcome.
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NUVO: Why do think more kids are being diagnosed on the autism/Asperger’s spectrum? Is it because we’ve widened the definition or is it because there’s an increase in kids with these symptoms? GRANDIN: I think on the mild cases, it’s just widening the definition. I can think of kids I went to college with that would definitely be on the autism spectrum today — you called them “geeks” and “nerds” before. Half of Silicon Valley is probably on the spectrum, and those kids have great jobs.
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll A half-day conference focused on the big three, including sessions such as “Sex and the United States: From Alfred Kinsey to Fifty Shades,” to an exploration of hearing loss among rock stars and concert goers and “Marijuana, Pills and Bath Salts, Oh My!” which will include a review of current drug policies, focusing on marijuana legalization. Register at myiupui.com/weekendU Sat., March 8, 8 a.m. NCAA Hall of Champions, 700 W. Washington St. $30 (include breakfast and lunch), $25 for IUPUI students and IU/Purdue alumns
THOUGHT BITE ARCHIVE In response to continuing deaths of American soldiers at the hand of Iraqi resistance to U.S. invasion, our tough-talking, non-combatant president said, “Bring them on.” He was not referring directly to body bags, but there’s nothing like being a hero with somebody else’s body bag. (From the week of July 9, 2003) – ANDY JACOBS JR.
NUVO: What would you tell a parent whose child has just been diagnosed with autism? GRANDIN: It depends on the age. If you have a three year old who’s not talking — and I don’t care what his diagnosis is — the worst thing you can do is nothing. You’ve got to get many, many hours of one-on-one instruction. Let’s say you’ve got a fourth grader that’s diagnosed on the spectrum because he doesn’t have any friends, because he’s socially awkward. This kid may have uneven skills, good at math, maybe art, develop the things he’s good at. Also, with social skills, get the kid involved with friends that have shared interests. It could be robotics club, it could be band, chess … the only places where I was not bullied and teased [were] riding horses and electronics lab. n
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hether it brings economic recovery or environmental chaos, a plan to dam the White River is still far from a done deal. Still, $600,000 of taxpayer money in the form of an Indiana Finance Authority grant is now in play to explore the feasibility of damming the river at Anderson. The so-called Mounds Lake project takes its name from the prehistoric earthworks at Mounds State Park. Built by the Adena and Hopewell peoples around 160 B.C., the mounds are the oldest of their kind in the state. Though the initial reservoir plan states that the mounds will not be damaged by the project, opponents of
the dam argue that altering the setting in which the mounds sit will undermine the site's archeological integrity. Many details of the plan remain unknown at this point. That is what the $600,000 is for, to fund the geo-engineering assessments, environmental overview and archeological surveys necessary to determine whether the paper plans for Mounds Lake would work out on a real-life scale. Opponents have so many concerns about the reservoir proposal so far that, at a recent meeting of the Heart of the River Coalition, they struggled to fit them all on one informational brochure. There are, of course, property owners
whose homes will fall within the inundation area. The lower-to-moderate income communities of Irondale and Hollywood Estates, for example, would be flooded. The toxic legacy associated with some of Anderson’s former industrial sites also factors into opponents’ concerns. Memories are still fresh of the nowdefunct Guide Corporation’s 1999 illegal toxic discharge, which resulted in the death of an estimated 4.3 million fish. So learning that the reservoir would cover the town mall, which was built on top of a garbage dump, did not ease opponents’ concerns.
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The interior walls of the Great Mound, the centerpiece of Mounds State Park, which is home to several earthworks built by the Adena and Hopewell peoples around 160 B.C. The mounds, which researchers believe were used to track seasons and celestial events, are the oldest of their kind in the state.
Another bit of history to be drowned: the longest remaining section of towpath from Indiana’s 1880s canal system. "Boy, that was a boondoggle," said local naturalist and Heart of the River member Sheryl Myers, referring to the never-finished effort to engineer a statewide canal transportation network. "I wonder if this will be, too."
The great unknowns Many other important details about regional and state (not to mention national and global) water demand are also unknown at this point, but the Indiana Chamber of Commerce recently commissioned a study to help local stakeholders get a more holistic understanding of the state's water supply and demand. "For sometime, we at the Indiana Chamber have been saying we need a water plan for Indiana," Vince Griffin, the Chamber's vice president for energy and environmental policy, said in a recent interview. "Where you have water, you have economic development and where you have economic development, you have water." Griffin's view is echoed by state lawmakers, who considered the issue in a study committee last summer. Several other local hydrological experts have also urged Indiana to address its lack of a centralized plan on water use. The state has more than 800 water utilities and 500 sewer wastewater treatment facilities, only 15 percent are under Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission oversight, the other 600 opted out, Griffin said. "Having no centralized plan is leaving a lot of little utilities trying to figure out how to meet future demand," Griffin said.
The making of a dam The preliminary Mounds Lake plan proposed a dam 2,500-feet long constructed just north of Anderson across the White River. The site is about 35 miles north of White River's intersection with I-465 on Indy's northeast side. Water released from the dam would flow to the city within 1.5 days. Engineers figure an 870-foot high dam would release 48 million of gallons of water per day downstream; increasing the height 15 feet would increase the flow capacity to 57 million gallons. The resulting reservoir would reside in Madison and Delaware counties, spread across approximately 2,000 acres in a long band stretching about seven miles upriver. The water would be an estimated 50 feet deep at the dam and 30 feet deep at its midpoint. In an overview presentation of the project, DLZ, the engineering firm contracted to evaluate the site, deemed the site location "well suited for this endeavor" because of its deep valleys. Rather than cut off the flow to those down stream, DLZ said, dam operators will be able increase the flow when drought-like conditions are present. Still, dramatic changes in the river corridor would result. The initial idea for the reservoir sprang from a 2010 leadership academy class "looking for ways to re-invent the economy and community at large," said Rob Sparks, executive director of the Anderson/Madison County Corporation for Economic Development. The city has never fully recovered from the effects of losing General Motors: 27,000 jobs and $2 billion in associated payroll, he said.
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RIVER , FROM PAGE 09 Sheryl Myers has been leading hikes through Mounds State Park for years — and helping to organize river cleanups with the White River Watchers since 1997. "We quit counting at 7,000 tires [pulled from the river]," she said. Her local Friends of White River group is not taking a formal stand against the dam, underscoring how conflicted the community already feels on the issue. "People who've worked together for years have entirely different viewpoints on the matter," Myers said, adding her feeling that plan proponents are "enticing us with promises I don't think they can keep about the economic turnaround. I think [the river corridor] is our crown jewel; I don't want to cast it away to the higher bidder. For a lot of us, this is our sanity, our escape." Proponents are considering several possible revenue streams from the dammed river — including hydropower, bottled water sales and recreational opportunities. But they are quick to emphasize the reservoir's potential as an additional water resource for utilities as they prepare to meet growing residential and commercial demand. "Water demands continue to grow, while the potential sites for new surface water sources dwindle in the U.S. Simultaneously, potential sites face ever-increasing environmental scrutiny with greater costs and environmental mitigation needed,” according to the DLZ presentation. This question of how much water Central Indiana has versus how much it needs will likely be at the heart of decision on whether to move forward on the plan.
The question of maximum capacity While water conservation techniques — such as the recycling of wastewater into drinking water — are nothing new for Western municipalities such as Las Vegas, Indiana has — aside from isolated rashes of drought — been blessed with enough water for whatever people needed at home, in industry and for agriculture. But, as illustrated by the Great Lakes Compact, which is beginning to regulate water use in the Great Lakes Basin through a combination of voluntary reporting and permitted use, the region — which is home to 20 percent of the world's fresh water supply — is already wary of the potential effects of growing demand for its resources. The compact's core goal is "effective consistent water resource management." The Indiana Department of Environmental Resources conducts about 100 water rights investigations each year, according to a recent PowerPoint from the department. Most complaints are resolved without invoking the state law that requires “timely and reasonable compensation” to owners of domestic wells affected by high-capacity groundwater pumping, the presentation said. Still, incidents do occur where new uses interfere with existing users' access. IDEM logged multiple well failures in Benton and Warren Counties last summer due to new irrigation withdrawals. Irrigation State officials also noted that irrigation of a new cricket facility in Marion County last August had some effects on nearby domestic wells. Of the state's 2,500-odd registered irrigation facilities, more than 400 have been added since 2007. Between 1985
and 2007, irrigation's groundwater withdrawals were on an upward trend, ending around 40 billion gallons per year. Since then, the rate of increase has skyrocketed two times, hitting almost 80 billion gallons in 2012.
The pitch Sparks describes the process of pitching the possibility of a dam "as a marathon with hurdles." The height of those hurtles depends on what these ongoing studies reveal — and the tenor of the public reaction to the information it receives. "We are in the early stage," Sparks said. "There are a lot of things that can trip [the project] up. We have a series of discovery we're going to do as region now. It's a process ... I try to bring deals together. I don't possess all the answers, but from a strategic standpoint for our region, it's important for lots of reasons — from regional water needs to redevelopment purposes. We understand the impacts to the environment need to be taken into consideration and we don't take that lightly." Among many other consequences of
LEGEND Forested Areas Within Proposed Reservoir (978 acres) Forested Areas Adjacent Proposed Reservoir Approx Inundation Area
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reservoir creation, Sparks said a mountain biking park that he helped to create in Anderson will be partially inundated. But he sees its loss as a possible opportunity. "Can part of the mitigation strategy be to have a mountain biking path and park settings all the way around it?" he asked. "Maybe to make a national type venue? How do you enhance trails, not how do you eliminate them?" Still, if the dam goes in, trails will be eliminated. Trail Five, for instance, runs between the White River and the park's Mounds Fen State Nature Preserve.
The Fen In 2011, a group of biologists published in the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science a study further cataloging the flora of a 16.6-hectare preservation area to the south end of Mounds State Park encompassing an area known as the fen. The work built on the findings of an earlier study by one of the study's authors, Paul Rothrock, a professor of biology, earth and environmental science at Taylor University's Randall Environmental Center in Upland, Ind., who began a foundational inventory of
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Sheryl Myers, a local naturalist who has led park tours and helped organized White River cleanups for years, is adamant in her stance that Mounds Fen State Nature Preserve, which runs along Trail Five in the park, is irreplaceable. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, a group of local biology experts agreed.
the park's flora in 1993. Of the 584 total species researchers cataloged between the two studies, 478, or 82 percent, were native. The two measures by which the study's authors ranked these native populations, the floristic quality index and the mean coef-
ficient of conservatism, "indicate that the conservation and richness of Mounds State Park and Preserve are of paramount importance from a regional perspective." Pawpaw, hemlock, birthwort, Nodding Rattlesnake-Root, Virginia Snakeroot, Brown-Eyed Susan and
Brown Widelip Orchid are just a tasting of over 60 plants researchers classified as rare. Team members included Kevin Tungesvick of Spence Restoration Nursery in Muncie, Ball State biology professors Donald Ruch, Kemuel Badger and Byron Torke, and Taylor University's Rothrock. In an effort to forecast the amount of forestland that would be lost beneath the waters of Mounds Lake, Ball State's Sensible Ecology recently estimated that 978 acres of forested land would be lost. "Mitigation is well defined under federal rules. ‌Typically it's an assignment of 2:1, 4:1, 6:1 [acres replanted for each sacrificed] depending on the value of the resource," Sparks said. "You can't replace an 80-year old tree. You know that and I know that. I can't minimize that. But what can we do if that tree is impacted by a project that has a far greater resource? How can we then take the value of that tree and transplant it into a different area and bring additional value?" Proponents also suggest that, as far as environmental issues go, the reservoir may act as the most energy efficient SEE, RIVER, ON PAGE 12
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What if Carmel enacted watering bans? Citizens Water, the largest drinking water system in the state, forecasts demand from the vast suburban region emanating from the White River corridor will drive existing supplies to their capacity during periods of peak demand over the next decade. The utility has not taken a formal position on the Mounds Lake proposal. But in its most recent conservation strategy, approved by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Authority in May of 2013, Citizens noted: "A significant component of water resources planning is the development and implementation of a plan that IDs the strategies and measures to support the protection and conservation of natural resources. …Among the benefits of conservation, the costs of implementing capital improvement projects can be delayed, reduced or avoided."
Citizens owns Morse and Geist Reservoirs, and also draws water directly from White River and Fall Creek. About 75 percent of its supply comes from surface water, a quarter comes from ground wells. The utility serves more than 305,000 customers through 4,400 miles of water main pipe. Citizens has no trouble meeting its existing demand with its current water supply, estimated to be just over 300 million gallons per day. But drought can pressure supply to a point where targeted rationing — such as lawn watering bans — are necessary to ensure the system's essential needs are met. Of more than a dozen possible conservation measures Citizens is currently pondering, from leak detection to enhanced water recovery in wastewater treatment, customer education remained among the most effective — and cost-effective — strategies, capable of saving just under 1 million gallons on an average day and 12.3 million on a peak demand day by 2015. When Mayor Ballard asked residents to implement conservation practices in response to a city-wide water warning in July 2012, Citizens reported demand on its system dropped by 40 million gallons per day.
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Negotiating on the front page Sparks said he wishes he could have collected all the project data and lined up partners before going public with the Mounds Lake plan so that people could be presented with the complete picture before passing judgment. It's hard to negotiate business on the front page of the newspaper, he explained. "There's always politics by the building of a dam," Joe Davis, Society of Environmental Journalists' TipSheet and WatchDog editor, said at the 25th annual National Institute of ComputerAssisted Reporting conference held last week in Baltimore. "There's a constituency that benefits; there is a constituency that is harmed. Lots of politics and economics. …Build a dam, make a lake and sell lakefront properties." As the exploratory process unfolds, proponents plan to host a series of public meetings, tentatively planned for sometime in May. "We think we should have enough legitimate data at the end summer to know whether we should we turn away or should we proceed," Sparks said. "This is radical. We are changing the
landscape. I don't take that lightly. We have to have public will to move that forward." Public officials are also tuning in. Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, and other representatives of the constituents in the Mounds Lake region have set up a March 17 listening session in Anderson as a first order of business following the conclusion of the 2014 Indiana General Assembly. "That it affects a dedicated state nature preserve is what makes this a state issue," a Heart of the River Coalition member said at a recent protest-organizing meeting. "If they can take our smallest state park by eminent domain what happens to the other parks?" Coalition member Clarke Kahlo said: "Just because we can engineer it, doesn't been that we should engineer it. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
Dam Nation The debate of Mounds Lake is taking place within a much larger national conversation about the legacy of dams, the potential of dams, and the access to public information about the safety
of dams that would easily imperil life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should they fail. Up until 2002, the Corps released to the public data on dam safety — such as maps of the areas that would be at risk if the dam failed. But after 9/11, the Corps began declining to release the data for "national security reasons," though the data is searchable on the USACE website behind a login that must be assigned to users. The feds regulate 84,000 dams, but seven out of 10 dams are privately owned, which are overseen by states and face fewer regulations. It will be telling for the Central Indiana public to determine will be how easily the can access the state's dam emergency action plans. Nationwide, reporters are finding challenges in accessing information on stats such as the possible number of fatalities a dam failure could cause. "We have to push back on this; the fact we're not getting [the data] is ridiculous," Liz Lucas, director of the NICAR database library, said at last week’s journalism conference. According to the National Inventory of Dams kept by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. is home to 1.25 million dams. Indiana has 279 high-hazard dams, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. In its 2013 Report Card for American Infrastructure, the American Society of Civil
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Engineers gave Indiana a D- on dams. It reported that Indiana’s dam safety program has five full-time employees who each oversee an average of 216.8 state-regulated dams on an annual budget of $392,000. Only 16 percent of state-regulated dams had emergency action plans. At the Rivers of the Anthropocene two-day symposium held at IUPUI Jan 23-24, James Syvitski, executive director of the University of Colorado's Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System and chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, discussed the legacy of dams throughout time. Natural rivers want to transform their shapes all the time, he said, noting that at one point in history, China spent 10-15 percent of its gross domestic product trying to keep a river in place. Humans, he said, have constructed "a dam a day for 130 years," mostly built for "very good reasons" such as hydropower, irrigation and water supply. "They're built "to solve problems, but not deal with the problems they create," Syuitski said. "Humans have transformed many aquatic systems into unnatural conduits of water, sediment, carbon, nitrates and pollutants. …Animal and plant worlds and humans will be adapting to something new. We won't be going back to where we were."n
OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH RIVER ISSUES Reconnecting to Our Waterways: Looking back, looking forward This grassroots effort aims to help neighbors strengthen waterways, and in turn, help waterways strengthen neighborhoods. The program includes updates on local waterways, funding, the city as living lab, and Deep Rock Tunnel. RSVP at ROWPORT2014.eventbrite.com. Fri., March 7, coffee at 8 a.m., program begins at 9 a.m. Old City Hall, 202 N. Alabama St. , FREE Reconnecting to Our Waterways Central Canal Waterway Committee meeting Fri., March 7, 3-4:30 p.m., Christian Theological Seminary, Room 122, 1000 W. 42nd St. International Day of Action for Rivers Options for celebrating are only limited by your imagination. Fri., March 14, Worldwide, FREE Reconnecting to Our Waterways Pleasant Run Waterway Committee meeting Mon., March 24, 6:30 p.m., Southeast Community Services Youth Center, 924 Shelby St. Heart of the River Coalition For everything from "paddle protests" to river cleanups and public engagement on river issues. Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:00 at Your Way Café, 1023 Meridian St. in Anderson moundslakereservoir.org. The Mounds Lake Plan For more info on the Mounds Lake Reservoir Proposal, including an interactive map and proposed project timeline, see moundslake.com.
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FIRST FRIDAY EVENTS India Garden Yes, it’s an all- (or mostly-) Indian lineup this month at the Harrison, starting with Quincy Owens’ show Brimful of Asha (named after a really good Cornershop song, we think) in the Harrison Gallery, featuring work inspired by and created during a recent three-week artist residency in Delhi. Then collage work by India Cruse-Griffin, collected as India Garden, in Gallery No. 2. Plus sculpture by Brian Allee in the City Gallery, singer-songwriters from Belmont University in the gym and, in Hank and Dolly’s Gallery, the Anonymous Musical Collaboration System, which invites strangers to create music remotely, using an 8-track, two keyboards, two TVs and two closed-circuit cameras.
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Harrison Center for the Arts, March 7, 6-10 p.m. (artwork up through March 28) Stills: Phillip Lynam According to an artist statement, Lynam, chief designer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, hopes his recent paintings will “create an immersive, dislocating experience for the viewer,” such that she might be “completely immersed in the artwork itself” in the way “one might interact with television screens or computer monitors.” This is a tall order. Gallery 924, March 7-28 Circle City Industrial Complex Over at CCIC, new work is on the way this month at Singletooth Productions (by Noelle Cooper, Jerold Thompson and Michael Sprague) and Litmus Gallery (Todd Matus’ Gorby! collages), along with encore presentations of Rad Drew’s photos of Indy (at Nancy Lee Design Studio) and Dave Voelple’s abstract landscapes (at Five Seasons Gallery). Galleries open March 7, 6-9 p.m. Monsters, Myths & Mayhem Indy Indie gallery director Bobbie Zaphiriou was inspired by mythologist Joseph Campbell in putting together a new group show featuring work by two dozen artists in a variety of media, from clay vessels to 3-D printing to performance art. Indie Indie Artist Colony, March 7-28 Indiana Icons Constance Edwards Scoplelitis’ latest solo show at The Conrad features portraits of, yes, Indiana icons such as Kurt Vonnegut, Madame Walker, Wes Montgomery, Larry Bird and Bobby Knight, most of them pencil on paper. Twenty percent of the purchase price during March will be donated to Gennesaret Free Clinics. Long-Sharp Gallery at the The Conrad, opens March 7
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PHOTOS BY RICHARD ROSS
Sixteen-year-old J. (left) is seen at the South Bend Juvenile Correctional Facility in 2011. CJ, also 16, is shown in Seattle’s King County Youth Services Center last year.
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ver the last seven years, Richard Ross has photographed and interviewed more than 1,000 incarcerated juveniles in close to 300 facilities in 31 states, including group homes, police departments, youth correctional facilities, juvenile courtrooms, high schools, shelters, Montessori classrooms and child protective services interview rooms. The results, collected in the show Juvenile In Justice, are coming to Herron beginning March 5, with Ross on hand opening night for a lecture and reception. “The people who deal with social justice have great data, but they don’t always have the images,” says Ross, a University of California, Santa Barbara professor who also spoke about his project at Herron in 2012. “The images frame the conversation. They show that lives are actually at stake. I wanted to give the images to policymakers.” Ross would spend at least an hour with each subject talking about their stories, followed by a photo where the individual’s face was obscured. “For the most part, they were bored and were excited to have someone listen to them,” he says. “To have an older
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white male sit on the floor [in a cell] and just listen to them, instead of barking orders, was unique.” While at the South Bend Juvenile Correction Facility in 2011, Ross met with a 16-year-old inmate identified as “J.” He was in the facility for a sixmonth sentence following a conviction of credit card theft, but had been placed in segregation after intimidating the staff. According to the staff, he was able to leave for one or two hours a day, but J. told Ross that he was only allowed to leave the cell to use the bathroom. Ross also interviewed “CJ,” a 16-year-old who had been housed at the King County Youth Services Center in Seattle 14 times as of her interview in 2013. She was incarcerated, she says, due to “truancy, not staying at home and being rude. I don’t do anything serious. I just smoke weed.”
“The reason kids are placed in these facilities is to deter, punish, and rehabilitate,” Ross says. “None of these deter, and, in fact, many kids see going to these places as badge of honor or as a right of passage. There might be a little bit of rehabilitation in terms of programs, but these resources should be used for schools and neighborhoods to prevent them from being incarcerated. These facilities are very good at punishing. They put kids in a 7 by 10 foot or 8 by 10 foot room, a horrific, cinder-block cell. More people are beginning to understand the costs and that these facilities are ineffective and unsafe. We could do a lot better.” Ross continues to travel the country, but is currently more focused on cases that involve various states’ child protective services programs. “Maybe for one percent of those in juvenile detention, your heart says maybe this kid deserves to be here,” he says. “But when dealing with kids in child protective services, they’re such victims of violence and abuse that it does make you cry. My hands shake when I take notes and do interviews. Some are incredibly young and some of them are newborns. They’re certainly not guilty of anything except being born in the wrong place.” n
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BY DAVID LEANDER WILLIAMS Foreword by David N. Baker History Press
Indianapolis Jazz is a must-read for anyone interested in jazz and/or Indianapolis. Author David Williams writes with the assurance of an historian and the poetry of an eyewitness. His encyclopedic book gallops with finesse through Indiana Avenue’s amazing cultural and social connections with the 20th-century national music scene. Headliners with direct connections to Indianapolis race across the pages — and while reading I kept saying, ‘Whoa, I didn’t know that!’ Case in point: Todd Duncan, a Shortridge High School and Butler University graduate, was chosen by George Gershwin to be the first Porgy, and John William Sublett, who grew up in Indianapolis and performed on the vaudeville stage, was the first Sportin’ Life, for the debut of Porgy and Bess on October 10, 1935. Both performers went on to prestigious careers. And here’s another: Indianapolis-born Noble Sissle, who graduated from and wrote Butler University’s “fight song,” is more universally known along with Eubie Blake for their musical revue Shuffle Along, the first hit Broadway musical written about and by African Americans. The strength of the book is its presentation of people in context with each other and within national and international events. My one wish is for a more extensive index including schools, colleges, universities and performance venues. — RITA KOHN
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Brian Sweany’s almost true story about growing up a horndog in central Indiana
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n the town of Empire Heights lives a guy, Hank Fitzpatrick, coming to terms with being a dad and husband after years of acting out. That town looks a lot like Columbus, Ind., and that guy sounds a lot like Brian Sweany, director of acquisitions at audiobook outfit Recorded Books — and author of two autobiographical novels published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop, the original publisher of a little book called Fifty Shades of Grey. The second, Making Out With Blowfish, on sale March 6, opens with an epic game of beer pong pitting the hero, Hank, against
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a couple delectable co-eds in a scene that could take place on any college campus. It’s when we learn the co-eds are caterers working a party at Hank’s suburban home, that Hank is about two decades their elder and that his wife is waiting upstairs — well, you can see the problems facing the reluctantly maturing hero. Sweany has no qualms admitting that the characters in his first two books are based on his real life family and friends. The first book, Exotic Music of the Belly Dancer, based on his school years in Columbus and later in college from 1986-1993, “was as true to life as possible, just with different names,” he says. After the first book was released, his best friend didn’t talk to him for a while, and other friends and family “struggled with seeing the book’s versions of themselves.” He used those real stories to “capture the feeling of a first love, the smell of a girl, the pain of heart break. … I wanted it to be like Breakfast Club meets Fight Club.” Sweany’s father, like the character Hank’s, died when
he was only in his early 20s. And Hank was molested by a family friend who was like an uncle to him, just as Sweany was sexually abused by his godfather — his father’s best Brian Sweany friend. “After my dad died, I gave myself permission to deal with this,” he says. “I was able to compartmentalize my godfather and the monster. Writing about these emotional issues grounded me and gave me an emotionally detached perspective. Writing fiction made the non-fiction version more real. Especially with my godfather, even though I glossed over that in the book and made it easier on Hank.” Not that Hank gets a free pass. “I wanted the narrator to be able to say whatever came to his mind,” he says. “Whether it’s something about private parts or his obsession with women’s calves. It’s not always pretty and perfect. … I wanted to make the reader feel uncomfortable with Hank from the beginning of the book by opening in 2008 when Hank is now a 38-year-old and doesn’t seem to have learned a thing.” But Sweany does leave a few things out. He says his wife is less emotional than her fictional counterpart and gives her credit for making him a better, more grounded and empathetic person, something he says the book doesn’t convey about Hank’s wife. Sweany first got in touch with the The Writer’s Coffee Shop, which was founded in Australia and has offices in the U.S., as part of his day job. That connection made, the conversation turned to Sweany’s own work and The Writer’s Coffee Shop ultimately gave him a book deal. And his next book? Something totally different. He’ll only say it’s Joss Whedon-inspired and something he will occasionally share with his teenage daughter for her input. n
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EVENTS Kings & Queens of Country Choreographers David Hochoy and Cynthia Pratt are each creating a world premiere for Dance Kaleidoscope’s next show, and they promise music by Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash, among other country royalty. Check DK’s website for info on supplementary events, including post-show honky tonk concerts March 8 and 15 and a March 13 line dance class.
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Hilbert Circle Theatre, March 6-8, times and prices vary, indianapolissymphony.org Stephanie J. Block It’s a return visit for Block, who recently starred in the off-broadway musical Little Miss Sunshine (based on the indie comedy) and has played on Broadway in Wicked and The Boy from Oz (opposite Sir Hugh Jackman). The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, March 7 and 8, 8 p.m., $35-65 (plus $12 minimum), thecabaret.org Beth Horner A father’s rendition of Poe’s “The Raven,” a songwriter challenging City Hall’s sewage policy and a bewildered motorcycle cop will all feature in Beth Horner’s storytelling performance, part of the Storytelling Arts series. Indiana History Center, March 8, 7:30 p.m., $20 advance (storytellingarts.org), $25 door
REVIEW A Comedy of Errors r Mistaken identity and family reunions are the order of the evening in this collaborative joint between EclecticPond Theater Company and Q Artistry artistic director Ben Asaykwee. Asaykwee directs a delightful ensemble of a dozen actors, who spring from the audience to people this bawdy comedy. Energy courses through the theater space as actors surround patrons, with players making no effort to hide the means of production — often nothing more than their own bodies and the imaginations of everyone in the room. Asaykwee creates clever concepts and elicits audience buy-in in subtle yet intelligent ways. March 7-9 and 14-15 at Irvington Lodge, $15 (discounts available) — KATELYN COYNE
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Indiana Repertory Theatre, March 6-16, times and prices vary, dancekal.org Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: The Firebird Krzysztof Urbanski remains on the podium this weekend for three fiery Russian masterworks: Mussorgsky’s A Night on Bare Mountain, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird.
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n Fridays in March, ComedySportz Indianapolis is turning over its 10 p.m. late show to female performers doing a mix of improv, sketch and stand-up. It’s called the Gal Pal Comedy Fest, and while it was created by a couple ComedySportz vets — co-owner Mia Lee Roberts and assistant artistic director Claire Wilcher — it’s not an official ComedySportz show, which means organizers have the latitude to invite all kinds of performers to do all kinds of material. Each show will close with an “allskate improv jam” giving all of the night’s performers and selected audience members a chance to join in games and scenes. Members of IndyProv, Defiance Comedy and ComedySportz are slated to participate. Co-founder Wilcher fielded a few questions from us:
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Claire Wilcher created the Gal Pal Comedy Fest with her ComedySportz cohort Mia Lee Roberts.
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CLAIRE WILCHER: A few reasons. One: To play. We’re not saving lives here, we’re doing comedy. Two: To collaborate. Our comedy scene is small but growing. There are people here who are excited about it. We need to share the wealth and spread the love. Three: To give myself a new challenge and involve my day job in some way. Four: Really and truly, to play. To get together for informal fun times and try something new. NUVO: What are women in comedy up against? Is it any different in Indy than elsewhere? WILCHER: Well, you’ve got your Amy Poehlers and your Tina Feys who are huge players in the comedy game, and they’ve kinda become the symbol of “women are funny too, dammit!” And here in Indy, we can watch them on TV from the couch and fist pump for funny broads, but until we get up onstage and put our hearts and brains out there for people to see, then the idea of amazing lady comedy is this distant, magic Hollywood thing. NUVO: How’d you manage to find a place for yourself in the scene?
WILCHER: When I first got involved in theatre here, I never said no to a gig, and I’ve made a ton of connections that way. ComedySportz has been super important, obviously, but for reasons beyond having ten years of improv under my belt now. I’ve managed to become friends with people from ComedySportz cities around the world, and gotten a peek into the comedy scenes where they live. And the groups I’ve been a part of beyond short form at ComedySportz — namely, Three Dollar Bill Comedy — and my success with them has shown me that Indy does have a place for well-crafted comedy.
And, honestly? Just having a lot of excitement and happiness about comedy, and not shutting up about it. I guess that’s how I’ve found my place. NUVO: What female comedians do you particularly like? WILCHER: Mindy Kaling is super. She’s has such a modern voice in her writing and kinda says what we’re all thinking and wishing. Melissa McCarthy: physical comedy phenom. She’s fearless, especially in her sketch stuff. Carol Burnett: because, duh. n
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FILM EVENTS Indy Film Fest’s Farm to Fork series The March 6 opener to Indy Film Fest’s series of food and film pairings is sold out, so this seems like a good opportunity to list off the rest of the offerings, all presented at Indiana Landmarks Center. On March 20, you’ve got Le Chef, a 2012 French comedy starring Jean Reno, paired with a French menu; on April 3, it’s the 2012 documentary Somm, which follows four people trying to pass the Master Sommelier exam, with a wine pairing menu; and on April 17, the 2013 Spanish/ Irish drama Tasting Menu, a drama set during closing night at a famous Catalan restaurant (based on El Bulli), accompanied by a “small bite” menu. All food is provided by MBP Distinctive Catering, and tickets run $35, with a 7 p.m. start to dinner and the film following dinner service. (And just so you know what you’re missing, the March 6 edition is catered by farm-to-fork outfit Joseph Decius and features two documentaries: FarmCity, a short by JD Schuyler looking at Indy’s food system through the eyes of a single mother, grocery store owner and health experts and community organizers; and An American Farm to Fork Celebration: The Joseph Decuis Story, about the rural Indiana restaurant and farm.) Indiana Landmarks Center, various dates, March 20, April 3 & 7, 7 p.m., $35, indyfilmfest.org
Joshua Oppenheimer Time for a road trip, at least for documentary buffs. Oppenheimer will lecture and present The Act of Killing, his unconventional documentary about Indonesian death squads (a 2013 Best Documentary Oscar nominee) on March 6 at Bloomington’s IU Cinema. Both events are free: the lecture starts at 3 p.m., and the film at 7 p.m. Here’s Ed on the film: “The mindboggling documentary by 38-year-old Oppenheimer will leave you reeling. He set out to make a straightforward documentary about the Indonesian mass murderers responsible for an astounding number of deaths in 1965, but encountered obstacles at every step. So he turned to the self-styled gangsters and offered them the chance to tell their own stories. You have got to see it to believe it. Maybe you’ll get on your moral high horse like I did. Maybe you’ll find the honesty refreshing.” Indiana University Cinema (Bloomington), March 6, 3 p.m., FREE, cinema.indiana.edu
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Asghar Farhadi’s (A Separation) new film is, once again, expertly acted and deliberately paced
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he Past is a relationship drama set on the outskirts of Paris. It begins with Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) flying in from Tehran to meet with his estranged wife Marie (Berenice Bejo, the spirited female lead in The Artist) to finalize their divorce. They have a common task, but are otherwise out of sync, as writerdirector Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) makes clear by showing the characters attempting to communicate with each other through a glass partition at the airport. After presenting the basic situation, Farhadi reveals his story points slowly, like layers being peeled from an onion. NOTE: While the onion simile is useful, I should point out that with most onions, until you reach the heart, peeling away a layer of onion only gets you more onion. The onion to which I refer in the previous paragraph is a very special onion where each layer includes new information along with its distinct flavor. But I digress. In deference to Farhadi, I’ll only tell you about the first couple layers of the onion. Ahmad and Marie have been separated for four years. She was supposed to book him a room at a hotel, but didn’t. At the suburban home where he used to live with her, we meet Lucie (Pauline Burlet) and Lea (Jeanne Jestin), Marie’s children from an earlier relationship. Teenage Lucie is upset about something. A little boy is also present. Young Fouad (Elyes Agues) is a feisty kid who gets stirred up easily. As the next layer of the onion is unpeeled, we learn that Marie is in a relationship with Fouad’s father, Samir (Tahar Rahim), a local dry cleaner. You’ll learn much more when you see the movie, but don’t expect a lot of cable-
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TV-drama-style shocking revelations. Farhadi isn’t into melodrama, though he certainly doesn’t mind skirting the edge of soap opera. The cast is very adept at playing regular folks, but man oh man, are they good looking (Tahar Rahim’s hair is so perfect that I wouldn’t be surprised to see him drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s in London). To be fair, I should warn you that the film has lots of talking and not a great deal of action. It worked for me, but some may find the pacing glacial. I enjoyed Farhadi’s look at relationships and the difficulty in moving forward while dragging the past behind
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you. Watching the fractured family members is interesting. Several characters feel guilty over bad things that happen, assuming they are responsible. Witnessing little Fouad exhibit such behavior is unsurprising; being selfabsorbed is part of being a child. Seeing the same behavior from grown-ups begs the question: do we ever stop thinking we are the center of the universe? Farhadi’s breaks from the standard approach to stories, which focus on a central character or two while relegating everyone else to supporting player status. The Past takes a more fluid approach, flowing from one character to another. I found it most telling that neither of the characters from the beginning of the film are present in the closing scene. The message of the movie? My guess is this: Life unfolds. Flavored by the past, but in the now. Life unfolds. Each person is a vital part of it, but the star of the show is the show, not me or you. n
300: Rise of an Empire More Persians, more Greeks, now in 3-D. Here’s Time Out London: “Even lighter on story than Zack Snyder’s 2007 predecessor, with an even more imposing array of beardy-yet-waxed male specimens on display, it essentially cops to being an equal-opportunity droolfest: as homoerotic or empoweringly macho as you want it to be, with more women in play this time round.”
Mr. Peabody and Sherman A Rocky and Bullwinkle offshoot directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little) with the voices of Ty Burrell, Stephen Colbert and Mel Brooks. Here’s The Guardian: “A likable, surreal and often funny animated feature” where “there’s an awful lot of unexpected fun to be had, boasting zany adventures with various historical figures.”
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CONTINUING About Last Night t The problem with this loose remake of a 1986 film of the same name is that too many moments and too many situations feel contrived. I get artistic license, but a more naturalistic screenplay might have allowed me to feel more involved with the characters. But the cast — Michael Ealy, Joy Bryant, Regina King — is talented and appealing and the balance between comedy and romance is well-maintained for the most part. And the manic Kevin Hart manages to keep his often raunchy comic scenes in high gear while remaining recognizably human. R, In wide release Dallas Buyers Club e Exceptional in large part due to the performance of an emaciated Matthew McConaughey, who plays a hardpartying 1980’s Dallas redneck. We first encounter him in the middle of a three-way with two rodeo groupies in a vacant holding pen. When an electrical accident sends him to the hospital, a blood test is done and Woodroof is informed that he is HIV-positive. His reaction is anger — how dare the doctors say he has a faggot disease! But he not only outlives his expiration date, he comes up with a way to work around the system and bring in money. Dallas Buyers Club never feels slow or unfocused. The mark of an exceptional movie is that it involves you so completely that you don’t notice, or care, about its rough spots. R, At Keystone Art
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mode, have a ball. Just don’t scrutinize the proceedings, especially towards the end. Neesom plays a U.S. Air Marshal on a New York to London flight who receives texts demanding a heap of government money to be transferred to an off-shore account. The threat: a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes until the money is received. So there you go. Julianne Moore costars and yes, the flight attendant with the Grace Jones haircut is indeed Lupita Nyong’o from 12 Years a Slave. PG-13, In wide release Robocop y The original sci-fi story of a terribly wounded policeman turned into a human-machine hybrid was snarky, vicious and really entertaining. This version is competent and unnecessary. The cast includes Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish and Michael Keaton. They’re fine. The movie is fine. But why eat remake Velveeta when you can enjoy the original aged cheese? PG-13, In wide release Son of God u Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado is a sexy Jesus in this adaptation from the History Channel mini-series The Bible, but never fear, the script doesn’t stray far from the book. The production is plodding and terribly obvious. For the most part, it plays on a Sunday School level. Sensitive souls should be aware that the Crucifixion gets pretty grisly. SPOILER ALERT: Jesus gets killed for a little while. PG-13, In wide release
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Daredevil Brewing Co. is building a 10,000 square foot production brewery and taproom in Speedway on a two acre site at 1101 Main Street. Michael Pearson and Bill Ballinger will continue to brew at their current Shelbyville location until the new brewery is up and running, but expect to see them active at cultural and civic events in Speedway starting now. Oaken Barrel is pouring Omar’s Free T-shirt Bock to honor Omar Castrellon, long-time brewmaster at Alcatraz, downtown Indianapolis’ first brewpub that opened in 1995. When Alcatraz closed in 2011 Castrellon became founding head brewer at Thr3e Wise Men. “This malt forward beer made with Munich and Pilsner malts, Hallertau hops and a touch of honey beer is a collaboration involving five brewers who started their careers under Omar Castrellon: Alan Simons (Oaken Barrel), Scott Ellis (The RAM Brewery), Adrian Bell (Sun King), Skip Duvall (Chilly Water Brewing Co,) and Keely Tomlinson (Thr3e Wise Men),” reports Oaken Barrel owner Kwang Casey. Castrellon is leaving for a new brewing opportunity in Arkansas. Events On March 7, 2-10 p.m., Indiana City Brewery is hosting a fundraiser to spruce up the “last known large road marker/obelisk in Indiana,” according to project coordinator Claire Rutledge. “The obelisk was dedicated by the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1916 for the 100th anniversary of Indiana statehood to mark Washington Street as Indianapolis’ major highway. Over the years it has been sadly neglected. Funding is needed to relandscape the area and restore the obelisk itself.” Rutledge hopes to have the obelisk site at East Washington St. and Southeastern Ave. completed for the 2016 bicentennial of Indiana statehood. On March 8, 2-5 p.m., Indy Girls Pint Out is celebrating its fourth anniversary as the founding chapter of a national movement with 46 other Girls Pint Out chapters in 25 states. The event will be hosted at SteadyServ, 12758 Hamilton Crossing Blvd., Carmel. President Amanda Wishin is one of the founders along with Tamre Mullins, Magen Peters and one-time NUVO food critic Jennifer Litz. “Jennifer moved and started the Texas GPO chapter, and then the New York GPO chapter. Jennifer [recently] brewed a beer in collaboration with New Belgium and orchestrated a very cool national event with them. Magen runs the GPO website/blog, the national social media and keeps all the chapters organized. Muncie GPO was established in 2010; Bloomington GPO in 2013,” according to Wishin.
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his is my kind of bar and I absolutely love it. I could just leave it right there, but then there would be a gaping hole in the middle of this page, and you know how nature and editors both abhor a vacuum. So here’s why. When I lived on the near Southside in the nineties, I wistfully believed that Fountain Square was on the verge of becoming something. The next Broad Ripple, perhaps. After all, there was the great Peter’s restaurant, the precursor to much of what is best in the Indianapolis dining scene today. Way ahead of its time for the neighborhood, Peter’s finally relocated up north, and for a couple of decades various ambitious projects alighted and evaporated like culinary soap bubbles until, eventually, a critical mass of bars and restaurants coalesced, and something approaching a scene took shape. All that it needed was a keystone to cement the whole thing together. Thunderbird is that keystone: it’s the right place at the right time, a bar which brings with it a seriousness of intent and a level of accomplishment which will almost certainly confirm Fountain Square as a destination. Thunderbird’s concept is by no means new, but the execution is nothing short of brilliant. Taking a formerly dilapidated building many of us must have driven by a thousand times, partners Joshua Gonzales, Jon Altman and Ed Rudisell have contrived to reveal its considerable, and for decades forgotten, inner beauty, creating an interior that is both understated yet almost viscerally resonant.
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exude the wit and imagination his fans have come to expect, as well as an alcoholic strength and concentration of flavor that almost demands that you order something from the starch-heavy menu to mop up the booze. The menu is short and southern in influence, with prices in the ten dollar range for portions which are satisfyingly robust and expertly prepared. Here the food is unashamedly a vehicle for alcohol, but is sufficiently removed from and elevated above the average pub fare that it becomes an essential part of the experience. Scoring highly on all fronts, Thunderbird offers way more than simply the sum of its parts. It’s hard to put a finger on precisely why it works so well, but it does. n
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and the task of outfitting the space. The grant money came from the Indianapolis Foundation, an arm of CICF, the Central Indiana Community Foundation. PUP takes the concept of “lifehacking” and applies it on the broadest possible scale. “When an item comes to the end of its original life, instead of just disposing of this, how can we re-use this?” said Jonathan Allinson, PUP’s Director of Operations and Development. “How can we use what we have instead of running to any old big box store to get what you need?” First, the PUP crew had to figure out how to attack the space. “When it came down to planning on re-use of the items, that was four or five of us from the PUP team. The rest of the brainstorming meetings – how do we want space to be laid out, how do we want the public to engage with it – that included a few people from DMD.” The city wanted desks here, chairs there, a lounge area here, so on. It was up to PUP to find those furnishings. “We scoured the building and found >>>
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First, a disclaimer: I am not an expert or medical professional. The following statements are my personal opinion and information that I have found through research. This is not intended as health advice. Veggie wash is a great example of greenwashing – and I’m not talking about the leafy variety. It’s just in another product packaged in a petroleum-based bottle to spend your hard-earned money on and then wash down the drain. I believe that soaking, rinsing, rubbing, and scrubbing produce in cold water is just as effective as using any kind of soap or specialized wash. If you’re super paranoid, a little
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<<< treasures all over the place: in the basement, in other corners of the building, decades worth of storage.” Old chairs were pulled from the basement. Their bases were long gone, so the PUP squad simply built new ones. The building’s basement also held a row of unused lockers destined for salvage. Allinson’s team saw their value: “The lockers – double sided lockers – we brought them upstairs, flipped the row on its side and had a top made for it and turned it into a big reception desk.” The attic of the building yielded office doors that were taken down to open up the floor plan when The Hall was used for Indiana State Museum exhibits. “They had these really beautiful brass hardware touches and the seal of the city of Indianapolis,” said Allinson. “We pulled those down from the attic and flipped those, got a piece of glass for them and used them as desktops.” Even items as pedestrian as old ceiling tiles got a new life. “In the mid-20th century when the State Museum took over they did all these upates to the building to try to modernize it,” Allinson said. “They installed drop ceilings throughout the building. We popped out some of the ceiling tiles from that drop ceiling and we
turned those tiles into bulletin boards. The city wanted one of the public areas to be kind of a lounge room and a reallife Pinterest room. The public can come in and pin different items – ideas, pictures, things out of magazines and newspapers that they want to see happen in the city; [it’s] kind of an interactive room. “It was really interesting to see all these different layers of renovation while we were doing the project.” In addition to items already in The Hall, PUP got a crack at the items being unloaded by Wishard Hospital. “They did a big sale of all their old non-medical furniture and equipment,” Allinson recalled. PUP had their pick of items before the sale opened to the public. Like most of PUP’s projects, it’s easy to see an item’s lineage: their handmade shower curtains, for example, are readily identifiable as former Super Bowl signage. Again, the PUP crew hopes that their work provides inspiration for potential DIY upcyclers. “I think there’s a lot of inspirational value in that and a lot of cost savings too. There’s no way we would’ve been able to do this project if we just ran to a big box store and bought everything. Over 90% of the furniture and equipment that we put in that building was reused or repurposed in some way. “ n
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It was an emotional time to speak with Chieftains founder, Paddy Moloney the Thursday morning in February I called him up. Sadly, Chieftains original member Sean Potts had passed away just the evening before. Paddy spent most of our conversation fondly looking back on times spent with tin whistler Potts, who left the band in 1979. Below, excerpted a few favorite parts of my conversation with Moloney. The full conversation can be found online at NUVO.net. Chieftains in the ‘50s “We were playing in a little pub in Galway; I was drinking pineapple juice at the time. We played there every night for three weeks. And one night this American came in and said, “Oh, you guys, that’s great stuff!” We were playing, singing and dancing, having a great time. We used to go home at the dawn, you know? This guy came in, he had a green coat on. At that time, I had no television, nobody watched TV, very little radio, you know. He said, ‘I’m Ed Sullivan and I have a TV show and I’d love to have you guys on it.’ And I thought, here’s another American boaster. They used to come over and boast over in Ireland about how wonderful things were in [the US]. And I thought maybe this was another one. And I totally ignored it! I can still see the man standing in the doorway of the pub.” On the passing of Sean Potts “He was my closest friend and he confided in me an awful lot, you know? And then it got to be too much for him, eventually. In 1978 he decided that the road wasn’t what he wanted. “But you know, having said all that, and celebrating our 50 year [anniversary] two years ago, I invited him out to the concert. He was 84 now, you know. I invited him on and the two of us played to a packed house, two whistles together in “Banish Misfortune,” which we played way back in the day. He’s known me since my teens. He said to some guy – I think he heard me play in some competition, which I won in Dublin – he turned to him and he said, ‘You know, that little fella? He was on this Earth before,’ which was so nice. He thought that much of me.” — KATHERINE COPLEN The Chieftains Palladium at the Centre for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., Thursday, March 6, 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
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imitri Morris sure throws a damn good show. His house at 21st and Central, christened Heaven’s Gate, was host to a year’s worth of rock and roll ragers, from Pessoa and Caelume’s final show on last year’s Record Store Day to the house’s New Year’s Eve send-off featuring Male Bondage, Vacation Club, The 2150s and more. But now, the twenty-something finds himself embarking on a considerably larger endeavor, this time on Indy’s Westside. His ambitious next chapter will be known as West Gate, an all-ages venue which will house another new venture, Headdress Records, which Morris founded with label partner Bradley Lee. “I’ve just been hanging around and dabbling so slightly with so many musicians and artists over the past couple years,” Morris, who currently plays in local bands Heavy Hand and White Moms, said. “Now that I’m in the position to help them out and really push things forward a little bit more, it makes it a lot more of a driving thing to really do and be the best I can and to bring about the best I can in that way.” Originally a family-owned storage space, Morris eventually reached a contractual agreement to make the most of West Gate’s expansive interior, which includes eight “different spaces that can be utilized” for a number of artistic purposes. “Once Dimitri moved and we got the building to start doing our music busi-
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ness in, we decided to take throwing shows further by recording bands, doing art shows, take-away shows, live sessions, etc.,” Lee says. “The whole idea behind West Gate is endless.” But of course, with every new pursuit comes a new set of obstacles. On February 1, Morris had a slew of local acts set to celebrate the opening. With sets from Male Bondage, Raw McCartney and more, the show went late into the night, fostering a jubilant spirit for the hundreds of Indy music lovers in attendance. But a few items went missing, including Morris’ personal computer, putting a damper on what had been a successful first show. In the aftermath, Morris found himself in a tough spot. However, after receiving much love from the community he had so faithfully served with Heaven’s Gate, and now West Gate, he was quickly brought back to his feet with overwhelming support. “We had had so many shows at that point where I just wasn’t even in the mindset of that being a possibility,” Morris says, of the theft. “So that happening just kind of shattered my idea of what was going on. It took me a couple days to regroup and get in a new mindset about
it; a lot of individual people [got] ahold of me and really showed love and support.” He continues, “That really just made it super easy to wash it away and continue what we were doing as a whole. There are just too many good people here to just count one bad person’s attitude for that night.” After a mid-February pitch-in cleaning party at West Gate, Morris and Lee are moving forward quickly with Headdress Records, lining up several events for the March, including art shows, concerts, the start of a mixtape series, the start of a zine and more. Headdress also released a 2150s and Heavy Hand split in February. “We decided that what we are doing is way too huge for the both of us to quit,” Lee says. “Nobody is doing anything like what we are trying to accomplish, so why waste that because of some kids who thought it would be a good idea to steal? It was a first setback and probably not the last, but this is what we love doing and we are going to try and continue putting out music, putting on shows, and whatever else we can to further Headdress Records and West Gate.” Ultimately, through West Gate and Headdress Records, Morris truly wishes to give the artists and musicians he has found himself amidst an outlet, thus legitimizing their dedicated work and spreading it throughout Indianapolis and beyond. “We aren’t just kids aimlessly doing things,” Morris says. “ There are points behind what we’re doing and we have power in what we’re doing. Showing that is pretty much how I plan to spend the next couple years.” n
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On Saturday night, Blue Moon Revue delivered a set of rock and roll so taut, charismatic and joyous that it deserves to solidify them as one of the finest live acts in Indianapolis. Pulling heavily from Make It Reel, the band’s impressive recent album, Blue Moon Revue tapped into intangible highs that mysteriously fill the air when a true band plays well-crafted songs with passionate conviction. The passion is at the core of many aspiring bands around town, but what differentiates BMR from most other acts is the shared history of Andy Salge, David Sullivan, Matt Marshall, and John Gray as a musical family nearly 15 years old. Their tight bond seems to yield an almost ESP-like language and precision that can’t be faked. There is no shortcut for young bands chasing that stature. Credentials are earned through relentless emphasis on writing, learning to fight without leaving scars, practicing, playing to nearly nobody, touring, practicing more, writing new material and sharing their art with a genuine mix of vulnerability and hard-won confidence. Watching Blue Moon Revue play live, their credentials sing out with every note, and the satisfaction the guys feel playing alongside each other is painted across their faces. Settling onto the stage with the customary lead-in jam of The Marcels’ “Blue Moon” to set the mood, BMR ripped right into a string of Make It Reel zingers that alternated vocal leads between dual songwriter/vocalists Salge and Marshall. Salge lit the fuse with the title track (a tune that’s one of my favorite songs of 2014, belatedly praised only
because Make It Reel didn’t appear on my radar until early January), a savory slice of timeless FM-radio power-pop that would sound perfect squeezed between Big Star, Thin Lizzy and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers on any rock lover’s playlist. The title is a play on words depicting the band’s admirable decision to record to tape (a rare feat these days that underscores the foursome’s caliber of musicianship) while also doubling as a rousing chorus of hearton-fire romanticism with the plea to “make it real tonight” in pursuit of love (at least for a night) and meaning in life. Like many of Blue Moon Revue’s strongest songs on Make It Reel, this is far from virgin ground in rock and roll music, but it can be fertile soil when done well and the harvest may be bountiful in any season for the right type of listener who holds steady to some things that never go out of style. On songs like the Make It Reel barnburner “Call It a Day” or the night’s closing dose of unapologetic, singalong optimism, “Best of Luck,” the four equals of Blue Moon Revue were lock-step with each other and unmistakably in love with playing music as a band. After all their years writing, practicing and playing onstage, Blue Moon Revue’s marriage of top-notch songwriting, easy charm and onstage zeal amounts to a crowning hour of Indianapolis-bred music for rock and roll fans. New Indianapolis outfit Toro opened the evening with its hometown debut. The foursome delivered an impressive enough set for its first outing, cranking out tightly wound garage crunch heavy on electric solos and inspired tempo switches. Heavy on fiery musicianship but with songs that often strike as serviceable on first listen (especially with vocals low in the mix), Toro may become a band to watch once they find ways to make verses and choruses as memorable as their playing. Indy-based rockers Tied to Tigers rounded out the evening’s bill. — JUSTIN WESLEY
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The Bloomington trio of drummer Jared Jones, guitarist Joseph Creech and bassist Jacob Gumbel were musically well acquainted with one another before meeting singer Logan Carithers and forming Plateau Below. Besides being the newest addition to Lafayette- and Cleveland-based label Jurassic Pop Records, Plateau Below has become a shining example of what an ambitious and playful band can accomplish. A listen through their latest work, Still Paradise, to be released in a limited run of 100 cassettes by Jurassic Pop, showcases their ability to develop catchy yet elusive songs. Lyrically, Carithers leads engagingly through each song, wavering back and forth between a feverishly passionate delivery and reservedly existential voice. He performs with a driven spirit that’s present whether the song is spun into a narrative story or a more formal ode to ‘50s doo-wop like “Evaline.” These songs are so delicately composed that each layer can be found, followed and enjoyed anew on separate listens through. Songs like “Twiggy,” clocking in just under nine minutes allow space for a lot of experimenting, whether it’s with drawn-out guitar lines or playful vocal riffing, without dragging the listener’s attention
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span outside of its comfort zone. The long-burning songs like “Twiggy” and “Outside the Gates” offer the slow and hazy pace that makes the album feel ancient. Other songs like “Clearhead Real” do their part in providing the album with a pop backbone. The space-rock noises found in “Dying Down” conjure the other-worldly atmosphere that’s evident in the album’s entirety. Plateau Below is a formidable force of songwriting the prowess necessary to give new life to a genre while paying it tribute and the vision to take a further step in broadening its horizons is remarkable. — JORDAN MARTICH
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he study of metaphysics seeks to understand the nature of reality beyond our sense-based conception of the immediate physical world. I’ve interviewed 18-year-old singer-songwriter Myah Evans twice, and on both occasions, Evans has emphasized her time studying at Indianapolis’ School of Metaphysics as a major influence on her artistic development. “Metaphysics is about everything beyond the physical, which music definitely is. It’s helped me to make my mind stronger,” Evans says. I’m not at all surprised by her assertion. The first time I saw Evans perform, there was a certain wisdom and gravity in her work that transcended her youthful appearance. I remember that occasion well. It was a little over a year ago, and I was booked to DJ between acts at a local music festival. I was hanging out backstage and I noticed a very young-looking person sitting alone in a corner of the room, gently strumming an acoustic guitar. I assumed it was the kid sister of one of the evening’s performers. I was quickly proved wrong, because a few minutes later this young person took the stage and captivated the audience with an introspective set of original compositions.
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Troubadour Night Tim Brickley hosts this new singer-songwriter monthly, which this month features a special group show called the “(Semi) Obscure Neil Young Night” (inspired by a similar yearly event at the Thomas Family Winery. Each of the tenish songwriters or groups will perform a semi-obscure tune by Young, and then play an original “inspired” by him as well. Lined up thus far to play: Greg Zeisemer, Frank Dean, The Muttonchops, John Scot Sheets, Jen Moss, The Moonrock, The Reacharounds, Richard Sullivan and Paul Lauck, with more to possibly come. Jazz Kitchen B-Side, 5377 N. College Ave., 8 p.m., $5, 21+
CALI Cayucas, Bonzie Sunny Californians signed to Secretly Canadian hit up Radio Radio for tonight’s show. Their last album was produced by the wizard Richard Swift. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 9 p.m., $12, 21+
NEW VENUES Anwar Sadat, Shipwreck Karpathos, Air Hockey Flip to page 26 to read our profile on new all-ages venue Westgate. 2 Westgate, 6450 W. 10th St. 10 p.m., $5, all-ages METAL
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Scars on 45, Humming House British indie rock band Scars on 45 just had a major US hit with their single “Heart on Fire” which you have almost certainly heard whether you were trying to or not. The group is more or less a mashup of The Frey with a female vocalist added for color—which isn’t a dig, as the iTunes of many NUVO employees will testify. It’s good solid pop-rock, with an emotional earnestness worthy of a first hit solo with a name like “Heart on Fire.” The Humming House will open. DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215, 9 p.m., $15, 21+
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GOODBYES Attakulla Farewell Show Another week, another goodbye show at Birdy’s. Nick Dittmeier, Kiefer Jones and David Lee will open for Attakulla. Last chance to see this boozy bar band crunch through their garage rock set. Birdy’s, 2131 E. 71st St., 9 p.m., $5, 21+
We Playin’ Peep this local music-centric First Friday exhibit, which represents a collected three decades of local music artifacts contributed by scenesters. The exhibit will be concluded with a show featuring DMA, Christian Taylor and Street Spirits. Musical Family Tree and the Brain Twins are also launching a collabora-
tive zine — all hail the printed word! Keep your eye out for the month-concluding Final Friday launch, which will be a square-wide event showcasing local music at the end of March. General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., 7 p.m., (exhibit), 10 p.m. (performance), all-ages IRISH Flogging Molly If The Chieftains, playing at the Palladium the day before, aren’t your particular brand of Irish music, then perhaps you’ll be satisfied at this Flogging Molly show. It’s close enough to St. Patty’s to pretend we’re all Irish, right? Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., $25, all-ages The Down-Fi, Shimmercore, Thee Open Sex, The Ex-Bombers, Melody Inn, 21+ Cecile McLorin Salvant, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Motel Beds, DO317 Lounge, 21+ Yacht Rock Revue, The Vogue, 21+ Liberty Deep Down, Celeste Kellogg, Jordan Benker, The Somewhats, Irving Theater, all-ages Joe Marcinek Band, Funky Junk Mousetrap, 21+
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SATURDAY CREATIVITY Uprising This event is massive. It features 20 vendors and 10 live performances, including sets from Cartoon, Kara Beth Rasure, Rain Man II, Nick Johnson, Sequoia, LJ Herbert, Zach Smith, Act a Foo Improv Crew, Maroon Orangutans Sphie, Milky Way Vandals, Los Semilleros, Fahodi Dancers and Moor and The Northmen. That’s dance, song, comedy and so much more. There will be photographers, jewelry makers, designers, bakers and more selling their wares. Log on to NUVO.net to sample clips and tracks from performers lined up. Speak Easy, 5255 N. Winthrop, 7 p.m., $8, all-ages LOCAL Pnature Walk, The Cowboys Count this as the first entry in what with luck will be a long-running series from Musical Family Tree inside the revamped Indy CD and Vinyl. MFT is pulling from just north and just south of Indianapolis for this show, which will feature Lafayette’s Pnature Walk (we’re assuming the “p” is silent), slinging garage punk. Also on hand, Bloomington’s fuzzy psych wanderers, The Cowboys. MFT head honcho Jon Rogers will spin vinyl in between acts. Indy CD and Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave., 6 p.m., FREE, all-ages LEGENDS Icon: Notorious B.I.G. It’s time once again for us to hail the Notorious One, the young legend-in-the-making, the masterful B.I.G. DJ Metrognome and DJ OhBeOne will honor the fallen emcee. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., 10 p.m., $10, 21+ YEARLY Beta Cell Bash The Indiana Cure Chasers DJRF state bicycle team are once again on the hunt, this time for some funds to continue the search for a cure. A perfect segue from the recent Cash Bash, this event is also Johnny Cash themed. All music and art will revolve around the Man in Black, and local bands will be raising money to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes. In addition, over 20 artists will auction off their work in the Tiki Room at Revolucion and all proceeds will
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Brandon Whyde go to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 6 p.m., $10, 21+ AWARDS 2nd Annual Brown County Music Awards Local and regional acts will be nominated to compete in three categories: Best CD, Best Song and Entertainer of the Year. The BC Music Academy will select nominees for each category and their votes will represent 50 percent of the overall votes. Audience participation accounts for the other half of the votes, which you can do through the website. Brown County Playhouse, 70 S. Van Buren (Nashville), 7:30 p.m., $12, 21+ BASSMASTER Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang Primus bassist Les Claypool continues his creative and musical experimentation, with his project the Duo de Twang, which incorporates all of Claypool’s signature eclectic bass style. They’ll be joined by the Reformed Whores, who are kind of like a mashup of Tenacious D and Dolly Parton, singing songs like “Girls Poop Too” and “Drunk Dial.” Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 9 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 at door, 21+ SOLO Noah Gundersen, Armon Jay Gundersen is currently touring as a solo act, though in the past
he’s fronted both The Courage and Beneath Oceans. Armon Jay, who will share the Do 317 stage with Gundersen, is coming off his first Daytrotter Sessions release (if you’re unfamiliar, this is big for up-and-coming indie musicians). Both share a gentle singer-songwriter kind of style, so this will be a chill-and-sway kind of gig, perfect for the intimate setting. DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave., Suite 215, 9 p.m., $10, 21+ Jon Prophet, Jeff Byrd, Birdy’s, 21+ Pharez Whitted Quintet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Funky Junk, Tonos Triad, Marshall Robbins and The Phunk Nasty’s, The Max Allen Band, Tonal Caravan, Mousetrap, 21+ The Madiera, The Give-Ups, The D-Rays, Grinning Man, Melody Inn, 21+ Tom Martin Band, Shorty’s Pub and Eatery, 21+ Gareth, Irving Theater, all-ages March Mayhem, Lizards, 21+ Tropical Tribute VIII, Northside Knights of Columbus, all-ages Real Talk, White River Cabaret, 21+ Philadelphia Phil and Friends (Danny Hargrove, Jakis Strakis, Jade Coley, Jack Grummer), Gaslight Inn, 21+
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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL get along, and intimacy or connection with your husband? Does this happen only with orgasm from sex with your husband, or even from masturbatory orgasms? Past history of abuse is linked to a greater likelihood of PPS - but it doesn’t explain it all. Some researchers wonder if hormonal changes that occur during sex, or specifically related to orgasm, have something to do with it. Although some clinicians are trying to understand more about this experience, including causes and treatments, right now so little is understood that there is not one standard treatment to suggest. However, if it bothers you, you may be able to find some help through seeing a provider who specializes in sexual medicine or sex therapy.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you between jobs? Between romantic partners? Between secure foundations and clear mandates and reasons to get up each morning? Probably at least one of the above. Foggy whirlwinds may be your intimate companions. Being up-in-theair could be your customary vantage point. During your stay in this weird vacationland, please abstain from making conclusions about its implications for your value as a human being. Remember these words from author Terry Braverman: “It is important to detach our sense of selfworth from transitional circumstances, and maintain perspective on who we are by enhancing our sense of ‘selfmirth.’” Whimsy and levity can be your salvation, Aries. Lucky flux should be your mantra. Aries
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma once came to the home of computer pioneer Steve Jobs and performed a private concert. Jobs was deeply touched, and told Ma, “Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.” Judging from the current astrological omens, Taurus, I’m guessing you will soon experience an equivalent phenomenon: a transcendent expression of love or beauty that moves you to suspect that magic is afoot. Even if you are an atheist, you are likely to feel the primal shiver that comes from having a close brush with enchantment. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my dream, I was leading a pep rally for a stadium full of Geminis. “Your intensity brings you great pleasure,” I told them over the public address system. “You seek the company of people who love you to be inspired. You must be appreciated for your enthusiasm, never shamed. Your drive for excellence doesn’t stress you out, it relaxes you. I hereby give you license to laugh even louder and sing even stronger and think even smarter.” By now the crowd was cheering and I was bellowing. “It’s not cool to be cool,” I exulted. “It’s cool to be burning with a white-hot lust for life. You are rising to the next octave. You are playing harder than you have ever played.” Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “My old paintings no longer interest me,” said the prolific artist Pablo Picasso when he was 79 years old. “I’m much more curious about those I haven’t done yet.” I realize it might be controversial for me to suggest that you adopt a similar perspective, Cancerian. After all, you are renowned for being a connoisseur of old stories and past glories. One of your specialties is to keep memories alive and vibrant by feeding them with your generous love. To be clear, I don’t mean that you should apologize for or repress those aptitudes. But for now -- say, the next three weeks -- I invite you to turn your attention toward the exciting things you haven’t done yet. Cancer
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “One chord is fine,” said rock musician Lou Reed about his no-frills approach to writing songs. “Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.” I recommend his perspective to you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Your detailoriented appreciation of life’s complexity is one of your Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You Librans haven’t received
enough gifts, goodies, and compliments lately. For reasons I can’t discern, you have been deprived of your rightful share. It’s not fair! What can you do to rectify this imbalance in the cosmic ledger? How can you enhance your ability to attract the treats you deserve? It’s important that we solve this riddle, since you are entering a phase when your wants and needs will expand and deepen. Here’s what I can offer: I hereby authorize you to do whatever it takes to entice everyone into showering you with bounties, boons, and bonuses. To jumpstart this process, shower yourself with bounties, boons, and bonuses. Libra
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For the itch you are
experiencing, neither chamomile nor aloe vera will bring you relief. Nor would over-the-counter medications like calamine lotion. No, Sagittarius. Your itch isn’t caused by something as tangible as a rash or hives, and can’t be soothed by any obvious healing agent. It is, shall we say, more in the realm of a soul itch -- a prickly tickle that is hard to diagnose, let alone treat. I’m guessing that there may be just one effective cure: Become as still and quiet and empty as you possibly can, and then invite your Future Self to scratch it for you. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The world is awash in bright, shiny nonsense. Every day we wade through a glare of misinformation and lazy delusions and irrelevant data. It can be hard to locate the few specific insights and ideas that are actually useful and stimulating. That’s the bad news, Capricorn. Here’s the good news: You now have an enhanced ability to ferret out nuggets of data that can actually empower you. You are a magnet for the invigorating truths you really need most. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you come up with an original invention, apply for a patent immediately. If you think of a bright idea, put it to work as soon as possible. If you figure out crucial clues that everyone else seems blind to, dispel the general ignorance as quickly as you can. This is a perfect moment for radical pragmatism carried out with expeditious savvy. It’s not a time when you should naively hope for the best with dreamy nonchalance. For the sake of your mental health and for the good of your extended family, be crisp, direct, and forceful. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 1997 film Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, the lead character announces that “’Danger’ is my middle name.” Ever since, real people in the UK have been legally making “Danger” their middle name with surprising regularity. I think it would be smart fun for you Pisceans to add an innovative element to your identity in the coming days, maybe even a new middle name. But I recommend that you go in a different direction than “Danger.” A more suitable name might be “Changer,” to indicate you’re ready to eagerly embrace change. Or how about “Ranger,” to express a heightened desire to rove and gallivant? Pisces
Virgo
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