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The 2015 Indiana legislative session has come to a close. Amber Stearns (with an assist from something we call “Statehouse Rock” and illustrations from some guy named Ed Wenck) grades the GOPcontrolled state gummint. (SPOILER ALERT: They flunked.)
The state’s eyes are on Scott County, Indiana, where an HIV outbreak has resulted in a needle exchange program which is being met with mixed reactions. Everyone is also watching the events unfold in Baltimore, which is generating mixed reactions of a different kind.
The report card................................. P. 11 Grading RFRA/the “fix”.................... P. 14
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Dan Grossman scopes out the IMA’s Dream Cars exhibit — and tries to answer the question, “Why put automobiles in an art museum?” Sam Watermeier previews the play Einstein! and Ed Johnson-Ott reviews The Salt of the Earth.
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We’re headed south of the border in this week’s food section. Libertine and Pizzology owner and chef Neal Brown tells us all about finding Juanita in Mexico and our recommendations for great taco joints. Plus, Black Acre’s Steve Ruby is answering your cosmic and quaffing queries in our Ask a Brewer series.
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We’re stuffed to the gills in music this week, with interviews with Circuit des Yeux, Steve Gunn, Wes Montgomery album curator Zev Feldman, plus the organizers of two big fests this weekend, the Virginia Avenue Folk Fest and Sound Out at Listen Hear. And don’t miss an open letter from Chicago-by-way-of-Indiana band Fort Frances on RFRA.
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was on Facebook the first time I saw Toya Graham slapping the crap out of her 16-year-old son. Frankly, my first reaction didn’t mesh with what is my typically liberal social and political outlook. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not as if I never go off the reservation. I’ve seen myself exuding an atypical reaction to a “heavily-felt” issue, the kind of atypical reaction that my broad-minded peers may view as less enlightened than they’d commonly expect from me, and I have as a result wondered both at my stance and their bemusement. And my bemusing reaction? Was almost celebratory as I watched Graham
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bet a lot of money… for Graham to win. Ironically, a conversation with my partner is what began to change my outlook. He reminded me of another story about parents and children near Baltimore. Danielle and Sasha Meitiv of Silver Springs are being investigated by both Montgomery County Police and Child Protective Services for allowing their two children — Rafi, 10, and Dvora, 6 – to walk home from the park, which is only about two blocks away. Now, I’m not saying that I agree with someone’s decision to allow a six-year-old to walk two blocks to or from a public park when they are not present to moniWhen I saw Graham delivering tor for safety. But how is it that several right hooks…I almost many of us initially cheered on a mother who beat her child cheered like I was front-row at a on television, yet parents with happy, healthy children are prize fight. being threatened with their removal for a trip to the park? Am I the only one who sees following her son across the street as he this as a head-scratcher? tried vainly to outrun her. I had learned I’ve been in enough Wal-Marts to be of the riots only a few moments prior. familiar with the children who throw the My blood immediately chilled when I kinds of tantrums that you just know saw that this was occurring in Baltimore they’ve already had a LOT of practice because this is where my boyfriend throwing in the past. I’ve gritted my had been that very day. He had to take teeth and hurried by wishing that the a vacation day before losing it. After a parent would DO something already! But spur-of-the-moment decision, he set off then, Toya Graham sure did something. for his first visit to the Baltimore Zoo. Did she go too far? Is any kind of corpoHe told me later that he’d had to drive ral punishment completely ineffective? through the area where the largest part Is it always damaging, or of the violence had taken place. is there ever a time and When I first saw news of the riots I place? Unfortunately, knew that he was already home, but my the “time and place” for initial reaction was still one of panic Graham’s son is running that he may have barely on a near-constant loop on escaped being surCNN and MSNBC. rounded by that kind of Awkward. n violence. So, when I saw Graham delivering several right hooks in a row to a hooded rioter, I almost cheered like I was front-row at a prize fight… on which I’d 6 VOICES // 05.06.15 - 05.13.15 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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seem more flummoxed than chastened by the blowback over RFRA. Instead of passing legislation making equal rights available to all Hoosiers, in every part of the state, they hired a public relations firm. Indiana, they want you to know, “welcomes everybody.” This especially includes the Koch brothers. This billionaire brother act, whose fortunes are derived in large part from fossil fuels and chemicals, have recently declared their intention to contribute almost $900 million to candidates in the 2016 national elections. This is more money than the Republican National Committee and that party’s two congressional campaign committees raised in 2012. The Kochs have also backed ALEC, the bill-writing factory that supplies conservative Indiana legislators with material concerning environmental regulations, agriculture and industry. When Christy Denault, Gov. Pence’s comWhat’s happening in Indiana could munications director, resigned in the wake be a preview of coming attractions. of the RFRA meltdown, Pence immediately filled that position by hiring a fellow named Matt Lloyd. Lloyd, whose As tempting as it’s been to see Pence history with Pence goes back to the and his ilk as representing some kind governor’s days in Congress, “is leavof throwback that’s passed its sell-by ing his job running communications date, this battle’s just begun. What’s happening in Indiana could just as eas- for Koch Industries,” according to the Indianapolis Star. ily be a preview of coming attractions. It turns out Lloyd is not the only While the RFRA debacle made IndiKoch connection in Pence’s camp. ana appear out of step to most people, Marc Short, Pence’s former chief of a small but powerful contingent still staff, is now president of Freedom Partthinks of this place as a model for ners, the political piggy bank the Kochs the way things should be. They loved will use to distribute all that money the way Mitch Daniels corporatized they intend to spend in 2016. the state, never mind that Hoosier With friends like the Kochs, it’s no incomes remain among the lowest wonder some people thought Gov. in the country. As far as this crowd’s Pence could be presidential material. concerned, Pence’s mistake was more Whether or not his embarrassment about style than substance. over the RFRA is any more than a This is why Pence and his Republispeed bump remains to be seen. n can fellow travelers in the Statehouse
don’t care where you’re from, it is hard to imagine a more beautiful city than Indianapolis in the Spring. The flowering trees, the carpets of creeping phlox and now, the yard signs saying PENCE MUST GO. As outrage over Gov. Mike Pence’s signing of the “religious freedom” act percolated throughout the country, friends from other states called me to commiserate about what had befallen Indiana. The first thing I told them was that this retrograde insult to our state’s well-being was far from the worst thing that could happen. The grassroots protests it sparked were actually inspiring. I had never seen so many people mobilized in favor of social justice in these parts. But then I told them something else: Watch out.
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White.............. 66.7% AfricanAmerican........ 27.6% Latino................ 9.7% Asian................. 2.4%
At the end of 2014, there were 4,791 people living with HIV/AIDS in Marion County with 235 new cases reported within the calendar year. At the end of 2014, there were 21 people living with HIV/AIDS in Scott County with less than 5 new cases reported within the calendar year. As of May 1, 2015 there are now 143 confirmed and two preliminary new cases of HIV in Scott County. Because of the accessibility of Scott Co. to Interstate-65, the state has initiated an aggressive public awareness campaign to reach travelers and truck drivers along the I-65 corridor. “We have evidence that over-the-road truck drivers are particularly susceptible to HIV-infected persons,” said State Health Commissioner Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P.H. “When you factor in that Interstate-65 passes right through the epicenter of the current outbreak, the risk is even greater. We are concerned about the health and safety of all travelers, including truck drivers, as well as the spread of HIV. Our hope is to continue to raise awareness about HIV prevention through these targeted messages.” The new arm of the campaign encourages travelers and truck drivers to get tested for HIV, limit their number of sex partners, avoid hiring commercial sex works, and practice safe sex by using condoms. It includes posters, door decals, flyers and digital Wi-Fi messages in areas where truck drivers spend time, such as in the restrooms, shower areas, and restaurants within southeastern Indiana travel plazas. The messages include the HIV Services Hotline: 1-866-588-4948.
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ntil the news of the HIV outbreak in Scott County broke, the area’s drug problem was “a hush, hush thing.” That’s what Tammy Breeding says. Breeding, a single mother of three, lives in the heart of Austin, a Scott County town of just 4,200 people that is ground zero for the outbreak. She said at about noon each day, intravenous drug users emerge in her neighborhood and start scouting out their next hit of Opana, a painkiller and the common drug abused in the area. “You’ve got one who is walking up and down the road to this house or that house – because the busier the traffic at the house you know something’s going on,” Breeding said. “It’s just not safe.” But the problem, she said, has grown worse since Gov. Mike Pence issued an executive order to make clean needle exchanges legal in Scott County for 30 days, an effort to stem the spread of HIV. And she and her neighbors are exasperated. She says the addicts don’t want help. “Go get a job. Get a life because there is hope for those people if they find it and they’re not wanting to find it,” Breeding said. “They’re wanting to get that next high on whatever they can get ahold of and it’s really frustrating.” Pence has concerns about needle exchange as well. But the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention recommended the program to help battle the virus, which has spread to more than 140 people, nearly all through intravenous drug use. Typically, Scott County would see just five or fewer new HIV cases each year. That’s why state officials have labeled the outbreak an “epidemic.” And it’s one that has affected the entire Austin community – even all of Scott County. Kids are talking about it in schools. Parents and teachers are facing tough questions about drugs and disease. Rumors are flying. “It’s inescapable,” said Tammy Davis, who teaches Spanish and provides emergency medical training at Scottsburg High School.
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A sign advertising HIV testing sits in the front lawn of the Scott County Health Department. More than 140 cases have been confirmed in the area.
base for the needle exchange program. IV drug users who are enrolled in the program can bring their dirty needles and exchange them for clean needles. Health officials hope this will help stop the HIV virus from spreading. Brittany Combs, the Scott County public health nurse, said the program is designed so IV users can obtain a week’s worth of clean needles at a time. “We’ve set it up weekly so they have to come back every week to get clean needles for the week,” Combs said. Initially, health officials underestimated how many clean needles they would need for the program. They asked users how many times a day they inject, which determines how many needles they receive. “It was shocking to me that some of Brittany Combs these people shoot up 10 to 15 times a day,” Combs said. “We had no clue.” The program matters, she said, because the CDC reports that 90 percent of the confirmed cases of HIV have come from the area’s IV drug users, who are sharing needles. And the epidemic is growing and moving into neighboring counties. Already, five cases have been confirmed in Jackson County and health
officials believe the virus will spread to more neighboring counties. “Scott County is not an island,” said Dr. Shane Avery, a physician at the Scottsburg Family Healthcare. “It is surrounded by land on four sides and has an interstate down the middle.”
On the street North Church Street in Austin is the epicenter of the crisis. It’s where the majority of drug traffic and prostitution can be found in this small community. Breeding, who lives at the road’s intersection with Broadway Street, displays a homemade sign in her front yard saying, “No loitering and prostitution on or around these premises. Violators will be prosecuted.” Breeding isn’t afraid to run people off her lawn that she suspects are dealing drugs or engaging in prostitution. “I’m not scared,” Breeding said, patting a gun holstered at her hip. “I’m not going anywhere. If you don’t like it, take your drugs elsewhere.” She said before the state established the needle exchange, drug abusers were not as obvious about their usage and whether or not they were carrying the drugs and paraphernalia. Now, she said, dealers and prostitutes have gone as far as approaching her children with drugs. The needle exchange essentially S E E OUTBREA K, O N PA GE 1 0
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sanctions illegal drug use, she said. “’Of course, here’s a free needle. Go do drugs,’ that’s all it’s saying.” Breeding said she understands the need to keep the virus from spreading, but she thinks other routes need to be taken to battle the epidemic. “Yeah, I know they’ve got an epidemic, but you know what they made a choice to stick that needle in their arm,” she said. “They need to make a choice to get better.”
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percent of its residents were unemployed last month, nearly 1 percentage point higher than in the rest of Indiana. “Some major factories left and you know the economics in the whole country have been bad for years,” Combs said. When drug abuse takes hold, “it just grows and it’s circular. So kids see how their parents live and we’re trying to stop that cycle.”
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Five miles down the road from Austin is Scottsburg High School, where some students are anxious. Mark Slaton, superintendent of Scott County School District 2, said he and his colleagues felt it was their responsibility given the outbreak to educate students about needle safety and how the virus is transmitted. “I want them to have facts first and foremost,” Slaton said. Students at Scottsburg High School filled the cafeteria just days after the confirmed count of HIV cases broke 100 to listen to a presentation by the Indiana Social Health Association. As the presentation began, soft giggles and whispers flooded the cafeteria. Awkwardness could be felt among the crowd as the spokes person from the Social Health Association began to speak. Students learned about how the disease is transmitted from person to person and what steps to take to stop it from spreading. A few anxious students and parents raised questions about “It was shocking to me that the program in advance, given the topic’s sensitive nature. some of these people shoot up Slaton said most of the anxiety could be linked to a lack of 10 to 15 times a day.” knowledge about HIV in the area. But originally, the program — BRITTANY COMBS, SCOTT CO. PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE was to include students in grades 5 through 12 at both Scottsburg high and middle schools. Community pressure prompted the district to cancel the 5th Combs said Opana is highly addictive grade presentation. – to the point that it consumes the users’ “We have a very conservative commulives and finances. nity even though we have a very liberal “All they think about is when they’re problem,” Slaton said. “A lot of our folks going to get that next hit,” Combs said. couldn’t come to grips with the fact that “One 40 gram pill of Opana can go for we were going to be talking about certain upwards of $160.” subjects with 10 and 11 year olds.” Experts say the county drug problem Slaton and his administration felt the can be linked to socioeconomic factors. issue could be addressed at a better time Scott County is one of the state’s poorest. in the spring when the 5th graders have Residents earn an average of just $30,000, lessons about puberty. compared with a state average of $38,600. Teachers at Scottsburg High School also About 17 percent of residents live in saw the presentation as an opportunity to poverty, ranking the county 21st out of 92. clear up misconceptions about how the And its unemployment rate is also virus is transmitted from person to person. higher than the state’s rate. About 6.8 Health officials said Scott County has seen a growing drug problem for years. Once doctors started noticing a rise in prescription pain killer addictions, physicians put policies in place to help curb addiction rates. Now, doctors don’t prescribe Opana in Scott County unless it is “absolutely necessary.” “If you come into the ER, they don’t give you a prescription for pain medicine, they give enough for 3 or 4 days until you can get to your primary care physician instead of giving you a whole script,” Combs said. Because doctors in the county do not prescribe the drug, those who are addicted have to find it on the streets. “Since we are on the I-65 corridor, it can come from anywhere,” Combs said. Users “have told me that (the drug trade) runs all the way from Canada to all the way to Florida.”
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The Scott County Health Department has set up a one-stop shop for exchanging dirty needles for clean ones and HIV testing.
Davis, the emergency medical teacher, said when the news broke, her students had a mixture of emotions. Some were complacent about the outbreak because they figured it was miles down the road in Austin, while others were concerned about how the rest of the world would look at Scott County. “There are so many good things in our county that could be advertised, and with this being what is advertised, it’s a lot of shock and disappointment,” said senior Brandon Boswell. And not only is embarrassment swirling around the student body – but also fear. Teachers and students said they’ve heard multiple “outrageous” rumors passed along via social media. “We’ve had rumors that there are people sneaking into Walmart and the grocery stores and injecting blood into food and that they’re putting needles under the gas pump handles,” Davis said. “There’s so much that they need to know and I think that this is going to address that really well in mass.” Some of the questions – including “Can I sit on a toilet seat?” or “Can I go the same restaurant as someone with HIV?” – harkened to a time when HIV was a new disease and fear came from ignorance about the illness. “I think there were a lot of things people knew going into it, but then there’s a lot that we were able to learn,” Boswell said. “Hopefully everyone feels safer about the decisions being made.” But Davis has another fear related to the virus. She described Scott County as a small county with approximately 24,000 people. She is afraid students have become bombarded with the drug abuse and HIV news because it’s in the media constantly and has become the main topic of conversation within the community. “It’s going to become so saturated for these kids that they end up tuning it out,” Davis said. “You don’t want that to happen, but at the same time you realize they can only take so much.” “Good things are happening too.” n
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Another session of the Indiana General Assembly has come to a close, just as colleges are hosting commencement ceremonies and high schools are reviewing for final exams. If we looked at the Indiana Statehouse as a big high school and the lawmakers as the students how would we, the teachers (as in the public who elected them to office), grade them on their performance? There is plenty of evidence that says if the statehouse were a school, it would be destined for the takeover list for failing, which just might happen in the 2016 elections. BILL: SEA 6 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Powdered or
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crystalline alcohol. The law makes it a Class B infraction to possess, purchase, sell, offer to sell, or use powdered or crystalline alcohol, with exceptions for research purposes. It also urges the legislative council to assign to the public policy interim study committee topics related to powdered or crystalline alcohol.
WHO’S BEHIND IT: Sen. Ron Alting (R-Lafayette) authored the law, selling it as a proactive stance to prevent access to a dangerous product similar to “bath salts,” an illegal synthetic substance that is responsible for numerous deaths and injuries. The inventor of powdered alcohol, Mark Philips, believes the liquor lobby had a hand in pushing the ban throughout the country. WHY IT SUCKS: Talk about an instant smack-
down on a person’s freedom of choice! Philips created
powdered alcohol, trademarked as “Palcohol,” as a way to enjoy his favorite cocktail when it wasn’t practical to haul around bottles of liquor. It is a product that will be regulated, monitored and taxed just like regular liquid alcohol, which is perfectly legal in this state. All arguments against the product were presented without evidence and based on hearsay since production hasn’t even begun on Palcohol, much less distribution. “I was never invited to testify or speak to any committee about Palcohol,” said Philips. He was initially prohibited from speaking publicly about Palcohol until the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Bureau approved his packaging proposal. However, once approval was granted, Philips has been able to change the minds and rulings of several state legislatures and get bans on his product reversed or vetoed. Unfortunately, due to the supermajority here in the Hoosier state, the best Terri Austin (D-Anderson) could do was get the legislature to agree to study powdered alcohol. What’s also
a shame is that Philips is shopping for a location to build a factory for production. By passing this bill, Indiana just said “no thanks” to the potential for manufacturing jobs.
WHERE IT STANDS: It passed with unanimous
support in the Senate and on a 90-4 vote in the House. At the least Reps. Peggy Mayfield (R-Martinsville), Curt Nisly (R-Goshen), Rhonda Rhoads (R-Corydon) and Thomas Washburne (R-Evansville) thought there were enough questions still unanswered to warrant a “no” vote. Gov. Pence signed the act into law April 29. The law took effect immediately after it was signed.
GRADE: F. This bill should not have been introduced in the first place. Everything about it stands against the foundation of this country — free choice and free enterprise. There is no need to legislate against something until you have a legitimate reason to do so.
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BILL: SEA 1 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: State board of education governance.
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Adds a statement of legislative intent regarding the roles of the general assembly, the state board of education (state board), and the department of education (department) relating to education. Makes changes, beginning June 1, 2015, to the composition of the state board. Provides that the state board may hire staff and administrative support. Provides that, after December 31, 2016, the state board shall elect a chairperson annually from the members of the state board. Provides that the state board shall, after June 30, 2015, elect a vice chairperson annually from the members of the state board. Provides that at least eight of the members of the state board appointed by the governor must have professional experience in the field of education. Provides that the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate shall each appoint one member to the state board. Provides that a state board member serves a four-year term. Provides that the state board and the department are considered state educational authorities within the meaning of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Requires the chairperson to provide notice of a state board meeting on the state board’s and the department of education’s Internet web sites at least five days before the meeting.
WHO’S BEHIND IT: Authored by Sens. Travis Holdeman (R-Markle) and Brandt Hershman (R–Buck Creek), this bill was urged by Gov. Pence and every Republican still pissed that a Democrat won the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s office in 2012. WHY IT SUCKS: “If you can’t beat ‘em, change the rules until you win” is the
mantra behind this bill. Since January 2013, it has been no secret that Glenda Ritz as state schools superintendent and Gov. Pence, through the State Board of Education comprised of members he appointed, have been at odds with each other over education policy for this state. His first attempt to change the rules was through the creation of the Center for Education and Career Innovation (CECI). Although billed to Hoosiers as something different, CECI was in direct conflict and competition with the state Dept. of Education. Both groups were tasked with working with the state education board, but somehow CECI got all of the positive reinforcement and the DOE was treated like the red-headed stepchild. Conflicts between the state board and Ritz, who by the nature of her elected title was also the chair of the state education board, continued to arise and make headlines. Outraged by the media embarrassment, Republicans vowed to make it right – by taking away the voice of the people who elected Ritz to do a job and instead redefining that job through law. Democrats thought this was the fuel they would carry into 2016 as a reason for change — but that was before RFRA came along. (RFRA also redefined media embarrassment like Crocodile Dundee redefined a “knife” in 1986.)
BILL: ???? {The bill that was never filed} WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A repeal of Indiana Code 31-11-1-1 WHO’S BEHIND IT: No one. That was the problem.
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WHY IT SUCKS: Indiana Code 31-11-1-1 is the statute that prohibits same-
sex marriages in Indiana. However, the law was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. District Court and affirmed by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The law was voided by a court order and marriage equality was in fact achieved in Indiana. So why didn’t anyone think to submit a bill or resolution to repeal the law? Indiana Code should reflect what is legal and valid in the state of Indiana.
WHERE IT STANDS: An interim summer study committee was created to
look at all errors and invalid laws currently on the books. The committee is scheduled to report back at the end of this summer. The ACLU of Indiana says the argument is over in Indiana despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s current deliberations following oral arguments on marriage equality from the cases in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Conservative leaders have been quiet about whether or not they would re-address the issue in Indiana depending on the high court’s decision, expected in June. Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision will erase Indiana Code 31-11-1-1 once and for all.
GRADE: D. Talk about missing low-hanging fruit. AND if the bill had been submitted, it would have been the perfect place to add an amendment to strengthen the state’s civil rights laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
BILL: HEA 1019 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Repeals the common construction wage
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statute. Repeals related statutes superseded by the repeal of the common construction wage statute. Increases the “small project” cap for a public works project from $150,000 to $300,000. Unless required by federal or state law, prohibits a public agency from establishing, mandating, or otherwise requiring a wage scale or wage schedule for a public works project.
WHO’S BEHIND IT: Although repealing the common construction wage was
not a formal part of Gov. Pence’s agenda, he did push for it with the support of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and Americans for Prosperity, which is a euphemism for the Koch brothers.
WHERE IT STANDS: The final bill passed the House 60-38 and the Senate 31-17 with a handful of Republicans in each chamber joining Democrats in opposition. Pence encouraged the action when he disbanded the CECI last year and is expected to sign it. The provision regarding Ritz will take effect January 1, 2017, following the 2016 elections. The staff and administrative support takes effect June 1. The new vice-chair position and new board appointments take effect July 1, 2015.
WHY IT SUCKS: It is a bona fide play out of the Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s playbook on how to deconstruct unions in your state. The common construction wage in its 1935 inception, was originally designed to shuffle government construction contracts to Indiana companies who were losing work to out-of-state companies thanks to horribly low bids and crappy work. It paved the way for strong apprenticeships and solid training through unions for an educated workforce. It also gave local communities a direct voice in how their local tax dollars were spent. Local boards sat down with construction companies and worked out the details of a wage scale and schedule for their local public works projects. Local units of government knew exactly what they were getting and what they were paying for. The repeal takes that power away and creates a veil blocking transparency. Instead of using trained electricians from the local IBEW, what’s to stop a construction company from hiring a couple of guys they found buying couplings at the nearby Menards? It’s one thing to replace an outlet in your own home after reading a do-it-yourself book you checked out of a library. However as a taxpayer, I’m comfortable with my money going to pay an electrician who has trained and apprenticed and is the best at his or her job, even if it costs a little more.
GRADE: D-. The State Board of Education may benefit from a shake-up in
WHERE IT STANDS: The bill was one of just a few that split the supermajority
By removing Ritz, or the elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, as the automatic chair of the State Board of Education, lawmakers have taken away the meaning of the electorate’s vote for that office. The influence of her office is further removed by allowing the state education board to hire its own staff and administrative support instead of using the existing resources from the Department of Education, which is another waste of tax dollars.
its structure as far as the number of board members and the origins of their appointments, but nothing else about this bill is about moving education in a positive direction. It was all about politics.
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pitting Republicans against each other. The House passed the measure 54-40. The Senate passed it 27-22. Gov. Pence is expected to sign it. Takes effect July 1, 2015.
GRADE: F. There was nothing broken and nothing to fix.
BILL: SEA 412 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Integrated resource
plans and energy efficiency. Requires a public utility to submit an integrated resource plan to the utility regulatory commission (IURC). Requires certain electricity suppliers to submit an energy efficiency plan to the IURC at least one time every three years. Provides that evaluation, measurement, and verification procedures required to be included in an electricity supplier’s energy efficiency plan must include independent evaluation, measurement, and verification. Provides that the IURC may not require a third party administrator to implement an electricity supplier’s energy efficiency program or plan. Provides that if the IURC finds an electricity supplier’s energy efficiency plan to be reasonable, the IURC shall allow the electricity supplier to recover or receive certain energy efficiency program costs. Provides that a retail rate adjustment mechanism proposed by an electricity supplier to recover program costs may be based on a reasonable forecast. Provides that if forecasted data is used, the retail rate adjustment mechanism must include a reconciliation mechanism to correct for any variance between forecasted and actual program costs. Specifies that an industrial customer’s previous opt out of an energy efficiency program of an electricity supplier constitutes an opt out of an energy efficiency program that is part of the electricity supplier’s required energy efficiency plan.
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WHO’S BEHIND IT: Although authored by Sens. Jim Merritt (R-Indianapolis) and Randy Head (R-Logansport), the bill was a part of Gov. Pence’s agenda. It is the result of his promise to replace the Energizing Indiana plan after supporting its demise in the 2014 legislative session. WHY IT SUCKS: The Energizing Indiana plan, a plan developed by the
Daniels administration, was a great plan that was supported my numerous environmental groups. It put energy efficiency directly into the hands of consumers enabling them to determine their own savings through education. This new plan puts the creation and implementation of energy efficiency plans into the hands of power companies. I’ve been racking my brain to figure out how this plan is supposed to achieve energy conservation and cost savings for consumers. When your business model is all about providing energy to the masses at a cost that will turn a profit for your stockholders, I just don’t see how the creation of a plan that encourages your customer base to use less of your product with no incentive to do so is going to achieve the desired goal. In fact, I can’t seem to determine what the goal even is. The objective of Energizing Indiana was simple and the measurements of achievement were tangible. All plans must to be approved by the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, yet there is no incentive for plans to be submitted and no penalty if companies fail to submit plans. According to the Sierra Club, Indiana homes waste more energy than homes in neighboring states like Michigan and Illinois. This results in higher energy bills for Hoosiers despite the fact that the cost of energy in Indiana is lower. “We need to stop wasting energy and save money for hard-working Hoosiers, so they can keep more of their hard-earned money in their pockets,” said Jodi Perras, Indiana Representative for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. “Hoosiers deserve to be free from utility control over their wallets. We can lower energy bills with strong energy efficiency goals and accountability.”
WHERE IT STANDS: The bill passed along party lines in the Senate 38-10
and in the House 72-26. Pence is expected to sign it. Once signed, the law takes effect immediately.
GRADE: F. This legislation completely missed the point of the assignment. It’s
like asking a drug dealer to staple rehab flyers to dimebags.
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BILL: SEA 101 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Pro-
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hibits a governmental entity from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the governmental entity can demonstrate that the burden: (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering the compelling governmental interest. Provides a procedure for remedying a violation. Specifies that the religious freedom law applies to the implementation or application of a law regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity or official is a party to a proceeding implementing or applying the law. Prohibits an applicant, employee, or former employee from pursuing certain causes of action against a private employer.
WHO’S BEHIND IT: The “religious” right, the Koch brothers, those who were angry as hell when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the same sex marriage case in Indiana, etc.. Although Sens. Scott Schneider (R-Indianapolis), Dennis Kruse (R-Auburn) and Brent Steele (R-Bedford) authored the legislation, it was championed by groups who didn’t “win” the marriage equality debate. WHY IT SUCKS: As soon it was reported the bill would be written, the
ACLU of Indiana began talking about the discriminatory implications of the bill. The lack of protections for the LGBTQ community in state statute put gays and lesbians at risk for discrimination. And there was no question that discrimination was the intent of the bill when Advance America listed that as a benefit of the bill on its website multiple times. Why did Freedom Indiana say it was a license for a business, like a bakery, to deny services to a gay or lesbian couple? Because not only had it actually happened before, Advance America said on its website RFRA would allow it to happen again! While it was mentioned several times during debate of the bill that the federal RFRA did not apply to states as written, the need for the bill at the state level was never distinctly proven. There wasn’t a single case in Indiana that supporters could point to where someone’s religious freedom had been compromised. All case studies that were presented in argument were cases outside of Indiana that had been corrected or properly defended by the federal law. So we got a needless bill that pissed off a LOT of people — with good reason.
WHERE IT STANDS: SEA 101
took effect immediately after Gov. Pence signed it March 26. The firestorm of “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?” also immediately took effect.
GRADE: F. Really it should be an E-F for “epic fail” but for some reason the E was dropped from the A-F grading system. It certainly can’t be an E for effort, unless the intended effort was to increase the social and political divide in the state. That effort was certainly accomplished.
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BILL: SEA 50 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Anti-discrimination safeguards, also
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known as “the fix.” Indicates that the law related to adjudicating a claim or defense that a state or local law, ordinance, or other action substantially burdens the exercise of religion of a person (SEA 101): (1) does not authorize a provider to refuse to offer or provide services, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public; (2) does not establish a defense to a civil action or criminal prosecution for refusal by a provider to offer or provide services, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public; and (3) does not negate any rights available under the Constitution of the State of Indiana. Defines the term provider. WHO’S BEHIND IT: House Speaker Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis) and Senate Pro Temp David Long (R-Fort Wayne) were backed into a corner by those who saw the discriminatory practices that were possible in the state’s version of RFRA. So without the help of their Democratic counterparts, the Republican leaders reached out to business leaders to help come up with a fix. WHY IT SUCKS: This “fix” is cosmetic at its core. The language used is a set of smoke and mirrors designed to help the state “save face” in the midst of the national public outcry that cost millions in lost jobs, business and tourism dollars. Think of this legislation as a battered wife putting concealer over a black eye before heading off to work. The bruise isn’t seen but the damage is still there. The law says that religious freedom cannot be used as an excuse to discriminate against anyone covered by local or state statute as a protected class. For our LGBTQ friends and loved ones in about 12 Indiana communities that have civil rights law listing sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, that is good. State law cannot trump those local ordinances. However, sexual orientation and gender identity are not protected classes statewide. Democrats in both chambers tried to correct that oversight in the Indiana Code by offering amendments to this and several other bills only to be cast aside by the super majority. There is one positive thing that this legislation has done. It has ignited a movement on both sides of the issue. Equality groups like Freedom Indiana and the ACLU of Indiana have already pledged to make an overhaul of the state’s civil rights laws a priority for the next legislative session. In closing statements at the end of the legislative session, Senate Democratic leader Tim Lanane (D-Anderson) and House Democratic leader Scott Pelath (D-Michigan City) both said adding those protections to the state’s civil rights laws will be their number one priority in the 2016 legislative session. Ministers who supported the RFRA in its original form have since protested the actions of the governor and the Republican leadership, claiming the fix betrays their interests and weakens RFRA. Interestingly enough, both sides have pledged to “vote the bums out” in the 2016 elections. That is kind of funny considering the original bill proposed under number 50 was a change in who could challenge the eligibility of a candidate.
WHERE IT STANDS: The “fix” bill passed the House 66-30 and the Senate 34-16. Took effect immediately after passage.
GRADE: D. The D stands for “didn’t really do anything”.
BILL: HEA 1001 WHAT IT’S ABOUT: State biennial budget
WHO’S BEHIND IT: Sen. Luke Kenley (R-Noblesville), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Dr. Tim Brown (RCrawfordsville), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, have the unfortunate task of drafting the budget. However the components of the education funding, which accounts for more than half of the budget, can be placed at the feet of all of the Republican Party leaders.
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WHY IT SUCKS: The task of
determining how to spend millions of dollars in taxpayer funding is not an easy lift. The education funding formula for schools has been the stuff Harvard mathematicians could spend years studying for the next great doctoral thesis. House Speaker Brian Bosma pledged at the beginning of the session to simplify the formula. This was supposed to be the year for education. But when you boil it down, taking money away from school systems that need it and re-directing that money to schools already rich with resources says “EPIC FAIL.” Fundamentally, the formula puts a price tag on each student to pay for the cost of educating him or her for that year. In the eyes of the government, every student is valued the same. However, teachers, principals, superintendents and school districts know that each student doesn’t spend the same amount in resources. Some students cost a lot more to educate than others. So the resources to educate those students cost more. School districts that lose students also lose the money that goes with them. Growing suburban school districts like Hamilton Southeastern stand to gain a lot more in state funding compared to urban school districts like Indianapolis Public Schools. Economists and public policy analysts have said that a community is only as strong as its school district. Weak school districts create weak communities which prevents families from wanting live there which creates fewer students to attend the school districts resulting in less funding and so on and so on. The Catch-22 is a swirling vortex of doom for schools that are often tasked with educating the students in the most need.
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WHERE IT STANDS: The budget is the only thing the legislature was required to do in this legislative session. The disparity in the education funding caused it to pass along party lines. The House passed it 69-30. The Senate passed it 40-9. The Governor will sign it and it will take effect July 1, 2015. GRADE: C-. It’s a budget, but not a great one and children in Indiana will suffer because of it in certain school districts.
Not all of the laws passed in this legislative session were bad. There were a few A+ bills:
HEA 1053 – Any combination of a microbrewery, winery and artisan
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distillery that occupy the same building can now sell the beer, wine and liquor from the same service bar by the glass without separating the service.
SEA 297 – Small beer brewers can now manufacture up to 90,000 barrels per calendar year for sale or distribution. (Previously they were limited to 30,000 barrels.) SEA 420 – We officially should use the term “intellectual disability” instead of
the more insulting term “mental retardation.”
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VISUAL EVENTS Dialed In May 8-23. Opening on Friday with a private artist’s reception, this exhibition showcases the work of local automotive artist Gary Dausch, whose paintings expose drivers and racetracks from unique, intimate vantage points. In addition to his marketing career in the racing industry, Gausch has experience restoring racecars. “That’s part of the magic in what I’m doing,” said Dausch. “I’ve actually touched these parts and I want them to look real. It’s like I’m building the car as I paint.” Gallery Forty-Two, FREE, galleryfortytwo.com Visions from the Forests: The Art of Liberia and Sierra Leone Through May 10. This unprecedented exhibition of traditional art from Liberia and Sierra Leone features more than 70 objects from the collection of William Seigman, an IU alumnus and former curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The collection includes masks, figures and prestige arts from more than a dozen ethnic groups. Indiana University Art Museum, FREE, indiana.edu Ansel Adams: Nature’s Small Wonders Through May 24. The IU Art Museum celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust with an installation of eight Ansel Adams photographs of flowers, streams and other “small wonders” that could read as surprisingly intimate to those raised on his landscapes. Indiana University Art Museum, FREE, indiana.edu Lois Main Templeton: It’s The Way They Mingle Through May 29. One of the most prolific painters in the history of the Indianapolis arts scene, 87-year-old Lois Main Templeton, is back with this solo exhibition. She usually works on five paintings at once and completes one per day, either in her downtown Indianapolis studio or workspace in Maine. Check out nuvo.net for a review by Dan Grossman. Gallery 924 at the Arts Council, FREE, indyarts.org/gallery-924 Old Erik Came Wondering or Throw Steel Over Their Heads Through July 23. Erik Ullanderson’s work draws heavily on Norse imagery, sourced from pop culture, fantasy literature, mall caricature booths, gamer manuals and the history of modern painting. The Viking themes reference his family ancestry, the heritage of his home in Minnesota and his deep interest in fantasy culture. Check out nuvo.net for a review by Dan Grossman. iMOCA at CityWay, FREE, indymoca.org
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ream Cars refers to experimental vehicles that drive excitement and innovation but aren’t intended for mass production. The term was coined by General Motors to refer to concept cars like the XP series that they highlighted in their Motorama shows at venues throughout the U.S. between 1949 and 1961. The Dream Cars exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which runs through August 23, 2015, highlights the importance of the Motorama auto show — and its French counterpart, The Paris Salon de l’Automobile — as well as the innovators behind the 17 cars showcased in this exhibit created between 1934 and 2010 and the role of the concept car today. But, as IMA Director and CEO Charles Venable alluded to in his opening remarks on April 30 at the press preview prior to the exhibit’s ribbon cutting ceremony, there is more going on here than meets the eye: “It’s a pivotal time for the IMA,” Venable said. “Besides cars, we’ve been in the news for all kinds of things as of late… This major exhibition will also help us achieve the ability to be seen as a resource for this community and for this state that’s broader than only being an
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art museum, which is wonderful in itself but we want to have a broader audience that will come here for all kinds of things.” But that broader audience will have to pay up. That is to say, this is the first major exhibition at the IMA to open under the new general admission policy — as opposed to the previous policy which charged only for special exhibitions — charging $18 to nonmembers. Dream Cars may very well develop a broader audience, and this is all geared, as it were, towards driving membership (because becoming a member is the only cost-effective way to make multiple visits in a given year). And if timing has anything to do with attracting a wider and more diverse membership, you can’t beat the timing of the opening, a couple of weeks before the 99th running of the Indy 500 on Sunday, May 24. And quite naturally, the exhibit >>> The 1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt PHOTO BY MICHAEL FURMAN / COURTESY OF IMA
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acknowledges the race by including the General Motors Firebird I XP-21. (The test driver for this car was Mauri Rose who won the Indy 500 three times). For lovers of speedsters, there are other vehicles to love in this exhibition as well, including the Ferrari Tre Posti and the 2001 BMW GINA Light Visionary Model, with its innovative skin made of fabric. Venable acknowledged that some museum goers might find this exhibit a little odd. But he deferred to his guest curator (and renowned automobile writer) Ken Gross and curator Sarah Schleuning, (Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA)
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to answer this question that he put to them: “Why are you putting cars in an art museum?” Schleuning, who curated the first iteration of this show at the High Museum in 2014, had this response: “The reason I’m so excited to be here is that you want the next generation to believe that anything is possible,” she said. “Ten years ago, nobody knew anything about an iPhone and now it’s ubiquitous. So what is the next best thing? You look at things like that and realize: if you can dream it you can make it. And that’s a really powerful idea. That’s the power of design and that’s why these objects are so potent.”
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THE 1934 VOISIN C-25 AERONDYNE was created by French aeronautical engineer Gabriel Voisin whose cars were owned by Rudolph Valentino and Josephine Baker among others. “After the crash of 1929 he basically has to rebuild,” High Museum Curator Sarah Schleuning explained during a press tour. “What he does is he looks to the United States
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and what’s the popular style and it’s basically American streamlining which is influenced by the French 1945 [car] exhibition. So it’s this weird amalgamation of French design Americanized, and he basically reinterprets it back into the French automobile.” Check out the ornate Jazz age-themed fabric in the interior; it’s quite a contrast to the streamlined car body.
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L’OEUF ÉLECTRIQUE In 1942, Paris was under German occupation. Long lines for gas were common and there was gas rationing. What to do? Go electric! Industrial designer and artist Paul Arzens’ L’Oeuf Électrique (the Electric Egg), was the world’s PHOTO BY MICHAEL ZUMBRUNN AND URS SCHMID / COURTESY OF IMA
first Bubble Car; it hinted at the coming dominance of French minicar production after WWII. It could go up to 60 miles on a single charge, but it couldn’t go more than 37 miles per hour. Not the safest vehicle in the world, needless to say. And with its unadorned aluminum frame, it wasn’t the sort of thing James Bond would drive. He might, however, have been able to fit a baguette or two in the seat beside him if he so chose. This car, unlike the others, is on display at the head of the Contemporary Design exhibition on the IMA’s second floor. S E E , C A R S , O N P A GE 1 8 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.06.15 - 05.13.15 // VISUAL 17
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THE 1959 CADILLAC CYCLONE XP-74, the 38th experimental car that General Motors created, might be described as a Wet Dream Car. It was designed by one Harley Earl who named the prominent bumpers after a big-breasted Hollywood starlet. The “Dagmars” were composed of dual chromed bullet-point protrusions. This is a car that James Bond would certainly drive, not only because of the bumpers, but because of the Plexiglas bubble-top that closed automatically when sensing rain. Also having proximity sensors, it was a vehicle way ahead of its time. But, of course, being way ahead of its time was not necessarily a selling point in its time, or feasible for mass production. “You can see why visual appeal is so important, right?” Schleuning says of this one. “If I were to talk to you about proximity sensors… in a car that was like hideously ugly, who would care?”
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THE 1936 STOUT SCARAB designed by William B. Stout. Stout, who built this car by hand, was a start-up kinda guy, a Steve Jobs of his time. He was right about it being the car of the future because it was essentially the prototype for the Volkswagen Bus, but he wound up making only about nine of them. “He marketed it as a mobile living room,” Schleuning said. “It had movable furniture, you could wipe it down. And you could have your drink and it won’t spill even if you’re on gravel road going at high speed.”
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If you think THE 1970 LANICA (BERTONE) STRATOS HF ZERO looks like a Star Wars X-Wing fighter — with its pop-up windscreen for a door — then you would be down the right road to understanding its creator. Syd Mead worked for Ford in their planning division but grew up in Hollywood; He did the set design for Blade Runner, Alien and Tron. “His job is to conceive of what people can’t imagine to build,” Schleuning said. Maybe this car reflects the history of how we imagine the future, which seemed like a much better place one time very long ago in a land far away. n
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hen I called Jack Fry, he was picking the brain beneath the electric hair of Albert Einstein. It was the opening night of his one-man show Einstein! at the IndyFringe Basile Theatre, and he was preparing to reveal a version of the icon that audiences probably aren’t expecting. “It’s a pre-crazy hair Einstein. It’s not the old fuddy duddy, lovable uncle that everybody’s so familiar with,” Fry said. Einstein! follows the legendary physicist between the ages of 35 and 42, amid the backdrop of World War I. But it’s not a typical slice of life in which viewers watch like flies on a wall in that era. “This is Einstein talking to a 21st-century audience,” Fry said. “He’s coming back as a ghost, and he’s pissed because so many people don’t know about the importance of him now. He’s just an empty icon, a face on a t-shirt.” Fry fleshes him out, exposing the raw humanity behind the history. Drawing upon Hebrew University’s 15,000 recently released documents about Einstein’s life and work, he shows several sides of the genius, especially during the development of his theory of relativity. Fry talked about this period in the present tense, as though the research brought Einstein back to life. “He’s cornered on each side, professionally and personally,” Fry said. “He is up against the establishment, with people who don’t believe his theories or try to steal them from him. He has a super-messy divorce with his wife. He has a nine-year-old son he loves and adores; he’s trying not to let that relationship slip through his fingers. He’s got antiSemitism rearing its ugly head against him. He has health problems that leave him debilitated. Meanwhile, he comes up with this theory that changes the way we look at life today. It ushered in the modern technological age.” Like a spirited schoolteacher bouncing back and forth to a blackboard, Fry illustrates Einstein’s history in various colorful ways — from portraying different people in his life to projecting 3D images of his scientific equations. Einstein! is Fry’s second piece of what he calls “edutainment.” “I’ve always
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come from the place that education should entertain and entertainment should educate,” Fry said. His first dive into performance storytelling came as an act of catharsis amid teaching fifth grade in South Central Los Angeles. “My first couple years there were really raw,” Fry said. “And I went, ‘There’s a story here that people have to know.’ A lot goes on behind the classroom door. I wanted to tell that story.” After taking director Mark Travis’ Write Your Life workshop, Fry created the one-man show They Call Me Mister Fry about his teaching experiences. He performed the show 300 times all over the world, including two command performances for the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. The show gave Fry the confidence to continue performing and artistically exploring the world of academia. “Without Mister Fry, there would be no Einstein!” he said. Although it focuses
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Actor Jack Fry explores the icon’s early days on the world of students and teachers, the Department of Education released a statement saying that They Call Me Mister Fry “should be required for everyone.” Einstein! has the same universal appeal. “Everybody who’s had struggles in their personal lives, who feels like nature and God is against them, can relate to this story,” Fry said. “It humanizes one of the most important intellectual figures in history.” n Jack Fry as a really smart guy. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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Lauren Briggeman stars as “Typhoid” Mary Mallon.
Typhoid Mary w Through May 24. The world premiere of this dark play is somehow funny. It opens with Jolene Mentink Moffatt playing a doctor telling doctor jokes, for example. A little later, Lauren Briggeman as Irish cook Mary Mallon flirts aggressively in a funny way with the socially awkward doctor (Ben Asaykwee) who asks her for “samples.” Yet this is not a spoof of Mary’s story, in which a low-income immigrant woman was labeled the sole source of the typhoid epidemic and quarantined for years so that other, more powerful people could pretend they were safe. Under Bill Simmons’ direction, this three-actor, multi-character play gently stirs up contemporary prejudices surrounding food, health, religion, the poor and more. All three actors are excellent. Linda Janosko’s set design looks drab at first but it contains cupboards and drawers that hide a variety of miniature sets and over-sized props that together add another layer of mystery and resonance to the talk of microbes and epidemics. — HOPE BAUGH Phoenix Theatre, $20-33, phoenixtheatre.org S E E , REVIEWS, O N PA GE 2 0
STAGE EVENTS Becoming Dr. Ruth May 8-30. Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a scout and sniper, to her struggles to succeed as a single mother coming to America, Becoming Dr. Ruth is filled with the humor, honesty and life-affirming spirit of its lead character. Theatre on the Square (TOTS), $15-20, tots.org Spotlight 2015 May 11. Witness a gathering of breathtaking performances that only happens once a year, as more than a dozen organizations from across central Indiana take to the Clowes Memorial Hall stage for Spotlight 2015. Experience the grandeur of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, be moved by Indiana Repertory Theatre, challenge yourself with Phoenix Theatre, and delight at Dance Kaleidoscope. All this and more; all on one night, all on one stage. All proceeds from this performance benefit HIV prevention in Indiana. Clowes Memorial Hall, $25, spotlightindy.org
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On Golden Pond w Through May 10. This play always makes me fidgety because it’s about people who succeed at staying insulated. Norman (Robert Elliott) talks as if this will be his last summer at the cottage he and his wife, Ethel (Darrie Lawrence), move to in Maine every May. He’s in his late 70s with a heart condition. She’s in her late 60s, pretty as ever but not quite as nimble as she used to be. Their 40-something daughter, Chelsea (Constance Macy), hasn’t been back to visit from L.A. in years, but she comes this summer to ask if they’ll take care of her 13-year-old son (Griffin Grider), of the man (Bill Ray, played by Ryan Artzberger) she wants to travel to Europe with for a month or so. Robert M. Koharchik’s rich lake cabin scenic design, Betsy Cooprider-Bernstein’s cozy lighting design, and Richard K. Thomas’ nostalgic sound design, which incorporates music by Carrie Newcomer, and even Linda Pisano’s woodsy-palette costume design all made the tension drain from my neck and shoulders. — HOPE BAUGH Indiana Repertory Theatre, $25-59, irtlive.com Footlite Musicals: The Who’s Tommy e Through May 17. First, please do not let the Ken Russell film scare you away from this rock opera — there is not a single bean to be found in this whole performance. Yes, the show is rather odd and definitely trippy at times, but it’s The Who, what do you expect?
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Jonathan Krouse stars as Tommy in The Who’s Tommy at Footlight (above left) and Jenny Reber stars as Clio in Actors Theatre’s Xanadu. The story is entirely easy to follow and the characters do not rely on symbolism, surrealism, or giant boots (although the ending with Tommy flying over the set is pretty awkward and out of place). Some of the set’s pinball-esque designs are rather poorly painted, but the overall structure allows for excellent scene transitions, and the functional scoreboard hovering over everything is quite nifty. It would be nice, though, for the ensemble to move the scenery instead of stage hands in black intruding upon the scene. Nonetheless, the show’s other qualities outshine its little flaws. Jonathan Krouse as Tommy is exceptional in voice, movement and emotion, but really, the whole darn cast is exceptional. Director Maria Matters has assembled one of the best ensembles I’ve ever seen. These folks, successfully headed by vocal director Michael Davis, must have worked themselves stupid to have achieved this level of professionalism. Everyone on stage puts
forth an electric performance, particularly the principal dancers who really give the audience quite an athletic show of skill and grace; choreographers Trish and Amy Roberds make every step on stage a delight to watch. Also worthy of note is Evan Wallace (or Biff Tannen, it’s hard to tell) as Cousin Kevin for being the only person in a show set in England who speaks with an English accent. Mark Peed as Uncle Ernie also does a really top-notch job, but his character’s limp is distracting (unless this was an injury he was suffering through, in which, kudos for braving the pain, Mr. Peed). Finally, I must stress just how talented the band is in this production. It’s a tightly woven musical monster that rocks the house. Please, do not leave once the curtain call has finished; stay and enjoy the music for just another couple of minutes until the band strikes out its last chords. It’s worth it. — TRISTAN ROSS Hedback Community Theater
Xanadu e Through May 17. I can’t decide if I enjoyed Actors Theatre of Indiana’s Xanadu more because I agree with its take on what makes human life worthwhile (love and art) or because it so joyfully recreates the goofy side of the 1980s. Either way, it is one entertaining musical. I have not seen the 1980 movie on which ATI’s Xanadu is based, and that didn’t seem to matter, but I did get more of the show’s jokes because I remembered that Australian singer Olivia Newton-John of Grease fame starred in the movie. The story follows sidewalk chalk artist, Sonny Malone (Dominic Sheahan-Stahl), who is so disappointed in his mural of the Greek muses that he decides to kill himself. One of the actual muses, Clio (Jenny Reber), is moved to disguise herself and inspire him to keep living and following his dream of running a roller rink/concert hall. Meanwhile, two of Clio’s sister muses, Melpomene (Judy Fitzgerald) and Calliope (Cynthia Collins), curse her out of jealousy. Muses risk the wrath of Zeus (Paul Nicely) if they fall in love with mortals. Clio falls in love with Sonny, and vice versa, but is it because of the curse or is it real? And if it is real, what will happen to them when Zeus finds out? Under Billy Kimmel’s direction, Reber and SheahanStahl’s excellent roller skating skills enhance the chemistry between their characters. It is fun to watch them fall (but not actually fall) in love. Even more surprise and delight comes from the strong supporting cast in the form of lovely dancing (choreographed by Allison Bibicoff), hilarious comedic touches and more. — HOPE BAUGH The Studio Theater
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Citizen Kane May 6, 6:30 p.m. The greatest film of all time. That’s not hyperbole. Hell, it’s the general consensus on Orson Welles’ directorial debut. What better way to celebrate Welles’ 100th birthday tonight than with his greatest work? Capping off IU Cinema’s centennial celebration, Citizen Kane tells the tragic tale of a young, ruthless media mogul — much like Welles himself.
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Sebastiao Salgado — a voyeur of global pain, according to critics of his photographs.
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he Salt of the Earth is a documentary about photographer Sebastiao Salgado made by Wim Wenders (whose other documentaries include Buena Vista Social Club and Pina) and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, the photographer’s son. Wenders is a friend and admirer of Sebastiao, and the younger Salgado grew up worshipping his acclaimed father, who was often gone for long periods of time as he traveled the world doing his work. Accordingly, the film doesn’t push or probe the photographer. The men opt to showcase Salgado’s projects while mostly letting him speak for himself. We look at Salgado’s stunning images; black and white with every shade in-between. Wenders projects the photographs on a semitransparent mirror, so we see the images as Salgado talks about them. It’s a good technique. Not only does it avoid the tedium of talking heads, it keeps the presentation of the photos from feeling like a slide show. Salgado has spent much of his career recording the lives of people suffering from great deprivation. The beauty of his photographs of human beings in pain has drawn criticism from social critics like the late Susan Sontag, who opined that his artistry diminishes or feeds on the plight of others. Salgado has been called a voyeur of global pain. Does his work objectify suffering? Is it grief porn? Does the photographer overtly anesthetize human misery? I believe beauty and great pain can coexist without one trivializing the
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other. I believe it is not callous to recognize beauty in painful imagery. On the morning of 9/11 I was finishing a review of some movie when a friend called and told me to turn on the TV. The first plane had hit the World Trade Center minutes earlier. I watched in horror as the image was shown again and again, soon to be followed by the crash of the second plane and the collapse of the first building, then the other. While I experienced the same sick feeling as everyone else, I was also mesmerized in a different way. Never in any movie had I seen planes fly into (and partially through!) a skyscraper. Never had I seen a skyscraper collapse. All the way to the ground from a crash so many stories up. It looked like one of the coolest special effects ever. I felt terribly guilty thinking that back then, and I’m not crazy about sharing it with you right now. But the fact is that some of the images from that nightmarish morning were spectacular. Recognizing that did not minimize my empathy for the people injured or killed in the atrocities, or their families, or humanity in general. It was just an example of how we can experience something visually on multiple levels. A native Brazilian, Salgado began his career as a photographer in 1973, shooting photos of people experiencing
suffering in Niger. The documentary is not chronological. It goes from work to work, starting with photos from the Serra Pelada mine from his Workers series of the 1980s. Another series, The Sahel, the End of the Road, marked the photographer’s first study of a community suffering extreme deprivation, and his first time working in conjunction with Doctors Without Borders. NOTE: You can support the noble work of Doctors Without Borders. Visit their website www.doctorswithoutborders.org and see what they’re doing. After Workers came Exodus and the absolute nightmare in Rwanda. “We humans are terrible animals,” said the emotionally battered Salgado. He returned to Brazil and the ravaged family farm that was once green and healthy. The photographer and his wife Leila started an experimental replanting program that proved so successful that, after being used to reforest other parts of Brazil, became a model used around the world. His next work, Genesis, is a collaboration with son Juliano covering efforts in various parts of the planet to retain/recover the primeval state of land. If we don’t do it, I suspect Mother Nature eventually will, after we’ve been dispensed with. The phrase “the salt of the earth” is from the Sermon on the Mount. The World English Bible translation of Matthew 5:13 is, “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.” n
Avengers: Age of Ultron e Long story short (is that still possible?), the Avengers have to deal with Ultron (voiced quite nicely by James Spader), a self-aware robotic smart-ass who aims to make the world better by getting rid of humans. I dug all the downtime scenes. Loved most of the exchanges between the characters. The action scenes were very exciting and clever. Writer-director Joss Whedon does about as good a job with the sequel as you could hope for and enjoy. PG-13, in wide release.
While We’re Young r Tired of hearing about babies from their peers, forty-something couple Josh and Cornelia (Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts) befriend a twentysomething hipster couple, Jamie and Darby (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried). Josh is a documentary filmmaker and Jamie wants to be one —what a coincidence. Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s story frets over motives more than is necessary, but it’s interesting to watch the goings-on anyway, and the mix of comedy and drama is solid enough. Charles Grodin and Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz co-star. The film is playing tonight, 9:30 p.m., and tomorrow, 7 p.m., at IU Cinema as part of its International Arthouse Series. R, in wide release
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This week, our font of all knowledge is Black Acre’s Steve Ruby, cat owner and fruit beverage consumer. Both a gentleman and a scholar (literally, as Ruby has his JD from IU) as well as a brewer, he’s here to answer queries of both a cosmic and quaffing nature. Question: How do I keep the scent of homebrewing contained to one room of my basement? Any tips on making sure it doesn’t stink up the house? STEVE RUBY: Why would you try to limit that glorious smell?! But I’m here to answer, not ask, questions. Sorry to say, though, that if you have to stay inside there isn’t really much you can do aside from opening windows, using fans, or anything else you would do if you were cooking. All work, but are not super effective. On the bright side, any smells that get into the house fade pretty quickly — less than a day — so that helps. When we were still homebrewing regularly we almost always brewed outdoors. If brewing outside is an option, I would go that route, it really is the only way to keep the smell of brewing from getting into the whole house. Question: Do you think cats get jealous? I’ve been out of town staying at a friends house with her cats, and now mine won’t let me cuddle them. What to do? RUBY: A resounding and absolute yes. Felines are perhaps the most jealous of all the animals, sans wallabies, but fuck them. First, a list of techniques that I would not recommend anyone try: • Reasoning: This is a futile use of your time; cats will listen to no logic beyond their own. • Clutching your cat for as long as possible despite their protests: You will only end up with an angry cat and a possible ER trip. • Taking them out on the town: Cats are easily startled and a night out on the town might prove too much, ending the night with them hiding underneath a porch for an indeterminate amount of time. • Any sign of unconditional love towards your cat: Your love for your cat may be unconditional but theirs is assuredly not. The lack of reciprocity will only cause heartache for you. I would recommend these techniques: Bribery, Bribery, Bribery, Bribery: I’ve had my cat for several years now and this the only technique I’ve ever had success with. I’d recommend Friskies but that’s largely dependent on your cats’ preferences. — SARAH MURRELL Have a question for a brewer? Send it to askabrewer@nuvo.net.
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Tacos, agave, history and a whole lot of cantina food: This is Neal Brown’s Mexico City.
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eal Brown has been trying to get to know Juanita. This is what he’ll tell me about her: she’s relaxed but she’s going to make sophisticated food. She’ll be dressed-down while drawing in a foodie crowd. She’s got flavor and nuance. And hopefully, she’s going to be the taco restaurant that will seriously change the game when it comes to Mexican food in Indianapolis. Just like artists and writers, chefs sometimes need to get out and soak in a little inspiration by way of research. In this case, the Libertine and Pizzology owner had to break out of what he knew about Mexican cooking, which was a lot by most folks’ standards, but still paled in comparison to the complexity of the dining scene that awaited him across the border. Mexican food to most American diners involves a lot of heat, queso blanco, and a lot of grease without much subtlety. In
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reality, however, Mexico, like America, is a pretty large country spanning a few different biomes and growing zones, producing massive variety within those “basic” ingredients — including several hundred varieties of pepper. That’s what Brown went down there learn to do. “Coaxing flavors out of different combos of chilies. I had played around in my kitchen and I couldn’t quite grasp it. So I went down really to understand why they use certain chiles in certain applications,” said Brown. This would not be the first instance of the chef’s American palate receiving a Sin Cara style smackdown south of the border. What consistently surprised Brown was the subtlety of how the same ingredients were remixed and remade according to what that food needed to do. “The other reason was to learn about masa and tortilla making and the different ways in which they use varying quantities of certain ingredients to yield different types of tortillas.” It makes
sense, but also illuminates how limited Americans’ exposure to real Mexican dining is. “That was a big revelation for me when I was down there, to learn that a little more water in the same recipe and it yields a completely different type of tortilla for a different application. That was sort of mind-bending because I think we’re all used to just sort of tortillas,” That would be like walking into a bakery and demanding “that one kind of bread,” when they’re all made of flour, water, and yeast but have such different styles. “Mexican cooking is as nuanced as French cuisine, I guarantee it. The diversity of the regions of Mexico — the food in Puebla and Oaxaca and Yucatan — are all wildly different and use different ingredients. The food in Mexico is a regional cuisine, much like it is in France and Italy.” Similarly, the whole nation isn’t just one lawless narcotrafficers paradise as S E E , NEA L , O N PA GE 2 4
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Oaxaca You might call this a “hole in the wall” kind of place, but the food here is outstanding. Get a plate of real, homestyle tacos or enchiladas, and pour on lots of the handmade salsa. Everything is spicy and flavorful, but the surroundings are not exactly tourist-friendly, and the service is notoriously slow. But we assure that the wait is well worth it. The restaurant even serves a handful of vegetarian options of you prefer to skip the meat, and killer flan. 2958 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr St., 927-0493
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La Chinita Poblana La Chinita Poblana isn’t your average taco joint. The small shop serves up East-meets-Southwest style fare, like chicken tacos spiced with tamarind and cumin and topped with sweet chile de arbol salsa, star-of-anise braised beef tongue with avocado crema, and crispy Japanese eggplant with carrot-gingerhabanero dressing. Prices are modest — at $3 each, you should absolutely get more than one flavor (a lunch special offers 2 tacos, a cup of soup or chips and salsa, and homemade agua fresca for $8), and definitely get an order of the mole sweet potato fries. Desserts include a Thai tapioca pudding with mango and whipped cream, a crispy chocolate banana eggroll or tres leches flan. 927 E. Westfield Blvd., 722-8101, lachinitapoblana.com
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on our list of delicious stoned dining, so we wanted to give it some love on our tacos list. Drive down New York Street to catch this fabulous little spot. 1642 E. New York St., 917-0095 Bakersfield The “street Mexican” lineup at Bakersfield typically consists of eight tacos - including the fan favorite fish (crispy mahi) and Pastor (marinated pork and pickeled red onions) - two tortas, two salads and chips with dips, including vegetarian options. Bakersfield’s guac - hand-cut with chunks of avocado, lime-forward and punchy - won a “Best Guacamole in Cincinnati” award from three publications last year. If guests waver on a decision between the more than 50 varieties each of bourbon and tequila available, a large poster of Johnny Cash holding a glass of whiskey might push them away from the tequila menu. A full bar is available for those who prefer other liquors, and rotating drafts will offer selections of local and national craft beers. 334 Massachusetts Ave., 635-6962, bakersfieldmassave.com
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the stories we often see out of the regions bordering our Southwest states. “In Mexico City, there are very few issues. The City is a totally sophisticated megopolis. It’s the second-largest city in the world. I really went there to get the most bang for my buck. I could have spent a month traveling around these different regions, but who’s got a month and who’s got the money?” If you’re wondering if the chef was concerned about safety in Mexico, the short answer is “no more than anyone would be in a dangerous neighborhood in America.” Aside from the northern border towns, the police and military presence, said Brown, made the city itself feel a lot safer than other parts of the country. Brown’s driver told him that many of the best taco shops in Mexico City are in the close-crowded barrios filled with tin houses. His driver also said that it was too bad he couldn’t taste them and still come out alive. The barrios of Mexico City: where that bucket list becomes so real.
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La Margarita La Margarita is most famous for its impressive tequila selection, with flights available at a variety of themes. With a name like La Margarita, it probably also goes without saying that you should order a pitcher of margaritas—and the top shelf pitcher is worth it. The bar also features an impressive lineup of craft beers in bottles and cans (sorry, no taps at this bar), with 69 varieties available, 39 of which are under $5. They serve lunch specials every day at the Fountain Square location, which has also played host to classic pinball tournaments in the past. 1043 Virginia Ave., 384-1457, lamargaritaindy.com
“There aren’t the problems in Mexico City that there are in Northern Mexico,” he said. “But there are plenty of places in America where you wouldn’t go because they’re in dangerous neighborhoods. It’s the same there.” In bringing back that authentic cooking, Brown hopes to similarly infuse the authentic dining style he picked up in the country. “It’s going to be a fonda style restaurant. It’s going to be really casual. I ordinarily would say ‘cantina’ but I’m afraid it’s going to give off the wrong [idea]. In the US, the word ‘cantina’ has a different meaning. In Mexico, a cantina is the equivalent of a bistro. And in a cantina in Mexico, they would actually wear what most would recognize as sort of classic bistro uniforms: black pants, white shirts, black aprons. But in America, it comes off meaning ‘bar.’ So we’re like a fonda: we’re casual, we’re going to specialize in Mexican antojitos, which are small plates, and tacos. I’ve always loved ceviche, so we’re going to be doing fresh fish preparations from all over Latin America.”
Revolucion Revolucion has been serving up a variety of tacos for a couple of years now. But what sets them apart isn’t the tacos, but the huge selection of salsas available to splash all over your tacos, chips, or whatever is nearby. They have sweeter, lighter salsas and devilishly mouth-searing varieties, not to mention crazy-delicious guac and queso. The beer selection changes regularly, so you’ll have to become a friend on Facebook to keep current on what’s new. One of the very best things you can avail yourself of while there is the spicy margarita. It comes with a chili-salt rim and a little pepper in the glass, and while it won’t make you sweat or make your eyes water, it definitely leaves behind a Satisfying tingle on the lips. 1132 Prospect St., 423-9490, facebook.com/RevolucionIndy — SARAH MURRELL
“It won’t just be Mexican food and tacos. It’ll be a little bit more wide-reaching, but it will all fall under a sort of Latin Food umbrella. Mostly influences from Peru and Mexico though.” And if you’re wondering if the Libertine owner has plans to bust out another outstanding bar program with a Latin twist, the answer is, “Well, duhhh.” “Lots of tequila, lots of mezcal. Obviously pisco, cachaca and a full craft cocktail program. We likely won’t have whiskey, gin, any of those things. We’re working through the cocktail program right now.” As for the person coming up with the bar program, Brown will only give me a hint. “I can’t tell you. All I can say is it may be a past Libertine employee, someone who knows tequila and mezcal very well.” We’ll keep you updated on when this new joint finally opens its doors (because mine will be the face pressed against the glass), but for now, you’ll just have to take our taco recommendations and soothe your craving at another restaurant until Juanita finally comes to town. n
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OPEN LETTER YES, I LOVE INDIANA — A LOT Editor’s note: In the wake of RFRA, we asked David McMillin of Chicago band Fort Frances to comment on recent activity in his hometown. Fort Frances will donate 20 percent of Saturday’s show proceeds to the Human Rights Campaign. Most people don’t understand Indiana. For those on the coasts who have never spent time in the heartland, Indiana has historically been a place that hosts a big car race in May. More recently, it’s been dragged through the dirt thanks to some ignorant moves of the closedminded officials at the helm of Indiana’s legislation. For me, though, Indiana is everything. I grew up in Columbus. I went to school in Greencastle. I spent the summers in Hartford City where my grandparents lived. Thanks to touring both as a solo songwriter and with my band Fort Frances, I’ve been lucky to see a large swath of the country. But Indiana will always be home. Everyone who comes to our shows knows it, too. We drape the Indiana state flag over our keyboard on stage. I’m a next door neighbor now. I live in Chicago. As I watch Indiana grow from a distance, I feel like some sort of proud parent thinking back to the first time I ever played in Fountain Square. This was well before the Super Bowl, before Fountain Square Brewing, before Bluebeard — I think the only pre-show option around was a Subway. Now, there’s something new every time we return. Thanks to people like Tufty and Roni at Radio Radio, Dodge and Josh at MOKB and Brett at IndiENGAGE, Indy is no longer a city that emerging bands are forced to skip due to a lack of venues. It’s become a destination in the independent music world, one where bands like ours can count on a supportive community. As a champion of all things Indiana, you may think the cover I’m sharing with NUVO is an odd choice. David Mead’s “Indiana” embodies the whole what’s-in-Indiana-besides-endless-cornfields stereotypical question on the minds of so many outsiders. “I’m in the middle of nowhere, population of one,” he sings. “Indiana’s the wrong place to be stuck in a car.” It’s a first-hand perspective of an endless drive across the Midwestern flatlands. (Editor’s note: Listen to this cover on NUVO.net.) But I love this song, and I love that endless drive — the one marked by barns with chipping paint and roads with names like County Road 500N and 30W. I couldn’t be more excited to be stuck in a car for a few hours on the way to The Hi-Fi for our show on Saturday night. — DAVID MCMILLIN, FORT FRANCES Fort Frances with The Bikewalk Saturday, May 9, 8 p.m., The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+
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ig Car continues to expand the scope of its creative leadership in Indianapolis with the dedicated sound art space Listen Hear. This weekend, the venue will present Sound Out, bringing local experimenters together with acclaimed traveling artists for three nights of auditory extension. The notion of sound-as-art beyond the rules of diatonic harmony can be perplexing in a culture where people are trained in their do-re-mis as early as their ABCs. The idea of sound art lies at the heart of Listen Hear’s mission. So what is it? "Sound art exists between music and the plastic arts, but in a way it's neither” explains Listen Hear’s curator, John McCormick. “Simply put, sound art is an art form that uses sound as a material." His succinct definition of such a fundamental unifying concept provides an easy access point into a creative world that often seems too esoteric to enter. It’s tempting to understand sound art by what it IS NOT. The nature of using sound as an artistic medium that is not limited to harmony, melody and rhythm often yields work where those elements don’t even exist. This can be a challenging experience for listeners, but in a society where technology delivers unprecedented media spoon-feeding, more and more people are desperate for this type of stimulation. To listeners who have not had a fully submersed experience within a performance, it’s easy to misconstrue this art as purely a head trip. Music that de-emphasizes the organization systems that characterize more popular music traditions not only has an intellectual impact, but a visceral, emotional and physical one. Much of sound art could be described as “experimental” and while that title may reflect the process of many sound artists, what Listen Hear is offering may be more broadly understood as “experiential” music. McCormick’s three-day Sound Out program should serve as an initiation for anyone who is ready to start getting with the times. His own project, Sky Thing, will perform on Thursday alongside local percussionist Rob Funkhouser, and Los Angeles based all-media artist John Wiese. Funkhouser’s output is diverse and unpredictable, but many of his performances utilize repurposed objects like
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propane tanks modified to become amplified metal drums that he commands like a one man gamelan orchestra. Wiese could easily be awarded “hardestworking man” status in his field. His CV is of sweeping scale, and a brief skim of the list of collaborations there is a good resource for anyone interested in learning about the most iconic noise and free music artists of the past 20 plus years. He comes from a background in hardcore punk and DIY, well known in the fringes of those subcultures from gigs with rock-damaged genre benders like Wolf Eyes and heavy metal drone druids Sunn0))). An overall aesthetic analysis could only be done on a grand scale, but he has been known to work in audio manipulation that is harsh at its core, using composition processes that aren’t made obvious unless they are explained. Understanding is not crucial to the immediacy of the compositions, though. Wiese is also educated in design, and he maintains functionality in terms of style. It is thought-provoking material, but it
still manages to be easily seated, more or less, in the context of art for the people. An important aspect of his diverse work is that it truly exists outside of classification, not in response to it. His ability to linger in this ephemeral space so consistently has come to define a purity that is very compelling. Wiese’s work outside of the noise underground in film and instillation is equally as important and prolific. After slowing down on recorded music releases and touring over last few years and doing a lot in film and installation, now seems like an increasingly rare opportunity to get inside his world. Night two’s festivities bring the second annual Noise-A-Thon, presented in conjunction with Musical Family Tree. MFT’s director Jon Rogers conceived of the original event in 2014 as a way to turn one of their regular staff meetings into a Happening. The concept is simple: 20ish do-as-you-please performance slots made available, first come, first served. Jon explains the appeal: “Experimental music doesn’t always get a lot of love in our city, although that’s improving. Lots of people responded to this concept because it was different than most shows and they could participate and just cut loose. It seemed very freeing for all involved, and it’s a great way to bring >>>
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<<< a bunch of local artists together making relatively unclassifiable sounds.” It is this spirit of collaboration and spontaneity that allows some performances to magically fill a space and make a creative environment that is more than the sum of its parts. The event is so unifying and fun, Rogers plans on keeping it as an ongoing tradition. Saturday brings two more touring artists, Chicago’s Bitchin’ Bajas and synth player Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Smith plays the music easel, a modern instrument designed by synthesizer pioneers Buchla Electronic Musical instruments. Her masterful use of the young device is fascinating, and the highly melodic sound environments she makes with it are beautiful, expansive and fun. Smith’s debut LP Euclid was released early this year on Western Vinyl. Bajas also traffic in analog oscillations. The duo of Copper Crain and Dan Quinlivin on synthesizers evoke early '70s kosmiche music even more heavily after the addition of Roby Frye, who adds wind instruments to the mix. The group is known for performances that inhabit space in both music venues and art galleries like elaborate installations. Their meditative music often draws comparison to minimalist composers like LaMonte Young and
Terry Riley. Drag City released their super chill self-titled double LP late last year along with a double–cassette “relaxation version” for even deeper voyages into their zone — based philosophy. Rounding out the bill are locals Shame Thugs, who should be in top form after a recent explosion of activity, and improviser John Flannelly. Flannelly ‘s unique vision has recently centered around electric piano improvisations that shift between childlike exploration and complex clusters of Cecil Taylor level density. The drive to innovate form has been always been a primary motivation for movements in art and media, including music and sound. While these new approaches may be radically different in thought and execution, a continuous aesthetic of otherness keeps evolving. Modern art has undeniably come to dominate design and the visual landscape. Similarly, the audio media universe of today reflects more the vision of Karlheinz Stockhausen than The Well Tempered Clavier. With resistance to the new fading, the increasingly obvious artfulness of humans using sound as an expressive medium in new ways is liberating for audiences and artists. With the ongoing efforts at Listen Hear, Sound Out promises to be just the beginning of a new music revolution in Indy. n
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TINY CHATS CIRCUIT DES YEUX, BACK IN BLOOMINGTON When Haley Fohr was based in Bloomington, she released some of her records on Bloomington’s Magnetic South; now that Fohr is in Chicago, she’s releasing new Circuit Des Yeux music on another label close to (her new) home, Thrill Jockey. And what an album. In Plain Speech, her newest, brings together a collection of Chicago musicians as collaborators, including Cooper Crain (Cave, Bitchin Bajas), Whitney Johnson (Verma), Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas), Adam Luksetich (Little Scream), and Kathleen Baird (Spires That In The Sunset Rise), but the work is singularly her own: equal parts drone and folk, anchored by Fohr’s stunning baritone. In Plain Speech won’t be out until May 19, but interested parties can get a taste of the new work at a show in Bloomington Thursday when Fohr opens for Jessica Pratt. Below is a segment from an interview with Fohr about what kind of show will go down at The Bishop. Find the rest online at NUVO.net. “For this record, there are two different live shows that I am able to present. One is with the full band, which is four people including me. Those all the people that played on the record. With the full band, it sounds almost one-to-one identical with the record. Obviously there’s going to be some shifts and changes, as any live show has. But it’s pretty close, and it’s pretty great. I’ve never been able to pull that off. I’ve never worked with a group of people that are that involved and that
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dedicated to seeing it all through. So that’s fantastic, however, that costs a lot of money. So I’m planning on doing a Midwest/West Coast tour out in August and a short East Coast jaunt in September. And up until August, I’m doing Europe and East Coast and a couple one-off shows like this Bloomington show, and those are all going to be solo. So, for those shows, I’ve been spending the last couple of months reinterpreting the songs that I can pull off solo myself, and creating my own set from that. I have no dedication towards the recordings for that. I feel like I have to kind of reinvent those songs as I feel suited. For me, I still am expressing the same feelings and getting the same message across. But it’s just what has to be done on the road when you’re just one person. I don’t really like playing the backing tracks. I’ve seen a lot of people do that. But for me, playing the guitar and having it all be live is really important. There’s an energy that comes from that. It’ll just be my 12-string guitar and me, and then I have massive effects and such that I use.” — KATHERINE COPLEN
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The Music category finalists are ... Kammy’s Kause Jared Hiner founded Kammy’s Kause to support a cause that desperately need it: those dealing with the genetic disorder 4p- -- and that includes his own daughter, Kamdyn “Kammy” Hiner. He’s slowly built his yearly festival, Kammy’s Kause, into the largest fundraiser for the 4p- Support Group. More than 20 local bands contribute their efforts.
Kolman Dental Dr. Paul Kolman puts his money where his mouth is. Sure, he’s a dentist by day, but at night you’re just as likely to see him out at a show, and often, he’s sponsored the show himself. He’s a true supporter of the local music scene, a huge help and resource to musicians and promoters as a sponsor and a health care provider. What can we say? He’s the rock and roll doc.
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record – tweaking cello parts, and redoing vocals and all that stuff. I’m really into being a live musician and capturing that.” Gunn’s ability to work quickly and adapt to the players around him has resulted in a lengthy list of collaborative one-offs. His recent output includes releases alongside The Black Twig Pickers, Mike Cooper, Mike Gangloff, and Cian Nugent in just more than a year. “The collaborative stuff is way more spontaneous and right on the spot,” Gunn says. “Basically, the last few ones have been recorded live and not much of a thought to playing together. The [solo] songs certainly have that element to it, but they’re more thought out and composed.” In 2015, Gunn plans to take a break from the collaborative work to refocus his attention on his solo career. However, a track or two from a 2014 recording session with his former bandmate Kurt Vile will find life on a forthcoming compilation on North Carolina label Three Lobed Recordings. Gunn sounds unphased by the pressure of growing audiences for his solo work and higher profile gigs. For him, the recent success is the result of a slow, steady build. “I’ve been playing music for a really long time, and I came up with a certain group of people,” Gunn says. “I have friends who offer really good advice. It has definitely been a learning experience this past two years. I’m starting to figure out how to sort of manage everything. I’ve been sort of building a great core group of people and people who have been helping me. It wasn’t easy, but I also don’t want to complain SUBMITTED PHOTO about it. It is work." n Steve Gunn
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hen Mike Angel and Patrick Burtch started planning a grassroots music festival together, they had no idea how heartily their plans would be embraced. Now, a few days away from their inaugural event, the Virginia Avenue Folk Fest is set to make its grand introduction, with 70 live performances taking place over nine different stages. “I think we kind of had three stages in mind initially,” says Angel, who also plays in a three-piece folk band called Bigfoot Yancey. “Thirty bands came, and then 30 more were like, ‘Hey. Can we play?’ And then 30 more and 30 more. We had to start turning people away eventually, but a lot of good Indiana musicians came out of the woodwork.” The May 9 indoor/outdoor festival spans a large stretch of Virginia Avenue, with the northernmost stage inside Calvin Fletcher’s Coffee Company and the southernmost outdoors at the Fountain Square Plaza. Featuring a lineup of predominantly Indiana acts, the festival will include more than just folk music, explains Burtch. Instead, a wide variety of genres will be represented, including rock ‘n’ roll, blues, punk, and more. “I’ve always been in this mindset that just because you name it a ‘folk fest’ doesn’t mean you have to limit yourself to strictly folk music,” says Burtch, who is also the owner of Rocket 88 Doughnuts. “Like, the New Orleans Jazz Festival is called a jazz festival. But there’s so much more than jazz that I don’t even know if they could call themselves a jazz festival anymore.” From the start, the Virginia Avenue Folk Fest is a true grassroots endeavor. In the beginning, Angel remembers personally riding his bike to several businesses on Virginia Avenue in hopes of finding support. And, more often than not, he was met with open arms. With this approach, the festival quickly turned into a community-wide endeavor that has been made possible by local backing. “Whether it’s been businesses, residents, neighborhood associations or whatever it happens to be, everybody’s been really helpful,” Burtch says. “We really want people to bounce around and walk up and down the Cultural Trail and hit up the different venues. And as they’re doing that, they’re walking by
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other places and seeing what’s going on there. So hopefully, it’ll be a nice marketing tool for the neighborhoods.” The festival teamed up with a Virginia Avenue nonprofit called Trusted Mentors. Serving the Indianapolis area, the 501(c) (3) provides volunteer mentors to adults at risk of homelessness, ex-offenders reentering society, and young adults aging out of the foster care system. So with the cost of this festival being officially “pay what you can,” audiences are directly contributing to Trusted Mentors with any donation they make. This community-serving cause is just one of many reasons why Cyrus Youngman (who fronts Cyrus Youngman and the Kingfishers) is excited to be playing the Virginia Avenue Folk Fest. “These people are suffering in a way that we shouldn’t tolerate as a privileged community who gets to live somewhat comfortably,” he says. “It’s an issue that we need to pay attention to.” He sees the festival as an exciting new opportunity for folk artists like himself. “If you’re a folk musician and there’s a folk festival in your city, you want to play at it,” he says. “And the fact that this one
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is in Fountain Square and it’s the first time that they’ve done anything like that makes it extra exciting too.” Youngman also sees the festival as a great opportunity for local artists to link up. He asserts, “I think there’s going to be a lot of good networking going on, and it will help undiscovered bands expose themselves to a brand new audience that they couldn’t gather up on their own.” In the same light, budding singer-songwriter Myah Evans (who was included in NUVO’s “Five bands and artists to watch in 2015”) also sees the festival as an excellent opportunity for artists to share their music with new ears. “I’m sure all of the artists involved have created their own fan bases and followings,” Evans says. “So having a festival with all of those artists that have created that is just going to bring all of our people together, and that’s a great thing.” With so many Indiana artists in one place, Angel and Burtch also hope the festival can foster a greater love for local music amongst the Indianapolis community. Burtch says, “In order for some of these bands to break through, we’ve gotta have the local folks support them first to get a really solid foundation. So that’s one of my big hopes of this whole thing is that we help to get that sort of community started.” “The surrounding areas are going to feel the energy,” Evans says. “And then if they continue to do the Virginia Avenue Folk Fest, it’s just going to help the community know who their local artists are.” n
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ndianapolis music fans owe Resonance Records a hearty thanks. Before the Los Angeles-based label stepped onto the scene, there'd been only one posthumous recording of unreleased Wes Montgomery music issued since the legendary jazz guitarist passed away in his Indianapolis home on June 15, 1968 at age 45. Resonance's 2012 release Echoes of Indiana Avenue collected previously unheard material dating from 19571958, providing a rare early snapshot of Wes Montgomery performing as a bandleader. The label's next release, an expansive 2CD/3LP package titled Wes Montgomery In The Beginning pulls out all the stops featuring previously unheard and impossibly rare Wes Montgomery recordings dating back to 1949. This extraordinary collection debuts on May 12. The release party is happening right here in Indy on that same date at the Jazz Kitchen, and features a range of activities from a panel discussion to performances from local guitar maestros Bill Lancton, Steve Weakley and Frank Steans. I spoke to Resonance Records' Executive Vice President and General Manager Zev Feldman about the upcoming release via phone from Paris, France.
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tapes of Wes and his brothers playing at the Turf Club and Missile Lounge, which is the very famous club where Cannonball Adderley first saw the brothers perform and according to folklore he was so moved he immediately contacted his label president Orrin Keepnews who within days made the trip to Indianapolis. [Then] we find the original Epic Records recording session of the Montgomery-Johnson Quintet recorded in 1955, and it also happened to be the earliest recording sessions Quincy Jones produced. We got permission to go in and pull out the reels and lo and behold there's another four tracks. Oh my god, we listened to it and it was great! There was somebody who had a tape of a performance of Wes and "Pookie" Johnson playing at the C&C Music “We got permission to go in and Lounge in Chicago in 1957. pull out the reels and lo and behold That tape is 12 minutes. I heard it and we bought it there’s another four tracks.” from the source. At this point in addition — ZEV FELDMAN to all the recordings I just mentioned we also had a tape of a jam session recorded at the house of Wes' sister Ervana. So the project NUVO: How did you unearth this wealth started evolving into this anthology of early of unreleased material? material that's mostly undocumented. I startZEV FELDMAN: This project started right ed thinking we've already gone back this far, before Echoes of Indiana Avenue came out. we really need to look at what might be out Robert Montgomery, who is Wes' youngest there from the earliest period of Wes' career. son and the head of the estate introduced It's no surprise that Wes made recordings me to Buddy Montgomery's widow, Ann. while he was with the Lionel Hampton big She approached me because she had tapes band in the late '40s. But he doesn't solo on of Wes and his brothers playing in clubs most of that stuff. There's a Hampton compifrom the late 1950s. I want to point out that lation out that you can track down, but you'll this was not the Montgomery Brothers, never hear Wes on those recordings because that came later. At this point they were he doesn't solo. But I did find some stuff that called the Montgomery-Johnson Quintet. he does solo on and those were made for a It's really important to differentiate. label called Spire Records in 1949. n Anyway, Ann had copies of these tapes made by a 22-year-old college student >> Kyle Long hosts a show on from Butler University named Philip Kahl. WFYI’s HD-2 channel on Kahl followed the Montgomery brothWednesdays and Saturdays ers around Indianapolis. We have Kahl's
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Chevelle, The Used, Marmozets 7 p.m. Alt metal band Chevelle is celebrating 20 years as a band. Can you believe that? Twenty years! The Used and Marmozets will also perform. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $32.50 advance, $35 at door, all-ages
Tyrone Wells, Radio Radio, 21+ Sphie, Johnny Azari, Square Social Circle, Caleb McCoach, Melody Inn, 21+ Blues Jam, Main Event, 21+ Jay Elliott and Friends, Tin Roof, 21+ Blues Jam with Gordon Bonham, Slippery Noodle, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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Three Days of Noise various times Peep our profile on page 26 for info on the multitude of event happening at Listen Hear this weekend.
The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $10 in advance, $12 at door, 18+
Listen Hear, 3743 Commercial Drive, prices vary, all-ages
HIP-HOP Writer’s Block Producer Showcase 9 p.m. Tyler Knapp is the featured producer at this educational/showcase event, and Bangers By One, Knags and Ed Trauma will sit on the panel. Bring a beat during the open decks portion for a $2 door price instead of $5.
RFRA Wilco, Steve Gunn 7:30 p.m. Wilco’s been playing with our hearts lately. After canceling their Indy date in response to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (to much blog coverage and gnashing of teeth from local fans), they rebooked for
the same date after alterations were made to the bill. We’re happy they’re back, but sad they had to consider canceling at all (get it together, Pence). Murat Theater at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages FOLK Jessica Pratt 9 p.m. We’ve got a minterview (that’s a portmanteau of mini interview; do you like it?) of opener Circuit des Yeux on page 27. Headliner Pratt is touring 2015 album On Your Own Love Again. The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St. (Bloomington), $10 in advance, $12 at door, 18+ Jon Pardi, The Bluebird, 21+ Sarah Grain and The Billions of Stars, Union 50, 21+ Small Arms Fire, Darsombra, Shame Thugs, Melody Inn, 21+ Truslow, Cardboard Kids, The Hi-Fi, 21+ Rob Amrhien, Shoefly Public House, all-ages Ashley Martin, The Rathskeller, all-ages
FRIDAY FESTIVALS MojoStock May 8 – 10 This two-day festival took 2014 off but is back this year and bound to be better than ever. The local music festival put on by IndyMojo takes place in Sleepybear Campground, located directly across the street from Klipsch
Music Center. This year’s lineup boasts out-of-town headliners The Main Squeeze, Vaski and Archnemesis. But the lineup is also stacked with local acts and Indiana natives like Fresh Hops, Stampede String Band and The Bleeding Keys. The emphasis on keeping a local flavor is something IndyMojo’s Jason King reiterated “We try and keep MojoStock close to home — both geographically and artistically. That, in turn, keeps our ticket price low and draws a very homegrown group of attendees.” And like any other festival, MojoStock is about more than just music. Several new activities are planned for Saturday, including face painting by local artist Julie Young, an art wall for attendees to share their artistic side and a flow arts skill share for all the hoopers out there. And one thing MojoStock does allow that many other big name festivals don’t is camping. So bust out the tent, head out to Sleepybear and enjoy the great weather (fingers crossed), great music and great outdoors. Sleepybear Campground, 1323 E. 146th St., prices vary, all-ages
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ROCK Nothing 8 p.m. Relapse Records artist Nothing have only one album out, but four solid EPs, including a split released last year with Whirr. The heavy, dreamy alt rockers are regulars in Indy (favorites of A-Squared, we think); they’ll play with Cloakroom,Kvlthammer and Shimmercore.
Virginia Avenue Folk Fest 10 a.m. We’ve got a long profile about Virginia Avenue Folk Fest on page 29. Various locations, donations accepted, all-ages FESTS
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Discover Irvington Acoustic Blues Festival noon The second of two great new fests on Saturday goes down in Irvington during the afternoon. Gene Deer, Dave Muskett, Jason Hathaway, Scott Ballantine, Andra Faye, Achilles Tenderloin, Allen Stratyner and Delta Duo are booked to play.
Gene Deer Acoustic, Our Lord’s High Entertainment, State Street Pub, 21+
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White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St., $10 in advance, $12 at doors, 21+ Lil Wyte, Jellyroll, Emerson Theater, all-ages
Rod Tuffcurls and The Benchpress, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+ Andrew Velez, Tin Roof, 21 + Pop Goes The Evil, Standout Story, Hanna Tell Me, Melody Inn, 21+ The Red Not Chili Peppers, The Vogue, 21+
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Rock Lotto 8 pm. When the Friends of Sophia Travis Memorial Fund, organized by Travis’ parents, close friends and colleagues, set off to commemorate her impact on Bloomington, they wanted to honor her life in a way that would directly benefit the community she loved. Friday’s Rock Lotto fundraiser will encourage musicians to experiment and collaborate in an effort to raise awareness and funding for the Sophia Travis Women in Government Plaza. The two night event will take place on Friday, May 8 and Sunday, May 24 at The Bishop. The first night is the actual lotto, where various artists and comedians will perform and musicians will enter their name in a hat to be randomly assigned to bands. After the lotto, those mix-matched acts will have two weeks to work on songs, costumes, or any other elements they want to work into their performance. Both professionals and amateurs are encouraged to join in on the fun, and the hope is that musicians from diverse backgrounds will get to work together. “What comes out of this Rock Lotto is anybody’s guess,” says event MC Brad Wilhelm, who often worked with Travis in his role as the director of Rhino’s Youth Center. “I think Sophia would have loved the fact that diversity in music will be the result of this.”
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METAL Septic Flesh 6:30 p.m. Greek death metal band Septic Flesh is accompanied by Moonspell, Deathstars and Into the Divine. Emerson Theater, 4630 E. 10th St., $18 in advance, $20 at door, all-ages DANCE Punk Rock Prom 7 p.m. Don’t worry about dropping tons of Benjamins on this prom; you’ll just need ten Washingtons to get in, and there’s no dress code. Automagik, Small Arms Fire, The Creative, The Bipolar Bears and Nothing is Sound play this all-ages punk affair. Just bring comfortable shoes for dancin’. (PS: Music starts at 7 p.m., but get there by 6:30 for a photo booth.) Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., $10, all-ages DANCE Punk Rock Prom 9 p.m. The second of two punk rock proms starts late enough that you could technically hit up both, if you’re of age, of course. This one is focused on covers. Timebomb covers Rancid; GnFnR covers (you guessed it) Guns N’ Roses and Hepburns does punk version of ‘50s songs. Stackhouse is in there too, with glam rock/metal jams. Melody Inn, 826 N. Illinois St., $7, 21+
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SUNDAY NEW ARTISTS Jorma Whittaker, C.J. Boyd, Harpooner 8 p.m. Experiential bassist and Joyful Noise artist C.J. Boyd highlights this all-ages show, anchored by Jorma Whittaker (also a JNR artist) and Harpooner, from Nashville-by-way-of-Bloomington. Joyful Noise, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 208, all-ages Reggae Revolution, Casba, 21+ SUBMITTED PHOTO
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UPRSNG 7 p.m. Here’s a bit about UPRSNG, from organizer Danicia Monet: “We feature these artists because they exist. The richness of an artistic scene is built by including everyone in the process. There are some wonderful festivals and art fairs taking place in Indianapolis. But sometimes certain kinds of artists get left out. We’re trying to fill that void. We look for people who are serious about what they’re doing. We look for for people who are working to improve their craft. UPRSNG is a platform to help you do that. You don’t have to have anything recorded, you don’t have to have Youtube videos, or thousands of followers on social media to perform with us. … We have over forty different participants this year. We have everything from a merchant who creates Filipino jewelry to a health guru. As for performers there’s Eli Crow who is a folk singer with a beautiful voice. Schema and Tony Styxx are doing a very special collaboration at the beginning of the night, so make sure you arrive in time for that. There’s a plethora of exciting things happening.”
from Fort Frances’ David McMillin on page 26. The Hi--Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10, 21+ DANCE Real Talk 10:30 p.m. Happy three year anniversary, Andy, Annie and Ben (a.k.a. The A-Squared DJs and Action Jackson). Celebrate by dancing your booty off. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St., $5, 21+ Nailed It, Blu, 21+ Royal with DJ Limelight, The Hideaway, 21+ Chakra Zulus present The People’s Mic, Vibes Music, all-ages Modoc (early show), Indy CD and Vinyl, all-ages PK Lavengood and The Rents, Radio Radio, 21+ ZOSO, Decibel, The Vogue, 21+ David & Whitney, Tin Roof, 21+ Diane Shuur, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
Dynamite, Mass Ave Pub, 21+ Acoustic Bluegrass Open Jam, Mousetrap, 21+ Forsthelm, Antique Scream, R’lyeh, Burn The Army, 5th Quarter Lounge, 21+ The Upsetters, Watkins Park, 21+ Hayes Grier, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, all-ages Tonos Triad, Union 50, 21+ Cody Jinks, The Hi-Fi, 21+
MONDAY FILMS Sir Deja Doog’s Bad Dharma Premiere 6 p.m. Info from the glorious Doog (musician Eric Alexander) about his film screening: “The show will start with a comedic short produced in 2012 called Doog’s World Ep 1. The short features a variety of trans-dimensional Doogs exploring themes of unity, power, and corruption in the context of Occupy Wall St. Doog’s World will be followed by Sir Deja Doog’s Bad Dharma.” Another screening will take place on Tuesday night, same time, same place. Plan Nine Video, 120 E. 6th St. (Bloomington, FREE, all-ages
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Lights Out Paris, Of Creations, Venerations, The Wise Man’s Fear, The Endeavor, Hoosier Dome, all-ages
Greg Zeismer, Kriss Lucket, Chilly Water Brewing Co, 21+
Bruce McConnell Vibes Quartet, Jazz Kitchen, 21+
Billy Strings, Don Julin, Indy Folk Series, all-ages
Melodime, JD Eicher, Craig B. Moore, Sabbatical, 21+
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Lowland Hum, Cyrus Youngman and The King Fishers, Melody Inn, 21+
Indianapolis City Hall, 202 N. Alabama St., $8 in advance, $10 at door, all-ages
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TUESDAY ROCK Interpol 8 p.m. We’ll have a full interview with Interpol’s Daniel Kessler on NUVO.net this week, but for now enjoy this little tidbit about the guitarist (who owns a restaurant in “In the last ten years, it seems like I went an entirely different direction. I was just back in Europe just for a handful of days last week. Most people I hung out with are in the restaurant industry or are a chef. I don’t think that’s by design; I think sometimes you go to different spots in your life. I have so many friends that are musicians, dear, dear friends. But it’s nice to venture into new roads and new discoveries. I feel like when I’m
having nice conversations with friends of mine who are chefs, we’ll talk about each others’ businesses, and what we do, but a lot of times we’ll talk about other stuff in life. Maybe it’s a pace or a temperament that is applicable, at least with me and people that I’ve encountered, where you have a similar sort of connection. I’m not sure. I don’t even think of them as being chefs at that moment, or being in that trade, as much as these are just friends. ... I think it’s also just the explosion of food culture in general, and restaurant culture. There’s a radio blog show I did when I was out in LA called Food Is The New Rock. There’s probably a little bit something to that in this day and age, right?” Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., prices vary, all-ages
FOLK Great Lake Swimmers 8 p.m. Canadian folkies Great Lake Swimmers are touring sixth album A Forest of Arms, based partially on bandleader Tony Dekker’s memories and experiences working on various environmental projects with the World Wildlife Fund. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $15, 21+ Jerome and The Psychics, Hen, The Bloody Mess, Vibes Music, all-ages
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I am fairly new to sex even though I am almost thirty. A lot is still pretty mysterious to me - in particular orgasm. When my boyfriend is finished it’s pretty obvious because there’s fluid. But how do I as a woman know if I have orgasmed? I have heard that I will just know, and I will feel a release. I have felt very very good, especially when he’s touching me, but never the release. Eventually I have to have him stop because it becomes overwhelming. Is this orgasm? Should I try to continue? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: How do you know when you’ve really laughed? How do you know when you see the perfect rainbow? How do you know you’re in the presence of the divine? I don’t know, man, I just know it when I’m there. The long and the short of this is you need to do a hell of a lot more masturbating until you have absolutely sussed out what is and is not an orgasm. Buy a vibrator, put on a deep house or cool jazz playlist and figure that shit out. DR. D: Orgasm is tricky for many women to pinpoint when they are first beginning to gain sexual experience, either through masturbation or with a partner. It’s common for women to think they’ve had an orgasm because they feel such intense sexual pleasure. Then, one day, they experience something that feels like more of an “event”, if you will, that feels more defined and that’s followed by often intense feelings of happiness or content and then they think “ah… that’s the orgasm”. That’s not a particularly great or clear answer but it’s roughly how women talk about it. That said, some women experience very mild orgasms that don’t feel like much of a defined moment. And others experience a defined moment as part of their climax but don’t feel euphoric or content the way other women do, so it’s not clear enough for an outsider to look at your experience and judge whether you’ve had an orgasm or not. I would guess you are experiencing intense pleasure but not yet an
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Greasy Treats I want to try to recreate that kind of porn where everyone’s all oiled up, but I don’t want to make a mess in my house. Do I have to cover everything in plastic Dexter Morgan style? Any tips on how to do this without it being too messy? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Real talk, The W Hotel will come dress your room in plastic and give you a tray of things to lick off each other’s bodies for a couple hundred bucks. They’ll also do the cleanup. No reason you can’t piggyback on this idea and grease each other up while you’re at it. This seems like the best possible option, but it’s expensive, so you could just take your oil party to the bathroom. If you have a private backyard, consider the humble tarp or large baby pool. You’ll be slip slidin’ away to Orgasm City in no time. DR. D: Oil can get very messy very quickly and can be difficult to get out of certain materials. It can make floors super slippery for days to come. So yeah - if you are concerned about mess, either cover things with plastic or do it in the shower or bath tub. Or you could rent a hotel room with a big jacuzzi or massive walk-in shower and clean up well afterwards (if you damage the room, they could charge your credit card for expenses, so do make sure to be tidy).
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Extra special friends I have a special friend and I believe that we both want to take it further. On several occasions she has said how much sex means to her and how her late husband’s penis was monstrous and perfect. After that my heart sank, because in no way am I adequate to compete with that man. I have purposely sabotaged the possibilities of us going further, as I would rather have her as a friend than out of my life because I am not a large man. Are there any penis enlargement products that work? — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: I have no idea on the penis enlargement stuff, but I can tell you you’re being completely silly on the other front. Great sex is only a little, teeny-tiny bit about the physical interaction of P within V. The rest is all about interpersonal chemistry, being present in the moment, and enjoying what happens when the sex actually goes down. If it seemed like it was moving in the sexual direction and you bailed, she might be feeling a little rejected. You might be surprised, though, at how much an honest conversation about this anxiety could do for both your “special friendship” and your own nerves about getting down with your friend. And maybe the sex won’t be as good as it was with her husband. So what? Do you think you’re going to be every woman’s best sexual partner? No, so why set yourself up with that unreasonable goal in mind. Forget other partners and focus on having good sex and don’t torture yourself with comparisons. DR. D: There have been a couple of penis stretching devices that have been shown to indeed lengthen the penis, but they are not the kinds of products most men would likely want to commit to using. They typically are pretty complex devices with lots of parts that are worn on the penis throughout the day for a matter of months, all in the hopes of gaining maybe a quarter or half an inch to one’s erect penis. Plus they don’t have very long term safety data so I don’t personally often recommend them. I know of no pills or herbs that have good scientific data attached to them proving that they work to enhance the size of a man’s penis. My suggestion? Stop creating distance with your special friend if you want to take it further. Using your own words, let her know that you’re into her but that you’ve come to feel a little insecure because she’s talked about how monstrous and perfect her late husband’s penis was, and you’re worried about measuring up. That’s being real and open and vulnerable. It gives her a chance to say whether she’s into you too or whether she just wants to be friends. It also might reveal to her that a good way to draw a man nearer is generally not to go on and on about a “monstrous” penis of an ex. Most men (even larger than average men) have some level of insecurity about their penis — whether it’s big enough or hard enough or lasts long enough. Maybe her doing this is a way of warding off subsequent suitors, whether she realizes it or not. Or maybe she thinks it sounds sexy. In any case, you’re totally normal and human for having the reaction you did. Now it’s your turn to be an adult and let her know that you like her but are a little concerned about that. If you can create meaning and connection and are open to pleasuring one another using a variety of
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UP and away My boyfriend has a balloon fetish and although I find this strange I have been quite supportive. But, recently he has asked, — well how can I put this — he asked me to put one in his rectum and inflate the balloon. I’m okay with doing this for him because I love him, but was wondering if this is safe and won’t hurt him? Thanks. — Anonymous, from Tumblr SARAH: Go with the ol’ inflatable dildo. These things are made to do exactly what you’re describing, and they’re specifically invented to go in orifices that your standard pack of Party City Mediums are not. Otherwise, good on you for coming at this from a supportive standpoint and not a judgemental one. DR. D: Balloon fetishes are not one and the same. Some people just like to watch videos of people sitting on balloons or playing with balloons. This is the first time I’ve heard of someone wanting a balloon inserted in their rectum and inflated. I guess I’m wondering just how the two of you are planning for inflation to happen. If the idea is to insert the balloon and then inflate it with your mouth, that’s probably the safest way because the balloon is unlikely to inflate too quickly. But logistically that seems a little tricky. If you’re thinking of using an air pump or helium, then I have greater concerns. Although people do put inflatable devices in their rectum, those devices typically inflate with a stepwise pump so inflation doesn’t happen too quickly or forcefully. If you two decide to do this, I’d suggest choosing a slow-inflation method so that the inflation happens gradually, thus with minimal risk of pain or discomfort. If at any point it hurts, stop. And whatever you do, do not insert the balloon all the way into his anus. Make sure that enough of it stays outside his body so that you can hold onto it (you may want to tie a string to the bottom to make sure that, even if gets sucked upward a little, you can safely remove it). And if your anal play gets out of hand and the balloon does get sucked up inside him, please involve a healthcare provider in its removal.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Benedictine monks observe the Latin motto Laborare est Orare. The 19th-century abbot Maurus Wolter interpreted these words to mean “work is worship” or “work is prayer.” He was trying to impress upon his fellow monks that the work they did was not a grudging distraction from their service to God, but rather at the heart of their devotion. To do their tasks with love was a way to express gratitude for having been blessed with the gift of life. I propose that you experiment with this approach in the coming weeks, even if your version is more secular. What would it be like to feel contentment with and appreciation for the duties you have been allotted? Aries
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the children’s book The Little Engine That Could, a little blue engine volunteers to pull a long chain of train cars up a steep hill, even though it’s not confident it has the power to do so. As it strains to haul the heavy weight, it recites a mantra to give itself hope: “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” The story ends happily. The little blue engine reaches the top of the hill with its many cars in tow, and is able to glide down the rest of the way. As you deal with your own challenge, Gemini, I recommend that you use an even more forceful incantation. Chant this: “I know I can, I know I can, I know I can.” Gemini
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have taken a vow to foster beauty, truth, love, justice, equality, tolerance, creativity, playfulness, and hope. To do this work is one of my life goals. I approach it with the devotion of a monk and the rigor APRIL of a warrior. Does that mean I ignore difficulty and suffering and cruelty? Of course not. I’m trying to diminish the power of those problems, so I sure as hell better know a lot about them. On the other hand, my main focus is on redemption and exaltation. I prefer not to describe in detail the world’s poisons, but rather to provide an antidote for them. Even if you don’t normally share my approach, Cancerian, I invite you to try it for the next two weeks. The astrological time is right. Leo
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ence fiction films collectively known as The Matrix, we humans suffer from a fundamental delusion. What we think is real life is actually a sophisticated computer simulation. Intelligent machines have created this dream world to keep us in suspended animation while they harvest our energy to fuel their civilization. Now as far as I can tell, this scenario isn’t literally true. But it is an apt metaphor for how many of us seem to be half-asleep or under a spell, lost in our addiction to the simulated world created by technology. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a favorable time to diminish the hold that the metaphorical Matrix has on you. What can you do to at least partially escape your bondage? (Hint: A little more contact with nature could do the trick.) Libra
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won a Nobel Prize for his research into quarks, the tiny particles that compose protons and neutrons. The guy is breathtakingly smart. Here’s one of his operating principles: “If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” Let’s enshrine his advice as your meditation, Sagittarius. I think you’re strong enough and brave enough to go hunting for some new super-rich dilemmas. Yes, they may lead you to commit some booboos. But they will also stretch your intelligence beyond its previous limits, giving you a more vigorous understanding of the way the world works. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1934, Capricorn baseball player Dizzy Dean was named the Most Valuable Player after winning 30 games. It was a feat that no National League pitcher has repeated ever since. After Dean retired, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Never shy about acknowledging his own prowess, he declared that “if you can do it, it ain’t bragging.” It is in this spirit that I invite you to freely expound on your talents and accomplishments in the coming week. You won’t be boasting. You will simply be providing information. And that will ultimately result in you being offered an interesting new opportunity or two. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There has rarely been a better time than now to refine the art of being your own mommy or daddy. You’re finally ready to take over from the parental voices in your head and assume full responsibility for raising yourself the rest of the way. What do you want to be when you grow up? You may feel a giddy sense of freedom as it becomes clear that the only authority who has the right to answer that question is you. Aquarius
Capricorn
Sagittarius
Leo
Cancer
Gemini
Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The universe has always played tricks on you. Some have been so perplexing that you’ve barely understood the joke. Others have been amusing but not particularly educational. Now I sense a new trend in the works, however. I suspect that the universe’s pranks are becoming more comprehensible. They may have already begun to contain hints of kindness. What’s the meaning of this lovely turn of events? Maybe you have finally discharged a very old karmic debt. It’s also conceivable that your sense of humor has matured so much that you’re able to laugh at some of the crazier plot twists. Here’s another possibility: You are cashing in on the wisdom you were compelled to develop over the years as you dealt with the universe’s tricks. Pisces
Virgo
Aquarius
Capricorn
Sagittarius
Leo
Cancer
Gemini
Scorpio
Libra
Taurus
Aries
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