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What’s in the water? Katja Krasnovsky looks into the coal ash ponds by the Harding Street power plant — and finds a lot of potentially polluted groundwater. The neighborhood of Sunshine Gardens, just south of the plant, could be threatened.
Danger in the wells...............................P.09
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The 2016 legislative session is over and state lawmakers have returned to their districts for the year. So what did they do? What can Hoosiers look forward to (or dread) when legislation becomes law in July? In this issue we highlight some of the legislation that passed and some bills that didn’t pass but probably should have.
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Over 200 years of Indiana’s history comes alive in an exhibit at the Indiana State Museum. Lea DeLaria — the butch queen of comedy, Broadway and TV — is coming to Indy to perform jazz renditions of David Bowie songs. And a Seattle author will give a talk on how to create a positive social change that can last.
The State Museum’s 200 years............. P.15 Lea DeLaria............................................P.18 Social change....................................... P.17 SCREENS Ed Johnson-Ott reviews Hello, My Name Is Doris...................P.20
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Recapping the 2016 session..................P.06 VOICES Krull on Trump’s furies...........................P.04 Marcus on qualities of a local mayor....P.05 Ask Renee..............................................P.08 Savage Love......................................... P. 35
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Just in time for St. Paddy’s day, we hit The Golden Ace — a legendary Irish bar that’s been serving up stout since just after the end of Prohibition. If you like your ales with a side of history, we’ve got some suggestions for a few other iconic watering holes to visit in Indy.
The Golden Ace.....................................P.22 Other historic bars.................................P.22
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The music section is all about duos this week. On pages 28 and 29, we sit down with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Titus Andronicus’ Patrick Stickles before their tour stop together at The Bluebird on Wednesday. Then, after a wild weekend in Chicago, Kyle and Ed take on two sides of Trump, plus a side of music censorship. We also interview delightful musical pairs The Indigo Girls and Spissy. Tired of all the twosomes? Flip to Soundcheck for St. Paddy’s Day listings galore.
Finn and Stickles...................................P.28 Indigo Girls............................................P.28 Kyle and Ed on the First Amendment....P.32
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Not that Trump’s followers need much encouragement. At a rally in Illinois last fall, they harassed and pushed an older black woman who chose to read a book as a silent protest while Trump spoke. One suspects the word “uppity” is never far from their lips, along with other, even less savory terms. It would be comforting to blame all bigots were as hopped-up and happy this on Donald Trump, but others have as high school students whose team stoked the same fires. just had won the big game. They all said In the 1960s, George Wallace mockvariations of the same thing. ingly encouraged civil rights and Guess we showed them. anti-war demonstrators at his rallies Some of Republican presidential to lie down in front of his limousine so candidate Donald Trump’s recent rallies he could run over them. The Dixiecrats have turned violent. who followed him convulsed themThis development was as predictable selves with laughter when Wallace said as the sun setting at the end of a day. As that. David Duke’s endorsement and white Twenty-some years ago, when Pat supremacists’ embrace of Trump’s canBuchanan mounted a primary chaldidacy demonstrates, the billionaire’s lenge to President George W. Bush, he message is different from theirs only in delivered a speech to the GOP convention. Not long before, riots had torn apart Los Angeles following the It would be comforting to blame all beating of a black man by police there. Buchanan’s this on Donald Trump, but others solution to the problems caused by the exceshave stoked the same fires. sive use of police force against African-Americans was, you guessed it, that it is delivered with a much bigger to have police use even more force. microphone. The difference between Trump and Be strong. those demagogues is that Duke, Wallace Don’t be politically correct. and Buchanan never came close to getMake America great again. ting a major party’s presidential nomiTrump and his devotees want to pin nation. Trump is the odds-on favorite to responsibility for the violence that be the GOP’s candidate. follows him on the protesters who are Republicans like to call themselves being beaten. That’s like the swinging the party of Lincoln. fist blaming the battered head for the The place where Trump supporters impact of a punch. bullied a black woman for silently readThe truth is Trump has flirted with ing a book while their leader spoke was these dark furies all along. He’s teased Springfield, Illinois. the ugliness that lies beneath the That’s the home and final resting surface of the American experience by place of Abraham Lincoln, the Great encouraging followers to punch protest- Emancipator. ers in the face and offering to pay the I doubt Donald Trump and his followlegal fees of Trump supporters who take ers grasped the irony. things into their own hands. Or, for that matter, the tragedy. n
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ears ago, I covered a Ku Klux Klan rally that turned violent. It was not long after David Duke, the Klan leader, had claimed the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Louisiana and used that as a springboard to run for president in the GOP primaries. At the time, the Klan and other white supremacists had adopted a strategy of petitioning state and local governments to hold rallies on Statehouse and courthouse grounds. When public officials pushed back, the Klansmen filed lawsuits and won. They also received a lot of free media, which made it easier for them to lure every bigot within 300 miles to their rallies. The rally I covered took place on the west side of the Indiana Statehouse. The program was basic. A couple of Klan leaders shouted phrases designed to speak to their followers’ burnished resentments. Be strong in a country gone weak. Don’t let the forces of “polite” society silence you. Make America great again. There were protesters at the rally. They carried signs saying everyone was equal. They chanted “love, not hate” over and over again. At some point, the bigots’ mood shifted from ugly to violent and the crowd transformed itself into a mob. The mob moved like a snake, chasing and pummeling protesters and news photographers, pinning them against the walls of a state government office building until police could restore order. Afterward, I did hurried interviews with Klan followers as police dispersed the crowd that had become a mob. The
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has ever been elected governor of the state. Mayors who became legislators over the past 200 years have been few, although I do not have the numbers. If Indiana governors and legislators have not experienced leading a city, are they likely to understand the diverse and complex problems of our many localities? In addition, can those who revere the agricultural past, and persist in believing in the glory of those times, function successfully in the economy that has characterized Indiana for the past 100 years? As they left the Statehouse last week, legislators once again failed to resolve pressing needs of the state, while embarrassing us in the eyes of the world, and proving their resistance to modern life. They failed to provide a stable funding source for our many infrastructure needs. They did manage a patchwork, temporary fix for some local road and bridge projects. If Indiana governors and legislators However, they failed to consider the status of have not experienced leading a city, our water and seware they likely to understand the age systems, our local airports, and our 21st diverse and complex problems of Century communicaour many localities? tion needs. They also voted to increase public intoxication in state parks while deferring minimal protection for our state forests. was his pragmatic vision of a better Talk to them — these neighbors of community in a more inclusive society. ours — and they’ll tell you about the Long after the warm memories and short session, the election year, and the funny stories of the evening fade, Gosneed to compromise. If we doubled the hen residents will have the Allan Kauffman “Good for Goshen” Award to reflect length of the session, if we had no elections, and they were not subjected to his civic achievements and Kauffman the bullying of the majority caucus, still Park to enjoy his enduring legacy. nothing would be accomplished. On the same day, the Indiana General The predominant belief of the LegisAssembly was irresponsibly bringing its latest session to a close — disgracing and lature is the irreverent motto, “Ain’t God good to Indiana?” What’s good about disappointing the people of Indiana. Indiana more often is found in our city To understand the Legislature, let’s take a moment to consider that, accord- halls than in the corridors of the Statehouse. n ing to my research, no Hoosier mayor ast Thursday, the people of Goshen gathered to celebrate the nearly 18 years Allan Kauffman spent as mayor. It was a joyous occasion recognizing a humble man of honor. There may not be a more demanding job than mayor of an Indiana city. Starved of revenue and authority by an anti-urban state legislature, yet bearing all the responsibilities of maintaining a civil city, a Hoosier mayor is hardpressed to sustain ongoing approval by the electorate. Allan Kauffman achieved that approval as a city council member for 13 years before his appointment as mayor in 1997. He then was elected and reelected mayor four times. Respected statewide, Kauffman focused, as mayors must, on the daily demands of streets, sanitation, and safety. But ever-present
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nother legislative session is in the record books. The 2016 General Assembly adjourned for the year last week — a few days earlier than the legal end date. So what did they do? Depending on whom you ask the legislature either did plenty or not nearly enough. Only a fraction of the bills proposed got a hearing and fewer still made it out to reach the governor’s desk. Here are a few that caught our attention, for better or for worse.
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does not raise taxes for Hoosiers, but acquires money from the state’s budgeting reserves. This plan takes a penny and a half of gasoline sales tax for funding. The bill will also create a task force designed to come up with a long-term road funding plan, members chosen by the governed and INDOT. A main concern for
Plan and Bosma’s high school scholarship program.
HB 1002 – Education This bill gives future teachers scholarship money for college. Future educators could have their higher education paid in its entirety by the state, providing incentive for a next generation of teachers to enter the proNearly $1 billion will be allocated toward fession. The bill sets aside $7,500 per improving Indiana roads (state and local) year for four years for eligible candiover the next two years. dates. No more than 200 students can be eligible for the scholarship per year, and no student can those who opposed the bill in legislation receive more than $30,000 dollars total. is that the bill is a short-term solution to The program begins in 2017, and the bill an ongoing, long-term problem. This bill includes compromised funding for other provides specific criteria for eligibility. Ten million dollars has been set aside in programs, like Pence’s Regional Cities
the bill for this program. Indiana State Board of Education member Gordon Hendry, a Democrat who represents the seventh congressional district in Indianapolis, says the bill is “one of the most pro-teacher pieces of legislation to pass out of the Indiana General Assembly in the past decade.” HB 1012 – Developmental disability card & bracelet This bill allows the State Department of Health to develop and establish an identification card and a bracelet for Hoosiers medically diagnosed with a developmental disability, including those with autism spectrum disorder. The ID cards and bracelets would be made available for a fee and information provided to the health department on card applications would be confidential. Rep. Ed Koch (R-Bedford) presented the need for the cards as a way for law
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enforcement situations, retail situations and other scenarios subject to potential misunderstanding to be diffused. While the need for public awareness on developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorder is apparent, it is unclear how an ID card would help that awareness. The burden of awareness is placed on the cardholder and not those in the public who would encounter that individual. Would people who encounter someone with a card understand what exactly that means or understand how a person’s disorder factors into the given scenario? Will law enforcement be trained on how to look for or ask for the ID cards in proper situations? The bill does not specify when and how the cards and/or bracelets could be or should be used. HB 1019 – Police body cameras This bill aims to restrict public records requests for law enforcement recordings, and requires a court order to release recorded police body camera video. This bill creates a strict procedure for the consideration of releasing law enforcement videos. The bill “specifies the procedure to obtain a court order for the release of a law enforcement recording, and requires a court to expedite the proceedings,” thus decreasing public access to these recordings. In order to obtain a recording, the request must include the date, location and time of recording, and the name of one person other than the officer involved in the incident. Basically, this bill adds an unnecessary process of legalities in order for an organization or person to obtain law enforcement recordings, which disincentives people from wanting to request a recording. HB 1053 – Regulation of packaging materials (plastic bags ban) This legislation prohibits local governments from restricting the use of singleuse plastic bags through taxes or bans. Some cities, towns and counties have passed policies that encourage businesses and residents to use more environmentally friendly methods of carrying items, especially food items. Rep. Ron Bacon (RChandler) presented the bill as something that is a detriment to the bag manufacturers and only glossed over the issue of “home rule” or rather local government control. Environmentalists are concerned about the impact that such a prohibition would have on communities, especially those who can’t afford or enforce universal recycling programs. More disturbing, however, is the heavy-handed state governmental response that it knows more of what is important to communities than the communities themselves.
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HB 1337 – Abortion This bill prohibits women from seeking an abortion if they learn that their fetus has genetic abnormalities. It also holds abortion providers responsible for burying or cremating fetal remains. The bill makes the donation of fetal tissue a felony. Planned Parenthood issued a statement saying that the legislation is “particularly cruel in that it’s designed to shame and demean a woman who is facing tragic circumstances with a lethal fetal anomaly.” This bill will make Indiana only the second state in the nation to ban abortion based on fetal abnormalities. Rep. Sean Eberhart, Republican, has said this is “a perfect example a bunch of middle-aged guys sitting in this room
tion voter to fill in one box and vote for every eligible candidate affiliated with that party. This legislation is the beginning of that landslide. Voters will still be able to vote for the entire slate of their respective party, except for local offices where more than one individual can be elected. For instance, a city or town council may have three available at-large seats. Each party will have 3 candidates for a total of six people on the ballot and the three with the most votes are elected. With this new legislation a voter will have to choose three individual candidates instead of their straight ticket vote counting the three candidates from his or her party. The measure passed both chambers along party lines with a few Republicans voting joining Democrats in voting against it. The biggest The fact that this practically “noobstacle will come brainer” bill didn’t pass should give in educating the public on the new Hoosiers good insight into the current rules. Certain races could end in state of our General Assembly. different-than-expected results if too many straight ticket making decisions about what we think voters forget to vote in those multicandiis best for women. We need to quit predate races. tending we know what’s best for women and their health care needs.” Take note SB 109 – Hunting matters (legalized of this quote, HB 1337 supporters. Take canned hunting) note. It has taken a few years, but the Legislature was finally able to pass a bill legalHB 1386 – Various alcohol, tobacco and izing fenced hunting in Indiana. The bill e-liquid matters takes care of four facilities in the state This bill is another example of state that already had fenced hunting operagovernment versus local government. tions and ignored the advice of multiple The bill includes many things including groups ranging from environmentalists allowing certain retailers to sell booze to hunters themselves. Those opposed the day of the Indianapolis 500. But the say fenced hunting preserves violate the problem with the bill lies in the language principle of “fair chase” and say such fathat grants an alcohol permit to a decilities do nothing to assist in the state’s velopment project at the Indiana Dunes wildlife management initiatives. Most of State Park. The proposal was denied on Indiana’s hunting laws were created for the local level due to public outcry. Local animal control and not business opporresidents didn’t want alcohol sold and tunities. Another concern is how fenced served in the park, so project managers hunting facilities will affect the health took their case to the state for a different of Indiana’s wildlife. Although the Board outcome. As a result, public imput on alof Animal Health will have oversight of cohol service in state parks is completely the facilities, there is still a concern of captive animals escaping and potentially eliminated. As the Hoosier Environmeninfecting wildlife with disease. The ethital Council says, “[The Department of Natural Resources] DNR should be in the cal and environmental questions remain as the state allows a few folks to make a business of protecting our state parks buck or two. — not serving the economic interests of private developers.” SB 61 – Voting matters (straight ticket except at-large seats) This legislation puts a new provision in place for straight ticket voters. Some legislators have tried for some time to eliminates the ability for a general elec-
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ment statutes to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and ancestry.” The fact that this practically “no-brainer” bill didn’t pass should give Hoosiers good insight into the current state of our General Assembly. SB 208 – Clean Power Plan It seems that major environmental bills were completely shut down by the Legislature this 2016 session. This bill would have required the implementation of the Clean Power Plan, something that the state has been needing to do. This bill would have also established the Clean Power Plan Committee, dedicated to the issue of clean power in Indiana. It would have required the state to develop a detailed plan for submission to the EPA, so that Indiana could get on track with federal guidelines and regulations regarding the environment. The state has a legal responsibility to devise a Clean Power Plan in accordance with the EPA, and by not passing this bill, the state is ignoring that responsibility. SB 209/SB 258/HB 1098/ HB 1158 – Medical marijauna; cannabidiol for treatment of seizures; cannabis oil for medical treatment The good news is there were more bills this year proposed to try to bring cannabis and marijuana to the healthcare conversation than ever before. As we learn more and more about cannabis and its properties, more people are beginning to see the potential for various types of medical treatment. (Let’s take the little victories as we can get them.) Unfortunately none of these bills made it out of committee. Hopefully they will come back next year with a new Legislature to hear them. SB 322 – Repeal of marriage language restricting marriage to one man and one woman Yet another “no-brainer” bill that never made it out of committee. The U.S. Supreme Court has already made marriage equality a reality for the entire country. By keeping the language in Indiana Code as stating marriage is exclusive “between one man and one woman” is an insult to same sex couples across the state and a public statement of what our Legislature really thinks of the federal judicial system. n
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disposal by home self-injectors is not regulated in Indiana, which means, in theory, your pharmacist is correct. However, in an effort to help create a safe environment for the hardworking people who sort our trash and recycling, I encourage you to use an approved container and dispose of your needles and sharps with a collection program. According to the IN.gov Household Needles and Sharps page, “People exposed to sharps face not only the risk of a painful stick, but also the risk of contracting a life-altering disease such as HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis B or C.” You may know that your needles won’t cause such an illness, but imagine being the person on the other end and not knowing. You should do your part to create a safe working environment and peace of mind for the people who do our dirty work. The web site includes a list of Sharps Collection Programs in Indiana. All Marsh stores with pharmacies hold annual Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet events when they will accept noncontrolled, nonhazardous medications and
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when consumers replace bulbs with CFLs in closets and bathrooms where they don’t spend much time, they are actually using more power turning them on and off for brief periods of time. As if the environmental impact wasn’t enough, that’s strike two for me.” So: No to recycling incandescent and CFL bulbs — and for now it would be wise to replace them with LEDs. PIECE OUT, RENEE
Put a cork in it sharps containers. The next one is April 29 – May 2. If collecting your needles takes up too much space in your house, check out the “Insulin Syringe Needle Clipper” on amazon.com. It can hold more than 1,000 needle tips which is twice as many as the typical red box. PIECE OUT, RENEE
CFL, no — LED, yes
Q: Can CFLs be recycled? — ANDY
A: Andy, I know I’ve mentioned CFLs as a more
efficient option to incandescent bulbs, but there are a couple of drawbacks. For starters, CFLs are not only NOT RECYCLABLE, they actually contain mercury which is hazardous and must be taken to a ToxDrop or Household Hazardous Waste collection to be disposed of properly. If a CFL is ever broken in your home, you should carefully follow cleanup and disposal directions. A trusted source shed a little light on drawback number two for me: “[I]t’s a farce that these bulbs result in energy savings to any real degree. Any first year electrical student can prove that unless you are leaving the lights on for extended periods then these actually use more energy than incandescent bulbs. How does that work, you ask? Fluorescent bulbs (and some other industrials) are started with a ballast. The ballast actually uses more energy until it warms up and then the power curve levels off. At this point there is less energy consumption but you have to leave the bulb on to average the curve back below the incandescent power curve, which is a flat line. The incandescent uses the same amount of power, albeit less efficiently, from the first light until you turn it off. So,
Q: Are wine corks recyclable? — ANNETTE
A: Annette, I consulted my good friends
Chardon-nee and Caber-nee to answer this Ask Renee. And guess what? Wine corks are recyclable! You can take corks to the wine department of a Whole Foods Market for recycling. Or, if you have a lot, Yemm & Hart in Missouri is now purchasing wine corks for recycling (yemmhart. com). They pay 50 cents per pound and the minimum they will accept for payment is 15 pounds (about 1,500) corks — so one box is enough for a new bottle! If you are associated with a wine-serving restaurant (or if you are a member of my book club), you’d be crazy not to collect them. I personally prefer twist-off or box wines myself. Box wines are especially green because they eliminate the cork and glass bottle, and they use less fuel to transport because they are lighter. PIECE OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
How Indy’s coal ash ponds can pollute neighborhood wells: THE STORY OF SUNSHINE GARDENS NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 03.16.16 - 03.23.16 // COVER STORY 9
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OFF OF HIGHWAY 37 LIES THE SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD OF SUNSHINE GARDENS.
HOME TO APPROXIMATELY 200 DWELLINGS, THE FOLKS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD SEEM TO LEAD A FAIRLY SIMPLE LIFE — THERE ARE EVEN A FEW FARMS WHERE ANIMALS GRAZE IN MUDDY PASTURES. There are one or two run down homes that look abandoned, but there are also homes that are well cared for. It’s a working-class neighborhood with narrow roads, surrounded by truck stops, the 465 Interstate and the White River. The view as one gazes up is filled with smoke and a skyline of coal-ash mountains overlooks the houses off of Thompson Road. An Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) plant lies just north of the Sunshine Gardens neighborhood on Harding Street. Until recently, that plant burned coal — and the site includes eight coal ash lagoons that have been dug into the ground.
FIND OUT MORE The Sierra Club and the Hoosier Environmental Council will be holding screenings of Coal Ash Stories, to help inform and educate the community about the pollution and how they are able to get involved. April 8, 7 p.m. Cross and Crown Lutheran Church April 15, 7 p.m. Shalom Mennonite Church
“When we say the area is all sand BY KATJA KRASNOVSKY ‘coal ash pond’ or and gravel, which editors@nuvo.net ‘lagoon,’ we are means that the not fully informing groundwater and PHOTOS BY ERNIE MILLS people about the White River water dangers,” says freely mix back Indiana’s “Beyond and forth, allowing Coal” Campaign Representative for pollution to spread. the Sierra Club, Jodi Perras. “These are As for the one lagoon with the liner? open pits and dumps where power According to Tim Maloney, the senior plants dump millions of pounds of toxic policy director for the Hoosier Environmaterials every year. Most have no lining mental Council, it’s lined with clay, which to separate the toxic materials from the isn’t considered the best technology. (It’s groundwater below.” too easily cracked by weather changes or According to Perras, the nation’s coal seismic activity.) Maloney contends that plants produce 140 million tons of coal a composite liner would be the better ash pollution annually. The toxic byoption because it’s made of two parts: product that is left over after the coal is heavy plastic and compacted soil. burned and dumped in the backyards of The lagoons are sitting directly on top power plants across the nation into open of the aquifer that runs through all of pits and lagoons. the water of the White River. The aquifer Indiana has more coal ash pits than extends south into the Sunshine Gardens any other state. neighborhood’s well water, which goes “Because of lax oversight and minimal into that same aquifer that the lagoons regulation in the past, Indiana has record- are on. ed 10 known instances of groundwater Nearby groundwater is also a source of contamination from leaking coal ash ladrinking water for the entire city. Accordgoons, and three spills of coal ash sludge ing to Perras, the Citizens Water wellinto Indiana waterways,” Perras says. fields are only a few miles from the ash The Harding Street plant makes 11 ponds. A large flood could wash coal ash cases in Indiana to date. pollutants into surrounding neighborhoods and the wellfield protection area, which is designed to protect groundwaLAGOONS ter that supplies drinking water throughWITHOUT LINERS out the city. Seven of the eight Harding Street “It’s not only going to affect our little lagoons have no liners at all. The soil in neighborhood, but (it has) the potential
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to affect a lot of people if it gets into that aquifer,” says Stella Harper, one of the neighbors in Sunshine Gardens. Harper has been a resident of Sunshine Gardens for 58 years. But it wasn’t until just last year when the Sierra Club approached the neighborhood that she realized her water supply could be in danger. “What kind of effects will it have? What diseases can it bring on? It seems that every time you turn around, somebody has cancer,” Harper said. “Do I know that it could be a factor in it? No. But it makes you wonder … Who wants to take a chance with it?” According to Harper, some of the people in the neighborhood have had their wells tested and found high levels of boron.
“YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE STUFF AWAY FROM WATER” Maloney explains the process: When coal ash comes into contact with water, the ash leaches out dangerous levels of toxic substances, which are being found in the drinking water in that area of town. “It’s not really rocket science what you have to do here,” Maloney says. “You have to keep the stuff away from water.” “The safety and drinking water of Indianapolis families is threatened by this irresponsible coal ash dumping, and we have called on local and state >>>
<<< officials to ensure that Indianapolis residents are protected from a Dan River-like disaster,” Perras adds. (The Dan River was contaminated by a coal ash spill from a closed Duke Energy plant in North Carolina in 2014.) According to Harper, she and 95 percent of the neighborhood drink strictly just bottled water. “We don’t even give the water to our animals,” Harper says. Perras says that coal ash contains mercury, lead, arsenic, and other contaminants that can endanger the health of developing children. Some of the public health hazards include increased risk of cancer, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, birth defects, reproductive failure, asthma, and other illnesses. “Living near a wet coal ash storage pond is significantly more dangerous than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, according to a risk assessment done by the EPA,” Perras said. “In fact, people living within one mile of unlined coal ash ponds can have a one in 50 risk of cancer — more than 2,000 times higher than what the EPA considers acceptable.” Back in the ’80s there were concerns about the industrial contaminants getting into the groundwater. The Marion County Health Department put in place an ordinance that required lagoon operators to monitor the groundwater in their facilities. IPL installed wells, which allowed them to take water samples that could be sent to a lab for tests. No problems with volatile organics were found. But while this was happening, the Health Department sent all the lagoon owners a questionnaire about their sam-
COAL ASH CONTAINS MERCURY, LEAD, ARSENIC, AND OTHER CONTAMINANTS. pling and IPL reported back that they were finding some high levels of arsenic, boron, mercury and other substances that were well above the background levels and the mercury and arsenic levels were well above the level of the natural drinking water standards. Those substances also happen to be very commonly found in coal ash. “Historically, with IPL’s own information, there was evidence of contamination underneath their lagoons,” Maloney said. According to Perras, there’s no knowledge of any testing that was done after the mid-1980s on the groundwater under the ash ponds. In 2014, the Health Department was doing routine water sampling in Sunshine Gardens — testing for bacteria
PINES INDIANA The Sunshine Gardens neighborhood isn’t the only neighborhood in Indiana to suffer from groundwater contamination. The Pines neighborhood in Northwest Indiana lies near the Dunes National Lakeshore in Porter County. Pines is home to approximately 800 people — and groundwater contamination thanks to the toxins in coal ash. In a 2004 article from The Times of Northwest Indiana (“Pines residents fight for safe water”), Brendan O’Shaughnessy writes that “The water looked like iced tea and smelled like rotten eggs.” According to O’Shaughnessy, the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCO) had been disposing of fly ash in a nearby landfill for the past two decades, meaning that the residents of Pines had been drinking contaminated water for over a decade. Some of the neighbors were beginning to question if their children’s disabilities had been caused by the water expectant mothers drank while pregnant. High levels of boron, arsenic, mercury, etc. have been know to cause birth defects, cancer, and other harmful diseases. The Pines neighborhood was even considered as a Superfund site, under the purview of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), a U.S. federal law that mandates cleanup for sites contaminated by toxic and hazardous materials. The project to bring clean water back into the Pines neighborhood cost approximately $4 million, which NIPSCO paid for after entering an agreement with the EPA where they also agreed to pay for the neighborhood’s bottled water, according to O’Shaughnessy. In the article, Brian Wright, coal policy director for the Hoosier Environmental Council, said that the officials in Indiana had yet to recognize any of the health concerns and risks brought on by coal waste. O’Shaughnessy writes that “While neighboring states have created tough standards for disposing of fly ash, Indiana still doesn’t require waterproof liners for these landfills.” State officials labeled the Pines neighborhood incident as “an isolated incident,” which is simply not the case.
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PERMITS According to WTIU, in most cases, companies are supposed to get a permit through the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) when they’re wanting to build a coal ash pond on their property. However, this rarely happens. “Some of the dams in the state and the ash ponds have gone through our permit process. I would say the majority of them have not,” said Kenneth Smith, the Water Division assistant director of DNR. “Some are inspected that we had been aware of through going through our
White River upstream and downstream of the Harding Street plant and found elevated levels of boron in the river downstream from the coal ash dumps. HEC then brought in an independent geologist who looked at all the Health Department’s samples — and his findings confirmed the strong suspicion that the contamination is coming from the coal ash lagoons. “What we don’t have yet is additional sampling between the quarries and the neighborhood that would provide the definitive proof that the contamination is moving from point A to point B,” Maloney says. HEC has been asking the Health Department and the state environmental officials to require additional testing so it can be known for sure if contamination is happening and if it is then they can begin working to fix it. “While the contaminants in Sunshine Gardens are not above the accepted
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and other common pollutants. HEC and Sierra Club asked them to start testing for coal ash contaminants, including boron (one of the most common indicators) in addition to the department’s checks for E. coli and the like. The testing from those households in Sunshine Gardens that granted permission showed boron levels well above the “normal” background levels found elsewhere in Marion County. An unnatural source of boron was getting into the wells and into people’s drinking water, information that was handed to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s (IDEM) attention.
THE WARNING IN THE QUARRY
As Perras notes, there’s a Hanson Aggregates quarry that mines sand and gravel just south of the coal “THE SAFETY AND DRINKING ash ponds, between the plant and Sunshine Gardens. In order WATER OF INDIANAPOLIS to place men and equipment FAMILIES IS THREATENED BY in the quarry, the quarry owner has to pump groundwater THIS IRRESPONSIBLE COAL out of the quarry and into the ASH DUMPING.” White River. Sierra Club and — JODI PERRAS HEC asked IDEM to test the SIERRA CLUB BEYOND COAL CAMPAIGN water coming out of the quarry, because it was likely to show contamination from coal ash. health levels for those contaminants, IDEM tested for boron and found 4,250 parts per million coming out of the it’s a clear warning sign that there’s a problem there and you don’t want quarry pump, according to Perras. people drinking that or bathing in that,” “This is a clear sign that there’s highly Maloney said. “You mine coal, and you contaminated groundwater under the create problems. You burn coal, and you coal ash ponds,” Perras said. The Health Department also tested the create problems.” In a press release from Feb. 25, 2016
permit process. There are
from the Sierra Club, “Indianapolis Power & Light (IPL) has ended the burning of coal at the Harding Street coal-fired power plant, putting an end to decades of dangerous coal pollution in Marion County and guaranteeing cleaner air for Indianapolis residents.” While this is great news in regards to cleaner air in the area, it’s also raised the question of how IPL plans to close this plant. According to Maloney, although the processes of burning and mining coal have gotten a lot of attention, the third aspect — disposal of waste by-products — has seen little light.
HOW TO CLOSE A COAL ASH POND Maloney says that there are three ways to close a coal ash pond. Option one: Clean closure, which, according to both Maloney and Perras, is the best solution. Clean closure involves digging up the ash and transporting it to a landfill or facility that is engineered to accept such waste and has appropriate liners and is therefore less of an environmental hazard. Option two: closure in place, or simply leaving the ash with an impermeable cap after pumping all of the water out. Option three: leave the ponds “as is” but with the addition of a system that prevents any contamination to move offsite, like a slurry wall. “They are going to be converting to gas,” Harper says. “But that’s not going to take care of the problem of the coal ash lagoons that are there now.” If IPL chooses to just cap these lagoons, the issue of water contamination won’t be fully solved. According to S E E , WA TER, O N PA GE 1 4
likely others out there that should’ve gone through the process but didn’t.”
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ILLUSTRATION BY WILL MCCARTY
THE TOXINS WHAT THOSE TOXINS CAN DO:
Jodi Perras: “Drinking water standards are based upon a variety of factors, including who is exposed (children or adults?), how much the person weighs, and how long they are exposed (1 day, 10 days, a lifetime?). As you might imagine, infants and small children are the most at risk. Being exposed to a lower amount of contamination over a long period can be as dangerous as exposure to a high amount over a day or a few days.” Drinking Water Health Advisories/ Thresholds for Boron EPA Health Advisories • 1 day health advisory for a 10 kg (22 lb) child: 3,000 ppb (EPA, 2012) • 10-day health advisory for a 10kg child: 900 ppb (EPA, 2006) • Lifetime health advisory: 1,000 ppb (EPA, 2006)
BORON: High levels of boron exposure can damage the stomach, intestines, liver, and brain. It can also cause a miscarriage and through animal studies has proven to damage male reproductive organs, as well as irritate the skin and eyes. BORON
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Total Dissolved Solids - 500 ppm (parts per million) Sulfate - 250 ppm Molybdenum - .04 ppm (lifetime health advisory) Thallium - .002 ppm Selenium - .05 ppm Arsenic - 0.10 ppm Mercury - .002 ppm (Note: no level of mercury in a child is considered “safe” - thus the tight standard.)
MOLYBDENUM: Exposure to high
Mo levels of molybdenum can cause gout-
like symptoms (inflammation and deformities of joints). It can also cause liver and kidney ailments. Also associated with potential mineral imbalance, placing people at risk of hypochronic microcytic anemia. 95.94
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risk. It’s linked to kidney disease and high blood pressure in adults. Lead crosses the placenta and damages the developing fetal nervous system and can cause miscarriage. 207.2
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A test of the water being pumped out of the Hansen Aggregates quarry in 2014 showed a level of 4,250 parts per billion (ppb) for boron and 415 ppm for sulfate.
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diseases like emphysema, increase blood pressure and possible lung carcinogen. Affects calcium metabolism and results in bone mineral loss. It’s associated with bone pain, osteoporosis, and bone fractures. 112.41
CHROMIUM: When ingested via contaminated water can cause stomach and small intestine ulcers as well as anemia and stomach cancer. When in contact with the skin, can cause skin ulcers. And when inhaled can cause lung cancer and breathing issues like asthma, wheezing and nose ulcers. CHROMIUM
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Boron, which is the marker for coal ash, doesn’t have a specific standard under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA has issued numbers it uses as a “health advisory.”
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Perras, underneath the surface of the lagoons, the water will continue to rise and fall, bringing forth a “tea bag effect,” meaning the water will re-saturate the ash, continuing to put more contamination into the river and groundwater in the area. “We don’t want to compound that by just leaving them in place and just saying that it’s taken care of,” Maloney says. “That cycle will never be broken unless IPL takes the coal ash out of our waterway and puts it in a dry landfill,” Perras adds. It wasn’t until a year ago that the federal government had established rules on how to dispose of coal ash. In fact, the
national and state standards for landfills for neighborhood trash are stronger than the regulations for coal ash and coal ash disposal. Despite the switch to natural gas, IPL’s closure plan for the coal ash ponds is still uncertain. “It’s important that the community calls on IPL to do the right thing and move the ash away from the river and groundwater and prevent pollution from spreading any further than it already has,” Perras insists. According to Perras, the community will have the chance to voice their opinions. IPL has promised to have a public meeting with the neighbors of Sunshine Gardens, Sierra Club, and HEC, as well as anyone in the community, where they will discuss the options. From there, IPL
will present its plan to IDEM which will have the authority to either accept or reject their closure proposal. The “right” thing to do seems obvious: Excavate the ponds and make the water clean again. So why does IPL seem hesitant to do the “right” thing? Why continue a hazardous cycle? “They typically want to do the lowest costing thing that they can get away with. But to me, that’s shortsighted,” Perras said. “Just do it right the first time.” According to Perras, if IPL just caps these lagoons, the cycle will continue and then 10, 20, or 30 years down the line, the issue will need to be addressed — again. Perras also said that the federal rule doesn’t actually require them to excavate the lagoons. But if they choose to just
“WE DON’T EVEN GIVE THE WATER TO OUR ANIMALS.” — STELLA HARPER
SUNSHINE GARDENS RESIDENT
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cap them, it does require them to put in ground water monitoring after the official closure. If there is contamination found at some later date, IPL will have to deal with it “Our idea is [to] be proactive. There is contamination. We know it already from the sample from the quarry,” Perras said. “Get that ash out of the water and keep the ground water contamination on your side so it doesn’t spread to our drinking water supply.” In 2010 there were 26 coal plants in Indiana alone. As of now, Indiana is down to 13. While it’s reassuring to see that number cut in half, one can’t help but wonder: What is in the water? n
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he earliest painting in the Indiana State Museum’s 200 years exhibit is a landscape watercolor entitled “Ship Rock,” by a British officer Colonel Henry Hamilton in 1778. Compared to one of the latest works on display (a digital print from 2015 by Indianapolis-based Robert Eagerton, entitled “Night Bird”), it’s clear that the breadth of this show outlines years of a legacy in the making. In between the two spectrums there’s just about every kind of artwork that you can imagine. Chief Fine Arts Curator Mark Ruschman wasn’t content just to dip into the Indiana State Museum’s collection for this exhibition. “We have a wonderful collection here,” says Ruschman, who has been in the contemporary art forefront in Indianapolis for the past 30 years, and most notably as the owner of the Ruschman Gallery (which closed in 2009). “We have the largest collection of T.C. Steele works; we have works by his contemporaries in the Hoosier Group… We also have a growing modern and contemporary collection. So we have the wherewithal to do a 200 year show in house; but I felt that it was really important to go out and travel the state and bring works into this exhibition to engage people from all over the state.” Contemporary art aficionados will be
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thrilled to see that one of the works that Ruschman corralled is “Intersections” by Pakistan-born Indy resident Anila Quayyum Agha. This hanging cube, which won both the public and juried competitions at 2014 ArtPrize in Grand Rapids Michigan, is made from laser-cut wood, and painted black, hollow save for a single light bulb placed inside it. Cut
“It’s an art exhibition and a history lesson as well.” — MARK RUSCHMAN into each side are intricate networks of lattices that recall the ornamentation of the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain. And these lattices will cast shadows in a space specially created for this installation work.
This isn’t the only installation piece in areas available for public access, free of charge (as opposed to the main exhibit that requires a general admission ticket). Near the museum’s parking garage-side entrance is a sculpture by Hanover College professor of art Leticia Bajuyo entitled “Event Horizons,” which presents scale-models of various black hole wormholes twisting around, using mostly CD and DVD discs as media, approximately 11,000 of them. Let’s say that you could travel through a black hole back in time to experience Hoosier history as it was lived by those who were here in 1816. And let’s say you could then also fast forward to 2016 as if time were the 500 track and your vehicle was Juan Pablo Montoya’s Indy car. While the aforementioned scenario, of course, violates the laws of physics, the “200 Years” might just be the next best thing between the two. “It’s an art exhibition and a history lesson as well,” says Ruschman. “Combining those two things has been a real eye opener for me, a learning process…. So we go back to the pioneer painters of the early1800s; we work our way up through the more established artists, groups like the Richmond Group, the Hoosier Group, the Brown County Art Colony, and then jump from the earliest practitioners who were basically S E E , 2 0 0 Y E A R S , O N P A GE 1 6
“Devotion” by Christopher M. Dance is a beautiful relief carving showing a mother nursing her infant child. But it isn’t any ordinary block of wood that Dance carved into here; it’s a paddle. Dance is one of a number of local artists, including Stutz artists who reworked paddles -- painting them, carving them, and sculpting them for this exhibition. These works are being auctioned to benefit the Indy SurvivOars, a nonprofit organization that gets breast cancer survivors out on dragon boats (such boats are popular in China) on Geist Reservoir. The physical activity’s a benefit to the survivors’ health—they’re a floating support group, in effect—and to their state of mind. But back to the artwork. Does a paddle make a good canvas? Why not? “Phoenix Rising, You Got This!” by Jennifer Blue Hands uses the oar to depict a bird with a determined eye looking out ahead and a crown of pink feathers against a baby blue backdrop. From behind the paddle sprout two massive wings that meet above the bird’s head. The phoenix could be taking flight; it could be landing. Regardless, this is one bird you don’t want to mess with. Martha Carlson, whose daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer at 38, has a ceiling hanging sculpture entitled “Washing Away,” that uses two oars to sandwich a sheet of copper that’s been bent and otherwise manipulated to resemble a long succession of waves. In her wall text for the piece Carlson states that the copper waves represent her daughter’s love for the water. “It leaves behind debris but also washes away things, pulls them back into the ocean,” she writes in her text explaining the piece. The culmination of the bidding on the silent auction of these works and award ceremony will take place on March 18 from 6pm-9pm at the Stutz Gallery. Click on stutzartists.com for more info, and follow the link to view, and to bid, on artworks. — DAN GROSSMAN Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery through March 18
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itinerant artists traveling around the state looking for whatever work they could get.” But things started to change in the 19th Century as artists travelled to Europe to learn to paint in the classical tradition. And then the 20th Century brought art schools to Indiana — Herron opened in 1906 — along with a tide of revolutionary ideas about art (that were, it must be said, slow in coming to the Hoosier state). But by the time Robert Indiana painted his 1971 work “Terre Haute,” his hard-edge, sign-like painting no longer seemed particularly revolutionary. “Terre Haute,” is, however, just as specific to a particular time and place as George Winter’s “Moccasins” painting. Or, at least, to the idea of place. The exhibition isn’t, of course, limited to 2D art, encompassing as it does furniture and sculpture and 20th Century glass and ceramics. “Back in the ’50s and ’60s we started to move away from just production and function ware to using material to create sculpture and nonfunctional objects,” says Ruschman. Near the terminus of this exhibition you’ll find “Dark Fantasy,” by Indy-
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Lisa Berlin is an Indianapolis artist whose other projects include HEN, a two-person performance troupe with Aimee Brown (aka Tender Evans), and General Public Collective, an artist-run gallery, project space and concept shop in Fountain Square. She will be releasing Mr. Sad. soon in book form, but for now NUVO will run these bits of advice, comics and general guidance for your well being.
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How one of the most effective city-level politicians used the written word to change Seattle.
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very Seattle City Council hearing that Nick Licata was in charge of would begin with a poetry reading. The 18-year member decided early on in his political career that he wanted to offer a space for the arts and government to overlap; where better to do that than his own committees. This kind of simple change is exactly the kind of connections that Licata suggests in his book Becoming a Citizen Activist; Stories, Strategies and Advice for Changing Our World, and what he will speak about in Indianapolis later this month. In 2012, Licata was named “Progressive Municipal Official of the Year” by The Nation magazine. The title seems to be well deserved. According to a 2015 article in The Stranger, Seattle’s alterSUBMITTED PHOTO native weekly publication, “during his Nick Licata time on the council, [Licata] fought for increased funding for social services those who were already in the neighborand renters' rights and against using hood and set aside areas for performing public money for professional sports art spaces. He started on a smaller scale arenas. Over the last year, he's helped with things like bringing poets into his lead the call for rent control.” committee meetings. In Seattle he saw it Over the years Licata has run into one as an opportunity for unity. continuous problem — how to affect “This would be something that would change. He decided to write a play-byallow people in the art community to play of how he spent years doing exactly that. He describes the book as a handbook: “If they learn to see opportunities “Many people want to for improvements and know what improve the quality of their life but don’t know tools are available to them, people how,” says Licata. If they learn to see opportunities can reshape the world they live in.” for improvements and know what tools are avail— NICK LICATA able to them, people can reshape the world they live in. Most importantly, the book shows how to work with others recognize that they could leverage govto sustain a democracy that allows its citi- ernment to support their efforts,” says zens the freedom to create a future free of Licata. “So we did other things as well, prejudice and poverty.” we created some cultural districts in Licata did that in bigger ways like Seattle that would help folks … We were taking blighted buildings, zoning them able to get money put aside for artist as cultural districts and provide incenhousing, and were pushing for a fun settives for businesses coming in to care for up to help fund that setup.”
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He also started a paper before his time as a council member. The paper began by printing 10,000 copies with a handful of volunteers. They used the money from that first printing to hire a few full time staff members and eventually launch a full newspaper. “It played a major role in supporting newer... art galleries, and at that time the theaters were just starting up and it gave them outreach to people who might not have discovered them,” says Licata. “I think it played a role in helping build community organizations in that sense.” Though he was only involved for the first year it was formative to how he sees the interaction of the written word and social change. “I really think that it forces people, anyone, to think about the paper," says Licata. "Then it forces them to see it, and think in sentences and paragraphs. And it forces them to think of beginning middle and end. The writing experience I think is a critical experience … Even simple writing forces folks to think through what they read.” For years he used to write letters to the editor (to papers around the country), forcing himself to think critically about his own political and social stances. “When you think about the different kinds of mediums and how they frame the reality around you,” says Licata. “It expands the ability to communicate and spread ideas. When you think about Twitter with 140 characters, I mean how many people today have their own blogs. There is so much now for people who want to share, and they feel frustrated about how to get it out … Now our struggle is that there is so much, how do we filter it? That’s probably the biggest challenge we face.” n
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The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art q Eiteljorg Museum’s newest book, Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo, extends the experience of the groundbreaking exhibit that engaged visitors during 2014 and has toured to art galleries in Salina, Kansas, and St. Louis and currently is at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The meticulously curated exhibit loses none of its vibrancy in the book featuring 41 black and white archival pigment prints that showcase Blake Little’s renown as a portrait photographer and an “insider” whose action shots become lifelike eye blinks more so than frozen moments. At the time of the exhibit’s tenure at the Eiteljorg in 2014, I returned several times and after each visit I came away with a deeper sense of the dedication and camaraderie required from a rodeo, and I became a more astute observer of what goes on at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The intersection of 38th and Fall Creek may not be The West, where rodeo is a way of life, but humanity is a trait that transcends place. What struck me viewing the exhibit, and now with closer examination of the book-in-hand, is how little I had understood the attitudes toward people grouped as LGBT and the resulting alienation. Growing up in New York in an arts-oriented environment, people were people and what mattered was dependability — code phrase: “Show up ready to work as a team.” The exhibit was/is groundbreaking. Maybe the Eiteljorg will find a slot for its return after the tour ends. Anyone who missed it should have another opportunity to be in the presence of the vivid photographs. Until then, the book opens us to the story of people who, at the bottom line, are people. Adding to the understanding of the place of Gay Rodeo in the larger context of living and working in The West are finely wrought essays by Johanna M. Blume, Eiteljorg curator of western art; Gregory Hinton, author, lecturer, filmmaker, playwright and creator/producer of the Out West™ program series; historian Jim Wilke; and Eiteljorg president and CEO John Vanausdall. — RITA KOHN The book is available for purchase at the Eiteljorg’s Museum Store and online at eiteljorg.org/ visit/shop.
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Fences, the 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award winner for Best Play, is number six of a 10-part series, known as the “Pittsburgh Cycle,” by American playwright August Wilson. Each segment of the cycle examines the evolving social status of African-Americans in the 20th Century by decade, Fences being set in the late ’50s/early ’60s. The Indiana Repertory Theatre is presenting its fifth production out of the 10 (Fences was also staged by the IRT in 1996), and it has the advantage of Lou Bellamy, founding artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minn., directing this installment. Fences tackles questions regarding the familial bond, responsibility, and forgiveness as well as the standing of African-Americans in this time period. Wilson’s plays include memorable laughs to balance out the serious work of social examination, but this one is also dark — betrayal, in many forms, is a key element here. The stellar cast is headed by David Alan Anderson as Troy, the main character. Anderson seems to effortlessly vacillate between Troy’s moods. Anderson portrays Troy as a raucous, physically expressive character. Kim Staunton as Troy’s wife, Rose, unwaveringly demonstrates Rose’s strength. Edgar Shanchez, as Troy and Rose’s high-school-aged son Cory, captures the arrogance and vulnerability of that age. He is at his best as an antagonist; and when he softens toward his half-sister, Elise Keliah Benson, it is a touching transformation. Marcus Naylor as Troy’s friend Bono and James T. Alfred as Troy’s eldest son Lyons may be playing auxiliary characters that help propel the story and character development, but neither plays his part as minor. Alfred especially gives Lyons the feel of a full personality. Similarly, Terry Bellamy embraces the part of Gabriel, Troy’s brother who suffered a head wound in the war that left him mentally damaged. Scenic designer Vicki Smith envisioned a stunning backdrop for the action. Her representations of the claustrophobic feeling of the run-down row houses are a physical manifestation of the characters’ own feelings of being trapped. While the play is long, just short of three hours, and examines painful subjects, the ending is satisfying, and the growth of the characters leaves the audience uplifted in the face of these characters’ grueling challenges. — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON
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he has blazed everything from Broadway stages to smokey jazz clubs, and now your living room. Lea DeLaria, who plays Big Boo on Orange is the New Black, has become a household name. DeLaria was the first openly gay comic on television with her Arsenio Hall show in 1993. She was on for 9 and a half minutes, during which she said the words “dyke,” “fag,” or “queer” 47 times. “I didn’t just open that closet door,” laughs DeLaria. “I blew it off with a blow torch. You know what I mean. I machine gunned down that door.” Later this month DeLaria will be performing at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club here in Indy, currently on a tour for her David Bowie tribute album — a jazz rendition of Bowie songs. “When David Bowie showed up in about 1972 he was the person who kind of [said] to all of us little queer kids in the Midwest, it’s okay to be who you are,” says DeLaria. “It’s okay to be weird in the eyes of society. In fact, it’s pretty cool. That was sort of the last thing I needed to sort of be myself and do my thing.” She made time for a phone call with NUVO somewhere between winning a SAG Award and releasing House of David. We spoke about everything from politics to the subtleties of jazz tempos. NUVO: You have been such a trailblazer through late night comedy. Tell me about the reactions you have gotten compared to now. LEA DELARIA: Oh, please. When I first started doing standup compared to now somebody would call a comedy club and say why not book Lea DeLaria, and they would say “oh, we’ve already got a woman on the bill. We can’t have two women.” It was so hard to be a woman comic when, I first started … When we got into the 90s even it was still okay to make fun of queer people in standup comedy, like really tell homophobic jokes. You couldn’t have done it anywhere else, but you could still do it in
the comedy club and not feel any burn about it. So yeah, have things changed? Immensely, immensely. NUVO: At what age did you know you wanted to pursue all these different forms of performance art? DELARIA: I wouldn’t call it performance art, I would just say I am an entertainer like an old-school entertainer... Carol Burnett was probably one of my biggest influences as a younger performer. Then as I got older probably Gilda Radner. You know what I mean? These are people that did everything — they were standup, they did characters, they sang, they acted, they danced. These are people who influenced my career. Like when I just won the SAG Award last week, we were honoring Carol Burnett. That was awesome for me because Carol Burnett was the reason I went into show business... I was performing at the Hollywood Bowl with Allan Cumming and Ann Miller — and Carol Burnett was in the front row and she came back stage and said. “If I still had my television show you would be on it tomorrow.” And I burst into tears because that was the reason I went into show business telling me that I was talented. That was immense. So my whole life, since I was a kid. NUVO: What was it about David Bowie’s music that really captured you? DELARIA: Oh his music is fucking awesome. But when he did the glam rock thing that not a lot of us were doing. A lot of that stuff was not about his music, it was about his performance. It was about the way he commanded a stage. All of that was very exciting for me as a young queer performer. I mean that was a lesson to be learned in terms of showmanship. What makes him interesting musically is he is like Sondheim, in that he knows the rules of music but ignores them quite a bit and he works in a contemporary form … I was doing “Let’s Dance” with pickup musicians last week and one of the guys kept getting lost. I finally figured out what it was, I had
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to say to him, “that’s a seven bar form, it’s a seven bar phrase, it’s not eight bars.” Because music is usually written in an eight bar phrase. Sondheim did that. Contemporary musicians do that, people who are really, really in tune with what music is and the language of music and tend to not follow form, tend to follow their own creative energies. That would be David Bowie. NUVO: Your father was a jazz musician and it obviously influenced you. How do you see that echoing in your performances now? DELARIA: Well because my dad was a jazz musician, and a good one, he was very snotty about music. In other words, he didn’t want me to be mediocre. If I was going to do something I had to be great at it. Again it’s going to be a little bit of a heady answer, but he taught me to read music and he taught me alternative scales. You know what I mean? Instead of being your average singer — and by average I mean I look nice on stage and have a pleasant voice — I am more than that. I am a musician. I know what alternate scales are … I am more like a saxophone player than I am a jazz singer. And that’s because of his influence in my life. >>>
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phrase. It is what it is. I strike the balance by doing it. There is no balance. My career is that. It’s not like I am doing one or the other. I am always doing both at the same time. It’s not a balance it’s more of a nice cocktail. NUVO: Does fame put a lot of pressure on you to be an advocate for LGBT communities and actors?
DELARIA: Absolutely. But I don’t think of myself in that way, I have been told I’m a role model and my answer to that is always “Honey, if I’m a role model for the queer community we are in a fucking lot of trouble.” It’s not that fame has made me an “I have been able to accomplish a advocate, I have always been an advocate. I am lot of things, I am very happy. And an outspoken political every fucking thing I have done, I person that is involved in queer rights, has always have done as an open butch dyke.” been involved in queer rights. It’s a huge part of — LEA DELARIA what I do. If I wasn’t that person I would not be this open, butch, dyke, standup comic, who has been a profesMomma Rose?’ Look no one is going sional lesbian since 1982. Changing the give me that opportunity! I fully get world was more important to me than this: It’s show business, not show party my own career. The fact that I have or show play. If it was up to me I would have played Momma Rose 10 years ago. been able to do both in such a public way and be thrust into the public eye It’s not up to me, it up to other people who might have a different agenda than in the way that I have been is fucking amazing … You wouldn’t have even you and I might have, if you know what had Orange is the New Black five years I mean. And of course I am absolutely ago. I honestly believe our show is part perfect to play that role … It’s like the of why the world has changed. bane of my existence right now. There is a fucking Broadway musical right now that’s a huge hit, about a butch dyke and there isn’t a part in it for me. It’s unbelievable. (she laughs). It makes me laugh every second. It makes me laugh all the time. That’s just my luck … It was just my luck that when I became a Broadway star, Broadway stopped hiring Broadway stars, and only hired television and movie stars. Now I’m a television star, and Broadway’s gone back to bringing back Broadway stars. And because I’m a television star they forget sometimes that I was a Broadway star. This industry you have to look at it with a sardonic eye and accept where you are career-wise and live your life. I have been able to accomplish a lot of things, I am very happy. And every fucking thing I have done, I have done as an open butch dyke. No one has ever not known that I am who I am. NUVO: How do you balance your activism with your entertainment? DELARIA: I am who I am, to coin a
NUVO: We have spoken a lot about political positions. What is laying heavy on your mind right now? DELARIA: What is incredibly heavy on my mind right now is Roe v. Wade and whether a woman’s right to choose is going to be taken away from us. That is the major issue for me right now. I am doing a lot of stuff on that. The war on women that is being perpetrated by the Republican Party. That’s what’s weighing heavily on my mind. [EDITOR’S NOTE: She has been doing work with Lady Parts Justice by Lizz Winstead, an organization that uses humor to effect change.] NUVO: If you could leave one thing in people’s minds — whether it be from your singing, acting or comedy — what would you want it to be? DELARIA: That I was the butch lesbian who finally seduced Merely Streep. That’s my mark for show business. God, I hope she reads that. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 03.16.16 - 03.23.16 // STAGE 19
CONTINUING Embrace of the Serpent r Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this strange tale follows an Amazonian shaman as he guides two scientists in search of a sacred healing plant. Shot in beautiful black-and-white, the film is a graceful and mysterious portrait of an ancient world. However, it often meanders aimlessly like its characters and gets a bit lost in its own haze of mystery. But it’s certainly unlike what you typically find at your local movie theater, and thus it’s well worth seeing.
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I LIKE SALLY FIELD
A modest little comedy-drama where she shines
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ello, My Name is Doris stars Sally Field as an office drone/cat lady/hoarder in her sixties who falls for a man thirty years younger, played by Max Greenfield. How did you react to that sentence? Did you smile, or wince? Were you intrigued, or did you roll your eyes? I’m asking because the movie is exactly what it sounds like, so the best way to decide whether to invest your time and money in it is to think about what that sentence sounds like to you. I thought the premise was uninspired and kind of creepy, but I’ve learned to give Field the benefit of the doubt. She has received great praise over her 50+ year career for charging into roles and finding a way to make them work. It’s not always pretty. When backed into a corner, she sometimes reaches into her bag of tics and pulls out a mannerism from one of the 16 kids she played in the multiple-personalities drama, Sybil. Mind you, I’m not complaining much. I appreciate her determination and her willingness to do whatever is necessary to make a scene work. Sometimes her choices are dazzling. Other times … well, we don’t cringe at her, we cringe with her. Remember when she won her second Best Actress Oscar for the 1984 film, Places in the Heart? She wrapped her acceptance speech by gushing, “I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!” It was intended as a comic reference to dialog from her other Oscar winning film, Norma Rae, but most people didn’t get it and make fun of her.
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A lot. So how did Field deal with all the jokes at her expense? By repeating the line in a lucrative TV commercial. And with that I conclude the “Why I Like Sally Field” part of this essay. Max Greenfield – Schmidt from New Girl — plays John Fremont, the new hire. Greenfield is a charmer possessed with a blend of hunkiness and dorkiness that makes it easy to understand why mousey Doris Miller (Field) would be drawn to him. Doris needs something new following the death of her mother, whom she tended to for decades. A motivational speaker (Peter Gallagher) inspires her to take risks and try new things. The granddaughter (Isabella Acres) of her best friend (a high-spirited Tyne Daly) helps her research John on Facebook,
where she constructs a fake persona and befriends him. Armed with information, she “accidentally” runs into John at a concert by his favorite electronica act. John, who has a girlfriend (Beth Behrs), finds Doris and her vintage outfit adorable, as do the other concertgoers, along with the band’s singer, who invites her to be on the cover of the group’s next album. Yes, it’s that kind of movie. The B-story deals with efforts by Doris’ brother Todd (Stephen Root, a great actor woefully underused) and his nasty wife (Wendi McLendon-Covey) to address the hoarding issue. It gets ugly, prompting Field to reenact a scene from Sybil. Director Michael Showalter cowrote the screenplay with Laura Terruso (the movie is adapted from her short film, Doris and the Intern). The result is uneven. McLendon-Covey’s character seems like a leftover from an earlier, meaner, draft of the story. Fantasy sequences interspersed through the film are mildly intrusive, though I enjoyed the transformed cover of the romance paperback on Doris’ tabletop. A running series of hipster jokes occasionally pay off, though most of them seem to be there so that Showalter and Terruso can look hip for their friends. Hello My Name is Doris is a modest little comedy-drama that is beautifully cast. It’s all about Sally Field and Max Greenfield. And trusting your instincts. n
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ack in 2008, Cloverfield hypnotized audiences with its intoxicating air of mystery. The first trailer led us to believe we were seeing a comedy as it opened with a bunch of twenty-something New Yorkers throwing a surprise party. Laughs quickly turn into screams when their power goes out and explosions light up the city. The preview ends with the Statue of Liberty’s head rolling down the street. By the time it was over, most viewers felt like the rug had been pulled out from under their feet. The biggest punch to the gut was the fact that the trailer didn’t reveal a title. Now there’s 10 Cloverfield Lane — a film intriguing people with its title alone. Unlike the case with Cloverfield, the expectations for this movie are quite high and specific. Some people seem to be upset that it’s not a more direct sequel. “I want my 10 Cloverfield dollars back,” a friend quipped on Facebook. Maybe it’s not an obvious sequel, but this film certainly has the same spirit as Cloverfield, keeping viewers guessing until the last shot. The film opens with a moment of panic. After running out on her boyfriend — and leaving an engagement ring behind,
running away from home. Michelle is REVIEW 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE used to fleeing from her fears, she tells him. But as the film goes on, she begins to stare them down. SHOWING: IN WIDE RELEASE The interplay between Goodman and R A T E D : P G - 1 3, e Winstead is electrifying. When they’re together (almost every scene), you can cut the tension with a knife. In some among other things — Michelle (Mary ways, they’re similar characters, both Elizabeth Winstead) gets into a nasty driven by fear. While Michelle runs away car accident. In a Twilight Zone sort of from commitment, Howard commits to twist, she wakes up in a fallout shelter. being afraid. When Emmett asks him if The warden of the place, so to speak, is there’s anything he wishes he had done Howard (John Goodman), an ex-Navy before “the attack” that brought them officer who seems to have a screw loose, down to the fallout shelter, Howard firmly says no. “I did what I wanted to do. I prepared for this,” If it were released with a different Howard says sternly. 10 Cloverfield Lane title, it would probably be praised drips with dread. Making for its striking originality. his feature film debut, director Dan Trachtenberg maintains a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere. This is a riveting even though he insists otherwise. “I’m little chamber drama — it’s essentially not crazy. What’s crazy is building your a prison movie. If it were released with ark after the flood has already come,” he a different title, it would probably be says. praised for its striking originality. If you The third person in Howard’s ark is go into it expecting Cloverfield 2, you Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), a sweet may be disappointed. But if you simply country bumpkin who helped build the want a suspenseful, surprising thriller, shelter. He’s the opposite of Michelle in you’ll love this one. n the sense that he never succeeded in
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HISTORY IN A GLASS HISTORIC INDY WATERING HOLES There’s something comforting about drinking in a bar that has stood the test of time. A sort of wonderment comes over you as you think, if this bar could talk. If the bar does talk, that’s a sure sign that you’ve probably exceeded your limit. The Golden Ace Inn is just one of many local establishments with a long and intriguing history in the Circle City.
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Dorman Street Saloon Nestled just off Dorman Street in Cottage Home, this spot has been a bar since time immemorial. It has gone by a number of monikers since becoming a tavern in the 1910s: Anacker’s Tavern, May’s Lounge, and The Mahogany Bar (The Hog). Today it is primarily a hipster hangout and it has great cocktails and interesting beers. 901 Dorman St, 317-237-9008, dormanstreet.com Slippery Noodle Inn Well known as Indiana’s oldest bar, this blues and jazz joint has hosted an array of famous clientele including the infamous gangster, John Dillinger (reportedly he left bullet holes in the basement). It’s the perfect place to see some live blues almost any night of the week. 372 S. Meridian St., 317-631-6974, slipperynoodle.com Sam’s Silver Circle Hidden in plain sight near the Fletcher Place neighborhood, Sam’s has been serving up cold beers and hot pizza since the ‘60s. Stop in to catch a Notre Dame game and meet some interesting locals over a friendly match of darts.
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1102 Fletcher Ave., 317-636-6288 Red Key Tavern Made popular by its unchanging décor, including model airplanes, and its long-time owner, Russ Settle’s, stringent rules. Don’t cuss at the bar. This SoBro landmark has been serving Manhattans (the signature drink) and delicious burgers to Indianapolis since 1933, when it was still called the Old English Tavern. 5170 N. College Ave., 317-283-4601, redkeytavern.com Workingman’s Friend Starting in 1918, this Westside spot has been serving up smashed burgers and liquor to the hard workers of this city for nearly a century. Back then it was bootlegged whiskey — you know, Prohibition or whatever. But, now you can get a very legal beer to go along with your burger. 234 N Belmont Ave, 317-636-2067
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’m sitting at a bar. I have a beer in my hand, a half eaten burger on my plate, and eighty years of history on my mind. “The best little bar in Indianapolis,” says a jovial voice two seats to my right. The Golden Ace Inn is an Indianapolis landmark by any standards. The McGinleys have been running the family-owned establishment since March 1, 1934. For those history buffs out there, you’ll recognize that is just short of four months after the repeal of Prohibition. John and Ann McGinley, two immigrants from the Irish county of Donegal, saw an opportunity. “He thought this bar stuff was really going to take off with Prohibition ending,” says Charles “Chuck” McGinley of his father John. Chuck is the middle child of seven McGinley children; two girls,
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five boys. He continues, “He talked it over with my mom, and they decided to take a gamble.” Their gamble paid off and they created a beloved institution, a place that keeps their family close-knit and where the people of their community have come together for over eighty years. The bar sits just off Washington Street; today it’s a desolate area, surrounded by now defunct businesses and factories. Many of the homes in the area are shuttered up. Despite the bright yellow sign and the two green shamrocks on the outside, you could pass by the place and not even know it’s there. But in 1934, the area was a bustling part of the city, and
came with an almost built-in clientele. The trolley ran from the downtown center — right in front of the bar. Factory workers, ready for a drink and a meal after a long day’s work, would stop in the Ace for a braunschweiger sandwich or a cheeseburger (more on these in a bit). They would be sharing the place with people of the neighborhood, out for a family meal. Folks would chat about the neighborhood, the city, and their lives over a beer or two. It truly was a public house, or better, a public home. As I step through the door, my ears are greeted with the sound of an unfamiliar Irish rebel song and a friendly smile from an older gentleman at the bar. The man is William “Joe” McGinley, one of John and Ann’s five boys; he’s proudly wearing his Notre Dame Irish hat. Though John and Ann have passed, the Golden S E E , GOL DEN A CE, O N PA GE 2 4
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Ace Inn still rests in the hands of their children; this includes Joe, and his living siblings Chuck, Jimmy, Mary Ann, Mike, and Dan. Chuck is standing behind the nearly empty bar in front of an array of black and white family photos. He waves to me, “How we doing?” Joe and Chuck’s nephew, Jimmy McGinley, met me in the parking lot on my way in. After introducing me to his uncles, he makes his way behind the bar, “You want a beer?” He passes in front of the cash register, a relic of the past. I’m staring at it when Jimmy sits a bottle of Harp and a chilled glass in front of me. “We’ve only had two cash registers ever,” says Chuck, making his way over to it, “that’s the second.” “Not much has changed here has it?” I ask, rather rhetorically. The answer is obvious — from the menu to
the 1968 Wurlitzer jukebox it hasn’t. Joe answers, “My dad ran the place until he passed in 1967, and then my mom took over until she died in ’78. All we want is — if they came back today — they’d be happy, they’d see it hasn’t changed.” That’s a big part of the charm of this place, and the McGinleys like it that way. For them it’s an homage to their parents. For me it is a step back to a simpler time, a time when a pub was a place to have a drink and chat with people. The beer selection is pretty much what it would have been if my dad had stopped in when he turned 21. The jukebox is filled with music that my grandfather would have listened to as he sat in front of the family radio (I listen to that music, too, but now I can carry it in my pocket). Can you feel nostalgia for a time period you never lived in? I feel it here. I think it’s called anemoia, if I’m not mistaken. Chuck, Joe, and I move from the bar to
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a round table in the quieter dining room. that would ask for the back room and As we sit, the first customer I’ve seen — a they would have a family get-together. It was just a nice way to celebrate St. veteran who looks to be in his seventies Patrick’s Day. It wasn’t like the crazi— walks through the door and takes a ness you have today.” Joe adds, “Then seat at the bar. The majority of the light about twenty years ago it got to the point in the dining room comes from a buzzwhere we almost couldn’t handle the ing, yellow (golden) neon sign that looks like an ace playing card. While I’m still nursing my half-full (I’m always We’re lucky that we can walk in the the optimist) Harp, Jimmy stops by to see Ace and even if we aren’t of Irish if either of his uncles would like a drink. They heritage, we’re still a part of the both politely decline. Covering the window family when we walk through the door. on the back wall is a stained-glass McGinley family coat of arms. crowd. It used to just be inside, because I’m looking at it when Joe starts off, “You the lot next door was a house, but now know, you see that bar,” he gestures to we have the tents outside and you’re still the spot where Jimmy is talking to the lucky if you can walk through the door.” single, Diet-Coke-drinking patron, “in They don’t hide their slight disdain the ’50s and ’60s there wouldn’t have for how much the neighborhood and been an open seat. People didn’t need society have changed. And yet, while a reason to be at a bar, they didn’t need they obviously have fond memories live bands or even televisions — they of the earlier years of the Ace, they’re just enjoyed company, friends were their quick to show optimism for the future. entertainment.” The place still does get packed like that They’re hopeful for their neighborhood, Englewood, and they should be; look at at least one day a year. If you’ve heard areas like Fountain Square and the Old of the Golden Ace Inn, there’s a good Northside, these neighborhoods are chance it was tied to their St. Patrick’s Day festivities. It’s no surprise USA Today getting facelifts and yet they’re able to maintain their character. It’s a positive named the Ace in its list of Ten Best trend for our city, and no one notices it Places In the Nation to Party Like You’re as much as people like the McGinleys; Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. They have the people who have their entire livelihood longest running St. Paddy’s party in the tied to an institution that has seen the city. “We’ve always had a St. Patrick’s party,” says Chuck, “it was entirely differ- best and the worst of times. “Holy Cross, which is just about ten ent then, we had a family from Ireland
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alive here in Indianapolis.” We’re lucky that we can walk in the Ace and even if our last name isn’t McGinley (mine’s damn close) and we aren’t of Irish heritage, we’re still a part of the family when we walk through the door. I ask Chuck and Joe if they could come back in 80 more years what would they hope to see. “Still standing,” Joe says. They both laugh. “In all honesty that’s it, you know. The kids have a loyalty to it, and I truly think we will always have a McGinley at the Golden Ace. That’s what is going to have an impact more than anything else. It’s going to be passed down through the family. It will always be a family run bar, and not The beer selection is pretty much to steal from the show, but what it would have been if my dad a place where everybody your name.” had stopped in when he turned 21. knows The conversation is over, I’ve ordered a perfectly prepared burger. The Golden Ace is known for its burgers, cooked in “Even though the neighborhood has changed, we try and be the one thing that cast iron skillets that have been used for over 60 years. They’re not flashy, stays the same for the people. We want our customers to feel like friends, to come just straightforward burgers, made with never-frozen beef; and possibly the best in and just feel at ease,” says Chuck. This in the city. I top mine with pickles and is why people keep coming here. “Just mustard, like I always do. Chuck hands yesterday,” says Joe, “a young girl, just me a Guinness and commences talking turned 21, was sitting up there at the bar. She looked over at one of our regulars and to a woman at the far end of the bar. The veteran is sitting two seats to my right, asked, ‘How long have you been coming finishing his second Diet Coke and a here?’ He looked at her and said ‘47 years’ braunschweiger sandwich with cheese. and it’s true. He started coming here I’m sitting at a bar. I have a beer in my when he was 21, and now a new generahand, a half-eaten burger on my plate, tion will be making this their bar too.” and eighty years of history on my mind. We’re lucky that a family like the Mc“The best little bar in Indianapolis,” says Ginleys, in the words of Jimmy, “have all a jovial voice two seats to my right. I take worked very hard throughout their lives a sip of my beer, “It is,” I respond. “Yes, to keep the family together, keep the family pub open and keep the Irish spirit it is.” n blocks away, was going through some major troubles for a long time and now they’re making some big changes in that area,” says Joe. Chuck cuts in and points out “People think we’re in a rough area here, but we’re not. Maybe we were about ten or fifteen years ago, but it’s become more stable, and I think it will continue to get better, and we will be here to see that change.” While they recognize the positives of modernization, they acknowledge that the Ace has been — and still is — a haven of a time gone by.
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Will those covers make an appearance tonight at the Bird? Hard to know. I spoke with Finn and Stickles before their tour together had commenced – our stop is smack in the middle of the dates together – and they weren't entirely sure how their setlist would work out yet. Below are selected portions of my interviews with both frontmen who both 1) 100 percent respect each other as men and musicians and 2) are 100 percent confirmed delights to chat with on the phone. Find additional portions of both interviews online at NUVO.net and listen to playlists of Hold Steady songs and Titus Andronicus songs curated by Stickles and Finn, respectively. We told you. They love each other. They really do. PATRICK ON CRAIG’S MUSIC “I guess I like [The Hold Steady] because they sort of have it all. Well, not necessarily have it all, but they have two very distinct areas well covered. They’re really rockin’ and really work to hit the pleasure centers and really work to get the foot tappin’ and get everybody groovin’, and there’s shredding solos and big riffs and boomin’ beats and all these fun things that everybody loves all the way back to Thin Lizzy and Free and any of these classic rock bands that so many of us still enjoy. [They] embrace the hedonistic pleasures of those things in a way that a lot of bands then and now kind of are reluctant to do. “But they also have a whole literary, more intellectual and thoughtful thing going on with the lyrics and the whole overarcing mythology and immersive universe that they’ve created. The ongoing point of view that Craig shares in his lyrics. You can appreciate their music on a number of levels. You can bob
your head to it, rock out to it with the windows down in the car and feel good. Maybe it doesn’t mean so much what they’re talking about. Or, you can focus on the words and think about what ideas are being communicated. Or best of all, find the synthesis of the two and see how the jovial nature of the music can support and amplify the views of the lyrics.” CRAIG ON PATRICK’S MUSIC “[Patrick] said something on [an interview with Marc Maron on WTF] and actually I came up, Maron was talking about going to see The Hold Steady and seeing bros yelling things. And Maron was like, ‘I’m not sure they get this.’ And Patrick had a really beautiful way of saying, ‘Well, sometimes just yelling out and putting a beer in the air is sort of saying, “We’re all here.” ‘ That was really moving to me, and I think about it all the time because I do believe that. … [Titus and Hold Steady songs] are both explore your own spot in the world. Obviously you can be standing in lower Manhattan and 9/11 happens, and you’re not in the building, nor are most people you know, but you’re turning 30, and you’ve moved there from the Midwest a year earlier and you’re wondering if it’s such a good idea. Then you get a divorce. Is 9/11 part of this story? Or isn’t it? I think it is. That’s a really interesting thing when art can raise those questions.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: Recommended listening for understanding this anecdote: Finn’s single “Newmyer’s Roof.”] CRAIG ON COMING TO BLOOMINGTON IN THE FUTURE “We’re doing this as a three-piece, but with the idea that as we get into it there will be more collaboration, and maybe some space for some other people to join in, is kind of what I’m hoping. [I’ll play,] then Titus will play, then hopefully we’ll do something together. I think our intention is to do
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he’s sort of just a blustery dude. … I remember there was a Trump board game at some point in the ’80s. I don’t remember him as being political in any way. He was just a rich dude who built things. … I don’t understand why he wants to be president, and I’m not sure that he does. Could we end up with [a situation] where he just sort of dips out? He just sort of says, ‘You know what?’ — a month out – ‘I’m out. You guys figure this out. I got what I wanted from this.’ ” PATRICK ON POLITICS “There was a lot of energy around [Occupy Wall Street, which Stickles’ blogged about and played a show in support of] and a lot of people were really fired up about it, and really recognizing how screwed up it was. It seems to me that, like so many things, fatigue set in. People got to be more and more disenfranchised, and the hope of affecting any change or reform got to be more remote. I don’t know. People don’t just seem to be as fervent about it anymore. I think they’re kind of beaten down about the inevitability of it all, the triumph of the establishment, besides those who are feelin’ the Bern anyway. It’s nice that these kind of issues are back in the headlines again, but I do suspect that – not to sound too cynical – once the election is over and Bernie is probably not the president, that those discussions are going to fall by the wayside again, and people are going to
go back to trudging through life, trying not to think about it, anesthetizing themselves against it, you know.” CRAIG ON HIS NEXT ALBUM “I’ve been working on [a new solo album]. I’m like nine songs in, and usually I make probably twice as many songs as end up on the album. I think we’re halfway there. I like to think by the end of 2016. We’re trying to figure out something to do with the Hold Steady, too. You take a break and you gotta get rolling again. I’m not sure what we’re going to do but I’d like to get back at some point. You take a break for like a year, and when you come back it can’t be just like, ‘Well, we’re going to play a show.’ You got to figure out something cool to do. We’re talking about that, and I hope that will come up soon, too.” PATRICK ON HIS NEXT ALBUM “After the last record we did [The Most Lamentable Tragedy] which was the most inwardly looking self-obsessed piece of art that one could imagine, I feel like it could be only logical to look a little more outward at the wide world for whatever the next thing is going to be. I’m not really certain what shape that is going to take, but hopefully it won’t be more navel-gazing.” n
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BAN TRUMP FROM INDY In 1969, the Supreme Court further A CULTURAL clarified its position on this issue in the case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, ruling that MANIFESTO speech intended to incite "imminent WITH KYLE LONG lawless action" does not fall within the KLONG@NUVO.NET confines of protected speech. Which brings forward the central Kyle Long’s music, which topic of my column this week: Indiafeatures off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has napolis civic and political leaders must brought an international flavor absolutely act now to ban any future to the local dance music scene. public rallies organized by, or promoting the dangerously bigoted, violenceinciting politics of Donald Trump. vulnerable minority populations in While the Trump campaign has no Marion County. Trump's reckless and immediate plans to visit Indiana, our inflammatory comments directed at mistate's May 3 primary date is approachnority communities are igniting flames ing fast. With looming threats of a broof hatred that many in this country have kered Republican National Convention long fought to extinguish. this July, Trump will need to win every Perhaps the most worrisome concern available delegate, which will surely find in this unfolding situation is that Donald him stepping on Hoosier soil at some Trump himself remains recalcitrant, point. And I plan to do everything I can to make sure that doesn't include a stop obstinate and unremorseful in the face of concerns demonstrating how his vioin Indianapolis. lent language may be provoking brutal Scenes of violent physical confronepisodes like those we saw last Friday at tations are becoming commonplace his aborted Chicago rally. within the Trump campaign, and the incendiary language Trump aims at protesters during his rallies We cannot allow this low-grade violates even the most liberal interpretations of free con artist’s narcissistic quest for speech. Trump's February ego gratification to throw our city 22 appearance in Las Vegas provides a typical example. into chaos. "I love the old days" Trump mused, imagining a period of time when protesters would be "carried out on a This is not a free speech issue. Trump stretcher.” Sensing that was perhaps too has the wealth and power to force his subtle a statement, Trump continued to poisonous ramblings onto the radios, address the protester, adding "I'd like to computers, and television screens in punch him in the face." every American home. His noxious comBut Trump doesn't just suggest violent mentary echoes through the American retribution against protesters. He begs media ad nauseam. And aside from and pleads for it. Speaking in Cedar Rapthat, there's really nothing resembling ids, Iowa on February 1 Trump asked his political speech happening at a Trump supporters to "knock the crap out of" a rally, just an endless stream of decadent protester. "Would you?" Trump continself-promotion. Like a cult leader, Trump ued. "Seriously, just knock the hell out of has no transparent or cogent agenda. Inhim. I promise you I'll pay for the legal stead he simply urges followers to place fees. I promise; I promise." their trust and future in his hands, as he I can't imagine any other public alone holds the answer for their salvaforum where this sort of sickening betion. The rest of us are just losers. havior would be permitted, nor should Allowing the Donald Trump circus to it ever be. pitch its tent in Indianapolis constitutes Looking beyond a Trump rally's threat a serious threat to public safety. I urge of "imminent lawless action,” Trump's all concerned citizens of Indianapolis inflammatory anti-immigrant, antito demand our city's law enforcement Muslim rhetoric poses a serious threat officials, politicians, and public safety to the longterm safety and stability of
officers honor their commitment to protect and defend the welfare of the citizens of Indianapolis. We cannot allow this low-grade con artist's narcissistic quest for ego gratification to throw our city into chaos. Call your city council representatives and ask them to introduce a resolution to ban Trump from speaking in Indy. Call the office of Mayor Joe Hogsett and Congressman André Carson and ask for their support in this effort. We must demand that the rule of law be applied equally to all, no matter how rich and powerful a perpetrator may be. If the civic leaders of Indianapolis won't take a stand to defend the rights and safety of the vulnerable Hoosiers Trump has targeted with his inflammatory rhetoric, then I can assure you that the social justice activists and human rights advocates of Indianapolis will undoubtedly take to the streets to do it themselves should Trump attempt to stage a rally here. And I will certainly stand with them. n
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caveat: We at NUVO love us some Kyle Long. He’s been providing linkages for the publication for years, finding the nexus of music and human rights and trying to understand how those two inform one another. He’s done it brilliantly — however, this week’s leap from metal and hip-hop lyrics to The Donald is problematic. Simply put, the idea that a city could — or should — ban an appearance by a political candidate (see the preceding page) is demonstrably wrong. It would also set a dangerous precedent. The same notion was floated by the faculty, staff and students of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the campus that was to host a Trump rally last weekend before protestors showed up in vast numbers and The Donald pulled out. The premise is flawed, but don’t take my word for it — ask Dr. David Orentlicher, a constitutional expert at the IU McKinney School of Law. Orentlicher says, “From a First Amendment standpoint … it’s a pretty strict standard.” Said speech, for it to be actionable — to fall into the category of “yelling fire in a crowded theater,” the moment when speech can be limited
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comers. Ultimately, the logic behind banning Trump from Indy is the same reasoning Donald might use to try to shut down the local mosque. EWENCK@NUVO.NET In the late ’70s, the town of Skokie, Illinois, attempted to prevent a march Ed Wenck is the by a group of Nazis through their comManaging Editor munity — Skokie’s a town with a large of NUVO. Jewish population. As SCOTUS found in Smith V. Collin, no matter how reprehensible one finds another’s speech, the right to express even the most appalling viewpoint is absolute— is defined by the Supreme Court as ly protected under the First Amendment speech that will cause “imminent lawof the U.S. Constitution — and that’s why less action.” the Nazis were allowed to rally. There’s an argument to be made that Don’t misread this: a counter-demTrump may have crossed that very line onstration was also allowed, just as with some of his statements. One such such protests should be allowed against statement, for example, indicated that the orange, comb-overed, racist “bilshould one of Trump’s supporters go lionaire.” After the cancellation of the appearance in Chicago, Trump squawking that protestors somehow violated his First Trump should come to Indy — Amendment rights are as flawed as Long’s argument — you’re not and be met with thousands of protected from the consequences of your hate speech, as long protestors who would rebuke as the consequences are legal. his message. Boycotts, demonstrations — all are legit and acceptable under the law. There are members of Indiana’s Legislature who would love to see ahead and punch a protester, The DonNUVO shuttered. They can yell at us. ald would pay the aggressor’s legal fees. Call us hippie-dope-smokin’-socialistThere was even chatter that Trump communist-homo-lefties. Picket the might be in violation of North Carolina building and send nasty mail. state law and could be guilty of “incitBut silence us? ing a riot” after a Trump fan punched a Sorry. No dice. We still get to speak, protestor during a rally in Fayetteville, and so does Kyle. As does Trump. but the local sheriff dispelled that noBut the bigger problem here is simtion fairly quickly. pler: There’s a presupposition that one Of course, Kyle took the issue a step can know exactly what The Donald will further, which Orentlicher summed say, and that one knows that his speech up elegantly: will cause violence. “But can you prevent him from comEven if we’ve all got a pretty good ing to speak at all?” asks Orentlicher. guess, none of us can accuse The “This is what’s called ‘prior restraint.’ Donald of thoughtcrime (apologies to The courts are more reluctant to take that action. It’s hard to prosecute some- Orwell). The Constitution ensures that. Trump should come to Indy — and be one after they’ve spoken, but it’s even met with thousands of protestors who harder to prevent them from speaking.” The SCOTUS standard, as Orentlicher would rebuke his message. Let the man speak, and let him once again expose notes, is as follows: himself as a demagogue and a fool. “If the speech will surely result in But a ban on The Donald’s words? No. direct, immediate and irreparable harm Because, as Beatrice Evelyn Hall — that’s a pretty tough standard.” famously wrote: “I disapprove of what The problem for anyone wishing to you say, but I will defend to the death curtail speech they find disagreeable is your right to say it.” n that such a standard must apply to all
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The poems I have loved the most are those I have understood the least,” said T. S. Eliot. I’m going to steal and expand upon his idea for the purpose of giving you an accurate horoscope. In the coming days, Sagittarius, I suspect that the experiences you love most will be those that you understand the least. Indeed, the experiences you NEED the most will be those that surprise and mystify and intrigue you. Luckily, life will be ingenious in bypassing your analytical intelligence so as to provide you with rich emotional stimuli for your soul. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn painter Henri Matisse made the following testimony about his creative process: “At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.” I recommend this approach to you in the coming days, Capricorn. You’ve been making decent progress on your key project. To keep up the good work, you should now find where the cracks are, and let them teach you how to proceed from here. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all lead three lives,” said Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, “an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of.” I suspect you’ll get big glimpses of your third life in the coming weeks, Aquarius: the one you’re normally not aware of. It might freak you out a bit, maybe unleash a few blasts of laughter and surges of tears. But if you approach these revelations with reverent curiosity, I bet they will be cleansing and catalytic. They are also likely to make you less entranced by your imaginary life and better grounded in your actual life. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The greatest illusion is not religion,” says aphorist Michael Lipsey. “It’s waking up in the morning imagining how much you’re going to get done today.” But even if that’s often true, Pisces, I suspect that you have the power to refute it in the coming weeks. Your ability to accomplish small wonders will be at a peak. Your knack for mastering details and acting with practical acumen may be unprecedented. For the immediate future, then, I predict that you’ll largely be able to get done what you imagine you can get done. Pisces
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