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profit sector with a survey polling the ost of us know something’s leaders of more than 5,000 nonprofits wrong with our economy. If nationwide. The 2014 State of the you’re a CEO, things are ducky. Nonprofit Sector Survey was released But the rest of us are barely keeping up in April at survey.nonprofitfinancewith the cost of living. We depend on fund.org. two-income households and credit to For the sixth year in a row, 80 percent get by. I just passed a bank advertising of respondents reported an increase vacation loans. in demand for services. Over half of So it comes as no surprise that politirespondents, 56 percent, said they were cians who base their careers on promisunable to meet demand in 2013 — the ing tax cuts have generally gotten our highest reported in the survey’s history. votes. Owing less makes us feel like More than half of nonprofits (55 perwe’re doing better. cent) have three months or less cash on For a little while, at least. hand. And 28 percent ended their 2013 Americans have a built-in relucfiscal year with a deficit. tance to talk about income inequality. “The struggles nonprofits face are Maybe that’s because we believe so not the short-term result of an ecofervently in fair play — that if you do nomic cycle,” according to Antony your best and stick to the rules, things will work out. The idea that the game could be rigged against us hurts more than we want to admit. Income inequality comes with a cost. But like everything else, And that cost keeps getting higher. income inequality comes with a cost. And that cost keeps getting higher. One place where this Bugg-Levine, the Nonprofit Finance cost gets calculated is our country’s Fund’s CEO, “they are the results nonprofit sector. Nonprofit organizaof fundamental flaws in the way we tions help to weave what’s called our finance social good.” social fabric. Nonprofits use funding The survey indicated that nonproffrom grants and donations to try and fill its are doing a variety of things to stay gaps the government can’t or won’t. As government services are cut back (those afloat, from changing the ways they tax cuts), more and more people rely on raise and spend money to collaborating with other organizations and creating nonprofits for food, shelter, education better metrics to assess program impact. and healthcare services. The cultural But the larger message of this survey institutions that provide our communiis chilling. As the gap between the rich ties with living links to their histories and everyone else widens, the cost of and arts are also nonprofit. what used to be called a middle-class And guess what? As the gap between life gets higher, putting people deeper in the One Percent and the rest of us gets debt and making them more vulnerable wider, the demand for nonprofit serto life-changing catastrophes. vices grows more intense. These people aren’t the so-called Every year, an organization called “takers” some politicians would like the Nonprofit Finance Fund, supportto blame. They’re our neighbors, our ed by the Bank of America Charitable friends, people you pass everyday in Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the street. n takes the temperature of our nonNUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // VOICES 5
WHAT HAPPENED? Soldiers’ suicide spike The Department of Defense released a new report on April 25 estimating that 522 service personnel committed suicide in 2012. And Air Force officials testified April 10 to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the worrisome trend continues to build in 2014. “We are in the middle of a spike right now,” Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh testified at an April 10 Armed Services Committee hearing. “We have had 32 suicides inside the Total Air Force this calendar year.” In addition, Admiral William McRaven, chief of Special Operations Command, said suicides are occurring at record numbers among his forces, which include Navy SEALS and Army Rangers. “We obviously have a lot of work to do to make sure that screening is reaching each member of our Armed Services - active duty, Guard, and Reserve,” U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., said in an April 25 news release, “and that we equip these men and women to seek out the help they need once they are veterans.” Workers’ sacrifice The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 115 fatal occupational injuries in Indiana in 2012. At a Statehouse ceremony Monday, officials and families honored the dead and, in Bloomington, people unveiled a special laborthemed mural at Building and Trades Park. An estimated 5,000 workers die on the job in the U.S. each year, and tens of thousands more die from illnesses they contracted at work. The construction industry leads the professions as the most dangerous, accounting for 19 percent of the fatalities, with falls as the leading cause of death. Improving odds for unattached animals Efforts to improve the lives of the city’s cats and dogs appear to be gaining traction. For example, during its 15 years of its existence, the no-cost/low-cost FACE Spay/Neuter Clinic has performed nearly 200,000 spay and neuter surgeries, while the numbers of animals killed in Indianapolis shelters have dropped. In 2000, an estimated 22,000 cats and dogs were euthanized; in 2012, that number dropped to just over 6,500. According to numbers released recently by Indianapolis Animal Care and Control, of the 13,666 dogs and cats it received in 2013, 5,014 were euthanized — 1,486 fewer dogs and cats than the year prior. For information on free surgeries for so called “community animals” (also known as strays) or pets, visit facebook.com/GetThemFixed. Thousands of dogs and people will gather Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to raise money to support nonprofit Indy Humane in its efforts to care for animals in need. Opening ceremonies begin at 10:45 a.m., the track opens to people and their animals at 11 a.m. and closes at 3 p.m. NUVO readers have rated Mutt Strut their favorite charitable event for five years straight. — REBECCA TOWNSEND (INDIANA NEWS SERVICE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.) 6 NEWS // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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lack students at Speedway High School receive out-of-school suspensions at a rate of about four times their white counterparts. While the matter has thus far raised no red flags in Speedway, racial disparities in school suspension and expulsion patterns are receiving heightened scrutiny nationwide following the joint release by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice of school discipline statistics. Patterns of disparity not only exist, but they begin in pre-school, Attorney General Eric Holder noted upon the data’s release. The mothers of Randy Moore and Marquis Sherrod, two black students currently enmeshed in expulsion drama at Speedway, welcome the extra attention. They are concerned with what they perceive to be excessive severity with which Speedway High School administrators have handled their concerns with their sons. And, in the case of Bri Simmons, Randy’s mom, she says the school had previously failed to protect her family when she voiced serious safety concerns — a situation that escalated until her daughter was attacked. The result? The school reportedly encouraged the daughter to withdraw (or face expulsion) while the white attackers were back roaming the halls within days. [More on that later.] An Indianapolis Recorder analysis of the federal student discipline data for local district and charter schools found that Speedway Schools had among the highest disproportionality indexes, trailing only Carmel-Clay schools, Mt. Vernon School Corp. in Hancock County, Hamilton Southeastern and Franklin Township schools. The Recorder’s indexes begin to take shape when broken down further. An estimated 75 black students attended Speedway High School in the 2011-2012 school year, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, but they made up 50 percent of total expulsions (two of four), 47.1 percent of out-ofschool suspensions and 34.1 percent of in-school suspensions. Approximately 41
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Bri Simmons is fighting Speedway High School’s effort to expel her son just a month shy of his graduation. At issue in this case: a school with a record of racial disparities in suspension and expulsions — and a question of to what degree a student checks his constitutional rights to protection and privacy when he arrives at school. NUVO.NET: Video interviews with Randy and Bri are posted at NUVO.net.
out-of-school suspensions were issued to black students, leading to an out-of-school suspension rate of about 55 percent. By comparison, white students, of which there were an estimated 312 attending the school, received 44 out-of-school expulsions for a rate of 14 percent. Bottom line: The rate for black students was about four times higher. Also of note: When it came to enrollment in advanced math and science classes, black students at Speedway High were represented at a rate much lower than their percentage of population.
Troublesome pattern or just a stat? When questioned about his district’s disparity stats, Speedway Schools Superintendent Kenneth Hull said he was not aware of a problem. “We collect that data annually,” Hull told NUVO during a Friday phone call. “I’m not aware of an issue in that area, given our numbers and our size.” In respond to NUVO’s questions, Hall reviewed the DOE data and agreed to a future interview on the matter. When it comes to discipline, he said, each individual situation is decided not on race, “it’s on the facts.” And, though
his hands were tied by privacy concerns and the district’s desire not “to try the case in the press,” Hull said he felt confident that all matters regarding the case will come out in “the process.”
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RACISM , FROM PAGE 06 to re-enroll elsewhere while expulsion can leave them prohibited from re-enrolling in a district for up to a year.] On April 18, school officials searched Moore’s car and found a BB gun in the glove box, not because he had caused a scene or threatened anyone, but because of a tip the school received from the Speedway Police Department. A Speedway P.D. officer had pulled Randy over the day before for failing to give appropriate signal for a lane. According to Speedway Sergeant James Thiele, who recounted the scene for NUVO, because Randy’s car was full of people, when another officer happened by (who happened to have a drug dog) came on the scene as backup, as part of “normal practice.” The dog indicated that drugs may be present, but the search came up empty. They did find the BB gun — and noted that Randy only had a learner’s permit, but let him go with a warning. “With the heightened sensitivity we have regarding guns in schools, we wanted to make the school aware,” Thiele said. The school questioned Randy, he told them that he brought the gun for protection and had not told anyone at school that it was in his car. Still, the school handbook says a student could be expelled for “possessing, handling
or transmitting … any object that can reasonably be considered a weapon, is represented to be weapon or looks like a weapon.” And school officials are throwing the book at Randy, recommending expulsion just a month before his graduation — after he has already been accepted to Ivy Tech. Though Superintendent Hull would not discuss Moore’s individual case, he did outline the process. “If the parties are still not satisfied with the outcome [following the expulsion hearing], then it can go to civil court,” he said. Meanwhile, Indiana’s new law making it legal for people to bring guns on to school property will go into effect on July 1, not that it would do anything to help in Randy’s case — after all, constitutional rights to privacy and self defense are often curtailed in favor of wider communal interests within a school setting. Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, speaking in generalities, said he believed courts would uphold a school’s right to search a student’s car parked on its property — and he believes that many students do not understand that their Fourth Amendment rights are compromised in this way. So Randy’s case may not so much be a matter of his constitutional rights being trampled upon, Falk said, as it is a question of, “Why are we doing this? What is the purpose?”
Randy bought a BB gun because he lives in a scary world. His mom says a kid was shot in the parking lot of their townhome at International Village on High School Road, just north of 34th St., and the murder remains unsolved. “The person that got shot and killed went to my school,” Randy said. “I saw him every day.” When Randy gets home from his part-time job at the movie theatre Downtown, the parking lot is dark and empty. “No people, no light, no protection,” Bri says. “Kids should have a right to protect themselves. I carry a golf club. I intend to use it of necessary. Tire irons are considered weapons ... baseball bats ... Why is Randy such a threat?” Also, Randy and his mom tell of encounters with a crack head who is a serial stalker of the parking lot, getting up in people’s faces trying to shake down her next fix. “She’s like 6’, 2’’,” Bri said. Then there is the case of her daughter, Randy’s sister, Brooke Moore, who, her mother says, was taunted with racist name-calling and threats in the school parking lot, which continued despite her family’s complaints. When the abuse turned physical, Brooke defended herself, which resulted in assault complaints filed from both sides, a case that was ultimately dropped, Bri explained because “they said it was too complicated.” Bri said Speedway High School suggested withdrawing Brooke as a better alternative to expulsion. The white kids responsible for the attack, already back in school after serving a suspension, taunted Bri and her daughter from the hallway as they walked by the office while Bri was handling Brooke’s withdraw. In retrospect, Bri wishes she would have fought the school then. She feels like she let her daughter down and she refuses to repeat the pattern with her son. “I refuse to let them run out another black kid,” Simmons said. She is currently at home, grappling with fibromyalgia. When she began to become discouraged, he mother offered her a new perspective. Simmons said, “My mother told me, ‘You gotta look at it like this: You are the one with the know how, with the drive, with the time. You’re not working. You have days where you can function – maybe not every day. You’ve been chosen to do this for everyone who can’t. Things aren’t going to change unless somebody says something.’ “It’s time. My ancestors would be upset if I didn’t put in at least half the effort they did.” n
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(NOTE: Readers are warned that the following piece will feature a mix of delusion, depression and humble-bragging. – Scott Long)
’ve been a touring standup comedian for the past 20 years. I’ve worked pretty much every major comedy club in the country, hitting the stage in 41 states. Last year I worked 48 weeks. Am I famous? I’m guessing most of you reading this would say “no.” Most people think that they could do comedy. Nearly all of us know we can’t sing or play an instrument well enough to front a band. Almost everyone learns by the age of 10 that the art projects we craft in class are now only appreciated by our moms. But nearly all of us have told a joke or come up with some impromptu line that made our fellow co-workers chuckle. If you can get past the daunting task of getting up in front of people, it seems pretty easy. Say funny stuff, get laughs, then get famous, right? Not so much. The number one question I get is, “Did you always want to be a comedian?” Yes — and no. I grew up with a tyrant of a father who was very abusive. He was manic-depressive and probably bi-polar. In the small Iowa town where I grew up those issues got him a diagnosis of “That fellow is kind of moody.” A childhood like mine seemed to yield only two career options: standup comedy or serial killing. Since I wasn’t really into murdering small animals, my biggest escape was comedy. George Carlin was my gateway drug. His act taught me that I wasn’t the only one who thought the world was full of crap. I watched every standup that was on TV growing up, but it still didn’t seem like a viable career choice. I went to college to be a journalist. By the time I graduated college at the end of the ’80s, newspapers were folding and standup clubs were opening everywhere. At a show I attended at the Broad Ripple Comedy Club, I was inspired to try it myself, since I thought two of the three comedians on the bill weren’t that good and I thought I could do better. I would do open mics at the Broad Ripple and downtown clubs and anywhere else I could get some stage time. I had good material from the start, but there were a couple other newbies from my rookie class that were better natural entertainers and they moved up more quickly. (Cue Inspirational Music.) I made the conscious decision to work harder and smarter than the folks with natural ability. Those are the two facets of being a successful comedian that are never mentioned. I have never known a great comic who wasn’t smart or hard-working. Even a guy like Larry the Cable Guy is far from a dumbass, despite his on-stage. As I went from open-mic-might guest performer to opening act (or “emcee”), the comedy boom began to suffer from oversaturation. Clubs all over North America began to close in the mid-‘90s. Despite the fallout, I continued to move up in the business. By the start of the millenium, I was headlining most places I performed. I began writing Frank Caliendo’s comedy sketches for the NFL on FOX. One of my TV scripts got some attention from a big-time Hollywood manager. He wanted me to make the move to LA to pitch it to the
networks. The problem? After a number of years of trying without success, my wife had gotten pregnant. I passed on a move to LA. It wasn’t that hard of a decision. I had just moved into a new house in the suburbs and knew that for the same amount of money, we’d be living in a crappy two bedroom apartment in a bad neighborhood in SoCal. Very few people get the chance that I did, but I don’t regret it. My goal when I got into this business was to do standup comedy, not be a TV star. I understand my place in the business. I now have three kids to take care of, so I’m constantly hustling, since there aren’t 50 comedy clubs each year that are asking ME to perform. Half my schedule is filled with gigs at bars, corporate events, county fairs — name it, I’ve probably done it. I even did a show once at Brad’s Gold Club, providing burlesque-style standup between the strippers. I’ve even done a set at the Pendleton State Penitentiary. I don’t want to give the impression I feel stuck in Indy. Between Indy and Bloomington, there are four great comedy clubs in Central Indiana. These clubs have thrived because locals have always supported standup. Indy couldn’t be more centrally located — half the clubs in the country are within driving distance. (That’s a huge benefit; air travel is EXPENSIVE.) And it doesn’t hurt that The Bob and Tom Show is based here in town: that show that has helped more standup comics than any other radio program in the country. You’d think that given all the ingredients listed above, a few breakout stars from Indy would have made the big leagues. That’s the one major black mark on the city in regards to standup. The power brokers here have never made any concerted effort to help push the local talent on any national level, unlike Minneapolis, Chicago, and St. Louis. Fortunately, that’s started to change as a couple of newer club owners here have created some different avenues like comedy festivals to bring more attention to the locals. This has been a major boost for the local standup scene, which is the healthiest it’s been in my two decades in Indy. I’m definitely a believer in the saying “Success is relative.” While my TV credits consist of a brief moment on Last Comic Standing or a short appearance in a sketch for FOX, I make more money than a lot of comics you’ve seen on Comedy Central. I would guess there aren’t 200 standups in America who made over 50 grand last year, which is why I always tell young comics not to get into this business for the money. Do it because you can’t imagine doing anything else. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been making the yuk-yuks so long that I can’t imagine being able to hold a 9-to-5 gig at this point, but there are no plan Bs for me. I’m glad to say I still love taking the stage almost every time I get the chance. Thanks for listening — and don’t forget to buy my wacky t-shirt and CD in the lobby.
, editor s note There are a LOT of funny people in Indiana. Nuvo went looking for the young’ns, the up-and-comers. A quick poll of those in-the-know led us to chat with three excellent standup dudes and a female improv star. They can all be seen at local venues — check your local listings, folks. > > > > >
Illinois town right next to Terre Haute. Everyone on that show destroyed. It was so fun, I was hosting and that usually goes poorly but they loved it all. NUVO: Okay, now tell us about the most hellish of the hell gigs you’ve had. McLAUGHLIN: The worst gig I have ever done was for some guy named “Tucker” out of Bloomington, IN. It was at a golf club down there and he was “sick” and couldn’t drive ten minutes to bring us a spotlight or a PA system. So the headliner and I had to split $75 out of our pay to rent the PA at the venue, and we had to do the show in the dark. I hated everything about that night. NUVO: What’s your advice for someone just starting out?
Tim McLaughlin touring standup comic NUVO: First, the resume: what would an emcee say about you when he or she is bringing you on stage? TIM McLAUGHLIN: “This next guy has been in The Boston Comedy Festival, Cape Fear Comedy Festival, he has been on Comcast On Demand, and is featured on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio.” But I don’t care about that stuff. I just tell them to say “Welcome Tim McLaughlin to the stage.” NUVO: What was your first time on stage like for you — how’d it go? McLAUGHLIN: First time on stage was at The Spot (which is now closed) next to the laser tag place in Castleton. It went absolutely terrible. I was incredibly nervous, then I was drunk, then I was done and it couldn’t have been any worse. NUVO: What was the best gig you’ve ever played? McLAUGHLIN: The best show is a hard one to pin down. There have been a lot of good gigs, but two stand out. The set I had in the semi finals of “Trial By Laughter” at Morty’s Comedy Joint. The crowd was laughing at my setups — it was crazy. And the second is a show I just recently did at a winery in some hillbilly
McLAUGHLIN: Get on stage as much as you possibly can. Continue writing and never sit on a joke and think it’s perfect, there’s always something else that can be tagged on to it or reworded to make the joke better. Also don’t go on stage and do a brand new six minutes every time. Jokes don’t get better if you don’t continue to do them and figure out the correct way to deliver them. But the most important thing is getting on stage anyway you can. You can sign up for Morty’s Open Mic if you feel like you’re funny. Go to Mortyscomedy.com and click the Great Indiana Mic Off banner and select the date you’d like to perform. NUVO: What comics do you love? McLAUGHLIN: Dave Attel, Jimmy Pardo, Louis CK (of course, because I am a trend setter), Kyle Kinane, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Earthquake, Dave Chappelle ... I can continue to write down more and more black comics — Bill Cosby! — but I think you guys get it. I watch a lot of comedy. Stewart Huff is one of the greatest unheard of comics working the road right now. His show is mind melding and life changing. (That sounds so pretentious, but it’s true.) NUVO: What comics do you loathe? (We’ll understand if you skip this one.) McLAUGHLIN: I have no problem answering this question. I HATE Jeff Garlin and Charlie Murphy. I can’t say anyone else, but I’ve worked with those two and they are jerks. You can listen to Jeff Garlin be mean to me on my podcast The TNT Dynamite Party Hour available for free on iTunes. He was such a dick. When I worked with Charlie Murphy I sold $1,600 worth of his merchandise all weekend and he didn’t break me off a penny. He also insulted my car and told me I should be picking him up from his hotel in something nicer. > > > > > NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // COVER STORY 11
They actually had to turn away a long line of people because they reached capacity. The energy that night was electric. There’s nothing in the world that’s better than a night like that (although, great sex is a close rival). It was just really cool to see that happen in Indianapolis outside of a comedy club setting. They don’t do stand-up at the Ship anymore so it’s something I’ll always be able to say: “I got to perform at the coolest room in Indy”. NUVO: Worst gig ever?
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Dwight Simmons touring standup comic NUVO: First, the resume: what would the opener say about you in the intro? DWIGHT SIMMONS: I’ve been in the Limestone Comedy Festival, Cape May Festival, and was the winner of the Indiana Comedy Festival in 2013. I’ve worked with Kyle Kinane, W. Kamau Bell, Pete Holmes, Doug Benson and Hannibal Buress. Most recently, I was a part of the Rocketship Comedy Tour. NUVO: First time on stage? How’d it go? What you were feeling? SIMMONS: My first time on stage was at a talent show in high school. In front of a packed auditorium. I was extra confident up until right before I was being introduced. Then, I was nervous as shit. I’m 100 percent sure it was awful. I don’t even remember the “material” I did and even today I refuse to watch that video. Thanks for bringing up a terrible life experience! NUVO: Best gig ever? SIMMONS: I’ve been really lucky to do a lot of cool stuff and meet a lot of great comics so it’s tough to rank one show over another. I had so much fun being on the Kyle Kinane show at the Sinking Ship last year. I had never seen that place so filled.
SIMMONS: For every great show, there are 10 terrible ones, so they’re even tougher to rank. I once did a show for zero people that were there for the comedy. ZERO. It was at this crap bar in Salem, Ind. The booker insisted that we were getting paid so there HAD to be a show. I had to do 40 minutes in front of no one except some guys shooting pool. Before the show, a bartender took away the balls from the tables in the back of the room, which just led to people angrily and loudly asking, “Where the fuck are the balls!?”. At one part of my set, a guy interrupts me and yells “HEY COMEDIAN! WHAT TIME DOES KARAOKE START?” So basically, I got paid to entertain bar furniture and frustrated billiards players. I mean don’t get me wrong, I killed those tables and chairs that night. I’m sure Salem has been begging for me to come back ever since. NUVO: Advice for someone just starting out? SIMMONS: Just realize it takes a really long time to be any good at this thing. Try not to be egotistical or arrogant or piss anyone off. Be a fan of comedy. Also, stop looking for advice. I think you only get better if you put the work in and experience things for yourself. And read a book, for Christ’s sake. NUVO: What comics do you love? SIMMONS: Hannibal Buress, Maria Bamford, Tig Notaro, Patton Oswalt, Amy Schumer, Baron Vaughn, Jimmy Pardo, Jon Dore, Kyle Kinane are currently some of my faves. Also, there are some great local guys: Brent Terhune and Tim McLaughlin, as you know, are hilarious. Cam O’Connor, Big Jim Leugers, Jimmy Roberson, Austin Reel, Melinda Kashner & Stephen Vincent Giles are all fantastic as well. NUVO: What comics do you loathe? SIMMONS: I’ll keep this between me and that son of a bitch. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! AND YOU BETTA WATCH YOUR BACK, YO MAMA’S BACK AND YO GRANDMAMA’S BACK! Sorry. Not even I know what I’m talking about anymore. I legitimately love mostly everyone. Just be a dirtbag and we’re cool. > > > > >
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TERHUNE: One of the worst gigs I’ve done is performing at the Luther Luckett Correctional Facility in La Grange, Kentucky. Yes, a prison. Another comic and I pull up to the prison and notice that there are two OTHER prisons on either side of Luther Luckett and we weren’t sure if we should feel safer or begin to panic. We were greeted outside of the prison by a woman who, when I went to shake her hand, I noticed only had a half a finger on her right hand. Was this a prison injury? Was this going to happen to us? In order to get to the performance area (or, more accurately, gymnasium), we had to walk through the yard where prisoners were outside lifting weights and talking in small groups. You would have thought we would’ve been escorted by several armed guards, but it was just that one lady with the missing fingers. All the prisoners knew exactly who we were. “You boys gonna be funny?” one of them asked. At show time I took my place at center court and faced my audience, about 400 prisoners, some wearing brown jumpsuits, some wearing orange construction vests and some not wearing any kind of shirt at all. (They were working outside all day.) I told my first joke and got nothing. Not letting that discourage me, I gave them my second joke and got a few laughs. As my set went on I got more and more laughs and even got a “You stupid!” from one of the inmates which I’m almost certain was a positive review of my set.
NUVO: First, the resume: what would the opener say about you in the intro?
NUVO: Advice for someone just starting out?
BRENT TERHUNE: I’m a writer for the nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Radio Show, I tour all over the country doing stand up, and I write and illustrate a comic strip called Uncle Frank.
TERHUNE: My advice for anyone starting out is simple. Write and perform as much as you can. Stand up is one of those things that you only get better at by doing.
NUVO: First time on stage? How’d it go?
TERHUNE: I love comics that are different and stand out from the rest. It’s just like on TV or the radio when there are a lot of rehashed ideas, but every once in a while something comes along that is completely different, then you’ve gotten my attention.
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TERHUNE: My first time doing standup was in high school. I performed at an event called a Coffee House in which people could play music, sing, and read poetry. I performed for my classmates and teachers — it went really well for my first time at the age of 16, but looking back, I’m sure it was awkward and not very funny. NUVO: Best gig ever? TERHUNE: The best gig I’ve ever done was opening up for the guys from the show Impractical Jokers on Tru TV at the Akron Civic Theater in Akron, OH. It was a soldout crowd, 2,500 people. It was the biggest audience I had ever performed for and I had a really good set, every joke getting the laugh where it should.
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NUVO: What comics do you loathe? TERHUNE: I hate comics who are “edgy” just to be edgy. It’s one thing to have a rape, abortion, racial, joke, but it’s another to actually be saying something about those topics. A lot of times young comics have these types of jokes because they see their comedic heroes touching on similar topics, but the thing with younger comics is they don’t have the skills to talk about such heavy topics yet. Learn the basics, learn how to write a joke first, then maybe try tackling the big issues. > > > > > NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // COVER STORY 13
“of the moment” and not meant to last. Which is probably a good thing, because I’m sure I was pretty rusty. I do remember playing a character with no upper lip and all teeth showing, a la Ace Ventura. So — yeah. But man, was I excited. NUVO: Best gig ever? WILCHER: It’s a tie: 2011 ComedySportz World Championships. It was the final match. Huge house of about 300 folks at the Athenaeum. I played on a team with the owners of CSz Indianapolis, and we won the whole thing. It was nuts. The other: opening night of $3Bill’s first Fringe show. We (unexpectedly) packed the Phoenix Theatre, got a standing O, and we immediately felt elevated to a different artistic level. We wrote a musical that we had dreamed up years before and people paid money to see it. It was electric. It blew our stupid minds. NUVO: Worst gig ever?
Claire Wilcher she’s part of several improv troupes in Indy NUVO: First, the resume: what would the opener say about you in the intro? CLAIRE WILCHER: I’ve been an improviser with ComedySportz Indianapolis for ten years and am now the assistant artistic director of the company. I’m a founding member of Three Dollar Bill Comedy (that’s been in business since 2009), and as a part of that group I’ve helped write and produce over 20 sketch comedy shows, including IndyFringe Fest top sellers Schoolhouse Wrong! and its sequel, Schoolhouse Wrong To! Even More Wronger. I also just produced the inaugural Gal Pal Comedy Fest, an allfemale comedy festival in March. NUVO: First time on stage? How’d it go? What you were feeling? WILCHER: My first time on stage in an improv show was a blur. That’s kind of a joy of improv — it’s very 14 COVER STORY // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
WILCHER: Another tie: I did two different shows in the same year for CSz and $3Bill. At both shows, we were at the end of the party, and we were competing with a casino night. It has now become a joke among company members. If it’s a bad show, some of us just go, “Let’s just say it was casino night.” NUVO: Advice for someone just starting out? WILCHER: Live. Laugh. Love. Am I allowed to do bits? As far as getting started as an improviser, you’ve just gotta be willing to put in the hours and do the work. Good improv looks effortless and makes people think they should be instantly good. But it’s more than just being funny: Improv involves other people and you’ve got to know and trust and build relationships with them to make a scene really good. “Group mind” is huge in improv. I give any and all props to stand up comedians, because it really feels like a hard row to hoe all alone. That’s tough stuff. NUVO: What comics do you love? WILCHER: I’m a big Mindy Kaling fan. She’s a kickass writer and has a really fresh voice. Also the comic strip Cathy. (Irving! Chocolate! Aaack!) It’s GOLD. NUVO: What comics do you loathe? WILCHER: Me, anytime I make a decision in a scene to play an animal or a baby. n
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REVIEW The Game’s Afoot r On a stormy Christmas Eve, famed actor William Gillette hosts a cadre of pals at his Connecticut mansion. The IRT’s take on this murder mysterycomedy caper brims with memorable, over-the-top performances, notably by town favorites Constance Macy, and Rob and Jennifer Johansen. As Gillette, the delightful Matthew Brumlow, seen earlier this year in the IRT’s Who Am I This Time?, sets a quirky tone for the ensemble. Former IRT darling Priscilla Lindsay returns with an effortlessly funny performance as Gillette’s zany mother. But the star of the show is Russell Metheny’s grand scenic design, a vibrant character on its own. The audience gasped to see it revealed under Ann G. Wrightson’s decadent lighting design. In all, Ken Ludwig’s campy script and Peter Amster’s droll direction keep audiences guessing and guffawing. — KATELYN COYNE Through May 18 at Indiana Repertory Theatre
EVENTS Bunny Spectacular A 40-minute puppet show including 30-plus puppets manned by six puppeteers and, because it’s a Q Artistry show, featuring songs with irresistible titles like “I’m So Wild About Carrots” and “Little Bunny Kung Fu.” For “kids of all ages,” says the news release. Irvington Lodge, May 2-4, FREE or “pay what you can,” qartistry.org Footlite Musicals: Nine Footlite closes its season with Nine, playing locally for the first time in 22 years. A winner of five Tonys in 1982, the musical is based on Fellini’s autobiographical 8 1/2, with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston (Titanic, La Cage). Andy Morales stars as Guido alongside 21 female performers. Hedback Community Theater, May 2-18, times and prices vary, footlite.org Indianapolis Early Music: Rook A rare spring concert from the Indianapolis Early Music folks, who tend to focus their resources on their summer festival. Rook is a Chicago-based ensemble of brass and string players featuring experts on trombone, cello, violin and keyboards. Indiana Landmarks Center, May 4, 4 p.m., FREE, rookearlymusic.com Going...Going...Gone Angel Burlesque returns to star in the second annual adults-only edition of “live auction comedy” Going... Going...Gone. Each monthly show features new props and a different cast. IndyFringe Basile Theatre, May 4, 7 p.m., $15 ($12 student/senior), indyfringe.org
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ew poems are as concisely heartrending (and bitingly ironic) as Wilfred Owen’s “The Parable of the Old Man and the Young,” which re-tells the story of Abraham and Isaac against the backdrop of the World War I. All goes according to the familiar plot, with an angel interceding at the last moment to call out “Lay not thy hand upon the lad” and “Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.” And so Isaac would live to see his 180 years, but for the closing couplet: “But the old man would not so, but slew his son / And half the seed of Europe, one by one.” And, by extension, few pieces of music achieve quite the balance of anger, tragedy, righteousness and resignation as Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, which twists together the text of the traditional Catholic “mass of the dead” with Owen’s poetry of faith lost and death in the trenches. Completed in 1962, the piece wears its pacifism on its title page, which quotes from an Owen poem: “My subject is War, and the pity of War. / The Poetry is in the pity... / All a poet can do today is warn.” The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, which first performed the War Requiem in 2006, revisits it this Sunday as part of a global celebration of the centenary of Britten’s birth — with, of course, Indianapolis Symphonic plenty of other Choir’s Eric Stark performing arts groups along for the ride (see event info). More than 400 performers will take the Palladium stage for the 85 minute piece, some professional, some not, which is just as Britten intended, according to Eric Stark, the choir’s artistic director: “He spent most of his life creating music to be performed by collaborating churches and community groups, and I’d like to think that he would have been pleased with what we’re doing.” The choir chose to return to the War Requiem because, as Stark says, “Frankly, in Indianapolis, if the Symphonic Choir
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doesn’t choose to take a piece like this on, it probably doesn’t get performed, and in the 2013-14 concert season, somebody should be doing the War Requiem.” Twenty-five members and supporters of the choir traveled last summer to England to lay groundwork, visiting Coventry Cathedral, where the piece was premiered to consecrate a new cathedral replacing a 14th-century structure destroyed during World War II bombing, as well as Aldeburgh, where the composer spent much of his working life. Stark notes that both Britten and Owen, a World War I soldier whose poetry was little known during his life-
time (he was killed in action in 1918), took a strong anti-war stance: “Britten actually became a registered conscientious objector, but both of them had strong pacifist leanings, and both were disturbed that the church didn’t step in more actively to try to prevent nations from battling other nations. And the presence of Owen’s poems within the Latin mass context gives the piece an incredible poignancy and, at times, great irony.” Britten’s skill is such, says Stark, that the requiem’s two texts, which belong to very different traditions, come into dialogue with each other in seemingly intentional ways. “You get, for instance, these wonderful fanfares in the brass that are incredibly vibrant and beautiful, like no other kind of trumpet writing you’ve ever heard before. And they connect both with the ancient Roman Catholic text as well as the very modern, graphic imagery about war that Owen has given us. Each movement has pairings like that where, through the notes on the page, old text and new text meet in the middle with the music. It’s absolutely a miracle that Britten was able to see and bring that out in his work.” n
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or a guy putting on a one-man show called This Too Shall Suck, Matt Graham has a surprisingly optimistic take on the power of theater to reach people, change lives or at least make things that already suck a little more tolerable. The 48-year-old Indiana native, now living in Queens, took a roundabout path to get to the IndyFringe Basile Theatre this weekend: years working as a standup and comedy writer, then a mid-career stint at a professional Scrabble player (one of the best in the world in his prime), struggles with stage fright and alcoholism along the way. Graham says he started out writing a monologue about his life “just to be entertaining,” but not “to be meaningful in any way.” But by the time he finished This Too Shall Suck, and started talking about it with people like Marc Maron on his often tell-all interview podcast WTF, he found that “people reached out to say how much it meant to them that I had been honest about how difficult my life had been. And that’s when I started to see the potential to have an impact.” And now that connection with the audience is central to his mission: “I’m going to Indy on a little tour — and hopefully I can sell a couple tickets and make some money because I’m always broke — but what I find I get out of it in the end is the satisfaction of affecting people in a positive way.” Not that he started out optimistic. As a young standup that readers of a certain age may still remember from local clubs, he says he just liked “to be clever. If I could make them laugh doing what I wanted, then great. If they didn’t like what I did, then screw them; I got half of my fun pissing them off.” He earned the dubious title of comic’s comic: “The local comics thought I was funny, but I was never the favorite among the crowd. They had contests there and I would always finish ninth.” Graham doesn’t know if he’ll do his one Indiana joke in the show, which
goes something like: “I could never understand how 30 guys would drive 500 miles in an afternoon and not one would choose to leave Indiana. I probably won’t do that joke there, but I might. Most of the people who know me would understand what that was about. It’s not really dissing the place, just saying that it wasn’t a cultural match for me.” So he decamped for the East coast, though he still spent long stints back in Indy when resources dictated. “Now Boston ended up being no better,” he
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and I love having my mind that wrapped up and that immersed in something.” He got back on the stage in his current incarnation as a monologuist for two reasons: “to make money and to meet girls.” Graham continues: “I had a little bit of a nest egg for a while, and the first cat that I loved, Ruth, had a lot of health problems, so I wanted to make money. And I wanted to meet women, and I’m a total disaster at meeting women online. I have stories about it in my show; it’s incomprehensible how poorly I’ve done.” And beyond connecting with audiences on an I’m-going-through-the-samething level, Graham’s monologues have earned good critical notices. The New York Times called This Too Shall Suck a “funny, oddball, occasionally awkward autobiographical show,” describNow that I’m mellower, ing Graham’s material as “dark, but always eccentric the beauty in Scrabble is enough to find new spins on old jokes.” And he’s in the concentration. also performing a second — MATT GRAHAM monologue, The Great III Am, about Scrabble and spirituality; it’s booked at this year’s IndyFringe Festival. ment for a spell. And how about one other measure When he eventually took a of success for his return to the stage? break from comedy, he became He recently signed a contract to pubsomething of a professional lish with Dallas boutique BenBella to Scrabble phenom, placing secpublish his memoir. BenBella, an indeond in the 1997 World Scrabble pendent distributed through Perseus, is Championships, and playing a promresponsible for a ton of New York Times inent role in a popular book (Word bestsellers, and Graham hopes his will Freak) and movie (Word Wars) about be the next. He’ll be gathering notes for the Scrabble world. the book while in town; it’s his first time Scrabble tournaments still remains a back in Indy in a decade. source of income, but he’s not quite as Graham says he’s working daily on the involved on an emotional level: “I used book, but there’s a learning curve: “I was to do Scrabble because I loved the comalways a joke writer, so I’m learning how petition. But now that I’m mellower, the beauty in Scrabble is in the concentration. to flesh things out. I was a good school yearbook writer, but that was about the There’s so much to think about when longest I ever wrote. When I worked on you’re doing top-level Scrabble, Conan or SNL, I just wrote one or two sentences, and they didn’t have to be capitalized or have good grammar, they just had to be funny.” n
says. “It’s really a matter of finding your people within any area — as well as all kinds of other flaws I had to work on. I went to Boston and they sent me out to do one-nighters in economically dying mill towns. I got bottles thrown at me!” That description may be a bit modest; Graham eventually held down highprofile jobs in the comedy world, writing for Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, performing four times as a standup on Conan, working the late ’80s and ’90s comedy scene alongside guys like Louis C.K., David Cross and Maron, three guys with whom he also shared a Boston apart-
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EVENTS Look/See 2014 It’s the biggest night of Herron’s academic year, featuring work by master’s candidates across the galleries of Eskenazi Hall and Eskenazi Fine Arts Center. Expect food, entertainment, free parking and tours of open studios.
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Linda Adele Goodine Herron prof Goodine’s multi-media installation Made in Mexico, her place, almost her place, not her place (or Hecho en México, su lugar, casi su lugar, no su lugar) was born out of time spent exploring the impact of drug cartel violence on Mexican border towns. A news release notes that Goodine hopes to use such socially conscious art “to help motivate political and social reform in hopes of advancements in human rights for this long-struggling region.” Incorporating audio, video, textiles and photos, the show is in collaboration with, among others, the Latino Youth Collection and Harrison Center for the Arts, and will be Gallery 924’s first bilingual installation. Gallery 924, May 2-30, opens May 2, 6-9 p.m. CCIC artists Some highlights this month at Circle City Industrial Complex: Photographer Paul Best, who recently moved in to a first floor space, will preview work from an upcoming collection, Keyamsha, with an opportunity for audience participation. Martha Nahrwold has new floral monoprints at the Five Seasons Gallery. And Photographer Todd Matus has a new show, New Views, in his Litmus Gallery. That’s just a few: Nearly 20 artists and artisans are at work at CCIC, and most of them have open hours on First Friday. Look for Circle City Industrial Complex Artists’ Facebook for more. Circle City Industrial Complex, May 2, 6-9 p.m. Gabriel Lehman A self-described “illustrative surrealist,” Lehman is the guest of honor this month at Fountain Square gallery and coffeeshop Funkyard. An Indiana native, Lehman started his career in Wilmington, S.C., painting a mural or two and finding his work used in feature films along the way, before setting his luggage down in Noblesville. Funkyard, May 2, 7-10 p.m.
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usan Hodgin’s 2011 painting “Mountain” shows a far-off peak — or what looks something like an MRI scan of a peak — being ravaged by an approaching thunderstorm. There’s beauty here, but also a hint of terror. At the Harrison Center exhibition a limitless existence: New Work by Susan Hodgin, opening May 2, you’ll be able to experience such powerful paintings first-hand. You’ll also have a chance to view the photography of Erin Hüber in an adjacent gallery. Hüber is the founder of the Mother Artist Project (MAP), and in that capacity she interviewed and photographed Hodgin and other “mother artists.” Hüber began the blog after meeting many women who were, like herself, attempting to balance their aspirations as artists with their occupations as mothers. Her blog takes a Q&A format, allowing her subjects to talk openly about their lives and their art. “I started with one mom,” she says. “All it took was one mom who talked to another mom, and before I knew it, I was getting emails saying: ‘What are you doing? I want to be a part of it, and I’m crying now because I wanted to be an artist and then I had kids.’” But Hüber’s Mother Artist Project photographs don’t necessarily need Q&A text as scaffolding. Such is the case with a black and white photo of Hodgin at play with her twoyear-old daughter in a Harrison Center studio filled with her paintings.
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Balancing her life as an artist and a mother isn’t Hodgin’s only struggle. In 2011, she was diagnosed with colon cancer while pregnant with her first child. After major surgery and then a period of remission, the cancer returned and she was diagnosed at Stage 4. She is currently in recovery from another major operation she underwent April 15. Much of Hodgin’s recent work is sunnier than paintings like “Mountain.” “I am still trying to get more depth and space but with more of a whiter, lighter background,” she says. Accordingly one of the exhibition paintings, “Faceless” portrays a globe against a pinkish-white background, smothered with dabs and smears of boldly colored oil paint. “I love the physicality of the paint,” she says. “Things that are unexpected and less controlled, like painting with butter, beautifully colored butter.” Around 2009, Hodgin encountered a 1797 essay by Edmund Burke, “A Philosophical Inqury into the Origins of the Sublime and the Beautiful,” that greatly informed her subsequent landscape-
based work. Since she became ill, she has reevaluated this influence. “Before my work was kind of more about the Burke-related sublime,” says Hodgin. “According to Burke at least, the definition of the sublime is finding beauty within fear and terror. And the way I was interpreting it in my work previously it was in facing nature. These vast, immense, powerful, overwhelming landscapes that Mother Nature would just throw at you and you’d become insignificant and small, finding the beauty within those moments of absolute fear and terror.” “But where am I now?” she continues. “Now I’m actually facing the most fear that I’ve ever faced before in my life. I’m not talking about theoretical fear. I’m not talking about needing to go to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro to find my fear. It’s right here and it’s in boring old Indianapolis at a cancer center surrounded by a million other people doing the exact same thing that I’m doing. It’s very mundane. People get cancer and die of cancer all the time. No one’s going to write a novel about me facing cancer because everyone does. But it doesn’t make it any less terrifying to be told that you have a finite amount of time. “And so my work is still about trying to find the beauty within that fear but my fear instead of becoming this sweeping natural disaster — this gorgeous landscape of beauty and rain and fire and sun and light and absence — it’s taken on a much more microscopic, much more human, much more corporeal form.” n
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OPENING Jodorowsky’s Dune e Fascinating documentary about an epic film that almost was. Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man behind El Topo and The Holy Mountain, set out to put Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune on the big screen. Jodorowsky’s son would star in the grand saga, which would incorporate the talents of Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, with music by Pink Floyd and art by pre-Alien H.R. Giger as well as Jean “Moebius” Giraud. Holy cow, what a line-up! The film didn’t happen, of course, but how great it is to have the whole story laid out for us with style to spare. The visuals are also a treat, but the main attraction is the 84-year-old Jodorowsky, still full of passion.
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FILM EVENTS Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival In its inaugural year, the Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival will present nine films “examining facets of Jewish life not often explored.” Here are the fest’s public screenings through May 7; all are $10 and at Landmark Keystone Art unless otherwise specified.
Andrew Garfield returns as Peter Parker to battle new villans such as Electro, played by Jamie Foxx (below), in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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• David (2011): The 11-year-old son of the imam of a Brooklyn mosque who feels himself an outcast amongst fellow Muslims inadvertently befriends a group of Orthodox Jewish boys. (May 3, 7 p.m. at Central Library) • The Band’s Visit (2007): An Egyptian police orchestra is booked to play the opening of an Arab cultural center in Israel. (May 4, $30 ticket includes gala with belly dancing and appetizers from 6 p.m.) • Where I Stand (2008): A documentary profile of Hank Greenspun, a newspaper publisher who took on Joseph McCarthy and the target of the Watergate burglars. (May 5, 7:30 p.m.) • A Matter of Size (2009): An Israeli comedy about four full-figured guys who take up sumo wrestling. (May 6, 7:30 p.m.) • Time of Favor (2000): A Israeli soldier is also a devout follower of a rabbi behind Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank. Complications ensue. (May 7, 7:30 p.m.) • The Other Son (2012): Two young men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, discover that they were switched at birth. (May 8, 7:30 p.m.) Various locations and times, $10 (unless specified), indianapolisjewishfilmfestival.com Italian Film Festival: The Venice Syndrome IUPUI’s Italian fest rolls along with a 2012 documentary about Venice after dark, when it turns into an increasingly uninhabitable ghost town. Campus Center Theater, IUPUI, May 3, 7 p.m., FREE
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ometimes when I walk out of a theater I know exactly what I want to say about the movie I just watched. Not today. It’s about 12 hours since the press screening of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and I’m still sorting it out. Parts of the superhero flick seemed fresh, while other parts were by-the-numbers and a chore to watch. At least we didn’t have to sit through Spider-Man’s origin story again. That’s not to say director Marc Webb and company are through with it yet. Amazing 2 snatches a few precious minutes out of my life for a flashback with Peter Parker’s parents (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz) on a plane, desperately trying to transfer information on a computer before the bad guys kill them. Man, is there anything more exciting that repeated close-ups of a laptop screen showing what percentage of the files have been transferred? Golly! Many years later that information will fall into Peter’s hands and … wait, I don’t care. Cut to NYC, where SpiderMan (Andrew Garfield) swings exuberantly through the skyscrapers: fighting crime, rescuing people and flinging wisecracks all over the place. This part of the movie is
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the most fun. It also most closely resembles the Spider-Man comics I read as a kid. His chronic jabbering during action scenes bugged me back then, but I found it more amusing than annoying today. Spider-Man in action — entertaining. Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) — entertaining. Aunt May (Sally Field) — also entertaining, though what’s up with the scene where she tries to force her way into Peter’s bedroom while he keeps shouting to her that he’s naked and she needs to stay out? Good Lord, woman, don’t you understand that when a teenager begs to be left alone it probably means he’s … trying to change out of his superhero suit. It just occurred to me that some of you might think this film is a remake of the widely acclaimed original trilogy’s Spider-Man 2 from way back in … 2004. It isn’t. Director Webb, the man behind the indie favorite (500) Days of Summer, opts to focus more on interpersonal relationships than big action scenes. That would be fine, but the relationships
have been covered so thoroughly that it’s hard to wring more emotion from them. Thank goodness Garfield and Stone have such a nice chemistry. No need to do a long plot description. Suffice to say that anything connected to Oscorp Industries is bad news. Amazing 2 focuses on Oscorp employee Max Dillon (a restrained Jamie Foxx), an emotionally disturbed fellow fixated on the notion that he has been overlooked. After a bizarre accident at Oscorp involving electric eels (somebody needs to contact OSHA about this company), Max becomes Electro, a supervillain made of living electricity. He attacks New York, because everyone in Spider-Man movies attacks New York. Oscorp big-wig Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) — Peter’s old pal — turns into a villain as well. And Paul Giamatti also plays a baddy, though he gets far less screen time than I expected. It all adds up to another superhero extravaganza. That used to be enough, but there’s a steady stream of superhero extravaganzas these days (we’ve already had a Captain America movie this year, and the X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy will hit the screens this summer). The Amazing Spider-Man 2 certainly has its moments, but for the most part it’s just middle-of-the-pack blockbuster fare. Good cast, tired story. You’ll be pleased to know there are no bonus scenes at the end, so when the closing credits roll, you can haul it out of the theater with no fear of missing anything. n
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The Lunchbox e Low-key, engaging dual character studies from firsttime director Ritesh Batra. In Mumbai, lunchboxes are delivered to businessmen each day. Curious why her chronically-preoccupied husband doesn’t comment on her new recipes, Ila (Nimrat Kaur) puts a note in his lunchbox. She realizes the lunchbox is being misdelivered when she receives a note back from a different man, soon-to-retire accountant Saajan (Irfan Khan), and an odd friendship begins. Kaur is very good, while Khan gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as a man going through the motions who is drawn back into life through his contacts with Ila and an eager-to-please trainee (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).
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plot, too. The mood is dark, stark and compelling, and the film held my interest. Can’t say much more, since I don’t know much more.
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Le Week-End r Smart, tart and engaging, playing at times like a fourth installment of Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight/ Sunset/Sunrise series. a British couple (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) heads to Paris for a long weekend in and around the hotel where they spent their honeymoon. If you don’t find the self-centeredness of this boomer couple tiresome, you’ll be rewarded with striking performances by Broadbent, Duncan and interloper Jeff Goldblum, and a revealing look at the politics of a long-term marriage.
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Scarlett Johansson plays an alien (or a monster) in human form that wanders around Scotland snagging men whose disappearance will likely go unnoticed. Some guy (or guys) on a motorcycle(s) help her, or monitor her, or control her or something. Hell, I don’t know. There’s not much dialogue and most of what you hear comes from Scots whose regional accents are nigh impossible to understand. That describes the
Transcendence i A scientist (Johnny Depp) working on creating a selfaware computer system gets uploaded into a supercomputer after techno-phobe activists shoot him with a radioactive bullet. Then he becomes power mad, because that’s what sentient computers do in dumb-ass movies and TV shows. Transcendence looks good, but the story is lousy and Johnny Depp spends most of the flick playing a talking head — Max Headroom without the fun parts. What a drag. PG-13, In wide release
— ED JOHNSON-OTT
GREAT JEWISH FILMS WITH GREAT JEWISH STORIES MEANS GREAT IMPACT From Hasidic Jews confronting their homosexuality ( Trembling Before G_D); to four overweight Israeli men who find Sumo wrestling their way to be appreciated and honored (A Matter of Size) — nine Jewish movies in the premier Indianapolis Jewish Film Festival for you to view, review, consider and enjoy.
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Coming up May 3 is American Homebrewers Association Big Brew Day, when thousands of homebrewers worldwide brew the same beers simultaneously and stop at 1 p.m. local time to toast craft beer writer Michael Jackson, whose The World Guide to Beer was most instrumental in alerting people to a quality life with craft brews. Everyone is welcome to Brew Day events. Homebrewers were instrumental in starting the modern craft beer ‘revolution.’ “Homebrewers are still driving the growth,” says Ron Smith about the current scene with proliferating craft breweries. “Most of the new breweries opening are small ones and they are the homebrewers trying to go pro.” Michael Jackson Events at Great Fermentations, running 10 a.m.-4 p.m., are FREE, but register at greatfermentations.com. The store also invites, “Bring your old equipment with you and sell it to your fellow homebrewers.” Here’s what’s happening at the Indianapolis location: 11 a.m., Beer Judge Certification Program judge Sandy Cockerham shows how to properly pick a coffee to use in your next batch. 12 p.m., Learn three of the most common off flavors in beer. 1:15 p.m., Consult with a BJCP-certified judge to help determine if your brew is competition worthy. 2 p.m., Ted Miller (Brugge Brasserie and Outliers Brewing) shows how beer and food pairing is done And in Avon: 10:30 a.m., consult with a BJCP certified judge for a competition worthy. Noon, learn three of the most common off flavors in beer. 1:30 p.m., Dustin Brown from Cutters Brewing talks about transitioning from homebrewer to pro brewer. 2:45 p.m., Adrian Ball of Sun King discusses creating sour beers and managing your barrel projects. Cartel Brewing Supply is also hosting events 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at 1139 Shelby St., Alley Suite. They’re FREE, but register at supply@cartelbrewing.com or call 408-6970. New to Broad Ripple The Michigan-based bar chain HopCat has announced plans to open a restaurant and bar featuring 130 craft beers on tap in August at 821 Broad Ripple Ave. Clayton Robinson, president of Brewers of Indiana Guild, comments: “I have met with the HopCat folks and talked extensively about their plans to open in Broad Ripple. They are solid people and everything I have heard from industry friends in Michigan about how they run their operation and interact with the community has been incredibly positive. They plan to showcase local beer and they design each location with the local area in mind, so it is far from a plug and play chain.”
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and found the service to be great. And once seated we could certainly appreciate the appeal of the place. Bare bulb strings of lights and a variety of table styles, including a picnic table, add to the cantina vibe, making La Mulita a comfortable place to hang out. Here’s where the value comes in: You could easily order a $3 basket of crisp chips with a flavorful salsa fresca and a $5 chicken croquettes appetizer, which comes with a tasty serrano aioli, and have plenty to snack on while enjoying a drink or two. Or order a taco and cemita (a small sandwich) combo for $7. The pork Milanese cemita and a grilled shrimp taco are solid options. Or try the $6 Mexicano hot dog, which certainly sounded good, wrapped in bacon and topped with pico de gallo,
guacamole, chipotle mayo and caramelized onions. It didn’t lack for flavor, but unfortunately, underneath all the toppings, the dog itself was cold. Because it has potential, though, I might give it another try, but with a specific request to make sure the dog is indeed hot. But the star of the meal was the chilaquiles, which pretty much made up for any disappointments. The basic dish, strips of tortillas topped with salsa, onions, radish, crema and queso fresco, is $5, but you really need to add on the optional fried eggs for an extra buck — the eggs make the dish. You can also get a modest addition of steak for an extra $3, which was a nice plus. With all the extras, the dish is perfect hangover food — not the best-looking fare, but hearty, tasty and great with that margarita or sangria. Churros and chocolate ($3.50) provide a little something sweet, and we enjoyed those too. We’ll be back — for drinks, chips and salsa and definitely the chilaquiles. Jolene Ketzenberger covers local food at EatDrinkIndy.com. Follow her on Twitter at @JKetzenberger.
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q Margot lead singer Richard Edwards opens Sling Shot to Heaven, the fifth full-length album from Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, with the greeting “Hello, San Francisco, baby, I don’t ever wanna die.” Well, technically, he begins the album by gruffly clearing his throat, coughing and then delivering that powerful opening line in a sweetly sad, bedside register. Moments like this seem to be conscious choices Edwards and his fellow Nukes made while cutting “Hello, San Francisco” and the 12 songs that follow to two-inch tape at Queensize, the same studio where their debut, The Dust of Retreat, was recorded a decade ago, with minimal overdubbing. And those choices inform the uncommon intimacy that sends Sling Shot to Heaven soaring. Even after stripping away most (but not all, see: the extraordinary use of an organ paired with Edwards’ soulful, virile howl on “Long Legged Blonde”) of the orchestral flourishes that have long been a substantial part of the band’s sound, longtime champions of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s will discover Sling Shot to Heaven produces all that magical, earnest elixir that made The Dust of Retreat and highs from subsequent albums so special. The grainy, gorgeous production casts a gripping spell and enhances the dreamlike reflections. With the exceptions of the sleeves-rolled-up electricity of “Longlegged Blonde,” “Bleary-eye-d Blue” and “I Can’t Sleep My Eyes Are Flat,” the record is largely a gently paced, acoustic offering awash in fluttering harmonies and meticulously crafted arrangements. On tunes like “When You’re Gone,” Edwards’ vocals crawl into the listeners’ ears so delicately and purely that the song’s effect is almost unnerving. It’s unnerving in the heartiest of ways, though: any barriers of technology or time between the artist and the audience are washed away. Sling Shot to Heaven feels genuine, deeply human, undoubtedly fussed-over without the slightest trace of lingering fussiness, and fiercely alive. When Edwards and his fellow Nukes are at their peak, an extraordinary occurrence tends to unfold: in sometimes disarming, always melodic ways, their songs remind you how good it can feel to be living in your skin, even when you have to sift through sadness to realize it. And Sling Shot to Heaven makes that feeling a reality with a frequency that may impress even the most long-standing Margot fans. — JUSTIN WESLEY A longer review is online at NUVO.net.
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t might be a bit embarrassing for anyone to listen back to the recording of my conversation with Wanda Jackson from last week. Each pause in the legend’s stories about touring with Johnny Cash, dating Elvis and recording some of the very first rock songs ever is punctuated by a breathy sigh. (That’s me.) I almost couldn’t take it; Jackson’s just too cool. And she’s been that cool for almost 60 years. After moving from country to rock music in the ‘50s (Elvis convinced her), Jackson made a right turn back to country, before venturing into gospel. But she’s mostly returned to that rockabilly sound that made her so beloved with new albums produced by modern rockstars Jack White and Justin Townes Earle. She released her collaboration with White, The Party Ain’t Over, in 2011; Earle produced her 31st studio album, Unfinished Business, in 2012. Her tour, which stops in Indy this week, features a set that winds its way through the last half-century in American music (even including a yodel “if she feels brave”).
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Jackson will perform at Deluxe at Old National Centre on Thursday. NUVO: What’s your playlist look like for this tour? WANDA JACKSON: It seems like my audience wants to hear the rock and roll songs I recorded in the ‘50s, and, well, into the ‘60s. So it’s mostly that. But since I started in country music, I have to put in some country. I also put in some songs from current albums. NUVO: Do you get any gospel in there? JACKSON: Yes, I do. I think I’m only doing one song this time. I’ve got two from The Party Ain’t Over, and then the rest of
them are singles from the ‘50s: “Fujiyama Mama,” “Rock Your Baby.” That’s basically what it will look like. I even throw in a yodel if I feel real brave. NUVO: To what do you attribute the renewed interest in rockabilly? JACKSON: Well, the only thing I can think of is the simplicity of the songs. If you can play a guitar at all, if you know three chords, you can sing probably your favorite rockabilly song. I think the innocence of the music, it takes everyone back immediately in your thoughts to the ‘50s, when things were slower paced. When teenagers could be teenagers. They didn’t have to worry so much about walking home from the theater, walking to a restaurant or something. I wish it could still be that way for our young people, but it seems like they have to grow up a little faster these days. The songs are about simple things. Teenage dances, convertibles, things like that. NUVO: Since you bring up lyrical innocence, I was reading an interview with you SEE, WANDA ON PAGE 28
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LITTLE CHATS MARK BUSELLI’S UNTOLD STORIES REVEALED Trumpeter and educator Mark Buselli has loamed large in the Indianapolis jazz scene for two decades. Buselli has performed alongside Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Bobby McFerrin, Natalie Cole, The Four Tops, The Temptations and several others. He has played for former US Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. A former jazz professor at Butler University, Buselli is currently in his seventh year as the Director of Jazz Studies at Ball State University and is the Education Director of the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra. This Sunday, Buselli leads his quintet in an album release celebration for his 10th and latest project, Untold Stories. Saxophonist Danny Walsh, pianist Steve Allee, bassist Jeremy Allen and drummer Steve Houghton are all returning to the Jazz Kitchen. Here’s a selection from a conversation I had with Buselli before Sunday’s performance.
NUVO: You were really close to pianist Claude Sifferlen, and you composed the ballad “Claude” on Untold Stories in his memory. What was it like writing, performing and dedicating such an intimate piece on your album? MARK BUSELLI: Claude was one of the greatest musicians that I have ever known. I was inspired by his use of reharmonization, so I sat down and labored over all the chords for a long time. Steve Allee is the pianist on the album, and he was a student of Claude’s, so it was really important that he play a big part in this tune’s dedication. Part of the beauty and magic of this song was also that the recording was a first-take, meaning that no one had even seen it before — we saw it for the first time, read it down, looked at each other and it went on the album. NUVO: The seven tracks on this album are a mixture of original compositions from you and Allee, with only one non-original tune included: Duke Ellington’s “Angelica.” How did you select the pieces for this project?
BUSELLI: On my last album, I wrote all the tunes. This time, I knew if Allee wrote some of the tracks, it would make for a really interesting recording. Lo’ and behold, he came up with some great ones! We threw in “Angelica” because it was an interesting, calypso-like tune I’d never heard before. We recorded it first to get everyone warmed up and comfortable — it’s such a simple tune, but all the interplay between Allee’s piano comping and the rest of the ensemble really transformed it into something quirky and great.
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NUVO: 60 years. Congratulations on your 60th year! JACKSON: Wow. Well, thank you very much! I’ll accept that compliment. That’s quite a feat. So you can imagine, some of the blues songs, I did a whole album of blues. I just loved blues, and rockabilly kind of stems from that. I did have a song specially written for me, during the transition from country to rock. It was called “I Gotta Know,” and it had some country in it. The first lines were country, and then it went directly into the real rock and roll sound of the ‘50s. “If our love’s the real thing, where’s my wedding ring?” My audience sings right along with me on that line.
in the Chicago Tribune that mentions that Jack White wanted you to record an Amy Winehouse song, but initially you objected to the lyrics. JACKSON: …. I prefer to leave some things to the imagination. I don’t think that we have to gyrate around on stage. Elvis was cute, the things he did. His was dancing, it wasn’t vulgar. Well, at least in my teenage mind it wasn’t. Shoot, I had a crush on him just like all the other young girls. NUVO: And you dated him, right? JACKSON: Yeah, I worked with him quite a bit. We became good friends. My dad traveled with me in the beginning to help me and act as my manager and my driver. He was very instrumental in my career and he helped me so much, and my mother also. So Daddy liked Elvis. They got along good. He’d let me go out with him after a show and go get a burger. Sometimes he would go with us, and Scotty and Bill. But [Elvis and I] tried to just get off by ourselves, go to a drive in and have a burger and talk. We would catch matinees a lot of times in the afternoon if we got into town at the same time. There was always several people on the tour. It wasn’t like today where you have a superstar and an opening act. We had package shows; there would be four or five, sometimes six artists on the bill. There was always quite a few of us around. But that’s what our dating amounted to, since I lived in Oklahoma and he lived in Tennessee. He called me just about every day when we weren’t working. We got along great. And of course it was Elvis that talked to me quite a bit about doing this new kind of music like he was doing, and like the kids liked so much. He explained to me that the young people were now the ones buying the records, and the ones coming out to the concerts to see the acts. It made sense, because I was seeing that every night. My dad and I talked about it, and he talked to Daddy about it also. We thought if I wanted to sell a lot of records, I needed to record this. I remember him saying, “You don’t have to give up country music,” because by the time I graduated high school, I’d already had two or three, a couple of songs in the Billboard Country Music charts. I had one that went up as high as #5. So, because I’d signed with Decca Records as a junior in high school, and I was ready to go on the road and take advantage of the popularity of those two songs, he just explained that I didn’t have to give up country music and lose the fans that I had gained, just add this to my repertoire. So I graduated in 1955, so by ‘56, I changed record labels – I went from Decca to Capitol – and I thought, well, if I’m going to try this
NUVO: These two contemporary artists that you’ve recorded with, Justin [Townes Earle] and Jack [White] – what were some of the differences in their working styles?
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new music, this would be a good time to do it. So that’s what I did. In my first session with Capitol, I recorded “Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad.” And they let me. My producers said, “That’s fine. It seems to be the music that people want. I don’t understand it, but I’ll let you record it.” Mine were songs that adults could appreciate, too. But Elvis had the hard time with the adults because of that dancing, and maybe some of the lyrics of the songs. They weren’t like today’s, but that was something so new, that it frightened the adults. They just couldn’t understand why we liked it. And of course the more they rebelled against it, the more we rebelled against them. That was kind of the tone of things. Kids for the first time were having money, so they were able to buy records. And they were the ones that called radio stations asking for Elvis and asking for maybe my song, and Carl Smith and Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash. And of course I worked with all those, they were on those package shows. NUVO: You’ve transitioned through so many different genres. Was there one that felt like the most natural fit? JACKSON: I think the transition to rock and roll – it’s hard for me to call it rockabilly, that was such a small window of time – that was quite natural. I didn’t think it would be. I was more shocked that anybody. As far as songs, there’s been a lot of those. You know, I’ve recorded for 55 years, 56 years, I think. Do the math! ‘54 I did my first recording. How many years has it been, dear?
JACKSON: Actually, they were the difference of black and white. With Justin, we were kind of rushed. I don’t know what difference that made, but we had to work out the songs for that album actually by telephone. Of course, we were together in the studio. He had ideas for the songs, the structures of the songs; whether to have an intro, to take a break before the first chorus; we worked very comfortably together. I left a lot of it up to him, because that’s why I chose him. … Justin and I were so comfortable with each other that he didn’t have to do much directing in terms of how I sang a song. Jack allowed me to do the same thing, but Jack pushed me harder. That’s what it took, because his arrangements were big arrangements. I had to come on strong and hold my own against it. He kept reminding me of that 18-year-old girl that was still there in me – I just had to pull her out. Jack of course is such a big name, and he has such a huge audience that I’m sure a lot of the direction came from that. I loved him to death. We got along great, but he was about the first producer in ages that helped me by pushing me. You know, we’re like anybody else in their job; we can get pretty laid back and pretty comfortable just doing what we always do. It goes over fine, there’s nothing wrong with that. But when I hit the studio with Jack, I could see that [it] was different. So I was so glad that he did take the liberty to tell me, “Now, do this line like this. Push a little harder. Give me more of that Wanda Jackson.” We got along great, but I kidded him about being a slavedriver. On one of the tracks, he left it on there and didn’t ask me about it first, but if you listen closely on the song, “You Know I’m No Good,” you hear Jack say, “We’re rolling,” and I say, “And I always have to push.” Have you heard that? A lot of people have heard it and asked me about it. n
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’m too high, I’m too high, I’m too high,” echoes an incessant refrain over a frenetic drum and bass beat in “I’m Too Hi,” off the critically praised 2013 LP Double Cup by Chicago footwork producer DJ Rashad. Double Cup helped push the underground Chicago footwork sound into mainstream view, garnering positive notice in publications from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone, while earning Rashad a place among the elite of international electronic music producers. The future looked bright for the 34-year-old, but sadly Double Cup will be remembered as the producer’s swan song. Rashad was found dead in a Southside Chicago apartment last Saturday. Although it’s primarily an instrumental work, Double Cup is rife with references to drug culture like the one quoted above. The album title itself is a nod to lean, the potent cocktail of prescription cough syrup and fruit-flavored soda referred to in Southern hip-hop as purple drank. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Rashad’s death was likely an overdose; Chicago police have reported that drugs and paraphernalia were found near his body. I had the opportunity to interview Rashad (who was born in Hammond, Ind.) while he visited Indy as part of Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap tour in December, where he played an extraordinary postconcert set alongside fellow Chicago footwork producer DJ Spinn. I’ll always remember Rashad as one of the kindest and most humble artists I’ve ever spoken with. At the time of our interview Double Cup had just been released on the influential European label Hyperdub and Rashad was widely being touted as the ambassador of footwork music. But he was quick to downplay the title and share credit with fellow Chicago producers. “I’m just one of the ambassadors,” he told me. “I can’t say I’m even the top; it’s me, DJ Clint, R.P. Boo, DJ Spinn and Traxman. We’re the original footwork guys and we’re all carrying the sound on,” Rashad told me. I asked Rashad to describe the sound of footwork and explain the genre’s penchant for dark textures and avant-garde sample material. “It’s just raw and dirty, fucking in-yourface, crazy, weird, bass-heavy shit. There’s no limits on the footwork sound,” Rashad said, while pointing to footwork dancers as a key source of inspiration. “It’s influenced by the aggression of the dancers. They like that dark, weird, crazy shit.”
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On Double Cup Rashad successfully blended the street elements of footwork with sophisticated production techniques. With the critical success of Double Cup, Rashad forced the attention of the music world back on the Midwest as a source point for important developments in EDM, a history Rashad emphasized as having great importance on his musical growth. “Cajmere’s “Percolator” really brought me into the scene. I was in 5th grade when I heard it. After that it was DJ Deeon and DJ Milton. Those guys are my idols and they’re Chicago ghetto house legends. They made me want to stop dancing and start producing and become a DJ.” It remains to be seen if footwork can recover from the loss of its most important innovator. But Rashad left behind a strong crew of colleagues under his Teklike banner. One of those artists, DJ Tre, appeared in Indy this Tuesday in what became an impromptu memorial for DJ Rashad. DJ Tre performed as part of Broke(n) Tuesdays at Melody Inn. The weekly event series has been the most prominent exponent of the footwork sound in Indy. “Obviously, I could never have fathomed the death of DJ Rashad when I booked DJ Tre,” Jay-P Gold, Broke(n) Tuesdays organizer said. “But it’s an honor to celebrate the music and legacy of DJ Rashad with one of his co-founders in TekLife.” n > > Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // MUSIC 29
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WEDNESDAY ROCK Bronze Radio Return Hartford’s revival rock group Bronze Radio Return might have a particularly unwieldy name, but they’ve got plenty of simple rootrock charm to balance that out. They’re touring their 2013 release Up, On & Over. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., 8 p.m., 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham Blues Band, Russ Bucy, Slippery Noodle Inn, 21+ Square Social Circle, The Orchard Keepers, All Boy/All Girl, Pretty Pretty, Goners, Melody Inn, 21+ Tin Roof Open Mic, Tin Roof, 21+ New Orleans Nights on the B Side, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Southern Culture on the Skids, Vogue, 21+ Dave Barnes, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Retro Rewind, Vogue, 21+
THURSDAY LEGENDS Wanda Jackson Flip back to page 26 to read our interview with Wanda Jackson. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 9 p.m., 21+ 30 MUSIC // 04.30.14 - 05.07.14 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
DANCE Bootleg DJs rotate weekly at the Biscuit for a laid-back night of jams and … Prohibition-era cocktails? It works more smoothly than one may expect. Currently DJs Rasul, Paren, Stroble and MetroGnome take turns at the decks. The Ball and Biscuit can get crowded, but it’s worth the wait for a seat on the low leather seats – and even more worth it if a talented local DJ programming the evening’s soundtrack. Ball & Biscuit, 331 Massachusetts Ave., 10 p.m., FREE, 21+ ALT-COUNTRY Jay Farrar We happily slap on the genre tag alt-country on this Jay Farrar blurb because he is the original alt-country originator – first, in Uncle Tupelo, and then Son Volt. Farrar is an incredibly prolific creator; in addition to his multiple groups, he’s released two solo full-lengths, two EPs, various live recordings and one film score. Count on samples from most of those (don’t expect the film score) at this show Thursday.
hit up Sensu lately? It’s a swanky combo sushi and dance bar. Get bottle service or get roll service – whatever your heart desires. Sensu is one of the clubs that gets the swanky post-game parties, and so on, so you can go here to feel fancy. Go on, get that Grey Goose bottle. You deserve it. Sensu, 225 S. Meridian St., 10 p.m., 21+ DANCE Keepin’ It Deep Featured by NUVO as Indy’s best weekly house event in 2010, this event continues to provide regular opportunities for house fans to experience the classier side of Downtown Indy. The Keepin’ It Deep guys have a special talent for snagging huge national acts as they ping-pong from coast to coast — probably because John Larner and Slater Hogan are legends themselves. And don’t forget the local support: Manic, Adam Jay, John Larner, Tyler Stewart, Ashley Ross, Clay Collier, Deanne and Grenadine have all taken over the stacks at Blu. This week’s event features Samaro, Cam Miller, Foxxtrott and host Slater Hogan. Blu Lounge, 240 S. Meridian St., 10 p.m., 21+ OPENINGS May Day Calling all comrades; this show features an acoustic set by Benny and The Planes.
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Altered Thurzdaze Get a healthy dose of EDM every Thursday night. Both Mousetrap
SOUNDCHECK regulars and electronic music fans will find something to like about this weekly event, especially as genres like dubstep, EDM and house music gain a greater share of pop culture attention. This is a great way to kick the weekend off early, and get a little of practice dancing before you shake your groove thing in nearby Broad Ripple on the weekend. There’s a different lineup of songs every weekend, but one thing remains the same; this is an EDM dream and an all-around blast of a dance party. Mousetrap, 5565 N. Keystone Ave., 9 p.m., FREE, 21+ Black Voodoo, Rathskeller, 21+ The Spilling Bee, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Mike Adams at His Honest Weight LP Release Show, Russian Recording, all-ages Les Rhinoceros, Ensemble Amp, Eddy Kwon, Joyful Noise, all-ages Rhett Coles Karaoke Road Show, Dear John’s Pub, 21+ Leftover Salmon, Vogue, 21+ Latin Night, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ DJ Rican, Sensu, 21+
FRIDAY ROCK Mike Adams at His Honest Weight You’ll have to stay tuned for our Mike Adams retrospective in an upcoming issue, but don’t miss this album release stop at Joyful Noise on Friday. He’s touring his brand new album Best of Boiler Room Classics (out next Tuesday on Joyful Noise and Flannelgraph) – and this is the first time he’s heading out on the road with a full band.
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Night Moves DJs Action Jackson and Megatone hold down this Rad Summer event, which has creeped its way around town (starting at the now-gone Night Porter, we believe). Metro’s the best for dancing, and this one? It’s totally, 100 percent free.
David Allan Coe You’ve got your chance to see the outlaw country star this Friday at 8 Second Saloon. It’s not the ‘70s no more, but he’ll still win you over with “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile.”
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Infamous EP Release Show Infamous is full of youngsters (undergrads and a couple juniors at Fishers High School, to be specific); they’re releasing their second EP at this show with I-Exist, Cast from Perfection, Of Creations and Citizen Kane.
Hoosier Prine Tim Grimm, Jan Lucas, Jason Wilber, The Underhills, Hoosier Darling, Greg Ziesemer and Kriss Luckett will play the music of John Prine at this show down South.
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FIRST FRIDAY Collaborating Creativity Two or more artists collaborated on each piece at this First Friday show. Dell Zell, Carey Goodspeed, Cyrus Youngman and Adventure Time will perform. Fountain Square Brewing Co., 1301 Barth Ave., 6 p.m., 21+ REUNIONS Haste the Day Reunion This mega-watt local reunion features the original lineup of the Christian metalcore band (including original singer Jimmy Ryan, so they’re commemorating the tenth anniversary of their album Burning Bridges. They reached a certain degree of success in the late aughts; this show should certainly be massive. Still Remains will open. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 9 p.m., $15, all-ages
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Laraaji Cultural Manifesto columnist Kyle Long turned us on to this artist, who plays a homemade electric autoharp; his most famous work is an album with Brian Eno in 1980, but he’s been getting renewed attention for the reissue I Am The Center. Log on to NUVO.net to peep a couple videos and tracks we’ve collected. This is his first time in Indy.
DANCE WTFridays It’s Friday, you’re tired, we get it. But we insist you come home from work, take a little nap – maybe even shower? – and then get yourself Downtown for DJ Gabby Love and DJ Helicon’s WTFridays, an open-format dance night featuring, in Gabby’s words, “a variety of past, present and future jams.” It’s free and jumps off every Friday at 10 p.m. Social, 245 McCrea St., 10 p.m., FREE, 21+
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Popular Ego, The Constants Another stellar entry in MFT’s monthly local showcase, featuring Lafayette’s Popular Ego (Jurassic Pop) and hometowners The Constants. Free and early.
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Fletcher Place Art and Books, 642 Virginia Ave., 7 p.m., FREE, all-ages REGGAE Reggae Revolution More than 16 years later, Danger and DJ Indiana Jones are still spinning reggae and reggae-infused beats at Casba. We’ve been dancing our asses off to their carefully chosen beats for almost as long. Reggae Revolution is not only Indy’s longest-running dance night, but one of the only places to be still dancing all night as the weekend winds down. If you’ve got any energy after a long weekend, head over to Casba. Maybe the $2.50 Red Stripe and Casba shots will help get you out on a Sunday. Casba, 6319 Guilford Ave., 10 p.m., FREE, 21+ REGGAE Dynamite! Day of rest? We don’t think so. Head out on Sunday to the Mass Avenue Pub for an all-vinyl funk and soul party anchored by DJs Salazar and Topspeed. Special guests will join on occasion. Keep the Naptown funk alive by gettin’
Jason McCash Memorial Show This massive memorial show honors the life of Gates of Slumber bassist Jason McCash, who passed away earlier in the month – and, in an additional blow to the metal scene, Radiation Sickness guitarist Tom Ball died last week. Bands scheduled the play include Coffinworm, Radiation Sickness, Apostle of Solitude, Occult Deceiver, Majhas, Bulletwolf and Iron Diamond. The first band hits the stage at 4 p.m. Birdy’s Bar and Grill, 2131 E. 71st, 3:30 p.m., $10, 21+ JAZZ Mark Buselli Quintet CD Release Party Read our interview with Buselli on page 28. Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., 6 p.m., $12, 21+ Black Violin, Warren Performing Arts Center, all-ages Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ I See Stars, Like Moths to Flames, Ghost Town, Emerson Theater, all-ages Fitz and The Tantrums, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Matt Pryor, Blue of Colors, Ryan Puett, DO317 Lounge, 21+ YG, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages Crushed Out, Charlie Patton’s War, Brother O’ Brother, Frankie Camaro, Melody Inn, 21+
MONDAY SECRETLY CANADIAN Angel Olsen That voice, that voice. The songstress (now signed to local label Secretly Canadian) will play with Promised Land Sound and Elephant Micah. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. 8 p.m., $10 in advance, $12 at door, 18+ The Slackers, Brass Rail, 21+ Bonnie’s Badass Bash with Seven Handle Circus and DJs, Bakersfield Tacos, 21+ Smith, Weakley and Clark, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
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Fisting First My partner and I are working on fisting. We make a point to take the necessary precautions (sobriety, latex glove, lube on lube on lube, and time) but after having ensured all of the safety points, there lacks the spontaneity with which great sex is often coupled. Have you any advice on how to maintain sexiness AND safety? — Anonymous, from Tumblr
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I wish there was a way you could play around with construction equipment for a few hours. I’d love it if you could get behind the wheel of a bulldozer and flatten a small hill. It would be good for you to use an excavator to destroy a decrepit old shed or clear some land of stumps and dead trees. Metaphorically speaking, that’s the kind of work you need to do in your inner landscape: move around big, heavy stuff; demolish outworn structures; reshape the real estate to make way for new building projects. Gemini
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superfluities,” said Michelangelo. Do you agree? Could you make your life more marvelous by giving up some of your trivial pursuits? Would you become more attractive if you got rid of one of your unimportant desires? Is it possible you’d experience more lyrical grace if you sloughed off your irrelevant worries? I suggest you meditate on questions like these, Virgo. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, experiencing beauty is not a luxury right now, but rather a necessity. For the sake of your mental, physical, and spiritual health, you need to be in its presence as much as possible. Leo
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Dear Oracle: I might
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Eat like you love yourself,” advises author Tara Stiles. “Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” Those four prescriptions should be top priorities for you, Aquarius. Right now, you can’t afford to treat your beautiful organism with even a hint of carelessness. You need to upgrade the respect and compassion and reverence you give yourself. So please breathe like you love yourself. Sleep and dream like you love yourself. Think like you love yourself. Make love like you love yourself. Aquarius
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Beauty is the purgation of
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you finally understand that
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you to be rich. Or at least richer. And I know for a fact that I want you to be richer. What about you? Do you want to be wealthier? Or at least a bit more flush? Or would you rather dodge the spiritual tests you’d have to face if you became a money magnet? Would you prefer to go about your daily affairs without having to deal with the increased responsibilities and obligations that would come with a bigger income? I suspect you will soon receive fresh evidence about these matters. How you respond will determine whether or not you’ll be able to take advantage of new financial opportunities that are becoming available.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m pretty sure God wants
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If blindfolded, most people can’t tell the difference between Pepsi and CocaCola. But I bet you could, at least this week. Odds are good that you will also be adept at distinguishing between genuine promises and fakes ones. And you will always know when people are fooling themselves. No one will be able to trick you into believing in hype, lies, or nonsense. Why? Because these days you are unusually perceptive and sensitive and discerning. This might on occasion be a problem, of course, since you won’t be able to enjoy the comfort and consolation that illusions can offer. But mostly it will be an asset, providing you with a huge tactical advantage and lots of good material for jokes. Pisces
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