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FORAGING FOR SUPPER
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06FARM BUREAU & SB 330 24 TRIP TO THE GULF
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Foraging for supper
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Sarah Murrell introduces us to Matt Shull of White Pines Wilderness Academy, who can walk into the woods with a knife and a stick and walk out with a complete meal.
Out of the wild and into the frying pan.................................... P.10 A recipe for stinging nettles? Yep.... P.11
HEC examines the Farm Bureau’s take on annexation............................. P.6 Pence watch!....................................... P.6
A recap of the disastrous 2015 session of the Indiana State Legislature.
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Dan Grossman drags along his daughter on a trip to Kathryn Amstrong’s interactive exhibition at iMOCA’s new CityWay location. And Nancy Spielberg (Steven’s sis) talks with Sam Watermeier about Above and Beyond, her film about the Israeli Air Force screening Wednesday at the Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival.
iMOCA................................................ P.19 Spielberg............................................ P.23
WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE WEB
WHAT THEY GOT WRONG
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Indiana Farm Bureau’s support of an annexation bill is fine and dandy... until you look at what they DIDN’T say. But no worries. NUVO looked between the lines. And we’ll look at what the governor’s been up to with PENCE WATCH.
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Here’s what’s hot on NUVO.net currently: We’ve got in-train video of the world’s first launched wing coaster that debuted over the weekend at Holiday World. And the NUVO Street Team has been busy; check out photos from Little 500, Earth Day Indiana, a Race City Rebels bout and the Stutz Open House.
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Yours truly goes coastal and introduces you to the two best treasures from the Gulf of Mexico. New Day’s Emi Grinvalds answers your homebrewing and cosmic queries, plus a fabulous spring recipe from A Couple Cooks that you can turn into a complete meal with some added cheese or beans.
Going coastal..................................... P.24 Ask a brewer...................................... P.24 Spring pea salad................................ P.25
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Oh, happy day: Ed Wenck pops back 50 years to talk “Alice’s Restaurant” with the legendary Arlo Guthrie, who brings an Alice-centric tour to Indy this weekend; elsewhere locals New Wave Collective are profiled, along with Brit synthpoppers The Wombats. Kyle chats with Danicia Monét before the third occasion of her rising artist fest UPRSNG.
Arlo and “Alice”................................. P.28 New Wave Collective......................... P.27 A Cultural Manifesto: UPRSNG......... P.30
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ou’ve likely seen the commercials for the Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network. These television spots were frequently played a few years ago when the “Great Recession” was in full swing, and people seemed to be losing their jobs and their homes in the blink of an eye. Such was the case for John. A reservist retiree and Iraq war veteran, John was laid off in 2011. He applied for unemployment benefits, but the amount he received wasn’t going to cover food, utilities and a monthly mortgage payment. (Isn’t it great how the unemployment office has no qualms about making us choose between food and shelter?) Upon seeing a commercial for the IFPN, he immediately began the 90-day application process. NUVO: How long did you receive benefits from the program? JOHN: “They paid my mortgage for about 14 months.” NUVO: When did having been a program recipient become a problem? JOHN: “I made an attempt to refinance my mortgage once I found another job. That didn’t work because I had to have been out of the program for a year before I would be eligible for refinance. It had only been six months. I made another attempt once my year was up. I was still required to receive permis-
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selling. I just needed to refinance, so that I could avoid bankruptcy.” NUVO: Was there ever any point at which they were truly helpful? JOHN: “When I was able to avoid foreclosure, absolutely. But there was so much stress involved in the sign-up process, and then so many unnecessary hoops to jump through once I began refinancing. Eventually, they stopped responding to the calls made by my refinance officer. I just needed to avoid bankruptcy. Were they helpful then? No. Sometimes they were downright rude when they did take a call. The rest of the time they simply avoided the calls altogether.” We all fall victim to human error, but a four-month file misplacement that nearly costs someone his home is negligently obtuse. For a charitable agency advertising its willingness to “help”, the IFPN dropped the ball in two major areas: efficiency and empathy. (I mean, you SHOULD have both, but you’ve GOT to at least have ONE of those in play, right?!) We weren’t efficient. We really screwed up. But we care about you, and we want you to know that we’ll do whatever it takes to make it right. OR…
...a four-month file misplacement that nearly costs someone his home is negligently obtuse. sion from the IFPN because becoming a recipient of their assistance means that a lien is placed on your home. Recipients are required to pay back the full amount of their assistance amount if they sell within the first five years out of the program. That amount decreases year by year, and by the tenth year you’re free and clear, owing them nothing should you decide to sell. I had no intention of 4 VOICES // 04.29.15 - 05.06.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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regions. One influential legislator did not like it and Indiana got 15 regions. For several years this map was used as the State Planning Regions. Then Governor Otis Bowen declared that any two consenting, contiguous counties could form a region. (Does that have some vague contemporary ring?) The idea of laissez-faire regionalism coexisted with separate state regions for libraries, hospitals, criminal justice, and a host of governmental functions. Today, work force development boards operate in regions and who knows how many different regional configurations serve environmental and anti-terrorism purposes. The IEDC has proposed a competition for regions to design themselves (the laissez-faire model once again) and propose programs to establish their identities, strengthen ties among their counties, raise their incomes, and Our image starts with our feelings make themselves more visible to the outside world. about ourselves. The best of these proposals would then get some money from IEDC to carry though their programs. of spending $10 million or $42 million This is paternalistic, state-sponor $84 million on a nebulous regional sored bullying. You do the work of program, let our cities and towns preparing an exhaustive, detailed boost Hoosier self-esteem by giving us proposal, and if you are good (whatsmooth driving. ever that means to a highly politicized Our image starts with our feelings entity), the Santa-state will fund your about ourselves. If our ordinary travels activities … for a while. are a misery, we will project that condiThe Special Staff for Silly Stuff in the tion in our interactions with others. As we governor’s office even gave 25 selected teach our children: “How can others relegislators gift bags that were to enspect us, if we do not respect ourselves?” courage them to vote for the program. The governor and his buddies at In a state that talks the talk of conthe Indiana Economic Development servative politics, this regional cities Corporation (IEDC) have gone back program is more than a joke, it is coun50 years to pluck the regional cities terproductive. Give the money to the concept from the ever-present dust cities and towns, let them repair some heap of ideas that stagnate around the of their long-neglected infrastructure, capitol building. and let the people of Indiana go about In the mid-to-late ’60s, the IU School their business of making our state of Business prepared a map organizing more prosperous. n Indiana’s 92 counties into 14 economic
oday, for the first time, I drove down a repaved section of my street. It’s only about 30 yards, but it had been a mess for several years. It felt good. I felt good about my city government and myself. Persistently bad streets send a message that you are not worth better treatment. It was what I witnessed in Gary after Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson repaved many treacherous streets. She chose well which streets to repair and there was a definite increase in morale in that much abused city. Governor Pence could learn from this. Instead of spending two million dollars on an advertising campaign to restore Indiana’s tarnished reputation, turn that money over to the cities and towns for street repairs. Instead
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NEWS Trade Mission to China Gov. Mike Pence is packing his bags in anticipation of a trip to China, which will focus on creating economic opportunities and partnerships between the country and our state. Pence will leave on May 9 for a weeklong trip and will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province, Indiana’s Chinese sister-state. While away, Pence will meet with Chinese government leaders, top executives from numerous Chinese companies and potential investors. The governor will also stop at Indiana companies with operations in China, including Eli Lilly and Cummins, as well as Chinabased Haier Group, which is planning to locate its North American Tech Center in Evansville. China is the state’s fifth largest export partner, with exports totaling $1.4 billion in 2014. The trip is Pence’s sixth international trade mission since taking office. He has also traveled to Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and Israel. Former Pence aide to head up communications Gov. Mike Pence has turned to a former adviser to serve as the communications director in his office. Pence appointed Matt Lloyd to the role of deputy chief of staff for communications and strategy. He’ll replace Christy Denault, who announced that she was leaving the governor’s office to spend more time with her family. Lloyd – who currently works as communications director for Koch Industries’ office in Washington D.C. – served in similar positions for Pence’s congressional office. Lloyd joins the office as the Pence administration seeks to recover from attacks leveled because he signed a religious freedom bill into law. He said it would protect individuals from government intrusion into their faith-based decisions but critics said it was meant to make discrimination against gays and lesbians legal. The backlash has led some to predict Pence could face a tougher reelection and the state has hired a public relations firm to repair its image nationally. Differing opinions on needle exchange legislation State leaders are split on needle exchange legislation as the General Assembly is set to adjourn for the year. Senate President Pro Tem David Long said he supports the extension of a temporary needle exchange in Scott County but said it might be “hasty” to make similar programs available in other areas of the state. But Attorney General Greg Zoeller called on lawmakers to pass a bill that allows for needle exchanges in “other at-risk counties on a continuing basis.” At issue is a bill that – as passed by the House – would let counties with high rates of hepatitis C run their own needle exchange programs. High hepatitis rates often mean big drug problems and future HIV cases. Gov. Pence agrees with the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys that a state-endorsed needle exchange sends the wrong message and will not stop the drug abuse. He set up the temporary needle exchange in Scott County, even though he opposes a broader program. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 04.29.15 - 05.06.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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ith the 2015 legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly rapidly coming to a close, NUVO received the following letter to the editor from the Indiana Farm Bureau on April 22: To the editor: Indiana Farm Bureau and its members are not opposed to annexation when it is voluntary. However, the forced annexation process that Indiana currently allows is heavily weighted in favor of cities and towns. That is simply not fair. If the leaders of a city or town decide that they want to annex an area and the landowners are not willing to be annexed, those landowners have two alternatives: Give in, or take the town to court. The lives of those landowners will change overnight. They cannot imagine the amount of work or money needed to fight off an annexation. In order to challenge an annexation in court, those landowners have to determine which of their neighbors are in the annexation area, contact them and gather signatures on a petition. And they have to raise money on their own to pay for an attorney. Even if landowners win the initial court battle, they will most likely spend years fighting because cities and towns almost always appeal, and they have the resources of government behind them. It’s just too hard, too time consuming and too expensive for ordinary citizens to fight off an annexation. No citizen should be forced to go to court to protect his ordinary everyday rights as a landowner. Senate Bill 330, which is currently making its way through the Indiana General Assembly, could change all that. Indiana Farm Bureau urges state legislators to vote in favor of needed reforms that protect landowner rights in the annexation process. Indiana is one of only two states that allow forced annexation. It’s time for us to join the rest of the country and stop forcing landowners to give in to the whims of city and town officials who make unsubstantiated claims about growth, progress and economic development. Don Villwock President, Indiana Farm Bureau
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tions; basically eliminating the ability of Well, now. How very chivalrous of the Farm Bureau, standing up for the little guy. counties and municipalities to say no, a Why, one wonders, is the Indiana Farm CAFO doesn’t belong here. Local cities and towns and some of the lobby groups Bureau getting its combines in a twist for local government pushed back hard over SB 330? Smelling a CAFO (Conagainst that to protect home rule, and so centrated Animal Feeding Operation) the bill was amended to require Purdue somewhere off in the distance, we rang to do a study on the impact of local zonup Kim Ferraro, senior staff attorney and ing laws and the ability of agriculture to director of Water Policy for the Hoosier thrive economically. Environmental Council. Simply put, “This is all about allowing unfettered expansion of big agriculture here in Indiana,” says Ferraro. “It’s time for us to ... stop forcing First, some background landowners to give in to the whims from Ferraro — stay with us, this gets a little wonky: of city and town officials.” “There’s a bunch of right-to-farm legislation — DON VILLWOCK, that people get confused INDIANA FARM BUREAU PRESIDENT about. There was a state Constitutional amendment that got defeated this year “Last year, another bill that passed — — we know it’ll come back next year. SEA 186 — provides even further rightThen there’s SB 249 — that one, in its to-farm protections which basically says original form, sought to eliminate home that the whole Indiana Code, including rule authority for local governments to zoning law, has to be interpreted in such regulate confined animal feeding opera-
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a way as to protect the rights of farmers and ranchers to use ‘traditional and ever-changing technology in their farming practices. There’s already protections [for big ag] — if a municipality says no, a CAFO doesn’t belong here, the statute says no, you’re supposed to interpret the law to favor big ag.” So what about this annexation business? “This is all interrelated,” explains Ferraro. “Naturally, a city where people live — residential areas — would Villwock not be an appropriate place for a confined animal feeding operation,” says Ferraro. “The way the law works currently … these legal immunities apply if land is zoned for agriculture. For example, a person could raise row crops and then put 10,000 hogs on the [same] property, and under the right-tofarm act that wouldn’t be considered a significant change in the use of the property. Right-to-farm would still apply.” SB 330 sets up a remonstrance petition procedure for local residents to stop annexation without going to court first. It also allows a municipality to exempt annexed property from tax liability while it is assessed as agricultural land instead of going through the hassle of rezoning it as such, with specified notification to the landowner of the action.
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There’s a procedural process to do that, “If you remove the ability of cities the process has to be opened up to to annex land that would presumably public hearings and receive input from change it from ag to residential or comimpacted citizens — it’s not just like a mercial, you’re slowly eating away at big city gets to do whatever it wants.” ag’s ability to do what it wants to do,” The letter to the editor was written just says Ferraro. a few days after a conference committee Controlling the classification of land was appointed to review SB 330. The bill, for use to promote growth or delay it, authored by Sens. Phil Boots (R-Crawdepending on the type of growth in fordsville), Randy Head (R-Logansport), question is not a new concept. But Ferand Jim Buck (R-Kokomo) passed out of raro says that is why the law is set up the the Senate unaltered, but was altered in way it is now. the House by an amendment proposed “There was a bill out there that would by Rep. Randy Truitt (R-West Lafayette). prevent rezoning of land from ag to anything else. … They want to limit the ability of cities “This is all about allowing unfettered to grow,” says Ferraro. “There expansion of big agriculture here in Indiana.” are arguments for and — KIM FERRARO, HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL against that, but there’s already a Truitt’s amendment intended to give proper balance in the current law. A city some clarification through definitions on can’t necessarily force annexation; on what constitutes “infrastructure” as the the other hand, citizens who live in an bill defined parameters for municipalities area can come together and petition to seeking annexation to pay back counbe annexed. There are legal remedies ties for the infrastructure accrued in the for a court to get involved and decide property acquisition. The amendment whose interests need protection. It’s not also spelled out specifics for local income as clear-cut as the Farm Bureau would tax distribution, territory definitions, and make it sound, that a city could just economic development projects. n come in and annex whatever it wants.
SO WHAT IS SB 330, THIS ANNEXATION BILL, REALLY ALL ABOUT AND WHAT DOES IT DO? SB 330 -Annexation. Provides the following for annexations for which an annexation ordinance is adopted after June 30, 2015: (1) Remonstrance petitions are filed with the county auditor (instead of a court). (2) If at least 65% of owners of non-tax exempt land or the owners of 80% of the assessed value of non-tax exempt land in the annexation territory sign a remonstrance, provides that an annexation ordinance is void and does not proceed. Provides that if the annexation involves extension of capital services to an economic development project, the annexation may be appealed to a court. (3) Provides that a remonstrance may be appealed to a court if a petition for remonstrance is signed by at least 51% of the owners of land (excluding tax-exempt land) or the owners of 60% of the assessed value land in the territory (excluding tax-exempt land). (4) Eliminates a separate remonstrance for property
that consists of not more than 100 parcels and is 80% contiguous to a municipality. (5) Requires the annexation fiscal plan to be similar to plans required for local government mergers and reorganizations. (6) Requires a municipality to conduct an outreach program to inform citizens about a proposed annexation. (7) Allows prevailing remonstrators to recover reasonable expenses incurred in filing and litigating the remonstrance, including appeal costs and reasonable attorney’s fees not to exceed $50,000. (8) Specifies the circumstances under which a public highway or rightsof-way of a public highway may be annexed. (9) Provides for municipal reimbursements to counties related to infrastructure owned by the county. (10) Allows a municipality to exempt property from property tax liability for municipal purposes while the property is assessed as agricultural land under the real property assessment rules
and guidelines of the department of local government finance (instead of classified as agricultural for zoning purposes). (11) Requires a municipality to give notice of an annexation hearing to a landowner whose agricultural property is exempted from property taxes for municipal purposes. (12) Provides the following with regard to the elements that landowners must prove in a remonstrance hearing for the court to order an annexation not to take place: (A) Provides that a court may not consider personal finances or business finances of an owner or resident of land in determining whether the annexation will have a significant financial impact on the residents or owners of land. (B) Provides that proof of opposition to the annexation may be shown by the remonstrance petitions minus any written revocations of remonstrances that are filed with the court. Prohibits fiscal plans prepared after June 30, 2015, from
being amended after a remonstrance petition is filed to exclude parcels, unless the amendment is consented to by remonstrators whose parcels are excluded. Removes an annexation procedure applicable only to a municipality in St. Joseph County. Allows only the owners of non-tax exempt property to file a landowner initiated annexation petition that is filed after June 30, 2015. Provides common names for the different annexation procedures. Provides that a waiver or release of the right of remonstrance against annexation executed after June 30, 2015, expires on the earlier of : (1) 25 years after the date the waiver or release is executed; or (2) the date that the original municipal debt, bonds, or obligations that are issued or incurred to finance the costs directly related to provision of the service for which the waiver was obtained are fully paid or would be paid.
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Foraging is more than just ramps and morels. For Matt Shull, it’s a way of life.
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One of the best things about foraging for food is that it doesn’t require any special tools beyond a knife, a bag, and a stick you can whittle yourself. We’ve heard some foragers prefer to wear a layer of shiny pantyhose over their clothes like skin-tight waders, as it makes it hard for ticks to grab on, but a thorough tick check with a foraging friend afterward will do just as well. A GOOD KNIFE You want to be able to cleanly cut plants, so bring a sharp, mediumsize knife. Matt wears his in a leather sheath like a necklace, which seems to be the most convenient. It doesn’t have to be a fancy hunting knife or anything special, just has to be sharp and sturdy. A SACK FOR YOUR FINDS It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it should be comfortable to carry and have a strap to go around one shoulder, and plenty of room for your food. Make sure you don’t pack it so full that you start crushing your dinner. A DIGGING STICK This is one of the oldest tools that humans carried, and it’s just a wood stick with a beveled, flat end. It’s perfect for digging up the roots of plants with minimal disturbance to the surrounding soil. If you fancy yourself a whittler, grab a sturdy fallen branch and cut one end down to a sloping edge. Then, use the stick by sliding it under the root ball and pressing down on the other end.
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f you’ve eaten out at any locally sourced restaurants lately, you’ve probably eaten some foraged foods. Whether it’s garlic ramps or morels, there has never been more demand for the delicate perfection of foraged food, not to mention the hefty market value of them (morels retail for about $40 per pound). Older than agriculture, the art of foraging for wild edibles is coded deeply in our DNA. Now it’s coming full circle on the heels of the latest food trends, pushing diners to explore their neighborhoods and forests like never before in search of a flavor they may have yet to encounter.
Shull wears the three most important pieces of foraging gear: A knife, a carry ing sack and a digging stick.
“The average American has about ten plants in their diet.”
And while morel mushrooms and garlic ramps, the darlings of the culinary world, are the much-soughtafter wild edibles, we wanted to see if there was more to foraged foods than just the spring frenzy that gives way to summer farming. So I enlisted the help of survivalist Matt Shull of White Pines Wilderness Academy to show me where food was hiding, and if maybe it’s been hiding right under my nose (well, in this case, under my feet) all along. As a lifetime practitioner, Shull’s first piece of advice was to spend a year just observing and identifying the plants and cross-referencing them with field guides — at least two, he says. “Every year, there are professionals who die from eating the wrong thing,” Shull warned. “Chris McCandless died because he misidentified a plant according to his guide. It was an error in the field guide,” he said of the
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famous Alaska explorer on whom the book and film Into the Wild was based. That’s just one reason why Shull recommends getting at least two reliable field guides and to cross reference them against each other. With that kind of (terrifying) information at hand, Shull wants amateurs not to think of the woods as one big, edible free-for-all, but to view foraging as one part of a much larger relationship to one’s own natural environment. Much of Shull’s training works on the “village education” model, the same education model that has underpinned the teachings of the tribal groups like the Miami and Blackfoot Indians. Since one person can’t possibly S E E , F ORA GING, O N PA GE 1 2
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You know those little bastard plants that make your legs feel like they’re on fire after a good tromp through the woods? Those are stinging nettles, and they make themselves painfully easy to identify, so don’t even worry about getting this one wrong. They’re also one of Shull’s all-time favorite wild edibles. They can be used in a variety of ways, and are a popular plant for infusions, but one of the most interesting ways to use them is to treat them more or less like kale or collards. With leaves that are present and abundant six months out of the year, these are easy to grab en masse. The heat from cooking the plants takes away the sting, so don’t worry about getting a mouthful of pain. However, cleaning them can be a bit of a process. We suggest using a pair of heavy, rubber gardening gloves to do the job or use scissors and tongs to remove the leaves from the stems. After that, the rest is easy.
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1 pound of stinging nettles 1-2 tablespoons of oil or butter 1 onion, chopped 3-4 garlic cloves, minced salt & pepper
Heat your oil or butter in your pan on medium-high heat. Sautee your garlic and onions until fragrant, and then add about half of the stinging nettle leaves with a couple tablespoons of water. Let them cook for a couple of minutes until the nettles reduce in volume, then add the rest of the leaves and cook an additional 3-4 minutes, until it’s all wilted. Add salt and pepper to taste. You can squeeze some lemon juice over them for some acid, or use vinegar as you would with collard greens. Alternatively, you can saute the nettles, onions and garlic in leftover bacon grease if you want to make this a nextlevel foraging meal. And if you’re doing the low-calorie, low-fat thing (first of all, we’re so sorry about that), you can steam your stinging nettles to remove the burn if sauteing in oil isn’t your thing. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.29.15 - 05.06.15 // COVER STORY 11
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FORAGE IN STATE PARKS: While it’s been legal to forage off-trail for a while, the old rules were a bit confusing for amateur foragers. Now, all the rules about foraging off-trail are done away with, so you can feel free to go where the good eats lead you. That said, DNR officials warn against amateur hikers going too far off the trail, as this could get you lost and end up with a way bigger problem than not finding any morels. If it’s your first time in a big park, go with an experienced forager or hiker who will be able to lead you back to a trail. FORAGE AT THE EDGES OF WOODS Right along the edge of any wooded area, there is usually a nice mix of forageable foods. The spot where Matt showed me what to look for was at the wooded edge of a public park, and that mix of direct sunlight and a little shade makes for an ideal mix of full- and partial-sun plants. FORAGE IN UNFERTILIZED OR TREATED “GREEN SPACE” Since you can forage anything from violets in open fields to pine needles, the world becomes your grocery store. You’ll want to stay away (obviously) from private property, but as long as the land hasn’t been sprayed for anything, you should be alright.
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— DON’’T — FORAGE TOO CLOSE TO A MAJOR ROAD This is pretty obvious, but there are a lot of icky things in the soil and air around major roadways, so avoid foraging along major thoroughfares. It’s just as much a personal safety issues as a food safety issue. Plus, no one likes a salad that tastes vaguely of motor oil. DON’T EAT OUT OF “MANICURED” GREEN SPACE It sounds appealing to go out and forage in your cul-de-sac, but wherever there is uniformly green, perfect grass, there has probably also been some sprayed treatment. Lawn chemicals are also made to stick to the grass even when there’s rain, so don’t think you’re going to rinse all that stuff off. When it comes to suburban foraging, it might be worth the drive or bike to get away from artificial lawn care products. FORAGE A SPOT TO DEATH This goes without saying, but unless you’re foraging for specifically invasive species, you should spread out your foraging beyond just one small space. After all, the point is to become more connected to the earth around you.
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learn all there is to learn by experience, staying alive in a world of foraging means having multiple reliable bodies of knowledge on these plants. And while there are hundreds of field guides on the subject, the expertise required to tell the difference between two nearly-identical plants can sometime require multiple lifetimes of study. That’s why there is so much value particularly in passed-down knowledge of these plants. New guides are always being made, and not always by the people that should be writing them. “We were consulted for a mushroom hunting field guide, and one of the identifiers they wanted to use was taste,” he laughed, because there are some mushrooms and plants that will kill you with a single bite. In other words, if you’re going out into the woods to forage, don’t just start grabbing things and shoving them in your mouth. (This, by the way, quickly became an uneasy trust exercise as Shull would, in one breath, talk about the drop-dead dangerous poisons and then, in the next, hand me something to eat, which I did unquestioningly. For the record, I am alive, so his knowledge is trustworthy.) Most importantly, Shull says, is to use one entire year to notice all the growth stages of a plant, which is the most reliable way to identify a plant species. “You have to really live with the plant and get to know it,” he says. “You have to watch it come up in spring, bloom, go to seed, and die back again in winter before you can be absolutely sure about what you’re dealing with.” It might sound a little new-agey, but when you realize that the carrot family has several deadly-poisonous members (with frighteningly similar leaves in some cases), this piece of advice takes on new gravity. Over and over again, Shull points out plants along the path that have deadly cousins with leaves that look almost the same. That’s why he encourages getting to know plants by family — both the edible and non-edible members — which will help you learn more of the nuanced identifiers that set the individual species apart. From Shull’s perspective, foraging is less about making a gourmet meal so much as finding essential nutrients in nature. One of his most famous and frequently-taught survivalist foods is pine needle “tea,” which contains tons of vitamin C and may have helped settlers ward off scurvy. Infusions can
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“We’re huntergatherers. We have been hunter-gatherers for 99.5 percent of the time we’ve been on this planet. I think it’’s naive to think we can just shift our diet entirely without massive complications.” — MATT SHULL
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“The average American has about ten plants in their diet, nowadays,” Shull said with a grimace. In just the short hour we spent in the woods, he pointed out over 15 edible plant species that would have otherwise gone unnoticed, everything from the flowers and leaves of the common violet, to the entire dandelion plant — even the roots can be roasted to make a coffee-like beverage. Watching the plant bloom, die and reemerge also familiarizes you with how time and maturity shifts the flavor of each plant. Spring is an especially good time for foraging, as the plants are at their most energetic, green and flavorful stages of growth. Just like baby spinach has a more delicate flavor and mouthfeel, so do the smaller leaves on plants like dandelion, which contain more bitter, latex-like sap as they grow larger. Like the microgreens you buy at the farmers market, things are sweeter in spring. And just like microgreens, sprouts and seedlings pack a big, botanical flavor but without any of the bitterness of a more mature plant. Even if you’re not a greens-eater, you can still participate in a the foraging lifestyle without ever having to pick up your own digging stick. Mulberry trees are one of the earliest to set fruit and one of the easiest to harvest, and mulberries can be made into jams, pies, or replace raspberries in salads. “The easiest way to harvest them is to spread a sheet out underneath them and find some way to just shake the branches,” Shull says. If you’ve ever parked your car under one in summer, you know that mulberries have a tendency to fall like juicy red rain. You can also go out and snap up little things like the eponymous buds on redbud trees, which taste slightly sweet, almost like a carrot or violet blossoms to add to your regular lettuce salad. Between foraging and hunting for wild game, Shull gets a very complete nutritional profile with very little sugar or refined carbohydrates. This is the point in the article where it’s worth noting that Shull doesn’t have the paunch or ruddy cheeks so many of us non-wild eaters are sporting, myself included. I asked Shull what his thoughts on the Paleo and similar diets were, and if they are really worth what they say they are for your health and well-being. In short, yes. “We’re hunter-gatherers. We have been hunter-
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gatherers for 99.5 percent of the time we’ve been on this planet. I think it’s naive to think we can just shift our diet entirely without massive complications,” complications like an explosion of food allergies, diabetes, obesity, depression, and possibly even autism. Some studies have shown that the bacterial signature, or “gut biome,” of hunter-gatherers is entirely different from the flora inside the digestive tracts of people with “modern” diets with a lot of processed foods. Whether or not that has an effect on our overall health hasn’t been fully studied, something Shull hopes will change in the future. “Ideal” nutrition, however, has always been studied as a game of the earth’s carrying capacity, which Shull things is equally naive. “Is the ideal diet for one person different than the ideal diet for seven billion other people on one planet? Those things need to be studied separately,” he says, hinting that one of the main issues might be that there probably shouldn’t be seven billion of us competing for food. “I realize it’s a more difficult diet to adhere to,” he says of the hunter-gatherer diet he chooses for himself. “The easiest diet to get everyone to adhere to
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would be to give everyone a multivitamin and a bowl of rice, and you could probably live your life that way, but that doesn’t mean that’s how we should live.” It would be an interesting experiment to see how perceptions of food and the U.S. obesity problem would change if more people were forced to interact with the environment that creates their food, the way trading your car for a bike makes you
“The easiest diet to get everyone to adhere to would be to give everyone a multivitamin and a bowl of rice, and you could probably live your life that way, but that doesn’t mean that’’s how we should live.”
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see your neighborhood in a whole new way. That’s what Shull ultimately wants, for people to get back to thinking about and connecting with their environment. That’s the hot core at the center of the White Pines ethos: getting people of all ages to stop thinking of food and medicine as something we have to rip away and refine from nature, but rather discovering the ways that your environment can care for you if you invest the time and intention in understanding its mechan-
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y 10-year-old daughter Naomi and I went to the opening of Kathryn Armstrong’s Worth Remembering exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA) at CityWay during the early evening of April 8. Naomi wasn’t particularly excited about this event but was even less excited about the prospect of staying home alone — not that I’d let her do that anyway. Daddies can be dictators sometimes, and I was dead-set on seeing the first show under Paula Katz as iMOCA’s interim executive director. Would it be as cerebral as others I recalled from Katz’s time as director of the Herron Galleries at the Herron School of Art and Design? Don’t get me wrong: I don’t necessarily have a problem with cerebral. The only problem I have is when the text on the wall doesn’t seem to describe the actual art. Or when a piece’s concept is only rendered intelligible with the help of didactics. And for the record, I liked much of what I saw in the Herron Galleries during Katz’s tenure there, even though I saw the inflated-text-on-the-wall-thing happen there once or twice. Anyway, so we went, my daughter and I, arriving in the middle of a rainstorm. Entering the iMOCA gallery, I could see immediately that Kathryn Armstrong’s work was multifaceted; that is, there were numbered exhibits in photography, sculpture, painting, and drawing and a laundry list of mediums and or/ found objects: paper, glass jars, studio clothes, pressed flowers, string, plastic cups, glass bottles, etc... placed on white shelves along the walls. What was the concept that glued all this stuff together? But, more urgently, I had a question for Naomi: was she hungry? As we were looking over a serving table packed with cheeses, hummus, crackers, olives, and cured meats, she told me no. (But I bet she would have been a taker if the table had been piled high with Doritos and Skittles.) Fortunately, I’d just eaten dinner. I’m acutely aware
Artist Kathryn Armstrong assembles found objects in an exhibit called Leave a Note.
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of how hard it is to appreciate art on an empty stomach. And the fairly sizable crowd of people (sizable for an art event) seemed to have the same idea, as just about all of them were gathered around the tables in the center of the gallery munching on hors d’oeuvres or cued up at the cash bar. At least in comparison to the alcohol and the food and the conversation revolving around these items, it must be said, the exhibition itself seemed like a distant second in terms of captivating its audience. Nevertheless, I wanted to figure this work out. Looking around the gallery space, I didn’t exactly see a lot of obvious visual clues, so I picked up the iMOCA handout that stated the following: “The work of Kathryn Armstrong explores interdisciplinary methods of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography as a fluid language of possi-
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bilities. Her site-responsive installations often point toward the overlooked as a location for intervention and chance encounters. Armstrong is interested in situating the viewer within a living work of art, somewhere between the familiar and the unfamiliar.” The project narrative also stated that audience members are invited “to participate in an interactive sculpture that builds over time.” That is, patrons might add some personal trinkets to the exhibits if they so desired. I didn’t have anything in particular to add to the plethora of found objects on the shelves save for a couple of old Marsh receipts in my pocket that didn’t quite fit the bill, as it were. I also read a the printout of an essay by Paula Katz about Armstrong’s exhibition in June of last year in a Philadelphia gallery. The exhibition was entitled Traveler, Not Tourist. It was dense academic reading, but it gave me a sense of Armstrong as a visual artist and Katz’s genuine appreciation of her. My next task was to find something to occupy Naomi’s time because I knew if she wasn’t happy, I wouldn’t be happy either. Fortunately, I found just the ticket in exhibit no. 6, entitled “Leave a Note,” and situated on a shelf housing numerous found objects.
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Armstrong’s previous work also incorporated mixed media.
There was a notepad with individual sheets printed with the logo “Worth Remembering,” and pencils for participants to draw what they found worth remembering. I gave a sheet of paper and one of the pencils provided to Naomi and told her to start drawing. (She didn’t really have to be told since she likes drawing very much.) Pleased that my daughter was occupied, I walked over to exhibit no. 4, an abstract mixed media painting entitled “The Future. The black and gold work has weird bulging textures that might, for all I know, be visual clues. There are certain things in the future that you can’t avoid, like death and taxes. And then there are things that look increasingly certain to cause massive changes within our lifetimes and/or those of our children like, say, global warming. But the exact way that these things will affect us individually is a big question mark. This opaque work of Armstrong’s, with its bold title, certainly wasn’t giving anything away. But the future is inherently unclear: that, I suspect, is the point of the work. Not everybody has license to be vague on the subject of the future. You may have noted that Republican candidates for President Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are invested, as it were, in an economically robust future where environmental considerations are not an obstacle. That is to say, they are climate change deniers. Having such unshakable faith is essential if you are a CEO selling the investors in your corporation on how many widgets you plan to manufacture five years out. But such blind faith has its dangers. Say that you’re a govern-
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ment planner trying to come up with a contingency plan for coastal city flooding in the case of collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Good luck trying to obtain funding for such planning from the likes of Cruz and Rubio (or for that matter, from the state government of Florida which ban state employees from using the term “climate change” in official correspondence). But I digress. I looked down to see the work of my daughter who was tagging along by my side, using my notebook as her clipboard. She had drawn a dinosaur looking up out of a window. She had drawn three stars and a crescent moon — one celestial object in each quadrant of the window. I told Naomi to leave the drawing on the shelf and she did, as she was not particularly attached to it. At about that time, we heard a crack of lightning. “Daddy,” Naomi said. “Let’s go look at the thunderstorm.” “Sure,” I said. “Why not?” So we stepped out of the exhibition space. The Alexander at CityWay looks out on the massive corporate center for Eli Lilly, the drug company, lest we forget, that unleashed Prozac into the world. Lilly successfully lobbied the city of Indianapolis to finance the building of CityWay — which consists of a mixed use neighborhood encompassing the Alexander Hotel that houses iMOCA. The powers that be at Lilly argued that the development would help the corporation recruit and retain workers. As a giant black cloud made its way west to east over the head of the corS E E , ARM S T R O N G, O N P A GE 1 8
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porate center and lightning flashed, I figured that this was a particular set of connections worth remembering. It was while Naomi and I were looking out the window that the artist herself, Kathryn Armstrong, who currently teaches at the Herron School of Art and Design, came up to greet us. After some small talk, we got to talking about her exhibition —and the panes of glass in front of us. “The windows are really important in terms of the reflection,” she said. “It’s something that transforms; it’s always changing how what’s happening actively within the space and what’s happening around us. There’s some really great things about the Alexander CityWay and the new development and these things that are reflected through all of these layers. If you imagine, when you’re taking a photograph, everything gets flattened.” Armstrong showed us what she meant by referring to exhibit no. 2 along the back wall entitled “I’ll be Your Mirror,” after one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs. This exhibit consisted of bits of metallic foil tacked to the wall. “If you stand in front of the window, you’ll see where these layers come together. And you see how these dots start to mimic that in the tree the light,” she said. Indeed, when I looked I could see the iMOCA gallery lights reflected by the bits of foil on the glass. The shards of light roughly corresponded to the branches of a young sapling along the sidewalk outside. Armstrong had arranged the foil to reflect on the window just so.
“So if I were to take a photograph of everything that would flatten everything back to the view of the window,” Armstrong said. And I was then able to appreciate what Armstrong was trying to do. She wanted her audience to grasp that when they walked into this space, they were walking into a work of art. There was something to be said about CityWay as an architectural gem, as Armstrong had noted. She was using this architecture as her canvas to make her audience see the space around them in new ways, “between the familiar and the unfamiliar,” according to her project narrative. Perhaps what she was doing was akin to what Christopher Nolan was doing in his most recent films, Inception and Interstellar, attempting to break new conceptual ground in familiar genres. I let it be known to Armstrong that Naomi had left a note for her exhibition. So we walked over to the shelf where my daughter had left her note. Armstrong seemed amazed that Naomi had drawn a window with her dinosaur. I was amazed too. It seemed that she had intuitively understood the whole point of the exhibition: her idea of being situated within a living work of art, the significance imbued in personal effects, the idea of exchange, what is worth remembering, etc… When I quizzed Naomi on the drive back home, however, asking her why she had drawn the window she told me this: “Daddy, I drew the dinosaur with its head looking up. He needed a window to look out of.” n
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Typhoid Mary April 30-May 24. We know how Mary Mallon became known as “Typhoid Mary,” but the why of it still intrigues historians. Did she know she was carrying the disease and intentionally infect others? Was she just following the common hygienic practices of the era? With measles in the air, this seems like a perfect time for a play exploring the ethics of contagion. Phoenix Theatre, $20-33, phoenixtheatre.org
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Fairouz’s Zabur and Faure’s Requiem w April 24. Mohammed Fairouz’s Zabur, which was commissioned by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, wasn’t just about new notes strung together but bold statements — about war, suffering and hope. Fairouz, an Arab American, drew inspiration from ongoing events in the Middle East, and from the Psalms, which are included or acknowledged as important holy writings in all three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity). Zabur, a war requiem, is set in a shelter, where Daoud (or David, as you might know him from the Old Testament) sings of what is happening outside, in the war zone of Syria, with his friend Jibreel (Gabriel). The first notes were of the entire chorus singing “Ah!” which was like a heartwrenching plea for help, the kind that can only come from the most gruesome of horrors. That, along with Mohammed the cacophony of the orchestra, Fairouz made for as intense an opening as I’ve ever heard. Daoud then sang of the atrocities happening outside, (libretto by Najla Said and Fairouz). Baritone Michael Kelly poured himself into the work as if he’d seen some of the horrors in person; to hear such emotive singing was uplifting, even though the subject matter was troubling. The Indianapolis Children’s Choir, singing the part of the children in the shelter, was quite haunting. Musically speaking, Fairouz at times reminded me of Philip Glass’ minimalism, with oscillating minor thirds and arpeggios scattered throughout the work. This created a feeling of consistency, albeit an uncomfortable consistency given the subject matter. Khaos Company Theatre: Blood Wedding o Through May 9. I compliment Khaos Company Theatre and director Anthony Nathan for having the courage to choose such a rarely produced piece as Blood Wedding, but unfortunately, its execution was woefully inadequate. The set relied on a series of sheets which barely masked the backstage space, and when backlit, provided a bit of a tease as the cast’s silhouettes undressed. There was no lighting except for a single work light and a digital projector, used to clumsily project various images over the cast throughout the performance. These projections were never very effective, ranging from flowers to a bunch of pictures of sad models and skulls which would not be out of place on a thirteen-year-old emo girl’s English Lit. binder. The scene transitions were awkward to non-existent; the first act ended with the cast standing in tableau looking like deer staring down an oncoming semi then abruptly scattering off stage. What’s more, Frederico Garcia Lorca’s poetry and peasant songs became out of place song breaks, particularly during the wedding
Einstein May 1-9. Solo artist Jack Fry brings Einstein back to life. He portrays a younger, precrazy-haired version of the brilliant man, telling the story behind his theory of relativity as well as revealing his struggles as a father. Indyfringe Basile Theatre, May 6 at the Jewish Communiity Center, $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students, indyfringe.org
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Dr. Eric Stark conducts the ISC and ISO. In Part 2 of the work, Jibreel sings with Daoud, and is an encouraging, hopeful voice. Tenor Dann Coakwell’s bright, clear voice was ideal for the part. The work ends with Psalm 102 (“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee”), with a reiteration of the initial “Ah!” This work, more than heard, was deeply felt. To have such a moving piece commissioned and premiered by a local group is an encouragement to all of us who want to see our arts scene continue to stretch and grow. The second half of the evening was Faure’s Requiem, probably one of the best loved requiems ever
written. The performance had a graceful, luminous quality. Baritone Kelly was well suited to this part, particularly as he sang the Libera Me, praying to be delivered from death. The ISC and ISO collaborate often, and this evening was a solid combination of the two groups. The concert was, in many respects, a best of the best, not just in terms of the skilled ensembles, but because of the music — and its message of hope.
party, at which point it started to feel like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers had forced itself upon the play. The costumes might have been attempts at period clothing, but it was difficult to discern. In an inspired choice, Nathan combined the group of woodcutters commenting on the events of the play into a single mad prophet, but his fairy wings repeatedly poked at the poor woman seated next to his exit. The incarnation of the moon wore a cape she repeatedly held up like Batman wings, which eventually left the gentleman beside me reaching out to politely pull one side so as not to block his view entirely. The incarnation of death completely abandoned the playwright’s original notion of appearing as a morbid beggar, draped instead in black lace from head to toe. The cast itself could never seem to deliver any plausible performances, but I think Todd Crickmore as the Father of the Bride could have probably offered up a pretty good interpretation had he not been stuck with his Frito Bandito accent and the role of conducting the mid-play hoedown. Finally, and most importantly, the first murder, as the
result of a clunkily choreographed knife fight, was actually shown instead of only heard off stage as originally scripted. The playing space was practically in the laps of the audience, and though the actors doing the stage combat were pretty slow about it, I am still somewhat concerned about the safety of this production. — TRISTAN ROSS Khaos Company Theatre, 3125 E. 10th St., Suite K
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Imagine: The Life and Times of John Lennon May 2, 8 p.m. Hey, remember when Rob Johansen starred in David Hoppe’s one-man show After Paul McCartney? Call it a culmination of sorts that Johansen will play John Lennon in this production by Encore Vocal Arts, featuring the music of the Beatles and some of Lennon’s solo stuff, all performed by the non-profit choral group and selected soloists. Marian University Theatre, $18 adult, $15 senior/student, marian.edu Footlite Musicals: The Who’s Tommy May 1-17. Tommy has a unique talent — pinball. That talent has made Tommy an international superstar. But as in most fairy tales, it doesn’t begin so smoothly. After witnessing the accidental murder of his mother’s lover by his father, he’s traumatized. And as he grows older, he’s abused by the ones he’s supposed to trust the most. That is until the day he discovers his ticket out. Hedback Community Theater, $10 Thursday, $20 Friday-Sunday, footlite.org Xanadu May 1-17. Based on the cult classic film from 1980 starring Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John, this musical adventure rollerskates along to an original hit score composed by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Xanadu follows a magical Greek muse as she inspires a struggling artist to achieve the greatest possible creation — the first roller disco! The Studio Theater, $20-40, thecenterfortheperformingarts.org
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Cloud of Sils Maria A juicy story of backstage rivalry propelled by three powerhouse actresses: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz. A tale of secrets, scandals, and psyches scarred by showbiz, this film has quite a healthy rating on Rotten Tomatoes. R, opening Friday at Keystone Art
CONTINUING Ex Machina t Writer/director Alex Garland’s (28 Days Later, The Beach, Sunshine) take on artificial intelligence at first struck me as obvious and simplistic, especially when compared to Spike Jonze’s wonderful 2013 film, Her, which covered the same territory. But it stuck with me. I thought of how the striking image of Ava (Alicia Vikander), the A.I. android, a sexy mix of ultra-realistic human features and overtly mechanical ones, contrasted with her creator, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), a self-satisfied scientific genius. But can style win out over an overfamiliar story? Barely. R, in wide release C O N T I N U E S O N PAGE 2 1
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vengers: Age of Ultron. So where are the articles, you ask? And I answer, “Here’s one of them.” Sorry. To best enjoy this film, remind yourself not to expect the impossible. Three years ago we all got shivers as we watched The Avengers and realized, “It’s really happening. After all the hype, it’s finally happening and I’m watching it right now!” Alas, that feeling only comes once per franchise, so don’t approach Ultron with unrealistic expectations. Just know writer-director Joss Whedon has done about as good a job with the sequel as you could hope for and enjoy. Whedon stuffs the film with everything he imagines we want. There’s more action, new characters, a colorful villain, plenty of banter, inspirational moments, even a bit of romance. The movie runs two hours and twenty minutes, reportedly trimmed from a three hour cut (which should turn up on the Blu-ray, right?) Ultron starts with the Avengers fighting what’s left of Hydra. Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) gets hurt, but never fear — he’s going to get extra screen time this go around to make up for being possessed for a good chunk of the first movie. Along the way we meet twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff/Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (Aaron-Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen). He runs super fast and she has numerous powers, including the ability to induce “waking dreams.” The screenplay writes off the multi-power business by describing her abilities as “weird.” Not helpful. NOTE: The twins used to be Magneto’s kids, but not in this reality. And this Quicksilver is played by a different guy than the one in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Go figure. After the fight, the gang gets to hang out, allowing some good humored moments
Orson Welles: A Centennial Celebration and Symposium Through May 3. Be there or be a neanderthal for this weekendlong celebration of all things Welles. Here’s what we’re excited to see: Chuck Workman’s new documentary Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (April 30, 2 p.m.), with Workman in attendance. A double feature (April 30, 7 p.m.) of the rarely seen The Immortal Story and the brilliant, visionary F for Fake. The first screening around these parts of Welles’ recently discovered “first” film, Too Much Johnson (May 1, 3 p.m.), filmed to accompany a 1938 stage production. A program (May 2, 3 p.m.) of rare and unreleased Welles footage. And a panel discussion on The Other Side of the Wind (May 20 FILM // 04.29.15 - 05.06.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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involving the hammer of Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and some romantic bonding between Natasha Romanova/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Bruce Banner/ The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). Later, Tony Stark/ Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) worry over their vanquished enemy’s advances in artificial intelligence. Linda Cardellini and Paul Bettany also appear, but that’s all I’m going to say about them lest I spoil any surprises. Long story short (is that still possible?), the Avengers soon have to deal with Ultron (voiced quite nicely by James Spader), a self-aware robotic smart-ass who aims to make the world better by
1, 8 p.m.), Welles’ unfinished film about life in Hollywood that may finally make it to the screen this year (though Welles fans have been hearing that line for decades). And we haven’t even mentioned the symposium, which did require advance registration; all screenings are open to the public, but we’d suggest calling ahead to find out what talks or discussions are open to those without stinkin’ badges. Indiana University Cinema, free or $3, cinema.indiana.edu
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getting rid of humans. Logical plan, probably, but if it works who’s going to post all the videos of cute animals on YouTube? The problem with plot lines in superhero super-team tales is that they must be awesome enough to justify the gathering of so many mighty heroes, and how often can you do that before it starts getting ridiculous? The answer is not often, so don’t worry about the plot, especially the part involving those damned Infinity stones that keep popping up in Marvel movies. Such a lot of fuss over jewelry! Bottom line: I dug all the downtime scenes. Loved most of the exchanges between the characters. Appreciated the Avengers’ attempts to avoid destruction in population centers. The action scenes were very exciting and clever, but I had trouble keeping up with the visuals. Do you see how I’m trying to cram a lot into this essay before I reach my word limit? That’s what the movie does too. You’ll deal with it, I reckon. n
Italian Film Festival Through May 3. Three films (all presented with English subtitles) remain in the Indy edition of Italian Film Festival USA, hosted for the fourth time by IUPUI. Human Capital is probably the must-see of the bunch. Italy’s 2014 Oscar submission, it’s a non-linear narrative that chronicles the lives of three people involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. May 1, 6 p.m. La Mafia Uccide Solo d’Estate (The Mafia Kills Only in Summer) May 2, 3 p.m. Anime Nere (Black Souls) May 3, 3 p.m. Il Capitale Umano (Human Capital) IUPUI University Library, Lilly Auditorium, FREE, iupui.edu C O N T I N U E S O N PA GE 2 1
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Furious 7 t The seventh in the Fast and Furious series amps up the action with more dazzling stunts, most of which look like they were actually staged rather than computer generated. The film is two hours and twenty minutes long, which is more than needed, but at least everybody keeps busy, except for Dwayne Johnson, who is stuck in a hospital bed for much of the film. Never fear, though, he’ll get out and have a few super battles along with the rest of the crew. Not a good as the last two, but it works well enough. Paul Walker gets a nice tribute at the end. PG-13, in wide release
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tic settings out of familiar Indy locations. With its Romanesque pillars and pavilion, Coxhall Gardens in Carmel makes a fitting riter-director Demetrius lair for Queen Rain (Shamekia Hunt). And Witherspoon came up with the idea the installation of “ancient ruins” at Holfor his latest sci-fi fantasy film on liday Park provides an arresting backdrop 38th Street of all places. for Ni’re’s gritty, primitive battles. Submerge: Ni’re Reborn follows a woman But the film aims for more than mere like the one Witherspoon found himself escapism. Its surreal world is symbolic, repdriving past every day — a resenting “what’s inside Ni’re, the destitute thirty-something stronger side of her,” Moore said. GEN CON driven to hold a sign asking for Much like Ni’re, Witherspoon food and money. The locally and Moore found themselves SUBMERGE: made film premiered Friday at NI’RE REBORN stumbling into this sci-fi world. Kiwanis International. Two years ago, they had no filmWitherspoon wanted to offer making experience. Witherspoon W H A T: S U B M E R G E someone in her situation some was working as an R&B singer FILMS WILL BE AT GEN kind of catharsis through film. by the stage name of LaSean. CON, JULY 30-AUG. 2. Submerge revolves around a He met Moore at a RAW Artists woman down on her luck and show downtown where she was eventually shows her “come out stronger displaying her oil paintings, and he eventuon the other side,” Witherspoon said. ally asked her to appear in a music video for Pregnant and penniless, the protagoone of his songs. nist, Erin (Erin A. Moore), is transported to “We ought to do a sci-fi action film,” Withretro-futuristic ruins, where she emerges erspoon told her during the video shoot. “It as a warrior named Ni’re — an anagram of was as simple as that,” Moore said. her name on Earth. What started as a whim became a film The film is a sequel to The Chronicles of series that could have legs in the sci-fi Ni’re — an official selection at several local community. film festivals last year, including Gen Con. “This could be a full-fledged weekly series Witherspoon has been a sci-fi fan since on the Syfy channel,” said Bishop Stevens, his parents took him to movies like Star who plays Ni’re’s nemesis, Lord Raz. (SteWars when he was a boy. With Submerge, vens stars on the FOX hit drama Empire.) he wants to mirror what mesmerized him “If the Syfy channel has stuff like about 1978’s Superman, mixing the ordiSharknado, certainly Submerge can get nary and the otherworldly. on there, considering it’s much better,” Witherspoon manages to make fantasStevens said with a chuckle. n
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The Longest Ride y The latest romance from Nicholas Sparks follows Luke (Scott Eastwood and, yes, he’s Clint’s boy), a former bull-rider champ trying to make a comeback after a terrible injury, and Sophia (Britt Robertson), a college student about to head for NYC and a great job in the art world. Enter Ira (Alan Alda), with a bang, and letters he wrote in the ‘40s, triggering flashbacks to the story of younger Ira (Jack Huston) and Ruth (Oona Chaplin). That’s a lot of love (with obligatory conflicts) and it’s hard to care about the flatly portrayed old couple or the contemporary ones either. Of course, this wasn’t made for me. Harmless fare. PG-13, in wide release
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Cereal Cinema: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) May 2, 10 a.m. The cereal bar opens at 9:30 a.m. for this family friendly screening. Indianapolis Museum of Art, included with admission ($18 adult), imamuseum.org National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem May 3, 11 a.m. Likely your first chance to see Tom Stoppard’s latest play, about a psychology researching puzzling over epistemological questions while dealing with tragedy at home. Keystone Art, landmarktheatres.com
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at a security guard trade convention in Vegas, which provides a few modestly amusing moments. The rest of the movie is basically a commercial for the Vegas resort where the movie was shot. I don’t want to be needlessly cruel, so I’ll just say this is a notably unfunny movie and leave it at that. R, in wide release True Story r Real-life buddies Jonah Hill and James Franco star in this curious drama about a former New York Times reporter (Hill) who learns that a man accused of killing his wife and children (Franco) had been using his name while on the lam. The whole identity theft thing turns out to be an icebreaker. The fugitive says he’s an admirer of the reporter’s work, and he agrees to tell all to the reporter if he’ll hold off publication until after the trial. The film is consistently interesting, but Hill and Franco’s jailhouse conversations lack tension. I wasn’t swept away, though, and given the actors and the situation, I thought I would be. R, in wide release Unfriended t Ingenious little thriller about a group of friends being stalked by ... something. The film isn’t particularly scary, but it’s interesting to watch because it all takes place on one girl’s computer screen, as she talks with several friends on their computers. An online lurker proves to be all too real and the kids start disappearing. I thought I’d get tired of the one shot gimmick, but the filmmakers do a nice job dragging you in. The details of the stalker are murky, but the film works. Except for the scary part. R, in wide release While We’re Young r Forty-something couple Josh and Cornelia (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts), tired of hearing about babies from their peers, befriend a twentysomething hipster couple, Jamie and Darby (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried). Josh is a documentary filmmaker and Jamie want to be one — what a coincidence. Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s (Frances Ha) story frets over motives more that is necessary, but it’s interesting to watch the goingson anyway, and the mix of comedy to drama is solid enough. Charles Grodin and Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz costar. R, in wide release Grateful Dead Meet-Up 2015 May 4, 7 p.m. This year’s Meet-Up features a recording of the band’s July 19, 1989 Alpine Valley show. Various theaters, $12.50, fathomevents.com Royal Ballet: La fille mal gardee May 5, 7 p.m. The return of a Royal Ballet chestnut, in the company’s repertoire since 1960. Various theaters, $18, fathomevents.com NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.29.15 - 05.06.15 // FILM 21
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It opened last week with an authentic Jewish wedding ceremony at the Central Library. This week, the 2nd annual Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival is coming to a close with prestigious guests and films that illustrate the complexity of Jewish culture and the human condition. Here are some reviews of the films playing over the next few days. The Jewish Cardinal e Playing Thursday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. Laurent Lucas commands the screen as a man who called himself “God’s mixed child” — Jewish priest, Jean-Marie Lustiger. The film follows him as he rises through the ranks of the Catholic Church in the early ’80s to become the Archbishop of Paris and eventually a cardinal, all while maintaining his Jewish heritage. “It’s as if the crucifix put on the yellow star,” he quips amid the controversy surrounding him. When Carmelite nuns build a convent at Auschwitz, where his mother was killed, Lustiger finds himself caught in conflict between the Christian and Jewish communities. Director Ilan Duran Cohen reveals the anger and uncertainty under the stately surface of the Catholic Church. And Lucas’s portrayal of Lustiger symbolizes the flawed, fiery humanity within the world of organized religion. Following the film, Father Rick Ginther and Rabbi Aaron Spiegel will lead a discussion about Vatican II, which sparked a dialogue between the Catholic Church, Jews and other religions. Christian Theological Seminary, $10 A Bottle in the Gaza Sea e Playing Sunday, May 3, 3 p.m. Exploring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of two teenagers, this film is a hopeful look at a harrowing issue. It’s also an engaging portrait of contemporary communication. Based on the young adult novel, the film follows Tal (Agathe Bonitzer), a French-born immigrant to Jerusalem struggling to understand the city’s state of explosive chaos. After surviving a cafe bombing, she sends a message in a bottle across the Gaza Sea, hoping it will land in the hands of one of the Palestinians responsible for such attacks. Tal hopes to reach the soul of her city’s enemy and see the humanity behind the destruction. Her note finds its way to Naim (Mahmoud Shalaby), an equally angst-ridden youth. The two then argue via email. Tal fumes about the constant fear in her home and Naim fires back about how the Israelis took his family’s away. Director Thierry Binisti stirs up suspense in this online correspondence, putting viewers on edge every time the two youths sit down at a computer. Bonitzer and Shalaby’s voices quiver with vulnerability as they narrate their characters’ emails. As they strive to find common ground in cyberspace, the film exposes the arduous nature of getting to know people in this digital world that makes them seem easily accessible. Hasten Hebrew Academy, $10 Arranged r Playing Sunday, May 3, 7:30 p.m. Like the other films in the festival, Arranged delivers its message with a delicate touch rather than a heavy hand. It moves with the same quiet dignity as its lead characters — devout Brooklyn schoolteachers, Rochel (Zoe Lister-Jones), an Orthodox Jew, and Nasira (Francis Benhamou), a Syrian-born Muslim. The women bond as their respective families instigate the rigid religious processes of marrying them off. Unfortunately, the story turns into yet another romantic journey in which women look for Mr. Right as though they are searching for the Holy Grail. The scenes with Rochel’s nebbish suitors are amusing, but the film is more engaging when it focuses on her connection with Nasira in the classroom. As the women grow closer despite the cultural gaps between them, they also stir the melting pot of their inner-city school. And the film emerges as a poignant, intimate look at the ageless search for universals in a world of difference. Hasten Hebrew Academy, $10 — BY SAM WATERMEIER
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bove and Beyond is a warm mix of history and adventure. It feels like a Spielberg film. But Steven isn’t behind this one. His sister Nancy produced the documentary about the Israeli Air Force, which combines intimate interviews and exhilarating aerial footage to tell the story of Jewish-American pilots who smuggled war planes from the U.S. and flew them in the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. Spielberg will present Above and Beyond at the Indiana History Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival. NUVO: How’d this project start? NANCY SPIELBERG: I had executive produced a film for PBS before this called Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals. After that, I really wasn’t looking for another film, but somebody sent me an email and said this should be your next film, and I get that a lot. I get that because
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either they want me to do something or they want me to give it to my brother to do. For some reason I stopped to read this one, and it was an obituary. And it was titled, “Father of the Israeli Air Force Dies at 94.” To my surprise, it went on to describe an American who was being credited with that, not an Israeli. That got me interested, and as I kept reading the obituary, it talked about how he bought World War II surplus planes and smuggled them out of the country against a U.S.-imposed embargo, how he recruited his buddies, how it was all very hush-hush and clandestine, except
SPIELBERG: Through the research, I did not know that they were distanced from their Jewishness. That didn’t come out in anything I read. It came out in interviews. I was surprised by the emotion they brought to the table. I did not expect them to talk about their mothers and cry about their fathers and wonder whether they were disappointing or hurting or frightening them. I think that was the power of having a largely female team filming them. I think that opened them up. A lot of the macho pilot swagger sort of fell to the wayside. NUVO: Like the other films in the Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival, Above and Beyond isn’t strictly about Jewish history — it’s a timeless, universal story
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of courage and compassion. SPIELBERG: I really wanted to portray an American story, part of the American spirit. It’s partly about our service in World War II. We liberated the camps, we helped these poor people, but then many of them were walking into another potential genocide when they were coming into Israel. And we tried to help. That’s also part of the Jewish spirit — helping other people. Now, when there is a lot of anti-Semitism throughout the world, I think it’s important that we get a medicinal dose of Jewish pride. NUVO: What are you looking forward to about the Indianapolis screening? SPIELBERG: I feel like I’m on a college road trip. You know how everybody goes cross-country then? Well, I never went. So I’m getting to see America. I love connecting with audiences all over. Jewish or not, they lift me up. n
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... WITH EMILIJA GRINVALDS The process of homebrewing, like life, is full of lessons to be learned. Sometimes, you try to brew a stout only to end up with something that tastes like soy sauce. Sometimes, life hands you challenges that don’t require fine-tuning your sugar and require the wisdom distilled from taste-testing 100 batches of beer. Either way, brewers tend to be fountains of many-faceted knowledge, so every week, you can send your brewing, love, or cosmic queries and have them answered by the finest minds in Indiana brewing. This week, we’re asking all your brewing and non-brewing queries to New Day Meadery’s head of brewing and operations, Emilija Grinvalds. Not only does she run the day-to-day operations at New Day’s Fountain Square headquarters, but she’s also an accomplished ballerina and traditional Latvian dancer. Girl’s got layers. Question: Can I nitro-tap my mead? Always wanted to know if it would taste like old champagne. EMILIJA GRINVALDS: Yes, it is possible. Honestly though, I’ve never done it because we can hardly keep up with the demand for our carbonated mead styles. I like using carbon dioxide because the bit of carbonation helps to offset the sweetness from the fruit and honey. I imagine our darker styles of mead, such as Breakfast Magpie, would work well with nitro — it would be less fizzy, but the nitrogen might give the black raspberries and espresso a creamier, rounder texture. Sounds like a good experiment! Question: I recently switched from a creative job to a regular 9-5 with less action. How do I keep myself feeling alive? GRINVALDS: Well, if you don’t have a cat already, you should adopt one (or two) from the FACE Low-Cost Spay/Neuter clinic on the near-east side. Trust me, I have three cats and they never cease to provide hours of free entertainment and snuggles. After you’ve done that, I would suggest getting involved with some form of gardening. Whether it’s planting heirloom tomatoes in your own yard, or volunteering on a local urban farm, gardening is amazing medicine. There’s something greatly satisfying about starting and transplanting seedlings and watching them grow week by week. It reminds you that you are a part of something much greater and powerful: nature.
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or as long as I have memories, my family has been spending our vacations on the Gulf Coast, per John Mellencamp’s direction in “Little Pink Houses.” In fact, it’s hard to swing a dead cat on the Emerald Coast as it’s known and not whack a Midwesterner. The blend of Deep South culture and Midwestern friendliness makes Destin, Florida one of the happiest places on earth (suck on it, Mickey). More importantly, it’s home to one of the most productive fishing industries in the U.S., and restaurants all up and down the coast offer a massive variety of fresh-caught gulf seafood. Known as the “Luckiest Fishing Village in the World,” both seafood lovers like me as well as sport fishermen flock to its harbor to get their fill of amberjack, mahi-mahi, grouper and fat gulf shrimp. Let me assure you that these selections are merely distractions from the real prize: Apalachicola oysters and Royal Red shrimp. Since the Gulf Coast is such a second home for so many midwesterners, it’s time I finally stopped hoarding this secret. Not so much about the oysters, widely regarded as the benchmark for Southern oyster lovers for both flavor and texture, but for the deep-ocean red gold known as the Royal Red shrimp. Royal Reds are fished from the deep ocean, so getting them to shore involves a much lengthier trip for the fishermen. The bright pink shrimp that cook to a vibrant ruby are not size-graded like the rest of the shrimp, as folks line up to get them by the pound, no matter the size. Order a plate of them steamed at a restaurant, and you’ll be picking the shells off of 1-inch pipsqueaks all the way up to palmlength monster shrimp. What sets them apart is their unimaginably sweet, delicate flavor and texture. They are, for all intents and purposes, lobsters in shrimp form. To eat them with anything other than drawn butter would be completely criminal. Even better, try to find them head-on, and use the opportunity to realize that brains, which are usually composed of cholesterol, are delicious across all animal species (and try not to read that
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When you have fresh-off-the-docks shrimp in hand, the last thing you want to do is overcook it into a rubbery disaster. Instead, bring your cooking liquid up to a roiling boil, then turn the heat off, drop your shrimp in, and wait — do not walk away — for them to turn opaque and curl just into a C-shape. If your shrimp are circular, tight O’s you have overcooked your shrimp and you need to take a minute and think about your choices. in Hannibal Lecter’s voice). They’re seasonally available due to the fact that ships can’t get out the 40 to 60 mile offshore depths in stormier weather. And as storms become more violent thanks to the climate change that no one in Florida’s government is allowed to acknowledge or talk about, the availability of these little edible rubies becomes even more sporadic. When you buy locally-caught shrimp, you can rest assured knowing that you’re not adding any more dollars to the corrupt, largely slavery-based Thai shrimp market. Just down the coast from Destin is the Apalachicola Bay, world-famous for its exceptional oysters, and becoming famous for its impending (possible) ecological disaster. As climate change has created droughts in the areas that feed the rivers which empty into the Apalachicola, the water salination has increased, stunting the once-prolific growth of the bay’s oysters. Just last fall, a possible shutdown was discussed, similar to previous shutdowns
of the oyster industry that have followed particularly destructive hurricanes. The idea is to close off fishing for a while until the population recovers — except no amount of “rest” the bay receives, it won’t stop the devastating effects of increasing salinization. So while the Royal Reds will likely be available in the coming years, the famous Apalachicola oyster, best eaten raw, is looking at an uncertain future unless a solution to their solution issue is found. If you’re one of the thousands of midwesterners planning to spend time in this part of the country anytime soon, I’d encourage you to head out to a locally-owned oyster bar and get some while you can. And if you see them on the menu, get the Royal Reds, for no other reason than “because you can.” n Gulf Coast restaurants serve Royal Reds with new potatoes, corn and butter. PHOTO BY SARAH MURRELL
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We’re back with another recipe from Sonja and Alex Overhiser, the creative minds behind the local blog A Couple Cooks (acouplecooks.com). They specialize in preparing easy, whole food recipes that go light on the meat and heavy on the greens, and they’re helping us build up a formidable collection of meat-free recipes for our readers. This is another great spring salad that’s easy to throw together for a brunch side to accompany a slice of quiche, bring to a spring potluck, or toss together for an easy weeknight dinner. You can pump up the protein with this recipe by adding cooked beans or cheese, suggests Sonja, and turn it into a complete Meatless Monday dinner or lunch. And while my NUVO co-workers may roll their eyes at my excessive, hipstery jar consumption, those trendy little jars make for a convenient container for both mixing and storing your homemade dressings. Not only should you reach for homemade dressings for flavor reasons, but also because processed, shelfstable salad dressings are often filled with sugar and unhealthy fats.
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I have heard of green burial for humans. Are there any green burial options in Indiana for our pets? Our dog has had a wonderful and long life. Now that it is coming to an end, I would really like to allow his body to return to the soil and nourish the next cycle of life. — THANKS,BIG FAN
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My sincere condolences during this time of saying goodbye. I do have a few suggestions for aftercare for your best friend that are more eco-friendly than others. In researching this topic, I learned about Pet Rest, a beautiful crematory and garden cemetery for pets in Ossian, Indiana. They offer individual cremation, burial and a new option called aquamation. To simplify, aquamation is a process that reduces an animal’s body using water, alkalinity and temperature, resulting in a water by-product that Pet Rest uses to fertilize their beautiful memorial gardens and bones that can be returned to you or buried. There are no air emissions in this process, making it the greenest that I’ve found. Their web site includes a list of veterinarians (petrestinc.com) that can assist you in using their services — or they are happy to work directly with your vet. If you choose cremation, you may be interested in a memorial tree urn or bio urn that can turn your dog’s ashes into a memorial tree. Lots of love to you and your pup, — RENEE
Learning Curve Last week I received a letter from “Anonymous,” which read in part:
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My daughter is a freshman at Carmel High School and brought home the school publication called the Hilite. On the cover of the February 20, 2015 issue was the phrase “Green vs. gasoline.” I was curious and read the article. In the article, I was surprised and saddened to learn that there is no recycling program there. — ANONYMOUS
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Dear “Anonymous” mother of a CHS freshman, I am pleased to report that Carmel High School is actually recycling. Thanks to the passionate volunteers of the Carmel Clay Schools (CCS) Green Team, I have an update on my School of Recycling piece in last week’s NUVO. Since writing my first piece, I have been able to track down and read the “Fueling Our Fears” article in the Green vs. Gasoline issue of Hilite (page 27), which wasn’t about
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recycling at all; rather, it was a close look at how low gas prices affect the environment (don’t get me started!). Two-thirds of the way through the article there is an incorrect quote stating that the recycling program at the school is “basically nonexistent.” Then I fueled the controversy by citing even more misinformation that the school only recycles paper. Like the old proverb says: two wrongs don’t make a right. In fact, Carmel High School has been given the designation of U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School — one of two in Indiana. According to their application, they have a 31.8 percent waste reduction rate (much higher than the 10 percent mentioned in the article). And according to a representative of the CCS Green Team, CHS engages in many different recycling activities, including mixed bins in the cafeteria for both food prep and eating areas, hallway bins and classroom bins (at the discretion of the teacher). Last month students had a contest between grade levels to see who could recycle the most milk cartons with their recycling provider, Ray’s. The Green Team is the first to admit that there is plenty of room for improvement, which is the motivation to increase recycling in the 2015-16 school year. My apologies to the hardworking volunteers of the CCS Green Team for not asking the right people the right questions. More importantly though, I hope this inspires more parents and students to get involved in the green initiatives happening in their own schools and communities. • J oin the parent/student green team (or start one!). • Organize a recycling drive at school (ask me if you need tips on how to do this!). • Pack a zero-waste lunch. • Use paper products that are made from 100 percent PCW. • Apply for the Student Recycling Leadership Corps. • Contact The Can Lady (find her on Facebook) about recycling in your IPS school. — PIECE OUT, RENEE SIGN UP for the AskRenee Newsletter at indianalivinggreen.com.
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hether they’re working on a new track or simply driving around town together, the members of New Wave Collective are constantly freestyling rhymes, just out of an utter love for hip-hop. And in holding tight to this off-the-cuff style, the group has also managed to create a sound that they believe is 100 percent their own. “It’s genuine. It’s all from our soul,” explains Fre$co. “Everything is us, and that’s a big part of New Wave as a whole.” Fre$co (or Courtland Tunstill) and Don Chambers (or Brandon Webster) linked up in 2013 through a friend. From here, the two went on to record The Urrday Tape (which they now refer to as the first project from New Wave), eventually welcoming J. Ice, C-Mac and Jordan ReUp to their crew too. “We all met up based off of the love for the music, and over time we’ve grown as brothers and love each other,” Chambers says. “I feel like that plays a real important part in the process of the music [making]. Whenever you collab, the music sounds forced if it’s just business. But when you know the people and you’ve got genuine love for’em and all of you love being in the studio, it just comes out naturally. Y’all are just having fun.” Since those early days, various members of the group have churned out releases, including, most recently, Fre$co and J. Ice’s Soul Food. Appropriately released on Thanksgiving 2014, the cohesive collection of 16 tracks (including two bonus numbers) showcases New Wave’s unique approach to hip-hop. “When you hear Soul Food, you might think it’s going to be super soulful,” he explains. “We wanted it to be something that was that way, but that was also coming from a different angle too.” They've come a long way in terms of studio work, and New Wave Collective’s most recent appearance as a featured act at the J. Brookinz Tag Team Battle speaks volumes of their growth as a live act over the past year as well — especially considering they started out performing alongside poets at much more subdued open mic events. With their first-ever live appearances at monthly Localmotion gatherings, the group simply performed at any
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place around the city that would let them at the beginning. Soon enough though, some of Indy’s better-known emcees started catching wind of the waves they were creating at these intimate events. They cite their August 2014 appearance at The Hi-Fi’s Skydive event as a turning point in their fairly young career. On a bill with the likes of Sirius Blvck, Pope Adrian Bless, John Stamps, Maxie and many more, they finally felt that they were given the chance to shine on a bigger stage, says J. Ice. “We felt like that was the opportunity we needed,” he says. “We just felt like these were people that were at a higher level, so now we had a chance to compete and show that we were right there.”
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For that event, they point to Indy musician Diop (who invited them to perform the Skydive event in the first place). “He showed us the most support in what we were trying to do because he opened the avenue for us a little bit,” Chambers says. “And, he had already been established for a minute, so his connections soon became our connections.” Now working as New Wave’s videographer, Diop can reflect on the potential impact he sees the up-and-coming collective having on the city. “I think they're great for the Indy hiphop community because they represent a flavor and aura as a collective that had not previously been presented,” he says. “In some ways, they filled a void.” There's more releases, gigs and videos on the horizon for New Wave. “It feels like 2015 is really going to be the breakout year for the city,” Chambers says. “We’ve put in the groundwork, and we’re still grinding. But as a whole, the city’s got some jewels that are ready to be discovered, and I feel like this is going to be the breakout year. And then from here, Indianapolis is going to be on the map.” n
“I think they’re great for the Indy hip-hop community because they represent a flavor and aura as a collective that had not previously been presented.” — DIOP, ON NEW WAVE
“Joe Henderson would be 78 today,” Rob Dixon told us. “We’ve assembled this special band because we love the music and spirit of Joe Henderson.” That love transported us into the enduring compositions of one of the leading jazz tenor saxophonists, whose influence and following continues to grow since his death in 2001. Henderson’s sextet featured two trombonists, bass, piano and drums along with his tenor saxophone. April 24 at the Jazz Kitchen, Rob Dixon as leader of the Indy Jazz Fest Tribute Band partnered with Sophie Faught featuring arrangements for dual tenor saxophones with bassist Nick Tucker, drummer Kenny Phelps and pianist Steven Jones. They provided an evening to remember — the sort of ambience Henderson himself created where understatement makes a PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS strong statement. Opening with “The Kicker,” Henderson’s first release with the Milestone label in 1967, the upbeat rendition reflects the changing jazz scene from the early 1960s and the transition from bop into the ‘fusion-esque’ seventies. With Dixon and Faught in unison, the song takes shape and opens itself for personal takes on the tune and where it can go and how it can return — setting us up for the evening’s format for everyone on stage to deliver a soliloquy along with playing in unison. You get a full range of statements from music that was at the cusp of reflecting social consciousness. “Recorda-me” is a Henderson standard — his benchmark “Remember Me” first released in 1963 on Henderson’s debut Page One Blue Note album. Phelps introduced the lead-in Latin beat to perfection; Jones strolled into the melody, Tucker fleshed it out and Dixon and Faught responded to the call. Seamlessly, the band was cooking and we were lapping it up, moving in our seats and floating into some extraterrestrial sphere. Dixon introduced “Serenity” on the In ‘n Out 1964 Blue Note label as “a favorite for Sophie.” Switching to soprano saxophone, Dixon stepped aside for Faught on tenor to begin transporting the band and us into the “particulars” of life. Dixon, underscoring the essentials of compositional imagery, shared influences on his childhood. “Inner Urge,” which came out in 1965 is a sound pictorial of what it felt like for Henderson to make his way in New York City. Jones owned this statement at the piano with the others abetting the personal anger and frustration within the din. It’s really every player’s “Big Apple” biography. Dixon makes every program he leads special with his personalized stories — sharing what makes each piece important to him and fellow players. He’s upfront and caring about connecting — not merely into playing splendidly. — RITA KOHN
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ust after Thanksgiving, 1965 — almost 50 years ago — Arlo Guthrie, son of folk legend Woody Guthrie, was busted for illegal dumping in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His arrest and conviction — which made him ineligible to be drafted for the Vietnam War — inspired a story-song called “Alice’s Restaurant” that occupied the whole first side of his 1967 debut record. The song, played in its entirety, became a Thanksgiving staple on radio stations across the country, which was (and still is) pretty unusual for a pop tune whose running time stretches beyond the 18-minute mark. The song became a film directed by Arthur Penn in 1969. To celebrate a half-century of “Alice,” Guthrie’s touring and performing his signature rag (something that’s happened with less frequency over the decades). The current show also includes the backstory behind another Guthrie classic “City of New Orleans” and the tale behind his appearance at Woodstock, when Arlo uttered that famous line, “The New York State Thruway is CLOSED, man!” NUVO interviewed Arlo via email in advance of his show at the Egyptian Room at Old National on May 1.
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doesn’t use records anymore so I have to believe it’s something in the nature of story telling that people still enjoy, especially on holidays. NUVO: You had a story, you had a chorus, you had a guitar rag — I’m interested in the creative process, the spark that inspired you to mash these things together. GUTHRIE: First I had the time to sit around the kitchen table with friends. After dinner we got to joke about the day's events and I began turning them into a little song — making up silly words to a guitar riff. Then over a period of about a year I added other more absurd events as they unfolded until finally it became a piece.
NUVO: I know I’m not alone when I say this: “Alice’s Restaurant” was a Thanksgiving Day tradition in my home as a kid. My dad would put on the vinyl and we’d listen right after dinner. (For a time, I really remember that hearing that song meant Santa would be coming soon, of all things. But I was four when the song was released, so there’s that.) Did it surprise you that an anti-war ditty became part of mainstream culture — moreover, mainstream holiday culture? Why do you think it stuck? ARLO GUTHRIE: No one has been more surprised than me to see the song become associated with the Thanksgiving holiday. Originally, when radio still used vinyl, I figured it got played so DJs could get a 20 minute break. But radio
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NUVO: Did you get any push-back from the label for including an 18-plus-minute song on your first album? Or was the song what got you the record? GUTHRIE: I was a kid — 18 years old when I began writing “Alice’s Restaurant.” I was playing in small coffeehouses and clubs after graduating from high school earlier that spring [1965]. My memory may be a little off, but I went to the Newport Folk Festival during the summer of 1967 (I just went as another kid with a guitar, not a performer). But, sometime during the three-day festival the organizers heard me play it on a small “free stage” out in the middle of a field. Judging by the reaction of the crowd that afternoon they added me to the main stage and had me close the event. It was immediately after that I was signed to Warner Brothers Records. NUVO: I can close my eyes and remember the liner notes — the Newport Festival review, lifted right from a newspaper. When did you know the thing was going to be as big as it became? GUTHRIE: I never saw it coming. NUVO: I know it was a vastly different time, but: how do feel when you hear
yourself using the word “faggots” on record in “Alice?” GUTHRIE: I think most people cut me some slack on that even today. Words mean something and I was too young to know what it was like to be walking in someone else’s shoes. I chalk it up to one more thing, out of hundreds, I had to learn in order to be more compassionate, aware and kind.
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tempo than the way he did it. Now, 45 years later it ends up the way Goodman originally performed it. NUVO: How strange was it to shoot the Arthur Penn film? I’d imagine it was especially difficult reliving Woody’s later days as you do in the movie. (NOTE: Woody Guthrie suffed from Huntington’s disease.)
NUVO: I seem to remember you playing “Alice” on the Car Talk show with Click and Clack (Tom and Ray) on NPR. It seemed speeded up — I imagine that happens when you perform the same tune so many times. Do you have something of a love-hate relationship with your signature work? (Many artists find it a little much to sing the same song over and over — especially when it’s almost 20 minutes long.)
GUTHRIE: The problem with making the movie for me was simple: The song was just under 20 minutes long. Movies have to be an hour and a half. So Arthur Penn essentially had to make up 80 minutes of stuff. Even my own kids had a hard time knowing the difference between what was “real” and what was fiction. I told them “Don’t believe the stuff in the movie. Only the song is true.”
GUTHRIE: I loved working with those guys. Interestingly enough, even though I only perform it now on tours once every decade, it’s clocking in within a few seconds of the original recording. But there are other songs that have changed from repetition, like “City of New Orleans.” I first heard it from Steve Goodman (who wrote it), and my recording of it was much slower in
NUVO: How did Woody feel about your work, specifically your signature song? Was he cognizant of your success as his disease progressed? GUTHRIE: My father’s friend and manager, Harold Leventhal took the test pressing of the record to the hospital and played it for him. When I asked Harold what his reaction was he simply said ‘He laughed.’
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My dad passed away a couple of weeks later, before the record was released. NUVO: How would you describe your personal political leanings today? GUTHRIE: Upright. NUVO: Finally, I’m wondering how Woody would’ve reacted to the current political climate. I imagine he’d feel just as relevant today. I know it’s wild speculation, but what do you think he’d say or sing to us here in 2015? GUTHRIE: There’s no guessing on my part. His stance on things was not generally tied to political climates but to human conditions. Are people still struggling for equal rights, fair pay and a living wage, the right to organize and a place to raise a family without fear? His spirit will endure for as long as it takes to fix what’s wrong and make it better. He didn’t look for problems but he’d refuse to look the other way when they were in plain sight. Likewise, I have not backed off when confronted by conditions I think could be made better, more fair, just and right. I am not looking for trouble, but I’m not going out of my way to avoid it either. This is a good family to be a part of these days. n
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few years ago, Danicia Monét was frustrated by the lack of opportunities and resources for emerging artists in Indianapolis. So she did something about it: developing music and arts festival UPRSNG to provide a platform for new voices in Indy's creative community. It's become one of my favorite events in the city. The carefully curated selection of musical performers spotlights some of the freshest sounds bubbling up here. The next event is Friday, May 9 at The Hall. In addition to the tightly packed line up of musicians, visual artists and vendors, this year's edition of UPRSNG also features the awarding of a grant. Here's a bit from a recent conversation with Monét about the development of this new grant opportunity.
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NUVO: I was at the first UPRSNG in 2013 and I really liked the format of the event. The performers aren't doing full sets, they're doing two or three of their best pieces and then it's on to the next act.
A CULTURAL MANIFESTO WITH KYLE LONG KLONG@NUVO.NET Kyle Long’s music, which features off-the-radar rhythms from around the world, has brought an international flavor to the local dance music scene.
corded, you don't have to have Youtube videos, or thousands of followers on social media to perform with us. NUVO: Was this sort of platform for emerging artists something you saw missing from the scene in Indy?
MONÉT: I did see it missing. I am an artist. I was a practicing artist when I moved back to Indianapolis after college and it was hard for me to get an exhibition, or to meet other artists and find my scene here. I think I went through that for about five to six years struggling to figure it out. UPRSNG was born out of a “If you perform with passion, personal need. It was hard to meet people, it was hard to find a space, that’s what we’re looking for.” and it was hard to get funding. This third edition of UPRSNG — DANICIA MONÉT is really special because we are offering a grant. It's called the UP UP & AWAY grant, and it's a no DANICIA MONÉT: UPRSNG is meant to be a completely interactive event. When you strings attached grant. If you have an awego to a museum or a play you can't touch some idea, submit it and the committee will review it. If your idea is selected we give anything. We pride ourselves on making you a portion of the proceeds from the the event as interactive as possible. We night to help bring your idea to fruition. want you to be able to touch and interact In accordance with the grant, we also offer with everything, including the artists. you help and support with your idea for We want to give the public a sampling of all these wonderful and talented artists who the rest of the year. are either new on the scene or haven't had NUVO: Stylistically UPRSNG covers a enough publicity on the scene. So we’re giv- lot of ground. In terms of genre what's ing you a sampler platter with the vendors, your approach to curating the music? merchants, and performers from a wide variety of mediums and backgrounds. MONÉT: We just hope to present wonderful stories. There's no one style that we're going NUVO: Why did you feel it was imporafter. If you perform with passion, that's tant to make UPRSNG a platform for what we're looking for. Even if you mess up emerging artists? What do you look for a few times the audience is very forgiving. in the artists you choose to feature? This may be the perfect platform for you to stumble a little on the guitar, or do the MONÉT: We feature these artists because they exist. The richness of an artistic scene wrong slap on your djembe drum. It's all about learning and continuing to try. n is built by including everyone in the process. There are some wonderful festivals and art fairs taking place in Indianapolis. >> Kyle Long hosts a show on But sometimes certain kinds of artists get WFYI’s HD-2 channel on left out. We're trying to fill that void. Wednesdays and Saturdays You don't have to have anything re-
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First Avenue Folk Series: Connor Garvey, Luke Austin Daughtery, The Warehouse, all-ages Skeleton Men, Follies, Linear Downfall, On The Cinder, Crush Grove (Bloomington), all-ages Indystry Wednesdays, Revel, 21+ Way Back Wednesdays, Latitude 360, 21+ BUHU, Hex Mundi, Crescent Ulmer, Melody Inn, 21+ Kiefer Jones, Union 50, 21+ Plateau Below, Local Surfing, Cancuners, The Strawberryes, Rachael’s Cafe (Bloomington), all-ages A Show of Hats: An Evening of Music and Storytelling, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre (Bloomington), all-ages The Big Time, An Honest Year, The Resolution, Emerson Theater, all-ages Lab 54 Big Band, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
Avenue. Following the conversation Monika Herzig will receive the Jazz Journalist Association Jazz Hero Award and then lead an open jazz jam.
Happy Hour 6:30 p.m. Sure, it’s great when the ISO books special guests like Joshua Radin or Tony Styxx to play alongside string trio Time for Three at Happy Hour shows. But sometimes we’re happy to take it straight. This is one of those times. There’s a dash of very new and very old on the setlist; pieces from Calvin Harris, Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, The Who, Mozart and Beethoven will make appearances.
FUNDRAISERS Sir Bob Geldof 6:30 p.m. Geldof gives the keynote at Ivy Tech’s 12th annual O’Bannon Institute Fundraising Dinner; all proceeds benefit the Ivy Tech- Bloomington Center for Civic Engagement. Bloomington Monroe County Convention Center, 302 S. College Ave. (Bloomington), $100, all-ages HIP-HOP Ares, Diop, New Wave, Ejazz, Sirius Blvck, Drayco McCoy 9 p.m. We’v got a profile of New Wave on page 27.
Hilbert Circle Theatre, 45 Monument Circle, $25 in advance, $30, all-ages
White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $5, 21+
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International Jazz Day in 3D 6:30 p.m. It’s a star-studded night at Topo’s. Bloomington is celebrating Jazz Day 2015 with a conversation between David Baker, a legend among the jazz community, and Indianapolis jazz music author David Williams, who wrote Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana
Highlife 9 p.m. This wild African dance party goes down in two movements, bookended by DJ Kyle Long. You may even get to taste the titular sweet poison (Ghanian root alcohol, if you’re curious).
IndieU Showcase 9 p.m. This IndieU Showcase features Rachel Waite, Sweater Disco, Eli (REN) and The Alamo Freeze. “In this day and age it is so easy to put your music out on social media and music websites, but it’s also really easy to get lost amongst everyone else that’s trying to do the same thing you are,” Waite says. “Having the guidance and support of IndieU has definitely helped by lending me an extra hand to help support and showcase my music.””The chance to be able to show off your music live to possible fans is invaluable,” says Michael McReynolds, a first-year student at IU who performs as Sweater Disco. “The showcase coming up at The Bishop will hopefully put Sweater Disco on the Bloomington map a bit more.” The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St., (Bloomington), $5, 21+ METAL Jucifer 8 p.m. Sludge metal goddess (Gazelle Amber Valentine) and god (Edgar Livengood) play with Deviance, Death Collector and Bloodwake. No surprise Jucifer is back in Indy already – they live in an RV and tour at all times. That RV must be big to fit all the amps they haul in to every show – a literal wall. 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., 21+ Delta Rae, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Forced into Feminity, Some Pepper, Dawn Raid, Hen, Copy Culture, General Public Collective, all-ages Animal Haus, Buck Rodger, Cool Hand Lex, Blu Lounge, 21+ Ol’ Dirty Bryce, Martin Soul Funk Dance Party, Serendpity Martini Bar (Bloomington), 21+ Max Allen Duo, Union 50, 21+
The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, FREE, 21+
DJ Surfwaco, The Back Door (Bloomington), 21+ Heavy Sole, Tin Roof, 21+
Chase Huglin EP Reease Show with My Sweet Fall, Joseph Micucci, The Red Streak, Alex Farley, Uglifriend, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Jan Aldridge, Chef Joseph’s at The Connoisseur Room, all-ages
FRIDAY PUNK 5th Quarter One-Year Anniversary Show 8 p.m. A hearty anniversary to punk and metal hangout 5th Quarter Lounge (formerly Indy’s Jukebox). They’re celebrating with a show featuring Stonecutters, Catalytic, Stone on the Nile and Soulsik. 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., 21+ LEGENDS Arlo Guthrie 8 p.m. Don’t miss our full interview with Arlo on page 28. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $35-$65, all-ages COUNTRY Vince Gill 8 p.m. Country star Vince Gill (we like to refer to him as Mr. Amy Grant) is touring Bakersfield, a joint album with steel guitar player Paul Franklin. The album is a tribute to Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. It’s two masters playing tribute to two masters. Fully a quartet of masters, here! Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr. (Carmel), varies, all-ages
POP Mike Adams At His Honest Weight, Metavari, Wet Blankets 7 p.m. First Friday brings north and south bands central for a free, all-ages show. Mike Adams is on a live show roll as of late; Metavari, on the other hand, rarely plays out. Wet Blankets splits the difference. Joyful Noise Recordings, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 208, FREE, all-ages DJ Rican, Subterra, 21+ Night Moves with Action Jackson and DJ Megatone, Metro, 21+ WTFridays with DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon , Social, 21+ Wedding Dress, HunterChild, Cool Ranch, The Back Door (Bloomington), 21+ All The Little Pieces, Union 50, 21+ Zanna Doo, The Rathskeller, 21+ Atom Heart Mother, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Cereus Bright, Ne-Hi, The HI-Fi, 21+ Exmag, Marvel Years, M!NT, The Vogue, 21+ The Failers, Books and Brews, all-ages Funkyjunk, Flatwater Restaurant, all-ages The Dugan Brothers, Chilly Water Brewing Co., 21+ David Alan Coe, 8 Seconds Saloon, 21+
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Roddy Radiation 9 p.m. Headliner Roddy Radiation held it down as lead guitarist for British ska masters The Specials; he’s touring with another ska band, The Scotch Bonnets. Ska meets ska revival at this Mel show.
Aaron Kamm and The One Drops, Spread, The Mousetrap, 21+
Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St., $10, 21+
Posi Palooza Diva Fest Concert 7 p.m. That’s “posi” as in “posi-tive” as in uplifting. This fest brings together the most uplifiting of the uplifting – Posi Award-winning artists (in the case of Diva Fest, all ladies). Jana Standfield, Faith Rivera, and Sue Riley are booked.“
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Mars of The Moon, Fuzzy Bunny Fish Fry, Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 21+ 3:1 Band, Shoefly Public House, all-ages
Pure Eatery, 1043 Virginia Ave., FREE, all-ages
Archarus, We Killed The Lion, God Am, Melody Inn, 21+
Party Hard: Rock-N-Soul Dance Party 9 p.m. Peep Barfly in the corner for more info about this booty-shaking show. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $7, 21+
Deckademics First Fridays 10 p.m. If you came out to our 25th Anniversary party, you may have seen some of the Deckademics students working their techniques. Now, they’ll anchor a brand new First Friday event at Pure. You’ll see some of these students at their first show in public ever.
Tens, Mom’s Weekend, Mr. Hipster, The Carpenter and The Cler, FARMbloomington’s Root Cellar (Bloomington), 21+
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Pre-Punk Rock Night Early show w/ DON PEDIGO and SEAN MICHAEL JENNINGS. Doors @ 7 p.m., show @ 7:30 p.m. $5. PUNK ROCK NIGHT welcomes back WE ARE HEX w/ OBNOX (Cleveland) and THE TIMMYS (Chicago). Doors @ 9 p.m., show @ 10 p.m. $6.
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TRIBUTES The Fab Four 8 p.m. The live show schedule has been covered in tribute shows lately, and each of them claims to be the best, the most authentic, the coolest. The Fab Four is carried by their high concept, costumechanging live show, hosted by “Ed Sullivan” with promises of an “uncanny, note-for-note” performance. And with a booking as big as the Palladium, you’ve kind of got to believe them. Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, 355 City Center Dr. (Carmel), price varies, 21+ LOCALS Gypsy Moonshine, SM Wolf 6 p.m. Musical Family Tree returns with monthly free, all-ages shows at Indy CD and Vinyl, this time featuring a pop folk combo of two locals, Gypsy Moonshine and SM Wolf. Indy CD and Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave., FREE, all-ages WEIRD
couples classic covers featuring Unknown’s impeccable fretwork with novelty original tunes that fall somewhere between demented rockabilly and ‘60s-era ChetAtkins-produced tearjerkers. Hinson’s fans include some pretty famous folks — Hank Williams III even has Hinson’s mutton-chopped mug inked on one bicep, and Unknown’s opened for alt-country and psychobilly acts like Reverend Horton Heat when he’s not headlining smaller rooms. Hinson’s pompadour, fangs, pistol and jet-black suit make for a pretty campy comic presence onstage, but when Unknown starts soloing, the joke’s over: this “hillbilly vampire” can keep pace with the best pickers in the business. He’s also the voice of Early Cuyler in the animated show The Squidbillies on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, and Reverend Guitars has issued a signature-model axe commissioned by Hinson, complete with vampire-bat fret markers and a silhouette of Hinson’s hairdo on the headstock. (You can buy another version of the instrument without the graphics: it’s called the “Stu D. Baker.” Get it?) Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st St., $20 in advance, $25 at door, 21+
Unknown Hinson 8 p.m. Hinson first gained notoriety for his guitarpickin’ creepshow act on public access TV in the Southeast. He began touring in the early 1990s, insisting that he’d been locked up for various crimes and wanted to reclaim his stature as the man who taught everybody from Elvis to the Beatles how to play. His set list 32 MUSIC // 04.29.15 - 05.06.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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METAL Bizarre Noir’s Crazy Birthday Bash 8:30 p.m. It’s a big week for 5th Quarter Lounge, including this wacky birthday party featuring musicians, sideshow acts, tarot readers, burlesque and magicians. Bizarre Noir and Angel
Burlesque headline, along with Dwarf Among Midgets, Tinderbox Circus Sideshow, The Mystical Tarot of Maggie Missile, and Obtuse the Magician. There’s even a portion of the evening devoted to visual art, including exhibits by local artists and photographers. 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St., $10, 21+ Stolen Face (Grateful Dead Tribute), Hyryder, Fareed Haque, Vogue, 21+ Suited-Up Saturdays, Cadillac Ranch/Bartini’s, 21+ Nailed It, Blu, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+ We Are Hex, Obnox, The Timmys, Melody Inn, 21+ Hairbanger’s Ball, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Post War Era, Pravada, Digital Dots, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Joe The Show, Tin Roof, 21+ Logan Mize, Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, 21+ Indyca, Union 50, 21+ Smooth Jazz and Poetry Nights, Gospel After5, 21+ High School Battle of the Bands, Hoosier Dome, all-ages BleedingKeys, Shiny Penny, Audiodacity, Radio Radio, 21+ African American Choral Ensemble Spring Concert, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, all-ages IMAGINE: The Life and Times of John Lennon, Marian University, all-ages Jason Brown and The Higher Ground, The Rathskeller, 21+
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3 p.m. The life and music of Spirtles’ member Rickey Freeman will be celebrated at this afternoon show. His bandmates will kick off the evening with an acoustic set and close with an electric set; in between, musicians who feel compelled can get up and play a few songs. 3:1, Melodious Thonk and Greg Ziesemer are already slated to play. We have more about this event on NUVO.net.
Crazy Eyes, Slow Coin, Crescent Ulmer, Stone Irr, Cush Grove (Bloomington), all-ages
Irving Theater, 5505 E. Washington St., FREE, all-ages Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ Dynamite!, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ The Savvy Album Release Party, Plateau Below, Evan Slusher, The Hi-Fi, 21+ City of Sun, The Bad Jackets, Melody Inn, 21+ Fendrick & Peck, North Meadow Cicle of Friends, 21+ The Sax Guy, Union 50, 21+ The Word Alive, Chelsea Grim, Emerson Theater, 21+
MONDAY Industry Mondays, Red Room, 21+ Water Liars, The Hi-Fi, 21+
Linda McRae, Player’s Pub (Bloomington), 21+ The Space Lady, Thee Open Sex, Magnetic South (Bloomington), 21+
TUESDAY POP The Wombats 7:30 p.m. The Wombats’ latest effort Glitterbug is an album with a polarity of place. Half rainy Liverpool, half sunny Los Angeles, it’s a study in pop contrast: dark lyrics, sunny synths, spread out over their third LP. Except for a ballad, “Isabel,” the center of the album, and according to singer Matthew Murphy, his favorite track on the whole release. In an interview last week, he said: “[‘Isabel’] is the first song that I wrote for the album; I wrote it after a fairly big bender in Vegas. Then I was in Los Angeles, and it had a different title at the time. We recorded it, trying to make it this huge ballad, and it just wasn’t working. So we tried different approaches. I always, at the core, loved the song. It was the last song we recorded for the album. We tried this weird, kind
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of Alt-J version … [Last] I was just like, ‘I’m going to play the chords on the keyboard into the computer, and then I’m going to sing over the top of it, and we’re just going to build around it.’ That approach was a nice way of working, because we started from nothing, as opposed to all the other tracks, we started for everything and then it was a battle to take stuff out. … ‘Isabel’ is the song on the album that encapsulates how the entire album is supposed to sound.” We have a full Q&A with Murphy on NUVO.net. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages Broke(n), Melody Inn, 21+ Take That! Tuesdays, Coaches Tavern, 21+ Ice Nine Kills, Emerson Theater, all-ages Iron Chic, Spraynard, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Arliss Nancy, Trollkiller, Grant Gilman, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Heater, Heaven’s Gateway Drugs, Sunspots, The Bishop (Bloomington), 18+
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SARAH: Do you think some timer goes off and she just magically has an orgasm? How many other people have you tortured with your brand of sex? You’re done when she’s done, meaning you stick in there until there is plenty of orgasmic glow to go around. If you’re really engaged in the act, the time you spend doesn’t really matter. After all 10 minutes of amazing, connected, present sex can feel like hours, just as 3 hours of mediocre sex could be summed up in about 10 minutes. It’s not like a coinoperated machine where you put your dick in and set an internal timer for five minutes. Fuck like you mean it, son! DR. D: Forget average! It doesn’t add much to the conversation. For one, studies are limited by the fact that people are usually just guesstimating how long they had sex, making averages not so reliable. Even studies that use timers have been criticized for other reasons - for example, when people use timers are they consciously trying to hold out longer so they can report more time spent during sex? Or are they adding anxiety to the picture? Even if there was a reliable average, that wouldn’t tell you a single thing about whether sex is the way you and your girlfriend enjoy, which is likely more about time anyway. Here’s something super valuable I’ve learned from my own research and from others’ work: while good sex may indeed be marked by good enough technique, fun enough positions, and orgasms most but not all of the time, “great” sex is nearly always marked by intimacy, connection, and/or meaning. So that’s what I’d go for.
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Sticky bandit Can you use duct tape instead of handcuffs or is the hair-pulling factor generally not good? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Oh my god, please do not do this. Get a roll of bondage tape on Amazon and leave your partners body hair follicles intact. DR. D: So the question is: can you use duct tape to bind a partner’s wrists (in a consensual way)? Sure. But yeah — try to be mindful of his or her hair. Not all hairstyles will be meant for this, especially if you’re a sloppy taper and the person’s wrists get near their hair. Now if you mean the hair on one’s wrists, again it varies — not everyone has much hair on their wrists. Do you or your partner? If you’re super into using duct tape, talk about it first — you might opt for binding with something else (like a tie or stockings) or else the bound person might keep their wrists less hairy — you might avoid shaving the wrists, though; you don’t want to accidentally cut them!
Cyclical cells Does a woman’s vagina change over the course of her hormonal “month” or whatever? Always been curious. Thanks! — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I’m no doctor, but I’ve heard that your hormones can do all kinds of things to your internal musculature. For example, if you get bubble guts or lower-bowel pyrotechnics along with your period, that’s your smooth muscles in 2 different places getting the same chemical message. But vaginas change all the time for a lot of reasons, not just hormones. DR. D: Yes, but you’re unlikely to notice whether you’re the vagina-owner or vagina-visitor. As estrogen increases, cells in the vagina can increase which strengthen the walls of the vagina. When there’s less estrogen, they can be slightly more prone to tearing. Estrogen is also linked with vaginal lubrication, but again — we’re not talking about massive differences from day to day. I’d worry less about the State of the Vagina and more about how you and your partner (if you currently have one) feel about one another. That said, every woman is a little different and if she feels more/less sensitive or wet or discharge-y or desirous based on her cycle, listen to what she has to say.
Performing in pairs I have kind of a weird thing where I really, really get off on masturbating *with* my boyfriend. He keeps asking me if it’s because he’s bad in bed, and it’s absolutely not! I just like it! It’s really intimate, almost more than sex. How do I talk to him about this? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: While it sucks that your boyfriend can’t yet conceptualize the draw of non-traditional naked, intimate playtimes, I’d take the opportunity to just dive right in and show him how much fun it can be. Maybe it’s just the exposure of him doing a private thing in front of you. Who really knows, but you could start by asking if he wants to watch some adult programming with you and let hands go where they will. Otherwise, just tell him you like the intimacy without the pressure and I bet he’ll eventually come around. DR. D: Show him what you told me! It’s proof that you’re not just saying it for the sake of saying it — you really mean it. Masturbating in front of another person can feel extremely intimate and vulnerable to some people. You get to look at one another. You’re showing your partner how you touch yourself and like to be touched. You may be showing your “o” face in all its glory. You’re letting your partner see your full sexual response from desire and excitement through a buildup phase and possibly orgasm. Yeah — I’d say that’s intimate. Just make sure to not make it all about you and your wants: if he likes it, great. If he’s only moderately into it, do it sometimes and do other things other times. Ask him what he likes too and make sure your sex life is a mix of what you each enjoy.
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retreat into your sanctuary and relax into protective comfort. If you have faith and remain committed to the messy experiment you have stirred up, the stress and agitation you’re dealing with will ripen into vitality and excitement. I’m not exaggerating, my dear explorer. You’re on the verge of tapping into the catalytic beauty and rejuvenating truth that lurk beneath the frustration. You’re close to unlocking the deeper ambitions that are trapped inside the surface-level wishes. Virgo
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Crane wrote his celebrated Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage in ten days. Composer George Frideric Handel polished off his famous oratorio Messiah in a mere 24 days, and Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky produced his novel The Gambler in 16 days. On the other hand, Junot Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, needed ten years to finish it. As for you, Libra, I think this is — and should be! — a phase more like Díaz’s than the other three creators’. Go slowly. Be super extra thorough. What you’re working on can’t be rushed. Libra
Aries
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman describes a medieval knight who asked his lady for a strand of her pubic hair: a symbol of her life force. The lady agreed. He placed the talisman in a locket that he wore around his neck, confident that it would protect him and consecrate him in the course of the rough adventures ahead. I recommend that you consider a similar tack in the coming weeks, Scorpio. As you head toward your turning point, arm yourself with a personal blessing from someone you love. Success is most likely if you tincture your fierce determination with magical tenderness. Scorpio
Libra
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “An escalator can never break,” mused comedian Mitch Hedberg. “It can only become stairs. You should never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.’” I think a similar principle applies to you, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we adopted a perspective like Hedberg’s, we could rightly say that this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve got a tough assignment for you. It won’t be easy, but I think you’re ready to do a good job. Here it is: Learn to be totally at home with your body. Figure out what you need to do to feel unconditional love for your physical form. To get started on this noble and sacred task, practice feeling compassion for your so-called imperfections. I also suggest you cast a love spell on yourself every night, using a red candle, a mirror, and your favorite creamy beverage. It may also help to go down to the playground and swing on the swings, make loud animal sounds, or engage in unusually uninhibited sex. Do you have any other ideas? Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, “Oprah” was not what she was called. Her birth certificate says she is “Orpah,” a name her aunt borrowed from a character who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing “Orpah,” and often turned it into “Oprah.” The distorted form eventually stuck. But if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime soon, maybe even restoring “Orpah.” For you Aquarians, it’s a favorable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What I propose is that
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t calm down. Don’t Gemini
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): American author Stephen
you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what you will supposedly never be capable of, or said you had a problem that was permanently beyond your ability to solve. Once you’ve compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom. Pisces
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