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Butler Artsfest.......................................P.15 African American dance........................P.16 Vocab.....................................................P.18 SCREENS Ed Johnson-Ott reviews Demolition......P.24 Sam Watermeier reviews Greek Wedding 2, drunk....................P.25
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The 11-day Butler Artsfest is kicking off soon. So we decided to chat with a few of the performers who are taking the theme of “Time and Timeless” to another level. IU African American Dance Company is getting ready for its spring concert, while in Broad Ripple the spoken word staple, Vocab, is returning to the Casba.
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In a story that came from NUVO’s partnership with The Word, Indy’s LGBT publication, Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg reveals why he wants a second shot at the governor’s office and his changed views on LGBT issues.
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everal days ago, Mike Pence signed House Enrolled Act 1337. It is arguably the most restrictive bill on abortion in the nation. Those of us who pay attention to Indiana politics at all knew he was going to sign it. The news of that signature barely drew a blink of an eye from me. It was business as usual. While researching topics for my column, my eyes opened wide. I did a Google search of “Indiana abortion law” and that is when the shame of the new law hit me in the face like a sucker punch at a Donald Trump rally. The first four hits with stories on the topic came from NPR, Salon, Washington Post, and The New York Times. Slate, CNN and Vox also made the front page of search results. All were negative pieces, I might add. Indiana is a national disgrace again. Among other things, the act prohibits a person from performing an abortion if the person knows that the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion solely because of the fetus’ race, color, national origin, ancestry or gender. It further prohibits a person from performing an abortion if the sole reason is a diagnosis or potential diagnosis that the fetus will have Down syndrome or other disability. This terrible new law is a political tool for legislators whose political futures are more delicate in May than in November. It also is socially conservative legislation that Pence would not ever be able to resist. But the governor’s fate rests completely in November.
The legislators closely involved are concentrated in northeast Indiana. There are plenty of political battles going on up there, and all are occurring in GOP primaries. Pro-life candidates will win all of these races. That is certain. More importantly though — and this is difficult for people who don’t live there to understand — the degree of one’s prolifeness becomes the battle. It is just like campaign ads where candidates claim to be the “true” conservative or the “most” conservative when wooing Republican primary voters. The degree of control a GOP candidate wants government to have over women’s bowdies is becoming its own political spectrum. In this unfortunate circumstance, these primary races to the “right” have resulted in a regretful new law. In Pence’s situation, things are very different. His race in
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November will be competitive. His opponent, Democrat John Gregg, has already announced his opposition to HEA 1337. This gives voters a distinct choice to make for governor. The media coverage on the bill does not appear to be helpful to the governor in his fight to regain the support of even the moderate members of his own party. And I believe that he needs those voters in November, if he wants to win. He clearly disagrees with me. It seems his political strategy is to be the best
damn governor for which 35 percent of Indiana could ever ask. And for that to pay off, he is going to need to squeeze the life out of that base. Pun intended. Pence has now drawn a line in the sand for a second time that doesn’t attract people to join him — at least not those who weren’t already with him. Conversely, it chases many others away. He lost a chunk of the middle over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and may have exiled the rest of them with this one. Women are already angry with Donald Trump. His unfavorable rating with them is approaching 80 percent. Pence is chasing him down that same path now. I mention these two candidates together on purpose. The reason is that neither of them reflects the people they need to win their elections. That usually spells defeat. When the courts strike down this act, the base that pushed it will likely feel far more lifeless than they feel today. I just wonder if they will feel this horrible message was worth it. n
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households, which includes many very et me not be a spoilsport. But why well-off people, lost income shares to are we now talking about income the top 20 percent. To put it simply, the disparities when the problem, if overwhelming majority of American it is a problem, has been with us and households lost ground to their most growing for more than 40 years? wealthy neighbors. I wish I knew the answer. Maybe There has been, however, no the Great Recession actually was the acceleration in this trend of the rich Great Reawakening. Maybe America getting a greater share of income woke from the Great Delusion that and the poor getting a lesser share. If all was just fine if more people anything, the pace of change in income moved into single family homes, had shares declined sharply from the 1974 retirement plans, and unlimited sports to 1994 period to the more recent 20 programming on TV. years, 1994 to 2014. The economic downturn of 2007-09 For example, the share going to the demonstrated that even those who top fifth of households rose by 5.6 felt quite secure were vulnerable to percentage points from 43.5 percent in an economy built on hope turned to 1974 to 49.1 percent in 1994, but only hype. The working class, who were now called “middle class,” found themselves immersed in a crisis formulated by the wise guys of the The economic downturn of financial industry. Yet, 2007-09 demonstrated that even those underwater on their mortgages and credit those who felt quite secure were cards knew they too were culpable for applauding vulnerable to an economy built on and encouraging obsessive hope turned to hype. optimism. Enough conjecture. Let’s look at the facts as reported by the U.S. Bureau of the by 2.1 percentage points during ’94-’14. Census. In 1974, the lowest fifth of all Likewise, for the other, lesser income American households received just 4.3 groups, the pace of decline in their percent of money income. The top fifth shares slowed as well. of all households got 43.5 percent of With this slowing of change in income that income. By this time, the War on shares in the past 20 years, why is this Poverty was nearly a decade old. a hot topic today? How can Bernie Come forward to 2014. Now the and Donald exploit the idea that the lowest fifth received 3.1 percent and the drift of income upwards is speeding to top fifth enjoyed 51.2 percent of money catastrophe? income. What’s going on? The top fifth’s Perhaps actual income disparities share of money income went up 7.7 are not truly important. What matters percentage points, while the lowest most may be absolute standards of fifth’s share declined by 1.2 percentage living which have improved for almost points. Where did the top households everyone in the past 40 years. Perhaps get their shares from? “income equity” is mostly a perceptual It turns out the lower 80 percent of all problem that blinds many to reality. n
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A RALLY FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS Before the ink was even dry on the governor’s signature, women around Indiana began to express their shock and dismay with HEA 1337. The wave of consternation has continued over the last few weeks reaching around the state and the country as women voice their anger and disgust with the bill. A group of women has organized a rally to be held on the south lawn of the Indiana Statehouse April 9 at 1 p.m. Simply titled, “A Rally for Women’s Rights,” the rally is designed to bring together women and the men who support them who all believe that women should have the right to decide what to do with their bodies without government intrusion. “Once again, [Gov. Mike] Pence has put his ideology over the best interests of his constituents,” says Annette Gross, one of three women organizing Saturday’s rally. “Contrary to his statements, HB1337 will cause immense harm to women and their unborn fetuses. Therefore, we want to give women and their allies a space to come together to hear speakers who share their sentiments.” A lot of women from a variety of interests are scheduled to speak, including Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky president and CEO Betty Cockrum and former Indiana State Senator Vi Simpson. The event will also include a reading of all 97 legislators who voted in favor of the legislation. “The choice to carry a child belongs to the woman,” says the Rev. Marie Siroky, another one of the rally organizers. “As a hospital chaplain and a minister I am morally and ethically obligated to respect the autonomy of my patients and their faith beliefs. The Indiana Legislature has redefined medical terms and procedures with no public discussion and also against established medical standards based on narrow religious beliefs.” The legislation has been criticized not only for its content, but also because of how it was passed by the Legislature. The original bill, authored by Rep. Casey Cox (R-Fort Wayne), dealt with the final disposition of remains. A Senate committee added language from SB 313 to Cox’s bill regarding the limitations to abortion based on the race, color, national origin, ancestry, and diagnosis or potential diagnosis of a disability of the fetus along a host of other provisions. Sens. Travis Holdman (R-Markle) and Liz Brown (R-Fort Wayne) authored SB 313. The additions were added and passed without debate in a conference committee or any other debate in the House. That caused several Republicans — including some who are typically anti-choice — to vote against the measure. S E E , RA LLY , O N PA GE 08 6 NEWS // 04.06.16 - 04.13.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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ormer Indiana House Speaker John Gregg is the Democratic nominee for governor. It’s his second try — in 2012, his campaign ran afoul of the LGBT community for divisive state-
ments regarding Indiana’s then-pending Constitutional amendment on marriage. After that hard-fought but losing campaign, Gregg considered his options and decided to seek the state’s top job in 2016. As part of that process, one of his major considerations was LGBT civil rights — and he arrived at different conclusions than his 2012 campaign proclaimed. In his downtown law office, Gregg answered multiple questions for The Word about his campaign and himself. His campaign website is www.greggforgovernor.com. THE WORD: What single factor mostchanged your stance on LGBT civil rights issues? JOHN GREGG: One, was my stepdaughter Stevie — who’s a lawyer —sat me down and talked to me about everything. She went back in a legal sense, back
to the cases against Blacks and whites marrying. Stevie clerked on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, so she’s a scholar. She presented it to me ... like an attorney. And the second thing was our minister. He said: ‘look at this, folks know what we are against, but they don’t know what we’re for.’ Boy, that just ... my wife and I still talk about that. It comes back to fairness ... Hoosiers do not like discrimination. In fact, when Stevie made the legal argument ... it was also the right thing to do. But this is also a huge economic issue. Attracting and retaining talent, millennials, academic and business community — it’s important to all of them. And I think back to my time as president of Vincennes University. We had trouble getting people to come to a town of 20,000, especially minorities. So if you add on another barrier, it >>>
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here or come here if we discriminate or allow discrimination to continue. Incentives for kids going to college. We’ve got to acknowledge that there’s a skills gap in Indiana. We need to make THE WORD: What would Gov. Gregg sure that those students who don’t want do for full LGBT civil rights, especially a four-year degree realize that they can considering a reluctant Republican be a tax-paying productive member of legislature? society. You can be successful without a bachelor’s degree. We need electricians, GREGG: The first thing I would do as cement masons, IT people and health governor, would be to sign an executive care people, we need to pay attention to order, within minutes of having been ‘learn to earn’ programs all through our sworn in, granting LGBT protection to schools. all of the 20,000-plus state employees. Also important is quality of life issues. Green space, the environment, and quality of life issues are very important. You’ve got to end discrimination. We need to be a places serious discussions People don’t want to move back here where on environmental issues occur. or come here if we discriminate or
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I’d go a step further and make sure the universities and quasi-governmental state agencies do it. The second thing you do is, you speak out on that topic every chance you get, including the State of the State address. Third, you enlist business leaders, community leaders, to have them speak on this topic also, and its importance to their future. The fourth thing you do in addition is you work with folks all around the country to let them know Indiana is welcoming. It’s going to take all of us. Our reputation has been hurt. And also, any time a business is coming to Indiana, you want to know what their position is (on civil rights), and their record. There are a lot of Republicans who don’t like discrimination. Communities that want to pass local ordinances, you work with those mayors to help them get that done. THE WORD: How would you address Indiana’s brain drain? GREGG: First, you’ve got to end discrimination. People don’t want to move back
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THE WORD: What do you want to do in the education area as governor? The current situation is a mess — it doesn’t look very cooperative.
GREGG: I’d work with the state school superintendent ... I would respect the wishes of the Hoosier voters. The day I’m elected is when the war on public education stops. We have to have teachers and reformers sitting at that table. Teachers are going to be the ones implementing any change, and they have to be there. You cannot drive everything top-down, you’ve got to be inclusive. We have to take a look at testing. I want accountability, but ... we’ve been doing a lot of testing that may not have been necessary. THE WORD: What’s different about this campaign for you, from 2012? GREGG: Well, I’m experienced. I’d never been a statewide candidate before. I’m a better candidate. This time I’m running against Mike Pence. In Indiana, if I get every Democratic vote, I get 42% of the vote. I have to have Republican votes to win. They have shown they will vote for Democrats. A lot of those people the last time S E E , G RE G G, O N P A GE 0 8
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(2012), because they really respected Gov. Daniels, they kind of thought they were getting a third (Daniels) term. Or a young Dick Lugar. They now realize that (Pence) is nothing but an ideologue. This time he has to run on his record. It’s a record based on allowing discrimination to exist, it’s no leadership on infrastructure, no leadership on crime and the drug problem. Hoosiers want a leader. I may do some things that some folks won’t like, but folks will realize, I’m prepared to make decisions and lead. I have the experience to make good decisions. THE WORD: This is non-political but tell us about John Gregg’s relaxing moments — what do you do to relax?
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GREGG: I’ve never really had any hobbies. Not a golfer, anything like that. Really what I like to do is work ... relaxing work. I live on a farm, and I enjoy farm work. The thing that [wife] Lisa and I do, we’re big gardeners. We sit down to many meals that we’ve prepared most of the food. We have our own beef and pork, but we can a lot of food. We’ve got a small orchard, we love having a big garden and we kind of relax by gardening. We don’t have chickens or eggs, but our neighbors do. THE WORD: Well, if you’re successful, Zach (Indianapolis City-County Council Vice President Zach Adamson) and his husband Christian (Mosburg) raise chickens and they’ve got eggs. GREGG: I’ll remember that. n
Hoosiers want a leader. I may do some things that some folks won’t like, but folks will realize, I’m prepared to make decisions and lead. — JOHN GREGG
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John Gregg, Democratic candidate for governor, hopes his new stance on LGBT rights and Mike Pence’s record of discrimination will bring about a different result in this year’s election.
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“Incredibly Brian Bosma allowed no testimony from the medical community, public, clergy, all who stand opposed to this bill,” says Siroky, who is a clergy member with the United Church of Christ. “There is nothing holy, nor medically accurate in the wording of this bill. These regulations on a legal medical procedure — by the way no other procedure is so regulated — will increase suffering and death, as well as shame women and the physicians who tend to their patients.” So far nearly 3,000 have signed up to attend with over 6,000 people showing an interest in the event according to the Facebook event page. Women and 8 NEWS // 04.06.16 - 04.13.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
allies from all over the state are planning to attend. A satellite event will be held at the same time (noon CDT) at the LaPorte County Courthouse for anyone who can’t travel to Indianapolis. “I wanted to do this rally for a few different reasons,” says Satchuel Cole, the third organizer for the rally. “The first being that I wanted to bring awareness to the horrid laws they are passing. Second, to educate and encourage more people to register and vote. The only way we can change the laws that are being made and make Indiana a progressive state and not an oppressive state is to change who is making the laws. Vote. Vote. Vote.” — AMBER STEARNS
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s a student at School #80 in Indianapolis in 1942, I was given a “War Stamp” book that I filled with $18.75 worth of dime and quarter War Stamps that I could turn in for a War Bond worth $25 a decade later. The incentive was more about patriotism than saving, and passion was stoked by pasting stamps over the cartoon faces of scary-looking enemy soldiers with blood dripping from their big fang-like teeth and the slogan “Slap the Jap right off the map!” It was easier to demonize our Japanese enemies than Germans or Italians because their skin was a different color than our national non-color. (Sixty years later, we still have to be reminded that “Black Lives Matter.”) “White native-born Protestants were not always prepared to count immigrants as Hoosiers,” James H. Madison tells us in Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana, “But immigrants seldom faced discrimination of the sort that African Americans did. Quite often
they seemed to be ‘white,’ or a least capable of becoming so.” By this logic, Japanese Americans would evidently lack such “capability;” racial prejudice bolstered the war propaganda against them. I am proud and surprised now to learn that in spite of this, Indianapolis was one of the Midwestern cities that welcomed Japanese Americans to live and work here during WWII. I had no idea as a boy that 110,000 JapaneseAmericans, 70 percent of them U.S. citizens, were taken from their homes on the West Coast in 1942 and sent to internment camps guarded by armed soldiers and surrounded with barbed wire, their constitutional rights denied for the duration of the war. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the fear of Japan invading California, stoked by unfounded rumors of sabotage, stoked by the Hearst papers (no cases were ever proved) led to the executive order for “relocation.”
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• THE CAMPS There are Indianapolis citizens today who have indelible memories of being sent to those internment camps and living there as children. Kate Ase, a nurse who has worked for the World Health Organization, remembers walking to school one day and seeing a big sign attached to a telephone pole. It said “INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY. . . both alien and non-alien [meaning United States citizens]” had one week to report to a “Civil Control Center.” Kate asked her friends, “What does this mean?” What it meant was that all those of Japanese ancestry had one week to leave home and get rid of all their possessions except what they could carry. “The police came and notified us we were to go to a ‘camp,’” Kate told me, “and word got around that we all had to leave. We didn’t lock the doors, and when no one was home our house was ransacked. The FBI came and said they were taking my father away. They didn’t say where, and we didn’t hear from him or know where he was for two years.” “Whoever bought our car drove us to the place where we had to report, and we were put on buses — we didn’t know where we were headed. We got to a ‘transit camp’ and then, they put us in an olive drab truck and dropped us off at the internment camp in Poston, Arizona.”
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“They said ‘This is where you’ll live.’ It was my mother and us four kids in a room that was 20 by 25 [feet]. There was no insulation — tarpaper nailed to wood — and five metal army cots. They gave us canvas bags and said ‘See that pile of hay? Go get hay from that pile and fill up the bags — those are your mattresses.’ “There were latrines for 300 of us – nothing to separate the toilets, so people brought towels to hang up for privacy. “After the war we were too busy trying to make a living to talk about the camps. The ones who were old lost their jobs, lost family farms. My parents were very
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Japanese Americans are seen crowding around a train leaving Los Angeles in this image from the Library of Congress. The families pictured here would eventually be transported to one of 10 American internment camps.
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when we became citizens. [Second generation Japanese Americans, or “Nisei,” born in the U.S., automatically became citizens, while immigrants — people born outside the U.S. — were not allowed to become citizens until 1952.] My parents didn’t like the younger people talking negatively about the U.S. My mother told us this was a great country, we should appreciate the good things about it. Getting to vote for the first time was in 1952 — that was a huge deal.” I asked Anne the reason why her family originally chose to come to America. “Because it was the land of Lincoln,” she said. Nancy Nakano Conner, Director of Grants and Novel Conversations at InPHOTO BY ERNIE MILLS diana Humanities, told me “The parents never wanted to talk about being in the camps, and I never “The police came and notified us we got my mother to were to go to a ‘camp,’ and word got talk about it until the around that we all had to leave. We 1980s. My mother, Grace, who was in the didn’t lock the doors, and when no one camp at Manzanar in was home our house was ransacked.” Northern California, — KATE ASE told me that since they could only take to the camps what disappointed — this was the land of the they could carry, free and the home of the brave.” her father took a hammer and nails Anne Moore, a retired art teacher and and a saw and hid them wrapped up in librarian who graduated from Ball State, canvas with an ironing board so he could was sent as a child with her family in Calibuild his own furniture. The tools were fornia to the internment camp at Poston. considered contraband, so they had to “Our school was in one of the barracks be smuggled into camp — the ironing — there weren’t any books or desks. We board disguised the shape of the tools. sat on crates. You weren’t supposed to The guard thought it was just an ironing ask your parents about why you were board wrapped in canvas, but the tools there — the parents were very stoic and were in the packet too.” didn’t explain anything.” “After the war, my parents were proud S E E , WEL COMED, O N PA GE 1 2
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Executive Order 9066 (issued in February of 1942) forced citizens of Japanese descent into internment camps. The complete text of a poster outlining the procedures for the “evacuation” of Japanese Americans from Los Angeles can be seen in the scanned image below.
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• MOVING EAST By the end of 1942, the War Relocation Authority that created the internment camps quietly began to offer a way out for those who were willing to move to the Midwest and East, where people did not feel threatened by Japanese invasion. (By that point the initial hysteria had died down.) Many in the camps were fearful of the reception they might receive with the war still raging. Most of the 34,000 who left the camps in the next few years were the second-generation, American-born Japanese, while the older were more fearful to venture into unknown places and people, where they could encounter hostility. In the three months after Pearl Harbor, there were 36 assaults on Japanese Americans and seven were murdered. To facilitate “relocation” from the camps, the War Relocation Authority opened offices in the Midwest to find jobs and places to live for re-settlers — and improve public opinion toward them. Offices were opened first in Chicago in January, 1943, and then in cities throughout the Midwest including Cleveland, Des Moines, Minneapolis and Kansas City. In April of 1943 the Indiana Office of the WRA was set up at The Circle Tower Building in Indianapolis. Early signs of the reception of Japanese Americans here were both positive and negative. The National Japanese
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American Student Relocation Council, which found Indianapolis was one of the places for college students Midwestern cities that welcomed whose education was interJapanese Americans to live and rupted by the internment program, got permission to work here during WWII. exit the camps on “educational leave.” One of the the people of Richmond to accept the 143 colleges and universipresence of the students. ties that participated in the program It was not surprising that yhe was Earlham. A headline in the Star Teamsters union and the Marion County announced “Earlham Accepts 12 Jap Building Trades Council were opposed Evacuees,” and college president William to resettlement here — as well as warC. Dennis was credited with persuading
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inflamed hatred and racial prejudice (Klan membership had been higher in Indiana than in any other Northern state), unions feared newcomers taking jobs. The International Teamster headlined “No Jap Help Wanted Here.” Opposition from the Teamsters (whose national headquarters were here), the Marion County Building Trades Union and the American Legion was countered by two of the most supportive organizations of the national effort to help the Japanese Americans resettle, and both had their national headquarters in Indianapolis: the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Christian Missionary Society. In an effort to tamp down the hostility of the state’s American Legion, the director of the War Relocation Authority, Dillon S. Meyer, came to Indianapolis in November of 1943 and gave a talk to a meeting of the state commanders and state adjutants of the Legion, pointing out that failure to welcome Japanese Americans who wanted to leave the internment camps and live and work in the Midwest “makes a mockery of our American traditions.” His speech was reported in the Star, and he reported in a memo the following month that “ … unfriendly though it has been, we have secured a substantial amount of support” in the leadership of the Legion here.
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Examples of American anti-Japanese propaganda from the second World War. Horribly racist images like these helped to demonize Japanese Americans, too — even those who were patriotic citizens during the war years.
Although more than 11,000 Japanese Americans were resettled — and were able to to find work — in Chicago, cities in the Midwest took in hundreds as well, including Indy, Cleveland, Des Moines, Minneapolis and Kansas City.
• THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE As well as The Disciples of Christ and the United Christian Mission Society, the most important factor in gaining support for Japanese Americans to, move here was the Indianapolis citizens committee. It had to take courage for some of our city’s leading citizens to promote the cause of accepting Japanese American citizens into our city and state in the midst of the war. Volunteers in the WRA Advisory Group to help re-settlers here included Rowland Allen, the personnel manager of L.S. Ayres department store; William Book, the executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Eugene Foster of The Indianapolis Service Foundation; Alvin T. Coates “a prominent Quaker,” Dale Ellis of The United Christian Mission Society; Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel of the Y.M.C.A. and his wife, who chaired the committee. “It was the citizens’ committee’s efforts that turned the tide and convinced a reluctant populace to accept the Japanese Americans,” according to a comprehensive study of the subject by Nancy Nakano Conner of Indiana Humanities in her history master’s thesis at IUPUI (“Forming A Japanese American Community in Indiana, 1941-1990”). Critics who later scoffed at Indiana having the lowest number of evacuee settlers (254) failed to note that we were in the same ballpark as Iowa (641) and Wisconsin (769.) None of these states
could offer the jobs and active recruitment of Chicago alone, where 11,309 evacuees came and found work, several hundred employed by the Stevens Hotel. Indianapolis didn’t have as much to offer in jobs or other big city amenities — a photographer sent here to promote the city to evacuees captioned one of his photos with the words: “The residents are for the most part amusement lovers. The city boasts dozens of theaters, both legitimate and movie. One of the latter is The Indiana, shown here.” Anxious to avoid criticism of any who came here, the committee screened evacuees and only accepted those deemed “superior” people. Getting into Indianapolis for evacuees was like getting into Harvard. Nancy Conner’s mother, Grace, was one of those who left the camps to look for jobs in the Midwest. She wrote in her memoir “Full Circle,” in Triumphs of Faith: Stories of Japanese Americans during World War II : “Hoping to find employment in a hotel, I journeyed to Chicago. No sooner had I arrived then I discovered that beauty operators were in great demand, so I was able to work in my profession … Despite the war, I found very little discrimination in the Midwest compared with California. I also found a warm neighborhood church.” S E E , WE LCO M E D , O N P A GE 1 4
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THE RHETORIC AROUND REFUGEES
REPARATIONS •AND RHETORIC Fourteen thousand young men of Japanese ancestry, many from the internment camps, fought in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, the most decorated unit of WWII. One of their seven Distinguished Unit Citations was presented by President Truman on May 2, 1945, who told them “You fought the enemy abroad and prejudice at home, and you won.” Forty years after the Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps, a congressional committee issued a report called “Personal Justice Denied” finding that the internment camps for JapaneseAmericans during WWII had been the result of “race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.” Five years later, reparations of $20,000 were given by the government to surviving internees. Despite official recognition of the grave mistake of the internment policy, it was raised again last November by the Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia in speaking of how to deal with Syrian refugees. Rep. Judy Chu of California was one of many politicians who spoke out against the idea: “Instead of keeping us safe, Japanese internment compromised our principles and demonized an entire population of Americans. It is outrageous to let the same kind of xenophobia influence our policy today. . . [it] is just one example of how extreme the rhetoric around Syrian refugees has become.” A local example of that rhetoric was Governor Pence preventing a Syrian family from settling in Indiana last fall (the family was welcomed by the governor of Connecticut). In the far more
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volatile atmosphere of WWII, there were Despite official recognition of the people here who stood grave mistake of the internment up for American ideals policy, it was raised again last in spite of strong opposition, and welcomed November by the mayor of Japanese Americans Roanoke, Virginia in speaking of who were our own how to deal with Syrian refugees. countryman, not our enemies. Nancy Conner wrote in conclusion of her study of that period: “Indianapolis was called upon to do its part in Japanese American resettlement. … When the call came, there were people in Indianapolis who were prepared to answer.” The fact that they answered in spite of the local voices against them adds honor to their efforts. n
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The Apple Tree: A WWII Home Front Novel, are newly available as ebooks.
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“In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, effective immediately, I am directing all state agencies to suspend the resettlement of additional Syrian refugees in the state of Indiana pending assurances from the federal government that proper security measures have been achieved. Indiana has a long tradition of opening our arms and homes to refugees from around the world but, as governor, my first responsibility is to ensure the safety and security of all Hoosiers. Unless and until the state of Indiana receives assurances that proper security measures are in place, this policy will remain in full force and effect.” — GOV. MIKE PENCE, NOV. 2015
“Instead of keeping us safe, Japanese internment compromised our principles and demonized an entire population of Americans. It is outrageous to let the same kind of xenophobia influence our policy today. . . [it] is just one example of how extreme the rhetoric around Syrian refugees has become.” — REP. JUDY CHU, CALIFORNIA
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or suspended. Even in visual art, you get repetitions of ideas, they make patterns, and you begin to feel a speed as you’re looking at the painting or whatever it is. So ‘Time and Timeless’ are so fundamental to what artists do that it’s able to permeate everything that we’re doing.” With this in mind, Caltabiano admits that he’s very excited to have the Neo-Futurists performing at this year’s Artsfest. “They take time in a whole different direction. They put this timer on the wall, so that the performance is over in 60 minutes whether they’ve managed to get through all 30 plays or they haven’t. So they play with time to an extraordinary amount.” In contrast, another event that will be a part of this year’s Artsfest will be a performance of Erik Satie’s 1892 piece titled “Vexations.” Spanning between 15 and 18 hours, the piece consists of one phrase of music that’s repeated over and over again, sending listeners into a state of entrancement. “I think of music at the end of the 19th Century as being very traditional,
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very romantic sounding and easy to listen to, but this is an extraordinary piece,” says Caltabiano. “It’s a single phrase of music that has a very important performance direction at the end of that phrase, and that direction is ‘repeat this phrase 840 times.’ So you’re not ever in your life going to go to a concert and see this piece.” With a longtime love for “Vexations,” Butler faculty member Kate Boyd is looking forward to seeing what mental impact the piece will have on listeners in a live setting. “It’s not a calming piece to listen to — it’s actually slightly disturbing,” she says. “Let’s say you come to the whole performance. You can come and sit there for 15 hours, and it’s like you’re stepping outside of time into a more timeless experience, just like meditation where you step outside of time.” n
“What is color?” my daughter asked me recently as I drove her to school. I started to tell her about the visible light spectrum… and stumbled. It was a simple question that overwhelmed me. But being overwhelmed might be a necessary step toward wisdom. In his exhibition statement, James Wille Faust writes that he felt “overwhelmed by color choices” while a graduate student in 1974. But then, he continues, “I was inspired by a Zen lesson, ‘to understand color, one must practice the absence of color.’” He stopped painting and, instead, turned to pencil and paper. Faust eventually returned to color. Examples of his signature work — evoking the illusion of 3D with spraying and shading effects — are wellrepresented in this showcase of his production over the last two years. Some of these paintings nod toward representation, such as the intriguingly titled “Human,” where you see egg and its shadow superimposed on a geometrically-shaped bird with a bright shining star for an eye. The painting’s colors are in hues of skin color ranging from the lightest hues to chocolate brown. Are birds more human than we think? On the other hand, the “Color Meditation” paintings from which the exhibit takes its name, traffic in no 3D illusions whatsoever. They feature flat, geometrically-shaped planes of color (composed both by hand and digitally) that don’t intersect but edge up against one another and say hi from all different slices of the color wheel. Check out the sculptural works like his “Fallen Vase,” featuring a flower rising from a painted ball that appears to have popped out of a Faust canvas. And then there are the equally engaging hybrid painting/sculptures. In “Bird and Butterfly” a bird takes flight — sticking its wings above the 2D painting surface. And in “Exceeding the Limit,” a bowl sits on a frame dripping paint on a composition as flat as any Color Field painting ever. It was the painting “Apparition,” however, that grabbed me with its gravity. Here I can imagine Faust configuring the geometries that shape his signature work before returning to color in 1979. — DAN GROSSMAN iMOCA through May 2016
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Milicent Wright is no stranger to one-woman shows; Bridge & Tunnel, now on stage at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, is her fifth. Being the only player on stage for 90 minutes straight is daunting enough, but Wright also takes on fifteen characters — child to senior, male and female, and varied ethnicities — complete with complementary costume accessories. The characters are participants in a poetry gathering for immigrants. They present their personal stories and poetry, some of it commentary on the life of an immigrant but also insights into the person as just an individual. These snippets remind us that immigrants aren’t the enemy; they are our fellow human beings with emotions and experiences everyone can relate to. The play also challenges Americans’ perception of immigrants, including one woman from Australia — not the sort of ethnicity many people call to mind when thinking of “immigrants.” Wright is amazing on stage, and with direction from Richard Roberts, she transitions from personality to personality, giving each one a distinguishing characteristic and accent. Costume designer Katie Cowan Sickmeier completes the effect with a visual clue over Wright’s multipurpose black-on-black foundation. Some situations are sober, such as the Pakistani host’s harried phone conversations with his wife concerning a federal investigation, which frames the show, but Wright’s exuberant interpretations of the light-hearted performances are laugh-out-loud worthy. Wright truly appears to be enjoying every moment in the spotlight, and her enthusiasm is infectious. I was disappointed that the host’s story didn’t end with some clue as to what would happen next, and some of Wright’s accents blended too close together. However, her standing ovation was well deserved. — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Through May 1, $25-59, Indiana Repertory Theatre, irtlive.com
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created, while the rest sports Rosa’s credit. Each year she and the students will discuss the concepts of the class, how dance is a means of communication, and the social implications. Together, they then choose a single word or topic. This year they chose “dichotomy.” Rosa then breaks up the students into groups — to push them out of their comfort zones, she adds — to work on collaborative projects. They have to select their own music, prepare visuals and text, and present it all to be constructively critiqued. They also choreograph their own dance selections, making all of the production calls, like lighting and placement. Rosa’s pieces in the show will cover topics ranging from America in the 1960s to Detroit burning to Martin Luther King Jr. Specifically she wants to focus on how “we deal with that. How do we move in and out of those situations?” “Even though dance can serve as entertainment, it can serve all kinds of functions … It reflects the lived experiences of people,” says Rosa. She tries to use the culmination of her travels, other cultures and dance to create a narrative about the current social and political climate. She used the Black Lives Matter Movement as an example. “They are using what is happening socially to choreographically find ways of telling stories,” says Rosa. “Reflecting the dance movement, that non-verbal communication ... is going to accentuate what they are trying to get out to an audience about what is happening today. n
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w Dickinson, North Dakota might be a blue highway town on a 1964 map, but it’s a red alert location on any detective mystery-lover’s radar. Get anyplace close to this seemingly straightlaced college town in the middle of not-so-great climate and you can expect twisting and turnings of events that further unsettle the tough time life of farmwife Marjorie Trumaine, who makes ends meet as an indexer for nonfiction books. We first met her last year in Larry D. Sweazy’s series debut See Also Murder. If that treat SUBMITTED PHOTO passed you by, pick up a copy along with the new title. Marjorie’s day starts out with a looming deadline — finish the index for a book about common plants particular to North Dakota. She’s a pinch close to completing the task, save for one point the book’s author fails to include. So Marjorie falls back on her trusted librarian to fill in the missing connection. Four rings and no answer at the library unsettles Marjorie. Librarian Calla always — that’s always — answers on the first ring. What follows is a quest beyond “was musk thistle a perennial plant or a biennial plant? “ Or maybe there’s a connection to this “much hated invasive weed” in how things turn out. Read the book, let me know what you think, but seriously, watch your back. Noblesville-based author Sweazy has awardwinning titles across the genres of Western Fiction, Detective Fiction, Mystery and Short Stories. My all-time favorite, The Devil’s Bones, set in northern Indiana reveals an essential aspect of life as an immigrant in the Hoosier state. When you go to one of the book signings for See Also Deception, peruse other titles — they all make fine summertime reading. — RITA KOHN Seventh Street Press, released May 10, paper, $15.95, Ebook $11.99 Book signings: May 10, 5-8 p.m., Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 17090 Mercantile Blvd., Noblesville May 14, noon-4 p.m., Barnes and Noble Keystone, 8675 River Crossing Blvd.
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t’s easy to surround yourself with W H E N : W E D N E S D A Y , A P R . 13, 8 P . M . yourself — to listen to the kind of W H E R E : T H E C A S B A , 6319 G U I L F O R D A V E . music that you already like, and take INFO: SPOKEN WORD: MARIAH IVEY in the artwork you know will move you. MUSIC: VESS VON RUHTENBERG Tatjana Byrd has been trying to get you VISUAL ARTISTS: CHRISTO, RAE PARKER to break that habit for the last 10 years. Byrd is the founder of Vocab, a spoken word, music and art event that ocgoing on in the city. That’s why it’s really curs monthly in Indy. After a three year important to me to mix it all together as hiatus, Vocab will be returning to The much as possible.” Casba where it first began. Now, more She gave the example of a metal fan than ever, Byrd is hoping to host events coming and hearing poetry that they where it’s guaranteed that attendees didn't know they liked, or a hip-hop or will experience something outside of spoken word artist realizing they like their comfort zone, or at least an experimetal after one of the shows. ence that they can’t get anywhere else. Byrd tries to make sure to have a spo“One of the things I have always been ken word artist, a musician and a visual really adamant about is trying to get artist at each show. The visual artist is a different groups of people together, and newer component. For that she hopes I think music helps with that,” says Byrd. to bring in artists who don't have a set “There is always a musical feature and studio space or don't show regularly on a poet. Because sometimes poetry can First Fridays. get super heavy, it’s nice to have that break-up. I enjoy getting different groups of people together. “I enjoy setting up environments “People can see that there is actually a lot of rewhere nothing like that can happen ally phenomenal talent in in any other moment in the world.” the city,” says Byrd. “People don't know — TATJANA BYRD it because we are so boxed into what we like that we forget that there “I enjoy setting up environments where are several nothing like that can happen in any other other scenes moment in the world,” says Byrd. of things Vocab has been helping build the spoken word scene in Indy since its creation. When Byrd first started to perform, she knew that she wanted to see consistent spaces around town dedicated to writing, music and art. “I stared out — like a lot writers in the city — just because I couldn't afford therapy,” says Byrd. “I needed to get my story out so I could move on …” Two local spoken word artists — Januarie York and Gabrielle Peterson, who are both very vocal about physical abuse, child abuse or sexual assault that has happened to them — inspired Byrd to push her writing to a more visceral level. “I have always tried to express the
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things that have happened in my life, but sometimes I wouldn't be as open,” says Byrd. “I would speak in metaphors, both of them inspired me to be more up front about my own experiences. Januarie was definitely one of the people who inspired me to write my rape poem — it’s the hardest thing I have ever done, and it’s the hardest topic I have ever spoken about. It’s become my most important piece. Every time I perform it, there is a moment where I end up talking to someone after who is going through the same thing. It has helped make it a part of my story instead of part of my secrets I guess.” To Byrd that connection and storytelling is what makes spoken word so vital to collective conscious of Indianapolis. “What’s interesting about art, music and poetry is that we all generally have the same story,” says Byrd. “We might have different variations of it …. Sometimes you don't want to talk about certain things from your past because you think you are alone in that aspect. But you go to a show and you see someone perform a piece and it sparks something in you to want to tell that part of your story that you have either chosen to forget or did forget. That’s the most inspiring part about it — the connection between all different people.” n
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ome on and hit this whiz!” says the massive man in line in front of me. Having about a dozen or so three-ounce beer samples in me helps me move past the inelegance of taking a shot of pressurized cheese out of the can strung around this stranger’s neck. He then motions to the array of various pretzels attached to his string, I break off two, pop them in my mouth, and it’s time for a three-ounce refill. We tap our plastic cups together — “Cheers!” — take a swig and head off in opposite directions to try more brews and meet more single serving friends. Bloomington Craft Beer Fest is making its way back for its sixth year and that’s a reason to celebrate. Taking place on April 9 in the historic Woolery Mill, a now defunct but scenic limestone mill, the fest will offer hundreds of brews from
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over fifty breweries. The festival is a beer-drinkers Heaven, showcasing a vast array of classic styles and allowing brewers to really push the envelope and create some interesting and innovative beers. A few fan favorites will be making their way back to the fest including Columbus’ ZwanzigZ and their popular ghost pepper imperial stout, Burn ’Em Brewing’s usually vast and inventive selection, and the always sought after Three Floyd’s Brewery from Munster. We will also be seeing a few newcomers like the recently opened S E E , BEER F EST, O N PA GE 2 0 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.06.16 - 04.13.16 // FOOD 19
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fancy and add Cheez Whiz, cheese sticks, or even beef jerky, or keep it simple, but you will definitely want one to help cleanse your palate between offerings. I also highly suggest bringing water (keep the bottles sealed), those little samples can catch up to you fast and you don’t want hundreds of people chanting “party foul” while you puke in This is your opportunity to branch out a trashcan (I’ve seen it happen). and try new styles of beer, I promise, This is also your opportunity to chat with if you just go for the same style time the people behind your and time again your tastebuds will favorite local beers. The brewers are right hate you by the end of the fest. there, talk to them (as long as the lines are not crazy, obviously)! We are the craft and use worthwhile ingredients, incredibly lucky to have a multitude of knowledgable and hardworking Hoothey can brew beer that is comparable siers in the craft beer community who and sometimes even surpasses that of are excited to share their knowledge not their favorite breweries. only with one another, but also with the Also, remember that story at the top, masses. So, at least take a moment to about my eating from someone’s pretzel thank them and let them know you apnecklace? Well, don’t come unprepared preciate their hard work and dedication like I did and be forced to rely on the to providing us with a little bit of liquid drunken kindness of strangers. Craft your own pretzel necklace. You can be S E E , B E E R F E S T , O N P A GE 2 2
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Indiana’s best spring beer fest returns to the historic Woolery Mill in Bloomington, Indiana, on Saturday, April 9, 2016. Like last year’s event, this fest features Indiana breweries exclusively and will likely sell out in advance. One of three annual fundraisers for Brewers of Indiana Guild, Bloomington Craft Beer Festival is one of the only events in the state that directly benefits the Hoosier brewing community. Stay tuned for more details by downloading the Drink Indiana Beer app at www.drinkIN.beer/app. See the FAQ at bloomingtonbeerfest.com for more info.
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the tasting tables, and with over 100 beers to try during the day there’s a good chance you’ll be on your way past tipsy faster than you think. Luckily, the brains behind the fest know more than just good beer, they’ve provided top-notch nosh too. Any experienced beer drinker knows just how filling beer can be. So, eat a lighter cuisine, my personal suggestion would be the >>>
love. Speaking of liquid love, the Bloomington Craft Beer Festival is your way to show a little love to the Hoosier brewing community. #BtownBfest is a singular celebration of Indiana’s craft breweries and for that reason this will be the second year in a row that they serve exclusively Indiana beers. This means all of the proceeds of the event stay in the hands of Indiana#BtownBfest is a singular owned businesses. So, you can feel good about yourself while you’re celebration of Indiana’s craft drinking your new favorite beers. breweries and for that reason, One of the most important lessons I’ve taken from attendthis will be the second year in a ing beer fests is, if you’re going to make it through the whole thing, row that they serve exclusively food is essential. No one wants Indiana beers. to drunkenly tumble into one of
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<<< refreshing ceviche from NoCo & Butcher’s Smokehouse. If you’re feeling a little more traditional, nothing goes with beer quite like a slice of pizza from Pizza X. Don’t eat meat? Don’t worry, Upland Brewing has you covered with their incredible seitan tacos. While the food may help keep you from making an ass of yourself at the fest, it won’t keep you legally sober. So, to get a little serious for a moment, have a safe way home. Whether you Uber to and from the event, have a DD, have Mom make you and your buddies sandwiches and drop you off in her soccer van, ride a horse (is it illegal to drunkenly ride a horse?), or any other way you may arrive and depart, just make sure not to drive yourself. If you do have a designated driver, they can purchase a DD ticket
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for $10 and that includes unlimited free water, coffee and soda. They have to be 21, so you can’t get lil’ sis to drive you with her learner’s permit. There will be plenty of entertainment for DD’s, even if they don’t like peoplewatching (which there will be plenty of ). For the duration of the fest there will be five music groups playing toe-tapping, partner-swinging, beerdrinking tunes. Starting at 1 with Fiddle ‘n’ Feet, followed by Jefferson Street Parade Band, Electric Fences, Born Mountaineer, and finishing with Pork and Beans Brass Band at 4:45. In keeping with the theme, all of the bands are local, so — ya know — #SupportLocal and listen to these awesome Indy acts. If you’re wanting to prepare for the fest with some local beer, the week leading up to the fest is Bloomington Craft Beer Week (#BCBW2016) and that means you can get your hands on some special beers in Bloomington. The most intriguing of these is a special collaboration Hoppy Maibock created by Bloomington Brewing Co., Function Brewing, Quaff On Brewing, The Tap Brewing Co. and Upland Brewing Co. Each of the breweries will be doing separate variations on the same brew and tapping individual firkins during the week leading up to the event. For the best overall experience at the festival, download the Drink Indiana Beer app (http://drinkIN.beer/app) to see the event map, mark favorites in the list of breweries, and get updates about the event. It is a must for making the most out of your day. It’s 6:45 p.m. I caught an Uber from the fest to my hotel, the Fourwinds. I’m sitting on a beach with a bottle of water in my hand, watching the waves lap. I’m more full than I am drunk, but I’m still sobering up. The sun is sinking in the sky, and I’m trying to think what my favorite beer was. Who can say, there were too many nearly perfect beers and how am I supposed to decide if that aged-Imperial pilsner is better than the chocolate, cinnamon Imperial stout? I’m not. I’m supposed to know I had a great day with great people at an important and exciting event for our great state. I stand up and make my way inside, I think I’m going to need a quick nap. n
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FILM EVENTS Intersectionality: IU Latina Film Festival and Conference Apr. 7-9. Several scholars and filmmakers will be in attendance for the third annual celebration of Latina cinema, which will showcase the “innovative acting and directing of women in documentaries, shorts and feature length films.” Among other important topics, this year’s selection explores immigration, gender, sexuality, social class and ethnicity issues. The festival will show 11 films over three days, including Michelle Rodriguez’s breakout film, Girlfight, in which she stars as a troubled boxer from Brooklyn.
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here’s a car wreck early in Demolition. The collision is presented in the popular “Jump, monkey!” fashion, where the camera is set within one car and the audience gets a glimpse of the other vehicle a split second before the crash. In a variation of the shot, we watch Wall Street stockbroker Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) as he gets a terrifying look at the other vehicle just before it smashes into the driver’s side of the car in which he is riding, killing the driver, his wife, Julia (Heather Lind). Davis returns to work during the period most people would spend grieving. His coworkers are disturbed by his presence and his apparently unfeeling attitude. His boss/father-in-law, Phil (Chris Cooper) is stunned when he learns the widower is back in the office. He tries to counsel Davis, telling him, “if you want to fix something, you have to take it apart and put it back together.” So Davis starts taking things apart. Physically. Demolition is about a man trying to turn his emotions back on. Or maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s just a romanticized look at a wounded loner, the kind of guy who starts off sexy and gets even dreamier when he suffers. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I liked the movie a lot and I plan to see it again. I’m not sure how Demolition will go over with general audiences. The film was screened at the last Toronto International Film Festival and there were complaints that director JeanMarc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild),
working off Bryan Sipe’s screenplay, gets overly arty, underly coherent, and that he too easily drifts from edgy to mawkish. Others gripe that he is dismissive of women, giving short shrift to the one prominent female character. I’ll add my own cautionary note: The film is a drama with some comic moments – it isn’t nearly as funny as the trailer would have you believe. There’s plenty of odd imagery, though. Some of it works, some of it seems clunky and obvious. For instance, early in the film we get a peek into the shower, where Davis is shaving his chest. Of course many men shave some, if not all, of their body hair, but this image is included solely so that the director can later show the hair growing back on Davis’ chest, indicating he is becoming more primal. By the way, how much of his body do you think pre-tragic Davis shaved? My guess is that he got rid of everything except for a small, impeccably groomed “welcome mat” just above his cock. But I digress. When Davis buys a candy bar at the hospital and it gets stuck in the machine, he writes the first in what will become a series of confessional letters to the customer service department of the vending machine company. Karen Moreno (Naomi Watts), the customer service rep, likes what she reads and contacts him at 2 in the morning, because why the hell not? Turns out Karen is a pot-smoking mother to a young teenager, Chris (Judah Lewis), who is coming to terms with his sexuality.
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Davis and Karen build just enough of a relationship for the screenplay to keep her out of the way so that Davis and the kid can have weird, dangerous, cool adventures, including a bit of insanity with a bulletproof vest and a gun, plus the inevitable demolition of Davis’ modernist home. “Everything’s a metaphor,” says Davis. “Maybe not,” says me. I worked on a demolition crew at the old St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove when I was in my twenties. What a great job! Using a sledgehammer and a jackhammer are pleasures you all should be lucky enough to share. Funny thing, in all the time I spent on that job, including the day I helped demolish the room in which I was delivered (really!), we never compared what we were doing to any other aspect of life. We just worked and sweated and enjoyed being physical. Demolition features Jake Gyllenhaal’s best performance since Brokeback Mountain and fine works from Chris Cooper, Naomi Watts and young Judah Lewis as well. The movie is pretentious and troubled. I really like it. You may not. Regardless, if you’re able, get a sledgehammer and bust down something that needs busting. You’ll feel good. n
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original, I didn’t laugh much at their eccentricities — such as the father’s use of Windex as a cure-all. But I basked in the warm familiarity of these quirks this time. (Of course, whisky makes me pretty toasty, too.) This time around, Toula and her nonGreek husband Ian (John Corbett) not only have to deal with their relatives, who live next door, Everybody Loves Raymond-style; they also have a moody teenage daughter named Paris (Elena Kampouris). She is anger personified, complete with dark clothes and seemingly permanent pitch-black eyeshadow. Paris spends most of the movie trying to escape her family. They embarrass her at home, at local sporting events, at her school’s college fair, the list goes on. It’s typical sitcom shit, but I ate it up. Like the first film, this one isn’t laughout-loud hilarious, but it sticks a smile on your face and moves at a breezy, pleasant pace. And the characters have engaging comic chemistry, especially Paris and her parents. The tension between them is hilariously thick. Kampouris effectively conveys the perpetually embarrassed demeanor of a typical teenager. She’s also sympathetic, making us wince and cringe right along And like Paris, I brushed off the with her. chip on my shoulder and let these Paris eventually meets a nice Greek boy (Alex Wolff) goofy Greek folks into my life. and finds relief in the fact that she’s not the only one whose family is nuts. She also finds herself under a love spell, Now, 14 years later, I found myself which makes her warm up to her parents smitten to see these characters again. and relatives. (Big surprise!) Maybe I just needed time to miss them I was under a similar spell, thanks to — and ALCOHOL. (God bless the Keyalcohol. And like Paris, I brushed off the stone Art Cinema for serving that sweet, chip on my shoulder and let these goofy glorious liquid courage.) Greek folks into my life. Sometimes, you Anyway, like the first film, this one just have to take the stick out of your revolves around Toula (screenwriter ass, embrace eccentric people and try to Nia Vardalos) and her comically overhave a good time. Alcohol helps. n bearing Greek family. When I saw the
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Public meeting: Indy’s recycling options April 6, 4-6 p.m. On February 10, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett announced a temporary stop to the planned Covanta Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) to allow for public input and consideration. Later that month, the Indiana Court of Appeals permanently nullified the contract for the ARC. The first of a series of public meetings and conversations to identify the best recycling options for Indy is Wednesday at the Garfield Park Arts Gallery. The mayor and city officials will make remarks, community groups and local stakeholders will share information about current and future recycling initiatives, and the public (that means YOU) will have an opportunity to provide thoughtful and productive input. Sign up in advance to ensure a time slot if you’d like to speak. If you are unable to attend, but would like to provide input, ideas and comments can be sent to recycling@indy.gov. Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Drive Earth Day Indiana 2016 April 23, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. With more that 100 exhibitors, the event has moved to a bigger space — that’d be Military Park — for “additional exhibitors, activities, performances, and workshops.” Also new this year: “The Recycle Run 5K! Run or walk a 5K route that is mostly along the White River! The 5K begins (at noon) and finishes at Military Park at White River State Park but the majority of the course will take you upstream and then downstream along the White River.” Military Park, 601 W. New York St.
Catwalk & Carnival for Water April 10, 10:30 a.m. Renee from Ask Renee asks you: “The event I hope will make it on all of your calendars is Catwalk & Carnival for Water. This is a fundraiser for HEC (Hooiser Environmental Council) that I am co-coordinating with the awesome local network of Aveda salons who participate in Aveda Earth Month. I will be back on the mainland for this special day, but more importantly there will be goats and llamas there. Need I say more?” Paramount School of Excellence, 3020 Nowland Ave., $10-40, catwalkcarnival.brownpapertickets.com
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masked as “good cause” bins and they can’t confirm where the donations are going. Plus, they most likely do not have a permit to place bins publicly. You can use IRC’s EcoPoint map (indianarecycling.org/ecopoint) to find brick and mortar drop-off locations for clothing and many other recyclable/reusable materials. They also shared info for Simply Recycling (simplerecycling.com), a new curbside recycling program for clothing and home goods in Noblesville. Wouldn’t it be cool if this program could roll out throughout the state?! PIECE OUT, RENEE
Tanks a lot Q: Hello! Do you know the best way to dispose of helium tanks in Indianapolis? We have one from a party and would like to know the best way to recycle/dispose of it (our recycling provider won’t recycle it). — DANIELLE A: Hello Danielle, tanks for your question. Pressurized gas tanks, like helium and propane, can be very dangerous if handled incorrectly. For instance, if you were to put a pressurized
tank in your trash or recycling bin and it were to go into the back of a compactor truck or into an incinerator, it could explode. However, if proper precautions are taken, empty helium (and propane) tanks are highly recyclable. I found instructions for how to prepare a helium tank for recycling from the company Balloon Time (balloontime.com) The main thing I would change in the instructions is to NOT put the tank in your curbside recycling bin or a community collection bin. You would be wise to take the empty, depressurized tank to a recycling facility like RecycleForce (recycleforce. org) where you can explain that the tank has been depressurized. For your next party, consider renting a reusable tank or choose decorations that are environmentally friendly and/or reusable/recyclable. PIECE OUT, RENEE
Brushing up Q: How about toothbrushes? Are they recyclable? — NATALIE A: Hi Natalie! Fun fact: 50 million pounds of toothbrushes are thrown away each year. Imagine if we all actually replaced them as often as the dentist says we should. Toothbrushes are made from many recyclable materials, including plastic, nylon and aluminum; however, those components are hard to separate, which makes toothbrushes difficult to recycle. You do have a few options, though. Preserve (preserveproducts.com) makes a toothbrush from recycled yogurt cups — and it is recyclable through their mail-in recycling program or the Preserve Gimme 5 bins at Whole Foods Markets. Recycled AND recyclable >>>
<<< makes me as happy as chocolate AND peanut butter. Radius makes a toothbrush called The Source (madebyradius.com). Its handle is made from repurposed and recycled materials, like money, wood or paper, and its head is replaceable, reducing toothbrush waste by 93 percent. There are other brands that also make toothbrushes with a replaceable head. Terracycle has an Oral Care Recycling Program (terracycle.com) if you’d like to organize a nonprofit fundraiser. Cheers to greening your pearly whites! PIECE OUT, RENEE
Rolling stoneware Q: I have a Pampered Chef piece of stoneware that broke — my fault, not a defect — can I use the pieces for anything else, or recycle it somehow? — JAYNE A: Jayne, We’ve gotten quite pampered in that there are now recycling opportunities for just about any material from aluminum cans to zinc batteries. Unfortunately, stoneware is not one of them. Here are a few garden reuse ideas: Break it up into small pieces to use at the bottom of plant pots for drainage. If the pieces are flat and still big, piece them back together to make a stepping-stone in your garden. You may even be able to embellish them with colorful rocks or a dated penny to make a garden decoration (using non-toxic glue, of course). Or etch them with words such as “basil” and “cilantro” to make herb markers. On the historic island of St. Croix, there are beautiful works of art and jewelry made from chaney — broken pieces of china and stoneware dating back to the 1500s. I’m not sure if modern stoneware pieces would have quite the same effect, but you could always try your hand at jewelry or a mosaic art project. PIECE (OF STONEWARE) OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
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The Sword’s origin story is not exactly legendary, but it is spoken of in reverent tones by band’s wishing to have the same type of success. The basics: Austin musicians JD Cronise, Kyle Shutt and Trivett Wingo formed a heavy metal band primed for Black Sabbath lovers; got nabbed for a tour with Metallica, signed to heavy metal label Kemado Records, cut a couple records, placed a track on Guitar Hero, made a hot sauce, etc., etc. The delightful little nugget missing from that origin story? A well-placed link on a decade-old interview lead me to this fact: It was thanks to a Misfits cover band that Shutt and Cronise really came together. Perhaps I’m just overly rapturous of Indy’s own Misfits-loving Punk Rock Karaoke band, but when I got guitarist Kyle Shutt on the phone before The Sword’s show at The Vogue on Thursday, I had to ask him about it. SHUTT SAYS: “[A Misfits cover band] was how me and JD met – not met, but how we ended up playing music together. We were both in a bunch of bands around Austin. He was in some party rock bands; I was in a hardcore band. He had been talking about wanting to do something heavier and I had been talking about wanting to do something less in-your-face than a hardcore band. He and a bunch of our friends were doing a Misfits/Samhain/ Danzig cover band thing for a Halloween party that was in Halloween of 2003. Their guitar player wasn’t able to do it in the end, and I somehow got the call to come in and do it. That was when [JD] and I started talking about maybe making a new band together. At the show itself, he gave me a Sword CD, a demo, drum-machine deal. That was it. After that, we started jamming. In March of 2004, we played our first show. A couple years later, we were on tour with Metallica. It was kind of weird! [laughs] But it all started with a Danzig cover band. (And as for what they’re looking forward to when they come through Indy again? “Alley Cat, A guy that used to work for us for a few years – his name was Sarge – he lives in Indy. He took us around that part of town a little bit. That will be super fun, and I’m sure we’ll end up stumbling down the alley to the Alley Cat.”) — KATHERINE COPLEN Show listing in Soundcheck, pg 33.
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egular readers know this space's weekly concern is music coming to or out of Indiana. This week, I spoke with the Mountain Goats' central songwriter John Darnielle, a musician yes, coming to Indiana (this Saturday at The Vogue, to be specific) but also a musician from Indiana (he was born in beautiful Bloomington). And if ever there was a songwriter from which to tease out tidbits of local trivia, it's Darnielle. His band is touring the professional wrestling-themed Beat the Champ, his 15th studio album – not counting the released and unreleased demos, cassettes and compilations. Darnielle was in Bloomington because his father was at IU: “My dad was teaching or finishing his master’s degree or something. He had also done some work in Cincinnati. It had to do with my dad studying, getting a master’s in English.” Even though his time in the Hoosier state was brief, there are plenty of Hoosier musicians he digs: “There was a metal band a few years ago called Year of Desolation from Indiana that I really liked. I don't know if they had more than one album, but I know they had one on Prosthetic Records, which I really enjoyed. Bix Beiderbecke is a Hoosier, isn't he? (NOTE: Iowan, actually, but Bix did spend plenty of time cutting records in Indiana.) [These were] legendary jazz players. Indiana was kind of this weird jazz hotbed in the '20s. Early hot jazz, which is super interesting. … That whole history is being erased from a large swath of the Midwest. I have a Bill Evans recording that was live at a place in Iowa, but none of those clubs exist anymore. The Midwest has sort of pulled a California in terms of erasing their history. People have to have their Chipotles.” And of course he's great buds with YA author John Green – although if he was making Green levels of dough, he may
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relocate somewhere much, much sunnier than Indianapolis: “John and I get along super famously, and I got a lot of love for Indiana. But then I think, he must be doing pretty good, his books are pretty popular. And I think, if I was doing that good, for sure where I live, there would never be any snow, ever. That's priority number one. I'd never have to see any snow ever again. Because you guys get murdered with snow! My mom used to reminisce about five-foot snow drifts without it even snowing – it's just being blown over from the next county. I can't deal. I need a certain quotient of blue sky on a daily basis or I lose it. Our European tour last month, or a month before last, as we crossed from England into the continent, all the blue went away. We didn't see sky for three days, and you
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could feel anger in the van. … Theodore Dreiser, another legendary Indiana dude: pretty dark outlook on life! Theodore Dreiser family should have enabled a holiday in Florida.” Beyond a reference to Indiana on “Cutter” and a namecheck of Indiana sawgrass on “Pale Green Things,” Darnielle's references to his birth state are pretty slim. Nothing like the fullyformed versions of Southern Cali that fill his records. But there's unreleased stuff that's Indiana-adjacent: “It's funny that I remember this one that I don't think I ever played. I was writing Full Force Galesburg, this growth record where I wasn't really sure what I was going to do, but I knew I didn't want it to sound like the record before it. That and Coroner's Gambit both were really sort of both journeys for me. There was a song called Hammond, Indiana that I didn't finish but I remember. I've been to Bloomington a bit, but that's more or less all I know. Indiana is such a good word. It really sings really nice.” n
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uesday’s show at the 5th Quarter was expected to be just another great chance to see a national band in an intimate setting, and Bulletwolf was the planned opening act. When I’d purchased my ticket a few weeks ago, my plan was to see the band perform and then interview them afterward. But Bulletwolf frontman Jeremy “Worm” Dreher’s death this weekend made the night different, and in the hearts and minds of his friends and fans, vastly more important. “If you knew Jeremy, do everyone a favor and talk to each other about him,” Jason Kindred told the crowd, dedicating the show to him before they played the first song of the night. “Make this room filled with his life.” And the fans who packed the venue did just that. As first Void King, then Kvlthammer and finally New Orleans’ Crowbar took the stage, the audience aborbed the music while talking to each other about a fallen friend. The overwhelming message was that life is short — you need to live it while you can with the people you care about, something that Dreher himself did with relish. “When I first met him it was like 2003 when he played with Eyes of Jade in Muncie, and it was just straight energy the whole fucking time ” Void King lead guitarist Tommy Miller told me after the show. “He wasn’t [necessarily] the best bass player, but he always took it straight up your ass.” The bands on the bill Tuesday night all brought that same consistent level of energy to their performances. Void “He was absolutely the best band mate I have ever had. Nothing against any of these other dudes, but he was extremely passionate and very easy to work with. Bands often have internal drama. He brought none of that and probably cancelled out a lot of it that the rest of us brought. He made everyone around him better as a musician and person.” — BULLETWOLF’S AND ABOUT THE FIRE’S CHRIS MORRISON
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King, added to the show on a day’s notice, played a blistering seven-song set which showcased deep riffs and strong vocals, including material off their upcoming album. Then Kvlthammer took the stage, Nate Olp invoking Dreher’s memory. “When someone dies, all you can do is take all the positive shit you got from him — feel every good feeling you got from him — take from that and tell everyone about it. Teach everyone the good shit. Keep that going, that’s how you keep him going.” Their thundering performance which followed clearly showcased how they’ve earned a repu-
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tation for being among Indianapolis’ metal elite, opening with the scorching “Don’t Try” and never letting up. Crowbar finished out the night by playing for 90 minutes, including the entirety of their legendary album Broken Glass, the title track of which they hadn’t played on a live tour in 20 years. By the time they closed out their encore with an appropriately sludgy cover of Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter,” the energy was palpable. And those in attendance came away with new memories to tie to the old ones they had of Dreher and Bulletwolf, as 5th Quarter owner Mona DeMaggio summed up in a Facebook post this morning. “The best thing was I saw everyone in the room hugging, showing love in a big kind of way,” she wrote. “Many people were telling everyone that they loved each other. I hate that it takes an incident to make people come together like this but it was all there last night.” That’s what sets Indianapolis’ music scene apart from others I’ve experienced — no matter what genre you listen to or play, on a regular basis, this city’s music fans care about each other, and the musicians build on that to create a sense of competition and collaboration which is all too rare. Take the challenge to embrace that, as fans, by choosing to attend more local shows and support what Dreher and so many others stand for. n
“Worm had a special way of writing. To me, it seemed that he thought of songs from the inside out. It was different. I think a lot of that was due to the fact that he was primarily a guitarist and songwriter but he was so talented on bass that he kept getting stuck there.” — ABOUT THE FIRE’S SAMMY CLEVENGER
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THURSDAY COLLEGE NIGHT College Night 7:30 p.m. This evening features the premiere of a new collaborative work by Hanna Benn and Jordan Munson titled “Anew,” plus a premiere of Munson’s multimedia perfor-
mance piece Until My Last. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, all-ages HIP-HOP Mobb Deep 10 p.m. The infamous duo is touring their latest album, The Infamous Mobb Deep. #infamous. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $25-$50, 21+ TRIBUTES Tom Waits Tribute 7:30 p.m. The first in this big week of tributes is dedicated to the one and only Tom Waits, featuring the scruffy local voices of Tim Brickley and The Bleeding Hearts, Chad Mills and The Upright Willies, Coot Crabtree, Chris Wolf, Raindogs and Wonkytonk. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $5, 21+ Piano at Butler Series, EidsonDuckworth Recital Hall, all-ages The Harmonica Collective All-Star Jam, The Warehouse, all-ages Human Lights, Interstate Traffic, Melody Inn, 21+
Son Lux, Dawn of Midi 9 p.m. IU music comp grad Son Lux is creating some of the most innovative, ear-hooky operatic electro pop in the whole world right now. His latest, Bones, was the first recorded as a three-piece band, but don’t miss his Joyful Noise release Lanterns, featuring vocals from locals Lily and Madeleine and Hanna Benn. This show is sold out, as predicted.
I care about what happens next. I’m not a pessimist, but I do think that we have our work cut out, collectively, to manage resources in the years to come. Telling the story of the original Jethro Tull, the argiculture inventor, but repositioned in the present day and near future was an opporutnity to reimagine his life and time set in the narrative context of some of what Jethro Tull’s best-known records are, in a way that for me has a lot of detail behind it. But I’m aware that for most of the audience, they’ll just sit there tapping their toes and saying, ‘Hey, this is fun! I remember that one.’ It’s important for me to add some layers to the musical onion. I know there are other elements and areas of detail to what I’m doing that give me the personal artistic satisfaction that I’m not just a musicial jukebox with airmiles, appearing yet again doing the same thing. I enjoy making it more of a project, more of a production and presentation.” Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages TRIBUTES SFJAZZ Collective: The Music of Michael Jackson 8 p.m. The man, the myth, the legend — as interpreted by SFJazz Collective. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., varies, all-ages Icon Tribute: Pharrell, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Robert DeLong, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind,
The Warehouse, all-ages Hillbilly Happy Hour, Melody Inn, 21+ Open Stage Blues Jam, Hilltop Tavern, 21+ Friday Night Vibe, Bartini’s, 21+ The Mavericks, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ No Strain, Clarence, Theon Lee, Melody Inn, 21+ The Sword, Royal Thunder, The Vogue, 21+
SATURDAY ORCHESTRAS CSO play Sports 7:30 p.m. Dress up in your favorite jersey: Former Indy Star current WTHR sports columnist Bob Kravitz “color commentates” this collection of sports theme favorites, including John Williams’ music for the Olympics, music from movies like Breaking Away and Rocky, plus all kinds of other surprises. Take me out to the ball game, indeed. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages BAD BOY Cameron Carpenter 8 p.m. Organ virtuoso/bad boy Carpenter has raked in Grammy nods for his thrilling (and occasionally controversial) riffs. He tours with his own tricked out piece, the International Touring Organ. Clowes Memorial Hall, 4602 Sunset Ave., prices vary, all-ages
FOLK The Mountain Goats 9 p.m. Allow us now to recount this tidbit of our adorable interview with the Mountain Goat John Darnielle: the folkie, who put together most of his early recordings on a beloved boombox, now has a new engineer: his four-or-so-year-old son Roman. Darnielle says that most of his new demos start out with him asking, “Roman, you ready to demo this jam?” If Roman answers in the affirmative, Darnielle instructs him to jam the big button that starts his metronome and they get recordin’. Darnielle ain’t lo-fi anymore, though: his latest Beat The Champ (out last year on Merge) is an exploration of his love of professional wrestling, especially as a balm during his difficult childhood. See more on page 30. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., prices vary, all-ages DANCE Real Talk 10:30 p.m. A line stretches out from the White Rabbit every time the A-Squared DJs and DJ Action Jackson roll into White Rabbit Cabaret for their second Saturday dance night Real Talk. Get there early — we promise the dance floor will fill up — and stay late for the chance to see even the most reluctant dancers boogie on the dance floor. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+
THe Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave. Ste. 4, SOLD OUT, 21+ ‘70S Ian Anderson performs Jethro Tull 8 p.m. Jethro Tull’s one-legged flautist Ian Anderson – who possesses both legs, but just stands on one to jam out on some prog rock with his flute – promised us on the phone that he’ll stay playing for as long as we’ll have him. His current tour is a multi media extravaganza, more akin to musical theater than regular club rock show. In his show, Anderson integrates his thoughts on climate change, global food production and population growth. Why? He told NUVO: “All of these things are of course, to some extent products of our time, but my need to talk those things or consider them in the context of what I do is because I’m a father, I’m a grandfather,
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Automagik, Alex Rose CD Release, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Rick Dodd and The Dickrods, Melody Inn, 21+ Buddy Brown, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Hiromi and The Trio Project, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Soldiers of Fortune, ElRusho, Hollywood Romeo, Smoke Ring, 5th Quarter Lounge Indy Arts Collective with DJ Topspeed, Grove Haus, all-ages Annaleigh Ashford, The Cabaret of Columbia Club, 21+
SUNDAY ROCK X Ambassadors 7:30 p.m. Count X Ambassadors as one of those bands you’d be doing a big “who?” about — until the last half of 2015 when their song “Renegades” broke out in a big, big way. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $22 advance, $25 the door, all-ages Catwalk and Carnival for Water, Paramount School of Excellence, all-ages One Eyed Doll, Eyes Set To Kill, Emerson Theater, all-ages Balance and Composure, Roger Harvey, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Chris Bolint, The Grinning Man, Melody Inn, 21+ Trina, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your personal oracle for the coming weeks is a fable from 2600 years ago. It was originally written by the Greek storyteller Aesop, and later translated by Joseph Jacobs. As the tale begins, a dog has discovered a hunk of raw meat lying on the ground. He’s clenching his treasure in his mouth as he scurries home to enjoy it in peace. On the way, he trots along a wooden plank that crosses a rapidly-flowing stream. Gazing down, he sees his reflection in the water below. What? He imagines it’s another dog with another slab of meat. He tries to snatch away this bonus treat, but in doing so, drops his own meat. It falls into the stream and is whisked away. The moral of the fable: “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” Virgo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “If literally every action a human can perform was an Olympic sport,” Reddit.com asked its users, “which events would you win medals in?” A man named Hajimotto said his championlevel skill was daydreaming. “I can zone out and fantasize for hours at a time,” he testified. “This is helpful when I am waiting in line.” You Virgos are not typically Olympicclass daydreamers, but I encourage you to increase your skills in the coming weeks. It’ll be a favorable time for your imagination to run wild and free. How exuberantly can you fantasize? Find out! Virgo
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that in his novel The Idiot, and now I’m passing it on to you just in the nick of time. In the coming weeks, it’s especially important for you to not oversimplify your assessments of what motivates people — both those you respect and those you don’t fully trust. For your own sake, you can’t afford to naively assume either the best or the worst about anyone. If you hope to further your own agendas, your nuanced empathy must be turned up all the way. Aquarius
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