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WEB WUNDERKID A year ago, teen Taylor-Ruth Baldwin didn’t have a Facebook page and rarely checked her email. Now the Carmel teen behind Hanging Rock Comics is the toast of Tumblr — not to mention NYC, where she’s being sparkling grape juiced and dined by literary execs. B Y MA T T MC CLURE C OV ER I LL USTRATION BY TAYL O R-RUTH BAL D W I N

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ECOHOUSE HELPS HOMEOWNERS TACKLE ENERGY INEFFICIENCIES

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Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership’s (INHP) EcoHouse loan program in the past year, which offers qualified participants up to $15,000 in loans to make energy efficient repairs and appliance upgrades. BY CAMI WARD

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MEDORA, A FOUND DOCUMENTARY

Davy Rothbart and Andrew Cohn — two of the forces behind Found magazine — spent the 2010 season with the Medora High School basketball team, a hard-luck Bad News Bears bunch from a small town laid low by the 20th century. They captured the results in the soon to be completed documentary Medora. BY SCOTT SHOGER

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HAMMER King’s legacy needs tending Justice for all is still a work in progress

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orty-four years ago this week, a scruffy escaped convict, fueled by fantasies of white supremacy and God knows what else, pointed the barrel of a cheap rifle out of a bathroom window of a cheap hotel, squeezed the trigger and killed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King’s death not only effectively snuffed out his life but also deprived the nation of his unique moral authority and ability to speak reason and truth to both black and white citizens. No civil rights leader, or for that matter any other kind of leader in the U.S., has emerged to pick up his fallen torch. We could really use him right about now. If he’d survived the assassination attempt, he’d be 83 years old, dispensing advice on TV from his rocking chair, a wise old man who might have a way out of the mess we seem to find ourselves in these days. Depending on whom you ask, racial discrimination is either one of the biggest problems facing America or almost no problem at all. Not surprisingly, the ones who say it’s not that big of a deal are white citizens, many of them basing their conclusion on the fact that they don’t see racial discrimination, most of them quickly adding that they have black friends who aren’t complaining about prejudice. The fallout from the Trayvon Martin case in Florida puts the issue back into the headlines again. But if it hadn’t been this case, there’d be a similar one that eventually would push the great debate over racism back into the headlines. Think OJ Simpson years ago or the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles before that. The simple fact is that there are millions, maybe tens of millions of white people in America who think racism is like scurvy or rickets — dangerous diseases, to be sure, but ones that were cured years ago. These people feel the residual effects are black folks who see racism where there is none and who constantly play the race card at every opportunity. There’s no doubt that King would like some of the things he would see in America in 2012. His dream of black and white schoolchildren holding hands in the South has come true. American apartheid has mostly been wiped away from the law books. There is more

opportunity, more equality and more fairness than there was when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955. Even white, conservative Southern politicians routinely invoke King’s name in reverential tones. Newt Gingrich, who would have been standing alongside the riot police in Georgia as they unleashed attack dogs on peaceful protesters, cites King frequently. But the deeper, societal causes of segregation and racism are still there, bubbling just underneath the surface, awaiting an incident such as Treyvon Martin’s case to draw attention to it again. For all of our progress, Indianapolis is still a deeply segregated city. The efforts of well-intentioned politicians and judges over the past 40 years or more have done little to change the fact that our white and black citizens mostly live, work and do business in separate places. Some of this segregation is benign and even by choice. Traditions at the most personal level, such as in churches, restaurants and the like, help build ethnic pride and solidarity while doing little harm to anyone. But much of it is not. Different slums and housing projects in slightly different neighborhoods have replaced the depressing slums and housing projects that King and Robert Kennedy toured in the 1960s. All of this is indisputable. The difference comes in the refusal to admit that racial discrimination has anything to do with it, even among people who exhibit no racist tendencies or characteristics. Poverty, like the tendency to abuse alcohol or have mental health issues, is a trait passed down from generation to generation until someone has enough determination to break the cycle and choose another path. We’ve had inadequate education systems in the city for decades and are showing no signs of improvement. Poor education leads to poor lifestyle choices, such as fractured families, drug abuse and an increased chance of incarceration. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, black Americans make up less than 14 percent of the population but almost 40 percent of the inmates in the prison system. At any given time there are more black men and women in prison than in college. They all aren’t there by racism, of course, but usually only desperate people commit crimes. Generations of wellintentioned people have tried to remedy the underlying causes of this problem but have had relatively little success. One of them was Martin Luther King, who, were he still here, would be shaking his head, rolling up his sleeves and getting to work. He’d also be sighing that so many of the same injustices he battled in the 1960s still plague us today.

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HOPPE Want to get healthcare right? Listen to the left

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was just getting used to the idea of Obamacare. Now this happens. Last week, President Obama’s law, aimed at reforming the three-legged rhinoceros that passes for America’s socalled healthcare system, appeared to get a pummeling during hearings before the Supreme Court. The justices probably won’t announce their ruling on the law’s constitutionality until June but, based on what transpired over three days of oral arguments, most observers expect the law to be struck down. The only question seems to be whether the court will settle for throwing out the part of the law that calls for everyone who hasn’t got it to purchase health insurance, or scuttle the whole thing. You like not being discriminated against by an insurance company because of a preexisting condition, like high blood pressure or diabetes? That could be gone. Have you gotten used to the idea of being carried on your parents’ insurance plan because you’re not yet 26? That could also be over with. People advocating for the law seem to have forgotten what kind of Supreme Court they were dealing with. If anything, the court is more conservative now than it was in 2000, when, by a single vote, justices who had built their judicial reputations arguing for states’ rights suddenly decided that judges in Florida were unqualified to sort out whether Bush or Gore had won their state. For the first time in American history, a presidential election was decided by a 5-4 Supreme Court decision. As Justice Antonin Scalia wrote at the time, the court’s intercession was justified in order to short-circuit a process in Florida that might, “threaten irreparable harm to petitioner (Bush) ... by casting a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election.” It’s one thing to be a referee. It’s another to have a rooting interest in how contests are resolved. Members of this court haven’t been embarrassed about showing their partisan colors. Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni, for example, is head of Liberty Central, a Tea Party group that has stridently opposed Obamacare. This type of thing matters when rulings are likely to be decided by a single vote. But, whatever the high court’s shortcomings — and whatever they decide — we cannot lose sight of the real issue here, which is this country’s need to fix health-

care. President Obama was right to see this is as the dominant issue facing the country. Want to fix the economy? It can’t be done without fixing healthcare first. Our employer-based approach not only excludes or underinsures millions of people, it also puts big and small businesses behind an expanding 8-ball as managers who want to do the right thing are penalized by the ever-increasing cost of premiums. Let’s face it: for years, the healthcare market in this country has utterly failed at correcting itself. The federal government has to intervene, not only to take the side of people who are being trampled by market forces that show no regard for their health and well-being, but in order to keep the larger economy from being sucked dry. According to a 2010 Commonwealth Fund report, Americans spend twice as much as citizens in such countries as Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. But this doesn’t mean our healthcare is twice as good. The U.S. lags behind these countries — all of which cover all their citizens — in terms of quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and the ability to lead long, healthy and productive lives. The report states that, “when a country fails to meet the needs of the most vulnerable, it also fails to meet the needs of the average citizen.” Obama’s fundamental mistake was to confuse the needs of citizens with those of the health insurance industry. Hence the individual mandate that would drive young, healthy adults into the insurance market, resulting in super profits for companies like WellPoint. The irony is that this strategy was first advanced by a leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, back in 1989. Mitt Romney famously adopted the idea and tried it out — with success — when he was governor of Massachusetts. At the time, the individual mandate idea was the rightwing’s answer to the single payer approach being promoted by the left. The funny thing is that it showed signs of working. Since Obamacare passed, health insurers have, in fact, been adjusting rates and readying plans for the consumer stampede supposed to begin in 2014. While skepticism is warranted about how truly affordable the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would be, it’s nonetheless disturbing that we may never have the chance to actually see how it works. Adding insult to this injury is that, so far, there appears to be no Plan B. Republicans who have been hellbent on stopping Obamacare have nothing to suggest by way of an alternative, perhaps because they have basically killed their own idea. As for the Democrats, it may be time for them to go back to the drawing board. They’ll find a good idea waiting there. It’s called Medicare for Everybody. If it’s good enough for people over 65 (and it is, ask any senior, even a Tea Party member), it ought to work for the rest of us.

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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is looking for freaks to line the pages of a quadrennial guidebook of a most unusual sort. Before finalizing the 2012 edition of “Invasion of the Weird Trees,” an online publication that identifies the weirdest trees in each county based on public submissions, the forestry division is calling Hoosiers to document the state’s trees. “The only requirement is that they be weird and be a living tree,” the call for submissions stated. “Weird” in the past has applied to “trees that swallowed signs, trees grown together like conjoined twins, trees with trunks twisted like a snail shell and trees that resemble giant octopuses.” Submit weirdness by April 30. Entries can be emailed or mailed with non-returnable photographs along with your name, address, phone number, and specific location of the tree, including county, to Sam Carman 402 W. Washington St., Rm. W296, Indianapolis, IN 46204 or scarman@dnr.IN.gov.

OVERWHELMING APATHY

In terms of percentage of eligible voters who bothered to cast a vote in the last presidential election, only ten states had lower participation rates than Indiana, according to 2010 study by the U.S. Census Bureau. This year Hoosiers have a U.S. senate seat, the governorship and a host of other offices to elect. The vitriol greasing the tracks between the Lugar and Murdock camps offers a clue of how much is at stake in the May 8 primary when GOP members will scrap to see what narrative will define its camp heading into the November showdown. To participate in the primary and help determine what names will appear on the general election ballot this fall, voters must register by April 9. New voters, relocated voters or voters with name changes may visit the county clerk, their local license branch or indianavoters.com to ensure they are ready to hit the polls. Questions can be directed to 866-IN-1-VOTE.

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Mayor Ballard kicked off his second term by leading hundreds of cyclists through the snow on a New Year’s journey from downtown to the Velodrome and back to the warm comfort and refreshment of the City Market. If the city’s biking community can have that much fun with below-freezing temperatures, prospects are high that a festive spirit will dominate his upcoming Spring Fever 11-mile ride leaving from Broad Ripple Park this Saturday at 4 p.m. to celebrate the connections of bikeways and waterways. To register onsite, arrive as early as 3 p.m.

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his winter may have been mild but with new windows and freshly insulated walls, Nicole Alexander was prepared to ride out even the most brutal of winter storms inside her five-bedroom home in the Meridian Kessler neighborhood. Alexander is one of a couple dozen Indianapolis homeowners to participate in the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership’s (INHP) EcoHouse loan program in the past year, which offers qualified participants up to $15,000 in loans to make energy efficient repairs and appliance upgrades. “I love my home but it definitely needed work done, “ Alexander said. She had been interested in making her century-old home more energy efficient for a couple of years but was worried about the cost and daunted by figuring out where to begin. Alexander learned about the EcoHouse project while attending INHP’s block party at Glendale Town Center last summer. Since she had previously taken

“I love my home but it definitely needed work done,” — Meridian Kessler resident Nicole Alexander, an EcoHouse program participant.

homeownership classes with INHP, this program not only would enable her to afford the repairs, it also offered Alexander the backing of an organization she trusted. Funding for the loans comes from an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant that the city received as part of the 2010 Federal Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Mayor Greg Ballard’s office approached INHP about partnering on the project in the fall of 2010. Becca Harmon Murphy, the EcoHouse Project Manager for INHP, said the partnership was a natural fit. “We’re a well-known and well-trusted organization,” said Harmon Murphy.

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After being approved by INHP for the loan last fall, Nicole Alexander received an energy assessment in which she learned that h er energy savings would increase dramatically with insulation and three new windows.

As a non-profit organization that has been helping Indianapolis residents become homeowners since 1988, she thinks INHP is also well poised to help Indianapolis residents maintain their homes. “INHP has always been about making sure that when a person gets into a home they are prepared,” said Harmon Murphy. In the wake of surging foreclosure rates in the financial crisis, INHP worked to prepare homeowners with the knowledge and tools necessary to stay in their homes. “We’ve tried to develop products that go to the maintaining and sustaining side of homeownership,” Harmon Murphy said. Though helping people increase their energy-efficiency certainly has a positive environmental impact, INHP has focused on economics in their marketing for the EcoHouse project. “For the majority of our clients it’s about need,” said Harmon Murphy. Loans for the program are made available by a partnership from four banks — Huntington, M&I, Old National and PNC — each of which invested into a $6 million dollar loan pool. Program participants repay their loans to INHP who will in turn repay the banks. INHP began accepting applications for the loan program in April of 2011. Qualified applicants must be Indianapolis residents who own and have lived in their own home for than a year, meet a minimum credit score of 580, and have an income level that is below 120 percent of the median income

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for their area. After being approved by INHP for the loan last fall, Nicole Alexander received an energy assessment in which she learned that her energy savings would increase dramatically with insulation and three new windows. The assessor also helped her identify other ways to increase her home’s energy efficiency, like using caulking to help seal in air. “Even if I hadn’t gone through with the repairs,” she said, “I would have really learned something.” Susan Perkins, another program participant, whose North-side home was assessed last month agrees. “It was really informative, “ she said. The assessment, which is conducted by Thermo-Scan Inc, includes a “blower-door test.” The test consists of mounting a high power fan to a home’s front door to lower the air pressure inside the house and allow high-pressured air to seep out through any openings, so that assessors can identify any cracks or openings. “It reminded me of a ghost movie,” Perkins said of the process. In the course of her assessment, Perkins discovered that hail damage to her roof had caused moisture to build up in the attic of her house. She wants to make those repairs before she makes her energy improvements, but she is excited about not facing another drafty winter in her threebedroom house that was built in 1940. “I think it will make a really big differ-

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ence,” she said. For Alexander it already has. “The house just stays warmer,” she said. Beyond the cost savings and the environmental benefits, what the EcoHouse loan program also seems to offer homeowners is peace of mind. “When I saw INHP’s name I thought it was a good program and wanted to get involved,” said Perkins. So far, she has been “completely satisfied” with the experience. Alexander has not been disappointed either. What she most appreciated about the program was thoroughness of both the energy assessment and the repairs themselves. She noted that the technician who insulated her walls and replaced her windows came to her home twice to inspect his work. “I am not always sure what to do (about home improvement projects) so having professionals come in and place their seal of approval on everything really helps,” she said. Harmon Murphy sees this as one of the biggest selling points of the EcoHouse project. “You’ve got people on your side making it happen for you,” Alexander agrees. “You can’t ask for anything more,” she said. Indianapolis residents interested in the EcoHouse Project and think they may qualify for the loan can visit www.ecohouse.inhp.org to apply or call the program’s loan coordinator, LaWayne Hunter, at 317-610-4652.

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year ago Taylor-Ruth Baldwin, a selfdescribed “outsider” and a bit of a Luddite, didn’t even have a Facebook account and rarely checked her email. But at the urging of a friend, the Carmel teen created a Tumblr page the summer before her junior year of high school. She began sharing comics from her diary on the blog, comics that combine a barbed wit with raw, openly expressed emotions. Her work, collected under the title Hanging Rock Comics, immediately struck a nerve, and her blog soared in popularity, topping 30,000 regular followers within a few months of its launch. This led to a profile of the 17-year-old in Wired Magazine, which in turn triggered a dizzying blitz of offers from book publishers and TV and film studios. Baldwin now finds herself engaged in bicoastal conversations with big-time media executives and creative managers. Her spring-break agenda includes a trip to New York City, where she will meet with several agents to discuss creating platforms for the characters in Hanging Rock. She’s even been offered a starring role on a reality TV show, a proposition about which she readily admits to having serious reservations. Baldwin exudes openness and vulnerability, qualities that surface when I ask

her how she started creating comics. “I was going through early adolescence and trouble and changes, and I saw a therapist who recommended that I keep a diary,” she says. “I took her advice, but I was too lazy to write every day, so I just documented my life using comics.”

From age 13 to 16, Baldwin kept her comics to herself. She only opened up to the idea of having an audience for her work last year when, in a math class, she and a close friend started creating comics and showing them to each other. “The entire period she would draw a panel and then I would draw

a panel,” Baldwin says. Last July, she began posting her latest work, typically single-panel illustrations documenting the inner turmoil of a high school girl who — sporting oversized glasses and a vintage band tee — bore a strong resemblance to Baldwin. The blog took off, spurring her to do more: “I noticed that when I began posting comics based on my life, they began receiving numerous notes,” she says. “Recently, I can pretty much expect anything I post to receive a thousand notes. I’ve had several posts in the 50,000 range.” She’s also inspired others to create their own comic blogs, a form of mentorship that serves as a source of motivation. “Some of them are really successful and really good,” she says. “But you quiver in your boots a little because you think, I’m not going to be relevant forever. It’s cool, though, because thinking that I inspire people inspires me.” She’s also received numerous messages from people thanking her for being a source of comfort, for letting them know that they’re not alone. Baldwin views her naysayers (always in the minority) constructively, crediting them for helping her to become more self aware. “It’s important to know when something

BALDWIN: That was so cool. I’m still in the process of going through submissions. All my life, I’ve really struggled with happiness. It’s never been something I’ve been able to have easily and effortlessly and without trying. In thinking of my own life, of the times when I was genuinely happy, it’s interesting. A couple weeks ago, I was at a point where I needed to know people could be happy. And sometimes I feel disconnected from my followers and that I don’t know them as people. And I think you can tell a lot about someone by looking at a time in their life they were genuinely happy. It was really beautiful how many submissions I got and the different stories. It really moved me. People were so intimate in disclosing to me these times in their lives. It’s inspiring that they trusted me in that way. I got a lot of people who were happiest in childhood. I got a lot of people who were happiest in different relationships. It’s really interesting when people are genuinely happy. People often submitted pictures of themselves, pictures of their face when they were happy, and there’s this light in their eyes that’s really beautiful. NUVO: Did you identify a common link or theme among the images? BALDWIN: Yeah, when people were genuinely happy, there was just an easiness about it. Sometimes life gets so busy and cluttered and things become so hard. And it seems like people are always happiest when things are easier and less complicated and simple.

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...the name,

Hanging Rock Comics

NUVO: How did you come up with the name Hanging Rock Comics? BALDWIN: Well, there’s this movie called Picnic at Hanging Rock. It’s this movie from the 1970s from Australia. It’s a really weird old movie, and I loved it a lot as a kid. And it inspired me. I don’t know why I was so attracted to it. When I started posting my stuff, I wanted a name, and I came up with Hanging Rock Comics. It sounded cool to me, and I went with it and it stuck.

...her

family,

NUVO: Do you have someone with whom you share your work before putting it on your Tumblr? BALDWIN: Yes, my little brother, Corbin. He’s 13 and he’s an artist, too. He sees a lot of my stuff before I post it. I rarely show it to my mom. My mom supports everything I do. She’s been great for my comics. But she doesn’t always like them or understand them or relate to them. But Corbin really does have a vision and really does understand what I’m striving to accomplish. And he’s really honest with me.

...her

process

NUVO: Have you ever created a comic that you thought was great, but -- perhaps because it was too autobiographical or potentially too controversial -- you chose not to post it? BALDWIN: I have. At the beginning, I thought I could more openly talk about the people in my real life. Different characters. My brother, for instance. I could talk about people because it was this little thing that nobody knew about. And I could be more open with my opinions. And I could be more blunt without offending everyone. Now it feels like, with such a big audience, no matter what I say, I’m going to offend someone. Which is really hard. I don’t want to offend people. I find myself doing mea culpas a lot. I made a couple comics a while back about body image and weight. One of them depicted a heavier girl not liking her body. That caused a pretty big backlash, which I saw why. I didn’t intend it to come off as it did to some people. I followed up with a comic about body image that I thought was great and allencompassing, and it ended up getting like 25,000 notes. But I’ve never taken anything down. I feel like if I’ve posted something, I have some pride in it. I don’t want to feel pressured to apologize for it. I’m not going to take it back and erase it and pretend that it never happened.

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justice

NUVO: Looking at your Tumblr, it’s clear that you have strong opinions

you’re saying is trying too hard or is conceited or oblivious,” she says. “I’ve received messages before that have made me go, I see how I’m coming across. This is a good thing about having a Tumblr — you really learn to see yourself how a lot of other people see you.” As for what attracts people to her blog, Baldwin points to the authenticity of her work. “I think people enjoy that I’m a real person, that I put myself into the comics but that I also exist outside of them,” she says. “I think that really resonates with people, that what you’re seeing is relevant to teenagers and that it’s also created by a 17-year-old girl.” So, does Baldwin share her characters’ balled-up stress and confusion? “I have bouts where I’m definitely angsty and dry and sarcastic,” Baldwin reveals. “And then there are other times when I feel like I’m really normal and even optimistic. It depends on who I’m surrounded by and talking to.” Baldwin says that, over time, the focus of her comics has shifted gradually from herself to the lives of those around her. “It’s not all autobiographical,” she says, “but it is all pertaining to my life.” She’s often questioned whether, through her work, she’s relating to angsty teens or poking fun at them. The answer, she claims, is both. “For me, there definitely are comics where I’m poking fun at people,” she says. “But then there are ones that I take very seriously and that are more autobiographical. At the end of the day, if you can relate to it, that’s cool. And if you see it as satire, that’s cool, too. But it’s an

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interesting question. The more I do it, the more I find the answer.”

‘They want more, more, more’ Though Baldwin has received plenty of media attention of late — including, somewhat oddly, a profile in a popular webzine based in Rio de Janeiro — she has, to this point, sidestepped the local spotlight. She says that her classmates treat her the same now as they did before the launch of her blog.

Does Baldwin look forward to her peers gaining a heightened awareness of her comics and blogging successes? Not exactly. “I’m scared,” she admits, “because I’m not used to having the type of attention I’ve gotten through my blog, let alone in real life.” Baldwin’s teachers have also taken note of her online exploits. “The response from teachers has been really interesting and has exposed a side to them that I didn’t know was there,” Baldwin says. “Teachers

have said to me, ‘I was that kid in high school.’” She’s quick to issue a caveat, though: “I’m like, okay, but please don’t be offended if you see yourself in a comic.” Baldwin’s transformation from intensely private wallflower to blogging sensation seems at once improbable and effortless. Yes, she’s logged countless hours creating comics and maintaining her Tumblr. But one gets the impression that what she faces now — that is, navigating the wide-ranging creative possibilities being dangled before her — presents a far greater challenge. In addition to keeping up with her coursework at Carmel High School, Baldwin has to make time for media execs, for journalists — and to keep up with the blog itself. Baldwin begrudgingly recognizes that, when it comes to the Web, quantity often trumps quality. “Great content, that’s not what even matters on the Internet,” she says. “It’s a very ‘more-centric’ culture, the Internet. They want the newest thing, the next thing, they want more, more, more. It’s a lot of pressure.” Baldwin continues to strive to update her Tumblr daily, but she sometimes feels the need to take a few days off so that she can connect with her real life. These multi-day respites have proven to be a challenge, however. “I’ll get messages from people saying, where are you?” she sighs. “It’s like you’re always up in the air. Like, if you’re not creating the next thing that takes off, the next thing that’s really good, you’re at the risk of losing relevancy. You’re at the risk of people not paying attention to you anymore.”

about a number of social justice issues. How do these opinions inform your creative work? BALDWIN: I don’t make a lot of comics about social issues, other than eating disorders. But I do make text posts about social justice issues that are important to me. A recurring one is that I’m passionate about fair trade and labor issues. That’s a big concern of mine. I get kind of preachy about it. I’ve talked a little about rape. I definitely have taken a risk with what I think out there about sexism and different things. I openly identify as an equalist first and a feminist second. I talk a lot about different gender roles. That’s not something I’ve shied away from. I have a lot of opinions, and I don’t feel like I should hide them. But it’s different when it intersects with my work. I feel comfortable talking about different social justice issues that are important to me, but when they intersect with my comics, that’s when I get a little hesitant. NUVO: When you say that you’re an equalist, what does that mean to you? BALDWIN: Feminism means so many things to so many different people. Saying I’m a feminist, people don’t know what to make of that. Are you a man hater? I want fair treatment for women. I say that I identify as an equalist first and a feminist second because I, more than anything, want equal rights and equal opportunity. I’m not for female domination. That’s not what’s important to me. Above anything, I feel like I support equality.

...band

T-shirts

NUVO: Let’s move on to a lighter topic. I’ve heard that you collect band tees. How many do you own? BALDWIN: Umm. I think it’s in the seventies, eighties. Maybe nineties. At one point I had a hundred and something — my closet was so full. My favorite is this one I found at a vintage shop that’s from a Sonic Youth concert in the ‘80s. Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands. I cherish that one and almost never wear it because it’s so special. NUVO: What other bands and music do you like? BALDWIN: I really love bands from the ‘70s. I’m a big Stooges fan. I love the grunge music from the ‘90s. I love hair metal. I love Guns ‘n’ Roses. But then I love a lot of modern stuff that’s being produced today. I like old blues and bluegrass. Skip James and Leadbelly and Charlie Poole. That’s the roots of modern rock. Music is a big part of my blog. I’ve been consistent in posting a song a day. It’s a big part of my blog because it’s a big part of what I’m interested in.

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Lourdes

Des Hommes et des Dieux

Thursday, April 12 @ 7 p.m.

Tuesday, April 17 @ 7 p.m.

Un ProphĂ¨te

Hadewidjch

Friday, April 13 @ 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 19 @ 7 p.m.

Carlos Sunday, April 15 @ 2 p.m.

Each film will be shown at the Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Memorial Library Auditorium on the Marian University campus; 3200 Cold Spring Road; Indianapolis, Indiana 46222.

For more information, call

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317.955.6144 www.marian.edu/ďŹ lmfestival

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Comix Rock, zombie edition

Delicious brains on menu for Indy Webcomics Group’s annual party BY PAUL F. P. POGUE PPO G U E @N U VO . N E T

omic books! Zombies! Punk rock! Scantily clad models! Comix Rocks, the Indy Webcomics group’s annual celebration of nerd culture, will pull all that together and more starting at 7 p.m., April 7 at Locals Only. Cover is $8. “This is a chance for us to get our stuff up on the wall and showcase our work on a platform outside of the web,” says James Ratcliffe of Lafayette, who’s heading up the mini-comic associated with this year’s event. “Comix Rock 3: The Rocking Dead” opens with an installment of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, featuring local burlesque performers posing as figure models in horror-themed getups, with prizes for the best drawings. The Independents, a horrorpunk band comprised of protégés of the late, great Joey Ramone, will headline the musical portion, with Indiana-based acts Harley Poe and Soup Or Villainz rounding out the evening. “It’s pretty much a big party to celebrate the merging of art and music,” says Charles Gratner, who organized the 2011 incarnation of the event. “It’s a way to show off what we’ve been doing. As artists, we tend to hole up in our little art caves; we don’t get much of a chance to see what other people are doing and get excited about it.” The event cycles through leadership and themes each year to get a fresh take, with NUVO’s own Wayne Bertsch and Ratcliffe heading things up this time around. “The whole point is to see somebody else’s take on things, and what we can all learn from each other,” Gratner says. “That applies to both the group and the show.” Every year focuses on a different theme; the 2010 show centered on superheroes, with COMIX ROCK 3: THE ROCKING DEAD Saturday, April 7, 7 p.m. Locals Only, 2449 E. 56th St., $8 indywebcomics.com

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science fiction and Star Trek taking center stage in 2011. This year will be horror, appropriately enough for a pop culture currently engorged with zombie flesh. Organizers say the ever-changing theme creates new inspiration and challenges each year. “You have to make a link, think to yourself, ‘How do I make something I do fit this theme?’” Gratner says. “You don’t want to just say, ‘Oh, I’ll draw Freddy or Jason.’ You want to twist it and bend it a little and not just do the tropes, but incorporate it into the things you do.” “We may focus a lot on online comics, but we’ve got painters, watercolorists, writers and caricature artists,” Indy Webcomics member Lee Cherolis says. “It’s really anyone remotely interested in the art form, which results in a nice eclectic mix of artwork at the shows. With the themes, we end up stretching out our wings and doing things we might not have otherwise tried, so a lot of times you’ll see something interesting from someone you wouldn’t expect.” They’ve also picked up quite a bit of support from Locals Only since the beginning. “They have art hanging from a different local artist every month, and we put up our art as a group for a month around the show,” Cherolis says. “We really pack those walls full of art,” Gratner says. Each year also includes a minicomic collaborated on by the group at large; the first year’s featured the Dr. Sketchy’s models in their superhero alter egos. This time around, Ratcliffe is heading up an alternative zombie/horror-themed coloring and activity book, complete with blank space to collect sketches from the artists. Dr. Sketchy’s has been part of the show since the beginning, and Ratcliffe says they work hard to play up the theme: “They tend to pull out all the stops,” Ratcliffe says. “They really give us the gusto and go out of their way to make sure everybody has a great time.”

Sociable loners

The Indy Webcomics Group formed out of a local newspaper article in 2007 that demonstrated just how many artists were working in the city; several of them decided to meet on a regular basis after that. Since then they’ve held several workshops, published an anthology and frequently participated in 24-Hour Comics Day. “You don’t get into comics to make money; you do it because you love drawing,” Ratcliffe says. “But it’s also a lot of lonely work at your desk. Having a group of like-minded people to have a drink with every so often and inspire you is a great thing. It really does keep us all grounded.” Cherolis agrees: “We’re kind of loners and get sequestered away, but the interaction can keep us motivated, improve our work, and perhaps keep us motivated in the form.” “It’s open to all levels,” Gratner adds. “We have everything from rookies to vet-

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“Zombie Track Day” by Lee Cherolis

erans who’ve been at this a long time to those of us just fumbling our way around to figure out what we’re doing.” Incidentally, costumes are highly encouraged this weekend: “We had a lot of people in Trek uniforms last year, and I’ll be disappointed if we don’t see a bunch of people in zombie makeup, gore and blood!” Cherolis says. “It’s like Halloween in the middle of April. Or Christmas in July, only scarier.” Organizers say the event exemplifies everything Indy Webcomics Group stands for and provides a chance to show off their

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best work: “It brings together a lot of different styles, with a lot of diversity but unifying it into one show,” Gratner says. “It’s a pure form of nerdiness; we’re not just geeking out over the things other people are creating, but showing off the stuff we’re creating.” “If this event does anything, I hope it gets more people into comics or art in the local scene,” Cherolis says. “Yes, you see this sort of thing on TV, but it’s also in your hometown. There’s people all around you creating this stuff. You can find pretty neat things if you look for it.”

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Stacy Kagiwada at the roller derby Brandon Knapp winnows down his Brew Bracket

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WEDNESDAY

King/Kennedy commemoration

FREE

@ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Wednesday marks the 44th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s impromptu speech on the evening of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, delivered during a scheduled campaign rally on a spot now marked by a Landmark for Peace sculpture dedicated to both Kennedy and King. Credited with forestalling the riots that lit up the country that night in other major American cities, Kennedy’s speech was driven by an empathy informed by a history of shared loss, rendered all the more poignant in hindsight: “For those of you who are black,” he spoke in 1968, “and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.” Kennedy also drew on Greek wisdom in urging a sort of forbearance on a restless crowd: “My

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favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: ‘Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God’ … Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” Tonight’s commemoration of the speech will feature historical re-enactors from the Indiana Historical Society and archival audio and video of the speech. Six Hoosier women will also be recognized with awards, including Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman . April 4, 5 p.m. @ 1702 N. Broadway St.; free.

FRIDAY

Steven Conant, ‘Deliberate Energy’

FREE

@ Wug Laku’s Studio & Garage

THURSDAY

Noir writer Frank Bill @ Uindy

FREE

Corydon-based crime noir writer Frank Bill is due to deliver later this year on the other end of his two-book contract with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with his Donnybrook — his first novel, about an old-fashioned tournament of fisticuffs in backwoods Kentuckiana — arriving in fall 2012, by last count. His first book, the short story collection Crimes in Southern Indiana , was published in September 2011; you may remember the NUVO cover story on Bill that ran around that time, or the inclusion of the book’s first three stories in the August issue of Playboy. Bill heads back to Indy this week in the wake of his book being longlisted for the 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. April 5, 7:30 p.m. @ Schwitzer Student Center, Hall A, University of Indianapolis; free; uindy.edu.

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See that there, betwixt and between those shimmering, topographical lines? That there is deliberate energy, and Steven Conant’s work is driven by it. An Elkhart native and pediatrician by trade, Conant is deliberately active as both collector and artist. His work can be found in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Elkhart’s Midwest Museum of American Art; he’s also made significant donations of 20th-century art to both museums. April 6-28 (opening April 6, 6 p.m) @ 1139 Brookside Ave., C7 (Circle City Industrial Complex); free; wlsandg.com.

FRIDAY

‘Chimaera’s Attic’

FREE

@ Primary Gallery

Put a chimaera in the attic, and you may not have an attic for much longer (unless you’ve properly fire-proofed): a chimaera is, after all, a fire-breathing, shape-shifting, female creature made from the body of a lioness, with a snake’s head for a tail and a goat’s head attached to the spine; and attics are, traditionally, made from wood-based materials. But perhaps this attic is figurative, like the one to which the madwoman (Jane Eyre’s Bertha, etc.) was consigned in Victorian literature. Regardless, there are about 18 local female artists up there, each contributing a single work to this month’s show at Primary Gallery. April 6, 6 p.m.; April 20, 6 p.m. @ 1039 Virginia Ave., Ste. 217; free; primarycolours.org.

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FRIDAY

FREE

FRIDAY

Inheritance: LaToya Derek Hess Ruby Frazier and Tony Buba @ Hero House @ iMOCA

iMOCA celebrates its 10-year anniversary this month with a show, Inheritance, guest curated by Braddock, Penn.-based photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose work is concurrently on view

at the 2012 Whitney Biennale. This will be the most comprehensive exhibition of Frazier’s work, according to iMOCA, including some never-before-seen pieces, and will also feature documentary film by Tony Buba, who also focuses on the post-industrial town of Braddock as his subject. Frazier’s best-known work, The Notion of Family, which she began in 2002, is a series of black-and-white photographs documenting members of her Braddock-based family (Frazier now lives in New Jersey), who have suffered the impact of their town’s social, economic and environmental degradation. More recent work has concerned the 2010 demolition of Braddock’s U.P.M.C. Hospital, a significant source of both employment and health care for the community, and the death of her step-great-grandfather (The Homebody, which sees Frazier wearing his pajamas and covered by his blanket). Buba released his first feature in 1988, the documentary Lightning over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy, which was nominated for best first feature by the Independent Spirit Awards; more recently, his Struggles in Steel: A Story of African-American Steelworkers chronicled insitutionalized racism via interviews with 70-plus African American workers.

FREE

Cleveland-based artist Derek Hess has stridden across the

music and fine art worlds since the early ‘90s, when the printmaking major began making a few flyers for shows he was booking at his hometown’s Euclid Tavern. Poster and CD cover design work followed from there, for bands like Pantera, Pink Floyd and Pearl Jam, as well as the launch of a T-shirt line and a couple art/ music festivals. Hess’s blackand-white images have recently been collected in the 300-page book Black Line White Lie , which ranges from 20-year-old drawings to his most recent work, and includes a chapter including images of 70 tattoos inspired by his work. Hess’s book signing will take place at Hero House, the Fountain Square comic book shop coowned by NUVO contributor Wayne Bertsch. April 6, 7 p.m. @ 1112 Prospect St.; free; derekhess.com.

April 6-May 19 (opening April 6, 6 p.m.) @ 1043 Virginia Ave.; free; indymoca.org

WEDNESDAY

IndyTalks: ‘Creativity, Collaboration and Compassion at the Crossroads’

FREE

“Dollars to Deeds: The Life Cycle of Social Enterprise,” precedes the IndyTalks

@ IUPUI

IndyTalks heads to IUPUI next Wednesday to question how Indy might sustain and nurture the next generation of social entrepreneurs so that the city might become a humanitarian hub. The topic dovetails with IUPUI’s Common Theme project for 201213, which is inspired by stories and principles found in David Bornstein’s book How to

WEDNESDAY

‘Art21’ preview and discussion

Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. Bornstein defines social entrepreneurship as “a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illness, illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in order to make life better for many.” Another Common Theme discussion,

FREE

@ Herron

And just across the street from IndyTalks, Herron is also hosting a program open to the general public next Wednesday: a preview of an episode from the PBS contemporary art series, Art21,

event at 3:30 p.m. on April 11 in the University Library Auditorium, with guests Barbara Kerkoff (Indiana Voices of Women), Ted Levinson (RSF Social Finance) and John Hunting (Beldon Fund) discussing the social enterprise life cycle, from start-up to sustainability to evaluation and impact. April 11, 6 p.m. @ IUPUI Campus Center, Room 450, 420 University Blvd.; free; iupui. edu/common_cause. followed by a panel discussion featuring Herron Associate Dean Craig McDaniel, Herron adjunct faculty member Kathryn Armstrong, IMA Contemporary Curator Sarah Green and artist Artur Silva. The preview, of the fourth and final episode of Art21’s 2012 season, focuses on Britishborn realist Rackstraw Downes, American minimalist Robert Mangold and American sculptor Sarah Sze. April 11, 5:30 p.m. @ Basile Auditorium, Herron School of Art and Design, 735 W. New York St.; free; herron.iupui.edu 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 04.04.12-04.11.12 // go&do

A&E FEATURE From smoldering wreckage to peace and mercy Stephen Hough’s ‘Missa Mirabilis’ BY S CO T T S HO G E R S S H O G E R@N U VO . N E T Despite my disinclination to sound like I’m working for local TV news, I think we’ll have to start this story with the car crash. It was 2006, and Stephen Hough — lauded British concert pianist, MacArthur Fellow, “a virtuoso who begins where others leave off” (Washington Post) — was three out of five movements into writing a mass for the Westminster Cathedral choir. He was headed south on England’s M1 highway after a concert — and, well, we’ll let Hough, from his blog for London’s Daily Telegraph, blog, take over from here. “A lorry moved into the middle lane where I was cruising along at around 80 mph and I calmly moved over into the fast lane … at which point something terrifying happened. My car screeched out of control – swerving, spinning … then suddenly it was tumbling in somersaults across the three lanes. As it turned over four or five times many thoughts raced through my mind – one of which was that I would never get to hear the music I had written that week.” But Hough stepped out of the wreck relatively unscathed, living to complete the final two movements of the mass — the fourth while waiting for a brain scan following the accident; the fifth while in a practice room at, coincidentally enough, Hilbert Circle Theatre. The mass was then written for only choir and organ, but Hough had a sense that there were orchestral possibilities. So when the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, with whom he’s been appearing since the late ‘80s, approached him about two years ago with the idea of something of an all-Hough show that would include a commissioned piece, he figured his Missa Mirabilis would do quite nicely. WHAT: Haydn and Hough featuring Haydn’s Symphony No. 30, Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis (world premiere), Brahms’ Gesang der Parzen and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concert No. 1; with Nicholas McGegan, conductor; Stephen Hough, conductor; and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir WHEN: April 6 and 7, 8 p.m. @ Hilbert Circle Theatre; $20-75 (student discounts available); indianapolissymphony.org

Thus, the ISO and the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir will perform the world premiere of the choir-and-orchestra version of his Missa Mirabilis this weekend, on a program that also includes Hough’s performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Hough arrived in Indianapolis at the beginning of the week, leaving time for him to work with Nicholas McGegan, guest conductor for the weekend, as well as conduct his first ever Tweetup on Monday night. Things were just taking shape as I called him at his hotel: “We’ve already had two questions from Kenya, so I think we’re off to an interesting start, anyway.” Not that Hough’s a stranger to Twitter, on which he can be found as “houghhough”: “I used to sort of jot things down or write a quick email to a friend; and now, instead of doing that, I put ideas on Twitter that come up as I’m walking around. It’s also a nice way to interact with people; to have that interaction with people you may never meet is quite special, in a way.” He also makes a point to interact with fans on his blog: “I used to reply to everyone as point of principle. I didn’t know what trolls were in the early days, so I just thought that with a bit of reasoned argument, you could get through to them. I like the challenge, actually, of an interesting argument; I like for people to come up with opposing views and to think things through. In another life, I might try to be a diplomat, because I quite like finding calm ways through a difficult situation, finding ways to include both views, if possible, without compromising any one truth.”

A Credo to live by

In Missa Mirabilis, Hough also attempts, particularly in the Credo movement, to include differing points of view — doubt and faith, innocence and experience: “The Creed is the central movement of the five. The text is by far the longest; the other four are poetic, really, whereas this one is theological. I think, traditionally, it’s always been a difficult text to set for those reasons; you don’t want it to be overlong because it could throw the balance of the whole piece out. When I was commissioned originally to write this mass for organ and choir for Westminster Cathedral, I started right there: What am I going to do with the Credo? Then I started things this through, and I was thinking about the innocent boys voices that they have there, and then the men’s voices of experience, and I just thought it would be interesting to play around with the idea of what it means to believe. “It ends with the men singing the words of the Creed but never singing ‘I believe,’ and it begins with them saying it by rote, never thinking about what the words mean, with no expression at all in the way the music deals with the words. By the end of the piece, it’s become despairing because the female voices are literally screaming ‘Credo’; there’s such an argument going on between the upper and lower voices that reaches a big climax. Then, actually, the last lines, ‘I believe in eternal life,’ fizzle out into nothing.” Eric Stark, artistic director of the

Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, has been rehearsing the Missa Mirabilis since January. “It’s a tricky piece, and it took us a while to get the handle on the notes,” he notes. Stark observes that the mass is “cut from a more or less traditional musical cloth,” using “functional harmony as we know it,” but availing itself of the “full palette of harmonic language,” with occasional jazz rhythms and gestures to French composers like Fauré and Poulenc. Hough doesn’t disagree: “Absolutely; it’s a tonal piece, but I hope it’s tonal with a twist. The first movement, the Kyrie, is romantic, in a sense, because I want to set up this sweet, almost French, kind of palette, so that when things go wrong in the Credo, we can come back to that at the end of the piece. It’s bookended with music that almost verges on sentimental, because I do want to create a slight mood change in the middle, so that you feel slightly disturbed by how things are going. ... You can do a lot of things with purely atonal music; it can be humorous, ironic, aggressive. But I think that there’s no question that if you want to express tenderness, nostalgia, a sort of homecoming, somehow you need

tonality as some sort of place to go from, because if you don’t have any anchor at all, then everything sounds the same, and this is, of course, the danger of any purely tonal or atonal music. You need the contrast to set the black off from the white; if it’s all black or all white, then you can’t read anything.” One last question for Hough before the Tweetup: Will this week prove unusually taxing, with the need to prepare the world premiere of his Missa Mirabilis (on which he will not perform) and for the Mendelssohn concerto? “We’ll see! I’ve never done it quite like this before. I’ve done the Mendelssohn with McGegan before. It’s not one of the most complicated pieces to rehearse with the orchestra; in fact, I’ve even directed it myself from the keyboard. It’s a wonderful piece, with incredible freshness and vitality, but it’s not like a Rachmaninoff concerto or Brahms concerto; you just have to have your fingers moving. That’s the one thing: If I’m going to listen to the Mass, I’m probably going to have to dash backstage as soon as it is over to start warming up to play the Mendelssohn.”

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A found documentary BY S CO T T S H O G E R S S H O G E R@N U V O . N E T The Medora High School basketball team first arrived in the national consciousness in 2009, when a New York Times story chronicled the team’s woeful record (0-22) and the town of Medora’s economic depression. Other filmmakers (David Duchovny!) and writers soon descended on the town, pitching ideas for documentaries and other followup coverage. But the school board, burned by what they felt was the article’s one-sided portrayal of the town, was reticent to allow access to players. Only Davy Rothbart and Andrew Cohn — two of the main forces behind Found magazine — were able to break through, gaining permission to film shortly before the 2010 season. Their chronicle of that year, Medora, is nearing the end of the production process; a Kickstarter grant launched Monday is asking for $18,000 to pay for final production and equipment costs, including an editor’s salary. Last week, Rothbart and Cohn called into NUVO from opposite sides of the county — Rothbart in Los Angeles, Cohn in New York City — to talk about the film. They plan to complete Medora in time to screen at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. NUVO: How did you end up gaining the trust of the people of Medora and the school board where other groups and filmmakers failed? DAVY ROTHBART: A lot of it was just going to Medora with Andrew, letting them meet us in person. We’re not outsiders, exactly: We grew up in small towns in Michigan; Andrew’s uncle runs a bar in a small Indiana town that’s the size of Medora or smaller. We shared some of our work from the past, some of the This American Life pieces that I’ve done that show a sensitive perspective. ANDREW COHN: I think we were also empathetic to the fact that they felt burned from the article. We understood that while everything in the article may have been true, it didn’t give both sides of the story, or talk about the good things about living in a small town. NUVO: How much access did you have? Were you in school with the players? ROTHBART: We basically moved to the town for six or seven months. We stayed in Seymour, 20 minutes away. It started out with just filming the games and practices, but the townspeople were so generous with us, so open, and were really welcoming about letting us into their homes. NUVO: And I guess that’s part of your style — you guys are pretty easygoing, which makes it easier to gain someone’s trust? ROTHBART: We’d play hoops with them, we’d hang out with them. There were times when we’d film for a couple hours,

put the cameras down, and then hang out for another hour, have dinner with their families. It became where we were just part of the community, really. COHN: We also took that into the storytelling, too, wouldn’t you say, Davy? We connected with these kids on such a genuine level that when we watched these games, we really wanted them to win, and that’s something that we wanted to communicate in the film. ROTHBART: During these close games — they had a lot of tight games, and hadn’t won a game in a couple years — I would have tears in my eyes. I was trying to film, but it was so intense because we knew how much it meant to them. A lot of them were dealing with rough things in their lives, with so many challenges, that you saw how much a victory would mean to them. NUVO: The players are the focus of the story, but you also end up spending a lot of time on the coaches, who are impressive for the amount of time and energy they’ve invested in the team. COHN: We showed up expecting to shoot a sports documentary about coaches turning the program around and the quest for on-court victory. But it turned into something totally different. It became the story of the town, instead of the team, with the team as a metaphor for what the town was going through, really struggling with issues that have been compounding for years: school consolidation, manufacturing losses, farm consolidation. NUVO: What do you make of the quote by [Medora executive producer] Stanley Tucci that tops your Kickstarter page: “It shows how America has cannibalized itself.” ROTHBART: These towns did create the fabric of our country, and it does seem like they’re being hung out to dry, and the casualties are these teenage kids now who don’t really remember the time when things were brighter; this is what they know. There’s very little opportunity for them in their towns — and the towns are disappearing. What do they do? Where do they turn? NUVO: Can you talk about a player who, say, had the most to overcome during the year or had the greatest successes? ROTHBART: Rusty Rogers is the center on the team, probably the best player or tied for the best; big guy, but a good ballhandler. He had had a pretty challenging home situation, bouncing from place to place without anywhere to call home, staying with various relatives and staying on his own for quite awhile. When the season started he had just moved in with the point guard, Zach Fish, and Zach’s mom. He had actually been out of school for a couple of years, but the idea of going to school for a couple of years with a couple of his best friends kind of attracted him back. COHN: You should tell him the story about how he ended up going to Medora. ROTHBART: Yeah, it’s a pretty funny story. [Head coach Justin] Gilbert, who’s also

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a police officer in Bedford, was doing a routine call at some house where there was a disturbance or something. He’s talking to a few people there, and then he sees Rusty just lounging on a chair in the back. He’s like, ‘Who are you? What school do you go to?’ Rusty’s like, ‘Oh, I’m not really in school.’ And he starts into it: ‘Do you play ball,’ because Rusty’s maybe 6’6”. He’s there on a police call, but he just starts recruiting him. Rusty, to my mind, is the wonderful success story of the film. Well, a lot of the kids overcome a lot; but with Rusty, here’s this kid who was basically semi-homeless at 14 or 15, working full-time at Hardee’s, bouncing around on sofas — and by the end of the film, he’s joined Medora, really found a home for himself there, his mom dealt with some of her demons and was doing much better, he moved back in with her, and just kind of found a place for himself. NUVO: Why’d you decide to go the Kickstarter route? ROTHBART: On a very basic level, it’ll allow us to pay our editor while we finish putting the movie together. But it’s also a way

for people to become involved with the creation of the film. If someone’s gives $25 or $50 now, in a way they own a piece of the movie, and then we’ll update them, share new footage. I’ve donated to probably a dozen projects by friends, and I like getting email updates, getting a sense of how these projects come to life, how much work goes into them; the inside perspective throughout the life of a project. COHN: It also allows us to maintain an independent dynamic that we wanted to hold on to. Yeah, we had some interest from outside companies and outlets, but this gives us the freedom to make the movie that we want to make, and not to be held hostage by some outside company that may give us the money to finish the film, but may have their own opinions about how the movie should look. NUVO: How did Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci end up coming on as producers? ROTHBART: My relationship with Steve goes back a few years. He’s turning my collection of short stories that a I wrote a few years ago, The Lone Surfer of Montana,

A&E REVIEWS Kansas, into a film; he wrote a screenplay based on three of the stories, and he plans to direct the film once he gets a break from Boardwalk Empire. So I got to know him, and when Andrew and I went to Medora, we told him all about it, showed footage to those guys. The movie spoke to them, and they asked how they could get involved. My concern was that while it’s so awesome to have their help — Stanley’s on the board of the Sundance Film Festival, and he’s gotten some people over there involved with the project, and there’s a lot that they can do vouching for it, giving us some credibility and integrity — unfortunately, they’re developing dozens of their own projects, so they can’t give us funding. We worried that people would see their names on the Kickstarter and wonder, ‘Why isn’t Steve kicking in?’ NUVO: You guys have a lot of projects going at once. How do you prioritize? COHN: Well, we’ve made some sacrifices. Davy’s slowed down his work with Found. ROTHBART: Yeah, there hasn’t been a Found issue in two and a half years, because I was

in Medora hanging out in Rusty’s kitchen. But I think all these projects are similar. I had this revelation one day when we were shooting down in Medora. When I’d drive down the highways on these Found tours, I’d always see kids playing in some farm field, beside a tiny clapboard house, and I’d always think, I wish I could just pull over, hang out with those kids and see what their story is. One of the players, Roy Edwards, a big star of the team, lives right by I-65. And one day, Rusty and Roy were playing football in the snow there, and I was watching these trucks and cars going by right beyond them, and I was like — this is crazy; here I am in the yard that I’ve always passed by, and now I’m getting a chance to really get to know these people in a deep and powerful way. I’ve been telling people: The time I spent in Medora was one of the most profound and meaningful experience of my life. Getting to know these kids, families and coaches really meant a lot to me. Yeah, I’m sad that means I’ve missed a couple of issues of Found along the way, I feel like this movie is a deeper look into people’s lives.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. THE KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND

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Devil’s Island isn’t in The King of Devil’s Island. The actual location for the story is the Bastoy Boys’ Home and the title of the Norwegian film translates to “King of Bastoy,” but the powers-that-be apparently decided that “Devil’s Island” might go over better in English-speaking countries. Interesting reasoning. “King of Wherever” is a based-on-fact tale, set in 1915, about an institution for wayward boys where the kids are dehumanized, violently punished and, in at least one case, sexually assaulted by a staff member. When informed of the situation, the head of the facility does next to nothing about it. Thank goodness that the world has evolved since 1915 and nothing like that could happen today. Sarcasm aside, it doesn’t help that a number of other films have covered similar tragic situations with almost identical story arcs. I can tell you that something happens late in the film that doesn’t occur in other movies of this type. King of Devil’s Island rises above the familiar thanks to the realism of the characters. Erling, aka C-19 (Benjamin Helstad) is the newcomer who quickly becomes the alpha male of the boys. He’s not much of a talker and, thankfully, doesn’t make any stirring speeches at key moments. None of the other boys are eloquent either – they talk like boys their age talk and the sense of authenticity is appreciated. Aside from the child molester, the adults are presented as credible self-serving bureaucrats and not overt monsters. Stellan Sharsgard plays the governor of the school and shows admirable restraint. Bottom line: The film covers well-trod turf, but is compelling nonetheless. April 5, 7 p.m. @ Earth House; $10; part of Indy Film Fest’s Spring Film Series. Julia Roberts plays the Evil Queen/Stepmother in this comic telling of the Snow White story, directed by Tarsem Singh ( The Cell). Despite the chintzy looking early ads for the film, Mirror Mirror is a sumptuous, if artificial, looking film totally free of pop culture references. Roberts is fine as the wicked queen, Lily Collins (Phil’s daughter) is empowered as all get out as Snow White and the seven dwarfs are presented as real men – still prone to slapstick, and not terribly deep, but less cartoonish than in prior incarnations. The production is far from magical, but mildly entertaining. 95 minutes. Sheikh Muhammed (Amr Waked) wants to introduce fly fishing for salmon to the Middle East. The British Prime Minister’s press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) wants a feel-good news story about Britain and the Middle East. So fish expert Ewan McGregor gets roped in to a plan he thinks is patently absurd. The relationship between McGregor and consultant Emily Blunt is predictable, but enjoyable, as it the movie as a whole. Nothing deep, which is just as well, I suppose. An outlandish plan coupled with sincere, flummoxed and tart characters makes for an agreeable small movie. 152 minutes. Nicely done documentary about the Manassas Tigers, an inner city Memphis high school football team heading towards their first playoff appearance in the school’s 110 year history. The relationship between the filmmakers and their interviewees is intimate. The film has so many inspirational moments that you know it’s real, because a fictional version would have been rejected as being “too much.” Think of the best parts of The Blind Side without the upscale family stuff, bring a hankie and prepare for a fine emotional time. 110 minutes. The We Are City film series wraps up this week with a documentary that screened last year as part of the Heartland Film Festival, which is co-sponsoring this screening. When it was first occupied in 1954, St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe housing project was hailed as a smart, modernist solution to the city’s problems of overcrowding and deteriorating housing stock; when it was demolished in the mid-’70s, it was pointed to as a symbol of all that was wrong with a Brutalist approach to warehousing the poor. Chad Friedrich’s film traces the transformation of the city and Pruitt-Igoe, with particular attention to resourceful residents. Discussion concerning residential architecture and affordable housing in Indianapolis will follow the film. April 5, 7 p.m. @ The Toby at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; $3 members, $5 public. —Scott Shoger

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DANCE ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: CELEBRATING SHAKESPEARE DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE AT INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE, MARCH 29-APRIL 1 e Dance Kaleidoscope’s dancers magnificently proved their mettle in the two very different works that made up All the World’s a Stage: “Remembrance of Things Past,” inspired by — and with spoken lines from — Shakespeare’s sonnets, choreographed by Norman Walker and with a commissioned score by Frank Felice; and Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet,” with new choreography by David Hochoy. Felice merged his electro-acoustic style with 17thcentury period music, catapulting the poet’s “wistful, sarcastic exploding out, showing resentment more than anger” into a score upon which Walker could build his three stories, with a prologue and epilogue. The piece opened as the Poet, portrayed by Kenoth Shane Patton, surveyed his lifelong output as a writer, his memory first falling on thoughts of a Young Beloved, toyingly portrayed by Zach Young. From this wistfulness of youth grew the unsettling confrontations with the Dark Lady, passionately portrayed by Liberty Harris, and the Rival Poet, stridently portrayed by Timothy June. With death, the epilogue showed “his work becomes the monument to his life” as we watched familiar characters circle into the ether of our consciousness. The power of the music and the poetry, and the passion of the company of ten dancers were further enhanced by the swirl of colors of period costumes created by Cheryl Sparks and the subtle lighting by Laura E. Glover suggesting layers of coming to terms with “loves, jealousies and betrayals.” Hochoy’s approach was to plumb universal truths within well-known music, interpolating three sets of lovers taking us through a lifetime of emotions in less than an hour. Melanie Schreiber and Brandon Comer shimmered in discovery of each other; Mariel Greenlee and Timothy June radiated breadths of love; Jillian Godwin and Zach Young struck depths of loss. Wearing translucent costumes revealing their bodies, the company of eleven dancers took us into a fully developed world. —RITA KOHN

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Two weeks ago Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra music director Krzysztof Urbanski’s reading of Holst’s The Planets was a revelation, a five-star concert if ever there was one. Not quite so this weekend, mostly because of Urbanski’s programming choices. Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, and the first three tone poems from Bedrich Smetana’s six-poem cycle Má Vlast (My Fatherland) were preceded by a post-Modernist composition from Polish composer Wojciech Kilar, Krzesany (1974). By far the most pleasing element of the evening was the return of cellist Zuill Bailey. As with his previous appearance, Bailey’s piece was recorded for commercial release. The native Virginian made Elgar’s four movements come alive almost solely with his beautiful cello work, making among the most dulcet timbres I’ve ever heard from that instrument. From Smetana’s six tone poems (the first three of which were performed), listeners tend only to recognize the second one, “The Moldau.” Urbanski held his players together in a wellpolished, seamless and otherwise unremarkable performance. Our music director seemed to thrust the most energy into Kilar’s Krzesany than anything following. Though Krzesany employs post-modernist tactics in depicting a Polish highlander dance sequence, what I heard was the strings playing an uninterrupted string of off-pitches depicting for me countless lost souls wailing away in timeless agony. It made for the most exciting, but unrewarding 15 minutes of the evening. For more review details visit nuvo.net. —TOM ALDRIDGE

THEATER A STEADY RAIN ACTING UP PRODUCTIONS AT WHEELER ARTS CENTER; MARCH 29-APRIL 1 t This gritty, noir-style drama follows the unraveling of a partnership between two Chicago cops who have a brutal perspective on the society around them. Director Scot Greenwell’s concept for this two-hander script seamlessly blends direct address to the audience and character interaction between the two men. The effect creates an intimate and engrossing atmosphere in which difficult subject matter — adultery, prostitution, alcoholism and drug use, gang violence and murder — unfolds. Brian Noffke is transformed not only in appearance but demeanor to become the gregarious, but dangerous Denny. Sam Fain, as Joey, is a stirring and tender foil to Noffke’s brash Italian. Unexpected twists abound as the men fall deeper and deeper into the violence of the streets. Yet just at the emotional climax of the show, the pair lose sight of the honesty and authenticity that carried them through their dark plight. From there, the once dynamic play falls flat until the lights go black. —KATELYN COYNE

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one’s body, but the melody is really important too, so it’s all about that balance. NUVO: The diversity in your crowd never ceases to amaze. What do you think accounts for that in the music you play?

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orin Ashton, better known as electronic music DJ/producer Bassnectar, releases his new album Vava Voom on Tuesday. Like his other offerings, it features an array of sounds reflecting a variety of electronic subgenres. The commonality? Bass. Ashton brings his bass-intensive sound to The Egyptian Room on Wednesday, April 11. We caught up with him recently after a headlining gig at the massive Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Fla. NUVO: You played Ultra last night? ASHTON: Yeah, it was fuckin’ insane. Closing out the third night was – I just hadn’t seen that stage even half as full the whole weekend. It was just absolutely apeshit, from left to right and front to back. I hadn’t expected that many people: When I looked at the stage during the day, I thought, “Oh wow, this is kind of a small area,” and then it was well over 10,000 people just kind of crammed into this bowl. It was a really unique vantage point because the stage came out forward into the crowd, so I could see very far to my left, and very far to my right, and up the hill. It was really wicked, really fun. NUVO: Excision was in Indy recently ( see NUVO.net for review) and had a setup that launched more bass at the audience than most people had probably ever experienced. Do you think there’s such a thing as too much bass at a show? ASHTON: Absolutely. It’s all about a balance. I started bringing my own bass and my own sound system to shows back in 2004, 2005, when there wasn’t really an understanding of bass music at the time in America. There wasn’t even really a DJ scene or DJ clubs to play at unless you were Tiësto or Paul Oakenfold. So I was playing in rock clubs and rock venues and theaters and rooms that, you know, the night before might’ve had Slayer, the night before that might’ve had a jam band, and the night before that, a punk-rock band. And so we’d roll in, and they’d only have like one sub, so we’d have to set up our own subs. The key to me is to make it sound like you’re inside of a pickup truck with a nice sound system in it, –pull quoteso it’s an enclosed space without a lot of echo; it’s really tight, really warm, really full. And to me, sound is physical. I want to think about sound in terms of weight and physical texture, and not so much ear volume. If you turn the bass up too loud, it washes everything else out. So you have to have just enough to vibrate the cells of every-

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ASHTON: I always have a really creative approach to music. I’m a person of very diverse musical tastes. I am just as interested in satanic death metal as I am in Erykah Badu or Lauryn Hill as I am in the film score to American Beauty. I just really like all different kinds of music, and I like to combine everything into one kind of unified, thick, heavy sound, and I think that appeals to a lot of people. But I’m also kind of a nerd, and I’m not really into being cool (laughs). I’m the anti-hipster, so I think it’s just opened doors for an eclectic group of personalities, you know. You’re just as likely to see a frat guy as you are to see a Rastafarian as you are to see some kind of weird, long-haired freak, and I think that people of all shapes and sizes come out, and everyone really gets along. It’s exciting to watch the community building. NUVO: Your new album, Vava Voom, comes out Tuesday. Did any one thing in particular inspire it? ASHTON: The concept for the record, similar to Timestretch, was feeling like life is moving at such an unbelievably fast rate – it’s like warp speed for me, and it’s 10 times faster than it was last year, and that’s 10 times faster than it was the year before, and 1,000 times faster than I ever thought it would be. Vava Voom is really like, instead of reeling from that or instead of trying to slow it down, it’s really just diving in headfirst and saying “Fuck yeah, here we go!” It feels like being hypnotized almost, when things are moving that fast. Because you lose a sense of what’s present, what’s past and what’s future, and it’s all just kind of like a whirlpool of action and activity, and that was the theme for the track I did with Lupe [Fiasco], and it kind of just held for the rest of the record. The record’s kind of like a sequel to Divergent Spectrum because each song is really different from the next, and it continues to show and express that I don’t really have one specific Bassnectar sound. So when people online are like, “You should play your old style. You should go to your roots!”, to me, it just shows that the person has no idea what my roots are, because I do really like punk rock music. And I really like dubstep. And I really like downtempo. And I really like music that doesn’t even have a beat. I like music that doesn’t even have bass: I like tender, emotional music that makes you cry, and I like ugly, filthy, dirty music too. It’s important to me to represent every point on that spectrum. NUVO: Do you have a background in music? Did you learn how to play an instrument in school? ASHTON: No, I’m foolishly clueless. I learned hand drums on a drum my uncle

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made for me when I was 12. Then I heard Nirvana and Metallica, and I got a $100 piece-of-crap guitar, and I took free guitar lessons and I learned “Iron Man” by Black Sabbath, and “Enter Sandman” by Metallica and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana. I quit classes and just started making my own music that was basically ripoffs of everything else that I heard. So I’d take, like, “Iron Man” and learn how to play it backwards. Then I’d play it doubletime or half-time. Then I’d change a note around and make a song of that. And to this day, I don’t know chords, or scales, or keys or anything - I still use my pointer finger on a keyboard when I’m making basslines. And part of me wishes I would go to school and learn music, but it’s been 20 years now that I’ve been doing it kind of “adventurally” and I’m kind of addicted to my process. It’s a little bit more mysterious and playful for me. NUVO: You were here with Major Lazer last year (review on NUVO.net), then at a smaller headlining show in Bloomington at The Bluebird. What’s new on this tour? What can fans expect when you come to Indy this time around? ASHTON: The ethos is just more of the same. I’m really happy with how things have gone over the last 10 years, and I’m not really looking to change - I’m just looking to turn the volume up in every direction. The live set is feeling stronger than ever; I just have more new weird loops and musical ideas and layers. And the crowds are getting it: They’re getting exposed to more music all the time. It’s like being a standup comedian and everyone gets the jokes. It’s fun! NUVO: Do you prefer smaller clubs, like The Bluebird, or mid-sized theaters, or large festivals like what you played last night? ASHTON: I love it all. And everything’s different. A festival is more like a big freakout, full-blast anthem after anthem after anthem, and everyone’s attention spans are short, and there are a million things happening all around. Then an actual show is much more focused if it’s an extended set that gets up to a few hours, and it can get

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more cinematic. I almost plan out my sets like special acts in a play. That goes deeper. Sometimes the shows are just as big as a festival, kind of like the best of both worlds and everything in between. If it’s a smaller venue, that probably means I’m going to emerge covered in sweat, because things get hot! NUVO: You’re a self-proclaimed workaholic. Skrillex and Deadmau5 — both electronic artists with huge followings — are similarly obsessed with what they do. Do you think bass music producers tend to need that obsessive nature about their livelihood more so than traditional rock musicians, just because of the complex nature of the technology they work with? ASHTON: It’s hard to say. I think truly creative people are an anomaly. We are the weirdos and the crazies, kind of. So it’s hard to box everyone together because, by nature, we’re really individualized and creative, which means you take a different approach to your life than the norm. I think that’s kind of the most beautiful aspect of it — everyone can do their own thing in different ways — and when you become empowered to do so, say like by a strong fan base. For me it’s just the only natural response, to work harder and more nonstop. Because it just means so much to me how enthusiastic fans are about my music, and it makes me want to make more of it for them. NUVO: You gave $250,000 in sales from tickets last year to charitable causes. Are you doing the same this year? ASHTON: Absolutely. I’m committed to doing that the rest of my life. Any time we have a Bassnectar show, we collect a dollar per head for some type of contribution to a social organization or a community organization or nonprofit.

Editor’s Note: A longer version of this interview, including plans for Bassnectar’s nonprofit, is online at NUVO.net BASSNECTAR Egyptian Room at Old National Centre April 11, 8 p.m., sold out, all-ages

Heartbeat: New videos, new shows at lawn, Farewll Slothpop

Note for Note: Grey Granite, Homeboy Sandman

A CULTURAL MANIFESTO WITH KYLE LONG Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.

FOKN Bois The best part of writing this column is having a platform to share the exciting new music that inspires me, and right now, it’s FOKN Bois. I’ve been infatuated with the Accra, Ghana-based rap duo since I first heard their infectiously catchy 2011 single “Lungu Lungu.” In many ways “Lungu Lungu” defines the FOKN Bois style, mixing Native Tongues era hip-hop with Pidgin English and a liberal dose of Ghanian sounds. “Lungu Lungu” takes its name from a local expression meaning to zig-zag through the back streets. But the phrase is also used in reference to government corruption – particularly shady, backroom political transactions. The song perfectly illustrates FOKN Bois’ ability to use local cultural themes as a vehicle for social commentary. In a region rife with corruption, “Lungu Lungu” urges listeners to “take the main road,” adding “there’s no shortcut somewhere worth going to.” FOKN Bois are Wanlov the Kubolor and M3nsa, two lifelong friends who began collaborating in 2010. The duo are intent on using music and humor to shatter every cultural taboo known to man – be it African, Western or otherwise. Their new LP, FOKN Wit Ewe, has quickly become a source of controversy in West Africa. Songs like “Sexin’ Islamic Girls” and “Thank God We’re Not Nigerians” seem designed to establish the group’s role as social provocateurs, living up to Wanlov’s boast “I speak my mind with intent to offend” on the group’s 2010 debut LP Coz Ov Moni. I recently had a chance to speak with FOKN Bois’ Wanlov the Kubolor. Kubolor (the name means vagabond in the Ghanian language, Ga) is a hard artist to pin down; he’s often inscrutable and always joking. The half-Ghanian, half-Romanian MC recently released his second solo LP African Gypsy, exploring this dual heritage. The album successfully attempts to draw connections between the musical traditions of Africa and the Romani gypsies – a thoroughly unique project. I spoke with Wanlov as he was preparing for a European tour with FOKN Bois. The group has yet to play in America, and plans for a New York debut fell through last year when the duo encountered visa issues. NUVO: There’s so much going on in your music; can you tell me some of your influences? WANLOV THE KUBOLOR: We are influenced by socially conscious comedians like Dave Chapelle, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bukom Banku and George W. Bush. NUVO: What about music, any particular hip-hop emcees that have influenced your style? WANLOV THE KUBOLOR: Yes, Busta Rhymes, The Fugees, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, and Eminem, to name a few.

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NUVO: African artists like Nneka, K’naan and D’banj are finding fame in the U.S. Do you see this as a sign that American audiences are beginning to accept contemporary African music?

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WANLOV THE KUBOLOR: No, I don’t. There have been many artists before us, but we are the new wave and we’re making larger swells because the world is getting smaller. NUVO: Your work is very satirical and people don’t always get the joke. A few of your songs have provoked serious controversy. How have you handled these controversies? WANLOV THE KUBOLOR: Smiles, incredulous laughter, silent thoughts, we’ve handled it all like warm toast. Wishing our biblical bread turns into hip-hop bread. NUVO: What do you think of Azonto, the latest musical trend in Ghana? WANLOV THE KUBOLOR: We love Azonto music, but we’re still trying to learn the dance! Yes, you should check out King Ayisoba, Hewale Sounds, Efya and Mutombo Da Poet.

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NUVO: Your song “Help America” calls for places like Darfur, Mexico City and Mogadishu to come together to help save America. How is this campaign going? WANLOV THE KUBOLOR: No, we haven’t raised enough money to help with America yet, but maybe soon. When we ask Africans for alms for America, they aren’t keen to help. After all America has done for the world, we don’t understand why. Un-American people suck! Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. See this week’s online at NUVO.net.

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Punk grows up Bomb the Music Industry!

BY JO N R. L AFOLLET T E M USIC@ N UVO.NET Bomb the Music Industry! is a model do-it-yourself band. Their music, a frenetic mix of punk energy, ska flourishes and pop hooks, is self-recorded, self-released and self-promoted. The band’s entire catalog streams online for free and they almost always play all-ages venues and keep ticket prices in the single digits. They even equip their dedicated fan base with stencils to customize their own t-shirt designs. They’re not exactly building bombs, but they don’t need the any part of the music industry either. “I’ve learned so much since I’ve started this band,” frontman Jeff Rosenstock said. “From how to record and mix music semiproperly to how to read an expense sheet at the end of the night and seeing if a promoter is trying to screw us over.” Rosenstock, the band’s only permanent member, has carried his musical venture a long way, since its inception eight years ago. What once was a strange solo venture – where Rosenstock would perform to a backing track provided by an iPod – has morphed into a full-on rock outfit, although he still performs solo occasionally. “I still do stuff as Bomb like in the old days but I try my best to let people know it’s going to be a traditional band when that happens,” he said. “I never want people to feel ripped off when they see me.” Rosenstock recently went on a solo tour of Brazil and Australia, where he desperately tried to communicate with sound guys who only spoke Portuguese and broke his collarbone while riding a motorbike through Bali on his few days off. Upon his return to the states, Rosenstock assembled the rest of his band and set out on another US tour as a group. They’ll play Russian Recording in Bloomington on April 5 in support of their latest album Vacation. The album showcases a more mature BTMI. While previous releases have featured their fair share of blistering short blasts of distortion and angst, the band’s most recent release relies heavily on catchy melodies and surf-rock guitars similar to Weezer’s Blue Album. “It wasn’t a conscious decision to make

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Acoustic Cafe series brings Little Feat musician BY M ARC D. ALLAN M USIC@ N UVO.NET In 1994, Craig Fuller found himself with four children ages 10 or younger at home and a member of a struggling

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a more grounded record,” said Rosenstock, who credits The Beach Boys, Elvis Costello and early Weezer as influences on the band’s latest sound. “But it was definitely a conscious decision to not make the songs more spastic for the sake of being spastic.” The new sound for Rosenstock has coincided with a new business approach as well. He has transitioned from his free, online label Quote Unquote to Really Records, a new label that deals in physical releases and profits. “I wanted to have a label that was a home for the bands I like in our circle of friends that push things a little bit further than three chords played fast and sloppy,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I love that stuff. But it seems like there’s already a few good homes for that kind of music.” But while Rosenstock has taken on a more business-savvy approach to music, in concert his band is every bit as DIY as they once were. Fans are encouraged to join in on the fun by bringing their instruments and joining the band on stage during a song of their choosing. Sure, it may be fun for a lucky fan, but Rosenstock gets as much enjoyment out of sharing his music with others, even if his methods are somewhat unorthodox. “Someone in Brisbane, Australia came on stage with a set of spoons and just kind of started slapping them arrhythmically, not necessarily anywhere near a microphone,” he said. “That doesn’t really happen that often. For the most part everyone who plays with us has their shit together and it’s always super, super, super fucking fun.” Now in its eighth year, BTMI has released six full-length records, along with a host of various EPs and vinyl singles. They’ve made a connection with fans across the globe and proven that a band can gain success without corporate help. But Rosenstock can’t help but think about the future of the band. “I definitely get exhausted all the time with everything I do,” he said. “But I never feel any burden from making music. I feel like we talk about ending it once a year. But, after touring forever, our friends are now scattered across the country. So it’s easy to forget and not care about what’s next once we get in the van and hit the road.” BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! Thursday, April 5 Russian Recording, 1021 S. Walnut St. 8 p.m., $5, all-ages Supported by Traveling, Point Dume

band, Little Feat. So he decided that rather than living on the road, he should be home in North Carolina helping his wife, a neonatologist, raise the family. And for the better part of 18 years, that’s where he’s been. But now, with the youngest child about to head off to college, his head still full of mostly non-gray hair and his health intact, “I may be ready to embark on a few more years of shameless self-promotion,” he said wryly. Next stop: the Indy Acoustic Café Series for an evening of songs from his days with Pure Prairie League and Little Feat, as well as a few Craig Fuller songs almost no one’s heard before. “I like writing, I like recording,” Fuller said in an interview. “But going out and slogging it out on the road is not easy in

the best circumstances. And as you get older, it gets harder. It was never my desire to get up in front of people and have them clap for me, even if they liked me a lot. I just wanted to make sure the band and I sounded perfect every night. So that’s probably a problem of mine. It’s a lot easier to have one guy feel pretty confident that he can sound good every night.” So he’ll perform mostly solo, with occasional accompaniment from his 22-yearold son, Patrick, “a great guitarist” who grew up around the music business. Fuller recalled with some amusement a time when Little Feat drummer Ritchie Hayward tried to teach one-year-old Patrick to say “rutabaga” because Hayward thought the word sounded funny coming from a child. Today, Patrick Fuller is about to graduate from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a degree in biological sciences. “He has been privy to a lot of the foibles and trials of playing live and traveling,” Fuller said. “But he still wants to try it.” He can draw from his dad’s long, unusual career. Craig Fuller was born in Ohio but grew up in Oregon. He founded Pure Prairie League in 1970, and the band recorded two albums before being dropped by RCA Records. While Fuller dealt with legal problems – he was sentenced to work in a hospital for two years after declaring himself a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War – a Fuller-less Pure Prairie League resigned with the label and had a No. 1 hit with an edited version of his song “Amie.” In 1976, Fuller formed American Flyer with Eric Kaz (Blues Magoos), Steve Katz (Blood, Sweat & Tears) and Doug Yule (Velvet Underground). They recorded two albums – the first produced by George

Martin – before disbanding. Then, in 1978, he and Kaz opened the last contiguous series of shows Little Feat played before singer/guitarist Lowell George died. Ten years later, when Little Feat reformed, keyboardist Bill Payne approached Fuller about replacing George. “As soon as they noticed the similarity in the timbre of my voice and Lowell’s voice, that was probably reason enough to ask,” Fuller said. “They knew I was a reasonable person; they knew I didn’t have a loose wig. It was pretty obvious that it was a good fit.” Filling in for George proved to be easy, Fuller said. Although he doesn’t play slide guitar, he could replicate and almost echo George’s honeyed growl. “It was living up to Lowell’s legacy as far as writing that was the toughest part for anybody in the band,” Fuller said. The reconfigured Little Feat did its best, recording three discs – Let It Roll, Representing the Mambo and Shake Me Up – before Fuller departed. Although Fuller left the business, he never lost his passion for music. In 2009, he put Little Feat fans on notice that he would soon release a solo album called Not Made in China. The record isn’t finished (“I’m a lazy bum,” he said with a laugh) but Fuller said it’s “definitely a possibility” that some tracks and videos will appear on his website before the end of the year. “It’s on the way,” he sai d. “It’s just taking a really circuitous route.” CRAIG FULLER Wheeler Community Arts Center, 1035 Sanders St. April 7, 7:30 p.m. $17 in advance, $20 at the door

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ALABAMA SHAKES Boys and Girls, ATO Records “With their debut LP, The Alabama Shakes provided proof that they are undeniably a damn good band, well-deserving of their recent string of soldout international shows. Though in her early 20s, frontwoman Brittany Howard has powerhouse pipes like the raw-lung heavyweights of old.”

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The Calumet Reel Bloomington band The Calumet Reel will release their self-titled debut LP this Friday at a show at The Bishop. But even though they’ve spent the bulk of the last two years recording, they’ve spent a lot of time listening to new music too. Here’ s five records due to be released this month that they’re looking forward to. All albums can be found at your local, independent record store.

DR. JOHN Locked Down, Nonesuch Records Veteran voodoo boogie-woogie balladeer Dr. John joins forces with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who backs on the board and guitar. Young blood helps an old body get going, but it’ s a good bet that the Night Tripper’s spirit carried the recording. Give his 1968 release, Gris-Gris, a listen!

M. WARD A Wasteland Companion, Merge Records “Excellent songs and recordings. M. Ward is consistently worth all the time one wishes to spend listening.”

Blunderbuss, Third Man/Columbia Records, “The single from Blunderbuss was released this past January; the track, “Love Interuption,” is a good indication that White’s first solo album will not disappoint. It will be released on his own label, Third Man Records.”

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Out of the Game, Decca/Polydor Records “Wainwright enlisted Mark Ronson for what many expect to be an upbeat pop album. Other notable contributors include his sister Martha Wainwright, Nels Cline, Sean Lennon, as well as members of The Dap-Kings. Crossing fingers for an Agnus DeiRonson remix. Look online at nuvo.net for a review of The Calumet Reel’s release. Of it, reviewer Jon R. LaFollette writes, “The album’s lush production and rustic vibe show a young group whose music possesses just as much confidence as it does southern twang.”

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The Contortionist BY WADE CO G GESHALL M USIC@ N UVO.NET How The Contortionist, one of Indianapolis’ premier prog-metal acts, got its start is pretty typical. What happened after that is not. As Robby Baca, one of the quintet’s guitarists, noted in a recent interview, he was steeped in progressive rock by his bassist father at an early age. Listening to bands like Rush, Genesis and Yes was common in his household. “I guess it’s always been something I like to hear,” Baca said. It inspired him to pick up a guitar and teach himself how to play it. Baca admits he didn’t take to it immediately. “I definitely had a couple years where I had no idea what I was doing,” he said. “But, for me it was something I was doing all the time. It came naturally over time.” Baca found kindred spirits while attending high school in Noblesville about five years ago. He initially joined what would become The Contortionist as the bass player. He, second guitarist Cam Maynard, his twin brother Joey on drums, bassist Chris Tilley and singer/keyboardist Jonathan Carpenter started out playing Coheed and Cambria covers. When The Contortionist began performing publicly, Baca says it was in “arcades and people’s sheds.” The limited number of underage venues here was enough to coax them into expanding their fan base beyond Indianapolis and central Indiana. “Before we were even signed, we did a tour we booked ourselves that took us out to California,” Baca said. “We had already been all over the place when we got signed. We were definitely trying to get out of Indianapolis.” The keyword is “signed.” A few short years after coalescing and recording two self-released EPs, The Contortionist were introduced to Paul Conroy, co-founder of the hardcore/metal label Good Fight Music. He promptly offered them a contract in early 2010. By August, they had their fulllength debut, Exoplanet, complete.

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“It’s been really good,” Baca said, of their relationship with Good Fight. “They’ve always been on the same page as us, and they’ve never tried to put their hands in the writing process. That was important for us.” Exoplanet could easily be Herculean heavy throughout if not for The Contortionist’s insistence on having honest-to-goodness melody and ambiance. The track “Expire” is unadulterated metal, but “Axiom” is like a lullaby with piano and acoustic guitar. Extensive touring last year, including a jaunt through Australia, made them even tighter as a band. “We’ve gotten better at communicating musical ideas to each other,” Baca said. “We’re able to understand each other better. That definitely helps with writing music.” He expects that to shine through on their second record, which The Contortionist recently finished recording in Florida. “Everything is sounding fucking huge and great,” Baca said. “It still has the weight of Exoplanet, but with the heavier stuff we’ve gotten more technical, and with the softer parts we’re trying things we never attempted on Exoplanet. But I think if you like Exoplanet you’ll definitely like this one.” Even now, when playing the old material, Baca hears an ongoing evolution and maturation. “We’ve played them for so long now that we find things we don’t like and want to change,” he said. “They’ve grown into something even better. The new album is definitely more of a leap.” Music like this commands such amelioration, though. A continual pressure to improve at your craft and push its limits and possibilities. Baca and the rest of The Contortionist aren’t invulnerable to such stress. “There are a lot of super-sick guitar players in our realm of music,” Baca says. “I can say honestly I’m not anywhere near a lot of them. I do feel some pressure, but it’s not like a crippling thing. It’s something that still comes naturally.” The Contortionist will play with All Shall Perish, Carnifex, Fleshgod Apocalypse.

THE CONTORTIONIST Emerson Theater, 4634 E. 10th St. Tuesday, April 10 6 p.m., $13-$15, all-ages

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FESTIVAL THE TWO-DAY BANGER

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Opponents are reuniting and releasing a posthumous album. This will be their last performance under this name before reforming to record other projects. This is a two-day festival at the Hoosier Dome featuring: Indian City Weather, Of Arizona, Modern Hearts, Habits, Pessoa, Nak’ay, PissArtist, Caelume, Male Bondage, Marital Roles, SideFX/ Blind Justice and more to be announced. The event is presented by Modern Bronze.

The formidable Noel Gallagher formed another band to showcase his solo work after his split from brother and Oasis. He gathered a group of talented road warriors (including The Zutons bassist Russell Pritchard, Oasis session pianist Mike Rowe, The Lemon Trees’ drummer Jeremy Stacy and others), and began recording the debut self-titled album in 2009. There’s no Liam in sight. Those interested in the band, take notice. They’ll release their EP exclusively for Record Store Day on April 21.

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They’ve supported Steven Malkumus and Bright Eyes, but this time, Goldenboy’s all on their own. They’ve got a rich, layered sound that owes serious debts to Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips, complete with fuzzy guitar solos and rippling keyboards. They snagged guest vocals from Elliott Smith on their 2003 track “Summertime” (lead singer and guitarist Shon Sullivan played Smith for four years), and toured with Weezer bassist Matt Sharp in 20042005. They’ll play with Pravada and Hotfox.

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FAREWELL NEON LOVE LIFE

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8:30 p.m., $10, 21+

This fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society will mark the final performance for one of Indy’s favorite bands. Neon Love Life announced their breakup last month via Facebook. In just a few short years, they became one of Indy’s most popular live acts, releasing their debut Tuesday Night to a wide audience and snagging touring spots with The Bangles, Girl in a Coma and T apes N’ Tapes. They also dedicated huge amounts of time to Girls Rock! Indy, a non-profit geared towards getting instruments into the hands of young lady rockers. With crunchy hooks and powerful drums, they wound their way into the hearts of this city, which will truly miss them. All proceeds go to the cause. They’ll play with Indian City Weather and Jay Elliott of Stereo Deluxe.

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The Continuing Crisis

• The entire village (almost!) of Sodeto, Spain, shared the grand prize in the country’s huge Christmas lottery in December, earning each of the 70 households the equivalent of at least $130,000. The joint buy-in of tickets is a town ritual, but one resident missed the canvassing: filmmaker Costis Mitsotakis, who

said he was happy that everyone else was happy. (The dark side of winning: Hucksters flooded the town from all over the country.) [New York Times, 1-31-2012] • The town of Betws-y-Coed, Wales, holds the distinction of having its name likely butchered by more misspellings on Internet search inquiries than any other. Website managers told BBC News in February that they have compiled a list of 364 different spellings from people ostensibly looking for the town. The most common references were to “Bwtsy Code” and “Betsy Cowed.” [BBC News, 2-16-2012] • Anthony McDaniel, 47, voluntarily returned to North Carolina from his new home in Texas in February after being charged with embezzlement by his old employer. The owner of Fayetteville’s Skibo Skillet (now out of business) accused McDaniel of having pocketed meatballs, corn on the cob and anchovy dip while he worked there. [Greensboro News-Record, 2-23-2012] • Make Yourselves at Home: (1) Keith Davis, 46, was caught red-handed in Ashley Murray’s house in South Bend, Ind., in February and charged with burglary. Murray, though, said she had mixed feelings because, while there, Davis had folded Murray’s clothes and vacuumed the house. (Police said that some drug or other had made Davis believe he was in his own home.) (2) Officials at the county courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., were startled to learn in January that Paul Frizzell, 30, had commandeered a vacant office in the building and for two months had been running his business out of it (with telephone, copy machine

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and bulletin board, among other trappings). [WNDU-TV (South Bend), 2-10-2012] [Gaston Gazette, 1-12-2012]

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• What Christmas gift would be appropriate for the 7-year-old daughter of Britain’s notorious specimen of plastic surgery known as the “Human Barbie”? For little “Poppy” Burge, it was a gift certificate worth the equivalent of about $11,000 for future liposuction (redeemable beginning at age 18). Mom Sarah had already given her a voucher for breast augmentation. (Poppy, developing her earlyonset need for attention: “I can’t wait to be like Mummy with big boobs. They’re pretty.”) Mom, who recently turned 51, celebrated with about $80,000 worth of additional plastic surgery to run her lifetime total to the equivalent of (depending on source consulted) $800,000 to $1 million. [Daily Mail (London), 1-4-2012] • Sheriff’s detectives told the Everett, Wash., Daily Herald in January that they had recently tracked down a 21-year-old man who confessed to stealing checks from the Money Tree store in Lynnwood, Wash., and forging signatures. According to the detectives, the man was clear about his motive: “I don’t have an addiction. I don’t need to use drugs. I (was) doing this to show my parents that I can make it on my own, without them.” [Daily Herald, 1-25-2012]

Wisconsinites, Doing It the Hard Way

• In October, Robbie Suhr, 48, of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., sought the affections of the young exchange student living with Suhr and his wife and children, but she had so far declined. According to police, a disguised Suhr snatched the woman one night, intending to tie her up, leave, and then return undisguised to “rescue” her. However, she fought back, sending the masked man fleeing. (Suhr got off easier than Jordan Cardella, 20,

of Milwaukee did several months earlier. To win back his girlfriend, Cardella convinced a buddy to shoot him, hoping for the girlfriend’s sympathy and a change of heart. Although he requested three shots in the back, he wisely settled for one in the arm. Alas, the girlfriend continued to ignore him.) [WTMJ-TV (Milwaukee), 10-30-2011] [Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee), 7-26-2011]

It’s Everywhere!

• (1) Two ministers in the Indian state of Karnataka were pressured into resigning in February after allegedly being spotted watching pornography on a cellphone in the state legislature. Minister Laxman Savadi said he was actually doing research on the dangers of “rave” parties. (2) A 54-year-old court clerk at Inner London Crown Court was caught by his judge looking at pornography during the victim’s testimony at a notorious rape trial. He said he was just “bored” and admitted previously browsing porn in court. [BBC News, 2-8-2012] [Daily Mail, 2-7-2012]

People With Issues

• Now in its third season, the TLC cable channel’s series “My Strange Addiction” continues to raise the bar for News of the Weird stories. This season’s highlights include the man sexually attracted to his car, plus women who surround themselves with mothballs or eat cat food or drink nail polish or dig into their ears or eat adhesive tape. In one episode, “Ayanna,” 54, who has not cut her fingernails in three decades, reports that she has recently been cultivating her toenails, which are now 4 inches long and hampering her use of shoes. Another episode this season features Sheyla Hershey, mentioned in News of the Weird four weeks ago after she credited her gigantic breast implants with cushioning her body during a recent car crash. [ABC News, 2-102012; Daily Mail (London), 3-6- 2012] CONTINUED TO PG 37

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became so popular that Wrigley rearranged its entire business. Now it’s a multi-billion-dollar company that sells gum in 140 different countries -and no baking powder. Maybe there’s something like that on the verge of happening in your own life, Libra: What seemed like the main event could turn out to be secondary, or what seemed incidental might become a centerpiece. Is there something you are overvaluing at the cost of something you are undervaluing? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): People in intimate relationships are hypersensitive to negative comments from their partners. Psychologists say it takes five compliments to outweigh the effects of a single dash of derogatory criticism. I’m sure the ratio is similar even for relationships that aren’t as close as lovers and spouses. With this in mind, I urge you to be extra careful not to dispense barbs. They would be especially damaging during this phase of your astrological cycle -both to you and to those at whom you direct them. Instead, Scorpio, why not dole out an abundance of compliments? They will build up a reservoir of goodwill you’ll be able to draw on for a long time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Researchers report that the typical man falls in love 5.4 times over the course of his life, while the average woman basks in the glow of this great mystery on 4.6 occasions. I suspect you may be close to having a .4 or .6 type of experience, Sagittarius: sort of like infatuation, but without the crazed mania. That could actually be a good thing. The challenging spiritual project that relationship offers may be most viable when the two people involved are not electrifyingly interwoven with every last one of their karmic threads. Maybe we have more slack in our quest for intimacy if we love but are not obsessed. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I couldn’t wait for success,” said rich and famous comedian Jonathan Winters, “so I went ahead without it.” I love that approach, and I suggest you try it out. Is there any area of your life that is held captive by an image of perfection? Consider the possibility that shiny concepts of victory and progress might be distracting you from doing the work that will bring you meaning and fulfillment. If you’re too busy dreaming of someday attaining the ideal mate, weight, job, pleasure, and community, you may miss out on the imperfect but amazing opportunities that are available right now. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On Reddit. com, Kaushalp88 asked the question, “What is the most badass thing that you have ever done, but that other people weren’t impressed by?” Here’s his own story: “I was at an ice-cream shop. At the exit, there was a small raised step I didn’t see. I tripped over it with my ice cream cone in my right hand. The ice cream ball sprung out of the cone. I instinctively lurched my left hand forward and grabbed it, but at the same time I was already falling toward the pavement. I tucked my head into my chest and made a perfect somersault, rising to my feet and plopping the ice cream back in the cone.” I suspect you will soon have comparable experiences, Aquarius -- unusual triumphs and unexpected accomplishments. But you may have to be content with provoking awe in no one else beside yourself. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” So says a Swedish proverb. Can we talk about this, please, Pisces? Of course there are real hazards and difficulties in life, and they deserve your ingenious problem-solving. But why devote any of your precious energy to becoming embroiled in merely hyped-up hazards and hypothetical difficulties? Based on my analysis of the astrological omens, now is a propitious time to cut shadows down to their proper size. It’s also a perfect moment to liberate yourself from needless anxiety. I think you’ll be amazed at how much more accurate your perceptions will be as a result.

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