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When the Indianapolis Cultural Trail officially opens as a “completed project” on May 11, it will do so without two key pieces of public art in place.

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CULTURAL TRAIL GRAND OPENING Years in the making, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, a visionary, eight-mile path through Indianapolis, highlights various icons and landmarks. By David Hoppe • Cover design by Dave Windisch

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A former radical hides within carefully rendered settings in Barb Shoup’s American Tune. By Charles Sutphin

ABDUL: THE FOP AND DAVID BISARD The FOP last week voted to rescind its representation of David Bisard, but their previous decision to represent him highlights an inconsistency in the cases in which they offer services.

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EDITORS’ NOTE: We had lots of responses to David Hoppe’s web column on the proposed development in Broad Ripple. Here are some excerpted responses: Say NO! Say NO to taking away tax funds meant for neighborhoods in need. Say NO to giving those funds to out-of-state Big Box corporations. Say NO to cronyprofits that will destroy the Broad Ripple we all have built. Come out and Say NO. — Mike The ‘creative destruction’ of the market comes on the heels of any development. Established merchants either adapt or cease to exist. I would love to keep Broad Ripple locally-oriented, but outside forces see the village for what it is and everyone wants a piece of the action. In my mind, full is better than empty and the Shell station is an eyesore. All of the development that went on hold back in 2007 seems poised to roar back and we’ll tread a fine line to keep the Broad Ripple ideal alive, a walkable village with lots of small shops. It’s obvious this vision is not shared by everyone, but progress is a steamroller. — Cato Indianapolis is considering spending 5 million dollars of taxpayer’s money in the form of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to enable a developer to bring a Whole Foods grocery into downtown Broad Ripple Village. Here is an informative online petition, on which you can address your comments to the powers that can stop this from happening: tinyurl.com/ KeepBroadRippleLocalPetition

COPLEN: ONSTAGE INCIDENT Rapper Danny Brown is being dogged by an unsavory onstage incident last week that’s being called sexual assault. He so far hasn’t spoken publicly — until now.

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WE ‘EFFED UP! It happens sometimes, we apologize, carry on ... In last week’s cover story on artist Kris Komakech, we misspelled the name of the curator for the Indie Indy exhibit. Her name is Tory Schendel.

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An Indy-based creative, n mid-April, Mayor Greg Ballard traveled entrepreneur and aspiring to India and reportedly made a major karaoke champion focused declaration. He exclaimed that, “when on making the world a more people around the world think of cricket, I equitable, just place for all. want them to think of Indianapolis.” Without getting into the politics of the statement, I am dumbfounded that this is the lasting quote from Ballard’s trip to staying there — and if they’re black, their India. Instead of making grandiose statechances increase to nearly two-thirds. If ments about cricket, why didn’t he address children do attend school until they are 6 a more striking similarity that we share or 7 years old, the foundation necessary with India – widespread poverty? to be a strong student will be shaky if not Last fall, syndicated radio host Amos nonexistent. Brown released a scathing report that The level of investment needed to detailed the proliferation of poverty in effectively reach children in their develIndianapolis. Detailing the scale of poverty opmental years is small when compared experienced in Center Township, Brown to government dollars spent once they are used census data to paint a picture in which adults in poverty. When only 27 cents of nearly half of the black population (46.7 every dollar (according to Ed.gov) is spent percent) lives in poverty. Further, 42.3 peron public education, it is no surprise that cent of black children under 18, and 45.2 so many impoverished children start from percent of all black children under 5, are living in poverty. The problem even has touched white families, with almost 30 percent of white Why didn’t he address a more people living in Center Township experiencing poverty. striking similarity that we share As a country, it would be unfair to have an “apples-towith India - widespread poverty? apples” poverty comparison with India, where roughly 350 million people — more than the U.S. population — live in extreme behind and end up under-educated and poverty. However, as a country, India has receiving public assistance. revolutionized ways to combat and eradiLee Fisher, president of the national cate poverty. Whether it is 3nethra, an eyeorganization CEOs for Cities, said in a testing device that can quickly and cheaply recent talk in Indianapolis, that our city detect cataracts, diabetes and glaucoma; could save roughly $330 million annuGrameen Bank, which has reenergized ally by reducing poverty by 1 percent. bank lending to traditionally poor Indians; Nationally, that number balloons to $31 or even the new $1 billion Inclusive billion. Imagine what we would be able Innovation Fund, which will focus on to do with $330 million dollars? How creating employment for poor citizens about transit? through funding innovative enterprises He implored Indianapolis to think as that could help eradicate poverty — India a start-up, utilizing our inherent talent has developed solutions for addressing and resources to develop innovations that poverty that would benefit Indianapolis far would transform our city. There are already greater than a cricket team. organizations in Indianapolis working on One poverty eradicating solution — revolutionary education reform that need where Indianapolis desperately needs an greater attention and investment. Instead injection of innovation — is in early childof using a start-up mentality to create soluhood education. Currently, Indiana state tions that solve poverty and the achievelaw doesn’t require children to attend ment gap, our government and non-profit school until they are 7 years old — or in organizations are left carrying the burden first grade. This outdated law leaves many of providing critical social services. children from poorer families unprepared Given the clear need to address poverty for school, despite state funding to provide in Indianapolis, it seems that the benefits free kindergarten options. of a comprehensive poverty-eradication Most experts agree that children born in plan that encourages start-up thinking poverty have a high likelihood of staying and innovation strongly outweighs any there. According to The Economic Mobility potential benefits of a professional crickProject, American children born to parents et presence. in the bottom fourth of the income distriTo me, it seems that Ballard missed an bution have a roughly 50 percent chance of opportunity.

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David Hoppe first heard about it from the guy who cuts has been writing columns for my hair. Van Kirby’s business is located NUVO since the mid-1990s. on College, across the street from the Find him online every week at zombified Shell station that Browning NUVO.NET/VOICES Investments wants to take down as part of a large-scale redevelopment project. Van told me there was a plan to put a highend grocery store on that Shell station site. es are being applied to the construction of Van has been cutting hair in Broad Ripple a massive mixed-use parking facility at the Village for years — decades, really — working intersection of College and Broad Ripple out of a handsome two-storey house that sits Ave, a building that makes entering Broad between a Village Pantry and a drive-in bank. Ripple from the east an experience akin to He has a history in the neighborhood. For be flushed through a chute, the Browning example, there was that time he tried to add proposal seems a deliberate attempt to another floor to his building. That project reinvent Broad Ripple as a denser, more was nixed because the powers in the Village vertical urban environment. thought it would make his building too tall. This is not an entirely bad way to think So Van rolled up his architectural drawings about future development in the Village. and scrapped his plans. It’s funny how things can change. Now, just a few years Before Downtown was cool, you later, Browning Investments wants to build an $18 million took a visitor to Broad Ripple. mixed-use project across the street that will be at least five stories high, include over 80 apartments, as well as retail stores and a We live in a city, after all. And if Broad 275-space parking garage. Oh, and that Ripple is to grow, it has to go up — sprawl high-end grocery, rumored by some to be is not an option. a Whole Foods. But the scale of the Browning proposal This is about as big as deals get in Broad seems wildly out of whack with its surroundRipple, a neighborhood known by day for ings. That’s not to say that the 1940s era its walkability, small businesses and easyapartments it would replace are worth savgoing atmosphere and, by night, for its bars ing. They’re an eyesore and need to go. It’s and air of drunken excess. Maybe it’s the also not an argument against the creation of water: Broad Ripple’s close proximity to a larger-scale retail store that might serve as Indianapolis’ most significant water feaa shopping anchor for the Village, although tures, the White River and Central Canal, has there are plenty of grocery options in the encouraged it to create and sustain a kind area and the addition of another will not fill of alternative identity in an otherwise landan open niche so much as cater to the curlocked city. Before Downtown was cool, you rent foodie craze. There’s already a hole in took visitors to Broad Ripple if you wanted what should be the Village’s flagship retail them to experience Indy’s hipper side. space, across from the new parking facility; I wish I could say that Broad Ripple’s charBroad Ripple needs a grown-up variety of acter has something to do with intention, sustainable retail destinations more than that it’s the way it is because people there another source for boutique granola. have planned it. But that, of course, would Ironically, the Browning proposal is the fly in the face of what many of us find most first major initiative to try and actually make charming about the place. A lot of its characsomething of Broad Ripple’s greatest physiter comes from the fact that Broad Ripple has cal asset, the Central Canal. It’s about time been a long-running improvisation acted out a developer treated the canal as something between the business owners who make their other than an afterthought. It’s too bad what money in the Village proper, and the resiBrowning would build will likely overwhelm, dents, who live around it. This makes Broad not enhance, this valuable resource. Ripple a flavorful patchwork of comfort and But the real problem here is even bigger commerce, with more than a little dynamic than the potential footprint represented by tension thrown in for good measure. Browning’s plan. That plan is rushing into There have been many efforts over the a vacuum created by Broad Ripple’s inabilyears to try and bring an overarching sense ity over the years — an inability shared by of design to this quilt. People who love Indianapolis as a whole — to enact meanBroad Ripple have long understood that, ingful design and zoning guidelines. As long however it’s come about, this place is on as developers were unwilling to invest in to something special, something that other substantial building projects in the Village, cities would love to be able to copy. this lack of direction didn’t really matter. But now that there’s real money on the But, when it comes to planning, people table, well, we’re a far cry from those days have always joked that, in Broad Ripple, when adding an extra floor to a two-storey that’s like herding cats. house was considered a serious breach of It’s no joke now. neighborliness in Broad Ripple. Coming as it does as the finishing touch-

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At an estimated 39.3 percent, Indiana’s percentage of unmarried women who have recently given birth is “significantly higher than the national average,” according to a U.S. Census Bureau analysis of 2011 data released May 1. Of the 4.1 million woman sampled nationwide, 36 percent were unmarried — up from 31 percent in 2005. The percentage was 62 percent for woman ages 20-24 . Fort Wayne topped the list of state cites sampled at 51.6 percent (given a 9.8 margin of error) and Lafayette came in the lowest at 19.4 percent (11.2 MoE). For the Indianapolis-Carmel area, the percentage was 32.6 (5.8 MoE). Flagstaff, Ariz., and Cheyenne, Wyo., booked-ended the national survey with shares of 74.6 and 4.7 percent, respectively. The burgeoning bike culture of Indiana’s capital city and a strong cycling sports tradition may obscure a lessthan-flattering assessment of the state by the League of American Bicyclists . The organization ranked Indiana 43rd on its annual Bike Friendly State rankings released May 1 — down from No. 30 in 2012. The nation’s topranked states were Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and Delaware. North Dakota ranked the least bike friendly among the states. In the five ranking categories, ascending from a low of one to a high of five, Indiana earned twos in four categories and the lowest score in the infrastructure and funding category. As its “top tip” within a broader list of recommendations, the league identified several funding sources they suggested state officials could make better use of to bolster bike friendliness in transportation projects. On Thursday, 82 immigrants, representing 32 countries, were sworn in and received their U.S. citizenships at Shortridge Magnet High School. See Mark A. Lee’s slideshow at NUVO.net.

MORE PARTING SHOTS ON LEGISLATIVE SESSION … Recycling received a budgetary boost. Though still far short of the $3.4 million grant pool the Indiana Recycling Coalition hoped would be available to stimulate the recycling efforts of industries statewide, the $2 million biennial appropriation is twice what was on the table at the beginning of the year. The IRC will hold its “Recycling at a Crossroads in the Crossroads of America” conference May 14-16 at the Wyndham West, Indianapolis. The dynamic lineup includes sessions such as “Recycling and Indiana’s Economy,” “Community Commodities: Recovered Assets and Sense of Place,” “All About Plastic” and much more. Check out indianarecycling.org for more details. Planned Parenthood of Indiana’s 10th annual Gathering of Goddesses and Gods raised more than $150,000 to support a fund used to provide preventive health care for low-income women and men at clinics statewide. Almost 700 supporters attended the April 27 event Downtown. In related news, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Indiana are looking at a possible challenge to Senate Enrolled Act 371 . Signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence on May 1, SEA 371 requires clinics dispensing abortion-inducing pills to meet the same standards as surgical facilities. — REBECCA TOWNSEND 10 NEWS // 05.08.13 - 05.15.13 // 100% RECYCLED P APER // NUVO

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The moist conditions present in the parking garage over Virginia Avenue undermined the original intent of Swarm Street, the most ambitious — and most expensive — piece of art on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail.

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hen the Indianapolis Cultural Trail officially opens as a “completed project” on May 11, it will do so without two key pieces of public art in place. Together they represent more than half of the trail’s total public art budget. Swarm Street, a $1 million-plus installation below a parking garage that stands over Virginia Avenue, has been delayed more than a year and a half because of water damage and may never function as intended. And it will likely take until late summer 2014 to replace Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum, a statue of a freed slave that was scuttled in its design stage by Cultural Trail leadership in late 2011 in response to community protest. Delays and difficulties can be chalked up to high hopes, Central Indiana Community Foundation President Brian Payne said in a recent interview with NUVO: “The public art component was

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hugely ambitious and the trail is hugely ambitious. And on the public art front, some of our huge ambitions didn’t work out, but I wouldn’t trade that for making our ambitions smaller. We’re celebrating the completion of the trail, but because of this one public art project [Swarm Street] you can’t fully use the trail as designed right now. Is that disappointing? Yeah, but I don’t think it’s a big deal.” Both projects are largely funded from the Cultural Trail’s $2 million public art budget, which consists entirely of private donations. (The remaining investment consists of a $250,000 grant awarded by ArtPlace, a public-private foundation that supports strategic investments in art and culture to enhance community vibrancy.) The Swarm Street project remains under Cultural Trail leadership, meaning that the project’s key decision-makers are Payne, as president of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, and Lori Miser, the director of the city’s Department of Public Works. The project that will replace E Pluribus

Unum is now under the direction of a public-private problem-solving arm of the Mayor’s Office and the Arts Council of Indianapolis, control having been ceded by Cultural Trail leadership after Wilson’s controversial piece was rejected. The two delayed projects represent at least $1.2 million of the trail’s $2 million public art budget, not factoring in the ArtPlace grant or any additional funds to be spent on Swarm Street. Any funds not spent on Swarm Street (beyond the $975,000 originally budgeted) will go toward the Cultural Trail’s maintenance endowment, which stands at $6 million. “Every dollar I have to spend on Swarm Street is a dollar I can’t spend for maintenance endowment,” Payne said. “We want to maintain the trail at a really high level, and that’s where the tension is.”

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lation designed by the New York-based Acconci Studio, was to be the trail’s “last and largest public art installation” and was “anticipated to be complete by the end of the year.” The piece, whose infrastructure has been installed along Virginia Avenue under the parking garage south of Maryland Street, was to consist of thousands of LED lights connected to motion sensors activated by pedestrian and bicycle traffic. Acconci described to NUVO in late 2011 how the piece would work: “So let’s have a system where, as a person goes through, you activate a sensor that turns on something like fireflies above you and below you. They follow you. They become ‘attached’ to you as you walk. But if someone comes toward you from another direction, or if someone else walks beside you, some of your lights go off and lights turn on around the other person. I hope people will realize they’re doing it. I think they will.” According to Mindy Taylor Ross, the public art project managers for the Cultural Trail, the piece was functioning as designed by mid-2012. And then the rains came. “We thought we would be pretty safe because it’s sheltered in a garage, away from wet weather,” Ross said. “And no one said anything about it being a wet space. We built out the project last spring when it was incredibly wet, and we realized there was a ton of ground-water — and a large amount of condensation to the point where it sometimes rains inside the garage. Electronics started to short out and fail.” The Cultural Trail’s design and construction partners have been “testing and coming up with redesign solutions” after the piece sustained water damage, according to Ross, who said that a more water resistant prototype is currently undergoing environmental testing. Payne said that he expects results from those tests to be processed by June, at which point he and Miser, of the Department of Public Works, will decide how to move forward. “We are emotionally and financially committed to spending up to an extra $250,000,” Payne said, adding that “we may have to end up compromising on our vision for Swarm Street, so that it still provides light, is interesting to look at, but doesn’t have as big a wow factor.” Why didn’t the design and construction teams conduct environment testing before the piece was first installed? “With hindsight being 20/20, we wish we would have done groundwater testing,” Payne said. “Everyone who seemed to know a lot about that garage represented it as waterproof. It’s covered, no water gets through; everyone had an assumption that seemed to be logical.” Although the Cultural Trail’s website doesn’t provide updates on Swarm Street progress, Ross said that “we’re not keeping any secrets about it.”

African-American art installation, take two Payne said he and other Cultural Trail leaders started out with the best of intentions when they hired New York-based artist Fred Wilson to design a piece for the Trail. Payne wanted to be “inclusive” — contacting Wilson because of the impetus to “have artists of color included” in the trail’s public art collection — and the project began with

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UNDETERMINED PUBLIC ARTWORK TO REPLACE FRED WILSON’S E PLURIBUS UNUM* ARTIST: Proposals due July 8; project open to U.S.-based, African-American professional artists, According to the call to artists, the “artwork should represent the Indianapolis African-American community in a thoughtful, insightful, creative and positive manner,” reflecting its “proud and distinct history.” COST: $175,000 (the remainder of $250,000 allotted for E Pluribus Unum) FUNDED BY: Private donations to the Cultural Trail COMPLETION DATE: late summer 2014 * While this project will be sited on the Cultural Trail, it is no longer being administered by Cultural Trail leadership. Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum was planned under the auspices of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail (and thus under the direction of the Central Indiana Community Foundation and the City of Indianapolis). The project replacing it is a joint initiative of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee and the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

SWARM STREET as seen on adjacent page ARTIST: Acconci Studio COST: Originally budgeted at $975,000; additional costs up to $1.25 million will be associated with the project’s ongoing redesign and reconstruction. Acconci Studio, originally awarded a design fee of $97,000, is not being allotted additional fees during the redesign process. FUNDED BY: Private donations to the Cultural Trail and a $250,000 public/private grant awarded in 2011 by ArtPlace, a collaboration of 13 foundations and six banks “investing in art and culture.” COMPLETION DATE: approximately September 2013, depending on stress tests of redesigned electronics to be completed by June. meetings between Wilson and the local African-American community. Fast-forward to December 2011, when the boards of the Central Indiana Community Foundation and Cultural Trail, Inc. (the organization that will maintain the trail once it is completed) unanimously voted to “discontinue” Wilson’s piece, following the “conclusion of a two-year community input process.” Wilson’s statue was a riff on a recently-freed slave that can be found on the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. On the monument, the freed slave holds in his right hand his unlocked shackles. Wilson’s version would have had the slave instead waving a flag of the African diaspora. One group protesting Wilson’s piece, Citizens Against Slave Image, editorialized that “the city of Indianapolis should not be in the business of housing any negative images portraying any group of its citizens for the sake of artistic expression, particularly those that have been historically disenfranchised and oppressed.” Such concerns convinced Cultural Trail leadership that not only should the project be discontinued, but that a new public art project should be led by community advocates who opposed the statue. The Greater Indianapolis Community Foundation took over the process of cre-

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ating a new public art piece shortly after the December 2011 decision. Foundation leadership later invited the Arts Council of Indianapolis, which has proved its public arts prowess through projects such as 46 for XLVI, to become a partner on the project. A call to artists with a deadline of July 8 emphasizes that any proposed pieces must positively represent the city’s African-American community. But that doesn’t mean a piece will be chosen based merely on how enthusiastic it is, according to Arts Council CEO and President Dave Lawrence. “Let me be clear: This is a real public art process, and we’re interested in finding a work of the highest artistic quality,” Lawrence said. “We’re keeping this as open as possible to allow artists to bring forward whatever they’re going to propose.” A jury comprised of art experts and community members who opposed the Wilson project will select the semifinalists, who will be awarded $1,000 each to create a scale model. The winner will work from a budget of $150,000 for the piece, with $25,000 retained to cover maintenance and other costs. The scale models will go on display in September and October for community comment, and the artwork will be installed on the Cultural Trail in summer 2014, according to the project timeline.

Stamp Out Hunger If you can place a can or a bag of non-perishable food items next to your mailbox on Saturday, then you can help the National Association of Letter Carriers’ effort to “Stamp Out Hunger.” Mail carriers will pick up AND deliver the food to Gleaners. It can’t get much easier than that to contribute and the need is great. In fiscal year 2010-2011, Gleaners distributed an estimated 15 million meals to hunger relief programs. Volunteers are needed to help coordinate the event, which, in 2012, sent 137,989 pounds of food to Gleaners. Contact Jessica Shive at jshive@gleaners.org or 925-0191 ext. 156 to register as an individual, or better yet, as a group. Saturday, May 11, mailboxes and post offices citywide Race City Rebels Indiana’s men’s roller derby team opens its fourth season with a bout against the Chicago Bruise Brothers. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and bouts start at 6. $10, $8 in advance, free for kids 10 and under. Saturday, May 11, at The Forum in Fishers, 9022 E. 126th St., 6 p.m. Statewide Asthma Conference Noting that about one in 10 of Hoosiers suffers from asthma, the Indiana Joint Asthma Coalition has organized its first statewide conference to address topics ranging from implications of the Affordable Care Act for people with asthma to how to help children affected by the chronic disease. See injac.org for more details. Tuesday, May 14, Ritz Charles in Carmel, all day

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Pictured: Brian Payne INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL: A LEGACY OF GENE AND MARILYN GLICK Years in the making, this visionary, eight-mile path through Indianapolis highlights various icons and landmarks, while giving users a good reason to explore the city. It’s an urban bike and pedestrian path that connects Fountain Square, Indiana Avenue, Mass Ave, the Canal and White River State Park and the Wholesale District, while providing links to the entire Central Indiana greenway system. Led by Central Indiana Community Foundation, among others, the Cultural Trail is a true collaboration, highlighting health, along with appreciation for our evergrowing Downtown. Their May grand opening will invite users to “get down on it,” and will elevate the already-known Cultural Trail to legendary status.

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Each year, NUVO awards Cultural Vision Awards to local entrepreneurs and innovators. This year, Brian Payne and the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick is a CVA winner. Please join us at our ceremony June 7, at 6 p.m. at Indiana Landmarks. Admission is free.

delivering on promises Brian Payne talks about the INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL STORY BY DAVID HOPPE • DHOPPE @NUVO.NET Years in the making, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick, a visionary, eight-mile path through Indianapolis, highlights various icons and landmarks, while giving users a good reason to explore the city. It’s an urban bike and pedestrian path that connects Fountain Square, Indiana Avenue, Mass Ave, the Canal and White River State Park and the Wholesale District, while providing links to the entire Central Indiana greenway system. Led by the Central Indiana Community Foundation, among others, the Cultural Trail is a true collaboration, highlighting health, along with appreciation for our ever-growing Downtown. Their May 10-11 grand opening (see sidebar) will invite users to “get down on it,” and will elevate the already-known Cultural Trail to legendary status. NUVO’s David Hoppe sat down with Brian Payne, who is widely acknowledged as the main force behind the Cultural Trail.

NUVO: Can you describe the genesis of the Cultural Trail?

traction because people thought they were too disconnected from the heart of downtown. In 2001, I was trying to raise money for the Cultural Districts and met with Myrta Pulliam. She, like everyone else, wasn’t very excited about how things were going. Mass Ave wasn’t very dynamic; Fountain Square wasn’t happening yet. Myrta said, “Look, nothing is connected. The least you can do is get the city to build a bike lane to Fountain Square.” Two weeks later I was riding the Monon with my son. I could see people loving it, and wondered if there could be an urban version of the Monon. The fact that the Monon had already fought a lot of battles made way for the Cultural Trail. I had a lot of ideas about the Trail at the beginning. Some evolved over five or six years, some are still evolving. But I also became the archivist of other peoples’ great ideas. I had about 100 oneon-one conversations. My understanding of complete streets and connectivity and place-making — I’ve learned much of that through the Trail experience. It wasn’t like I was an expert. The Trail taught me. The Trail became the basis for knowledge and philosophy, not the other way around.

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“I was not a bicyclist,” says Brian Payne, the president and CEO of the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), a $600 million philanthropic organization dedicated to serving Indianapolis and Marion County. The sandy-haired native Californian is also the man behind the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene and Marilyn Glick. The idea for a trail connecting bicyclists and pedestrians with the City’s seven Cultural Districts didn’t come to Payne all at once — that required the help of his then-infant son. The two would go for outings on the Monon Trail. This put Payne on two wheels; he liked it. What started as an occasional way of spending quality time turned into a personal passion. Now Payne’s son is almost 15 years old, and the Cultural Trail has become the centerpiece for Indianapolis’ burgeoning bike scene. NUVO recently visited Payne at the CICF’s Broad Ripple office, where he reflected on one of the most widely-heralded and influential public works projects to take place in Indianapolis in years.

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PROMISES , FROM PAGE 13 NUVO: At what point did you feel the Trail could be accomplished? PAYNE: I felt this was a city where you can have big ideas and people might help you make them happen. It’s funny, I was getting a lot of positive feedback in my oneon-one meetings. Since then, people tell me that they thought it was an interesting idea but, as soon as I left the room, they rolled their eyes, like this is never going to happen. I was too naïve to really see that. What made it real was when people started investing in it. Early on there were four key investors: Lori Efroymson, Myrta Pulliam, the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, and the Lumina Foundation. Lori and Myrta each gave a million dollars on the strength of a hand-drawn rendering and a pitch. That money could have been spent and nothing might have happened. That’s the kind of risk they were willing to take. But it said people believed in this. It created credibility. At that point, we could go to the mayor. NUVO: What principles were guiding the design?

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ABOVE: Brian Payne with his signature bicycle, ready to cross the bridge that spans over downtown’s Central Canal. RIGHT: Trail lovers enjoy the “Glick Peace Walk,” featuring various icons throughout history.

be blacktop, it would be pavers. It had to have lighting for 24/7 use. One of my favorite things is to be on the Trail at 10 or 11 o’clock at night. To me, that is a big city thing to do. Then we felt that a really beautiful level of landscaping was going to be important. I always figured that my favorite

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Payne considers connecting the urban Cultural Districts.

Payne raises $4 million to design concepts and research the possibility. Formal meetings with the public, city staffers and neighborhood residents begin.

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PAYNE: I felt from the beginning if the city was going to be a cultural destination, we’d have to offer something distinctive. Why would anyone from Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago or Cincinnati come here if we don’t have anything different than they have? Different cultural neighborhoods could be the reason for people to come and then, when they’re here, maybe they’ll take in the Symphony or the IRT. As I learned more about trails, I saw that with a tweak here and there, we could connect to the White River Trail and the Pleasant Run Trail, as well as the Monon. At that point, we saw the Cultural Trail becoming the hub for the Marion County trail master plan. The connectivity aspects kept building. We saw that if we grew the Trail a little bit — if we added another mile or another segment — we could actually connect to every significant arts, cultural heritage, sports and entertainment venue. If not right to the front door, then within a block. We knew that we had to have an urban version of the Monon. To me, that meant it had to be more highly designed. It wouldn’t

2004-2005 R.W. Armstrong and Rundell Ernstberger Associates hired as construction management and lead architecture design team (respectively). Eugene and Marilyn Glick commit $15 million as lead gift.

2004-2006 First groundbreaking on southeast corner of Alabama and North Streets.

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INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL ECONOMIC IMPACT: • Estimated economic impact: $864.5 million • Estimated jobs created: 11,372 (based on study by the Indiana University Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, 2008) • 11,250 cubic yards concrete • 11,125 tons of asphalt • 11.25 acres of Cultural Trail pavers • 8,065 cubic yards of topsoil • 525 trees • 5,685 shrubs • 67,865 plants • 588 trail lights • 270 trash and recycling containers • 69 benches • 86 bike racks • 25,400 square feet of new storm-water planters, which divert approximately 4 million gallons per year TRAIL FURNISHINGS MADE FROM RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: • Benches (48%) • Bike racks (65%) • Litter receptacles (61%) • Asphalt pavers (22.6%) • Tree grates (61%)

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ABOVE: Many were anxious for the Fountain Square portion of the trail to be completed. BELOW: These cyclers enjoy the sculpture out front the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. Submitted photo

enhancing infrastructure under the Trail or next to it, some of which hadn’t been touched in 100 years. We paid for that. Some people assume the Trail was city money that could have gone to their favorite project, but that’s not true. We actually raised the money that built $20 million of city infrastructure your tax dollars didn’t have to pay for. The most important thing is that we maintain what we have at an incredibly high level. That’s a moral obligation to the donors. If it’s a choice between adding on and degrading our maintenance, or keeping maintenance at a 100 percent level, I’d say keep maintenance at 100 percent. The beauty of our landscaping is one of our most important differentiators. I don’t want to see it degrade a notch. parts of the Trail would be wherever the coolest buildings are. But now I find that my favorite parts are where the landscaping is most plush. Along North Street, from Alabama to Delaware, to Pennsylvania — that’s two blocks where there are no cool buildings. But there are four levels of landscaping; it’s the most beautiful part of the Trail for me. NUVO: What story does the Trail tell about Indianapolis? PAYNE: One of the guiding principles, up front, was for the Trail to position Indianapolis as a progressive, innovative and creative city in the 21st century. I don’t want it to be a celebration of the past. I want it to be about today and tomorrow. Neighborhoods that wanted to have historical lighting — we fought like

crazy on that. It’s not about yesterday. I think we’ve realized that. One thing I love is when we take people who have lived here a long time on Trail tours and they come away saying, “I’ve never seen that.” It shows that the city is much more surprising than people think it is. NUVO: What about the Trail’s future? PAYNE: People want to continue to add to the Trail. But it’s very expensive because of all the infrastructure — gas lines, electric lines, sewers. DPW did a study. The entire cost of the Trail was $63 million. Six million of that is a maintenance endowment. Then a lot went to design fees and project management. Maybe $45 million was hard construction. Well, $20 million of that $45 million went to

NUVO: Have you noticed that the Trail has informed and energized the way people now talk about public spaces in Indianapolis? PAYNE: There are so many groups now that are all about urban design, placemaking, multi-modal transportation. I think the Trail has helped coalesce some of those conversations. As the Monon created the opportunity for the Trail, the Trail has created an opportunity for other things. It emboldens people to take their ideas to another level. This is a city that cares about design and connectivity and dreaming and creativity and innovation. I’m a believer in zeitgeist — that we all have independent ideas that are somewhat about the same things because something’s going on that makes it the right time to have those ideas. The Trail just happened to be the right project for the

TOTAL PROJECT COST: $63 MILLION BREAKDOWN: • Construction and inspection: $48 million • Design, management and environmental $7 million • Maintenance endowment: $6 million • Public art: $2 million Note: $20 million installed new city infrastructure FUNDING: • Private (individual, corporate, foundation): $27.5 million • Public (federal transportation funding): $35.5 million Note: no local tax money used for this project right time. It’s not because I figured out what’s going on in the world and thought, “Okay, this is the time.” It was just great good fortune. We had big ambitions and, along the way, the ambitions got bigger and bigger and bigger. At some point, we started saying that the Trail wasn’t just about connectivity, it’s about changing Indianapolis’ values. Indianapolis didn’t used to value sustainability. Indianapolis didn’t used to value bicycle culture. Indianapolis didn’t used to value design and beauty. This is about changing values. Sometimes, after a bad day, we’d think, “What if we get this built and it doesn’t do any of these things? Have we sold the city a bill of goods? Can I look the Glick family in the eye after they gave $15 million?” But, right now, I think we’re actually delivering on all our promises. I am relieved about that and I’m thrilled because I believed it at the time and, now that it’s built, I still think we’re delivering on our promises. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.08.13-05.15.13 // COVER STORY 15


Indy’s cultural trail: done, or just begun? BY D A VID H O P P E DHOPPE@NUVO . N ET

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he Cultural Trail has inspired plenty of hyperbole. On the Trail’s web site, it is described as the city’s equivalent of the interstate highway project. This comparison actually says more about how little ambition Indianapolis has invested in public works projects over the past 50 years or so than it does about the successful completion of this 7.5-mile system of walking and bike lanes connecting the city’s six designated cultural districts. But the Cultural Trail is in fact, a remarkable accomplishment. Celebration is called for. The question is, just what kind of accomplishment is it? In its early stages, Cultural Trail advocates were faced with a tough assignment: sell a visionary urban design concept to a community that hadn’t shown much enthusiasm for such ideas since the days when George Kessler submitted his transformative Parks and Boulevard Plan in the early 1900’s. Hence the hyperbole attempting to portray the Cultural Trail as some kind of grand attraction, something tourists might come here to experience, like, say, Chicago’s Millennium Park, the Liberty Trail in Boston, or San Antonio’s River Walk. Anyone coming to the Trail with such expectations is bound to be disappointed. The Cultural Trail does something else. In my experience, over the years while it was taking shape, and now that it is done and can be experienced whole, the Cultural Trail presents itself not as another urban attraction, but as a model for what Midwestern city streetscapes can — and should — be. The Cultural Trail’s ultimate attraction is really the city itself. A tour along the Trail provides plenty of views, from a variety of perspectives, of an increasingly dynamic downtown skyline, neighborhoods, and street scenes. Planners have done a good job of mixing large, wide-angle views with up-close, intimate stretches through neighborhoods like Chatham Arch and Ransom Place. You get greatest hits like a jaunt along Washington Street and a chance to enjoy under-appreciated pleasures, like the Canal Walk. The view of downtown from Virginia Avenue is particularly brilliant, especially on a clear night. And the Trail appears to confirm what many of us have argued for years: that quality design raises the city’s game in a variety of ways. Here is proof that the cool factor actually contributes to functionality. The Trail has almost certainly led to a development boom extending the Mass Ave corridor all the way to the East End building, making such new arrivals as Indy Reads Books and the Black Market restaurant possible. For all the complaints about how long it took to build the Trail to Fountain Square, that Virginia Ave stretch is now undergoing a radical transformation with apartment projects (Mozzo and the Hinge), boutiques, and top shelf dining. Prior to building the Cultural Trail,

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OPENING EVENTS Ribbon-cutting • The trail’s inaugural ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at Alabama and Market streets on Friday • Local artists, performers and musicians will provide a variety of entertainment, including the world premiere of the “Cultural Trail Theme,” composed by Becky Archibald and performed by a 9-piece jazz ensemble • Mural painted onto the side of an IndyGo bus • Speakers at the event will include Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Central Indiana Community Foundation President Brian Payne, Philanthropist Marianne Glick, U.S. Congressman André Carson, and Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Inc. Executive Director Karen Haley • At the conclusion the Jefferson St. Band will lead attendees into the City Market for drinks hosted by Tomlinson Tap Friday, May 10, 3:45 p.m. “Get Down On It” At the celebration’s start everyone is invited to join IPS high school marching bands from Arsenal Tech, Shortridge, Crispus Attucks and Broad Ripple with a decorated umbrella in separate marches starting at White River State Park, Fountain Square, Indiana Avenue and Mass Ave, respectively. All four bands will converge and become one band when they simultaneously reach City Market at 11:30 a.m., at which point the festivities will begin. Highlights include: IndyCog bicycle fundraiser Two Wheels One City, and Live music from Indiana Ave’s outdoor stage For a full schedule and map of activities visit: www.indyculturaltrail.org/GetDownOnIt. Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m. - midnight

equal standing, or better, with automobiles. Indianapolis, like most other American citAnd in some places, the Trail creates pasies, was doing its best to ignore its eroding sages for people where cars can’t go. infrastructure. Many neighborhoods lack And the Trail represents a new idea about such basic amenities as sidewalks, and the urban livability, an idea that seems particuoverwhelmed sewer system was routinely larly suited to a middle-sized Midwestern spewing waste into the White River and concity that often seems at odds with whether nected streams in a way that finally attracted or not a city is what it wants to be. It shows the attention of the federal government. how intelligent planning can create a downThe Cultural Trail, of course, does not town experience that morphs commuting solve these problems. But, that said, it shows and recreation, working and living. Indianapolis ways to address them that The only aspects of the Cultural Trail have the added benefit of being beautiful. that, so far, at least, don’t seem to work Experienced up close, the Trail evokes a are what Midwestern might be sense of place called through its “Here is proof that the cool factor “attracuse of prairielike grasses actually contributes to functionality” tions,” i.e. public art. and other With the plantings. notable This green exception of Julian Opie’s “Ann Dancing” element also fulfills a practical purpose by on Mass Ave, a holdover from the city’s catching and absorbing rainwater run-off Opie show back when one-person exhithat would otherwise choke downtown bitions of public works were commissewers. Trail construction has also been the sioned by the now sadly defunct Cultural occasion for a general upgrade of underDevelopment Commission, public art ground pipes and cables that have gone along the trail has been a disappointwithout improvement for decades. ment. The Cultural Trail exemplifies what is Fred Wilson’s “E Pluribus Unum,” meant by the “complete streets” approach to intended for the plaza in front of the Cityurban design. Bicyclists and pedestrians, as County Building on Washington Street, well as people taking public transit, are given

was scuttled due to public protests. Vito Acconci’s “Swarm Street,” beneath the overpass on Virginia Ave, is over a year behind schedule. The Glick Peace Walk, a series of spinnaker-like steel installations, each one depicting a person “whose creativity, perseverance and concern for others improved life for everyone who came after them,” is an exercise in misplaced didacticism. Other works, like Michael Kuschnir’s “Looking Through Windows, 2012” are merely decorative or, as in the cases of Jamie Pawlus’ “Care/Don’t Care” and Sean Derry’s “Chatham Passage,” little more than eccentric one-liners. Tellingly, the Trail makes the most of public art when it integrates the works in a functional way. Donna Sink’s eco-friendly bus shelters, incorporating pieces by local poets, provide transit-takers with pride of place. The design collective M12’s “Prairie Modules 1 & 2” — cubed sculptural passageways enhanced by tall grasses, black reflective pavers, LED lighting and solar panels — make a delightfully bold architectural statement in a relatively compressed space along North Street. In light of all this, the so-called completion of the Cultural Trail seems a misnomer. The Trail’s greatest contribution to Indianapolis should be to make us see what is possible — and agitate for more.


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CONTINUING Candice Hartsough McDonald and Emily Gable r McDonald’s paintings contain visual riddles. Looking at the painting “Carefully Placed,” you might ask why a bird is making a nest that contains a miniature two story colonial house? And why is she laying her eggs in the house’s cupola? And in “It lived a good life,” why are two snakes curling in front of a house seemingly in the form of a family emblem? By contrast, Gable’s mixed media on wood paintings — abstractly embellished triangles meant to resemble rooftops — seem to act in this show only as punctuation marks for McDonald’s story-rich work. Harrison Center for the Arts through May 31

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Homage r Homage gives a group of Indy-based an opportunity to make their artistic influences explicit. One standout is Philip Apenouvon’s “Untilted,” after the American artist Sol LeWitt. His mosaic of painted foam slabs of various colors is surprisingly engaging. Another standout is Bobby Gilbreath’s “Untitled (Hair as Document),” which channels artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Gilbreath makes clever and engaging use of a toilet paper roll on which hangs toilet-paper-like perforated silkscreen prints in roll form. According to curator William Denton Ray, visitors are free to take a sheet home with them, presumably to frame. Harrison Center for the Arts through May 31 Tripper Dungan: What’s For Dinner? r Stepping in through the huge wooden door into Monster Gallery, you see paintings that portray flapjacks with eggs for eyes hitchhiking and jackalopes driving ice cream trucks. You’re transported to an alternate universe where there’s a Bob’s Big Boy on every highway intersection and the food comes out to sing at you. This is Pop Art that, with the donning of 3D glasses, pops off the walls and makes you hungry for dessert. Monster Gallery through May 31, call 317-7964508 to schedule a visit Bonnie Stahlecker: Longings e Stahlecker’s art is intricate, precise and creates a unity from disparate elements. However, this doesn’t mean that her works always mean to project harmony. “Distortion,” utilizing painted pigskin, shows the text of Hebrew and Greek biblical verses being overlapped and overwhelmed by nationalistic sermons in the text of an all-too-American English. Gallery 924 through May 31 Todd Matus: Scenes from a Novel e In combination with his black and white photographs depicting scenes from a road trip gone wrong, Matus supplies text made up of disparaging diatribes about American culture. Brittle observations are leavened partly by the story he is telling. His companion on a road trip taken in the late 80s is a possibly insane woman with impossibly bright moments of clarity. She also has the power to change the weather, or at least his perception of it. Sometimes both politics and weather are as local as your own headspace. Litmus Gallery through May 28 — DAN GROSSMAN

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Simona Frillici sits in the belly of her installation July 30, 1945 at SpaceCamp Microgallery.

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n July 30, 1945 the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank. The sinking is the subject of Italian artist Simona Frillici’s site-specific installation, July 30, 1945, at SpaceCamp Microgallery, which opened for May’s First Friday and can be viewed by appointment through the month. “I saw the open call on the web to do a site-specific installation,” Frillici told me Friday night. “When I saw the perimeter of the gallery it seemed to me like a big fish. And the big fish made me think of the U.S.S. Indianapolis. So I made a link between the name of the city and the story about this ship. And so I thought up an installation about the story of this ship, U.S.S. Indianapolis. And the fact that nine hundred men were abandoned in the ocean for three days and three nights.” These 900 men battled exposure, shark attacks, and dehydration in the open water. Only 300 survived. Frillici covered an entire wall of the tiny gallery space with copies of photographs of U.S.S. Indianapolis sailors and the ship itself. She then splashed the images with blue paint. And on top of these painted photographs, Frillici projected the video image of open water. The water filmed in the projection is

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not the Pacific Ocean — where the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis took place — but the Mediterranean Sea, which is much closer to Frillici’s home province of Perugia, in Italy. (Frillici was born in Foligno, Italy in 1966.) There is also an audio component to the installation, featuring the U.S. National Anthem and the sound of lapping waves. It was in the Mediterranean that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. I asked Frillici if her installation drew any inspiration from the biblical story that centers on the themes of man’s obedience (and disobedience) to God. “Yes, Frillici said, “But also Pinocchio. This is a classic of literature that every Italian schoolchild reads.” In The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio finds his father in the belly of a great whale. They build a fire in the whale’s belly which causes

the whale to sneeze, expelling them both back into open water. Among the Xeroxes, showing both survivors and victims of the sinking, is a Xeroxed photograph of Frillici herself. This is Frillici’s way, as an artist, of relating to the tragedy of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, which she sees as a metaphor for the human condition, she told me. “The sharks surrounded the sailors for three days and three nights,” says Frillici. “And then the shark took the men and killed them. It reminded me of my interest in human beings. So the man is like in a big ocean, in the darkness, unknown. And then fate decides to take the man.” July 30, 1945 is SpaceCamp MicroGallery’s last installation before it closes for good. Flounder Lee, with the aid of several co-gallerists (including NUVO contributor Charles Fox), has filled the small gallery space with conceptually large shows since 2010. But perhaps this closing is simply making way for another new and exciting gallery yet to open. In any case, Frillici was impressed by her time in the city. “I always try to find places far from were I live and Indianapolis is very far,” she told me. “I’m impressed with this city. There are a lot of young people. A lot of creative people. And new restaurants. New situations.”


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47 artists were featured at VACANT, including Brooke Poeppel (left), Malisa Hobson (center and right), and Marna Shopoff (below).

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ay’s First Friday festivities were highlighted by a one-night exhibition in the Old Indianapolis City Hall bringing together the work of 47 artists current, graduating or former students of Herron School of Art and Design. The exhibition, VACANT, was the first event organized by [space], a new collective consisting of graduating Herron seniors Taryn Cassella, Anna Martinez and Andrea Townsend. Taking inspiration from the TURF exhibition that occurred during the Super Bowl, the three artists looked into the possibility of using the space for their thesis shows. The City of Indianapolis gave them permission, but stipulated that the event must involve more artists to justify the use of the space. Cassella, Martinez and Townsend then began reaching out to artists on an individual basis to invite them to exhibit work in Vacant. Eventually, an open call was extended to current and former Herron students. The three then began the process of curating the space and placing artists together; most of the gallery spaces contained the art of two to three artists. Herron alumnus Jordan Ryan was tasked with researching the history of the building for the exhibition. It was built in 1909 as the first proper Indianapolis City Hall, and is on the national historic register. Its decorative art adornments are especially noteworthy. After 50 years, City Hall outgrew the building. The Indiana State Museum occupied the

space from 1963 until 2002. It’s been vacant since. Each of the four floors is approximately 12,000 feet, and there is a basement and attic as well. The cost of rehabilitation is the main reason why the building sits vacant today, costing the City of Indianapolis thousands of dollars in annual upkeep. The art exhibited consisted of thirteen thesis shows, with the rest of the galleries rounded out by alumni and current Herron

students. The quality of art was consistently high, but there were several standouts. Combining Andrea Townsend and Marna Shopoff’s work in a gallery space was a sound curatorial decision; the emphasis on line, color and material made for a nice pairing. Tina Estes’s art responds to the faulty nature of memory and people’s disconnect from the outside world. Using predomi-

nately shiny textures for the many figures on the otherwise duller surface of her canvas yields great results. Brooke Poeppel’s uncomfortably zoomed in close up portraits of sleeping people have amusing titles that lend a dark humor to the work, such as “Space Cadet,” “Laid Bare and Oblivious,” “Ill-At-Ease,” and “The Shepherd as the Lamb.” Alice Guerin and Ashley Windbigler combine the innocence of childhood and family memories with something implacably repugnant by interjecting objects such as teeth and chicken feet into their installations; the result conjures the eerie dust that cloaks nostalgia, and verges on slasher film camp. Anna Martinez and Taryn Cassella’s shared space feels perhaps most contemporary of the art on view. Their still life scenes in both two and three dimensional representations are interspersed with tasteful yet unexpectedly bright and colorful objects and materials. The future of the building is completely up in the air. “We feel a need for a presence like this in the local community,” Townsend explains. The members of [space] hope to make Vacant a semiannual or annual event. Having three members allows each artist to pursue residency opportunities while still moving forward with event planning. “From what we’ve learned now, it will be much easier the next time,” muses Martinez. If Vacant and TURF before it are any indication, the building’s future may be as storied as its past. NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.08.13 - 05.15.13 // ARTS 19


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n American Tune by Indiana author Barb Shoup is a work of art by a veteran author filled with linguistic ingenuity. The book spans five decades as the protagonist develops from a teenage girl, experiencing the visceral thrills of college life, into an anti-war radical hiding from authorities for an act of violence. Jane turns into Nora. An innocent transforms into a fugitive, a wife and a mother with a life known to no one, except the reader. The title, An American Tune, recalls the Paul Simon classic from the album There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. The novel resonates with musicality drifting through every chapter — a paean to a time and place recaptured in the poet’s eye. The Sixties vivifies with quick, detailed strokes of artistry: “The batik throws on the couch, the psychedelic posters on the walls, the red silk scarves . . . draped over the cheap lampshades. The double bed behind the beaded curtain . . . the scent of marijuana lingering from the night before.” Can you see it? smell it? do you remember . . . . This is a book marked for people who once were young. The first part takes place in Bloomington, Ind. from 1965-1974 and is the more dynamic of the three sections. If you’re familiar with the IU campus, you’ll savor much of the setting. A scene from a bench in People’s Park feels oh-so familiar: “Rowdy,

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When Brant Gilmour is turned down by the Peace Corps, he’s forced to answer a question: How can an English major from Indiana make the world a better place? On the surface, Mike Tyson Slept Here would seem to anecdotally pull from author Chris Huntington’s almost ten years working in the

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full of themselves, they hopped and wheeled and backpedaled, ducking and reaching to bounce the little rainbow-colored bean bag off their tattooed ankles.” Likewise, the environs of Bloomington spring to life in vivid detail: “beyond the outskirts . . . into the country, passing farmhouses with lights twinkling inside, a little roadside church, fields and copses, black ponds holding the morning moon.” Exquisite. For many readers the appeal of the novel will be the concept of the double life: romantic and enigmatic. Who hasn’t fantaIndiana Correctional Facility in Plainfield. Gilmour, his leading protagonist, teaches inmates working to pass the GED. Any illusions are quickly dispelled in the opening chapter when one of Gilmour’s co-workers, a corrections officers named Englehart, tells him what the difference is between the inmates and the officers: “We just do our sentences eight hours at a time.” As the book deals with the romance between Gilmour and another prison teacher, Isa Boone, Huntington intertwines the perspectives of nurses, corrections officers, an Indianapolis lawyer, even a man waiting for his lover’s freedom, in short vignettes which serve to study the rippling effects of the legal system, ripples that stretch far beyond the fences the inmates are afraid to climb. One chapter, “All Along the Watchtower,” talks about a fifty-eight year old female guard whom many prisoners view as a grandmother figure. Two young prisoners attempt escape, thinking “she wouldn’t shoot them if they weren’t hurting anybody, just trying to get home

sized about the mystique of being a fugitive on the run — of someone you aren’t (and hopefully never will be). That is where the author takes us in the second segment of the book. Nora, nee Jane, is wife and mother living tranquilly in Northern Michigan when the past resurrects and brings the unresolved turmoil of the Sixties back to life. The initial scene is placid: “The sun pouring in through the open kitchen window, catching the prisms dangling among the plants to cast rainbows on the wall. The white bowl of blueberries on the oak table, yellow butter on a blue and white dish. Waffles steaming, the smell of coffee.” Can you taste it? Wisdom abounds: “‘Be kind to your parents when they get weird. They can’t help it”; as do sentiments shared by many of a certain age and standing: “You know . . . you’ve got to really fuck up big time to get as smart as I am now. So I hope you’re listening.” As the main character’s life, 30 years after the “incident,” unfolds, the tension inherent in the book never quite comes to fruition — or at least not in the conventional way. For most of journey the reader wonders if the protagonist will be brought to justice and “outed” for her crime. What will be the consequence: Will she be prosecuted? Incarcerated? Turned into a national luminary? The comeuppance is unexpected as the tale transforms into a love story and a morality tale about the travails of being a parent. Occasionally, An American Tune slips into melodrama and the dialogue thuds off the page like a red rubber ball. In the final analysis, however, it is the quality of the prosody that takes center stage and captures the eye. “Her bent arm resting in the open window to catch the breeze . . . The perfect curl of ice cream at the tip of those cones . . . and the pleasure of licking it off.” to their families.” Johnny Winston, her replacement, never has to shoot anybody off the fence and “because of Betty Gaston [the grandmotherly guard], he didn’t think he ever would.” Another chapter, “The Great Escape,” talks about an inmate taking the GED class at the prison in order to shorten his sentence. When it’s discovered that he has a GED, they are challenged with how to punish him. “Hell, let’s call it ‘attempted escape,’” and they do — a charge that adds another five years to his sentence. Mike Tyson Slept Here is firmly rooted in Indianapolis, and local readers will recognize references to Lockerbie, Circle Centre, the Star, among others. Above all else, this novel is about growing disillusioned. Growing realistic. Growing up. Huntington’s approaches it matter-of-factly, sometimes tongue in cheek. And his capacity to shrewdly weave together perspectives from multiple characters makes this novel a smart, funny, heartbreaking, eye-opening success.

The Gila Wars: A Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger Novel

BY LARRY SWEAZY Berkley Book $price e The Gila Wars — the sixth and final book in awardwinning Noblesville author Larry D. Sweazy’s Josiah Wolfe series — takes us into the heart of Texas cattle county circa 1875. Rustlers are stealing herds for shipment by steamboat to Cuba “to feed the starving families,” as explained by one of the rustlers taken as prisoner. Sweazy fills his actionpacked book with moral issues, considering the great divide between the few very rich and the rest of the population, as well as the great lot of people killed in the process of establishing law and order. Like Josiah and the rest of the Texas Rangers, the reader is thrust into an unfriendly landscape where trusting anyone or anything can get you killed. As always, Sweazy sketches out fully-dimensional characters and vivid descriptions — “The coolness of the night was evaporating, overtaken by the coming heat of the day. A slight breeze pushed under the door, searching for an escape route…” It’s hard to say goodbye to Ranger Wolfe at book’s end, but there’s always the hope his story will resurface at a later date, again bringing us vividly into the heart — and guts — of Texas. Previous titles in the series, reviewed in NUVO, include The Rattlesnake Season, The Scorpion Trail, The Badger’s Revenge, The Cougar’s Prey and The Coyote Tracker. Sweazy will receive the 2013 Spur Award for Best Original Mass Market Paperback for The Coyote Tracker, the fifth book in the Josiah Wolfe series at the annual Western Writers of America banquet in Las Vegas, Nevada in June. A new western series by Sweazy published by Berkley Books will debut in 2014. Sweazy will appear May 11, 2-4 p.m., at Books-A Million, 5760 W. 86th St., Ste. 120. —RITA KOHN

EVENTS Keystone XL expert Sam Avery The Pipeline and the Paradigm , is a mixture of science, philosophy and first-person advocacy, a search for answers by a Louisville-based solar installer. The pipeline in question is the Keystone XL, which, according to Avery, is medium and message of our planetary peril. Avery will make two Indy visits this Thursday. Indy Reads Books, May 9, 5 p.m. and Bookmamas, May 9, 7 p.m.; both events free Mini-Ann Katz Festival Last year’s Ann Katz Festival was a bit shorter than usual, with two speakers unable to catch a flight because of Hurricane Sandy. Thus we have the second edition of the festival, a three-day mini-festival, running through May 9. May 8, 7 p.m.: Journalist Alicia Oltuski is the author of Precious Objects: A Story of Diamonds, Family and a Way of Life, a study of the underground workings of New York’s diamond district. A drawing for a $2,000 diamond ring will accompany stories about the unusual characters behind a generations-old family trade. May 9: Bill Morgan, executive producer of BESA: The Promise, a film about Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust, will answer questions after a screening of the film.

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In wide release. (PG-13) The Reluctant Fundamentalist Pakistani native Changez (Riz Ahmed) has just graduated from Princeton and arrived on Wall Street when the Twin Towers fall. It all starts to fall apart from there as his American girlfriend (Kate Hudson) grows distant and Patriot Act-enabled authorities sweep him up for enhanced interrogation. Directed by Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, Amelia) from the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid.

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CONTINUING The Sapphires r Chris O’Dowd, the lovable schlub in Bridesmaids, plays a 1968 talent scout who takes on a group of Australia Aboriginal girls who have assembled an American-style soul group. He helps them secure their first show, and later travel to Vietnam to entertain the troops. The inspired-by-fact story is formulaic, but the music is fun and the feel-good tone makes it hard to get cranky about the missteps. Ends Thursday at Keystone Arts Cinema. (PG-13) —Ed Johnson-Ott

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physique, but the scene fits into the film’s emphasis on physicality, so it doesn’t feel like a cheat). As we learn more about Mud it becomes clear that despite his imposing frame, he’s as much a boy as Ellis and Neckbone. Tye Sheridan plays Ellis, with Jacob Lofland as Neckbone. Together they reminded me of Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix in Stand by Me. The strong cast includes Reese Witherspoon as Juniper, Sarah Paulson and Ray McKinnon as Ellis’ parents, Sam Shepard as the reclusive neighbor, plus Michael Shannon, Joe Don Baker and young Bonnie Sturdivant as Ellis’ first crush. About the screenplay bumps. Roger Ebert once wrote about the “law” of movie economics, which states that due to time and budget constraints, filmmakers generally don’t showcase colorful details unless they will later be crucial to the plot. The colorful detail in Mud is a small pit frequented by cottonmouth snakes and leeches. Its insertion is not subtle. And then there’s the motel. Mud sends

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Ellis to a motel, where he meets Juniper and dives in to protect her from a violent adult. It is made glaringly clear that Mud’s pursuers are watching Juniper’s room at the motel. Despite knowing this, Ellis meets up with Juniper two more times by going to her room and knocking on her door. What the hell? The boy is smart. Why doesn’t he call her and arrange a diversion or something? Even more annoying, once he returns to the motel, where the hell are the guys watching the place? It’s the one essential location to monitor – they told us that – so where are they? The glitch is irritating, but the rich characters, engaging relationships and striking atmosphere easily make up for a few annoying moments. Mud is memorable..

THE BIGGER PICTURE SHOW: 50 DEGREES OF GREG KINNEAR This year’s Bigger Picture Show — an annual fundraiser for Indy Film Fest that tasks local artists with coming up with new posters for iconic movies — is all about Greg Kinnear. Or, rather, any film in any way connected with Kinnear, from Little Miss Sunshine to The Deer Hunter. Posters will go to the highest bidders in a silent auction. Big Car Service Center, May 10, 7 p.m.

The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia) directs Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan in a $127 million, 143 minute, 3-D production. In wide release. (PG-13)

Posters by Eric Stine (Alien), Elijah Schroeder (Moulin Rouge), Stacy McClure (Pirates of the Caribbean), and Ross Shafer (Django Unchained).

The Angel’s Share e The latest from Ken Loach ( The Wind That Shakes the Barley ) follows Robbie (Paul Brannigan), a young Scotsman who has had troubles with the law. Holding his newborn child, he swears to do no harm. Then he gets involved with some other screw-ups doing community service and they hatch a plan for a unique heist. The Scottish accents are dauntingly thick at times, but the film’s distinct charm and dark humor make it worth the workout on the ear muscles. At Keystone Arts Cinema. (PG-13) —Ed Johnson-Ott

FILM EVENTS Popped-Up Cinema: TINY, A Story about Living Small Opening festivities for the Cultural Trail officially close out at 9 p.m. Saturday with the Indy premiere of TINY: A Story about Living Small , a documentary about a couple’s attempt to build a tiny house from scratch. White River State Park Celebration Plaza, May 11, 9 p.m., free. A Film to Decrease Worldsuck: The Nerdfighters Documentary A documentary about the Indy-based bestselling author John Green and his eco-friendly brother Hank makes its Indy premiere Friday. The Green brothers have benevolently inspired a legion of online fans (or Nerdfighters) to do good (or “decrease Worldsuck”) Indy Reads Books, May 10, 7:30 p.m. Reveal the Path IndyFringe will host two screenings of the mountain bike doc Reveal the Path as a fundraiser for IndyCog. The film follows bikers on a 36-day trip across four continents, with rides through Scotland, Nepal and Morocco. IndyFringe Basile Theatre, May 14, 7:30 and 9 p.m., $11 advance (imathlete.com), $15 door

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Raise a pint Homebrewers celebrated their contributions to American craft beers on May 4 with simultaneous events at Tuxedo Park Brewers Supply in Fountain Square and Great Fermentations, sharing homebrews and techniques, and stopping for a worldwide toast at 1 p.m. to honor craft beer’s foremost advocate, the late British journalist Michael Jackson. Now it’s time to celebrate professional brewers and owners of small and independent breweries. May 13-19 is American Craft Beer Week, and Indiana’s 60-plus craft breweries and brewpubs are having Red, White & Brew events on-site and as “take-overs” at bars, restaurants, taverns and liquor stores. And on May 16 at 8 p.m. ET, Indiana craft beer lovers can join the nationwide toast with a raised pint. The Brewers Association describes American Craft Beer Week as “an opportunity to toast the more than 2,400 small and independent American craft brewers who continue to make the U.S. the world’s most diverse brewing destination. This week is a time to recognize craft brewers as integral parts of their local communities and their success in reshaping how beer is seen in the U.S. today.” All hail Tin Man Tin Man Brewing Co., Evansville is one of 15 breweries chosen nationwide by the Brewers Association to have two brews sampled by Members of Congress and staffers on May 15 at the Cafeteria at the Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C. Served will be Tin Man’s Alloy American IPA and Circuit Bohemian Pilsner, bronze medal winner at the May 2013 Calgary (Canada) Beerfest. Tin Man opened Nov. 23, 2012, and is gaining national attention for using green earth friendly brewing systems. New on Tap Bloomington Brewing Co.: Cellarman Extra Special Bitter, brewed to the style of cellar-aged pints from the local English pub, it’s a shimmering mahogany and medium bodied with caramel notes up front and finishing with the earthy spiciness of East Kent Golding Hops. At Lennie’s in Bloomington; Indianapolis locations on Facebook andTwitter Thr3e Wise Men: Double Pagoda Pit Road Red is an aggressively hopped, high gravity red IPA with five hops (Bravo, Citra, Cascade, Centennial, and Crystal) over an abundant base of two row Munich and crystal malts. Bier Brewery: Coffee Dred brown, a collaboration with Lino’s Coffee features Guatemala Flor de Coban Blend Coffee. RAM Maibock: a malty and full flavored easy drinking lager brewed in the German tradition. Daredeveil Brewing Co.: limited release Rip Cord Double IPA has aromas of citrus, floral and resin, an abundance of American hops balanced with a hint of malt for a satisfying crisp finish. Scotty’s Brewhouse in West Lafayette is now pouring People’s Brewing Co.’s assertive Amazon IPA. Patrick’s Kitchen in Zionsville pours Three Floyds Zombie Dust, Bloomington Brewing Ruby Bloom Amber, Daredevil Brewing’s Ripcord, Flat-12’s Pogue’s Run Porter, and selections from Bier Brewery.

EVENTS Asian Fest The Asian Fest, presented by the Asian American Alliance, is about a lot more than food. The entertainment lineup is extensive, including Taiko drummers, Philippine dancers, Chinese musicians, North Indian dancers, hula dancer and a Koto artist. But there will most certainly be food, as well as plenty of kid and family-friendly options and a traditional costume show. Front lawn of Indiana State Museum, May 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., free

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ike session beer, sour beers and wild ales might be a hard sell to the unadventurous beer consumer. Who would intentionally choose to drink weak beer? Or sour beer? But such powerfully-flavored, unpredictable, well-aged brews have plenty of appeal to the more adventurous drinker, say the same kind of person who goes for fermented foods from kimchi to sauerkraut. There’s an appeal to introducing the variables of time and climate into the process of preparing a batch of beer or slaw, and the results are often far more interesting than a middle-of-the-road wheat or cream ale. And you’ll find those fermentation enthusiasts this Saturday at the Midwest Sour Wild Funk Fest, hosted by Upland at Developer Town. The event will feature 20 breweries — including Destihl, Perennial, Bells, New Belgium, Flat 12, Brugge and Goose Island — offering up a variety of beers that could be defined as Lambic, Flanders, Farmhouse or Saison. Upland marketing manager Andrea Lutz describes some of the beers to be offered as “tart or sour,” others “vinous,” others “funky.”

eight cases of beer with Oliver Winery to get the four, 70-gallon white oak barrels necessary to the brewing process. That batch never saw release, but it was successful, according to Lutz; beginning eight months after it was brewed, some of the desired characteristics associated with sour beer had developed. They’ve been at it ever since, and the Upland barrel lineup now includes 141 white oak barrels, 37 bourbon barrels and one oak foudre (or a very high capacity barrel). Unlike some breweries, Upland doesn’t employ wild fermentation, a process whereby wild yeast finds its way into the brew naturally. Instead, the brewery selects yeast strains to introduce to the brew in more carefully control flavor. This year’s festival “will be twice as big as last years,” according to Lutz, and feature a DJ, outdoor lounge area and food pairings coordinated by Upland head chef, Seth Elgar. Meat, cheese, fruit and dessert will be provided by Smoking Goose. A portion of proceeds from the event will be donated to Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.

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Many are aged for months to years, often in carefully selected white oak barrels associated with wine production that lend the beers wood-aged flavors while offering plenty of nooks and crannies where microorganisms, key to the fermenting process, might develop. Upland got into the sour business in March 2006 with an experimental batch of lambic-style beer. The brewery traded

Before making the Savino available, the team tested the device with blind tastings, master sommeliers, and a few wine media people. The Savino shined in nearly every test. Tavenner tells people wine will keep at least a week but suggests a Tuesday to Saturday test. “If the bottle lasts a week, that’s a standard we are very, very comfortable with and people will be happy with,” he said. “I think it will go longer.”

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What can you do with that leftover wine and keep it drinkable? For years there have been stoppers, pumps, and all sorts of devices – most of which never worked. So pour it down the drain! Savino founder Scott Tavenner believes his wine preservation device will revolutionize how consumers view a half bottle left after dinner. “There is nothing like it that’s effective, easy to use, and elegant,” Tavenner said. “We have hit that resonance point of something that is beautiful to look at; you can pour from it, it’s easy to use, intuitive, and it’s effective. It covers up 98 percent of the surface area of the wine. When those things come together, magic happens.” Simply, the Savino is a glass cylinder with a stopper that floats atop the leftover wine. There is a lid which locks into place to seal the attractive decanter. It all started years ago when Tavenner’s

Howard’s take: wife put a glass of wine in the refrigerator to save it for another day. “I kind of laughed at her and said ‘that’s not going to work,’ We ended up trying out all the different wine preservation gadgets out there.” After 15 years “stewing on the problem” Tavenner, who spent most of his career as a business development executive, decided to do something about it. He started raising funds through Kickstarter and raised 425 percent of his goal. The Savino went on sale through the company website April 17 with 2,500 pre-orders.

I wanted to be skeptical of the Savino having tried all the methods available to preserve a half bottle of wine. The Savino works. Of all the pumps, stoppers, smaller bottles, and other solutions, the Savino beats them all. I thought the wine was 95-100 percent of its original flavors on a second and third night. I conducted Tavenner’s Tuesday-Saturday test and could tell a difference but thought the wine was great. It’s not a device everyone is going to buy at $49.99. It’s available through the company website. Read his blog at: www.howardhewitt.net


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As the temperature rises and the clouds consistently give way to these gorgeous days, we absolutely refuse to dine indoors. Here are some of the sun-soaked meals we’ll be enjoying: Moe & Johnny’s Built as a shopping center in 1922, this neighborhood spot is a weekly highlight for locals looking for good brews, remarkable food and a homely atmosphere. Part coffee shop, part sports bar, part dining room and all communityfocused, Moe & Johnny’s outdoor seating allows for customers of all types to take in the view of 54th Street and College Avenue’s daily traffic. While away with a beer from one of Indianapolis’ many craft breweries, sip away at a cocktail, slurp a cup of coffee or nibble at a meal as you enjoy the superb weather and the dedicated service. 5380 N. College Ave, 255-6376, moeandjohnnys.com Creation Cafe You don’t get much closer to on-the-canal dining than you do with Creation Café. Along with a built-in coffeehouse, loitering furniture and an everchanging menu, this is a place to bring a friend and hang out. Whether you’re in the mood for a morning chill-out, an afternoon lunch break or a dinner-time zoning out, Creation offers a selection of appetizers, entrees, salads, soups, sandwiches, gelatos and more. Grab a drink and a bite out on the patio and watch the swirling activity around the canal. Plus,they serve beer floats! 337 W. 11th St, 955-2389, indycanal.com Café Patachou Hands down, one of the greatest breakfasts in Indianapolis is still Café Patachou. The original 49th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue location in Meridian-Kessler neighborhood has been at it for two decades and has only ever improved. From the cups of coffee to the carefully-sourced and healthy meals, they’ve got breakfast options for that will turn anybody into a morning person. The tables that fill up the sidewalk along Pennsylvania allow customers to take in the early morning aromas like breakfast cooking and the spring air. Several other Patachou locations also offer outdoor dining, including outposts downtown at the Simon building and at Carmel’s Clay Terrace. 4901 N. Pennsylvania St, 925-2823, cafepatachou.com

Milano Inn Serving up traditional Italian cuisine since 1934, Milano Inn has experienced just about all that Indianapolis has had to offer. It functioned as a home away from home for Italian immigrants working to make a life for themselves in what became a predominantly catholic neighborhood. Today, the Milano Inn takes pride in exhibiting the cultural delicacies of this piece of Indianapolis’ history with traditional family recipes that have been tested time after time. Their intimate outdoor seating is perfect for sharing an evening meal with a special someone or the whole family. 231 S. College Ave, 264-3585, milanoinn.com Mesh on Mass This Mass Ave restaurant finds a place between the elegance and ease of contemporary dining and an innovative menu. A new $2 bar menu allows patrons to experience a snack from 3 to 6 p.m., and also during their late-night hours, for a unique value. Weekly specials and an atmosphere that caters to any needs, whether they’re romantic, business or otherwise, keep customers coming back to be a part of the lively Mass Ave nightlife, all of which can be seen from Mesh’s first-rate outdoor seating arrangements. 725 Mass Ave, 955-9600, meshonmass.com Chatham Tap Another Mass Ave hotspot, this pub is the ideal destination for a beer and a snack after taking in a show or a concert downtown. Nightly drink specials, well-crafted cocktails, local beers and an incredible menu augment the outdoor seating. A large selection of European imported beer and a focus on soccer makes this an attraction for Eurominded city-dwellers. Order a pint and enjoy the nightlife with a friendly crowd at Chatham Tap. The pub’s small but charming seating section out back adjoins an offshoot of the Cultural Trail featuring the fragrant art installation Chatham Passage (essentially a scent machine below a Corten steel grate that emits a faint floral aroma). 719 Mass Ave, 917-8425, chathamtap.com

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TRIBUTE TO JASON MOLINA Dearly departed and dearly beloved Jason Molina will be celebrated with an all-star concert and memorial at the Bluebird this weekend. Molina, 39, died on March 16 from organ failure due to alcoholism. His addiction, long known to fans and listeners, had caused members of his family and friends to seek funds for his medical care in the last few years of his life. Molina is known to most as the man behind Songs: Ohia, and later, Magnolia Electric Company. His music was widely celebrated by reviewers and music lovers alike. Almost all of it was released on Secretly Canadian Records, as Molina was closely tied to the Bloomington music scene. At the Saturday concert, musicians from around the country will gather to perform songs specific to the eras during which they recorded with Molina. Guests include Swearing at Motorists, Jennie Benford, Mike Brenner, Andy Cohen and Tim Midget of Bottomless Pit and Silkworm, David Vandervelde, members of Golden Boots, Lawrence Peters, Elephant Micah, Chris Kupersmith, with more guests promised. It’s also the release date for the Songs: Ohia classic Hecla & Griper , including the first time the album will be available on vinyl. Secretly Canadian was collaborating with Molina on this release, as well as other projects, before his death. Another tribute album, currently available on Graveface Records, features covers of Molina songs by Jeffrey Lewis, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Phil Elverum, John Vanderslice and Allo Darlin’. All proceeds will be donated to help cover medical and funeral costs for Molina.

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EVEN MORE EPIC E pic European metal bands don’t often schedule tour dates in Indianapolis. Pretty much every other nearby city –– even Louisville –– but not here. So, it was quite a surprise when prog metal giants Opeth announced a May 9 stop at The Vogue, with fellow countrymen Katatonia as support. In fact, the Swedes are playing several smaller markets, including Lexington, Ky., before the Indy date and Flint, Mich., right after. They haven’t played here since opening for In Flames at the Egyptian Room some 10 years ago. Opeth guitarist Fredrik Akesson noted in a recent phone interview there’s a lot of new places and others on this itinerary they don’t often visit. “The booking agency and our management thought it would be a good idea to go to some different places on this tour, since we didn’t do that on the last one,” he said. “It’s going to be interesting.” It’s only been going three weeks and already they’ve co-headlined the longrunning New England Metal & Hardcore Festival and shared a stage in Clifton Park, N.Y., with Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, who’s helped produce Opeth before and collaborates with band frontman Mikael Akerfeldt in the project Storm Corrosion. This is Akesson’s seventh U.S. tour with Opeth since joining the band in 2007. He

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likes playing on these shores for reasons others often don’t. “I enjoy the bus rides in America,” Akesson said. “You don’t have to worry about language barriers with going from country to country. I would say it’s more convenient touring here.” If there’s been any obstacles on this touring cycle, it was some early reaction to Opeth’s 10 th studio album, Heritage, released last year. The band has built an international reputation for labyrinthine compositions fusing varitel elements, notably death and black metal early on. Heritage features those long, complex passages Opeth are known for, but in a less harsh sound. It also has no growling from Akerfeldt, though it’s not the first Opeth release that doesn’t. The idea when starting the creative process for Heritage was to have an “earthy, honest type of sound,” said Akesson. “We wanted it to sound more live.” That included recording the rhythm section of bassist Martin Mendez and drummer Martin Axenrot live. “We didn’t want to do much editing at

all,” Akesson said. “That was one of the ideas [going in].” Still, he admits there were some fans who didn’t initially appreciate their approach. “I don’t spend much time on the Internet, but I’ve heard there are some who didn’t like it as much,” Akesson said. “There are still a lot of people who show up at the shows, and they seem to dig it. I think it took people a bit of time to get used to the album. I can understand that certainly. But it’s still an Opeth album. The band needed to do something different.” So far on this tour they’ve been playing selections going back to their third record, My Arms, Your Hearse. “On this tour we’ll play a lot of old songs as well,” Akesson said. “A lot of people had the impression Mikael would never do the ‘growl’ stuff anymore. He’s fine with doing it, but creative-wise doesn’t want to keep repeating himself.” Still, reaching back to the beginning makes it more interesting for the band performance-wise. “It’s definitely more challenging,” Akesson said. “You don’t stagnate. I enjoy playing the old death metal stuff absolutely. But the stuff we’re writing now offers us more of a balance. It has a good flow and lots of color. But if you’re into the heavier shit you’ll still get your fill.”

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Bill Staines reckons he’s performed 7,200 concerts in some 47 years, driving three million miles on North America’s highways and back roads. But none of those miles brought him to Indianapolis until an Indy Folk Series gig eight years ago. And lucky for us, he’s back, with plans to headline the Folk Series this Saturday. Although never a platinum seller, Staines is one of the most influential acoustic folk singer songwriters around. Varied artists have recorded his songs, including Nanci Griffith, who calls Staines her “hero.” His concerts are like gatherings of old friends, Bill and his guitar (he developed his own finger-picking system because he plays left-handed with bass strings on top). The people in his songs are regular folks trying to keep family, work and themselves together; truck drivers, Midwestern farmers, prospectors in the Yukon. “Bill’s songs are so damned honest,” says Dan Henkel, Folk Series founder. “They remind me of why I got interested in this type of music in the first place.” Staines’ concert wraps up the Indy Folk Series 12th season, and he remains the first national artist to score a return visit. In fact, this is his fourth. “A lot of our regulars come and may be exposed to Bill’s music the first time. Then, when he comes back they’ll say to their friends, ‘You’ve got to hear this guy,’ and they bring them along,” says Henkel. The newest of his 20-plus albums shows Staines hasn’t run out of gas. New songs such as “Lightship,” “Salt Air” and “French Girl” join his jam-packed set list. “There is something personal in all of my songs,” says Staines. “I think I’m most known for ‘A Place In The Choir,’ ‘River’ and ‘The Roseville Fair.’ I think it’s because people can relate to the universal subject matter.

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“Having said that, ‘Child Of Mine’ is also sung for father-daughter dances at weddings and ‘Quiet Faith of Man’ is sung at church services. It’s hard to tell what songs are the most popular. I get a lot of requests for ‘Old Dogs.’” Staines is a link back to the Boston Cambridge Folk Scene in the early 1960s. “My earliest folk influence came from listening to The Weavers At Carnegie Hall album. I never looked back,” Staines says. “Growing up in the Boston area, I almost lived at the Club 47 listening to Joan Baez, Dick and Mimi Farina, Tim Hardin, Tom Rush, Jose Feliciano, Mississippi John Hurt and so many others. It was a magical time and place to grow up musically and I’ve always thought myself lucky to have done so.” He remembers singing and playing the guitar in public for the first time at age 11, singing “The Ash Grove” at church. Now, his odometer has rolled over enough miles to outpace the titles of his first two compilation albums, The First Million Miles and The Second Million Miles. But he’s more likely to release a third compilation ode to the road than slow down now. He’ll perform his usual 200-or-so concerts this year. Between road trips, he’s at home in New Hampshire with his wife, Karen. Their son, Bowen, also is launching a folk music career. He also takes more time to consider the decades that brought him here. “At my age (66), I’ve started to feel more and more mortal. Two years ago I wrote If I Come To Need An Angel.’ I don’t know where the words came from. I suppose that is the magic of song writing.” Then, Staines is back on the road, hitting small venues and finding warm crowds eager to kick back and reflect on the twists and turns of life’s long roads.

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ou probably haven’t heard of Indianapolis based musician Mannish Boy. The Gary, Ind. native has spent most of his life locked away in his bedroom, quietly amassing a huge library of self-produced recordings. “I like being behind the scenes; that’s where I have fun. I’ve been writing and recording my own songs since I was 11. I’m 25 now and I’m just getting to the point where I’m comfortable sharing my music,” he says. Mannish Boy is wrapping up production on his debut music video “Crazy,” but set aside a bit of time to speak with me. We discussed his life in Gary and how it shaped his musical vision –– a unique blend of streetwise hip-hop, psychedelic guitar riffs and sugary pop hooks.

because there’s a lot of good people there. But it made me view Gary as a place I didn’t want to be.

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MANNISH BOY: I started out listening to hip-hop, because that’s what I grew up around. Later on I discovered rock and roll, doo-wop and jazz. My tastes progressed and eventually I developed an obsession with ‘60s psychedelic rock. Now I listen to a wide range of music. As long as it sounds good, I love it.

MANNISH BOY: It was not a great time. I was very happy to leave. There were a lot of negative things going on around me. I saw a lot of bad things very early and learned a lot at a young age. I saw where I didn’t want my life to go. I lost friends and family members to gang violence and drugs. My own father was very dominant in that world. Not to disrespect Gary,

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MANNISH BOY: I can play guitar, bass and piano. Does making beats count? Because I also make beats. Usually I start with the drums. I get a beat I like and listen to it over and over. Then I add guitar, build the music and write the song around that.

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rock, so you’ll hear guitar riffs. I listen to hip-hop and those beats show up. I love the way folk music tells stories, so a lot of my songs tell stories. I’m into experimental music in the way a solo can change the flow of a composition. I love music so much, I go off in a lot different directions. I started out as a rapper. Then I was a singer. Then I was a rocker. Now I’m a rapper-rockersinger. I was trying to figure out what direction I wanted to go in. Now I’m comfortable with what I am and the direction my music is going. NUVO: I’ve heard you have a large catalog of music you’ve written and recorded.

NUVO: How do you describe your sound?

MANNISH BOY: I have so much material it’s ridiculous. I set a quota of writing one new song a day. I’ve written close to a thousand songs and I have eight CDs full of music.

MANNISH BOY: It’s a mixture. I love

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NUVO: What do you want to accomplish with your music? MANNISH BOY: I want to change the music game. Sometimes you hear an artist that inspires you. Their music is alive; it’s real and powerful. That’s what I want to do. I want to be able to save lives with my music. All my music music is personal. It comes from all the things I’ve done and been through. Some of it’s about obstacles I’ve overcome and decisions I’ve made that led me to where I am now. I’ve overcome so much, I feel like if there’s something I want bad enough I’m going to have it. My message is never give up on anything you want to do with your life. If you’ve got a dream, live it. That’s what my life is about, that’s what my game is about and that’s what my music is about. >> Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. Hear this week’s at NUVO.net


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Danny Brown plans to drop OLD, one of the most anticipated hip-hop albums of 2013, later this year. But a recent incident at a show in Minneapolis –– when a female fan reportedly grabbed Brown, pulled down his pants and proceeded to perform oral sex on him –– has eclipsed news of the upcoming release for now and has spawned a series of confusing and highly charged pieces. There’s a lot of conflicting information swirling around the incident, but the definitive piece thus far has been by tourmate Kitty Pryde, who published a long blog on Noisey two days ago. Kitty proclaims the incident was sexual assault. But let’s not forget the reason I wanted to talk to Brown in the first place: his music kills. So before chatting a bit about the unsavory cloud that’s hovered over the last week of his tour, we talked about the music he listened to when he was young, what he writes (or doesn’t write) on tour and what he thinks is real hip-hop. He’ll perform at Deluxe at Old National Centre on Tuesday, May 14. NUVO: You’ll be in Indy in about a week and a half here. You’re wrapping up your North American tour and ending up somewhere in Europe. ... I wanted to know if touring allows you time to be creative and write, or if it’s more of just a time to refine material that you’re touring. BROWN: I don’t work on music when I’m touring. NUVO: Too busy? BROWN: I don’t know. I just don’t do that. I might write. I’m not the ... I don’t know. I’m more concerned with doing the show. I look at it like, if you practice too much you might hurt yourself. NUVO: That makes a lot of sense. BROWN: You don’t want to get hurt in practice. Most of the time, I’m spending all day trying to get my voice right to perform. I wouldn’t want to be sitting around trying to rap all day and then go and play a show at night. NUVO: Do you have daily vocal practices? BROWN: No. NUVO: [laughs] I just wondered. What’s important to you in hip-hop right now? BROWN: Me, personally, I just listen to what I like. I don’t care about the other shit that’s involved with it. I’ve been listening to hip-hop since I can remember,

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family, but any BBQ, they were playing that album. I still listen to it to this day. NUVO: I’ve been reading all kinds of [pieces] about whatever happened in Minneapolis. I wondered if you had read anything [being written] and how much you think is right, if any.

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but I’m not even going to call it hip-hop; it’s rap music to me. Hip-hop is fucking, like, a lifestyle that you live, and I don’t see nobody around here spray-painting or fucking DJing in a park. That’s hiphop. You know? This is rap music. My take on it is that I like rap music with hip-hop intentions. And what I mean by that is hip-hop to me is when somebody is doing something authentic to them, and not doing what they think hip-hop should be. There’s a lot of people who’ll sit around and tell you that somebody like Gucci Mane isn’t hip-hop. Gucci Mane is hip-hop; Gucci Mane don’t need to be making A Tribe Called Quest songs; that’s not his life. You know? So I like stuff that I think is authentic. That’s what I listen to. NUVO: You mention being young and listening to music; I know I’ve read that you’ve been rhyming forever and that your mom read you Dr. Seuss books. I’m really interested in what music does to young brains, and how it ends up influencing us later. Can you remember a few specific things you were listening to when you were really, really young? BROWN: When I was a kid, my pops was 16; he had me at 16, so I was probably with him in his early twenties, you know? He just listened to whatever was the hot rap music at the time. He was a house DJ, so I heard a lot of house music and electronic music, and I think the biggest inspiration for me in house was Loose Ends. My pops, my moms, everywhere I go, they played Loose Ends. Something about that album. Maybe, I don’t know if something clicked in my

DANNY BROWN: I don’t like the way people are, like, taking the tabloid-y approach to it. ... I mean, it’s what happened. The biggest thing with me is that I don’t like when people try and throw the age thing. You know what I’m saying? It was a fuckin’ –– I don’t do allages shows for one thing. The girl was fuckin’ 24 years old. I talked to her after the show was over with. You know what I’m saying? I don’t like that they keep trying to throw in there that he maybe “did” an underage girl. That’s not true, at all. And that’s the only thing that really upset me about it.

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NUVO: (I hem and haw while thinking about my next question.) BROWN: Don’t get me wrong, I’m just keepin’ it [honest] with you. I’m not like, proud of that shit that happened. I’m not running around, feeling like the man or some shit. I’m not happy. You know what I’m saying? I’m not happy that that shit happened. It happened –– it was cool. Don’t get me wrong. It was cool that that type of shit happened. I don’t, like –– if this was the ‘80s or something and we could just hear word of mouth, then that would be cool. But we live in a world where videos and pictures and everybody wants to do a fuckin’ article trying to track down the girl, talking to the wrong girl, you know what I’m saying? That shit is not cool. NUVO: I really did love that piece that [Kitty] wrote. I thought it was badass. BROWN: It was. It’s one of those things that I have a love and hate relationship with it. It’s like –– I’m happy that she did it and stuck up for me, but she did open up a can of worms too, and bring a light to a situation that probably we wouldn’t even be talking about no more, you know? But now it’s not going away. This interview has been condensed and edited.

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COUNTRY Brad Paisley, Chris Young, Lee Brice Yeah, yeah, we know. Brad Paisley released that horrible song “Accidental Racist,” last month. We shouldn’t even be writing about him, that’s how bad it was. But, after giving it some thought, we realized L.L. Cool J’s parts in that song? Way worse. Brad still has a huge following, so he’ll probably sell out the Klipsch Music Center. Tons of people want to pay to see him perform songs like “The Pants” (sample lyrics: “In the top drawer of her dresser there’s some panties/ Go try on that purple pair with the lacy frill / With your big old thighs I bet you can’t get in ‘em”) and “Camouflage” (“Be invisible to a whitetail / Irresistible to a redneck girl”). He’ll be joined by Chris Young and Lee Brice. Sadly, no L.L. appearance is scheduled. Klipsch Music Center (Noblesville), 7 p.m., prices vary, all-ages

Sugarman, Funkyard, 21+ Bullet for My Valentine, Halestorm, Young Guns, Memorial Coliseum, all-ages Frank and Doug, Rathskeller Biergarten, 21+ The Ben Miller Band, The Bishop (Bloomington), 21+

THURSDAY Candyland, Blu Lounge, 21+ Emily Wells, Skating Polly, Radio Radio, 21+ Lewis Black, Murat Theatre, all ages Opeth, Kratatonia, The Vogue, 21+ Tylen, Indy Hostel, all-ages

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PUNK Punk Rock Prom For a band with the most disgusting name we can think of, Diarrhea Planet sure makes some damn good punk. Four guitars, one drumset, one bass, no actual diarrhea (we hope). They come through Indy often and it’s always a treat. This time it’s for the Punk Rock Prom at the Hoosier Dome, which also features Automagik and Highway Magic. Dress your best; come ready to rock. The Hoosier Dome, 1627 Prospect St., 7 p.m., $10 advance, $12 at door, all-ages SINGER-SONGWRITER Paul Anka Canadian ‘50s heartthrob, singer, actor and lyricist Paul Anka cowrote songs with Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra (RIP, guys). He’ll be on his own for this performace, which will feature a range of hits from his almost 60-year career. Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages FEST May Day X103 features a host of very X103-y bands at the this year’s May Day, which to us unofficially kicks off summer mega fest season. This year’s lineup features Soundgarden, Bush, AWOLnation, Buckcherry and The Virginmarys. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St. 3 p.m., prices vary, all-ages The Oak Ridge Boys, The Palladium (Carmel), all-ages Bill Stains, Indy Folk Series, all-ages


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MONDAY ROCK Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thenewno2 San Fran turned L.A. rockers BRMC released Specter At The Feast earlier this year; it’s a bit of a departure for the rootsy punk rockers. It also serves as a memorial to Michael Been, the father of bassist Robert and their sound engineer. Been died suddenly on tour in 2010. Spector is much more downtempo than previous releases and heavy with loss. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 8 p.m., $18 advance, $20 at door, 21+

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TUESDAY HIP-HOP Danny Brown, Kitty Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages Acoustic Alchemy, Jazz Kitchen, 21+

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Questionable Judgments • An unnamed man was hospitalized in April in Tucson, Ariz., after firefighters, finding him unconscious at 3 a.m. pinned under an SUV parked in his driveway, lifted the vehicle and dragged him to safety. A police spokesperson learned that the man was trying “a stunt in which he was going to put the SUV in reverse, jump out and lay on the ground behind it, have the vehicle (roll) over him, and then get up and (get back into) the SUV in time to stop it before it collided with anything.”

Perspective • While “comprehensive immigration reform” winds through the U.S. political process, a few countries (including the United States) have already severely bent the nationalistic standards supposedly regulating entry of foreigners. The U.S., Britain, Canada and Austria allow rich investors who pass background checks to qualify for an express lane to residence or citizenship, and the line is even less oner-

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © 2013 BY ROB BRESZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Tarahumara Indians of northwestern Mexico are renowned for their ability to run long distances. The best runners can cover 200 miles in two days. The paths they travel are not paved or smooth, either, but rather the rough canyon trails that stretch between their settlements. Let’s make them your inspirational role models in the coming week, Aries. I’m hoping that you will be as tough and tenacious as they are -- that you will pace yourself for the long haul, calling on your instinctual strength to guide you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may have only a dim idea about how your smart phone and computer work, but that doesn’t prevent you from using their many wonderful features. While you’re swimming, you know almost nothing about the physiological processes that are active inside you, and yet you have no problem making all the necessary movements. In that spirit, I’m not worried ous in the Caribbean nations of Dominica about whether or not you will grasp the deep inner meanand St. Kitts & Nevis, which offer quick ing of events that will be unfolding in the coming week. citizenship for investments of $100,000 and Complete understanding isn’t absolutely necessary. All $250,000, respectively -- the latter especially you need to do is trust your intuition to lead you in the valuable, allowing access to 139 countries direction of what’s interesting and educational.

including all of Europe. (The U.S. minimum GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I need not sell my soul to is $1 million, or half that for investment in buy bliss,” says a character in Charlotte Bronte’s an “economically depressed” area, but the reward is only a “green card,” with citizen- 19th-century novel Jane Eyre. “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous ship still five years away.)

Weirdo-American Community • The man who was “citizen of the year” in Waynesville, Ohio, in 2006, businessman Ron Kronenberger, 53, was charged in January with belt-whipping one of his tenants on his bare buttocks -- though he had a good reason, he said, because the tenant was late again with the rent. A magistrate said he intended to drop the charge in six months if Kronenberger stayed out of trouble, but in March, a man who worked for Kronenberger filed a lawsuit accusing him of spanking him on four occasions, using a belt and a paddle.

delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.” This would be a great speech for you to memorize and periodically recite in the next two weeks. Do it in front of your mirror at least once a day to remind yourself of how amazingly resourceful you are. It will also help you resist the temptation to seek gifts from people who can’t or won’t give them to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What is the big adventure you’ve been postponing forever because it hasn’t been convenient? How about an intriguing possibility you have always wanted to experiment with but have consistently denied yourself? Or what about that nagging mystery you’ve been wishing you had the time and energy to solve? Wouldn’t your life change for the better if you finally dived in and explored it? In the next two weeks, Cancerian, I urge you to consider giving yourself permission to pursue something that fits one of those descriptions.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Right now, Leo, you are a majestic and mysterious mess of raw power. You are a fresh, flaming fountain of pure charisma. Irresistible! Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box That’s you! Unstoppable! You! Impossible to fool and 18737, Tampa FL 33679 or WeirdNews@earthlink.net immune to the false charms of heartfelt mediocrity! You! You! You! In your current condition, no one can obstruct or go to www.NewsoftheWeird.com. you from seeing the naked truth about the big picture. And that’s why I am so sure that victory will soon be yours. You will overcome the fuzziness of your allies, the bad vibes of your adversaries, and your own inertia. Not all conquests are important and meaningful, but you will soon achieve the one that is. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A character in Herman Hesse’s novel Demian says the following: “I live in my dreams. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own.” Whose dreams do you live in, Virgo? What is the source of the fantasies that dominate your imagination? Are they the authentic outpourings of your own soul? Or did they originate with your parents and teachers and lovers? Did they sneak into you from the movies and songs and books you love? Are they the skewed result of the emotional wounds you endured or the limitations you’ve gotten used to? Now is an excellent time to take inventory. Find out how close you are to living in your own dreams. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Charles Ives was a renowned American composer who lived from 1874 to 1954. Because his music was experimental and idiosyncratic, it took a long time for him to get the appreciation he

deserved. When he was 73 years old, he won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for a symphony he had written when he was 30. I expect that in the near future you might be the beneficiary of a similar kind of mojo, Libra. A good deed you did or a smart move you made in the past will finally get at least some of the recognition or response you’ve always wanted. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There are no right answers to wrong questions,” says science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. And that’s why you must be so conscientious about coming up with the very best questions. Right, Scorpio? All your efforts to hunt down solutions will be for naught unless you frame your problems elegantly and accurately. Now here’s the very good news: Your skill at asking pertinent questions is at a peak. That’s why I suggest you make this Focused Inquiry Week. Crisply define three questions that will be important for you to address in the next seven months. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Charlie Parker was a great jazz musician. As a saxophonist and composer, he was an influential innovator. Unfortunately, he also had an expensive heroin addiction. It interfered with his ability to achieve financial stability. There’s a famous story about him showing a bystander two veins on his arm as he prepared to shoot up. “This one’s my Cadillac,” he confessed. “And this one’s my house.” I’m bringing this up, Sagittarius, in the hope that it will provide a healthy shock. Are you doing anything remotely like Charlie Parker? Are you pouring time and energy and money into an inferior form of pleasure or a trivial distraction that is undermining your ability to accomplish higher goals? If so, fix that glitch, please. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good,” said iconic songwriter Woody Guthrie. “I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world.” Amen, brother Woody! I have the same approach to writing horoscopes. And I’m happy to advise you, Capricorn, that you should have a similar attitude toward everything you put out and take in during the coming week. Just for now, reject all words, ideas, and actions that demoralize and destroy. Treat yourself to a phase of relentless positivity. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I know not what my past still has in store for me,” testified the Indian spiritual poet Tukaram. I believe most of us can say the same thing, and here’s why: The events that happened to us once upon a time keep transforming as we ripen. They come to have different meanings in light of the ever-new experiences we have. What seemed like a setback when it first occurred may eventually reveal itself to have been the seed of a blessing. A wish fulfilled at a certain point in our history might come back to haunt us later on. I bring up these ideas, Aquarius, because I think you’re primed to reinterpret your own past. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to legend, Jennifer Lopez’s butt is insured for $300 million. Bruce Springsteen has supposedly insured his voice for $31 million and wine expert Angela Mount is said to have insured her taste buds for $16 million. In that spirit, Pisces, I encourage you to consider insuring your imagination. To be clear, I don’t anticipate that you will have occasion to collect any settlement. Nothing bad will happen. But taking this step could be a fun ritual that might drive home to you just how important your imagination will be in the coming weeks. Your power to make pictures in your mind will either make you crazy with unfounded fantasies and fearful delusions, or else it will help you visualize in detail the precise nature of the situations you want to create for yourself in the future.

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