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special pullout NIGHTLIFE GUIDE Gather round, you nocturnals, and feast upon our 2012 Nightlife Guide. Everything you need to know, regarding clubs, venues, restaurants and groove nights, plus even some out of town hotspots, if you’re on the road. And don’t miss our Nightlife Guide launch party, this Thursday, starting at 8:30 at Deluxe. (For more on that, see pg. 32.)

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BURLESQUE: THE ART OF THE TEASE

Burlesque is performance; it is the art of the tease; it is elevating the mere mortal into something sequined and bejeweled and aware of the respect they always deserved; it is glitterdammerung; and it is always in your face. BY PAUL F.P. POGUE ON THE COVER: TRINI BIKINII OF ROCKET DOLL REVUE. PHOTO CREDIT: SAMANTHA FOX

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BRIDGING TWO WORLDS

Jhumpa Lahiri, author of such books as The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth, will appear at Butler University on Monday. Dan Grossman interviewed her in anticipation of her visit.

film

THE RAID: REDEMPTION

Ed Johnson-Ott gives this martial arts film a whopping four stars, and battles his inner teen in the process.

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FOOD SWAP

An interview with Kate Payne, author of the book, The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking, who will be coming to Indy this week to talk about food swapping, sign books and greening your cleaning supplies workshop. BY KATY CARTER

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We’ve released the Nightlife Guide, and now we shall party. Indy’s Hero Jr. and Boston’s Gentlemen Hall will take the stage and help us celebrate. We spoke with them before the show. BY KATHERINE COPLEN

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LETTERS Re: “Hammer: King’s legacy needs tending”

MLK would surely be distressed by the current state of affairs within the black community - high illegitimacy, unemployment and black on black crime rates. I also think he would be disappointed that many of his people have allowed themselves to accept and even embrace their assigned status as “victims”. His message was that of perseverance, self-empowerment and strong values. Not sure he’d have a high opinion of what the modern Democrat party has done for, or rather “to” his people.

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Re: Notes from the Honda Indy Grand Prix in Alabama

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Re: “Interview: Bassnectar, the anti-hipster”

Why does everyone have to bring up “Skrillex & Deadmau5” like they are some godgiven standard to all electronic music ... seriously so annoying. Bassnectar shits on both of them for breakfast!!

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Re: “Interview: Bassnectar, the anti-hipster” @Jeff Jones, I brought up Skrillex & Deadmau5 for the reasons I mentioned (work ethic & popularity), not because they’re necessarily “god-given.” And Lorin’s a nice guy - I can’t imagine he’d do such a thing for breakfast.

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Re: “Interview: Bassnectar, the anti-hipster” Deadmau5 and skrillex are artists that the reader can identify with. That was a solid and unique question, and a good interview.

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Re: “Girl, in Transit: Missing the bus”

The possible explanations for the drive-by event are many. #1: The bus ½ hour before the drive-by may have broken down, putting this next Driver behind schedule dealing with twice as many riders. (I remember a time pre-Indygo when a bus would be sent out from Wash. St. to recover the riders in a breakdown. Sometimes, I’d be given a free pass for my lost time and connection. Now, they’ll say, “another bus is coming”. Which is sort of true (revert to opening situation-next bus handling passengers #2). Sometimes (in the Indygo era) a driver is near

the end of their shift and wants to keep that scheduled time especially. In the Indygo era, sometimes the weather is bad and a newer driver might panic and cut stops somewhere to stay on time (I’d see this at my Wishard Stop. You can imagine the tired and sick people who’ve been going through the Medicare mill all giving out a weary sigh or a muttered curse lamenting another half hour or more wait in freezing or hot weather.) A baby might have spit up on a bus seat or a kid home sick from daycare lost lunch, and the bus has been declared a biohazard zone and stopped until the next bus arrives. Everyone ends up stepping around the baby spit up anyway. Oh, there’s more. But bus drivers try, oh how they try. Many show admirable focus towards passenger safety amidst ever churning, irate atmospheres from the weather and the wearied states of mind reacted to and freely expressed in varied manners by riders.

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Re: “Girl, in Transit: Missing the bus”

Occasionally, I have found an Indygo bus to be at capacity, in which case any waiting passengers are politely refused a ride. I’m not sure if this was the case in your experience, but it raises another issue. If my route 37 bus is full in the morning, there’s a problem. Sure, it means that people are riding, but for those unfortunate souls who cannot get on, they’ll have to wait another 30 minutes for a bus to come. And they’re going to be at least 30 minutes late to their destination. And hopefully they won’t be fired from their job because of a full bus!

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Re: “Girl, in Transit: Missing the bus”

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This is the best column on why we have cars: to go where we want to go, when we want to go and dependability of transport. That mobility trumps gas prices and public transit. Except: New York and Paris. Here is an idea: Tear up the Monon rail and make it a bike/ped path. Then decide you want a light rail to Hamilton county which was already there. All they had to do was make the trail next to the track as they had the land anyway. But who cares! They are your tax dollars.

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Re: “Thanks for the memories, Mitch” Absurd. Not my man.

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Re: “Thanks for the memories, Mitch” So, let’s see. The mistakes were discovered in a routine audit and are being rectified. Where’s the scandal?

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HAMMER The last American hero Henry Aaron’s star shines brighter than ever

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

he beginning of spring brings with it not only the promise of a new start, an annual renewal of hope, but also the start of another baseball season, when every team and fan believes in the possibility that this might, indeed, be their year. Yet despite what the sport’s owners and advocates may say, it’s been at least 35 years since Major League Baseball owned a plurality of the public’s loyalty and attention. Player strikes, out-ofcontrol ticket prices and, most notably, the steroid scandals of the last decade have reduced its influence and alienated millions of fans. Yet there was a time when baseball captured the imagination of virtually every American, young and old, black and white. More than a sport, it was a unifying force between generations, a soother of racial tensions and an example of fair play, dedication and teamwork. There have been many great players and teams in baseball throughout the years but no one individual exemplifies the sport’s most noble attributes more than Henry Aaron, the silent warrior who demolished Babe Ruth’s home run record 38 years ago this week. I’ve just finished reading Howard Bryant’s 2010 biography Aaron, The Last Hero, and it reminds me why Aaron was, and is, so revered a character. The story of Aaron’s life is the story of the last half of the 20th Century and one that will inspire people even decades from now. Born in Mobile, Ala., to a poor family just a few generations free from slavery, Aaron suffered from the oppression of segregation. He faced racial taunts from the stands, was forced to stay in cheap motels in the “colored” sections of the towns where he played while his white teammates stayed in luxury hotels and, even in the clubhouse, was segregated from whites. Black players had to wait for the white players to finish showering and dressing before they were allowed their turn. Jackie Robinson had broken the segregation line in baseball seven years before Aaron made the big leagues but equality was still decades away. Patronized by the white media, who treated him as a racial stereotype, underestimated by his team and overshadowed by Willie Mays, it was a tough road for the young man from Mobile.

Yet he revealed his greatness slowly, quietly and with more dignity and determination than just about any other great professional athlete, all the while suffering under a racist system that only rarely and reluctantly rewarded him for his achievements. Aaron represents America at its highest aspirations: where hard work and sheer willpower overcome all obstacles and lead to triumph. He deserved hero status. Instead, as he approached Babe Ruth’s record of 714 career home runs, he received death threats from people who refused to believe a black man could be the all-time greatest at anything. Yet the chase for Ruth’s record also excited a new, post-racial generation of youngsters, such as myself. As a child, I followed Aaron’s pursuit with keen interest and even talked my parents into taking me to see him play at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati on April 20, 1973. That night, he blasted his 677th home run and gave me my biggest sporting thrill of my life. If I live to be 100 years old, I will never forget the joy at seeing the ball fly over the fence and Aaron’s graceful, almost sheepish, trot around the bases. Yet much of the rest of the nation was angered by the idea that the great Babe Ruth could be superseded in the record books by a sharecropper’s son who was born in one of the biggest ports in the slave trade. When Aaron hit his 715th home run in an otherwise meaningless game in 1974, he not only claimed the record for himself, but also on behalf of all of black America. The experience had embittered him, not surprisingly. The commissioner of baseball was conspicuously absent from the stadium the night he broke Ruth’s record. He found that the baseball establishment had no interest in his skills as an executive after he retired. The story has a somewhat happier ending. Ted Turner gave him a job with the Atlanta Braves and presidents Clinton and Bush gave him medals. As befits a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Aaron has spent the four decades since his retirement in charitable work, helping disadvantaged youth with scholarships and guidance. He’s used his millions to establish a trust that will live after he dies. Aaron has given thousands of interviews and written two autobiographies, yet is still enigmatic. Bryant’s book peels back some, but not all, of those layers of mystery to reveal a man whose greatest achievement was not breaking records but in giving grace and dignity to the country at a time it needed it so badly. MLB needs leadership like Aaron, a man with unquestioned integrity. Our nation needs more leaders like Aaron. Many are called legends but precious few actually are. Henry Aaron is a legend.

Henry Aaron represents America at its highest aspirations.

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HOPPE Thanks for the memories, Mitch

The Blade cuts Indiana — again

BY DAVID HOPPE DHOPPE@NUVO.NET

was at my doctor’s office not too long ago, waiting to settle my bill. The man in front of me, a somewhat portly fellow, wore a bright green t-shirt, emblazoned with the slogan “My Man Mitch!” I’m not sure what I found more poignant, the vintage quality of the slightly shrunken shirt, or its owner’s dogged insistence on wearing it in public. But this was before last week’s revelation that the Indiana Department of Revenue short-changed 91 of the state’s 92 counties $206 million in local tax revenues. This is the second major accounting blunder committed by the state in less than a year. You may recall that last December the state discovered $320 million in corporate tax collections that it failed to account for. At the time, Gov. Mitch Daniels acted as if this was a cause for celebration. He likened it to drawing a free money card in a game of Monopoly. Indiana Democrats called for an independent audit to find out how such a large sum could have been overlooked at a time when local governments around the state were cutting back on services and laying off workers for lack of funds. But as far as Indiana Republicans were concerned, this was nothing but sour grapes. Democrats had been trounced in the last election and, lacking majorities in both the House and Senate, carried about as much clout as a tofu salesman at a hamburger stand. What’s more, their man, Mitch, was due to open the 2012 legislative session with his final state-of-the-state speech where he would have the chance to, once again, regale his party animals with the story of how Indiana was managing to get by with the same number of state employees as it did in the 1970s. Never mind that during the State Fair the previous August seven people died in a stage collapse that might have been prevented had there been a state employee designated to make sure the stage was safe. Hiring a safety inspector is the kind of fat Mitch Daniels takes pride in cutting. That’s why they call him “The Blade.” “Throw away the rule book to the extent the feds will let you do it,” was Daniels’ advice to those building the new I-69 highway extension. These minions had the temerity to suggest the project would cost more than the gov-

ernor had originally said it would — by about a billion dollars. So Daniels urged them to cut corners, narrowing medians and spreading a thinner layer of cement. This was the same mindset that thought firing caseworkers at the Indiana Family and Social Services agency in favor of online communications and phone answering machines was a bright idea. So people who needed medicine didn’t get it on time. People who needed food stamps went without. If this hadn’t been such a blatant failure, the governor might have been able to brag on having whittled the number of state employees down to Lincoln’s boyhood days, when school children did their lessons with chalk, by firelight. As with the FSSA debacle, the Dept. of Revenue’s managing to screw virtually every city and town in the state out of money they need for police and fire departments, schools and libraries, is too big to paper over with pictures of Rich Uncle Pennybags, the bug-eyed tycoon from the Monopoly game. There’s finally going to be an audit of all systems and processes in the department. But what this audit will miss is the underlying contempt for government that has permeated the Daniels administration from its inception eight years ago. Frustration with the performance of government is not only understandable, it is justified in many, many cases. Unfortunately, this frustration has inspired the rise of a predatory class of people whose interest is not to fix governmental laxity and incompetence, but to exploit it. These carpetbaggers prey on public unhappiness by promising to dismantle government. In the process, they manage to divert public resources into the hands of private interests in the name of pubic-private partnerships. They call this, “Running government like a business.” Except that government isn’t a business. If it was, entrepreneurs would be making fortunes cleaning up polluted rivers, repairing streets and bridges, creating safe public parks and, yes, teaching our kids. Good governance is a combination of art and science that is more complex than a balance sheet. When this complexity is ignored and public needs are reduced to a numbers game, you get the kind of trouble Indiana finds itself in today. Not only has Daniels’ administration lost track of half a billion dollars worth of tax monies, last summer it added insult to injury by demanding local governments return $610 million in what it claimed were overpayments. “There is a definite loss of confidence,” is the understated way Matt Groeller, executive director of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns, described the feelings local officials now have toward the state administration. But that’s what happens when you put people in government who say government’s for losers. You get what you vote for — and, I guess, a t-shirt.

This is the second major accounting blunder committed by the state in less than a year.

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GADFLY

by Wayne Bertsch

HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

Hoosier revenue officials resign due to millions of reasons golden parachute for airport head John Clark as he flies friendly skies Obama’s reform bill makes lawmakers a wee bit less criminal heath care think tank hatched up by Newt Gingrich files for bankruptcy of thoughts in Tennessee folks are still evolving into intelligent beasts 2000 Yahoo workers will not celebrate their being laid off I’d say what the hell: let’s let Rick Santorum rule o’er Pennsylvania Sadly I bet no one will ever want to be Mitt’s vice president Reggie Miller joins the Hall of Fame, preceded by his big sister dog who ate owner’s passes to Master’s is not his master’s best friend

THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN SEEING SACRIFICE

Hoosiers without direct connection to armed services in Iraq and Afghanistan risk disconnection with the mounting casualty cost of the wars. The American Friends Service Committee developed a powerful visualization in Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Indiana . Each pair of boots represents a life lost in war, Indiana has 191 pairs. Butler is hosting the installation on the campus mall from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 16-18. Participants will read the names of the dead on Monday and Tuesday at 11:50 a.m. Civilian casualties will also be memorialized. A multi-faith prayer vigil will commence at noon April 18. Guest speaker Raed Jarrar, architect, activist and Middle East expert will deliver “Iraq 20 Years After: Missing the Arab Spring” on Iraq’s future at 8 p.m. April 17.

TOXIC INDIANA

Indiana dumps more toxic discharge into its waterways than any other state — a total of 27 million pounds, according to a new Environment America. The federal 2010 Toxic Release Inventory documented all contiguous states releasing more than 32 million pounds of polluted discharge into the 981-mile Ohio River. Not all chemicals at issue pose direct threat to human health and the TRI releases are not illegal, but the analysis notes that the total release load is growing.

GRAB A BAG OF INDY

Each Saturday in April offers the opportunity to clean up our urban core. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful’s Great Indy Cleanup is an anti-litter program designed to remove heavy litter and debris from public spaces such as streets, alleys, greenspaces and waterways. Stop by any Marion County Public Library, YMCA, or PNC Bank to pick up some gloves and a trash bag and make a pledge to fill it. Or you can make it a party by joining one (or more!) of several organized neighborhood cleanups citywide — see GreatIndyCleanup.com for details.

THE (HAPPY) END TO UNWANTED KITTIES

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To further their mutual goal of ending euthanasia of homeless dogs and cats, the FACE low-cost spay/neuter clinic and IndyFeral, which focuses on trap-neuter-return strategies, colony management and outreach, are combining forces. They plan to create “a first-of-its-kind clinic for spay/neuter of house, stray, and feral cats and dogs.” The team estimates that feral cats produce 80 percent of the kittens that fill shelters each spring. Musician Jennie Devoe will help support the capital campaign for an expended clinic at a fundraiser this fall.

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Odd Couple: Rex Early, one of the most decent and reasonable politicians I’ve ever witnessed, heading the Indiana campaign of nasty Newt Gingrich, officially disgraced, fined (for lying to the House Ethics Committee) and hounded out of congress by his own party in 1997.

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Duo Amaral April 13 at 7:30 www.emindy.org Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center on the Downtown Canal 450 West Ohio Street.

There will not be a charge for admission. There will be a request for free-will donations. An evening of Baroque on Classical Guitar. Invited to perform throughout Europe, South America, Israel and the USA, Duo Amaral has been described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;masterful, with poetic virtuosity and intensity of expressionâ&#x20AC;? (Il Messaggero Veneto).

news Legacies of peace, transcendence Indy Parks connect neighborhoods, nature and history BY RE BE CCA T O W N S E N D RT O W N S E N D @ N U V O . N E T

he evening that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died in Memphis, Tenn., while many other cities burned with an anger stoked over generations of white hands delivering injustice to people of color, white U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy delivered news of the assassination to a crowd gathered at a near northeast-side park in Indianapolis. The people of Indianapolis did not riot. Kennedy, scrapped his scheduled campaign speech and delivered an impromptu assessment. He said his brother’s assassination taught him to understand feelings of hatred and distrust. “But we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times,” he said.

“We have a treasure here … The day we lost Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, here on these grounds, did a great service for our city and our state.” — Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman

Then, he quoted his favorite Aeschylus: “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.” He later concluded: “(T)he vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to

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live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land. “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. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.” On the evening of April 4, 2012, 44 years after that defining day in American history, people of Indianapolis (and beyond) gathered back at that park at the corner of 17th and Broadway, now named Martin Luther King Jr. Park, to commemorate Kennedy and King as peacemakers. Many of the participants remembered that 1968 night, a few of them saw Kennedy’s speech in person. A transcendent sculpture by Indianapolis designer Greg Perry and sculptor Dan Edwards sheds the bonds of its metal shell, standing at either side of a central walkway. Across the divide, the figures of King and Kennedy reach into the sky, shedding the earthly legacies depicted by their outlines, literally cut out from the base wall, reaching down in opposite directions, one imagines, to help those less fortunate. The Kennedy — King Memorial Day celebration is a longstanding tradition laid down by several ‘60s-era minds, such as Rev. Dr. Andrew J. Brown and former Indiana Secretary of State Larry Conrad. Retiring State Rep. Bill Crawford, D-Indianapolis, who back in those days was part of Indy’s Black Radical Action Committee, carried the mantle the founders passed on to him and, he informed the audience gathered Wednesday, that he is entrusting a new generation with “the shared vision” that the park would stand as “a national destination in support of peace and non-violence.” Memorial supporters aim to grow worldwide awareness of the park so that more visitors can appreciate the significance of that evening. “We have a treasure here. This park, the monument, this commemoration, they’re all very important tools that help us pass down very important lessons to future generations,” said Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman, one of six ladies to receive Trailblazer Awards this year from memorial organizers. “The day we lost Martin Luther King Jr.,” Skillman said, “Robert Kennedy, here on these grounds, did a great service for our city and our state. His speech will always be remembered as one of kindness and comfort... It was a steady voice that kept so many grieving hearts from acting out in a riot ... He wanted to remind the listeners of Dr. King’s desire ... “to replace that violence and stain of bloodshed that has spread across the land with an effort to understand with compassion and with love.” “… His words changed our capital then and changed many hearts. Those words still ring true today and I know they will for generations to come. But I think we’ll always need to be reminded to do what is

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Muata Ramses helped memorialize his groundbreaking teacher and coach.

right. I think we still have our work cut out for us on that front.”

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The park helps to promote that focus by preserving a physical manifestation of righteous spirit. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park has a rich history in our community,” said Jen Pittman, IndyParks marketing director. “By being home to the memorial behind us we’ll be sure we continue that tradition. “We also continue that tradition by offering educational programming and recreational opportunities all with the intent of continuing to shape our city into a place that promotes peace and neighborhoods by valuing all who call Indianapolis home.” Indy Parks is celebrating its centennial this year. While the King-Kennedy connection is unique to the corner of 17th and Broadway, the more than 200 parks within the system offer ample opportunities to cultivate deeper connections to the city’s history. A recent name change at the park at West 16th Street and Fall Creek Park to Lt. Junior Grade Graham Edward Martin Park offers an example of how residents can work with the city to help celebrate local history in public spaces. Muata Rameses remembers sitting in his U.S. history class at Crispus Attucks when he discovered his teacher, Mr. Martin, was actually a subject in his history book. “He had a low profile, he was a low-key modest guy but he had an extraordinary life,” Rameses said. Martin coached and taught at Attucks for a quarter of a century, but before that he was a member of the Golden Thirteen, the first group of black Navy men to become commissioned officers. Despite being forced to study by candlelight at night in

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the bowels of the boats, Rameses said the team members logged the highest scores on the officer candidate’s tests that their Naval superiors had ever seen. Martin also broke color barriers on the IUPUI football and track teams. Rameses and his daughter, Imani, worked to have the park renamed in his honor. A road near the Naval Amory will soon carry Martin’s name, as well. Another Indy Park, Beckwith Park near East 30th and Keystone, honors Frank R. Beckwith, who in 1960 became the first black man to run in a presidential primary when he ran against Nixon. Atop the cultural legacies embodied throughout the system, each park offers an opportunity to connect to neighborhoods and nature. Indy Parks has issued two celebratory challenges to the community: One is to visit 100 parks to celebrate the 100 years of the city parks service. The other is travel 100 miles within the park system. Explorers can discover the Hot Tot Lot, Indy’s smallest park, or Soap Box Derby Hill, home to the nation’s longest soap box derby track. An interactive map located at 100years.indyparks.org can help chart a plan. The site also includes suggestions for activities to do on 100 summer days. A sampling of these options includes trying the speed slide at Bethel Park Aquatic Center, playing a round of Frisbee golf at Brookside Park, meeting a raptor at Eagle Creek Ornithology Center, listening to the Indianapolis Jazz Orchestra at Holliday Park, or rallying for peace at Douglass Park. Editor’s note: Portions of this story are excerpted from “Indy’s Civil Rights Mantle,” a multi-media posting at NUVO.net.

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NRA joins outside attacks on Lugar Conservatives battle over core narratives BY L E S L E Y W E I D E N B E N E R T H E S T A T E H O U S E F IL E The National Rifle Association on Monday launched a $100,000 advertising and mail campaign aimed at unseating U. S. Sen. Richard Lugar in a GOP primary race that has become the target of conservative, outside interest groups. The NRA’s effort includes radio, television and online ads as well as 1 million pieces of mail sent to Hoosier voters. The group said its initial media buy is in the “six figures” and reports filed with the Federal Elections Commission in the past few days show the spending already tops roughly $102,000. The NRA last month endorsed Lugar’s GOP challenger — state Treasurer Richard Mourdock — but this week’s attack is the most visible sign of that support. The NRA says Lugar has an F rating from its group and has moved “away from our shared values.” “It’s time for another change, time to elect a senator who will protect our rights, time to elect Richard Mourdock for Senate,” a TV ad says. A spokesman for Lugar called the ad anoth-

Lugar and Mourdock to square off in televised debate BY G RE G M AR G A S O N T H E S T A T E H O U S E F IL E Voters will get a chance to see the Senate Republican candidates face off when the race’s only debate is broadcast Wednesday, just weeks before the May 8 primary. So far, the race between incumbent U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar and his challenger, Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, has played out largely in television advertising and campaign phone calls. But a few Hoosiers will have an opportunity to ask questions of the candidates during the 7 p.m. event hosted by the Indiana Debate Commission. Organizers anticipate an interesting match up. “For decades, Sen. Lugar has been politically untouchable,” said Max Jones, president of the Indiana Debate Commission and editor of the Tribune-Star in Terre Haute. But he said “Mourdock represents that more conservative wing of the GOP, and he clearly has the support and resources to give Lugar a stiff fight.” Robert Schmuhl, a professor of American

er example of special interest groups trying to affect the outcome of an Indiana election. “Hoosiers are concerned about outside special interest groups cherry-picking Sen. Lugar’s service to Indiana,” Fisher said in a statement. “As we contact Hoosier voters — and we’ve called more than one million of them — we hear increasing alarm about D.C. outsiders twisting and distorting Dick Lugar’s votes and record of accomplishment.” To combat the attacks, Lugar launched his own new TV commercial on Monday. The ad — called “Mistake” — features voters talking about Mourdock and represents the most personal attack the Lugar campaign has made yet. “I think he’ll do whatever it takes to get elected,” one man says in the ad about Mourdock. “It shows me blatantly that he’s desperate,” another says. But the Mourdock campaign said that during Lugar’s 35 years in office, he has “taken millions of dollars from special interests PACs.” “For Lugar to attack Richard Mourdock for earning the support of conservatives groups that have thousands of grassroots members in Indiana is the height of hypocrisy and shows how desperate Lugar really is about this race,” said Mourdock spokesman Christopher Conner. Recent polls have shown that Lugar has a 6 to 7 percentage point advantage in the GOP primary race, although those leads have been within the polls’ margins of error. The candidates are scheduled to meet in a debate on Wednesday. But much of jousting in the Senate race has so far come through a flurry of ads, studies at the University of Notre Dame, said Wednesday’s debate takes on more significance than usual because it’s the sole opportunity for voters to see the candidates answer questions side by side before the primary. “Will Richard Mourdock seem senatorial in the situation? Will Richard Lugar impress Republicans that he can shoulder the burdens of what might be a rigorous campaign and another six-year term?” Schmuhl said. “Much is at stake.” But another political science professor — Robert Dion of the University of Evansville — said that the debate might be less important than some may think. “The audience for this debate is likely to be fairly small,” Dion said. “Although it is very interesting to those who are paying close attention to the Senate primary, most people are going to hear about this debate secondhand on the news, if they hear about it at all.” It will take place at WFYI public television in Indianapolis and be aired live on some local stations and C-SPAN cable network. Andy Fisher, spokesman for the Lugar campaign, said that Lugar’s strength is talking with voters one-on-one and in small groups, not with debates. But he said Lugar is taking the debate head on. “One thing that voters will get from the debate when it comes to Sen. Lugar is that he is very serious about solving issues that the country faces,” Fisher said. Mourdock, meanwhile, “is looking forward to the debate,” said Christopher Conner, a spokesman for the campaign. “Republican primary voters are going to see a clear difference between Sen. Lugar and Treasurer Richard Mourdock

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most of them attacks on the candidates. Independent groups and so-called Super PACS have spent roughly $500,000 either supporting Mourdock or opposing Lugar in this year’s Senate race, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Similar groups supporting Lugar or opposing Mourdock have spent only about $50,000, the FEC independent expenditure reports show. However, Lugar started the year with significantly more cash on hand in his own campaign account than did Mourdock. According to OpenSecrets.org, which analyzes campaign data, Lugar raised about $4.9 million in 2011 and had $4 million on hand at the beginning of the year. He raised about 72 percent of that money from individuals and about 19 percent from political action committees. Mourdock raised nearly $1.3 million in 2011 and had about $363,000 on hand at the beginning of the year. OpenSecrets.org reports that Mourdock received about 80 percent of his contributions from individuals and only about 4 percent from political action committees. Campaign spending since Jan. 1 has not yet been made public. Meanwhile, the conservative Club for Growth — which also endorsed Mourdock — is preparing to launch new ads against Lugar. The campaign will include a new 30-second TV ad and two 60-second radio ads focusing in part on Lugar’s support of President Barack Obama’s court nominees. Lugar has generally said a president is entitled to appoint his choice of nominees to the court, so long as they are qualified. “Sen. Lugar is a good man, but he can hardly be called a conservative,” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola in a

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statement about the new ads. “Sen. Lugar voted for bailouts, tax hikes, and all of Obama’s Supreme Court justices. Hoosier Republicans have an alternative in the May primary and it’s principled fiscal conservative Richard Mourdock.” Also, the Washington D.C.-based website Politico reported Monday that FreedomWorks — another political action committee supporting Mourdock — planned to pull some of its funding out of a Senate race in Utah in part to spend more in Indiana. Lesley Weidenbener is managing editor of TheStatehouseFile.com.

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during the debate on a host of issues important to Republican primary voters, including the role of government and the protection of individual liberties,” Conner said. Questions for the debate can be submitted by any citizen through the Indiana Debate Commission’s website, indianadebatecommission.com. There is no deadline for submitting questions. Greg Margason is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news service powered by Franklin College journalism students.

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lashback: 2004. When the burlesque performer now known as Anita Cocktail met with a group of other burlesque-girls-to-be on the floor of Greg Brenner’s infamous punk rock house, she had no idea what she was getting into. She did, however, have an idea of how she wanted to do it. “I don’t know what I want to perform, but I know I want to wear a black corset!” she said. Flash-forward to 2011, The Sin’s Last Stand event at the Athenaeum, where a supremely cool and confident Anita Cocktail takes the stage for a Japanese geisha-inspired routine (wearing, incidentally, a black corset). As one of the city’s most experienced burlesque performers, the raven-haired beauty carries herself with subtle flair, able to create a mood with a curled half-smile or a slightly raised eyebrow, whether she’s cloaked in a satin robe or stripped down to that corset and thong in a deliberate tease that seduces as much with her eyes as it does with her body. She’s come a long way. So has burlesque in the Circle City. Sin’s Last Stand was a tribute to burlesque routines past and present featuring several of the city’s foremost troupes, staged in the highly respectable Athenaeum Theater. A century earlier, the mayor and the chief of police were personally tearing down burlesque signs. So it goes.

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“What is burlesque?” one might reasonably ask, and if you ask any of the 50 or so dedicated performers in town you’ll get 50 answers. The best response might be “Ask your great grandma.” The easiest description might be oft-comedic skits that involve the artful removal of much but not all of the clothing. For the performer, everything is a little crazier and shinier and full of attitude and sexuality, thus creating a viable business model for manufacturers of body glitter, fishnets and double-entendre nicknames. But it’s more than that. Burlesque is performance; it is the art of the tease; it is elevating the mere mortal into something sequined and bejeweled and aware of the respect they always deserved; it is glitterdammerung; and it is always in your face. “The roots of burlesque bring the audience into it,” Anita Cocktail says. “That’s a lot of the appeal for me. You’re building a symbiotic relationship with the audience. It’s theater of the people.” Theater of the people! But of course! Burlesque may be many, many things, but one thing it is not is full of self-importance. You’re never more self-aware than when you’re stripped down to pasties and twirling tassels for the audience. At heart most burlesque dancers embrace the inherent silliness and turn it into something awesome. It’s a nearly pure form of entertainment with next to no line between audience and performer. Burlesque invites the audience into a hidden world, but always with a wink, like you’re in on the joke. Bettie Page, that great vintage icon, perfected the art of playing to the entire crowd and every single individual all at once, like she was looking just at you, if only for a moment, and reminding you it’s okay. Anyone can do burlesque, and quite often anyone does. Fifty or so perform-

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ers take the stage on a regular basis, but hundreds if not thousands of women have taken a tentative step into the lush world by classes, workshops or Open Bra Nights put on by the likes of the Pur’ Company’s Evie LaRoux or Angel Burlesque. “It’s interesting to see the people who come to do it just once to prove to themselves they could, and then who sticks it through afterwards,” notes Hard Mona of Crème de les Femmes. “Everyone’s giggling and having a great time at the workshops, and it translates into a confidence they’d never known before,” adds Katie Angel, of Angel Burlesque. “We once had a 70-year-old lady who was AMAZING. She just strutted right out of that workshop.” And there you have it; Grandma is burlesquing! It’s evolved from a dubious entertainment form through several decades of obscurity to mainstream success, and although it hit Indianapolis a little later than the coasts, the last two years have seen an explosion of glitter and pasties in central Indiana. Nearly every week you can find a burlesque show somewhere, if not two or three during the heavy season.

A bit o’ history Ten years ago the city had no burlesque; five years ago it still had only two troupes. Now we’re up to six regularly performing troupes and it feels like there’s still plenty of room to go around. It is probably not entirely coincidental that burlesque’s rapid rise comes alongside deep economic recession and uncertainty – not unlike its last golden age in the 1920s and 1930s. “People wanted an escape from reality back then, and what better way than to go to a live performance?” says Crème de les Femmes’ Jezebel Sinfell. In her day job as Eloise Batic, director of exhibits research and development at

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the Indiana Historical Society, Bottoms Up A plethora of troupes Burlesque’s Eva Destruction studies the hisThe troupes make up an ever-evolving cast tory of Indianapolis burlesque – or as much as of characters and frequently jumping locales. she can, given the limited knowledge we have. Bottoms Up makes their home in Radio “Talk to a person of a certain generation, Radio and the Historic Melody Inn, while and they’ll remember seeing a poster with a Crème de les Femmes can be found anywhere risqué photo and their mom grabbing them from Birdy’s to the Casba’s underground by the hand and moving them down the bar. Rocket Doll Revue are regulars at White sidewalk,” Eva Destruction says. “My father Rabbit Cabaret and now The Sinking Ship; remembers his grandfather talking about seePur Company can be found just about anying Sally Rand. There’s a real romance to seewhere there’s a party when they’re not doing ing these great performers in their heyday.” Indianapolis was a frequent stop on the their regular gig at Room 929; Angel Burlesque is equally at home on Crackers’ comedy vaudeville/burlesque circuit back in the stage or the eminently day; not for nothing did respectable Deluxe room we pick up the “crossat Old National Center. roads of America” Hasenpfeffer graces the moniker. Anybody who stage as White Rabbit was anybody who was Cabaret’s troupe-intraveling anywhere residence. passed through here For as distinctive sooner or later. and unique as every We know what group is, they possess luminaries traveled a remarkable degree of through, such as Sally interchangeability – a Rand. We know what hallmark of the mutual venues hosted them, respect that surrounds such as the Fox, Gaiety the city’s scene. Every and Empire Theaters. troupe has either What we don’t know hosted other troupe’s is who the homegrown — KATIE ANGEL members as guest pertalents were. “We don’t formers or guested with have a lot of written hissomebody else or usually both. tory to work with,” Eva says. “Anybody who Eva organized the Sin’s Last Stand show, made the papers was a traveler. I’d love and it seemed perfectly natural to blend to know who was here.” (If you happen to three different troupes into one show. know, email me at ppogue@nuvo.net.) “Burlesque by definition exists to supSo in that regard, the modern burlesque port women, so it would be catty to turn on scene is unlike any other period in history, each other,” Eva says. “We’re really buildas Indianapolis has developed its own dising a community with this trend.” tinctive flavor, a do-it-yourself ethic pepBurlesque isn’t stripping — a distinction pered with colorful performers sporting that needs to be made less and less these very individual attitudes. days, but is worth repeating. Burlesque has “I’m very curious to see who stands quite a bit in common with its close vaudethe test of time, who’s being talked about ville cousins, magic and stand-up comedy decades from now in the same way we talk – it depends greatly on the individual rapabout Sally Rand now,” Eva says.

“We once had a 70-year-old lady who was AMAZING. She just strutted right out of that workshop.”

port between performer and audience, and what you think you see is just as important as what you actually see. “There’s a line that determines exactly how far you will go, a line not to cross,” Crème’s Hard Mona says. “It’s a bit foggy as to exactly where it is, but stay on one side of it, and you stay classy.” And indeed, the very mystique of the theater of the people creates a delicate theoretical precipice. The performers keep themselves under wraps for most of the night and then gradually reveal themselves onstage, before darting off to get covered up before reemerging as incandescent rock stars, elegant ladies who completely control the night.

Naughty and nice Consider a recent Crème performance in Broad Ripple’s Casba with Jezebel Sinfell, Veronica Belvedere and Hard Mona. Mere minutes after teasingly removing their stockings in the confines of a cramped underground club, they glided around in clubwear or evening gowns chatting up the crowd. Veronica Belvedere looked like she was stepping right off the red carpet in a rich evening gown. Fans followed them around but kept the flirting to a minimum – it would seem almost gauche, uncool to even consider it. Sometimes it seems more likely people will ask for their autographs than their phone numbers. Burlesque makes them luminescent, something a little bit more than mere mortals. Because that theoretical precipice is naughty and nice and good girl and bad and covered up and scantily clad all at once. It has been there as long as there was something at the corner of your eye, every time in life that you think you see a little more than you actually did. “I know I’m going to run into a fan if I go out on certain nights; I get this rockstarry,

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‘Oh my god, I’ve seen you on stage’ reaction,” Jezebel notes. “Just last week someone wanted to take their picture with me,” Veronica adds. “One night at was at a café and someone recognized me from Crackers, another from the Jazz Kitchen and someone else from yet another venue.” And it comes in handy even far away from clubs and venues. “The confidence affects you in so many ways you don’t realize,” Mona says. “The ability to be onstage and not be afraid to take up space and be dominant works amazingly well when your boss is trying to give you shit at work. That kind of stare-down ability, not cracking a tear, is amazing. I use it all the time. If you’re by yourself and someone’s giving you shit on the street, having that aggressiveness and power throws people off as soon as they see there’s more to you than they think.” Indeed, you get any group of burlesque performers talking and the conversation inevitably turns towards empowerment. “It gives you a whole new level of body acceptance,” says Christie Walker, cofounder of the original incarnation of Bottoms Up Burlesque (see our sidebar for more on that.) “Once you’ve seen 500 pairs of boobs, you realize they’re all awesome.” “Men who come to a real burlesque show come away with an appreciation of a woman’s body,” Walker’s partner-in-crime Christine DePriest says. “Because this is about body acceptance. A burlesque girl isn’t about somebody else’s fantasy; she’s doing the performance for herself.” Angel Burlesque’s Desda Mae Q. Mona recalls a moment after her very first show, when a woman walked up to her and said, “I was going to cover myself up at the pool this summer, because I’m embarrassed and ashamed of myself. But after I saw your show, I said, ‘screw that, I’m ditching the coverup.” And with that, Desda realized the impact this form could really have. “To me, that was far more empowering than people hooting and hollering,” Desda says. “It’s taking something from the show and making it a better part of your life.” Evie LaRoux says she sees a sharp change in people even after just one burlesque class. “You live completely differently,” LaRoux says. “I mean, these girls walk with a certain flair and they’re even putting dishes away differently!”

very tasteful photo of me getting ready, and that turned into my coming out to my family,” she says. “My mom ended up keeping a bunch of copies for family. My 87-year-old great-aunt was packing up stuff and said ‘Hey, I have all these mink stoles; why don’t you keep them for your burlesque ladies?’” That may indeed be the next step for the theater of the people: connecting with the people and melding together as many art forms as possible. Rarely will you see quite as much variety as at a burlesque show. “People love us for what we do!” says Rocket Doll’s Frenchy LaRouge. “I can go out there and tap dance and people say, ‘Fuck yeah, tap dance!’ Where else do you hear that?” Which, in a way, is how it’s always been. “It’s everything from showtunes to punk rock throughout history,” Eva Destruction says. “We take all these different forms of art and expression and dance and music and spin them on the heel and make them sexy.” Even with dozens of performances a year and five troupes, the scene seems to be a pretty big sandbox. That variety allows for a wide array of audiences, so the bubble may be far from bursting. “I worry about oversaturation, and then at every single show I see somebody who’s never been to a burlesque show before,” Hard Mona says. And in the end, as Anita Cocktail rightly points out, burlesque will never die so long as people still have creativity, sensuality and music to mix in infinite variety, and an audience willing to watch them: “There’s not many other opportunities to create and live out a fantasy on stage and then everybody says, ‘Great!’ How many opportunities do you get that in life? That’s why I’ve been doing this for so long. As long as I have an idea I want to live out on stage, I’m going to keep doing burlesque.”

A place for men Although the culture is overwhelmingly female, there’s still a place for men; “boylesque” is becoming increasingly in vogue as a term, as exemplified by the likes of Crème’s Richard Cypher, who does a damn fine Jack Skellington with his lanky body. And Angel Burlesque’s Jeff Angel emcees the shows with distinctive flair, as he looks like the offspring of a circus ringmaster and Satan. And more and more, the entire form is gaining acceptance and popularity. “I’m asked all the time about it by people who even a year ago wouldn’t have known what burlesque was,” says Rocket Doll’s Desiree DeCarlo. “Women are seeing it as a creative outlet, particularly if they’re involved with vintage culture. They can see it as something fun and empowering and creative.” Bottoms Up’s Siouxie Snapdragon performed in that Sin’s Last Stand show and ended up in the newspaper. “There was a

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Burlesque’s beginnings: The secret origin In the interests of full disclosure, it is worth noting that your humble narrator was at the scene of the crime when the modern Indy burlesque revival began. It started, as many dubious ideas often did, when local scene stalwarts (above left) Christine DePriest and (right) Christie Walker (Christie Belle and Sass, as we knew them in those halcyon days) were a bit bored, and it took shape, as many halfcocked plans often did, on the floor of Greg Brenner’s living room where bands slept off the rigors of Punk Rock Night. I don’t know exactly which of us came up with the idea, but Walker and I were up irresponsibly late one night in 2004 and lamenting that Indianapolis didn’t get all the cool stuff like burlesque. Someone said, probably facetiously, “We should get together a bunch of Punk Rock Night girls and do it ourselves!” and the other exclaimed “We TOTALLY should!” and all of a sudden it became an actual thing. I may claim at least quarter-credit for the mad concept, but Christie Belle and Sass get all the credit for bringing the idea to life. They recruited performers via online message boards and at Punk Rock Night, with Anita Cocktail (still a member of Bottoms Up to this day) as one of the very first conscripts, and proved to be very adept and dedicated creative directors. “We had boys on the message boards saying there was no way we could ever make this happen,” Walker recalls. “But I’d been thinking about this for a while, actually. Women didn’t really have a role in the music scene, unless you were a musician. DIY was the big thing in punk at the time, and that really helped us get it going. If we’d had any competition, this never would have gotten off the ground.” We decided early on to donate the proceeds to charity – the West Memphis Three and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund that first year, and later a variety of cancer-support organizations. “The charity made it something fun, gave us less pressure to be perfect,” DePriest says. “The minute you start charging serious money for your shows is when people start to be really critical of your performance.” The very first show, the troupe did a practice run in the afternoon while a women’s rugby team had rented out the rest of the Melody Inn. “Those girls were far more lecherous and inappropriate than ANY male you’ve ever seen,” DePriest says. “They totally put us at ease! After I’d gotten catcalls and assgrabs from the girl’s rubgy team, I was ready for anything.” And by sundown, the line stretched practically all the way around the block for a show that included everything from superhero skits to Rash the Clown on a four-nail bed of nails and lots and LOTS of fishnets. “We sold out the Mel!” Walker says. “It was a lot of fun, a lot of stress, but it was huge.” Walker, DePriest and several of the girls continued on, eventually taking the name Bottoms Up Burlesque. Walker and DePriest largely retired from burlesque, though they stay involved on occasion; two other members of the original show, Anita Cocktail and Sadiemae Cutebottom, still perform with Bottoms Up. I bowed out as emcee after the first show, as I’m not a natural performer and prefer the view from stageside. But I nonetheless take a certain measure of pride in being in on the ground floor of this thing and seeing it all evolve into something none of us could have imagined – not to mention, obviously, a recurring gig that puts me stageside for every troupe now. We didn’t know what we were doing and we didn’t know what we were getting into and we wouldn’t have changed it for all the world.

— Paul F. P. Pogue

The troupes

to push themselves into new territory, so you never know quite what to expect.

Bottoms Up Burlesque

Where to see them: This prolific group might be seen anywhere in town, but often you can catch them at Birdy’s.

How they describe themselves: “What we do is a bit, not necessarily raunchy, but definitely bawdy. It’s definitely not family-friendly. This is very traditional burlesque — we do most of our shows in bars, where there’s not a wall between us and the audience.”

— ANITA COCKTAIL

How others describe them: Ask nearly anyone in town and you’ll get the same reaction: They were the first, and they paved the way. NUVO notes: The oldest continually active burlesque troupe in Indy, Bottoms Up places their focus on two charity shows a year. Their roots lay in Punk Rock Night, and that remains their home base. Where to see them: Every spring at Radio Radio and autumn at the Melody Inn, where they’ve been October regulars since 2004. They do intermittent performances elsewhere and guest spots with other troupes around the year. www.bottomsupburlesque.com

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Angel Burlesque How they describe themselves: “We pride ourselves on being as theatrical and professional as possible.”

— KATIE ANGEL

How others see them: “They run like a business, and they put on some very big events. They’re very organized and definitely theatrical.”

— DESIREE DECARLO, THE ROCKET DOLL REVUE

NUVO notes: Probably the city’s most elaborately staged troupe, Angel tends to assemble epic and sometimes ridiculously over-the-top tales around a central theme. Also, Jeff Angel is hands-down the greatest emcee in the city.

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Bottoms Up Burlesque ladies: Mistress Calluna, Anita Cocktail, Lola, Sadiemae Cutebottom, MaMarie LaVeaux, Trixie D’Light, Eva Destruction, Veronica Firefox, Sunny Sweet, Vanessa VaVoom, Katnip Forplay, and Souxie Snapdragon. Not pictured is Vixen VanGogh.

Where to see them: Open Bra Night and other major performances at Crackers in Broad Ripple, plus frequent appearances around the city. www.angelburlesque.com

Pur | The Company How they describe themselves: “We’re very much about the mystery and trying to transport the audience — a great alternative to hopping a plane to New York or Vegas.”

— EVIE LAROUX

How others describe them: “They focus on cabaret and dance, with a lot of tight choreography. You definitely get a good dance show when you see them.”

— VERONICA BELVEDERE, CRÈME DE LES FEMMES

NUVO notes: Pur is the kind of burlesque company that Hollywood types envision when they think of a burlesque troupe. Evie LaRoux’s team leverages this to the max, as most of their shows feature a couple of songs from Christina Aguilera’s Burlesque film a couple of years back. It’s a little bit of Vegas on an Indianapolis stage. Where to see them: Pur maintains a home at Room 929 in Broad Ripple, but they frequently show up at parties and hotspots around town. www.purthecompany.com

Crème de les Femmes How they describe themselves: “We all do burlesque for different reasons — we each bring something to the able and we each take something away when we perform. We try to focus on two things: Classy and classic.”

— VERONICA BELVEDERE

How others see them: “They’re always doing an array of cool things; they’re like a buffet where you never know what to expect.”

— EVIE LAROUX, PUR

NUVO notes: Traditional burlesque at its best, Crème fully embraces the vaudeville tradition, with a combination of comedy and social satire. They’re constantly encouraging each other

The Rocket Doll Revue How they describe themselves: “We function as a group of like-minded friends; we’re all interested in vintage culture, and we all wanted a creative outlet outside of our jobs. Performance, creativity and vintage culture all sort of melded into this.”

— DESIREE DECARLO

How others describe them: “They do a lot of edgy, quirky, very rockabilly stuff, and it’s always very cool.”

— EVIE LAROUX, PUR

NUVO notes: Rocket Doll was formed out of a bunch of friends who already liked dressing up in vintage wear and going out partying as a group, and going to one of their shows feels very much like being invited into a close-knit group’s running jokes. The solo bits are creative and unpredictable, and their camaraderie really shines in group numbers. Where to see them: They perform frequently at the White Rabbit Cabaret, and just started a twice-monthly trivia night gig at The Sinking Ship. www.facebook.com/TheRocketDollRevue

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Marv O Luste of Rocket Doll Revue

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Bonnie Lass of Angel Burlesque

Hasenpfeffer How others describe them: “They’re dark German cabaret.”

— KATIE ANGEL, ANGEL BURLESQUE

NUVO notes: Hasenpfeffer combines the tradition of the house troupe with traveling gypsy routines, a step-right-up brand of performance art that predates even vaudeville. Not to mention burlesque bingo. Where to see them: Hasenpfeffer is a regular feature at the White Rabbit Cabaret. www.whiterabbitcabaret.com

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UIndy Jazz Week Jazz week returns for its fifth year at the University of Indianapolis with a roster of noted local, regional and national acts April 9-14.

Monday: UIndy Jazz Combo Tuesday: UIndy Jazz Ensemble with guest Gary Campbell Wednesday: Gary Campbell Thursday: Tim Horner Friday: Jamey Aebersold Saturday: Vanguard Jazz Orchestra All performances are held at the

Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Ruth Lilly Performance Hall . Monday

and Tuesday performances offer free admission. Ticket prices for Wednesday - Saturday are $20 ($10 for seniors; free for children 18 and under and for college students with ID). Tickets are available through the box office at (317) 788-3251.

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The Love of Don Perlimplín @ Butler University The Butler University Theatre wraps up its season with an early play by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden. What begins as a whimsical story soon reveals the dark music of Lorca’s poetry, complete with magical characters and deceptions that explore the depths of eternal love. The play runs April 11-14, 8 p.m., Sun., April 15, 2 p.m., April 19-21, 8 p.m. and April 21-22, 2 p.m. Tickets are $10, free for Butler students, $5 for seniors and non-Butler students. Call (317) 940-9659 or visit www. butler.edu/theatre for more information.

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A carnival of curiosities, two Philadelphia-based brothers stepped right up in 2007 and created the Squidling Bros. Circus Sideshow . It emerged with quirky, unforgettable monikers fitting their one-of-a-kind extravaganza. “Matterz Squidling The Impenetrable Music Man” and “Jelly Boy The Clown Squidling” put a fresh, cutting edge, rock ‘n roll, dare-devilish and burlesque spin on the classic American sideshows that accompanied traveling circuses in the early 20th century - the era when the Ringlings merged with Barnum & Bailey. The Squidling Brothers recently wrapped up a tour in Europe and Japan. As part of their U.S. tour, the brothers will perform on April 12 at the White Rabbit Cabaret. Doors open and drinks begin at 8 p.m. The show is at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10. www.whiterabbitcabaret.com; http://squidlingbros.com

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Indians home opener @ Victory Field Grab your glove and head down to Victory Field for the Indians home opener on Friday, April 13. The Indians take on the Toledo Mud Hens at 7:15 p.m. Opening night boasts the 60 Degree Weather Guarantee. If the opening night contest against the Toledo Mud Hens starts with a temperature below 60, everyone in attendance will receive a free ticket to another April home game of their choice. The post-game Friday Fireworks Spectacular follows the game. Tickets to Opening Night and the rest of the Tribe’s 2012 season are currently available online well as through the Indians single game ticket hotline at 317-269-2282. www.milb.com/

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A&E FEATURE The Money Conversation

Performance artist gives her money away BY M ICAH L IN G EDITO RS@ N UVO . N ET

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Sara Juli, a performance artist/dancer/comic gives away her life savings — literally — in The Money Conversation, at the Studio Theatre on Friday. This will be her 35th performance of the piece, over six years and she keeps learning about people and money each time she performs it. She’s performed her one-man show, The Money Conversation, over the U.S. and also in Holland, Russia, New Zealand, and Australia. In this 60-minute performance, Juli draws on monologue, dance, and audience participation. She’s cashed in her life’s savings and brings it to the performance each evening, in cash. And with every performance, something different happens. Juli says that people react differently depending on geographic location, but that generally, when people talk about money, they talk about it as a burden.

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When people think about money, they tend to think about student loans and bills, rather than donations or random gifts. And thus, people’s reaction to the performance piece tends to be their reaction to money: it makes them uncomfortable. “In Holland,” Juli noted in a recent phone conversation, “all of the items that people were talking about in terms of assigning value, were used things: used computers, a jacket from a secondhand store, etc. That’s very different from the U.S., where people are always thinking about the value of new things; obsessed with buying new.” Juli literally asks the audience to participate in the conversation by commenting on the value of the things that they own. Juli says that the origin of the show stems from real life. “My husband and I began The Money Conversation when we got engaged (6 years ago) and began discussing what it would mean to combine our finances. The dialogue always made me incredibly tense and anxious. It was then that I knew I needed to make a dance about money as a way to reassess my relationship to it.” She says that the show, no matter how many times she’s performed it, continues to be grounded in fear. She’s still afraid of losing the money that she offers to the audience — because, much greater than the value of the cash, it holds the value of performing the show.

Early on, Juli recalls, she would look at people and think, ‘they won’t take my money,’ but then they would. “Looking at people is never an indication of how they will treat money.” And the show really comes to life after the performance is over: the conversations that continue — no matter if people take money or leave it. It becomes an ongoing conversation and an ongoing thought process — for Juli and for the audience. “Performing and touring this piece as much as I have is a constant reminder of the power of money. The piece brings out the best and the worst in people and I love that about the show. People do and say strange things during the show. People judge me as a person as a way to justify their behavior. I hear things like, ‘I need the money more than she does.’ Really?” Expect to experience the gambit of emotion. You’ll get to participate and make decisions — and you might just get to know yourself a little better. THE MONEY CONVERSATION Sara Juli The Studio Theatre Saturday, April 14 8 p.m.; Tickets: $38. www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org/ tickets Can be purchased online or by calling (317) 843-3800

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Aziz + Cucher’s “By Aporia, Pure and Simple.”

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Aziz + Cucher @ Indianapolis Museum of Art The Indianapolis Museum of Art will premiere four newly commissioned video installations by the collaborative team of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher in April 2012 that reflect the artist’s’ complex relationship with the political conflict in the Middle East. Developed by the artists following extensive research and travel to the region, the works in the exhibition explore the longstanding conflict between Arabs and Jews through digital animation, performance, sound, and video documentation. Marking twenty years of collaboration for the artists, Aziz + Cucher: Some People will be on view from April 13, 2012, through October 21, 2012, in the McCormack Forefront Galleries. The IMA and Lilly House are open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. The IMA is closed Mondays. 4000 Michigan Road., www.imamuseum.org

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Night of Vonnegut @ Athenaeum

Pink Martini @ Hilbert Circle Theatre

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Join keynote speaker Jim Lehrer, former host of PBS NewHour, for the 3rd Annual Night of Vonnegut . MAD Magazine’s senior editor, Joe Raiola, brings his critically praised one-man show “The Joy of Censorship” to the stage on the night of celebration. Emcee of the evening is WISH-TV’s Jim Shella. Live music, food from the Rathskellar and a silent auction will also be available. The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library hosts the event from 7:30-10 p.m. Tickets are $75 and are now on sale. The Night of Vonnegut will be held at the Indianapolis Athenaeum at 401 E. Michigan Street. www.vonnegutlibrary.org/

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Pink Martini is a rollicking around-theworld musical adventure. After a thrilling debut at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2012, this electric, 12-piece ensemble from Portland blends diverse genres of music including cabaret, samba, jazz and Hollywood musicals. They’ve shared the stage with Elton John and have a worldwide following, selling out concert halls across North America and Europe. Pink Martini is performing at the Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument Circle, on Friday, April 13 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 14 at 8 p.m.; Sunday April 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 and up. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 04.11.12-04.18.12 // go&do

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Campecine Film Festival @ Indianapolis Museum of Art BY SHAKESPEARE AND FLETCHER INSPIRED BY DON QUIXOTE

The Latino Youth Collective will host the Campecine Film Festival at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on Saturday, April 14 from 2-4 p.m. This

year’s theme: Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla (Not from Here or From There) describes the experiences of these Hoosier filmmakers who are immigrants or children of immigrants from Central and South America and Burma. The student-created films explore gender identity, immigration, and education. Campecine is free and bilingual. Following the films, the audience will participate in youth-led discussion on the issues presented. The Campecine Film Festival has been hosted by the IMA since 2007. The IMA is located at 4000 Michigan Road. www.latinoyouthcollective.com

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Bill Cosby on stage @ The Center for the Performing Arts

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ous comedian and TV actor in the 1960s, Cosby went on to change the format forever with the The Cosby Show which was unprecedented in its portrayal of an intelligent, affluent, African-American family. He continued on with even more success later in life (numerous stand-up specials, Kids Say the Darndest Things etc.), and remains to this day one of the most influential entertainers in the world. He’s performing Sunday, April 15 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Ticket prices vary. For more info, visit www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org.

A&E FEATURE Bridging two worlds

Writer Jhumpa Lahiri at Butler on Monday BY D A N G RO S S MA N DG RO S S M A N @N U V O . N E T Jhumpa Lahiri has received great acclaim as a fiction writer for her focus on the experiences of love and loss in her predominantly Indian-American characters. These experiences mirror, to some degree, her own. Lahiri grew up in Rhode Island with her Bengali parents. She is the author of three widely praised books. Her debut, Interpreter of Maladies — a book of short stories — came out in 1999. Her second book, the novel The Namesake, was made into a feature film by director Mira Nair. Her third and latest, Unaccustomed Earth, came out in 2008. In interviewing Lahiri, I found her to be engaging and thoughtful, but not effusive: She chooses her words carefully. This may be partly why, as a writer, she has published her books at a steady — but unhurried — pace. She spends a lot of time laboring over sentences and developing characters until, as she writes in a recent essay for the New York Times, “a plot unfolds.” Lahiri will be reading from her work at Butler University on Monday, April 16, in the final installment of the Spring 2012 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series. We spoke by phone in early February. NUVO: In Unaccustomed Earth, two characters, Hema and Kaushik, appear in three interconnected stories. It’s not hard to want these characters to connect for the long term when you read the book. But at the same time you have the sense that the world is spinning too fast under their feet, as it were, for things to work out for them. Have you ever been tempted to get certain characters to live happily ever after despite the odds stacked against them?

LAHIRI: Sometimes. I mean, there’s something else. There’s another force that is at work that isn’t entirely deliberate. I know it’s all coming from me and I’m in charge of it and I’m writing it and I’m thinking it and all of that, but it takes on an independence. Usually the characters become the conduit. So I think what I do is just spend a lot of time trying to create the characters and understand them. They do have an ability at times to take things in a certain direction that I hadn’t anticipated originally. NUVO: The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004 intrude into the narrative of Unaccustomed Earth. You live in New York. How did 9/11 affect you and why haven’t you approached that yet in your fiction? LAHIRI: Well, I was here for that event. It affected me profoundly as a person, as a writer, as someone who was soon going to be a mother. It affects one’s day-to-day life here in the city… But I write largely about characters who are not living in New York City. In these past couple of books they take place at different times. If I were to write a fictional narrative about characters who were affected in some way, obviously it would feature that story if I thought that was necessary. A lot of things are happening in the world all the time that are affecting people that are grave. But for me it’s something that I may not be able to allude to for a very long time simply because I was inside of it. NUVO: Lev Grossman said of your work in his article in Time Magazine — a very complimentary article, by the way — that one won’t find humor in your work. But there’s a wry kind of humor in The Namesake with a discussion of the term ABCD [American Born Confused Desi], a term that can describe a certain type of second generation Asian-American who has no clue about how to relate to his or her cultural roots. The humor in your work, though, is usually mixed in with a lot of other things. Can you picture yourself these days writing a book where humor plays a more important role?

I think my parents occupy two worlds and I also occupy two worlds but they’re not the two same worlds.

LAHIRI: I think some of my characters have happier endings than others. I acknowledge that for this couple there’s a really sad conclusion. But it just felt when I was writing that this was the inevitable direction that the story had taken. So it just really depends on the story and the group of characters and I just try to listen to which way the wind is blowing in the world of the story. It’s not really about my decision all the time. It comes from the characters that I create and the situations. NUVO: So the characters have a certain logic to their lives that they have to obey. It’s almost like a math problem?

LAHIRI: I don’t know. I just finished a book that’s not very humorous and I was thinking about that the other day. I don’t really set out to do anything deliberate in my work. It’s a very inward journey and I’m really sifting through things that I’m not terribly conscious of. It’s a very intuitive process for me… NUVO: I’ll assume you saw the motion picture The Namesake. How deeply were you involved in the production of that movie? LAHIRI: It was friendly, but removed. I wasn’t heavily involved with the movie. I spoke with the director. I set her on her way. I just wanted

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her to have independence and make the movie she wanted to make. NUVO: Were you happy with what you saw onscreen? LAHIRI: I was. I was very happy. I was curious about how she would bring it to life. I wasn’t expecting anything in particular. I really felt disassociated from it in a healthy way, I think. I didn’t feel any ownership of the book anymore after I had written it. NUVO: Often remarked upon in your work is a sense of the Bengali immigrant characters living in two different worlds at once. Is this something that defined your own upbringing and, maybe more importantly, the lives of your parents? LAHIRI: Yeah. I think my parents occupy two worlds and I also occupy two worlds but they’re not the two same worlds. My parents’ experience is more literal, I think. They literally came from one world and made a home in another world… The large part of my life that is

Indian is very much defined by my experience at home with my parents. And a lot of people live in an alternate universe but it’s only inside of their house. And it’s defined by the relationship you have with your parents or whatever. And it’s not a day-to-day life kind of experience. And then there’s the world of America that I had much more direct access than my parents… My connection to India has always been much more attenuated and complicated in a way. So I think both generations experience the schism, but it’s not the same one.

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graphed both pre-adjudicated and committed youth in the juvenile justice system. He’s compiled what he calls “a database of unbiased and compelling photographic and textual evidence of a system that houses more than 100,000 kids every day” in his piece titled Juvenile-In-Justice. The photographs are shot in a way that keeps their identities anonymous. Ross will speak as a part of Herron School of Art and Design ’s Visiting Artists Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. on April 18, 2012, in the Basile Auditorium of Eskenazi Hall. The event is free.

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Pianist Haochen Zhang @ The Center for the Performing Arts Pianist Haochen Zhang set the tone to his impressive international career when he gave his first recital at age five. Since then, he has been a soloist of wide-demand and has won multiple competitions. Most notably, he was recognized as having prodigious talent when he became one of the youngest participants and the first Chinese recipient to be awarded the prestigious Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Gold Medal at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009. Zhang performs April 18 at the Center for the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices vary. For more info, visit www. thecenterfortheperformingarts.org. Pianist Haochen Zhang

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A&E FEATURE The birth of all life on a highway interchange

RNA-inspired ‘Life Changing’ sprouts up by I-70 BY DAN G RO SS MAN EDITO RS@ N UVO.NET

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Two stainless steel beams rise like antenna from a polished bronze sphere on a cylindrical pedestal. On the tops of these steel beams are steel rings that represent the core structure of a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule, thought to be the catalyst for the evolution of all life on Earth. Around these rings are hollow metal spheres, representing nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus and oxygen atoms. The sculpture described, Life Evolving — designed by the Chile-born scientist and artist Biagio Azzarelli and installed last week at the I-70/Meridian Street interchange as part of Eli Lilly and Company’s day of community service — is that rarest of beasts: a roadside teachable moment that isn’t a historical marker; a public art project that might just offend someone, somewhere, with its acknowledgment that evolution is a thing that exists. “The work on the sculpture started with an article I read in The New York Times about the origin of life,” Azzarelli told me Thursday while on site during the final phase of sculpture assembly. “For many reasons scientists developed the hypothesis that life on earth formed five billion years ago, starting with RNA,” he continued. “At that time there was no DNA and there were no proteins. They say that life started with RNA because it had two functions. One of the functions was to act as an enzyme. The second action was to transmit genetic information.” Not that Life Evolving sets out to mimic the structure of the RNA molecule as you might

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see it diagrammed in a chemistry textbook. “The molecule is a little more complex than what you see here,” Azzarelli said. “Because it contains a lot of hydrogen. It would be too complex to create [as a sculpture] so I eliminated all the hydrogens... Otherwise it would be overwhelming. So I kept the phosphorus. I kept the nitrogen, the carbon, and the oxygen.” Azzarelli’s goal is to demonstrate, metaphorically, the connection between RNA and life on our planet. “The [stainless steel] beams are placed at a 23.5 degree angle which is the inclination of the Earth,” said Azzarelli. “And this inclination determines the seasons of the world; spring, summer, winter and fall. If it was not because of these inclinations, life on Earth would be completely different because you would have, depending on the angles, very harsh winters and very harsh summers.” The most eye-catching feature of this sculpture may be the bronze sphere that reflects the sky and the highway as you drive past it. This sphere, from which the steel beams rise, represents a single cell. And the beams themselves are surrounded by bronze spirals that resemble industrial augers. The 71-year-old Azzarelli was commissioned in 2009 by Eli Lilly & Co. to design the final installation in a public sculpture series entitled “A Greener Welcome” that would reflect Indiana’s cutting edge contributions to the life sciences. As part of the initiative, a section of I-70 was closed for one day in 2010 so that trees, shrubs, and perennials could be safely planted along a stretch of the highway. (The eastbound I-70 entrance from southbound Meridian Street was shut down for five days last week while Life Evolving was being assembled.) Azzarelli, who immigrated to the United States in 1971, has dreamt of being an artist since he was a child growing up in Santiago, Chile. After a successful career in medicine — he is professor emeritus at Indiana University in pathology, neuropathology, and neurosurgery — he came to a place in his life where he could truly merge his love of science with his love of sculpture. “The one thing that really helped me is that I was a neuropathologist and I used a microscope a lot,” said Azzarelli. “For more than thirty years I could see the small details of everything and that helped me a lot with art.”

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a grisly impact visual, keeping you off balance throughout the extravaganza. LIL’ ED: Now this is more like it. EJO: As the cops work their up through the various floors of the building, an interesting thing happens. At first you care about the heroes health, because really, how much can a body take? But as time passes and the cops keep getting treated like punching bags, then shaking it off and moving on, the production starts feeling more overtly like a video game. LIL’ ED: Oh please, don’t start carping because the movie unfolds like a video game. EJO: I’m not. In fact, I like the way Evans takes the video game format and uses clever editing and camera work, incredible fight choreography and shocking imagery to up the ante. There are numbing moments, but for the most part the movie had me. And I appreciated the brothers-onopposite-sides storyline with rookie officer Rama (Iko Merantau) and his crooked brother Jaka (Joe Taslim), because it added a welcome dose of emotional weight to balance out the characters’ ludicrous resilience to the nonstop beatings they take. Ultimately, I’d recommend The Raid: Redemption to action fans and any 15-yearolds that can get an adult to take them. Sensitive souls may wish to seek other entertainment. Your final thoughts, Junior? LIL’ ED: We should mention that the film is subtitled, but that doesn’t matter, because this movie doesn’t need many words. It kicks ass, period! EJO: I found it very entertaining, with some reservations. LIL’ ED: Be quiet, old man. You can go back to writing about depressing British art films next week. For now, pull the broomstick out of your ass and just have fun. EJO: Get off my lawn. kid.

A&E REVIEWS BOOK REVIEW INDIANAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT 1859-2009: PRIDE NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE COMPILED BY FIREFIGHTERS JEFF FLICK AND LONNIE KEY ON BEHALF OF THE INDIANAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT M.T. PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. e FIRST IN, LAST OUT: A HISTORY OF FIGHTING FIRE IN INDIANAPOLIS WFYI-PUBLIC TELEVISION e This handsome coffee table book chronicles 150 years of fire fighting via engaging photographs, chronologies and sprightly text, from the era of multiple neighborhood volunteer forces utilizing horse-drawn wagons to the current unified high tech department. Individuals are highlighted as part of a team dedicated to the well being of the community and its citizens. The authors do not shy from presenting ups and downs in all phases of building a department concurrent with standards and mores of the time, The chapter on “The Firefighters’ Quarters” presents one of the best views of racial relationships with sentiments and prejudices belying Indianapolis’ location as a northern metropolis. The pride of service by people of all cultures and ethnicity reiterated throughout is best described as, “It’s not a job; it’s part of your life, it’s a calling…Save lives. That’s our goal.” Editors note: Books are available through mtpublishing.com or 1-888-263-4702 or at the Indianapolis Professional Firefighters Union at 748 Massachusetts Avenue. Book signing: April 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Costco Store 346 Castleton; 558-1453. The companion documentary First In, Last Out: A History of Fighting Fire in Indianapolis , emphasizes the current life of firefighters set within the breadth and depth of historic reference. Despite technological advances, the core values of firefighting rest in dedicated people living, working, celebrating and mourning “as a family.” The documentary is available at the WFYI Store, 1630 N. Meridian St. or by phone: 317636-2020; more info at www.wfyi.org or indyfirefilm.org

MUSIC ISO CLASSICAL SERIES PROGRAM NO. 16 HILBERT CIRCLE THEATRE, APRIL 6 & 7 r Stephen Hough (51, pronounced “Huff”) is a pianist par excellence, you say. That is the talent he has solely displayed for us in his numerous past ISO appearances. Who knew he was also a writer, a poet and a composer? Nonetheless, Hough’s 20-minute Missa Mirablis, with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and guest conductor Nicholas McGegan proved a delightfully moving work, written — as they say — conservatively, with common chords distinctively linked. Using a somewhat modest orchestra for

a contemporary work, its five standard parts — the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei — each display a character of its own with suggested symmetry between the Kyrie and Angus Dei and reaching a peak in the central Credo. It becomes almost unnecessary to add that our orchestral and choral forces did a splendid job introducing the work to about a half filled Circle Theatre. Though starting out well, whether or not this mass setting will ultimately attain a legacy value, only time will tell. Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan began his program with Haydn’s Symphony No. 30 in C (“Alleluia”). A three-movement charmer for small forces, our ISO principal flutist, Karen Moratz, dominated its middle movement with her lovely figurations. Following the break, the Symphonic Choir returned with a Brahms choral work, Gesang der Parzen (Song of the Fates), Op. 89, which includes a full Brahmsian sized orchestra. Conducting a rather dramatic work, McGegan had his large forces mostly in sync, with Choir director Eric Stark returning for a bow. The program’s conclusion, now with Hough-as-pianist, featured Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25. Our pianist gave us speed, notes running together and no nuance to speak of. For more review details visit nuvo.net. —TOM ALDRIDGE

VISUAL ART CHIMAERA’S ATTIC: 17 ARTISTS PRIMARY GALLERY; THROUGH APRIL 20 e The inspiration for this show is a Chimaera - a fire-breathing amalgam of multiple animals, according to Greek mythology. The Indy-based artists, all female, who contributed one work apiece to this show, weren’t necessarily interested in channeling this fantastical creature from Greek mythology into their work in a literal way. Nevertheless, many works here seem like they could have been inspired by William Faulkner’s conception of a Chimaera, “as a woman who dreams…and has illusions of fabrications of the mind.” Such is Blythe Noble Hager’s twocanvas oil painting “Reliquary at the Peak of Mt. Indianapolis” On the top canvas you see various objects - rings, teeth, razor blades, thumb-sized cats - laid out on a table like collector’s items, divorced from any context. On the bottom canvas you see a mysterious desert environment hung with traffic lights and power lines while in the distance you can see the Indy skyline. This painting is inspired by the struggles with Alzheimer’s that Hager’s mother endured. Nicci Herren’s “Descend Into” is another landscape-based painting - in oil and pencil - stunning in detail, enigmatic in meaning; it portrays a bridge under construction against the backdrop of an overwhelmingly vast sky. Mary Anne Nguyen’s “Gold Chained Hearts vs. Pearls,” is more whimsical in its depiction of a gold-chained tiger and a pearl-bedecked bear bearing their teeth at each other against an abstract background. It begs the question: are we all really just savage beasts under our skin? I can’t help but think that a show of all-male artists, riffing on the same subject matter, might have been ten times as sexualized but half as interesting. — DAN GROSSMAN

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“Crossroads” by Steven Conant

VISUAL ART DELIBERATE ENERGY BY STEVEN CONANT WUG LAKU’S STUDIO & GARAGE, THROUGH APRIL 28 r In his artist statement for Deliberate Energy, Steven Conant talks about abstracting forms from nature and reducing them to basic forms and shapes. All of the works presented in this exhibition are created with alkyd — and some feature graphite. In his “zig zag” landscape paintings, as he calls them, Conant uses two layers of paint on each line, but more layers are needed, as the opacity is not there and would strengthen the paintings greatly. The zig zag paintings are still enjoyable, though; they evoke the energy of Keith Haring’s playful and bold line structures while keeping the focus on the artist’s natural themes. One piece, “Crossroads,” stacks mixed media onto paper and synthesizes his zig zag lines, geometric shapes and nature-inspired color palate into what is the most cohesive work of the show. The rest of the work succeeds in reducing nature to simple colors and shapes and is admirable for the mix of restraint and expressiveness, but curiosity arises about the potential results if Conant continues to add more layers to his art. — CHARLES FOX

INHERITANCE: LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER AND TONY BUBA IMOCA (INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART) THROUGH MAY 19 w In this show LaToya Ruby Frazier — a young African-American woman who grew up in Braddock, Pennsylvania — uses black-andwhite film photography to document her family and their surroundings. (Her work is concurrently on view at the 2012 Whitney Biennale.) Their surroundings just so happen to be a post-industrial city with a fraught history of black and white racial relations. Frazier’s photograph “Welcome to Historic Braddock,” takes its name from a sign that

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served as her subject. This photo hangs adjacent to a portrait revealing herself naked from the waist up, with a prominent tattoo on her lower belly. She looks vulnerable here, but not particularly welcoming in a municipal-booster-friendly kind of way. You often find stark juxtapositions between the photographs in this show. You can also find them within the same photographs. In “Me and Mom’s Boyfriend Mr. Art” you see Frazier sitting on a bed in one room and her mom’s boyfriend relaxing in the other. In another photograph, you see a caption on an outdoor mural reading “The World is Yours.” It’s hard not to read this ironically, considering the blighted urban setting. But Frazier has an eye for beauty in these photos too. And in her short video loop, where you see a nude Frazier side by side with a U.S Steel Plant - you see her breathing in what the plant fumes out - indicates that this brave and uncompromising artist is equally adept in multiple forms of media. Also check out Tony Buba’s documentary featuring interviews with 70 AfricanAmerican steelworkers about their struggles with institutionalized racism. — DAN GROSSMAN

NIGHT DRIVING: PAINTINGS BY ANITA GIDDINGS DEWCLAW GALLERY; THROUGH APRIL 28 e This series of paintings was inspired by a road trip that Herron Senior Lecturer Anita Giddings took with her sister in North Carolina. They meant to go to the coast, but they got lost and ultimately wound up on the other end of the state. In these small-scale, oil on panel paintings you see stretches of two-lane highway - and the looming horizon - through the windshield from the perspective of the driver. (Because so many Americans like to be in the driver’s seat, both literally and metaphorically, this perspective might be a particularly American one.) The forms you see surrounding the highway — the trees and the fields — are simplified, as they indeed might appear at night. The bright lights over the horizon are mysterious: you don’t know if it’s a pair of approaching headlights or an approaching sunrise. Since the highways that she paints don’t reach a vanishing point before reaching the skyline, the horizons in her work appear tantalizingly close. But a horizon isn’t like a mile marker telling you how far to your destination. The horizon always travels with you. — DAN GROSSMAN

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An interview with Kate Payne BY K A T Y CA R TE R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Food swapping. Sounds a bit risqué, doesn’t it? My husband and I do it at restaurants — we each order an entree, eat half of it, switch plates and finish the other, debating who made the better choice. My son does it at school, against rules set by both mother and teacher, because what 5-year old wants to eat carrot sticks when a buddy’s extra potato chips are to be had? But neither of these table-mannersnafus are at the heart of the group, Indy Food Swappers. Inspired by similar groups in Brooklyn, Austin and Portland, the local chapter was started last year by

BEER BUZZ BY RITA KOHN

APRIL 11

Roving Cinema at Sun King, 7 p.m., Goonies presented by the Indianapolis International Film Festival; food by Seoul Grill. $8 tickets.

APRIL 12

Chatham Tap Takeover, 18 Sun King Beers on tap all day; Maibock release at 6:30 p.m. Great Fermentations Friday Night Club welcomes Flat 12 Bierwerks brewers Rob Caputo and Josh Hambright to unveil 12 Penny Scottish Ale, the first beer kit in the GF series of collaborations with local brewers. 5-7 p.m., free.

APRIL 13

Opening Day at Victory Field ; 5 p.m. Bike to the Ball Park from Sun King with INDYCOG & Mayor Ballard; 6:30 p.m.; Sun King tapping of Indians Victory Lager at Captain Morgan Cove.

Suzanne Krowiak with the intention of “striving to inspire creativity, build community, and spread good cheer.” To state the obvious: food swappers swap food. While the rule says it must be homemade, you can bring anything from homemade jam to pickles to homebrew, with candies and cookies in-between. At my first swap, I walked in with a halfdozen mini-loaves of pumpkin bread and a handful of random home-canned goods from the basement. I came home with tomato-corn salsa, maple butter, homemade pasta, buckeye candies and more. While some form of organized swapping has likely gone on since the days of hunt and gather, this modern incarnation was the accidental brainchild of Kate Payne, author of the book The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking. Kate, a self-taught guru of things frugal, eco-friendly and edible in the home, had made orange marmalade for the first time in her Austin kitchen, and realized she would never make it through nine jars. So she put a call on twitter, offered up her bounty and

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Great Fermentations, 4:30-6 p.m., bring your copy of Brewing Better Beer or purchase one at the store, and have it signed by author Gordon Strong. Earth House Collective, 6-9 p.m., 237 N. East St., Indianapolis, Upland’s Infinite Wisdom Triple Release party featuring music from Blue Moon Revue with live performance art Norton Wisdom. Infinite Wisdom Tripel is a strong, Belgian-style Ale that has a long fermentation period using classic Belgian yeasts. The nose contains some banana and citrus notes while a complex fruitiness and light warming sensation are experienced upon tasting. Tickets: $15 in advance; $18 at the door; 21+ Indiana University Art Museum inaugural fundraiser, Art on Tap, 5:30-9 p.m. celebrates Bloomington’s microbreweries and IU’s art collection showcasing beer-themed artwork in the galleries including an ancient Egyptian brewery model dating back to 19911782 BC. More information at 812-855-5445. Tickets: $35 in advance at Buskirk-Chumley Theater Box Office, IU Art Museum, Lennie’s Bloomington Brewing Company, Upland Brewery/Restaurant, online at www. bctboxoffice.com; $40 at the door.

the swap seed was planted. Kate and a few well-placed friends across the country started the website FoodSwapNetwork, where users can find local chapters, as well as share information and resources. All of this happened simultaneously with the publishing of her first book, which Kate will be signing when she visits Indianapolis next week (see infobox). I chatted with Kate recently, picking her brain about everything from backyard chickens (she’s not ready, they’re still in a rental) to her favorite pressure canner (a low-end Presto).

PAYNE: Pick 2-3 areas to focus on first — don’t look at it like a whole place that you must tackle.

NUVO: How did you decide to share your idea & start the Food Swap Network?

Editors note: Katy Carter is an Indianapolis mom who cooks to avoid prozac, and shares her obsessive-compulsive culinary ramblings at KatySheCooks.com.w

KATE PAYNE: My first swap happened when I was living in Brooklyn. We ended up getting some local press, and then folks in Portland started one. A video was made about Portland — then people started forming them around the country. A friend in LA is web designer, and had the idea to start the website. NUVO: What prompted you to write your book? PAYNE: I felt like there weren’t a lot of resources for people who didn’t have time, money, or the desire to improve their home. I wanted to show people that what they were resisting was not what they thought it was. You don’t have to want a Martha Stewart house — there are other incarnations of that. NUVO: Why is your book a guide for “hip girls?” PAYNE: It just came to me, and seemed a good name for what it was trying to get at. I wanted to take back homemaking a little bit. Maybe for the woman that already has a career or is trying to figure it all out — she might plan to stay home with future kids, but doesn’t feel like she fits into a category. NUVO: Top three tips for a friend who’s moving into their own place for the first time?

Brew Bracket, 12:30-5 p.m., Indiana State Fair grounds. Partnering with local charity, SCI Hope Fund. Tickets: $35.

APRIL 15

Black Market Brewer’s Brunch, 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.; 4-course brunch paired with Sun King Beers; reserve at 317-822-6757.

NEW SEASONALS ON TAP:

Thr3e Wise Men 2 Sisters Carolina American Saison Ale with a refreshing citrusy and spicy start and finish. At ABV 5% IBU 33, it’s a lawnmower treat. It’s head-to-head brews at Rock Bottom Downtown and College Park as a nod to opening of baseball season. Downtown Jerry Suthrlin describes “Catcher in the Rye” as an American-style IPA brewed with rye malt to accentuate Pacific Northwest hop characters and add a dry spicy malt flavor. Liz Laughlin at College Park says this hoppy IPA’s rye malt provides a spicyness to the flavor that will leave you wanting more at ABV 7.0% IBU 80. The game plan is go to both and compare.

LAST CALL FOR HOMEBREW ENTRY:

2012 Crown Challenge is April 21. Entry forms at www.crownbrewing.com

Utilize thrift and estate sales for furniture purchases. Relax. Your place is your place. You don’t have to do anything a certain way. Just enjoy living on your own -- figuring it out as you go is ok. NUVO: Favorite thing to cook? PAYNE: Bread (her daily loaf is a gluten-free oatmeal millet)

Three ops to meet Kate Payne ONE:

BOOK SIGNING

April 17, 6 p.m.; free

Big Hat Books, 6510 Cornell Ave.

TWO:

GREEN YOUR CLEANING SUPPLIES WORKSHOP

April 18, 6:30 p.m.

Homespun Workshop and Gallery Space 206 South Audubon Rd. Cost: $30* (includes a $25 class fee and $5 supply fee) * space is limited, registration required: call Homespun at 317-351-0280

THREE:

INTRODUCTION TO FERMENTED FOODS WITH FERMENTI ARTISAN

April 19, 6 p.m.; free

Clark Demonstration Kitchen Indianapolis City Market 222 E. Market St. Check IndyFoodSwappers.com and paynekate.com/schedule for more details.

UPCOMING FESTIVALS:

May 12: The Sour + Wild + Funk Fest 2-6 p.m., focus is on sour ales from around the state, country, and world, paired with foods designed to accentuate the unique flavors of these specialty beers. At Developer Town. Tickets $45, at http://SourWildFunkFest.eventbrite.com. Read more at uplandsourfest.com. “The Sour + Wild + Funk Fest is hosted by Upland Brewing Co., and our fellow Indiana brewers Brugge, Sun King, and Mad Anthony will be pouring sours alongside us. Our friends at New Belgium, Sam Adams, Jolly Pumpkin, Bells, and more will be there, plus foreign brews.” May 26: Mayfest, 2-6 p.m. at Lake County Fairgrounds, Crown Point; tickets $30 at www.illianamayfest.com. April 28: Tippecanoe Arts Federation 3-6 p.m., is partnering with Lafayette brewers Chris Johnson, People’s Brewing and Greg Emig, Lafayette Brewing Company to present TAP, the craft beer fair to benefit TAF. More information at 765-4232787 or www.tippecanoearts.org/TAP If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email to beerbuzz@nuvo.net. Deadline for Beer Buzz is Thursday noon before the Wednesday of publication.

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music Synth enthusiasts

Gentlemen Hall to play NUVO party BY K A T H E RI N E C O P LE N K CO P L E N @N U V O . N E T Gentlemen Hall was discovered in a basement by WFNX DJs in 2008, but their profile has risen significantly since then. Now, instead of packing basements, they’re selling out shows across the country, buoyed significantly by a Billboard Battle of the Bands win in 2011 that sent them onstage with Beyonce and The Black Eyed Peas. The sextet is riding the tide of ‘80s synth beats that’s crashing across the charts right now (they’ve claimed in other interviews that MGMT opened a portal to synth pop). They’ve got an irrepressibly poppy and energetic live set that played a large part in their Billboard win. They’ve even got a flute player. Gentlemen Hall is often linked geographically and stylistically to their fellow Bostonians in Passion Pit (who, consequently, also won the Boston Phoenix “Best New Local Act” award). Their song “Take Me Under” was selected by the Phoenix as one of the top ten tracks from 2011. But they’re not forgetting the raving fans that made them famous. Fans can follow their exploits (including getting stuck in Canada with a suspicious customs agent) across social networks, where they interact regularly with their followers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. They even invite their fans to challenge them to games of Words with Friends (username: gentlemenhall). After releasing an album’s worth of anthemic electronic rock, collected on their first full-length self-titled, they hit the road. Now, with a fan base across the country that’s far outgrown their Boston basement roots, they’re stopping in Indy. The band is playing the NUVO Nightlife Guide party on Thursday, April 12. They’ll be joined by local rockers Hero Jr. NUVO: Tell me about your most recent practice session. What did you work on?

allow us to reenter the states. [The agent] was “suspicious” that we had crossed the border to Canada to buy all our gear. Hence we were “smugglers.” After a lot of smoothing talking from our tour manager we made it back into the good ole U. S. of A. after being heckled for a looooong time. We’re still not quite sure how the custom agents made us feel so guilty for playing a few shows in Canada.. NUVO: What kind of music do you listen to when you’re getting ready for a night out on the town?

NUVO: Where are your favorite spots to go in your hometown? What are some of your favorite discoveries?

NUVO: What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you on the road? GENTLEMEN HALL: US customs almost didn’t

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GENTLEMEN HALL: We’re new music junkies! We’ve been checking out a lot of cool new music lately like Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, GroupLove, Reptar. Really, anything we can stream from our phones via the usual Spotify, Pandora, Grooveshark.

GENTLEMEN HALL: We’re all about keeping our live set and content fresh, so we’ve been focusing on the new tracks we will likely have on our next record. Think sneak peek songs that no one has heard before. They are way more rock and roll, so we are really excited to bring another level of energy to our live show. Some very Jane’s Addiction meets Rage Against the Machine guitar hooks and riffs.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 12 NUVO NIGHTLIFE PARTY Gentlemen Hall, Hero Jr. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey 8:30 p.m., $12 at door, $10 advance 18+

GENTLEMEN HALL: There’s a ton of local venues to lose yourself in. Great Scott is a blast; they have a 15-year long dance party going on Fridays called The Pill with Michael Marotta and DJ Ken. They also have a consistently great bill of bands that actually fit together! I know; crazy, right?

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That’s usually the last priority of a promoter or venue but GS is doin’ it right. NUVO: How was SXSW? GENTLEMEN HALL: In a three-string series of words: over-the-top. The amount of bands and venues is incredible and an absolute blast. There’s zero barrier between musicians and listeners, which is how it always should be. Every single one of the dozens of food trucks that lined the streets was amazing too. If you are alive and you enjoy having fun you should absolutely make it to SXSW before you die. NUVO: Who inspires you musically? What are the five most musically inspirational albums that have come out in 2012 so far? GENTLEMEN HALL: Great songs. It sounds like a cliche but a timeless song is just that for a reason. Some favorites so far this year include White Rabbits, Chairlift, The Shins, Oberhofer and Miike Snow. NUVO: What is your favorite local band making the rounds in Boston right now? GENTLEMEN HALL: We were listening to local radio station WFNX the other day and heard Bearstronaut’s new single and really dug it. It’d be really cool to play a

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show with them someday soon. Honestly, it’s just awesome to be part of this vibrant Boston music scene! NUVO: You’re very communicative on Twitter with your fans. How has social media helped your band’s recognition outside of Boston? GENTLEMEN HALL: Social media is everything. It’s a lot of fun to see what everyone is up to across the country, but these days we’re having more fun with Instagram. Instead of hearing about people’s goings ons in 140 characters or less, now you can actually see them. We have fun with it but still understand that songs and sounds are what we’re here for. Social media is our “middle man.” NUVO: What’s your name about? It’s Gentlemen, not Gentleman. Mixups galore? GENTLEMEN HALL: So many mixups. Probably half the time our name is posted somewhere, it’s spelled wrong. Some other common ones are Gentlemen’s Hall, Gentlemen’s Club, Gentelman Hall, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Gentlemen Hall’s new EP When We All Disappear is available for free download online. See NUVO.net for more

and Roll Prom at Jake’s, Note for Note: Screaming Females, XNY Beat Jab: Of Monsters and Men, Spiritualized

Ten questions for Hero Jr. B Y K A T H E RI N E C O P L E N KCO P L E N @N U VO . N E T Indianapolis rock band Hero Jr consists of brothers Evan and Matthew Haughey and bassist Dave DuBrava. Together, they aspire to be the hardest working band in Indiana, and possibly the country, by touring hundreds of dates a year and constantly recording. They’ll have one of those dates in Indianapolis this Thursday at Deluxe at Old National Centre to support Gentlemen Hall at the NUVO Nightlife Party. In their spare time (of which they have relatively little), the brothers Haughey flip houses and lifeguard at the Natatorium. The band, which is signed to Paul Mahern’s Desa Records, will release a new album this summer, in between a three-leg tour. We asked guitarist Evan Haughey some questions about Indy nightlife to celebrate our Nightlife Guide Launch Party.

dinner, Radio Radio for a show and the Brass Ring for drinks after. Can you tell I have lived in Fountain Square for five years and love it? NUVO: Who’s your favorite band making the bar/club rounds right now? Favorite DJ? EH: I really love Goliathon! Those boys are super hard working and really know how to put on a show. NUVO: You’re about to leave on a tour across the US. How do you react to people who still know Indy as “Naptown?” EH: I react like this: “Ummm,do you live under a rock? There are so many wonderful things to do here in Indy indoors and out. If you think that there is nothing to do than you just don’t want to have fun and you should move! NUVO: What’s your favorite drink in town? EH: I love an old fashioned root beer float. (Editor’s note: Perhaps at Mug n Bun!) NUVO: Are you acquainted with any of the burlesque troupes around? We’ve got them in spades in Indy. Are you a Creme de les Femmes fan? Angel Burlesque?

NUVO: What’s your favorite place to see a show in Indy?

EH: I love any and all Burlesque events. (Who doesn’t?) White Rabbit Cabaret is my favorite place to check out a show.

EVAN HAUGHEY: My favorite place to see a show is definitely Radio Radio

NUVO: Favorite late night spot in town?

NUVO: If you were going to take someone out for a night in Indy, where would you take them? (Consider music, food, drinks, crowd, etc.) EH: I would take them to the Red Lion for

EH: Murphy Building, because it is never really closed. I spend a lot of 3 a.m. nights writing and recording music in that space NUVO: What is your weirdest Indy nightlife experience?

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EH: Not sure I can really even say anything here that would make the paper. Sorry – lame, I know! NUVO: Tell me about your solo work. EH: I lived in Bloomington for a few years, working with my mentor Paul Mahern and recording constantly. It was a great place to be working creatively. Right now, I’m

focused on Hero Jr.’s tour. NUVO: If you were going to open a club/ bar/venue in Indy, what would it be like? EH: Again, not to sound like a broken record, but I just love the feel of Radio Radio. It’s not too big, not too small and they have some of the best nationally touring bands in there every night.

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Golden hearts Auction goes viral to support local musician BY K A T H E RI N E C O P LE N K CO P L E N @N U V O . N E T Bloomington is a special place with a flourishing music community at its heart. This musical community has come together for musician and Crossroads of America label owner Mike Adams and his wife Jessica, who, after the birth of their baby boy Asa, discovered he would need surgery to correct a congenital heart condition. All is well now for Asa, but modern medicine comes at a price. As they began to adjust to life with a new addition, Dan Coleman of Spirit of ‘68 Promotions took a show that was already scheduled pre-Asa and turned it into a benefit for the new family. The show took place at The Bishop Bar last Sunday evening, but an online auction featuring exclusive donations from musicians from all over the world runs until the end of April A few of the items featured in the auction include: two tickets to every Spirit of ‘68 show next year; many original pressings of records from various bands; a recording session at Russian Recording; and a personal photo session with a very cute cat named Bub. I spoke with Mike Adams and Dan

Coleman to get the scoop on the auction, Asa and why Bloomington is just so great.

rush of support come from? Has it been surprising?

NUVO: First, if you could tell a brief history of Asa’s birth and medical conditions.

ADAMS: It hasn’t been surprising to see a thing like this happen around here, but for this amount of support and involvement to happen because of me and my family has been a surprise. When Evan Farrell tragically passed away a few years ago, a lot of the same people involved in this benefit for us were involved in some support activities for his family. There is no shortage of sincere golden hearts in this town, and these sorts of noteworthy benefits are just an easily visible example of the kind of support and generosity that my friends show one another on a smaller scale everyday, if you ask me.

MIKE ADAMS: My wife’s pregnancy was a picture of perfect health. We had no indication that anything was wrong with Asa until we went to the hospital to fish him out (he was 10 days late). They noticed his heart rate slowing, and nearly stopping, during some contractions, so they decided on an emergency c-section. Once they got him out, they noticed that his color wasn’t as pink as they like. The docs ran some tests and determined that he had transposition of the greater vessels, a congenital heart defect. So, he and I were transported to Riley while mom recovered from surgery in Bloomington. All within a few hours of his birth! After that, we lived at Riley for about 25 days while he underwent three heart surgeries, including a pretty massive open heart surgery. He’s basically recovered now, and doing well, but he’ll see a cardiologist, at least yearly, for the rest of his life to keep an eye on things. NUVO: What is the total (as of this point) amount owed in medical bills? ADAMS: We still don’t know yet, actually. I’ve seen the amount that was turned in to our insurance company, and it’s huge. I’ve never seen my name next to a number that big before, that’s for sure. I’m still not sure what percentage of that we’ll be responsible for. NUVO: You’ve also received a significant amount of support online. I’ve seen Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts. Where did this

NUVO:What new music are you working on? Have you completely stalled recording and working in light of Asa’s medical complications? ADAMS: No, I couldn’t do that. I actually had a guitar with me at Riley and wrote some new songs while we were there. Music isn’t something I can think of outside of my everyday life, it’s just a part of it. A part that’s very important to me, psychologically and in this case, therapeutically. There’s going to be a lot of music in my son’s life, which he will grow up to embrace or reject, but he’s stuck with it for now! As for projects I’m working on, I’ve finished recording a new solo album since we returned to Bloomington. I was in the midst of it when Asa was born. My band, husband&wife, is writing a new record, and I’ve been doing some recording with Frank Schweikhardt. I’ve also had the privilege of doing some shows with Tammar as a substitute drummer. Life is

more busy now than ever! NUVO: What do you think is the most special item up for grabs? What would you love to have? ADAMS: All of the stuff is completely great, and I can’t believe the amount of valuable things that our friends and friends-offriends have donated to our cause. I’d be the proud owner of any of these items, but the honest truth is that what the things in this auction represent for me is more valuable than anything I could ever own. I’ve got an entire town’s worth (or more) of beautiful people rallying around my family in our time of need. Hospital bills or not, I’ll be working for money for the rest of my life. But, the amount of love I’ve seen in my life, and especially at this moment, leaves me a very rich young man. DAN COLEMAN: The thing I want most is the hang with my friend’s cat Bub because that cat is INSANELY cute. But from an actual cool standpoint, the slew of test pressings that have come our way, from Bon Iver to Starflyer 59 to Damien Jurado. K Records coming through with two days at Dub Narcotic Studios and having Jens Lekman personally send out of print 7” didn’t suck. It’s cool to open your mail and find a package of signed Tallest Man On Earth CDs that he sent himself from Sweden.

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3Ball MTY Last Friday, The Venue (a flea market/ nightclub on Indy’s Westside) hosted one of the largest electronic music concerts in our city’s history. No, it wasn’t dubstep kingpin Skrillex, or Euro-house star David Guetta. It was a trio of teenage electronic music prodigies hailing from Monterrey, Mexico including Erick Rincon, DJ Otto and Sheeqo Beat, collectively known as 3Ball MTY (pronounced Tribal Monterrey). Barely out of high school, 3Ball MTY have become the face of Mexico’s rapidly growing tribal-guarechero music scene. Last year the group scored a massive hit with their single “Inténtalo,” earning major airplay on Latin music stations across Mexico and the United States. “Inténtalo” took the onceunderground genre mainstream, becoming tribal’s first crossover pop success. Known for its distinctive beat that features a cascading shuffle of triplet rhythms, tribal fuses a variety of traditional Mexican music with the thumping, bass-heavy sound of electro. “Tribal has a lot of flavor and it’s 100% Mexican,” Sheeqo Beat told me, when I spoke with 3Ball MTY after their debut performance in Indianapolis. “It’s been wellreceived because the rhythm is so danceable” he added. While that statement is certainly true, it took time for the Indianapolis audience to warm up to the new sound. However, this was not your average electronic music crowd. Dressed in full cowboy regalia, many in attendance had come specifically to see the show’s opening act, aging banda singer Julio Preciado. Earlier in the night, Preciado had packed the dance floor as he led his 13-piece brass ensemble through an excellent set of traditional Mexican classics. But when 3Ball MTY took the stage afterwards, the crowd fell quiet. This is not an unusual scenario for the electronic music trio. Their tours through North America regularly find them paired up with traditional Mexican music groups. “People are used to watching live bands at these concerts. So when they see the three of us come onstage, they start asking themselves ‘What the hell is going on?’

But around twenty minutes into the set they begin to understand, and they start to dance,” Otto said. True enough, by the end of 3Ball MTY’s set, the packed house was in full dance party mode, aided in part by the group’s clever remixes. “We played a tribal remix of a famous song called “No Bailes De Caballito” by Banda El Mexicano tonight. Whenever we play that song, the crowds go nuts,” Rincon said. I was curious if the young producers found it difficult to share the stage with traditional music acts like Preciado’s, but Erick Rincon insists they do not. “There’s a natural crossover,” he told me, adding, “Most of the people who come to the show are Mexican and they’re used to hearing regional styles like cumbia rapida, which share a lot of similarities with tribal.” Some critics have suggested tribal is nothing more than a passing fad on the Latin music landscape, but Rincon disagrees. He sees the genre as part of a larger global electronic music movement. “Tribal identifies conceptually with baile funk in Brazil and kuduro in Angola,” Rincon told me. “All this music was born in the hood, just as hip-hop was many years ago in the United States.” As I left The Venue with my friends that night, we began to ponder the cultural significance of tribal. Is tribal’s radical reinvention of traditional Mexican culture reflecting a deep sociological shift in Mexican society, or is it was simply just a new musical trend? My friend Emma, a young MexicanAmerican college student, observed that tribal’s ascendancy in popularity coincided with an invigorated sense of Mexican identity that had fueled recent waves of protest and activism across North America. If tribal music’s popularity does represent a symbolic form of cultural resistance against the United States’ oppressive, parasitic relationship with Mexico, I can only hope the genre continues to explode in popularity. A special thanks to Artur Silva for translating. Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. See this week’s online at NUVO.net.

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Former gallery shops for store space JUSTIN SPICER MUSIC@NUVO.NET It’s no secret Fountain Square is the new belle of the Indianapolis ball. Despite the rough and tumble attitude, residents of the Indianapolis neighbor are witnessing a growth spurned on by an investment in the arts. No matter the creative venture, Fountain Square shall embrace it openly and wholly. Carved inside the Square is Shared Heritage, a space within the Murphy Art Center that has housed both the traditional and the experimental. Jason Pittenger-Arnold describes the impetus behind Shared Heritage as such: “Shared Heritage started in August 2011 as an experimental curatorial project and a space for new artistic expressions. The idea of opening a gallery came out of an urge to make exhibitions. Everyone we work with does very different things, in very different

contexts for different reasons.” Even in its infancy, Shared Heritage has proven a versatile space for the myriad activities of Fountain Square creatives. “The space was shared between musicians and artists and friends, so there were projects formed around all those relationships. It became a natural place to practice and perform. We didn’t necessarily seek out musicians who shared our aesthetic but did like the ones that expressed states of mind, visions, fantasies and drug trips,” said Pittenger-Arnold. “The walls would be scuffed and repainted, all the gear moved out for an exhibition and then back in. It was a well-oiled process.” However, Shared Heritage is adapting to a new initiative and in that spirit has refocused itself into two separate entities as it prepares to leave its current space. “The idea was to make people aware that there were people curating and we accomplished that so what’s coming next is very exciting to me,” said PittengerArnold. “The gallery is in a new phase now. Maybe not so experimental and, it could be said, more serious.” How serious? Pittenger-Arnold cracks about the end of music in the gallery space. “We didn’t have access to enough drugs. Not enough money. And little by little we went insane.” Concerts have been shifted over to new house venue and collective, Mediumship, as Shared Heritage focuses on its next evolution, beginning with upcoming exhibit Sprig: Work & Thing, at the newly chris-

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tened AKA space (located at studio #302 in the Murphy Art Center), beginning April 6th. “Sprig: Work & Thing is the manifestation of the past two years of work from three artists: Nicole Simpkins, Suzanne Wyss and Bill Pariso—unrelated to daily Shared Heritage operations. We are curating the exhibit.” AKA will continue the work begun by Shared Heritage, with Jesse Lee directing operations, as Pittenger-Arnold and the rest of the Shared Heritage crew begin the transition from gallery space to storefront. “We want to start selling art books and art-

ist books; zines and magazines; independent and dependent publishing,” said PittengerArnold. “We’re now shopping for a storefront space and closing Shared Heritage.” It’s the spirit of Fountain Square running free once more, as the community continues to evolve its artistic visions. PittengerArnold’s last words sum up what’s great about his “enchanting neighborhood.” “We take pride that we live and work here,” he said.

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Albums reviewed DYLAN ETTINGER LIFETIME OF ROMANCE NOT NOT FUN t Tucked away in Bloomington is Dylan Ettinger, a student of many genres but a master of none. Armed with multiple synthesizers and a brain full of ideas, Ettinger has created a wealth of cassette and vinyl releases showcasing his disparate influences — drone, dub, new wave, and kosmische chief among them. But much of Indiana has yet to catch on to Ettinger’s underground celebrity. Lifetime of Romance stands as Ettinger’s coming-out party. We finally get to hear the secret Indiana has been keeping quiet so far. Unfortunately, Lifetime of Romance does not catch Ettinger at his best. It’s the sound of a man moving on from larva to pupa; the growing pains of metamorphosis obvious to observers both casual and scientific. Bridging ‘80s Goth and shoegaze into an inward study of music as emotional expression, Lifetime of Romance is full of awkward moments as Ettinger stumbles through 8-bit temper tantrums (“Disparager”) and sad bastard synth ballads (“Blue and Blue”). These stumbles do provide a picture of what’s to come as Ettinger further delves into his stack of influences, distilling pure essence and discarding the waste. The gut punches of “Arco Iris” and “Maude” are nearly complete; “Arco Iris” transforms erratic video game static into face-down orchestral maneuvers in the dark. “Maude” throws the whole of Ettinger’s career into the modular for a three-part exploration of the galactic, lounge and hyperbaric. Lifetime of Romance may not be Ettinger on his best day but the transformation from youthful transgressor into mature composer is under construction. Soon, Ettinger’s beautiful mechanics will become the talk of Indiana. — JUSTIN SPICER

Lifetime of Romance is available at your local independent record store. LEMI VICE X KNIFE FIGHT MOOMBAHTON EP RAD SUMMER r Rad Summer’s latest offering, a collaboration between Chicago-based producers Lemi Vice and Knife Fight, is the label's first full on foray into moombahton music. Moombahton was born as an off-the-cuff improv by producer/DJ Dave Nada in 2010. A surprisingly fluid mix of slowed down Dutch house music and sped up reggaeton beats, moombahton has quickly established itself as an important genre in the contemporary dance music scene. I find moombah most effective when it remains close to its Latin music roots and the

EP's lead track "Gorilla Revolution" does just that. Well-placed conga drum samples effectively ride over the hard electro-moombah beat. "That's No Moomb" provides another high point on the EP: a bass-heavy rework of John Williams' "Imperial March" from Star Wars. Another excellent release from the Rad Summer label, and a very worthy edition to the fast growing canon of moombahton music. —KYLE LONG Listen to Moombahton online at NUVO.net

RX & SHIFTEE SPACE ACE REMIXES RAD SUMMER e Normally a remix EP would not be a high priority for review, especially considering that I reviewed the original release only a few months ago. However, the latest Rad Summer offering, a handful of remixes from RX & Shiftee’s Space Ace, is so exceptional it merits the extra attention. A lumbering dubstep remix of “Space Ace” by producer Wonder opens the EP on a false note. Wonder’s harsh, heavy-handed treatment offers no insight on the original version, which delicately balanced downtempo ‘80s synth sounds with the more aggressive tendencies of modern bass music. Up next is my justification for revisiting this EP – a beautiful, jazzy and just plain sublime remix of Rx’s “Orbit” by the Brooklyn based producer Archie Pelago. Pelago’s reinvention achieves a haunting, meditative quality, by layering graceful melodic concepts over the restrained garage-style beat of the original. Minimalist horn lines fade into a legato strings passage. This quiet masterpiece of contemporary electronic music leaves its mark on your ears. Zeppy Zep offers an equally fresh take on “Orbit,” supplying the track with a heavier, dance floor-friendly house beat and muted vocal chants. It’s a fitting companion to Pelago’s more ambient vision. I had high praise for the original version of “Landing Boots,” complementing producer Shiftee’s impressive musical palette, which simultaneously evoked the work of James Blake, Erik Satie and Art of Noise. Unfortunately Lamin Fofana’s uptempo remix adds nothing except a dull dance-floor beat. Rad Summer continues to impress with each new release. In my earlier review I speculated the the label might soon become a big contender in the electronic music scene. It sounds like they already are. —KYLE LONG Listen to Space Ace Remixes online at NUVO.net

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Like most states with active trade associations of barbers and beauticians, Iowa strictly regulates those professions, requiring 2,100 hours of training plus continuing education -- but also like many other states, Iowa does not regulate body piercers at all (though it forbids minors from getting tattoos). Thus, the puncturing of body parts and insertion of jewelry or other objects under the skin can be done by anyone, with or without formal training, under no one’s watchful eye except the customer’s. (A few cities’ ordinances require a minimum age to get pierced.) Said one professional piercer to the Des Moines Register for a March report, “The lack of education in this industry is scary.”

Government in Action

• Controlling the Waters: (1) A February bill in the Wyoming legislature to prepare the state for possible secession authorized a task force to consider establishing a state army, navy, marine corps and air force, and one amendment added the consideration of purchasing an aircraft carrier. Wyoming is, of course, landlocked, but it

does have the 136-square-mile Yellowstone Lake, though that body of water is high up in the Teton mountains. (The aircraftcarrier amendment was defeated even though 27 representatives voted for it.) (2) Texas announced in February that it would deploy six gunboats to patrol the Mexican border’s Rio Grande river. Said a state Department of Safety official, “It sends a message: Don’t mess with Texas.” • With a National Institute of Justice grant, the Houston Police Department was able to learn precisely how embarrassingly bad it had been in investigating rape cases. In February it conceded that, as of December, it had on hand 6,663 untested rape kits (some from the 1980s) taken from rape victims at the time of the crime but then apparently ignored. (Not all are significant: In some rapes, a perpetrator has already confessed or been convicted, and still other victims recanted, and in still others, the statute of limitations has run out.) • After every snowfall in recent years, Doug Rochow of Ottawa, Ontario, has routinely taken his shovel and cleared two paths in a park near his home (since the park is apparently a low priority for municipal snow-clearing), but in March, the city ordered him to stop. Rochow said his aim was to keep people from hurting themselves on uncleared paths (thus perhaps saving the city money on lawsuits). The city’s reverse-logic position, according to a Toronto Star report, was that if Rochow cleared the paths, more people

would be encouraged to use them, increasing the city’s exposure to lawsuits.

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• It wasn’t on a scale with an infinite number of orangutans using an infinite number of iPads, but the conservation group Orangutan Outreach has begun to supply certain zoos with iPads, hoping to encourage apes’ creativity and social networking. At the Milwaukee Zoo, a handler holds the device while an orangutan operates a painting app with its fingers. (“Orangutans like to paint, and they’re capable of using this (tablet),” he said, adding the benefit that “there’s no paint to eat.”) At the Memphis Zoo recently, said an Outreach official, the apes seem happy when they recognize images of other apes on the iPad. The Toronto Zoo’s iPad is expected soon. • In March came word from Taiwan that the prominent Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts had awarded a prize worth the equivalent of $13,500 to student Wong Tin Cheung for creating the face of a man by using the artist’s own urine. His piece, “Blood Urine Man,” presented to judges in a toilet bowl, used urine of different colors, supposedly to match the pigments of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man.

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• Difficult Fact-Check: According to the Utah Highway Patrol, a one-car crash in February left the following injured in serious condition: Ms. Me Htwe and Mr. Hsar Kpaw Doh and Mr. W.T. Htoo, along with the driver, Mr. Tar Eh. (Ms. Mula Er, 14, died of her injuries.) All were from Heber City, Utah. • “(E)very single cop in the state has

done this. Chiefs on down.” That practice, referred to by the unidentified Minnesota law enforcement officer, is the personal use of the police database that is supposedly off-limits for all except official business. According to an imminent lawsuit (reported by the weekly City Pages in Minneapolis), former officer (and apparently still a “hottie”) Anne Marie Rasmusson, 37, learned that 104 officers in 18 different agencies in Minnesota had accessed her driver’s license record 425 times. Rasmusson’s lawyer said the reality is that officers tend to treat the confidential database more like a “Facebook for cops.”

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• (1) In January, police in Bridgeville, Pa., investigated a series of vehicle breakins, including one of a car belonging to Kathy Saunoras, who reported that only her dentures were taken. (2) Two weeks later, health worker Marlene Dupert, 44, was charged with yanking dentures out of the mouth of one of her charges at a nursing home in Selinsgrove, Pa. (3) Also in February, Evelyn Fuller, 49, was charged with robbing the First National Bank in Waynesburg, Pa. -- a crime necessitated, she told a police officer, because she needed money for new dentures.

People With Issues

• Only the Lonely: Adrian Baltierra, 51, was charged with solicitation in February in Bradenton, Fla., after, according to police, he approached an undercover female officer, who was posing as a prostitute, and agreed to a transaction. In exchange for $15, Baltierra would be accorded the opportunity to take a whiff of CONTINUED TO PG 45

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some people misunderstand the do-it-now fervor of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Please prove them wrong in the coming weeks. Launch into the interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow the natural energy to get hemmed in by theories and concepts. But also be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance. Consider the likelihood that your original vision of the future might need to be tinkered with a bit as you translate it into the concrete details. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is a possibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment. Here’s the potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold. So let me ask you: What if the rainbow’s the real prize? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It’s eternity in a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle -- like the compulsive yearning for money, power, and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted. In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel. CANCER (June 21-July 22): For a white guy from 19th-century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he traveled in Africa, he referred to what were then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired by Livingstone as you expand your notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres. What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The flag of California features the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal. And yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there any discrepancy like that in your own life, Leo? Do you continue to act as if a particular symbol or icon is important to you even though it has no practical presence in your life? If so, this would be a good time to update your attitude. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The cartoon character Felix the Cat made his debut in 1919. He was a movie star in the era of silent films, and eventually appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which allowed him to do many things he wasn’t able to do before. I bring this up, Virgo, because I believe you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks that wasn’t on your radar until you had matured to the point where you are now. To ensure that you get that bag, though, you will have to ripen even a bit more. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: She has turned out to be a stellar human being. Every now and then, though, I get a bit envious of parents who’ve created bigger families. If bringing up one kid is so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked an acquaintance of mine, a man with six kids, how he had managed to pull off that difficult feat. He told

me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.” I offer up this story as a way to encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favor quality over quantity. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect there’ll be some curious goings-on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea could save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be the key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up just in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony, Scorpio? Can you handle such big doses of the old flippety-flop and oopsieloopsie? For extra credit, here are two additional odd blessings you could capitalize on: a humble teaching from an unlikely expert and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some of our pagan forbears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months. Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top of it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Once upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman named Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her amorous affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But there was a problem: I was flat broke. What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling off a precious heirloom from childhood, my collection of 6,000 vintage baseball cards. Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: Sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy so as to empower the future of love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We all know that spiders are talented little creatures. Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility tha t the ideas I’m articulating here would be good for you to meditate on right now, Aquarius. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon. Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait -- before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out -- a wind that was causing confusion in your gut-level intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterwards, and you will see things more clearly.

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