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WELCOME TO INDIANA, CIRCA 2050!
Startling news this Earth Day: If we don’t do something soon, Hoosier summers will feel more like Texas than Indiana in 35 years. The good news? There’s a gang of school kids doing their part to reverse climate change.
Ed McKinley on climate change in Indiana............................................... P.11 Jim Poyser on how kids are helping find solutions............................................ P.14
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This week in News we’ll look at why advocacy groups are taking the GOP to court. We’ll also get caught up on the latest in the Mounds Lake Reservoir project. Plus, Mike Pence’s tarnished image and the circus that is education in Indiana are areas of discussion in Voices.
The GOP, bitten by watchdogs............ P.8 Mounds Lake..................................... P.10
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Mohammed Fairouz’s Zabur, a war requiem set in a Syrian bunker commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, premieres Friday at Hilbert Circle Theatre. Chances are it’ll be profound and devastating. Plus: If the stories behind the April Show — an annual showcase for artists who’ve overcome big obstacles — don’t warm the cockles of the heart, then you probably don’t have one.
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“Cropichon et Bidibule.” Even if you can’t say the name, you really should try this authentic French restaurant — just ignore the décor. Plus, Jolene Ketzenberger tells us about a series of barista throwdowns and we’ve got outdoor dining picks now that the weather’s warming up.
Cropichon et Bidibule........................ P.24 “League of Lattes” competition....... P.26
April Show......................................... P.18 Zabur.................................................. P.19
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Here’s what’s hot on NUVO.net currently: Wednesday marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day — see why conservationists gave the GOP Congress an “F” through its first 100 days. And the 2015 Colts Cheerleaders have been chosen! Check our slideshow online for photos of the Finals.
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Our musical agenda this week: We go back to school with A.T. Bossenger’s piece about Bloomington promo group IndieU. Our Cultural Cannibal Kyle Long talks with women317 co-founder Elle Roberts about her all-woman showcase at Tin Comet Coffee; then we follow up that coffee talk with some beer and gear talk with The Burning Mules.
IndieU................................................. P.27 Burning Mules................................... P.28 A Cultural Manifesto: Elle Roberts... P.30
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hen people fall as hard and as fast as Mike Pence has, they generally like to have something – a parachute or a bungee cord – to slow or stop their descent. Indiana’s governor doesn’t seem to have either at his disposal. Two polls released in the past few days show how far Pence, a Republican, has tumbled. The Human Rights Campaign canvas revealed that Pence’s personal approval rating to be 39 percent favorable and 38 percent unfavorable. A Howey Politics Indiana poll was, in some ways, even worse news for the governor. It found that only 45 percent of Hoosiers believe Pence is doing a good job as governor and 46 percent say he isn’t. Still worse, his personal approval rating stood at 35 percent with 38 percent having an unfavorable impression. Just a few weeks ago, Pence cruised at headier altitudes. Polls conducted by Public Opinion Strategies in January and February found Pence sailing along with 66 percent and 62 percent approval ratings, respectively. The governor’s free fall isn’t his only problem. At the same time the two polls were released, Bill Oesterle, Gov. Mitch Daniels’ campaign manager in 2004, announced he was stepping down as chief executive officer of Angie’s List to devote himself to rescuing the state’s reputation. Oesterle’s voice was one of the loudest condemning the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Pence’s handling of the flood of criticism and opposition that washed over Indiana because of the law. Oesterle gave $150,000 to Pence’s campaign in 2012 and said at the height of the RFRA controversy he was experiencing a bad case of “buyer’s remorse.” Oesterle said he wasn’t planning on running for governor himself, but that he wouldn’t rule out a run if he couldn’t find another solid Republican candidate to challenge Pence. While the RFRA fight raged, many members of the Indiana business community whispered about finding a primary challenger for Pence next year. It appears they may have found a point person to guide their efforts. Pence partisans responded to this barrage of bad news in two ways.
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First, they blamed his precipitous slide exclusively on RFRA and said single issues rarely sway elections. Hoosiers’ passions regarding RFRA and the fallout over it will fade over time and not be a factor in the 2016 election, they argued. Second, the Pence crowd pointed out that Daniels had low approval ratings in his first term and won a resounding reelection in 2008. Daniels’ success, they said, proves Pence can come back. In other words, the Pence people whistled past the graveyard. There’s a key difference between his situation and the one Daniels was in. Even when Daniels’ numbers were low, key members of the Republican coalition – folks like Oesterle and other GOP heavyweights – weren’t fleeing from him as if he carried the bubonic plague. Part of the reason for that is in the nature of the way Daniels ran for governor. He set forth an agenda when he sought the office in 2004. He said he was going to be ruthless in restoring discipline to the state budget, that he was going to privatize as many state services as possible and that he was going to throw the full weight of the state behind economic development. People could and did disagree with Daniels’ goals, but they couldn’t claim he hadn’t made those goals clear. Because Daniels’ agenda was clear, Republicans knew what the fight was about and stood with him. Pence is different. In 2012, he didn’t really campaign for governor. He ran for prom king, asking people to vote for him just because he was a nice guy. For all of his talk about having a road map for Indiana, Pence was vague about where that map led – perhaps because, as the RFRA debacle demonstrated, the destination was a place few Hoosiers would want to visit, much less live. Mitch Daniels’ clear agenda was his bungee cord, his parachute. Mike Pence decided early on that he didn’t need to tie himself down with a cord or carry the weight of a parachute on his back. That’s why, when this governor started falling, he just kept falling. n
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he Indiana State Board of Education has turned into a circus, with two snarling opponents vying to step into the center ring and take over the show. Right now, Democratic state schools superintendent Glenda Ritz is technically the board’s ringmaster. She was elected in 2012, which at the time meant she would automatically become the board’s chair. But the lion waiting to pounce on Ritz and steal the show is Republican Gov. Mike Pence who, with the help of Republican legislators, is looking for a way to strip Ritz of her power. The rest of the performers in this circus — the state lawmakers — are divided along party lines, with Democrats standing strongly behind Ritz, and Republicans looking for ways to force her into the wings. But there’s one crucial element to this show that state leaders continuously ignore: the audience, or in this case, the teachers. Few lawmakers have given any thought to the perspective of our children’s educators. And therein lies the problem. “I think the whole thing is a huge mess,” Greensburg High School French teacher Abbie Watkins said. “(Ritz) was elected. She should be allowed to do her job.” Overwhelmingly, Watkins’ sentiment is shared by most Indiana teachers, regardless of political affiliation. After working under the dysfunctional direction of former State Superintendent Tony Bennett, Hoosier teachers were ready for a change, which is exactly what Ritz brought when she stepped into the ring. Yet despite the desires of the citizens actually working in the education field, state Republicans seek to take Ritz down simply because she defeated the Republican incumbent. But what this show’s performers — or maybe, clowns — are failing to see is that Indiana schools are thriving under Ritz’s direction. ISTEP scores are up, and school letter grades are being used more effectively to measure students’ progress. “I feel that (Ritz) is more in touch with the needs of teachers and students than Bennett, and more willing to work for what’s best for education in Indiana,” Watkins said. Future teachers also agree
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that Ritz’s work has been a step forward for Indiana education. “(Bennett) was no good,” Franklin College education major Jessica Cain said. “The people wanted him out of office, and got him out by voting.” Lawmakers should listen to Hoosier teachers, because it’s the teachers who genuinely care about the students. They’re not forming their opinions of Ritz based on political beliefs, but rather on the belief that she is benefitting our kids. In fact, many Republican teachers support Ritz, and helped vote her into office. For example, Watkins is a registered Republican, and Cain tends to split her vote between both parties. During the two months that the Indiana General Assembly has been in session this year, Republican leaders in both chambers have been hard at work creating legislation to forcibly remove Ritz from her position as chair of the Board of Education. But again, during this political process, no one has asked the teachers what they thought about this potential change. Sure, hundreds of people stormed the Statehouse with signs and T-shirts showing their support for Ritz, but did lawmakers listen to their cries? Not at all. In fact, some Republicans, including House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, went so far as to say the proposed changes to the Board of Education would actually help fix the state’s education problems. If this is the case, then why are hundreds of Hoosier teachers spending their valuable time at the Statehouse demanding that such legislation not be passed? Regardless of political motives and heated tempers, the show at the state Board of Education must go on. But the question remains: who will be the star? No matter what the state decides in this matter, one thing remains clear: the audience at this circus will continue to support the natural leader. “She was elected by the people. The people were tired of what was happening and wanted changed,” Cain said. “Removing Ritz is going against what the people want.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.22.15 - 04.29.15 // VOICES 7
WHAT HAPPENED? Environmental legislation update SEA 412 – While Gov. Pence and the Republican Caucus presented as promised a new energy efficiency plan to replace the debunked Energizing Indiana plan, their fix has left much to be desired. The Senate Enrolled Act 412 puts the task of creating energy efficiency plans in the hands of utility companies. Every three years a company would submit its plan for making energy more efficient for the customers in its particular service area. Large companies like Duke Energy could opt out of creating an energy efficiency plan all together. Sen. Jim Merritt, R-Indianapolis, authored the legislation and stated that it gives the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission the authority to accept or reject and plan presented. Sen. Jean Breaux, D-Indianapolis, voted against the measure saying it took the state backwards. In an effort to see where state lawmakers stand on the issue of climate change, Rep. Dan Forestal, DIndianapolis, tried to amend the bill to acknowledge the issue. The amendment would have simply added the following sentence to the bill: The general assembly finds that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities. Forestal “The sentence was taken from the NASA website,” said Forestal. “I wanted it to be as non-political as possible for the greatest chance of getting it passed.” He also called for a roll call vote for a record of who voted for and against the amendment. Unfortunately the amendment never made it that far. As soon as it was read, Rules and Legislative Procedures Chair Jerry Torr, R-Carmel, called for point-of-order and demanded the amendment be withdrawn from consideration. Torr called it an “alleged figure” from NASA and claimed the statistic was non-germane to the bill in question. (I’m still not sure how a statement about climate change is non-germane to energy efficiency. Maybe that is a story for another day.) Torr’s point was noted by House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, and the amendment never saw a vote. Forestal wanted the state Legislature to have on file a vote acknowledging climate change is real, is occurring now and is man-made. “It was a first step to acknowledge climate change,” said Forestal. “My thought process was that if there was a majority who would acknowledge the reality of climate change, then I could write legislation to begin to address it in the state of Indiana.” Forestal admits he felt like the move was made to avoid any type of formal vote on the issue.
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ust because you let legislation with questionable ethics die doesn’t mean the questions go away. The people asking those questions don’t go away either. That is a lesson the Indiana Republican Caucus and State Rep. Eric Koch, R-Bedford, are learning the hard way through the state’s court system. Citizens Action Coalition (CAC), Common Cause of Indiana and the Energy and Policy Institute (EPI) collectively have filed a lawsuit against the House GOP and Rep. Koch for allegedly violating the state’s Access to Public Records Act (APRA). The complaint was filed last Wednesday in Marion Superior Court. The saga began in January when EPI filed a public records request to obtain copies of any correspondence between Koch and investor-owned utility companies operating in Indiana and other associated companies and organizations. The request was made in response to HB 1320, Koch’s authored legislation that had proposed limiting the amount of credit consumers using solar energy received for selling excess power back to the grid. It also would have allowed the utility to set fixed charges for solar users. With Koch’s personal financial interests in fossil fuel companies and campaign contributions from the utility industry well-documented, ethical questions began to surface about the motives behind the proposed legislation. Koch “The Edison Electric Institute and the electric monopoly utilities that they represent have declared war on customer-owned rooftop solar in statehouses throughout the country,” said Matt Kasper, fellow with EPI. “We believe the people of Indiana have a right to know if these special interests were involved in any way with the legislative process or the drafting of HB1320.” However, the chief counsel for the House Republican Caucus denied the public records request on two separate occasions. Chief counsel Jill Carnell cited
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another case (Masariu vs. The Marion Superior Court No.1) as the justification for her denial. She claimed “the Indiana Supreme Court determined that it would not intervene in the internal affairs of the legislative branch of government and that it is up to the legislative branch of government to decide its own internal procedural rules related to the release of records.” After the second denial, the CAC got involved. Together the CAC and EPI appealed the denial to the Public Access Counselor, a position created under executive order by Gov. Frank O’Bannon then solidified in statute by the General Assembly in 1999. HB 1320 was killed February 24 when House Speaker Brian Bosma pulled the legislation off the calendar. It was an important deadline for any votes on bills to move forward to the Senate for consideration. Bosma was quoted as saying a variety of issues had arisen about the bill and it simply wasn’t ready for passage. He made no mention of the public records request made by EPI. Ten days after the bill was pulled, the Public Access Counselor issued an opinion stat-
ing the Indiana General Assembly was subject to APRA and EPI’s request was valid, although it needed some clarification in the specifics of the request. The GOP might have thought the issue was dead and gone. But the watchdogs bit down a little harder, not willing to let go of the bone they started to pick. A third public records request from EPI and the CAC was submitted to the GOP Caucus, this time with the specifics suggested by the Public Access Counselor. Jesus predicted that Peter would deny him three times. The GOP Caucus was just as predictable. Carnell claimed the same exception as the previous two requests and stated the request lacked the specificity as indicated by the Public Access Counselor. The CAC and EPI went back to the Public Access Counselor for a second complaint. Public Access Counselor Luke Britt issued the second advisory opinion April 1, but it wasn’t a joke. He found the public records request to meet the standards set forth in APRA. Even though the bill is dead for this legislative session, those concerned about how the legislation was drafted to begin with still want to know the influences behind it. The watchdogs are not letting go of that bone. After reviewing the situation, Common Cause of Indiana got involved and became the third plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We believe the Caucus has violated the Indiana APRA for unilaterally rejecting these attempts to obtain the public records on the basis that the law does not apply to the Indiana General Assembly,” said Julia Vaughn, Policy Director of Common Cause Indiana. “Providing the public with information regarding the affairs of government is an essential function of a representative government.” According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs hope the court will determine that Rep. Koch and the Republican Caucus are subject to APRA and are in violation of the law by denying the public records requests. They are asking for full disclosure of the records in question as well as associated costs, expenses and attorneys’ fees. n
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pposition to the proposed Mounds Lake Reservoir project continues to grow in Madison and Delaware counties. The proposal to dam up the White River in Anderson and create a 2,100 acre lake stretching from Anderson to Yorktown was met with opposition from its inception. Folks actively opposed to the plan formed the organization Heart of the River (HOR) with the primary goal of stopping the project. Over the last two years the Corporation for Economic Development in Anderson (CED) has conducted two feasibility studies to support the idea of stopping the dam and generate public interest. Most recently the CED has presented the results of the second feasibility study to interested parties. During that same time HOR has worked to educate the masses on the problems created by the project to sway public opinion against the proposal. So far, it looks as though the opposition is winning the fight. Over 20 organizations have formally opposed the project and made their views known to the public. The latest entity to do so is the local Farm Bureau in Delaware County. The group made its opposition to the project known during Monday night’s Delaware County Commissioners meeting. According to Muncie’s Star Press, the Farm Bureau’s position was based on concerns of land losses for crop and hardwood production, mosquitos and negative effects on drainage in the affected areas. Several other groups have echoed similar sentiments and added to the list of concerns. HOR maintains a list of the organizations opposed to the project along with some of their statements. For many there are too many questions and not enough answers. For others, the damage to animal habitats and natural resources simply isn’t worth the risk for economic growth that may or may not happen. And the argument that the region is in need of another large body water source to ward off shortages in 20-30 years hasn’t been substantiated
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The stretch of the West Fork of the White River between Anderson and Muncie is the center of the Mounds Lake Reservoir project.
enough to warrant the reservoir. The CED’s website indicates the next step in the process is to develop a commission comprised of representatives from all of the local government entities in the affected area. The commission is needed to act as the governing body responsible for the development and administration of the project moving forward, much like how the Capital Improvements Board manages the decisions for Lucas Oil Stadium and Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. That is one of many reasons why groups like Farm Bureau, HOR and the Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC) have been presenting their views to commissioners, councils, and town boards over the last few months. “We believe it will be May or even June before those local units of government are asked to join [the commission] formally,” said Tim Maloney, senior policy director for the Hoosier Environmental Council. The HEC has also developed an alternative plan dubbed the “Mounds Greenway” which maintains the river as it is, yet develops the land around the river basin to create unique green spaces, retail opportunities and trail paths from Anderson to Muncie. If the goal of the proposed lake is to create economic development, the HEC believes it can be done without damming the river and wreaking environmental havoc in the process. The proposal on the table from the CED requires a “buy in” from Madison and Delaware counties as well as the munici-
palities of Anderson, Yorktown, Chesterfield and Daleville with each entity having an equal vote at the table. But what that vote means and what each entity is responsible for still remains to be seen. “In order to move forward, the commission would have to determine where the money will come from for the next round of studies,” said Maloney. “What hasn’t been made clear is what happens if a clear funding source isn’t identified. Will the local government entities be left to foot the bill? Those are the questions council members and commissioners will need to ask themselves before voting to join the commission.” The first feasibility study was privately funded and the second was funded with a state grant from the Indiana Finance Authority. However, Maloney says receiving more money from that source is unlikely and dollars are unavailable. A buyer for water from the reservoir once completed has yet to be identified. While the potential buyers in the area (Citizens Energy, local utilities for Anderson, Muncie, etc) haven’t said they wouldn’t purchase the water, they have said that another reservoir is not on their priority list for future mitigation plans. For now, those questions and more remain unanswered until the CED begins to formally ask for a commission to be created. While no timetable has been made public, the Delaware County Council’s next meeting on May 12 could be the beginning of those discussions. n
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INDIANA 2050 CIRCA
IF WE DON’T DO SOMETHING SOON, IT’S GOING TO BE ONE HOT HOOSIER STATE BY ED MCKINLEY • EDITORS@NUVO.NET
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f Indiana summers aren’t hot enough for you, they soon will be. Heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions have already forced temperatures up dramatically, and they’re certain to go higher. “Indiana could look more like Oklahoma or Texas by 2050” in terms of temperature, says Dev Niyogi, a Purdue University professor and state climatologist at the Indiana State Climate Office. That could mean the average July high temperature in Central
Indiana could soar from 85 degrees today to a blistering 96 degrees 35 years from now, researchers say. And here’s another way to look at the temperature increase: Between 1961 and 1990, the mercury didn’t reach 100 degrees in Indianapolis some years, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. If society doesn’t get serious about reducing emissions, the city could suffer through 80 days of 100-degree heat every summer before the end of the century, the group says in a report.
TORRENTIAL RAIN Changes in rainfall could prove as problematic as skyrocketing temperatures, Niyogi warns. “We are acutely sensitive to the timing, location, intensity and distribution of heavy rain events,” he says. According to computer modeling, wet parts of the state are becoming wetter and dry areas are turning drier, notes Daniel Aldrich, a Purdue political science professor whose work touches upon climate change. Rainstorms may have shorter duration, some studies indicate, but they’re becoming more frequent and more intense, Niyogi says. The one to three inches of rain that Indiana residents are used to seeing in the course of a day could instead fall in one to three hours. Those driving rains are eroding soil, changing the amount of moisture in the soil and increasing runoff, he notes. Meanwhile, hotter temperatures are reducing snowfall.
Because 10 inches of snow has the moisture content of one inch of rain, the result affects the balance of water, Niyogi says. And despite heavy rains, Indiana will see more dramatic swings between wet and dry periods, which will produce droughts, he says. Adding to the volatility, temperature is increasing more rapidly at night than during the day, which has implications for soil restoration and plant growth. “We’re also getting more heat waves and more extreme weather,” Niyogi says. “This is all scientifically consistent because when we have even a
small increase in temperature, the ability of the air to hold moisture increases.” Wetter air creates powerfully extreme weather events, he notes. n
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After USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 1475, Issued January 1990.
National Arbor Day Foundation Plant Hardiness Zone Map published in 2006.
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Plant hardiness maps have changed as average low temperatures rose. Fifteen years ago, most of Indiana was in Zone 5, where low temperatures varied from -10 degrees to -20 degrees. In a later map, the state’s extreme lows varied from zero to -10 degrees, placing it in Zone 6. CREDIT: Arbor Day Foundation
MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE Yet even in the face of increasingly severe weather, mankind will find ways to cope, says Aldrich, the Purdue political science professor who studies how groups deal with adversity. “To put it mildly, human beings are very adaptable, so whatever mistakes we’ve made as a race in terms of pumping chemicals into the atmosphere for the last 150 years, we’ll bounce back from it,” Aldrich says. In the same ways California farmers now consider the scientific and social ramifications of their water use, Indiana farmers will change the way they do things, he maintains. But like the fishermen who continue to set sail for fishedout waters, Indiana farmers will maintain some of their traditional ways, he predicts. Culture and lifestyle aside, understanding the increasing variability of weather represents the first step in adapting to the changes, Niyogi maintains. That could mean changing the types of trees, flowers, vegetables and grain planted in Indiana. It could require modifying planting dates, irrigation and the use of fertilizer and pesticide. Temperatures are climbing more slowly in agricultural lands than in urban areas,
Niyogi notes. That means people can make a difference by making the countryside greener. Citizens who are aware of the climate impact of cities can design and build green infrastructure that reduces carbon emissions, Niyogi says. As people become more aware of the meaning of carbon emissions from cars and industry, they can begin to take action. Awareness will bring change, and change will bring resiliency. It begins at the personal level, in Niyogi’s view. “While no one solution will work for every individual, having an awareness of what options are out there and picking and choosing among them will produce a portfolio of actions,” Niyogi says. He describes an optimistic vision of individuals. “We are all environmentally conscious, we are all looking for sustainability in our own ways and we are all aware that we are part of the solution.” Niyogi advocates making tools available to individuals and to the community to create awareness of climate change and aid in climate-related decisions. The tools would help people understand their water usage, nitrogen management and carbon footprints.
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With a carbon footprint tool, for example, individual users could provide information about their daily activities — how far they drive, what kind of car they use and what they eat. They can get a sense of their carbon footprint and see what it means for them and for the community. Users could experiment to see how changes in behavior would affect the footprint. Economic tools for individuals would help determine the risk and rewards of taking action. A common example prescribes fertilizer use based on rainfall. Tools for communities show how regional land use affects climate. At the national level, tools can analyze giant projects like reforestation. If the tools produce a return on investment of the users’ time and resources, people will use them, Niyogi predicts. Reducing a carbon footprint can have economic as well as ecological benefits, he notes. “Technology can help, and education is critical,” he says. “When you have the willingness to do something, the next step is to look for resources and education. When you combine those, you have the recipe for a solution.”
Although climate change has become inevitable, mankind can take action to mitigate it. “Climate is changing, but we can be smart about the way we deal with it,” Niyogi says. n
From 1961 to 1990, the temperature in Indianapolis didn’t exceed 100 degrees most years, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. If society doesn’t get serious about limiting emissions, the mercury will climb above the 100-degree mark an average of 28 times a year by the end of the century, the group says. CREDIT: Provided by the Union of Concerned Scientists
GRASPING CLIMATE CHANGE — ONLINE TOOLS You can’t look out the window and see the climate changing, but the Arbor Day Foundation website provides the next best thing. Click on the site’s interactive map at arborday.org/media/ mapchanges.cfm, and watch most of Indiana change from Zone 5 in 1990 to Zone 6 in 2006.
For a rundown on how extreme heat, downpours and floods will affect the Midwest’s infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, and air and water quality, see the National Climate Assessment prepared by a team of 300 experts at nca2014. globalchange.gov/highlights/regions/midwest.
Seeing the zones change on the interactive map is startling, but so are the projections of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read the group’s report, called “Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Midwest: Indiana,” at ucsusa.org/sites/default/ files/legacy/assets/documents/global_warming/ climate-change-indiana.pdf.
You can help monitor climate change by volunteering for organizations like the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS. The list of experts who use the organization’s stats includes weather forecasters, hydrologists, researchers, agriculturalists, climatologists, insurance companies and engineers. Visit the site at cocorahs.org.
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Welcome to
INDIANA 2050 CIRCA
IN THE FACE OF ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, KIDS ARE FINDING THE FIXES TO HELP TURN DOWN THE HEAT STORY AND PHOTOS BY JIM POYSER • EDITORS@NUVO.NET
CLIMATE CHANGE AT A GLANCE • Hottest year ever recorded: 2014 • Ten hottest years ever recorded are all from 1998 to present. • On Feb. 24, Arctic sea ice maximum extent was the lowest ever recorded. • The monthly average in March was the lowest Arctic ice extent ever recorded. • According to the journal Science, “Overall, average ice-shelf volume change [in] West Antarctic losses increased by 70% in the last decade, and earlier volume gain by East Antarctic ice shelves ceased.” • The California drought is now in its fourth year. • According to the EPA, “Sea surface temperature increased over the 20th century and continues to rise. From 1901 through 2013, temperatures rose at an average rate of 0.13°F per decade.” • According to the National Climate Assessment, “Global sea level has risen by about 8 inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880. It is projected to rise another 1 to 4 feet by 2100.” • Many biologists believe we are in the early phase of the sixth mass extinction event. • Investigative stories in Wisconsin and Florida report officials are told not to discuss climate change. • Indiana does not have a Climate Action Plan. • According to a study by the National Science Foundation, 25% of Americans polled said the sun orbits the Earth. — JIM POYSER
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s awareness grows regarding the coming climate crisis, so does our sense of despair. The problem is so enormous, with so many moving parts, it seems insurmountable [see sidebar]. Add that we live in Indiana, where facing the climate challenge is way down on the list of priorities. Like, way, way down. We’d rather ogle today’s bottom line than prepare for the future, ignoring the consensus science about fossil fuels’ impact on our atmosphere. Nor do we like thinking about the methane and nitrous oxide emissions pouring from our factory farm operations. I am stumped trying to understand what we, collectively, are doing. Maybe something this big can’t be understood. It is tempting to conclude we are hellbent to unconsciously destroy the very habitat on which we rely. I spend a lot of time in Indiana schools: elementary, middle and high schools. To get to and from those schools takes transportation — a LOT of transportation. In many cases, parents drive their children. So picture this: Parents, sitting in cars, awaiting the single most precious things in their lives, idling way, poisoning the very air these precious things are emerging from the school to breathe. It doesn’t matter whether there are “no idling” signs or not; they just keep idling. Now, extrapolate that madness out over a global scale. The idling cars of commerce and waste are poisoning and deafening and destroying our planet, but we can’t be bothered to shut them off, let alone deeply reflect on the reasons why we keep doing the same things over and over again. What I do understand, however, is what happens in between these idlefests of getting kids to and from school. Because tucked in there is a vista of six to eight hours of schooltopia, the potential for kids to create the world they want to live in, in the way they want to live it, with the support of teachers, administrators, staff, local non-profits and parents.
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Student garden, Paramount School of Excellence.
MY EPIPHANY Around two years ago, I was invited to CFI IPS #2 in downtown Indianapolis to meet with fourth- and fifth-graders to talk about human impact on the environment; specifically, climate change. This was not an easy decision for me. I had been spending time with elders, adults, college kids, even the occasional high school class, but I had never presented to kids that young. I wasn’t sure what to do with them; I didn’t want to scare the daylights out of them with slides about climate change. What I experienced that day changed my life forever. I’m not hyperbolizing. It was truly a pivot point. These students were talking to me about aquaponics and gardening and vermi-composting and green roofs. Sure, they had a working knowledge of fossil fuels’ impact on the climate, but they were largely focused on finding solutions. Now, this is what I do for work. I go to schools to present slideshows to kids about climate change solutions; they
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show me what they’re doing when it comes to sustainability. I record their acts of sustainability and include them in my subsequent presentations to other kids, who then display their acts of sustainability — their solar water heater, their greenhouse, their solar panels, their wind turbines — that I photograph and add to my now impossibly long, bursting-at-the-seams slideshows. I also spread the word via my organization, Earth Charter Indiana and its two main programs, Sustainable Indiana 2016 and Youth Power Indiana. I also blog about it. The net effect of all this richness is a boggling array of sustainability solutions going on right now in schools all over Indiana. The kids get it, folks. They understand their futures are threatened; they understand climate change: A recent poll of eighth graders revealed 90 percent believe climate change is human-caused. They also understand they can’t rely on their political and cultural systems to serve them; they have to get the job done themselves.
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Chicken coop, Paramount School of Excellence
In doing so, they reveal the clarion path: schools as thriving community centers; as display models for sustainability; as, literally, farms — food farms, solar farms, soil farms. So here’s my premise: We can solve our climate crisis — or at the very least, build resilient systems to face the very worst of it — by investing in our schools as they show us the way forward.
NO MERE CAVEAT All right, I can guess what you are thinking. Here’s this guy (me), flitting about the periphery, swooping into schools here and there, doing something fun, then flying out again, like a bee or butterfly pollinating the flowers. The real truth, you’re musing, is that schools, especially public schools in Indianapolis, are in a spiraling vortex of decreased budgets, test-obsession, and despair. Indeed, even as you read this (if you’ve picked up this NUVO during the last part of April or the early part of May), the poor kiddoes are once again hunched over their ISTEPs, pencils clenched in their hands or fingers poised over keyboards. Well, I get you. Look: I know I am in my own personal echo chamber. I only go to the schools that want me to visit them. And the schools that want me to visit are the ones up for an adventure, or into project-based learning, or are looking to have their science curriculum supplemented by an ecotainer like me. So before moving on, let’s pause and tip our hats and lift our glasses and hold our hands over our hearts for all the teachers, staff and administrators out there. They get up every single morning — way too early, mind you — and go to work, deal with the test, the discipline problems, the budget challenges, and do their very best to grow our children into civic-minded, career-ready, creative-thinking citizens.
SCHOOLTOPIAS What follows is a rather arbitrary short list of my favorite schools. Let’s start with IPS, because it has long been associated with dysfunction. But the IPS schools I know are thriving community centers, with gardens and chickens and other delights. For example, Riverside Elementary, on the school’s west side, is engaged in developing an ambitious Safe Routes To Schools program, wherein students will carpool, bike or walk to school, to reduce carbon and other pollution, and perhaps enjoy some good exercise in the process. Then there’s Cold Spring School, the Environmental Studies Magnet of IPS. They have a “back 40” that would blow your mind, with a greenhouse, woods and a stream, and it all abuts Marian University’s wetlands and Eco Lab. It’s a wilderness paradise, relatively speaking. But in the space I have I will focus on one extraordinary school, the aforementioned CFI IPS #2, the elementary school responsible for my epiphany. I’ve already alluded to the brilliance of the students. But despite the relative lack of green space around the school, they’ve managed to pack the environs with all sorts of sustainability goodies, from gardens to an outdoor learning center. Situated on the Cultural Trail, CFI also has a bike club! They recycle everything they can and grow their own soil via vermicomposting. CFI has a place in my heart because they participate in our Eco Science Fair each year at the Indiana State Museum and they are also participating in our Save the Monarchs project (see below). No matter how busy they are, the students embrace these opportunities — with the support of their teachers and staff. Oaklandon Elementary School is also a public school, located in Lawrence. Unlike CFI with its relative paucity of outdoor space, Oaklandon has acres of space. S E E , POYSER, O N P A GE 1 6
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And boy, do they use it! They have a wind turbine, numerous raised-bed gardens, lots of newly planted trees plus a pond and a prairie. Moreover, they have a greenhouse that contains a large aquaponics system where they raise vegetables and tilapia. I mentioned the Eco Science Fair above. Oaklandon kids swept their division, winning first, second and third places. Third place was a desalinization project; the second place winner studied the impact of winter road salt chemicals on plant life; and first place was — wait for it — an 11-year-old’s successful experiment in creating biodegradable plastic from agar. On Friday, April 24, they will celebrate a day of service, honoring Earth Day. Volunteers, including myself, will instruct in sustainability, and help plant more trees and build more raised-bed gardens. St. Thomas Aquinas was recognized in Washington, D.C., last year because they won a Green Ribbon School Award, a national-scale honor. Along with Carmel High School, St. Thomas Aquinas, a paro-
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chial school, was among only 49 schools given this honor in the entire country. Situated on the near northside, St. Thomas has all sorts of great amenities, like energy efficiency, energy savings, plant growth and composting. But what really puts them on the sustainability map is their commitment to the Safe Routes To Schools program mentioned above. Their students, K-8, endeavor to walk to school, hearkening back to an earlier time — my childhood, for example — where schools were situated in neighborhoods, within walking or biking distance for their students. St. Thomas parents are deeply involved in this practice, helping to form walking school buses to and from schools. If you don’t know what a walking school bus is, it is exactly what it sounds like. Paramount School of Excellence, a K-8 charter school on the city’s south east side, is perhaps the most inspiring place on my list. Get out your checklist for school sustainability and see if your pencil lasts. They have a huge garden, a high tunnel garden (essentially a greenhouse covered in plastic, not glass), they raise chickens, bees and goats. They have five wind turbines, and they have an outdoor
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learning center with a rain catchment system that captures enough moisture to nourish their garden for an entire month — if a drought were to happen. Paramount is paramount when it comes to teaching students the basic arts of homesteading and sustainability, while making the connection between nature and people and demonstrating how schools can become neighborhood centers for civic engagement and resiliency. One last school I’ll mention specifically: Project Libertas, a K-8 independent school located near Butler University. Project Libertas is new to their building and so they don’t have a lot of sustainability projects going on — though they are working on numerous ones. What Project Libertas has done is helped me tremendously in my work, indicating in fact what a school can do when it gets engaged. For example, the entire middle school attended the November Environmental Rules Board meeting as we advocated for a climate action plan for Indiana. Now that’s civic engagement! More recently, Project Libertas students have helped me figure out the engineering for our Earth Day Indiana Festival build-monarchbutterfly-wings workshop. If you know me and we work together and you weren’t included on this list,
that’s because the draconian editors at NUVO wouldn’t give me more room. Damn them! I wish I could tell you about the amazing schools in Decatur Township, and the strides Carmel Schools are making in sustainability, Food Rescue and other actions. (EDITOR’S NOTE: We can only recycle so much paper before the money runs out every week, Jim.) But, I trust, NUVO will allow me room to sing additional praises of our schools, and their essential role in breathing life back into our moribund sense of possibility. For example, I am looking forward to Paramount’s Turn Festival, Sept. 12. Mark your calendars!
SAVE THE MONARCHS You can see with your eyes an exhibition at the Artsgarden I cooked up with Shannon Linker at the Arts Council of Indianapolis, along with a number of other partners, including Brick Street Poetry, Earth Day Indiana, Indiana Recycling Coalition, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and Nopal Cultural Institute. These 3D monarch butterflies are made by fourth- and fifth-graders from some of the above schools to raise awareness of monarch plight and solutions. The kids used repurposed materials: old maps,
(left to right) Melissa, Skye and Maddie train Project Libertas students to lead their own monarch-wing-building workshop on April 25 at the Earth Day Indiana Festival.
polystyrene lunch trays, etc. On April 25, Earth Day Indiana Festival will feature a kids’ tent where we’ll be making wings with kids. Toward the end of the 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. celebration the butterfly-people will parade to the Artsgarden and back. The monarchs are threatened, and frankly, so are we all. As the pressures of everyday life are exacerbated by climate
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change and extreme weather, we’ll need to be prepared to live differently. These kids, because they’re learning how to work together, to garden, conserve water, ride bicycles, raise fish, grow food horizontally and vertically, are leading the way. Let’s support them and the teachers and staff who go to work for them every day. n
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VISUAL
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EgoMaps’ photos depict a low-rent, sometimes seedy side of her hometown of Cincinnati.
EgoMaps r Through April 24. Cincinnati-based EgoMaps identifies as a “straightedge, queer person of color” — and a point and shoot photographer. “I never use digital; I only use film; I use a Contax t2 or a Yashica t4 or even, on occasion, a disposable camera,” says EgoMaps, who works as a drug and alcohol counselor by day and prefers using a pseudonym to keep art and work worlds separate. EgoMaps does, however, take the time to pose the twenty-something subjects portrayed in this body of work, often in very provocative ways. I found myself comparing EgoMaps’ work to that of the late fashion photographer Richard Avedon, who, in his collection In the American West, photographed individual subjects — the working class, the down and out, and the derelict — in black and white against a stark white backdrop. There’s something standoffish and reductive about Avedon’s series. The sense that many of these subjects have been screwed over and/or have some screws loose is amplified by the blank backdrop. You can almost feel Avedon’s cold, distant gaze on them. (This was the mid-’80s bleak chic work that spawned a million different Levi’s ads.) I find EgoMaps’ photos, which often border on the pornographic, more honest and engaging than Avedon’s. Subjects include EgoMaps’ girlfriend, often depicted nude — and as often as not being penetrated by the photographer’s hand in multiple orifices. Other subjects include acquaintances imbibing cheap whiskey, a nude male posing indoors with bloody roadkill, as well as some beautifully composed portraits of friends (sometimes wearing clothes, sometimes not, sometimes in the middle of sex acts). All of them are photographed in the environment of the low-rent, urban world in which they live. There are some underexposed shots here, but EgoMaps does have some natural ability and — probably even more importantly — the trust of these subjects. A side note to this review: The windows of General Public Collective are papered over with printed images of Indiana state representatives, as well as the governor, painted or drawn over with lipstick, earnings and the like in reaction to their votes on RFRA late last month. Maybe it’s just crude agitprop, but I found it amusing enough. General Public Collective — DAN GROSSMAN
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MAKING ART, DESPITE THE ODDS
Long-running April Show gives a shot to local artists who’ve faced challenges
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his Friday, an unassuming house on 322 N. Arsenal Ave. will open up to the public to display paintings from floor to ceiling, upstairs and downstairs, in just about every room and hallway. Chances are that there will be a line stretching to the street. It’s the April Show, the one-night-only annual showcase for Indy artists who’ve faced challenges in life and whose art the public might not otherwise see. One artist featured in this year’s show, 55-year old Kevin Johnson, is finding his artistic niche after having spent half of his life in prison. “I was born in Gary,” Johnson says. “My mother left me in the hospital. So I went through a bevy of foster homes. I had very bad social skills but I could do [art].” Growing up, he painted on whatever surfaces he could find, including highway overpasses. “You tend to work on everything that you can until you do get the proper stuff,” he says. “I can remember, the first time I had a real canvas in front of me, I didn’t know what to do with it.” Johnson came to Indianapolis in 1975. “In 1977, I got involved with a murder,” he says. “When I left Indianapolis Kevin Johnson in 1978, I was being carried in the back of a sheriff’s station wagon straight to Michigan City. I did 27 straight years.” He continued to make art while incarcerated. Soon after his release, in 2002, Johnson found himself living on the street. “I was in Military Park drawing pictures of Governor O’Bannon and selling them for about five dollars a picture,” he says. The April Show was created in 1997, after David Hittle — the organizer of the show and owner of the house where it takes place — met Harry Blomme, a Canadian immigrant and farmer in Brown County who wound up homeless in Indianapolis. “As an elderly man he drifted from mission to mission,” says Hittle. “And Harry was involved with a friend of mine who worked with the homeless. I had just
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got this house and had this idea; here’s this wonderful artist like Kevin, he’d just paint on whatever he found in the alleys, sheds, whatever. We thought we’d have a party for him. We’d put his art on the wall and invite everybody we know.” Soon after meeting Blomme (who died in 2003), Hittle met two more artists, Jerome Neal and Berry Connell. “They were really talented artists who didn’t have the cachet to get into major galleries,” says Hittle. “So for that first show, we had all three of them just put up their art all over. And year after year it has just grown organically.” The April Show, which doesn’t have nonprofit status or a board of directors, is coordinated by Hittle and a group of dedicated volunteers. Twenty-three art-
ists will participate this year. Artists keep all earnings from sales, though most choose to donate 10 percent or more of their take to Stopover, a crisis service for homeless youth and their families. Jerome Neal may be the best known artist on this year’s roster. But Johnson’s no slouch. Like Neal, he’s an African-American artist who doesn’t necessarily stick to African-American subject matter. Hittle describes him as a “standout, photoreal” portrait artist. Hittle’s acrylic on paper “Loggerheads,” which shows a sea turtle swimming, adorns the April Show’s promotional postcard. Johnson was inspired to do the painting after seeing a black and white image of said creature on Bing. He was also inspired by his studies in art history. “I was reading about the Dutch and then the Flemish painters … who painted in the latter part of the Renaissance,” Johnson says. “They were using lacquer, paint, lacquer, in layers like that. I said, ‘Well that’s interesting. Let me try that.’ And I wonder if anyone’s ever done it with acrylics. I do it in that way and it almost always sets up its own 3D quality. As the kids say, you’ve got to have a hook. Well, that just might be my hook.” n
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A WAR REQUIEM FOR OUR TIME
Zabur, an adaptation of the Psalms set in a war bunker, premieres Friday
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owever you look at it, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir’s premiere of a new oratorio by Mohammed Fairouz is a big deal. It’s important politically. The piece addresses the Syrian conflict, gay rights and the neglect of Arab culture, among other timely subjects. And it’s important to the choir: It was something of a coup to score a new work by Fairouz, a very much indemand composer. And to make the most of it, the choir plans to record the piece for a major label in the near future. Fairouz, 29, has been called “one of the most talented composers of his generations” (BBC). The Los Angeles Times describes his work as “at once classic, current and global, a mingling of rhythms and tones, as attuned to Brahms and other ‘dead white men’ as they are to the inflection of Middle Eastern melodies.” An American of Arab descent, Fariouz is very much the socially engaged artist (witness the following interview, which is packed with geopolitics even after some editing to keep things on topic). He’s written work concerning the Tahrir Square protests and 9/11. Zabur, his oratorio premiering Friday at Hilbert Circle Theatre, is similarly headline-driven. It’s a war requiem set in a shelter in a city that sounds very much like Aleppo. The protagonists are young blogger, Dawoud, and his friend and muse, Jibreel. Without access to the Internet (or any power source), Dawoud decides to share his words and
poetry directly with others in the shelter. Zabur is also an adaptation of the Pslams. Dawoud’s Western or Judeo-Christian counterpart is David, but Fairouz isn’t interested in translating David’s songs for Western consumption. He’s working from an Arabic Bible, using a version of the Psalms that he argues is closer to the original source. “If you look at some images of people in the Sinai Peninsula or Palestine or Babylon, you’d think that they’re Norse gods or Vikings. That sort of disconnect always occurred when I would hear the Psalms in Western settings, even when they were very beautiful,” he told NUVO in an interview in early April. NUVO: Can you talk about how you developed the premise of Zabur? MOHAMMED FAIROUZ: Najla [Said] developed the premise, but I don’t think it requires a leap of faith. It’s something that’s happening consistently in Syria and the Middle East today, especially in Syria. Because of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, there are over ten million Syrians who have been displaced; there are cities that have been razed to the ground. I’m talking about cities like Aleppo, which has existed for thousands of years. It’s one of the oldest inhabited cities on the face of the Earth, and the Assad regime destroyed it. They’ve left a lot of people without electricity, without homes, without access to a computer or the Internet; without access, sometimes, to food and water. Children have learned, by heart, the sound of airplanes
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and fighter jets flying over their heads. The people, whether journalists or bloggers, are chronicling the details and sending pictures to the outside world in whatever way they can; writing poetry, writing literature. Some people are chronicling every detail, every day, like journalists. Some people, like David in my piece, don’t do that; they are no longer content to do that, so they turn to poetry. Chronicling every last detail becomes no longer desirable because the disaster has become so mundane, the horrors have become so mundane. You want to create a way to express yourself, to bring people together, in the shelter, which is where they are in my piece, to express the horrors being rained down. I should also say, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a war requiem has been created for Syria today. The situation in Syria is going to be the great shame of our generation for the rest of history. People will look back on us thinking that we’re barbarians, asking, ‘Why didn’t they do anything S E E , R E Q U I E M , O N P A GE 2 0
Anila Quayyum Agha and Kevin Bulst April 22, 7 p.m. A public conversation, moderated by Travis DiNicola, between ArtPrize director of exhibitions Kevin Bulst and last year’s big ArtPrize winner, Anila Quayyum Agha. Indianapolis Museum of Art, FREE, imamuseum.org The Prophet Stick April 23, 7 p.m. In what bodes to be a detective story of a lecture, Dr. Christian Feest, a Mellon Curator at the IMA recently charged with whipping the museum’s Native American collection into shape, will discuss a certain “ball-headed club” that was stolen from an American museum, only to reappear 15 years later in the catalogue of a Canadian dealer. Eiteljorg Museum, FREE, eiteljorg.org Stutz Artists Open House April 24, 5:30-10:30 p.m.; April 25, 2-7 p.m. Proceeds from Stutz’s annual shindig — which features 70-plus artists, acoustic music and demonstrations and — will benefit the Stutz Residency Program, which gives free space and utilities for a year to a couple emerging artists. Stutz Business Center, $12 advance, $15 door, free 12 and under, stutzartists.com Nellie McKay: Nellie With a Z April 24, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Enough with the ukulele already, you might find yourself saying to just about everyone except your Hawaiian uncle. But to be fair, adorable, sprightly, clever, neurotic McKay has been doing the ukulele thing for a while — and she’s also a pretty excellent piano player. Plus, she knows her Great American Songbook — a good thing for someone playing the Cabaret — and she’s mined it for some offbeat treasures, on record and in concert. The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, $25-55 (plus $12 food/beverage minimum), thecabaret.org The Bob & Tom Comedy Show April 25, 8 p.m. A live radio show featuring special guest Pat McAfee and a bunch of regulars (Donnie Baker, Jeff Dye, Greg Hahn, Todd Yohn). Clowes Hall, $35, bobandtom.com Itzhak Perlman April 26, 7 p.m. He’s still at it: Itzhak Perlman, who could charm the pants off the grumpiest classical hater. His program hadn’t been announced as we went to press. The Palladium, $45-95 adult, $15 student, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org
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about this? Why didn’t the United Nations do anything?” NUVO: How did you come to work with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir? FAIROUZ: It’s serendipitous, actually, because they contacted me out of the blue. I had this idea: In the Islamic tradition, Gabriel is a messenger to all of the prophets, and David is a prophet in Islam. So I had this idea that Gabriel would be a companion to David, a muse to David and, in some way, David’s partner. There’s really no other place for it to be set than contemporary Aleppo, in contemporary Syria. And there are these undertones of gay rights that underscore the relationship between Gabriel and David in the piece. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but much of the country is talking about the new rules that have been enacted by the governor of Indiana. I have to say that I never thought, even in my young life, that I would see a day where the Saudis and the Gulf states in the Middle East are making reforms, moving forward and becoming more inclusive — and the United States is
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case that there are a good many people, perhaps even a majority, who don’t believe in the governor’s new policy.
NUVO: Some artists who object to RFRA are boycotting the state.
NUVO: David is an ambiguous figure in the Christian tradition. But his equivalent in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition, Dawoud, is a bit more one-sided: he’s a wise, divinely guided prophet. Did you base your portrayal of Dawoud specifically on how he’s viewed in Islamic texts or factor in other traditions?
FAIROUZ: I’ve never been one for boycotts because they don’t work. Taking an aggressive attitude toward people doesn’t work. Approaching people on terms other than their own terms doesn’t work. We all need to talk about this because we’re an inclusive world. We’re so interconnected these days that we can’t afford to move forward except all together. We can’t afford to have some peoples’ rights jeopardized and threatened in some areas, while in others they’re building the tallest towers in the world. And what the hell is the point of boycotting a place like Indiana and Indianapolis, where we know that there are so many progressive people and arts organizations? The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is one of our great and storied symphonies in the country. When you boycott people, you make the assumption that they’re all the same and that they all believe the same thing. And, indeed, it may end up proving to be the
FAIROUZ: In the Middle East, we have a lot of characters that are legendary or mythological in status. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about David, Abraham, Moses, Ishmael, Mohammed — or Gabriel, Michael, Satan and the angels. They’re all interlinked and interconnected. David is like all these other figures. It’s a mess; they all live together; they all intermingle and inform each other’s mythologies. The Middle East is not a neat part of the world. There’s a unifying element in that there are 22 Arab states and they all speak Arabic and have their league, but I think that they all intermingle very, very easily. It’s a very small group of extremists now [in ISIS], maybe 30,000 people. But Cairo’s a city of 18 million people — 18 million Muslims,
Coptics, Sunnis, Shiites. And they all intermingle and intermarry. NUVO: And I would think Zabur will sort of indirectly make the case — at least for more sheltered listeners — that the Middle East and the Arab world is a vibrant, diverse place. FAIROUZ: Well, maybe. There’s lots of that, though. There’s an incredible amount of poetry coming out of that part of the world. Incredible economic progress. I remember when Burj Khalifa went up in Dubai, people said, “Oh, it’s like the Tower of Babel, with all sorts of people speaking all sorts of languages.” There’s this element of Islamic mythology that says that when the Bedouins build the tallest buildings, that’s the sign that the Apocalypse is near. But it’s all infrastructure and society moving forward. It’s an incredibly dynamic and interesting part of the world. And the most important thing is not to educate people that the Middle East is not DASH [ISIS], but to destroy that organization. And to use coordinated military force with allies in that area and ground troops is the only way to do so. You’re not going to come up with a diplomatic solution.
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you’re hiding under a rock. We’ve seen so much, so many accounts, that the world has become numb to the sufferings of the Syrian people. A lot of people choose to ignore it, but as artists that’s not our job to ignore it. And good diplomats don’t ignore it either, by the way. Zabur is the most persistently and overwhelmingly dark pieces that I’ve ever written, although it doesn’t end in that darkness. It ends in a wonderful image of children in the sunlight like the end of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. Sometimes as an artist, part of the job description is to go into psychological and emotional places that the rest of the world would avoid. NUVO: Zabur is darker than the piece you wrote about 9/11? PHOTO BY SAMANTAH WEST
Gramophone has called Fairouz a “post-millenial Schubert.”
NUVO: There’s a profile of you in the Los Angeles Times where you’re quoted saying to a choir rehearsing one of your pieces, “This is like one of the hardest passages of choral music ever written.” How hard is Zabur and did you write it with the makeup of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in mind? FAIROUZ: I think that they’ll more than be able to handle this piece. The orchestra is one of the great orchestras in the country, and I wrote for them like I would write for any other great orchestra. The choir is very well known, and I wrote well for them in the way that one should write choral music. I don’t think I write very hard choral music. I don’t think that’s something to boast of. They’re aiming not only to perform it, but to record it for one of the largest classical music labels in the world. [Editor’s note: Indianapolis Symphonic Choir executive director Michael Pettry confirms: “We do plan to record Zabur, indeed. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if Zabur might be released on a major label within the next year.”] And the children’s choir doesn’t need to be overlooked either; it’s a very fine children’s choir. NUVO: There’s a certain profundity in the way you’ve structured Zabur, with David singing his final words from beyond the grave, as it were. That’s a trend in the literature of the Shoah, where camp journals and memoirs (both legitimate and fake) are discovered beneath the rubble. FAIROUZ: As you can tell from the tone of this entire interview, we have not been spared of the horrors that have been meted out to the Syrian people. If you have not seen some of the images of the children maimed and dismembered,
FAIROUZ: The piece I wrote about 9/11 was based on comic book by Art Spiegelman. It’s not about 9/11; the first movement is, but the other movements are about the aftermath. The purpose of that piece was not to memorialize the victims. You don’t want to quantify one tragedy against each other, but in Syria, you’re not talking about a few thousand citizens; you’re talking about hundreds of thousands of innocent people and children. An entire generation destroyed. Mark my words, the whole world will feel the loss of this generation: economically, politically. NUVO: How did you find your way to ending the piece on a hopeful note? FAIROUZ: That’s a very interesting moment in the piece, taken directly from the Psalms. One of the words from the line in Arabic is not easily translated, but it’s basically pointing fingers at the leaders and kings of the Earth saying, basically, “Behave yourselves.” When I wrote that, I had an image in mind of saying to one of the leaders of the Middle East, basically Bashar alAssad, “Have a bit of shame and stop. Just stop.” Zabur begins with a great outcry and destruction that proves to be a flash-forward or premonition of what will happen — that everyone in the shelter will be destroyed. I was debating with myself how to end the piece, but I decided to bring back the children’s choir to sing, “The children of your servants will live on forever.” It’s an absolutely heartbreaking ending, but with the sound of the children, you have this group of 100-some children in Indianapolis connecting artistically, in some way, to their brothers and sisters half a world away in Syria who are suffering. There’s something very moving about that. n
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STAGE REVIEWS On Golden Pond w Through May 10. On Golden Pond always makes me fidgety because it’s about people who succeed at staying insulated. But the IRT’s production of it is so gorgeous that I mostly thought of slapping mosquitoes, not people, as I watched it. Norman (Robert Elliott) talks as if this will be his last summer at the cottage he and his wife, Ethel (Darrie Lawrence), move to in Maine every May. He’s in his late 70s with a heart condition. She’s in her late 60s, pretty as ever but not quite as nimble as she used to be. Their 40-something daughter, Chelsea (Constance Macy), hasn’t been back to visit from L.A. in years, but she comes this summer to ask if they’ll take care of her 13-year-old son (Griffin Grider). All the actors are convincing but the chemistry between Elliott and Lawrence is a special pleasure. I believed that they’ve been married for decades and still care about each other, even though Norman is, as the others say, full of “crap” and “bullshit.” Even Ethel calls Norman a “poop,” but she loves him as is.
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The rich scenery, cozy lighting, nostalgic sound (incorporating music by Carrie Newcomer) and woodsypalette costumes all made the tension drain from my neck and shoulders. And it was soothing to watch the crew change set dressings in a kind of calm dance. Even though none of the characters grows or even changes much, they’re so beautifully portrayed under Janet Allen’s direction that I left feeling refreshed and hopeful anyway. You just never know about life. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Indiana Repertory Theatre
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NoExit Performance: Moby Dick r Through April 25. To start, director Michael Burke made a strong choice in casting Bill Wilkison as the mad Captain Ahab. Wilkison’s initial stoicism gave way to a noble dynamism as Ahab descended from a position of authority to madness and death. And Burke chose Julian Rad’s adaptation wisely. I was pleased to have watched such an honest retelling of Moby Dick in under two hours. Unfortunately, some of the movement in the show got too hammy for a salty tragedy; the harpoons looked a bit too artificial and puny, and the infamous whalebone peg-leg could have stood for a bit more flourish than just having Wilkison walk with a stiff limp. Furthermore, actors had a few issues in getting out Rad’s/Melville’s lines. I feel assured that this will be cleared up by next weekend’s performances. The primary drawback to this production is its heavy use of prerecorded voice-overs for Ishmael’s narration. Much energy and verisimilitude was lost by hearing Rory Willats speaking distantly over the sound system instead of delivering his story directly to those of us sitting right there in front of him. This isn’t Krapp’s Last Tape; listening to the recordings rather felt like going to a performance of Saint-Saens’
Organ Symphony to find a man in white tie and tails sitting behind a Casio. Moreover, Willats’ recorded performance was just a bit awkward and his accent slightly distracting. Nevertheless, from Ahab’s sublime first encounter with his fated enemy to SUBMITTED PHOTO the simple, lovely dirge at Moby Dick the end, the whole of the show was greater than its parts. A great deal of the success can be credited to Ryan Mullins, who designed the simple, gritty, wooden set and was responsible for some striking special effects, notably a strangely beautiful image of the Pequod descending into the deep. Two more notes: On the night I attended, the light board had failed, forcing Mullins to manually operate every light. No one would have noticed this was the case, so three cheers for Mullins’ bravery and level-headedness. Finally, I cannot stress enough how badass Wilkison looks as Captain Ahab.
IndyFringe Short Play Festival April 17 and 18. Essentially an exhibition of student work from the Indiana Writers Center, this two-night event featured some of Indy’s most notable talent performing seven original works and was presented under the aegis of Betty Rage Productions, Casey Ross Productions, Defiance Comedy, Khaos Company Theatre and Wisdom Tooth Productions. Two pieces stood out, the first being Ledge by Jerry Holt. I, along with the rest of the audience, was consumed with laughter throughout this little jape, which was — as anyone familiar with him would have guessed— dominated by Ronn Johnstone. Some of the jokes were awfully dated, and the gallows humor of the piece about a trio of strangers contemplating suicide was dashed at the end in an abruptly saccharine
manner. But the overall humor prevailed, with great assist by Johnstone’s antics, who at one point had me completely ashamed for not knowing the names of the Magnificent Seven (as well I should). At the other end of the show was Snatch and Release by Elise Lockwood, who, in no uncertain terms, was the best writer of the evening. Her thoughtful and comparatively subtle take on raunchy comedy chronicled a woman’s internal conflict over the shoulds and rathers of desire. It was a great refreshment to see this masterful foray into the male-dominated realm of genital-based comedy. Or as this Neanderthal pronounced to the author after the show, “It’s cool, you know, ‘cause you’re a girl.” Ahem. Let’s hope this town sees more of Lockwood’s work. — TRISTAN ROSS IndyFringe Theatre
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was initially dismissive after seeing Ex Machina at a recent press screening. The drama deals with artificial intelligence, which made me think of Her, Spike Jonze’s wonderful 2013 story of the relationship between a writer and his freshly sentient hand-held computer. Her addresses a variety of topics with warmth, skill and imagination, including what might happen when artificially intelligent beings interact with human beings. By comparison, Ex Machina seemed obvious and simplistic. But the movie, the first directed by writer Alex Garland (28 Days Later, The Beach, Sunshine) stuck with me. I thought of the striking image of Ava (Alicia Vikander), the A.I. android, a sexy mix of ultra-realistic human features and overtly mechanical ones, contrasted with her creator, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), a self-satisfied scientific genius with a burr haircut, a fuzzy beard and the physicality of a gym rat. I thought of the look and layout of his secluded home/lab, with long halls and rooms divided by glass. While the story plays like an episode of the Outer Limits revival series, I liked the look and appreciated those two characters. The plot: Bateman, CEO of the world’s biggest search engine company, stages a competition with his employees to earn a week with him at the estate. Winner Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) learns that Bateman wants him to run a Turing Test (yes, it’s named after the guy in The Imitation Game) on Ava to determine
FILM EVENTS Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival April 23-May 3. The Indy Jewish Film Fest is now an annual thing, having made it to its second year with another batch of films pertaining to the Jewish experience, selected by a board comprised of people from all faith traditions. Here’s what’s coming up during this print cycle.
A Woman Called Golda (1982) April 23, 7 p.m. Ingrid Bergman plays Israel’s legendary Prime Minister in this TV film. (Hasten Hebrew Academy, FREE)
Little Boy Another Christ-centric short feature, this one about a boy’s love for his soldier dad during WWII. “The problem here isn’t theological; even if it were in service of a different message entirely, the sheer gracelessness of Monteverde’s storytelling would be a massive turnoff,” said Variety. PG-13, opens Thursday in wide release
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whether or not she can pass for human. You can guess what happens next. I mean, there’s zero chance that Ava will fail the test. (Wouldn’t it be fun, though? “Boss, I gotta tell you, she’s no more human than a toaster oven.) And, given the fact that she’s gorgeous and Smith is an outsider, you know that some sort of relationship is going to blossom. I wish Smith had been more interesting. I don’t think the fault is Gleeson’s — I suspect Garland wrote him that way. Perhaps the point was to make Bateman stand out even more. The best way I can think of to describe the relationship between the males
The Chosen April 25, 9:30 p.m. Jewish teenagers — one orthodox, one not — become friends after facing off in a holy war of a baseball game. (Hasten Hebrew Academy, $10) Crossing Delancey April 26, 6 p.m. Amy Irving stars as a young bookseller whose bubbe tries to marry her off. Screened following a Jewish wedding-themed gala featuring live klezmer and Kosher-style food. (Central Library, $35)
A Matter of Faith God’s Not Dead redux, running a svelte 79 minutes. A young Christian lady heads off to university where her big, bad college prof (Night Court’s Harry Anderson!!) teaches that evolution is a thing. PG, opens Friday in wide release The Water Diviner First-time director Russell Crowe also stars as an Australian looking for his three sons who went missing after fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli. “Smouldering cultural exchanges between a fifty-something Oz farmer and a winsome Turkish hotelier push this from old-fashioned melodrama into modern-day mush,” said The Observer (UK). R, opens Friday in wide release
is this: Remember the painfully awkward locker room scene in Crazy, Stupid Love? In Ex Machina, Caleb Smith is Steve Carell and Nathan Bateman is Ryan Gosling’s crotch. There is a fourth character in the story. Bateman’s assistant is Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno), who was hired because she only speaks Japanese and therefore cannot spill his secrets. Fun fact: You want to know how stupid I am? I accepted that explanation at face value. That’s how stupid I am. The closest I came to questioning it was to think, “I wonder if it’ll turn out she really can speak English?” Ex Machina cost somewhere between $13 and $15 million to make, but it looks great. The film boasts swell performances from Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. It has some memorable moments and it flows along well enough, and the closing image is effective. So, can style win out over an overfamiliar story? Barely. n
Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis April 27, 7:30 p.m. A doc about the “Jewish Schindler,” who may have saved thousands through face-to-face negotiations with Nazi bigwigs like Eichmann. (Keystone Art, $10) Lemon Tree April 28, 7:30 p.m. A Palestinian widow defends her lemon grove against the encroachments of her new neighbor, who happens to be the Israeli defense minster. (Keystone Art, $10) Various locations, indianapolisjewishfilmfestival.com
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Friday Night Frights: Headless and Pieces of Talent April 24, 7:30 p.m. The Strand is on a Hoosier horror streak. Last month, it screened local director Joshua Hull’s slasher comedy, Chopping Block. This Friday, it’ll show a “lost” slasher film, Headless, shot entirely in Indiana, by IU senior Nathan Erdel. It’s a spinoff of the 2012 film Found, which was censored, in its DVD incarnation, by the Australian Classification Board (citing “prolonged and detailed depictions of sexualised violence). Head to Indy Film Talk on nuvo.net for more. Strand Theatre (Shelbyville), $5, strand-theatre-shelbyville.org
Met Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci April 25, 12:30 p.m. A fresh restaging of a couple classic tragedies, with Cavalleria set in a village square, circa 1900, and Pagliacci set in a truck stop in the same town, circa 1948. Various theaters, $25, fathomevents.com Bill Hicks’ Relentless April 27, 8 p.m. A performance by the philosopher-comic from Montreal’s Centaur Theatre in 1992, paired with a new interview with his brother Steve, clips from other routines and home movies. Various theaters, $12.50, fathomevents.com
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Flatwater You’re in double-luck with this place. Not only did they just turn over a ton of new menu items, but they can be counted on for one of Sunday’s greatest rituals: their DIY Bloody Mary Bar. Combine all of that with a gorgeous patio, and Flatwater is the obvious choice for a great spot to have a nice Sunday Funday. Situated as close to the canal as you can get, Flatwater does a lot of live entertainment throughout the week, and has an outdoor bar to keep traffic flowing inside. I highly recommend the slider trio if you’ve never had them before. Not only do the Flatwater folks know how to put together a nearly-perfect outdoor dining spot, they’re also magicians with pork. 832 E. Westfield Blvd., 257-5466, flatwaterbroadripple.com Public Greens As part of the Patachou family of restaurants, Public Greens is turning out the fresh, thoughtful fare that Martha Hoover’s family STACY NEWGENT / FILE PHOTO of restaurants is known for. There’s a twist though: all of the profits from the restaurant will go to fund their charitable Patachou Foundation, which feeds meals to food-insecure kids around the city. The self-service location has a staff farmer and sources from its micro farm just across the Monon from the restaurant. The location also has a knockout patio, which will be used for live music and seating in the warmer months. But no matter what you order on the menu or from the beer taps (yes, it has those, too), you’ll be helping feed hungry central Indiana kids. 64th St. and Monon Trail in Broad Ripple, 202-0765, publicgreensurbankitchen.com North End BBQ A sister restaurant to Late Harvest Kitchen, this new northside barbecue joint brings everything from smoked meat and fish, to homestyle plates S E E , D E CK DINING, O N P AG E 26
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here is no greater proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy than the existence of traditional French cuisine. Steak covered with fries? They invented that. Thick, buttery sauces enveloping perfectly-cooked meats? Thanks so much, France. Savory, paperthin pancakes filled with mushrooms, for dinner? Oh France, you shouldn’t have. So I was more than a little excited to get down to the new Mass Ave spot to see what they were working with, having heard a lot of chatter about charcuterie and galettes. They managed to score both prime real estate on the Mass Ave strip and were supposedly turning their little piece of the street into a Paris-style bistro. And oh boy, did they ever. There is a hint — or perhaps a scoop — of Epcot Center in the decor of the room, from the glittering, string light-lit Eiffel Tower sitting atop a black baby grand right when you enter the door. There’s some mirrored paneling at eye height, all the way around the restaurant. There are gilded C’s and B’s on the high shelves and on other walls, the word “Paris” is spelled out in small wooden letters. Even the host’s station is plastered with a closeup photo of the Tour Eiffel herself.
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All the in-your-face Frenchness made me really nervous, and I began to anticipate a wait staff coming out dressed in horizontal-striped boatneck tops, skinny mustaches and berets, all of them chainsmoking. Normally, when someone is shouting themes at you, like a friend poorly executing shadow puppets (“It’s a dog, see? See the dog? Look, there’s its ears and mouth…”), it’s to convince you that they’re nailing it when they’re absolutely not. This did not come to any fruition, luckily. Instead, we got some truly excellent, traditional French food. I don’t mean French-ish food or “bistro food” or French-influenced food. I mean old school, real goodness complete with buckwheat galettes and seasonallyrotating ingredients and proteins. Can I get an “Amen!” from the Francophiles in the house? As a girl who loves herself some cured meats, the charcuterie plate was an obvious first choice. It comes to the table festooned with mustard, pickles, and slices of crunchy French bread. It was refreshing to see such well-done charcuterie made by hands other than those employed by Smoking Goose. And it is heavenly. The rabbit rillette is one of the standouts by far, with the mean lineup of cured pork, duck, and rabbit to back it up.
It was the duck with peppercorn sauce that really did it for me. I’m not usually one to douse a good protein in a heavy sauce, but the beauty of the French style is that magical b-word: balance. Even though there are rich textures and flavors (read: butter and flour in everything), there is lovely, classic interplay between heaviness and lightness. I ordered their fish dish, a simple dish of cod with a cream sauce served over wild rice, and found that the protein was absolutely perfect, flaking apart easily while retaining its moisture. The rest of the components of the dish made for a pretty light dinner, despite the cream and butter. For dessert, we ordered what was described as a “creme brulee with caramel instead of torched sugar.” It was silkysmooth on the tongue, and the caramel retained that essential burnt sugar bitterness that balances against sweetness. It was obvious, too, that someone had passed that uncooked custard through a fine sieve, and the caramel was cooked inhouse. These little touches, along with the housemade charcuterie, is what hooked me at this spot. As cheesy as it sounds, there is an obvious difference in restaurants where the owners have a personal interest in serving something meaningful to them, and Cropichon et Bidibule is serving French dishes that are rooted in care and tradition. They even named the place after the French slang nicknames the owners gave their children. What says care more than naming your business baby after your actual babies? So don’t be distracted by the decor or the fact that every tile and fiber and vertical and horizontal surface are screaming “This is a French restaurant!” Don’t look at the glitter-coated Eiffel Tower. Don’t look at the wooden letters that spell out “Paris” on every wall. Instead, focus on the food, order a nice bottle of wine, and enjoy the old-fashioned romance of French dining. n
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years,” she said. “But Andy came on board, and all of the sudden it seems the coffee culture in Indianapolis just exploded over the last two years.” That explosion of interest is what’s fueling events like the latte throwdowns. “We have more and more people getting more and more interested in coffee and quality coffee,” Davis said. “And the latte art is just kind of like the icing on the cake. The cake is the best part, which is the coffee, but doing that latte art is like that little bit of edge that gives you something that people remember and talk about. And it’s really a lot of fun for the baristas.” Since January, Gilman has organized monthly League of Lattes throwdowns for the city’s growing cadre of baristas, competitions that draw between 20 and 25 entrants each month. Last month’s competition was held at Pearings, and Levi McClish of Abbey Coffee Company in Marion won. The next event is April 30 at Quills Coffee, a new shop located at 335 W. Ninth St. The season, Gilman says, will run through September. “I didn’t want to just stop with one,” he said. “And so I thought of the idea of doing a season, like a sports season, and so we’re doing nine months. We do a bracket-style thing, and as you place through the night, I take the score using the points from the
Indianapolis 500. So you have standings throughout the season.” There is no fee to participate (or to watch the competitions), and even home latte artists can compete. Ivy Tech culinary instructor Thom England served as a judge at last month’s competition. “It’s exciting to see so many baristas here competing, first of all,” he said, “and to see how the coffee culture is evolving in Indianapolis.” As to how the latte designs are judged, Jay Cunningham, of Intelligentsia Coffee and Kilogram Tea in Chicago, said it’s simple. “You basically evaluate things like contrast, texture, design obviously. Symmetry. Composure. And you kind of chose which drink that you’d be more likely to be attracted to.” I judged the recent competition as well, and while sometimes there was a clear winner — a design that was beautifully composed, centered in the cup and neatly made — other rounds were tougher to call. When that happens, Cunningham said, “you go with your gut and, based on those criteria, which one you think is fulfilling. It’s sort of like which one is sexier. Which one you’d want to reach for and take a swig of.” n Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrink Indy.com.
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brisket and baby back ribs. The best part of North End is the Switzerland of barbecue sauce traditions, offering four different varieties from mustard to molasses-based. Jolene reviewed their perfectly-cooked ribs and found the place to be worthy of a second visit. 1250 E. 86th St., 614-7427, thenorthendbbq.com Monon Food Company On the opposite end of the spectrum
from some of the more upscale green restaurants in town, Monon Food Company offers organically-grown foods right off of the eponymous trail in its relaxed, no-frills dining room. The walk-up counter is one part of its dressed-down service, and the food is always knockout good, with everything from burgers to tacos. If you’re thirsty or five-o’clock thirsty, you’re covered, as Monon serves beer and wine as well as soft drinks. It’s pet friendly
too, so take the dog or the kids or just yourself and enjoy some healthy, organic, easy food. 6420 N. Cornell Ave., 722-0176, mononfood.com — SARAH MURRELL Next week ... Look for more al fresco suggestions in next week’s issue of NUVO — or online anytime at nuvo.net.
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or many people, the opportunity to discover, engage with and contribute to local music scenes is a crux of the college experience. This is especially true of Indiana University, a campus that forms the heart of a musical climate as vibrant and prolific as Bloomington's. From local gems like Mike Adams and Busman’s Holiday to the talent that the city’s ever-expanding list of indie labels and promoters bring into town, there is something compelling happening on almost any given night. Add to the list student-based promotions group called IndieU, which aims to bring a new generation of talent into that local spotlight. “We empower musicians by building a brand through both physical and digital media,” Robert Cartsens III, IndieU’s senior representative at IU says. The organization began two years ago under the name 18LoveMusic. At that point, it was a content publisher based at Northwestern University focused on reviewing and promoting the work of unsigned artists. But it did not take long for IndieU to develop more ambitious goals. “We still publish content, but have taken the wheel in terms of promoting artists and building a fan base in the real world,” Cartsens says. “Our overall goal is to develop a fan base for our artists while supporting their autonomy as independent musicians.” In partnering with artists like IU sophomore and singer-songwriter Rachel Waite, IndieU coaches young talents to better promote themselves in both digital and physical spaces. “In this day and age it is so easy to put your music out on social media and music websites, but it’s also really easy to get lost amongst everyone else that’s trying to do the same thing you are,” Waite says. “Having the guidance and support of IndieU has definitely helped by lending me an extra hand to help support and showcase my music.” An IndieU event on April 30 at The Bishop features Waite alongside electronica artist Sweater Disco, emcee Eli (REN) and indie rock sextet The Alamo Freeze. “The chance to be able to show off your music live to possible fans is invaluable,”
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says Michael McReynolds, a first-year student at IU who performs as Sweater Disco. “The showcase coming up at The Bishop will hopefully put Sweater Disco on the Bloomington map a bit more.” While promoting and showcasing student musicians will surely go a long way towards boosting their careers, it’s what IndieU has planned next that could be a game changer for these artists’ ability to make a splash in the regional scene. “With the release of our application and updated website, artists can now upload music, share content, gain followers and keep fans in the loop about upcoming shows,” Cartsens says. He insists IndieU’s streaming component has more benefits than apps like SoundCloud and Bandcamp. “Instead of logging
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in and just uploading music, IndieU artists can share their music online while local representatives work with them one-onone, promoting their tracks, booking shows, and increasing overall awareness.” Still, one might wonder what the benefit of yet another streaming service could be. But, as these artists see it, it comes down to the specified exposure that a community like IndieU can offer. “They don’t have tons of artists and the ones that they do are kind of tied to their geographical locus,” says Gray Stephenson of The Alamo Freeze. “So they’ve got a little bit more of a focus.” “It’s a growing operation, so they’re trying to work out of a few college campus hubs, and kind of expand out from there,” bandmate Brian O’Conner says. “But definitely with the goal of finding unsigned bands and then trying to promote them through their growing network.” That network, which is a for-profit venture made mostly of student volunteers, is making strides to put the work of unsigned artists into the hands of their peers and potential fans, while balancing those touches with a rigorous schedule of live events. As Stephenson puts it, “We’re glad to be playing, and they’re giving us more opportunities to play.” n
If one guitar is mighty fine, four are fantastic on a perfect Saturday. Bill Lancton has been gifting Jazz Kitchen patrons with spring and fall Guitar Summits since 2002, and has been showcasing groupings of from three to five of Indianapolis’ growing pool of virtuoso guitarists in venues around Greater Indianapolis. You never know who is going to show up to showcase a wide ranging jazz repertoire – straight ahead, Latin, funk — always backed by a bassist and drummer who also get their moments to shine. On April 18 the lineup with Lancton included guitarists Steve Weakley, Frank Steans and Joel Tucker, bassist Scott Pazera and drummer Greg Artry. Opening with Sonny Rollins’ “Pent-Up House,” the feeling of Rollins’ saxophone was close at hand, and that’s when you’re immediately aware this sextet of players is in sync with each other, having fun. Street funk informs the mood of “Blues in Maud’s Flat” with the feel of composer Grant Green’s guitar high slung. All six were handing off the tune, weaving the story and feeling the angst. It was with Wes Montgomery’s Latin Funk “Road Song” that one got the point about the guitar as an extension of the body, draped between heart and gut. It’s a tune you move to in your seats, and you know the magic of the guitar comes from its inner soul, simultaneously introspective and transportive. The audience was fully participating. The voice of Andy Wiliams tends to surface with the first hint of Henry Mancini’s iconic “Days of Wine and Roses” yet Steve Weakley and Frank Steans with fine bass and drum backup made it their own. The initial misty dream with first one then the other finding a path out but eventually circling into a dream with no way out but to curl up into itself and so it ends — or not. The tune lingers. “How Insensitive,” Tom Jobim’s ultimate word on the end of a love affair, appeared in a handful of minutes on their original album “The Girl From Ipanema” but on Saturday the lament lingered as the question got tossed up and down, back and forth musically. It’s a hefty tune with layers and layers of probing. Guitars supply a doppler effect of emotions. The 7 p.m. set ended with a rousing rendition of Herbie Mann’s “Comin Home Baby.” It started life as a minor-key blues instrumental by bassist Ben Tucker; Mel Torme perfected the vocal version originally. Canadian singer Michael Buble most recently recorded a vocal version. What Bill Lancton’s Summit proved on Aril 18 is that any original composition can transfer its inner soul to guitars in any configuration-solo, duet, trio or as a quartet. As an ensemble with bass and drums the program offered a wide spectrum of emotional and aesthetic connections. And while it’s always wonderful to meet up with the seasoned players, the special treat was hearing a newer up-and-coming guitarist. IU Jacobs School of Music graduate Joel Tucker bears watching. — RITA KOHN
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met the gentlemen collectively known as The Burning Mules at the atmospheric Broad Ripple Brewpub. The foursome is Jimmie Boros, Rob Meyer, Patrick McDaniel and Paul Weller. We kept the beers flowing, including the Das Luger, Mosaic, 80 Shilling, Red Bird Mild. I was a big fan of the Lucky Lad. The band is busy getting ready for the Indy Metro FOOLs Brotherhood Bash on April 22, but took time to sit down with me and discuss the gear they use to crank out rockabilly cow-punk rock.
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NUVO: Let’s start with the bass. Paul, what are you playing? WELLER: I play upright bass. It’s actually a student model for my son to use in orchestra. It’s a half-size. The normal upright is ¾. I’m on my fourth set of strings. Strings are a big deal – huge deal. There’s a lot of experimentation. I’m using Blast Cult Low Lifes. I’ve tried weed whacker line, orchestral and jazz strings. This is right on. I’m a converted guitar player. [Patrick] said, “Hey try it on the upright.” MCDANIEL: That really broke open the dam. WELLER: I describe it as our, “Hey Hammer, why don’t you put on the big pants,” moment. MEYER: It’s a really big part of our sound. NUVO: Do you mic your bass or is there a pickup? WELLER: It’s a Hurley piezo pickup, which really works. I use an Ibanez Promethean. It’s a 1x10” and it takes an extension cab. I use an Ampeg Portoflex 1x15”. That’s pointed away from me. The preamp is a lifesaver, too. There’s a tiny switch that says phase and if you hit that the feedback goes away. [The uke bass] is an Eddy Finn and it is the main backup. I also converted a Strat [electric guitar] into a bass, as a secondary backup.It’s a blank Strat neck that I shaped. I took the Strat bridge off and put a bass bridge at the very end of the body. NUVO: I’m really interested in your cocktail kit, Patrick. MCDANIEL: There’s kind of a fun history behind all that. In college I played in a band, using a kind of mish-mash 28 MUSIC // 04.22.15 - 04.29.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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BOROS: I like having it too, because I can be playing and put my nose there and know right where the mic’s at without looking. I’m a big fan of the monkey fist mic.
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MCDANIEL: It is, the problem with that is since I switched to the drum set cymbals, it’s too much pressure, and was starting to warp. I’ve switched to stands. It’s not quite as compact anymore. NUVO: That’s still a small setup.
BOROS: What is my processor? WELLER: TC Helicon Mic Mechanic for echo. BOROS: The Mic Mechanic! We added that about a year ago. We’d been through a shit-ton of other pedals and never got the sound we wanted.
BOROS: His setup is quicker than anybody. That’s flip-flopped from every other drummer.
NUVO: Tell us about your gear, Rob.
MCDANIEL: The amount of drummers that look at my setup and salivate…
BOROS: It’s never the same guitar each gig.
NUVO: Jimmie, what’s your setup like? BOROS: I play a hollowbody Gretsch 5120. … It’s pretty stock. I play through the Fender, I always want to call it the Excalibur. MEYER: You’re the only one that can lift it. WELLER: It’s the Excelsior Pro, 13-watt amp with a one 15” speaker. The reverb is nice. NUVO: I bet the bass out of that is huge. BOROS: We have to keep it low. It can really push it. NUVO: As the singer are you picky about your microphone? BOROS: Yes, very much. I’m using a Heil right now. It’s really clean. MEYER: The Heil looks just like the old Shure.
MEYER: The least extravagant of the bunch. I use a ’54 Reissue Strat. MEYER: Yeah, but for recording I always use it. I have a Gretsch 6122 Junior. It’s like the double cutaway Chet Atkins model, but about the size of a Les Paul; a bit thicker body. I put Fender Texas Special pickups in it for a little more bite. It’s a Squier. I love that thing. It’s a Vintage Vibe Strat. I have a Japanese made Telecaster, which is probably the third guitar I’d bring. It’s an ’84. I usually play through a Fender Champ 12. It’s a Rivera era amp. WELLER: Don’t forget the important part. MEYER: Right, the white snakeskin, from the factory. NUVO: That definitely sounds like Paul Rivera. MEYER: For bigger gigs I’ll use a Mesa Boogie F30 or a Peavey Classic 30. They all have singe 12” speakers, which I’m fond of. And I use a Johnson J-Station processor. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.22.15 - 04.29.15 // MUSIC 29
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NUVO: It sounds like the opportunity to create that first event came at you rather randomly. Had you considered developing an arts showcase for women prior to meeting the folks at Tin Comet?
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The HI-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $15, 21+ Blues Jam, Slippery Noodle, 372 S. Meridian St., 21+ Yessh, Birdbath, Go Home, The Wash-Out (Bloomington), all-ages Marshall Lewis, Indiana Memorial Union (Bloomington), all-ages Percussor, Sapremia, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
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WEDNESDAY Joe Pug 8 p.m. Here’s a bit from a conversation with singer-songwriter Joe Pug from a year or so ago: “The first website that reviewed any of my music is My Old Kentucky Blog. They reviewed the record, gave it a good review. It was mind-blowing for me that somebody had even heard the record or wanted to know about it. Then we came down and did a show for them at a place called Radio Radio. It was a weird showcase thing that they were doing. The headliner was a much-younger Justin Townes Earle, and Dodge [Lile] put me as part of the openers — three or four people playing music and switching songs in and around. And I was one of those people.”
dedicated to him. It’s withstood the test of time, truly a hip-hop album for the ages. Don’t miss.
Tuck and Patti, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Melody Inn, 21+ Tonos Triad, Union 50, 21+ Wedding Banned, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
Crescent Ulmer 9:30 p.m. We caught Crescent with her new project NightCap at Sirius Blvck’s album release party in December, and immediately headed home to listen to her solo effort Creature Comforts. Her voice is a wonder. You won’t be sorry you went to see Ulmer. Union 50, 620 N. East St., 21+
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Ampersand Blues Band, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Adam Kuhn 9 p.m. Two locals bookend The Bones of J.R. Jones at this In-Store Recordings show (recently relaunched by founder Derek Vordran. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $5, 21+ HIP-HOP Bone Thugs N Harmony 9 p.m. Heads up: if you’ve put off seeing Bone Thugs (and we don’t now why you would, because they’re awesome), this is the tour to see. They’re performing their classic album E.1999 Eternal, released in ‘95 after producer and mentor Eazy E’s death, and
Thursday – Sunday. Big weekend for mushroom hunters and roots music lovers. In between lectures from hunters and growers, the White Lightning Boys, Split Rail, Jeff Morgan, Punkin Holler Boys, Haley Jonay, The Possum Posse and many more will take the stage. This festival is all-ages, and a great way to spend a weekend away from the city. Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park and Campground, 5163 SR 135 N., prices vary, all-ages Safe Sex, Shame Thugs, Squirming, The Back Door (Bloomington), 21+ Quakers Meetings #6, Listen Hear, all-ages
Sam Prekop 7 p.m. The Sea and Cake frontman journeys down from his Chicago home to perform his newest solo work, The Republic. It follows his 2010 album Old Punch Card, an exploration through modular synths. In a 2012 interview we did with Prekop, he said, “he often values most highly those records that are a real ‘trial’ to make. He says that records like Old Punch Card and his self-titled solo album are of the sort that ‘could probably never happen again,’ simply because they were so much work and because they arose from such unique situations.”Local experimenter Rob Funkhouser will open. Joyful Noise Recordings, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 206, $10, all-ages PARTIES
everything promised. With only two spots available the battle was cutthroat by necessity. Prowlers and the Prey went on to win the night despite the band vote almost completely going against them — bands were rightly worried they’d be a serious threat in the final round. I still hear a lot of Bonnie Raitt in lead-singer Kyra Waltz, while others in the crowd compared her to Nancy Wilson of Heart. Regardless, the band fired on all cylinders tonight, and Jeff Kelly (who must battle next week as a solo artist) was loaded for bear. Fan favorite “Red Light USA” nearly brought the roof down.
Good Company 9 p.m. This local hip-hop showcases the Strong Roots all-stars, Ejazz, Magmatix and DJ Salazar. Scoot Dubbs will host. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $8, 21+ Native Sun, Bjazz, The Mousetrap, 21+ Chives, Ego, Vamos, Brandon Spaulding, Kismet, all-ages Freddie T and The People, Pork ‘N Beans Brass Band, Melody Inn, 21+ Blue Moon Revue, Union 50, 21+
Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $12, 21+
Nicki Bluhm and The Gamblers, Radio Radio, 21+
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Loretta Lynn 8 p.m. We never know how many more chances we’ll get to see legends like Loretta Lynn on stage – she could decide to give it up and live in luxury for the rest of her life. But she’s appearing at the Palladium this weekend. Current tours have her playing classics like “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man), “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven” and covers by Eagles, Patsy Cline, Toby Keith and Merle Haggard. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr., prices vary, all-ages
The Werks, Funky Junk, Kaleidoscope Jukebox, The Vogue, 21+ Elvis Perkins, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+ Summer, Books and Brews, all-ages Lip Sync Contest and Fundraiser, Indy Eleven Theatre, all-ages Joe Henderson Tribute Band, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Ted Pearce, Congregation Shaarey Yeshua, all-ages Rikki Jean and The DWB, The Possum Posse, Melody Inn, 21+ Ed Money 2.0, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Indiana Avenue All Stars, The Chatterbox, 21+ Jason Michael Carroll, Old Southern Moonshine Revival, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Steve Boller, Bier Brewery & Tap Room, 21+
Polka Boy 7 p.m. Spring tradition time! Rollicking local polka boys Polka Boy open up the Rathskeller Biergarten with this long Friday show. Show up early to grab a picnic table – this party goes until 11 p.m. (the Boys usually perform in two sets), and you’ll want a place to cool your heels eventually. Fingers crossed for good weather.
Nellie McKay: Nellie with a Z, The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 21+
SATURDAY ALL-AGES Four Year Strong 7 p.m. The Emerson is a reliable host of rock, emo and pop punk, and permutations of those genres; it’s the perfect place to play host to Four Year Strong, currently touring their newest record, a self-titled release due in June. Singer/guitarist Dan O’Connor said their upcoming record is “one of the most raw records we’ve ever made, it’s just us playing. No fancy computer shit. Made for singing along and head banging.” My Sweet Fall, Chin Up Kid, and Juice also play.
The Rathskeller Biergarten, 401 E. Michigan St., 7 p.m., 21+ BATTLES Birdy’s Battle Royale Round Two 7:30 p.m. (Editor’s note: Here’s a bit from Jonathan Sanders’ review of last Friday’s Round Two competition. Find the rest of the review on NUVO.net.) After nine weeks seeing and hearing the best of what Indianapolis has to offer musically, the gloves are now off. Close to 200 people packed into Birdy’s Friday night for the first of three semifinal rounds, and the atmosphere was
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PARTIES College Day Tent Party 2 p.m. Daps to Keepin’ It Deep for a season of killer acts and parties. This weekend, they’re bringing out Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck, Ben Action-Jackson, Hugh Jeffner, DJ Lockstar, Gabby Love, Sinclair Wheeler, Shy Guy Says, Dj Middy, Dj Rican, Exploratio, Cam Miller and Foxx Trott and Taylor Eads. They’re also providing some games: corn hole, beer pong, water slides and giant Jenga? We have no idea how big giant Jenga gets, but everybody be careful when those towers fall down, please. Tiki Bob’s Cantina, 231 S. Meridian, $10, 21+ LOCALS Singer-Songwriter Showcase 7:30 p.m. Four artists will be showcased at this showcase: Austin Johnson, Sara Kays, Joy Caroline Mills and Nick Zyromski. The Warehouse, 254 1st Ave. SW, $15, all-ages FUNDRAISER
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research. This show, featuring Bands of Nomads, Tracy and Amy’s Curve Appeal and Chris Wolf, supports Pink Ribbon Connection. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $10, 21+ JAZZ Jazz Celebration 8 p.m. Featuring both IU faculty and students in various combos and bands, trombonist John Fedchock is the guest at this celebration. Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. (Bloomington), $5-$15, all-ages
to the rest of the guys on stage. “While one might assume this song-by-song approach would have taken away from DP’s live set, I’m here to tell you it didn’t in the slightest. The group wailed through tunes new and old, including several from their often overlooked 2011 release, Loose Jewels. After ripping through a career-spanning set, the group closed out the night with ‘Lite Dream,’ the opening rager from their 2013 release — per fan request of course.” — Seth Johnson The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $12, 18+ WINNERS
ROCK Diarrhea Planet 9 p.m. Here’s a bit from our review of Diarrhea Planet’s 2014 show at the Hoosier Dome: “ “After playing the lead single from their most recent release, 2013’s I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, lead singer Jordan Smith announced that the rest of the band’s set would be all-request. An incredibly ballsy move, this decision added another wild and wacky dimension to the group’s live set, as Smith sifted through the collective screams and chants from the crowd, then relaying the band’s next tune
Josh Kaufman 9 p.m. There’s not a ton of chances to see singer-songwriter Josh Kaufman live in Indy. At least, in comparison to the good old days, when he gigged regularly all over town. That was of course before he won The Voice – and now the stages are much, much bigger. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., $18 in advance, $20 at door, 21+ HIP-HOP ICON Tribute: Outkast 11 p.m. Hot damn. Out of all of the ICON events
happening this year, this edition might be the one we’re most stoked for. Everybody loves Outkast. That’s just a fact.
Apostle of Solitude, Witchdoctor, Conjurer, VEGA, Dead East Garden, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+
Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $10, 21+
Fresh Hops, Funky Junk, Mousetrap, 21+
The Red Streak, Runaway, Uglifriend, Anti_Soechsle, Hoosier Dome, all-ages
Spring Fling Dance with The Time Bandits, Slovenian National Home, all-ages
Jacked: Official Movement Pre-Party with Gabi, Dru Ruiz, David Hodnik, Joe Tyra, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Langhorne Slim and The Law, The Dewars,The Hi-Fi, 21+ The Main Squeeze, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ DXTRS LAB ft. Mr. Kinetik, The HI-Fi, 21+ Joey Hyde, Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, all-ages Kris Hitchcock and Small Town Sun, Tin Roof, 21+ Bashiri Asad, Union 50, 21+ Jim Loughery, Thirsty Scholar, all-ages Cari Ray, Metro, 21+ Brent Schlemmer, Books and Brews, all-ages Woomblies Rock Orchestra, Rathskeller, 21+ Sha Na Na, Honeywell Center, all-ages Carrie Newcomer and The Dorkestra, Brown County Playhouse, all-ages
Bigg Country, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+ Goldie and Exquisitely Yours, The Chatterbox, 21+
The Four Freshmen, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
SUNDAY CLASSICS Europe 8 p.m. We’re leaving together But still it’s farewell And maybe we’ll come back To earth, who can tell? I guess there is no one to blame We’re leaving ground Will things ever be the same again? It’s the final countdown The final countdown The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 21+ POP Milky Chance 8 p.m. They nailed a huge radio hit with their 2014 track “Stolen Dance,” but their full album Sadnecessary caught on too. Now
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ROCK ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 9 p.m. These Austin rockers with a wily name always bring an impressively aerobic live show. We expect they might almost destroy The Hi-Fi’s intimate stage. The Hi-FI, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $15 in advance, $17 at door, 21+ Wild Bore, Wounded Knee, North By North, Melody Inn, 21+ Psychopathic Daze, Her Name is Mercy, Seize The Empire, Mama Moonshine, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ Open Traditional Irish Music Session, Claddagh Irish Pub, 21+ Charlie Ballantine Quartet, Union 50, 21+ Danilo Perez Trio, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Death Angel, Killzone, Photon Schism, Death Collector, The Headquarters
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Europe, Sunday at The Vogue. Dead Flowers, The Old Adage, Dream Chief, Melody Inn, 21+
TUESDAY SINGER-SONGWRITER Kiesza 7:30 p.m. We’ll excerpt a part of this press release, because it’s incredible. “Kiesza is a singersongwriter from Calgary, and is also an in-demand songwriter for acts across the globe, puts together her own stunning artwork, is a trained ballerina, and a former tall-ship sailor who the Army once attempted to train as a sniper.” Damn, Kiesza. You’ve got a lot going on. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $20 in advance, $25 at door, 21+
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ville musician Wil Wright of Senryu. He crafts smart tracks using the collected works of J.K. Rowling with a band of merry collaborators. We’re dreaming of a collaboration with Harry Potter-themed local band Snack Mountain and The Boys Who Lived. Come on guys, make it happen. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $6, 18+ J Fernandez, Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, Daguerreotype, The Blockhouse (Bloomington), all-ages Sick of Sarah, Radio Radio, 21+ The Serenade Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
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DEAD FLOWERS (Dallas) w/ THE OLD ADAGE (Michigan) and DREAM CHIEF. Doors @ 8 p.m., show @ 9 p.m. $5.
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SARAH: Look, once again, I have no medical knowledge. However, it’s never a bad idea to drink water that keeps up with your coffee intake, just for the sake of your skin and sanity. Also, what’s all the stress from? If you’re working harder or you have more on your mind, you might just be a little more tired or distracted than usual. Instead of guzzling more water and hoping for the best, maybe taking more time to put away your work distractions — literally and mentally — before getting down to the nitty-gritty will help you lubricate more naturally. DR. D: Probably not. Assuming you are not severely dehydrated, your vaginal lubrication should be fine (it comes from a process called transudation and, indirectly, from your bloodstream). And let’s make sure to differentiate vaginal lubrication (which occurs during sexual excitement and arousal) from vaginal wetness/ dryness which is more of a day to day kind of thing. If you’re stressed out lately, it’s possible that you’re feeling distracted during foreplay/sex or jumping into sex quickly before you’ve had time to relax and be receptive to the kinds of sexual feelings, thoughts, and touches that otherwise help to enhance your arousal and thus your lubrication. The next time you have sex, try to set up conditions for sufficient relaxation and enjoyment of sex. If you’re able to reduce stressors before sex (e.g., doing the laundry first, attending to any work you need to get done, etc) that’s a good first step to creating better conditions for sex. Then you might try setting up whatever scene gets you in the mood — whether that’s candlelight or porn or trading massages — and spend at least 10-15 minutes with relaxing foreplay prior to intercourse. That should help and, if you still find you’re not as wet as you’d like to be, it doesn’t hurt to use a water-based lubricant. As I often say, lube is your friend.
SARAH: Try screaming his mom’s full name right before he orgasms. That should do the trick just fine. Unless that makes him cum harder, then you’ve got way bigger problems than birth control. DR. D: That’s pretty much it! There’s also withdrawal (removing the penis before ejaculating) though that’s more reliable for some men than others. And anyway I think it’s helpful to think about birth control as a couple’s responsibility rather than just something that men do or women do. You can learn more about birth control methods at Planned Parenthood’s website.
Sex and Serotonin My doctor and I have discussed going on anti-depressants, but I have heard they make you unable to have an orgasm. Is that true? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Everyone reacts to medicine differently, and keep in mind, the drug market is ever-evolving. Your doctor is going to have the most up-to-date info on which drugs cause which side effects. Don’t be embarrassed to say to your doctor, “I am worried I won’t be able to orgasm when I go on SSRIs.” They’ve heard it all, and your doctor will be able to find the right medication in the right dosage to keep your O intact. DR. D: Some SSRI antidepressants interfere with orgasm but not everyone experiences this side effect. Other people, once they feel less depressed (or no longer depressed), experience greater desire and relationship quality, and still retain their normal ability to orgasm. There are also some antidepressants that don’t seem to have this effect. You might let your doctor know that you have some concerns about potential side effects and ask her or him if there’s an antidepressant that might be a good choice for you in terms of both your mood and your sex life.
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“Is there some kind of middle ground we can strike that’s a little exposed but also not illegal?”
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Olive it when you do it like that
My boyfriend is into public sex (he also skydives, go figure) but I’m not exactly thrilled about the legal consequences of possibly getting caught. Is there some kind of middle ground we can strike that’s a little exposed but also not illegal?
Can you use olive oil as lubricant? Less of a serious question and more trying to win a bet. Thanks.
— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: More sexual creativity challenges! My favorite! My first question is, where is your nearest balcony? Most people don’t actually notice things that aren’t in their line of sight (hence why novice murder suspects get caught via blood on the ceiling), so you might be able to satisfy his public sex love by just stepping out on the balcony for a little nookie. See also: hotel rooms with picture windows and rooftop sex. Now, does any of this guarantee that you won’t be able to shield the eyes of a child from your fornication, which is really what all those laws are about, when it’s all said and done? Certainly not. But anyone who sees you banging 20 stories up is looking for someone banging, you know? There’s also the ol’ changing room mambo you could do, but just know that some retail managers are more vindictive than others, though most would only ever hustle you out and tell you not to “bring that crap in here anymore.” DR. D: Some couples dirty talk their way through scenes that excite one person but not the other. Sex clubs and swingers clubs are another possibility for some people who like to be seen — or potentially be seen. Not everyone who goes to them actually wants to have sex with other people, some just like to be watched. Also, some clubs are set up with many rooms inside the space so that a couple might go somewhere private and potentially be “caught”. Others are turned on by having sex in a hotel room — okay, so they’re not going to be caught having sex, but they may be loud enough that they feel turned on by being heard by others. Just watch what you’re saying — there may just be a family with young kids in the next room, or someone trying to get some sleep before a big meeting the next day. Or you might just find it sexy to read erotic stories together — check out Caught Looking, a collection of stories edited by Alison Tyler and Rachel Kramer Bussel.
— Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: OH MY GOD PEOPLE, HOW HARD IS IT TO GO BUY SOME LUBE?! Yeah, there are lots of things you could use as lubricant, like olive oil and coconut oil and whatever else, but like, WHY?! Just go out to the local drug store and pick up a bottle of water-based lube! Are you embarrassed at this purchase? Well then here’s a challenge: Go to the store and buy only the following two items: The largest bottle of water-based lubricant you can find, and a tall, slim bottle of Gewurztraminer. Then march right up to the checkout and do not miss a single opportunity to make eye contact with the clerk. Then as you leave, just stare at the bottle for a few seconds and mutter under your breath, “I can do this” and walk out. If you can do all of that, congrats, you can now buy any sexual novelty under the sun. DR. D: Is it possible? Yes. Should you use olive oil with latex condoms? No (it increases the risk of breakage). Does it “turn rancid” in the vagina as some suggest? There’s no data that suggests that, even though you’ll hear some sex educators and healthcare providers say this. Is olive oil a great choice for the vagina or anus? Probably depends on the person but some preliminary data suggest it may not be the best choice, particularly on a regular basis. However, some people do use olive oil as a lubricant for sex; I don’t personally recommend it but some others do. Don’t even get me started on using coconut oil as a lubricant, which some people are starting to do (coconut water, coconut oil, coconut everything are still somewhat trendy these days). If you decide you must use coconut oil — again, please know that it can cause latex condoms to tear and we have no data on the safety of coconut oil for the vagina or anus.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you’re stumped about what present to give someone for a special occasion, you might buy him or her a gift card. It’s a piece of plastic that can be used as cash to buy stuff at a store. The problem is, a lot of people neglect to redeem their gift cards. They leave them in drawers and forget about them. Financial experts say there are currently billions of dollars going to waste on unredeemed gift cards. This is your metaphor of the moment, Aries. Are there any resources you’re not using? Any advantages you’re not capitalizing on? Any assets you’re ignoring? If so, fix the problem. Aries
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There may be a flood-like event that will wash away worn-out stuff you don’t need any more. There might be an earthquaketype phenomenon that only you can feel, and it might demolish one of your rotten obstacles. There could be a lucky accident that will knock you off the wrong course (which you might have thought was the right course). All in all, I suspect it will be a very successful week for benevolent forces beyond your control. How much skill do you have in the holy art of surrender? Gemini
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excuse? Or rather, what is your THICKEST, SICKEST, MOST DEBILITATING EXCUSE? We all have one: a reason we tell ourselves about why it’s difficult to live up to our potential; a presumed barrier that we regard as so deeply rooted that we will never be able to break its spell on us. Maybe it’s a traumatic memory. Maybe it’s a physical imperfection or a chronic fear. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Cancerian, you’d be wise to do an audit and reassessment of your own LAMEST EXCUSE. I suspect you now have insight about it that you’ve never had before. I also think you have more power than usual to at least partially dismantle it. Cancer
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Free at last! Free at last!
Thanks to the Lord of the Universe or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or a burst of crazy good luck, you are free at last! You are free from the burden that made you say things you didn’t mean! You are free from the seductive temptation to rent, lease, or even sell your soul! Best of all, you are free from the mean little voice in your head — you know, the superstitious perfectionist that whispers weird advice based on fearful delusions! So now what will you do, my dear? You have escaped from the cramped, constricted conditions. Maybe you can escape to wide-open spaces that will unleash the hidden powers of your imagination. Virgo
act of courage than being the one who kisses first,” says Libra actress and activist Janeane Garofalo. I can think of other ways to measure bravery, but for your immediate future, her definition will serve just fine. Your ultimate test will be to freely give your tenderness and compassion and empathy — without any preconditions or expectations. For the sake of your own integrity and mental health, be steadfast in your intention to always strike the first blow for peace, love, and understanding. Libra
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when you are halfway between your last birthday and your next birthday. I invite you to make this a special occasion. Maybe you can call it your anti-birthday or unbirthday. How to celebrate? Here are some ideas: 1. Imagine who you would be if you were the opposite of yourself. 2. Write a list of all the qualities you don’t possess and the things you don’t need and the life you don’t want to live. 3. Try to see the world through the eyes of people who are unlike you. 4. Extend a warm welcome to the shadowy, unripe, marginal parts of your psyche that you have a hard time accepting, let alone loving. 5. Any other ways you can think of to celebrate your anti-birthday? Scorpio
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along my regular hike, both sides of the path are dominated by a plant with glossy, three-lobed leaves. They’re so exuberant and cheerful, I’m tempted to caress them, even rub my face in their bright greenery. But I refrain, because they are poison oak. One touch would cause my skin to break out in an inflamed rash that would last for days. I encourage you, too, to forgo contact with any influence in your own sphere that is metaphorically equivalent to the alluring leaves of the poison oak. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today the French Capricorn painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is regarded as a foremost pioneer of modern art. Some critics say his innovative influence on painting nearly matched Picasso’s. But during the first part of the 20th century, his work often provoked controversy. When a few of his paintings appeared at a major exhibition in Chicago, for example, local art students were shocked by what they called its freakishness. They held a mock trial, convicted Matisse of artistic crimes, and burned his painting Blue Nude in effigy. I don’t expect that you will face reactions quite as extreme as that in the coming weeks, Capricorn. But it will make sense to express yourself with such forceful creativity and originality that you risk inciting strong responses. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Leonardo da Vinci had skills in many fields, ranging from botany to engineering to cartography, but he is best known as a painter. And yet in his 67 years on the planet, he finished fewer than 40 paintings. He worked at a very gradual pace. The Mona Lisa took him 14 years! That’s the kind of deliberate approach I’d like to see you experiment with in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Just for a while, see what it’s like to turn down your levels of speed and intensity. Have you heard of the Slow Food Movement? Have you read Carl Honoré’s book In Praise of Slowness? Do you know about Slow Travel, Slow Media, and Slow Fashion? Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Modern movies don’t scrimp
on the use of the f-bomb. Actors in The Wolf of Wall Street spat it out 569 times. The word-that-rhymeswith-cluck was heard 326 times in End of Watch, while Brooklyn’s Finest racked up 270 and This Is the End erupted with an even 200. But this colorful word hasn’t always been so prominent a feature. Before 1967, no actor had ever uttered it on-screen. That year, Marianne Faithfull let it fly in the film I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to break a taboo that’s maybe not as monumental as Faithfull’s quantum leap, but still fabulously fun and energizing. Be a liberator! End the repression! Release the blocked vitality! Pisces
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