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VOL. 22 ISSUE 11 ISSUE #1038

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As Indiana’s General Assembly adjourned last Friday evening, the gravity of the GOP’s aggressive agenda began to set in across the Hoosier State. Immigration, education reform, energy solutions and same-sex marriage all came into sharp focus this session, and a new budget plan will redefine the state’s priorities according to Republican ideals. The biggest offense, though, comes in the defunding of Planned Parenthood, an attack that Gov. Daniels has said he’ll sign off on this week. B Y L A U RA MCPHEE, TYLER FAL K A ND CA THER INE GR EEN COVER ILLUSTRATION BY SHELBY KELLEY

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SOULMATES IN HOT PANTS

Don’t be fooled — the Circle City Derby Girls are more than a group of foxy fishnet-clad women on wheels. These skating badasses each put in the blood, sweat and tears needed to become a roller girl, and they wear their bruises with pride. BY MELISSA FEARS

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The restaurant serves up Oaxaca’s legendary flavor in authentic dishes that are both flavorful and expertly made. The guacamole and mole sauce are sure to please the palate. BY ANNE LAKER

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This World War II adventure story, set in a Nazi-occupied village in the Netherlands, features a shocking surprise and climactic ending that managed to keep even our tough critic engaged. BY ED JOHNSON-OTT

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HARDCORE NETWORKERS CALL IT QUITS

After a decade on Indiana’s hardcore scene, In the Face of War disbanded in 2010. The group will play a final show this Saturday at Earth House, joined by We Are Hex, Full Rainbow, Away with Vega and Dead of Winter. BY ERIK FOX

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I am with you 100 percent (“Another IMS blunder,” Hoppe, April 27-May 4). The mere thought of Donald Trump being hosted by The Speedway, this year or any year, makes this Proud Hoosier tremble! If there is any possible way to save us this embarrassment and to pull this political platform out from under him, count me in. Thanks for going public with exactly what I and others have been saying.

Rosie Clidinst Houff

times, or family of one of the drivers who gave their life there. But you have to admit, aren’t you all hoping that seeing Trump in the convertible pace car will result in us seeing his real hairline? To see his toupee fly off would make it worth the $90 I spent on my ticket alone.

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A true Brad fan

I just read the story about IUPUI’s center for Ray Bradbury (“IUPUI’s Center for Ray Bradbury Studies,” A&E, April 27-May 4). I cannot tell you how delighted I am! I became an avid reader after reading Dandelion Wine when I was about 12 years old. After that first book, I never looked back. I had the great fortune to meet him once in California, where I grew up, when he wrote two short plays for our local playhouse. I still have his autographed program framed and hanging on my wall above two massive bookcases. Thank you Jon Eller, William Touponce and IUPUI for giving him the respect he deserves!

INDIANAPOLIS

Big wigs, fast cars

Kari E. Johnson INDIANAPOLIS

I agree Donald should not be in the pace car (“Another IMS blunder,” Hoppe, April 27-May 4). I grew up here. I am 44; this will be my 34th Indy 500. Me personally, since it’s the 100th anniversary, I would have liked to see someone who is a part of the history of the race drive it. One of my greatest memories of the race is going out to practice and hearing the Ford Cosworth go by screaming. Then here comes a normally aspirated Chevy Eagle come roaring by — such a night-and-day difference in sound.

Mike Williams BROWNSBURG

Schadenfreude at its finest

Does it make sense (“Another IMS blunder,” Hoppe, April 27-May 4)? No more sense than last year’s pace car driver, Robyn what’s-herface. Does it bring attention? Yes, and that’s what I think IMS (and let’s face it, IZOD probably also had a huge say in the matter) is going for — attention and publicity (case in point, see the Hot Wheels either-going-to-beawesome-or-blunder-if-someone-dies big car jump). Trump brings attention. Just the fact that people are debating it shows that it was a smart PR move. With that said, while I understand their decision, I don’t like it. To me, the honor of driving the pace car on the 100th anniversary should go to one of the drivers who has won multiple

Can’t please ‘em all

I enjoyed your article (“Bike Indy,” Cover, April 27-May 4), but I thought it left some things out. What about the Hoosier Mountain Bike Association and their efforts to build great trails? And when you talk about bike racing you never mention the D.IN.O. series that puts on mountain bike races, trail runs, and off-road triathlons all over the state. Also you could have mentioned that Marian University is taking over the Velodrome and what might change because of that. I am glad that IndyCog is taking off but we still have two other similar groups, Bicycle Indiana and CIBA. I hope they can work together and not waste time in duplication of efforts. Dig a little deeper, guys.

Richard Feeley SPEEDWAY

CORRECTIONS

In our Green Guide (April 20-27), we incorrectly listed Indy-based Green B.E.A.N. Delivery under its former name. In last week’s feature on indianapolismusic. net (“IMN turns ten,” Music, April 27-May 4), we misspelled the surname of one of the principals behind the Web site. He is Ryan Williams, not Ryan McWilliams. We here at McNUVO regret the McError.

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HAMMER The best part of travel Shopping for bizarre things at the airport

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

’ve had the good fortune to travel recently around the western United States for my job. Traveling for work is sometimes stressful and always full of hard labor, but it’s still pretty awesome to be able to fly on a plane, stay in a decent hotel and get a fair meal allowance. I haven’t been around the world, but I’ve trekked across a fair share of it. The first time I got to fly was in the mid-1970s, when I was around 8 years old. My dad took the family to Hawaii on a Brady Bunch-style vacation, by far one of the coolest events of my childhood. The thrill of being able to fly in a plane at 600 miles per hour is still just as amazing to me, an aging hipster, as it was when I was a crew-cut 10-year-old. When I was young, schoolbooks and teachers told us we would be able to take commercial flights to the moon. I can forgive almost all of the lies adults told me as a child, but not being able to go to the moon still pisses me off. So cross-country flight on a commercial airline is very likely the closest I’ll be to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere. The view from a window seat is transcendentally joyful. Flying, however, is so much different now than it was then. In the ‘70s, planes were full of cigarette smoke, a solid majority of adults choosing to spend literally half a day and many time zones chain-smoking. Smoking, food and booze, lots of it. Liquor was pushed upon adults the whole flight, no limits. You could order a full bottle of champagne or a gallon’s worth of Jack Daniels in tiny bottles as long as you had the cash. The people who brought you food, booze and matches were almost all women, and hot young women at that — ladies in short skirts or tight pantsuits who probably suffered the trauma of receiving hundreds of unwanted sexual advances over the course of their careers. Male stewards were extremely rare. In the post-9/11 world, even routine trips require serious planning and TSA readiness. You have to know well in advance what’s prohibited and what’s not. Airports have become complicated and sometimes frightening places to navigate. But like 40 years ago, airports are still predominantly about money and getting you to leave as much cash as possible in

their shops and restaurants prior to your flight. Airport shops love to test the pricing point at which consumers will each say to themselves, “Screw it. It’s too expensive, but I’m trapped at the airport so I’ll buy it.” I wonder, how many people actually buy those $200 headphones or the $300 iPods and Nintendo DS consoles sold in the Indianapolis airport’s vending machine? As for food sold in airports, no price is too high. Regular-sized coffee for $5, $3 bottles of soda, $15 hamburgers — it’s just the reality of travel. You’ll find some pretty dumb shops at many airports. Why is there a Brookstone in Houston? Or a CD store at Chicago Midway? But the most numerous airport stores are newsstands. I love good airport newsstands, if only for the reason that The Economist, in my opinion the best and most objective news magazine in the world, is the king of them. In the outside world, it’s rare to find The Economist anywhere but bookstores, apparently because it doesn’t sell many copies in Indianapolis. But The Economist is widely popular with travelers — the magazine proudly occupies the rack closest to the cash register, easily the best display space, thumbing its nose at People, The New York Times and Vogue. Airport newsstands are ready for you. They’re serious places, designed to seduce you into buying a copy of any magazines you’ve ever heard of and hundreds you haven’t. One genre that may be missing, though: porn. There haven’t been adult magazines in any of the airports I’ve been in recently except for Houston, which has an entire wall of sealed nakedness and Lord knows what. Houston must love its porn. When I flew as a kid, there was always an area where men congregated around the adult magazine, avoiding eye contact with anything but the fully-furred centerfolds of the ’70s. Another example of strange airport logic. Why sell porno mags at the airport? Do businessmen really reach into their D&G briefcases during flights and nonchalantly extract a copy of Hustler or High Society? Is there some kind of social contract I don’t know about in which pornography helps you fly? I’m not sure why people are afraid of flying. Statistically, it’s about the safest thing a human being can do. Other than a few unplanned delays, nothing bad has ever happened to me on a trip. I’ve even managed to avoid difficulty with the pre-flight screening since I pack wisely and in accordance with policy. For people who do it all the time I’m sure it’s unbearable, but just like the 10-yearold I used to be, I still always have fun when I fly.

Is there some kind of social contract I don’t know about in which pornography helps you fly?

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HOPPE The high price of gas Future shock

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ere we go again: gasoline prices are going up. The rising cost per gallon has been headline news for weeks. But you don’t have to be a news junkie to get the message. All it takes is the need to get around in a car or a truck. I drove up to northern Indiana last weekend. Usually the longest part of the trip sets in somewhere on Highway 421, between Brookston and Wanatah. The road is so straight and the landscape so flat, it makes you want to grind your teeth just to have something new to think about. This time, though, the trip’s longest stretch took place at the pump. I watched dolefully, then with mounting alarm, as the numbers rolled hysterically past $30, then $35, $40, and $45, finally stopping at $47 plus change. Recent headlines notwithstanding, we’ve known $4 gas was on its way; chances are, the price will go higher still. This is painful but not unexpected. The only uncertainty here is what we’ll do about it. Remember 2008? Barely three years ago we were in almost the same spot. The overall economy seemed in better shape but that turned out to be a sham, fabricated by easy credit. For 25 years we’d been given credit cards instead of raises. It was a fool’s paradise, propelled in part by artificially low energy prices. That spring, gas rose to $3.75 a gallon, and then surpassed $4. The causes cited at the time were oil producers’ cutbacks coupled with their desire for greater profits. Here in the United States, several things happened, almost all of them good. People started looking for ways to limit their driving. Suddenly we were talking seriously about public transportation and pedestrian-friendly urban planning. There was a demand for more fuel-efficient cars. Indianapolis went on a bike-lane binge, doing more for twowheeled transportation in three years than in the previous quarter-century. We weren’t as inclined to get behind the wheel to go pick up a gallon of milk. And our interest in locally grown food was accelerated by the realization that trucking produce across the country was not only inefficient, it was based on unrealistic energy prices. Thinking local took on new meaning. A regionally defined economic paradigm based on energy conservation began coming into focus.

On the other hand, the 2008 rise in gas prices also inspired the kind of spasmodic reactions familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to quit smoking — people started calling for the equivalent of looking for butts between our national couch cushions. They wanted domestic oil drilling in environmentally sensitive places, as well as more radical and destructive forms of procurement, such as deriving oil from shale. For these folks, BP’s deepwater oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico was like a dark spot on a chest X-ray — a warning sign, but it didn’t keep the addicts from making excuses for not changing their ways. This time around, the gasoline spike is hitting us at an especially vulnerable moment. For most, the economy is still on the ropes. Income is down and credit is hard to come by. The weakened dollar exacerbates the situation. Higher gas prices mean that anything that travels is more expensive. Predictably, pressure is mounting for a major increase in domestic oil production. But wherever the oil comes from, there’s no guarantee that it will be cheap. Just the opposite. As sources of the stuff are reduced and getting it is made more difficult, the price is bound to go up. Like it or not, gasoline will be expensive. This should not be news. We knew we’d have to do something about our dependency on fossil fuels when the Arabs cut supplies in the 1970s. Every president since Nixon has warned us that a day of reckoning was in store. Even George W. Bush — someone who knew a thing or two about going cold turkey — said our appetite for oil was an addiction. What we choose to do about our energy consumption will have a direct impact on our understanding of both personal and collective liberties. That’s probably why we’ve put off making any meaningful changes. We keep hoping for a market correction that will make things right — like they were when SUVs were cool. But what’s happening at the pump is just a preview of what’s to come — a cascade of challenges to our notions of livability. We can continue defining liberty, as we have with energy, as the right to consume and waste as much as we want. Until, that is, a crisis imposes its will upon us and we are forced to submit to necessity. Or we can make choices now that assure us a reasonable shot at a sustainable future. This may lack the panache of crashing one’s Hummer through a grove of redwoods. But at least the redwoods will still have a decent chance of being there.

We’ve known $4 gas was on the way. Chances are, the price will go higher still.

Tina Pulliam

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HAIKU NEWS by Jim Poyser

half the world cheers, the other half arms itself, ‘cause Osama’s been had GE predicts huge profits – nice for shareholders hell on rest of us Obama, now you must prove to birthers you’re a carbon-based life form Indiana leads the nation in refusing to plan parenthood Mitch Daniels doesn’t mind grappling with those social issues after all Indiana leads the nation in killing off public school system Gen’ral Assembly ends; progressives know we are generally screwed being nothing but a chump Donald will likely go way of Palin PlayStation newest victim of identity grand theft — Sony’s shamed! Pacers wrap up their season with a sweet hint of basketball to come

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2011 On Friday, June 3rd, join NUVO in honoring the contributions of eight of Indianapolis’ leading innovators at the 13th annual Cultural Vision Awards. The celebration starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Athenaeum Theatre located at 401 East Michigan St.

THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN LIVING THE GREEN DREAM

Who says it isn’t fair to play dirty for the sake of the environment? This Friday, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIB) and employees of Roche Diagnostics will plant a variety of trees native to Indiana in Brookside Park. Part of the Near Eastside Legacy Project, the horticultural festivities will move KIB toward its goal of planting 2,012 trees on the near eastside by Super Bowl 2012. The organization’s NeighborWoods program aims to plant 100,000 trees in Marion County by 2017.

HELPING HAND FOR MAN’S BEST FRIEND

Riding Mutt Strut’s tide of goodwill toward pets, the Indianapolis Animal Welfare Alliance launched an admirable adoption initiative for the month of May: find families for 500 of the city’s homeless animals. Spring marks the beginning of a massive influx in litters produced by unfixed cats and dogs, many of which end up in shelters. The Alliance urges the public to consider adoption, offering undisclosed incentives to sweeten the pot. We’d like to think the cute pups and kits are reward enough.

NUVO’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner this year is artist and activist LOIS TEMPLETON. A resident of Indianapolis for over 30 years, Templeton has been integral to the visual arts community, from being part of the initial Faris Building initiative, to her work with VSA Indiana, to her paintings being displayed in the permanent collections of the Indiana State Museum and The Midwest Museum of American Art, along with the two exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. Along the way, she’s influenced countless students and artists, making Indy a richer place to live.

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OBAMA MAKES GOOD ON RAINCHECK

After canceling his planned April visit at the last minute to hammer out the national budget, President Obama has rescheduled an Indianapolis stop for this Friday. He’ll swing by Allison Transmission, a leader in hybrid technology, to speak with plant workers about his long-term goals of protecting consumers from rising gas prices and ensuring a cleaner energy future for the country. POTUS will no doubt still be riding high after his successful mission to take out Osama bin Laden on Sunday, so we understand if the topic veers from hybrid technologies — we’re just glad he could pencil Naptown in again.

LET YOUR PFLAG FLY

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will hold a conference on Saturday at LifeJourney Church. Activists from around the city are coming together to discuss LGBT matters, including bullying in schools for gay youth and transgender issues, as they raise awareness and solidarity for the human rights of the LGBT community. The event will provide an opportunity to catch up with other Indiana PFLAG chapters and hear from regional and national leaders of the program. Considering lawmakers’ recent attempts to write hate into the state’s constitution, there’s never been a better time to ramp up support for our gay Hoosiers and allies.

THOUGHT BITE By Andy Jacobs Jr. Re: Trump’s boorishly braggadocios buffoonery in New Hampshire. A comedian named Eddie Mayehoff played Jarring Jack Jackson, a college football player who never grew up, in the movie That’s My Boy. Later, in a TV commercial, he said, “Who was the greatest athlete ever? Modest as I am, I gotta admit it was me.” 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 05.04.11-05.11.11 // news

cover HEA 1210

Who gets hurt No matter which side of the abortion debate you are on, it’s important to remember that more than 97 percent of the services Planned Parenthood of Indiana provides have nothing to do with abortion. When Gov. Daniels signs HEA 1210, the State of Indiana will no longer allow patients on Medicaid to be patients at Planned Parenthood, meaning these patients will have to find other providers or pay full price for their healthcare. While it’s easy to debate the ideology behind the legislation, it’s more difficult to dismiss the very real implications of denying low-income women access to the full range of services Planned Parenthood provides. NUVO reader and Indianapolis resident Maggie Moore shared her story with us this week in response to the news that Planned Parenthood will no longer be able to provide other women the same life-saving services she received.

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A crowd of Planned Parenthood supporters gathered outside of Indianapolis’ 38th & Meridian location last Friday.

Planned Parenthood defunded

Daniels to sign off on anti-abortion bill BY L A U RA MC P H E E L M CP H E E @N U V O . N E T

hen Governor Mitch Daniels signs HEA 1210 into law this week, Indiana will become the first state to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood by making it illegal for the state to contract with any health provider, other than a hospital, that performs abortion as part of its health care services. As a result, Planned Parenthood will lose more than $3 million in funding for low-income patients under Titles X, V, and XX and through Medicaid. While federal law already mandates that these funds not be used for abortions, Indiana lawmakers have taken the unprecedented step of cutting off funding for all health care services at Planned Parenthood, including routine gynecological exams, pap smears, cervical cancer screenings and vaccines. These services make up more than 97 percent of those provided by Planned Parenthood, while abortion accounts for roughly 3 percent. “If we’re buying the roof over their head or their paper clips, we’re still subsidizing abortion,” said Rep. Matt Ubelhor (R-Linton), one of the bill’s sponsors. “I will sign HEA 1210 when it reaches my desk a week or so from now,”

Gov. Daniels said after the bill passed both the Indiana House and Senate last week. “I supported this bill from the outset, and the recent addition of language guarding against the spending of tax dollars to support abortions creates no reason to alter my position. The principle involved commands the support of an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers.” While it’s difficult to know whether or not the “overwhelming majority of Hoosiers” agrees with the decision to defund Planned Parenthood, many Republicans in Indiana see the passage

“The decision to sign HEA 1210 into law is unconscionable and unspeakable.” —Betty Cockrum, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Indiana

of HEA 1210 as an important victory in the fight to make abortion illegal in the United States. “At the end of the day this piece of legislation will allow more women and families in Indiana to make a better informed decision concerning the life of an unborn child,” said Rep. Eric Turner (R-Cicero), author of the bill. “Governor Daniels’ signature will solidify Indiana as a one of the most pro-life states in the country.” Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, sees the passage of HEA 1210 as devastating

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to the majority of PPIN’s low-income patients. “The decision to sign HEA 1210 into law is unconscionable and unspeakable,” says Cockrum. “We will now suffer the consequences of lawmakers who have no regard for fact-based decision making and sound public health policy. “As many as 22,000 low-income Hoosiers will lose their medical home. Countless patients will find themselves without access to lifesaving tests to avoid the tragic outcomes of cervical and breast cancer and epidemic sexually transmitted disease here in Indiana,” according to Cockrum. Cockrum believes that the unintended consequences of the bill could be far more expensive and devastating to Indiana than the authors intended. “The Federal Centers for Disease Control tell us that the legalization of birth control was one of the ten most meaningful advances in public health policy in the last century. And yet our legislative leadership has unplugged those most in need from that essential service. “They are creating a lose-lose for Hoosiers,” Cockrum continues. “Decreased birth control means more unintended pregnancy. More unintended pregnancy means increased Medicaid spending. Indiana already has one of the highest rates of Medicaidcovered births. The cost is already $450 million dollars.” For the full-text version of HEA 1210: www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/EH/ EH1210.2.html. RALLY: TELL DANIELS TO VETO HEA 1210 Governor’s Office, 2nd floor Indiana Statehouse 200 W. Washington St. Thursday, May 5, 1 p.m.

I am a young, white, middle-class, well-educated woman who has been to Planned Parenthood of Indiana many times over the years. But I have never had an abortion. Then why have I gone to Planned Parenthood over the years? Because as a struggling undergraduate, Planned Parenthood made it easy for me to afford health care, including check ups, breast cancer screenings, pap smears, and educational information. They provided all these services on a sliding scale based on income, even when I had none. More importantly, Planned Parenthood helped me after I was the victim of sexual abuse while at college. This man threatened me and manipulated me into thinking that the whole thing was my fault. But to this day, I can’t think of anything I may have said to him that could have been inferred as “Please, slam my head against that concrete wall,” or “Please, hold a pillow over my face while you force me to have sex with you, so that I can’t scream for help.” Yet, for years I believed it was my fault. I thought I should have been smarter, I should have been stronger, I should know how to pick better ‘friends.’ Now I am smarter. And I’m gaining my strength by sharing my story. I couldn’t have done that and I wouldn’t be here now if it wasn’t for Planned Parenthood of Indiana. They provided counseling and encouraged me to get out of the situation. They helped me get vaccinated and treated the STD he gave me. They gave me discounted testing and the information I needed to stay safe in the future. They provided their services to me at a low cost because I couldn’t hold a job due to the trauma I’d survived and the mental anguish it caused me. I am one of Planned Parenthood’s 22,000 patients whose health is being jeopardized by HEA 1210. I don’t claim that all of the others are in the same situation that I was. But some of them are. Why are we challenging these women in their time of need? Why are we forcing Indiana women to go to great lengths — often at the risk of their own health or even life — just to obtain health care? Don’t all women in Indiana deserve the care and the chance at a healthy future that I was lucky enough to find at Planned Parenthood?

…And other statehouse atrocities

Indiana’s new budget

Two-year proposal shows Dems who’s boss

Let’s survey the damage

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BY T YL E R F A LK E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T When Republicans dominated the Indiana elections last November, leftleaning Hoosiers feared for the social issues they’d come to hold near and dear. For a fleeting moment, liberals had hope that issues like job creation might take priority in the sluggish economy. Rep. Jeff Espich (R-Uniondale), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told NUVO at the beginning of the session: “Our priorities are the budget and trying to create an economic atmosphere that’s good for jobs, and educational opportunity for kids.” But Republicans quickly got to work on their social agenda. And despite the Dems’ best efforts with a five-week walkout, the GOP had more than enough time and leverage to carry out the vast majority of their stated priorities. As the dust settles on this year’s regular session, it’s time to take stock.

Same-sex marriage

Women weren’t the only Hoosiers whose civil liberties came under attack this session. Lawmakers took steps to not only further cement the state’s ban on gay marriage, but also refute civil unions and domestic partnerships. Earlier this year, both chambers voted to approve the discriminatory measure, HJR 6, though Indiana already has a law in place defining marriage as solely between a man and woman. Democrats had successfully blocked attempts to include the amendment in the State Constitution for four years prior to Republicans seizing control. To become part of the constitution, however, the resolution still has several hurdles to jump. Both chambers would have to pass it again in either 2013 or 2014. It would then come before the public for a vote in 2014. That last step might be the amendment’s undoing. Indiana is widely considered a red state, but recent polls indicate a surprising number of Hoosiers oppose a constitutional ban. A March survey commissioned by Indiana Equality Action found that 47 percent of responders, across a wide range of ideological backgrounds, stood against HJR 6. A number of local businesses, most notably Eli Lilly and Co., have also voiced opposition, citing concerns about out-ofstate recruitment.

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Education reform

Governor Daniels signed off on two proposals, for charter school expansion and a private school voucher program, that will challenge the education status quo. HB 1002 will uniformly smooth out the process of creating charter schools, establishing an Indiana Charter School Board to authorize new schools. Meanwhile, HB 1003 will set up one of the nation’s broadest private school voucher programs. The program will allocate state funds to families to help pay for private schooling. The vouchers themselves will be made available to a wider spectrum of students, beyond poor families, children with special needs and those in failing schools. The qualifying income limit will be raised to $60,000 a year for a family of four. Backers of the voucher program boast an increase in access to quality education, but critics worry these changes will drain public schools of both money and students. The governor also signed SB 1 into law, tightening teacher evaluation standards, as well as SB 575, a limit on collective bargaining rights for educators. The new law bans talks regarding anything beyond wages or wage-related benefits.

Immigration

With a proposal for stricter enforcement of immigration law on the table, it looked for a while there like Indiana might become the next Arizona. Earlier this year, Senate legislators passed a version of SB 590 that included an allowance giving police the right to ask for proof of immigration status, just as long as officers had “reasonable suspicion.” That portion of the bill died once it reached the other chamber. House lawmakers shifted the bill’s focus toward businesses employing illegal immi-

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grants rather than the undocumented individuals themselves. In its current form, the bill would discourage employers from hiring illegal immigrants by withholding state funds. Under a compromise offered late last week, it would also require businesses seeking state contracts to use the federal government’s E-Verify tool to check employment status.

Energy solutions

The ostensibly progressive SB 251 would create a voluntary “clean energy portfolio standard,” encouraging but not requiring utilities to derive 10 percent of their electricity from “clean energy” sources by 2025. The bill offers Indiana utilities financial incentives for participating in the program. But included in that broad definition of “clean energy” are coal-bed methane and nuclear energy. The proposal further encourages nuclear energy by allowing production and generating facilities to qualify for certain financial incentives reserved for “clean energy.” Critics say this is just another break for utilities and tax increase under a green guise. “It is simply unconscionable to [Citizens Action Coalition] that at a time when vital human services for vulnerable populations are being cut dramatically, 104 elected officials would raise taxes,” Kerwin Olson, program director at Citizens Action Coalition said in a press release. The bill also contains language that would give private corporations the right to eminent domain in constructing a carbon dioxide pipeline. With this authorization, Hoosier residents’ private property can be used to build a pipeline that would aid Southern states in oil extraction.

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Narrowly avoiding having to call a special session, legislators submitted a budget just before Friday’s midnight deadline. The heavily amended HB 1001 now sits on Gov. Daniels’ desk, after finding approval in both the Senate, 37-13, and the House, 59-39. Included in this version is the Daniels-backed automatic taxpayer refund, in which half of state reserves will go back into taxpayers’ pockets if they exceed 10 percent of budgeted spending; the other half will be allocated to pension funds. The GOP was also successful in advancing what they’re calling a job creation program — a reduction of the state’s corporate income tax rate, 6.5 percent from the previous 8.5. The new budget increases funding to K-12 education by $47 million, and includes a designated amount of money to be awarded to teachers on a merit-pay basis. The plan also allows for Daniels’ early graduation incentive scholarships, $4,000 each, to be awarded to high school students graduating one year early with plans to attend college. Though education funding in general will see an overall increase by 0.5 percent next year and 1 percent in 2013, some schools may not feel the warming glow of more state-supplied greenbacks. Urban schools with declining enrollment will receive less monetary support, based on a new formula for allocation. And these dollars won’t necessarily guarantee programming for every child in the public school system. Estimates from the Indiana Senate Democrats’ blog, The Briefing Room, say that parents will have to contribute roughly $2,000 per student in many schools. Democrats overwhelmingly disapproved of the two-year, $28 billion plan in its final form, arguing that a reserve target of $1 billion was unnecessarily high. Holding onto these funds, they said, didn’t leave enough money to sufficiently improve schools or help middle-class families. These objections ignored, Democrats were served another lasting reminder of who wears the pants at the statehouse. Republicans tacked on a provision to the budget that will prevent lawmakers from delaying proceedings for three consecutive days, on the regular session’s last day or during a special session, threatening fines of $1,000 plus court and attorney fees. On top of the proposed redistricting that would only strengthen GOP representation, the antibolting amendment feels like a decisive blow to the Democrats’ hopes for regaining legislative influence anytime soon.

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SATURDAY

FREE

BICYCLING

2 Wheels 1 City @ City Market As heralded in our massive cover story last week, IndyCog and Sun King Brewery are combining their talents again in this annual celebration Indy’s growing bicycle community. There will be beer. There will be food. There will be bikes. There will be Freewheelin’ on site, accepting your gently-used bicycles for their repair-and-sale initiative that benefits at-risk youth. A variety of competitions include the Sun King trike race, a clown bike race and something organizers are calling “a slow race.” Is that, perhaps, a tai chi race? Event lasts from 3 to 6 p.m. and is free. City Market is located at 222 E. Market St., www.theindycog.com.

FREE

THURSDAY

WRITTEN/SPOKEN WORD

‘Be a Better Writer’ Series: Margaret McMullan @ Beth-El Zedeck Temple If you are struggling deep within the grasp of writer’s block, fear no more, for the Writers’ Center of Indiana is providing you with free inspiration. Award-winning novelist Margaret McMullan, as part of their ‘Be a Better Writer’ series, is coming to lecture on the craft of writing historical fiction, including, but not limited to, bringing past experiences to life, making readers feel engaged and how to collect fresh information and details to make a story authentic. The event is held at 7 p.m. and is free for the public. The BethEl Zedeck Temple is located at 600 W. 70th St., www.indianawriters.org, 255-0710. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Margaret McMullan

FRIDAY

FIRST FRIDAY

Celebration of Caribbean Music & Dance @ Earth House

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The IndyCog crew gets set to unveil 2 Wheels 1 City; from left to right: Benjamin Hunt, Molly Trueblood, Kevin Whited and Jamison Hutchins.

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Yes, those $200 pair of running shoes are a waste of money. Why? Because barefoot running has become the latest rage, for good reason. Author Thomas Hollowell, author of The

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Barefoot Running

will have an exhibit at the Indy 500 Expo this weekend to teach audiences the basic fundamentals and how to feel, flex and respond to the ground in a natural way. We’re in: Minimalist is always the way to go. The event is free and open SUBMITTED PHOTO to the public. Expo runs on Thursday from 4 to Thomas Hollowell 8 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Indiana Convention Center is located at 100 S. Capitol Ave., www.500festival.com/marathon or www.barefoot-running.us.

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No Exit’s ‘THOM PAIN’ (based on nothing) @ Wheeler Arts

FREE

Thomas Hollowell: Barefoot Runner @ The Convention Center

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THURSDAY & FRIDAY

WRITTEN/SPOKEN WORD

Joshua Carroll stars in THOM PAIN.

Playwright Will Eno was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for THOM PAIN (based on nothing) , a one-man show that seems to be the musings of a jeering misanthrope who is extraordinarily bitter about his misfortunes in life. The Dramatist Play Service says that Pain is “just like you, except worse.” Expect dark humor as the show forces you to find the funny underpinnings in life’s calamities. The show runs until May 20, all shows are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 at the door, $15 for reservations and $10 for seniors and students. The Wheeler Arts Center is located at 1035 Sanders St., www.noexitperformance.org, noexitperformance@gmail.com.

Earth House is the site for a celebration of Caribbean culture, including photography (William Rasdell and Clare WildhackNolan, step daughter of NUVO Managing Editor Jim Poyser), music (Kwanzaa Pops and reggae music) and dance (Into Salsa, Kathy Allender and Sancocho, featuring Iris Rosa). The photography exhibit focuses on the music and dance of Cuba, including traditional dances of the Islands. The night runs from 6 to 9 p.m., taking the form of a Latin dance party as the night progresses. Requested donations: $5, or $3 for teachers and artists and free for those under 18. The Earth House is located at 237 N. East St., www.earthhousecollective.org, 636-4060.

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Part of the photography you’ll see at the Caribbean event at Earth House.

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FIRST FRIDAY

Work by Doug Arnholter

FRIDAY

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Doug Arnholter’s ‘Perspectives’ @ Wug Laku’s Studio This month, the works of Doug Arnholter are tucked behind the turquoise walls of Wug Laku’s Studio & Garage. The exhibit, entitled Perspectives, is meant to challenge our differences. The featured work, which includes contemporary frescos and sculptures, explains that varying viewpoints — intelligence, sexuality, religion, race and the like, are perspectives rather than barriers. Doors open at 6 p.m. 1125 Brookside Avenue; 270-8258; www. wlsandg.com.

Work by Autumn Keller

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Dorothy Stites Alig: ‘Nocturnal Moon’ @ Gallery 924

‘Use Me Use You Use’ @ Indie Indy Ready for a deep look at fashion and how it affects our lives? Artist Autumn Keller’s installation, Use Me Use You Use, examines cultural definitions of identity, especially in the aspects of clothing and body modification, through painting and performance. Attendees of the exhibit will also be able to roam the south gallery, where the work of Kyle Ragsdale, Justin Cooper, William Ray Denton and Matt Eickhoff are still on display in their exhibit The Flower Show . The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. 26 E. 14th; 919-8725; www.indyindieartisit.com.

FRIDAY

“Blot” by Bruce Riley

FRIDAY

FIRST FRIDAY

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‘Notes’ @ Artbox Who doesn’t love a good note? From notes passed in class to notes between lovers, they are a well-used yet under-valued form of communication. At Artbox’s exhibition, the modest scraps of paper are finally getting their time to shine. The pieces on display vary greatly in subject matter, technique and materials, with the use of paper as the canvas tying the work together. The work of William Denton Ray, Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Bruce Riley and others will be featured. The gallery will be open from 5 to 11 p.m. 217 W. 10th; 955-2450; www.artboxindy.com.

It’s true, some cities never sleep. Dorothy Stites Alig’s exhibit, Nocturnal Moon, is a new series of mixed-media work that focuses on high-energy nightlife from cities like New Orleans and Las Vegas. The pieces combine traditional painting techniques with digital photography printed on Japanese washi paper. The effect? A soothing blending of colors and shapes that reveal the pulsing heartbeat of the cities. The gallery will be open from 6 to 9 p.m. 924 N. Pennsylvania Street; 631-3301 ; www.indyarts.org/gallery924.

Work by Dorothy Stites Alig

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Emerging Tech Day @ Indianapolis Motor Speedway The best and the brightest young minds will be displaying their innovative renewable technologies for the automotive industry this week at Emerging Tech Day. It’s one of the three events scheduled as a prelude to Opening Day for the Indy 500 on May 14. The event is described as a “great addition” to the already impressive lineup of exciting events for fans. The event will feature exhibition competition by alternative power vehicles in the Formula Hybrid, American Solar Challenge series SUBMITTED PHOTO and the Purdue GrandPrix. Admission is free, day runs Don’t miss Emerging Tech Day at the IMS. from 12 to 9 p.m. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is located at 4790 W. 16th St., 492-8500, www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com.

SATURDAY

MARTIAL ARTS

Capoeira Angola @ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church

Grandmaster Robert J. Cooper is 74-years-old, a 10th degree black belt level in Jujitsu, a 9th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and on the Mestre level (highest attainable) in Capoeira Angola. We’re not surprised he’s known as a living legend. That’s why you won’t want to miss the five seminars that he and other teachers are putting on this weekend. Focusing on promoting lifeaffirming values, the seminars will teach self-defense, crime prevention, musical performance of traditional African instruments, the basics of Capoeira Angola and the importance of a healthy diet. Also, kids that day can attend an open house for the Son Seekers Summer Day Camp, where they can make crafts, do a science project or create a musical instrument. Hosted by the Indianapolis Martial Arts Institute, Blue Earth Health Initiative and North Star Capoeira. Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is located at 3421 N. Park Ave.

TUESDAY

STORYTELLING

Jabberwocky: Birthing Stories @ IndyFringe If you’re a mother, a mother-to-be or a midwife, you won’t want to miss this month’s Storytelling Arts of Indiana’s Jabberwocky session about birthing. Jabberwocky is a gathering of “jabbers” who want to share their life stories with others, and each month has a new theme. Expect stories from mothers, midwives, doctors and maybe even a proud poppa or two. The audience is encouraged to share their own birthing stories after in an open-mike section. The event takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and is free. Appetizers and a cash bar are included in the night. The IndyFringe Theatre is located at 719 E. St. Clair St., www.storytellingarts.org, 576-9848.

WEDNESDAY

MUSIC

Pacifica Quartet @ Indiana History Center The praises of critics are almost louder than the music produced by the California-born Pacifica Quartet. Named Musical America’s 2009 Ensemble of the Year, winner of the 1998 Naumburg Prize and recently appointed quartet-in-residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the quartet will be in town for one night only to regale the ears of Indy’s SUBMITTED PHOTO Pacifica Quartet music enthusiasts. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and is part of the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis’ season. Tickets are $30 for general admission, $10 for students ages 19-25 and free for those 18 and under. Indiana History Center : 450 W. Ohio; 818-1288; www.ensemblemusic.org. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 05.04.11-05.11.11 // go&do

SOULMATES IN HOT PANTS DERBY GIRLS FORM BONDS, BRUISES

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Race City Rebels (men’s team vs. Sioux City Kornstalkers ; see sidebar) Circle City Socialites vs. Springfi eld SATURDAY, MAY 7 Doors open at 5 p.m.; first bou t at 6 p.m.; second bout at 7:45 p.m.

Skaters in the Circle City Derby Girls league: (from left to right): Kelly Kendall (“Faye Stunaway”); Christina Goff (“Fly”); T heresa Kolbus (“Beattie Sedgwick”); Emily Udell (“Vivi Section”); Megan Stead (“Liberty Spykes”)

BY M E L I S S A F E A R S E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T High-speed skaters whip around the sharp bends on the yellow rope-lined track. Clad in fishnets and hot pants, these girls on wheels aren’t just putting on a show, they are athletes with countless bruises, concussions and more than just a few broken bones. These 60-plus women make up Indy’s Circle City Derby Girls (CCDG). Founded in 2008, the skater-owned league is out to prove there’s more to derby than fighting on wheels. This high-contact spectacle is in fact a sport. In the ‘60s and ‘70s roller derby wasn’t much more than a televised cheesefest, but now has evolved into a modern-day phenomenon. “I love the fact that modern roller derby has been pioneered by a grassroots movement of kick-ass women,” derby girl Vivi Section, says. “Their passion, ambition, creativity and athleticism continue to define what the sport is today.”

Bruises galore

Practicing five days a week in a cramped, overheated ice rink, these bruised ladies

know it takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to become a certified derby skater. Skaters on both of the local league’s teams — the Circle City Socialites and their B-team, The Party Crashers — must attend a certain number of practices and score a certain number on the skills test before they’re cleared to participate in a bout. Derby hopefuls need to master the basics, including knee-stops, slides, shoulder and hip-checks, plus pass standard fitness tests. Derby fitness tests include skating around the track at least 25 times in five minutes and five times in a minute. Skaters need to be able to jump over small cones about three inches high, and most importantly, they need to know how to fall. Learning how to fall in just the right way may help prevent injury. When derby girls hit, they hit hard. Racing around the slick shiny track, all it takes is one swift knock to the ribs to take a skater down. “I remember seeing Strawberry [Smackquiri] fall right on her tailbone and hearing her scream… you know, that scream that tells you somebody is hurt badly!” says Mistress Azrael.

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She’s no stranger to injuries herself. Azrael ael took a hit from an opposing skater’s shoulder der that snapped her clavicle.

“Fall seven times, stand up eight” t”

Injuries like these are all part of the sport. With enough bruise pictures on Facebook too fill up numerous photo galleries, the girls view them as trophies, something they’ve survived. Barb Dwyer’s tattoo says it all: “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Because skaters frequently suffer injuries, teams need medical help on hand. Enter Bambi Lance, CCDG’s skater — and also their medic. This veteran’s real name is JoAnna Castle, but her derby nickname is what makes her stand out. Pointing out the play on the word ‘ambulance,’ fellow medic and teammate Nova Blaze says, “It took me a second to get it, but once I did, I realized it was ingeniously clever. Also,” she laughs, “I love that if anyone was to ever get in my phone and see Bambi they would probably think I hung out with strippers.” As a full-time critical care paramedic, Bambi Lance takes her job seriously, both on the track and off.

Forum at Fishers, 9022 E. 126 th St. Tickets: $10 in advance through May 4 or $15 at the door Tickets available at Claude & Annie’s, 9251 E. 141st St., Fishers or Upla Tasting Room, 4842 N. College nd Brewery Watt’s Blooming, 615 Massach Ave., or or online at www.brownpapertusetts Ave.; ickets.com/ event/160443) After-party: Claude & Annie’s, 9251 E. 141st St., Fishers See: www.circlecityderbygirls.co m

“It is best practiced practi ticed d to to always alwa al ways ys have hav ave e aa medic on the team,” Lance says. “We have a medical committee and several volunteers… If they don’t hold up to our bout contract, we don’t play.” Bout contracts are put together to ensure that players will have proper medical treatment available if needed.

Hot pants

Fishnets are one option for some roller derby vets, while several of the rookies tend to favor striped tights. Layered on top is the staple of roller derby attire — hot pants. “I’m like a skating billboard,” says Malice Munro. “But, Strawberry Smackquiri has one (pair) that says ‘Don’t be a pussy, play roller derby,’ which about sums everything up.” Another standout pair: Vivi Section’s, “It ain’t gonna spank itself.” From slogans like these to stickers on

THE FIRST BOUT

Indy’s Circle City Socialites defeated the Southern Illinois Rollergirls (Marion, Ill.) with a final score 181-55, April 9 at the Forum in Fishers. Circle City Roller Derby Girl’s B-team, the Party Crashers, also fared well, racking up 154 points to the Lansing Derby Vixens’ 119 in Saturday’s double-header. NOTE: The Party Crashers are a new addition to the league this season, and have helped create more room for the ever-increasing roster of girls.

THE RULES

helmets, derby girls are outfitted with power statements from head to toe. “I mow bitches” and “Kick her in the cooter” especially stand out. Accessorizing opens the lines of communication between teams, for better or worse. “I like giving compliments to the other players, it throws them off,” Kimmie S’more says. “It’s funny rolling up to them and being like, ‘Cute tights, where did you get those?’ Soon as the whistle blows, you hit ‘em.” According to S’more, there’s a sense of empowerment that comes with a well-executed hit: “In roller derby you can be who you wanna be.”

Derby soulmates

With all the competition on the track, derby girls still find sisterhood and camaraderie with their teammates. “This league is wonderful: the ladies are amazingly supportive and I get to wear cute shorts,” Flo B says. Teammate Roxi Razorblade agrees: “It is feeling brutal and sexy at the same time,” she says. “I can be Roxi on the track and not hold anything back. I like having my awesome teammates behind me and knowing they are there for me both on the track and in ‘real life.’” The connection between teammates is key. Veterans take new athletes under their wings to foster that sense of community. If the pairs work well together, skaters can become each other’s derby wives or “derby soulmates,” as the team says. It’s friendships like these that keep the members of CCDG coming back through black eyes and broken bones. They’re in it for more than just foxy fishnets or trophy bruises. “It’s tough, competitive, feminine, sexy, loud and crazy,” Malice Munro says of her sport. “It’s indescribable, but anyone who has ever been to a bout knows!” Top: Margo Murphy (“Shock Hop”) and Kim Prifogle (“Lady Miss Bier”) battle the Southern Illinois Roller Girls. Middle: Megan Stead (“Liberty Spykes”) stops as the referee calls a “no pack.” Bottom: Amanda Miller (“Cruel Whip”), pumps up the crowd before the team’s home opener.

In roller derby, two teams comprise five players each (four blockers and one scorer, called the jammer). Players race around a flat, oval track and attempt to score as many points as possible by having their jammer pass opposing teammates. The Game: For a first-time spectator, the jammer is the player to watch. The jammer’s goal is to score points for her team, which she does by passing opposing players’ hips. For each hip she passes, she earns a point. On the first pass in each jam (the two-minute period of play), the two jammers fight to make it through the pack, the other skaters on the track. Teams can score simultaneously. The first jammer to get through the pack without penalties can become the “Lead Jammer” — they take control of the current jam. At any time during those two minutes of play, the Lead Jammer can call off the jam for strategic reasons. If, for example, the opposing jammer is close to scoring or scoring too many points, the Lead Jammer may choose to call off the play. The four blockers fight to protect their team’s jammer, and try to knock down the opposing jammer and blockers to stop them from scoring. There are two categories of penalties: minor and major. A player can earn four minor penalties, but the fourth is considered a major. Major penalties result in the player being sent to the penalty box for one to two minutes. Penalties may be awarded for skating out-of-bounds to gain position on other players, called a “track-cut,” blocking or hitting a player outside the allowed contact zones (too high, too low, or between the bra straps on her back), throwing an elbow or engaging in conduct considered unnecessarily rough.

THE OTHER LEAGUES

Founded in 2006, Naptown Roller Girls, an all-girl, skaterowned and operated league, is one of more than 75 flat-track roller derby leagues in the country. As a member of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, NRG abides by all the rules, including participation in sanctioned inter-league bouts, as well as regional and championship playoffs. The fourteen best skaters play on the Tornado Sirens, an all-veteran squad, while the intermediate skaters play on the Warning Belles. Rookies make up The Third Alarm. See: www. naptownrollergirls.com Roller derby is not just for the ladies; The all-dudes’ team Race City Rebels boasts 25 men of all ages and experience levels. Proud members of the Men’s Roller Derby Association, the team strives to prove themselves in a female-dominated sport. Well into their second season now, this league is an offshoot of a local co-ed group. The Rebels are now rallying up fans to come cheer them on for their second home bout of the season, against Sioux City Kornstalkers this Saturday. See: www.racecityrebels.com.

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A&E FEATURE The Encaustic art of Elizabeth Guipe Hall Photography, beeswax and Oaxaca

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he first thing Elizabeth Guipe Hall shows me, when I pay a visit to her Harrison Center studio, is an encaustic collage she’s in the process of creating. The central image of the collage is a photograph of Mexican musicians in which colorful circular designs are embedded. Hall shot the photograph during a six-weeklong trip to the Mexican state of Oaxaca last summer, a trip supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment. Many of the photos that she took on this excursion are incorporated into her collages that will appear at the Harrison Center for the Arts on Friday, May 6, 2011, in a show entitled Valley of the Zapoteca: New Work by Elizabeth Guipe Hall. The photographs are the product of the class she took in Oaxaca with Mary Ellen Mark, a world-famous documentary photographer. But taking these photos was only the first step in her process. After working with her digital photographs in Photoshop and Coreldraw, she prints her images onto Japanese printmaking paper. “It’s thin and it’s strong,” she says. “And it becomes transparent when I embed it in wax.” Normally, Hall melds a photographic image with wax, using the heat from a heat gun, onto a plain white board. But for this show — “Because in Mexico the color is just in your face,” she says — she first drew and painted abstract designs on her boards in charcoal and in watercolor before melding the photographic images onto the board surfaces with wax. “I also cut negative pieces out of the photos to bring the background forward,” she explains. “And then I start adding color on. And every time you add a layer of wax or a color of wax you have to fuse the colors. The wax is my glue and my paint. It’s everything.” This process of adding clear and colored wax continues after a photographic image is fixed onto a board and gives her work a certain sculptural three-dimensionality into which she can, say, carve crevices in the wax surfaces. Hall grabs a heat gun and demonstrates for me on one work-in-progress how the wax becomes soft under the stream of hot air. She has a pair of hot plates nearby on which she heats pans of beeswax and adds resin, which hardens and tempers the wax — either clear or colored wax — that she paints onto her boards with a brush. (Hall also works with a blow torch and you can see her doing this on her website, www.elizabethguipehall.com.) “It’s all about layering and heat,” she says.

“The wax is my glue and my paint. It’s everything.” — Elizabeth Guipe Hall

“The wax is my glue and my paint. It’s everything”: Elizabeth Guipe Hall; see what she means at the Harrison Center, starting t his Friday night.

Stumbling into the encaustic medium

Encaustic painting stretches back to the time of Ancient Greek antiquity but it’s a method that seems perfectly suited for her process that incorporates 21st century digital photography. It’s a type of artwork that Hall, currently an art teacher at the Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center, stumbled into. “I finished my Master’s in 2002,” she says. “That was in ceramics at the University of Indianapolis. I had been doing mixed media pieces of art, but I was also doing ceramics. So somehow, I had to figure out a way to meld the two. So I was taking slabs of clay and trying to make them look like mixed media paintings using clay materials. And along with clay you’re able to scratch the surface, have texture and things like that. “I was working at a school that didn’t have access to a kiln,” she continues. “I didn’t have a way to fire anything. But I still wanted to have that sort of malleable surface that I could drop into and have lines in. And I was poking around in a supply closet and there was beeswax. I’m sure it was for batik because it was like dark brown. So then I was putting wax over acrylic paintings which is a big no-no. It doesn’t adhere. And then I started just researching.” After receiving an Indiana Arts Commission grant in 2006, Hall went to Cape Cod and took an encaustic workshop. “And that sort of reinforced some things that I’d figured out through those years on my own and it taught me a couple of other techniques… And then I fell in love with the stuff.”

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Teaching and creating art

Hall’s life as a high school art teacher and as an artist are, like the mediums in her finished collages, hard to separate. The grant that allowed her to travel to Oaxaca, in fact, was a Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship. These fellowships allow Indiana public and private school teachers to pursue projects that are “personally renewing and intellectually revitalizing” to quote the Teacher Creativity Fellowship website www.teachercreativity.org. “When I wrote the grant, my intent was to learn Spanish. I actually started taking some classes here in Indianapolis before we went. Because I have a lot of Spanish speaking students that come from all over Mexico, Central America and South America, I wanted to get some sort of feeling for their culture. I wanted to have some way to connect to those kids. To be able to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve been there,’ instead of just things I’ve just seen in pictures or things I’ve seen on the Internet, to make them feel more welcome in my classroom.” Hall, along with her two children, spent six weeks in the Oaxaca Valley, the home to the Zapotec people who ruled much of Mexico before being conquered first by the Aztecs and then by the Spanish. (Hall’s husband joined them two weeks into the trip). During her photography course, in the village of Teotitlan de Valle, she captured an image of band members — two trumpet players and a trombone player — leading a procession of 100 or so young girls through the village announcing the beginning of the Fiesta de la Preciosa Sangre de Cristo (Festival of the Precious Blood of Christ) that lasted from July 1-5, 2010. That photo is the foundational

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image of the collage that Hall was working on when I first walked into her studio. Another collage appearing in her upcoming show relates to a dance that took place during the festival, “Danza de la Pluma.” My favorite collage in her batch of new work is “Santo Domingo,” featuring a photograph of the interior of a Oaxaca City cathedral. It takes a few seconds to see the form of the dome of this church through abstract geometric forms and purplish reds that seem to shimmer like refracted sunlight. For me, the work conveys the kind of peace and serenity you might feel in such a place after stepping into such a sanctuary arriving, say, from a hot, crowded sidewalk. But most of Hall’s works for her upcoming show are brighter than this particular collage. “A lot of people complain that sometimes my colors are too dark,” she says. “Coming back here I didn’t realize how intense things were there… And now I understand [the Mexican-American neighborhoods of] East Washington Street and West Washington Street with the green and the red and the yellow.” Editors note: Hall’s husband, Scott Hall, was a NUVO staff member in the ‘90s and occasionally contributes to our music section. WHAT: Valley of the Zapoteca: New Work by Elizabeth Guipe Hall. WHEN: Friday May 6, 6-10 PM WHERE: Harrison Center for the Arts 1505 N. Delaware St. INFO: www.harrisoncenter.org INFO: www.elizabethguipehall.com.

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SLEEPING BEAUTY r Clowes Memorial Hall; through May 1. It’s not every week we are invited to two Royal Weddings (and public kisses) — the first via London, the second just around the corner. Delightfully portrayed as a fairy tale where good and love trumps evil and vindictiveness, beauty is more than skin deep and awakening after a century requires an updated wardrobe and dancing style, Butler’s troupe of 120 dancers showed they were having fun while performing with good technique and clearly defined characterization. The Butler Ballet Orchestra under Richard Auldon Clark spiritedly merged music with what 120 years ago was ‘contemporary’ choreography with each of the three acts delivering memorable focal points. In the prologue it is the adagio and variations of the gift-bearing fairies, particularly the Lilac Fairy. Closing the first act is the lovely adagio of Princess Aurora with the four princes. In the second act, the “Dance of the Nymphs” (named Dryads here) was charming within the adagio for Prince Desire and the vision of Princess Aurora. The fourth act dramatic moment is the grand pas de deux pitting the evil-minded Carabosse against the Lilac Fairy who represents the over-riding theme of love as the enduring life force. Petipa’s original concept remains fresh and poignant through this production’s choreography by Stephan Laurent, Cynthia Pratt, Marek Cholewa, Tong Wang, Susan McGuire and Derek Reid. Credit all the soloists and the company for focused performances to bring forward the poetry and passion of love in a spectrum of colors and phases. Guest artist James Cramer in the character role of King Florestan set the pace with his fatherly wonderment as he holds his newborn daughter. The new set designed and crafted by Karl Kauffman worked perfectly with lighting designed by Anthony Bauer. 4600 Sunset Blvd., 940-9536, www.butler.edu —RITA KOHN

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IVCI LAUREATE CHAMBER SERIES t Indiana History Center; April 26. It was only last September that the Eighth Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis was held, wherein German/Korean Clara-Jumi Kang emerged as the gold medalist. Tuesday was her first reappearance here since then. Kang was joined by pianist Gyorgy Tchaidze, first lau-

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reate of the 2009 Honens International Piano Competition of Calgary, Alberta. First we heard three Brahms’ Intermezzi, Op. 117 for solo piano. Tchaidze’s pianism revealed an excellent touch and technique, though I would have preferred him to have chosen the composer’s Op. 118 Intermezzi as all three of the Op. 117’s conveyed a similar mood. A greater contrast would have been preferred. Kang followed with a favorite of our competition followers, Eugène Ysaÿe’s “Ballade” Sonata (No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 27). Our gold medalist sailed through the piece as though she owned it, but failed to hold those accented double stops long enough for them to sink in. Then came the first of Kang and Tchaidze’s duos, Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat, Op, 12 No. 3, another competition favorite. Unlike last September, both played as equals, apropos for this occasion. Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78, served as the program’s centerpiece. Our players gave us a generally sterling account of a work dominated by nostalgic lyricism. Brahms’ much earlier-written Sonatenzatz (Scherzo) in C minor served as an effective, programmed encore. Throughout the concert, Kang often delivered an excessively wide vibrato, one which varied in degree within any single piece. It’s regrettably an all-too-commonly overlooked issue, even among successfully performing string players, rendering their pitch insecure. For more review details, visit www.nuvo.net. 450 West Ohio St., 232-1882, www.indianahistory.org –Tom Aldridge

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Phebe Taylor and Mikayla Reed star in The Phoenix’s ‘The Zippers of Zoomerville.’ parade and trudge across a stage made of giant, slate-like slabs (another beguiling design by Rob Koharchik). The set, the sound of a storm and the odd personal items the characters carry — suitcases, a birdcage, a parasol — suggest they are the unrelated refugees of disaster. They don’t have cohesive conversations but exchanges of ideas and emotions. There is fear and fretting, poise and play, and occasionally, hysterics and flirtation. Characters pair off to share confidences, come together as a group, and then break off, one by one. In this way, Small Lives is a lilting piece of theatrical choreography with fully invested performances, and yet it does not fully satisfy. Over the hour, as the longings of Chekhov’s original characters bleed through the jumbled text, one craves to watch the Chekhov plays intact. Still, Small Lives does much to reassert Butler University’s position as a place to explore theater as it has been and as it might be. 4600 Sunset Blvd., 940-9659; www.butler.edu/ theatre — JOSEFA BEYER THE ZIPPERS OF ZOOMERVILLE r Phoenix Theatre; directed by Jack O’Hara; through May 28. This is not a musical that would go over in many places outside of Indiana, making it a truly local event. This satirical homage to the Indy 500 is pure camp. The script brims with lines that actors love to say, causing each to create gut busting energy throughout. Just as “Zoomby” cars race around the ovular track, characters zip around stage creating the controlled chaos of the “largest spectacle in racing.” Director Jack O’Hara put together a harmonious ensemble of five, with not one actor out of place vocally. His intentionally over-the-top direction encourages actors and audiences alike to find their inner goofball. Scot Greenwell, a regular in Phoenix shows, impresses with his range of talent as he steps into the role of a country bumpkin with gasoline aspirations. His love interest, Phebe Taylor, is adorably misguided as the beauty pageant queen. No moral or message hampers this kitschy piece of theater that can only be described as delightfully silly. 749 N. Park Ave., 635-7529, PhoenixTheatre.org. — KATELYN COYNE * SEE NUVO.NET FOR A REVIEW OF SPOTLIGHT 2011

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INDIANA REALITIES: REGIONALIST PAINTING 1930-1945 e Indiana State Museum, NiSource Gallery, through Sept. 11. Surprises abound in this refreshing, vibrant exhibit of art we don’t often experience. Curator Rachel Berenson Perry provides ample background in the accompanying catalog essay and exhibit labels. Representational painting— “documenting the land, cities and people as [the artists] saw them” during the period between World War I and II brings Indiana to life during a time when a “resurgent patriotism” motivated artists away from subjective Modernism toward fundamental Midwestern ideals. Federal programs during The Depression celebrated artists as essential to the American way of life and “the general public could relate to…realistic documentation of people in their own communities.” What makes these paintings so special is their striking difference from the better-known art we have come to associate with the “American impressionist style, practiced by T.C. Steele (18471926) and the Hoosier Group as well as the later Brown County artists.” Stopping us in our tracks was the inclusion of Harry A. Davis, best known to us for his amazing architectural exteriors. Here we find a couple skating off the canvas and a family in the midst of a robust “Harvest Dinner” along with the 1945 “Passing of an Era” which can serve as a marker for his life-long preservation of buildings in paint. You’ll view landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, and portraits by a dozen other painters including Robert Edward Weaver’s animated circus clowns, Floyd D. Hopper’s eerie “Night Train” and Edwin L. Fulwider’s somber “Receiving News of Pearl Harbor.” Worthy of return visits to grasp all the nuances of a seemingly simpler life. 650 West Washington St., 232-1637, www.indianamuseum.org. –RITA KOHN

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Sweet, slow-burning mole and good guac BY A N N E L A K E R E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T There are no chapulines (fried grasshoppers) on the menu. But Restaurante Oaxaca — formerly housed inside the international grocery store Saraga, and now tucked among the BBQ and fried chicken joints on MLK Jr. Drive — is rustic in a thrilling way. The first clue? Hand-hewn tortilla chips. These quartered fried chips were recently a soft corn tortilla, liberally salted and served with a fluid, spring-green salsa designed to clean one’s reloj [clock]. Guacamole got high marks from my Texan friend, who praised its room temperature, its chunkiness and the inclusion of queso crumbs. Such chips and guac alone might have made a satisfying snack, balanced by a refreshing glass of aqua fresca ($2.50) in my chosen flavor of pepino (cucumber). But I really came for the mole, as Oaxaca is known as the land of seven moles. In Aztec times, this chocolatey, nutty, sublime sauce

that takes meat to new heights was made for royalty only. Even now, my friend recounted, his grandmother turns mole-making into a three-day ritual — a labor intensive artisanal act and occasion for social bonding. On my first visit to Restaurante Oaxaca, a Tuesday night, the mole supply had run dry. I was luckier on a return visit. An order of Mole Oaxaqueño ($8.95) yielded three pieces of dark meat chicken coated in a generous cup of the satiny dark sauce and sprinkled with sesame seeds. This mole was sweeter than expected, but with a fine slow burn. The best deal at Oaxaca has to be the Tamales Oaxaqueños. For $5, you get a pork tamal wrapped in a plantain leaf, a chicken tamal wrapped in a corn husk and un elote, a sweet corncake that’s typically a breakfast food. I love tamales because a real one can only be formed by the expert cook’s hand; Oaxaca’s are done with love and deft. The pork tamal had a touch of salsa verde within; the chicken one had a toothier masa envelope. Next time I will take my tamale for a street food test drive on the spanking-new sidewalks along MLK. My husband’s fajitas ($8.95) came with beef, chorizo and, notably, tomatoes that tasted chile-roasted. The fajitas were accompanied by more cushiony handrolled corn tortillas. The meal ended with Platano Frito ($3.95). These sautéed plantains came driz-

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zled with two sauces — one sweet like condensed milk and one cheesy. Here’s a dish that works as appetizer, snack or dessert. Restaurante Oaxaca is a bit of a chameleon. On the second visit I was less certain that our tortilla chips were homemade. Also on the second visit, we were served a red salsa in addition to the green. First visit, no mole; next visit, yes. No matter. Corporate consistency is not the reason you go to a hole-in-the-wall with just 40 seats, telenovela actors emoting from the TV and a clientele of all colors. If it’s authenticity you seek, slide over to Oaxaca.

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This new series inspires people to visit restaurants in the 38th Street corridor to eat ethnic food, then discuss with friends and strangers issues surrounding food and ethnic identity. Here’s how it works: Over dinner, a facilitator leads the conversation, via the following three questions: “How do we use food to connect our past heritage to our current one?” “Why are international businesses and restaurants an important component of Indianapolis’ future success?” and “How can the 38th Street corridor capitalize on the influx of independent, locallyowned international restaurants?” This event, the second thus far, will be held Tuesday, May 10, 6-7:30 p.m., with a post-event reception starting at 8 p.m. For a full list of restaurants and facilitators (who include IBJ’s Lou Harry and the Monthly’s Terry Kirts), see www.indianahumanities.org.

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inter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) is a World War II adventure story set in a Nazi-occupied Netherlands village and presented from the point-ofview of Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13-year-old local boy. The film has the bluegray colors and somber tone one expects from foreign-language movies dealing with people oppressed by Nazis — the novelty here comes from the point-of-view and director Martin Koolhoven’s stylistic shifts. Michiel’s life consists of glowering at his father Johan (Raymond Thiry), mayor hi of the town, squabbling with his sister Erica (Melody Klaver), a young nurse, and Er looking up to his Uncle Ben (Yorick van loo Wageningen), a resistance fighter visiting W from some exotic locale. His days take a fro sudden dramatic turn when he witnesses a su airplane crash in the forest and eventually air en ends up tending to Jack (Jamie Campbell Bo Bower), the wounded British pilot of the pl plane. The kid’s big adventure gets progressively more complicated, and as the story si moves along, it starts looking less like an m atmospheric period piece and more like a at thriller, from the plot points to the camth era work. The film is adapted from Jan e Terlouw’s 1972 semi-autobiographical novel and combines a ring of truth in its portrayal of people and places with a storyline incorporating close calls, a shocking ry surprise and a climax full of derring-do. su The acting is good, and the film is visually Th

MOVIES impressive. Winter in Wartime moves into pulpy territory — pretty nervy for the genre — but it held me all the way.

In a Better World r (R) In a Better World, winner of the 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, kept me captivated almost to the end, when director Susanne Bier used a plot device hokey enough to make me question the whole movie in retrospect. “Where else did she cheat?” I wondered, and filmmakers should never do anything to make you ask yourself that question. Most of the film takes place in Denmark, with periodic jumps to a refugee camp in Africa, which apparently is a lot closer to Denmark than I thought, judging from the ease with which one character commutes between the two places. Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) is the Swedish doctor doing the commuting. When he isn’t treating the victims of a vicious warlord, he frets over his son Elias (Markus Rygaard), the frequent target of an anti-Swedish school bully. Another father and son enter the picture.

Young Christian (William Johnk Nielsen), whose mother recently died, stays with his grandmother while his dad (Ulrich Thomsen) is away at work. Christian sees Elias getting bullied and elects to assault the bully himself — the best defense is a good offense, it appears. Everything turns ugly fast, as Christian’s preventive-attack tactic escalates. Meanwhile, Dr. Anton finds his nonviolent philosophy put to the test at home and abroad. I won’t detail the contrivance that bugged the hell out of me – suffice to say it takes place on a roof when a parent has a revelation and opts for high drama instead of simply dialing the Danish equivalent of 911. Up to that scene, I was swept away by the strong acting (especially by young Nielsen) and all the ethical questions clanging in my head. After the cheat, I wondered if the film was too pat, too contrived, too self-congratulatory. I’m still not sure — but I can tell you this — the movie warrants a look-see for the acting alone. Wrestling with its structural validity is a bonus feature.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. CAMILLE (NR)

In advance of Indianapolis Opera’s La Traviata (May 13 & 15), enjoy a screening of Camille, an atmospheric romance starring Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore and Robert Taylor. Verdi’s opera La Traviata and the film Camille are both adaptations of the Alexandre Dumas 1852 novel, La Dame aux Camelias, the story of a beautiful, doomed courtesan/prostitute. When the beautiful courtesan (Garbo) falls in love with young nobleman, she sacrifices her happiness and his fortune in the name of love. The film is a luxurious, melodramatic tragedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Premieres May 5, at 7 p.m., at the IMA. Admission is $9 to the public and $5 to members. Presented by the IMA and the Indianapolis Opera.

GHOST BIRD (NR)

Every year, another bird species vanishes forever. What are the chances of one coming back? In 2005 scientists announced that the Ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to be extinct for 60 years, was spotted in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas. Suddenly the swamps were flooded with ornithologists, birders and millions of government dollars, and the struggling nearby town of Brinkley discovered a promotional edge. Ghost Bird is a thought-provoking documentary about wildlife struggling for survival, a town in Arkansas struggling to reverse its misfortunes, and the ancient relationship between man and animal. Premieres May 6, at 7 p.m., at Epworth United Methodist Church (6450 Allisonville Rd.). Admission is free; for more about the film: ghostbirdmovie.com.

I CAN’T ESCAPE (NR)

Starring Onslow Stephens and Lila Lee, I Can’t Escape is Otto Brower’s film about an ex-con fighting to survive during the Great Depression. Unable to get a job because of his prison record, Steve Nichols gets mixed up in a phony stock. In order to outwit the financial con artists, Nichols must use the street smarts associated with his dark past. Premieres at the Garfield Park Arts Center (2432 Conservatory Dr.), May 7, at 7 p.m. Admission is $3.

THOR (PG-13)

Superhero adventure about the Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As a result, Thor is banished to Earth and forced to live among humans. Ah, but Thor has been followed. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Renee Russo, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgard. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. 130 minutes.

WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE (NR)

This documentary examines the theology of Christian Zionism. Aspects of this belief system lead some Christians in the West to give uncritical support to Israeli government policies, even those that privilege Jews at the expense of Palestinians, leading to great suffering among Muslim and Christian Palestinians alike and threatening Israel’s security as a whole. This film demonstrates that there is a biblical alternative for Christians who want to love and support the people of Israel, a theology that doesn’t favor one people group over another but instead promotes peace and reconciliation for both Jews and Palestinians. Premieres at the St. George Orthodox Church (4020 N. Sherman Dr.) at 7 p.m.

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or the past decade, In the Face of War has been synonymous with the Indiana hardcore scene. A positive hardcore group in a sea of more aggressive bands, they’ve put that most hardcore of towns, Kokomo, on the map, making it a viable stop for touring bands, as well as a breedng ground for local up-and-comers. Nonetheless, this story doesn’t end with mainstream success, and after a rocky couple of years, the group announced in late 2010 that it would disband. In death as in life, In the Face of War will bring together an eclectic lineup for its final show this Saturday at the Earth House, including local slop-rock band We Are Hex, punk trio Full Rainbow and, in one-off reunion appearances, Away with Vega and Dead of Winter. The show will have a retrospective feel, with the band playing from a 28-song setlist drawing from a decade of the band’s recorded output. The group’s current lineup has also prepared a new release for the show comprised of eight newly-recorded songs from the band’s catalog and three brand-new tracks. In the beginning — dateline: Kokomo in 2001 — band members weren’t particular about where they played: church basements, living rooms, sometimes actual venues. The music scene was different then, according to the band. It was rare to see a show without hearing multiple genres. “We started doing our own shows, bringing in bands we had met around the area that had never played in Kokomo before,” guitarist CJ Sutton says during an interview with vocalist Ben Sutton and drummer Matt Nelson. “The word spread and it seemed like every show was just a big hang out with friends and with bands that everyone was interested in checking out.” A 2002 album, Self-Reliance is SelfDestruction, helped draw more fans with its sweeping, melodic hardcore and gang vocals. “We definitely felt like—and maybe it’s because we didn’t know as much music at the time—we were doing something that was unique,” CJ Sutton says of those early years. “We didn’t hear any other bands doing exactly what we were.” In a time before Hot Topic and Myspace, one of the only ways to hear new music was by going to shows. And In The Face Of War put on some of the best, bringing up-and-coming bands such as Ruiner, mewithoutYou, Norma Jean and As I Lay Dying to Kokomo. With screamo and hard-

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Vocalist Ben Sutton (left) and guitarist CJ Sutton (top right) perform live at Blackbird Cafe in Valparaiso, Ind., in Jan. 2011 . Bottom right: In the Face of War’s current lineup — from back, Ben Sutton, CJ Sutton, Ryan Hopper and Matt Nelson — poses before the roiling waves.

core becoming more commercially viable, The group was poised to make a mark on the national scene. “There was just a magical buzz in the air,” Sutton adds. “No matter what happened during the week, it just didn’t matter, because the weekend was finally here, and there was a show to go to where all your friends would be.” 2004’s Live Forever or Die Trying had more of a commercial appeal, with a faster, more punk sound, as well as a cover of the Foo Fighters’ hit “Everlong.” The band spent 13 weeks through 2004 and 2005 touring with national acts such as Dillinger Escape Plan, Bane, Verse and Comeback Kid. It was an impressive achievement for a small-town hardcore band. By then, they were the band to play with in Indiana: they brought the biggest crowd and the best bands. Kokomo’s hardcore and punk shows came to rival those held in Indianapolis and Bloomington. The band stayed at the apex through 2007, which saw the release of We Make Our Own Luck, a thrashy, punk soundtrack for growing up and getting older. “I felt like that really was a pinnacle in many ways,” Ben Sutton says of the album.

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“We worked together the best and were most on the same page.” Nelson agrees: “None of us really had any major things going on in our lives. The band had become our entire focus, and there was amazing chemistry.” Still, the group wasn’t long for that pinnacle: according to the band, the album’s release was mismanaged, and founding and veteran members of the band departed soon after the release. Everything You’ve Heard Is True followed in 2009, released after a three-month tour with Omahabased Hercules, but fan support wasn’t there. It was in late October of last year that the members of In The Face Of War decide to end things. “Imagine the things you cared about and wanted to do ten years ago,” Nelson says. “A lot of those things don’t apply today. Our lives have all changed so much. It’s bittersweet, because we love what we’re doing, but we know it’s time to move on to other things.”

The best example of the band’s impact across the state can be seen at their last show. All members of the supporting acts have played shows with In The Face Of War in one band or another, and all have stories of how the band paved the way for an Indiana music scene. “They cultivated [it] with their bare hands,” Away With Vega guitarist Kyle Kammeyer says. “They booked their own shows, created their own venues and brought bands from far and wide to Indiana for all their friends and fans to discover. They were the first band that toured on their own for months out of the year. All that made everyone look and say, ‘I can do this.’” “In the Face of War has been an inspiration for so many young and upcoming bands,” says Alex Jones, a Kokomo-born, now Indianapolis - based trio. drummer for Full Rainbow. “Had it not been for the shows and opportunities for local music In the Face of War was providing, we probably would have never stuck with it.”

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Catching up with… BY RO B N I CHO LS M U S I C@N U V O . N E T Over the past couple month, Nuvo.net blogger Rob Nichols has been catching up with local music veterans to find out about their latest projects. Here are a few excerpts. Keep up with the ongoing 10-part series on Rob’s Roots Rock blog.

BYRNE: Another complete gem of the Indy music scene — our own Nick Lowe, really — is Randy King. He fronted a New Wave outfit called The Positions throughout most of the ‘80s and ‘90s, but he still gets out to play the odd Radio Radio show now and again. Man, does he ever write great tunes that are a blast to play. Rumor has it we’ll be doing some kind of engagement over the next few months.

Catching up with Sam King There was a time (much of the ‘90s, into the early ‘00s) when the band Push Down & Turn ruled the Indianapolis club music scene. You wanted to go out for a big Saturday of live music? They were the go-to pick for a night of drinks, a band that could get your ass up on the dance floor with big, fat radio rock (with their own stuff added for legitimacy and depth). Sam King was part of the band perennially named NUVO’s Best Local Rock Band. NUVO: Any new songs and new original music in your future? SAM KING: I’m always writing, but probably not recording as much as I should be. It’s fun for me to try out new things playing them in front of people, rather than just hearing a recorded version of it. There’s more emotion live. And I’m not one of those guys who use a looper pedal or sampler; that’s just not me. If I can’t pull it off with just me and a guitar and win the crowd over, then I need to work harder.

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Catching up with John Byrne When I enter a club and look at the stage, if I see that John Byrne is part of the band, I know it’s gonna be a pretty good night. The longtime guitarist, raised in Indianapolis after moving as a toddler from Long Island, wrings a sound from his guitar equal parts gritty and eloquent. I’ve seen John play dozens of times — with the ‘90s regional cover band Mere Mortals, Louisville’s Danny Flanigan and the Rain Chorus, locals Soul Bus, even Madison roots/rocker Rusty Bladen. NUVO: Anything new for you musically?

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JOHN BYRNE: I’ve started a group in the last year which is an unapologetic Q-95, Freedom Rock-type outfit, called the 8-Track All-Stars. Our lineup includes former Johnny Socko and current Leisure Kings frontman Mike Wiltrout on vocals, Troye Kinnett on keys (when he’s not touring with Mellencamp), Adam White on drums and Matt Wilson on bass. We pride ourselves on pretty dead-on treatments of the more tuneful parts of ‘70s and ‘80s rock, with emphasis on Faces, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Who, Stones, Petty and Beatles. We even throw in some epic, if semi-ironic, Foreigner and Journey, to boot. But no Styx, dammit. That was a precondition of my joining the band.

NUVO: How’s the Indianapolis music scene these days for a guy like you?

NUVO: Anyone else we need to hear about, since you seem to know them all?

KING: I think the social media thing has made getting your name out there a lot easier than it was in the past. I remember us sitting around, putting stamps on 1500 post cards to send out to our fans back in the band days. Now you can do that in four minutes online. That also has the effect of having some people tune you out because there are so many options out there these days that are a click away. The money was still way better for local musicians in the early to mid ‘90s, but you can still do all right if you find your audience. *CONTINUED ON PAGE 28

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Catching up with Grover Parido Cellist Grover Parido was an essential part of the magic that made Cara Jean Wahlers’s 2010 album Goodnight Charlotte a quiet masterpiece. Parido has become more prominent in the Indianapolis music scene lately, picking up new projects and live shows. He has a lovely orchestral sound with hints of a Nashville coffeehouse and the majesty of U2. NUVO: How’s the Indianapolis music scene these days for a guy like you, who can be a bit of a chameleon? GROVER PARIDO: The Indy music scene, for me, has been rewarding. I have had the opportunity to perform and record with some fabulous musicians. I have developed an approach to the cello that is a little unique, and has thankfully put me in demand with some very talented people. I have been able to perform in a wide variety of style and form — fiddle tune meets Debussy (The Maple Trio); African drums,

modern dance, Floyd-esque classical (ReCollective Company). The songwriters I work with all have a unique style from a “rocky” to a “classical” vibe. My point is there is some cool art going on in this town. I’m grateful to have played a small part in some of it. I think Indy is becoming more varied in its tastes. Perhaps too slowly for some, however I remember a time when something like IndyFringe would never happen. I’m so encouraged by some of the young talent here; it bodes well for the future. NUVO: What have you been listening to recently? Any music that excites you? PARIDO: Calexico is my current fave. A beautiful confluence of cultures and aesthetic. I love the austere desert sound. Hank Williams, Stravinsky, BR549, Laura Gibson, Umphreys McGee, Bela Fleck, The Who, Carla Kihlstedt and JS Bach too. I play or listen to Bach most every day. It’s meditation. Music that deconstructs or bends tradition is what excites me. I love Truth and Salvage’s great vocals and songwriting. And [I saw] Kronos Quartet in April.

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Thursday LATIN CINCO DE MAYO DANCE PARTY The Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave. 6 p.m., $7 (ladies free until 10 p.m.), 21+

To be sure, The Jazz Kitchen isn’ t merely jumping on the Cinco de Mayo bandwagon — they put on a Latin dance party every Thursday, not to mention other events throughout the year, such as their annual celebration of Carnaval, preceded by their “Half-way to Carnaval” pre-party and followed by the “Just after Carnaval Cool-down” party (just fooling on the last one). But that doesn’t mean they won’t go all out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, that holiday commemorating the victory of the Mexican army over the French that is not, to be clear, Mexico’s independence day. The first leg of the party will take place on the outdoor deck from 6-9 p.m., with music by Hombres Sin Nombres, or Dudes without Names for you gringos. Then the dancing begins, preceded by free lessons by IntoSalsa at 9:30 p.m. DJs Aztecprinz (translation, Aztec Prince), Jimmie Jim (Jim Jim) and Coqui (Coqui) will man the beats, and amateurs will clear the floor for a Merengue and Cumbia contest ($250 grand prize). Drink and dinner specials will be available. BLUES BIG GEORGE BROCK

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The story of how soul duo The Foreign Exchange came together says a lot about the kind of collaborations that have become possible in the Internet age. North Carolina native Phonte (of the rap group Little Brother) and Dutch producer Nicolay met on the Web site Okayplay.com and began instant messaging tracks and vocals to each other. Those elements eventually came to constitute the duo’s first album under The Foreign Exchange moniker, Connected, which was released to critical acclaim before the artists met face to face. The duo returns to Indianapolis with a new record, 2010’ s Authenticity, in tow. SOUSAPHONES MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND

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The Children’s House has been kicking it Montessori style since 1971, helping kids actualize their unique potentials via classes in math, science, reading and Latin, as well as art, Yoga, literature and music. Emcee TJ Reynolds is a music educator at the school, and he’s put together a benefit for the school’s scholarship fund this weekend at Locals. Reynolds will, of course, perform, fronting his Freehand Orchestra, along with Kate Lamont, Son of Thought & F.I.R.E. and Sphie. Mina Keohane, a jazz pianist and member of TJ’s band, will premiere her new project, Mina & the Wondrous Flying Machine.

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If Richman’s “Roadrunner” and “Pablo Picasso” — digressive, ramshackle tunes sung by an adenoidal man-child roaming the streets and sifting through pop culture — are now rightly included in collections of the greatest American music of the past fifty years, he’ s never really taken a break, and his work has only become more musically sophisticated while retaining a plain-spokenness and punchline-less humor. Richman reached a new generation by working in comedy, as the acoustic-guitar carrying troubadour in There’s Something About Mary.

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t Dr. Duke Tumatoe has always combined cheeky humor with serious blues rooted in Chicago. His latest release I Just Want to be Rich carries on the good doctor’s tradition. “Bionic Tumatoe” sounds like a ‘50s B-movie title, but is filled with stompin’ guitar. The album’s title track, “What I Really Want to Do” and “One Good One Left” have Tumatoe singing of basic human needs (money, freedom, getting the last word). Tumatoe revisits “Long Legged Women and Blues Guitar” and offers an excellent, strippeddown version of “Barbecue,” with a shout-out to the long-gone, but still-missed Zeb’s at 38th Street and Keystone Avenue. Funny storytelling plus a solid blues band (including longtime keyboardist

James Hill) should remind folks that Tumatoe does more than football songs on the radio. – Matthew Socey editors@nuvo.net

JAMES BELL SWEET CANDY MAN THREE DIAMONDS

t Crate-diggers will recognize the name and label on this 2009 CD by local soul singer James Bell, though they may not quite recognize the sound. Yes, this is the same James Bell who sang with Indy-area funk bands in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. And yes, this new CD is on Bell’s stillactive Three Diamond label, as were the funk 45s he recorded in the late ‘60s — in-the-pocket dance numbers like “The Funky 16 Corners” (the most corners to find their way to a record at the time) and “The Funky Buzzard.” And, to be fair, even those without huge vinyl collections might recognize the name: two singles by Bell, along with a track by another Indianapolis funk great, Billy Ball, was collected on a well-received compilation album, The Funky 16 Corners , devoted to lost-to-history regional funk bands. His most recent solo effort landed on my desk a few weeks ago, a couple years after its release. To be sure, it’s not in the tradition of the James Brown-inspired funk heard on The Funky 16 Corners comp, though it’s certainly not lacking in soul. Rather, Sweet Candy Man is largely a collection of slow jams and upbeat R&B numbers, recorded with a competent band, but dragged down by a drum machine, synthesized horns and distorted vocals. The album kicks off with its most risqué number, “‘G’Strang,” which sees Bell trying out an awfully clever plan: “I bought my woman a G-string; had a pole put in my room. / That way I can go to the strip club without ever leaving home.” It’s that easy, right? But things get a little more realistic as things go on: “One in a Million Lady” is a straight-up slow jam, with

smooth group vocals about that special woman; “Dark Cloud,” a bright, funkier number about a woman in whom the devil has “found a hiding place,” features some great licks by Gregg Bacon on sax; and both “Taxi Driver” and “Sweet Candy Man” see Bell as flawed and putupon, calling for a taxi to pick him up at 3:35 (when “he won’t be able to drive”) and, in the latter, fooled by a “sweet Mississippi country girl” who turns out to be anything but. The surprise of the record — aside from its lack of raunchiness, given the opening track — is the closing number “Pretty Thang,” an acoustic-leaning country blues that convincingly departs from the record’s slow-burning R&B template. —Scott Shoger sshoger@nuvo.net

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r Over four full-length albums, locals The Gates of Slumber have cemented their status as one of today’s leading purveyors of pure heavy metal. While European fans embraced them early on, it took more work domestically to get some deserved recognition. That finally arrived in 2008 with Conqueror, which landed on that year’s best-of lists from Decibel magazine and The Village Voice. The follow-up, Hymns of Blood and Thunder , was a gargantuan summation of the trio’s merits: cavernous and suffocating riffs, a thundering rhythm section and overall larger-thanlife sound. The Gates of Slumber’s latest, The Wretch, isn’t so much a progression on that formula as it is a confident continuation. Vocalist and founding member Karl Simon doesn’t seem to be enjoying his band’s approval though. Eschewing the fantasy-themed lyrics of past work, The Wretch’s eight tracks were borne of “frustration and disappointment,” Simon said in the album’s accompanying press release. “This one is all about how others let you down almost as much as you let yourself down.” Perhaps his chagrin stems in part from recording The Wretch in England during winter. Whatever the cause, the leaden guitar crawl of “Bastards Born” and the galloping “The Scovrge Ov

BUCKET OF 6 BABY BUDS $10 ALL WEEK! TUE: $3 Wells $5 Long Islands Drvnkenness” make that bitterness tactile. Other tracks like “To the Rack with Them” offer a ghoulish sense of humor, while “Castle of the Devil” introduces some quiet to the stentorian mix, along with a curious detour into something approaching funk, courtesy of new drummer Clyde Paradis. It could be proof that more than black sludge pumps through their cold, dark hearts. Regardless, The Wretch is further proof that you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone else ministering metal as it was intended better than these guys.

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JOOKABOX THE EYES OF THE FLY ASTHMATIC KITTY/JOYFUL NOISE

r To put yourself in the mood of The Eyes of the Fly, the fourth and final album by Jookabox, sing along with me: The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out. The worms play pinochle on your snout. There, now you’ve got the idea. A record full of campfire sing-a-longs obsessed with creepy crawlies — and processed through the Jookabox weird box of tape loops, creative tunings, backward and sped-up vocals and general sonic mayhem — The Eyes of the Fly is a perfect pick for your next Halloween party. File it beside “Monster Mash” and that Vincent Price cooking record. Not that this record will probably get much traction: arriving a few weeks after the official breakup of Jookabox (and Jookabox lead singer David “Moose” Adamson’s name change to DMA), The Eyes of the Fly drops without a release show, without tour support, without the buzz that surrounded previous releases, such as the series of pretty darn good music videos made for songs from Ropechain and Dead Zone Boys. So that’s a shame, both because I was fond of Jookabox, and because they were good for the city — that Import/ Export 7-inch set, which also didn’t get much of a release, was the kind of gesture that our inland city needs to make to the outside world. (For those who missed it, the set, released by Jookabox’s label Asthmatic Kitty, featured one disc with songs by Indy residents and another by non-Indy residents, with Jookabox taking one track on each disc as the band overseeing the cultural dialog, if you will.) But bands break up and stuff, and at least Jookabox left us with a fun record. This one seems not quite as a jam-packed with ideas as the first

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Businesses typically resist government regulation, but in March Florida’s interior designers begged the state House of Representatives to continue controlling them, with a theatrically ham-handed lobbying campaign challenging a deregulation bill. Designers righteously insisted that only “licensed professionals” (with a minimum six years of college and experience) could prevent the nausea Floridians would suffer from inappropri-

ate color schemes (affecting the “autonomic nervous system” and salivary glands). Also, poorly designed prison interiors could be turned into weapons by inmates. Furthermore, deregulation would contribute to “88,000 deaths” a year from flammable materials that would suddenly inundate the market in the absence of licensing. Said one designer, addressing House committee members, “You (here in this chamber) don’t even have correct seating.” (If deregulation is successful, competition will increase, and lower fees are expected.)

Cultural diversity • The longstanding springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March CNN dispatch. Prepubescent boys contribute their urine (apparently without inhibition) by filling containers at schools, and the eggs are boiled according to recipe and sold for the equivalent of about CONTINUED ON PG. 35

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Latest religious messages • Former stripper Crystal Deans, who said she learned the trade at age 18 but later retired and turned to God for help through a rough patch of her life, now offers free pole-dancing classes in Spring, Texas, near Houston, expressly for Christian women. Her gyrations may be the same as when she was working, she said, but now everyone is clothed, and she dances only to “Christian music.” • Youth pastor Brent Girouex, 31, was urged to confess by his minister in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in February to an apparently lengthy series of sexual experiences with boys and young men, which he initiated by suggesting that ejaculating would help the victims gain “sexual purity” by (as he explained to detectives) “getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind.” Eight victims reported multiple purification sessions, with one estimating as many as 100.

Questionable judgments • For Career Day in April at Shady Grove Elementary School in Henrico, Va., kids heard a local plastic surgeon describe his specialty, but not until afterward did par-

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine this scene, as described by Seattle-based video artist Michael Douglas. “Sometimes a tree falls down in a field of cows, and the cows walk over to it and stare at it. It used to be standing and now it’s on the ground. There’s something different in the field and the cows start to hang out around the tree and watch it like it’s television, attracted to the rupture in the order of things. They gather around it for months, even after they completely forget why they started doing it.” I think there’s a comparable scene going on in your life right now, Aries. People you care about are in a daze, seemingly hypnotized by a certain “rupture in the order of things” that took place some time ago. In my opinion, it’s your task to wake them up, gently if possible, and motivate them to move on. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re an animal! And I mean that in the best senses of the word. Your vitality is heading toward peak levels, and your body is as smart as it gets. If you were ever going to act as if every move you make is a dance, now would be the time to do it. If you ever wanted to explore the righteous blending of grace and power, this is a perfect moment. Give yourself permission to be a fluid bolt of ingenious fun, Taurus. Play hard and sweet, with sublime ferocity. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Make the invisible dark force beautiful.” That was the first line of the horoscope I wrote for you in my dream last night. Here’s what came next: “Create a song out of your moans. Brag about your wounds. Dance reverently on the graves of your enemies.” Does any of this make sense to you so far? It all seemed perfectly reasonable and helpful in my dream. “Sneak a gift to your bad self. Dissolve the ties that bind you to hollow intelligence. Seek the angel near the funky gulley that winds through no man’s land. Dig for treasure in the muddy puddle where the single lily grows.” That’s it, Gemini — my dream of your horoscope. If you can align yourself with its spirit, I bet you’ll be primed for the waking-life opportunities that are headed your way. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, psychologist Richard Bentall proposed that happiness be reclassified as a “psychiatric disorder” — a pathology that should be treated with therapy. “Happiness is statistically abnormal,” he argued. It “consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system.” If he’s correct, Cancerian, you may have a problem. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re about to be besieged by a massive influx of good feelings. It may be hard for you to fend off surges of unreasonable joy, well-being, and gratitude. So let me ask you: Are you prepared to enter into rebel mode as you flaunt your abnormal bliss? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Two British men, Jack Jones and Chris Cuddihy, pulled off an epic deed in 2009. They ran seven marathons in seven consecutive days on seven continents. Each marathon was over 31 miles. (More info here: 7in7on7.com.) I’m not recommending that you try something as ridiculously excessive as they did, Leo, but I do want to note that you’re now in a phase when your capacity for amazing feats is bigger than usual. Do you have any ideas about what you could accomplish that’s beyond your expectations? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What have you had to relinquish in the past ten months, Virgo? What were you forced to sacrifice or surrender? Whatever it is, I predict you will be compensated for it over the course of the next 12 months. And the process begins soon. It’s not likely that the incoming blessing will bring an exact replacement for the dream that got away. Rather, you will be awakened to an unexpected new source of excitement, thereby dissolving the lingering sense of loss and liberating you to rise again.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If given the choice between having our lives change or keeping our lives the same, many of us would choose the status quo. We tend to feel that even if the current state of things is uncomfortable, it’s still preferable to having to deal with the uncertainty and fear that come from transformation. But I don’t think you fit this description right now, Libra. Of all the signs of the zodiac, you’re the one that’s most receptive to shifting the mood and experimenting with the rules. It’s easier than usual for you to imagine different ways of doing things. Take advantage of this superpower. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Hugo Chavez is the socialist president of Venezuela, not an astronomer or New Age philosopher. And yet he recently speculated that the planet Mars once had a thriving civilization that met its doom because its resources were drained off and poisoned by the excesses of capitalism. I love it when notable people go off-message and freestyle wacky fantasies, so I applaud Chavez’s improvisation. May I respectfully suggest you consider indulging in your own version of this art form? According to my reading of the astrological omens, it would be downright healthy for you to depart from your usual raps and unveil some unpredictable self-expressions to anyone and everyone who think they have you all figured out. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Symmetry and equilibrium are not all that valuable right now. They’re certainly not worth obsessing over or having screaming fights about. In fact, I recommend that you cultivate a jaunty knack for stylish lopsidedness. Appreciate the beauty of irregularity. Be alert for the way incongruous details and crooked angles reveal fresh, hot truths that provide you with exactly what you need. Even so-called flaws and mistakes may lead to lucky accidents. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn’t always there,” said Charles Bukowski, a generally cranky writer not renowned for his optimism. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy will also work wonders for you in the coming days. Trying to see what’s great about other people will tend to activate your own dormant greatness, and will just generally make you feel good. So ask yourself: What’s beautiful, smart, interesting, and successful about the people you know? Fantasize aggressively. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The income gap between the richest and poorest sections of society has always been large, but in recent years it has grown absurdly, grotesquely humongous. As journalist Les Leopold notes (bit.ly/ RichEatPoor), there are hedge-fund gamblers who rake in more money in an hour than a middle-class wage-earner makes in 47 years. From an astrological perspective, Aquarius, it’s an excellent time for you to raise your voice against this inequity. Furthermore, you’d be wise to dramatically shrink the discrepancy between the haves and have-nots in your own personal sphere, where you can actually have an immediate effect. You might start the healing by asking yourself how the rich aspects of your psyche steal from the poor parts. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s a good chance you will soon utter the smartest words you have ever said in your life. It’s also possible that you will generate two of the top five thoughts that have popped into your brain in the last decade. That’s how in tune I expect you to be with your inner sources of wisdom. And that’s how closely aligned you’ll be with the Divine Intelligence formerly known as God. Now here’s the surprise ending to my message for you, Pisces — the unexpected outcome: Your brilliant insights and cogent statements may tempt you to be wilder and freer than you’ve been in a long time.

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