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Light Rail In response to David Hoppe’s NUVO.net column “What’s so hard about mass transit?” , we received the following online comment: Portland light rail is a boondoggle. 90% of light rail is a bust and heavily subsidized. They are very expensive … let the free market build it if they can see a profit. If the government builds it, it will run a deficit and the tax payers will wind up subsidizing it, like the Amtrak to Indy. Riders pay $25 and taxpayers $50 for a single rider to Chicago. Enough is enough. Use buses, they are much cheaper, more flexible in route changes, and can be like the Mega Bus on the east coast which is a very successful private enterprise. Oh, and we had a light rail. It was called the Monon Rail, remember? We could have used that, but no — the bike, ped folks tore it up so they could walk and bike. In short, they sowed what they seeded. — “Roger That”
Naptown Roller Girls In response to Devon “Peyton Slamming” Dean’s cover story “The long road to becoming a Naptown Roller Girl”, we received the following online comment: Wonderful article, Peyton! Although I knew about your journey to NRG via your Facebook posts, I was literally on the edge of my seat reading your article (“Oh, I hope she gets it...is she gonna get it?”). A derby fanatic myself (although without your bravery to actually give it a shot) I thoroughly enjoyed being allowed on the “inside” of NRG as far as practices, try-outs, etc. go. For those of us who’ve been Naptown-crazy since the Touretta Lynn, Strawberry Jam and J Roller (skating) days, your article reminded me again why I love this league so much. You ladies take (and make) hard hits that could probably knock me down if I was wearing tennis shoes, but the fact of the matter boils down to one simple principle which rang through your entire article: You fall, you get back up. Way to keep getting back up, Peyton...I expect to see you on the Belles roster soon.
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FUTURE OF MSA SITE: NICE BUILDING, LOST OPPORTUNITY I
like what I’ve seen of the 28-story tower being proposed for the site where Market Square Arena once stood. It appears to be an elegant design - and it’s a damn sight better than a surface parking lot. It appears, thankfully, that Indianapolis has finally gotten past the idea that surface parking equals Downtown architecture. But then paving over empty lots is what happens when people are, for whatever reason, unwilling to invest in a place. It’s hard to believe, but MSA was demolished in July 2001. It’s even harder to believe it’s taken this long for the city to field an apparently viable proposal to develop what has to be considered one of its most important pieces of real estate. The project, being developed by Flaherty & Collins, will make a handsome addition to the city’s skyline, acting as a kind of eastern bookend to the Marriot tower on Downtown’s west side. The only trouble is, once you get past the design’s good looking curves, you have to admit the project itself is, well, boring. It’s like a paint-by-numbers kit: 300 luxury apartments on top, with 43,000 square feet of retail space (including, maybe, a Whole Foods! - the aspirational brand name local developers seem most eager to drop) on the ground level and, of course, plenty of parking. As happy as I am to finally see something happening on the MSA site, I can’t help but feel the city has lost an opportunity here. That site is like Downtown’s eastern gateway. It was an opportunity for Indianapolis to make a major cultural statement. In June, an organization called The New Cities Foundation will be holding a two-day conference in Dallas for over 1,000 leaders from around the world. The purpose of this meeting will be to explore the ways arts and culture districts can help cities compete in a global, 21st century economy. The NCF, which has headquarters in 4 VOICES // 03.19.14 - 03.26.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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BE A BETTER BLOGGER Hoppe is teaching a program on opinion writing, columns or blogs: Ideas or Just Attitide? at the Indiana Writers Center on March 22. Visit indianawriters.org for more. Geneva and Paris, argues that over the next decade some $250 billion will be invested in the creation of new cultural districts in cities around the world. These districts are seen as necessary hubs for the attraction and nurturing of the kind of workers who are making the new international economy sing. The NCF has created something called the Global Culture Districts Network to help cities make the most of their cultural assets. That Dallas meeting, by the way, is being co-chaired by Maxwell Anderson, the former head of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It’s not that Indy’s leaders are blind to the need for this kind of development. The conversion of Old City Hall into a center for urban planning is a step, albeit modest, in the right direction. But for Indianapolis to flourish, it will have to invest in culture the way it has in sports. Not just in order to provide something for all those posh apartment dwellers to do - but to make itself relevant to the rest of the world. n Editor’s note: The Indianapolis CityCounty Council on Monday night approved funding for the MSA site development.
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RECYCLING THE LADY ITEMS FROM AISLE 9 Q:
Hello Renee, I am the blissfully fortunate husband of one adult and proud father of two not-quite adult women, in addition to two male sons who don’t bear relevance to this question — save curiosity, perhaps. The anatomy that allows the miracle of new life is accompanied by a number of accessories that are individually wrapped or covered in material reminiscent of plastic, but I cannot tell for sure. Would you be able to clarify the composition of the wrappers of these sometime conversationally delicate accessories and most importantly, whether they can join the single stream recycling bin as plastic “film”? SIGNED, MODESTLY CURIOUS
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Hello Modestly Curious, We’re all friends here, trying to do our part for the planet, so no need to be shy. Your question has a few parts I want to address. First, the plastic film I’ve mentioned in previous pieces should not be included in your single-stream recycling (a.k.a. curbside). This material must go to a recycler that accepts it, like RecycleForce or others found on plasticfilmrecycling.org.
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As for the composition of the aforementioned wrapper, I don’t know the exact material as each brand is different. I believe I would include them in a batch of film being dropped off to a film recycler. I would also encourage your wife and daughters to seek out products that are made from organic cotton. Cotton is considered the world’s ‘dirtiest’ crop due to its heavy use of insecticides, not to mention THE most hazardous pesticide to human and animal health. Cotton covers 2.5% of the world’s cultivated land yet uses 16% of the world’s insecticides, more than any other single major crop. Not only is this terrible for the Earth, it’s not exactly something I want near my, um, you know. There are even certain products that are wrapped in paper, not plastic, and don’t come with applicators made from excess, single-use materials. Natracare and Seventh Generation are two choices. And if you’re a true greenie, there are reusable varieties in cup and pad form. PIECE OUT, RENEE
(Editor’s note: In previous columns on seafood — notably sushi — Renee has used the term “sustainable fish,” which clearly prompted the question below.)
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Renee, Please — you would do well to explain “sustainable fish.” I don’t understand it and I’m just frightened by the whole fish thing. THANKS, JUNE
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June, I recently attended The Green Hour where Nic Mink, Co-Organizer of the Indy Food Council and President at Sitka Salmon Shares, was the speaker. I learned more about fish in 45 minutes than I ever thought possible, so I thought he might be able to shed a little light on sustainable fish for you: “Eating seafood in the Midwest can be a quandary. On one level, we know we want to eat fish for our personal health. In fact, most doctors now suggest we consume fish twice a week. On another level, though, we worry about the ecological implications of consuming things from the ocean as well as basic questions about freshness and accurate labeling when gazing at fish in the supermarket. These fears are certainly justified: many of the earth’s species are overfished and, often, fish at supermarkets is well past its prime or, even worse, mislabeled. “Solutions to this quandary aren’t simple but there are a few simple steps that you can take to ensure better wild-caught fish--and until there’s substantive evidence otherwise, responsibly-sourced wild fish is nearly always better than farmed.
“With that thought in mind, be patriotic! American fisheries and American fish aren’t perfect but they are the best in the world. Based on both science and democratic governance, American fisheries management is generally responsive to the needs of local communities and to the dynamic nature of fish stocks, now in even great flux because of climate change. “At the same time, consumers can ensure better fish by seeking out canned and frozen products that clearly say “Product of the U.S.A.” on their labeling. Though there’s a cult around fresh fish, fish usually isn’t fresh in the Midwest and “fresh” fish is responsible for greater waste in the supply chain and higher carbon emissions. “Finally, hit the internet. There are now hundreds of fishermen selling their catch online. These fishermen do so because they care more about their product and YOU! They’ll be there to answer any questions you might have and help demystify the entire process. A simple google search for the species you’re looking to buy will usually reveal dozens o connections.“ Dr. Nic MInk is a sustainable fish expert and owner of a sustainable fish company called Sitka Salmon Shares. He can be reached at nic@sitkasalmonshares.com. PIECE OUT, RENEE (AND NIC)
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WHAT HAPPENED? You call this justice? Respect to reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski for placing “Money, Politics and Judges” front and center in Sunday’s Indianapolis Star. “An Indianapolis Star analysis of campaign documents raises questions about a longstanding practice in Marion County, where the major political parties ask judicial candidates seeking endorsement to pay $12,000 to $14,000,” she writes, pointing out that mandatory “slating fee” contributions to parties are against the law. Any money candidates pay to the parties must be voluntary, yet her analysis found that some campaign documents actually list “slating fee” payments — and all 2012 candidates listed payments to the parties for various types of expense above $13,000. Some questions remain: Is that what we want to call justice in Marion County? On top of the existing practice of dividing the judgeships equally between the Republicans and the Democrats so they don’t have to deal with the added bother and expense of campaigning? Victory is assured for those who pay to play? The parties have the peoples’ best interests at stake? Varying degrees of success Sine die, the final day of the 2014 Indiana General Assembly arrived last Thursday and our leaders voiced different assessments on Indiana’s legislative vision and innovation. Readers will remember that, among other activities this session, leaders: chose marriage definition as an issue of prime importance; determined that pre-K education was important enough to fund a limited pilot program; dipped into their rainy day transportation fund to try to catch up with back-logged transportation infrastructure projects; and, finally, gave Central Indiana residents the right to vote on funding mass transit improvements — as long as they don’t involve light rail. Many local GOP leaders shared Gov. Mike Pence’s sentiment, spelled out in a Thursday news release: “ … Every Hoosier will be glad to know that this session brought real progress on jobs, roads and schools.” The subject lines on two emails from John Schorg, the House Democrats press liaison, spoke volumes on the opposition’s stance: “[House Minority Leader Scott] Pelath On 2014 Session: ‘Seriously, Was That The Best We Could Do?’” and “[Indy Rep. Greg] Porter: SB 1 ‘Tax Relief’ Typifies Missed Opportunities Of 2014 Legislative Session.” Energizing Indiana on the ropes The local NAACP chapter is one of many local nonprofit watchdogs to join several industry groups in asking Gov. Mike Pence to veto Senate Bill 340, which would kill Indiana’s statewide energy efficiency program. Proponents argue they are looking for proof that the benefits of the program support the cost. Opponents contend that proof enough can be found in Indiana inching up to 27th from 31st on the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s annual energy efficiency scorecard between 2012 and 2013. Now it remains for the governor to decide. — REBECCA TOWNSEND 6 NEWS // 03.19.14 - 03.26.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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The tar sands pipeline you’ve never heard of
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ass media, politicians and environmental activists have been fixated on whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a delivery system intended to carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas. Meanwhile, in Northwest Indiana, work continues on a pipeline to carry tar sands oil to the BP refinery in Whiting. Last year, BP completed work on a major expansion to its Northwest Indiana facility for the express purpose of refining tar sands oil. The BP tar sands expansion went forward with the blessing of the Daniels administration. The already existing pipeline route, known as 6B, will carry tar sands oil through replacement pipes in close proximity to Lake Michigan, the source of drinking water for over 30 million people. Nicole Barker, executive director of environmental watchdog group Save the Dunes, received a heads-up that pipeline construction was about to cross the Indiana border from a colleague in Michigan in June of 2012. Barker was told that Enbridge, Inc., the Canadian corporation responsible for the pipeline, had scheduled a public meeting in the town of LaPorte, Ind. Barker told her colleague, “That’s where I live!”
This was the beginning of an eleventh-hour scramble by Save the Dunes, a small nonprofit, aimed at building in as many safeguards as possible into a pipeline project that, incredibly, is practically unregulated. Enbridge’s plan was to run a new, or replacement, pipeline alongside an existing 62-year-old line, Line 6B, across LaPorte and Porter counties in Northwest Indiana to Griffith, in Lake County and, from there, up to the BP refinery in Whiting. “I didn’t realize how old the pipeline already in the ground was,” says Barker. “They knew, based on some integrity digs, that there were some anomalies in the integrity of the pipes that needed some repairs. In our minds, the question of did this pipeline have to be replaced was an absolute yes.”
Where energy meets people But while Enbridge calls its work on Line 6B a “replacement project,” it has opted not to actually remove the older pipe. “They’ve never denied the fact that they could technically go back in and turn that line back on, broadening the amount of product moving through our region,” says Barker. ”This was the beginning of questions that we started to explore with Enbridge staff.” Founded in 1949, Enbridge, whose motto is “where energy meets people” transports over 2 million barrels of oil per day, playing, as its website says, “a critical role in developing North American energy infrastructure.”
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Enbridge claims to have transported nearly 12 billion gallons of crude oil over the past decade, with a safe delivery record of 99.999 percent. Still, between 1999 and 2008, Enbridge recorded 610 spills, releasing approximately 132,000 barrels of oil into waterways and countryside. The most dramatic of these accidents took place in July 2010, when Line 6B ruptured, spilling over 800,000 gallons of tar sands oil into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, near Marshall, Mich. It was 17 hours before anyone noticed the spill, which meant oil was able to travel downstream for 35 miles. It was the largest on-land oil spill in U.S. history, but coverage of the disaster was obscured by BP’s Gulf oil spill, which was also underway at that time. When Save the Dunes staff compared their GIS maps of Northwest Indiana with maps Enbridge was using, they found details not accounted for in Enbridge’s plans. “We were trying to evaluate how many water crossings were occurring in Northwest Indiana, and how close they were to Lake Michigan,” says Barker. “We knew that the spill
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egregious, according to what we’ve been in Marshall had moved about 40 miles told by IDEM (Indiana Department of downstream from the original rupture Environmental Management),” says Barker. site, and when we saw that every one of “Knowing there was someone checking our crossings, totaling about 82 of them, every day made us feel a lot better.” were within about 20 miles of Lake This doesn’t mean that the construcMichigan — that’s when we realized we tion hasn’t been tremendously disruptive better dig in a little further.” to the landscape, or any less traumatic for The results of this digging were unsetpeople living close-by. Living in LaPorte tling. According to Barker: “For hazardCounty, Barker sees the work proceeding ous liquid pipelines, there’s insufficient on an almost daily basis. “Homeowners regulations at both the state and the adjacent couldn’t believe how long it federal levels.” When Save the Dunes takes, couldn’t believe the erosion. The contacted the Indiana Utility Regulatory one by our house is coming through Commission, they were told that most of moraine topography and the clear-cutthe work that body does regarding these ting and seeing all the trees come down pipelines takes the form of direct notifiis very sad. The width of the swath, the cation to landowners, informing them of equipment — it’s a huge project.” what to do if they see a leak. At the federal level, the Federal Energy Barker is a pragmatist who underRegulatory stands the ecoCommission nomic momenconducts little, tum driving “I wish people would realize how our ability to make local pipeline construcif any, oversight; and the Pipeline “You can’t decisions to protect ourselves may actually be necessary. tion. Hazardous pooh-pooh the Materials Safety jobs this has creFederal regulations won’t always cover us.” Administration ated,” she says. (PHMSA) relies — NICOLE BARKER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SAVE THE DUNES “But I’ve seen a lot heavily on the of license plates states to set their from other states own safety stanand I just wish sands oil] is not more corrosive, but dards. Since Indiana does not have spemore local labor could have been used.” cific regulations addressing hazardous liq- what will it do in terms of pressure?” Save the Dunes was faced with a uid pipelines, the Hoosier state amounts strategic decision. With BP’s refinery to a gaping loophole when it comes to expansion almost complete and pipeline Now Barker wonders when Enbridge the construction of pipelines intended to construction well underway — and with will be done and what the next steps carry material like tar sands oil. barely any public recognition about what will be for each of the affected counties. “There are pipelines everywhere, crisswas happening — the organization opted Under the circumstances, perhaps the crossing our world,” says Barker. Indeed, to try and build as many protections into most important thing Save the Dunes according to PHMSA, there are already the pipeline construction as they could. has accomplished has been to keep lines 184,643 miles of steel pipelines carrying “We felt like we missed the boat a little,” of communication open with Enbridge. hazardous liquids in the United States. says Barker. “So what could we do now? “One of the things that resonated PHMSA figures there have been, on averAnd that was to try to pressure every deci- with people was that [Enbridge] didn’t age, 281 “significant” incidents involving have an answer for do you have sitethese lines per year over the past 20 years. sionmaker and elected official we knew about putting in the best possible prodspecific plans should a spill occur in this “In talking to the National Wildlife uct we could, starting with labor-made river or in this area? Over the last year Federation and other coalitions around American steel. According to steelworkthey have developed those plans. They the Great Lakes, we started saying, ers, there have been welds and misshapen invited us to a training where they rolled ‘Guys, this is a major issue,’” says Barker. pipes coming from other countries, so we out a scenario involving Deep River [in “This is the Keystone XL of the Great wanted solid quality control. Lake County]. I felt so much better after Lakes and people aren’t aware of it.” “We wanted more shut-off valves, seeing that because that was the reasespecially near waterways. Originally surance we wanted. If it happens here, they were going to open-cut through all what’s the emergency response structhe waterways and we got them to do ture from a staffing perspective, time to Indeed, while Line 6B is currently able horizontal drilling, which is much less get people to the site perspective, local to transport 240,000 barrels of tar sands damaging to the ecosystem, but a lot hospitals, evacuations. Human health is crude per day, once the work is completgoing to be first and foremost. Then how ed, it is expected to convey 500,000 barrels more expensive for them.” Enbridge was also persuaded to allow will you deal with wildlife. They seem to per day, with a total capacity that might for independent environmental monihave most of those questions answered. reach as high as 800,000 barrels per day, a toring, putting inspectors on job sites “… We’ve had no money to do this, it’s figure not that far afield from the 850,000 every day. Michigan did not have moniall come out of donations. I wish we had barrels per day projected for Keystone XL. tors and suffered construction accidents more resources, more bodies — and I The pipe on Line 6B is being expandand greater damage to natural resources wish people would realize how our abilied from 30 inches to 36 inches. “Will along the construction route. ty to make local decisions to protect ourthis increase pressure on the line,” asks The monitoring seems to be working selves may actually be necessary. Federal Barker. “The federal government has in Indiana. “They haven’t found anything regulations won’t always cover us.”n come out with a report that says [tar
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f all musical pursuits, electronic and hip-hop production might be the most similar to writing. At the very least they both frequently lead to the isolation of the artist. So much of both turn on the artist’s willingness to go off on their own and pound away until they’ve got something worth sharing. Dave Owen, an Indianapolis-based drum and bass producer says “making friends with my machine” is one of the most important parts of getting better. Working primarily alone with computers, synthesizers and drum machine, there are few (read: no) band practices for producers to attend. And given the typical personality profile of a producer, the fact that any beats at all are played anywhere outside of the producer's own bedroom starts to seem even more surprising. Sean Stuart, who produces as Lonegevity, puts it best. “Most of us are introverts. I am too. I had to force myself to really get out and meet people and it was painful for me.” But beats are played. And shared, and critiqued, and shared again. What can start as something solitary evolves into a wellspring of camaraderie and collaboration. That is, if the scene is right. And Indianapolis right now is right. As David Adamson, who produces solo as DMA and as part of duo Tuff Blades, says, “Everybody [in Indy] is encouraging and everybody wants to collaborate.” There’s an almost compulsive drive to work together. In fact, during the photoshoot for this piece, Stuart and fellow producer Jay Brookinz at one point stepped away from the group because there was business to discuss. What makes Indianapolis a great place for producers to flourish, then, is the fact that people like Adamson, Stuart and Brookinz aren’t just staying in every night, trying to get that kick drum to sound just right. They’re also working hard to build infrastructure and to open whatever doors they can for the up-and-coming producers who are themselves willing to push themselves, get out there and get heard.
“I LIKE THAT MIX OF THINGS YOU CAN ONLY DO WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ... " - DAVID ADAMSON
The mad genius It’s easy to believe that David Adamson fits that introverted profile that Stuart describes. As we talk at the Red Key one night after his shift at LUNA Music, his answers are deliberate. I have to lean in just a bit to hear him over the bustle. As one half of Tuff Blades with partner Chris Madsen, Adamson produces a skewed take on Chicago’s footwork music, which is a type of fast, hip-hop influenced electronic music that grew out Chicago’s ghetto house and juke scenes. Structured around competitive dance battles, it’s typified by tightly chopped samples, herky-jerky rhythms and off-kilter beats. Though it too takes no small amount of influence from these sounds, Adamson’s solo work as DMA is a bit harder to pin down. He calls it “crust-funk.” “I thought it was a good way to describe electronic music that was sort of lo-fi or distorted.” With DMA, Adamson wants to chart the intersection of digital and analog. “I like that mix of things you can only do with digital technology,” he says, “and then with the texture you can get with things like tape and real room reverb and echo.” Like a lot of the producers in this piece, Adamson first came to making music through hip-hop. S E E , B E A T , O N P A G E 12 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 03.19.14 - 03.26.14 // COVER STORY 11
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BEAT , FROM PAGE 11 “The first thing I ever did was record raps on a boombox over an instrumental side of a cassette single tape,” he says. “I think there was an MC Hammer song that I had on a cassette single.” Adamson first rose to prominence with his idiosyncratic indie folk-leaning group Jookabox (formerly Grampall Jookabox). That project ended in 2011. His tastes had changed. “I think I wanted to do less poppy, more stark and minimal stuff,” he says. “I had started listening to footwork out of Chicago, and juke stuff.” Adamson cites volumes one and two of Planet Mu’s Bangs & Works compilations, released in 2010 and 2011, as instrumental to his shifting sounds. These compilations featured countless heavy hitters in the footwork genre, including RP Boo, DJ Rashad and even recent Indiana transplant EQ Why, who at the time went by DJ T-Why. At a technical level, he wasn’t quite sure how to pull of the sounds he was hearing on Bangs & Works. “I had taken this MIDI recording class at IU when I was there, and at the time I didn’t really understand how it would ever apply to what I wanted to do.” As it happens, it applied directly. What he learned in that class is exactly what ended up enabling him to make the music he makes these days. Shortly after he made the connection, he put together Tuff Blades with Madsen. Their debut cassette, Marshall Faulk Primetime, came out last year via Indianapolis’ Warm Ratio label (which is collaboratively run by Adamson, Madsen and Dan Schmeltekop). Last year also saw the release of DMA’s debut full-length on Indianapolis’ Joyful Noise Recordings. Entitled Pheel Phree, Adamson says it took a while to come together; he just kept overcoming technical hurdles, learning more about MIDI programming and the ins and outs of his gear. “I think [Pheel Phree] finally turned out what I was hoping for. It all started when I was first figuring out how to really use the MIDI stuff, and the way I wanted to make sounds I was interested in.” Adamson echoes the feeling of other producers who value Indy’s open environment. “Maybe because we’re kind of an underdog, in a way. On a national or global picture we’re not really known for a music scene, and we would like to be. We all just want to support each other and see each other succeed.” He continues, “I think we [DMA, Tuff Blades] could play [any venue]. People are pretty open to whatever around here.” Even so, with all the low frequencies and high volumes in Adamson’s DMA and Tuff Blades, it can be tricky to play
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out just anywhere. “A tough thing to find around town is sound people and PA systems that cater to electronic music rather than a band just running vocals.” One event he mentions is IQ Entertainment’s Broke(n) Tuesdays at the Melody Event. He played there back in February, and he thinks they’ve got the right idea. They do, after all, bring in an extra PA to make sure it’s all “really nice and loud.”
The label guy Since 1998 when he first started throwing parties for “a bunch of redneck kids getting drunk and listening to rap music,” JP Gold, who runs IQ Entertainment, has worked in service of Indiana’s EDM and production scenes. Gold, though, isn’t a producer. “I have no musical talent. I have no rhythm. I have no skill,” he says as we sit in the back room of the Melody Inn right as the night’s Broke(n) Tuesday begins. What he does have is “a pure appreciation and love for the music.” He’s also got deep technological and legal knowledge, coupled with a willingness to put all that in service of a growing scene. His involvement in networking and nightlife started in 1996 when he says, “I was hired to do a festival website, and I did a couple of band websites.” From there, “it just kind of spiraled,” into years of putting on shows, promoting. In 2007 he graduated from IUPUI’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law with a focus on entertainment and intellectual property law. Using this legal knowledge, he joined Rad Summer in 2011 as label manager, helping to convert Action Jackson and Flufftronix’s joint venture from a promo company into a fullfledged record label. “I said to Ben [Action Jackson], ‘I like what you’re DJing out, I like what your tastes are. I’ve got a lot to bring to the table, I know you’ve got a lot to bring to the table, let’s jump off with this.’ “ Broke(n) Tuesdays originally ran between 2005 and 2007, drawing to a close initially as a result of “burnout” and “scene bullshit.” He says that somewhere online there’s footage of him getting jumped after an especially contentious night back then. “I had gotten a big ego,” he says. On top of that, he explains, “Indy used to be pretty cutthroat.” Things have cooled down in recent years, though. Everyone’s a lot more “cooperative.” So, after a bit of shuffling with Rad
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Summer’s Werk night at the Melody Inn in the winter of 2012 — which came after the end of theirs and A-Squared Industries’ Let Go event at the Lockerbie — Gold yet again took over the Melody Inn’s long-running EDM night under the Broke(n) Tuesdays name. Gold has nothing but respect for other EDM nights around the city (established nights include the Mousetrap’s Altered Thurzdaze and Blu’s Keepin’ It Deep parties, along with emerging events like Old Soul’s Windy to Indy Chicago house music night) but he wants to push Broke(n) Tuesdays in a more esoteric direction. That’s what lead him to people like Adamson and Indy’s drum and bass superstar Dave Owen in the first place. He wants to book people who are going to play, “stuff [that’s] new and in some way shape or form pushing that sonic boundary.” Owen, by the way, for all the international acclaim he’s garnered, is quick to admit that for the first several years he was producing he was making “pretty shit tunes.” “It took years of practice and “hang-
ing out with other people,” and “just figuring out little bits and pieces.” Owen says. “There’s always a learning curve.” Owen is a regular at Broke(n) Tuesdays, and an artist on Rad Summer. And he fits what Gold is looking for: people who are willing to power through that learning curve. “I like to look for young kids that are hungry as fuck,” he says. “That person who’s going to take the 10 to 11 spot and really drag their friends out.”
" BEATS AND BREAKFAST STARTED OVER A BOTTLE OF CROWN ON A SUNDAY MORNING“ - LONEGEVITY
The organizer Since last March, Sean Stuart and Nick Saligoe’s (a.k.a. DJ Metrognome) monthly Writer’s Block event at Sabbatical has hosted producers from all around the country and the state (including Adamson, who played there as DMA back in February). The idea behind Writer’s Block isn’t just to be a cool concert, though. “You never know who’s making stuff and who is good,” he says as we talk on an icy Thursday evening in Broad Ripple, just down the street from where he hosts his monthly. “I feel like this is a good place to build community. I didn’t really have anything like that when I was starting out.” At the end of each Writer’s Block, S E E , B E A T , O N P A G E 14
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BEAT , FROM PAGE 13 Stuart likes to open up the decks for any other producers to come in and play their tracks over the PA. “So not only does everybody get to hear them then, but the producer can check out how bad their mix is,” he says. As a producer himself, Stuart knows the value of hearing your mix out on the big speakers. He works solo as Lonegevity, as one half of Hinx Jones and with countless other collaborators around the city. Furthermore, he says he thinks Indianapolis “breeds entrepreneurs.” Honestly, he’s one of them. For one, he’s the founder of the local hip-hop blog Bringing Down the Band, which he founded in 2008, though he says “I didn’t really do shit with it until 2010.” He’s also starting a new business venture in early summer, a subscription-based service for producers called Drums Bang. “It’s going to provide basically everything a producer would want to make beats. From the start-up, to the experienced producer.” For the first month, Chicago-based producer SLOT-A will provide “40 to 50 unique electronic drum sounds,” to subscribers. On top of that there will be a cappella tracks, bass riffs and any number of other musical layers from local
A NOTE ON THE MURAL: Subjects are pictured in front of Pamela Bliss’ Jazz Masters mural on Capitol and Indiana Aves., on the side of Musicians’ Repair. Owner Rick Oldham notes that all musicians pictured made themselves famous by playing on Indiana Ave. Duncan Schiedt, the photographer whose work was used to create the mural and is shown in the piece with his camera, passed away peacefully at his Westside home last week. We spoke with another Hoosier jazz photographer, Mark Sheldon, about Schiedt’s life on page 29. musicians, as well tutorials on the production process. All of this will as come on a flash drive, packaged with artwork, stickers, coupons, and a lot more — currently still being planned. Another project rolls along, too. On March 18, Stuart released the first track from the second season of Beats and Breakfast, his ongoing collaboration with local emcee Brian Phillips, who goes by Skittz (Mudkids, The Proforms). Every Tuesday, they’ll release one new track and an accompanying video; the whole season will available in May. For the uninitiated, Beats and Breakfast is exactly what it sounds like. The whole thing started “over a bottle of
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Crown on a Sunday morning.” “[Phillips] just came over and made breakfast, and I made a beat and from there we just started inviting people.” The first season, released back in 2012, featured contributors like Tony Styxx, Gritts (the other half of Hinx Jones) and Grey Granite. For Season Two, regulars will return, in conjunction with contributors from around the Midwest, like Ohio’s Dominique Larue and Chicago’s ILL Brown. The spirit of the project remains the same. “It’s built heavily around camaraderie and the desire to work with the people we think are talented.”
It’s of a piece with Indianapolis’ general feel. There’s that openness and support throughout the city. He says, “People are really free thinking and more open to try things.” As a result, “Indy to me has a real homey vibe to it,” Stuart says. “I think a lot of people here know each other. I think they go out of their way to know other people and I think they care about other people.” The homey vibe leads to a lot of cross-pollination. Stuart, says his Beats & Breakfast idea might have “subconsciously gotten started because of Brookinz’s Gateway.”
BEATS AND BREAKFAST Beats and Breakfast debuted it first episode of the second season this week. Scan the QR code to watch a video of the process and listen to the release.
The gateway guy Gateway, of course, is Jay Brookinz’ own long-running collaborative project. And although Brookinz is about the last person anyone would call “introverted” — our interview was full of his excited shout outs to friends and colleagues around the city — he started Gateway as a way to foster deeper connections with his peers in the Indianapolis hiphop scene. It began in 2010 with Brookinz sending out beats he had made to a few friends in the scene — including alpha.live, Grey Granite and Rusty Redenbacher — and asking them to record verses. The project grew from there. In 2011, it morphed into a weekend-long lockin, with Brookinz and his Heavy Gun partner Grey Granite posted up in a basement studio inviting everyone they could think of in the Indianapolis scene to come by, write and record a verse over beats that Brookinz put together. 2012 followed the same model, keeping the focus on spontaneity. In 2013, Brookinz took a break, calling the whole thing an “organized clusterfuck” in an interview with NUVO last April. This April, though, will see the return of the project. As we talk during his shift at 20 Past 4 & More in Broad Ripple, (he calls himself the store’s mascot), he explains he won’t be doing the production side this time, though. “This time we’re going to do like a Ghost Gun-type of thing,” meaning a joint project featuring members of Ghost Town Collective, a young hip-hop crew and Heavy Gun, Brookinz’ long-time creative partners. He’s recruited five producers to help, including Harold Russell as Harry Otaku, Dylan Wilson as Dylan Prevails, Nicholas Smith as Mandog, Matt Riefler and Kyle Nagy as KNags. Each producer will contribute two tracks. “We’ve got some of the hottest talent I think that’s in the city. I think the talent pool in this city now is deeper than it’s ever been, as far as hip-hop is concerned.” This Ghost Town Collective and Heavy Gun connection has been going on for a while now. A big group of Indianapolis MCs — including Grey Granite, Oreo Jones, Sirius Blvck, Freddie Bunz and John Stamps — recently went on an
extended group tour alongside Andy D across the United States as the Ghost Gun Summer Tour. Brookinz is excited about what the tour means for Indiana hip-hop. It’s all about getting a foothold. “It’s the first big group tour like this that anyone from Indianapolis has done,” he says. “All they got to do is touch down in a couple of these spots two or three more times and the rest is history. They’re killing the game.” For his own part, Brookinz is actually planning to “put production to the side” for a short time so he really focus on all the other work he’s got planned. In addition to the promotion and organizational work he’s planning for Gateway 5, there’s his annual Brookinz Beat Battle, which celebrates its sixth anniversary this year. What started as a small event on the fringes of Broad Ripple Music Fest has grown tremendously in the last six years. After two years at the Casba in Broad Ripple, last year the event moved to an outdoor and all-ages space at Victory MFG in Speedway. Brookinz says it was, “a good moment in Indianapolis music history.” Producer Soul Cinematik took home the coveted $500 prize. Though he’s not spent a lot of time figuring out the logistics yet — “I’ve got to get through April first,” during which he’ll also hold a producer showcase at Indy CD and Vinyl on Record Store Day — he wants the Beat Battle to keep growing. “It’s going to be big, bigger than last year. It’s going to have some of the most talented people producing in this city and the surrounding area coming together to battle for supremacy.” On top of the Beat Battle, he’s starting his own company: Druggie Clothing. “It kind of spawned from my Weed God shirt, and it’s going to be my next baby.” He’s putting everything he’s got behind it the business. He says, “I’m really putting my balls on the chopping block with this one. I’m doing it solo. It’s just a brainchild that’s coming to fruition; it’s going to be insane.” Brookinz’s passion for the local scene is infectious. He says he’s been called the “champion of the people,” and that seems to fit. He says he wants to make it “as easy as possible” for anyone coming up behind him. “I’m for everybody. I’m all about promoting good and positivity and doing what you love. That’s something people can latch on to, I don’t care if you’re a businessman in a suit, or if you’re a kid out on probation.” And that’s really the deal with Indianapolis production as a whole. No matter who a producer is, no matter what sort of beats they want and no matter how long they’ve been at it, as long as he or she is ready to put in the work, there are people throughout Indianapolis who want to help them take things to another level. n
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Clowes Memorial Hall, March 21, 8 p.m. and March 23, 2 p.m., $25-125, indyopera.org Bomb on a Bus Another pop-culture-embracing musical from the folks at Q Artistry. Bomb on a Bus, a parody of 1994’s Speed, written by Paige Scott, will feature numbers such as “My Life’s the Bomb” and “Life Is a Freeway,” with Q Artistry head Ben Asaykwee directing. Irvington Lodge, March 21-April 5, $18 general, $15 students/seniors, qartistry.org Spring Equinox: Project in Motion A couple things are coming back to town this week: 1) Spring. 2) Project in Motion, a modern and aerial dance company based out of New Mexico that you may have seen during last year’s totally insane Cultural Trail opening party. They’ll be at 100 Acres all weekend, paying tribute to the gods of the harvest without any messy sacrificial blood. 100 Acres at Indianapolis Museum of Art, March 22 and 23, 1 and 2:30 p.m., $10 public, $7 members, imamuseum.org If These Walls Could Tell Storytelling Arts’ If These Walls Could Tell series charges a Hoosier storyteller with creating a program based on an Indiana landmark. Lou Ann Homan is this year’s storyteller-of-choice, and she’ll present a narrative about Fort Wayne’s Brookside Mansion, built as a summer cottage for the Bass family, then purchased by the Sisters of Saint Francis of Perpetual Adoration to house the University of St. Francis. Indiana Landmarks Center, March 24, 8 p.m., $15 door, $10 advance, storytellingarts.org
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Athenaeum Theatre, March 20, 8 p.m., $25 or $150 for VIP table of four, bourbonboylesque.info The Girl of the Golden West Indianapolis Opera’s big Clowes production this year is Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West, the Italian composer’s celebration of Old West, circa 1849, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, making it the eldest of the four 20th-century works Indy Opera is presenting this season.
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f you can’t say it in one minute, is it really worth saying? Well, I suppose that depends if we’re talking about a relationship or particle physics. The people behind the One-Minute Play Festival, the nation’s largest and oldest short form theatre company, certainly think there’s plenty of room for creativity and profundity in a one-minute play, and they annually partner with nearly 20 theaters around the country on a showcase featuring local playwrights, directors and performers. Here’s the structure: each of six directors directs a group of eight or nine plays. That’s 50 plays in total, written for the festival by 25 Indiana playwrights. The Phoenix suggested playwrights and directors, with OneMinute Play Festival founder Dominic D’Andrea making final decisions. Each director selected his or her own cast, unique to his or her group of plays. This is the first year for the festival at the Phoenix Theatre, with headline funding provided by Frank Basile, who previously supported the Phoenix’s one-act festival for local playwrights. Phoenix producing director Bryan Fonseca, who’s directing a batch of eight plays, tells us more. NUVO: Here’s one reaction to the concept: “I’ve heard of 10-minute plays, but one minute? What’s that about?” BRYAN FONSECA: The challenge is to make a statement in one minute, and I think many playwrights do, at least in the group I’m working on. It’s fun and exciting, and designed for really short attention span, obviously, because one minute later, there’s another play coming up. NUVO: And another: “One minute is 30 seconds too long.” I guess that points to the potential for cutting through any bullshit. FONSECA: I guess that’s exactly what it comes down to: This is what I feel, boom, period, that’s all there is to it. I think 30 seconds is barely enough time to finish a sentence. But it’s very interesting: We’ve got a number of pieces with four or five people in them, and that truly barely
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gives them a chance to finish a sentence, but combined they tell a little story. NUVO: The press release describes the One-Minute Play Festival as a “barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities.” FONSECA: My particular clump of plays does exactly that: I have a lot of political pieces dealing with HJR-3 that are very specific to our community. There’s a range, not only in approaches to subject matter, but in the presentational style. I saw one last night that was a play without words — and yet told it’s story very clearly. I think it’ll be wildly entertaining, just a blast, and I keep thinking, I don’t know why, of the old Globe, in Shakespeare’s days, with audiences practically partici-
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pating, hooting and hollering back. NUVO: How will you make sure that a one-minute scene change doesn’t follow a one-minute play? FONSECA: We were given restrictions or guidelines: No furniture other than four chairs; it’s a bare-stage show. Absolutely minimal use of props, and they’re only hand props. The cast itself is responsible for the scene change. It’s designed to move very, very quickly. There won’t be a scene change that’s anywhere near in length to a play; at the most, the scene change will be a blackout, and 10 seconds later the next play is up. NUVO: There are some people involved who don’t always find their way to the Phoenix stage. FONSECA: It’s a really community building project for us. This is a real chance to meet new artists, get them in our doors, get them up on our stages, see who they are, what their voice is if they’re the playwrights, what their talents are if they’re actors or directors. It’s also a way to offer a program for the growing patron base for the Fringe festival. We’re describing this as Fringe on steroids. n
SPORTS BRIEFS No joy in Hoopsville As the NCAA men’s hoops tourney gets underway, we’d like to wish all the Indiana teams good luck — next season. For the first time since 2005, the Hoosier state has exactly zero teams in the Big Dance. Nada. Nyet. Zilch. No Butler Cinderella-story here, no chance of, say, a Valpo buzzer-beater. In especially tough news for the team that actually carries the Hoosier name, the I.U. men’s squad didn’t even make the NIT tournament (go, Indiana State!) just one year after a Sweet Sixteen appearance. The lack of an invite to the NIT officially wraps the 2013/14 campaign. Indiana chose not to take a stab at the CBI tournament this year after Indiana AD Fred Glass decided it was time to put this season officially out of its misery. Both Purdue and Indiana were knocked out of the Big Ten (or 11 … 12 …) Men’s tourney in the first round here in Indy. Michigan State was the eventual winner, knocking off in-state rival Michigan 69-55 at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse this past Sunday. In what would be a righteously cold illustration of the “what-have-you-done-for-me-lately” mentality so pervasive in college athletics, there’s been a lot of noise about the future of I.U. head coach Tom Crean. Rumors began to swirl after a NY Daily News piece by Frank Isola first published last Thursday indicated that a source had told Isola “that several prominent IU boosters are pushing to buy out Crean and install [Current NY Knicks Head Coach Mike} Woodson, a product of Indianapolis, as the coach.” — ED WENCK A puncher’s chance Put up or shut up season started Thursday night at Tyndall Armory with the kick off of the 2014 Indiana Golden Gloves tournament. The tourney stretches out over the next five Thursday nights — always starting at 7 p.m. and lasting until around 11 — building up to the championship on April 17. More than 1,100 people attended the bouts on opening night — about 60 more than last year. “I’m happy!” said 82-year-old George DeFabis, a member of the National Golden Gloves Hall of Fame, who serves as Indiana Golden Gloves Sponsorship Chair. Local club Sparta earned four wins in five fights and Sarge Johnson fighters went 2-0. The season’s inaugural card included 19 matches, including: • Senior class at 138 pounds: James Mathis of Indy’s storied Sarge Johnson Club beat Alexander Hernandez of Grant County in a 4-1 decision. • Senior class at 154 pounds: Rafael Licona, Lafayette, beat Chandler Barthlomew, Columbus PAL, 5-0. Junior results are available online at NUVO.net. — REBECCA TOWNSEND
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K, Indiana — it’s time to dry your tears. Yeah, we KNOW there are exactly zero teams from the Hoosier State in the Men’s NCAA Hoops Tourney. Here’s the upside: your Pacers still have the best record in the East AND it’s time to start thinking soccer — if you haven’t already. The Indy Eleven soccer squad began its preseason exhibition-and-outreach program with a program called “Goals for Indy,” where reps from Indy Eleven and other members of the Hoosier soccer community offered kids a chance to learn PHOTO BY MARK A. LEE and/or hone their futbol skills, meet the Indy Eleven players Erick Norales and Walter Ramirez pose with a Goals for Indy participant. players and grab a free nosh to boot. (You more importantly the right personalities can catch a slideshow at NUVO.net from match in West Lafayette will be fans’ that come along with those players and one of the 100 locations where the profirst chance to see how talent stacks up how they complement or have ties to gram was held – in this case, IPS #105.) between the two leagues. [NASL and other players on the field,” said Sommer. The Eleven opened its preseason MLS teams faceoff each year in the Indy Eleven will next take the act campaign with a “friendly” against the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.] regionally with some preseason games Torbeau Soccer Club in Westfield; Indy The preseason romp culminates at of note: won 2-0. Their home field, IUPUI’s 7:30 p.m. on April 4 when the squad, or The team hits the road on March 22 to Carroll Stadium, is undergoing renovaas the team’s communications direcplay the University of Louisville Cardinals tor John Koluder has dubbed them, our tions to handle demand. in Kentucky at 7:30 p.m. in Cardinal Park. “checkered-clad heroes” take on the I.U. Before that match, head coach Admission to the game is free with a min- Hoosiers at IUPUI’s Michael A. Carroll Juergen Sommer seemed pretty confident about the team’s impending sucStadium. Tickets for the Hoosiers will imum $2 donation for Indy Eleven fans. cess: also cost $11 (plus fees) regardless of “It’s exciting to be part section, with $1 from each ticket sold of a brand new franchise; going to the Indiana Soccer Foundation. “It’s exciting to be part of a brand out of the box,” said Regarding the relationship between Sommer. Indy Eleven and the Hoosier squad, new franchise; out of the box,” “We could really see the Sommer suggested to NUVO that pro flower start to grow here — HEAD COACH JUERGEN SOMMER vs. NCAA friendlies might be a handy … We had a word with the recruiting tool, both for the Eleven and players out there today: amateur squads: “It’s going to be a great Now it’s for real, now they’re pros, now resource for us for players in the future The Chicago Fire match follows at they’re signed here at the Indy Eleven. … and likewise will continue to draw 7:30 p.m. on April 1 at the Boilermaker Now we’re hired to go out and come higher quality collegiate players to our Soccer Complex, 1350 McCormick together as a group and win games. I programs here in the state.” Road, in West Lafayette. This match think once our group starts to put the This final match will also serve as test will also offer an opportunity for a uniform on and take the field, that will run on game day management at Carroll face-off between supporters’ clubs as take care of itself as we get the ball out in preparation for Indy Eleven’s April the Brickyard Battalion will go head to and play these games.” 12 season opener against the NASL’s head with the Fire’s Section 8. The coach also noted the team’s diverse Carolina RailHawks. Home games will The Fire game marks Indy Eleven’s nationalities: there are players from sixth exhibition game against an MLS be aired live on MyINDY TV-23. For England, Norway, both US coasts and the team so far this year, but all other more info on tickets, visit IndyEleven. American Midwest. “It really took a long matches have been out of state during com or call 317-685-1100 weekdays from time to find the right types of players, and pre-season training activities, so the 9 a.m.-5 p.m. n
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Colts owner Jim Irsay is having some troubles with the local legal system — and apparently wrestling some personal demons to boot. Irsay was busted by the Carmel cops last Sunday night and booked for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance. The probable cause affadavit stated that Irsay’s SUV, at first travelling well below Jim Irsay the posted speed limit, stopped twice in the middle of the road and then made a turn without signaling. After allegedly failing a field sobriety test, police say they found prescription meds in prescription bottles in Irsay’s car, but unfortunately for Irsay, the contents of those bottles didn’t line up with the drugs described on the labels. Irsay has struggled with addiction issues in the past. Those who opine on the local sports scene have been largely sympathetic, notably Bob Kravitz of The Star and Conrad Brunner from 1070TheFan.com, the former quoting in his column an unnamed source who said that Irsay’s sick and needs help. Irsay’s public behavior has ranged from slightly eccentric (dressing up like Willy Wonka to announce a citywide Super Bowl ring scavenger hunt) to occasionally bizarre (check out his Twitter account). Speaking of Twitter, Irsay’s only comment on the bust at the time of this writing was the following Tweet: “Deepest thx to family, friends, fans, colleagues for the messages of support, thoughts and prayers. Impossible to tell u how much this means” Irsay was released from jail on Monday after posting a reported bond of $22,500. Forbes says the man’s worth $1.6 billion. (In relative terms, if your assets were, say, 50K, a similar percentage would amount to around seven bucks.) Irsay’s court appearance is scheduled for March 26. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 03.19.14 - 03.26.14 // SPORTS 19
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DRUG KINGPINS, OIL SPILLS AND LOST, WELSHI spent the last week or so in Austin, Texas for pretty much the entirety of SXSW, a many-headed beast including film, music, technology, comedy and sports components. I’ll focus on the film component for print, writing at length about five of them, but head to nuvo.net for plenty more coverage. — By Scott Shoger, sshoger@nuvo.net
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The Legend of Shorty
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A guerilla doc about two guys trying to find Mexican drug lord numero uno Chapo Guzman ties for the profoundest thing I saw during the fest (the other being the Jury Prize winner for Best Doc, The Great Invisible). The brazen conceit was that co-directors Angus Macqueen and Guillermo Galdos would challenge the U.S. and Mexican governments’ contention that Guzman was impossible to find by using their meager resources and connections to score an interview. And as Macqueen put it, talking at the March 14 world premiere, “the authorities got to him just before he went on camera” (you may have heard that Guzman was arrested this February). Who knows how much Macqueen is inflating his own efforts, but the doc shows that they got to Chapo’s hometown, in a region completely ruled by drug gangs who grow opium and marijuana with impunity, and scored an interview with Chapo’s mom and some of his employees and cohorts. Which raises a question: Knowing that it’s pretty much open season on journalists investigating the drug trade in Northern Mexico, why would anyone embark on such a foolhardy project? The answer, according to Macqueen, is that “foreign journalists, if they’re sensible, are safe” and that it’s only those journalists actually living in Mexico who could be eliminated by either the drug gangs or the government (or both) at any moment. One of those brave journalists, prominently featured in the film, was in the house for the premiere: Anabel Hernandez, a freelancer who rails in the doc against the complicity of a Mexican government that allowed Guzman to operate with limited interference until his recent arrest. While I’m suspicious of anti-drug arguments that place the blame for complex geopolitical situations squarely on the shoulders of drug users (“you know you’re supporting the Taliban when you smoke that opium, jerk”) — if only because we’re complicit in the suffering of others when we buy just about any consumer good — I kind of felt bad about every joint I ever smoked as I saw the footage of journalists, gangsters and innocent bystanders slaughtered in all kinds of creative ways on the streets of Culiacán, home base for the Sinaloa cartel, from beheadings to hangings to old-fashioned drive-bys. One more note: The Legend of Shorty’s storyline is moved forward in large part by a soundtrack made up of original songs in the style of narcocorridos — and it’s a wise and clever choice that gives a sense of how these gangsters are glorified and mythologized. The Legend of Shorty was produced by WGBH Frontline and BFI, among others, and should eventually air on your local PBS station.
Here’s a key fact from The Great Invisible, about the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: The second biggest source of revenue for the U.S. Treasury department (trailing only taxes) comes from sales of offshore oil drilling rights. And to be sure, the same organization that sells off those rights is in charge of regulating drilling. So it only makes sense Congress hasn’t passed any sort of new safety legislation concerning oil drilling in the wake of the disaster. Aw hell, here’s another film where no one is innocent. Yes, you’re part of the culture that allows giant evil corporations like BP, Transocean and Halliburton to not only destroy our planet in a gradual way, but cut costs and employees to the bone on drilling platforms such that redundant safeguards become ever less redundant, and 11 guys end up losing their lives so that we might have $3 gas. That’s not to mention the survivors, prominently featured in the doc, who suffer from PTSD, consider or attempt suicide, and generally find themselves cast aside by Transocean, which operated the platform. Director Margaret Brown emphasized after the film that she didn’t make an “environmental documentary”; that it’s not quite right for eco film festivals; that she couldn’t really discuss the impact of dispersants (used to clean up the oil spill) on the environment, partly because we won’t know the impact for at least another decade; and that she wasn’t really looking to provide any answers to help resolve the situation. As she puts it, it’s not a “green but gray film,” in the sense that it attempts to present a truthful, complex portrait of the situation. Brown visits with those living along the coastline whose lives were impacted (often ruined) by the oil spill, from poor shrimpers and oystercatchers and -shuckers who are either out of work or working much less; to a tugboat captain who takes a long view on the industry as he works reduced hours; to those folks who survived the explosion, including Doug Brown, the rig’s chief mechanic, who was forced to take shortcuts that led to the tragedy. Brown obviously spends plenty of time with her subjects and cuts to the core with well-chosen scenes and interviews. By the close of the film, the docks are up and running and people are back to work — that is, in the staging area for oil rigs and tugboats. As for those shrimp whose veins are still coursing with black gold — well, it’ll be a little longer before they’re ready to be harvested. And besides, the big money is not in shrimp.
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It’s a truism that any Q&A dedicated to deeply and intelligently understanding an artist’s work tends to break down when audience questioners ask said artist for a hug — or a Tarot reading or an impromptu therapy session. Except when the guest is Oprah or filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (whom I’m not going to describe as “Chilean-French” because he pointedly emphasizes that he has no homeland, and further, films are not like flags and need not be identified by their country of origin). So when some dude with a British accent got up to the mic and wasted some of our valuable Alejandro time with his tale of getting hit by an SUV and spending all of last year’s SXSW in the hospital — well, I was waiting for the next person with some meat to his question. But Jodorowsky was into it, and invited the accident victim to the stage for his psychomagical “action” — psychomagic being Jodorowsky’s own brand of psychotherapeutic and spiritual healing. His prescription: rubbing down the guy’s leg while intoning “poor baby” and other such Mom-like phrases. There is room in psychomagic for plenty of humor — just as Jodorowsky’s films try to heal the world while, say, deploy- Alejandro Jod ing little people for comic relief. (A later questioner had his Tarot read just by calling out the card numbers; he has woman problems, said Jodorowsky.) Jodorowsky was at SXSW March 10 for a Q&A followed by the U.S. premiere of The Dance of Reality, his first movie in almost 23 years, following 1989’s Santa Sangre (and 1990’s The Rainbow Thief, which bore less of his stamp), both of which came years after the “midnight movies” avant la lettre that made his name (El Topo, The Holy Mountain). Why the wait, asked another impertinent British dude after the screening? The answer: He just didn’t have anything to say, and he’s not trying to make movies one after the other like the factory that is Hollywood (you’d be unsurprised to learn that Jodorowsky is not a fan of mainstream escapist filmmaking, and while he liked Gravity, he wondered what the hell George Clooney was doing up in space).
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Of course, all the British-sounding dudes have their heart in the right place — the same place mine is, I think — because we all missed Jodorowsky, whose films have, if nothing else, the virtue of being largely and genuinely unpredictable, perhaps surrealist, though I’m not always sure what people mean by that word. But unpredictable, sure; I didn’t know mom was going to cover her 10-year-old son in black paint, then disrobe and dance with him in a sort of pas de deux into the dark side, nor that she would sing all of her dialogue an operatic recitative, while all other characters are deprived of the benefit of song. The Dance of Reality, based on Jodorowsky’s autobiography of the same name and premiered last year at Cannes, tells of Jodorowsky’s childhood in a Chilean town, where he felt an outcast because he was Jewish, with artistic inclinations and (initially) long hair — and because he was starting to get into mysticism and religion, while his father, an atheist and capital-C Communist who dressed like and worshipped Stalin, would have none of his timid explorations of self and the outside world. Dad gets just as much if not more screen time as his son; he goes out on a hunt for Chile’s fascist president Ibanez, a journey that will involve personal transformation and the loving care of the president’s horse, appropriately dorowsky named Bucephalus. Jodorowsky is himself an actor in the film, appearing during pauses in the action to embrace his younger self and urge him to see the oneness of things and know that he’ll eventually get to leave behind the jerks in his backwater hometown. In one striking moment, he pulls back a young Alejandro as he teeters over an ocean cliff (he had had just suffered a bout of vicious teasing because his equipment was not quite like the other boys’). I don’t know if I walked out of The Dance of Reality having been healed in any way, but there’s something inspiring and freeing about Jodorowsky’s storytelling. His films incorporate brutal violence, perverse (or maybe just straightforwardly presented) sexuality, a rather bizarre sense of humor and an openly pantheistic theology, all playing off of each other in a sometimes discordant, sometimes incoherent, but always thoughtful way; as he put it during the Q&A, films must be “comedy, tragedy, everything.”
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Can’t say I’ve ever seen anything quite like Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, the talk of Sundance and making its Austin premiere on March 8. Filmed over 12 years, about three days per year, the near-three-hour fictional feature follows Mason (played by Ellar Coltrane) from age seven to 18, or grade one to 12. There are precedents to the project in the documentary world, notably the Up series, which has followed the lives of fourteen British subjects since 1965, starting when they were seven years old and checking in every seven years thereafter. The premise of the film was a Jesuit maxim, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man” — something to keep in mind when seeing Boyhood, though Linklater keeps it a little lighter and less fatalistic than the documentary series, giving Mason a chance to actually make some choices for himself after years of moving around central Texas with his single mom (played by Patricia Arquette). But while I’ve never seen anything quite like Boyhood in a formal sense, it sure does look like a Linklater movie in terms of story and tone, being sunny, breezy and optimistic but not without its rocky moments; driven by dialogue that’s often funny and insightful and feels realistic; and studded with specific cultural and geographical touchstones without neglecting the universal potential of its story. To wit, the most relevant touchstone to the project might be within Linklater’s own universe: His Before Sunrise-Before Sunset-Before Midnight series, which is a little more like the Up series in the sense of checking in with a (fictional) relationship every nine years or so from 1995 to 2013. And all four of those films — the Before trilogy and Boyhood — just happen to star Ethan Hawke, who plays Mason’s dad, separated from his mom by the time the movie gets going (which leaves an opening for some drunken stepdads to populate Mason’s life before he gets to leave home). Linklater noted in a post-film Q&A that everything about the project was unconventional, from IFC giving him a little money over 12 years to make the film, to the 450-plus person cast and crew (huge for an indie if not a Hollywood epic). Talking with folks in line before the film, there was a bit of a misconception going around that the film was more of documentary/fiction hybrid than was actually the case. Sure, Ellar Coltrane’s performance is informed by his own life experiences, and it’s fascinating to see how his acting style changes over time. But Linklater said that he knew the last shot of the film when he started pre-production about a decade and a half ago, and that outlines and ideas were in place going in. Hawke backed him up during the Q&A, saying to Linklater that it was “shocking to see how much the movie looks like how you said it would like 12 years ago.” Linklater joked that he should call the making-of documentary “12 Years a Slave,” given the amount of time the child actors put into the film well before they had reached the age of reason.
I ran into Gruff Rhys a couple places during SXSW: March 13 at St. David’s Episcopal Church, a great setting for singer-songwriters that’s just off of the Sixth Street madness; and the next day at the Alamo Ritz, where he presented his outstanding documentary American Interior. It’s about his socalled Investigative Concert Tour, which followed the path of John Evans, a Welshman who crossed the pond in 1792 in order to find a lost Welshspeaking Native American tribe. The claim’s not quite as crazy as it sounds: while historical and archeological proof is hard to come by, some believe that a Welsh prince named Madoc sailed to America in 1170. And if we accept that fact, it’s not at all farfetched that Madoc’s descendants could have continued to speak some version of Welsh well after Columbus’s arrival. Rhys, whom you may know from his work with the Super Furry Animals, first learned about Evans when a Welsh cultural center asked him to write a song for a play based on Evans’s life. The song was cut but Rhys was intrigued, and he set up a tour with stops at bars, libraries, museums and other appropriate venues, where he presented a Powerpoint slideshow about Evans, complete with props, including a felt puppet of Evans created with the help of a historian because no visual record exists. A charming and very soft-spoken presence on screen and stage, Rhys sets up meetings with historians and other relevant experts along the way, notably members of the members of the Mandan tribe, who live today in North Dakota. A little bit more history: Evans arrived in Baltimore, then made his way west along the Ohio River before being imprisoned by the Spanish in St. Louis. Somehow, he was not only freed from captivity, but made second in command on a Spanish expedition of the Missouri River, at the time almost totally uncharted. He was given the job of mapping the river, capturing any British creeping over the Canadian border — and making his way to the Pacific and catching a unicorn while he was at it. And so as Rhys continued on Davis’s path, he ended up meeting with the last two speakers of the Mandan language — the last living fluent speaker and his protege. And here’s where Rhys brings out the convergences and synchronicities in the story: Just as the Mandan people are attempting to preserve their language despite the almost total adoption of the language of their occupiers, so do the Welsh try to assert their independence by speaking Welsh whenever possible. I won’t try to give a complete plot synopsis, but I’ll say that Rhys’s project is a whole lot more successful in its humble way than the kind of ambitious European-in-US TV series or books that we’ve seen attempted by guys like Stephen Fry and Bernard-Henri Levy. But wait, did I mention the music? The doc wouldn’t work half as well without its soundtrack by Rhys. There’s nothing like gently uncanny Welsh folk to open one’s mind to the primal mysteries of the universe, to the paths history declined to take in this dimension — but who’s to say about the others? n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 03.19.14 - 03.26.14 // SXSW 21
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OPENING Muppets Most Wanted Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey are the human stars in the follow-up to 2011’s successful reboot of the Muppets franchise. It’s an international heist story, filmed mostly in England, with stops in Berlin and Madrid. Early reviews are iffy: “The repetitive storyline about successive heists during a Muppets European tour grows tiresome,” says The Hollywood Reporter.
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Divergent Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless) is behind the camera for an $80 million adaptation of a popular Hunger Games-esque YA series set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, with post-teen stars Shailene Woodley (the lead in the film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars), Theo James and Zoe Kravitz as leads. Industry critics kind of hate it: “The story’s elements of spectacle, decay, symbolism and struggle only rarely feel fully alive,” says Variety.
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FILM EVENTS My Child Director Can Candan will be in the house for a screening of his documentary about a group of mothers and fathers in Turkey advocating on behalf of their LGBT children in a country that “inadequately” protects LGBT individuals (according the U.S. Department of State) and does not recognize same-sex unions. IU Cinema (Bloomington), March 24, 7 p.m., FREE but ticketed, cinema.indiana.edu Art & Copy A free screening of a 2009 doc about top figures in the advertising world whose work you’ve certainly seen but whose names you’re less likely to know: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden and Lee Clow among others. Herron School of Art and Design, March 26, 7 p.m., iupui.edu
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f you’re at all intrigued by The Grand Budapest Hotel, please don’t wait until it comes out on video to see it. While the stories and the performances should work just as well in any format, the film offers visual treats I believe will be best appreciated on the big screen. Besides, a creation this engaging, funny, melancholic and agreeably odd deserves to be seen now. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the eighth feature film by writer-director Wes Anderson, who also made Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom. Anderson has a unique approach to film-making, most immediately noticeable in the production design and cinematography. Each image is carefully framed, with characters or prominent objects placed smack in the center of the scene. I’ve compared his imagery to pop-up books, dioramas, dollhouses, puppet shows and ornate pastries. The presentation style is formal with occasional (and often surprising) bursts of movement and/ or rude behavior. The Grand Budapest Hotel features the work of cinematographer Robert Yeoman and production
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designer Adam Stockhausen. Good on them, as well as Alexandre Desplat, who provides the fine score. Within the precise trappings, Anderson lets his imagination run wild. Inspired by the work of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel features stories within stories without becoming confusing. Each story gets its own look and a screen shape (aspect ratio) appropriate to its time period. Nifty. The central tale takes place in the Republic of Zubrowka in 1932, at the resort-spa referred to in the title. The golden age between the world wars is nearing its end. Currently, the hotel thrives in large part due to the efforts of concierge M. Gustave, played wonderfully by Ralph Fiennes. Gustave speaks formally and melodically, except for those moments when he abruptly growls or curses. His presentation style is florid, he calls most men “darling.” Gustave also beds many of the older female guests. Gustave is ably assisted by a young lobby boy named Zero Moustafa, played with deadpan enthusiasm by Tony
Revolori. Gustave and Zero make a delightful screen team. All hell breaks loose when one of Gustave’s lady friends, the ancient Madame D. (an unrecognizable Tilda Swinton) dies, setting off an ugly competition for her property and a murder investigation. Gustave is drawn into the madness — she left him a valuable painting that is emotionally significant — and he must deal with her threatening son (Adrien Brody), his ultra-violent enforcer (Willem Dafoe), a well-spoken military policeman (Edward Norton), a escape-bound convict (Harvey Keitel) and the leader of the Society of the Crossed Keys (Bill Murray, making the most of his brief time onscreen). The cast also includes F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Tom Wilkinson and Owen Wilson. Whew. The Grand Budapest Hotel does all of the good things you’d expect from a Wes Anderson film, but there’s something more going on. Aided immeasurably by Ralph Fiennes exceptional performance, the fanciful trappings and shifting spotlights somehow seem more genuine than the real world. Anderson doesn’t just take viewers through the looking glass, he shows us the depth within it. n
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CONTINUING Need for Speed u The incredibly successful video game franchise (over 140 million copies sold) becomes a forgettable action movie. The stunt work is fine and the car race scenes are diverting (competent, but unremarkable). It’s the parts in-between, when the characters talk, where the movie sinks into generic-ness. Aaron Paul, so amazing in Breaking Bad, is strictly by-the-numbers in the lead role. Aside from Michael Keaton’s colorful villainy, there’s nothing special going on here. And the damn thing’s two hours and 10 minutes long! No thank you. PG-13, In wide release and 3D Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club y Haven’t seen a Tyler Perry film in a while so I thought I’d check this out. Turns out it’s business as usual, with Perry aiming for multiple demographics and writing well-intentioned stories with the subtlety of an ox. This one deals with a group of put-upon moms (Nia Long, Amy Smart, Cocoa Brown, Wendi McClendon-Covey and Zulay Habao) forming a support group. Good intentions, so-so execution. At least there isn’t a Madea spotting. PG-13, In wide release Tim’s Vermeer e Johannes Vermeer painted meticulous interior scenes of domestic life in the 1600s. They were photo-realistic, making masterful use of light. So how did he create such works long before the invention of the photographic camera? That’s the question inventor Tim Jenison — a groovy rich dude with all kinds of time and money — tries to solve in this engaging documentary, seeing if he can reproduce one of Vermeer’s works using only tools available during the painter’s days. The short doc is sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes a bit slow, and in the end, a satisfying pice of art in its own right. PG-13, At Keystone Art 300: Rise of an Empire y Sorta sequel/prequel to the 2006 battle and abs epic, based on Frank Miller›s graphic novel Xerxes. Okay, but not as entertaining as the original, although the gushing tomato soupy blood is cool. Alas, the novelty of the presentation style has worn off, the time-hopping doesn’t help and the absence of Gerard Butler is notable. Eva Green as Artemisia and Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes give it the old college try, though. R, In wide release and 3D
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman y My favorite part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show was watching Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman travel through time and make elaborate, often obscure puns. This glossy computer-animated feature doesn’t capture the ragged charm of the original — no surprise — but I suppose it’s good to at least keep the characters going in some form. The story is presented in the frantic style that seems the norm for contemporary kid’s films. The pop culture references are unwelcome and out-of-date (“Don’t tase me, bro!” How embarrassing). But enough of the comedy works to make the movie passable family fare. PG, In wide release and 3D The Lego Movie e Highly entertaining comic actionadventure set mostly in a convincing computer-animated world of the Legos you played with as a child. Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation) is wonderful as a likeable, emptyheaded guy used to blindly following instructions who gets drawn into a rebellion. The film works because it understands how kids play and translates that into a winning screen spectacle. A wide variety of Lego-licensed celebrities appear, so you get to see interactions between DC superheroes, Harry Potter wizards and NBA AllStars, to name but a few. Very cool. The cast also includes Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Nick Offerman. Adults should have just as much fun as kids.
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PG, In wide release Non-Stop y Taken in a plane, only dumber. If you’re in the mood for a heaping helping of Liam Neesom in action star mode, have a ball. Just don’t scrutinize the proceedings, especially towards the end. Neesom plays a U.S. Air Marshal on a New York to London flight who receives texts demanding a heap of government money to be transferred to an off-shore account. The threat: a passenger will be killed every 20 minutes until the money is received. So there you go. Julianne Moore costars and yes, the flight attendant with the Grace Jones haircut is indeed Lupita Nyong’o from 12 Years a Slave. PG-13, In wide release — ED JOHNSON-OTT
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Chilly Water on the way Brewer and owner Skip Duvall’s dream-cometrue — the Chilly Water Brewing Company — is opening Summer 2014 in the Fletcher Place neighborhood at 719 Virginia Ave. Eschewing anything “too fancy,” Duvall says he’s putting together “an urban brewpub” with live music on a small stage. Duvall, whose transportation for years has been his bicycle, wants to leave the least possible imprint on the planet. A farmer will utilize spent grains from brewing; he’ll serve tap, not bottled, water. He wants Chilly Water to be a destination for bike clubs, people out running and walking and Pickled Pedaler passengers. Expect “simple, tasteful food” created with locally produced ingredients. Duvall will brew a lager and a pale ale year-round along with seasonals on a 7-barrel system. The bar‘s eight taps will offer space for guest Indiana craft brews. Eventually, wine will be added “to make everyone feel welcome,” says Duvall. “I’m proud of this neighborhood and its history,” he adds, noting the historic marker identifying the site as Camp Fremont where the 28th Regiment USCT trained in 1863 on land owned by early settler Calvin Fletcher. Growing up Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre began offering selections from Peoples Brewing Company during the run of CATS, on stage through March 30. “Their hand-crafted Moundbuilder IPA and Farmer’s Daughter Wheat Ale are already a hit with our audiences – even before we’ve listed them on our menu,” said Nick Stark, front of house manager. Indy Eleven announced Flat 12 is their official 2014 local craft beer, available at the sporting venue’s concession. Flat 12 is partnering with Indy Eleven fan group The Brickyard Battalion “to build and celebrate that community of supporters.” Flat 12 tapped One Sky Pale Ale on March 11. “It’s brewed with local products made for local people doing good work for the community,” commented Flat 12 spokesperson Bob Weaver, adding “soccer needs to be here.” BrewBracket introduced several hundred patrons to 16 Indiana craft beers in four separate categories at the Flower and Patio Show. On closing day, Beer Buzz sat with two people who enjoyed talking about why specific brews most pleased their palates. Bier Brewery expands to Simeri’s Italian Fishers on March 19 — and will take over taps at Fat Dan’s Deli on March 22.
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onestIy, I didn’t have much hope for Fire by the Monon. After all, the house at 6523 Ferguson St. in Broad Ripple has seen several restaurants come and go over the years. Tavola di Tosa. Thai One On. L’explorateur. So when a new place opened three years ago in the same out-of-the-way location — and with inexperienced owners to boot — I really didn’t expect it to last. And the original owners, whose vision included a focus on grilled and coldsmoked items, didn’t last long. They sold Fire by the Monon to serial restaurant owner Tim Reuter in late 2011, and he, in turn, sold it last year to industry veteran Joe Cominsky. But through all the ownership changes, the charming little restaurant with the eye-catching color scheme has stayed in business. So after three years and three owners, maybe the location has rid itself of the bad mojo of the past. That certainly seemed to be the case during a recent Saturday night visit. Yes, Fire by the Monon is off the beaten Broad Ripple path. And no, there’s not much signage, just one above the front door and some parking signs out front, which is why Cominsky keeps a tree by the deck strung with lights year round. But while it was too chilly to sit out on the deck, the restaurant’s outdoor seating is typically packed on warm evenings. On a recent dinner visit, however, we were seated in one of the brightly painted dining rooms and enjoyed the energetic atmosphere — busy and crowded without being too loud. And when you think about it, why wouldn’t it be crowded? Fire by the Monon is locally owned, it’s got a comfortable, grown-up vibe, it has a bar without being “a sports bar,” and it offers a crowd-pleasing menu. The restaurant has retained much of its original focus on flatbreads, sandwiches, burgers and entrees, although an update seems likely to keep the menu fresh. Flatbreads are everywhere these days, but they do make an appealing, easily shared appetizer. Or treat them like pizza and get a few for the table — because at least in this case, there seems to be little difference between a flatbread and a thin-crust
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pizza. The margherita version ($8.95) sampled during a recent lunch visit was just fine — plenty of toppings without overwhelming the thin crust. Also during that lunch visit, the house specialty fish tacos ($13.95), made for a flavorful, although hard-to-eat option, as the corn tortillas just couldn’t contain the hearty filling. The breaded tenderloin sandwich ($10.95), was likewise hard to eat because, in addition to the inherent awkwardness of the requisite oversized tenderloin and tiny bun, once you bit into the sandwich, the crisp breading just didn’t stay on the pork. Which is not to say that it wasn’t tasty –
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it was tender, thick enough and nicely cooked, but it just didn’t hold up well. The “tug of war” pulled pork sandwich ($10.95), ordered during a dinner visit also required a knife and fork. The sandwich comes topped with slaw and is certainly a substantial serving, but we just didn’t love it as much as we wanted to. Perhaps it was too late in the day for ours, since the pork itself seemed to have spent too much time simmering in the flavorful sauce, leaving it overcooked and lacking in texture. A side of delicious onion rings helped make up for it, however, as did a perfectly cooked coldsmoked salmon entrée ($16.95). A delightful peach bread pudding ($6.95), made in house and served with ice cream, was plenty for two and provided an excellent ending. Fire by the Monon is certainly worth a visit. Next time — maybe on a warm spring evening — we’ll sit on the deck, order a couple of flatbreads, or maybe try one of the burgers with those onion rings, and enjoy the combination of good food in a great setting. n Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. Follow her on Twitter at @JKetzenberger.
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ndiana winemakers anxious to pour at the Indiana State Fair — and Hoosier BY HOWARD HEWITT grape growers ready to stand alongside Indiana’s other agricultural producers — got good news Friday when term for the way wine is served at the fair. Governor Mike Pence signed into law a A legal “taste” of wine in Indiana would bill lifting a 67-year-old ban on alcohol amount to no more than a 1-ounce pour sales at the fair. “I think this is a recognition that grapes or what visitors get in a tasting room. Indiana winemakers are and wine are an Indiana agricautious but anxious to parcultural product deserving of ticipate at some level. all the pride and local support “If there is an ‘Indiana that other Indiana ag products wine appreciation day’ then have,” said Jim Butler, owner/ it would be the place to be,” winemaker of Butler Winery, Butler said. “It would be a Bloomington. “It shows that great chance to get our prodIndiana is keeping up in this uct out in front of people who rapidly changing world.” are looking at other Indiana The law goes into effect agricultural products. It all in July 1, after which time depends upon how it is set up the Indiana State Fair Jim Butler and organized. Wineries are Commission can decide to limited to 45 festival permits introduce alcohol sales as per year. I can envision doing early as this year’s edition of a day, two at the most, but the fair, running August 1-17. not the entire fair. Festivals “We have been so fortunate are a lot of work!” that our Governor, Lieutenant Dan Adams, owner and Governor and Indiana State winemaker at Winzerwald Department of Agriculture Winery, Bristow, believes the understand and appreciate legislation helps promote our role amongst other comtourism, agriculture, and modities in the state,” said rural development. “We look Jeannette Merritt, marketing Jeannette Merritt forward to being able to prodirector for Indiana Wines mote our great value-added and Purdue Wine Grape products to all the great fair Team. “I am thrilled that we supporters,” he said. “It gives us an will be represented and able to educate opportunity to tell our story and showpeople on the grapes planted and the case our products to people who enjoy wines made from those grapes. We will the same things we do — farming, famreach a huge audience who can enjoy ily and fun.” and learn about our industry.” Turtle Run winemaker and owner Indiana’s wine industry continues to Jim Pfeiffer takes it a step further. “It grow, strive for recognition and build a shows our wine quality over the years substantial economic base from border has reached the level of national and to border. There are now 80 Indiana wineries generating an economic impact international wines,” the Corydonbased winemaker said. “Mostly though, of more than $3 billion, according to it indicates that Indiana consumers have an analysis by New York-based John a preference for our wines.” Dunham and Associates. Pfeiffer was uncertain how Turtle Run There’s still uncertainty on how the would participate but confident he’d be State Fair will incorporate wine and beer a part of the new exhibition. n into the annual exposition. It certainly will be a restricted area. State fair officials have Howard Hewitt, Crawfordsville, said they would expect Indiana winemakwrites about wine every other week ers to take an educational approach to for 23 Midwestern newspapers. pouring their wines. That would indicate that “tasting” would be a more appropriate Read his wine blog at howardhewitt.net
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SIR MEATS-A-LOT In honor of this week’s Fire on the Monon review, here are a few more grill-centric options. (Hold the line, vegans; we’ve got you covered in a big way next week.) Smokehouse on Shelby Located in the heart of Fountain Square, Smokehouse gets its sauces right; they’re so good we can’t choose which we like best. So put ‘em both on one of the best pulled pork sandwiches you’re liable to find anywhere in town. It’ll melt in your mouth. You can also get wings, burgers and slabs of ribs – and a full complement of classic sides. The high-ceilinged room, on the outer corner of the Fountain Square theater building, is a retro marvel. 1103 Shelby St., 685-1959 Jamaican Style Jerk Situated next to a liquor store on the east side of Keystone Avenue, Jamaican Style Jerk serves a short menu of deliciously authentic island dishes in generous portions.
There’s only one table outside, so unless you’re either a fan of traffic fumes, or have no other choice but to eat in the parking lot, grab your to-go bag and either head home or to the nearest park. You’ll want to carry off the exceptional pork ribs, cooked low and slow to a dark, almost caramelized ochre, not quite falling off the bone. And come back for the slow-cooked jerk chicken, which is little short of perfect, and spicy, savory patties. 3355 N. Keystone Ave., 926-1110 Fat Dan’s Chicago Style Deli As the name suggests, Fat Dan’s cuts right to the chase with their food, not even bothering with plates. The thick, delicious sandwiches and hand-cut, totally irregular fries come served on a square
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of brown paper: no frills, no apologies. And if you’ve ever had Fat Dan’s, you know that they could probably spike the whole meal on the ground and all the hungover patrons would hit the deck facefirst after it. Some people really hate that the fries look like misshapen fry factory rejects, but it’s a central part of Fat Dan’s dedication to really delicious handmade food. Everything’s greasy—or medicinal, depending on your chemical state of being—and it all makes you thankful to that first genius who dropped potatoes in hot oil. 815 Broad Ripple Ave., 600-3333, fatdansdeli.com
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THE DWELLERS LESS IS MORE HOLY INFINITE FREEDOM REVIVAL
e The music of The Dwellers is an enigmatic gale with the power to mesmerize, beguile or frustrate from one moment to the next. On Less Is More, the wildly prolific outfit’s newest release, the contradictory manners in which the lo-fi bedroom ambience affects the listener consistently feels intentional, but the desired ends tend to be obscured, like searching for a true reflection in stained glass. Dwellers channel a minimalist atmosphere befitting of the collection’s title, and the “more” in question rings rather abstractly. Humming synths, skipping samples, distortion and a mix of subtle beats and dizzying rhythms construct the dense air and intermittently open into charming moments of light (see: “Words of the Earth” for the full spectrum at work over the span of 5:44). Vocals are sung in hypnotic monotone, stretched and layered in consciously imperfect harmony to place the burden on the listener to decipher the themes at the eerily beating heart of songs like the Grizzly Bearlike “Never Leave Me,” the Brian Wilson bedroomelectronic vibe of “Silent Snow.” The dazzling blips and soul of “Circle City,” wouldn’t have been out of place on Thom Yorke’s The Eraser or alongside his work with Atoms for Peace. The Dwellers are a band who cite artists as wide-ranging and notable as Dan Bejar (Destroyer), Frank Zappa, Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear), and Sun Ra as influences, and the eclectic verve shows on Less Is More. It’s undeniable headphone music: home-recorded experimental pop that delves into psych-leaning eccentricities while keeping a human heart pumping beneath all the kaleidoscopic patches sewn together with unruly care. Less Is More is an oft-lovely, complex journey of fractured ideas that plays out with an erratic temperament of earned warmth and calculated chilliness befitting of this harsh Hoosier winter with spring on the horizon. — JUSTIN WESLEY
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uzz Osborne has a lot to say. During my hour-long, wide-roving conversation with the Melvins’ singer and guitarist, King Buzzo (as he’s known to his extremely loyal fans) mused on life, love and T Bone Burnett. And I’ve got to say: I learned a lot. Some of what I can’t fit in this Q&A includes sound financial advice (“If you don’t have enough money to survive for the next year without working, then you don’t have enough money in the bank”) his death plans (“Just incinerate my corpse and dump me in a garbage can”), a brief exploration of personal theology (“I personally don’t believe my flesh and blood and bone is me”) and an explanation of his negative feelings towards cassette releases (“Cassettes are expensive and don’t sound good – why would you
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do it?”). I was seriously reconsidering my financial and funeral planning skills after I hung up the phone. Of course, all this wisdom was in between our discussion about Osborne’s current project, a solo acoustic tour during which he’s releasing a six-song tour 10’’ while planning an upcoming acoustic full-length called This Machine Kills Artists on Ipecac Recordings. Osborne and associates constantly inject their sludgy metal albums with boundary-pushing sonic experiments.
They’ve played for more than 30 years as a group and released more than 20 albums, and Melvins (and really anything Osborne releases) are just as exciting as ever. This acoustic experiment — like their covers album; Guinness World Record-chasing 51-day tour through 50 states and DC; and sorta-side project Melvins Lite — is another excellent entry into the group’s bizarro, outre catalogue. It’s just a bonus that King Buzzo is just a goddamn delight on the phone. [Osborne picks up phone; I’ve been chatting with his wife for a few moments.] BUZZ OSBORNE: You were talking with my wonderful wife. NUVO: She does seem wonderful. You’ve been married twenty-something years, right? SEE, BUZZ, ON PAGE 28
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BUZZ , FROM PAGE 26 OSBORNE: In May it will be 21 years, married for 20. We got married nine months after we met, and have been married ever since. The first marriage for either one of us, and I hope it’s our last. It doesn’t happen, especially in rock and roll, or any profession, really. No one has any interest in commitment. You tell me why; I can’t figure it out. NUVO: I don’t know! My parents have been together since they were in 8th grade. OSBORNE: That’s nice. Our original drummer is like that, too. He’s married to the woman he was going out with in 9th grade. Two kids, union machinist. That’s kind of why it didn’t work out. His destiny didn’t lie in rock and roll, you know? Unfortunately. Oh, well. Me and him are still best friends. That’s the other thing – the guys that I was friends with in high school, I’m still friends with. … You know, honestly, I don’t know a whole lot about Indianapolis. … What sort of things do you do there for fun? NUVO: Well, I mostly see music all the time. OSBORNE: And there’s a lot of music in Indianapolis? NUVO: There’s a ton of music in Indianapolis. There’s a ton of psychedelic rock right now; we have really great hiphop. It’s definitely growing exponentially, so there’s lots of free shows, little labels popping up, awesome beer. Most people do the race track thing, but I do music. OSBORNE: [The 500] is only once a year, right? Do they have snowmobiles on there at this point? Indianapolis Snow Mobile-athon? NUVO: It’s super flat, so I don’t think that it would be very fun to snow mobile on. There’s lot of biking here; we do all the weird amateur sports. We’re getting cricket now. But I’m mostly at the bar, seeing music. [Next, we embark on a long diversion into an explanation of my background, where Osborne is essentially interviewing me. We cut that out for obvious reasons.] OSBORNE: We played in Bloomington once, a long time ago. I don’t remember the name of the venue. It was in ‘90. 1990. NUVO: How can you possibly remember [show dates and places] like that? OSBORNE: Well, I have a good memory for stupid shit like that. I have a genius level of intelligence in my brain, none of which I can use on a daily basis. Not 28 MUSIC // 03.19.14 - 03.26.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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a single thing. I remember distinctly; it was a relatively unattended show. We had a good time, though, and there was this relatively cute girl who offered for us to stay at her house. So we said, “Sure, we’ll go there.” And her house – it was in late spring when we were there – had no heat, no running water and it was filled with dogs, so the whole thing smelled like a zoo. And we had no money to go to a hotel, so we were stuck there. NUVO: Sounds like Bloomington. Honestly, I feel like I could still find that woman living there if I wanted to. OSBORNE: Probably. Probably still lives in the same place. But after that we started going, “Great. We can stay at your house. Do you have electricity? Do you have running water?” But she was nice. We were happy to take [the space]. I don’t miss that kind of thing. I’m glad I did it, but I’m beyond it. At this age, give me a hotel within walking distance of a convenience store where I can buy water any time of the day or night and I’m happy. And a fast Internet connection. I don’t need much for happiness. I just did my first acoustic show ever a couple nights ago in LA, and it was great. It went really well. NUVO: Why go out acoustic now? OSBORNE: I forget who said this, if it was Tom Waits or Bob Dylan: “If you don’t change, you die.” So, I think it was a good thing to do. We have a Melvins album that will come out this year, as well, so it’s not like I’m getting too far away from that, but I think it was high time. Honestly I wish I would have done it a long time ago. So I just finished my album yesterday, and I got a 10’’ that I’ll have for sale on the tour. We made 500 of them, and four songs from that 10’’ will be on that album. It’s a six-song record, but I recorded two Melvins songs as well.
NUVO: How did you pick the two Melvins songs to re-record acoustic? OSBORNE: They worked well acoustic, for some reason. I don’t know, other than that there’s no real criteria for it. Live, I’m playing a few other Melvins songs as well, so it’s not unheard of, considering I wrote all the music. … The 10’’ is a really amazing package, with hand silk-screened cover, limited edition with crazy vinyl. All the things that collectors like. And I like that stuff, too. We gave a song away recently, the first song we gave away free. No one can really bitch! They’re getting free stuff. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, you know? NUVO: Shockingly, people find a way. OSBORNE: Or, as Archie Bunker said, “You can lead a gift horse to water, but don’t look in its mouth.” NUVO: What was the timeline of recording these songs? Did you record the first four songs on the 10’’ first and get them down, or did you do all 17 and then pull four from that? OSBORNE: I did those four songs in the early part of the year; I started recording them before. I actually just did it as an experiment, seeing how it would go. And then, it went well. So I [decided] to do a 10’’ EP, then said, “I’m going to do a full-length album.” I have a vast amount of material sitting, and I always write new stuff as well. So I finished that all up in January and February and mastered it yesterday. NUVO: I’m a little bit in the True Detective conspiracy rabbit hole, which featured the Melvins track “A History of Bad Men,” two episodes ago. Do you watch the show? OSBORNE: No, I don’t watch TV. [cue many minutes of explaining HBO’s True Detective, which claims T Bone Burnett as music supervisor.]
OSBORNE: We got approached to license that song some time last year. And, you know, it was a relatively decent amount of money. It’s not going to make anyone millionaires, or even thousandaires. But it sounded cool, and we honestly don’t get a lot of offers like that, not really ever. And I’m more than happy to put my music wherever possible. The only thing I’m not super interested in is [this scenario], “I’ve got an art film I want to put your music in; I don’t have any money, though.” It’s like, I can do stuff for no money every day of the week. I can set up gigs for nothing. Those are the easiest ones to set up! I rarely, unless I know the person, I just can’t be bothered. You can’t just put your stuff out there for nothing. It makes you look like you’re worth nothing. And so, we did it. … Here’s the weird thing. A long time ago, when we put out the Eggnog record, T Bone Burnett called me – it was in the early ‘90s – and told me how much he liked that record. Isn’t that weird? He somehow got ahold of my number and called me to tell me how much he thought that record was amazing. The Eggnog record, of all records! He also told me that he thought indie labels were a ripoff, and we were getting ready and talking about signing to Atlantic [Records] and he didn’t think that was a bad idea. And I didn’t know him at all – I’d seen his band play before that, opening for the Rolling Stones, believe it or not. And I never talked to him again. I know he’s been involved in a lot of projects, and every time I saw his name, like with that O’ Brother [Where Art Thou] and stuff like that, I would think, “Hey, I talked to that guy, once.” And now, 25 years later, we’re doing this thing. And I think it’s good! I always thought our music was tailor-made for soundtrack stuff, but it just never really happens, never. They say, “We want to use your stuff for this movie,” but when it comes time to do it, they say, “Well, we decided to use a Rage Against The Machine song, instead.” And I’m like, “Okay, well it was your idea. I didn’t ask you.” I’ve been told so many times, “Oh, yeah, we’re really interested in doing this. We’re wondering if you can do it for nothing?” No. I can stay at home and make nothing. I don’t even have to get on the Internet for that. It’s just rare that it comes full circle. People always say to us, “Why don’t you do soundtrack stuff?” Why don’t we DO it? Well, first of all, I don’t want to make soundtracks for anybody. That sounds horrific. I’m not built for that. I can’t listen to some director tell me what he wants or doesn’t want. My ego is not built for that. I would be going, “Here’s what I think of how you’re directing the movie.” I’m not interested in that; we have a vast catalogue of stuff people can pick from, and they have no interest. So this is a new thing, and I’ve heard a lot of good feedback from it. Thank you, T Bone. n [Editor’s note: There’s so much more in this interview, available on NUVO.net.]
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ast week, Indiana lost an important figure in Hoosier jazz history when jazz photographer Duncan Schiedt passed away at the age of 92. Schiedt was a talented photographer whose work captured iconic images of many Indianapolis jazz luminaries. Schiedt was already well established behind the lens when he moved to Indy in the 1950s, having spent the decade prior photographing jazz royalty like Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. In addition to his work as a photographer, Schiedt also authored a few significant titles on jazz history, including Ain't Misbehavin' an early biography of Fats Waller (1950) and Jazz State of Indiana (1977) a pioneering work on the development of Hoosier jazz. I spoke with another notable Hoosier jazz photographer Mark Sheldon about Duncan Schiedt's life and work in jazz music. NUVO: Can you share some of your thoughts with us on Duncan Schiedt as both a person and an artist? MARK SHELDON: I think most people know Duncan for his work with jazz musicians, but prior to that he did some photography and film work for the armed forces. He was sent to document the atomic bomb tests in the Bikini atoll. He also wrote some books and he was a very good pianist in the traditional swing jazz style. People throw around the term renaissance man these days without really understanding the definition. But Duncan was really that guy. He was a photographer, a filmmaker, a researcher and a musician. He did a lot of things very well. NUVO: What makes Duncan's work historically important? Was it purely his technical skill, or his knowledge of jazz guiding him to be at the right place at the right time to capture a moment? SHELDON: It's really both. He was photographing jazz as early as 1939. Duncan was around Indy when Wes Montgomery was still just a local guy. He photographed in the jazz clubs Indianapolis had at the time. All of that was definitely a matter of timing. But the technical side of Duncan always amazes me. In today's world, I go out and shoot with a digital camera. But even if I use a film camera, today's cameras are auto-focus, auto-exposure; they're kind of auto-everything. Duncan went out with 4x5 cameras or an old beat-up Nikon with nothing automatic on it. It was a different scene back then. Photographers had to work a lot harder for meaningful pho-
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RAW Awakening The first RAW event of the year is at their new location, Old National Centre. RAW Indianapolis is the local outpost of the sprawling showcase - planning company RAW (based in LA). Artists (and we mean all different kinds, including film, fashion, music, art, makeup, etc.) feature their skills and work at RAW events. Kate Nolan will host and DJ Helicon will take DJ duties. Please note: organizers specify a cocktail attire dress code.
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Shawn Colvin and Dru Hill. The R&B of the 90s comes back alive and well at ONC, so if you attended any coed dances from the mid-’90s on, there will definitely be a song you recognize. Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages KING BUZZO Buzz Osborne of The Melvins Acoustic Show Flip back to page 26 to read our interview with King Buzzo. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., $12, 21+ DANCE Grouplove Grouplove has had quite a year or two, with several singles off of their debut album getting airplay on radio and tv. Since 2012, they’ve had one single, “Tongue Tied,” go certified platinum in several countries. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., $23.50, all-ages JAZZ Regina Carter, Southern Comfort Jazz violinist Carter started out on piano — of course, that was when she was just the tender age of two. But she picked up the violin quickly, eventually attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and then embarking on a fruitful touring career. She’s currently performing as the leader of a quintet, which features her improvisational jazz violin stylings. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m., prices vary, 21+
ALBUM RELEASE Punkin Holler Boys Album Release They’ve got a brand new one (Glitter Time in Chicken Town, which sounds like a punkin good time) that they’ll release at the Mel’s early show this Friday. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 7:30 p.m., $5, 21+ Becky Archibald Ensemble, Chatterbox Jazz Club, 21+ Boo Ya with Slater Hogan, Bartini’s, 21+ King James and the Verses, Southern Lights Revival, Sidewalk Souls, Birdy’s, 21+ WTFridays, Social, 21+ Deadera, Abolisher, Wounded Knee, From Cities Above, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Nocturne Live Jazz Burlesque, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ The Rising Sun, Mark Mato and OS Beaches, Archie Powell and The Exports, Simple Ghost, The Damn Choir, Melody Inn, 21+ 20 Year Celebration, Rock Lobster, 21+ Craig Morgan, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Hairbanger’s Ball, Vogue, 21+ Consider the Source, Shadyside Allstars, Mousetrap, 21+ July Talk, Evan P. Donohue, DO317 Lounge, 21+
SATURDAY REUNIONS The Ataris, Authority Zero, Drag the River, Versus The World The Ataris are giving the people what they want, touring So Long, Astoria one more time, and this time with the original album’s lineup, too. Miss the early aughts? You don’t gotta at this throwback show. They’re sharing the stage with punk legends Authority Zero, who have been doing this stuff for more than 20 years. Colorado alt-country outfit Drag the
SOUNDCHECK River will join them, along with Versus the World. Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 8 p.m., $18, 21+ STORIES Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle “Songs and Stories, Together Onstage” features Grammy award-winning singer-songwriters Shawn Colvin (if nothing else, you remember her for “Sunny Came Home”) and Steve Earle (no excuses; you should know Earle) as they take the stage for an evening of song swapping, duets, storytelling, and stellar guitar playing. This special event promises to be a rich and inspiring musical experience as these two longtime friends and mutual admirers share music from their extensive catalogs as well as some of their favorite songs by other classic songwriters. Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument Circle, 8 p.m., $30, all-ages BATTLE Battle of the Bands After a previous bang-up Battle of the Bands, the Gorilla Music event is back again with a tasty new lineup to savor with your earholes. This is the first round, with bands on the lineup like Perfect Chaos, Decibel and Blackwatch. This is an all-ages show that starts early (a lot of bands have to take the stage that night), so get there on time if you have one particular band in mind. Emerson Theater, 4630 E. 10th St., 4 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 at door, all-ages ALBUM RELEASE Jethro Easyfields Album Release Party Roots mainstay Easyfields will release a new one at this free show at Loughmiller’s.
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SUNDAY TEENZ We The Kings, This Century If the mid-2000s had a soundtrack, it would be the pop-punk sounds of bands like We the Kings. The Floridabased alt rock outfit harkens back to a time when flat ironed bangs and skinny jeans were more in fashion for young men than women. ‘Twas a glorious time of star tattoos and gauged ears, and We the Kings are bringing it back in 2014 style. This is hardly the band’s first rodeo, with one platinum single (2007’s “Check Yes Juliet”) under studded belt. We won’t tell if you always held onto yours; bust that bad boy out and get your teenage thrash on. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 7:30 p.m., $20, all-ages Stan Hillis with the Steve Alle Trio, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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TUESDAY Charlie Patton’s War The group released their self-titled debut on April 25. 2013, which was recorded, mixed and mastered entirely by the group. They’ll play with Kentucky Knife Fight and Heather French Henry.
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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 26 HIP-HOP Juicy J, Travis Scott A one-act play featuring Juicy J and NUVO Music Editor Katherine Coplen.
NUVO: Juicy, what is your favorite piece of equipment to use while producing in the studio? JUICY: In the strip club? NUVO: No, in the studio. JUICY: The strip club? Fin (Our full interview with Juicy J will run next Wednesday.) Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 9 p.m., all-ages From Indian Lakes with The American Scene, Naïve Thieves, Gentlemen, Float, Irving Theater, all-ages
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Dogmanogamy Q: I’ve been part of “the lifestyle” for several years now. I’m a divorced male in my early 40’s and even though I swing, I would never rule out another monogamous, committed relationship. I’m not ashamed of the lifestyle - I don’t think it’s wrong - but it’s not something I share with the “vanilla” people in my life. When I do meet a woman (in the regular world, not at a swing club) that I might be interested in dating, what’s the best way (and time) to tell her about that part of my life? — Anonymous, from Tumblr. SARAH: Yeah, I think we can guess that this isn’t really a conversation you’d worry about with a woman you swapped digits with as a fellow reveler slammed her from behind. But you seem to phrase this as a dichotomy that no partner could comfortably straddle, like it’s too complicated to understand. That might be the case if you’re dating teenagers who haven’t been in any real relationships (Danger, Will Robinson!), but unlikely as long as you’re making an effort to exchange fluids with mature, intelligent women who can verbalize and process complex ideas like the separation of intimacy, loyalty, and jealousy. Also, by the time you’re in your 40s, what the hell are you doing messing with such narrow-minded “Vanillians” that they can’t wrap their heads around the concept of non-monogamy? I am bored and over these people in my 26th year, so my advice is to be open to talking about it and answering questions, but don’t hesitate for a moment to ditch a partner who judges you based on stale concepts of love, intimacy and trust that you’re not comfortable with. DR. D: You kind of have to feel it out. If she talks about swinging - whether on the first or tenth date - to either say she’s into it or thinks it’s odd, then saying nothing is kind of an act of omission. And if you think you might be into her, then maybe it can help to put yourself out there and share it with her. On the other hand, if you’re just hooking up and being casual, you may not need to go into all the details of your personal life. You will have to feel it out for yourself as there’s no hard and fast rule; just try to date or hook up with integrity.
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— Anonymous, from Email. SARAH: Squirting is a really fascinating recent phenomenon, not because it seems to have magically materialized as a desirable sexual trait, but because it’s something that took about 30 seconds for all of womankind to become self-conscious about after entering our collective consciousness. (Ugh, thanks once again for nothing, porn.) I’ve heard some women say it was a matter of pressure, while others that it was a matter of sheer stimulation. I’ve also heard of women trying to “train” themselves to do it who never got there, but definitely pissed a little when they coughed for months afterward. And nothing says “sex machine” like the faint odor of urine on your Jones New York slacks. Personally, I’m just hoping for the penile yin to my Lady-Yang that will create the torrential flood porn has promised me, but I’m not about to be upset if it never happens. I have other, much more impressive talents, and I bet you do too. DR. D: Not all women experience female ejaculation (“squirting”) and that is A-okay. The college students in my human sexuality class never asked much about squirting until it became a bigger thing in porn about 7 or 8 years ago and then suddenly everyone wanted to know about squirting and what was wrong with them if they didn’t. Like many sex educators, I’m not a big fan of trying to make oneself squirt as many of the techniques people teach involve bearing down on the pelvic floor muscles (not a great idea; why weaken or strain your lovely pelvic floor muscles, which can protect you from incontinence later on?). I say, focus on your sexual pleasure and enjoyment instead. Wetness is kind of on a spectrum and some women release a little and others a lot and most of us are in between.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet,” says Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron. “You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time.” That’s sound advice for you, Aries. You are almost ready to plant the metaphorical seeds that you will be cultivating in the coming months. Having faith should be a key element in your plans for them. You’ve got to find a way to shut down any tendencies you might have to be an impatient control freak. Your job is simply to give your seeds a good start and provide them with the persistent follow-up care they will need. Aries
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ment,” says Alanis Morissette in her song “Thank U.” “Thank you, frailty,” she continues. “Thank you, nothingness. Thank you, silence.” I’d love to hear you express that kind of gratitude in the coming days, Taurus. Please understand that I don’t think you will be experiencing a lot of disillusionment, frailty, nothingness, and silence. Not at all. What I do suspect is that you will be able to see, more clearly than ever before, how you have been helped and blessed by those states in the past. You will understand how creatively they motivated you to build strength, resourcefulness, willpower, and inner beauty. Pisces
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will soon be abuzz with fizzy mojo and good mischief. Your web of contacts is about to get deeper and feistier and prettier. Pounce, Gemini, pounce! Summon extra clarity and zest as you communicate your vision of what you want. Drum up alluring tricks to attract new allies and inspire your existing allies to assist you better. If all goes as I expect it to, business and pleasure will synergize better than they have in a long time. You will boost your ambitions by socializing, and you will sweeten your social life by plying your ambitions. Pisces
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): During her 98 years on the planet, Barbara Cartland wrote 723 romance novels that together sold a billion copies. What was the secret of her success? Born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, she knew how productive she could be if she was comfortable. Many of her work sessions took place while she reclined on her favorite couch covered with a white fur rug, her feet warmed with a hot water bottle. As her two dogs kept her company, she dictated her stories to her secretary. I hope her formula for success inspires you to expand and refine your own personal formula -- and then apply it with zeal during the next eight weeks. What is the exact nature of the comforts that will best nourish your creativity? Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Google Ngram Viewer is a
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tool that scans millions of books to map how frequently a particular word is used over the course of time. For instance, it reveals that “impossible” appears only half as often in books published in the 21st century as it did in books from the year 1900. What does this mean? That fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects are less impossible than they used to be? I don’t know, but I can say this with confidence: If you begin fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects sometime soon, they will be far less impossible than they used to be. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tibetan mastiff is a
large canine species with long golden hair. If you had never seen a lion and were told that this dog was a lion, you might be fooled. And that’s exactly what a zoo in Luohe, China did. It tried to pass off a hearty specimen of a Tibetan mastiff as an African lion. Alas, a few clever zoo-goers saw through the charade when the beast started barking. Now I’ll ask you, Virgo: Is there anything comparable going on in your environment? Are you being asked to believe that a big dog is actually a lion, or the metaphorical equivalent? Virgo
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Born under the sign of Scorpio, Neil Young has been making music professionally for over 45 years. He has recorded 35 albums and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In early 1969, three of his most famous songs popped out of his fertile imagination on the same day. He was sick with the flu and running a 103-degree fever when he wrote “Cowgirl in the Sand,” “Cinnamon Girl,” and “Down by the River.” I suspect you may soon experience a milder version of this mythic event, Scorpio. At a time when you’re not feeling your best, you could create a thing of beauty that will last a long time, or initiate a breakthrough that will send ripples far into the future. Scorpio
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I bet your support system
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Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the narrator seems tormented about the power of his longing. “Do I dare to eat a peach?” he asks. I wonder what he’s thinking. Is the peach too sweet, too juicy, too pleasurable for him to handle? Is he in danger of losing his self-control and dignity if he succumbs to the temptation? What’s behind his hesitation? In any case, Libra, don’t be like Prufrock in the coming weeks. Get your finicky doubts out of the way as you indulge your lust for life with extra vigor and vivacity. Hear what I’m saying? Refrain from agonizing about whether or not you should eat the peach. Just go ahead and eat it.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There should be nothing
generic or normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius. If you drink beer, for example, you shouldn’t stick to your usual brew. You should track down and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton’s Clown Poison. And if you’re a lipstick user, you shouldn’t be content to use your old standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it wouldn’t make sense to seek out romantic adventures you’ve had a thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Actor Gary Oldman was born and raised in London. In the course of his long career he has portrayed a wide range of characters who speak English with American, German, and Russian accents. He has also lived in Los Angeles for years. When he signed on to play a British intelligent agent in the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, he realized that over the years he had lost some of his native British accent. He had to take voice lessons to restore his original pronunciations. I suspect you have a metaphorically comparable project ahead of you, Capricorn. It may be time to get back to where you once belonged. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every now and then, you’re blessed with a small miracle that inspires you to see everyday things with new vision. Common objects and prosaic experiences get stripped of their habitual expectations, allowing them to become almost as enchanting to you as they were before numb familiarity set in. The beloved people you take for granted suddenly remind you of why you came to love them in the first place. Boring acquaintances may reveal sides of themselves that are quite entertaining. So are you ready and eager for just such an outbreak of curiosity and a surge of fun surprises? If you are, they will come. If you’re not, they won’t. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Before she died, Piscean actress Elizabeth Taylor enjoyed more than 79 years of life on this gorgeous, maddening planet. But one aptitude she never acquired in all that time was the ability to cook a hard-boiled egg. Is there a pocket of ignorance in your own repertoire that rivals this lapse, Pisces? Are there any fundamental life skills that you probably should have learned by now? If so, now would be a good time to get to work on mastering them. Pisces
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