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MIDWEST FASHION WEEK Jealousy Jane — the Indy-based designer who thinks of herself as a “modern version of the sexy, submissive housewife — will help kick off Midwest Fashion Week, running March 10 to 17 at venues across the city. Our coverage includes profiles of Gala designers Michael Alan Stein and Marlene Thomas, plus an interview with MFW founder Berny Martin. BY PAUL F.P. POGUE AND SCOTT SHOGER COVER PHOTO EMILY MIEDEMA WEARS A PLAID BLAZER FROM JEALOUSY JANE’S FALL/WINTER 2012 COLLECTION. PHOTO BY BUZZ PHOTOGRAPHY

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ANALYSIS: SUPREME COURT SAUSAGE FEST

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Without a woman on its Supreme Court, Indiana is an outlier on gender diversity — in the company of only Idaho and Iowa. BY LESLEY WEIDENBENER

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Ed takes on a couple films playing the Earth House this week: Le Havre, a tale of good Samaritanism from Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, and Bicycle Dreams, a documentary about an insanely demanding 3,000-mile bike race from the Pacific to Atlantic. BY ED JOHNSON-OTT

The Back Road Radio Show showcases Americana and roots music from Indy and beyond. We sat down with producer Tim Plunkett and host Andrew Funke to talk thoughtful production, their favorite new roots artists and the bedroom “Studio Bunker.” BY ROB NICHOLS

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from the readers Congratulations from a former newspaperman on your late January feature story regarding the homeless (Cover, “Homelessness in Indianapolis,” Jan. 18-25). Writer Nathan Brown and photographer Mike Allee produced a well-illustrated article rich with detail about the situation in this city. It’s hard to believe and difficult to understand that the number of our homeless at any one time can be 1,500 or more, including hundreds of veterans as well as many children, and that the count over a year’s stretch could be 4,500 to 7,500. What a comment on our society!

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HAMMER Celebrity death overshadows preventable death Cultural priorities exhibit vapid ethos BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

ack in the 1990s, one of the first Internet underground phenomena was the Celebrity Death Pool. People would fill out a list of the famous people they thought would die in the next 12 months and competed against each other for prizes. It was a mean-spirited game but somewhat entertaining as well. One could always count on a few elderly film stars and retired politicians to pass away but the winners of the game picked younger, more offbeat choices in the expectation of something unusual — drug overdose, plane crash etc. The game faded away after a few years, as Internet trends are prone to do. But if anyone is still playing Celebrity Death Pool these days, 2012 has been a banner year for famous deaths. Just in the past week, death has claimed guitarist Ronnie Montrose, conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, Monkees singer Davy Jones and impressionist Steve Bridges, whose George W. Bush act made him famous. It seems as if the number of celebrity deaths is on the rise. The Wikipedia entry for deaths of notable people, for example, lists more than 100 just in 2012, although many of the names are those of Australian football players, Indian politicians and retired British athletes. Lest we forget, death is as commonplace an event as birth in the world. Various estimates say that there are 1.8 deaths per second, or roughly 156,000 a day. During the course of any given year, between 55 million and 57 million people die. It’s inevitable that at least some of those people would have achieved some sort of fame during their lives, especially since the definition of celebrity has widened greatly over the past few decades. But as we saw with Michael Jackson, and more recently with Whitney Houston, the death of a very famous person can set the public and news media abuzz with activity. The day Jackson died, Wikipedia lists 17 other “notable” people who also passed away that day, including actress Farrah Fawcett. Even given that we live in a celebrityobsessed world, why does the death of the

King of Pop or the Princess of Soul overshadow all of the other 155,000 deaths. Or, more to the point, why should they? The 13 people who died in last Friday’s tornadoes in Indiana — were they less valuable human beings than Jones or Breitbart? Families of the tornado victims grieve their losses as much as the celebrities’ families do. I extend my sympathy to the families of all who have experienced death recently. The pain and sense of loss is just as great for the families of Henryville as it is anyone else. Davy Jones seemed like a nice man who was good to his family and worked hard. He just happened to sing on a few pop records that were big hits in the 1960s and sang on many more that were not hits. His death is sad and maybe even tragic for those who knew and loved him. Why is his death more important than any of the other 155,000 or so deaths that day? Breitbart was a bulldog of the conservative movement who was unafraid to attack anyone or anything in pursuit of his agenda. Upon Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death in 2009, Breitbart openly gloated and celebrated, calling Kennedy all sorts of unsavory names. Despite the gulf in their political philosophies, both are equally dead now. I have friends for whom the news of Ronnie Montrose’s death is as sad as Jackson’s or Houston’s was to others. He was a pioneering rock guitarist who helped launch the careers of Sammy Hagar and many others. Few understood the power of rock and roll as well as Montrose, although his career wasn’t as celebrated as the Monkees. I suppose the question here is why people mourn the deaths of celebrities so much. I cried when John Lennon died but, of course, I never met the man. The things he produced that I enjoyed, music and a few films, still exist as much as they did when he was alive. The day that Whitney Houston died, roughly 21,000 children under five died — at least a third of them experienced undernutrition as an underlying cause, according to UNICEF statistics. Who cries for them? Mourners gathered outside her funeral service in the thousands. Did any of them think about the world’s population at serious risk of dying because they have no food or access to clean water or even the simplest of medicines? The attention amassed by the deceased rich and famous upon their passing might be better spent preventing the deaths of people whose names we will never know, in parts of the world we will likely never visit. Celebrity deaths naturally make news because they transcend beyond local reality and into the broader cultural fabric. Still, the time and resources we dedicate to celebrity death in the face of so much preventable suffering and premature loss of life demands reproach.

The day that Whitney Houston died, roughly 21,000 children under five died worldwide — many due to hunger.

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GRAND OPENING MARCH 9TH, 2012

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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 11 am with Mayor Brainard and featured artist Donato Giancola. Reception 7pm-9pm with featured artist, 3-time best professional artist award winner, Donato Giancola. Also present will be Curtis Oddo, author of ‘Crimson Battle Axe’ for book signing with original book cover painting by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell available for viewing. Curtis will also be playing some soon to be recorded acoustic music.

Painting demonstration by Donato Saturday, March 10th from 4-10 pm.

HOPPE Republicans AWOL

They don’t have a serious presidential candidate

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

hen historians sit down to write about the 2012 presidential campaign, the biggest question won’t have to do with the economy or America’s foreign entanglements. The leading question of this electoral season will be why nobody serious wanted to be the Republican candidate for president. For months, the media has been obsessed with the horse race between Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, Paul and the other alsorans who tossed their hats in the ring prior to the caucuses in Iowa. The story, seasoned with a never-ending round of televised candidates’ debates, has resembled nothing so much as a reality series like Survivor. Whatever substance the debates might have had quickly took a backseat to candidates’ gaffes and calculated one-upmanship. Pundits have spent weeks eagerly handicapping the odds as various candidates have risen in the polls and then fallen away. First there was the Rick Perry phenomenon (remember him?), then Herman Cain’s “9-99.” Newt Gingrich had a surge before Rick Santorum elbowed his way into the limelight. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney has managed, by dint of a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cash, to remain, more or less, the front runner. But it is clear that if Romney becomes the Republican nominee, he will have not so much beaten his opponents as outlasted them. He will not have been chosen, but anointed. What should be vexing to Republicans and, I would say, to the much wider swath of voters calling ourselves Independents, is that all this happens at a time when the presidency of Barack Obama is less than robust. True, Obama deserves credit for grinding out the clock during his first term. He prevented the country from falling into a major depression, cut taxes for most Americans and tracked down Osama bin Laden. He also presided over an increase in domestic oil production, in spite of a calamitous spill in the Gulf, and passed a major health care bill that promises to be a boon for insurance and pharmaceutical companies. On his watch, corporations have experienced record profits and amassed over $2 trillion in cash. Finally, not a single CEO has been sent to jail for the shenanigans that precipitated the crash of 2008.

If Republicans were to be honest about it, they would admit that Barack Obama looks more like one of them than, well, a Democrat. This, I suspect, is why most serious Republicans have chosen to sit this election out. It’s hard to debate someone you tend to agree with. It’s also why those who have ventured into the ring have been reduced to calling Obama a socialist, communist, or worse, and why the Republican campaign has devolved into a battle for a fraction of a fraction of the American constituency. The perverse thing about this is that America supposedly has a two-party political system; what the candidates of one of those parties — in this case, the Republicans — have to say about how they would govern the country gets taken seriously. So, out comes the press, recording the candidates’ every move and taking down their quotes. Unfortunately for everyone but satirists, those quotes have included such pearls as Mitt Romney’s, “I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in.” Or this, from Rick Santorum: “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s OK; contraception is OK. It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum both claim to be Republicans. This enables them to run for the presidency as if they stood for roughly half of us. That neither Romney nor Santorum are what any thinking adult could call truly serious is beside the point. They get the attention anyway. This reminds me of the way media covers what is arguably the most important issue of our time: climate change. First, the press divides the issue into two opposing camps — those believing that humaninspired climate change is happening and those who deny this. Then, in the name of “fairness,” a story will include quotes from both sides. The trouble with this method is that scientific research finds overwhelming evidence of the human role in climate change. There is no room for a factbased debate about this fundamental point. The debate, instead, should focus on what we should be doing about it. Covering both sides as if they are equally serious keeps us from getting down to a serious discussion about policy. The same thing is happening in the coverage of our politics. As long as the media invests unserious candidates like Romney and Santorum with an attention they have neither earned nor deserve, debate about policies that might actually help this country is stifled. And politicians with serious ideas stay at home, watching TV like the rest of us.

If Republicans were to be honest about it, they would admit that Barack Obama looks more like one of them than, well, a Democrat.

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

a Santorum win in Michigan would have been real hard to swallow Murdoch quits, now reigns as News International’s sacrificial son Supreme Court rejects nets to contain Asian carp — invasion begins! the Indiana villes of Henry and Mary torn by tornadoes pres: fuel efficient cars allay high gas prices; I say stop driving! oceans turning more acidic leaves a bad taste in Mother Earth’s mouth an argument for contraception support and use is Rush Limbaugh my current Facebook status is brought to you by Mephistopheles growing body of research warns many are too dumb to know they’re dumb Davy Jones joins his locker at the bottom of a sea of love songs

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THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN TWISTER TRAUMA

Last weekend’s brutal tornadoes brought loss of life, property and security. “ … still we are no match for Mother Nature at her worst,” Gov. Mitch Daniels said in a statement released Saturday after his initial review of the carnage. In all, so far: The system killed at least 27 people nationwide - 13 in Indiana. The system also damaged about 100 local homes and destroyed 14 businesses. Donation by text is a simple way to support ongoing relief efforts. Send $10 by text to Red Cross or Salvation Army, text “REDCROSS” to 90999 or “HOOSIER” to 80888. To build on the $10,000 donation the Pacers and Fever made earlier this week, they will collect donations at the Pacer’s home game this week and at the Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament. Iowa vs. Illinois and Indiana vs. Penn State at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Northwestern vs. Minnesota and Purdue vs. Nebraska at 5:30 p.m.

THE (R)IDES OF MARCH

Take the day-after edge off of the St. Patty’s annual beer, whiskey and corned beef trifecta with a Sunday afternoon “Start of Spring Ride” with the Central Indiana Bicycling Association. Beginning at 1 p.m. March 18, riders will launch 12- 25- and 40-mile rides from Shamrock Springs Elementary School at 747 W 161st in Westfield. For questions, contact Joe Hettle at 317-496-5516 or jhettle@gmail.com.

A WHOLE LOT OF SHAKIN’ GOING ON

In an effort to streamline bureaucracy, the Indiana General Assembly is set to pass HB 1002, which eliminates and consolidates the functions of myriad state boards and commissions. Of particular interest to environmental watchdogs is the move to collapse several ecologically oriented bodies under the function of a new Environmental Rules Board. Say goodbye to the air pollution control board, the water pollution control board and the solid waste management board. Also sayonara to the water resources task force and the school air quality panel, among many others. The Hoosier Environmental Council worries consolidation will increase the risk for “less public input, transparency & quality decisions.” To mitigate potential problems HEC encourages people to “urge your state representative to support a ‘conference committee report that would increase public representation on the board, require technical expertise of board members, and empower this board to hire independent staff.’” Time is of the essence: This is lawmakers’ last week on the job — the magic time when all deals are on the table. Dial now.

THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. Rush Limbaugh, whose mouth is directly connected to his colon, called a young woman a “slut” because she objected to the all-male Religious Right’s assault on the contraception which obviates abortion. Gutter talk? For Limbaugh to get in the gutter, he’d have to come up some. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 03.07.12-03.14.12 // news

news Analysis: Supreme Court sausage fest Indiana an outlier on gender diversity BY L E S L E Y W E I D E N B E N E R T H E S T A T E H O U S E F IL E

ov. Mitch Daniels is pondering his second appointment to the Indiana Supreme Court, a choice that is important because it gives the Republican an opportunity to extend his legacy beyond this final year of his second term and influence civil and criminal policies in Indiana for decades.

Indiana, Iowa and Idaho are the only states not to have a woman on their state supreme courts. For Daniels — who must select from three attorneys chosen by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission — the decision is about merit and judicial philosophy. But some are watching to see if Daniels will appoint a woman to replace retiring Chief Justice Randall Shepard. Of the three finalists, only one — Indiana Judicial

The Statehouse Home Stretch

week that he prefers a smoking ban with an exemption for bars. House Speaker Brian Bosma has told advocates that a partial ban is better than no ban. Gov. Mitch Daniels has implied that he will not veto a ban exempting bars. Representative Charlie Brown, D-Gary, has admitted the original proposal that gave bars and taverns an 18-month exemption is dead and he begrudgingly acknowledges that bars and taverns will have to get an exemption in order to pass out of the Senate.

BY A BDU L - H A K IM S H A B A Z Z E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Heading into the final stretch of Indiana’s 2012 legislative session, these are some of the issues that will occupy the lawmakers’ remaining days:

Smoking Ban

All the signs are pointing to an exemption for bars and taverns in whatever final version of the legislation emerges. Senate Pro Tempore David Long made it clear last

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Center Executive Director Jane Seigel — is a woman. Currently, Indiana has no women serving on its five-member high court. It’s one of just three states — Iowa and Idaho are the others — that have an all-male supreme court. Indiana hasn’t had a woman on the court since Myra Selby left the bench in 1999 after serving four years. In fact, Selby is the only woman ever to have served on the state’s highest court. She was also the state’s first — but not the last — black justice. “It is always an achievement for there to be a first,” Selby told The Indianapolis News in 1995. “The barriers can be broken down only when people feel comfortable with things they are unaccustomed to. The first is probably the least enviable position, but it is very important.” As Daniels considers the candidates for the state’s current opening, he said that gender will be one factor in his decision but it certainly won’t be the key. “I would love nothing more – and this is in many contexts for that matter – than to appointment women. Try to do it when I can. But it’s a tiebreaker,” the governor said. “We’ve got to have the best qualified judge, the best temperament. I want to see someone who will respect the boundaries and the separation of power and boundaries of judicial decision making.” But Sally Kenney, executive director of the Newcomb College Institute at Tulane University, argued picking a woman ought to be the priority for Daniels. Kenney, who specializes in gender in courts, said Indiana’s lack of diversity on the state’s high court is akin to workplace discrimination. Women make up more than 50 percent of Indiana’s population, roughly half of all the law school grads, about 30 percent of practicing attorneys in the state, and nearly one in five of the judges in county circuit and superior courts. To fail to have the state’s highest court reflect that diversity is

“Right to Resist”

Lawmakers will have to reconcile differences in two bills that would give Hoosiers the “Right to Resist” unlawful entry by police. Under the House version, an individual could only use deadly force if they reasonably believed they were in danger. They could not use force if they were in the process of committing a crime. In addition, the officer must not be in uniform or have identified himself

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SUBMITTED PHOTOS

Gov. Mitch Daniels will choose the next Indiana Supreme Court justice from among these three attorneys. From left, Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Executive Director Mark Massa, who served as Gov. Daniels’ general counsel from 2006-2010, Indiana Judicial Center Executive Director Jane Seigel and Indiana Appeals Court Judge Cale Bradford.

a problem, Kenney said. But the most important reason for Daniels to pick a woman is “that people will look at the court and see it as illegitimate,” Kenney said. She compared the situation to an all-white jury judging a black defendant. “Even if the jury is trying to be fair, it may not be justice,” she said. “It’s not just about justice being done, but justice seen to be done,” Kenney said. “It’s very difficult to argue for the legitimacy of the court if it doesn’t represent the majority of the population.” The editorial board at The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne recently made a similar argument when it said the “best man for the Indiana Supreme Court is a woman.” The editorial said the nominating commission should not have sent Daniels any candidate that was not qualified for the job. But, the editorial said, “only one is female. It should make the governor’s work very easy.”

Still, similar arguments were made nearly two years ago when Daniels appointed Justice Steven David to the court. Then, the governor was also choosing from among one female and two male finalists. And at that time, Daniels also said that gender would have been a tiebreaker. But ultimately, he said, there was no tie because David was the most qualified candidate. Since then, other states have been figuring it out. Across the nation, roughly one third of all state justices are women, a statistic that has been increasing. Maybe soon, Indiana will figure it out, too. Lesley Weidenbener is managing editor of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news service powered by Franklin College journalism students. For an overview of all three finalists for chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, please visit NUVO.net/news.

in order for deadly force to be used. And the homeowner must not know the individual is a police officer. These safeguards were not included in the Senate version.

Taxpayer-Related Issues

Lawmakers will also have to reconcile two issues that would have an impact on taxpayers. One of which is the phase out of the inheritance tax. It would cost the state approximate $160 million in annual revenue. Officials have to decide whether the phase out should occur over a 10-year period or sooner. In addition, lawmakers have yet to decide how much of a state surplus must exist before taxpayer refunds kick in. Some lawmakers are pushing for 15 percent of reserves, others say that number should be 10 or 12 percent.

9-1-1 Fees

Lawmakers will have to decide how much to charge cell phone users for 9-1-1 fees.

Kid power recognized By NUVO Editors Curbing historic tax credits By The Statehouse File

Women’s History Month by the numbers By NUVO Editors Girl, in Transit: Back on the bus By Ashley Kimmel

PHOTO BY REBECCA TOWNSEND

Lawmakers will log their final votes this week.

Under the current system a fee is charged to an individual’s landline, however with the proliferation of cell phones, many municipalities are strapped for cash to pay for 9-1-1 calls. Local governments say they have lost approximately $20 million in revenue over the past few years. The Senate passed a version that would charge most mobile phone users $1 for monthly 9-1-1 service. A House measure would only charge $0.75. Both measures would reduce fees for landline users. The Legislature is set to adjourn on March 9.

The Chamber’s accountability albatross By John Krull Daniels mulls Supreme Court finalists By The Statehouse File

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Tornadoes kill at least 13 in Indiana By The Statehouse File

MIDWEST FASHION WEEK - BY THE DAY -

More info at midwesterfashionweek.com MARCH 10: SHOP MIDWEST @ Indianapolis Artsgarden (12-9 p.m., free)

MFW kicks off with a bazaar marrying boutique and designer. Featured designers include Jealousy Jane Couture, Popy Seeds, Nichole Feroce and Carole A. Toole.

MIDWEST FASHION WEEK A LITTLE SOPHISTICATION CAN’T HURT

MARCH 11: CHILDREN’S FASHION SHOW @ Bella Vita Ristorante at the Marina (11 a.m.-4 p.m.; $30 adult, $15 children under 12)

The most charming event on the schedule, according to Martin, offers a chance for children’s designers to strut their stuff, including Erica Hawkins, a recent transplant from Baltimore, and Sugar Baby Bowtique founder Rachel Kozikowski. MARCH 12: MONDAY NIGHT FASHION @ Colts Pavilion (6 p.m., $35)

R&B singer Tiara Thomas, performing March 15 at Bartini's (left); scenes from the fall 2011 Midwest Fashion Show (right, photos by Mark Lee).

f Berny Martin has one core message for the citizens of Indiana, it’s that fashion isn’t just about garments. The garments have a lot to do with it, for sure; the Midwest Fashion Week founder is also the owner of Catou, a boutique that produces quite a few garments, for both men and women. But his vision is of an Indianapolis where the average man and woman breathes in an air of cosmopolitanism — taking in contemporary art, eating authentic foods from around the world, buying clothing with a little heart and soul. Thus, Midwest Fashion Week — the spring edition of which runs from March 10 (the Shop Midwest bazaar at the Artsgarden) to March 17 (the culminating Design for Change gala at the downtown Sheraton) — is defined by a multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates food, visual arts, sports and music. And if Martin feels that Indianapolis has “only touched the tip of the iceberg” in terms of its cultural potential, he has a lot to be proud with respect to MFW, which launched in 2006 with not a whole lot of fanfare. Back in those days, press coverage was scant, participants were exclusively local and crowds were small. As years passed, MFW gained steam, with Martin opening the doors to a wider selection of designers. “What I quickly realized was that our market is growing beyond Indiana, so why wouldn’t we show work from beyond Indiana,” he says. Not that some of that cross-cultural work isn’t made by Indiana residents. Several designers presenting at this year’s gala moved to the state after first establishing themselves abroad, including the wedding gown designer Antonio Fermin (born in Spain), the Fort Wayne-based haute couture designer Marlene Thomas (South Africa) — and Martin himself, a native of Haiti who abandoned the pursuit of a computer engineering degree at Purdue University to pursue his first love of fashion design.

And add Nataliya Kitic, founder of the apparel design and manufacturing company Studio NTK, to that list. Born in Bulgaria, Kitic arrived in the U.S. in 2004 via a student exchange program with little knowledge of English. A few years passed before she decided to continue her education in fashion design. The Art Institute of Indianapolis turned out to be the right fit, and after a year spent commuting from Louisville, she moved to Indy. Martin describes Kitic’s work as incorporating “a lot of leather, in a punk rock look.” For her part, Kitic — a long-time

“WE’RE MAKING BIG STRIDES IN CONVINCING PEOPLE THAT THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE DESIGNING CAN BE THE NEXT BIG THING — AND CAN CREATE BIG OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR BACKYARD.” participant in MFW whose collection for Saturday’s gala will feature ready-to-wear jackets, high-waisted skirts, pants and tops — describes her designs as “fresh, wearable and marketable.” She should know about marketability: Studio NTK is both a clothing line and a small-run manufacturing company catering to start-up businesses. “We manufacture everything: from pet toys to accessories to ready-to-wear garments,” Kitic says. Kitic’s story is characteristic of the Indianapolis fashion world, as Martin describes it. He notes that just because people aren’t launching clothing lines out of the state doesn’t mean they’re not working in the fashion world; perhaps they’re working in parallel industries, as stylists or interior designers. Part of Martin’s goal is

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to bring together these not-so-disparate elements of the fashion world. He’s set out to unite designer and boutique at the Shop Midwest bazaar (“an opportunity for both sides to have a better dialogue” and to “support one another,” even if a given designer can’t always meet a boutique’s need for high-volume manufacturing). And to bring together stylist and clothing designer at the March 14 Fashion Inside Out event, during which a group of stylists will share their perspective on what constitutes a professional look. Not that Indianapolis couldn’t stand to develop the infrastructure that would make it possible for the average Jane or Joe to launch a clothing line. “The problem we have in Indiana is to educate the corporate side that the fashion industry can offer a sustainable business model,” Martin says. The old guard isn’t so ready to change, but “we’re making big strides in convincing people that those students who are designing can be the next big thing — and can create big opportunities in our backyard.” The March 13 student fashion show is a showcase for those next big things, drawn from schools around the state: Ball State to IU-Bloomington, the Art Institute of Indianapolis to IUPUI. The city also needs the help of marketing and PR firms, Martin says, not to mention the activation of more journalists who comprehend the business of the garment industry. And Hoosiers need to get more comfortable with moving beyond their comfort zones — even those who can’t afford comfort on an everyday basis. “For lower-income Hoosiers, instead of saying, ‘This isn’t for me,’ I’d say you should go on and explore things, because there are some great designs out there that are very, very affordable,” he explains. “And if you’re buying from a local designer, it may not be as expensive.”

— SCOTT SHOGER

Monday Night Football meets the fashion world with a night of business networking, spirit tasting, golf simulating, silent auctioning and autograph signing, capped off by a fashion show featuring activewear and sportswear. Colts, Colts cheerleaders and the Blue Crew will be on hand; and like so many other events during MFW, this one is, in part, a fundraiser for Down Syndrome Indiana. MARCH 13: THE NEW SCHOOL OF FASHION @ Madame Walker Theatre Center (6-9:30 p.m., $15 general admission, $75 VIP)

High school, college and graduate students will bring their work before a jury at the MFW’s student show, which will feature students from Purdue, Ball State and IU-Bloomington, among other schools. MARCH 14: FASHION INSIDE OUT @ Hilton North (6 p.m., $65 includes dinner)

Fashion professionals — including image consultants, beauty consultants and stylists — will explain what it takes to dress for success, before giving each attendee personal image coaching and a makeover experience. MARCH 15: THE ART OF FASHION @ Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (6:30-9:30 p.m., donations accepted); Tiara Thomas concert @ Bartini’s (10 p.m., $15 general admission, $75 VIP)

Martin calls The Art of Fashion MFW’s avantgarde night, when a series of designers will bring out “not wearable clothes, but wearable art; think Lady Gaga tenfold.” iMOCA is the host, with their current exhibition, Hard Targets, still on the walls. A concert by R&B singer, Wale protege and Ball State student Tiara Thomas will follow at Bartini’s. MARCH 16: FOOD MEETS FASHION Downtown Indianapolis (5:30 p.m., $85 general admission, $150 VIP)

Only 100 will be accepted for Food Meets Fashion, which offers attendees a moveable dinner featuring fashion-inspired dishes made by local restaurants. MARCH 17: DSI DESIGN FOR CHANGE GALA @ Downtown Sheraton (5 p.m. reception, 6.30 p.m. dinner and program, 8 p.m. fashion show; $100)

MFW’s culminating gala has become a big fundraiser for Down Syndrome Indianapolis; last year’s event raised over $70,000 for the non-profit. The gala will feature work by Catou (Berny Martin’s boutique), Antonio Fermin, Michael Alan Stein, Nataliya Kitic and Marlene Haute Couture.

SHEILA FERGUSON, AKA JEALOUSY JANE A COUNTRY GIRL AT HEART

Leah Kinder wears a floral dress from Jealousy Jane's spring/summer 2012 collection (left, photo by Buzz Photography); Ferguson , on left, and model Leah Rae Kinder in Ferguson's apartment (right, photos by Mark Lee). Cover image: Emily Miedema wears a plaid blazer from Jealousy Jane's fall/winter 2012 collection.

t’s late on a Wednesday night, in the days leading up to Midwest Fashion Week. A small army of models troop in and out of Sheila Ferguson’s cozy Westside apartment/studio for fittings. Ferguson — owner, designer and overall field general for JealousyJane Gallery and Gifts, not to mention contributing editor for the Maxim-esque BAMF Magazine — has a lot on her mind. She’s presenting a dozen designs for MFW’s opening night, and she needs to see how they look on actual people before proceeding. Every model climbs on a chair for photos, some balancing on skyscraper heels that place them close to the ceiling. With every one, Ferguson plops on a chair and regards them intently, pondering new additions after the first time seeing the designs on a person. “The sleeves need to be tightened.” “I see a slicked-back ponytail with this one.” “I’ll give you white lace ankle socks and a white ribbon to make these look like Mary Janes.” Black belt? Red belt? Tutu underneath? These things matter. Ferguson gives consideration to model Destiny Justine Harte’s leopard print dress. “Hmm. I think it needs loud poofy hair,” she says. “I always get the loud poofy hair!” Destiny retorts. “Not true! Last time I gave you nice refined pinup hair!” So it goes, though a variety of looks and fabrics — bold stripes, lacy neo-Victorian, polka dots. “Polka dots are all the rage now,” Precia Harte, Destiny’s mom, tells her. “Really?” Ferguson says. “I had no idea.

things to be original, or at least originally I don’t have cable and I don’t read fashion over the top,” she says. magazines, because I don’t want to be ripOnce upon a time she had platinum blonde ping off anyone else.” hair, and friends would note she looked “That’s what I like about your style,” like Jayne Mansfield. Eventually she added Precia says. “It’s not anybody else’s.” “Jealousy” to the name and adopted it as her Or as Ferguson put it herself earlier: “My brand: “It has a nice little catch to it; it suits style is old-fashioned and vintage, but stayme, and nine times out of 10, I guarantee peoing young and hip at the same time. Leave ple will be jealous of what you’re wearing.” out the old clichés but retain the underFerguson majored in studio art and cretones and attitudes that go with it.” ative writing at Indiana University, plus Ferguson’s interest in fashion — threedimensional artwork, as she puts it — dates did her own modeling for a while. Last February marked her first runway show back to her Canadian upbringing. “I grew — the annual Trash and Refashion show up in a strict Mormon home, and my parin Bloomington — and she’s presented in ents prepped me to be self-sufficient as eight shows total. a future wife, which Now she works full meant canning, field“MY STYLE IS A REFLECTION time as a designer, dressing deer, creating and phoclothing and essenOF THE WAY I AM; I’M LIKE THE seamstress tographer. tially doing everything “I have to be a necessary.” MODERN VERSION OF THE businesswoman as Her mother made SEXY SUBMISSIVE HOUSEWIFE.” well, and that doesn’t most of the family’s come naturally for an clothing, and Ferguson artist,” she remarks. used her little sister as “Finding sponsors and making contacts is a model, or possibly clotheshorse, for her a lot of work, and you have to learn it.” burgeoning interest in formalwear. In high The process at times feels less like a fashschool, she started altering prom dresses and ion plan and more like the preparations for making Halloween costumes for friends. D-Day. She has to organize a dozen mod“It slowly turned into what I wanted to els, outfits for each, hair and makeup artdo — the gowns, the formal couture wear,” ists, and that’s just the moving parts to deal she says. “I use a machine when I need to, with before you get in the door. but I prefer to hand-stitch because it’s per“I enjoy the multitasking, being in the sonal. These are one-of-a-kind sculptures, scene and rushing to be sure everything’s not just gowns. It’s my own blood being perfect and communicating my vision to pricked on the needle.” my staff so it can be correctly executed,” She still does elaborate costumes; one she says. “With my first show, it had felt outfit last year involved making a Cruella like an unattainable dream. It was absurd de Vil boa out of stuffed Dalmatian puppy to even think of my work on a runway. And toys spattered with fake blood. “I like

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suddenly it was happening and it kept happening. Runways are quite intensive, but I feel natural when I’m there.” And the fitting night is just one part of it all. “I’m working on fall/winter and spring/ summer collections at the same time,” she says. “I’ve been my own personal sweatshop for a month, sewing until my fingers bleed.” To this day, her method is very much one of intuition, getting her hands on the fabrics and seeing how they look and feel, then getting a sense for what they’re like on an actual person — not unlike wrapping cloth around her sister all those years ago. Model Leah Rae Kinder tries on hornrimmed glasses with a neo-victorian black dress. “I look like my mom!” She looks like all our moms. And awesome. “I think I’m going to use these in the runway show!” Ferguson announces. “It really sets it over the top.” Two weeks left and six dresses to go — all part of the show that never ends for a designer just a couple of degrees out of sync with the urban mainstream and proud of it. “I’m really such a homebody; if I lived where I liked, I’d be out in the sticks and running a farm, and then coming in for the cosmopolitan part of my life,” she says. “My style is a reflection of the way I am; I’m like the modern version of the sexy submissive housewife. I love canning and cooking, growing my own vegetables, making my own hot sauces. I’m really just a country girl at heart.”

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always had that kind of support.” ichael Alan Stein is just fine with When the time came, he headed to New being called an up-and-comer. York City to study at Parsons and the Fashion Otherwise, he might not have been Institute of Design; in one of a few name invited to this February’s Emerge!, an NYC drops, Stein notes that he studied alongside Fashion Week runway show for “emergIsaac Mizrahi. After completing classes, ing” designers that brought in 500 guests, Stein’s father contributed seed money for a including Vogue columnist Andre’ Leon line that had, as he puts it, “mild success,” Talley and designer Diane von Furstenberg. and was carried in the Detroit department At this point in his career, he can’t buy the store Hudson’s, as well as Bloomingdale’s. kind of press that follows around bigwigs “But I was too busy being at all the parties,” like Furstenberg. Even if the press was there he says. “I didn’t appreciate that opportuto write about the celebrities, they still paid nity, which went by the wayside.” attention to his Fall 2012 line, inspired by the So Stein went into other fields, eventualtango and 1930s fashion, and “sexy, but not ly finding his way to costume design. He’s vulgar and very easily worn,” as he puts it. worked in several major regional theaters But this isn’t Stein’s first, or second, rodeo; — the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Steppenwolf he’s a rising star compared to Ralph Lauren, in Chicago, the Arena stage in Washington, he jokes, but he’s no neophyte. The ChicagoD.C. — and tackled film projects of note, based designer did, indeed, take a long break including a Tom Sizemore vehicle filmed from clothing design: A 2009 collection was last year in Terre his first since the midand a 3-D Civil ’80s, when he launched “IF I HAD NOT GONE INTO Haute War miniseries filmed but, by his own admisDESIGN, I PROBABLY WOULD for network 3net. sion, failed to nurture Stein approaches his first line. During HAVE BEEN AN ANTHROhis costume design that 20-plus year break, work with an eye he worked quite sucPOLOGIST, BECAUSE I LOVE towards history, both cessfully in costume KNOWING ABOUT HISTORY to get things right and design for theater and to avoid reworking old film. As he puts it durAND PEOPLE ...” tropes. “The difficult ing a phone interview, thing is trying to make “I never really left the clothing that’s not cliché — not putting a world of design. I was still able to satisfy that whore in red,” he explains. “That said, when desire to create.” an audience can look at what I’ve designed But, according to Stein, “clothing design and they know the character immediately, is my first, true love, because I really do before the character opens her mouth, then want women to really feel great when they I’ve created the right design.” wear something I design.” He’s gained And, for Stein, it’s as much about plenty of ground in three years, with the research as sitting at a sewing machine: “If I singular goal in his sights being to sell had not gone into design, I probably would clothes — and “not to have pretty fashion have been an anthropologist, because I love shows,” he says. He’s already sold his fall knowing about history and people — the 2012 line to two stores, and he hopes to line choices people made because of the enviup 25 or more by the end of April, including ronment and situation they were in, what a few possibilities in Indianapolis. they wore and when they wore it.” The Detroit-born Stein, who says he’s In the end, though, he’s not sitting on wanted to be a clothing designer since sidelines studying; he feels his work has his earliest memory, has always had that a spiritual dimension, and it’s informed kind of ambition. He remembers writing by uplifting gospel message, so to speak. to Anne Klein at age 11, who was good “When women feel great, like they can conenough to write back with encouraging quer the world when they wear my outfit, words. Both his mother and grandmother that’s where my true passion comes in.” had a sense of style, and the young Stein — SCOTT SHOGER noticed. “I can remember walking with my mother through Saks Fifth Avenue, seeSEE MICHAEL ALAN STEIN MARCH 17 ing what she would purchase. My grandFROM 8 P.M. AT THE DSI DESIGN FOR mother had her seamstress make some of CHANGE GALA. my sketches when I was a little boy, so I’ve

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SOFT, FLOWING, FEMININE

Rachel Bougher models two dresses by Marlene Haute Couture: a showstopper bridal dress included in the Fall 2012 Midwest Fashion Week and the Audrey Hepburn '50s Classic dress (photos by Jeanie Casey).

f you can make it from Fort Wayne, you can make it anywhere. Or, to put it another way, you can make it anywhere from anywhere in the fashion industry these days. At least that’s the case Marlene Thomas is making. She’s launched Marlene Haute Couture, whose output encompasses eveningwear, bridal dresses and daywear, from Fort Wayne, with only a web presence. The biggest mistake she thinks a beginning designer can make, after all, is opening a shopfront right away — or moving to the coasts and pumping money into fashion weeks. “It doesn’t matter where you live — if you brand and your name becomes famous, you don’t need to be there; only your PR and connections need to be in New York,” she says. “I’ll do my avantgarde here — and it’s nothing to jump on a jet for New York and do Fashion Week.” Not that Thomas hasn’t known the pride of ownership of a boutique. A South Africa native, she had her own shop in the port town of Richards Bay from 1983 to 1998. And she was successful there — her clients were voted best dressed women; she designed costumes for a Kentucky Derby-like horse race, Rothmans July; her small business was respected within the business community in a town filled with chain stores. But personal issues interceded; she was making bridal gowns while going through a divorce, and that just didn’t seem right. She moved to the U.S. and abandoned design altogether; her friends in Fort Wayne knew about her past career, but she didn’t talk about it with any passion. That is, until last year, when Fort Wayne designer Anton Babich asked her to participate in a runway show. She said yes, but on the condition that she only design two dresses, one of them being the showstopper. People said of that dress, according to Thomas, “Oh, my God; this is Versace!” “It was awesome!” Thomas says. “I just knew it.” It being that she was ready to get back in the game. She debuted her first U.S. collection at fall 2012’s Midwest Fashion Week. Since then, she’s been working to establish her name. Her legal team tells her, according to Thomas, that they’ve never seen anyone brand a business as quickly as she has. She’s taken up invitations to fashion weeks in New York City, Dayton, Ohio and, of course, Indianapolis — and she’s turned down other pitches, because her

finances can’t quite meet the high entrance fees and travel costs. One more thing might be said about Thomas’s betwixt and between situation in Fort Wayne: She’s not really pitching her work towards her hometown, largely because they aren’t likely to spend the four figure prices it typically fetches. Her market is L.A. and New York, areas that will pay for the high-end fabrics and materials she uses. Thomas describes her work as feminine and romantic, shaped by soft, flowing lines. It’s consistent with what she likes to wear: soft clothing, “the textures of voile, chiffon, organza against my skin.” Her avant-garde work shows clients what she can do: Her detail work, her hand-beading, her attention to the person from head to toe. And her mainstream work still uses plenty of fabric, even if it’s ostensibly more wearable. Midwest Fashion Week founder Berny Martin, describes her as “pushing the edge, with haute couture appeal.” It all comes together in a largely improvised process. Thomas starts with a sketch, but that’s sometimes abandoned when she encounters the fabric. Ideas come from nature, furniture, jewelry, some kind of scene — say, that of a fire, which would lead her to design a piece which includes all the colors of fire. Even dreams provide inspiration: she may wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for a dress. Thomas is certainly at the beginning of her journey with Marlene Haute Couture: The company launched in October with her Midwest Fashion Week debut, and she’s currently looking for venture capital (she’s relying entirely on her savings right now) and developing her business plan and lookbooks. But things are rolling: Thomas is in negotiations to move into production on a line of daywear and eveningwear, and she’s excited about participating in a competition this summer with a grand prize of $12,000. Through it all, Thomas is content to remain outside the public eye. “I’m always behind the scenes,” she says. “I’m one of those quiet designers, hiding from the limelight.” — SCOTT SHOGER

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we’ve arrived, but that we’ve excelled our peers in many ways. ”

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And, as it turns out, it’s not just an either/ or question, because local audiences without the expense account to make the trip to Venice will, beginning this week, have a chance to see parts of the Biennale installation, Gloria. Created by Puerto Rico-based team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Gloria was a series of works blending sculpture, photography, performance, sound and video. Two elements of Gloria will be recreated at the IMA: “ Body in Flight (Delta), ” a performative piece in which a female gymnast in red, white

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It was — and remains — a big deal that the IMA curated the FREE U.S. Pavilion for last year’s Venice Biennale, which Hoppe has nicely described as “to the art world what the Olympics is to the world of sports.” But a few objections remained, along the lines of, “Why spend so much on mounting a show for an international audience when that money might be spent on programming at home?” IMA

and blue unitard uses a replica of a business-class airline seat as a gymnastic apparatus; and the “Vieques Series,” a collection of short videos filmed on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques ,

contemporary art chair Lisa Freiman

the site of a U.S. army base until 2003, after which environmental remediation began. Only one video in the series, “Half Mast/Full Mast,” played as part of Gloria; this will be the first time all three videos in the Vieques Series will play together in the U.S. The “Vieques Series” runs in the Holeman Gallery through Oct. 14; “Body in Flight (Delta)” will have a shorter run, through April 22, perhaps

answered that question for us, on its own terms, last year: “It’s great for the museum because it puts us in the company of the best museums in the country who have done this. But it is also great for the city because it is another way that we can demonstrate very literally that we are ambitious and competitive and critically minded. This is not just saying that

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Dan Barden’s second novel The Next Right Thing, now available in hardcover

from Dial Press, not only takes its title from an Alcoholic’s Anonymous saying nearly as popular as the Serenity prayer. It also opens with an epigraph — “ Let’s not louse this thing up” — spoken from one AA founder to another, Bob S. to Bill W. The story that follows — hard-boiled without cliché, salty with the spray of the Pacific — involves quite a bit of characters lousing things up, with the action propelled by ex-cop Randy’s

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because each performance requires the talent of an athlete affiliated with USA Gymnastics. Sadie Wilhelmi, who performed “Body in Flight (Delta)” throughout its Venice run, will reprise her role on March 8; she also trained the athletes performing through the rest of the piece’s Indy run. Thursday’s reservationrequired opening will kick off with a performance of “Body in Flight (Delta)” in the entrance pavilion, followed by an open forum featuring Frieman, gymnast Dave Durante and others involved in mounting Gloria. Some elements of Gloria didn’t make the trip, notably “Track and Field,” described as the installation’s “centerpiece” by The New York Times, which was an inverted military tank topped by a treadmill activated by a runner for 15 minutes on the hour. There was also a “Body in Flight (American),” the male answer to “Body in Flight (Delta),” reviewed thusly by the Times: “The Delta seat functions as a balance beam for a female gymnast whose sensuous performance evokes an attractive model demonstrating appliances or cars at a trade show. The male gymnast uses the American seat as a pommel horse, and the loud thumps of his many energetic jumps, mounts and dismounts, executed without benefit of padding, provided a painful sound

teen stepping,” or the sexual exploitation of younger AA members by older, which at one point takes the form of coercing younger female members into creating Internet porn. In the end, the novel tells of a tough but genuine love between guys in various states of collapse. As Randy’s future sponsor tells Randy in their first meeting: “You know, Randy, we don’t hang out with you because we like you ... We hang out with

accompaniment. It seemed like debilitating, delegated endurance art.” But the pieces that have made the trip should give viewers a sense of Gloria, which the Guardian described as emblematic of a politically-motivated biennale. There’s another big deal: the IMA’s entry set — or at least kept — the pace for the entire exhibition, reportedly engaging with pieces

in other pavilions in a provocative way. Here’s the Guardian, again: [“Track and Field”] is the eye-opener to the US pavilion at the 54th biennale and the loudest and punchiest affront in the place. The Centurion [the upturned tank] is a British creation, but let that pass, perhaps as further evidence of the special relationship. For this is an art tank, with a strong conceit and a cunning pun of a title, yoking imperialism, mechanisation, personal/political goals and much more, with the overall notion of pounding the world .” Opening: March 8: 5:30 p.m., “Body in Flight (Delta)” performance and free reception; 7 p.m., public conversation; reservations required at imamuseum.org Continuing: “Body in Flight (Delta),” through April 22; “Vieques Series,” through Oct. 14

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you because it’s head cases like you who keep us sober. ” Barden knows the

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Phil van Hest is the unlikely (but great) choice for emcee for Opera Goes to the Movies , a multimedia revue pairing live opera singers and members of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra with scenes from well-known films that use opera as musical backdrop or setting. On the bill are scenes from Apolcalypse Now, The Blues Brothers, Mrs. Doubtfire (!), Citizen Kane, Fatal Attraction, The Shawshank Redemption, The Fifth Element and The Godfather. All songs will be performed in their original language with English super-titles.

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Gloria redux review by David Hoppe Midwest Fashion Week coverage by the NUVO team

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GO&DO whom he represents, including Donato Giancola, the featured artists for Friday’s grand opening ceremony. The lines between fine art and fantasy art indeed blur at Niemeyer’s gallery: While, for instance, Giancola’s painting “Taming of Smeagol” refers to a very specific scene in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the beautiful woman in profile in his painting “Autumn” is the subject of no particular narrative. Both paintings come alive using classical techniques concerning proportion and portraiture. In Olivia DeBerardinis’s “Sweet Nothings” — which appeared in a 2008 issue of Playboy — the same caliber of technical mastery is deployed to evoke a male see-through lingerie fantasy. Originally from New Jersey, Niemeyer has served in the Air Force, worked as a weather forecaster and, most recently, as a physician’s assistant. But his real passion has always been science fiction/fantasy art. I spoke to him Thursday, as he prepared for the opening. —Dan Grossman NUVO: How did you get interested in science fiction/fantasy art?

Donato Giancola, “Taming of Smeagol”

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@ Atlas Fantasy Art House The sign outside Atlas Fantasy Art House depicts the titular Earth-hoister — one of the primordial Titans of Greek mythology — looking buffer than the buffest Marvel Comics superhero. The sign’s illustrator, Boris Vallejo, known for his depictions of John Carter of Mars and Tarzan among others, is also among several artists whose fantasy art will soon be available in the gallery, opening this week in Carmel under the direction of a certain William H. Niemeyer III . Just as a populist artist like Norman Rockwell didn’t get his due from the critical establishment during his life, Niemeyer believes that science fiction and fantasy art get a bad rap from the intelligentsia . He’s working to facilitate its reappraisal — both through his gallery and a forthcoming film, Fantasy Art: A Journey into Creation, currently in pre-production. The gallery, smack dab in middle of Carmel’s Art & Design District, will showcase the work of a dozen artists

NIEMEYER: I grew up reading literature. Camus and Dostoyevsky are some examples, but I also liked science fiction, and sometimes the cover would tell the story or draw you into the book. Michael Whelan had the gift for doing that, as well as Boris Vallejo, and I’ve bought so many books just based on the covers. So I’ve always loved the art itself. And it’s just a peculiar thing to be representing [Whelan and Vallejo] now. NUVO: How did you get started in the business? NIEMEYER: Well, I started off with high-end comics. I used to see things like Spider Man #1, Fantastic Four #1, the high end stuff. And then I got a piece of original art and I never went back because the books can come and go. You’ve probably heard of Action Comics #1 going for one and a half million. But there’s only one piece of art for that particular book. Back in those days, no one thought about keeping the art.

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@ Indiana Convention Center LEGO lovers unite! BrickWorld Indy is not, to be sure, an AFOL

(Adult Fans of LEGO) convention; what fun it is to step into a sub-culture where such careful distinctions must be made on the event’s official website. It is an invitation-only showcase for 18,000 square feet of LEGO displays , as well as interactive Mindstorms

robotic games and vendors with names like Indy Brickyard, Team Hassenplug, Citizen Bricks and It’s a Block Party . The centerpiece may well be Brian Alano’s rendition of Lucas Oil Stadium in LEGO, which was on display in

Indy earlier this year — but in the Super Bowl media center, which was not, to be sure, accessible to the general public.

March 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and March 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; $9 adults, $6 children; brickworld.us/indy.

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March 9, 11 a.m.: Ribbon cutting ceremony with Mayor Brainard and featured artist Donato Giancola; 7-9 p.m.: Opening reception with Giancola

Can I Holi? Oh, we’re too much. The Cultural Cannibals, the crew of man-eating globetrotters that includes NUVO columnist Kyle Long, is in action this week with an Bollywood Bhangra in celebration of Holi, the Hindi festival of colors known as the most indulgent on the Indian calendar. Long will spin from his vast Indian music library and plenty of libations will be available.

March 10, 4-10 p.m.: Painting demonstration by Giancola

March 10, 10 p.m. @ 617 Indiana Ave.; $10 at the door; culturalcannibals.com

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@ Indiana History Center We challenge you to find a person who does not love Bill Harley. The storyteller, singer and All Things Considered commentator, who spent his elementary school years living near Park Tudor School, tends to draw upon his coming-of-age for material. He told us in 2008 that he draws on his early years by design, childhood being a common denominator for all audiences: “Everything we do as adults came from what happened to us as kids. If I can go back there and be honest and insightful and touch something in all of us ... It’s what Mark Twain and Bill Cosby did. Coming of age resonates with all of us . Childhood doesn’t have the sense of irony, complexity and gray areas as adulthood. I want [the audience to] re-experience that.” Harley will perform twice Saturday: a family show at 2 p.m. and for the adults at 7:30 p.m.

A LEGO Lucas Oil Stadium by Brian Alano.

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The mirthful Bill Harley.

March 10 @ Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre, 450 W. Ohio St; Two shows: “In and Out of Trouble” (family show), 2 p.m., $5 ages 5-12, $10 adults; “Lessons I Keep Learning,” 7:30 p.m., $20 advance (storytellingarts. org or 232-1882), $25 door.

Noel Coward wrote about four plays in 1925, powered, presumably, by gallons of martinis and the wonder drug of cocaine — not to mention the rich nectar we call youth, for Coward was then in his early 20s. The playwright called one of them, Fallen Angels, opening on the upper stage Tuesday, “extremely slight.” Not that that’s a bad thing when it comes to a drawing room comedy; the IRT is hooking it in with the also very slight (but very loud) God of Carnage, now playing on the Mainstage, as a pair of frothy farces, separated by generations but united by blithe mentality. The plot concerns two young married Englishwomen waiting for a French lothario with whom they’ve both had affairs to return to town and their lives. Kelsey Brennan, Susan Felder and Steve Haggard star; Bill Brown directs.

March 13-April 15 (opening night March 16) @ 140 W. Washington St.; ticket prices vary ($25 in previews); irtlive.com.

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A&E REVIEWS the fathers is a lawyer, the other a retailer in housewares; the mothers are a financial adviser and an aesthete who’s working on a book about the horrors in Darfur. The setting for their rendezvous is a luxury apartment that, as imagined by scenic designer Russell Metheny, towers over the characters like a steroidal Pottery Barn center-fold. Needless to say, this caricatured cross-section of the Striving Class is no better able to play with each other than their children have done. James Still directs an indefatigable quartet of actors (Ryan Artzberger, Tim Grimm, Shannon Holt and Constance Macy) at a near-fever pitch from the very start; his approach to the material is to start with his foot on the accelerator — and keep it there. The result is a kind of yuppie slapstick that never lets its implicit self-loathing get in the way of the laughs. — DAVID HOPPE PHOTO BY JULIE CURRY

One of many moments of insanity in “God of Carnage.”

THEATER GOD OF CARNAGE INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, THROUGH MARCH 24; DIRECTED BY JAMES STILL t Bashing the bourgeoisie is a time-honored tradition in the arts dating back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of “new money.” That it’s like shooting fish in a barrel — the targets are plump, juicy and impossible to miss — does little to dampen enthusiasm for this pastime. Take, for example, Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, now playing in a bombastically funny production at the IRT. In Reza’s award-winning play (translated from the French by Christopher Hampton), two upscale couples meet in order to resolve the broken-toothed consequences of a playground altercation between their respective sons. One of

VISUAL ART ILLUSTRATIONS OF KRISTAL MELSON AND CHARLENE CHUA CHRISTEL DEHAAN FINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY AT UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS; THROUGH MARCH 16 e Consider the plight of the professional illustrator. When you spend your days churning out eye candy to promote the work of others, such as writers or musicians, how do you define your own creative identity? Singapore-born, Canadian illustrator Charlene Chua says she’s a “problem solver” who puts her clients’ aesthetic needs before her own. Chua’s voluptuous Betty Page-like sirens, done for Maxim Singapore in beguiling reds and grays, contrast sharply with her CLEO Singapore horoscope girls — wispy, willowy figures in a loosely delineated, greeting-card world. By contrast, the guys and gals of her Wall Street Journal fashion pieces

are sleek and sensible. Kristal Melson, also Singapore-born (and based), is likewise not stuck on one style. Although her sketches of skinny fashionistas for ELLE Singapore are fairly tame, much of Melson’s work walks where the wild things are: melting pink elephants, bizarre female figure studies, an alien playground, a handgun dripping yellow ooze. Sometimes she channels the psychedelic sixties. So, maybe illustrators are like character actors. While they may not become stars, their versatility guarantees they’ll never go hungry. — GARY WEIR LESLEY BAKER: (UN)NATURAL WUG LAKU’S STUDIO AND GARAGE; THROUGH MARCH 30 e Herron professor Lesley Baker’s new exhibition draws inspiration from the question, “Is man really in control, or is nature the one manipulating man in order to become stronger?” Her juxtaposition of ceramic works “referencing precious European garnitures and kitsch collectibles” (again quoting her artist statement) with mutations of animals has a disarming effect. It seems you are looking at a rendition of a cute little chipmunk until you move closer and realize that two bodies share a single head and have grotesquely long tails resembling horns. Most of the animals are formed of parts from various species, and there is an emphasis on large, threatening horns in unexpected places. Baker is a master of porcelain; everything in this exhibition is finely crafted with precision, skill and great creativity. Although her “Bull in a China Shop” installation at TURF was conceptually rich, (un) Natural is far more aesthetically pleasing. The bull remains a recurring symbol for Baker in pieces such as “Side of Beef,” a wonderfully gaudy and clever piece featuring one side of a bull atop an ornamented gold and silver plate. — CHARLES FOX

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National Football team. Her technical ability is certainly impressive. You might get the sense that she’s still experimenting here, working towards a style that she can call her own. Examples of her work on display are pop-art-inspired portraits of Jesus Christ, as well as those of notable Hoosiers Michael Jackson and James Dean. — DAN GROSSMAN NEW WORK BY ERIN DREW CITY GALLERY AT THE HARRISON CENTER FOR THE ARTS; THROUGH MARCH 31 r

Carlos Arriola, “Abstract Architecture” ESTILOS DE MOSAICO: PAINTINGS BY THE ARRIOLA FAMILY EARTH HOUSE COLLECTIVE; THROUGH MARCH 30 e Victor Arriola was a go-to guy in Guatemala if you wanted to learn how to paint, as there were no formal art schools in the country during his day. He remains a formidable artist, though semi-retired. Meanwhile, art has become a family affair: his sons are now prominent in the Central American art scene, and his granddaughter is a rising star. There’s certainly a mosaic of styles among the three generations of artist displayed here. You have the realistic portraiture of Victor Sr., with portraits of a Mayan shaman and his wife. Then there the suspended-in-air still life work of Victor Jr. The most engaging on an intellectual level is Carlos’ eye-popping “Abstract Architecture,” a sort of Escher-esque cityscape in muted earth tones. The painting is all the more remarkable because of that fact that Carlos is colorblind. Even more remarkable: His daughter Thais, barely out of high school, is currently the most renowned in this family because of her recent portraits of the Mexican

“My experience of a lot of stuff is regional, rejecting this omniscient view.” That’s Erin Drew on her mixed media work, which draws on the neon signage and retro building facades found everywhere in Fountain Square. Drew, who knows the area as well as anyone, is aware of a certain tension that exists between longtime residents and partygoers. In her work, she doesn’t take sides between the two factions — residents enjoy the nightlife too, after all — and it could be that she’s channeling both points of view to create her whimsical art. She uses the stylized fonts found on Fountain Square store signs to create mock signs — hinting at social commentary — that you would never find on a Fountain Square storefront. Her piece reading “Hood Economy” is but one example. The centerpiece of this exhibition is a faux brick wall against which you see four neon sign-like constructions, one of which, “24/7 (Rough Morning),” reads RoughM on one side and Ornin’ on the other, as if predicting a coming hangover (and the corresponding frazzled mental state). There’s also whimsy also in her Amish-inspired hex sign “Her Sign to Guard Against Ugly Living” that incorporates hamburger motifs, while her sign reading simply “Regionalism” telegraphs a certain modesty about her artistic goals. That is, her art isn’t going to change the world, but it certainly might make you see Fountain Square in a different light — and make you laugh a little. — DAN GROSSMAN

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Ellie Siskind has a number of paintings in acrylic in this show that portray bars as a source of solace. But in “Bad Company,” you’re reminded that sitting down at the wrong barstool can sometimes land you with a concussion. In this stylized depiction, you see a man reaching for another’s jugular, a thick arm against a lime green backdrop. Siskind’s a painter who’s capable of going for your jugular; witness her portraits of Klansmen and serial murderers, featured in previous shows. Her recent work, however, has been more focused on the intimate moments that people are able to find in the midst of the maelstrom. Sofiya Inger, Siskind’s partner in this exhibition, also often focuses on darkness in peoples’ lives, though her work is tempered with a brighter palette than that used in some of her older work. She’s also interested these days in painting on just about any surface she comes across. She uses a found surface incorporating pressed plants and fabric in “Dwellings,” she paints fantastical figurative imagery with colors ranging from bright yellow to blood red. Its setting might be a wheat field in her native Russia or somewhere closer to home; regardless, it’s a place that will provide pleasant shelter for a while. — DAN GROSSMAN

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MOVIES FILM CLIPS The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. WASTE LAND q (NR)

This stunning documentary about the people who work in the largest landfill on the planet, works on numerous levels: as a social justice film about the ability of people in poverty to rise above their condition; as an exploration into the transformative power of art; and as a probing portrait into the passion and process of one of the world’s most successful artists. Co-directors Lucy Walker, Karen Harley and Joao Jardim take us on the extraordinary journey of Vic Muniz, world-renowned photographer, artist and activist whose project takes him to his native Brazil, to create art of — and with — the “pickers” in the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio De Janeiro. Muniz’s mission: Raise awareness of the plight of these pickers, the horrific conditions of their lives — and by extension, shine a light on the ruin humans have wrought upon their planet with mindless consumerism. The directors have an unerring sense of when to go deeper and when to pull back. The film even delves into complex issues of whether the lives of these pickers were improved or harmed by Muniz’s project, as many of them end up having to face a return to the garbage landscape. And with a soundtrack by Moby, the film evokes a myriad of emotions in the viewer, from anger to awe, from tears to ebullience. Whether you’re an artist, a social justice warrior or simply a person who creates trash, the experience of watching Waste Land is an unforgettable experience. 99 minutes. March 12, 7 p.m., at the Arthur M. Glick JCC; $5 public, $3 JCC member (jccindy.org). —JIM POYSER

JOHN CARTER t (PG-13)

Finding Nemo and WALL-E filmmaker Andrew Stanton directs his first live-action feature (well, there’s a heap of computer-animation in there as well), tackling Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom sci-fi book series, which started in 1912 and went on for decades. Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights) plays a rebellious-to-the-point-of-absurdity civil war soldier transported to Mars (“Barsoom” to its natives) where there are colorful races and battles all over the place. The earth man quickly gets in the middle of everything, even wooing a Barsoomian princess (Lynn Collins). It’s fun, if familiar (writers and filmmakers have been ripping off the series for a century!). Despite a few dull moments and too much narration, there’s plenty of action and a sense that we are watching epic events. 132 minutes. —ED JOHNSON-OTT

I AM (NR)

Tom Shadyac directed some pretty awful movies through the ‘90s and ‘00s: Patch Adams, Bruce and Evan Almighty, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. Call his 2007 bike accident and subsequent post-concussion syndrome sort of a fortunate turn of events, then; it prompted him to quit the industry, give away quite a bit of cash and move from a mansion to a high-end trailer park in Malibu. Shadyac’s first film as a director since his move from Hollywood is a shortish, first-person documentary structured around two core questions: “What’s wrong with the world” and “What can we do about it?” Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and others offer their answers through the course of the film, which the LA Times described as a “collection of sound bytes that validate the filmmaker’s point of view” somewhat redeemed by Shadyac himself, “an exceptionally mellow, earnest and likeable guy.” 78 minutes. March 10, 7:30 p.m., at Earth House; $7 (eventbrite.com); part of the Evolver Film Series.

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Blondin Miguel and Laika the dog in ‘Le Havre’; woman carrying basket fashioned from trash in ‘Waste Land.’

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e (NR) You see them in your neighborhood. You watch them being interviewed on TV. People who go out of their way to help someone they didn’t know, ofttimes at great risk to themselves. Inevitably they are asked how it feels to be a hero. Most of the time the individual looks uncomfortable with the question and says, “I’m not a hero. I just did what anybody would do.” They’re not being modest or phony. They mean what they say. I would quibble with one word, though. They didn’t do what anybody would do. They did what anybody should do. Le Havre, by Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, is a charming film set in the French industrial port city of Le Havre. It deals with a crisis and a community that comes together, quietly and without making a fuss, to “do what anybody should do,” regardless of the risk to them. A number of prominent reviewers have referred to the movie as a fairy tale. Interesting. The story: A group of African illegal immigrants are found trapped in a large shipping container at the dock. All are taken into custody save for a boy, Idrissa (Blondin Miguel), who sprints away to continue his quest to reunite with his family in London. The police search for the kid becomes a big story in the local media. It also becomes a big part in the life of shoeshine man Marcel (Andre Wilms), whose wife Arletty (Kati Outinen) is seriously ailing, when he encounters the wide-eyed boy. Long story short, Marcel and his neighbors work together to save the boy from the police and get him to his destination. Forget any discussions of illegal immigration, this is a community dealing with a lost and lonely child, so they do what is needed. Kaurismaki manages to present Le Havre as both industrial and idyllic. He periodically uses stage lighting in otherwise realistic scenes, and the effect is quite nice. The acting is spot-on, as is the music and art direction. Fairy tale? I don’t think so. Le Havre simply depicts a place where miracles can happen and where most people do what anybody

should do. March 8, 7 p.m., at the Earth House; $10 (eventbrite.com); part of Indy Film Fest’s Spring Film Series.

Bicycle Dreams

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RAAM. It sounds nuts. The Race Across America ultra marathon is a 3000-mile bicycle race from the Pacific to the Atlantic — stop and think about that for a minute. Since 1982, riders have struggled to cover over 300 miles a day in their quest to keep up with the leaders of the pack and not get cut by the Darwinian rules of the race (half of the riders fail to finish). Top riders sleep only a few hours a day – some less than that. I think I recall the phrase “11 hours sleep in 8 days” used about one of the leaders. Filmmaker Stephen Auerbach and his team use 18 cameras to capture the racers as they pass through the Mojave Desert, the Rockies, the Great Plains, the Appalachians and more scenic locations on their way to Atlantic City. The backgrounds throughout the film are gorgeous. The foregrounds are brutal. These men and women push themselves to mindboggling extremes. Hallucinations are routine. One rider saw dolphins on a dusty stretch of road and became convinced that the race really wasn’t being run – it was all a trick. Two riders have died over the history of the race. One of them dies in this race. Auerbach has crafted a documentary along traditional lines. His choice of music is bombastic — not necessarily a bad thing, though I rolled my eyes a time or two at some of the “Hercules Fights the Nazi Zombies” style passages. The film is packed with sound bytes from interviews with the participants, both riders and their support teams. Though some of the answers to the “Why are you subjecting yourself to this?” questions sound like blurbs from a PowerBar ad, there are many fascinating glimpses into the minds of people driven to go harder and further, day after day. Bicycle Dreams showcases some of the most extreme extreme athletes in the world and gives you a look inside. Mesmerizing stuff. March 7, 7 p.m., at Earth House; $11 advance (imathelete.com), $15 door; screening as a benefit for INDYCOG.

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FOOD Coal Pizza Company

Great concept, poor execution BY N E I L CHA R LE S N CH A RL E S @N U V O . N E T The benchmark for pizza is the Margherita. During a winter in Italy a number of years ago, I was fortunate enough to spend time working with a pizza chef who I consider the finest I’ve ever met. His Margherita was, and remains to this day, easily the best I’ve ever consumed. With a puffy but firm and chewy crust, a structurally sound but fully-cooked and tender base topped with a sweetly-tart tomato sauce and a bubbling pool of liquid mozzarella, this was the very definition of Margherita. Coal Pizza Company, situated downtown in the up-and-coming, yet-to-benamed area of West Washington Street (but let’s call it “The Libertine District”) certainly boasts all the right components for the production of a similarly world-class pizza. These include a coalfired, 900-degree Italian oven, “00”

high-gluten Italian flour, San Marzano tomatoes and freshly made mozzarella. The problem with Coal Pizza Company isn’t certainly not one of authenticity or ambition; it’s more one of execution. On a recent visit to Coal Pizza Company, our Margherita pizza ($12) was a bit of a disaster. The base of the crust was sadly undercooked while the edges, although nicely puffed up and browned, were essentially the consistency of brioche. I had to ask myself exactly how much “00” flour was being used in the preparation. The tomato topping consisted of thin slices of unseasoned and out-of-season commercial grade Roma tomatoes, which added only to color and nothing to flavor. Where was the San Marzano sauce I had read about on the menu? And rather than an enticing and decadent pool of mozzarella, the cheese component was barely discernible, as was the basil. I hope that this was just a lapse, but based upon other dishes we ate the same evening, I’m of the opinion that the lack of flavor and poor execution point to something systemic rather than accidental. These other dishes would include Spaghetti & Waygu Meatballs ($14). The sheer number of meatballs was generous, but quantity means nothing if said ball of meat is mushy and underseasoned. We expected more from such high quality ingredients. An Arugula and Poached Pear Salad ($8) was fresh, nicely peppery and liberally

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Coal’s duck confit pizza and baby arugula salad.

adorned with pleasantly soft goat cheese, pears and caramelized onions. This was probably the star of the evening. A Spinach and Artichoke Dip ($9) arrived cold and, upon being re-fired, arrived lukewarm. The accompanying Foccacia self-destructed into a cloud of flour. Foccacia should be much more robust and able to withstand the rigors of dipping. Amidst all these shortcomings, however, the beer selection was outstanding, all from Indianapolis breweries.

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Barley Island: Bittersweet Belgian IPA, sugary sweet with hops; Decrepit Old Ale, malty sweet with hop flavors; Black Mystic Java Stout with Noble Black Majic coffee. Flat 12: Cuttlefish Cuvee, a special blend of Walkabout Pale features Indiana-grown passion fruit from Fruit Loop Acres and aging on Easley Winery barrels. The RAM: Rabbit Punch Irish Red with a bread-like character, a touch of caramel and slightly roasty finish with a hint of fruitiness. Limited release of Barrel-aged Big Red IPA, aged six months in a 1792 Ridgemont Reserve Bourbon Barrel where it was dry-hopped with a hefty Amarillo hop dose; Batch 1100: Monk Juice Belgian Tripel; Aries American Wheat; Afternoon Delight IPA (Only Downtown) Half Moon, Kokomo: a big March Madness Marzen Lager paired with Beef Stroganoff and potato latkes on the side.

MARCH 7-10

Battle of Belgium Free Beer Tasting at Kahn’s North Willow, 2342 W. 86th St., 6-8 p.m., 2289463

MARCH 7-31

BoomBozz Taphouse, recently opened at 2430 E. 146th St. , Carmel, is offering local and regional craft beers and “Tap It Tuesdays.” Upland will tap a special release keg every Tuesday in the month of March, $2 a pint. boombozztaphouse.com

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Barley Island, 639 Conner St., Noblesville, 8-9 p.m.: Diva event part of 2ndAnnual Diva Night in downtown Noblesville Sun King Brewing Co. 135 N. College Ave., 6-9 p.m. Tapping Ring of Dingle Irish stout, dark in color, light of body, thick creamy head, rich, roasty flavor with clean finish. Music by Whiskey Bent Valley Boys, releasing their new record at the tapping; food by Circle City Spuds. Hearthstone Coffee House & Pub, Fishers, Flat 12 Tap Night; hearthstonecoffee.com

MARCH 9

Great Fermentations, 5127 East 65th St., Friday Night Club, 5-7 p.m. GF’s ESB currently fermenting in five gallon batches with four different British yeasts shows how changing up yeast can impact the flavor of the beer. greatfermentations.com

MARCH 10

Girls’ Pint Out second anniversary celebration at Tomlinson Tap Room, from 5 p.m. Giveaways, toasts and other fun to celebrate the national craft beer organization for women interested in craft beer, founded in Indy in early 2010 and now with chapters in across the country, including Arizona, North Carolina and Texas.

MARCH 13

Oakleys Bistro, 1464 W. 86th St., 6 p.m. Signature Dinner features brews of Northern Europe. Jim Blockinger of Merchant du vin and Grant Curlow of World Class Beer discuss the various cultures and brewing histories of English, German and Belgian beers and their versatility in color, aroma, body and taste paired with appetizers and four courses. Reserve at chris@oakleysbistro.com If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.

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lets us reach an audience globally, which is amazing in its own way. NUVO: How has the show been received by artists? ANDREW FUNKE: I think we agree that everyone we’ve interviewed has done a great job. Some have more experience at it than others, but if you’re a performing artist on our show, you’ve likely spent countless hours of your life baring your soul on stage in front of complete strangers, so talking one-on-one is usually easy.

“Back Road Radio Show” preserves Indy Americana

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hile the reputation of radio as a place where cool lives (recently recalled in the days and nights chronicled in locally made Naptown Radio Wars), has mostly evaporated, there are a select few remaining radio stations – or in many cases, just individual shows — that still give the thrill of discovering new music and hearing tracks others stations won’t play. “The Back Road Radio Show,” brought to life by Andrew Funke and “Deacon” Tim Plunkett, is one of the regularly thoughtful and rocking programs heard locally. The pair, who started the show in 2009, focuses on an alt-country/roots/rock/Americana mix, heard on the eclectic Indianapolis station WITT (91.9 FM). Funke hosts the shows. Plunkett twists the dials. They started with interviews and music from local and regional musicians, and have branched out to grab a few national artists. The show recently added a second radio station, and has garnered a healthy fan base via the web for the archived shows. It’s a keenly produced, sonically crisp program — a trait not always found on shows that air on small, community-based stations. NUVO: What did you envision for the show when you were starting out? Long term or just a thing that would be fun to try? TIM PLUNKETT: The latter. The show was actually the brainchild of Scott “Cootie” Crabtree, a great local Americana musician and good friend of ours. In the beginning, we helped him build and record the show, but he had to back out after the first month due to personal reasons. We enjoyed doing the show so much we decided to keep it going. We just did what felt right and waited to see what happened. Our goals were pretty altruistic: have fun, make the show as kick ass as possible both sonically and contentwise, help out artists whose music we enjoy and let the show take us where it leads us. NUVO: You air on a couple radio stations, but also have built a web audience. PLUNKETT: We did put some thought into whether we wanted to be on radio-only or Web-only, and decided on both. There’s something indefinably cool about hearing your show over the airwaves while driving down the highway, but the Web presence

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NUVO: Are there artists that you think are ready to get more well-known, even if it is regionally instead of locally? PLUNKETT: Absolutely. Pokey LaFarge, DeeAnn Dominy, The Tillers, Cari Ray, Linda Lee, Will Scott, our friends Riely O’Connor and Molly B. Moon from South Bend.

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NUVO: Who have been some other favorites? PLUNKETT: Stockwell Road, Cootie Crabtree, Jethro Easyfields, Uncle John Potthast, Venetia Sekema, Gamblin’ Christmas, The Shelby County Sinners. Hell, we love all the artists we have on the show and we aren’t being diplomatic when we say that. It’s one of the criteria for being a guest – we have to dig your music. NUVO: What is your musical background? How do you guys work together? FUNKE: I grew up on a steady diet of classic rock from the ‘60s and ‘70s. As a kid, my parents listened to country and I hated it with a passion – I couldn’t be in the same room when Hee Haw was on. Oddly, as I got older, country and Americana started to become the only real, viable direction for me, and I found myself loving the very songs I detested years before. I still like rock and all other sorts of music from metal to a little hip-hop, but Americana is where it’s at for me these days. And yes, I now love watching Hee Haw, especially the early years. PLUNKETT: I grew up listening to The Beatles and pretty much everything else but country. When I was in high school I asked my parents for an 8-track digital recorder so I could record music with my friends. I started listening to all types of music after that, with special interest in the ways that older music was recorded. Back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, they didn’t have special recording equipment purchased at Guitar Center. It was all made using microphones, analog tape, and cutting lathes. Without knowing it, after researching old recording technology, I’d grown to love the music that was recorded with it and that started my love of Americana and roots music. NUVO: The show sounds so good. Where is the studio? PLUNKETT: This is one of my favorite questions. I notice that nearly everyone assumes the show is recorded in some extravagant studio with thousands of dollars of recording equipment inside. The

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show has always been recorded in my home studio – a small, sound-proofed spare bedroom we call our Studio Bunker. The key to getting a great recording is to have great equipment and a controllable recording environment. Some of the best recordings ever done were recorded in spaces smaller than ours. When artists come in to the studio they’re usually surprised at the comfort of the small room and I think the fact that it’s a bedroom and not a large fancy studio adds to the comfort level of the artist. It makes the interview feel that much more laid back. FUNKE: I think Tim and I are a good team because we each have our primary roles – I’m the host and he’s the producer. There’s also no ego involved with what we do. If Tim has an idea for me as host, I’ll listen to it and often times go with it, and vice-versa for the production work he oversees. It doesn’t hurt that he and I have been playing as a rhythm section – Tim on drums, me on bass – for almost a decade now. We’ve worked with each other so much at this point, we just know what the other guy’s gonna do.

PLUNKETT: Overall, the original music scene both in the state and in Indy is relatively small when compared to some other places, and the Americana scene is only a fraction of that. That being said, there’s some incredible music being made from South Bend to Indy to Madison — you just have to dig for it. It’s really no different than the nature of Indiana itself. Most outsiders see it as boring, and it certainly can be if you don’t try, but snoop around a little bit and you’ll be amazed by what you find. It could be better, though, and what it needs is for more folks to support artists making original music and the venues that feature them. In a city that’s trying so hard to become more cosmopolitan and international, it’s a shame to see great artists playing to empty rooms all the time. We’ve seen bands with albums in the Top 20 of the Americana chart play to two people on a Saturday night in Broad Ripple. That needs to change. We like to think we’re making a small impact with our show, but it’s only one outlet and we need a lot more help if things are going to improve.

NUVO: Who helps the show stay alive?

NUVO: Where would you like to see the show go? How might it evolve?

PLUNKETT: In terms of creating the show itself, it’s been just us since almost the very beginning. However, we couldn’t be on the air if not for some very kind underwriters, especially Locals Only. They’ve been with us from the start, and we’d have folded long ago without their support. Our stations, WITT and WRGF, have also been great to work with. They’ve been instrumental in helping us navigate the rules and regulations of community radio, yet have been flexible enough to let us create the show exactly the way we want to.

PLUNKETT: More regional and national acts live on the show, though keeping a local focus is still critically important, too. We’d also like to see the show get picked up by stations all around the country, like some kind of community radio Americana empire. We’ve also discussed promoting Americana shows around town, bringing in a regional or national act with a local act or two to open. The one thing that won’t change is that we’ll stay true to what we’ve been doing since we started — playing great music by great artists for great fans.

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“He’s by far the best musician in the band,” Leaman said. “And it’s always good when you can say that about your drummer.” The band explores a sweeping range of styles on the album, their lyrics conveying a Dylanesque wit. Lead track “Lonesome” is a sort of drunken sing-along with a loping groove and acoustic slide guitar. “These Days” is a Strokes-style short story of romantic complications told through forlorn vocals, an insistent bass pulse and sprightly guitar harmonies. The apparent single, “That Old Black Hole,” is a bouncy ode to existential angst.

There’s an elephant in my head, and I tiptoe around it There are eggshells on the floor, therefore I never touch the ground It’s like that old black hole, no matter how you try You set out each day never to arrive Work on the album project began with Leaman and McMicken both bringing their usual batches of 10 or 15 songs for consideration. But, as the sessions continued, they found themselves happier with pieces that developed more spontaneously in the studio. “If something comes easily and everybody’s immediately into it, there’s no reason to deny that,” Leaman said. “Some of the songs initially, where we thought ‘Well, clearly, this will make the record. Let’s work on this. Let’s give it some attention.’ When we sat back and looked at it, some of the songs without as much thought, they just felt better.” A clear example is the standout track “Warrior Man,” a neo-psychadelic anthem with more than a hint of T. Rex swagger. Its life began with a nonsense phrase Leaman started singing in the studio – “I am the ancient warrior man, and I hail from the ancient warrior land.” The band started fiddling with it during their free minutes, and within a week, it was on tape. “It sort of encapsulates the attitude of the record,” Leaman says. “The songs that are on the record are pretty much the ones that were the most fun to record, and hopefully that translates.”

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Gambo Stephan Vohito, better known as DJ Stephan, is much more than a DJ. He’s part of a select few who use the medium in a different way, crafting mixes that preserve and celebrate cultural traditions, using music as a tool to educate and enlighten. Part cultural ambassador and part diplomat, Stephan has united Indiana’s African population through music and dance for over a decade. That is no easy task. Africa is the second largest continent on Earth and perhaps the most diverse; home to more than 50 recognized sovereign states, there are well over 1,000 languages spoken within its borders. Developing a working knowledge of the continent’s music en masse, while staying up to date with developing trends, is a task of monumental proportions. But Stephan is up for that challenge, which he tackles it with apparent ease. I visited the DJ at his weekly Saturday night African music party at FSA (a nightclub located on the city’s Westside) and I was impressed with his ability to swiftly cycle through a dizzying variety of styles. From the upbeat tempos of Ghanian azonto to the sensuous sounds of Congolese soukous, Stephan kept the diverse crowd glued to the dance floor without ever missing a beat. “That has been my strength, to be able to unite everybody,” he said to me. “I see myself as a bridge for African music.” A native of the Central African Republic (CAR) Stephan credits his homeland for providing him with an open musical mind. Located in the heart of Africa, CAR is a crossroads for many cultural influences. “Coming from Central African Republic, we don’t have a dominant music style,” he said. “Some African countries have a very dominant style, like coupé-décalé in the Ivory Coast. But we don’t have a dominant music, so I learned to play everything.” Stephan’s passion for music began as a teenager in CAR. “I used to always watch Yo! MTV Raps, I stayed up to date with all the American music,” he said. Fueled by his love for hip-hop, Stephan began using cassette tapes to DJ parties for family and friends. But it wasn’t until he arrived in America that he began to take DJing seriously. Stephan emigrated to the United States in 1994 to attend college. It was during his time as a student at IUPUI that he began to notice a need for African music DJs in Indianapolis. “A lot of Africans don’t have access to African music when they come here. There was a demand for it and that pushed me into it,” he reflected. Since then Stephan has become an important figure in the cultural life of Indy’s African community, providing music for a

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Thursday ALT-COUNTRY ELLIOTT BROOD WITH THE PACK AD White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $10, 21+ Three-piece alt-country rockers from Toronto by way of Windsor, Ont., play “death country,” which translates to lots and lots of murder ballads. They’re known for their floor-stompingly crazy live shows, obsessive fan base and concert sing-alongs (three things that seem to go hand-in-hand) One part Titus Andronicus, two parts Ha Ha Tonka, all parts awesome, Elliott Brood digs Johnny Cash and Neil Young, and it shows. They’ll play with the Pack AD, Agarage rock band from Vancouver, four albums into a deal with Mint Records. METAL THE FACELESS, GOATWHORE Emerson Theatre, 4630 E. 10th St. $16 advance, $18 door, 6 p.m., all-ages Punish your eardrums with the black metal of

SOUNDCHECK Goatwhore at the Emerson. About to release Blood for the Master, the band was formed by singer Sammy Duet after the breakup of his previous band Acid Bath. They’ll be joined by Dying Fetus, the Faceless, Volumes and Last Chance to Reason.

Friday GOSPEL SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR Palladium at the Centre for the Performing Arts 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages There are 52 voices in this South African choir, which features dancing, colorful costumes, a cappella numbers, a full band and songs in six of South Africa’s 11 official languages. Look online for an interview with Soweto Choir members at nuvo.net. EDM MAGNETIC ALBUM RELEASE SHOW The Mousetrap 5565 N. Keystone Avenue 9 p.m., $3, 21+ You can make the bumping grooves and tight bass from Magnetic yours in live and recorded versions at this album release show. They’ll be releasing their debut album at this show, accompanied by Cosby Sweater (DJ Embryo and Nick Gerlach of The Twin Cats), Psynapse vs. Hollowpoint and Ed Trauma vs. DJ Ganzarelli. New, fresh dance music is never a bad thing. Get a solid doses from these performers Friday at the ‘Trap. SINGER-SONGWRITER KATIE HERZIG, ANDY DAVIS Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 7:30 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door, 21+ Grammy nominated singer-songwrtier Katie Herzig was named by WTTS Program Director Brad Holtz as one of his favorite new up-and-coming acts. “[[She’s] a very gifted writer, musician and performer who sounds great on the radio and on stage,” he said. After touring with successful acts like low-key indie rockers The Fray, Herzig is striking out on her own, having overcome her stage fright that once kept her confined as a backup singer. She’s touring with Louisiana’s Andy Davis. FOLK POP THE HEAD AND THE HEART Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 8 p.m., $18 (sold out), 21+ Huge folk breakout stars of the Head and the Heart hail from Seattle, but you’ve been able to hear them all over the world thanks to the massive success of their self-titled album. Sub Pop remastered the album after a bidding war between labels, and re-released it in 2011. They’re riding the tide of appreciation for resonant indie folk

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Saturday ROCK THE FLYING EYES, THE KEMPS The Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois 7 p.m., $5 21+ It’s a Pre-Punk Rock Night show with two bands. The Kemps play raw, weird rock and are currently set up with local grunge label GloryHole. The Flying Eyes are out of Baltimore, where they make psychedelic blues rock. Their name comes from a 1962 science fiction novel about disembodied eyes; they’ll be stopping by SXSW later this month. The band has actually been signed to small German label Trip in Time/World in Sound Records for years, releasing two records and tour ing Europe multiple times. BHANGRA BOLLYWOOD BHANGRA Madame Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave. 10 p.m., $10, 21+ Celebrate the Hindu holiday Holi, the Festival of Colors. DJ Kyle Long (see his column on page 29) will Bollywood dance mixes and Urban Desi tracks. Bollywood Bhangras are always a ridiculously good time. Kick off the spring by celebrating the most colorful holiday in the world with the Cultural Cannibals.

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Murderers in love

Plus, singing while naked Newspapers in Sweden reported in January that two of the country’s most heinous murderers apparently fell in love with each other behind the locked doors of their psychiatric institution and, following a 26-day Internet-chat “courtship,” have decided to marry. Mr. Isakin Jonsson (“the Skara Cannibal”) was convicted of killing, decapitating and eating his girlfriend, and Michelle Gustafsson (“the Vampire Woman”) was convicted of killing a father of four and drinking his blood. Said the lovestruck Jonsson (certainly truthfully), to the newspaper Expressen, “I have never met anyone like (Michelle).” The pair will almost certainly remain locked up forever, but Gustafsson, on the Internet, wrote that she hopes they will be released, to live together and “have dogs and pursue our hobbies, piercing and tattoos.”

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• In December, music teacher Kevin Gausepohl, 37, was charged in Tacoma, Wash., Municipal Court with communicating with a minor for immoral purposes, allegedly convincing a 17-year-old female student that she could sing better if she tried

it naked. Gausepohl later told an investigator of his excitement about experimenting at the “human participant level” to determine how sexual arousal affects vocal range. The girl complied with “some of” Gausepohl’s requests, but finally balked and turned him in. • Thinking Outside the Box: (1) Rock Dagenais, 26, pleaded guilty recently to weapons charges after creating a siege by bringing a knife, a sawed-off rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition to a Quebec elementary school. He eventually surrendered peacefully and said he was only trying to send the kids a message not to disrespect each other by bullying. (2) Daniel Whitaker has been hospitalized in Indianapolis ever since, in November, he drove up the steps of the Indiana War Memorial with a gun, gasoline and an American flag, and set the steps on fire. In an interview in December, he told WRTV that he was only trying to get everyone’s attention so they would think of Jesus Christ and “love each other.” • Ghosts in the News: (1) Michael West, 41, of Fond du Lac, Wis., at first said his wife hurt herself by falling, but finally acknowledged that she was attacked -- but by ghosts, not by him. (He was charged, anyway, in January.) (2) Anthony Spicer, 29, was sentenced in January in Cincinnati after being discovered at an abandoned school among copper pipes that had been cut. He denied prosecutors’ assertions that he was collecting scrap metal -- because he said he was actually looking for ghosts, since the school “is supposed to be haunted.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Numerous websites on the Internet allege that Greek philosopher Plato made this statement, which I regard as highly unlikely. But in any case, the thought itself has some merit. And in accordance with your current astrological omens, I will make it your motto for the week. This is an excellent time to learn more about and become closer to the people you care for, and nothing would help you accomplish that better than getting together for intensive interludes of fooling around and messing around and horsing around.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves,” said Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. His advice might be just what you need to hear right now, Libra. Have you struggled, mostly fruitlessly, to change a stagnant situation that has resisted your best efforts? Is there a locked door you’ve been banging on, to no avail? If so, I invite you to redirect your attention. Reclaim the energy you have been expending on closed-down people and moldering systems. Instead, work on the unfinished beauty of what lies closest at hand: yourself. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In this passage from Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins provides a hot tip you should keep in mind. “There are essential and inessential insanities. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety -- garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses on e instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo.” I’ll add this, Scorpio: Be crazily wise and wisely crazy in the coming weeks. It will be healthy for you. Honor the wild ideas that bring you joy and the odd desires that remind you of your core truths. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I don’t think you will need literal medicine this week. Your physical vigor should be goottd. But I’m hoping you will seek out some spirit medicine -- healing agents that fortify the secret and subtle parts of your psyche. Where do you find spirit medicine? Well, the search itself will provide the initial dose. Here are some further ideas: Expos e yourself to stirring art and music and films; have conversations with empathic friends and the spirits of dead loved ones; spend time in the presence of a natural wonder; fantasize about a thrilling adventure you will have one day; and imagine who you want to be three years from now. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Each of us is the star of our own movie. There are a few other lead and supporting actors who round out the cast, but everyone else in the world is an extra. Now and then, though, people whom we regard as minor characters suddenly rise to prominence and play a pivotal role in our unfolding drama. I expect this phenomenon is now occurring or will soon occur for you, Capricorn. So please be willing to depart from the script. Open yourself to the possibility of improvisation. People who have been playing bit parts may have more to contribute than you imagine. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The “cocktail party effect” refers to your ability to hear your name being spoken while in the midst of a social gathering’s cacophony. This is an example of an important practice, which is how to discern truly meaningful signals embedded in the noise of all the irrelevant information that surrounds you. You should be especially skilled at doing this in the coming weeks, Aquarius -- and it will be crucial that you make abundant use of you r skill. As you navigate your way through the clutter of symbols and the overload of data, be alert for the few key messages that are highly useful. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Shunryu Suzuki was a Zen master whose books helped popularize Zen Buddhism in America. A student once asked him, “How much ego do you need?” His austere reply was “Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.” While I sympathize with the value of humility, I wouldn’t go quite that far. I think that a slightly heftier ego, if offered up as a work of art, can be a gift to the world. What do you think, Pisces? How much ego is good? To what degree can you create your ego so that it’s a beautiful and dynamic source of power for you and an inspiration for other people rather than a greedy, needy parasite that distorts the truth? This is an excellent time to ruminate on such matters.

Homework: Name your greatest unnecessary taboo and how you would violate it if it didn’t hurt anyone. FreeWillAstrology.com.

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