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A local comedian — and former drug dealer — is on the verge of big things.

Ms. Pat sat down with NUVO to tell her story — including having, um, a nipple shot off.

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“The flaw in these pictures is that Indiana’s minimum wage, and the pay for a half-million of our state’s workers, is so low that even fulltime work is not enough to make ends meet.”

The “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” passes out of committee on a 9-4 party-line vote.

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On March 25, 2015, NUVO turns 25, and our Anniversary Issue hits the stands, clocking in at more than twice the size of Your Regularly Scheduled NUVO. Twenty. Five. Years. A quarter century.

We’re 25. If we were someone’s human offspring, we’d already be disallowed as a dependent by the IRS. In another year, we wouldn’t be able to get coverage under Mom and Dad’s health insurance. And we should really pay attention and save some money for retirement.

Truth be told, we are the offspring of this town in an odd way. We love this city, even though it’s maddening at times.

So next week, we’ll present a long look back at the history of NUVO, Indianapolis, Indiana and the country. It plays a bit like a love letter at times, a love letter to our predecessors at NUVO and a love letter to our readers. Even those readers who pick up this publication just to get pissed at us.

You’ll read columns by Mike Ahern, Bill Benner, Dan Carpenter and more. You’ll be reminded of what Indy and the rest of the country was like in 1990.

You’ll marvel at how much Indy’s dining scene has grown. You probably won’t be surprised that the state legislature hasn’t really grown up at all.

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FRAN QUIGLEY EDITORS@NUVO.NET Fran Quigley is a clinical professor of law at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.

He advocates for the rights of the poor with a special focus on representing low-wage workers.

s you are reading this article, thousands of people across Indiana are preparing to go to work. It is a familiar scene, one that invokes the American the half-million Hoosiers who work for dream of supporting a family by putting sub-poverty wages. And we aim for our food on the table and a roof overhead. actions to remind Indiana lawmakers of But for a half-million Hoosiers, the their moral duty: To ensure that all workaction takes place in homeless shelters ers can afford a roof over their families’ or in dilapidated apartments where heads and food on their tables. families endure constant risk of eviction.

We will fast in the tradition of major When these workers depart for shifts at religious faiths, and in the tradition of fast-food jobs or as janitors or security social justice movements ranging from guards, they are not able to leave behind farmworkers’ struggles to the colonial enough food to meet the family’s needs. quest for independence to the U.S. civil The flaw in these pictures is that rights movement. “I join with others in Indiana’s minimum wage, and the pay prayer and fasting to experience in some for a half-million of our state’s workers, way solidarity with those who suffer the is so low that even full-time work is not evil of poverty and hunger and to work enough to make ends meet.

Our Indiana lawmakers would know that, toward the elimination of this widespread evil.” says Sr. Norma Rocklage, a if they had found the time to hold hearings Catholic nun. “The Lord hears the cry of on bills to raise the state’s minimum wage the poor ... and so must we!” that were introduced in this session of the Yin Kyi says she is fasting in the Indiana General Assembly. When asked Buddhist tradition, and others cite the why he refused to schedule a hearing on minimum wage bills in the Senate Pensions and Labor Committee he chairs, Sen. Phil Boots replied, “It Indiana’s minimum wage ... is so impacts so few people that low, that even full-time work is not it really doesn’t make that much of a difference.” enough to make ends meet.

Unlike Indiana, the majority of states have set their wages above the national minimum of $7.25 per hour, a rate straightforward concept of justice for all. of pay that keeps a family far below the The Fast for Living Wages concludes poverty line. Those states, including our with a Monday, March 23 People’s Asneighbors in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois, sembly at the Indiana Statehouse at 11 have seen their economies grow after man- a.m. and includes a Sunday March 22 dating higher wages, a phenomenon that is interfaith gathering of fasters at 2 p.m. at triggered when workers can afford to purSt. Monica Catholic Church, 6131 Michichase goods and boost local businesses. gan Road, Indianapolis.

Indiana, by contrast, suffers due to For those engaging in the whole 72.5 low-paying jobs and a failure of moral hour fast, we will begin our fast at noon and public leadership. In response, we on Friday the 20th and conclude it at the are compelled to take action. end of the People’s Assembly on Monday.

In connection with the Raise the Wage But we invite all ranges of participation. If Indiana and Indiana Moral Mondays you can give up a single meal, that means movements, advocates will fast the a lot, as does fasting for the entire period. weekend of March 21, some for as long To commit to fasting with us, just go to as 72.5 hours, to show support for raising the Raise the Wage Indiana page on FaceIndiana’s $7.25 per hour minimum wage. book and accept the invitation there.

Our temporary discomfort reminds $7.25 per hour is a hunger wage. Indius of the more significant struggles of ana workers deserve better. n

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e’s done it again.

Tom Easterly, head of Indiana’s Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), is determined to keep Indiana in the 20th century — or maybe even the Ice Age. Easterly was in Washington recently, where he told a Senate committee that, if push comes to shove, Indiana might refuse to comply with a rule being proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce carbon emissions generated by coal burning power plants.

The EPA thinks Indiana should reduce the amount of carbon dioxide generated per unit of electricity 20 percent by the year 2030.

When it comes to coal, Indiana is like a three-pack a day smoker — think of those sharp-dressed guys you see on Mad Men, the show about advertising in the go-go ’60s. We’re hooked on the stuff, using it for

DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET David Hoppe has been writing columns for NUVO since the mid-1990s. Find him online at NUVO.net/Voices.

more than 80 percent of our energy.

It’s not as if we haven’t been warned about the dangers. Burning coal is known to release mercury, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter into the air. The use of coal is linked to higher rates of respiratory illnesses, like bronchitis and asthma. It increases the chances of heart attacks and strokes.

Our heavy reliance on coal is a big reason

why Indiana’s air quality continues to be a concern. Although Easterly likes to tell people that air quality here is better than it was, it’s still nothing to brag about. According to the American Lung Association, Indianapolis ranked as the 20th most polluted city in the nation in 2014 for year round particle pollution. Soot levels actually increased in the city from where they were in 2013.

Easterly has served two governors, Mitch Daniels, and now Mike Pence. Like them, his argument against the EPA has less to do with the quality of our environment than it does with protecting the state’s traditional business interests.

Adopting the EPA guidelines, he says, will make energy more expensive and hurt manufacturing. It could also make life tougher for consumers, especially those with low and fixed incomes.

But these arguments only show how vulnerable Indiana’s dependence on

When it comes to coal, Indiana is like a three-pack a day smoker.

this dirty, outmoded form of energy has made us. Instead of advocating for new forms of energy, which, by the way, would create opportunities for new businesses and jobs, Easterly insists on propping up old King Coal.

Easterly, remember, made a presentation at a 2012 ALEC conference, underwritten by Peabody Coal, where he offered suggestions about how to obstruct and delay EPA rules regarding greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants.

Those emissions, of course, contribute to our increasingly volatile weather. At his recent Washington session, Easterly was asked if he has tried to figure what Indiana’s coal habit might end up costing the state in terms of climate change.

He denied the question’s premise. “I don’t think you can quantify any cost of future climate change on the state of Indiana,” Easterly was quoted as saying.

“There’s nothing concrete to quantify.

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WHAT HAPPENED? Indiana considers internet taxation Indiana could soon become the first state to prohibit taxes on Internet access — a move supporters say is necessary given an unstable environment in the nation’s capital. With technology changing quickly, however, a ban could eventually mean less state revenue. The federal Internet Tax Freedom Act currently bans states and local governments from charging taxes on citizens’ access to the web. But the law expires on Oct. 1 following just a nine-month extension and it’s not clear what form, if any, another extension might take. House Ways & Means Chairman Tim Brown said that means Indiana might need to be proactive by passing its own ban. Otherwise, the state’s existing utilities receipts tax would apply to Internet services, a change that could cost Hoosiers as much as $27 million annually, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency.

Fast track through college Students could get full access to their financial aid and receive incentives if they get on track to graduate in three years rather than four under legislation considered Wednesday by the Senate Education Committee. House Bill 1231, authored by Rep. Todd Huston, R-Fishers, gives college students incentives to participate in an accelerated degree program. Not only would the students be awarded money to participate, but they’d save money by finishing one year earlier, he said. In all, as much as $4.4 million to $5 million could be awarded to students enrolled in accelerated baccalaureate or associate degree programs under the proposal, although the bill makes no funding appropriation. That means it would need to be included in the budget. The bill would require students to be enrolled in accelerated programs.

Miller said the goal is to help low income and first generation scholars complete school.

Bill to ban microbeads used in beauty products Tiny pieces of plastic used to exfoliate skin are creating big problems for the environment; legislation to ban the beauty product ingredient has been approved by the General Assembly and is headed to the governor’s desk. House Bill 1185, authored by Rep. Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, defines a “synthetic plastic microbead” as a spherical object that is five millimeters or less in diameter and not biodegradable. The bill prevents the sale of any products containing the beads after Dec. 31, 2017. That would impact common beauty products including face wash, body wash and toothpastes that often include the beads to give them exfoliating properties. Sen. Ed Charbonneau, R-Valparaiso, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, said that microbeads and their effects are a nationwide issue. Charbonneau said the issue has been on the agendas of legislatures around the country since 2012, and several states are already pushing similar legislation forward.

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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OR DISCRIMINATION? Indiana pushes ahead with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act despite opposition

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emember that advice about avoiding religion and politics during dinner conversation to ward off heartburn?

It’s a good thing no one stopped to eat during the House Judiciary Committee hearing Monday. There would have been an antacid shortage downtown.

The only bill up for discussion was Senate Bill 101 — the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) — and that discussion lasted just short of four hours.

The lines were drawn in the sand long before the hearing even began. Those standing in opposition to the bill lined the fourth floor of the Indiana Statehouse wearing red. Those in support of the bill gathered in green. The tension in the building was fueled by the passion emanating from both sides.

Rep. Tim Wesco, R-Osceola, sponsors the Senate bill in the House. His introduction of the bill included a history of religious freedom in America and how Indiana’s RFRA is intended to mirror the RFRA passed by Congress 18 years ago with some help on the specifics from the recent Hobby Lobby decision regarding contraception and the Affordable Care Act. Wesco noted the religious persecution in history of Catholics against Protestants, Protestants against Catholics and both against Baptists (Wesco is an assistant pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Elkhart). However, all other religions outside of the scope of Christianity were not included in any of Wesco’s comments with the exception of a quick nod to Judaism toward the end.

Wesco’s sermon in the House spoke to how and why religious freedom exists in America. The testimony that followed is what struck at the heart of the matter and the controversy.

Academic arguments The question on the minds of those skeptical or opposed to SB 101 boiled down to one thing: Would the rights to religious freedom for some (as specified in the bill) trump the civil rights of others?

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People opposed to and in favor of SB 101 filled the gallery and the House Chamber and overflowed into the hallway of the Indiana Statehouse as the House Judiciary Committee listened to testimony on the bill.

Both sides of the argument came armed with academic experts. Daniel Conkle, professor of Law at the IU Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, stated that he believes the bill as it is written would not preclude human rights or be a “license to discriminate” as opponents have suggested. Robert Katz, professor of law at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, disagreed with Conkle’s analysis, stating that it is exclusion of anti-discrimination language from the bill that is the reason why people are so fearful of the repercussions the bill might have, especially on individuals who depend on anti-discrimination laws and language for the direct protection of their civil rights and freedoms.

The notion that SB 101 would allow businesses to discriminate against potential business patrons isn’t an idea that was just pulled from space like a speck of dust floating on a sunbeam.

Special interest groups Advance America and the American Family Association of Indiana have backed the bill from its inception, claiming that protections were needed for churches that did not

want to perform gay weddings and for businesses that did not want to provide goods and services for gay wedding ceremonies. Opponents believe the laws as they currently exist protect churches that do not support gay marriage in their doctrines from being forced to perform gay weddings.

But the business scenario is not just possible, but probable.

Groups like Freedom Indiana and the ACLU of Indiana believe SB 101 is a license to discriminate because it would allow businesses and individuals to “pick and choose” whom they will and will not do business with all under the auspices of religious belief.

Katz testified that the absence of specific civil rights and anti-discrimination language from the bill would leave the law unbalanced.

“While this bill goes to great lengths to assure Hoosiers that their religious exercise will enjoy more protection, it does very little, if anything, to assure Hoosiers that the same bill will not weaken their civil rights,” said Katz. He also gave examples of how Indiana’s Bill

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Central Indiana Autism Expo Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m. The Autism Society of Indiana will host the 2015 Central Indiana Autism Expo at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

The expo will provide useful information, tools, services, and resources for people and their families affected by autism. Vendors will represent a variety of goods and services throughout Central Indiana. People with auditory sensitivities are encouraged to bring headphones.

DuPont Pavillion, Indiana State Fairgrounds, 1202 E. 38th St., FREE, ($5 for parking), inautism.org Red Cross Blood Drive Monday, March 23, 9 a.m. The American Red Cross will be set up for blood donations at the FBI building on the north side of Indianapolis. March is Red Cross Month. One of the many duties the ARC takes on is providing donated blood to patients in need. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply. Donors must be at least 17 years of age, weigh a minimum 110 pounds and be in reasonably good health. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in.

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 8925 Nelson Parkway, FREE, redcrossblood.org Thailand Court Justice Lecture Wednesday, March 25, 5 p.m. Justice Auen Kunkeaw of the Supreme Court of Thailand will speak on “Intellectual Property, Bankrupcty and the Thai Justice System” at the IU McKinney School of Law. Justice Auen’s presentation is a part of the Center for Intellectual Property and Innovation Distinguished Lecture Series. He has authored several law books in Thailand and has an extensive background on this area of law.

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Rep. Ed DeLaney, D-Indianapolis, intensely questioned Daniel Conkle, professor of law at the IU Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, following his testimony on the merits of the bill.

of Rights and Indiana Code already have religious freedoms included in its language, in some cases even stronger than federal language of similar instances.

However the same cannot be said of any civil rights language. While Indianapolis prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation by city ordinance, Indiana Code and the Indiana Constitution do not include the same language and thereby the same protections across the state. The ordinance in Indianapolis came into place in 2010 when Just Cookies refused to make rainbow-decorated cookies for a gay student and again in 2013 when 111 Cakery refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

The most pressing questions from the committee came from Rep. Ed DeLaney, D-Indianapolis, for Prof. Conkle. DeLaney is an attorney who has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America multiple times, specifically in the category of First Amendment Law. DeLaney pushed Conkle on the issue of discrimination in the specific instance of a gay individual or couple being denied service in some form. Ultimately, Conkle agreed that the bill could lead to litigation in that type of scenario and that it would be up to the court to decide. He also stated in his testimony that he hoped the passage of the bill would be a catalyst for addressing sexual orientation in the state’s civil rights laws in order to prevent such a scenario from occurring.

Other compelling testimony Testimony on the bill lasted for three and a half hours with the majority of the time given to those who spoke in favor of the bill. (Rep. Wesco spent so much time introducing the measure I was beginning to think he was trying

to filibuster instead of present.) Rabbis, priests and ministers spoke in support and in opposition to the measure. Other special interest groups like Right-to-Life and the Thomas More Society also spoke in favor of the bill. But members of the business community spoke in opposition to the measure. Angela Jones with the Indy Chamber testified that a RFRA in Indiana could have devastating effects on the tourism in the capital city, which in turn would affect the entire state. The tourism industry in Indianapolis and Central Indiana carries a $4.4 billion annual impact on the region. Jones stated that legislation that essentially nullifies the local Human Rights ordinance in Indianapolis would also drive away a talented workforce and negates the city’s portrayal of being a welcoming place for economic development. Jessica Barth from the legal department at Eskenazi Health testified that RFRA would put the hospital in jeopardy of providing the best quality care to any and all persons in need without exception. Barth says the hospital has taken employment actions against staff that have violated the hospitals discrimination policy, which is a requirement in accordance with federal

law in order to accept Medicaid and Medicare.

But the most heart-wrenching testimony came from Amy Sandler, Niki Quasney’s widow. Sandler spoke to the committee and the gallery not only as one half of a lesbian couple, but as one half of an interfaith couple. She spoke of the ovarian cancer that ultimately took her wife’s life, of the genetic risk that exists for Niki’s sisters and nieces and of how some oral contraceptives are diagnosed to women with this risk for certain cancers during their child-bearing years as a preemptive strike to warding off the disease. Sandler testified of the injustice that would exist if a pharmacist refused to fill such a prescription based on a religious belief against the drug itself without knowing the reason for the prescription. And she testified in Niki’s words from earlier testimony related to HJR-3 that Sandler felt applied to the question at hand, “This is not an issue of religion. This is an issue of equality and freedom. My freedom is in the hands of people I’ve never even met.”

The bill moves forward When it was all said and done, it was evident that the minds of committee members had been made before they ever entered the hearing room. SB 101 passed 9-4 on a party line vote and is now headed to the full House for consideration. The social media universe is calling on someone in the Indiana House to offer the same amendment that a state legislator in Oklahoma offered— and killed a RFRA bill in that state.

Emily Virgin called for any business that intends to use RFRA to discriminate against gays and lesbians place a sign in their place of business indicating that denial of services so the LGBTQ community would know upfront where they will and will not be accepted. Sen. Karen Tallian, D-LaPorte, did just that on the Senate floor (complete with props) only to see the amendment fail along party lines. It’s unclear if an amendment in the House would find better luck. n

Instead of posting signage to announce discrimination, Open for Service is encouraging businesses to place signage indicating their goods and services are open to everyone. In addition to offering a $10 sticker for a business to announce its inclusion of any race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation, the website promises to list all of the businesses that have pledged their support. According to their website, openforservice,org, Open for Service has no staff, no office location and no agenda. The initiative, based in Indiana, instead, plans to build a nationwide network of open-minded organizations, companies, and business owners that are recognized for doing the right thing.

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According to her count, Ms. Pat, government name Patricia Williams, has been shot twice (once in the nipple, the other in the back of the head) and hit by a dump truck once (she jumped onto it from an overpass). She gave birth to two kids by age 15 (by a married man seven years her senior). She did a year in jail for drug trafficking (at one point, her “trap” — the corner on which she regularly sold drugs — was just feet from her daughter’s elementary school). She was baptized more than 50 times (her mom was running a scam on area churches, which usually sent their new members home with food and cash). >>>

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But then Pat was saved. Not by a Horatio Alger sugar daddy or an Extreme Makeover or Jesus. No, it was comedy that gave Pat riches where she had rags.

And also a good husband. And weirdly enough, her welfare case worker, who told Pat that her stories of unrelenting gloom and misery were actually kind of funny and that she ought to be a comedian. And so she tried telling jokes, just straight-up, setup-then-punchline jokes.

And those might’ve worked at an open mic, but it was when she started talking about her own life that she really started to heal. She took power away from gruesome tales of gun violence and public indecency and mindless homophobia

Ms. Pat on people asking for a selfie: Look, I’m a woman. I don’t have on makeup. I don’t even have my good bra on today. That’s kind of like asking a woman how old she is. Get your ass out of here.

by laughing at their absurdity. She put distance between the comedian and survivor she is and the lost child that she was.

Born and raised, for better and often worse, in Atlanta, Pat moved with her husband and kids eight years ago to Plainfield. And she’s steadily, assiduously worked on her comedy since then, haunting open mic nights, sitting in the back during the weekends, answering phones at Morty’s. She got a big bump from two of the city’s best friends to comedians, Mr. Bob and Mr. Tom, who first had her on their show four years ago and haven’t hesitated to invite her back. Opening gigs for Katt Williams and Arnez J. gave her a taste of the big time.

And then, last fall, her fans bugged some podcasters enough to get her some bookings. First was Talkin’ Shit with Eddie Ifft, and then the big boys.

She kicked it on The Joe Rogan Experience, visited Marc Maron’s cat-filled garage and landed in Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank. Shaffir liked her so much that he asked her to try out for his new Comedy Central show — and Pat did so well that she appeared on This Is Not Happening in February. And then Maron invited Pat to do a bit part in his IFC TV show, though she had some trouble with her lines on what was her very first acting gig.

No matter. The producers gave her latitude to say the lines in her own voice — “You want me to say it Black?” she asked them — which could make for the liveliest turn by a customer care representative in recent history.

But what was that smell in the air as the NUVO crew drove through the winding streets of a Plainfield subdivision marooned in the cornfields? Well, it wasn’t basic cable. Nope, that was the reek of full-on network television. It was a good thing we scheduled our interview and photo shoot for early afternoon, because the Last Comic Standing team was on the way to tape a profile segment with Pat, who will compete in the show’s ninth season, premiering in May. All the better, because it meant that she had her Atlanta-based makeup artist on the ground, ready with touchups. We scored a couple hours of her increasingly valuable time as family members puttered around her.

But another manager who worked there, Avery Dellinger, pulled me to the side to say, ‘Ms. Pat, don’t worry about that guy. I’ll help you.’ At that time I was just a raw comic; I didn’t know how to put nothing together. So Avery took the time to help me, and, eventually, I ended up with my own show at Morty’s. It was every Thursday, called Bust a Gut with Ms. Pat. And it was packed! All the little white kids from Purdue used to ride up to hear me talk cold cash shit. It was crazy, because there’d be like 50 little white Purdue kids, studying engineering with their daddy’s credit cards, getting tore up on a Thursday night! ‘If your daddy knew what you’ve been doing with this money, he’d kill all of us!’

NUVO: What’s it like to try to make it from Indianapolis? It’s not a major center for comedy, but there are some clubs.

NUVO: Wasn’t it a welfare case worker who first told you you were funny, when you were telling awful stories to try to earn her sympathy and get money out of her?

MS. PAT: But there’s nowhere you can really hone your skills. Most open mics here are once a month. You’ve got to sign up; you only get three minutes. And the jokes: White boys and their cats just do something to me. I’ll be like, ‘Can you go out and do something serious like jump off a bridge, make a baby and not take care of it? Real problems — not your cat problems.’ Indianapolis humbled me so much, because I came from Atlanta, where if you don’t like somebody in this spot, you can say, ‘Fuck ‘em,’ and go over somewhere else. You can’t just slap somebody running an open mic in Indianapolis, because you might not be able to get back up — and there are really only two or three open mics.

And at that time, the owner of Morty’s — the first owner — was just such a dick.

He did everything he could to run me away. One time he let me host, and then he was like, ‘You’re just too ghetto. My 7 o’clock white crowd isn’t gonna get you.’

I’m like, ‘When it’s funny, everybody can get it — if you have a sense of humor.’

Ten years ago I would’ve beat his ass and dragged him all around the club. But thank God and diabetes, I grew up. I just said, ‘Okay, thank you for the opportunity.’

Ms. Pat on snow: Atlanta called a state of emergency for the last snow they got. I was like, ‘Come on, Atlanta! Really? A state of emergency for flurries?’

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PAT: I went to the welfare office to run a scam on her. And she was like, ‘Well, you should be a comedian.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about? A person who tells jokes? I don’t have no jokes.’ And she was like, ‘Yes, you do. This shit is funny. You could be just like Richard Pryor?’ And I was like, ‘Who the hell is Richard Pryor?’

When I started listening to Pryor, he really made me open up on stage to who I was, and not worry about being judged.

That’s one of the biggest things comics worry about. We want to be liked, and we worry about if you like what we say.

But fake fans will be weeded out; the real ones will stick with you, and the fake ones will come and go. He just made me start to be true to who I was. No longer being embarrassed of my past of being a teenage mom, selling drugs; the stuff that I went through to survive. I’m OK with myself now, and a lot of that came from studying Pryor.

NUVO: But when you started doing open mics, you weren’t talking about your past. What kind of jokes were you doing?

PAT: Ghetto Black woman jokes. I was doing female jokes, how about that? I was doing sexual jokes, period jokes, ‘I hate my man’ jokes; just dumb stuff like that. And I was like, ‘This don’t even fit me; I have a good man!’ Then I started to wean myself away from that, started talking about me, because I thought I was way more interesting than a blowjob joke.

The year of Ms. Pat Next local performance: March 26, 7:15 p.m., March 27 & 28, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m., Morty’s Comedy Club ($12-15 plus two item minimum) On podcasts: WTF with Marc Maron, The Joe Rogan Experience, Talkin’ Shit with Eddie Ifft, Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank, Bertcast, The CrabFeast with Ryan Sickler & Jay Larson, Your Mom’s House

The cycle of abuse NUVO: What was it like the first time you started really talking about yourself on stage? Was that scary?

PAT: Really, especially when I started talking about being a drug dealer. It was like if you stood up in front of a bunch of people and took your clothes off. Everybody ain’t going to think your navel is sexy. It was eye-opening.

I felt like, I shouldn’t have done that, ashamed. But people said, ‘You’ve just got to stick to who you are.’ And I just kept at it, and I got more comfortable with who I was. It helped to heal also, to come clean with what I’ve done in my life. The more I talked about it, the more I stopped being ashamed of it, the more I faced what I’ve gone through, as a 15-year-old parent with two kids by a married man. And when I was in Atlanta, I didn’t talk about being shot in the breast; I started talking about that part of my life in Indianapolis.

NUVO: You were a victim, but at the same time, because of that cycle of violence, you were putting other people in tough situations.

PAT: Yes, because I pulled other family members into what I was doing. My cousin ended up going to jail for me. I had a niece that ended up staying in it and becoming a convicted felon. That’s what bothered me the most, that they didn’t get a chance. I should’ve been helping them in another way. Instead I pulled them into the lifestyle that I’d known. And that’s the cycle of family.

Instead of someone saying, ‘Hey, let’s go this a-way,’ everyone just got sucked into that hole. Eventually, I looked around and I was like, ‘My kids are going to end up in jail and drop out. I’ve got to

On TV: • T his Is Not Happening (Ep. 103), Comedy Central (airing Thursdays, 12:30 a.m.)

• L ast Comic Standing, NBC (Season Nine premieres May 21) •M aron on IFC (Season Three premieres in Spring 2015) On shelves: Rabbit: A Memoir (HarperCollins, due mid-April 2016)

get out of here. There’s got to be a better way.’ That’s when I started to realize I was getting into a cycle and I’ve got to get out of it.

NUVO: You grew up in Atlanta in a bootleg house?

PAT: Right, in a bootleg house run by my granddaddy. He sold corn liquor. We grew up there, and we saw a lot. My husband says that’s why me and my sisters and brothers don’t have a job, because we all learned how to hustle from those incidents. I don’t think anybody ever had a career in my family, aside from my husband and now me. Everybody else either sold drugs or stole or hustled.

NUVO: What was fun for you then?

PAT: Pac-Man. Pac-Man took me away.

There was something about going down the street from my granddaddy’s house to play that took me away from everything. And that song, Whitney Houston’s ‘I Believe the Children Are Our Future’ [‘Greatest Love Of All’]. I listened to that thing so often that the tape broke. We tried to glue it back together to keep playing it. That was my escape.

NUVO: It was like a message from another world.

PAT: I was like, ‘Whitney, you don’t know where I live. What children are you talking about?’

NUVO: But he provided and you had a place to stay, so when he went to jail for shooting a woman, things got a little trickier.

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I met my kids’ father. Got pregnant when I was 13. Gave birth when I was 14. Where’s that birth certificate? I want to get this right. [Pat consults her first child’s birth certificate, conveniently located on the kitchen table.]

And he was 21.

Old guys signing birth certificates NUVO: And he signed that birth certificate at the hospital. No one cared about the age difference. And they were pretty rough on you at the hospital, right?

PAT: It was in the ‘80s, so teenage pregnancy was running rapid in the inner cities. It was out of control; nobody acted like they cared about it. Nobody was talking to young girls: ‘Hey, don’t have a baby. This is what birth control is.’ I think the women at the hospital knew how hard it was going to be for these young girls who had a baby, because there was no system for that.

I think that’s why they were so mean.

They probably saw it every day. And they probably saw it younger than me.

And you had these old guys coming in and signing birth certificates. And nobody did nothing. I was asking myself the other day, ‘Why wasn’t he arrested?

Why wasn’t he questioned?’

NUVO: Your mom gave the world’s worst advice.

PAT: She said one time, ‘If a man don’t hit you, he don’t love you.’ So I think that’s why I took a lot of the crap that I took off my kids’ father. I’m thinking every punch is a love punch. But how many times are you going to get your eye stitched up? And I was not only physically, but mentally abused. I’m in my 40s now, and sometimes I still hear stuff. A song can come on the radio, and it can remind me of a situation, and I have to turn it.

NUVO: Not to force this comparison, but it seems to me that you’ve always had an impressive work ethic, whether you were involved in legal or illegal activities.

PAT: Sometimes people will tell me,

‘You’re so spontaneous,’ and I’m like, ‘No, it was already in my head.’ Once I got started in comedy, I told myself, ‘I’m going to get a sitcom.’ I don’t have a sitcom, but I’m still working really hard. I told my husband, ‘One day, you’re going to be able to quit your job.’ He said, ‘More of this crap.’

NUVO: You’re getting closer to that, right?

PAT: I think I’m getting closer. That’s just my work ethic in anything I do. When I want something, I try to work really hard at making sure I get it. You could be a $300 comedian for the rest of your life.

People don’t realize, comedy is hard. I wake up in the middle of the night, working on my sets. But that’s what it takes.

And I have such a great manager who’s honest with me, who makes me constantly switch stuff around. It makes me crazy, but in the end he’s always right.

NUVO: Can you talk about writing your memoir?

PAT: I’m not writing my memoir. I have a GED. The writer is writing it; he’s telling the stories. It was really hard. A lot of stuff I have blocked out because it caused so much pain in my life. I had to call one of my ex-girlfriends [who had a child with the father of Pat’s first two kids]; we raised our kids as brother and sister together. We’re good friends to this day. She started telling me stories that I started to remember, and she couldn’t stop crying. Believe it or not, the writer be crying too. But there’s some good parts to the book. The book’s got all types of emotions. You’re going to cry, you’re going to be sorry; you’re going to be cheering me on; you’re going to get mad at him, you’re going to get mad at me at the mistakes I make.

to borrow $5, you can say, ‘Come get it.’

But they never come. I do miss my girlfriends and some of my immediate family, like my brothers, but I started this thing last year where they come up here for Thanksgiving.

NUVO: What’s it like to play casinos, like you did earlier this month? Those can be extraordinarily drunk crowds.

PAT: Any late show is drunk people anyways. I hate to see good old 7:00 people get stuck at a 9:30 show, because you have drunk-ass people, who had a little bit too much fun before they came to the show. They can be the worst crowd, and they can turn out to be the greatest people in the world. When they’re that drunk, I kind of go out of my set to talk to them, doing dumb crap to calm them down, to let them know I can hear them talking. Because I don’t like putting people down.

And I don’t like belittling people either.

Ms. Pat on Bill Cosby: If 102 people came out and said I did it, I’m probably guilty, but I don’t want to judge. It’s a shame for somebody like Cosby to get torn down like this, because so many comedians like myself come up wanting to be like Cosby. That’s where I started to tell stories.

NUVO: But sometimes you have to, right?

A fresh slate NUVO: Being in somewhere like Indianapolis or Plainfield may be boring sometimes, but you’re far enough away to get a new start and change habits.

PAT: That’s what I do like about living here. That’s what my husband likes about living here.

We don’t have any family here, so when they need

Ms. Pat on TV: I want a sitcom, not a reality show. My kids shouldn’t be on TV everyday. And I need some kids who can act like they like me.

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Ms. Pat’s favorite comedian/storytellers: Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle

Ms. Pat’s response to people who don’t like her stage name: I’m sorry. I was born in the ‘70s and I have an old woman name. It’s Patricia. I always wanted to be named Mercedes or Porsche, but it didn’t work out.

Ms. Pat appears on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening.

PAT: Yes. I just had to put a lady out of my show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last week.

She was right up front, and after every joke she was like, ‘Go, girl!’ I was like, ‘Bitch, this ain’t church! This ain’t TV!’ Finally, she got on her phone and started texting her son. I was like, ‘Bitch, it’s time for you to go home. Goodbye.’

NUVO: What was your worst show?

PAT: Black people are crazy. Black people think that you already better be funny. White people sit there, ‘That joke didn’t work, but we applaud you for trying.’ Black people are like, ‘Don’t come back here, and I’m going to kill all your children if you do.’ I was doing this open mic about three months after I started performing. It’s called a Nerf show. They give the audience five Nerf balls each, and if the audience don’t like you, they throw these Nerf balls at you. I was already in a bad mood. We’d just had snow in Atlanta and I’m having a real female issue — my stomach is hurting; my head is hurting. But they’re like, ‘Go up there Ms. Pat. They called your name.’ I tell a joke, and this man hit me in the head with a Nerf ball. And it stung. It made me think about my bad relationship, and I was like, ‘Fuck these balls. You throw one more ball and I’ll jump off the stage and kill you.’ And I got a standing ovation. That was my first standing ovation.

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Get on the bus NUVO: You strike a balance in your act between more joke-based material that’s set in the present — like shopping at Lane Bryant — and stories from your past.

PAT: Yeah, because my life is dark. You’ve got to give people something easy before you slap them across the head with all of this dark stuff. I want them to like me with the Lane Bryant material, stuff about my kids, living in Plainfield. Then when I take them to the hood, that’s more dark, but by that time they like me; they’re in it with me. They say, ‘OK, Ms. Pat, we’re going to let you put us on the back of this bus and take us through a shootout. We’re going to do this drive-by with you Ms. Pat; we like you.’

NUVO: I’ll bet you hear from a lot of people who identify with your stories and life.

PAT: Every day I get something from fans saying, ‘Thank you for sharing your story.’ When I started doing this, I didn’t realize how many people had gone through the same stuff I went through. I had a lady in Chicago who looked like she was rich, a diamond on her finger; I don’t know if it was real, but she looked like she had not gone through anything. And she whispered in my ear, ‘I had my baby at 14 too.’ I was S E E , P AT, O N P A GE 1 4 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 03.18.15 - 03.25.15 // COVER STORY 13

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like, ‘Holy crap. Are you serious?’ And she said, ‘Thank you for sharing your story.’ When people hear my story, a lot of people say, ‘There’s nothing that I have to hide anymore.’ People are hiding a lot of stuff that happened to them because they don’t want people to judge them. I say, ‘Fuck ‘em. Be who you are.’

I live by, if Jesus Christ came here and died for you and he couldn’t please you, then who the hell am I? And I ain’t anywhere near as good as him. I also get mail where people don’t like me. This is how I respond: ‘Thank you. Do what my real daddy did and get the fuck out of my life. I don’t miss him and I won’t miss you.’

NUVO: So you reply to all of your mail, even hate mail?

PAT: No, I had to stop, because my daughter, my 16-year-old, she was like, ‘Mama, you can’t tell everybody to fuck off.’

NUVO: I asked about your worst show, but what’s been your best? Or a moment when you’ve said, ‘Damn, I can’t believe I’ve made it this far?’

PAT: Every day I’m saying that. With all the stuff I’m working on, I just told my friend, ‘I think God is answering all my prayers!’ The phone calls I’ve been taking lately — they’re not blowing my mind; it’s more like they’re just unbelievable.

NUVO: Any plans to move to LA once things take off?

PAT: Yeah, but my husband doesn’t want to go, so he’s going to stay here. He’s at Allison [Transmission], so he’s doing pretty good. I want to move home. I want to move back to Atlanta. Hopefully, I can make enough money so one day I can say, ‘Will you please quit your job so we can move out of the Midwest? I don’t want to deal with real snow.’ I just need that half of inch of snow that Atlanta gets every five years when the whole city shuts down.

This is what I want NUVO: Are crowds better for you in the

South or can you make it work anywhere?

PAT: As long as I’ve been traveling and with all the people I’ve worked with, I can make it work anywhere. I really can. I used to open for Katt Williams. His crowd was so diverse, it shocked me. He had a mainstream crowd — of 20,000. He had four or five openers, and once he came on stage, he would call all of them back to thank them. And hearing the applause when he walked out there, I was like, ‘This is what I want. This is what I need in my life.’ It was awesome.

NUVO: You made it pretty far before your husband came to a show. Did he discourage you or just kind of humor you?

PAT: He said, ‘One day this, the next day this. You can’t never stick on one thing. One time you’re selling hot dogs; the next you’re selling drugs.’ I said, ‘I’m going to keep doing something until I get it right.’ He used to call my jokes ‘chicken house jokes.’

‘Don’t nobody want to hear them chicken house jokes.’ But he always supported my career. If I needed a plane ticket to go and audition, or to drive somewhere to try and showcase, he was always there.

But he wouldn’t go!

Last year, he went to Madison with me, and this year, to Chicago.

But he still wouldn’t see me perform.

people who tell stories. I don’t like oneliner comics. I want the full effect.

NUVO: How do you develop material?

PAT: I don’t just try to pull stuff out of the air. A lot of it is what I see, what I hear, what I’ve been through. The other day, my son said, ‘Mom, I want to take you to the movies.’ I was like, ‘Okay, what you want to see?’ ‘I want to take you to see 1,000 Shades of Grey.’ And my daughter said, ‘Uh, first of all, where’d

you get the other 950 Shades from?

And second of all, why do you want to take your mom to see a porn?’ Boy, I just about fell out of the chair laughing. They’re all so fucking funny, dude.

They’ve all got a personality. n Head to nuvo.net for even more of our talk.

Ms. Pat on Michael Vick: I’m from the South. I fought my dog too. I wasn’t into any of the shit he was into, but it was just something that we did, a culture thing.

NUVO: Do you think of yourself as more of a storyteller or a comedian?

PAT: A storyteller. The only way I know how to do it is tell stories. To me, what makes jokes so great is detail. Once you have that detail, people can start to visualize.

Wherever you’re at, they go into that situation that you’re in. I like

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Ms. Pat on trolls: I call ‘em keyboard thugs.

It’s so easy for a keyboard thug to say something about something he don’t know.

You don’t know what I’ve been through.

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DivaFest: Imaginary Kyle e March 13-15. Imaginary Kyle by Bernadette Bartlett and Jenee Lusk was one of two new plays featured in this year’s DivaFest, presented last weekend in IndyFringe’s beautiful new Indy Eleven Theatre. The black box space, which can accommodate 65 seats — plus anyone within shouting distance when its moveable hanger wall (read: garage door) is open to the outdoors — celebrated its grand opening last weekend. It’s an even more intimate space than the IndyFringe Basile Theatre, the 100-seat space that had been IndyFringe’s only permanent stage.

Even in the small space and with minimal set pieces, director Beverly Roche and her cast and design team made us feel that we were in several locations at a pivotal time in a young woman’s life. The script itself is an endearing yet realistic look at the coming-of-age of a group of friends, circa now.

Lisa Marie Smith played Jenny, a nearly-graduated college student who is sharing a basement apartment with three other people. She’s been dating a man for five years and is looking to move it all “to the next level.” But she’s unsure what that really means and has no clue how to do it. The show opens with her bombing yet another job interview.

Trying to comfort her afterward, her roommate, Stephanie (Audrey Stauffer), suggests she “do the retro thing” and get her boyfriend to marry her, i.e., to support her. That would help move his life to the next level too. Jenny’s boyfriend, Jeff (Zachariah Stonerock), has a good job, but he is 27 and still living contentedly in his parents’ basement.

Neither woman thinks Jenny should just talk to Jeff about getting married or even moving in together. Instead, Stephanie tells Jenny to invent a desirable man to make Jeff jealous. Imaginary Kyle is good-looking, works for the Colts and is interested in Stephanie. She met him through a study group and now he wants to take her to concerts and other events.

There are funny elements in this piece, such as Tristan Ross screaming the voice of Jeff’s codependent mother from upstairs and Jenny’s helicopter

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Jolene Moffat (as Queen Victoria) and Adam O. Crowe (Benjamin Disraeli) reminisce in the theater of the mind.

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Zach De Pue plays Barber March 19-22. You’ll have four chances to catch concertmaster De Pue as soloist on Barber’s Violin Concerto, with stops at the Palladium (March 20), Avon High School (March 22), plus two shows at Hilbert Circle Theatre (March 19 and 21). Urbanski conducts.

Locations and prices vary, indianapolissymphony.org

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Trio Eunoia March 19, 7:30 p.m. Ensemble Music is bringing in some fresh faces from the NYC new music scene for its annual concert at the IMA. The program includes Toru Takemitsu’s harmonically thick Between Tides (1993); Toshio Hosokawa’s Memory: In Memory of Isang Yun (1996), a contemplative elegy informed by Japanese folk music; and Ives’s Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1909-11), which makes hay of tunes like “My Old Kentucky Home” and “Long, Long Ago.” Indianapolis Museum of Art, $30 public, $25 IMA member, ensemblemusic.org

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Roommates Stephanie and Jenny (played by Audrey Stauffer, left, and Lisa Marie Smith) consider their lives in Imaginary Kyle. mother calling her every two minutes. And Audrey Stauffer is hilarious playing a tipsy Stephanie’s impersonation of Kyle.

But I loved Imaginary Kyle because of the genuineness of the main characters. I swooned over Jeff’s gentle masculinity. I rolled my eyes at Stephanie’s eagerness to tell everyone else what to do while neglecting herself. And I empathized with Jenny’s feeling of everything being over her head, literally and figuratively. I also loved the realistic hope in the ending.

Even though we moved smoothly from one apartment to another and from job interview to gym to

restaurant, I was sometimes confused about what city we were in. Jenny mentions wanting to leave Terre Haute and move to Indianapolis. Jeff gets an apartment in Broad Ripple in an attempt to make her happy, but Jenny doesn’t actually move out of her basement apartment until the end of the play. Yet she tells Jeff that Kyle wants to take her to the Rivoli Theatre, which is in Indianapolis. If the playwrights wanted to revise their script further, there might be ways to make the location though-line more clear.

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DivaFest: Royal Friends e March 13-15. Rita Kohn’s half-hour play Royal Friends — first presented as a staged reading in 1984 and given a fuller production at DivaFest — takes place in 1886 in Queen Victoria’s Garden. Her Royal Highness is making a bouquet when her beloved friend, Benjamin Disraeli, aka Lord Beaconsfield, reappears to reminisce, either in her imagination or as a ghost. He’s been dead for five years.

The two friends refer to things they wrote in letters to each other when both were alive, and to other people and events that were important to them. Her majesty praises Lord Beaconsfield for caring about “the common people.” He refers to the laws he brought about as his “children.” I confess that a lot of the historical detail went over my head. But I loved the feeling of getting to know two famous historical figures as human beings and experiencing a bit of their

flirtatious yet deep friendship.

Under the playwright’s direction, Jolene Mentink Moffatt portrayed Queen Victoria as a juicy woman still in love with her dead husband, Albert, but also in love with life.

Adam O. Crowe portrayed Lord Beaconsfield as an equally vibrant Rita Kohn and conscientious man who was delighted to have found favor with his monarch and sincerely enjoyed her company. Royal Friends made me want to learn more about these two people and the time they lived in.

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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot March 20-April 4. Wisdom Tooth Theatre Project presents a 2005 play first staged by Philip Seymour Hoffman that considers the culpability of Judas in a courtroom setting. Mother Teresa, Sigmund Freud and Satan are called upon to testify. Sounds like fun.

IndyFringe Basile Theater, $15 advance, $10 student, indyfringe.org Lightwire ... The Show March 21, 8 p.m. A family-friendly extravaganza employing electroluminescent wire. As seen on America’s Got Talent.

Clowes Hall, $25-35, cloweshall.org Mademoiselle March 24, 7:30 p.m. Ronen Chamber Ensemble’s tribute to the hugely influential pedagogue Nadia Boulanger includes works by her peers (Ravel, Stravinsky), students (Francaix, Naoumoff), sister (Lili Boulanger) and, of course, the teacher herself. Show up at 7 p.m. for a talk by her last protege Emile Naoumoff, who apprenticed with Boulanger for a decade.

Hilbert Circle Theatre, $25, ronenchamber.org Academy of St. Martin in the Fields March 24, 7:30 p.m. This outrageously successful London-based chamber ensemble, under the direction of Hoosier Joshua Bell since 2011, is headed to Purdue with Jeremy Denk, performing two Bach Keyboard Concertos.

Elliott Hall of Music (Purdue), $22-45, purdue.edu

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Gal Pal Comedy Fest r Continues March 21 and 28. I am, admittedly, a gal pal. I’ve often said the women of Indianapolis are funnier than their opposite sex. Happily, ComedySportz is hosting another month-long comedy festival devoted to these sirens of mirth, some of whom are, naturally, already work at the improv theater.

Caveat emptor: This is essentially an improv show and the actual roster varies with each performance, so what I saw March 14 may have been radically different from what you might see. That said, I was delighted to see Claire Wilcher once involved with Gal Pal. Anything she touches as a performer becomes comedic gold, and her natural charisma and warm approachability make her the perfect host.

The night’s improv was divided into short games for the first half of the show, followed by long-form after the intermission, with a stand-up routine opening for each act. Erin Car Adams took the first slot in character as an ancestor from the late nineteenth century and was an absolute joy. I’ve seen her perform this routine before — and I still love it. Character-based stand-up can easily become insufferable, but Adams takes such a fresh, clever, sometimes biting approach and leaves you wanting to hear more. The second act’s opener, Darla Worton Butche, paled in comparison, lacking polish and originality.

The rest of the lineup was also a mixed bag; as is

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often the case for improv, there were a few incredibly talented performers and a few duds. Praise goes to Maria Meschi and Courtney Marie, who both injected energy and wit into the show. And I’d like to single out Frankie Bolda, who’s fast becoming a mainstay with her sharp, yet often lovable humor. Bolda’s attention to detail extends to a bit of business when, pretending to be a child playing with a Transformers (TM) figurine, she took a moment to unfold the toy’s head out from its body. Well played, Ms. Bolda, well played.

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ISO: Berlioz, Ravel, Brahms e It’s been just two years since the ISO’s last Brahms’s March 13. Only the first hour of Friday’s program at Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68. But we know that all Hilbert Circle Theatre followed the original schedule: four Brahms symphonies are concert warhorses, which The annual 7 p.m. appearance of the Honor Orchestra can bear repeated playing. Some 20 years in gestation, of America, a confluence of the most outstanding Brahms 1 appeared in 1876, when the composer was 43. teenaged players from all corners of our country. After He claimed he “felt the tramp of Beethoven” behind him two works from the teenagers and a 20 minute break, — and showed it by constructing his fourth movement in our ISO players came on stage, along with Ludovic a scaled down, all-instrumental allusion to Beethoven’s Morlot, music director for the Seattle Symphony.

“Ode to Joy” movement of his Ninth Symphony.

Still recovering from recent surgery, Raymond LepMorlot took us through No. 1 with knowledgeable pard had to cancel his scheduled appearance — and ease, teasing apart some of Brahms’ thick orchestral his program of Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Elgar. In its textures and making their intricacies audible. But he place, Morlot brought with him piano soloist Bertrand couldn’t amplify all of those textures, giving us a Chamayou and Berlioz, Ravel and Brahms. performance better than routine, but hardly It was Ravel’s Piano Concerto in D for Left outstanding, with honorable mention to Hand Alone which demonstrated Chamayou’s Roger Roe’s oboe work. talent and, for that matter, Ravel’s — it’s Morlot began his program with an perhaps the composer’s most notable late early, even immature work of Berlioz, his work. With his right hand resting on the Overture to Les Francs-juges (Judges of the bench, Chamayou’s left hand covered the Secret Court, 1828). With his penchant entire keyboard, giving us two solo for extravagance, the neurotic cadenzas, one at the beginning, Berlioz calls for lots of brass the other near the end. With clean and percussion, but lacks articulation, he executed some of the ability to employ them Ravel’s most gorgeous passage artistically. Two tubas, three work, plus a repeated rapid chord trombones, two trumpets and sequence with the orchestra intona bevy of horns are employed ing a strict duple meter. too often and too long, with The orchestra also realized the the supporting strings providpiece’s slightly jazzy tinge, consistent ing weak backup material. with Ravel’s then-recent exposure Morlot managed to get his to George Gershwin. (Ravel’s debt players through it with a fair to Gershwin is made more obvious in degree of precision, but that Ravel’s ensuing, lighter-veined twoPianist didn’t help much. hand Concerto in G.) Regrettably, Bertrand Chamayou the ISO sometimes covered some of — TOM ALDRIDGE SUBMITTED PHOTO Chamayou’s important figurations, Hilbert Circle Theater 16 STAGE // 03.18.15 - 03.25.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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Jonathan McAfee: Classical Waste e Through March 27. The mixed media paintings collected in this show take their subjects from American Apparel ads. But there is an alchemy at work here.

McAfee takes commercial photos and renders them interesting and exciting — or sensual and sexy, as is the case with “Anna” (acrylic and spray paint on canvas), even if only Anna’s head is depicted.

The common denominators between this group of paintings and McAfee’s previous work — such as his Kurt Vonnegut portraits — are his bright, bold palette and his impressive use of mixed media, including spray paint. And the Indy-based artist continues to gain confidence as a portrait artist.

In a number of these paintings, McAfee experiments by playfully juxtaposing foreground and background. In “David in Button-Down Striped Shirt,” the model wears a shirt incorporating patterns derived from Central American Indian designs. He stands against a checkerboard pattered backdrop that looks like an upended dance floor out of Saturday Night Fever. But instead of white squares, there’s a rainbow of pastel colors.

Everything clashes, but that’s okay in the world of commerce — as long as it sells. Even the skin tone of this African-American subject seems to reflect the United Colors of Benetton vibe of the backdrop. This is a portrait utterly of this time — because everything seems out of place.

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Kate Oberreich: Dreams about Flying e Through March 27.

The titles of Kate Oberreich’s paintings might work just as well on the cover of a John Green novel. And this makes sense because Oberreich was commissioned to make paintings that “Dreams About Flying” appeared in the film

by Kate Oberreich based on Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.

But Oberreich’s mixed-media “Guilt/Gilt” works more as a poem than a novel for me. Gold-painted concentric circles or half-circle along the top of the canvas might correspond to the “gilt” of the title (these circles pop up frequently in her work). The primary image in this painting is a bird cage hanging from a wire. How does this cage relate to the idea of guilt? This painting gave the poet in me something to chew on.

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filled with ideograms.

Some of Oberreich’s compositions are as loosely composed as they are as thoughtful, but she tightens things up in her “Dreams about Flying.” There’s a precision to the hands drawn with white gel reaching up for a bird against a blue black sky — achieved with a super-saturated watercolor on Arches paper — that made me admire her technique as much as her ideas.

But the conceptual content here is probably enough to inspire another novel. John Green, take note.

Harrison Center for the Arts Robert Allan James: The Articles of Loss e Through March 27. If you’re just passing by Robert Allan James’ “Sunday Morning Mass Ave.,” you’ll definitely recognize the foreshortened buildings on either side of the avenue, receding away as they approach the glass skyscrapers in the heart of downtown Indy. But there are some very strange things here — acrylic and collage on Masonite — that take a moment to process. Like the waves of numbers peeking out of the paint. Or the teddy bear mural replacing the one of Kurt Vonnegut. And, most disconcertingly, another bear peeking out at you from the passenger side of a car with beady blue eyes.

In other paintings, it’s robots that rule. “Aftermarket” shows several robots on a downtown street; one looks like he’s trying to steady himself against the entrance of a bar as he walks into broad daylight. These robots are old-fashioned, and kind of cute in the way robots in Calvin and Hobbes robots are cute, but what’s really 3

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creepy here (as well as in “Sunday Morning, Mass Ave.” as well) is that there are no people around.

It’s as if we’ve lost our bearings; we’ve been superseded by our computer algorithms. And in “Almost Made It,” you see a teddy bear in a dismal rural landscape — as creepy as anything imagined by Goya — unzipping a brownish yellow sky to reveal its innards. It’s a teddy bear apocalypse.

Indiana Landmarks Center Monsters, Myth, and Mayhem r Through March 26. Some familiar names contributed to this Indy Indie group show. Lydia Burris’s painting “The Forgotten One” shows a cross between a tree and a woman lost in the forest, her face hidden by a mask-like growth. Mallory Hodgkin’s painting “Go to Bed” features a mother boar and her little squeakers, all studded with crystal-like growths glowing under the blue light of the full moon.

As for new faces, look for Josh Haines’ “Fixation,” which shows the legs of a girl wearing a pink skirt, with part of one leg cut away. With the ground colored pink under the girl’s feet and a white duck hanging out in the background, it’s kind of like Dali meets Mab Graves. Also of note: A brochure by a group called The Universal Collective, entitled “Everything is Everything is Everything,” extolling the truths of a nameless astronaut’s communication logs.

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Phil Campbell: Your Catfish Friend Through April 18. Phil Campbell’s enormous catfish, carved from African mahogany and painted with high flow acrylic, fills an entire wall in iMOCA’s middle gallery, measuring 22.5 by 11.5 feet. The symbiosis between wood-carving and painting is seamless. (That is also to say that this seems to be a living, breathing work of art.) And so is the attention to detail, particularly in the catfish’s scales.

Inspired by a Richard Brautigan poem and Japanese woodblock prints — and motivated by the artist’s desire to put a smile on people’s faces — it’s a piece to spend time with and show your children. iMOCA in Fountain Square, FREE, indymoca.org Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone Through May 10. This unprecedented exhibition of traditional art from Liberia and Sierra Leone features more than 70 objects from the collection of William Seigman, an IU alumnus and former curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

The IU Art Museum is one of four venues in the U.S. to host the show, which was also exhibited at the National Museum of African Art. The collection includes masks, figures, and prestige arts from more than a dozen ethnic groups.

Indiana University Art Museum, FREE, indiana.edu Erwin Wurm: Euclidean Exercises Through June 21. Austrian artist Erwin Wurm supplies the empty platforms, instructional drawings and props. It’s up to you to execute his sculpture by striking a pose. Wurm’s interactive, Fluxus-inspired One Minute Sculptures are just one part of his Euclidean Exercises; photo, video and non-interactive sculptures by Wurm are also littered through the IMA. Indianapolis Museum of Art, FREE (until April 7), imamuseum.org The Rise of American Modernism Through July 26. A collection of 29 prints, drawings, watercolors and photographs by artists introduced to America in Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery, which began importing the French avant-garde to New York City in 1908. Featuring work by Man Ray, Katherine Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne.

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EVENTS Louise Glück March 25, 7:30 p.m. A few lines from Louise Gluck’s latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night: “It had occurred to me that all human beings are divided / into those who wish to move forward / and those who wish to go back. / Or you could say, those who wish to keep moving / and those who want to be stopped in their tracks / as by the blazing sword.”

Atherton Union Reilly Room, Butler University, FREE, butler.edu Matthew Fox & Norbert Krapf: Catholic Boy Blues March 26, 7 p.m. In his most recent collection, Catholic Boy Blues, former Indiana poet laureate Norbert Krapf’s looks back on the sexual abuse he suffered at the hand of a priest. Matthew Fox is an expert on mysticism who has published on Meister Eckhart and other free-thinkers. The evening will start with a reading by Krapf, followed by a discussion between Fox, Krapf and the audience.

Fairfield Friends Meeting, 10441 E. CR 700 S. (Camby), suggested donation $10 Wayne White FATE Artist Lecture March 27, 7 p.m. You probably know White’s work if not his name: he directed the Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer and co-created Pee-wee’s Playhouse. But Hollywood wasn’t really for him, and for the past two decades-plus, he’s been creating word paintings, “which feature pithy and often sarcastic text statements crafted onto vintage landscape paintings,” to quote from his bio.

IUPUI Campus Center (Room 450), 420 University Blvd., FREE Art Meets News: The Work of Photojournalist Bill Foley March 28-July 19. This exhibition of work by Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist and Indy native Bill Foley will feature more than 100 vintage prints from his stints as a staff photographer for the Associated Press (1978-1984) and a freelancer working out of the Middle East, along with artifacts (cameras, passports, shell fragments) and oral interviews.

Indiana State Museum, included with admission ($13 adult), indianamuseum.org David Gessner April 1, 7:30 p.m. The Visiting Writers Series rolls on with an appearance by Gessner, who’s been documenting the destruction of the American landscape in books like The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill and My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism.

Clowes Memorial Hall, FREE, butler.edu

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arjorie Trumaine is a force to be reckoned with. Much like Miss Marple, she “happens” upon solving a series of grizzly murders in her small North Dakota town, which hasn’t experienced a homicide for a quarter of a century, when Marjorie was a mere young child.

Be forewarned: Larry Sweazy’s latest — his first featuring Trumaine — is another page-turner, starring a winning protagonist swept into a whirlwind. I intended merely to glance at the advance copy. When I closed the book, the clock announced 2:30 a.m.

A sleepy day with imperative deadlines was worth the bounty of gaining insights into how little we truly know about the people we profess to know best: their true desires, frustrations, coping mechanisms, breaking point. And how some among us, Iago-like, in fooling even the savviest judges of character, eventually bring about our own downfall.

Sweazy has framed his ’60sbased story around Norwegian mythology. Marjorie is a farmwife, now coping with caring for her severely injured husband. Even before that challenge came an economic downturn pushed by poor crop returns. A lover of books and seeker of knowledge, she bit at the chance to gain new skills through correspondence classes. Armed with certification as an indexer of nonfiction books, she gained steady work from a major publisher to earn muchneeded income. The book’s title, See Also Murder, is, of course, an allusion to her indexing skills — and Sweazy, not incidentally, works as a freelance indexer.

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NUVO has been following Sweazy for a number of years, particularly throughout the multiple award winning Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger Series and the Lucas Fume Westerns, along with his well-received novel set in Northern Indiana, The Devil’s Bones, which brings to light the fractured lives of migrant workers in the tomato processing industry. We visited with Sweazy to talk about his switch to a new locale, from western to mystery.

“I think I’ve been writing character

novels all along, and I hope readers embrace Marjorie as affectionately as they have my other characters,” Sweazy said.

“I write about the human condition, about finding answers to hard questions. That hasn’t changed. I was in the Air Force and stationed in Minot, North Dakota in the late 1970s. I spent two years there; mostly out in the field as a security police for the Minuteman missile sites.

The loneliness, stark extremism of the landscape, and utter beauty of it stuck with me all of these years. I thought it would be a perfect landscape to mirror the isolation of Marjorie’s job as an indexer and inform the strength and resilience of her character.”

It “made sense” to emphasize his Norwegian heritage in the new novel, because he knows the state — and its habitants of Norwegian origin — so well. He readily “explored that heritage a little deeper” to make Marjorie’s sleuthing ring true.

Sweazy figures there will be at least three Marjorie Trumaine novels in print by 2017. “Beyond that I have no idea what will happen, but I love writing Marjorie and I can see writing her for a good while to come — but that’s up to the readers out there,” he said. n

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OPENING ‘71 Jack O’Connell (Unbroken, 300: Rise of an Empire) plays a rookie British soldier caught up in a firefight on the streets of Belfast in 1971. “Yann Demange’s feature debut miraculously distills the often Byzantine nature of the power politics behind The Troubles in a deeply intimate chamber piece about a single day in the life of a British soldier,” said the Philadelphia Enquirer.

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From the creators of God’s Not Dead.

PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release The Gunman Sean Penn does his best Liam Neeson as the grizzled Special Forces soldier dragged back into action (actual line: “I don’t want to do this shit anymore”). Javier Barden and Idris Elba co-star.

Pierre Morel (Taken) directs.

R, opens Thursday in wide release Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D Jacques’ son takes a tour of the ocean floor, filming in the Bahamas, the Fiji Islands and the Biminis. Jean-Michel will attend the March 23, 7:30 p.m. screening at the State Museum IMAX and take part in a Q&A following the 40-minute film.

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Deli Man t What’s not to like? This peppy little documentary provides the sometimes surprising history of delis, along with a loving look at Jewish culture. We get to know third-generation deli man Ziggy Gruber – proprietor of an acclaimed Houston deli, with visits to Katz’s, 2nd Avenue Deli, Carnegie, the Stage … on and on, but alas, not our celebrated Shapiro’s.

There’s nothing earth-shattering here, but the movie is informative, engaging and fun. Plan to eat at a deli as soon as it’s over. Really. Celebrities include Fyvush Finkel, Larry King and Jerry Stiller.

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t would’ve been nice to tell you Insurgent was surprisingly good. Or fun to rant and rave about how lousy it is. But no. It’s just there, another middle installment of another teen-targeted postapocalyptic series, sloshing around for a couple of action and angst-filled hours.

We’d all be better served if I used this space to share my recipe for making really good chocolate chip cookies with pecans, but I can’t do that because The Man won’t let me. The Man insists that I treat this link of Hollywood sausage like a real movie.

Damn! (I can tell you the secret is to grind up a fourth of the pecans in a food processor and blend them into the flour.)

Here’s the plot: The hero and her crew are being chased, so they seek refuge over there. Those people don’t want them there, but they grudgingly take them in. The hero’s crew squabbles and ends up having to leave there and go somewhere else.

The pattern repeats. Later the hero gets captured a few times. Luckily she keeps getting loose. Throughout everything, she is riddled with self-doubt and regret, but she never stops because heroes don’t stop.

Eventually the villain gets her mitts on our hero. She wants her to undergo a series of trials in order to activate something powerful. Our hero gets jabbed by needles and goes from one special effects sequence to another, toughing it out because that’s her job description.

Then everybody fights and some people die and a revelation changes everything, but not until the next movie, which will be the first of two movies based on the fi-

CONTINUING Leviathan e A drama/social satire set in a small fishing town in Northern Russia directed

by Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return).

Kolya (Alexei Serebriakov) owns a car repair shop next to the home he shares with his wife (Elena Liadova) and son (Serguei Pokhodaev). The mayor wants the land and intends to use eminent domain to take it. Kolya’s army buddy is a lawyer fighting for his friend. Most of the adults drink a lot of vodka and the situation gets complicated. Stunning photography and assured direction

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nal book in the series, because that’s how the accountants do things these days.

Do you want more details? Of course you don’t. This is The Divergent Series, so you either know most everything already, or you couldn’t care less.

When the movie starts, a video news broadcaster helpfully explains the structure of the post-apocalyptic society.

You know, the way your local newscaster explains democracy when reporting on a police manhunt. In Divergent land, society has been broken into groups based on personality types. This is an utterly prepos-

hold your attention through the nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time.

Powerful and memorable. The subtitled film is gone as of Friday. You should find time to see it.

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terous idea, of course. It’s as ridiculous as the notion of a society where some people are treated like lesser beings because of the color of their skin and the country of their ancestors. Or a society where people with penises get more opportunities and better pay than people with vaginas.

Did you see what I did there? I inserted subtle social commentary into my movie essay. I just hope The Man doesn’t censor my daring statements. [Editor’s note: The Man abides.]

A bit more ‘bout the production. It has a lot of actors in it. The lead actor shows great promise. Most of the others are fine, though a few of them are underused. So there you go. My thoughts on Insurgence, a product made for people far younger than I am that probably haven’t seen enough movies yet to get spoiled by the good ones. n

What We Do in the Shadows e The first film I’ve seen this year that I could end up in my Best of 2015 list, but don’t let that raise your expectations. This mockumentary following four vampires that share a flat in the Wellington, New Zealand suburbs is silly, clever and consistently amusing, but not quite hilarious.

Co-written and directed by Taika Waititi and Flight of the Conchords’ Jermaine Clement, it works nicely because the key characters are well-developed, including a 317-year-old English dandy who serves

as den mother (Waititi) and an 862-yearold known for his savage (and freaky) killing techniques (Clement).

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Frank vs. God (March 20, 7:30 p.m.), a comedy exploring what it means to have your life upended by an “act of God,” opens the series, followed by three films on March 21: Dukale’s Dream (2:30 p.m.), about Hugh Jackman’s friendship with an Ethiopian coffee farmer whom he met while traveling as an ambassador for a Christian aid agency; American Real: The Forrest Lucas Story (5 p.m.), which finds the guy behind Lucas Oil revisiting his painful childhood; and East Side Sushi (7:30 p.m.), about a single mom who lands a job at a Japanese restaurant and dreams of becoming a sushi chef (but with a Mexican twist). Talent from American Real and the director and star of East Side Sushi are scheduled to attend.

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Ray Bradbury: From Science to Supernatural Through March 28. NUVO’s taking a break from calendar listings next week — in print, at least — for our stupendous 25th anniversary edition. So we’re allotting space this week to talk about this must-see program. The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI is partnering with the IU Cinema to present this series of movies scripted by Bradbury or adapted from his work. Some of these are legitimate rarities, including a few drawn from the Bradbury Center’s collection.

March 24, 7 p.m. Bradbury TV and shorts program: A collection of TV and short films involving Bradbury, from an Oscar nominated short, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, on which he collaborated with illustrator Joe Mugnaini, to episodes of The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents he scripted.

March 26, 7 p.m. It Came from Outer Space in 3D (1953): Bradbury wrote the original treatment for this one, presented at IU Cinema in anaglyph 3D (with red and blue paper glasses).

March 27, 6:30 p.m. A Sound of Different Drummers (1957): A live TV play from the Playhouse 90 series that bears an uncanny resemblance to Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury won his breach of copyright suit and the episode was withdrawn.

March 27, 9:30 p.m. Fahrenheit 451 (1966): Truffaut’s only English-language work.

March 28, 3 p.m. Moby Dick (1956): Bradbury nearly went under “collaborating” with director John Huston on Bradbury’s first major studio film as a screenwriter.

March 28, 6:30 p.m. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983): Bradbury didn’t have as much say as he’d have liked in this Disney version of a film he had been developing since the ‘50s, but at least it finally reached the screen.

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Broad Ripple Brewpub kicks off its 25th anniversary March 20 with an open house showcasing its interior makeover (check out the spiffy restrooms) and four distinctive single-hop brews by BRBP’s sixth headbrewer Jonathon Mullens.

The single-hopped brews include: Mosaic hops, recently released

by Yakima Chief Ranch in Washington State. It is an all-purpose aroma, flavoring and bittering hop with a complex aroma and finishes clean. The delights of Mosaic prompted Mullens to create a quartet of single-hop brews. ”I want our patrons to experience the distinctive qualities of signature hops.”

Fuggle hops has been a “cornerstone of English brewing since the late 1800’s,” explains Mullens. Fuggle’s mild, woodsy and herbal aroma opens into a malt-centric, low alcohol ale.

Cascade hops, developed at Oregon State University in the 1970s, is embraced by homebrewers for its distinctive aroma, flavor and bittering qualities.

Polaris hops, developed in Germany around 2012, is also highly aromatic with pleasant mint overtones. Mullens describes Polaris as temperamental with an attitude toward mating with malts and yeast.

After a five-year run, Cutters Brewing has closed its doors. We look forward to its recipes re-appearing, especially give their specific connection to Southern Indiana.

New Brews Oaken Barrel’s Caldwell’s Scottish Ale honors the late Jim Caldwell. Undead Red is brewed with a blend from Greenwood’s Strange Brew Coffee Co. Taxman’s Hop Collector Belgian IPA is “cask conditioned and dry hopped with Saaz and Chinook.”

Sun King on draft: Ring of Dingle Irish Stout, Dominator Dopplebock, Timmie and Naptown Brown honoring Naptown Roller Girls. In cans: Slacktivist, a Doppelkolsch with high flavor and a crisp hop bite is a collaboration with Three Floyds.

Flat 12’s German heritage Man Gose is a light, tart Spring brew.

Indiana City’s Black Lantern is a dry-hopped Black IPA with dark roasted malt flavor and bright herbal, earthy pine aroma. Dock 7 American IPA gifts strong fresh hop aroma and flavor.

BRBP’s Dual Citizenship brewed with English and American hops yields high aroma and flavor.

Boro Brown delivers hints of caramel and chocolate. Lost Red Glove Irish Red brings subtle caramel notes with a roasty finish coupling with rich herbal balance from Willamette hops’ clean-crisp qualities.

Events March 20, 8:30 p.m. “Best Buds of Comedy,” Flat12 and Rocketship Comedy, $10, 21+ March 23, 5:30 p.m. or 8 p.m. CNO X (Chefs’ Night Out), Courses Restaurant at Ivy Tech. Ivy Tech Alumni present craft brews with craft food, $65 for either seating, register at eventbrite.com.

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Toby Moreno is transitioning to taking the helm at Plow & Anchor with almost five years of Tallent experience under his belt

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oby Moreno has been working in kitchens almost as long as he hasn’t.

At 26, he’s taking on his first executive chef role at Plow & Anchor, after leaving what might be Indiana’s best restaurant, Tallent, last winter. But the road to executive chef was not one Moreno would be easily swayed from, from the first time he stepped on the line.

“I started working in kitchens when I was 14. I was a little taco boy at this little place outside of Marion, Indiana. I was making tacos, wet burritos, flautas.

It wasn’t anything big. One day I’d be doing dishes, then I’d be on the line, then I’d be serving. It was a Mom and Pop kind of place.”

“I’d get off of school, go prep for service, or run service, that kind of thing,” Moreno says nonchalantly, as if running a four-man line in high school is some

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kind of small feat. “I originally got that job because I wanted to buy my girlfriend a present,” he says with a laugh.

What may have started as merely an earning opportunity may have laid the foundation for the rest of his career.

“I dropped out of college at 19 and moved down to Bloomington to live on my brother’s floor and couch, and I started working at a place called The Runcible Spoon,” one job that he had along with a second kitchen job and a third job at a call center.

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The Toby Moreno model of Success “I had all these jobs, and it was a lot of fun, but I wanted to be better than everyone else. It wasn’t until culinary school, when I was in my Classical Cuisine class, I stayed after with the chef because we were doing a thing on amuse bouches,” the art of the tiny, one-bite plate. “I thought that was the coolest thing — I had never seen that before. So our final was to make a smaller version of what we were going to make [for a main dish]. Our dish was risotto, roasted chicken and mushrooms or something like that. And at the end of the class, we try each other’s, and I thought that everyone’s was okay but I really thought that me and my partner’s was the best, and not everyone thought that, and that bugged me. And part of me feels like everyone has the right to their opinion, but we had the best amuse bouche in the class. That just kept me up,” Moreno says. This is a common thread in great chefs: when

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the desire to be the best meets lack of experience, guys like Moreno are not content to sit around and absorb skill passively. The next part of Moreno’s story is classic small-town Indiana, and a mentor with connections parked the young chef’s passion in the most fertile soil you could imagine.

“So I asked my chef, Alan Zimmerman, and I’m like, ‘Dude, I’ve got to get better.’ And he just says, ‘Come with me.’ This is right in downtown Bloomington. I’m like, ‘Where are we going?’

And he takes me out to the alley, down a few blocks, and he takes me to [James Beard-nominated restaurant] Tallent.

I’m 19 and I’m like, “Ok, cool.’ Moreno describes his enchantment with the Tallent atmosphere as an all-encompassing kind of spell cast on him from the front of house to the back.

“Everyone in there is working really clean, and it smells fucking fantastic, and the dining room is beautiful and kind of dark, and there’s this bright light back in the kitchen, and it gets warmer as you walk back toward it. Nobody’s talking, everyone’s just handling their shit, and I liked that. I liked that atmosphere where everyone was just working.”

Between schooling, finding the motivation, and becoming a great chef, there is one toll all young guns must pay: the stage (pronounced stahj), which literally just means “work experience” or “internship” in French. And like an internship, it means doing a lot of grunt work for free.

In kitchens, a stage can either function just for gaining experience, or it can be a tryout for an open position. In Moreno’s case, it was kind of both.

“I staged there on and off for probably a total of six months or so, but it wasn’t a consistent stage. I would go in and just work for free, whether it was for hours or seven hours or eight hours.” So if you’re keeping track

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to cook, and I fucking overcooked my ribeye or something. I made a rabbit bacon hash. That was kind of stupid,” Moreno laughed. But ultimately, it was a creative sauce that won the chef over, and Moreno spent four and a half years slugging it out in Tallent’s kitchen, eventually becoming sous.

What is remarkable about all of this, though, is that Tallent fired Moreno last year, and Moreno could not be more gracious to the Beard-nominated chef for doing so. As a new father, his executive position at Craig Baker’s Plow & Anchor gives him more time to enjoy time with his new baby. At the end of his time at Tallent, he was spending more and more time at the restaurant, heralding an impending burnout.

“I was at work more than I was at home, there’s no doubt about that.

It was just time. And he knew that,” Moreno says of Tallent. Here’s what else he has to say about Talent: “Chef Tallent, that’s my guy. I wouldn’t be shit if it wasn’t for him. And he knew that I wasn’t going to quit. I’m not the kind of guy who quits.”

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at home, that’s an eight-hour unpaid kitchen shift for the experience. How’s that coffee run looking now, college students?

“And then one day, I get the nerves — and I What is remarkable about all of think of myself as just a this, though, is that Tallent fired little pipsqueak, just so nervous to even ask — Moreno last year, and Moreno could I’m like, ‘Hey, can I try out?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, not be more gracious to the Beardsure.’” nominated chef for doing so.

Except that try-outs mean cooking right next to your boss. All night.

“You have to work on the line with him. So I was firing his coordinator RJ Wall (and, full discloplates and stirring risotto, basically. I sure, my basement tenant/housemate) had no fucking clue what any of this who referred him to the Plow kitchen, was. Then he gave me someand he’s about to move up to Indiathing to cook at the end of it napolis to start putting his spin on the all, and I had thirty minutes menu in earnest.

As far as specifics for the kitchen, he’s got one goal in mind already. “One thing I plan on doing is building my pantry — things that are fermented or dried or things that are canned. Things that I don’t have to go out and get.”

And as far as the general goals go, Moreno’s are pure and simple: “I want to do what I do, and that is make sure everything is done exactly the right way.”

Finally, when I asked him when he plans on taking a minute to get some sleep, Moreno gives me a dyed-in-thewool kind of chef response that makes me realize that for some, their briar patch is in the stress and helter skelter most of us try to avoid.

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SEVEN PICKS: WHEN YOU NEED A DAMN GOOD BURGER The weather turned warm, and you though about grilling out, right? Then you saw a forecast that said another chill was coming — it’s not quite summer yet.

That’s okay — there’s a preponderance of excellent burger joints close by.

BRU Burger Bar BRU Burger has long been making a name for itself as the undisputed champ of the Indianapolis burger scene (it’s a thing). There, you can find burgers with guacamole, exotic cheeses, and a menu that frequently rotates. It may be called a “burger bar,” but BRU serves all kinds of tasty dishes, from salads to nachos. Still, the reason you go is to get a pint and grab a juicy patty with all the toppings (or none of them, because they’ll do that, too) and enjoy the deck. It’s got one of the best outdoor spaces on Mass Ave, nestled right in the center of all the action. Start your night out there and have a burger before hitting the bars.

410 Massachusetts Ave., 635-4278, bruburger.com Boogie Burger If there is one crime in this world you simply cannot get away with, it’s sneaking Boogie Burger garlic fries into an office building without being noticed. It’s also dangerous because those garlic fries, famously piled with little bits of that fresh minced goodness, are one of the most delicious iterations of fried potato this fine city has to offer. But let’s get real: it’s all about those thick, juicy patties of meat — with onion rings! with fried eggs! with all the toppings! Boogie Burger also does a damn good buffalo chicken sandwich, and God forbid you get a sack of the trifecta. The smell will linger in your car and in your pores for days, and lucky you.

1904 E. Broad Ripple Ave., 255-2450 Punch Burger Punch offers a small selection of proprietary burgers, including the truly outstanding Thai, topped with peanut butter and sweet chili sauce. Try it on the pretzel bun to get the most from the sweet/savory contrast. Also excellent was the Aloha, a highly satisfying creation featuring ham, pineapple, Swiss cheese and teriyaki sauce. Fans of all-day breakfast will love the Southern Sunrise, with its perfectly cooked fried egg and generous topping of guacamole and hot sauce.

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In addition to the proprietary burgers, diners can choose from dozens of toppings to create an almost infinite variety of sandwiches. A vegetarian option in the form of a portabella mushroom cap is also available in place of beef or turkey.

Perhaps best of all, and what confirms Punch’s advantage over every other fast food joint in town, is the availability of beer. With several local brews on tap by either the glass or pitcher, this is the clincher.

137 E. Ohio St., 426-5280; punchburger.com MacNiven’s Restaurant & Bar MacNiven’s is as close as you’ll get to a day spent on the lochs, with Scotch eggs, haggis (yes, real haggis) and Roast Beef MacHattan.

They also serve plenty of American food, too, if the Scottish fare doesn’t appeal, like MacNiven’s famously unusual flat angus burger: an enormous flat piece of angus beef grilled and then folded up onto the bun. Make sure you get a beer on draft and sit by the windows to enjoy the warm days. In the winter, it’s a great place to hide out from the cold and drink beers until the chill leaves your bones.

Winter also makes it a great time to taste their rich, hearty steak pie.

339 Massachusetts Ave., 632-7268, macnivens.com

Working Man’s Friend Crispy-edged burgers for cheap and tables that haven’t been replaced in a few decades: this is the essential WMF experience.

Their cheese will drape over your simply-dressed patty in a glorious golden robe. The fries will be fried, salted, and plated — no frills, ever.

And you don’t need even half a frill when your burgers are as good as they are at Working Man’s Friend.

One of the most telling signs that this place is the burger truth? The lunch crowd is one of the most diverse groups of people you’ll ever encounter — from construction workers to judges and lawyers — because everyone loves an inexpensive, perfect cheeseburger and fries. (CASH ONLY.) 234 N. Belmont Ave., 636-2067 Burgerhaus Yet another out-of-town small franchise moved into the canal space at the new residence downtown. The parking structure is royally weird, so we recommend that you walk down to this spot — that said, we absolutely recommend a visit. The menu setup is simple, but the burgers and fries are pretty killer. With a nice selection of local beers on tap, it’s hard to beat an ice cold brew and a thick, juicy burger. We also give double props for advertising “spicy” fries that actually had a tasty amount of real heat in there, which made the beer go down that much better.

335 W. 9th St., 434-4287, indy.burgerhausrestaurants.com Twenty Tap Glory be to Twenty Tap’s juicy patties. Alongside what could be the best fries in the city (How do they get them so crunchy?!), Twenty Tap serves grownup burgers for grownup palates. You can get some with bacon jam, fried eggs, and anything else you might want to dress it up with. More importantly, no matter what kind of burger you get, it is guaranteed to pair well with one of the beers on their 37 taps.

5406 N. College Ave., 602-8840 twentytap.com — SARAH MURRELL

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Going Green Festival March 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; March 21, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The Indiana State Museum will provide a platform that showcases how individuals and companies can tackle environmental issues at the annual festival. This year’s event will showcase eco-friendly products and services, local environmental leaders, lifestyle activities and the Eco-Science Fair.

Indiana State Museum, 650 W. Washington St., included with museum admission and free to members

EXCERPTS FROM “ASK RENEE” Tin cans, mulch and Mother Earth goes dark

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Can you start keeping your ear to the ground for Earth Hour Events? It’s Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 8:30 p.m.!

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Are you one of the 29,286 people who have committed to turn our your lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28, at 8:30 p.m. local time to take a stand against climate change?

Carmel City Hall has announced they will turn out the lights in and around City Hall on March 28 from 8:30-9:30 p.m. The Girl Scouts of Central Indiana will have telescopes for star gazing during Earth Hour.

I don’t see any other Indiana landmarks, buildings, cities, businesses, organizations or universities on the Earth Hour page at worldwildlife.org that are listed as participating, but maybe that could change in the next week. Anyone up for the challenge? I mean, if the St. Louis Arch, the Seattle Space Needle, and some of the most lit up buildings on the Las Vegas strip can flip the switch for one hour, surely we can!

If you’re looking for an Earth Hour pre-party, the NCAA is hosting a Final Four Recycle Your Old Electronics event on March 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lucas Oil Stadium South Lot. And here’s a cool tie-in: on March 25, 1990, just about 25 years ago, the first NUVO Newsweekly hit the stands. Created by and for people who care about our community, our culture and our environment. NUVO is Indiana’s largest inde-

pendent alternative news organization — and they’re the ones who make Ask Renee possible.

To celebrate this milestone, NUVO is having a 25th Anniversary Celebration on March 28 at Deluxe at Old National Centre. The lights will be lowered in honor of Earth Hour. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. There WILL be dancing, drinks, eats and music from a plethora of DJs: Action Jackson, Kyle Long, Indiana Jones, Gabby Love, TopSpeed, Cool Hand Lex and MetroGnome. 18 and older, please.

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For many years as a family we have gone to Michigan to camp. During many of the visits we noticed that many Michigan grocery stores have recycling machines that accept cans/ bottles. When a can is deposited it is crushed and a receipt is printed for cash reimbursement.

The store will offer the cash or the customer can use the cash reimbursement to purchase anything in the store. CAN we have these in Indiana? Why or why not? My kids were picking up trash everywhere to make some money!

Yes we CAN! — NANCY

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Do your trips to Michigan ever involve a mail truck or a car with JFK’s golf clubs in the trunk? You see, Michigan’s bottle and can reimbursement is intended for those who have purchased the bottles and cans, thereby paying a bottle/can deposit. A six-pack costs an extra $.60 when purchased and the customer gets the $.60 back when they return the bottle/can.

It’s a brilliant program and sure we CAN do something similar in Indiana, but it Don’t forget Earth Hour: will require action by power down at 8:30 p.m. on March 28. our government.

It appears that there was a Beverage Container Deposits bill introduced (SB 142) by Senator Lonnie Randolph in the current legislative session, but it hasn’t gone very far. As an advocate, you may contact him to see how you could help.

Michigan’s Bottle Bill was implemented in 1978.

A law passed in 2004 prohibiting beverage containers from being put in the garbage – they must be placed in recycling bins, taken to a recycling center or redeemed for deposit. Imagine if!

Their average deposit redemption rate is 96.9%.

Interestingly, the only year they’ve had more than 100% redemption was in 1992, four years prior to the famous Seinfeld episodes.

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Much ado about yard work

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My friend, Marie, wants to know: Do you know of any organic or less chemical lawn care companies and mulch companies? Having a hard time finding anyone. Thanks.

— SHAWNDRA

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Sure….you’re “asking for a friend.” ;) Well, Shawndra and “Marie”, My favorite answer is worm poop (not just for this question). Keith of Castaway Compost will apply nutrient-rich aerated worm compost tea to your lawn for a small fee: $40 for up to a half acre, $60 for an acre (lawns more than 15 miles from Fishers have a trip fee as well).

Worm tea helps plants take up nutrients, fights off some insects and fungi, and improves the soil’s ability to retain water and nutrients.

Last fall, Terry Spotts of Spotts Garden Service recommended corn gluten meal for our lawn.

It acts as a pre-emergent herbicide, meaning it inhibits root growth of many weeds during germination. It won’t kill existing weeds, but can help control future growth. It is about 10% nitrogen so it also stimulates the growth of existing grass. I believe it’s best used in fall and spring, so we’re a bit late now, but consider it for this fall.

I did GoodSearch (benefitting The Nature Conservancy in Indiana) eco friendly lawn care in Indianapolis and found some interesting results. I have not used any of these services, so I can’t really speak to their authenticity of eco-friendliness.

GreenCycle is my go-to for mulch. They produce organic mulch, compost and soil from recycled yard, wood and food waste.

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Conservation Day at the Statehouse March 24, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. We’re rolling past the halfway mark of the 2015 Indiana legislative session. So the Hoosier Environmental Council thinks this is the perfect moment for a little face time with your lawmaker: “Come to the Statehouse March 24th for coffee, meet with your legislator(s) and let them know that Indiana’s natural heritage is their responsibility to see that resources are available to preserve and protect it for future generations.”

Indiana State Capitol, 200 W. Washington St., FREE (registration required: see hecweb.org) NCAA e-waste event March 28, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. RecycleForce has partnered with the NCAA® for this event prior to the Final Four. From the event’s Facebook page: “The NCAA® and the Indianapolis Local Organizing Committee’s Sustainability group are making this year’s Men’s Final Four green by decreasing the event’s environmental impact. The Sustainability group is planting trees, using bike valets to encourage cycling versus driving, and sponsoring recycling programs, including an electronics or eWaste initiative. Please contact RecycleForce with questions by phone at 532-1367.”

Lucas Oil Stadium South Lot, 944 S. Meridian St. NUVO’s 25th Anniversary Party March 28, 8 p.m. Renee said it best: “25 years ago, the first NUVO Newsweekly hit the stands.

Created by and for people who care about our community, our culture and our environment. NUVO is Indiana’s largest independent alternative news organization – and they’re the ones who make Ask Renee possible. To celebrate this milestone, NUVO is having a 25th Anniversary Celebration on March 28 at Deluxe at Old National Centre. The lights will be lowered in honor of Earth Hour.” There WILL be dancing, drinks and eats and music from a plethora of DJs: Action Jackson, Kyle Long, Indiana Jones, Gabby Love, TopSpeed, Cool Hand Lex and MetroGnome.

Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $12 in advance, $15 at the door, 18+ Earth hour March 28, 8:30-9:30 p.m. According to earthhour.org, this annual “turn out the lights” event was started in Sydney, Australia in 2007 and has grown to include more than 160 countries and territories around the world. The concept is simple: Shut down the electricity for a single hour as a way of saving energy and encouraging others to be mindful all year long.

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Editor’s note: Birdy’s Battle Royale pits 48 bands against each other in a months-long competition for cash and prizes. Each week, the top two bands progress to the next round. NUVO sends music correspondent Jonathan Sanders to survey Birdy’s Battle Royale weekly. He reports back every Monday on NUVO.net.

In a week where organizers struggled to finalize a lineup, Birdy’s rallied and put together a roster of five bands, turning week six into something of an acoustic night. And though the night’s two top finishers dominated the competition, all the artists were better for having taken the chance to compete. It made ROYALE for an interesting EVERY BAND. EVERY WEEK. night of music.

The night’s big winner, 3rd Eye Soul Band, followed three acoustic acts and seemed to come out of nowhere with a fantastic blend of r&b, funk, hip-hop and outright blues influences. Featuring three vocalists, two of whom were more-than-capable rappers, this Indianapolis band kept things constantly shifting.

Their performance was by far the best overall of the battle thus far, and they are the first I’ll call out as a flat-out frontrunner. The sooner they can finish a full album, the better off all our ears will be.

When it comes to Jeff Kelly, our second-place finisher, it is best to think of already established Americana songwriters in the vein of Matthew Ryan, Dustin Kensrue, Joe Pug and Jason Isbell. Kelly, the road manager for Prowlers and the Prey, week four’s battle winner, came out firing on all cylinders tonight in the final performance spot.

Cousins Jon and Dustin Stephens opened the Battle in tonight’s first and second performance spots, and though both played solo acoustic guitar, they attacked the style from different genres. Jon got us started, and his originals echoed the edge of ‘90s alt bands like Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots through the more country-toned sound of Staind-frontman Aaron Lewis’ solo work. Once he got in his stride I was quietly impressed with the quality of the songs.

Dustin followed with strong originals of his own.

A brand new song “Summertime” had a solo country bent to it as well, but he differentiated himself from the pack with his voice. Compare his vocals to Sister Hazel and Edwin McCain, both acts who succeeded in alternative rock with Southern-leaning writing. But his songs deserve to be fleshed out by a full band — “Let It Go” in particular sounded constrained by the “one guy and his guitar” motif.

Of all the folk and acoustic acts of the night, songwriting duo Emily Myren and Rachel Jones proved that you can bring two vocalists with distinct solo sounds and create a group with real personality. Their solid chemistry came through, particularly on their cover of “Holes In My Sweater”

by Jamie Pine. This was, surprisingly, their first time performing together as a duo, and both have their own solo work available in the Indianapolis scene.

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or years, Indianapolis’ Peter King had more or less been that dude in every band. From The Impossible Shapes to Learner Dancer, the multiinstrumentalist found himself playing all kinds of styles in all kinds of bands.

Now after all these years as a sideman though, the 34-year-old has decided to abandon all other projects in pursuit of his own band, Peter and The Kings.

“All the experiences I’ve had over the years have kind of just led to this point where I’m confident enough to have my own band, play out and make records on my own,” he says.

King’s chamber-esque music style can be traced all the way back to his teenage years, when he first began taking classical guitar lessons at Broad Ripple’s Renaissance Studios.

“It’s something that subconsciously influences my songwriting and the way I play guitar,” he says. As the years went on, King eventually teamed up with fellow Indianapolis guitar-playing friends Chris Barth and Aaron Deer. The three would go on to form The Impossible Shapes, with King shifting from guitar to drums out of necessity.

“Because we wanted to be a band, I ended up buying a drum set,” he says, laughing. “So I was kind of defacto drummer at that point, although we all just kind of did everything on the recordings and switched around.”

The three eventually split off for college, with Barth and Deer heading to IU where they’d continue The Impossible Shapes. During this time, King occasionally contributed to the band, although they had found a new drummer while in Bloomington. He went on to form the four-piece power-folk act Buffalino while at the College of Wooster.

After spending some time in Ohio, King returned to Indiana, picking up where he left off with The Impossible Shapes. During this time, he also teamed up with fellow roommate Vince Lewandowski to form the folk duo Uno Moss, coming into his own as a songwriter in the process.

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ally had some sort of spiritual connection with songwriting,” King says. “We didn’t even know each other before then, but we were able to write in unison and basically sang every word together and wrote all the lyrics and music together.”

Following this stint in Bloomington, King returned to Indy, drumming in bands like Learner Dancer, Christian Taylor & Homeschool and Bait and Tackle Tabernacle while also quietly working on solo material.

With several songs written and recorded on his own, he decided to assemble Peter and The Kings about one year ago.

“I finally wanted to put my songs as my top priority,” he says. “It’s really my main focus in life now.”

With a specific sound in mind, King assembled a band that would add accentuating textures to what he had written, recruiting Benny Sanders on bass, Duncan Kissinger on keys, Ben Bernthal on percussion and Jimmy Frezza (who has since left the band to pursue his own group Phases) on guitar.

“Peter approached me wanting something other than a typical drum kit setup,” says Bernthal, who also fronts his own group Memory Foam. “I jumped at the chance to create a standing drum kit with the various percussion instruments that I have collected over the years. I play a self-assembled kit made out of a timpani, a floor tom as a bass drum, a snare drum, one conga, a ride cymbal, a guiro, and a tambourine.”

Since those early days, the group has gelled together quite well.

“I feel that we all contribute something that no other musician could replicate in the same way,” Bernthal says. With this lineup, Peter and The Kings recently began work on a full-length album, recording with John Dawson at Boomington’s Magnetic South recording studio. Now

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about 75 percent complete, King chose to record the album live to tape, rather than going the clean-cut digital.

“I just kind of want to get our songs out there, even if they have a few blemishes,” he says. “As long as it has the spirit of the band and the songs, I’m fine with flawed notes or singing a little out of key. That’s kind of my style anyway.”

As for a release, he hopes for something physical, whether it be cassette or vinyl. In the meantime though, the plan is to continue putting all of his creative energy into this project.

“I’ve always been one of those guys in like five bands, which is why I don’t have my own records out at this point,” King says. “…Which is fine. I probably wasn’t ready to do that. But I feel like I am now.” n

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he sense of irony was overwhelming when I spoke to Muck Sticky three weeks ago regarding his Indianapolis show. His stop in Indianapolis on March 19th at the 5th Quarter Lounge was to be a part of his first big national co-headlining tour, a reward after years of playing one-off shows for fans of his quirky brand of posi, weed-infused humor, a tour with Afroman who had also built his career on similar ground.

Then came the punch.

“Afroman we've had three other times, so that's out of character for him,” says Jamin Brust of Durtimyndz Entertainment, the show's promoter. “He's always showed up early for shows, he's always hung out with the crowd, he's never been that type of dude around us before.

That's why it threw us for a loop too.

We'd never seen that side of him.”

It left everyone scrambling to figure out how to turn things around. Would the whole mess just blow over once another celebrity did something stupid?

“Do I want to be part of something that is related to something that is so bad and terrible?” Muck Sticky asked, regarding the physical assault charges levied against Afroman. “Absolutely not! I want to be as far away from it as possible. But I still want the fans to be able to come to a show, to have a good time at an event they were looking forward to, and have that positive experience.”

Promoters were in the same boat, hoping to find a way to save the show once Afroman officially bailed from the lineup. (He publicly retired with an announcement on Facebook soon after.) Someone suggested to Brust he shift the show toward raising money for a battered women's shelter, but Brust was concerned it might look like they were taking advantage of the Afroman situation. Instead, he chose to focus on Indianapolis' Julian Center, which fights against domestic violence of all kinds.

Local bands already on the bill immediately got on board. Indyca recruited Russ Baum & Huck Finn to join a strong under-card of bands all leading to Muck Sticky as the main headliner, with the goal of bringing something good from an all-around terrible situation.

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“Positive opportunity is always staring you in the face,” Baum says. “Domestic abuse hits close to the heart because it happens in the home behind closed doors. Being [part of] this concert is like kicking down those doors and saying 'No!' A strong positive environment can make a difference.”

Muck says if fans take one thing from this whole mess, it's that you can make the world a better place even if it's one action at a time.

“My show is all about positivity and having a good time, walking away at the end of the night feeling inspired to go make the world a better place. I think we should make the best out of a bad situation. What people should be doing right now, period, regardless, is to not make it worse.”n

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fter helping to craft some of the most influential records of this generation as the versatile multiinstrumentalist of Arcade Fire, Will Butler is finding a voice of his own.

While he’s used to shifting around the stage and manning anything from a synthesizer to a bass to a glockenspiel, one place he has never found himself is front and center. But with new release Policy, his first LP as a solo artist, that’s exactly where the 32-yearold finds himself.

After being in a band as prolific and large – sometimes up to 11 members — as Arcade Fire, it’s easy for even the most talented of musicians to get lost as a cog in the machine rather than an individual talent. On Policy, Butler wastes no time establishing that this record is distinctively his own. The opening track “Take My Side” hits the listener with a flurry of choppy guitars and sharp vocals that sounds more at home in 1985 than 2015. Throughout the record, he captures some of the era’s strongest sonic characteristics, while turning in a performance reminiscent of frontmen such as Black Francis of Pixies.

Though the album is just 28 minutes long, Butler finds his voice in a large way on tracks like the vulnerable “Sing To Me.” It’s an effort that finds strength in its sincerity and establishes Butler as a viable front man. As he embarks on his first solo tour — one that will find him at The Bishop in Bloomington on Tuesday – he sat down with NUVO to talk about his new project, and the family business of bands.

NUVO: You’ve said before, “It’s kind of our heritage, the family band.” Were your family members the largest musical influence on you growing up or were there others in your life that had a profound impact?

WILL BUTLER: I think family music is the most important. My mom is a harpist and a pianist, jazz singer and an everything, you know? Her parents were all musicians as well. The music that she would play was omnipresent and church music and Christmas music and lullabies and all of that was probably more formative than anything else.

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NUVO: You grew up mostly in Texas, but you found yourself in the Midwest and in Evanston, Ill. for college. What role did being involved in WNUR-FM student radio while at Northwestern have in your musical development?

BUTLER: WNUR was hugely influential.

It was a really persnickety radio station.

You could only play the same artist once in a term. I was reading a friend’s recollection earlier and he was there the first day and wanted to play Lou Reed and the guy was like, “Ugh, too mainstream.

How about John Cale?” He was in the Velvet Underground too.

NUVO: You’re going to be a part of a panel (with brother Win of Arcade Fire and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman) talking about the future of music business while at SXSW. What do you anticipate you’ll say about the topic?

BUTLER: I think Arcade Fire has done shockingly good in the music business.

We have had such a strange path, it’s a historical anomaly. We don’t have a ton to say about Madonna 360 deals or anything but we’ve lived through the craziness that was 2000-2015 where music has gone from something that makes money to something that doesn’t make money.

NUVO: Which is no good.

BUTLER: I’m enough of a rock and roller to think that maybe money isn’t everything. [laughs] NUVO: Being that you went to school in Big Ten country, did you ever venture down to the Bloomington or Indianapolis area? If so, what experiences stand out?

BUTLER: I never made it down to Bloomington, though I went to Indiana lakes with friends on the weekends every once in a while. I’m blanking on the name right now. Anyways, one of

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my band members on this tour went to school in Bloomington so she’ll be showing us around.

NUVO: How long has the writing process been going on for Policy?

BUTLER: I decided to make the album January of last year and then I booked time for May of that year. So it was a blitz, like a three month blitz. Some of the songs are anywhere from three to five years old and there’s a lot of elements that were old like little chord changes or lyrical ideas that were old but they didn’t get polished until that stretch. But, it was mostly finished in those three months.

NUVO: What challenges did you look forward to when embarking on this solo album? How did those challenges meet your expectations?

BUTLER: I knew I would just have to judge everything myself which is both exhilarating and liberating and a little bit stressful because you have to make something and then you have to step outside of yourself and be like, “Is this good or is this bad?” So, that was really fun. It was more exhilarating and fun and fresh feeling than in was negative in any sense.

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NUVO: At times, especially in the middle of the album when “Son of God” and “Something’s Coming” go back-to-back it feels like it could have fit right in on Reflektor with its tone and content. But the album is largely different in the sense that it’s concise: eight tracks, only one of which exceeds four minutes, whereas Reflektor is a one hour 15 minute epic. Do you consider this album to be more of an extension or backlash to Reflektor?

BUTLER: It comes from that world so it’s definitely reacting to having made a long album. I don’t know if I would use the word backlash but it’s certainly stemming from that artistic world to make something really concise and that fits on one LP and everything.

That wasn’t a primary consideration but that’s definitely present.

NUVO: Now that the album is finished and you get a chance to perform it and release it to the masses, do you have any sense of what place this album will have amongst other projects you’ve been a part of?

BUTLER: I’m excited for it to continue and for the conversation to continue and to keep making music on my own, >>>

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<<< just using my own brain. I’m excited to see what happens, I don’t know what the response will be because it’s not out yet but people seem to like it. I’m really excited to play the shows and be in the rooms and see how the music breathes.

super influential, so it’s too hard to tell what’s going to happen and where it will go. Maybe the Mars colonists will take Arcade Fire’s greatest hits and they’ll be really into “Ready To Start “ or something and that will be one of the foundational art works of Mars.

NUVO: You recently said, “Part of the goal of this record is to make people excited enough to pay attention when I’m 80.” With a plan, and really, the talent, to have that kind of staying power what do you aim to do over the course of your musical career? What would you like to achieve or take part in that you haven’t had the opportunity to yet?

NUVO: How do you think the tour and the live show will be different for you as compared to when you’re playing shows as a member of Arcade Fire?

BUTLER: I’m happy if one thing I do survives for a long time. Like, Beethoven is extremely famous, but Beethoven is almost broken down to two things in the popular imagination. It’s bum bum bum bum (humming Symphony no. 5) and “Ode To Joy” and most people couldn’t hum something else from the Fifth Symphony. But, I’d be happy if a two-minute stretch of any work I did survived for 300 years.

NUVO: Looking back at all of the stuff you’ve worked on, what do you want to stick around for that long?

BUTLER: The tour’s a lot smaller, it’s a lot more dense and city to city. I think the show will be a little more experimental musically because nobody knows anything or what to expect so I’m looking forward to playing with that. So, hopefully it will be frisky and feel a bit more like an improv show, but I don’t know yet.

NUVO: Do you think that’s exciting or tantalizing? What are your feelings towards the uncertainty?

BUTLER: I’m really excited, I love having a blank page and getting the opportunity to go and to see people reacting in the room; it’s such a lovely opportunity to have. n

BUTLER: I have no opinion on that.

I’ll be dead and gone by the time it sticks around. We’re living in an era of great reissues where stuff comes out and influences people a long time after the fact. Like, ESG is so influential these days and they were so small in the ‘80s. Velvet Underground was

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“ notice that you’re missing a ‘d’ at the end of your name,” Stewart Copeland said when he picked up the phone for our interview late last week.

So true. After bonding over the origins of our shared-but-in-my-case-Americanized last name, The Police drummer and I moved on to talking about his newest project: a University of Texas-commissioned performance collaboration with pianist Jon Kimura Parker, Met Opera violinist Yoon Kwon, bassist Marlon Martinez and Electronic Valve Instrument (EVI) player Judd Miller. Their program includes their takes on work by masters like Ravel and Stravinsky and (comparatively) newer artists like Aphex Twin and, in an encore, a song by The Police.

Copeland has spent the intervening years since The Police broke up in 1986 (with sporadic reunions in the aughts) scoring films, video games, television and ballets, plus releasing solo albums and forming one-off supergroups like Oysterhead (with Phish’s Trey Anastasio and Primus’ Les Claypool). Beyond his newest project, Copeland is especially proud of his recent work developing a new score for the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur (no, not the Charlton Heston version), which he performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last year.

Copeland & co. are touring Off The Score for a limited run of dates, including a stop at Clowes next Friday. Here’s a portion of our conversation; find the full transcript at NUVO.net.

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NUVO: You’ve said this show, at its core, is about the tension between two different kinds of musicians: those who read and those who play. Can you dig deeper into what that tension is?

STEWART COPELAND: It’s conceptually tension, but in fact, the sensation is more like release. For me, I get to play with players of unbelievable caliber. I thought I was playing with the best of the best of the best, as a film composer; we’re hiring the triple-scale guys. But, no. I get up with Yoon Kwon and Kimura Parker, and they have a proficiency, a musicality, a skill level way beyond my experience. To play with that caliber of musicians, for me, is very liberating. For them, who have spent a career, a vocation, adhering to the page, to be released from the page is very liberating. There is a tension caused by the sense of exploration, but that’s an artistic thing. The actual feeling that we have is liberation.

NUVO: Why does this particular collection of musicians work well together?

COPELAND: Well, because to run down the line, Yoon Kwon plays with The Met, and plays the great works of opera every day. But she has a lot more going on; she has all that technique, that proficiency that got her to that chair of first violins there. She has a lot more going on then Mozart. That level of proficiency, talent, and the fire – she’s also very, very charismatic in her performance. Just watching her play and the things she comes up with just lights us all up. Kimura Parker, as we call him Jackie, he just has that technique. When he’s blasting away on his Stravinsky or Rachmaninoff, he can sense that there’s more that could be done with this. He’s inspired, his mind drifts off into other places that these chords could go. …

On bass, we have a youngster, the next big things, from the Rolodex of Stanley Clarke, the world’s greatest living bass player, who happens to be a really close friend of mine. He turned me on to young Marlon Martinez, a graduate student at [Los Angeles’] Colburn School. He is very jazzy; improvising, he’s all over that while he also performs with the orchestra and plays the classical charts with great alacrity and panache. He can step up. He’s a very exciting player.

The fifth member of the band, Judd Miller, has been in my back pocket for decades. He is the first guy I call in my movie work, because of that bizarre instrument of his. … I’ve referred to him during our film scoring years as a Swiss army knife. ...He’s a brilliant improviser; he has music in his heart that wells up.

And I know that whatever sound he’s performing on, it comes from the heart.

He’s a real artistic talent. He has a beautiful music in him, and that’s the most important thing.

NUVO: I read in a review that you’re encoring with a song by The Police. Which one?

COPELAND: Oh, yes, yes. A really obscure one. It’s called “Darkness.” About half of the piece is The Police song, the other half is stuff I just came up with inspired by The Police song. But The Police song is in there.

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take every opportunity I can in this column to praise the work of the legendary Indianapolis blues duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell. So I couldn’t miss a chance to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Leroy Carr’s birthday this year on March 27.

A strong case could be made that the catalog of recordings created by Carr and Blackwell represent the most influential and important artistic legacy in the history of Indianapolis music. The duo were a musical powerhouse. The combination of Blackwell’s stinging single-string guitar leads and Carr’s laid-back vocalizations created an unprecedented new blues sound imbued with urban cool. Carr and Blackwell are the key link between rural Southern Delta blues and the later electrified incarnation of the genre that would develop in Chicago. Before Muddy Waters left the Mississippi plantations for Chicago, he honed his craft playing along to the records of Carr and Blackwell.

Beyond the duo’s musical innovations,

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got no place to stay. I just keep on drinking trying to drive my blues away…”

Carr’s drinking habits brought the singer into conflict with the law. It’s known that Carr served time as a young man for his involvement with an Indianapolis bootleg liquor operation. Carr would draw on his time in jail as a theme throughout his career, including his poignant 1928 recording “Prison Bound Blues.” Carr’s words depict a world where crime is sometimes the only option for survival, and where the battle against poverty numbs you to the threat of death.

Carr’s words capture the Complications from alcohol abuse ended Carr’s life early at psychological trauma of both the age 30 as he succumbed to nephritis on April 29, 1935. His being a Black man under Jim lyrics turned darker in the later Crow laws and the general days of his life, often confronting own mortality. In December struggle for survival in America his of 1934 just a few months before his death Carr recorded “Suiduring the Great Depression. cide Blues” perhaps his bleakest creation. “If somebody finds me when I’m dead and gone, say I did self‑murder and I died with my boots on,” one thing that keeps me coming back to Carr sings in a noticeably weak voice. their recordings is the poetic and often Carr’s final recording session on February fatalistic lyrics of Leroy Carr.

25th of 1935 yielded a chilling premonition I think Carr’s difficult lyrics have been a of his imminent death titled “Six Cold Feet factor in the continued marginalization of in the Ground.” Recorded alone at the piano his work here in his conservative homewithout the standard accompaniment from town of Indianapolis. But Carr wasn’t writhis longtime partner Scrapper, Carr deliving for shock factor. His lyrics were often ered an austere and understated goodbye. confessional and mirrored the troubling “Just remember me baby when I’m in six conditions of his own life. Carr’s words capture the psychological trauma of both being feet of cold, cold ground. Always remember me baby and say a good man’s gone down.” a Black man under Jim Crow laws and the While music fans around the world general struggle for survival in America durcontinue to celebrate the artistic legacy ing the Great Depression.

By all accounts alcoholism was a defining of Leroy Carr, his last recorded wish remains largely unfulfilled in his homefactor in Carr’s life. In his reflective 1930 town. “Just remember me…” n recording “Hard Times Done Drove Me To Drink” Carr suggests he turned to alcohol as a way of coping with depression. “Some>> Kyle Long hosts a show on times I get to thinking that I just keep on WFYI’s HD-2 channel on drinking, trying to drink my blues away,” Wednesdays and Saturdays Carr sings. “My house fell down and I ain’t

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The Wailers, Indyca 9 p.m. Best known as Bob Marley’s band, The Wailers have continued in the 35 years since Marley’s death with some alterations in lineups. Last year they toured the classic album Legend, playing it on its 30th anniversary year in its entirety. Take note: this is not The Original Wailers, the name of the act formed by former Wailers Junior Marvin and Al Anderson.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 21+ ROCK The King Khan and BBQ Show 9:30 p.m. King Khan and BBQ (yes, they have real names, but we’re not usin’ ‘em) were both in Montreal’s Spaceshits in the mid-’90s; they reconnected in the aughts and recorded a series of albums together periodically; their subversive, wild live shows are of legend.

The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $12, 18+ Magic Man, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages

Morning Goldrunner, Tin Roof, 21+ The Green Gallows, Birdy’s, 21+ Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+

Screaming for Silence, Down To Dust, Under The Dying Sun, Waiting Moment, Centerstage Bar, 21+ Daywalker Karaoke, Serendpity Martini Bar (Bloomington), 21+ Ghost Town Blues Band, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Jake Dodds, Stephanie Falcone, Fan The Flame, Scotty Randolph, Melody Inn, 21+ Alar Wave, Marshall Lewis, FARMbloomington’s Root Cellar (Bloomington), 21+ Goodbye June, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Heavy Sole, Tin Roof, 21+ Open Mic Cabaret, Salt Creek Brewery at The Depot (Bloomington), 21+

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Audiodacity Album Release 7:30 p.m. This six-piece funk band is really rolling out the red carpet for their album release at the Vogue – literally.

They’ve got a red carpet. They’ll be joined by Chicago Loud 9 and Party Lines; a now-sold out VIP show includes an early performance by The Rob Dixon Trio. It’s sure to be a killer night of local music. Check out Barfly on the next page for more info.

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The Mantras, The Mousetrap, 21+ New Originals III, Louie’s Bar and Restaurant, 21+ Transmission, DJ Bongo, FARMbloomington’s Root Cellar (Bloomington), 21+

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Cornmeal, New Old Cavalry, Stampede String Band, Vogue, 21+

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SATURDAY METAL Into The Divine 7 p.m. Not the Lou Reed song, but the local death metal band. They’ll release their new EP at an all-ages show at the Dome.

Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., $8, all-ages PARTIES Books and Brews Anniversary Party 8 p.m. The Northside brewery and bookstore is celebrating its one year anniversary with a show by Whiskey

Bankers Life Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St., prices vary, all-ages Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+

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Soul Street, Player’s Pub (Bloomington), 21+

Hairbangers Ball, The Bluebird, 21+

Max Allen Band, Union 50, 21+

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Five Year Mission, The Shake Ups, Carnahan Hall (Lafayette), all-ages

Nailed It, Blu, 21+

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The Bluebird, 216 N. Walnut St., (Bloomington), $20, 21+

Big Daddy Caddy, Doug Henthorn Trio, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+

Highway9 Blues Band, Broad Ripple Tavern, 21+

Digital Dots, Duncan Kissiner, Kaylie Ann Pickett, Chief, Drayco, Peter and The Kings, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+

Ja Rule 9 p.m. Yes, Ja Rule is still busting out rap albums. Last summer he announced he’ll release his eighth studio album Genius Loves Company this year. It might not reach the heights of classics “Rule 3:36” and “Pain Is Love,” which both topped the Billboard charts, but it’s new content from a mainstay in the genre. Can’t argue with that. Locals Sirius Blvck and Benny (from BORED) will open.

The Last Good Year, The Hi-Fi, 21+

Nocturne Goes Pop, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+

Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+

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Verbene (a band that also played their opening party) and a screening of The Big Lebowski.

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DANCE Excision, Protohype, Minnesota 8 p.m. Excision shows are like no other, a virtual apocalypse of twisting and morphing sounds turn massive crowds into a frenzy, as virtual walls of bass are relentlessly impaled time and time again upon their fragile bodies and ears. Your ears will ring and your eyes will roll into the back of your head as you are suspended in what can only be called a true sensory overload.

Bass will rain down from above for hours as Excision’s skills as a DJ and producer shine like an unholy light from the underworld.

interview with frontman Nate Utesch, he said, “We’re trying not to be too naïve about where we’re at right now as a band that just took three years off…” Utesch says. “We’re not looking to be at a massive venue, but at least something that has a PA that can handle what we’re giving it.” The White Rabbit should definitely be able to handle that.

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Screaming Females, Shellhag 9:30 p.m. Screaming Females had such a clear goal for their new album that it became almost a mantra: they wanted songs that were concise, crisp and melodic.

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Sun and Flesh, The Bad Jackets, Melody Inn, 21+

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Cadillac Scott and The Snakehandlers, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The Sax Guy, Union 50, 21+

The Resolution, Emerson Theater, all-ages

Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+

Punk Rock Night: The Sheckies, Black Cat Rebellion, The Messengers, Phunkbot, Melody Inn, 21+

Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 7 p.m. Anticipating the setlist for a show as big as Bob Seger’s date at Bankers Life Sunday is almost as fun as the show itself. Will he close with “Like A Rock?” “Against The Wind?” “Night Moves?” “Turn The Page?” We just can’t wait.

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Industry Mondays, Red Room, 21+

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Sarah Grain and The Billions of Stars, Union 50, 21+

Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+

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Doktra, An Asian Film, Smooth Husbands, Melody Inn, 21+ Kopecky, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Slow Coin, Sabrewulf, Fizzbang, FARMbloomington’s Root Cellar, 21+ Elia Burkhart, Union 50, 21+ Julie Houston, Chef Joseph’s at the Connoisseur Room, 21+ Cato, Hoosier Dome, all-ages

Jenn Cristy 7:30 p.m. The local songwriter is releasing her newest effort, This Is, which she funded via Kickstarter.

Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., (Bloomington) $18, all-ages ROCK The Gaslight Anthem, Northcote, Sammy Kaye 8 p.m. Their albums are typified by totems of New Jersey Americana – muscle cars, tank tops, tattoos, breakups, makeups, red lipstick – plus Springsteen-esque riffs and growls.

The Gaslight Anthem’s newest, Hurt, tones it down a little, but the fast cars and fast girls are still there.

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SOUNDCHECK Tim Brickley, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+ Exil and Juice Newton, Indiana Grand Casino, 21+ Ray Fuller and The Blues Rockers, The Warrior Kings, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Jessie and Amy, Broad Ripple Tavern, 21+ Paramlee, Honeywell Centr, 21+ Indiana Avenue All-Stars, The Chatterbox, 21+ Jeanne Logan, Chef Joseph’s at The Connoisseur Room, 21+ Magnetic Tent Party, The Mousetrap, 21+ Monika Herzig, Columbia Club, 21+ Birdy’s Battle Royale Round 1, Birdy’s, 21+

ICON Tribute: James Brown and Fela Kuti, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Strong Roots Label Sampler Release, The Bishop (Bloomington), 21+ Paul Thorn, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+ Rusted Swing Swindlers, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+ Justin Adams, Vogue, 21+ Rod Tuffcurls and The Bench Press, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Russ Baum and Huck Finn, Three D’s Pub, 21+ Trace, Thirsty Scholar, all-ages Davi and Whitney, Tin Roof, 21+

Elliott Brood, The Hi-Fi, 21+

Against The Grain, KVLTHAMMER, Cocaine Wolves, Sweet Cobra, Melody Inn, 21+

Chon, The Red Streak, Emerson Theater, all-ages

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Sexually Kneedy I’m about to have knee surgery, and I’m wondering what positions besides girl-on-top me and my lady could try while I’m unable to put a lot of weight on it?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I hope you’re not saying this with any kind of sadness in your voice, because your lady is about to take on the power top position. Just like ice cream and extra blankets, it seems most logical to fold your inability to thrust into all the other things you won’t be able to do for yourself during recovery. Sometimes, my friend, life gives you lemons, and in exchange, you get to sip on that tasty reverse cowgirl lemonade.

This, by the way, is an excellent question for your orthopedic surgeon who will be able to give you a recommendation based on the specific surgery you’re having, and, if medical stereotypes hold true, a really wicked high-five for asking, bro.

DEBBY: Lying down (partner on top) is one of the more commonly recommend post-surgical positions, and sex on your side can work too (with your recovering leg on top, cushioned by a pillow in between your legs). However, it depends what kind of knee surgery you’re having so the best course of action is to ask your surgeon how to modify sex following surgery and for how long. If she or he brushes you off, try to keep the conversation alive by saying something like “We might not be having sex too soon after surgery but at some point I expect we’ll resume, and I’d like to do it safely so I don’t wind up back in surgery” (that may remind your surgeon that, in fact, some patients do dislodge prosthetics during post-surgery sex and it’s a wise idea to advise patients on this kind of “safer sex”). Some healthcare providers also recommend taking mild pain medications 20-30 minutes prior to sex.

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DR. DEBBY HERBENICK & SARAH MURRELL The Viagra Variable I kind of want to try Viagra with my boyfriend. He doesn’t have any problems getting hard, but I heard the drug makes you able to recover faster...like, if you barely touch it, it gets hard. Is that true?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Real talk: I overheard a story about a guy in his 20s who tried this and said that, by the time it was all said and done, yes he literally would be begging his ladylove not to touch him because he’d get hard. He ended the epic session bedraggled, having been coaxed into at least two more rounds after he should have tapped. Now, whether or not this actually happened or is a Letters to Penthouse kind of story isn’t really here or there, but it begs the question of how ideal it is to allow your boner power to exceed your human capacity for even one more minute of fucking. Imagine that: “No, please, please don’t touch my dick. I can’t...I don’t want to fuck anymore…. please!” Recreational Viagra sex seems like ordering one of those VW Beetle-circumference pizzas to eat in bed: a great idea in theory, but one that’s guaranteed to make you feel like a failure with a lot of sheets to wash. Do what you want, but first consider, “What is the most sex I could ever possibly have?”

DEBBY: There is some evidence that men who take sildenafil (Viagra) have a shorter refractory period meaning that some men, some of the time, can get an erection sooner than usual after ejaculating. It does NOT translate into an easy erection with just the light dusting of your delicate touch. And many men cannot get a second erection soon after ejaculation, even when on erectile medications. You may choose to ignore this advice but I am offering it anyway: erectile meds are truly meant only for men with erectile dysfunction.

You and your boyfriend don’t want to wind up at the ER with a painful “4 or more hour erection”, do you?

If his erections are fine, leave it be. And whatever you do, don’t risk buying it on the black market or over the Internet where you could be given who-knows-what.

Just enjoy his naturally lovely penis for what it is.

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proper application of a condom, no? We previously answered this question vis-a-vis the transferability of yeast during sex, and I would imagine that’s important informaton here. Seems like this is dependent on what you’re comfortable with.

Shower shagging, safely My new gf likes sex in the shower but it’s hard to find the right combo of standing up and having a good grip so we don’t slip and fall. Also, I once fell during shower sex and knocked myself out, so now I’m really scared.

Any shower accessories that might help?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Go with the discreet, removable suction cup shower handle. Also works for luxurious (but slippery) marble bathroom floor sex.

DEBBY: Yes, definitely get one of those old people chairs or hand rails ­— great, safe, stable sex now AND in your golden years! Or just don’t have shower sex. It’s way more awkward in real life than it looks in the movies, and water-based lube just washes off so people have to use silicone and if you spill that on the floor, you may be slipping on it for days afterwards (since, you know, it doesn’t wash off and all). Does your new girlfriend really and truly love shower sex or is she trying to be interesting and versatile the way people do when they are new to each other? (And then months later they finally admit it wasn’t quite what they were into anyway.) Side note: I have a friend whose boyfriend did this to her with food — he would order spinach artichoke dip at restaurants for the first few months of dating until they became a thing and then he finally admitted he didn’t like spinach artichoke dip all that much. I think shower sex is a lot like that. And it freaks you out (as it should if you got knocked out once from it) so why do it? If she gets turned on by it, maybe begin with an in-shower oral sex play and then transition from the shower to the bed.

Oral confusion I’m treating my yeast infection with an oral medication.

How soon can I start having sex again?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Christ, how many yeast infections can you people get in the span of a couple of months?! I’m not sure on the specifics of medication, but it seems like this shouldn’t be a problem with the dutiful and

DEBBY: Yeast infections can be uncomfortable so it’s common for women to avoid intercourse and oral sex while they are experiencing symptoms from a yeast infection. That said, some women just keep going and enjoy sex even while symptomatic. Others heed advice to steer clear of sex until their treatment is over which could be one to seven days depending on the severity of the infection and the type of treatment. You mentioned that you’re taking an oral medication (a pill) so this doesn’t apply to you ­— but for the sake of other readers, women who are treating their yeast infection with a cream should avoid sex if they need to use condoms or a diaphragm, as neither condoms nor diaphragms are designed for use with yeast infections creams and may be less effective. Finally, if your yeast infections don’t respond to normal treatment, it’s possible you may have a different kind of yeast infection and may need a more tailored treatment. Find a vulvovaginal specialist in your area by contacting the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (issvd.org) or the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (isswsh.org).

Problem solved Is beeswax-based moisturizer safe to use around your private areas? I don’t put anything directly on my vagina, but is it cool for the skin around it?

— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I don’t know, but I have a pretty reckless, scattershot method for testing these things out. I’ll defer to the professional on this one.

DEBBY: A lot of things are safe for the skin around the genitals (like the mons pubis where hair sometimes is and sometimes isn’t). The closer you get to the vagina, the more sensitive the skin and tissue can get. If there’s oil in this moisturizer and you use latex condoms, it’s better to skip oil-based products on your genitals. Otherwise, if you like the moisturizer and it feels good and doesn’t irritate you, it should be fine.

Just try and keep scented or potentially irritating products away from the vaginal opening.

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But on the way to record their next masterpiece, there were numerous delays and diversions. Band members feuded. Some were fired and others departed.

Eventually, only one original member remained to bring the task to conclusion with the help of new musicians.

The sixth album, Chinese Democracy, finally emerged in 2008. I’m seeing a similarity between Guns N’ Roses’ process and one of your ongoing projects, Taurus. The good news is that I think most of the hassles and delays are behind you, or will be if you act now. You’re primed to make a big push toward the finish line.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have recently been to the mountaintop, at least metaphorically. Right?

You wandered out to the high frontier and ruminated on the state of your fate from the most expansive vista you could find. Right? You have questioned the limitations you had previously accepted, and you have weaned yourself from at least one of your devitalizing comforts, and you have explored certain possibilities that had been taboo.

Right? So what comes next? Here’s what I suggest: Start building a new framework or structure or system that will incorporate all that you’ve learned during your break.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the international

code of food standards, there are 13 possible sizes for an olive. They include large, extra large, jumbo, extra jumbo, giant, colossal, super colossal, mammoth, and super mammoth. If I had my way, Leo, you would apply this mind-set to everything you do in the coming weeks.

It’s time for you to think very big. You will thrive as you expand your mind, stretch your boundaries, increase your territory, amplify your self-expression, magnify your focus, and broaden your innocence.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough,” proclaimed humorist Josh Billings. That’s an exaggeration made for comic effect, of course. (And I think that some of life’s troubles also come from saying no too much and not saying yes enough.) But for you, Virgo, Billings’ advice will be especially pertinent in the coming weeks. In fact, my hypothesis is that you will be able to keep your troubles to a minimum and boost your progress to a maximum by being frugal with yes and ample with no.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your mind says, “I need more

room to move. I’ve got to feel free to experiment.”

Your heart says, “I think maybe I need more commitment and certainty.” Your astrologer suggests, “Be a bit more skeptical about the dream lover who seems to be interfering with your efforts to bond with the Real Thing.” I’m not sure which of these three sources you should heed, Libra.

Do you think it might somehow be possible to honor them all? I invite you to try.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Without your wound

where would your power be?” asked writer Thornton Wilder. “The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.”

Let’s make that one of your ongoing meditations, Scorpio.

I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to come to a greater appreciation for your past losses. What capacities has your suffering given birth to? What failures have made you stronger? What crucial lessons and unexpected benefits have emerged from your sadness and madness?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Creating is not magic

but work,” says Kevin Ashton, author of the book How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. In other words, inspiration is a relatively small part of the creative process. Over the long haul, the more important factors are self-discipline, organized thinking, hard work, and attention to detail. And yet inspiration isn’t irrelevant, either. Brainstorms and periodic leaps of insight can be highly useful. That’s a good reminder as you enter a phase when you’re likely to be more imaginative and original than usual. I expect creative excitement to be a regular visitor.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes was a good Capricorn, born January 6, 1854. In the course of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 60 stories about his life, he revealed his exceptional talent as an analytical thinker. His attention to details was essential to his success, and so was his expertise at gathering information. He did have a problem with addictive drugs, however. Morphine tempted him now and then, and cocaine more often, usually when he wasn’t feeling sufficiently challenged. Let this serve as a gentle warning, Capricorn.

In the coming weeks, seek more relaxation and downtime than usual. Focus on recharging your psychic batteries. But please be sure that doesn’t cause you to get bored and then dabble with self-sabotaging stimuli.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): English is my first language. Years ago there was a time when I spoke a lot of French with my Parisian girlfriend, but my skill faded after we broke up. So I’m not bilingual in the usual sense.

But I do have some mastery in the language of music, thanks to my career as a singer-songwriter. Having raised a daughter, I also learned to converse in the language of children. And I’ve remembered and worked with my nightly dreams every day for decades, so I speak the language of dreams. What about you, Aquarius? In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll be challenged to make more extensive use of one of your second languages. It’s time to be adaptable and resourceful in your approach to communication.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you need a reason to think sharper and work smarter and try harder? I’ll give you four reasons. 1. Because you’re finally ready to get healing for the inner saboteur who in the past has undermined your confidence. 2. Because you’re finally ready to see the objective truth about one of your selfdoubts, which is that it’s a delusion. 3. Because you’re finally ready to stop blaming an adversary for a certain obstacle you face, which means the obstacle will become easier to overcome. 4. Because you’re finally ready to understand that in order to nurture and hone your ample creativity, you have to use it to improve your life on a regular basis.

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