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A collection of reflections from different sectors of bbusiness and advocacy on the work of the recently cconcluded 2013 Indiana General Assembly.

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LLEWIS BLACK STAGE PG. 17 A interview with the popular comedian, who An pperforms at the Murat Center on Thursday, May 9.

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Kris Komakech is turning all of Indy into his art gallery — from his highly detailed maps to his growing collection of clocks.

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T Indy Food Council officially launched April 25 The with a well-attended open forum at The Platform at w tthe City Market.

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JULY 30TH, 1945 Possibly the smallest gallery in Indy is also one of the best. Witness this show, opening Friday as part of the overall First Friday celebration. Inspired by the USS Indianapolis’s tragic fate, it’s a site-specific installation sure to beguile.

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t wasn’t intentional, but as I read the Indy economic development live updates critiquing the closing activist, local entrepreneur, kickboxer and Virgo working to help hours of the 2013 General Assembly last nonprofits, small businesses and Friday, I couldn’t stop humming “Stuck in startups. the Middle with You” by Stealers Wheel.

Humming, because I have absolutely no idea what the words are and really only even know the song thanks to the representing 91 other counties the ability Mr. Blonde ear-cutting scene in Quentin “fix” our system as needed. What SB 621 Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. also did was eliminate four of your CityBut, the melody is catchy, and the chorus County councillors (the “at-large” councilresonated as I saw each scathing indictlors who currently are all Democrats and ments about how this bill or that new law are elected by all voters) after their terms would irreversibly change the landscape are up at the end of 2015. of Indiana’s political scene and doom the Rewind to angry Democrats shaking Democrats (or the Republicans depending fists: “These are our elected officials! What on who was tweeting, Facebooking or commenting on each new piece of legislation.) gives a bunch of Republican politicians Despite my partisan political backwho aren’t even from Marion County ground, for the first time ever I was truly the RIGHT to meddle in our affairs!?” stuck in the middle of the debates with Inconvenient fact check: The “right” to do the vast majority of Hoosiers in and around Indianapolis.

After spending over two-thirds Average NUVO reader: At best, of my life campaigning as a volunteer, paid staffer and canyou probably had to Google SB 621. didate, I could sit back in my relatively uninvolved capacity as Citizen Feeney-Ruiz and experience the debate as one of the 95 perso was part of that Unigov thing, and the cent or so of regular folks in the middle — fact is that both parties have tried to elimiwithout a dog in the fight; people who are nate these at-large positions dating back likely fairly oblivious to the “earth shatteralmost 40 years. ing” implications of Senate Bill 621, as well “But our collective voice will be hushed as the so-called “Ag-Gag” bill and other after we went to the polls en masse and political trench battles about which most elected these public servants!” casual observers don’t care.

Honestly, 1.4 out of 10 of you who are This is not one of those scathing indictregistered to vote cast a ballot for the ments of voter apathy or why you should top vote-getting at-large candidate, John pay more attention to what happens in the Barth, in the 2011 municipal election.

Statehouse or the City-County Building.

Almost 7,000 fewer of you voted for the I mean, seriously, you should pay more at-large candidate elected with the lowest attention, but I’m not going to twist your vote total, Leroy Robinson. I would venarm. This is a commentary on the pundits, ture a guess most folks don’t know either party insiders and others (admittedly I fall of these gentlemen as they and their felinto one or more of those categories) who low at-larges must crisscross the county wrangle time and again only to be the last and find a way to interact with almost ones standing (if not the first and only 650,000 registered Marion County voters ones) during these policy contests. and their families.

Average NUVO reader: At best, you probThrough my time running for council ably had to Google SB 621. The reality is and state representative over the last few that it probably didn’t even rise to the level years, I have gotten to know two of the of necessity in your life to bother doing four soon-to-be-eliminated councillors. I so. I don’t blame you. The vast majority genuinely like them and hope to see them of the bills passed by the state’s House run in their local districts. But their posiand Senate on the last day of our legislations fell victim to the reality of politics tive session can be summed up as “inside during a legislative session in which their baseball.” Most of SB 621 revolves around party (a party which had tried to do the tweaks to how budgets and appointments exact thing in the past) had the disadvanare made in Indianapolis. tage. Yet outside of the pundits and insidIt’s an evolution of the 1970 Unigov Act ers, and to most of us stuck in the middle, that unified most of our city and Marion County while also giving state legislators it was barely a blip on our radars.

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SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS ANNOUNCES 2013 HONOREES The annual Sustainability Awards, held April 24 Downtown, recognized myriad projects through which sustainability becomes an action word.

Air: Local lead recycler Quemetco, Inc.’s Wet Electrostatic Precipitator (WESP) technique for reducing particulate matter. Recognized as “unique to this industry and to this city,” Quemetco says WESP enables a 97 percent reduction in emissions, resulting in levels that are “in general … the lowest in our industry.”

Energy: Monarch Beverage’s Compressed Natural Gas Conversion Project, which will convert 85 percent of its fleet to CNG and build an on-site fueling station. The ultimate result? An estimated annual reduction in CO 2 emissions of 1,500 tons and displacement of 800,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year.

Land: Big Car Service Center for Culture and Community for site reclamation at its 11,500-square foot Lafayette Square facility. The asphalt lot at the former Firestone Tire shop now features ten raised garden beds. The building itself has been spruced up with new paint and lighting, and is home to one of the 46 for XLVI Super Bowl murals.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: The Residences at CityWay/ The Alexander Hotel byBuckingham Companies for using R3 principles in project design and operations. Buckingham estimates that 64 percent of construction debris, 740 of 1,160 tons, were recycled, while water use was 80 percent of a comparable, conventional building project.

Water: Indy Tilth’s Rain Garden at the Double 8 grocery in Mapleton Fall Creek models how existing facilities can incorporate onsite storm-water management. The store’s rain garden accommodates almost all of the site’s stormwater, helping in the effort to eliminate nasty combined sewer overflow events.

In conjunction with the awards luncheon, the Office of Sustainability released the city’s 2012 Sustainability Report. Indy is now benchmarking it gains along seven categories established by the Sustainability Tool for Assessing and Ranking (STAR) Communities program. The city is a pilot participant in the program.

“Indy is well-known for diving into all aspects (of STAR),” Hilari Varnadore, director of the national STAR program, told the 370 people gathered at the luncheon.

“Indy is looking at every goal, trying to identify areas in which they are already succeeding and investigating the areas in which they can improve over time.” Ultimately, she said, Indianapolis understands the multifaceted benefits “an integrated approach to sustainability” yields.

AND IN SPORTS …

To those bewildered and bemused by the christening of Indy Eleven: Fear not! No one will be laughing when they meet the dominant force that will be Indy Eleven.

The team’s commitment to its local roots will prove key to its success. Just ask legendary coach Jerry Yeagley, founder of the Indiana University men’s soccer program, which now has eight national titles to its name. “We have the talent in the state now,” Yeagley said in response to NUVO’s question about the team’s prospects when it hits the field in 2014. “And if they can corral enough Indiana kids to be really championship caliber — just like IU did this year, 17 of the players on their roster were from Indiana — it would be neat to see this pro team highly represented by players from this state.”

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f more than 1,200 pieces of legislation submitted for consideration by the 2013 General Assembly, about 300 are heading to Gov. Mike Pence’s desk. NUVO reached out to different sectors of business and advocacy to compile of sampling of reflections on lawmakers’ work.

Stephen Key, General Counsel and Board

Member, respectively Hoosier State Press Association Indiana Coalition for Open Government

Highpoint: The defeat of SB 373, the “ag gag” bill. In its final version it would have been a broad weeping bill that would have impacted first amendment rights and the ability of people to report unsafe or illegal conditions in farms, factories, mines or other business and chill them from reporting situations that may be perfectly legal but might spur changes in the law.

Greatest disappointment: The defeat of HB1175, which would allow citizens to determines the form in which public records requests are delivered. For instance, if a record exists in an Excel spreadsheet, a citizen could request that the record be delivered as an Excel file instead of being converted into a PDF or printed out on paper copies. Under current law, the public agency determines the form in which records are delivered. The bill passed the House, but died in the Senate because of concerns from Indiana’s county recorders, who were concerned about the potential drop in copying fee revenue such a law change could cause.

Moving forward: Key believes the odds of passing the bill next session are better than 50 percent if an exemption for the recorders’ record perpetuation funds is added.

Julia Vaughn, policy director Common Cause Indiana Highpoint: Working with college students to kill the language in HB 1311 that would have prohibited college students paying out-of-state tuition from registering to vote.

Greatest disappointment: The low point was that legislation to create an independent redistricting commission did not get a hearing.

Moving forward: We’ll be working over the summer to build grassroots support for redistricting reform and meeting with sympathetic legislators to gain support within the Statehouse.

MARK FISHER, vice president of Government Relations and Policy Development Indy Chamber of Commerce

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Highpoint: This session made great strides in areas of workforce development, which is a major draw

for good business and talent attraction for our region. The passage of HB 1002 – Indiana Career Council, sponsored by all four caucus leaders — was a major victory in helping train and grow the type of workforce good companies are looking for.

Greatest disappointment: This Assembly did a great disservice to the people of Central Indiana by not passing HB 1011, the Central Indiana transit initiative. This is issue has been vetted for many years; (improvements) will boost our region’s competitiveness when it comes to economic development, talent attraction, tourism and overall livability. We appreciate the support we did gain this session, especially that of Rep. Jerry Torr and Sen. Pat Miller, and will work with our leaders in the General Assembly during the summer study committee to iron out the details on transit issues including governance and fiscal analysis. We remain steadfast in our mission to bring this issue to the public and will not waver in our efforts to do so.

Moving forward: In 2014, we will continue to work diligently on behalf of issues that make Central Indiana the ideal place to live, work and do business. Issues that keep our tax climate favorable to business, keep working Hoosiers on the job, and make our communities more livable will always be a top priority for the Indy Chamber. This includes keeping our eye on the ball to ensure transit moves forward and working with our elected officials and leaders in education to ensure we continue to train and grow our talented workforce.

Jesse Kharbanda, Executive Director Hoosier Environmental Council

Highpoint: The legislature — in response to an outpouring of advocacy from the public, and the tireless work of several public interest groups — acted wisely in ending policies that would have been environmentally harmful: the “right to harm” constitutional amendment (SJR 7), the “ag gag” bill (SB 373), and the “canned hunting” bill (SB 487).

Greatest disappointment: The legislature failed to adopt policy measures that would have increased jobs while improving the environment: a bill that would have boosted lake tourism while cutting phosphorus going into our lakes; a bill that would have expanded clean energy while reducing electricity bills; and a bill that would ultimately have boosted public transit investment & improved air quality.

Highest priority: Continuing to build the case for cost-effective policies and programs that will lead to more jobs for Hoosiers while improving our state’s protection of our air, water & wildlife.

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Highpoint: The ACLU of Indiana was pleased the General Assembly defeated HB 1483, which would have subjected recipients of assistance to unconstitutionally intrusive drug testing, and SB 373, the “ag gag” bill that would have been a wildly unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment rights of Free Speech. We are glad our legislators heeded our advice, in these instances, to remember their oath of office to support of the Constitution.

Greatest disappointment: The legislature assaulted women’s reproductive freedom with passage of SB 371, which

Gender-Based Violence The “Half the Sky” discussion series continues with a session led by Angela Cain, Community Affairs Director at WTHR-Channel 13.

Wednesday, May 1, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 7 p.m., Free. Dinner, 6 p.m., $10.

Dave the Raw Food Trucker Dave Conrardy, known across this nation as the Raw Food Trucker, says he was an “obese, dying man” before he discovered juicing 5 years ago. Since then he’s lost more than half his body weight and committed himself to spreading the word.

Thursday, May 2, Georgetown Market, 4375 Georgetown Rd., 6 p.m., $20

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Lawmakers sent Gov. Mike Pence a tax package Friday night that majority Republicans called a win for Hoosiers but Democrats lambasted as a joke.

The new biennial budget cuts individual income tax by 5 percent – phased in through 2017. It boosts funding for schools and transportation. And it eliminates the inheritance tax.

The budget “protects Hoosier taxpayers – taxpayers in every walk of life, taxpayers in every segment of society,” said House Ways and Means Chairman Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, the chamber’s chief budget writer.

Republicans were selling the plan as a $1.1 billion tax cut over three years but the total included money that businesses will save under a corporate tax cut the General Assembly began phasing in two years ago.

Democrats called the rhetoric an “illusion” and complained that the budget bill did little for the middle class.

House Minority Leader Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, said the average Hoosier family would save only a buck or two per week – enough for a cup of coffee – under the individual income tax cut.

The income tax cut will occur in two phases. On Jan. 1, 2015, the rate will drop from the current 3.4 percent to 3.3 percent.

For the median Hoosier household with a taxable income of $46,000, the savings would be $46 annually.

Then two years later, the rate will drop again, this time to 3.23 percent. For that same household, the additional savings would be about $32.

Democrats, though, were as critical of the two-year, $30 billion budget plan, complaining that it didn’t expand the state’s Medicaid program, as called for by the fed-

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eral Affordable Care Act. The budget authorizes Pence to ask federal officials to send Indiana its Mediciad expansion money as a block grant to be used as Indiana officials see fit. And, Pelath said, it also has no backup plan if federal officials say no.

And Democrats said the budget doesn’t give enough cash to schools.

The plan provides a 2 percent increase to schools in 2014 and 1 percent more in 2015. Brown said the total — about $13.3 billion over two years — will be the most money ever given to schools.

But Democrats said it’s not enough to make up for $300 million in cuts imposed several years ago after a recession ate into the state’s tax revenues. And House Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said the funding is especially inadequate given that some of the money will be used to fund private school vouchers.

But Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, said the key is to consider the per-student funding.

“You’re not going to find any school system where we don’t fund more money for every child in that school

corporation,” Kenley said.

The budget also puts $34 million into a fund to be spread among high-performing teachers and schools and directs the Department of Education to spend another $2 million rewarding top teachers in struggling districts.

The plan designates $215 million more for state and local road projects annually.

“It’s roads and transportation, local bridges, local roads, projects that can happen July 1,” he said. “Those orange cones can be out there right now.”

The budget sets aside another $400 million for major highway projects — including the widening of Interstates 65 and 70 and the completion of I-69 — that will be built in the future.

The plan is expected to leave the state with more than $2 billion in the bank when the two-year budget cycle ends on June 30, 2015. That includes the cash set aside for future road projects.

limits a woman’s access to a safe and legal abortion. And, despite years of effort by many to reform our criminal justice system to reduce Indiana’s serious over-incarceration, HB 1006 was amended in ways that may lead to greater prison populations. Much work remains to be done to decriminalize low-level drug offenses and to improve the sentences and conditions within our prisons so that offenders may re-enter our society with their hope and health intact.

Highest priority: The ACLU of Indiana stands with our coalition partners in support of marriage equality and in opposition to a resolution to amend the State Constitution that would enshrine discrimination and limit marriage to between a man and a woman.

Jeff Kuehl, President

Lesley Weidenbener is managing editor of TheStatehouseFile.com and long-time veteran of the Indiana Statehouse press corps.

Indiana Coalition of the Arts

Highlight: Arts advocates went into the 2013 session, having endured arts budget cuts of more than 30 percent since calendar year 2008, looking at a proposed budget from the governor’s office outlining an additional 3 percent reduction. Lawmakers avoided the reduction and found $250,000 in additional funding for arts projects support grants, earmarked mostly for rural and underserved areas.

Disappointment: I know our friends in the Department of Education are still working to rebuild cuts from years ago. I hope that becomes a priority as we move forward.

Moving forward: More for the arts. I don’t know why we can’t think of putting $1 per Hoosier into the arts budget. We once were at 66 cents per Hoosier and are now at 42.

CHAIRity Event for Center for Inquiry, IPS #2 Art students in grades 4-8 at the Center for Inquiry, IPS #2, are working to raise money for their art club trip to Northern California by reclaiming old chairs and used a variety of media to form these trashed chairs into art chairs. Come sit and be inspired. More details at www. athfound.org.

Friday, May 3, 6 p.m. Athenaeum, 401 E. Michigan St., donations welcome World War I Battle Demo The demo will explain tactics used by both German and Allied forces in the trenches from 19141918. Just like war, the organizers say, the event will proceed regardless of weather.

Saturday, May 4, Fort Harrison State Park, 5753 Glenn Road, 2 p.m., Free with $5 park gate fee.

Wake Up! Breakfast The event supports Volunteers of America of Indiana’s work to break the cycle of intergenerational incarceration by counseling women in transition from incarceration and their families.

Tuesday, May 7, U. Indy’s Schwitzer Student Center, 7:45 a.m., Tickets $40

THOUGHT BITE Let’s make Lincoln less sexist and more poetic: All people are created equal.

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’m obsessed with maps.

Prints of classic illustrations of European capital cities are tacked all over my walls. Pennants made of pages pulled from discarded atlases hang over my couch.

But my favorite map is in a frame. I found it one day inside the Illustrated Historical Atlas of The State of Indiana , published by Baskin Forester & Co. in 1876. The atlas was painstakingly laid out by Alfred T. Andreas and his band of surveyors throughout the 1870s; the result was a massive, 463-page tome.

At some point, a reprint by the Indiana Historical Society made its way to a display case inside a Bloomington bookstore, where I bought it for $11 off a bored employee working the nightshift. The entire atlas is beautiful, but the centerfold is something really special –– a Plan of Indianapolis, featuring neatly labeled farmlands, bisected by White River and Fall Creek and crisscrossed with railways. And squarely in the center, Monument Circle with roads spinning out like spokes on a wheel. It’s elegant and orderly.

But we know this –– we drive, bike and walk down these streets daily, the same roads Andreas & co. walked during the map’s creation.

That plan of Indianapolis is hanging on my wall right now, in a tidy black frame. But another map is next to it now; it’s something even better.

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I’m not sure if my coworkers know about my map-session, but someone knew to put the black and white illustrated map of Indianapolis on my desk sometime last fall.

It was incomplete, with the north and south of Marion County fleshed out more than the east and west. Drawn with pencil and traced over with pen, the map displayed Indianapolis the way it is now: dotted with hotels and restaurants, with Lucas Oil Stadium positioned just south and the Artsgarden gracefully crossing over Washington Street. But it’s not just major landmarks: a jail, Steak and Shake, bars, swimming pools were sprinkled across the 22 x 28 inch print. And, if you look closely enough, there are people. Homeless people, bike riders, people sleeping in tents in Eagle

Creek Park. There are NUVO boxes! Ken Nunn ads on buses. The Vogue, with the marquee all lit up; True Value hardware, with “Manager Mike G.” inscribed in tiny script.

I pored over the fine print for the better part of that morning. Got nothing else done, made everyone look at it. Next to it, a name, email and request: Kris

Komakech, “Add what should be in the Indy map.” I sat down and typed out a message to him right away. Something like, “I LOVE your map, and I’d LOVE to meet you.”

Kris responded that evening. He told me he would be spending Saturday and Sunday working at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and that I could come by any time. We settled on a time and date in early January. But before that, I started seeing that map around. It was in Mo’Joe, pinned to the community news board, and at Silver in the City. Kris dropped them off at places around the city where people congregate, asking them to add what they think is important in Indianapolis, crowdsourcing our collective view of the city.

That’s how notes like “Ask for bartender Annette” make their way onto the project, next to an Eastside bar.

I could barely contain my excitement the day I went to meet Kris. He was stationed inside the IMA cafe, tools spread out across his table –– a neon green highlighter, a collection of Crayola colored pencils, a few black pens –– which he crouched over, working on, yes, that map! The original radiated with color: the J. W. Marriott cast in a bright blue, yellow sailboats cruising Eagle Creek.

But there were other things spread across the table too. A huge, framed illustration, a few small, black and white sketches –– and something tiny and ticking.

And that’s when we started talking about the clocks.

A segment of Kris’ Indy city map

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(left) Plans by Kris for the Marsh grandfather clock, which integrates pieces of the city map. (right) The beginning of an illustration of Downtown Indy residents, which, when finished, will be placed in the Marsh clock.

But I’ll back up. Kris first came to the IMA four, maybe five years ago. Now, let me be clear: He doesn’t work there, as in “employed.” He creates there, hauling pens and paper to and from on a bus on days when he’s not working at his fulltime job as a woodworker at ProBuild (formerly Carter-Lee Lumber). He sits in the IMA cafe and draws.

He got to know the employees at the IMA slowly, taking meandering laps around the museum when he needed to stretch his legs.

That’s when he saw “Christ in Limbo,”a mysterious oil painting credited to a follower of Hieronymus Bosch; it’s a vivid illustration of Hell that depicts Christ’s descent to Limbo to rescue the righteous souls trapped there.

That first day, we talked about that piece.

I’ve always been drawn to it, and so has Kris. “[‘Christ in Limbo’] put me on this whole journey,” said Kris.

He’s over six feet tall, with huge hands that hover for a moment before he chooses a pen here, a pencil there.

He started working on an illustration inspired by the piece that he calls “Christ in Limbo 2: Race Crash Explosion.” It depicts an Indy Car driver flung from his car in a fiery crash; he is frozen, in limbo –– surrounded by a variety of figures, the largest being the driver’s wife, adopted child and the child’s biological parents. It’s high-contrast pop art, extremely detailed and reminiscent of the apocalyptic work of Robert Williams.

When Kris began the piece, all the figures were purely fictional.

“I didn’t really talk to a lot of folks [when I was working on ‘Christ in Limbo 2’], because I was basically dissecting my mind,” he said.

But as he worked more at the IMA, and got to know the people there, something changed. He started adding IMA employees into the illustration, mostly in miniature.

There’s the chef from the cafe (now gone), shaking his fist at a tiny self-portrait of Kris inside, yelling “This is a cafe, not your studio!”

Gallery guards, curators, even Contemporary Art chairwoman Lisa Freiman are fitted inside the small gaps in the illustration, which alternate groups subjects of human obsession (pornography, technology, religion) with popular Indianapolis figures, including Bobby Knight, Jim Irsay and Reggie Miller. The end product is a fiery conglomeration of fictional characters layered with mythologized real, local figures, an exploration of humanity localized to Indianapolis.

MAPS Sometime in the last year, Kris began work on the map that ended up on my desk. He was inspired by a mental game he’s played since childhood.

“When I couldn’t sleep, I’d take the J.C. Penny’s catalogue, memorize all the stuff, build a home in my head,” said Kris.

Now, at 34, he’s moved on from catalogues.

“Now, I get into whole cities; take them apart, see what I can do,” said Kris. “I do a ‘Where’s Waldo’ in my mind with the whole city. It’s like a game to me.”

But he goes beyond landmarks and street names, and integrates the people and events he sees daily into his work. It’s an exercise in illustrating cultural memory.

“To me, maps represent what’s happening right now. We had the Super Bowl, we had the presidential election, we had this festival –– people will look at this ( gesturing toward map) and see this is how we contributed.”

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It’s not the only map he’s made. He also created a miniature map of the IMA and its grounds, in the shape of a maneki-neko –– lucky cat –– which he personalized and handed out to over 130 people. That was what was ticking on the table that first day –– a cat clock just for me.

The finished product includes my favorite local band (Murder by Death), my co-workers, the tie-dyed NUVO Street Team jeep, all hidden inside the IMA map illustration. And right in the center, there’s me. Long blonde hair, cowboy boots, sitting at a table across from Kris, interviewing him.

I sat at the IMA that day, looking at an illustration of myself sitting inside the IMA doing the exact same thing. Can you imagine?

Kris gave the bulk of the cat clocks away for Christmas last year –– most of them personalized for each person, to different employees, departments, and members of the IMA.

PACKAGES The packages started a few weeks later after our first meeting, dropped off at the office after Kris was done with work. They were different each time: first, my finished clock, made of solid white oak with slender brass hands. Then, a few wood samples and a miniature map of Indy and a few cryptic notes about an upcoming “big project.” I went in to the IMA cafe a few weeks later, and Kris excitedly told me he had something in mind: city clocks. A wall clock for every institution he could think of that is unique to Indy, personalized and given away.

He’s several clocks into the process, with plans to finish over 100. He’ll give them away –– completely free –– to each organization on his list.

“Why not turn the whole city into your art show?” Kris asked.

Each city clock has elements of Kris’ Indy map integrated into the design. NUVO received the first city clock. Repro Graphix, where Kris does the bulk of his printing and scanning, was next on the list.

“We’re putting it in our lobby area because we want everyone to see it that comes into our office,” said Jill Hall, president and owner of Repro.

Chelsea Mecaskey, a designer that’s assisted Kris with his prints, said the Repro clock integrates workers and regular customers into the design.

“He’s told me about his work, but I didn’t know he was going to give us a [city] clock!” said Mecaskey, who also received a personalized clock as a Christmas present.

Business owners, nonprofit operators, community organizations –– take note! A clock may be coming your way. It’s not merely decorative –– all of Kris’ clocks work perfectly. His art (clocks, chairs, other pieces of handmade furniture) is functional. And what are maps, but the most functional art of all?

One guy who definitely knows he’s getting a clock is Downtown Marsh manager Larry Schultz. But that’s because he’s getting something extra special. Kris is building a grandfather clock that will stand over six feet tall for the supermarket, which he sees as the hub of Downtown Indy life.

Schultz, who opened the store in 1986, has been corresponding with Kris for a few months about the market’s new acquisition.

“I’ve been at this Marsh for over 25 years,” Larry said. “Downtown is in my blood.

There’s a lot of interesting guys downtown, and they’ve all got stories, but his is one of the most unique.”

The first time Larry met Kris, he was caught

A NOTE OF THANKS “My [art] education has pretty much been in here,” Kris said to me one day as we sit at the IMA. He requested I send out a few thanks to the people who have supported him.

“These people, in this museum, they have encouraged me. Thank you to all the employees at the museum, the members and the people coming to visit. They’ve encouraged me to be the com best I can be on my personal projects. bes “Too my mill boss [at ProBuild], John Welch, I go ““T over everything with him; he has mentored me.” ove

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up in an evening shift task, and had to pass on talking to the artist. Now, he’s in the map with the quote “I’m too busy!” written alongside his figure, Larry told me, laughing.

“You look at the map and the detail and you wonder, ‘Why are you putting that in there, why are you putting this in there?’ –– But I guess it’s because that’s how he sees the world.”

Larry’s carved out a space for the grandfather clock in the front windows, ahead of the registers. Now anyone who shops at Marsh can see Kris’ massive clock, starting in early June.

A SPECIAL TALENT The first time we met, Kris told me he has Asperger’s Syndrome.

“The drawbacks are that you can be brutally honest and you’re not really good at being in groups,” said Kris.” When I go to the art show, I’ll have to bring something to work on [to distract myself.]”

He has trouble reading certain emotions.

Names and numbers aren’t the easiest. But he doesn’t have any trouble remembering the people he meets –– it shows in his precisely illustrated map of the city, and in the personalized clocks. It shows when he takes me on a lap around the IMA’s third floor, greeting almost every IMA employee he sees.

He’s been approached by teachers who instruct special needs students to speak in their classrooms. He hasn’t done it yet, but he may someday soon.

“What I would tell them is that you can go your whole life struggling,” said Kris. “[But] if you’re lucky enough to get a special talent that comes easy to you, focus on that. See how good you can be. There’s a lot of famous people who [have Asperger’s]. We probably wouldn’t have a lot of inventions if they didn’t focus on their special skills.

“I may not be able to do my taxes, but I can do this,” he said, pointing at his work of the day, a collection of Indianapolis residents that will be placed in the chin of the grandfather clock for Marsh, with Larry front and center.

A RARE SHOW Kris doesn’t care about making money from his work; he doesn’t care about staging shows.

There have been invitations here and there, but he resists the attempt to “monetize” his projects. He wants to give them away, or to have other people give them away.

But you can see a few pieces this Friday at Indy Indie Artist Gallery, in a show curated by IUPUI senior Tory Schendal. The show is her capstone project for her individualized major, which melds her fascination with medieval and early Renaissance art, history and classical studies. She picked up a position at the IMA a few years ago, and that’s where she met Kris.

“When I was a gallery guard, I always saw this guy going nuts on these drawings downstairs. I [was impressed with] how small and detailed his pieces are, so I walked up and introduced myself!”

That was three years ago, and now, this week, Kris’ work will be at her show, which highlights her love of medieval art.

“The medieval practice when it came to museums was [called] wunderkammern, or ‘cabinets of curiosity,’ ” said Tory. “Museums were never supposed to be places where only one medium was displayed. It was supposed to be an array of objects; you use the stacking principle, you maximize the space.

“So I found eleven interested artists for my personal wunderkammern project; I have sculpture, woodwork, drawing, paintings.

The artists range from freelance, to masters, to professors –– a good range of artists from

students to professional.”

The show will give a glimpse of the past with works of the present.

“When you study the Latin derivative of museum, it was the hall of the muses, where the art was stored, everything all over the place. For [this show], I’m going to work the curatorial practice of a wunderkammern with contemporary works and give the public an idea of what it was like in old museums.”

Fitting, then, that one of Kris’ contributions to the show is “Christ in Limbo 2,” his 21st century interpretation of the original 16th century work. He’ll also contribute a print of his city map and a wooden chair, along with the NUVO city clock.

Alongside Kris, Tory’s show features 10 other contemporary Hoosier artists exhibiting a variety of mediums, including Caleb Weintraub; Lucas Bentley; Shannon White; Abby Pratt; Johnathan Baker; Melissa Hopson; Joanna Bannister; Lauren Robillard; Kimber Capuchino and Dan Stanley.

YOU ARE THE CITY You might not know Kris yet, but he may know you. He gets around using the bus, which he includes in all of his pieces. He spends the time in transit looking out the window, a diligent observer of Indy city life.

I still love my framed 1870s Plan of Indianapolis. But I like Kris’ map so much more. It’s a living, breathing portrayal of Indianapolis as it is now –– not just buildings and streets, but the people and events that make our city so dear to me.

Walk up to the map. You’ll have to get close; the details are tiny.

That map is us. Where do you belong?

A segment of an early city map by Kris.

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NUVO: It’s been a rough news week. Well, maybe a great news week if you’re on cable news, but terrible if you’re a person.

LEWIS BLACK: Yeah, it’s awful. But the news is them covering the news: there’s no news.

I get the focus on it, but come on! If you’ve got something to say, then you come back on; otherwise, we had a gun control bill that failed, and that’s not being covered on any sort of a level.

NUVO: How disappointing is it that we can’t follow up on that sort of emotional impetus toward doing something about gun control?

NUVO: And the other thing that’s frustrating is that the NRA has killed this bill in full daylight, with everyone paying attention.

Or maybe people are distracted.

BLACK: I think people get it. And there’s also a bunch of chicken shit: 90 percent of the country is with you, and you don’t think you can beat the NRA in your

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by Jermaine Woolery, a religious studies major at Martin University (presented May 4 only as a staged reading); The Layover, written by Indy resident Kambui Imo Ersto Abdullah for a prison audience and inspired by the life and teachings of Malcolm X; Where the Water Runs, a story of inter-racial love on a Lousiana plantation by three members of Cincinnati’s Tea Kettle Company; and Reflections, written by IUPUI grad Tamara E’Lan Goode and about a strong but bereft 50-year-old African-American woman. Each play runs 45 minutes to an hour and will be presented three times during the course of the festival.

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or a guy who makes his living by working up a head of steam on stage (next Thursday at Old National Centre) and screen (The Daily Show, other Comedy Central shows and specials, some pretty bad movies), Lewis Black is quite easy to talk to: friendly, gracious and trying his best to be funny, even when the circumstances aren’t quite right. Things were certainly a little gloomy when we spoke by phone on Friday, April 19, against the backdrop of a manhunt in Boston and search and rescue mission in West, Texas.

BLACK: Yeah, it’s unbelievable; it’s really appalling. It’s background checks, okay.

So the reasons we can’t do background checks are because ... It’s not worked until now, so let’s not try to fix it? The whole thing is madness. ‘What if I want to give a gun to a friend?’ Well, then, give it to him; I don’t give a shit. People do all sorts of stuff like that, and they figure that their friend isn’t a maniac, and nothing bad’s going to happen, and it’ll be okay, and the cops won’t find out. If you’re giving your gun to somebody who’s going to kill somebody, then you’re a moron. But those are the two reasons I’ve heard — and those aren’t reasons enough to not pass a simple, sane background check. You can continue to go to your gun shows and buy your guns.

How many more rights do they need? It’s just about asking what your name is and doing a five to seven minute background check. The other thing is don’t tell me we can’t figure it out! As I’m saying in the act, if I can download three million vaginas in a minute, you can fucking do this.

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district? Really? And it’s an inordinate amount of power compared to who they are; what they are is vocal.

NUVO: So I wonder how you as a performer stay sane and healthy when dealing with a certain level of rage on stage, day in and day out.

BLACK: You just go for the punchline; you spend your time trying to find the punchline. The stupid thing is I’m funny when I’m angry, but I’m still looking for what’s funny. I can tell the audience, ‘Who do you think is going to come for your guns?

Me? You think I’m going to get up? I’ve got games to watch. I’m not getting up in the fifth inning of the Baltimore Orioles game to come to your house and look for a gun.’ The same people who think the government is going to come for their guns are the ones who think the government is completely incompetent. And if they’re completely incompetent, does that mean the only thing they’re competent at is coming to get your guns? You can’t have it both

ways. I’m not from a gun culture — and there are people who are from a gun culture, and that’s the real problem. And the job of the Senate is to bridge that gap, and they’re not doing it. I have much deeper feelings about that, but I’m there to entertain people; I can’t change the world up there, but I can certainly make them laugh about the world they’re fucking dealing with. With my parents, there was no gun culture: They didn’t hunt for game; they hunted for buffets. The nice thing about being able to yell and scream is being able to get this stuff out of your system.

NUVO: That’s interesting. I was thinking of being angry on a daily basis as a taxing thing, but it’s more like it’s cathartic.

BLACK: Yeah, it’s cathartic, because as long as I maintain humor I’m allowed to say whatever the fuck I want. And that’s kind of extraordinary; I’m still kind of stunned by the whole thing.

NUVO: A play of yours you wrote in 1983, A Slight Hitch, was revived a couple years ago. Did you have a chance to embed some of your ideas in your plays in the same way you do your standup routines, or was that a different thing?

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The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, May 3-4, 8 p.m., $35-55 (plus $12 minimum, thecabaret.org) Footlite Musicals: Follies Footlite is closing out its season with an old fave, Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, winner of a Tony for Best Musical Score in 1972.

Hedback Community Theater, May 4-5, 9-11, 16-19, prices and times vary (footlite.org) Q Artistry: The Fowl The Fowl, a musical with an original score by Ben Asaykwee (Cabaret Poe, Strike) that’s inspired by Hitchcock’s The Birds and told from both human (Act 1) and bird perspective (Act 2), is Q Artistry’s first KidQ production, featuring performers aged 8 to 12.

Irvington Lodge, May 4-19, prices and times vary (qartistry.org) Ensemble Music Series: St. Lawrence String Quartet Clarinetist Todd Palmer joins the St. Lawrence crew for music by Haydn, Mozart (the Clarinet Quintet in A) and Osvaldo Golijov’s klezmer-based Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind .

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be a greatest hits tour, where I’d just go through the things that I liked doing and that people have requested, like IHOP, candy corn, seeing Janet Jackson’s tit. It’s tough because the gay marriage stuff I did was six years ago — and it has to work for me for it to work on stage. I’ve got to keep going on dealing with what’s in front of me now, so that I maintain a higher level of interest, rather than just kind of playing the song again, an old song.

LEWIS BLACK , FROM PAGE 17 BLACK: Totally different. This is a romantic comedy. If my name weren’t on it, nobody would know I wrote the play, and it’s about a totally different thing than I talk about on stage. It’s a completely different part of my brain. One is the act of an extrovert; the other the act of an introvert. It’s insane! What I find impressive is how people like Woody Allen are able to bridge that gap; I can’t bridge it. I couldn’t write a play, in a sense, for myself.

NUVO: And that’s kind of an ideal for a certain type of observational comic — to have a new hour or more every year.

NUVO: What’s that about?

BLACK: I basically try to come up with a new 60 minutes every year, and if I’d really been able to work the powers that be in television better, I’d be doing a special every year.

But that’s just been a pain in the ass in a lot of ways. George Carlin had a contract with HBO, and rightfully so. He did one year after year after year, and that’s kind of my model in a sense. That’s really what I do, or try to do. But we’ve ended up in this era somewhere between the old technology and the new technology, and I feel like I’m caught in between both of them.

BLACK: I spent a long time writing plays for people that could act, that were really good actors, and the story predicates who’s going to be in there. Granted, there’s a little bit of myself I’m putting in there, but if it’s a romantic comedy about a wedding, and if the lead character’s 30, I’m not going to get to play him. ‘He’s a little old for that part!’

NUVO: What are you talking about in this run of stand-up dates?

BLACK: It’s basically about the failure of my generation to get shit done on any level whatsoever and the reasons why we’re not moving forward as a people, which I believe is because we all have ADD. That leads to the discussion of giving speed to kids — when they don’t really have anything to do; I have stuff to do, we’re the ones who need speed, we’re the ones who need to focus. I go through all of the reasons why I think we have it, from the development of media from three channels on TV to a computer where there are 18 billion websites and then Facebook and other social media, which leads to a culture where you don’t pay any attention to where you are, but you know all the other places where you might be and what you’re missing. Then I go back to the Weekly Reader report on how Congress and the government is fucking us in the ass — it just depends on what week it is, and this week it’s gun control.

We’re late in the day with what we’re doing. They couldn’t do it after Virginia Tech; they couldn’t do it after Columbine — and they can’t do it after this. Do they have to go into a nursery and shoot kids? Do they have to show up at a maternity ward? We have other stuff we need to get on to, and we’re not even moving, and I think it’s because we came out of that eight years of Bush and the war, which still kind of continues — and as a country, we were one big stroke victim, and now we’re kind of learning how to talk again.

NUVO: Were the ‘60s and ‘70s really glory years in terms of paying attention and thinking things through? Or is TV, back to when it was invented, the culprit?

BLACK: TV was, in part, why civil rights came to pass, because it was in our face every night. It was like, ‘Holy crap! That’s what they’re doing, and that’s not right,’ and even though people weren’t living in the North in integrated neighborhoods, you didn’t think, ‘Oh, boy, I really want to hose down black people and set dogs on them!’

What’s appalling to me is that the issues that they were able to compromise on back then were, in the end, much more volatile than the issues

NUVO: Louis C.K. kind of paved the way to making money off of specials by doing them exclusively online. Is that something you’re thinking of?

BLACK: No, because I lose a good half, if not more, of my audience. People over 45 aren’t going to watch it. Louis, to his credit — I think what he did was great — but he has a TV show. My demographic is, I think, wider spread than his, in that sense; my demographic is 15 to 90, it’s crazy. What we’re going to try to do, if all goes well, is pay-per-view, and that way if poor kids want to pay a few bucks apiece to watch me, great, and it puts it on the TV and it’ll be done live. So, hopefully, that will work, and I’ll find out if it works; it’s what I wanted to do last time, we just couldn’t get it done.

NUVO: Well, I’ve got more than I can print.

Anything else?

BLACK: My last thought is I just wish I was funnier during this interview!

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that need to be compromised on now.

They’re really simple, in many, many fashions, and if you compare them to coming up with a civil rights bill — Are you kidding me? You couldn’t even do that now; these people would be incapable of doing it. When I was kid, I always thought of those older folks, ‘Boy, what a bunch of douchebag idiots,’ and now I’m watching my generation be the older folks, and they’re dumber than my parents’ generation. I say that the only nice thing about living now is that, if you didn’t get to see the dinosaurs pass from this earth, you can see it now, because it’s really dinosaur thinking.

NUVO: Do you look for solace or solutions to anything, or is it just about being able to articulate the madness?

BLACK: Yeah, I don’t have any solutions.

I think the solution is that for elected people to listen to people like scientists,

because they’re scientists, they wear white lab coats, and they’re not some sort of a voodoo cult. There’s a good portion, more than you could imagine, of Congress that treats science as if a scientist is just below a Wiccan.

NUVO: It’s very strange and retrograde, like hearkening back to the time of Galileo.

BLACK: It is like that — it’s a leap back to before the ‘60s, into the ‘50s, when they went, ‘Well, you don’t really have to worry; you can stand 20 feet from a nuclear bomb explosion and watch it through those glasses.’

NUVO: One of my favorite routines of yours is the IHOP routine. How do you handle requests to revive old material?

BLACK: The big problem is if someone wants me to do that routine they’d have to come up and tell me the routine again and then I could do it. I have thought that the last time I go around the country would

NUVO: I did start this off by asking about a manhunt.

BLACK: There are guys who can really come up with stuff quickly that kind of crosses the line — which is great; it’s not like I don’t think that’s funny. But the funniest part is watching these people on the air who are beyond belief.

It’s like watching an absurd film; you just keep watching all of this and thinking, if you pull back from all of this for a minute, you can watch this as a major motion picture that’s a satire of this kind of coverage.

NUVO: Especially when they fuck up and fail to take responsibility; there’s no self-awareness.

BLACK: It’s weird; John King has not been on, the one who fucked up. They sent everybody else there, but I think they’ve got him strapped down in a room.

NUVO: He was so sure about his sources.

BLACK: He was really excited. Yeah, you’ll be seeing John King working your local news soon.

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A trippy, lowbrow collection of work by the Portland-based Dungan featuring a talking reindeer piloting an ice cream cart and a dancing hamburger with feathered fedora, among other anthropomorphized foodstuff.

Monster Gallery (1702 English Ave.), opens May 3, 6-10 p.m.

Todd Matus: Scenes from a Novel Matus’s Litmus Gallery will take over the space formerly known as Dewclaw for the coming month to exhibit photos of pages from Matus’s folio-sized (roughly 12 by 15 inches) book Insouciant Summer , which tells of a couple roaming a dessicated countryside ravaged by global warming.

Litmus Gallery (Circle City Industrial Complex, South Studios), opens May 3, 6-9 p.m.

Photos by We Are City artist-in-residence James A. Reeves: “Catacombs” (top left, showing the basement of City Market), “No Trespassing” (middle) and “Dining Hall II” (bottom left, taken at Central State Hospital), “Indianapolis Scene” (right).

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f someone asked you to briefly describe the personality or soul of Indianapolis, what would you say? Even natives might find this exercise difficult, but it’s exactly the task that artists James A. Reeves and Oliver Blank took on in residencies hosted by We Are City, a loose collective exploring the creative ways that people engage with cities. Influenced by the philosophy and artistic tactics of the Dadaists and Surrealists, Reeves and Blank, members of the New Orleans creative studio Civic Center, aimed to learn about the city and capture its essence during back-to-back, month-long residences.

Reeves, a writer and photographer, arrived in March, thinking the city might have the generic feel of a Houston, Atlanta, or Phoenix, with masses of corporate skyscrapers laced through with highways.

“Then I came here, and I was amazed by the people who live here and the city’s complex layers of history and architecture,” he says.

He talked to residents, gathering stories, urban legends and rumors. He liked the idea of “twinning urban legend with historical fact and fictional narrative,” and encouraged others to do the same by holding salons where people could write fictional captions for historical photos o f the city and its people. To that end, he and Blank created the Bureau of Manufactured History, and “based on the first few stories I heard and the buildings and monuments I came across, I began

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writing,” says Reeves. “It was usually based on some kind truth, and then I’d try to blend this with fiction.”

He also left small cards around the city, which asked people to complete a task (such as walking to a place they’d never been before), call a special phone number, and answer the question posed on the line, like, “What is the scariest thing about Indianapolis?”

Blank, the designer, artist, and composer who spent April building on Reeves’s work, explains that by pairing a physical experience that requires personal interpretation with the intimacy of calling the number and providing a response, they’ve created “a singular, ephemeral experience for the person” and gained “something interesting or unexpected or useful for the Bureau.” Some of the answers are posted at the Bureau’s website (bureauofmanufacturedhistory.com) and will be included in the final project.

This mode of collecting is important to Blank’s work. “I love the idea that the Surrealists stepped forward and said, ‘Surrealism can be considered a mode of research, and not only that, it’s a mode of research that bears knowledge on a

Finding the soul of Indianapolis, one experiment at a time

par with scientific knowledge.’”

The approach also helps him to present the city in a fresh way. “Cities have become hyper-commercial and hyper-optimized.

There’s a set language around cities—it’s very serious, and it gets to be a very dull affair. So I want to change that. Cities don’t have to be so serious. We can bring in magic, and something that’s romantic, or strange or silly or quirky. Or witty or wistful. That’s what we want to do with the Bureau,” says Blank.

Reeves and Blank resist labeling a city with a single marketing identity. In fact, Reeves feels that the city’s location in the Midwest, at the confluence of many things, is part of its identity. “I started to work with this thesis that in many ways Indianapolis is the most American city because it sits at the intersection of all these different sites,” he says. “From its founding, the city relied on faith in borders and invisible edges. It sits smack in the center of the state for no geographical, cultural, or commercial reason.”

Reeves is collecting the material from his stay in a book. The duo is also presenting a public exhibition Friday at the Mozzo Apartments, where they stayed during their residencies in an apartment provided by Milhaus Development. Other sponsors for the project include the Central Indiana Community Foundation, the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, and the Indiana Humanities Council. While Blank is coy about the shape of the final exhibition, he loves puns, so expect an object that plays on “bureau” and includes Reeves’s work as well as Blank’s sound design.

VACANT Maybe we’ve found a new use for the Old Indianapolis City Hall — semi-permanent art pavilion. First there was the installation art pavilion TURF, which took over the building during the Super Bowl madness. Now comes VACANT, a one-night-only event organized by three Herron graduating seniors, featuring 48 artists and 21 galleries filled with all manner of media, including but not limited to painting, illustration, sculpture, ceramics and photography. Herron students Andrea Townsend, Taryn Cassella and Anna Martinez put together VACANT as their senior thesis project, going well beyond that project’s requirements.

“We wanted to show the community what Herron students, grad students and alumni are capable of,” Townsend says of VACANT. “It began as a hopeful idea and grew into a successful reality due to the support we gained from the community. TURF was definitely an inspiration. The building itself was also an inspiration.” VACANT is also the first event organized by [space], an event company specializing in fine arts founded by the three organizers.

The Old City Hall looks much as it did during TURF, with drywall partitioning some of the building’s larger rooms into several galleries; Townsend says only “minor adjustments in painting and lighting” were necessary. Event organizers took submissions for the show, receiving hundreds of applications, then selected work based on its quality and its potential to enter into a “visual dialogue,” as Townsend puts it, with other work in gallery.

Unlike at TURF, visitors will have the opportunity to buy pieces on display, with 100 percent of profit going toward the artists. A dollar from every beverage sold will be donated to arts education nonprofit Art with a Heart. —Scott Shoger Old Indianapolis City Hall (202 N. Alabama St.), May 3 (one night only), 6 p.m. VIP opening, 7-11 p.m. free, all-ages opening

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Iron Man 3 t Robert Downey Jr. makes Iron Man 3 . His Tony Stark is funny, caustic and seriously traumatized by life as a superhero. His personal journey is interesting and rewarding. The rest of the movie is a mess, with an overwritten, underwhelming story featuring two notably un-super villains. When Downey interacts with those close to him, the movie works. The rest of the action epic is just noise and computer-animated clutter. In wide release. (PG-13) —ED JOHNSON-OTT

‘Starbuck’ has sitcom notes, but ultimately works

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had a good time at Starbuck. The lead actor is charming and the comedy has a good heart. What works in the film outweighs what doesn’t and I hope you opt to see it. I state this upfront because the movie has a lot working against it. The title will remind most people of either the coffee chain or the Battlestar Galactica character. And while the premise will intrigue many, I suspect it will cause some to roll their eyes while thinking “too sitcommy.”

Hollywood also likes Starbuck, so much that the little independent film is being remade for English-speaking audiences, with Vince Vaughn in the lead role and Chris Pratt playing the lead character’s lawyer friend. The upcoming film has been adapted by Ken Scott, co-writer and director of this film, which makes it sound even more promising.

In real life Starbuck is the name of a Canadian Holstein sire famed for his exceptional genetics, which revolutionized Holstein breeding worldwide (thank you, Wikipedia). In the film, Starbuck is the nickname for David Wozniak (Patrick Huard), an affable forty-something meat delivery truck driver in Montreal who has mostly bumbled his way through life.

His girlfriend Valerie (Julie LeBreton) is pregnant and unhappy. David is $80,000 in debt and goons are threatening to start breaking body parts. And then things get really interesting.

In his youth, David earned money by making donations to a Montreal sperm bank. Turns out his deposits resulted in the birth of 533 babies. They’re young adults now and 142 of them have organized a class action lawsuit to discover

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the identity of their father.

David’s lawyer buddy Paul (Antoine Bertrand) urges him to simply lay low and let the case run its course. But David has been provided with information on the litigants and curiosity gets the best of him, so he quietly starts checking out his children.

Starbuck has sitcom moments. It gets lumpy and sentimental at times. Hell, there’s even a group hug. But it works in large part because Scott and Martin Petit’s screenplay is well-measured and

the characters reasonable. So many times I’ve been pulled out of a story because the characters stopped acting like real people and turned into cartoonish constructs of show-off writers. There are moments in Starbuck that had me whispering, “Oh no, they’re going to screw it up!” But they didn’t.

The other reason that Starbuck satisfies is the lead casting. Bertand is appropriately exasperated as David’s friend, but the actor keeps the character grounded. Then there’s Patrick Huard as David/Starbuck.

This character could have gone wrong so easily in so many ways, but Huard always finds the right note to keep David likeable without minimizing his flaws or milking his plight for sympathy. Starbuck is funny and smart enough to keep from succumbing to its own premise.

HORRIFIC BURLESQUE AT THE MEL Pop culture aficionados of a certain proclivity will recognize Troma Films as the purveyor of such fine '80s/'90s fare as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD. Gory, outrageous, strange and sexy as hell — classics best experienced late at night in front of a flickering TV showing midnight movies.

And this weekend, that old feeling comes to life on the stage of the Melody Inn as a variety of local performers present Toxic Burlesque on the Punk Rock Night stage Saturday night.

Among those lifelong Troma fans is the

The Angel’s Share e The latest from Ken Loach ( The Wind That Shakes the Barley) follows Robbie (Paul Brannigan), a young Scotsman who has had troubles with the law. Holding his newborn child, he swears to do no harm. Then he gets involved with some other screw-ups doing community service and they hatch a plan for a unique heist. The Scottish accents are dauntingly thick at times, but the film’s distinct charm and dark humor make it worth the workout on the ear muscles. At Keystone Art Cinema. (NR) —ED JOHNSON-OTT

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show’s director, Maella Cai Vane.“Troma is the leader in crude humor, extreme nudity and outlandish behavior,” she says. “You simply cannot forget a Troma film after you've seen it!”

The show also has the distinction of being the sole Troma-endorsed burlesque production out there, which in theory means bragging rights and in practice means lots of posters, stickers and DVDs to be given out at the show.

Peformers from three of the city’s troupes — Angel Burlesque, Bottoms Up Burlesque and Crème de les Femmes — are on the bill, along with music by The Enders, The Dockers and the Tromathemed Tromatons.

— PAUL F. P. POGUE

Shining Light Film Festival Admission is free (with donations suggested) to the Shining Light Film Fest, featuring a weekend’s worth of films about mental health and illness at the Wheeler.

Here are the features, and head to shininglightfilmfest. org for a complete schedule, including short films and panels. May 2, 7 p.m.: The Invisible War , an Academy Award-nominated documentary directed by Kirby Dick (The Film Is Not Yet Rated, Outrage) about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. May 3, 3:15 p.m.: PartTime Fabulous, a narrative feature about a woman who makes deals with her clinical depression by making a documentary about it. May 3, 6 p.m.: The Court of Shards , a narrative feature about two disabled friends who find their support network not so supportive. May 3, 8:30 p.m.: Least Among Saints , a narrative feature about a guy who looks beyond his own troubles to come to the aid of 10-year-old neighbor.

May 4, 12:15 p.m.: The Insatiable Moon , a narrative feature about a man who believes himself the second son of God. May 4, 2:45 p.m.: Of Two Minds , a documentary about bipolar disorder and the stigma that accompanies it. May 4, 7:30 p.m.: As High as the Sky , a narrative feature about Margaret, whose OCD goes into overdrive when a relationship fails and relatives move in. The director and lead actress plan to attend the festival’s closing film, As High as the Sky .

Wheeler Arts Community, May 2-4 Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me! The popular NPR radio program does a live show with guests Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Steve Martin, plus the usual suspects.

May 2, 8 p.m., at AMC Showplace 17 and UA Galaxy Stadium 14.

Bike-IN Movies on the Lawn at GPAC: The Princess Bride Now this sounds like fun. The Garfield Park Arts Center kicks off its Bike-IN outdoor movie series Friday with The Princess Bride, which will begin screening on the lawn at dusk. It’s free, with food trucks and beverage vendors on hand. Figure the movie to end around midnight.

Garfield Park Arts Center. May 3, Dusk, Free

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he results of IUPUI’s 2010 study of Marion County’s food system were less than stellar. Two-thirds of adults and 40 percent of children in the county are overweight or obese. Residents are more likely to succumb (than a person of healthy weights) to a number of preventable diseases and health problems, including stroke, heart disease, diabetes and several forms of cancer and arthritis. The numbers were serious enough to motivate a group of concerned health and public advocacy leaders to meet, beginning last year, to discuss the IUPUI study — and to take action to combat the city’s food-related health problems.

That planning group gave birth to the Indy Food Council, which officially launched April 25 with a well-attended open forum at The Platform at the City Market. The council has three main goals: connecting the citizens of Indianapolis; advancing food initiatives in the city through financial aid; and advocating for food reform through policy, education and advocacy. To accomplish these goals, the Indy Food Council is focusing on four elements crucial to permanently restructuring Indy’s food system — health, economy, social justice and ecology.

One way in which the council is attempting to reach these goals is through grants distributed by the Indy Food Fund, a community building and informational mechanism that will allow 30 members of the food community in Indy to carry out projects that align with the council’s goals.

The Indy Food Fund, which is supported by both city and private monies, has doled out $50,000 in grant money to date.

Dr. Nicolaas Mink, the Urban Sustainable Food Fellow at Butler University, was hired by the Food Council advisory committee to help keep track of grant recipients and monitor how the money is used. “We are looking to do more than help these organizations sustain their budgets,” Mink says.

“The Food Fund looks to jumpstart or catalyze projects that would not have gotten off the ground without the money.”

The council has also formed fellowships with Butler University, Marian University, the University of Indianapolis and IUPUI. The fellowships will support eight students who, beginning in August, will each be housed with a sponsoring local food organization. Each student will complete projects related to the improvement of the Indianapolis food system.

“What Indy needs from a food perspective is a superstructure and an architecture that will allow the grassroots food movement to grow,” Mink says. “This is what the

Twisted Crew of Seymour took home the trophy for their smooth, easy drinking Frothy Mothy Belgian at the Brew Bracket Belgian event at Tomlinson Tap Room on April 27. Bloomington Brewing Company took second place with Biere de Mars, a traditional, springtime French farmhouse style ale.

Belgian beer styles cover a wide range from a robust to a light experience. Beer educator Ron Smith provided an overview of the six main sub-styles, which were represented by the eight competing breweries, also including Bier’s Belgian Trippelle, Brugge’s Tripel De Ripple, Evil Czech’s John the One-Eyed, RAM’s Apocalype Meow, Triton’s Wit or Wit Out You and Upland’s Lightwave Belgian Pale. Function Brewing and Great Fermentations shared their Belgians as non-contestants.

Most people attending had little or no previous experience with the Belgian style. Mike Sale, one of Brew Bracket’s organizers, says it is “a twist on a standard craft beer tournament. And it just reinforces that overall beer preference is amazingly objective and that there is room for all styles of beer within the local landscape.”

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Mink believes the success of the Food Council will be determined by how much the needle has moved on Indy’s equitable access to nutritious food, enhancements in urban ecology, and meaningful civic and economic opportunities for residents through food work.

“The Council has to be about the empowerment and growth of the people

Chase Legacy Center and Growing Places Indy: urban farm education for middle school students Fall Creek Gardens: Stone Soup Garden and community kitchen Farm Works Indy: youth farming apprenticeship Felege Hiywot: youth summer farming internship Indy East Food Desert Coalition: study of food access in Northeast Indianapolis Meals on Wheels and Avec Moi: locallysourced frozen meals for seniors NapTown Chickens: school co-op and curriculum project Pleasant Run Grocer: pro forma and business plan development Willard Park/Global Peace Initiatives: re-entry farm training and food delivery doing the work in the system,” Mink says.

“We’ll know we’ve reached some level of success once we’ve seen some of our urban agricultural landscape grow and develop in new and exciting ways.”

Original Farmers’ Market The City Market’s outdoor summer market returns this Wednesday with a selection of ready-to-eat options (3 in 1’s sweet corn tamales, Circle City Sweets’ soups and baked goods, Bags of Wags’ gourmet dog treats), produce (Bryant Farm, Harvestland Farm), meats (Tyner Pond Farm, Becker Farms) and other stuff (homemade kitchenware by Dickinson Custom Furniture, compost education by Earth Mama Compost).

Indianapolis City Market, starts May 1, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Wednesdays through Oct. 30) Binford Farmers’ Market Kick-Off Party The Binford Farmers’ Market moves outdoors Saturday, May 4, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. — and it’s celebrating the change of the season a couple days earlier at the nearby Bier Brewery with food trucks (Scratch and Mac Genie), music by Whose Kazoo, door prizes and beer.

Bier Brewery, May 2, 6-9 p.m., $10 tickets include one 16 oz. Bier selection First Friday Food Truck Festival The first Food Truck Fest of the season will feature just about every food truck in town, along with live music

by Hero, Jr., on the grounds of Old National Centre.

Trucks new to the Fest include R&R Extreme Wings, Soul Sista on the Move, Serendipity, Pho Mi and Gobble Gobble Food Truck.

Old National Centre parking lot, May 3, 5 p.m., $5 Wishard Farmers’ Market Note the new location (on the lawn in front of the Ott Building at Wishard Memorial Hospital, 1001 W. 10th St.) for the sixth season of the Wishard Farmers’ Market, which is designed to attract Wishard employees and others on the IU Medical Center campus, but is very much open to the public. The Duos food truck will once again be on hand during each market.

Wishard Memorial Hospital, May 7, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Tuesdays through Sept. 4)

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walk through Dean Cline’s house is like stepping back in time.

There’s ‘50s-era appliances in the kitchen that still look new, a vintage beauty salon (his wife’s) that’s in what was once the garage, even a suit of armor in a corner of the living room.

But those gathered in this carefully assembled domicile on a recent Sunday evening are anything but relics. In fact, as heavy-hitting cover band Recoil, they’re the ultimate hereand-now bacchanal of Indianapolis.

Tonight, though, they’re taking it easy in Cline’s basement, where a rehearsal space is set up and a stocked bar is conveniently close by. Sundays are their rest days. Through the week are the day gigs. Most Friday and Saturday nights are reserved for Recoil.

Last year the quintet –– Cline and Darrell Mitchell on guitar, Christopher Saunders on bass, Scott Huff on drums and Davey Pelsue on vocals –– played about 100 shows. They’re lowering that number a bit in 2013, but the mission remains molding Recoil into a rock-and-roll juggernaut.

“There’s no escaping the hard work part,” says Cline.

Quite simply, if you like hard rock and having a good time, Recoil want to be your soundtrack.

“When you come to a Recoil show, you forget the rest of your week and just have fun,” says Huff.

It’s not just the hours upon hours of covers they’ve mastered –– everything from ‘70s classics to today’s tastemakers –– that pack rooms large and small. It’s the amity they have with their fans. It’s not uncommon for faces from the crowd to be on stage with Recoil and singing along. Or for band members to have

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drinks with audience members after the show.

They’re almost in the marriage business –– they’ve hosted plenty of bachelor and bachelorette parties. They’ve had proposals at shows.

They even hosted an on-stage ceremony.

“We’ve attempted to make this about the people who come to our shows,” says Mitchell.

“I love The Beatles and Van Halen, but I wouldn’t go see them every weekend. Unless you create a community and a place where friends can gather, you’re not going to get people to come to something regularly.”

And that’s precisely what Recoil have achieved. Despite playing multiple gigs in and around Indianapolis virtually every weekend, they routinely pack rooms of a variety of sizes. They’ve amassed hundreds of thousands of hits to their website and combined have over 16,000 likes on Faceback and fans on ReverbNation.

“There’s this level of momentum that’s been created,” says Mitchell. “I really believe we’re the most approachable and fun local music party atmosphere that’s available.”

Recoil don’t skimp on the production values either. They use lights and fog machines regardless of the size of the room they’re playing. It’s the philosophy of putting as much into your performance as you can, whether you’re playing for six people or 600.

“We want to create an experience even if it’s at a bar in a strip mall,” says Pelsue.

It’s been something of a meteoric rise for Recoil. Mitchell formed the band soon after another one he played in, with childhood friends from Peru, Ind., splintered in 2008.

Hespent the next year visiting every bar and

club he knew hosted live music and convincing the owners to let them play.

“We took gigs whenever and wherever we could get hired,” says Mitchell.

Since then they’ve picked up the national sponsorship from Jagermeister, a status Mitchell tried obtaining for years before finding the right connections to be noticed. Since then, Jager has even used some of Recoil’s artwork (created by Huff, a graphic designer by trade) and incorporated it into their templates for other Jager-sponsored bands to use.

“The value of our relationship is not the fact we can hand out free stuff,” says Mitchell. “It’s the fact we can associate ourselves with a national brand. It gives us a level of professionalism that people can see from around the world.”

Now that Recoil have established a fanbase and mastered the music of some of the best players in the world, they’re ready to write their own material. Cline has “shells of songs” they’ve begun collaborating on. They hope to have enough originals by summer’s end to begin recording in the fall and have something available to release next year. Mitchell promises any Recoil songs will sound like Recoil –– heavy and riff-driven, yet melodic.

“We’re not trying to write to be placed in a particular category,” he says. “There’s going to be a component to it driven by what our combined influences are –– and if you aren’t dancing or bopping your head to it, then we haven’t delivered the right music.”

Jagermeister wants to hear Recoil’s work once complete too. After that there’s the possibility of touring, depending on work and family schedules. There are no self-imposed deadlines within the band. Recoil just want to continue having fun between themselves and their rapidly-expanding community.

“It will be wonderful to go down that road together as an experience,” says Mitchell. “We’ll continue to throw the best party in town.”

WASTED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 This month’s edition of WW by Drink or Die saw performances from 2001 era pop-punk throwback group Balance, Cincinnati’s post-punk riff-killers Knife the Symphony, weighty post-rock Louisville sluggers Trophy Wives and local satanic cult rejects Teenage Strange.

–– JORDAN MARTICH TECH N9NE, APRIL 24 The show was sick. It was dope, awesome, amazing, fantastic, schway – whatever your preference for the synonym of “cool” is. Strange Music crew kept us energized and mesmerized; people were crunk, drunk – there was possible skunk being passed about as well – and my only wish is that I had a better camera to bring to you better images of last night.

–– DAVID CEROLA BLUE MOON REVUE, JOMBERFOX, KISSES FOR FREE, APRIL 24 They used a lap guitar throughout their performance. This detail added a unique visual and tonal experience. Keeping a groovy tone during their whole set, these guys really cranked up their sonic presence with an unbelievable guitar jam in their final song. This solo came out of left field, and was probably the most memorable moment of the night. With jams like that, Jomberfox is a project to look forward to hearing again.

–– RACHEL HANLEY THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, APRIL 25 The Devil Makes Three stomped and smashed through a set of traditional folk, blues and Americana, to a diverse crowd, after opener Jonny Fritz presented a selection from his newest album Dad Country.

–– JORDAN MARTICH TAYLOR SWIFT, APRIL 26 I’ve got a surprisingly in common with Ms. Swift – we’re both about 24; we both rock red lipstick and blonde curls; we both have a love of simple, sweet pop songs and we both hate our ex-boyfriends. But I’ve never before been to a show where I wished I was seven so badly. Swift’s Glinda-the-Good-Witch vibe, lightning fast costume changes and sweet, sweet tunes made the crowd of mostly under-10s so happy they could die.

–– KATHERINE COPLEN BROWN JACK, ADDER, XEI THE GHOST, APRIL 26 Rumors of a SoBro hip-hop show at The Shore turned out to be true as a crowd gathered in a basement to hear rhymes from Indianapolis’ ‘90s rap-influenced Brown Jack. Los Angeles’ Adder built and MC’d over tracks simultaneously, followed by fellow L.A. artist Xei the Ghost, whose profundity and speed were mind-blowing. The two closed the night with gorgeous, free-flowing improvised session.

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he independence of Bangladesh in 1971 was ushered in by one of the most spectacular concerts in musical history. George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh featured a supergroup of rock and roll royalty, including fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, as well as performances by Indian classical music icons Ravi Shankar and Ali Akhbar Khan.

“In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh,” Shankar later said of the event.

Shankar conceived the concert with Harrison as a fundraiser for Bangladeshi refugees. The brutal atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War combined with the devastating effects of the Bhola cyclone had forced millions of Bengali people to flee the emerging nation.

Today, Bangladesh is facing a very different sort of threat. As of this writing nearly 400 workers have been confirmed dead in a tragic garment factory collapse in Dhaka, with hundreds more still unaccounted for.

The tragedy in Dhaka is not an isolated event –– it’s merely the latest in a series of deadly industrial disasters that have claimed the lives of hundreds of Bangladeshi workers over the last several years. After China, Bangladesh has become the world’s second largest garment exporter as corporate vultures have flocked to the impoverished nation to take advantage of the rock bottom wages and low safety standards.

Accounting for 80 percent of the country’s exports, the garment industry has started to define Western perceptions of the South Asian nation, and for many Americans, Bangladesh is nothing more than a name on a clothing label. But the Bengali region –– which includes Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, is home to one of the richest cultural heritages in the world.

I’ve always believed that if we took took time to enrich ourselves by learning about the cultures of our neighbors around the globe, we would be less likely to remain indifferent as they experienced suffering and exploitation. So in the spirit of that thought, I’d like to share a few of my favorite Bengali musicians with NUVO readers.

PURNA DAS At 80 years old, Purna Das is the greatest living representative of the Bengali Baul music tradition. A syncretic religious sect merging elements of Vaishnava Hinduism with Sufi Islam, the Bauls are famous for their mystical repertoire of song.

The Bauls live outside the constraints of conventional society, leading a nomadic existence as they travel the countryside performing their ecstatic music rituals. Purna Das has described the music of the Bauls as, “The fastest way to get close to god and find the divinity in human beings.”

Known for his fantastic soaring vocals and brilliant artistic improvisation, Das achieved his greatest notoriety in the late ‘60s when a U.S. tour brought the singer in contact with Bob Dylan. Intrigued by Das and the Baul culture, Dylan featured Purna Das on the cover of his 1967 release John Wesley Harding while inviting Das to record an LP of Baul music at his famous “Big Pink” studio.

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directors in Bollywood history. A gifted composer and songwriter, Burman was known for his unique ability to integrate international pop music trends with traditional Indian melodies and rhythms.

Rockabilly, funk, bossa nova, psychedelia, jazz and disco are just a few of the styles that Burman explored. He left behind a massive catalog of recordings and his best work is on par with the greatest pop artists in Western music.

ANANDA SHANKAR A nephew of Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar explored a more unconventional method of sitar music than his famed uncle. Like R.D. Burman, Ananda’s atmospheric sitar soundscapes embraced the Western influence of funk and psychedelic rock.

Largely unknown during his prime years, Shankar’s groundbreaking fusion of electronic music instrumentation and Indian rhythms would provide significant influence for a future generation of musicians, inspiring artists from Talvin Singh to Thievery Corporation. He also pops up in numerous DJ sets and hip-hop samples.

These artists represent just a brief snapshot of the extraordinary world of Bengali culture.

My intent in presenting this information is an attempt to provide an identity for a people who are so often portrayed as a faceless and nameless industrial commodity.

What happened in the Bangladesh garment factory last week was not an accident –– it was the inevitable byproduct of a system that puts profit ahead of human welfare. As media reports continue to expose the links between the deadly Dhaka production facilities and retail outlets like Wal-Mart, JC Penney and H&M, it’s becoming clear that American consumers have a complicit role in the Dhaka tragedy. >> Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net

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Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. , 8 p.m., $15, 21+ GOTH Wednesday’s Child This monthly dark music night (featuring goth, industrial, electro, ‘80s, etc.) has bounced between venues in the last several years, but they’re

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Metro, 707 Massachusetts Ave., 10 p.m., free, 21+ COUNTRY Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group The legendary country songwriter (and occasional actor) will bring back his acoustic group to the Palladium, this time. We wrote, of the last time they were in town: “Even if you don’t consider yourself a fan of country/western/ folk music, Lyle Lovett remains sort of genre-less. He’s a small man, physically, but his knowledge of music is at least as big as Texas. He played Buddy Holly, Townes Van Zandt, The Grateful Dead and John Prine. And his ability to recall information about musicians: both influences and people he’s worked with, is staggering. And his Acoustic Group isn’t bad, either. For one, he’s got Russ Kunkel drumming for him: Kunkel has played for just about everyone, from James Taylor to Jackson Browne to Bob Dylan and several legends in between.”

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THURSDAY ROCK Laura K. Balke, The Dead Records We love Laura K. Balke, the wandering singer-songwriter with a talent for writing delicate words and stirring melodies. She’ll be joined by The Dead Records, of Fort Wayne.

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ROCK Recoil, Pragmatic, Full Circle, Accept Regret It’s a night of hard rock and headbanging at the Vogue. You can read our interview with Recoil on page 26, but one final note before you head out: A portion of the proceeds from this concert supports The United Hope Foundation, an Indianapolis-based foundation that supports struggling families.

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Hard Rock Cafe, S Meridian St. 9 p.m., $7, all-ages Ghostface Killah, Adrian Younge, Venice Dawn, The Bluebird, 21+ Colleen Green, Jaill, Sleeping Bag, The Bishop, 21+

FRIDAY ROCK Dan Hubbard and The Humadors, Gamblin’ Christmas: As the Oklahoma Gazette said, ”In an alternate universe, all country-rock is this vital and satisfying.” Take note: this concert starts promptly at 7:30 p.m.

The Melody Inn, 3826 N. Illinois St. 7 p.m., $5, 21+

FIRST FRIDAY Face Jug First Friday With music provided by the Whiskey Bent Valley Boys and Woodstove Flapjacks, this evening features a bunch of jugheads –– actual jugheads. Well, facejugs, anyway. A one-night exhibition of over 150 ceramic jugs lovely handcrafted by 30-something of Indy’s top local artists, this night of jugs ‘n’ old-timey tunes will surely satisfy. All proceeds go to Art With A Heart, a non-profit that sends local kids to summer camp.

DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virginia Ave., 6 p.m., $3, 21+ Luke Austin Daughtery, Art Bank, all-ages The Hardees, Midwest Contraband, Radio Radio, 21+ Pavel, Direct Contact, Bill Lancton Group, The Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Tom Martin Band, S. Holt Rd. American Legion, all-ages

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Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages Hoosier Dome Battle of the Band Finals, Hoosier Dome, all-ages Bigger Than Elvis, Randy King and The New Positions, Moon Rocks, Radio Radio, 21+ Toxic Burlesque, Melody Inn, 21+ Voodoo Sunshine, Birdy’s, 21+ Anthony Gomes, Larry Crane, The Buskirk-Chumley Theater (Bloomington), all-ages Rocking Out 4 Boobies, Fletcher Place Arts and Books Soul Street, Bella Vita at the Marina, all-ages Smith, Weakley & Clark Trio, Jazz Kitchen, 21+ Alex Care, The Knocks, Deluxe at Old National Centre, all-ages

TUESDAY ROCK The Black Angels, Hanni El Khatib Four albums deep and ten years deep, The Black Angels’ Texas psych-rock just keeps impressing.

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 7 p.m., $14 advance, $16 at door, 21+

ROCK Marnie Stern, Motel Beds: Venus Zine named her the one of the “Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time.” We’ll fix that for them –– she’s one of the Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

DO317 Lounge, 1043 Virigina Ave., Suite 215, 8 p.m., $10, 21+ Trixie Whitley, White Rabbit Cabaret, 21+ Transit, Irving Theatre, all-ages

FRIDAY, MAY 10 COUNTRY Brad Paisley, Chris Young, Lee Brice Country pop star and Southern rocker Brad Paisley will perform at the Klipsch as part of a star-studded schedule of country superstars (billed as a “megaticket” and on sale all spring). Paisley’s custom blend of humor and down-home earthy goodness have earned him millions – of dollars and fans. He’ll perform with Chris Young and Lee Brice.

Klipsch Music Center, 7 p.m., prices vary, all-ages COMEDY Tracy Morgan We’re still mourning the end of 30 Rock, where Tracy Morgan starred as the manic, ultra-odd, parallel universe version of himself, Tracy Jordan. But we’ll settle for his stand-up, which is, at times, just as odd. Morgan is a veteran of SNL and The Tracy Morgan Show, and a veteran of media controversies.

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LOUISVILLE Bill Callahan, Headliners, May 2 Lucero, Langhorne Slim, Headliners, May 3 Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, KFC Yum! Center, May 7 Goatwhore, Diamond Pub, May 7 Twin Tigers, Zanzabar, May 7 Chimaira, Diamond Pub & Billiards, May 10 Paul Anka, The Palace Theatre, May 12 The Whigs, Headliners, May 16 Hall & Oates, Palade Theatre, May 28 Ice Cube, Headliners, June 2

CINCINNATI The Lumineers, Riverbend Music Center, May 4, Limp Bizkit, Bogart’s, May 5 Goatwhore, 3 Inches of Blood, Thompson House, May 6 Lyle Lovett, Taft Theatre, May 9 The Killers, Horseshoe Casino, May 16

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After the three-mile MS Walk to Military Park, we partied at Sensu and Forty Five Degrees Downtown. At Radio Radio, band members from Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha hung out with the crowd after their Friday evening show with Twin Folks and Young Heirlooms. Check NUVO.net for more photos of the weekend’s parties and keep your eye out for NUVO photographers –– they’re everywhere!

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• Premium Health Care for Lovable Animals: While some Americans cannot get medically necessary health care, a few lucky animals every year receive exactly what they need from wildlife conservation centers. Most recently, in March, a sandhill crane received deluxe surgery by a facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia, after having his leg shattered on a golf course.

Doctors tried several surgeries, then amputated the leg, and have fitted the crane with a prosthesis that allows balance-preserving mobility. (In February, Suma Aqualife Park near Kobe, Japan, fitted a 190-pound loggerhead turtle with rubber fins kept in place by a vest -- to replace fins damaged in what doctors guessed was a shark attack.)

• The Dark Side: Even though human hearts open warmly to helpless animals, kindness is not universal. As Clemson University animal conservation student Nathan Weaver found with a quick experiment late last year, some drivers will deliberately swerve into a turtle trying to cross a busy road -- seven drivers, he found, in the space of one hour (though most drivers easily avoided the realistic rubber model). (In the 1979 movie “The Great Santini,” an overbearing fighter-pilot-husband who squishes turtles while driving late at night tells his wife, “It’s my only sport when I’m traveling, my only hobby.”)

Leading Economic Indicators • Wealthy Russians have recently found a way around the country’s horrid traffic jams: fake ambulances, outfitted with plush interiors for relaxation while specially trained drivers use unauthorized lights and sirens to maneuver through cluttered streets. London’s Daily Telegraph reported in March that “ambulance” companies charge the equivalent of about $200 an hour for these taxis.

Perspective • While Americans Just Sigh: After a trial on fraud charges, the Iranian judiciary sentenced four bankers and their collaborators to death in February and several others to public floggings for obtaining loans by forgery in order to purchase government properties. The total amount involved reportedly was the equivalent of about $2.6 billion -- tiny compared to losses suffered since 2008 by investors

and customers of large American banks’ illegality, money-laundering and cornercutting, for which no one has yet been jailed even for a single day.

Least Competent Criminals • So Far, So Good ... Oops!: (1) Husband Jared Rick and wife Ashley walked out of the Wal-Mart in Salem, Ill., in February with about $2,400 in shoplifted merchandise, apparently home free, but in the parking lot got into a loud domestic argument that drew the attention of security officers, who saw the merchandise and matched the Ricks with surveillance video. (2) Corey Moore, a Washington, D.C., “street legend,” according to The Washington Post, for beating one arrest after another on murder and firearms charges, was finally convicted in February and faced at least 15 years in prison. The case was broken by a foot policeman in the suburb of Takoma Park, Md., who saw Moore toss an open bottle of beer into some shrubbery. After a sidewalk chase, a search yielded cocaine, which enabled a search of Moore’s apartment that supplied crucial evidence the police had been lacking for years.

Strange Old World • Romanian lawyer Madalin Ciculescu, 34, said in April that the next stop for his lawsuit is the European Court of Human Rights after two Romanian courts turned down his claims against Orthodox bishops who failed to exorcize the demons that were causing his flatulence. He sued the archdiocese because at least two exorcisms (one in his office, one at home) proved useless, thus harming his business as well as rendering his home life unpleasant. An archdiocese spokesman said the exorcisms were done properly, by the book.

Readers’ Choice • Took It Too Far: (1) The school board in Windham, Mass., voted in March to ban popular, ubiquitous dodgeball from the district’s curriculum because the game treats players as “human targets.” Dodgeball (even though played these days with a foam ball) also suffers from “eliminating” players as the game progresses, which an education professional warned renders them less active than the good players. (2) The Castle View School in Britain’s Essex County issued a specific ban in March against serving popular “triangle-shaped” pancakes after one was thrown at a pupil. (Not affected, reported London’s The Independent, were “rectangle-shaped” pancakes, even though those, of course, have four firm corners instead of three.)

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TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Imagine you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store at Halloween plus a storage area where a theater troupe keeps the apparel its actors use to stage a wide variety of historical plays. You have free reign here. You can try on different masks and wigs and disguises and get-ups. You can envision yourself living in different eras as various characters. If you like, you can even go out into the world wearing your alternate identities. Try this exercise, Taurus.

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GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Ray LaMontagne sings these lyrics in his tune “Empty”: “I looked my demons in the eyes. Laid bare my chest and said, ‘Do your best to destroy me. I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.’” I wouldn’t be opposed to you delivering a message like that to your own demons, Gemini -- with one caveat: Leave out the “Do your best to destroy me” part. Simply peer into the glazed gaze of those shabby demons and say, “You bore me and I’m done with you. Bye-bye.” And then walk away from them for good.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): I know a devotee of Tibetan Buddhism who got an unexpected message from her teacher. He told her she has made such exemplary progress in her quest for enlightenment that she has earned the ultimate reward. When she dies many years from now, the teacher said, she will enter nirvana!

She will have no further karmic obligation to reincarnate into a new body in the future, and will be forever excused from the struggle of living in the material world. Although her teacher meant this to be good news, she was heartbroken. She wants to keep reincarnating. Her joyous passion is to help relieve the suffering of her fellow humans.

Can you guess what sign she is? Yes: a Cancerian. Like her, many of you are flirting with an odd and challenging choice between selfishness and selflessness.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): A lawyer named John Keogh filed an application with the Australian Patent Office. It was for a “circular transportation facilitation device.” His claim was approved. He thus became the owner of the world’s first and only patent for the wheel.

So far, he has not tried to collect royalties from anyone who’s using wheels. I nominate him to be your role model, Leo. May he inspire you to stamp your personal mark on a universal archetype or put your unique spin on something everyone knows and loves.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): This may be the best week in a long time to practice the art of crazy wisdom. And what is crazy wisdom? Here’s how novelist Tom Robbins described it to Shambhala Sun: It’s “a philosophical worldview that recommends swimming against the tide, cheerfully seizing the short end of the stick, embracing insecurity, honoring paradox, courting the unexpected, celebrating the unfamiliar, shunning orthodoxy, volunteering for tasks nobody else wants or dares to do, and breaking taboos in order to destroy their power. It’s the wisdom of those who turn the tables on despair by lampooning it, and who neither seek authority nor submit to it.” And why should you do any of that weird stuff? Robbins: “To enlarge the soul, light up the brain, and liberate the spirit.”

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): “Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle?” asked Irish poet William Butler Yeats. “A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” A woman may show similar bravery, of course. In my astrological opinion, that’s the noble adventure beckoning to you, Libra: a dive into the depths of your inner workings. I hope that’s the direction you go; I hope you don’t take your stouthearted struggle out into the world around you.

All the best action will be happening in that fertile hub known as your “soul.”

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Historical records suggest that ancient Greek philosopher Democritus went blind late in his life. There are different stories about why.

According to one account, he intentionally did it to himself by gazing too long into the sun. That was his perverse way of solving a vexing problem: It freed him from the torment of having to look upon gorgeous women who were no longer interested in or available to him because of his advanced age. I hope you won’t do anything like that, Scorpio. In fact, I suggest you take the opposite approach: Keep your attention focused on things that stir your deep attraction, even if you think you can’t have them for your own. Valuable lessons and unexpected rewards will emerge from such efforts.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): Search your memory, Sagittarius, and recall a time when you pushed yourself to your limits as you labored over a task you cared about very much. At that time, you worked with extreme focus and intensity. You were rarely bored and never resentful about the enormous effort you had to expend.

You loved throwing yourself into this test of willpower, which stretched your resourcefulness and compelled you to grow new capacities. What was that epic breakthrough in your past? Once you know, move on to your next exercise: Imagine a new assignment that fits this description, and make plans to bring it into your life in the near future.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): Nairobi is Kenya’s capital and home of over three million urbanites. A few minutes’ drive from the city center, there’s a 45-squaremile national park teeming with wildlife. Against a backdrop of skyscrapers, rhinos and giraffes graze. Lions and cheetahs pounce. Wildebeests roam and hyenas skulk. I suggest you borrow the spirit of that arrangement and invoke it in your own life. In other words, be highly civilized and smartly sophisticated part of the time; be wild and free the rest of the time. And be ready to go back and forth between the two modes with grace and ease.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): In the wild, a tiger’s diet consists entirely of meat. The big cat loves to feast on deer and wild boar, and eats a variety of other animals, too. The hunt is always solitary, never done in collaborative groups. That’s why the creature’s success rate is so low. A tiger snags the prey it’s seeking only about five percent of the time. It sometimes has to wait two weeks between meals. Nevertheless, a tiger rarely starves. When it gets what it’s after, it can devour 75 pounds of food in one sitting. According to my astrological analysis, Aquarius, you’re like a tiger these days. You haven’t had a lot of lucky strikes lately, but I suspect you will soon hit the jackpot.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): The French word flâneur is a meme that refers to a person who strolls around the city at a leisurely pace, exploring whatever captivates her imagination. To the casual observer, the flâneur may seem to be a lazy time-waster with nothing important to do. But she is in fact motivated by one of the noblest emotions -- pure curiosity -- and is engaged in a quest to attract novel experiences, arouse fresh insights, and seek new meaning. Sound fun? Well, congratulations, Pisces, because you have been selected as the Flaming Flâneur of the Zodiac for the next two weeks. Get out there and meander!

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