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THE GREAT GUN DEBATE

The NRA is coming to town, but Moms Demand Action is already here. • By Ed Wenck

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Le Brit baby-boomers return to le Paris for le honeymoon.

Two big central Indiana wine fests are good opportunities to expand your palette.

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A conflicting message The NRA – with its mission “to preserve the uniquely American freedoms set forth… in the Second Amendment”* – holds its Annual Meetings here in Indianapolis this weekend. As believers in and followers of Jesus, we humbly and boldly witness to an alternative understanding of freedom. Last week our church, together with Christians around the world, observed Holy Week. On Good Friday, we honored the incarnate God who died rather than defending himself or taking revenge on his enemies. On Easter Sunday, we celebrated the resurrection, by which the King of Kings conquered the powers of sin and death, not with weapons of violence, but through the victorious power of love. Furthermore, as believers in and followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to be like him and obey his commandments. He said, “You are my friends if you do what I command you.” (John 15:14) and also, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate

you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who abuse you” (Luke 6:27-28) and also, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.” (Mt 5:9) This is just a small sample of the life and teaching of Jesus, which was wholly devoted to a nonviolent resistance to unrighteousness and injustice.

we fight with “are not the weapons of the world,” (2 Cor 10:4), but are “the belt of truth… the breastplate of righteousness… the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace… the shield of faith… the helmet of salvation… [and] the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” (Ephesians 6:14-16)

To the extent that the NRA is promoting the purchase and use of guns as a means of self-defense, they are preaching a message that conflicts with the life and teaching of Jesus. We understand that the NRA is not a Christian organization, but many NRA members are Christians, and the Sunday morning prayer breakfast at the convention features Christian speakers and music. As your sisters and brothers in Christ, we welcome you to our city with love but our hearts are broken by what you stand for. We disagree with your understanding of why our Lord came to live, die, and rise again for the salvation of humanity. It is not in guns but in Christ that we have security and freedom. The “weapons” that

Easter offers an alternative way of living, one that is not driven by fear and a spirit of retaliation, (2 Cor 5:17) but which finds freedom and security in God. This is the message that we are called to preach this to the whole world. To many it looks foolish, but it is a foolishness that Jesus himself taught and modeled, and we know it was the greatest wisdom of all. (1 Cor 1:18-31) Signed: Peace Group of Shalom Mennonite Church, Indianapolis, IN Members: Brian Bither, Carol Bixler, Sabrina Falls, Abri Hochstetler, Justin Hochstetler, Mil Penner, Becky Wigginton, Mike Wigginton *quote from www.nragive.com

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federal judge in southwest Indiana just dropped the other shoe in the same-sex marriage debate. Judge Richard Young ruled that the granted the right to violate the equal State of Indiana must recognize the protection and due process clauses of marriage of an Indiana lesbian couple. the U.S. Constitution. The question of Nicole Quasney and Amy Sandler wed whether any state government had the in Massachusetts last year. right to overrule the U.S. Constitution Quasney now is in the final stages of a was settled — decisively — 150 years ago fight with terminal ovarian cancer. in the Civil War. The judge determined that Quasney’s Judge Young’s ruling makes clear in condition merited emergency action a couple of ways how costly Indiana’s from the court and issued a temporary fight over same-sex marriage has been. restraining order compelling Indiana to The first is the political one. The fight recognize the marriage. That means that over HJR 3 was an ugly and painful one Sandler and the couple’s two children that pitted Hoosier against Hoosier. It will find issues of visitation and inheritance easier, less expensive and less complicated. The judge questioned If a federal gay marriage ban whether Indiana’s current ban violates the Fifth Amendment, on same-sex marriages violated the U.S. Constitution’s then so does a state one. equal protection and due process clauses. Even more significantly, Young said that there was a reasonable likelihood that divided families, friends and communities. Quasney and Sandler would prevail on The judge’s ruling makes it clear that the merits of their case. the only votes that count now in the That isn’t exactly news. debate over same-sex marriage belong The U.S. Supreme Court signaled that to the nine people who sit on the U.S. the days of same-sex marriage bans could Supreme Court. be coming to an end when it struck down That means we Hoosiers tore into the federal Defense of Marriage Act last each other for no good reason. summer. The court’s ruling said that the But the more important cost is the federal ban presented Fifth Amendment human one. problems that likely were insurmountable. Nicole Quasney is dying. In her last At the time, the nation’s highest court days, she and her spouse are fighting to left state bans on gay unions untouched. have their union recognized and to hold That encouraged activist social their family together. conservatives to continue their fights One of the loudest voices for banning to get gay marriage bans grafted into same-sex marriages, Indiana Sen. Mike state constitutions. The proponents for Delph, R-Carmel, wrote in an oped colHouse Joint Resolution 3 — the proumn, “No one with a soul wants someposed Indiana constitutional amendone harmed or discriminated against ment banning both gay marriages and for being gay.” civil unions — said that the measure But, as Judge Young has determined, was needed precisely because of lawthat is precisely what a ban on same-sex suits like Quasney’s and Sandler’s. marriage has done to Nicole Quasney But HJR 3 couldn’t have made any dif- and Amy Sandler. ference in that suit. If a federal gay marAt a time when they most need the riage ban violates the Fifth Amendment, strength and support that being part of a then so does a state one. family provides, they have to fight for the Nor would any state have been right just to be a family. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // VOICES 5

No better time to “go green” than April!

Although Earth Day is technically April 22, a lot of local groups save their celebrations for the weekends after the “official” observation. Here’s a list of some local festivals where you can get your green on.

FRIDAY EARTH DAY ARBORFEST, HAMILTON COUNTY This two-day event combines Earth Day and Arbor for two! Two! Two green events in one! On Day One, “Get a free tree seedling and learn and learn about recycled art,” say the organizers. Historic Noblesville Square, 839 Conner St., 1 – 4 p.m., FREE

SATURDAY EARTH DAY INDIANA The big poppa of Central Indiana Earth Day Fests is this free outdoor gathering at White River State Park. Now in its 25th year, the theme this time is “From the Earth to the Stars;” in addition to the slogan “Live Green and Prosper,” festival-goers will have the opportunity to touch an actual, honest-to-orbit moon rock. Earth Day Indiana features 130 exhibitors, live music and nifty things for the kiddos, including the chance to build a bird feeder that your young’n can keep. Also in attendance: our own Renee of “Ask Renee” fame, who says, “I’ll be hanging out at the Pogue’s Run Grocer food booth most of the day. Stop by to say hi and enjoy a bowl of one of our signature soups.” NUVO’s a media sponsor and durn proud of it. White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St.,11 a.m. – 4 p.m., FREE, earthdayindiana.org 6 INDIANA LIVING GREEN // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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EARTH DAY EVENTS EARTH DAY ARBORFEST, HAMILTON COUNTY Day Two: More free tree seedlings, plus hiking and games in Forest, Park too. Historic Noblesville Square, 839 Conner St., 9 a.m. - noon, FREE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION AT SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS This one’s a hike, but it’s a biggie: everything from a Native American drum circle to the Silly Safari folks will be on hand; live music, food and an alpaca shearing demo, too. It’s hosted by the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, which is a ministry of the Sisters of Providence. 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint Mary-ofthe-Woods (near Terre Haute), 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., FREE

SUNDAY EARTH DAY COMMUNITY CELEBRATION AT THE JCC Trust us: few things are more satisfying than planting a tree properly. Interested leaf-nurturers can have that experience at noon with expert instruction from an expert with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. The rest of the festivities get underway around 1, with a full compliment of craft booths, educational goodies, environmentally-friendly and sustainable products — and food trucks, too. Don’t forget to scope out the Fence Art Festival, too – sponsored by this little paper you hold in your hands. The Arthur M. Glick JCC, 6701 Hoover Road, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. (tree planting at noon), FREE, jccindy.org

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I know several people who forgot to bring their rain barrels in for the winter and have subsequently ended up with cracked and useless rain barrels. Where can they be recycled? — THANKS! CLAIRE

You’d think when it comes to a resourceful alternative to plumbing, a little crack couldn’t hurt. No such luck. I believe a rain barrel is made of high density polyethylene or HDPE plastic, which is a kind of plastic that most recyclers will take. That said, I recommend taking it to a recycler that might be used to a variety of shapes and sizes of material. In other words, don’t put it in your curbside bin. Try somewhere like RecycleForce or Rock Tenn at 1775 South West Street. In fact, an old rain barrel might just make a perfect collection bin for electronics or cardboard that you’re saving for your next trip to the recycling center. Andy of Circle City Rain Barrels says there are plastic welders that could attempt a fix, but there’s no guarantee so it’s probably not worth it. Check out his awesome selection of plastic and bourbon oak barrels – his pricing includes installation! Save some water this growing season! And remember, crack kills! — Piece out, Renee

When I owned my home I recycled everything. Now I live in an apartment which means the only drop off points are some distance away and I have no place to keep things long enough to make a trip worth while. Any suggestions? — JIM

These days I’d be surprised if you live, work or run errands terribly far away from a recycling drop-off location. Collection bins at parks, grocery stores, and recycling centers are sprinkled throughout the city and state. You can use Indiana Recycling Coalition’s EcoPoint to look for a drop-off near you.

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You could also use this as an opportunity to engage the rest of your apartment community. Get a small group of residents to join forces to ask your property manager to provide recycling. For a nominal fee (or maybe sometimes not!), I believe any office or building could have full-service recycling. Suggest that they contact Ray’s, Republic, AbiBow or RecycleForce to learn about the cost, equipment and service. I hope you’re also implementing some reduce and reuse strategies so maybe there’s less to recycle. Please don’t give up! — Piece out, Renee

I am helping clean out a house and there are a lot of old clothes which are dry rotted. What do I do with them besides throwing them in the trash? BARBARA B. (Your aunt-in-law’s best friend)

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Sounds like the old clothes are best suited for the trash. Dry rot is a weakening of the fabric that is most often caused by moisture. The clothes will not be useful to others. And if you pack dry rotted clothes with other materials, you may contaminate the whole load. If you have clothes and other household items that are in good shape that you’d like to find a new home for, check out these cool programs:

• T hrifty Threads, benefiting The Julian Center • My Sister’s Place he Salvation Army (I called it Starvation • T Army when I was a young Brownie Girl Scout and gathered items for our annual collection) • Amvets • Goodwill — Piece out, Renee

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Here’s one way to raise awareness regarding Indiana’s polluted waterways: fashion! According to our pals at the Hoosier Environmental Council, “This year’s event will be a Global Culture Clash - borrowing and blending colors, textures, and cultures.” This display of trendy threads and hairstyles is presented by Aveda Indianapolis.

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The Alexander Hotel, 333 S. Delaware St., 1-4 p.m., $20-$35

Zion Nature Center, 690 Beech St, Zionsville, 2 – 5 p.m. FREE

Music, food, and live native critters provide the backdrop for this afternoon-long learning experience. Learn how to conserve, compost, re-use and recycle; bone up on alternative energy options and generally become a sustainability ‘spert. You can also learn how to raise your own backyard chickens.

LIFE LONG DEMOCRAT Vote the person, Not the party EXPERIENCE • KNOWLEDGE • INTEGRITY EVERY PERSON WILL BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY & RESPECT! • VOTE MAY 6 • VOTE MAY 6 • VOTE MAY 6 • PAID FOR BY HENNESSY FOR JUDGE COMMITTEE Patricia Cardinal, Chairperson; Teresa Ray, Treasurer NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // INDIANA LIVING GREEN 7

WHAT HAPPENED? A hell of a caretaker On Thursday morning in Carmel, several hundred people packed a banquet hall to celebrate Mark A. Lee as the CICOA’s Caregiver of the Year. Mark moved in with his elderly parents in 2011 to help care for his father, who had Alzheimer’s and died in 2013. Mark, a longtime NUVO photographer, blogged about his experiences “Raising Dad” at NUVO.net. The blog touched a nerve with the legions of people in the city and beyond that can identify with the challenges and the blessings associated with caring for loved ones who are no longer able to tend to their own needs. An estimated 358,000 people in Indiana provide supportive care to loved ones who would otherwise have to move assisted-living facilities - CICOA valued these efforts at $234 billion worth of support. CICOA, a nonprofit operating in Central Indiana for the past 40 years, offers supportive services such as meal delivery and in-home assistance. Creative resistance Opponents of the Mounds Lake Reservoir proposal to dam the White River on Tuesday announced big plans for Earth Day Celebrations in Anderson and Indy. They have commissioned mask artist Doug Berky of Anderson to construct a Great Blue Heron — wingspan 12 feet — that, weather permitting, will be piloted by a squirrel to help raise awareness of the dam discussions. In addition, they have chartered a plane to fly along the river between the celebrations towing a 120-foot banner carrying a “stop the dam” message. “The damming of the White River will drown trees more than 300 years old and the Mounds Fen Nature Preserve, which contains the highest biodiversity in East Central Indiana; it will have water lapping at bounds built here before the time of Christ,” said Jeff Stant of the Indiana Forest Alliance, one of the event organizers. Heart of the River Coalition members will be on hand in Indy and Anderson to answer questions. A better world for wildlife Hoosier landowners interested in establishing or improving wildlife habitat on their property can turn to the Natural Resources Conservation Service for assistance. Applications are now being accepted for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, which helps selected residents to address and improve the wildlife habitat and environmental situation on their properties. “The benefits of these habitats reach well beyond their boundaries,” State Conservationist Jane Hardisty said in a news release. “Not only do these habitats provide ample food and shelter for wildlife but they also help filter and cleanse water; prevent flooding in local communities by holding water; and improve soil profiles.” The deadline to submit an application for EQIP is May 16. For more information, call 317-745-2555 Ext. 3. — REBECCA TOWNSEND AND THE STATEHOUSE FILE 8 NEWS // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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A 14-year-old’s one-year expulsion highlights state of affairs B Y REBECCA TO W N S EN D RTOW N S E N D @ N U V O . N E T

hen Diamond Hatcher arrived at T.C. Howe Community High School on March 4, she did not expect to end the day at the Marion County Juvenile Center for a 20-day stay, nor did she expect to be expelled from school for a year. That was before gym class and the gun incident. “Most of the time in gym, we don’t have anything to do … so we sit around conversating,” she said in an interview last Friday at her home on North Oakland Avenue, just east of the intersection of Michigan and Rural. That was the situation on that Tuesday when she arrived at gym class. Diamond was not engaged in physical education, she was video taping a fellow student showing off his gun. Word spread quickly to school administrators. They removed the student holding the gun in the video, but not before he passed the gun off to another student, who then passed it to Diamond, who then passed it to another student who put it in his locker, which is, according to the school’s incident report, where school officials ultimately secured it. When confronted, Diamond denied wrongdoing and refused to make a statement. During the school’s subsequent investigation, officials found the video, which according to school’s incident report, showed the student removing the gun from his waistband and pointing it at the camera as Diamond recorded. Based on this evidence, the school recommended that all the students involved be placed under arrest and transported to the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center. According to her father, Gerald Hatcher, who sat with her in court the next day, the father of the boy who brought the gun hired an attorney and the charges against him were dropped and he was released. The other students

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Diamond Hatcher, 14, with her father, Gerald, on the steps outside their Indianapolis home. After videotaping a classmate with a gun at school, and helping to hide the weapon from school officials, Hatcher earned more than two weeks in juvenile detention, a D felony and a one-year expulsion.

involved were transported back to detenbest for all students.” Though she could not talk about the tion until their next court date. Diamond details of individual students’ cases, was released more than two weeks later Reynolds noted that officials found the with an ankle monitor. She returned gun because of a student report, which to court April 21 where the 14-year-old she said, reflects a school culture in pleaded guilty to a D felony, possession of a firearm on school property. She was ordered to participate in Marion “You’re setting them up for prison, County’s Project Life Program, a gun violence you’re setting them up for failure.” education seminar. In addition, she was ordered — GERALD HATCHER to participate in some enrichment activities as well as research career which kids expect to be safe, where they options and write a book report. trust adults enough to ask them for help. Following an expulsion hear“We are trying very hard to create an ing, school officials determined that environment where they do feel safer, Diamond should be expelled from where someone cares enough to say, school for a full year. ‘We’re not going to let anyone hurt “It is our goal to keep kids in school,” you,’” she said. said Colleen Reynolds, who handles The entire experience confounds media relations for Charter Schools Gerald Hatcher. He wonders where the USA, the group that manages T.C. Howe teacher was when this incident began as well as Emma Donnan Middle School to unfold in the first place. He wonders and Emmerich Manual High School. why the charges were dropped against But, she added, it is a balancing act the kid who brought the gun to school and, ultimately, “We have to do what is

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but his daughter now has a felony to her name. He wonders what he is supposed to do with a daughter who has been told she can’t return to school for a year. “You’ve got to have discipline,” he said. But, he added, with the current approach of shipping them to juvenile detention, “you’re setting them up for prison, you’re setting them up for failure.” Hatcher’s comments touch upon a theme addressed in a U.S. Department of Justice report published in December of 2013 on juvenile arrests. “As a growing body of evidence underscores the corrosive effects that system involvement and confinement can have on healthy adolescent emotional, mental, behavioral, and social development, many jurisdictions are examining and developing ways to divert nonserious offenders from entering the system,” wrote Robert Listenbee, the administrator of the DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. “With time, the cumulative effects of these and other reform efforts … should result in a system where arrests are rare, all youth are treated fairly, and when a youth enters the system, he or she receives much-needed treatment and services.” At a “Conversations in Education” symposium held Monday at Central Library, Indianapolis Public Schools Superintendent Lewis Ferebee addressed a question regarding racial disparities in school disciplinary actions. “We really haven’t done a great job of collecting that data,” he said, noting that he wants to make sure that principals do have those numbers “so we ask them the tough questions” and “ensure that our mode of discipline is not reactive, but proactive …” He also responded to a question about his reaction to a one-year expulsion for a gun-related incident. “I think every school and every school district struggles with finding a balance between safety and academics,” Ferebee said. “Any time there’s an opportunity to have gun on campus, it comprises safety. At the same time, when a student is removed that’s a year the student doesn’t have access to instruction — a year that the student gets further behind.” As he considers disciplinary issues within the IPS system, Ferebee said that one issue of concern is his finding that close to 100 percent of the recommendations for expulsion are approved, a sign, he added, that the system of checks and balances is not functioning. He also noted that IPS is engaged in a redesign of its alternative schools. “They should not be seen as dumping grounds, but as true alternatives,” he said. “We often lose our most troubled teens and are not

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WEAPONS IN SCHOOLS • 7 percent of students in grades 9–12 reported being threatened or injured with a weapon, such as a gun, knife, or club, on school property in 2011. • From 2007-2008, 7,000 teachers, or an estimated 10.2 percent of the teaching population, in Indiana reported that they were threatened with injury by a student from school during the previous 12 months. (This statistic does not include private schools.) Nationwide, 8.1 percent of teachers said the same.

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able to truly put our arms around them.” At this point, Diamond is not feeling optimistic about the future. “If you want to make it, Indianapolis is not the place to be,” she said. “Some schools, you can’t challenge your brain. The school I was in was easy … Most schools here, it’s most likely for only five of the kids to graduate anyway. “Our generation is horrible. We’ve got the most death; teenagers die every day or every week. If we’re not getting shot, kids are having babies. The next genera-

• 5 percent of students reported that they had access to a gun without adult permission. • In 2011, some 17 percent of students in grades 9–12 reported that they had carried a weapon anywhere on at least 1 day during the previous 30 days; 5 percent of students reported carrying a weapon on school property during the previous 30 days. • In 2010, students ages 12–18 were victims of an estimated 228,700 serious violent crimes; nearly two of every five (40%) of these incidents took place at or on the way to school. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, “Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2012” and (for the final stat) the OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book, March 2012.

tion will be worse… How we act is bad.” When asked what punishment she felt would be appropriate for handling a gun at school, Diamond suggested that the students not only participate in programs about gun violence, but also talk to other kids about what happened. “Kids need to talk to kids,” she said. “We can relate.” From his position on the frontlines of school safety, IMPD Officer Tronoy Harris, president of Tier One Security, which provides services to schools, including T.C. Howe. He sees how kids are influenced to pick up guns to either “be the big man on the block” or to protect themselves. Harris said that many kids live in environments full of violence and dead ends. In trying to induce cultural change among gun-toting youth, Harris sees the most progress when kids are exposed to the wider world beyond the bounds of their immediate reality. “There is hope,” he said. “One kid at a time. If you can influence one and that student can influence another.” n

GET INVOLVED Soften Our Hearts Organizers are hosting events throughout Central Indiana to “soften our hearts … to face the sorrow of Syria, to grieve and to contribute to relief efforts in that country.” Wed., April 30, noon. Indiana Interchurch Center, 1100 W 42nd St Hoosiers Concerned about Gun Violence A grassroots group committed to reducing gun violence will meet with NRA representatives to discuss gun violence and the racial disparities associated with gun violence in Indianapolis. Scheduled speakers include State Sen. Jean Breaux; Regina Marsh, chief executive officer of Forest Manor Multi- Service Center; Vernell Miller, president of the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center; Reverend Bruce Russell-Jayne; veteran Ken Barger; and Dr. Stephen Dunlop, president of Hoosiers Concerned about Gun Violence. Thurs., April 24, noon. City Market Spring Powwow The American Indian Council is hosting its 23rd annual traditional spring powwow with singing, drumming, dancing and food. Tent camping is available for $5. See americanindiancouncil.com for more details. Sat., April 26, 10 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. (Grand Entry: 1pm & 6:30pm) — Sun., April 27, 10:30 am – 4:30 p.m. (Grand Entry: 1 p.m.) General admission $5, kids and elders $3, under 6 free.

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he radio ads have begun; the NRA is coming to town. The National Rifle Association is holding its annual meeting here in Indianapolis, with 600 exhibitors and tens of thousands of attendees — last year’s soiree in Houston drew a record 86,288 folks. Indy’s tourism promoters stayed mum on the NRA’s visit until the last possible moment: it’s common knowledge that controversy follows this gathering. While the faithful are treated to speeches from Sarah Palin and Oliver North, there’s a problematic backdrop for the convention.

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Shannon Watts: Zionsville resident is founder of Moms Demand Action.

According to the IMPD, the city of Indianapolis saw 125 murders in 2013; of those, 102 involved a firearm. The first three months of 2014 tallied 38 homicides, and 31 were the result of gunfire. Alarmed by the violence, Mayor Greg Ballard proposed in his State of the City address a 20-year minimum sentence for crimes in which guns played a part. Compounding the outrage, a 16-yearold kid with an extensive criminal record is in a local lockup, accused of murdering a 24-year-old expectant father with a stolen gun. Odds are pretty good you have one of two reactions to the above paragraph. Either a) that the connection between a guaranteed Constitutional right and a high body count is at best moronic, and at worst, indicative of a conspiracy to

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undermine the founders’ intent, or b) that the gun lobby is complicit in a lax patchwork of laws that keeps the bullets flying; that they’ve created a nation in which the profits of arms manufacturers supersede public safety. Amendment II of the United States Constitution: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Those maddening commas. The relationship of the “prefatory” clause to the “operative” clause; a “well regulated Militia” vs. “the right of the people.” The arguments over that bit of exposition, at times even more confounding than the First Amendment preceding it,

Guy Relford: Indianapolis attorney specializing in Second Amendment issues and firearms instructor.

have sparked a debate now so strident, so virulent and at times so downright insulting that the fundamental discussion of a Constitutional right and its legal limitations seem to be lost in the shuffle.

Thanks a lot, Facebook. OK, OK — social media didn’t bring us here, it just amped up the volume. But there’s a reason that anyone with a stake in the conversation can expect to catch an insult or two or thirty: the rancor’s been simmering between two sides, both claiming the high ground of their interpretation of common sense, and that argument has only been compounded by money, media and weaponry that the founders couldn’t have imagined. The phrase itself — “gun control”

— was a hot-button issue for a lot of Americans for decades, but that heat ran past boiling when a disturbed young man named Adam Lanza shot his mother with her own weapon, then walked into a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults before turning a gun on himself on Dec. 14, 2012. That event renewed debate concerning a national system of background checks and a limit on the number of rounds a magazine might contain. That same afternoon, one of the most active gun-control advocates in the nation started her campaign from her home in Zionsville. We spoke with Shannon Watts, the founder of a group called Moms Demand Action. We also SEE, DEBATE, ON PAGE 12

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

DEBATE , FROM PAGE 11 spoke with Guy Relford, an Indy attorney specializing in Second Amendment issues and a firearms instructor — yes, he does make money with his side business Tactical Firearms Training, LLC. (He’s also author of the book Gun Safety & Cleaning for Dummies.)

How much should an Amendment be limited? Watts has heard a lot from opponents about what really informs her activism. At a hearing on Indiana state bill — now a law — SB 229, which allows gun owners to keep firearms locked in their cars when the vehicle’s on school property, Watts’ appearance as a witness received such a rancorous push-back from some GOP legislators that Rep. Terri Austin, D-Anderson, characterized their treatment of Watts as “bullying.” Despite the narrative about Watts’ background that’s surfaced on conservative websites, she’s “never been a ‘Democrat consultant’ — I think they’re getting that from my giving a couple thousand dollars to the Obama campaign … Also, I’ve worked for several Fortune 500 companies, including Monsanto, General Electric, and WellPoint; hardly companies that lean left. And I have never taken a salary for this work, I’m not now, and I never will. I am 100 percent a volunteer.” Watts wasn’t an activist before Newtown, she says, she was just a stayat-home Mom sitting in her kitchen in Zionsville. “When Sandy Hook Elementary happened, for me, that was the tipping point. A lot of our moms say that [Sandy Hook] was like a 9/11 for moms in America: we all remember exactly where we were, how we reacted, remember the impact it had on us.” The campaign started simply, with a Facebook page. “Eighteen months later, [we became] the largest gun violence prevention grassroots network, meaning that we have a chapter in every single state in the country. “For most of us, there’s no going back — not just because of 26 people who were massacred in under five minutes in the sanctity of an elementary school in America, but also because we’ve learned so much about how lax the federal and state laws are. The more you learn, the more you realize that something has to be done.” Like what? What laws could have been in place that would’ve prevented Lanza from visiting such mayhem on innocent kids?

“A lot of our moms say that [Sandy Hook] was like a 9/11 for moms in America: we all remember exactly where we were, how we reacted, remember the impact it had on us.“ — SHANNON WATTS, MOMS DEMAND ACTION “It speaks to two things: one is that the unregulated easy access to guns in our country, including assault weapons. The other is the culture of gun violence in America. Forty percent of … gun owners haven’t had background checks. If you look state by state, the laws are incredibly lax. They should require training, and permitting and licensing, and we don’t. … We just want to create more checks and balances — we’ve done that with cars or tobacco or alcohol.” (The accuracy of that 40 percent figure has been debated at length.) The counter-argument is more than likely one you’ve already heard: you don’t have a Constitutional right to drive, drink or smoke. “I personally don’t like the idea of the government telling me how and when I can exercise a Constitutional right,” says Guy Relford. “I’ve made a living as

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an attorney for over 30 years now, but I went into firearms training because I wanted specifically to advocate safe gun handling, safe gun use and responsible gun ownership. Frankly, if … there was a requirement that people had to take a class to get a license to carry or to even purchase a gun, I’m sure that I’d be hiring instructors and making a lot more money. But I don’t like the idea of the government telling me how and when I can exercise a Constitutional right. For instance, I think the better analogy is that you don’t have to take a training course before you can vote. Why? Because that’s a guaranteed right, and the government can’t dictate to you … what process you go through to select your candidate.” Of course, the Supreme Court — notably, conservative justice Antonin Scalia — has found that it’s completely acceptable to place some limitations on the

Second Amendment. The same’s been true of other Amendments, too, including the First. Random Citizen can’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theatre; the FCC isn’t fond of your local morning zoo radio host dropping an f-bomb along with the time and temp. Relford speaks to two recent Supreme Court decisions that overturned a pair of city bans on handgun ownership: “That is really what the Supreme Court is already foreseeing as the next struggle after the [District of Columbia v. Heller] case in 2008 and the [McDonald v. Chicago] case; the Supreme Court came out and said — accurately — there needs to be some restriction. The courts found that a complete ban on handguns was unconstitutional, but where the line should be drawn, we don’t know, but we’ll tell you when we get that next case. In the present context, when we’re talking about restrictions on law-abiding citizens, where should those restrictions lie? I think that the Supreme Court had accurately foreseen that they don’t really know, but they’ll address it on a case-by-case basis. “We do have some important direction. In the Heller case, what they said is that a firearm that is commonly used for self-defense must be available to citizens. In that context, they were talking about handguns. A complete ban on handguns clearly put a material burden on a core value embodied by that Constitutional right. As the Supreme Court of Indiana has held, the core value embodied in the Second Amendment is the right to possess arms for self-defense.” Surely the Founding Fathers could not have envisioned the firepower of a rifle like the AR-15, though, right? “Do we go back and say that the rights conferred by the First Amendment shouldn’t apply to today’s technology because the founders didn’t envision the internet?” asks Relford. “Clearly not, those principles still apply perfectly” “In terms of today’s modern weaponry, the Supreme Court refuses to limit what’s commonly in use at the time to defend oneself and one’s family. In 1789, it was the musket. What’s the 2014 equivalent? … Clearly handguns are in that category, as determined by the Supreme Court, and we can have a debate about what else falls within that. I would submit to you that the most commonly owned and most commonly purchased rifle in America is the AR-15. “If we apply that definition to the ‘most commonly used rifle,’ then clearly, the rationale of the court is that [an AR-15] was intended to be included.”

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

DEBATE , FROM PAGE 12 For Shannon Watts, the problem isn’t about the close votes of the court. It’s state and national legislatures caving to the interests and pressures of the gun lobby. That lobby’s not the product of a singular voice, either, according to Watts: “The NRA is the largest, but that doesn’t mean they’re the most virulent. The NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation), who came in after Sandy Hook, and took the exact opposite tack that you would assume a gun lobby organization would take. [Instead of saying] “How do we make this better?” they’re worried about protecting their profits. When I testified recently at the Indiana State Legislature, [pro-gun legislators] were reading to me directly from a book of data and statistics created by John Lott, and he’s a researcher who’s been proven to come up with faulty data that supports the gun lobby’s points of view. “They’ve had a 30-year head start, the NRA and the gun lobby at large. This idea that we’re going to change all of this overnight — it isn’t that simple. It’s going to take years. That’s why we’ve started this organization to go toe to toe with the gun lobby at the state level and the federal level.”

Background checks and a federal database In her perfect world, Watts would start with a national system, a federal database of checked backgrounds. “Generally, I don’t think you can argue with the concept of background checks,” says Guy Relford. “Okay, I’m an NRA instructor, I’m a Second Amendment lawyer, so people naturally say I’m against gun control. I would never say that I’m against any kind of gun control that’s logically calculated to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have guns. The question then becomes: who shouldn’t have guns? Criminals, unsupervised kids, and crazy people.” Relford points out that if background checks were a part of every transaction — including private ones — there’d be a de facto necessity for some kind of universal registration of the product, in the same manner as a sale of a vehicle between two neighbors. “The problem is there’s no way to enforce universal background checks without universal registration. Let’s say they passed a statute tomorrow that to transfer a gun, even from private individual to private individual, you have to trace the weapon.

“I personally don’t like the idea of the government telling me how and when I can exercise a Constitutional right.” – GUY RELFORD, FIREARMS TRAINER “If you want to buy my AR-15 in a parking lot, and we go do that … if they find you with my AR-15, and they then say, ‘Where’d you get this?’ and you respond, ‘I’m taking the Fifth,’ how do they prove that a) you bought that from me, and b) you bought it without a background check? They can’t — unless they already have a record of what I own and what you own, so if they find you with something that I previously owned and there’s no record of a background check, they could prosecute me for that crime. So then the question becomes: How do we as a nation feel about universal registration? … When we’re talking about the number of crimes that would be prevented, I think you’re talking about a very small number because most criminals obtain their guns illegally anyway. “I don’t think a reduction [in crime] is balanced against a risk of the infringe-

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ment of the rights of law-abiding people who’ve never committed a crime, who never will commit a crime, that’s made possible by universal registration. “We have … in Connecticut where there’s a new assault weapon registration law that says that if you have a rifle that falls under this definition … you have to register it. There were several hundred people who sent in their requests to register after the deadline, which was the end of the year. They got letters that said ‘Well, thank you very much for telling us you have this rifle, you didn’t register this in time, you own this illegally, and we know who you are.’ Here’s somebody trying to comply with the law, they got caught on a technicality, [and] now suddenly they’re being threatened with the seizure of their own guns.” The SCOTUS interpretation of the words “well-regulated Militia” lies at

the heart of some of Relford’s fears. In Relford’s view, the people must be armed: it was the clearest way to let King George III know that if he tried to replace the nascent democracy with a return to tyranny, he’d be in for a fight. Second Amendment proponents honestly believe that it’s patriotic to be a responsible gun owner. According to Relford, “Admiral Yamamoto, during World War Two, was asked why he didn’t invade mainland America when the Pacific Fleet of the US was in complete disarray and mostly destroyed. He had a free path across the Pacific. Why didn’t he do it? He said, ‘I would never invade the mainland United States — there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.’” “When we’re talking about the prefatory clause of the Second Amendment, how well does that fit with the Admiral’s quote? That was 150 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment; [the founders] clearly envisioned a perfect application of “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.” As with seemingly everything else involved in the American firearms discussion, the veracity of that quote’s up for debate. Watts doesn’t think that Relford’s views on background checks necessarily lines up with the rank and file of the NRA. “If you look at the polling of the members of the NRA, a huge majority of those members actually support common-sense laws like background checks. I think this is a tale of an extremely vocal minority versus a silent majority … [The] gun lobby has managed to convince [that vocal minority] that their guns will be taken away or their constitutional rights are going to be attacked. “I assumed I was being protected. I assumed that my legislature was doing the right thing. Yes, these shootings were horrible but they were an anomaly. But then you realize that it’s not just about mass shootings, it’s about the eight children or teens who are shot and killed in this country every single day. It’s about the NRA and the gun lobby who are working to let domestic abusers keep guns and who are working to lower the age of those who can purchase guns.”

Patriotism, rage and the dissenter Watts comes back to a point she wants to reiterate; it’s really the NRA’s top dogs she’s got a beef with. When the convention’s in town, “We are having our own events. They’re really aimed at the leadership of the NRA. It isn’t an issue of their members, who overwhelmingly support things like background checks.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. It’s the leadership that is so out of step and wrong on [these issues]. We expect to have moms in town; moms, victims, mayors, citizens to talk about why we think it’s so important that the NRA listen to its members and changes its stance on things like background checks.” Still, Watts gets some pretty intense heat from Second Amendment hardliners — so much so that email requests for interviews to the MDA press office generate an automatic reply: “Inappropriate or threatening correspondence will be reported.” “I have been exposed to an underbelly of America that I didn’t know existed,” says Watts. “The profanity, the threats of violence, threats of sexual violence, threats to my family — I think this issue isn’t unlike other issues in America’s history. In many ways, it is a civil rights issue: we’re fighting for the protection of innocent Americans, common sense and responsibility. It touches a lot of hot points, and there’s definitely blowback that has come my way [since] starting this organization.” She also heard from “false flag” conspiracy theorists, people who believe events like Sandy Hook are staged for the Feds to use as an excuse to erode the Bill of Rights. “I had no idea that there

was any such thing out there as people who didn’t believe that Sandy Hook had actually happened. As someone who is now very good friends with people who lost mothers and sisters and children in Sandy Hook, it’s such a shocking idea to me to ever think that your government would deceive you in such a way but also that you would have such a lack of empathy for others who’ve been through such a horrific experience.” Why is the debate so contentious, so vitriolic? Why is there so much rancor? Says Relford, “I think from the gunowning public’s side, where a lot of it comes from … you’ve got several million law-abiding gun owners who’ve never committed a crime. Through the gun control push, by a lot of different groups, we are being treated like we’re the cause of crazy people hurting others in movie theaters or in schools, and that we’re now being punished for the crimes of other people when we’ve never committed a crime. … law-abiding, sane, responsible gun owners get lumped in with criminals and psychopaths, and there’s a very deep offense that’s taken from that because we feel that we’re the ones who’ll stand up to defend our families and our country.”

Retired US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calls for a vastly different definition of the phrase “wellregulated Militia” than the one offered by Relford and the current Court. In his book Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (excerpted by the Washington Post), Stevens writes: “Organizations such as the National Rifle Association … mounted a vigorous campaign claiming that federal regulation of the use of firearms severely curtailed Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Five years after his retirement, during a 1991 appearance on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, [Chief Justice Warren] Burger himself remarked that the Second Amendment ‘has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word “fraud” on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.’ “In recent years two profoundly important changes in the law have occurred. In 2008, by a vote of 5 to 4, the Supreme Court decided in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects a civilian’s right to keep a handgun in his home for pur-

poses of self-defense. And in 2010, by another vote of 5 to 4, the court decided in McDonald v. Chicago that the due process clause of the 14th Amendment limits the power of the city of Chicago to outlaw the possession of handguns by private citizens. I dissented in both of those cases and remain convinced that both decisions misinterpreted the law and were profoundly unwise. Public policies concerning gun control should be decided by the voters’ elected representatives, not by federal judges.” Calling the current interpretation of the Amendment a distortion, Stevens went on to suggest the following wording: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.” It’s tough to imagine the kind of mail Stevens might be getting. It’s tougher to fathom that it might take another Newtown before we drop the rhetoric and work toward viable policy changes informed by the distinction between the special interests at the top of groups like the NRA and the Association’s mostly thoughtful — and patriotic —rank and file. n

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A&E EVENTS The Game’s Afoot We’ve made it to the final show in the IRT’s season: a whodunnit by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) that finds a Broadway actor (Matthew Brumlow as William Gillette) inviting his co-stars in a production of Sherlock Holmes to his Connecticut mansion for Christmas Eve. Priscilla Lindsay, who’s performed in more than 60 IRT productions, is returning to star as Mrs. Gillette. Indiana Repertory Theatre, April 23-May 18, times and prices vary, irtlive.com Cyrille Aimée Raised in the same French village where Django Reinhardt once did his thing (her PR makes a lot of her “wandering into gypsy encampments” as a youngster during an annual festival devoted to the guitarist), Aimee has won a ton of awards for up-and-coming jazz vocalists and been positively reviewed by the Wall Street Journal (“one of the most promising jazz singers of her generation”). Cabaret at the Columbia Club, April 23, 8 p.m., $25-55, thecabaret.org Norbert Krapf: Catholic Boy Blues In recognition of both National Poetry and Prevent Child Abuse Month, former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf will read from his new collection Catholic Boy Blues: A Poet’s Journal of Healing, his eleventh poetry collection and twenty-sixth book. Krapf employs four voices in the book: a boy, the man he became, an elderly mentor/healer, and a priest responsible for the sexual abuse of children. Indiana Interchurch Center, April 24, 7 p.m., FREE, krapfpoetry.com Raymond James Stutz Artists Open House You know the deal: 70-plus artists open their studios to all comers for the weekend, with live music, food and vintage cars enhancing the experience. Keep in mind that it’s a fundraiser for the Stutz Residency Program, which has, since 1996, awarded free studio space in the Stutz to two artists per year (David Hicks and Lukas Schooler are this year’s winners). Stutz Business Center, April 25, 5:30-10:30 p.m. and April 26, 2-7 p.m., $10 advance, $15 gate, 12 and under free, stutzartists.com Butler Ballet: Cinderella Butler closes out its monthlong ArtsFest this weekend with a production of Prokofiev’s 1948 ballet Cinderella. Take note of several ancillary events, including two talks: “Cinderella and the Physics of Dance” on April 25 at 7 p.m., and “Modern Projection Techniques for Dance and Theatre” on April 26 at 6:30 p.m. Clowes Memorial Hall, April 25 and 26, 8 p.m., April 27, 2 p.m., $22-29, butler.edu

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ince 2008, photographer William Rasdell has traveled the globe — to southern Africa, the Caribbean and across the U.S.— under the auspices of his My City, My World project. Rasdell says his goal is to “give young people around the world an opportunity to recognize they are part of a larger community, to accept there are other people in similar circumstances, to grow beyond their isolation.” The latest leg of his journey was a 21-day field study in Israel, documenting the life of contemporary Ethiopian Jews. Rasdell will present the results — including his own photos, as well as those taken by members of the IsraelEthiopian community — beginning this week at the Arthur M. Glick JCC. Rasdell took inspiration from the project from an ad he saw while living in New York City. It shows a smiling African American child relishing a slice of bread. The tag line: “You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Levy’s real Jewish rye.” “While it sold bread, it also had the effect of further embedding the stereotype that there are none of African descent among the Jewish people,” Rasdell says. “In 2013, I set out to create a contemporary profile of the Ethiopian Jews — the Beta Israel. By some sources, the Beta Israel [or House of Israel] are the descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes, linked with the tribe of Dan. They practice an ancient form of biblical Judaism proscribed by the Orit, the Torah as translated into the Ge’ez dialect.” With Tel Aviv as his base, Rasdell traveled to three of the sixty Beta Israel sites in Israel — Lod, Rehovot and Gedera. The exhibit shows how traditional ways can be lost within three generations. The Ethiopian Jews are an agriculture-based people who, before relocating, had no contact with the world outside of their isolated villages. And they entered an industrialized Israel speaking a language that was not Hebrew. “The third generation has become so taken over by the U.S. technology culture,” he exclaims. “They are more connected with young people globally than with the traditions of their grandparents.” The Efroymson Family Fund has sup-

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ported Rasdell’s My City, My World project for the past decade. “Bill and I have known each other for about fifteen years,” says Jeremy Efroymson, a vice chair for the fund. “We have respected each other’s work over all that time. Bill’s work is bringing cultures together

with art and photography. He seeks out our similarities rather than showing only our differences.” Larry Rothenberg, director of arts and education at the Arthur M. Glick JCC, sounds a similar note: “The stories of integrating traditions and culture into a new environment are certainly important to us right here. The challenges, dreams and evolution [of Ethiopian Jews] resonate with us in not only in the Indianapolis Jewish community but in the entire community. When Bill went to Israel he did not really know what to expect, so his experiences as shown in this exhibit are true adventures and physical manifestations of Bill’s exceptional open-heartedness.” n

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ArtsPark as a venue. Shipping containers were briefly considered once the venue was established, but Flaherty notes, “We would have had to crane them into the park,” and he says the board opted to “pay artists instead of buying cranes.” The call for entry went out last year, inviting artists living in Indiana and all adjoining states, plus Wisconsin. Flaherty reasons that they couldn’t have extended the call nationally given the $1,000 stipend per artist (without additional transportation reimbursement), but he says the event could expand in the future. Approximately 40 artists applied for the 10 open slots, and a group of Primary

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erhaps you’d come to love the shipping containers that were long the hallmark of Installation Nation, Primary Colours’ installation art showcase. (A refresher: Each artist was charged with creating an installation within the confines of the kinds of metal cargo containers seen only on docks and, increasingly, in urban arts districts.) But Patrick Flaherty, a Primary Colours board member and director of exhibitions at Indianapolis Art Center, makes some good points in their disfavour (sic): “They got so hot in 2012” — when the event was presented at Big Car Service Center — “that a lot of the electronicsbased installations actually fried.” And besides, continues Flaherty, part of the original idea behind Installation Nation “was to get the installations outside — because when you think of installation art, you usually think about it in a gallery setting. And even though the containers were outside, it was kind of like an inexpensive way of putting a miniature gallery outside.” In short, not only does Primary Colours’ board think it’s not losing anything by moving Installation Nation to the Indianapolis Arts Center’s ArtsPark, it thinks it’s gaining the opportunity to do an installation art show that’s legitimately outdoors. That’s not to mention the pluses of giving artists a broader canvas upon which to work, and maybe drawing in some foot traffic from the Monon and blowing the minds of the uninitiated. But it almost didn’t happen this year. Or ever again. When Flaherty joined the board last year, Installation Nation was on the chopping block; again, the 2012 edition was logistically difficult, and there wasn’t a venue in place for the next one. Flaherty says one of the reasons he joined the Primary Colours board was Installation Nation. “It’s a cool and fresh idea,” he says of the show. “We’re so much better as an art community than we were 15 years ago, in terms of richness and depth, but installation artists are still on the edge, a fringe element. Installations don’t often have a home, and from my standpoint as a gallery director, there are only so many spots in my year-round schedule when I can book them.” And so Flaherty offered to make his day job work on behalf of his volunteer gig, asking if the board would let him take the lead if he could secure the

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Colours members and outside experts considered the list. They considered first if a proposal was, says Flaherty, “realistic, safe and feasible,” then moved on to aesthetics: “did it look cool, challenging.” Hector Rene del Campo, a Tampaborn multimedia artist who’s taught at the Indianapolis Art Center, was among the artists selected. He’s working on an a “visual assemblage of parallelogram forms,” as he puts it, designed to be installed on latticework on the center’s grounds. He notes that it’s his first installation art project, and that “he’s accustomed to working on canvas, papers and walls, within a certain area or space.” Campo’s work will sit alongside of,

as Flaherty notes, a giant kaleidoscope, a clothesline with drawings executed using water-soluble graphite, and a “hay bale structure” that “will offer people options to say what will happen after death; people will be able to cast a stone to vote, and you’ll be able to see what a majority of people think as time goes on.” Then there are Jeff Martin’s “oil barrels anthropomorphized into creatures that are going to be crawling around the ground.” Two artists installing in trees: one with “sci-fi, planter-like objects”; the other installing translucent tubing (“it looks kind of like sausage packing”). And a piece called “Tea Party,” comprised of hundreds of tea cups arranged into the letter “t.” Artists will be on the ground Friday and Saturday, answering questions, maybe partying with the masses when the music starts Friday night. The pieces will remain up for a week (the official closing date is May 2), with the ArtsPark open, as always, from dawn to dusk. (Flaherty jokes that Bridgit Stoffer, who designed the piece using water-soluble graphite, will be “tickled pink” if she finds blank sheets of paper hanging on the clothesline when she uninstalls her piece.) But the emphasis is on opening weekend, and Flaherty notes that there will be volunteers on the Monon, saying, “Hey, check this out; it’s free!” and generally trying to rope some of the thousands of people who walk by the ArtsPark daily. Flaherty also emphasizes a collaborative group project that’s new to this year’s Installation Nation. It starts with mesh panels, “effectively chicken wire between gardens,” and thousands of fabric strips. “People can spend as little or as much time as they want weaving fabric between sections” in the mesh panels, and after the sections are completed, “we’re going to make it into a huge wave.” ‘The more people that participate, the more impressive it will be, but we wanted to come up with an activity that was not face painting, that actually relates to the idea of an installation,” Flaherty says. “In my thinking about the mission of Primary Colours and the partnership with the Art Center, we’re trying to bring art to a lot of people, not just people that think of themselves as artists or patrons. It’s the idea of being part of a bigger whole. If you come out and just put 10 pieces of fabric in, it’s going to be pretty lame; but if a thousand people come out, that’ll be a thousand feet.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // VISUAL 17

REVIEWS IVCI Laureate Series: David Kim e David Kim, who placed fifth in the 1990 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and is now the Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, returned to town Thursday to join the Ronen Chamber Ensemble on works of Stravinsky, Corigliano, Brahms and Dohnányi. (One note: As I covered the 1990 competition, I had felt Kim should have been the “winner” or gold medalist that year.) Kim opened with Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano. Stravinsky threw in just enough “wrong notes” to give it a modernist flair; in any case it is tunefully engaging. Ronen players David Bellman, clarinetist; Ingrid-Fischer Bellman, cellist; and Nancy Agres, violist then joined Kim and ISO violinist Philip Palermo in John Corigliano’s Soliloquy for Clarinet and String Quartet. Its somber mood throughout was enhanced by Kim’s baleful high notes. The concert closed with perhaps the evening’s most interesting work, Ernst von Dohnányi’s Sextet in C for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Clarinet and Horn. An unusual combination, to be sure, but the colors it wrought, coupled with its wide ranging moods, made it a celebratory composition with which to end the program. ISO principal French hornist Rob Danforth added his talents to those already named for this one. Those who play together stay together. And they did from start to finish. — TOM ALDRIDGE April 17 at Indiana History Center Ensemble Music: Takacs Quartet q Ensemble Music closed out its season with the best of the best, at least when it comes to Bartok: the Grammy-winning Takacs Quartet. The performance, which consisted of Bela Bartok’s String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 and 6, was altogether satisfying, and a perfect example of how potent and engaging ensemble playing can be. The four players came together, as one, with a unified, definitive vision of the music, yet still with four distinct, unique voices that played off and with each other effortlessly. The threemovement Second, written during World War I, began the program; it starts off calmly with motion and ends almost meditatively, with a raucous movement in between. Following was the Fourth. Bartok brought out all manner of moods in this work; he didn’t shy going from bombastically intense to downright creepy, and how well the quartet brought out his moods! Each movement in the Sixth is titled mesto, meaning “sad.” But the music reaches beyond that simple emotion; the quartet dove in to the work, bringing out loneliness, melancholy and grief, all with a remarkable intensity. The evening was breathtaking, and ended an already excellent season on a high note. — CHANTAL INCANDELA April 16 at Indiana History Center

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Tracking how physics and music developed alongside through the centuries

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utler’s ArtsFest closes this weekend with what may well prove its most provocative, illuminating, adventurous show. Quantum: Music at the Frontier of Science tells the parallel stories of quantum physics and modern music, which, if you ask Ontario-based conductor Edwin Outwater, share quite a bit in common. He’s partnering with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on the show, premiered in 2012 and developed by Outwater with the Institute for Quantum Computing. This will be its U.S. debut. Outwater tells us more.

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feeling because that’s what music does so well. It creates a visceral or emotional reaction to whatever the artist is trying to express. You get a sense of mystery and adventure, and even humor, in the concert. What I was trying to do in putting the show together is create something like Cosmos or a great PBS documentary that has constant interest and entertainment, as well as provides a lot of information.

NUVO: The program starts by pointing out similarities between Mozart and Newton, their interest in symmetry, in an equal reaction to an action.

NUVO: You also have a full-time job as a conductor of “ordinary” concert music. Why do you take the time to do these kinds of shows?

OUTWATER: Generally, the role of an artist or composer is to give an expression to how people perceive reality, and at that time, during the Enlightenment, reality was certainly perceived in that way. Quantum perception, if we even know what it is, is totally different. Even today we still perceive music in terms of Mozart and physics in terms of Isaac Newton, but we’re now aware that some very different things are actually happening outside of our frame of reference and reality. These artists of the 20th century are doing music that some might find bizarre but are in some ways reflecting a reality being perceived or possibilities being perceived.

OUTWATER: This is, in a way, what I’m most interested in. I love the music — I’m a trained concert musician, and I do concerts every week of these great composers. But I’ve always thought that symphony orchestras, for some reason, exist in their own universe. That’s just the way they’ve developed, and I think they really belong in the world of ideas and thoughts. There are a lot of people who are very curious about science and literature and politics who would be more curious about music if we kind of invited them in. I think creating these experiences is an open door for people to understand not only the music that we’re playing — in this case, some of it kind of avant-garde — but to bring people into the symphony experience in a way that seems familiar with them. To be honest, most of our audience is just discovering this music, and we want to help them discover it. n

NUVO: How did you start to draw parallels between quantum theory and music? EDWIN OUTWATER: The process was freeform at first. We sat down with a group of people from the Institute for Quantum Computing and talked about what physics and music have in common. We learned two things; first, the timelines of how both classical music and physics developed, through the 18th and 19th centuries, are remarkably similar. Mozart and Isaac Newton had a lot in common in the way they perceived things, and maybe that’s just because of the way things were perceived at that time. And then, in both physics and music, there’s sort of a language breakdown at the turn of the 20th century. Classical ideas in physics started to fall apart when Einstein discovered what he called “spooky action at a distance,” basically the first quantum phenomena. At the same time, Schoenberg, in particular, threw musical thinking on its head by saying that musical language as we knew it had kind of exhausted itself, and a good amount of the intellectual crowd went along with that. The second thing was that the strange experimental music of the 20th century reflected, coincidentally or not, what was going on it science. Music experimented with how it takes place in a given space, how random phenomena are involved, and other things along those lines that reflected the physics research, and especially the quantum

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Edwin Outwater is music director of Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra.

NUVO: How did you present the science in such a way that people wouldn’t fall asleep? OUTWATER: Instead of trying to create an explanation, we’re trying to create a

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EVENTS Vonnegut: Join a gang Longtime public media host David Brancaccio gave the keynote at last weekend’s Night of Vonnegut, an annual fundraiser for the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. He spoke with us from his New York office ahead of the visit. Here’s an excerpt; the rest is on nuvo.net. — Ed Wenck

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I’m not going to set myself up as a Vonnegut expert. I’m a humble radio reporter. But I’ve done television and radio and I used to do this PBS show called NOW. I was co-host with Bill Moyers. By the time Vonnegut came around, though, I was David Brancaccio solo hosting. I was able to get this interview with Vonnegut and it was the last long-form interview on television with Mr. Vonnegut. He may have shown up in shorter forms, sound bites and stuff, but he sat down with me for hours. He was amazing. He proposed marriage to my wife who hardly ever showed up for my interviews. She pointed out he was already married and also mentioned — very politely — that she was also already married. He was very intense; very radical. I was looking back on that interview in preparation for my presentation in Indy. I remember thinking during the interview that if you were to get a transcript of the words that Vonnegut spoke, it was extremely downbeat; it was already all over for Planet Earth. That’s what the words said. But you’re sitting across from him, and he’s full of life. A lot of joie de vivre. I realized I have to resolve this. How does the audience understand that kind of dichotomy? The formal things he’s saying are pretty dire, but he still hasn’t given up. Why? Why is that? So I pushed back a bit. Among his answers — and it took a few tries until he answered — he said, “David, what you have to do is join a gang.” Join a gang? That’s your advice for the young people of the world? What he was saying was that there’s a lot that is wrong with the world: the wheels have come off our politics and our democracy, the environment — but what keeps life worth living is finding other people who are also concerned about the same things and spending time with them. That kind of gang. I’ve taken that to heart. When I meet with audiences, I relay that. You can retreat and give up, or find other people who notice the same things and find some strength in that.

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Best part of new Library of America collection is the nonﬁction appendix

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he Library of America has been publishing its wonderfully bountiful take on what constitutes this country’s literary heritage since 1982. Perusing its list of titles is like crashing a time-travelers’ party where Thomas Jefferson is pouring wine for Ring Lardner and Susan Sontag is whispering in Frederick Douglass’ ear. The books are beautiful, if a bit austere, produced on acid-free paper with sewn bindings. They, like the works they contain, are meant to last. Over the past few years, the Library of America has been adding the works of Kurt Vonnegut to its collection. A first volume focused on novels and stories published between 1950 and 1962, before, in other words, Vonnegut was VONNEGUT; then came a selection including what many consider to be Vonnegut’s name-making trifecta: Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions. A new edition has just arrived. As expected, it picks up where the last edition left off, containing a quartet of novels (Slapstick, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, and Galapagos) published between 1976 and 1985 by an artist who had become one of the most widely read authors in the world. This was not an easy period for Vonnegut. While his popularity with readers remained prodigious, the critical response to these books, written when he was assumed to be at the height of his powers, was mixed, at best — and, to a great extent, remains so. That makes for a provocative collection. It’s an invitation to revisit and reassess a crucial portion of Vonnegut’s career. But in doing so, a reader is first challenged by Vonnegut’s

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highly idiosyncratic, if not downright avant-garde, understanding of what a novel might be. His is not a literature of psychology, in which one is

immersed in the simulation of another person’s point of view. Like Warhol or Lichtenstein in the visual arts, Vonnegut presents us with an array of surfaces, juxtapositions and incisively sketched bits of behavioral gesture as a way of diagramming the systems through which we all must travel. These diagrams can, at times, feel so packed with the author’s need to get everything he’s thinking in that what passes for narrative arc seems misshapen, like a suitcase that’s too small for its trip. But they are enlivened by the author’s extraordinarily plain-spoken, confiding voice. Vonnegut would say elsewhere that, at a certain point in his career, he realized people wanted to hear him, Kurt himself, in his prose. This was his breakthrough in Slaughterhouse-Five and, in each of the books in this latest volume, we find him figuring out new ways of using that voice to satirize and selfexamine. The Library of America’s latest Vonnegut volume closes with a sequence of brief nonfiction appendices featuring public speeches and excerpts from essays. For my money, it’s here, where Vonnegut is no longer tasked with trying to find narrative contrivances to carry his ideas, but is simply free to write about life as he knows it, that his mastery is undeniable. Though Vonnegut considered himself a novelist first, it was the originality of his thought — matched by the freshwater clarity of his prose - that makes his literary legacy so vital. I hope the Library of America adds a book packed with this stuff to its list; an American library won’t be complete without it. n

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OPENING Finding Vivian Maier A short doc (85 min) about Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier, who took over 100,000 photos during her lifetime, most of them undeveloped, none of them exhibited, while working as a nanny. After her death an amateur historian purchased a trove of her negatives and prints at auction and has spent years putting that work before audiences and experts. NR, Opens Friday at Keystone Art Railway Man A true story about Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a British army officer taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese who decides, decades later, to confront one of his brutal captors. The Washington Post: “A good, slick and well-intentioned film that wants so hard to be an important one that the slight feeling of letdown it leaves is magnified.” R, Opens Friday at Keystone Art Brick Mansions A post-apocalyptic thriller set in Detroit and directed by Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element). Paul Waker plays an undercover cop, RZA is a drug kingpin. The studio has opted out of advance screenings; make of that what you will. PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release The Other Woman Leslie Mann is the other woman. Cameron Diaz is the woman who has wronged the other woman. Kate Upton is another woman who has wronged the other woman, that other woman still being Leslie Mann. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the man; he is immune to othering. Nick Cassavetes is the son of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. He has directed The Other Woman. PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release The Quiet Ones From the producer who brought you The Woman in Black and Let Me In. Here’s The Hollywood Reporter: “As an exercise in retro pastiche, it impresses. But as a postmodern genre reinvention, it fails to deliver.” PG-13, Opens Thursday in wide release

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o celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary, a British couple (masterfully played by Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) heads to Paris for a long weekend in and around the hotel where they spent their honeymoon. All is not well, of course, this being a movie and not an anecdote. Le Week-End, the fourth collaboration between director Roger Michell and writer Hanif Kureishi, is smart, tart and engaging, playing at times like a fourth installment of Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight/Sunset/Sunrise series. The couple in question, by the way, are Baby Boomers. Baby Boomers! How startling it is to see Baby Boomers (like me!) playing old people. In one review of the film, most certainly written by another Boomer, the couple is described as “well into middle age.” Apparently that writer is under the impression that the average lifespan is 125 years or so. Gen Xers are headed into middle age. Yap all you want about 70 being the new 50. Boomers are either old or nearly old. I’m allowed to blather on about this, by the way, because Boomers operate under the assumption that nothing in the world is more interesting than we are. So be ready for a film with Pink Floyd references and electric Dylan (“How does it feeeeeel …”) as the boomer couple grapples with the enormity of their personal issues. Meg Burrows (Duncan) wants no part of the cramped hotel where they honeymooned. “It’s … uh … beige.” So they end up in a beautiful, extremely expensive place with a view of the Eiffel Tower. Meg is unsatisfied with her life at present and has little patience for husband Nick’s

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(Broadbent) emotional neediness. He seeks reassurance, affection, sex. Meg’s mood keeps shifting, so he receives loving support, but on an intermittent basis, which increases his distress. We don’t see Meg and Nick back in Britain, but we hear about their situation. Their grown son, who only recently moved out with his wife and child, wants to move back in again. Nick hasn’t shared another big piece of bad news: as a result of a smart-ass remark he made to an inattentive student, he is being forced into early retirement by the university. With mellow jazz drifting in and out, Meg and Nick wander the weekend in Paris, sometimes laughing, sometimes squabbling. In the expert hands of Broadbent and Duncan, they are so genuine that it’s nigh impossible not to

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stay involved, even when their behavior grows tiresome. The goings-on get goosed when Jeff Goldblum makes a welcome appearance as Morgan, an Amercan expat who attended Cambridge with Nick. Morgan is prosperous, good-hearted and something of a blowhard, but lovingly so. Meg and Nick’s weekend comes to a head at a dinner part at Morgan’s, where the couple — experiencing a great deal of friction by this point — has significant encounters with other guests. Until the party sequence kicks in, the film requires your patience as the anniversary couple meanders along with the screenplay. Le Week-End rewards those willing to hang in there with striking performances by Broadbent, Duncan and Goldblum, and a revealing look at the politics of a long-term marriage. Plus you get to see older Baby Boomers and their very important personal lives. Wondering if Boomers are really innately interesting? Just ask one of us and we’ll explain it to you. At length. n

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Shatner’s World This Fathom Events simulcast of Shatner’s oneman show is being presented by several Indyarea multiplexes; check fathomevents.com for locations. The New York Times, in a review of the stage show, called it “a chatty, digressive and often amusing tour of his unusual acting career.”

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Italian Film Fest IUPUI’s Italian fest rolls on with a couple screenings this week. All films are free; more info at italianfilmfest.org.

Long Live Freedom — A 2012 winner of a bunch of Italian film awards about a political leader who suddenly leaves for France to

meet up with an ex-girlfriend.

The Red and the Blue — A 2012 comedy about high school life focusing on an art history teacher, a sub and the stern head mistress. Long Live Freedom: Campus Center Theatre, April 25, 7 p.m.; The Red and the Blue: Lilly Auditorium, April 27, 4 p.m., both movies FREE

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CONTINUING The Lunchbox e Low-key, engaging dual character studies from firsttime director Ritesh Batra. In Mumbai, lunchboxes are delivered to businessmen each day. Curious why her chronically-preoccupied husband doesn’t comment on her new recipes, Ila (Nimrat Kaur) puts a note in his lunchbox. She realizes the lunchbox is being misdelivered when she receives a note back from a different man, soon-to-retire accountant Saajan (Irfan Khan), and an odd friendship begins. Kaur is very good, while Khan gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as a man going through the motions who is drawn back into life through his contacts with Ila and an eager-to-please trainee (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). PG, At Keystone Art Dom Hemingway e A British crime flick turned redemption story, Dom Hemingway follows the path of films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, mixing Quentin Tarantino-inspired shocks with zippy mod visuals of the A Hard Day’s Night school. Portions of the production don’t work and the change in tone late in the proceedings isn’t smooth. But lead Jude Law is aces, Richard E. Grant provides solid support, the eye candy is delicious and the film’s sense of style triumphs over its deficits in substance. R, At Keystone Art

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Heaven is for Real y Based on the non-fiction book of the same name. A small-town couple (Greg Kinnear and Kelly Reilly) are stunned when their five-year-old son Colton (Connor Corum) talks about his trip to Heaven during a sort of near-death experience and calmly shares information about things that happened before he was born. The movie is even gentler than the hit book (for instance, movie-version Colton doesn’t mention that only believers of Jesus go to Heaven). As a film, Heaven is for Real is earnest but timid. But it clearly meant a great deal to the rapt audience at the screening I attended.

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Talking mouthfeel Three Indiana breweries brought home medals from the 2014 World Beer Cup Competition in Denver, Colo., where 4,754 beers from 1,403 breweries representing 58 countries were judged April 6-12. Carsons Brewery in Evansville earned silver for Red Dawn, in American-Style Wheat, which drew 23 entries. Thr3e Wise Men earned Silver for Hot for Teacher Ms Dopelbock, in German-Style Doppelbock with 52 entries. Sun King earned bronze for Johan the Barleywine in Barley WineStyle Ale with 53 entries. NUVO checked in with educator and homebrewer Ron Smith — a beer judge certified through the Cicerone program — for guidance on what sets one brew apart from others in competition. Smith explains, “A winning beer must first be a well-made beer, with no off flavors or technical issues. Then, the beer needs to meet the accepted style guidelines for the beer style it was entered as (which can be half of the battle, i.e. getting a beer in the best category for it to score well). Once a beer is determined to meet the style guidelines, which are always a range for each major aspect of the beer style, including Aroma, Appearance, Flavor and Mouthfeel.” “Then the judges look for the overall aspects that make the beer outstanding, which is often the balance and harmony of the ingredients and the various flavor, aroma and mouthfeel characteristics. When there are no flaws, and all the appropriate aspects of the style are present, along with the perfect balance and harmony for that beer style is achieved, which is all much easier said than done, then you usually have a beer that is going to win awards.” Learn about Smith’s top-rated brewery tour to Brussels, Brugge and Antwerp, July 20-29, at beermba.com. Notes from BRBP John Treeter, Broad Ripple Brewpub head brewer, tells us: “Every year the Broad Ripple Brewpub honors the home brewer who was Best in Show at the Indiana State Fair Brewer’s Cup Competition by brewing their beer. Tim Palmer lifted that trophy in 2013 with a Pilsner he calls A Noble Daughter and also was crowned Home Brewer of the Year. Tim started home brewing in 2009 and has been a member of F. B. I. (Foam Blowers of Indiana) homebrew club since 2010. On April 30 at 6 p.m. at BRBP lift a pint and toast Tim.” On May 1, the Brewers of Indiana Guild will honor Broad Ripple Brewpub founder John Hill at Tomlinson Tap Room with a festive dinner including a toast and roast. Reservations required by April 25. Contact BIG executive director Lee Smith at 439-9131.

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Two big central Indiana wine fests are good opportunities to expand your palette

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he only way to appreciate wine is to actually taste wine — and that means tasting a variety of wines, pushing yourself to try new things. And there’s no better way to taste more wines than at wine festivals, which are exploding in popularity around Indiana and surrounding states. Two dominate the calendar: the Indiana Wine Fair in Story on April 26, and Vintage Indiana in Indianapolis on June 7. Approaching its 12th year in quirky little Story, the Indiana Wine Fair has grown to be wildly successful. The town is best known for its Story Inn — “One inconvenient locaBY HOWARD tion since 1851” — and a world-class restaurant. HEWITT The fair offers shuttle buses from picturesque Nashville and Bloomington. Story is approximately half way between Columbus and Bloomington, about 10 miles south of Hwy. 46. In its 14th year, Vintage Indiana, sponsored by the Indiana Wine and Grape Council, is the oldest of Indiana’s megawine gatherings. Vintage includes entertainment, craft and food vendors, along with a Wine & Food pavilion featuring presentations from chefs and foodies. Both wine festivals present a wide range of wines from many of Indiana’s 80-some wineries. You can easily taste more than 100 wines at either event. There are, of course, other good wine festivals. Vevay, along the Ohio river, hosts the Swiss Wine Festival August 21-24. Vevay claims to be the location of Indiana’s first winery. At this time they have 12 wineries committed to pouring for the event. And then there are other festivals and art shows which may feature a winery or two. But the two big ones come up early in the year. Each features a lot of wineries. It’s not unusual to find 20-35 wineries at either event. Parking can be an issue at Story; a large abandoned field is used across from the Story Inn. Parking in Indianapolis is where it can be found but plentiful on the city’s near west side. Both festivals are great fun. But a word of warning: Story’s Indiana Wine Fair is

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crowded into a small space. There are Hoosier winemakers who will whisper, off the record, the festival has grown beyond its footprint. Vintage draws an even bigger crowd, but the venue is much more spacious. Both venues feature long lines and crowds. Obviously, people are consuming alcohol at these events. There are always a few who have bellied up to the tasting table a few times too many. The wineries are very careful with the oneounce pour, but there is no policing how many pours anyone consumes. A little advice for big wine events: Learn to spit. Some people are uncomfortable sloshing wine around in their mouth, then expelling it into a dump container at each winery’s booth. The

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trick is to learn to move the wine around from the front of your mouth (or palate) to the back. If you’re a little uncomfortable, remember this is a worldwide custom commonly seen in European and even Napa Valley tasting rooms. You can practice it at home. n Howard W. Hewitt, Crawfordsville, writes for more than 20 Midwestern newspapers on value wine every other week. Read his wine blog at: howardhewitt.net.

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TOP WINE LISTS Wine can be intimidating. Aside from the worry that the sommelier will make you feel like an idiot, there’s the price tag. Why bother when craft beers or a cocktail let you avoid the embarrassment and try more options for a lot less money? But sometimes, you just want to balance a great steak with a hearty red or oysters with a minerally Chablis. Here are a few restaurants with wine lists that offer great options without a significant investment. — Renee Wilmeth Recess/Room Four Recess, the fine-dining rock star, and its more casual, a la carte brother Room Four, boasts one of the best — and most extensive — wine lists in town. Helmed by veteran Indianapolis chef Greg Hardesty, the list reflects his own appreciation of wine and is priced to make it easier to choose that second (or third) bottle. Whether you like French stalwarts or South American Malbecs, beginners and wine lovers alike will find something new to try. 4907 N. College Ave., 925-7529, recessindy.com

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The Libertine Liquor Bar Certified sommelier Lindy Brown’s talent shines in discovering hidden wine gems and pricing them affordably. Even with the outstanding crafted cocktail list, the lengthy wine list is what keeps winos coming back. Look for an especially good selection of sparkling wines and roses.

Cerulean When Cerulean opened, their wine list was awkwardly mismatched to the high quality of food coming from Chef Caleb France’s kitchen. However, a year has seen a dramatic improvement with a few familiar favorites and some higher quality options if you’re willing to go off the beaten path. They feature a nice list of desert wines to pair with Pastry Chef Peter Schmutte’s creative work.

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q Bands that have the firepower to deliver the goods in full sans vocals or lyrics are a rare breed. They draw the listener in and never make her feel like a void exists that needs filling. On their self-titled debut EP (recorded and co-engineered by Andy Fry and Drew Malott at Indy’s recently closed Queensize Studio in March of 2013), Indianapolis trio Scanlines prove they are one of those exceptional bands that fit the bill. Formed out of the dissolution of Slothpop, Drew Malott (bass), Dan Zender (guitar) and Bryan Unruh (drums, keyboard) started Scanlines by playing together for hours, often improvised, while embracing post-rock and shoegaze as primary influences. Over the course of seven deeply compelling and quite thrilling tunes on the debut, Scanlines use masterstrokes to paint a vivid, visceral world without uttering a word. That’s the beauty of instrumental rock when it’s done right: rather than being told what to feel, the listener gets the chance to tell her own stories against the settings the band is unveiling. In reality, that should be the product of any enriching music, but the effect can often be even more personal when the only voice the listener hears is the one in her head. Malott, Zender and Unruh pile on layer after layer of technical dexterity with a commanding sense of melody across the board, whether it’s presented with gentle pacing and ruminative spirit such as during the majority of the EP’s homestretch of “Halo,” “Awake Before Noon” and “How About Now” or on the uptempo grooves and bombast of “Transmission,” closer “Semaphore” and “Cthulhu.” Opener “October 15” is an all-out dazzler that takes its time unfolding with Zender’s captivating guitar work before thundering towards the heavens on the shoulders of the Malott and Unruh’s rhythm section. It captures Scanlines doing shades of everything they do best throughout the EP, and it sets the tone for what sorts of instrumental harmonies, dynamic changes and tension will follow. Often volatile and unfailingly sublime, Scanlines is an arresting debut that is so tight at its core and so confidently realized that the end result is a consistent sense of awe for the listener – and an implicit understanding that any lyrics would just get in the way. — JUSTIN WESLEY Scanlines with Brian Jones and The Misadventure and Shimmercore, Friday, April 25, Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St., 8:00 p.m., $6, 21+

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e always like to joke that Craig likes to be concise and Tad likes to be truthful,” the Hold Steady’s press guy tells me on the phone as he’s transferring me from a line with the singer to a line with the guitarist. Ironic, because Craig’s the word man – well, in the songs anyways. The lyricist and songwriter who’s marked a decade in tightly crafted lines and elaborate, multialbum character arcs is indeed more reticent on the phone than on stage. His musical counterpart Kubler, his loyal axe man since their days ripping up the Twin Cities in Lifter Puller, the rowdier, more debauched punk predecessor to their current gig, is far more verbose. Hell, I’m just happy to hear from the Hold Steady at all. Finn and Kubler went their separate ways for a while in the four-ish years between 2010’s Heaven is Whenever and new release Teeth Dreams. Finn took off to Austin to record a solo album (the Friday Night Lights name-checking Clear Heart Full Eyes, released in 2012); Kubler worked on tracks and getting healthy. “We had a lot of false starts [working on

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HOLD STEADY , FROM PAGE 26 stop listening to,” Finn says when I ask him where Holly and the gang have gone. “If you have a song that says, ‘Charlemagne went to the store / Charlemagne bought a can of soup / Charlemagne made the soup,’ there isn’t much room for people to put their own hopes and dreams in there. Keeping it a little more elliptical, I think and hope, allows people to fit their own lives in there more.” Finn might not be talking about Holly and Charlemagne explicitly anymore, but the ramifications of their years of antics lies heavy in the tracks on Teeth Dreams. It’s a record about the morning after – the headache pang, the divorces, the overdoses. It’s not pretty, but it’s fully Hold Steady, right down to the nine-minute closer, “Oaks.” On that one, Kubler (who says he goes into each record knowing what he wants to close out the album with) tears through three separate guitar solos. “The whole thing came about from my total obsession with that Radiohead song ‘Exit Music (For a Film),’ “ he says. “Those guys, Radiohead, are able to capture or emulate or articulate an emotional state with their music. I wanted to try and get close to something like that, or just to see if some way I was able to create an emotional response with a song, especially one that, like that Radiohead song, was kind of hopeless.” Their studio time was spent with Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush), who, Kubler says, helped them realize their new album in a way no producer before him had managed. “It was one of the first times that I was sitting in the studio and whoever was engineering and producing and mixing was able to make it sound like it sounded in my head,” he says. “Oaks” is a perfect example of that heaviness that pervades Teeth Dreams, which Kubler describes as “a good representation [that] illustrates really well what the last particularly four years have been like.” “There is this event that takes place,” Kubler says, “when you’re kind of saying what should be a very benign, non-eventful goodbye to somebody. And as soon as you turn around and walk away, you realize that’s the last time you’re ever going to see them. Because you just kind of know that they’re not going to make it.” For all the drugs and trouble that pervade Hold Steady songs, Finn wants to make sure listeners know there isn’t a 1:1 ratio between songwriter and song material. “I’ve met people who think that I’m kind of in that world [of crazy partying and drug use.] They’re like, ‘You guys want to go smoke crack after the show?’ And I’m like, 28 MUSIC // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO

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inform the songs themselves.” When I bring up scene-setting, I’m asking Finn about about Stay Positive’s harpsichord jam “One for the Cutters,” the tale of a young IU coed who gets embroiled in – you guessed it – drugs, booze and, eventually, a grisly murder cover up after falling in with Bloomington townies. Stay Positive came after the Boys and Girls in America, somewhat of a breakout album for the group; Stay Positive experimented with a few new sounds (that harpsichord I mentioned, along with a talk box solo or two; the gruff-voiced Finn even took voice lessons). Their fifth release, Heaven is Whenever, brought with it a rough patch for the group: longtime keyboardist Franz Nicolay departed just before the album’s announcement; the lineup was juggled as two new touring members were added to the ensemble (one, guitarist Steve Selvidge, stuck around and is now a full member). Kubler calls it an imperfect record in an imperfect world, “I think that record gets a lot of attention for being maybe kind of a mess? But I think that that needed to be the record that it was,” he says. “I don’t think Craig and I in that block of time were really inspired at the same time or in the same way. I think we thought that we could go in and start working on the record and it would start to click and present itself, in a way. And I don’t think it ever did.” That click is back on Teeth Dreams, albeit in a different sort of way. That inspired shittalking about religion that nailed down Separation Sunday (at its best: “ I guess I heard about original sin / I heard the dude blamed the chick / I heard the chick blamed the snake”) is mostly traded for some wit and wisdom about the death of the American dream in “On With The Business.” His songs’ subjects are just as sick and shaky as ever (“The pills they prescribed they made me fragile and fried / I felt full body fuzzy then touchy,” Finn belts in “Runner’s High”), but they’re older, divorcees instead of scene kids. Gideon’s back with his old gang, the Cityscape Skins in “The Ambassador” and “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” but not by name. Kubler’s massive, sky-scraping solos are matched by Selvidge’s relentless shredding. And shows are still selling out, massive crews of sweaty dudes are still screaming the choruses and hoisting their beer bottles high. For all the Hold Steady’s lyrical melancholy, Finn always has seen the shows as a place of communion and joy — a unified scene, he (and now we) call it. “There’s something that Patrick Stickles [Titus Andronicus] said that was really great,” Finn says. “He said sometimes just yelling out the chorus, even if it’s meant to be a sad song, sometimes it’s just an acknowledgment. Like, we’re all here. We’re all here together tonight. And that’s something worth celebrating.” n

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always feel kind of melancholy when I walk down Indiana Avenue. Aside from the Madame Walker Theater, almost every visible trace of the Avenue’s majestic musical history has been wiped away. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Indiana Avenue was home to one of the most important music scenes in American history. The historically black neighborhood produced some of the most influential jazz and blues artists of the 20th Century. But the cultural footprint these artists left on the Avenue is gone now, erased and replaced by anonymous apartment blocks and generic fast food chains. As a city, we should be ashamed of this. It didn’t have to happen that way. With a little intervention from city government officials, the Avenue could have been preserved in the same way Beale Street in Memphis has. The process of gentrification has destroyed nearly all physical and cultural evidence of the Avenue’s glorious past. However, on a recent visit to the area I was pleased to become aware of a small but significant link to the Avenue’s historic heyday. Just a little bit of context can completely redefine your perception of a piece of art. For years, I’ve seen the sculptures “Jammin’ on the Avenue” at Lockefield Gardens and “Untitled (Jazz Musicians)”

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WAYNE SHORTER — THE ALL SEEING EYE, 1965 A fascinating LP by Shorter that attempts to search for the meaning of existence through the medium of music. BOBBY HUTCHERSON — COMPONENTS, 1965 Spaulding adds soul to vibraphone master Hutcherson’s complex bop. LARRY YOUNG — OF LOVE AND PEACE, 1966 A spiritual session led by one of the only avant-jazz organists Larry Young. PHAROAH SANDERS — KARMA, 1969 A milestone recording in 1960s counterculture. Spaulding’s flute is featured prominently on the 32-minute “The Creator Has A Master Plan.”

As a city, we should be ashamed. across West Street from Walker Theater. But I never realized both works were created by artist John Spaulding, the younger brother of one of Indy’s most progressive and forward-thinking jazz musicians, James Spaulding. A master of the alto sax and flute, Spaulding was an important member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra during the late 1950s and also made important contributions to classic recordings by Pharaoh Sanders, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and many others. In honor of the Spaulding family’s contributions to the arts, I wanted to share a few of my favorite James Spaulding recordings. SUN RA — THE NUBIANS OF PLUTONIA, 1958 Spaulding’s recording career started with an extended residency in Chicago with avant-garde jazz pioneer Sun Ra’s Arkestra. FREDDIE HUBBARD — BLUE SPIRITS, 1964 After leaving Sun Ra, Spaulding linked up with fellow Hoosier Hubbard for a series of classic ‘60s hard-bop recordings.

LEON THOMAS — SPIRITS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, 1969 A thoroughly unique work by the yodeling avant-jazz vocalist Thomas who found fame on Sanders’ Karma LP.

JAMES SPAULDING — UHURU SASA, 1970 Spaulding’s debut as a leader was a self released 45 RPM of funky avant-jazz. An extremely rare piece that sells around the $1,000 mark. JAMES SPAULDING — PLAYS THE LEGACY OF DUKE, 1976 Spaulding’s first full LP as a leader is one of his most traditional outings. But Spaulding’s poetic playing shines on his brilliant reading of the classic “In a Sentimental Mood.” UNCLE FUNKENSTEIN – TOGETHER AGAIN, 1983 Spaulding returned to Indy to participate with fellow Naptown legends in this joyful celebration of Indianapolis jazz composed by Russell Webster. > > Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.23.14 - 04.30.14 // MUSIC 29

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Say Hi, Big Scary Say Hi is Seattle-based indie veteran Eric Elbogen, and Big Scary is the Melbourne, Australia duo of Tom Iansek and Jo Syme. Both acts are touting new albums (released on Barsuk) that are generating deserved buzz: Say Hi’s upcoming (out June 17) eighth full-length record, Endless Wonder, saw Stereogum premiere the first single “Such A Drag” with considerable praise, while Big Scary’s tremendous sophomore album, Not Art, earned the duo the Australian Music Award (Australia’s most prestigious prize for music excellence) in March. Say Hi features Elbogen’s rich songwriting paired with synth-heavy arrangements to create pulsating textures that bring his idiosyncratic vision and often quirky live performance to life. The sound of Big Scary is an eclectic and harmonic beast that refuses to be pigeonholed. Throughout Not Art, squalling guitar fury wails with unchained bravado just as readily as Big Scary branches songs out of hip-hop beats, lovely piano melodies and Iansek’s terrific 21st Century Wall of Sound production (mixed by Grammy Award winner Tom Elmhirst [The Kills, Hot Chip, Black Keys]). The album is a bold, wildly eclectic statement that often amounts to what it might sound like if reincarnated Jeff Buckley teamed

up with the xx to channel their unabashed affection for Jimmy Page, infectious beats, ambient arrangements and Phil Collins drum fills. That might explain how Big Scary both has a song titled “Phil Collins,” which is easily the most darkly atmospheric rock and roll song with any Phil Collins allegiance. There’s a stunning number showing off Syme’s soulful vocal lead that is curiously called “Why Hip Hop Sucks in ‘13,” albeit with swooning lyrics that, on the surface, have nothing to do with hip-hop. — JUSTIN WESLEY Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 9 p.m., $10, 21+ Hump Day Hallelujah with Carol Rhyne, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Wired, Melody Inn, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Bulletproof Soul, Birdy’s, 21+ Live Music with Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Jon Strahl, Phoebe and The Mojo Makers, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+ Cyrill Aimee, Cabaret at the Columbia Club, all-ages Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Songwriter Showcase featuring Chicago Farmer, Noah East, Sukie Conley, DO317 Lounge, 21+

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FRIDAY LOCAL Brian Jones and The Misadventure, Shimmercore, Scanlines Flip back to page 26 for our review of Scanlines self-titled EP, which they’ll release at this show. Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St., 8 p.m., $6, 21+ FUNDRAISER Girls Rock! 2014 Soiree Fundraiser Concert The biggest fundraiser of the year for Girls Rock! Indianapolis pulls in Pravada, The Vallures, White Moms and David Peck for a night of rock and roll and lady love. Don’t know much about Girls Rock!? We’ve written tons about the nonprofit (which connects young girls and instruments of destruction during a annual camp) online at NUVO.net. Talbott Street, 2145 N. Talbott St., 8 p.m., $5 in advance, $10 at door, $25 premier seating and $50 VIP Skybar, 21+ LOCAL LABELS Magnetic South Weekend Revue #6 All right, if that Schoolboy Q show didn’t convince you to head to Bloomington for the weekend, maybe this local label revue show will. Magnetic South is putting on a showcase of their bands during a two day mini-fest at the Bishop. Night one features Apache Dropout, Circuit des Yeux, Uh Bones and Raw McCartney. Night two features Thee Tsunamis, Vacation Club, Psychic Baos, The Pony Drags and DJ Richie Wohlfeil. Both events are $5 and kick off at 8 p.m. Viva la Magnetic South. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St., Friday – Saturday, 18+

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Thee Tsunamis BOY WONDER Carson Diersing Shelby County’s harmonica-playing boy wonder will drop by the Main Event this Friday. He’s currently playing out with his band Old Soul, which features 16-year-old Alex Poisal on bass and 18-year-old Zach Bulgarelli on drums. Main Event, 7038 Shore Terrace, 9 p.m., 21+ NOISE Sound as Material First, a bit about Final Friday: it’s a new Fountain Squarebased initiative that gets local music lovers down to party on the last Friday of every month, spearheaded by the Indiana Music Council. General Public Collective embodies the spirit of Final Friday as much as any other venue in the Square; it’s all-ages, events are often free, and emphasis is placed on featuring local visual art and musical performances. Their Final Friday performance is a noise show featuring the sonic stylings of Collins McCormick, Duncan Kissinger and Jason Pittenger-Arnold. Their current exhibit, Rituals, will close that night as well. General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., 10 p.m., 21+ FOLK Von Strantz, Vintage Blue, Gabriel Harley Band Mishawaka-based folk outfit Von Strantz will be playing Birdy’s on Friday, April 25 in support of Chicago’s Vintage Blue. The group, formed by singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and musical

arranger Jess Strantz, has been touring the country in support of the recently released EP Narrative Chapter 1: Troubled Souls, the first installment of an album to be released over a series of four EPs. Chapter 1: Troubled Souls is a stirring, four-song body of work comprised of heartfelt folk melodies, embellished by lovely string arrangements and Strantz’s commanding vocals, which could stand toe-to-toe with the pipes of Florence & The Machine’s Florence Welch. Von Strantz’s songs are the product of searching souls with a knack for penning lyrics and fashioning melodic compositions that ring of authenticity. The second chapter of Narrative is in the works, but the band recently announced they will be starting an Indiegogo campaign to acquire funding for the recording costs and a new touring van (costs are estimated to be $10,000) to bring it to life. Birdy’s, 2131 E. 71st St., 7 p.m., 21+ TRIBUTES ICON: Outkast and The Dungeon Family Old Soul always brings it at these ICON events, a tribute series dedicated to the most prolific and talented musicians in the game. And it’s fitting right at the beginning of festival season to celebrate the music of Outkast and The Dungeon Family, because we all know Outkast is reuniting and touring through most American festivals this summer.

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SUNDAY FESTS Music and Technology in the Midwest SXSW it ain’t — this inaugural minifest stuffs money in the pockets of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Indiana, not wide-eyed app creators. The Bleeding Keys, The Clams, The Whipstitch Sallies, The Girls, Kalideostars and Join the Dead will take the stage during the noon - 10 p.m. event (there’s a separate schedule for the Kellerbar, too); tech companies and sponsors will be showcased throughout the event. The event was organized by Douglas Karr, a candidate for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man & Woman of the Year. Rathskeller Biergarten, 401 E. Michigan St., noon, $15, 21+ BHANGRA Bollywood Bhangra Two things you need to know about this event; yes, it is worth leaving the house on a Sunday night, and no, you shouldn’t worry if you don’t know anything about bhangra music. New York’s bhangra/funk fusion group Red Baraat

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Christina Perri go towards the Boys and Girls Club Music Program (mostly for instruments for the non-profit program). On the lineup: Good Guy Bad Guy, Ouija Dogs, Kara Beth Rasure and some musica incognito (it’s a sorpresa!). DJ Diablo’s on the stacks. Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., 9 p.m., $5 donation, 21+

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Buzz Balladeer My friend and I bought vibrators together a couple years ago, in the interest of figuring out that whole self-pleasure thing without having to navigate the sex toy section alone. I recently stumbled across mine and thought, “Wow, why do I never use this?” I soon remembered. Even putting this vibrator on the lowest setting causes my clitorous to feel numb. It lasts for like a half a day, too. Am I broken or is this a real thing? Should I just stay away from vibrators?

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SARAH: I find myself overwhelmed with jealousy on this one. First of all, it’s awesome that your vibrator purchase was made as an act of exploration and not, “Fuck it, at least I can rely on this.” It makes me wonder though: did you just bat for the fences before you even tried to connect with the ball? Did you purchase, like, the Megatron of vibrators? Does this have arms and a flexible tube that tucks somewhere within a sparking nexus of hinges and hoses that gets you all kinds of android randy? If I were you, I’d pull way, way back here and get a super small one that isn’t so buzzy. And hey, maybe these kinds of toys are not for you—and that’s fine. Just because you can’t participate in a few barfworthy rehashes of Sex in the City brunch conversation doesn’t mean you’ve failed at being a modern woman. DR. D: I can’t say whether you should stay away from all vibrators but you may very well want to stay away from that particular vibrator if it makes your clitoris feel numb. You could try a silver bullet vibrator that has a multi-speed dial, with very very very very low settings. Using a water-based lubricant on your genitals may help vibrator use to feel more comfortable. You might also hold a vibrator near, but not directly on, your clitoris (women commonly stimulate the surrounding area but not the super-sensitive glans clitoris itself). Also, some women place a piece of fabric or cloth between their body and the vibrator and that can also enhance comfort. These and other tips can be found in the sex toy chapter of my first book, Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction. While it would be unusual to have clitoral numbness from any old vibrator, if it turns out

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The Wettest Death So something gross is happening. Often, after my boyfriend and I have sex, my vag makes these weird unclenching sounds and, uh, fluid starts dripping down my legs. Sorry if this is TMI, but is this normal? How do I make it stop! It’s really killing the afterglow. — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Yep, that’ll do it—but only if you and your BF are having sex between first and second period at your local high school. The fact of the matter is sex is pretty gross a lot of the time, when you really break it down. We humans are just big fat sacks of different incarnations of water, and we usually associate body fluids with being dirty. It’s a decent idea structure if you’re trying to teach kids coalescent tasks of cleanliness like why they should wipe their own butts and take showers, but it makes real, raw moments like the one you describe a lot more disgusting to you than they probably should be. If it’s out of the blue or it’s a new thing, check it out with your doctor. Otherwise, take a deep breath and realize that sometimes the weird things our bodies do and make are just part of what you deal with when you’re having great sex—or having it at all. DR. D: Yes, it would be unusual to have audible sounds coming from the vagina post-sex. How loud are they? What do they sound like? You might ask your healthcare provider about that. As for fluids, that’s not totally unusual. Vaginal fluids and other fluids (e.g., lubricant and/or semen, if either was present during sex) may also drip out of the vagina post-sex. That’s totally normal. It’s just gravity doing it’s thing. Sex is kind of messy. Well, not kind of - it can be very messy. It’s something we all have to get used to, though, if we want to be a part of it and there’s no reason to be embarrassed or self-conscious about it. Keeping a towel nearby can help, or using the bathroom afterwards (so as to let some of the fluids drip into the toilet).

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You remind me of a garden

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s an excerpt from “Celestial Music,” a poem by Louise Gluck: “I’m like the child who buries / her head in the pillow / so as not to see, the child who tells herself / that light causes sadness.” One of your main assignments in the coming weeks, Gemini, is not to be like that child. It’s true that gazing at what the light reveals may shatter an illusion or two, but the illumination you will be blessed with will ultimately be more valuable than gold. Gemini

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Does Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt run faster than any person alive? As far as we know, yes. He holds three world records and has won six Olympic gold medals. Even when he’s a bit off his game, he’s the best. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he set the all-time mark for the 100-meter race — 9.69 seconds — despite the fact that one of his shoelaces was untied and he slowed down to celebrate before reaching ALLI the finish line. Like you, Bolt is a Leo. I’m making him both your role model and your anti-role model for the foreseeable future. You have the power to achieve something approaching his levels of excellence in your own field — especially if you double-check to make sure your shoelace is never untied and especially if you don’t celebrate victory before it’s won.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his unpublished book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins new words that convey experiences our language has not previously accounted for. One that may apply to you sometime soon is “trumspringa,” which he defines as “the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin.” To be overtaken by trumspringa doesn’t necessarily mean you will literally run away and be a shepherd. In fact, giving yourself the luxury of considering such wild possibilities may be a healing release that allows you to be at peace with the life you are actually living. Virgo

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The potential turning

points that might possibly erupt in the coming days will not become actual turning points unless you work hard to activate them. They will be subtle and brief, so you will have to be very alert to notice them at all, and you will have to move quickly before they fade away. Here’s another complication: These incipient turning points probably won’t resemble any turning points you’ve seen before. They may come in the form of a lucky accident, a blessed mistake, a happy breakdown, a strange healing, a wicked gift, or a perfect weakness. Scorpio

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you happen to be an

athlete, the coming week will not be a good time to headbutt a referee or take performance-enhancing drugs. If you hate to drive your car anywhere but in the fast lane, you will be wise to try the slower lanes for a while. If you are habitually inclined to skip steps, take short cuts, and look for loopholes, I advise you to instead try being thorough, methodical, and by-the-book. Catch my drift? In this phase of your astrological cycle, you will have a better chance at producing successful results if you are more prudent than usual. What?! A careful, discreet, strategic, judicious Sagittarius? Sure! Why not? Sagittarius

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My interpretation of this week’s astrological data might sound eccentric, even weird. But you know what? Sometimes life is — or at least should be — downright unpredictable. After much meditation, I’ve concluded that the most important message you can send to the universe is to fly a pair of underpants from the top of a flagpole. You heard me. Take down the flag that’s up there, and run the skivvies right up to the top. Whose underpants should you use? Those belonging to someone you adore, of course. And what is the deeper meaning behind this apparently irrational act? What exactly is life asking from you? Just this: Stop making so much sense all the time — especially when it comes to cultivating your love and expressing your passion. Capricorn

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You need to take some time out to explore the deeper mysteries of snuggling, cuddling, and nuzzling. In my opinion, that is your sacred duty. It’s your raison d’etre, your ne plus ultra, your sine qua non. You’ve got to nurture your somatic wisdom with what we in the consciousness industry refer to as yummy warm fuzzy wonder love. At the very least, you should engage in some prolonged hugging with a creature you feel close to. Tender physical touch isn’t just a luxury; it’s a necessity. Aquarius

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built up, confined, compacted, is abruptly released.” That’s an observation by philosopher Alphonso Lingis. I bring it to your attention, Libra, because I expect that you will soon be able to harvest a psychospiritual version of that supreme pleasure. You have been gathering and storing up raw materials for soul-making, and now the time has come to express them with a creative splash. Are you ready to purge your emotional backlog? Are you brave enough to go in search of cathartic epiphanies? What has been dark will yield light.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your body contains about four octillion atoms. That’s four with 27 zeroes after it. Believe it or not, 200 billion of that total were once inside the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. For that matter, an average of 200 billion atoms of everyone who has ever lived and died is part of you. I am not making this up. (See the mathematical analysis here: http://tinyurl.com/ AtomsFromEveryone.) As far as your immediate future is concerned, Pisces, I’m particularly interested in that legacy from King. If any of his skills as a great communicator are alive within you, you will be smart to call on them. Now is a time for you to express high-minded truths in ways that heal schisms, bridge gaps, and promote unity. Just proceed on the assumption that it is your job to express the truth with extra clarity, candor, and grace. Pisces

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