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KIM VS. VIM

Over the last decade, toxic pollution seeping from VIM Recycling’s plant in Elkhart, Ind., has threatened the lives of residents in the surrounding tree-lined neighborhood. With flagrant disregard for state and federal law, the company has managed to thus far avoid serious penalty or any kind of lasting regulation. Representing the people of Baugo Township, attorney Kim Ferraro is fighting to put a stop to all that. BY AUSTIN CONSIDINE

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MEMORY MAP: HOOKED ON PHONICS

This tightly knit Bloomington foursome always had the instrumentals locked down — adding vocals became an inventive chore. Check out Memory Map, along with Vacation Club, Sleeping Bag and Learner Dancer, Saturday at the Vollrath.

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from the readers A worthy substitution

(Editors’ Note: The IMS chose racing legend A.J. Foyt last Friday to replace Mr. Trump, but we thought this suggestion was too lovely to go unacknowledged.) I read your column every week, and I agree with you about the travesty of inviting Donald Trump to drive the pace car at the 500 (“Another IMS blunder,” Hoppe, April 27-May 4). I am writing to offer you the perfect replacement. She could not drive the pace car herself and she would probably need a chauffeur, but she could and should be the representative. Her name is Emily Warren, the widow of Leon Warren, a racecar driver from the “Gold and Glory” era when minority drivers were barred from the Speedway and competed in their own race for gold and glory. Leon Warren is featured in the WFYI documentary For Gold and Glory. Emily may be the last survivor of the Gold

and Glory era. What a classy gesture it would be if the track, which has a less than exemplary record toward minorities, honored her publicly, linking the Speedway with the Gold and Glory drivers. Emily also has deep ties to the Indianapolis community — a Crispus Attucks grad, child care center director for many years in Indy, resident of Arsenal Ave. for decades. Spring, summer and fall, Emily sits on her front porch while all the neighbors pay her visits. Last but not least, on July 30, Emily will celebrate her 90th birthday. She is looking for some memorable way to celebrate. Being chosen as the honorary pace car driver would spare her and all of her concerned friends any venture into bungee jumping or parachuting from an airplane. Whatever happens, I hope someday you get to meet this delightful woman.

Mary Kenny INDIANAPOLIS

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HAMMER Cheering Osama’s death It’s unwise to celebrate too much

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y business colleagues and I had just landed at El Paso International Airport, rented a car and were eating at a local McDonald’s when we saw the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death on a television in the restaurant tuned to CNN. After a grueling day of security checkpoints, connecting flights and luggagefetching, the news seemed distant and unreal, even surreal. It was a lot to process, maybe too much. We watched as President Obama grimly delivered the news to the nation from the East Room of the White House. Our fellow patrons at McDonald’s were not as transfixed by the news. Nobody looked up from their hamburgers long enough to watch the president speak. We left to check in at our hotel before Obama had finished. Once we were settled in and had turned on our TVs, we found wall-towall coverage from the news networks, the inevitable instant analysis of what all this meant for America and its future. I watched the coverage of crowds celebrating bin Laden’s death at Ground Zero and the White House. The people being interviewed were jubilant, excited and full of glee. The coverage reminded me of when local stations do live broadcasts from sports bars after big victories by the Colts or Pacers. There was the same “We won! I love it!” mentality in the words of those interviewed. Just as when the Colts win, the news anchors on TV seemed to be urging me to join them in the jubilation. “It’s a great day for America,” people kept saying over and over. I sat there taking it all in. I felt numb to the news, in part because I’d been traveling for the past 12 hours but also because there seemed to be no other way to react. In the nearly 10 years since 9/11, the news has been full of people dying in the alleged war on terror. Teenaged American soldiers have given their lives in combat by the thousands. Innocent families have been wiped out, first in the United States on 9/11 and then in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and nearly everywhere else in the world — all in the name of preventing mass murder by terrorists.

I was offended by the treatment of bin Laden’s death, likening it to a football game. It wasn’t the president’s fault. He, as always, delivered his words with the appropriate degree of somberness and with eloquence. But in a decade-long war in which thousands have died, bin Laden’s death is just one more. Obviously his death is among the most well earned and deserved among them. If not for his plotting, the World Trade Centers would still be standing and countless people would have been spared suffering and grief. And yes, the U.S. Navy Seals did an admirable job in locating and eliminating bin Laden. And President Obama did do what George W. Bush had tried and failed to do for seven years. And the removal of bin Laden could indeed mean the beginning of the end of this long and bloody war on terror. The crowds celebrating victory in the streets on May 1 and the news media that spurred them on, though, failed to ask who really has won up to this point. According to the 9/11 Commission, Al-Qaeda spent no more than $400,000 planning the attacks on America — we’ve spent trillions in the recovery and retaliation. If bin Laden’s goal was to disrupt the American way of life, he was successful. Air travel has been permanently changed. The cost of security has been high both in dollars and in liberty. The last administration manipulated Americans’ justified anger over 9/11 to start two wars that continue a decade later. While our initial response brought out the best in America, the persecution of Muslims and discrimination against anyone with a Middle Eastern surname has brought out the worst. In death, bin Laden is as much a hero or martyr to his followers as he was in life. While the Bush and Obama administrations have in large part captured or killed many of the terrorist leaders, more have come forth to replace them. If bin Laden’s demise means the beginning of the end of this war, then we can be grateful. But as the president counseled this week, it would be very unwise for us to continue to spike the ball and dance in the end zone over this alleged victory. There could still be much more bloodshed before this war is over.

In a decadelong war in which thousands have died, bin Laden’s death is just one more. Who really has won up to this point?

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here was a primary election in Indianapolis last week. You may have missed it. Only 12 percent of registered voters went to the polls. But a high turnout wasn’t expected. That’s because this was a local election and, even though local elections tend to have the greatest impact on peoples’ everyday lives, such elections rarely generate much popular interest. You could call this democracy’s dirty little secret. People talk a good game about the importance of representation, but when it comes to actually voting for who will make decisions about the quality of life in our city, we have a way of finding other things to do. A proposal to make the mayor responsible for Indianapolis Public Schools flies in the face of this sorry situation. The proposal was put forth by a local think-tank called The Mind Trust, dedicated to school improvement and co-founded by former mayor Bart Peterson and David Harris, the man Peterson hired to be first director of charter schools. The Mind Trust made news last week when it received a $2.5 million grant from the Lilly Foundation in support of Grow What Works, a set of initiatives intended to put more teachers in inner-city classrooms, help students with college admissions, and provide summer school programs so that kids retain what they’ve worked on during the regular school year. All of these programs are easy to support. But The Mind Trust’s decision to challenge the governing structure of our school system is raising eyebrows. Dr. Eugene White, superintendent of IPS, has been particularly discomfited, since he’s also on The Mind Trust board. “I’ve been involved with The Mind Trust from the very beginning,” he told The Star. “But with The Mind Trust now involved in the political process, it’s a very challenging position for me to be in.” Any parent who has ever taken IPS up on its pro forma invitations to participate in the educational process, only to find that administrators want volunteer assistance, and not ideas, will hear a familiar note in Dr. White’s complaint. It seems Dr. White is fine with The Mind Trust as long as it bolsters his efforts. Not so much when it

begins looking at larger structural issues like administrative accountability. That’s where mayoral control of the schools comes in. Practically everyone agrees that the quality of our public schools is key to Indianapolis’ prosperity. People have been complaining about it for 20 years or more. During this time, various experiments have been tried at the margins of IPS, including, most notably, the development of magnet and charter schools. Many of these programs have been successful in making marvelous differences in the lives of kids. But too many of the lessons learned in these schools have not been implemented across the entire system and, in the meantime, total IPS enrollment has fallen to below 40,000 students. The anti-urban bias of Indiana’s state legislature hasn’t helped matters. Nor has the tendency of so many of us to flee to the suburbs when the first baby comes home. Meanwhile, we continue, in the name of “local control,” to perpetuate a school system with a board that’s elected as a kind of afterthought. Here’s a pop quiz: How many members of the IPS school board can you name without using Google? Most of us would fail this test. Yet, in spite of the fact that most of us say that schools are vital to the city’s future, we continue to blindly vote for school board members we know little or nothing about. This is not to say that school board members don’t work hard or take a frightful amount of unwarranted abuse. It does, however, mean that when things go wrong it is very difficult to know who’s responsible. Mayoral control of schools is not a silver bullet. They tried it in Chicago with scant success. But in a system the size of IPS — not too big to be nimble if it has to be — an empowered mayor might make a difference. And isn’t that what political leadership should be about? It is telling that Bart Peterson pitched this idea into the mix as we head into the city’s next mayoral campaign. As mayor, Peterson hung his hat on charter school development and didn’t openly stump for mayoral control of IPS. That may be because his predecessor, Stephen Goldsmith, took a licking when he tried floating the idea. Now Mayor Greg Ballard tells The Star that “it’s not going to happen.” Ballard, apparently, would rather continue to see the state-sanctioned hollowing out of IPS through new voucher and charter legislation. It’s no doubt better for a sitting mayor to pass the buck about city schools than take responsibility for them. Which, come to think of it, applies to the rest of us, as well. As long as 88 percent of us don’t show up for local elections, anybody can be in charge.

Though most of us say schools are vital to the city’s future, we continue to blindly vote for board members we know little or nothing about.

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COAL PLANT TO SHUT DOWN

Hoosiers living near the Illinois border can breathe a bit easier. Chicago Tribune reported Thursday that State Line Power Station, a coal-fired plant that’s been clogging the air around Hammond, Ind., since the 1920s, is slated to close as early as next year. The decision falls in line with a recent trend among utility leadership across the country. It’s a promising step toward embracing cleaner energy sources like wind farms and natural gas, a move President Obama endorsed in his speech Friday at Allison Transmission. Let’s just hope Gov. Daniels or his predecessor doesn’t try to fill the void with so-called “clean coal.”

A HEALTHY DOSE OF COMMON SENSE

Striking out against WellPoint/Anthem, Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan is hosting a rally at City Market on Tuesday, May 17, 11:30 a.m. — an afterparty to the 8 a.m. protest planned for that morning outside of the shareholders meeting at the Hilton. Donna Smith, featured in Michael Moore’s SiCKO, is scheduled to speak. Tuesday’s organizers hope to bring attention to the questionable business practices and outright corruption they allege are rampant in profit-driven insurance companies. It’s no secret our health care system is in need of reform; cheers to HCHP for sounding the alarm.

GOV’NA PENCE?

Indiana can’t catch a break. U.S. Rep. Mike Pence announced his gubernatorial intentions in an online video last Thursday. The congressman, who describes himself as “a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” says he’ll focus on maintaining traditional family values in addressing social issues. Why, oh why, couldn’t Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly, who will instead seek Republican Richard Lugar’s seat in the U.S. Senate, follow through on that rumored bid for governor? We tremble at the thought of ultra-conservative Pence gaining free reign over our fair state.

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Roughly 60 undocumented youth and allies gathered at the Capitol Building downtown Monday afternoon for a town hall meeting, pleading with Gov. Daniels to veto pending immigration legislation. Organized by members of The Dream is Coming; students tried to emphasize SB 590’s wasteful use of state resources in criminalizing families, and pointed out that HB 1402 would hurt Indiana universities by impeding undocumented students’ pursuit of higher education. Five demonstrators were arrested. Here’s hoping Daniels takes heed, especially if immigration watchdog Pence is next to take office.

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he mouth of the Saint Joseph River forms at the polluted waters of Lake Michigan, about 50 miles northwest of Elkhart, Ind. The “Saint Joe,” as locals call it, meanders south before taking a sharp left in South Bend toward Elkhart. The Pennsylvania Amish navigated this route when they first arrived in Northern Indiana in 1841. Most of the Potawatomi Indians had already been displaced by the time they got there. Like the pioneers before them, waves of new, mid-century settlers set about clearing the abundant timberlands. Travelling upstream, the river forms oxbow lakes, rills, channels and islands as it approaches Elkhart, then narrows again as it heads into town. One island at the city’s center forms into the shape of an Elk’s heart. The deep water of the old river swirls and eddies along its banks. Old U.S. Highway 33 hugs the river’s south bank as it leaves South Bend, and follows it all the way to Elkhart, where it first traverses the blue-collar suburbs of Baugo Township. Industrial sprawl flanks the highway throughout Baugo — factories, business parks, truck rentals and scrap yards. Tucked between the sprawl and the St. Joe is a modest, tree-lined neighborhood. The residents are mostly working-class families and older people who have lived there for decades. The result of shortsighted, outdated zoning ordinances, the backyards of many of these houses butt up against industrial yards. Lines of trees only somewhat block the sights, sounds and smells. Along the north side of Old U.S. 33 also sits VIM Recycling. For over a decade, the solid waste recycling company has polluted its surrounding neighborhood with little to no regard for the law. For the last few years, however, Kim Ferraro, one of the state’s leading public interest environmental lawyers, has fought VIM and a sea of red tape to hold VIM accountable in court. When I first visited

the local residents over the years. When Baugo Township to meet Kim and her clients the piles weren’t ablaze, they smoldered, in the summer of 2010, things were moving emitting noxious fumes. Chemicals forward, but there was still a long way to go. leached into the ground. Meanwhile, VIM My first impression of VIM Recycling was regularly ground its toxic woodpiles outthat it was the kind of place you smelled doors, creating a thick haze of dangerous before you saw. The pervasive stench was particulates, which studies show was likely reminiscent of a permanent marker with to contain bacteria and cancer-causing the cap removed. chemicals like formaldehyde. That much was expected. I was there Neighbors complained of nosebleeds, because of VIM’s troubled history. The which disappeared whenever they left the company processes wood waste and other area for a while. They reported breathing materials by grinding it up, packaging it, problems, headaches, new and unexand selling it as new products like mulch, plained skin irritations. Furnace filters were topsoil, wood fuel and animal bedding. On caked in red dust; lawns and cars were its expansive property sat towering piles of coated with the stuff. waste like simmering The water in bird baths volcanoes, releasing was dyed reddish or steam and airborne “Our claims under enviyellow in color. Parents particulates from the told elected officials heat generated by the ronmental statutes… their asthmatic children decomposition of the suffered attacks when wood, much of it chemrequire proof of an they played outside. ically treated. (One The smell alone made pile is disaffectionately increased risk of harm to adults and children known to its neighbors vomit. as “Mount VIM.”) environment, health and Starting in 2000, Just a few years earVIM’s Elkhart facillier, in June 2007, one of safety... Clearly, we have ity was cited multiple those mountains erupttimes for violating ed. It was the second of more than enough evia litany of state and two major fires at the federal environmental facility. According to dence of that.” regulations. Censure local reports, the blaze —Kim Ferraro, attorney billowed forth from the raged through the night Indiana Department and choked the air of of Environmental the adjacent neighborManagement (IDEM) and the United States hood with thick black smoke, burning for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). days. It took firefighters from more than Meanwhile, fines were paltry to non-exis30 departments, siphoning 8-10 million tent — when they weren’t mired in litigagallons of water from the local well, to put tion. Operations were never shut down out the fire, creating water shortages and entirely. When so compelled, VIM someforcing firefighters to draw water from the times played nice by clearing away porSt. Joe. One VIM employee was burned to tions of the huge piles of treated wood, the death in the blaze. Another was seriously kind that catch fire. Other times, it didn’t. injured. When the spotlight wandered elsewhere, It was only one incident in a long hisVIM always got back to business as usual. tory of problems VIM had created for

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And the piles would always begin mounting anew.

The human cost Robert Pedzinski, a retired member of the Baugo Township Fire Department, has lived in the neighborhood next to VIM since 1997. When Robert moved in, there was no VIM in Elkhart. He understands the before and after. A little over two years later, in 2000, VIM began its grinding operations at the Elkhart facility. Robert began suffering bronchitis and sinus related problems almost right away. He was forced to take time off work for his health. In 2007, he developed a skin rash, and about a year later, underwent a $4,500 sinus surgery. Throughout the next year or so, he suffered major headaches. He went into the hospital multiple times for CAT scans before doctors determined the headaches were due to a sinus infection he couldn’t get rid of. His wife, Robin, a paraprofessional for Elkhart Community Schools who works with special ed students, has lived in the neighborhood since 1985. “When Rob was going through this, you know, obviously I’m concerned because he’s constantly sick, he’s constantly losing time off of work,” she said. Doctors wouldn’t attribute the cause to VIM directly, but they raised a few issues, she said. “I asked the doctor specifically, I said, ‘I know you probably don’t want to name one source, but could this be attributed to VIM?’” she recounted. “And he said, ‘Let’s be realistic here. You have bacteria, you have fungus, and all of this type of thing in the air. Do you really feel it’s just staying there at VIM?’” Many other neighbors have expressed similar complaints — to me and on record at numerous hearings with IDEM and

elected county officials. The raw stench of chemicals and decomposition, some say, has been enough to make them physically ill. Friends and family have either stopped coming to the neighborhood or stopped being invited. Carmine Greene moved back into the area after a decade in Chicago a little over three years ago. She said she had always wanted to own a house by the St. Joe. She cried all night the first night she and her husband moved in. The smell was unbearable. Greene had had no idea about VIM. Her realtor had neglected to tell her, and has since moved away from the area. Greene always took a county road to her home, and had never noticed the VIM operation. On her way to work one morning, she took a detour along Old 33. “I couldn’t believe it because these huge piles were all smoldering,” she said. “They were just, like, on fire. And it was just unbelievable to me that all this stuff was going on out in the open.” When I spoke to her last year, she told me a strange lump had developed in front of her ear the previous December. It constantly leaked a strange, infected fluid. When the wind blew in the right direction, she went outside. When it didn’t, she stayed in. The smell was better indoors then. But only because of the thousands of dollars she and her husband spent on new doors and windows. By the fireplace and in the garage there was still the smell.

Kim vs. VIM For several years, the residents of Baugo did their best to plead their case, despite having few resources — namely, connections and money. They circulated petitions, wrote their elected officials, complained to VIM and wrote their state representative, Craig Fry (D-Mishawaka). In the summer of 2008, Fry contacted Kim Ferraro of Valparaiso-based Legal Environmental Aid Foundation (LEAF), the state’s only nonprofit dedicated to protecting citizens against polluters. In the beginning, Ferraro represented roughly 50 plaintiffs from the Baugo area. Nearly three years later, she represents more than 150. She said the history of VIM in the community has been one of adapting local regulations to fit VIM’s needs. With regard to violations of state environmental regula-

tions, IDEM has made efforts to bring VIM into compliance though a series of agreements, but VIM has consistently violated those agreements with little to no financial consequence. For Ferraro, IDEM has been like a barking dog with no teeth. For example, VIM has often used its air permit, first acquired in 2003, to excuse the grinding. But Ferraro has demonstrated that IDEM’s air permit violates the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which regulates solid waste. The permit became what Ferraro called in a public hearing a “stamp of approval” for “VIM’s illegal activities.” In other words, it should never have been issued in the first place. “At every level, this is what this community has been dealing with,” she said in a later interview with NUVO. “It’s this sort of complicit ‘let’s allow (owner Ken Will) to get away with what he wants to get away with.’” In 2009, Ferraro filed a suit to bring a halt to VIM’s operations on behalf of her clients against the company and its owner, Ken Will, under RCRA and state common law. In October 2008 and December 2009, the State filed similar suits to enforce punitive actions against VIM by way of court order. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security has also filed a suit for fire code infractions. The lawsuits thus far have tended to languish in court. Still, they continue to inch toward court dates Baugo residents hope someday will come. A victory would mean, at the very least, some compensation for the many nuisances VIM has caused for its Elkhart neighbors since 2000. It’s their best hope for justice. “She’s been a real blessing,” resident Will Stutsman said of Ferraro. “She’s given us some kind of hope, which is what we’ve needed.”

Cat and mouse VIM’s history is rife with flagrant violations of state and federal law. Just as flagrant is the government’s unwillingness to meaningfully enforce its own strictures with regard to the Elkhart site — on county, state and federal levels. When VIM first began operations in Elkhart in 2000, it already had a troubled past. A separate operation in Goshen, just southeast of Elkhart, had been fined $85,000 by IDEM in 1999, following years of dust control problems, fires and dangerous conditions — the likes of which would manifest in the Elkhart fire years later. Its

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The fire at VIM’s Elkhart site, in June of 2007 raged for days. It was the second of two major incidents at the plant.

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“If I let him go outside, within two days he’s coughing,” Marci Dunning said of her son, Ian, who has asthma.

grinding operations were forcibly ceased. IDEM ordered certain waste piles removed. The neighbors and IDEM had had enough. Ken Will was going to have to take his grinding operation elsewhere. So he did. According to department documents, IDEM inspectors observed similar outdoor grinding operations at the Elkhart facility beginning in September of 2000. That grinding, a clear violation of several laws, was one of five violations cited in an Agreed Order issued by IDEM in 2001, which included a fine of $5,500. A few minor requirements were imposed on the Elkhart site as part of the agreement between VIM and IDEM. For the next ten years, operations at the Elkhart site became a game of cat and mouse. A VIM financial statement showed the company spent $62,750 in 2008 alone “fighting IDEM on permits” during building upgrades in Elkhart. Though the onsite waste is mostly woodbased — much of it is leftovers from the region’s RV and manufactured housing industries — a lot of it is toxic. Some is non-toxic, consisting of untreated organic wood waste like tree limbs. But much of it is plywood and particle board, which contain an array of chemicals from glues, binders, stains and resins. This is considered “regulated waste” and worsens over time as it decomposes. The worst of it can also contain materials like vinyl, plastic, carpet, insulation, glass and gypsum. According to Indiana’s solid waste management laws, which locally implement federal laws, grinding and storing regulated waste requires a solid waste permit, which has rules: All grinding of regulated waste must be done indoors, and such waste can only be stored under controlled conditions to prevent leaching and harmful airborne particles from escaping — on crushed stone beds, for example, or within windrow enclosures. For a decade, VIM operated without a solid waste permit. After 2001, it never paid a fine. What few attempts were made to fine VIM are foundering in litigation.

VIM also violated state and federal “open dumping” laws in Elkhart. According to the U.S. Congress, an “open dump” is “particularly harmful to health, contaminates drinking water from underground and surface supplies and pollutes the air and the land.” Indiana law allows for temporary accumulation of some solid wastes at a site, but only for six months. After that, it is considered “disposal,” rendering sites like VIM’s (as opposed to a sanitary landfill) an “open dump.” In 2005, IDEM concluded that VIM’s Elkhart facility constituted an “open dump,” deeming it “a threat to human health, including the creating of a fire hazard, vector attraction, air or water pollution, or other contamination.” Once legally classified as an “open dump,” VIM was no longer allowed to accept any new regulated waste. Subsequent inspections found VIM had not complied. In fact, the most toxic waste was piling higher. VIM still paid nothing. In January 2007, IDEM entered into an Agreed Order with VIM that required the company to get rid of all its worst piles, among other things. Five months later, the big fire erupted. Investigators determined the disaster was caused by a buildup of “explosive dust” from the grinding process. Other fires have been attributed to decomposition and build-up of mulch and wood material. For the next several years, VIM was found in repeated violation. The grinding continued. Toxic piles, still smoldering and emitting noxious smoke and gases more than a year after the fire, continued to sit, despite proscriptions of the Agreed Order. Some piles are still there today. Neighbors, meanwhile, inhaled the fumes, smoke and particulates. Rep. Craig Fry, who has hammered VIM and IDEM since the issue came to his attention in 2008, noted it was not in the State’s best interests to close VIM. “I do know from conversations with and public testimony from IDEM representatives that the State did not want to assume responsi-

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other infractions continued. On one occasion in December 2009, hundreds of tons of new regulated waste were illegally dumped in front of EPA and IDEM inspectors, in direct violation of “open dumping” laws. Photos examined by NUVO show VIM’s outdoor operations continued to generate clouds of particulates through at least the end of 2010. IDEM’s most recent inspection in late April showed VIM had still failed to dispose of all the regulated material it had agreed to remove. Multiple attempts by NUVO to contact Ken Will were confirmed as received, but elicited no response.

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Rep. Craig Fry (D-Mishawaka)

bility of VIM because of the cost in cleaning up the mess,” he wrote in an email. Still, some within IDEM were making an effort. From September 2008 to July 2010, IDEM inspections found violations at VIM’s Elkhart, Goshen and Warsaw sites, including but not limited to: failure to remove wastes to meet the 2007 Agreed Order; failure to obtain a Marketing and Distribution permit; continued outdoor grinding of regulated wastes; open dumping; and operating without an Industrial Storm Water permit. In July 2010, an IDEM inspection revealed that acidic and moderately caustic leachate, along with odors of hydrogen sulfide, were leaking from the earthen walls — or berms — surrounding the property. I attempted to contact Rick Roudebush, who, according to IDEM inspection reports, led many of the agency’s investigations during that time. He replied he had been reassigned in September 2010, and no longer had any involvement with the VIM case. I was referred to a spokesman. Some attempts were made by the County to bring VIM into compliance by way of zoning agreements. But when push came to shove, the original agreement was gutted of any meaningful remedies. Records indicate VIM has failed to live up to even those half-measures. “Local officials have turned a blind eye to everything that has been transpiring at the VIM location,” Fry wrote in an email. “The County changed the rules to get VIM into compliance and VIM still failed to achieve compliance.” Eventually, the EPA was brought in. After documenting instances of open burning, the federal agency issued violations and entered into an Administrative Consent Order in June 2009, to which VIM agreed. Though much of the worst waste was hauled away under the EPA’s directives,

VIM’s supporters are fond of citing a survey conducted by the Indiana Department of Health in January 2008. Sent to 1,021 area households in October 2007, 139 were returned. Its authors concluded they “did not find levels of nosebleeds, asthma and allergies that are out of the ordinary. This does not mean necessarily that there are no health effects from VIM operations or the fire, only that we did not identify any.” Critics have noted, as the survey’s authors basically admit, that the survey proves nothing. In a sworn deposition, Dr. Bonnie New, founder of Beacon Medical Management for Industry in Houston, Tex., said the survey was “insufficient for making public health judgments related to possible VIM-related exposures.” She cited “several shortcomings in the basic survey,” upon which “no valid inferences could be based,” including an inadequate number of survey recipients and respondents (less than 14 percent of those contacted) and an absence of “appropriate control/unexposed reference data.” The survey did nothing to scientifically examine air quality onsite. Indeed, no study has. (It’s worth noting that it’s rather expensive. IDEM has, however, tested the soil and water at VIM and found “no results were outside acceptable levels.”) Following IDEM’s renewal of VIM’s air permit in 2009, Ferraro hired Dr. Mark Chernaik, a staff scientist for the U.S. Office of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, to compile a toxicology report on the VIM site. Chernaik’s review was based on inspection reports by IDEM and the EPA, photographs, and chemical analyses of accumulated liquids near onsite wood waste piles, among other things. In his deposition before the Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication, Chernaik concluded that VIM’s illegal grinding over the years would have emitted “substantial quantities of particulate matter and oxygenated (Volatile Organic Compounds), including formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen, a potent respiratory irritant, and a hazardous air pollutant.” Other studies, in which like conditions have been scientifically measured, have concluded similarly. In legal terms, however, demonstrating harm is only one component of Ferraro’s suit, which also seeks to establish: the threat of harm; that VIM’s activities violate federal and state law; and that the site poses a “legal nuisance” to its neighbors. “Our nuisance claim against VIM does not require actual proof of harm to health, only evidence of my 150 clients’ ‘loss of use and enjoyment of life and/or property,’ i.e., the definition of a legal nuisance,” Ferraro

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wrote in an email. “Also, our claims under environmental statutes… require proof of an increased risk of harm to environment, health and safety, not actual harm,” she continued. “Clearly, we have more than enough evidence of that.”

Community service At first whiff, the laxity with which VIM has been treated makes little sense. Answers may lie partly in the region’s economy. In 2009, when President Barack Obama introduced his administration’s $787 billion stimulus package, he did so from Elkhart. It was a symbolic gesture that recognized some harsh realities: At that time, Elkhart’s economy exemplified the country’s financial crisis. The town’s unemployment was above 15 percent — up from 4.7 percent the previous year. Manufacturing in the area had sustained a sharp blow and the local economy was on a downward spiral. At its worst, unemployment in Elkhart County surpassed 20 percent. Elkhart and its surrounding counties were hitched to the RV and mobile home industry, particularly vulnerable in an economic downturn. Nearly half the country’s RVs and mobile homes were manufactured in the region around Elkhart and LaGrange counties, according to the LaGrange County Convention and Visitors Bureau in 2009. Other estimates put that share as high as 60 percent. More than 100 businesses within a 25-mile radius serviced the RV industry in some way. But high gas prices, a global credit squeeze and sweeping losses of wealth across America’s middle class crimped the area’s main economic artery. RVs became a luxury no one could afford. I made several trips to the region during the worst of the decline. There was a distinct vacuum left in the wake of the industry’s implosion. Thousands were out of work. Manufacturing plants were shuttered. Sprawling dealers’ lots and showrooms sat empty and gated. Throughout downtown Elkhart, the quintessence of Main Street America, mom-and-pop shops had gone out of business. Bakeries and realtors were sad and vacant, their window panes coated in a fine layer of dust and plastered with “For Lease” signs. No one was eating cake.

No one was buying a home. When executed properly, the services provided by VIM and solid waste recyclers are beneficial to the environment. But they’re also good for business. Government incentives encourage recycling, and companies know a “green” image is becoming more bankable. More importantly, it’s cheaper to have solid waste recycled than it is to pay a state dumping fee of 50 cents per ton at the county landfill. That economic and environmental necessity has come at a dear cost, as neighborhood testimony indicates. Even Gordon Lord, the County’s attorney, wrote a letter to Ken Will in 2003 asserting that the company was “arguably doing far more harm to adjoining properties and the environment generally than any positive impact your recycling programs may have.” That was before the major fires and many of the most egregious violations.

World wide web Necessity only tells the underlying story of VIM’s local and state influence. Over the years, it has translated into a web of alliances for the company that is as strong as it is far-reaching. Two of Elkhart’s three duly elected county commissioners, Terry Rodino and Mike Yoder, are business clients of VIM. The commissioners responded to my series of 19 questions by way of a joint statement prepared by their lawyer, the same Gordon Lord. In the statement, they reminded me that commissioners Yoder and Rodino had taken office in 2005, Frank Lucchese in 2007, and that the zoning regulations in Elkhart went back to the early 1960s. They assured me that commissioners Rodino and Yoder had no conflicts of interest in their routine business dealings with VIM, citing Indiana Code 35-44-1-3. They rebutted claims made by VIM’s neighbors and defended the company. “Neighbors to VIM have long complained to the Board of Commissioners about air quality and pollution issues at the site,” the statement reads. “Never did they present empirical data or technical proof of such. VIM has repeatedly denied such conditions to exist or to be caused by its operation, and other neighbors have denied that any such problems come from

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VIM Recycling processes wood waste, both toxic and non-toxic, grinding it up and repackaging it as new products like mulch and topsoil.

the site” (their emphasis). The City of Elkhart, as distinct from the County, was also in business with VIM. According to minutes from an Elkhart Board of Public Works meeting, the City maintained a special “partnership” with VIM, whereby the City offered “transportation and man hours in exchange for receipt of the compost product.” Chairman of the Elkhart County Plan Commission Tom Holt was hired as VIM’s spokesman for several years. At one point, Holt, as a member of the Plan Commission, represented VIM in proceedings before the commission, in direct violation of state zoning laws. Throughout its history, VIM has received numerous incentives to continue operations over the years in the form of governmentbacked loans and special arrangements that gave VIM direct financial benefit. An email from Tim Neese, director of the Elkhart County Solid Waste Management District (SWMD), confirmed the SWMD had loaned VIM $711,745 for the purchase of recycling-related equipment from 1993 to 2003, and that all loans had been repaid. (VIM’s good standing didn’t last long however. Recent articles in The Elkhart Truth have reported that VIM defaulted on a $100,000 loan from the City of Elkhart back in 2007, and that Will is under investigation by the state for tax evasion.) VIM was also given special use of the county landfill on two separate occasions: once, after the fire in 2007, when, as the commissioners put it, “(VIM’s) ability to grind and dispose of woodbased products diminished”; and a second time later that year when the County allowed VIM to dump some of its worst waste at discounted rates after IDEM decided it was no longer suitable for recycling. “It, too, was thought to be for the benefit of the neighbors,” the commissioners told NUVO. VIM’s competitors argued it gave an unfair advantage to VIM over companies that played by the rules. A lawsuit is pending. The State benefits as well, receiving federal EPA grants for meeting solid waste recycling standards. Yet VIM’s most important allies are, arguably, its clients — multi-national companies that constitute the core of the local economy. Though a full client list could not be obtained, a petition of support initiated by RV manufacturer Forest River included representatives from 56 companies. According to an article in The Elkhart Truth , they include “Heartland Recreational Vehicles, Lippert Components, Patrick Industries and Dometic Corp. and collectively employ 13,003 workers.” Forest River belongs to Berkshire Hathaway, the investment giant owned by Warren Buffet, ranked by Forbes as the third richest billionaire in the world.

Still struggling Despite those claims, the persistent problems for VIM’s neighbors are myriad. Marcelle Dunning, who assists children with special needs in nearby Mishawaka, has lived in the beleaguered Baugo neighborhood for nearly five years. She moved to the area in 2006 with her husband and son, Ian, who is now nine years old. Like Carmine Greene, she had been away for many years and wanted to raise her son where she had grown up. Ian developed asthma when he was about

two years old, before the Dunnings moved to Baugo, but only suffered attacks in the event of a cold. Since the fire in 2007, Ian is only sometimes allowed outdoors. “I’ve had to tell my son thousands of times, ‘No, you can’t go outside,’” she said. “So much as crack the back door and take whiff, and if I could smell it, he couldn’t go outside.” Dunning explained that her son has an autism spectrum disorder, and depends on routine. Once she tells him ten times he can’t go outside, Ian starts believing the outdoors are bad. “If I would let him go outside, within two days — within two days — he’s coughing, he can’t breathe,” she said. When she takes her son to the doctor, the doctor can’t say what’s triggering the asthma. “They won’t come right out and say, ‘Oh, yes, it’s the airborne pollutants in your neighborhood,” she said. “I’ve questioned (Ian’s) doctor, I’ve questioned my doctor, and the minute I say we live right behind VIM, they clam up.” In the three years since he first became aware of the issue, Rep. Craig Fry has written numerous letters, commented in numerous news articles, testified in public hearings and repeatedly contacted local, state and federal agencies in attempts to help VIM’s neighbors — to little avail. “For the life of me, I can’t figure out who Ken Will/VIM’s protectors are,” he wrote in an email. And there was no ready political bogeyman he noted, adding: “This company has been allowed to operate out of compliance and with a blatant disregard for the law through Democrat and Republican administrations.” Fry pointed to dissimilarities in the way VIM has been treated by IDEM officials in Baugo as compared to other VIM operations elsewhere in the state. In addition to the Goshen site, a VIM operation in Warsaw, in Kosciusko County, was shut down completely. In both cases, Fry said, the neighbors surrounding those two locations “had money and influence.” The folks living near the Elkhart facility in Baugo Township do not. “The bottom line — these Baugo folks do not have deep pockets so the politicos don’t care what happens to them,” he said. An internal IDEM email obtained by NUVO confirms Fry’s assertion with regard to Warsaw, at least. Referring to the Warsaw site, IDEM employee Meredith Jones wrote in 2009: “While the neighbors are happy that the grinding operations have ceased, they want to see the wood piles removed from the site as well. These are well-educated professionals who are organized and are definitely going to do everything in their power to see that this gets resolved to their satisfaction.” I checked in with Marci Dunning at the end of April to see how things were going. She said she still keeps Ian inside as much as she can. Like her neighbor, Carmine Greene, Marci had developed a lump near her ear. Her doctor told her to leave the lump alone if it wasn’t bothering her. She has since developed a new one on her wrist.

VIM’s solution Ken Will seems to have found a way out: Sell the company. Soil Solutions Co., an organic waste handling company with operations in Goshen, Lafayette and Columbia City, began buying

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In the aftermath of 2007’s fire, noxious fumes continued to billow from the facility in Elkhart County.

mulch from VIM in 2009. The following year, Soil Solutions entered into talks to purchase the beleaguered Elkhart facility. One clear benefit of the transfer is that Soil Solutions was able to circumvent the “good character” component of the solid waste permitting process — a qualification for which Ken Will, with his history of violations, was not eligible. With a new owner pending, the plant has been able to obtain the permits it needs — including one for solid waste storage and grinding and a marketing and distribution permitm, all issued in the last few months — before the sale’s completion. As of the reporting of this article in April, Dan Plant, a technician for Soil Solutions and the Elkhart site’s new manager, said the sale was “95 percent complete,” and that Soil Solutions had taken over management of the facility early to smooth the transition. Rep. Fry was skeptical: “IDEM’s award of permits to Soil Solutions covers up any issues they failed to correct with VIM,” he wrote in an email. “It was IDEM’s and/or EPA’s idea to bring in Soil Solutions.” “I do not see Soil Solutions as the answer to the neighbors’ prayers,” he continued, adding: “Pictures of the property and operations are no different (than) when VIM solely ran operations.” Plant insisted his company was working closely with regulators to make sure the facility operates correctly in the future — an assertion with which a spokesman for IDEM agreed. To get the permit, Soil Solutions had to prove that Ken Will would cease being a “responsible party” under the new ownership, as defined by Indiana law. The application says he will no longer own the company, to be kept on only “in a consulting capacity, to get operations, customer management and accounting up to speed.” Attorney Kim Ferraro has been particularly strident in her efforts to persuade officials not to approve permits for Soil Solutions. In particular, she has argued that Will is still a responsible party who remains “liable” as the landowner “for any environmental harm caused by the facility,” according to Indiana law. In addition to profit from the sale, he also stands to earn $300,000 a year in rent, according to the terms of the lease agreement. These factors, along with his

consultancy role, should have made the “good character” clause applicable even under Soil Solutions ownership, Ferraro has argued. Ferraro also maintains that the permit should have been denied because of numerous enforcement actions still pending according to IDEM, EPA and county agreements. IDEM sided with Will and Soil Solutions, maintaining that all was above board. The agency has insisted that Will and VIM will remain “responsible for resolving any enforcement actions pending against them” — specifically, those conditions of the earlier Agreed Orders that are still unresolved. But, as of late April, there was no public talk of new fines or of increasing pressure to enforce existing violations, which by state law could cost VIM up to $25,000 a day, per violation. IDEM and Soil Solutions insist no new regulated wastes are being accepted, though they remain onsite. Using a pseudonym, I made a phone call to VIM that confirmed the company was no longer receiving treated wood, but was “in the process of getting the permit.” Once the sale is final and that permit is obtained, all grinding of regulated waste, they say, will be done indoors. Dan Plant said there was no regulated waste grinding at the facility at all, which he understood was the case since 2007. IDEM inspections after 2007, as noted above, contradict that understanding. Still, concerns among neighbors remain. Precedent has not been encouraging. As local resident Wayne Stutsman asserted in an email accompanied by numerous photos, mixing and sifting of materials is still being conducted outside, sending plumes of dust into the air. Meanwhile, nothing has been done to redress the grievances of neighbors who have been exposed to VIM’s illegal activities over the last decade. None of the residents has been compensated monetarily. Only time will tell if they suffer long-term health effects. But neighbors have vowed to keep fighting until they see their day in court. “I think they have realized that we’re not going away,” Stutsman said.

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Michael Feinstein presents “The Sinatra Project.”

Movie geek at heart? Don’t worry, we are too. That’s why we’re heading out to Big Car Gallery ’s newly launched center, just north of Lafayette Square, this weekend for Indy Film Fest ’s second annual Bigger Picture Show. Local artists have taken your favorite classic and cult movie posters and re-imagined them. Expect to see such favorites as Alice in Wonderland, Almost Famous, The Goonies, Cool Hand Luke and Lost in Translation adorning the walls. Even better, you can purchase them at a relatively cheap The “Goonies” movie poster gets a touch-up from Amy price. Take home a framed McAdams Gonzales, one of the 38 posters available for poster at the event for $75 purchase. or order an unframed print there for $60. Event starts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. The Big Car Service Center is located at 3900 Lafayette Rd.; indyfilmfest.org; 560-4433.

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Michael Feinstein & the Sinatra Project @ The Palladium Slick back your hair and get ready for a swanky evening, because five-time Grammy nominated Michael Feinstein is entertaining the Palladium with “the Sinatra Project.” His goal? Explore how Sinatra influenced his just-as-famous contemporaries (Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, etc.) and how they affected him in turn. Backed by a seventeen-piece big band orchestra, Feinstein will perform hits like “The Lady is a Tramp” and “What Kind of Fool Am I?” The show will be taped that night for a PBS broadcast as well. Show starts at 7:30 p.m., tickets range from $50 to $150. The Palladium is located at 355 City Center Dr., Carmel; 843-3800; www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org.

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‘Private Thoughts in Public Spaces’ @ Editions Limited Gallery It’s a rare artist that can turn the mundane into the extraordinary. Indy photographer Thomas Mueller is of the elite, and his exhibit Private Thoughts in Public Spaces captures human drama in its simplest form. Even the most ordinary of subjects are turned into thought-provoking works of art. The opening reception will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in conjunction with the Broad Ripple Spring Gallery Tour. It runs until June 4; free admission. Editions Limited Gallery of Fine Art is located at 838 E. 65th St.; www.editionsltd.com; 466-9940.

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‘La Traviata’ @ Clowes

ISO: Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ @ Circle Theatre

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Art trying to describe nature isn’t anything new, but Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is the gold standard of what everyone else tries to accomplish, with its lush accompaniments and lovely violin solos. Zach De Pue will lead the orchestra and play the solo violin part. As an addition to the night, he’ll join with ISO principal viola Michael Isaac Strauss for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m. each night. Tickets range from $15 to $50. Hilbert Circle Theatre is located at 45 Monument Circle; 639-4300; www.indianapolissymphony. org.

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Photography by Thomas Mueller is on view at Editions.

Who’s ready for some opera? The cast of La Traviata will be singing their way into the hearts of Clowes Memorial Hall audiences, so pre-

pare to be cultured. Maureen O’Flynn, who sang the role of Mimi in last season’s La Boheme, will star as Violetta, alongside Richard Paul Fink, who sang Alberich in the opera’s 2009 production of Das Rheingold, cast in the role of Germont. Tickets can be purchased online, but the price is steep: the cheapest ticket for the production is $75. Friday’s show starts at 8 p.m., Sunday’s at 2 p.m. 4602 Sunset Avenue; 940-6444; www.indyopera.org.

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SPORTS & REC

Indy Star Opening Day @ the Speedway On your mark, get set, go, ladies and gentlemen. It’s that time of year again, the time when race cars reign supreme in Indiana. This year’s opening day event starts at 9 a.m. with the Celebration of Automobiles , followed by driving practice at 12 p.m. The Celebration of Automobiles Dinner takes place at 6 p.m. Be sure to swing by the Pace Car Club Lab at 11 a.m. and catch Mayor Ballard’s interview. All of this non-stop fun is yours for the low, low price of $10. Kids under 12 get in free. IMS: 4790 W. 16th St.; 497-6747; www.indianapolismotorspeedway. com/indy500.

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‘Rob Day: New Landscapes’ @ Eye On Art

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His work has been featured in Time, GQ, Rolling Stone and Esquire, and he’s from right here in our hometown. Rob Day’s oil paintings will be featured in his new exhibit, New Landscapes, at the Eye on Art Gallery as part of the Carmel Arts and Design District Second Saturday Gallery Walk. Expect images that emphasize atmosphere and shadow, creating landscapes you feel you can walk into. The opening reception runs from 5 to 10 p.m. Admission is free. The Eye On Art Gallery is located at 111 W. Main St., Carmel; 7521722; eyeonartgallery.blogspot.com.

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

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Full Moon Canoe/ Kayak Paddle @ Eagle Creek Park Whether you need a night to get back in touch with nature or want a uniquely romantic date, Eagle Creek Park ’s moonlight canoe or kayak ride is the perfect night outing this week. It’s a guided tour for 35 people, so choose between a kayak or canoe and spend the night in amazement at nature and the stars twinkling their hearts out above you. Ride lasts from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m., approximately. Cost ranges from $15 to $25. Eagle Creek Park is located at 7840 W. 56th St.; 327-7130; eaglecreekpark.org.

Envisioning opportunities for our clients and our community,” says the mission statement of law firm KATZ & KORIN (K & K). Since moving eight years ago into the historic Emelie Building on Senate Avenue along the downtown canal, K & K has backed up the community part of this equation by taking an active and singularly creative approach to arts patronage. The Emelie uses works of local artists on its walls, and the ground floor of the building was first donated to iMOCA, and now to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library.

The Cultural Vision Awards are free and open to the public. Please RSVP by June 1st at cva.nuvo.net The McKinney Family Foundation

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Mecum’s Spring Classic Auction @ the Fairgrounds John Deere signs, ‘50s Coke coolers and plenty of old cars—come on, you know you’ve always wanted something as deliciously nostalgic and kitschy as one of those. Now is your chance, when Mecum holds its 24th Annual Spring Classic Auction from May 17 to 22. Interested buyers can preview any of the items all week long. With 2,000 pieces, there will be a lot to look at. Tickets are available for $15 a day. The Indiana State Fairgrounds are located at 1202 E. 38th St.; www.mecum.com; 815-568-8888.

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International Symposium on Chicago Theatre @ Columbia College Ever wonder what happened to John Green, former head of the Butler University Theatre Department? Well, we don’t wonder, because we know that Green was lured away from Butler in 2009, where he had established one of the finest, most innovative theater programs in the Midwest, by Columbia College in Chicago , where he has taken his work up a notch. Or two. Or three. You can catch up with Green next weekend, May 18-21, at Columbia College for the International Symposium he’s helped put together. Speakers, workshops and panSUBMITTED PHOTO els cover a wide range of material, from the plays of Sara Ruhl ( 4:48 John Green left Butler in 2009; now he's heading up Psychosis) and Tracy Letts (Bug) and David Mamet to stage combat an international symposium demos, discussions about race in theater and performances by internationally-renowned theater people. Really, it’s freakin’ boggling, or at Columbia College in we wouldn’t have buggered up all this space with it. Go to www.colum. Chicago. edu; you’ll see what we mean. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 05.11.11-05.18.11 // go&do

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“Part of [storytelling] is a communal experience,” notes Kling. “It’s an event that happens only once, and you were either there or you weren’t. The idea of being with a group, with a live person — it’s a visceral experience. In a day and age when we spend so much time in front of screens, isolated, even though you can say that we are communicating, unless it is a visceral, chemical experience where we are all in the same room together, that is when the magic happens. That’s when something you’ll never forget as long as you live can happen.” Their stories encourage audiences to exercise the imagination. “Within those words,” says Perrin, “there are 100 stories that each person in the audience is experiencing. You don’t see the story; it’s not a movie. The images live in your imagination. That is what makes it so rich, because the person next to you has a different image, and the person next to them and so on.” Kling adds, “You can always tell when a story goes well. People don’t come up and tell you what they heard; they tell you what it conjured.” The storyteller’s unflagging ability to speak to the universal heart of humanity stems from Kling’s “special ability,” in Perrin’s words, “to see things in this world that other people don’t. That maybe they do see, but they don’t recognize in the same way.” When his words are injected with energy or given pause for reflection through his collaborator’s music, Kevin Kling and Simone Perrin create pure magic in its simplest form, building a shared experience.

Storytellers Kling and Perrin celebrate community

BY K A T E L YN C O Y N E E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T

fter a successful run in the 2009 IndyFringe Festival, storyteller Kevin Kling and musician Simone Perrin return to Indianapolis on May 14 to perform at Storytelling Arts of Indiana. Kling is an author, playwright and performer, best known for his commentaries on NPR’s All Things Considered. Perrin is an accordionist, theater artist and chanteuse who has appeared on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion. Recently, I spoke with Kling and Perrin over the phone about their evenings of story and song.

The wiener dog approves

These Minnesota-based performers first collaborated in 2006 on a show Kling was creating for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Born with a congenital birth defect that left one arm three-quarters the size of his right and his left hand without wrist or thumb, Kling has always had to adapt to the world around him. Then a motorcycle accident in 2001 paralyzed his right arm, and he found himself facing a whole new set of obstacles. Kling drew on this near-death experience for his show. “[He] wanted to do a show about [his] journey into the other side, into the underworld,” Perrin explains. “And of course that made him think of the accordion.” Kling’s manager at the time had just seen Perrin perform in a local Monday night showcase and brought the two together. “The story goes,” Perrin continues, “I came over to Kevin’s house and met his dogs. We were sitting there talking about the show and I played this Hank Williams tune. During the musical interlude, his dog, Boxer, howled along with me. And he had never done that, apparently… So that sealed the deal.” “Approval from a wiener dog,” laughs Kling.

A Midwest love fest

With strong Minnesotan accents (think Fargo), Kling and Perrin are not shy about their feelings for their homeland. They recently completed a production of Kling’s original script A Tale of Twin Cities at the History Theatre in St. Paul. “It was a love fest for the place where we live,” says Perrin. “We really love where we live,” says Kling. “We really did find the underbelly of the whole deal, too. That was the fun part. There was the version the history books teach, and there is the version we did… Some of the people the history books don’t cover are really the people that formed this city.” Their adoration of Minnesota translates

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Simone Perrin and Kevin Kling, presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana.

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“People don’t come up and tell you what they heard; they tell you what it conjured.”

— Kevin Kling

well into performances throughout the Midwest, but presents problems in other regions. “The farm stories didn’t really go over in Seattle,” says Perrin. “It was more like a museum feature. They listened with an inquisitive mind.” “But when we did it in Cincinnati,” Kling interjects, “they got all the stuff… We can tell way more stories when we are in our region. I can tell the same the same stories in Indiana that I tell in Minnesota.” In many of his stories, Kling draws heavily on his midwestern heritage. “For me it’s like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, this [the Midwest] is the right one,” says Kling. “It’s not the East Coast, it’s not the West. It’s just right. There is still a work ethic here in the Midwest that I relish. This idea of who your neighbors are, who your family is, who your community is — it’s so ingrained in us because it was important if you came from an agricultural area. You needed your

neighbors, your community. Even though we are not as much of an agricultural entity as we used to be, that sense of community still is so important to us.” Perrin tried her hand at performance in New York City, only to discover that her work was more relevant to her homeland. “They [New Yorkers] are a beautiful people, but they are not my people. I didn’t fully realize that until I came back home and started working here. Working in the Midwest… you don’t do it for fame. Theater and storytelling and arts and music should serve a community... When we give out, we get back that same sense of community. It’s a dialogue. It’s really fulfilling and so fun.”

Creating community

Both Kling and Perrin express a strong collective sense within each performance — they try to create a miniature community with every new audience.

Kling is no stranger to the Storytelling Arts of Indiana stage, having performed three times before. However, this is Perrin’s first time to join him on the SAI stage. Executive Director of SAI Ellen Munds saw the pair perform at the 2009 IndyFringe Festival. “They were such a big hit,” Munds says, “I thought it would be great to have them come back together for our audiences.” In keeping with the time of year, Kling and Perrin’s upcoming show will focus on stories about moms, grandmas and different types of families. Kling also hopes to get in a few stories about spring, saying, “I don’t know about you guys, but in Minnesota it gets downright Bacchanalian this time of year,” referencing the wild, drunken festival of Ancient Greece. “We are shedding our clothes; we are running around. Exposed flesh turns back into skin.” Though they have a plan, they can’t say just what the evening will hold until the moment arises. “[Storytelling] is a form that really lives in the moment,” says Kling. “We keep trying to live in the moment.”

MOM-O-RAMA: KEVIN KLING AND SIMONE PERRIN Presented by Storytelling Arts of Indiana Saturday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Frank and Katrina Basile Theater Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio St. Tickets $20 in advance, $25 at the door 232-1882; storytellingarts.org

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A&E REVIEWS MUSIC ISO CLASSICAL SERIES PROGRAM NO. 16 r Hilbert Circle Theatre; May 6-7. A program dominated by Joshua Bell and Tchaikovsky is an excellent choice for filling the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s home to the brim: every seat sold (two weeks in advance) and taken. And at last those in charge decided to turn on the Circle’s electronic-acoustic enhancement, adding richness to the ensemble that I’ve missed all season, especially with a full house. While making the orchestra’s double-bass complement lower and more resonant, those electronics did nothing for the bass drum. When lightly tapped, it remained wholly inaudible from the first mezzanine; when struck hard, it gave us more of a timpani sound, an occurrence common to this venue. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 and his Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 were featured. Guest conductor Christoph Eberle and Indiana’s own Joshua Bell were showcased respectively in the symphony and the concerto. Eberle failed to show the ISO at its best with Op. 36. We heard instances of ragged playing, especially near the frenzied Finale’s end. Bell, favoring a seamless approach to the Concerto, gave us, nonetheless, his usual narrowly confined tone, but he rendered it with much beauty and a faultless pitch. Taking the Finale at a lightning pace, he tended to slide over all that rapid passage work, covering some of its notes as he rushed headlong to that final hurrah. Those passages have been taken about as fast by certain “others,” but with precision staccato (obvious note separation) and not one note missing. For a comparison of this concert with the same one given May 5 at the Carmel Palladium and for more review details, visit www.nuvo.net. — TOM ALDRIDGE

THEATER THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING) t

Finalist with a New York run. NoExit’s new production of Thom Pain (based on nothing) took me further back, to the nineties when “Jack Handey’s Deep Thoughts” video vignettes ran regularly on Saturday Night Live. Like Handey, this play’s titled character describes bizarre and grim scenarios as if they are bar-stool jokes or folksy tales to pass along. I adore the very dark humor of “Deep Thoughts” in small doses and like it here and there in Pain. However, this show’s daunting task is to build character and story over an hour of deadpan delivery and purposefully awkward audience interactions. Joshua Carroll holds his own as the disdainful and sometimes crude narrator, describing first, a boy watching his dog die by electrocution and next, the same boy being attacked by bees. Last Friday’s small audience seemed game for the man’s wit, scorn and occasional come-ons, but I’m not sure how Pain’s last-half turnabout played. As he becomes teary and despondent, we realize that Thom’s “pain” is the kind that can screw up childhood and later life. For me, the outward change was unnecessary. Better to let that pain seep through Pain’s sarcasm, the way it seeps through his life. www.noexitperformance.org. —JOSEFA BEYER

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VISUAL ART GRAY MATTERS: BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE t Stutz Art Space; through May 27. The purpose of Gray Matters is not only to explore the technical diversity of grayscale media, especially photography and drawings, but also to discuss “the parts of life that don’t fall into black and white,” according to gallery director Andy Chen. By limiting the palette to monochrome, the exhibition seeks to hone in on the personal significance of subject matter. One instance of this was “Un-tidaled #2” by Adam Noel. By depicting a waterfront through sepia tiles with scratched surfaces, it evokes the nostalgia that Noel might feel towards the sea. Julia Wickes also operates through a personal lens: “Memories of My Garden: Spade” is a dark charcoal sketch, positioned upright and large, of this otherwise innocuous garden, suggesting its larger-than-life immediacy in Wickes’ memory. Another standout piece is “Original Thoughts?” an artist’s book by Martha Carlson. The piece was a series of grayscale images of a brain, superimposed with bright red symbols signifying thoughts. As you turn the page, the red is reduced to sparser and simpler lines and eventually disappears entirely. “Original Thoughts?” reflected Carlson’s work in health care. It was this personal nature of Gray Matters that gives meaning and function to the requirement of working in monochrome. 212 W. Tenth Street, 488-7374, www.stutzartspace.com. — JOSEPH WILLIAMS PATTERN & DESIGN (HERRON B.F.A. CERAMICS EXHIBITION): MARLINA LIES AND ALLIE WRAY e

Joshua Carroll stars in Thom Pain (based on nothing).

grandmother’s sense of fashion, Allie Wray draws inspiration from the art of Faberge egg craft. Her “Blue Jewels” is a two-piece, hinged jewelry case made out of clay (fired at a low temperature to give the painted ceramic a brilliant blue color) while her “Life’s Fragility” consists of a wall-hanging sculpture comprimised of 216 broken egg shells tied together with string and dental floss and painted with a variety of mixed media. “It’s a representation of life in pattern,” according to Wray. The pattern created by the intermingling of these two artists’ work is a highly successful one; both use fashion sense and fluent command of craft to fuse together a highly accessible 3D art. But if you want to see it, you’d better hurry. This is—unfortunately for Indianapolis—Wake’s last show, as gallery owner Sydney Webb is going off to grad school in Texas. 1058 Virginia Ave., 2015563, www.sydwebbart.com. — DAN GROSSMAN

Wake Press & Gallery. Through May 13. The mannequin-hanging centerpiece of this show is a dress composed almost entirely out of ceramic buttons and ceramic flower petals (buttons for the bodice, petals for the skirt) entitled “Rittenhouse Design.” Lies’ ceramic works elsewhere here are doll-sized sculptures. “Keturah” is such a figure, a representation of herself as a clothed mannequin, in a dress of ceramic flower petals, dreamily looking up towards the sky. While Lies was inspired by her

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“Indy Mecca,” by Lukas Schooler at Big Car Big Car Gallery; through May 21. Some believe it was John Wesley McCormick who first settled Indianapolis and others say the first settler was George Pogue. Lukas Schooler, Assistant Gallery Director at Herron, doesn’t favor either claim. Instead he uses the tension between these two competing claims as a conceptual premise for an installation with markers memorializing both men. In between these markers are a bunch of peonies rotting (rotting slowly, as they’ve been treated with a preservative) on a bed of dirt. A more engaging use of this conflicting history is his video projection entitled “East, West (Indianapolis)” where you see two projections of Lukas Schooler, in profile on either end of the frame on the gallery wall. On one end he’s standing in various eastside Indy locations and on the other he’s near IUPUI and they’re facing towards one another, reenacting this historical rivalry. In the middle you alternately see a highway with cars flying by and a forest-lined river. In another work entitled “Indy Mecca,” on the opposite gallery wall, you can see Indianapolis in map form featuring the 465 loop. This work’s composed out of graphite, tar, and — most strikingly — moss. This work effectively evokes the pristine natural state of the land that McCormick and Pogue originally settled yet suggests the city’s future moniker as “Crossroads of America.” 1043 Virginia Avenue #215, 450-6630, www.bigcar.org —DAN GROSSMAN VALLEY OF THE ZAPOTECA: ELIZABETH GUIPE HALL e Harrison Center for the Arts; through May 27. Elizabeth Guipe Hall’s encaustic collages on display here are a blend of mediums (wax, photography, watercolor) and also a blend of

“Before the Procession,” by Elizabeth Guipe Hall at Harrison. styles. In this recent work, which relates to a Lilly Endowment sponsored trip she took to Oaxaca last summer, the photographs that document her journey and the abstract colorscapes into which she submerges these photographs blend together seamlessly as one. This blending is both a metaphorical description of her stylistic content and a literal description of her process. Central to her process is using wax to fuse the printing paper containing photographic images to a board containing abstract imagery, a process that utilizes a blowtorch and/or a heat gun. “Girls from Teotitlan” is a particularly stunning example of this new work. Here you see a number of photographic images of girls in traditional dress surrounded by a predominantly yellow background on which you can see bold wiggly lines of red and blue cutting across. Art based on an outsider’s observations of traditional culture can quite easily devolve into sentimental kitsch (and does often enough) but I don’t sense this at all viewing Hall’s work. I see here instead a wideeyed sense of wonder and genuine appreciation of Oaxacan culture. 1505 N Delaware Street, 3963886, www.harrisoncenter.org. —DAN GROSSMAN NOTES: NEW WORKS ON PAPER FROM SELECTED ARTISTS t Artbox at Stutz II; through May 27. Loosely organized around the medium of works on paper, Notes finds further unity in the abstraction which normally characterizes Artbox work. However, between this exhibition and works remaining from previous shows, there is a wide range of media on the walls. Notes might work better not crowded in by these other works. Patricia Schnall Gutierrez exhibits giant charcoal drawings, relishing in the physical surface of the paper as much as the images themselves. This is evident in “And Her Thoughts Drifted,” a text-image work splayed out across three poster-length sheets of paper but showing a minimal amount of charcoal. The words echo across three dark, blurry masses representing thoughts. This piece differs starkly from Alex Guofeng Cao’s “Brigitte vs. Eve,” a busy glamour portrait composed in mosaic form of tiny Sistine Chapel ‘Birth of Eve’s’. Bruce Riley, on the other hand, works on a much smaller scale, creating acrylic blot negatives – “Blot 14, 21, 32 and 39”— which seem to resemble bodily organs. Notes helps the viewer see paper not only as a medium, but as a technical tool, vital to much of the abstract work carried out at Artbox. 217 West 10th St., 955-2450, www.artboxindy.com. —JOSEPH WILLIAMS

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FOOD Fresh, locally sourced ingredients Recess is succulent and extraordinary BY N E I L CHA R L E S E DI T O RS @N U V O . N E T Since he burst onto the local dining scene almost a decade ago with the groundbreaking H2O Sushi (followed in short order by the outstanding Elements), Chef Greg Hardesty has maintained a prominent, but by no means ostentatious, presence on the city’s developing culinary map. In a business renowned for chewing up and spitting out some of its most promising practitioners, Chef Hardesty has succeeded in carving out a unique and relatively tranquil space for himself, quite at odds with the pervasive Hell’s Kitchen theatrics that seem to dominate the popular perception of today’s restaurant industry. Propelling Hardesty’s considerable success is a core of crucial practices that include paying constant attention to detail, offering the freshest ingredients available, and put-

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ting the customer first with calm and professional service. It might not be rocket science, but these are some of the principals that govern the longest-lived and most highly regarded establishments at all price points. At a recent dinner at Recess, what clearly distinguished each course was the total reliance on fresh ingredients, wherever possible sourced locally. Of course, there’s hardly an abundance of sea fish in these parts, so the rules of local provenance don’t exactly apply: both the Hapaku grouper and the Saikou salmon were from New Zealand, and were unsurprisingly of the highest quality. Both fish are caught or raised sustainably, with a carbon footprint probably smaller than the average Prius wing mirror. Recess offers a daily prix fixe menu ($52 on this occasion) that sometimes provides a couple of options so that parties of two or more can explore different tastes. On this occasion my wife was served diver-caught scallops as an alternative to the aforementioned grouper. Both dishes were prepared with asparagus, crimini mushrooms and a creamy sunchoke puree. The duck confit that started the meal was delectably fatty and moist, studded with flecks of crispy skin, while the open-faced salmon sushi roll was exemplary in its freshness and harmony. The main course was a succulent and extraordinarily tender slice of dry aged beef strip loin from Fischer Farms in Jasper, Indiana. Simply seared and served with a rich puree of potatoes and maytag blue

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Asparagus and jamon serrano salad, with pecorino cheese, red and yellow peppers, and mixed nut vinaigrette.

cheese, the succulence was nicely contrasted with the slightly tart, pungent crunch of locally-sourced wilted ramps. These leeklike plants, a member of the lily family, are popular to the point of being close to extinction in some places, so it’s comforting to see they are now raised in captivity. House-made profiteroles and decadent truffles rounded out this stylish, focused dining experience. A word about the wine list. The vast majority of wine lists, as we all know, are way over-priced and seem either obsessed with high-alcohol, food-antithetical collector monstrosities or else with margin-tothe-max supermarket swill that most of us wouldn’t even use for drain cleaner. I forgot to ask who put together the masterful list at Recess, but it was the first in several months to actually make me thirsty and wish to try a slew of its excellent offerings. This is a list

strong on food-friendly, aromatic whites and lighter, crisper, reds: there are more than enough well-priced gems to satisfy even the most finicky of palates. Bravo all round!

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Rock Bottom College Park, 6-6:30 p.m. Tapping Naughty Scot Scottish Ale.

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Rock Bottom Downtown, 6-6:30 p.m. Tapping Goat-Toppler Maibock. Binkley’s Brew Club, 7 p.m., brews from Three Floyd’s, Flat 12, Upland, Barley Island, Oaken Barrel and Bee Creek. 317-722-8888.

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MacNiven’s, 6 p.m. Sun King & 3 Floyds with 6 beers on tap from each including the only 2 Kegs of Wee Muckle (Scottish Wee Heavy) that did not get gently placed into 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle Barrels. Rock Bottom Downtown, 6:45-9 p.m., American Craft Beer Week Chef and Brewer’s 4-course Dinner featuring RB’s new flagship beers. Call 317-681-8180 to reserve.

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Sun King Brewing Company Tasting Room , 4:30-6 p.m. Brewers Roundtable2. Free. What’s the role of homebrewers in Indiana’s burgeoning craft beer industry? Why buy homebrew when you can buy great Indiana craft? Is it homebrew to push Indiana’s craft envelope? Is it homebrew just for the fun of it? Is it homebrew with serious thinking?

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NUVO visited Fountain Square Brewing Company. 1301 Barth Ave. is the actual street address but the door to enter faces Shelby St. directly south of BUD’S Grocery at 1260 Shelby St. We tasted brewer Skip DuVall’s line-up. Tractor Head Blonde Ale, sunlight color, sweet aroma, slight hop buzz at first taste opening to layers of spice tastes to close sweet and clean. Cranberries were added to another batch for a refreshing concept of Lambic without the sour. For the other yet un-named brews DuVall is checking our taste buds for the perfect recipe at Friday 5 p.m. tastings. To get on their tasting list, email fb@fountainsquarebrewing.com with contact info. Bazbeaux’s new downtown location, 329 Mass Ave, 4 draft lines feature rotating selections from Sun King and Brugge and other microbrews plus over 50 local, regional and import beers in bottles, and a selection of affordable wines. Jodi Krumel emailed, “Soon, we’ll be tapping our last keg of Dogfish Aprihop.” 317-636-7662. If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email at least two weeks in advance to beerbuzz@nuvo.net

Indulge your senses to an exclusive pastry tasting featuring exotic island flavors by Parcha Sweets’s very own, Chef Marian. Pamper your taste buds to a night filled of pastries, fruit punch cocktails, music, and live fi re performances. This May’s Broad Ripple Gallery Nights dessert menu features: Coconut Macaroons, Coconut Cake Pops, Piña Colada Mousse Shots, Tres Leches Shots, Chocolate Rum Truffles, and Sugar Cookies. Broad Ripple Gallery Nights Friday May 13, 2011 5:00pm - 10:00pm

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MOVIES Bridesmaids BY E D JO H N S O N - O TT E JO H N S O N O T T @ N U V O . N E T

t (R) Bridesmaids is an R-rated comedy from producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin), whose films are known for raunchy gags, squabbling and bonding among friends, and for being too long. True to form, the movie is crass, funny, sweet and, at two hours and five minutes, considerably longer than it should be. The star of the show is Kristen Wiig, who has been with Saturday Night Live since 2005. Wiig is a gifted comic actor — one of the program’s strongest utility players since the great Phil Hartman. She also has a bad habit that SNL not only puts up with but encourages: Wiig creates characters with one annoying personality trait. Throughout each sketch, the character repeats the bizarre behavior, getting more and more extreme, until there is an outburst that concludes the scene. Example: One of her most well-known SNL characters is Penelope, a desperate attentionseeker who tries to impress others by verbally one-upping their accomplishments

and experiences. I laughed like crazy at the first few Penelope sketches; now I fastforward through them. Wiig is too talented to rely on one-joke characters. She carries the bad habit into the movie. There’s a scene where her character gets into a toasting duel with the maid of honor at some pre-wedding event. The audience at the screening I attended howled, but I just checked my watch and wondered how long she would stretch out this tired shtick. The set-up for the movie is simple, with lots of tacked-on busyness. Annie’s (Wiig) life is a mess. Her bakery went belly-up, she’s broke and her car is a heap. She has a handsome boyfriend (Jon Hamm) and their sex life is spirited, to say the least, but sex and good looks aside, he is clearly Mr. Wrong. Annie’s mother (the late Jill Clayburgh) assures her she’s hitting bottom, so there’s nowhere to go but up. Mom is wrong. When Annie’s best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) gets engaged, she picks rich control freak Helen (Rose Byrne) as her Maid of Honor instead of Annie. Being just a bridesmaid isn’t enough, and a power struggle begins between Annie and Helen. There’s a lot of funny stuff in Bridesmaids, including a riotous food poisoning scene involving the entire bridal party. The other bridesmaids are amusing, with Mike & Molly’s Melissa McCarthy stealing scenes as the film’s equivalent of Jack Black or Zach Galifianakis. Other bits are less successful. Exchanges between Annie and her

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British roommates (Matt Lucas from Little Britain and Rebel Wilson) fall completely flat. A romantic storyline involving Annie and a sweet, gawky policeman (Irish actor Chris O’Dowd) is padded, but offers some nice moments. Bridesmaids, co-written by Wiig and Annie Mumolo and directed by Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig, is as solid as any other comedy from Team Apatow. It’s got

heart and lots of laughs and will likely be a huge hit. I enjoyed myself, but damn, I wish Wiig would stop taking one freaky behavior and clubbing the audience with it. And I wish the film’s editors — there are two! — would do more editing. I’ll be surprised if the Bridesmaids DVD includes any deleted scenes, since it appears they didn’t delete anything.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. DUMBSTRUCK Documentary following five ventriloquists: Dylan, a shy 13-year-old; Kim, a former Miss Ohio beauty queen; Dan, a cruise ship performer; Terry, a contestant on (PG) America’s Got Talent; and Wilma, who entertains in senior homes. With its heart

firmly planted on its polyester sleeve, Dumbstruck takes the American dream sideways and never loses its way. 84 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema. Director Mark Goffman and producer Lindsay Goffman will appear in person Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 4:15 p.m.

EVERYTHING MUST GO (R)

Will Ferrell stars in an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story “Why Don’t You Dance.” After losing his job and his wife in the same day, Nick Halsey (Ferrell) moves all his possessions, and himself, to his front yard in order to start a new life. Also starring Rebecca Hall and Laura Dern. 100 minutes.

PRIEST (PG-13)

Post-apocalyptic action-thriller set in an alternate world ravaged by centuries of war between man and vampires. A legendary Warrior Priest (Paul Bettany) comes out of seclusion when his niece (Lily Collins) is abducted by a pack of vampires. He is joined on his quest by his niece’s boyfriend (Cam Gigandet), a trigger-fingered sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess (Maggie Q) who possesses otherworldly fighting skills. 87 minutes.

WINTER IN WARTIME

Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) is a World War II adventure story set in a Nazioccupied Netherlands village and presented from the point-of-view of Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), an 13-year-old local boy. Michiel’s days take a sudden dramatic turn when he witnesses a airplane crash in the forest and eventually ends up tending to Jack (Jamie Campbell Bower), the wounded British pilot of the plane. The kid’s big adventure gets progressively more complicated and it starts looking less like an atmospheric period piece and more like a thriller, from the plot points to the camera work. The film combines a ring of truth in its portrayal of people and places with a storyline incorporating close calls, a shocking surprise and a climax full of derring-do. The acting is good, and the film is visually impressive. Winter in Wartime moves into pulpy territory — pretty nervy for the genre — but it held me all the way.

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In a Better World, winner of the 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, kept me captivated almost to the end, when director Susanne Bier used a plot device hokey enough to make me question the whole movie in retrospect. Most of the film takes place in Denmark, with periodic jumps to a refugee camp in Africa. Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) is a Swedish doctor who frets over his son Elias (Markus Rygaard), the frequent target of an anti-Swedish school bully. Another father and son, young Christian (William Johnk Nielsen) and his dad (Ulrich Thomsen) enter in the story. Christian sees Elias getting bullied and elects to assault the bully himself. Everything turns ugly fast, as Christian’s preventive-attack tactic escalates. Meanwhile, Dr. Anton finds his non-violent philosophy put to the test at home and abroad. Up to the contrivance that bugged the hell out of me, I was swept away by the strong acting (especially by young Nielsen) and all the ethical questions clanging in my head. I’m still not sure if the film was too pat but I can tell you this — the movie warrants a look-see for the acting alone. Wrestling with its structural validity is a bonus feature.

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peaking in tongues can serve a secular purpose. And it can take you on a voyage of self-discovery. Ask Clifford the Homeless Guy, who came up with a formula for making plutonium out of household products while ambling by the river last night, random syllables and sounds taking him he knew not where. Or more to the point, ask Mike Dixon, a singer and guitarist for the Bloomington rock four-piece Memory Map. About a year ago, the guys in Memory Map were sitting around Russian Recording, the studio owned by band member Mike Bridavsky. They had just finished an album’s worth of instrumentals, a collection of guitar-driven tracks that were bright, tight, dense and sometimes polyrhythmic in the style of math rock, but melody-driven, accessible and never complicated for the sake of complication. The recording process had gone smoothly enough. Bridavsky, talking with me last week, joked that, “knowing that they’ll be able to record for free,” people are that much more likely to be in a band with him. Which isn’t quite true, though Dixon, on the speakerphone during the same interview, added about the process, “Being able to take a leisurely pace with things and be more careful, it was like, ‘Whoa, this is what it feels like to be in Coldplay.’” But all along, they had wanted to add lyrics, and those didn’t turn out so easy to come by. Dixon compares the writing process to a scene from the Metallica doc Some Kind of Monster that saw the metal band struggling to write any lyric at all, staring at a notebook as if it were one of the memory erasers from the movie Men in Black. One problem was that the music was already pretty dense, and while it wasn’t dense enough that it would have worked to perform the compositions without lyrics, there wasn’t exactly space for them either. The band’s makeup — three guitars, one of them occasionally masquerading as a bass; a drum set, played precisely and energetically — lends itself towards complexity, not to mention that band members are, as Bridavsky puts it, “not scared to play crazy guitar parts and make it work.” So they tried to find an outside singer, hoping that she could find a way to make things work. And they did look for a she, trying out three or four female vocalists. None of them could figure it out, according to Bridavsky. “The music was intimidating; there was so much melody going on already that people were like, where would the vocals even fit in here?” And besides, the guys in the band had already bonded, and a new member would

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The guys in Memory Map — from left, Matt Tobey, Mike Bridavsky, Mike Dixon and Josh Morrow — always dress like this.

have been superfluous. The three guitarists knew each other going in: Bridavsky, who gets to record just about every rock band in Bloomington through his work at Russian Recording; Dixon, who played with the band Rapider than Horsepower and had wanted to work with Bridavsky for some time; and Matt Tobey, who enjoys a significant following in the indie world for his work with the band Push-Pull and backing work for Kimya Dawson. Tobey joined the band at the behest of the two Mikes, Dixon and Bridavsky, leaving the three looking for a drummer. Dixon found him first, announcing, as Bridavsky remembers, “‘I know this drummer; he’s got the touch.’” And he turned out to be Josh Morrow, an IU audio engineering student and member of the band Impure Jazz. Bridavsky approached him one night after an Impure Jazz show, and whispered to him ominously, “We’ll be using you later.” Somewhat younger than the rest of the guys, Morrow ended up being the brunt of Blink 182 jokes made at his expense, two of which made their way to the band’s current bio. It just wasn’t going to work to find a vocalist outside of the band: the big brothers had already begun teasing the younger member, and they’d all spent too much time working together already. So the guys looked inward, deep within, to that undeveloped element in each of us that knows no language. Call it the Id; call it the soul; call me on my hyperbole. Here’s Bridavsky: “Mike Dixon is a really cool singer, and he’s really good at coming up with melodies, so we just kind of gave him a mic and he free-balled it.” Dixon clarified: “Speaking in tongues. No lyrics,

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which have always been my least favorite part of writing songs anyway. I like good lyrics when I hear them, but it’s not my strong point.” And so Dixon went Pentacostal on the tracks. And then came the time for deep hermeneutical study. Bridavsky again: “We copied and pasted the coolest things he sang, the coolest melodies, and we listened to that for a while. And then, based on that, we sat around and listened to whatever he sounded like he was saying or whatever syllables he used, and then we kind of made up words based on that.” And lo, an album was basically complete, and released in June of last year under the title Memory Map. Not that the record was, at the time, self-titled. For Memory Map began life as Holiday Band. It was a fine arrangement at a time. Bridavsky was surprised that so many people were interested in the new album, given that it was self-released and that that their promotional efforts were limited to posting the album on Bandcamp. But the record was little too successful, and Google results soon saw Bloomington’s Holiday Band showing up before a cover band by the same name. And Holiday Band, “The South-East’s Premier Party & Dance Band,” happened to have copyright on their name. In order to forestall threatened legal action, the band name and the album title were inverted, Holiday Band becoming

Memory Map, Memory Map becoming Holiday Band. “And in the end, I like being called Memory Map,” Dixon explained. Thus, we have a new version of the old record, with the release of Holiday Band by Joyful Noise Recordings on 180 gm red vinyl (like a Jolly Rancher record, according to the band), as well as standard weight black vinyl and CD. Bridavsky had worked with Joyful Noise labelhead Karl Hofstetter before, when other bands on his label recorded at Russian Recordings. “Karl will not put out anything he doesn’t believe in and that he’s not into, and he’s got pretty specific tastes,” Bridavsky explained. “But I played him Memory Map and he was really into it right off the bat.” Band members are now at work on second album for Joyful Noise, due in fall 2012, or “right before the Apocalypse,” according to Bridavsky. Because while promotional materials make out Memory Map to be something of a Bloomington super-group made up of members already active in other bands, the opposite is close to the truth. “It seemed that when we started we were a side project band to a lot of people just because of the other bands we had played in, but I’m pretty certain for all of us this is our main musical focus now and we’re all pretty serious about it,” Bridavsky said.

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We review the city’s biggest concert B Y N O RA S PI T Z N O G LE M U S I C@N U V O . N E T The only training I did for this year’s One America 500 Festival Mini Marathon was the mile walk from my car to the starting corral. I did buy a new pair of shoes that I’d broken in by walking around the house twice, and I’d packed an extra camera battery, camera, notebook, pens and a jacket. I’m way better at accessories than training. We folks in Corral Y (as in A-Z) didn’t get to the starting line until 31 minutes after the elite runners took off. I spent a lot of time explaining why I had a camera and purse with me, but probably not as much as the guy with the mustache and tiara. A couple wearing faux wedding gear told me about their upcoming nuptials. As is tradition, the first band along the 13.1 mile route, was the Crossroads of America Scout Band. Yankee Doodle Dandy delightful. As I fought my way thought the crowd, I was happy to see Dean Phelps, singing something spiritual about the soul, or maybe the soles of our shoes. It was a little hard to hear about the thousands of pounding feet. As I walked by the Jose-Roymon Project, Roy Barnes and Bobby T. were singing their original song, “Back Home in Indiana.” I think I heard the line “strumming the guitar in the pool,” and something about “playing honky-tonk in a white-trash bar.” I’m not sure if all of the clothes strewn at their feet were discarded by swooning women or runners that were too hot in their jackets. Main Street in Speedway is always a delightful stretch of the walk. Townsfolk waving flags and 13 year-olds playing flying V guitars always make me a little teary. I love seeing the junior high kids playing metal songs. I assume their parents know what they are singing about, since they are standing a respectful five feet away. I don’t want to imply that the kids are interchangeable, but I wonder if the young musicians have all met each other. The moms could carpool – and share notes about the best SUV for toting drum kits. I was super-sad that the Indiana Dancers Association was on a break when I passed

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Two joyful dudes: Dean Phelps (above) and Chad Mills.

by. The caller was playing a record and giving instruction over the PA, but the dancers were tucked under the eaves of the liquor store giving him a what-the-hell look. One woman, who saw me with my camera and look of disappointment, jumped up in her flouncy dress and waved to me. The longest part of the course is the 2.5 miles around the historic track. The thrill of walking around the track is gone after the first year. Mostly, your view is of empty stands and pavement. I quickly blew my fourteen-minute cushion with a bathroom break at the Speedway — no waiting in a Port-o-potty line and you can wash your hands — and a peek inside the Hi Neighbor Tavern. Chad Mills was playing Johnny Cash in front of the bar and, feeling a little bad ass, I has the idea of ordering a beer, taking a slug and rejoining the race. I was standing in front of the bar with my money and ID in hand — as much as I was feeling tough, I didn’t want to break any laws — when the waitress looked at me and said, “Yes, you can take a picture.” I took that as a sign and scurried out. Maybe next year. I’ve seen Orlando Hinojosa y su Familia Band as a solo act at several Mini Marathons. I’m really looking forward to seeing the rest of the clan; but alas, this year, he was once again sin que la banda de la familia. I swear he was singing a Partridge Family tune, “We’re So Happy Together,” but I too busy contemplating how to get the fog out of my camera lens without involving a rock or tears. Always looking forward to seeing what band will play on a flatbed truck, I was delighted to see The Trumans covering Miranda Lambert song in front of J.R. Used Tires. Bravo! DJ Mamma Mia quickened my step in Mile 12 and I stumbled by way through Victory Mile, finishing with an 18.02/mile pace.

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UKE VICTORIA VOX Indy Hostel, 4903 Winthrop A ve. 7:30 p.m., $10, all ages We expect to hear the ukulele in a few , rather disparate, settings: in traditional Hawaiian music, over yonder in Appalachia, in a dank basement where the next Tiny Tim strums out his thousandth rendition of an Old T in Pan alley tune. Victoria Vox has a nice way of bringing together all those elements. W ell, she’s mostly in the Tin Pan Alley, café jazz and singer-songwriter tradition, but there are roots elements to her work — not to mention a sort of laid-back, almost cabana feel on a few tracks. Plus she plays a mean mouth trumpet, which is worth the price of entry alone. BENEFIT STRAIGHT AMERICANS FOR GAY EQUALITY KICKOFF SHOW Talbott Street Nightclub, 2145 N. Talbott St. 8:30 p.m., $6, 21+ What is Straight Americans for Gay Equality , you might ask? A new, Indiana-based organization whose mission, according to cofounder Trevor Watts, “is to celebrate love in all its incarnations, and to help mobilize the straight community in joining the fight against discriminatory policies in the state of Indiana in areas of employment, housing and civil unions.” They’ve already hosted a summit at IUPUI featuring a speech by Zach Wahls, a college student whose speech in support of gay rights before the Iowa General Assembly went viral earlier this year. And they’ll continue mobilizing with a benefit show at Talbott featuring burlesque by the Rocket Doll Revue and Angel Burlesque (performing for the first time together), as well as plenty of music provided by Sugar Moon Rabbit, Oreo Jones, Jascha, Goliathon and Mic Sol & Ace One.

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ROCK NEON LOVE LIFE, HERO JR., STEREO DELUXE, ACTION STRASSE Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $5, 21+

Neon Love Life, whose new album, Tuesday Night , is due July 23 on My Old Kentucky Blog house label Roaring Colonel, returns to local stages after a brief hiatus, joined by a couple bands that disappeared for much longer: Stereo Deluxe, the Southside power-pop band that hasn’ t been seen live for about a year (but which already managed to score a gig at X-Fest at V erizon Wireless later this month), and guitar rock band Action Strasse, whose all-star lineup (John Zeps, Vess Ruhtenberg) has been seen ever so infrequently since they

A Kalamazoo-born post-nugrass outfit (if such a genre exists), Greensky Bluegrass certainly have the chops associated with the genre; they jumped on the scene by winning a band contest at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and the first half of their set is typically devoted to more traditional numbers. But like many a jamgrass band (there, that’s the nomenclature), they can also get pretty far out there. Here’s Danielle Look, from her review of their 2010 Birdy’s performance, where she contrasted the opening, traditional bluegrass set with the jammier second set: “It was as if the fivepiece had wanted to first establish their musical foundation in bluegrass, and then say, ‘Oh, by the way. We can melt your face, too.’” The face melting wound up with a lengthy cover of “When Doves Fly.” Call it melt-grass. SKA BAD MANNERS, GREEN ROOM ROCKERS, TAX BRANDYWINE The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. 9 p.m., $12, 21+

A two-tone ska band that scored a few hits alongside compatriots such as Madness, The Specials and The Selecter, Bad Manners was, indeed, best known for its bad manners — getting kicked from the BBC; mooning the Pope, at least indirectly, during an Italian television appearance which the good pontiff was purportedly watching. Like many a ska band from the era, the group broke up by the mid-‘80s and then reassembled dur ing the ‘90s ska revival. The only remaining original members is Buster Bloodvessel, the band’s lead singer (and mooner) who was known for his distinctive bald head, which remains bald to this day.

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Greensky Bluegrass.

Friday & Saturday

CABARET BILLY STRITCH: TRIBUTE TO MEL TORMÉ

The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle, Ste. 516 8 p.m., $35-$55, 21+

Liza Minnelli music director Billy Stritch per forms his tribute to Mr. Velvet Fog himself, Mel Tormé, taking stock of the whole of the singer’s career, from his early repertoire (including “You’re Driving Me Crazy,” the first tune Tormé performed on stage, at the tender age of four) to classics such as “Lulu’ s Back in Town” and “Mountain Greenery.”

SOUNDCHECK Saturday

ROOTS WFHB ACOUSTIC ROOTS FESTIVAL Upland Brewing Company, 350 W. 11th St., Bloomington 2 p.m., $10, 21+

The exemplary community radio station WFHB hosts its biggest fundraiser of the year, an all-day festival featuring a who’ swho of south central Indiana roots acts (including Tim Grimm, White Lightning Boys, Bobbie Lancaster, Davy Jay Sparrow, The Calumet Reel) and a ringer from Indy (soul lady Jennie DeVoe). Most intriguing is the headliner, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, a bluegrass-klezmer hybrid band fronted by a founding member of The Klezmatics (and an IU School of Music grad to boot). GUITAR PAT WEBB, THE STRUGGLERS, THOM WOODARD AND WILL STOCKTON, 78 RPM Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $5, 21+

The great thing about Folkways is that every album ever released on the label is in print — every collection of urban soundscapes, every gamelan field recording, every anthology of songs of American history. Label founder Moses Asch wanted it that way, and Smithsonian/Folkways carries on the tradition. So you buy a copy , right now, of Pat Webb, Guitar , a collection of solo instrumentals recorded in Indianapolis and released in 1978 on Folkways. W ebb did quite a bit of work before and after the Folkways release, recording with mandolinist Yank Rachell, sitting in with Bill Monroe. And he told ourbrowncounty. com that his solo stuf f, which he started performing and releasing in the ’50, anticipated John Fahey’s work by “10 or 15 years at least” in its up-tempo melding of blues, folk and other indigenous American musics. Still active out of his home base in Brown County, Webb will make the drive up to Indy for a tribute to his work.

Monday

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It’s been nine years since Otto the Comic opened up his Funhouse, a comedy-centric open-mic held the third Monday of each month at the Mel. And a few disasters have been averted along the way, according to Otto. (We can’t verify the veracity of these stories, by the way.) There was the time a so-called night-time street vendor tried to sell a chainsaw to a one-armed comic on stage. And when a misguided audience member, listening to Otto tell about his worst shows, decided upon an oh-socreative way to make the night memorable. “This guy says, “Has this ever happened?” Otto tells me. “And he started charging the stage. He was coming fast and, even if he tried to stop, he was gonna hit me. So I grabbed him by the shirt and rolled backwards, putting my foot in his face and flipping him over. He landed with blood gushing out of his face. ‘You broke my freaking nose,’ he said. You rushed the stage, dumbass!” A few acts are already booked: on the music side, The Hooten Hallers, Otto’s rockabilly band Otto & the Gearheads, the mystifying Mansuper and DOUG; and comics Garry Gobel, Ryan Remington and Ray Mills.

ROCK CAKE

Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 6:30 p.m., sold out, 21+

We’ll forego the hard sell for this one, given that it’s sold out and that we never try to sell you anything — we just suggest, that’ s all. So here are some thoughts: Cake is a solid, funny, geeky band with a clever approach to graphic design very much rooted in the ‘90s; some of their songs still hold up, particularly the wonderfully deadpan “Short Skirt, Long Jacket”; and you have to love the trumpet parts, which just seem to make the proceeding even nerdier. And they’ve remained weird, continuing to write in a stream-ofconsciousness style, keeping it deadpan.

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R&B ERIC BENET, TANK

Benet, who was married to Halle Berry for about three years, during which time he made the lethal mistake of acting in Mariah Carey’s Glitter, plays Indy a few months after the release of his Lost in T ime, a throwback to smooth ‘70s soul a la Stevie W onder, Gamble and Huff, Marvin Gaye and Isaac Hayes. The record’s not a huge departure from his typical R&B sound, though it doesn’ t engage, for obvious reasons, with hip-hop or funk in some of the ways Benet has in the past.

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Alan Palomo of Neon Indian.

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ROCK JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EXPERIENCE

Mura Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St. 7:30 p.m., $19.50-$39.50 (plus fees), all ages

John Bonham’s son Jason, who performed with the local blues-rock act Healing Sixes in the early ‘00s, will try to channel the spirit of his late father during this tribute performance.

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Good Seed Saturday 9 PM to Midnight

CHILLWAVE NEON INDIAN, OBERHOFER

Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $10 advance (eventbrite.com), $12 door, 21+

The Austin-based chillwave act Neon Indian is largely the brainchild of one guy , Alan Palomo, with a penchant for putting together dream pop and New W ave, electro and shoegaze. His dreamy work is often accompanied by visuals; the band’s other official member, Alicia Scardetta, provides the short films. Those are the two permanent members, but Palomo brings along three tour mates to conjure up the chill live. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 05.11.11-05.18.11 // music

BARFLY

by Wayne Bertsch

REVIEWS BOB SEGER, BORROW TOMORROW

AMO JOY, SON DROP AND CHRISTIAN TAYLOR

Conseco Fieldhouse, May 7

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Midtown, May 6

Saturday night was a stellar showcase, not just of Seger’s deep and eclectic music catalog, but the talents of his Silver Bullet Band. Over two-plus hours, they blazed through the funky “Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You” and “Come to Poppa” to the barrel-chested “Long Twin Silver Line” and the jazzy “Katmandu.” Seger’s voice still retains that signature rasp, and hasn’t lost any of its punch. Nor has the man himself. He was in fighting form all evening, shadow-boxing with the music and multiple times raising his fists in triumph at the enthralling racket he and his band were making. Immensely aiding the proceedings was a four-man horn section and three backing female vocalists. As one person in attendance said, a horn section makes any song better. That goes double for Alto Reed, Seger’s saxophonist since 1971. On a crowd-moving rendition of “Old Time Rock and Roll,” he traded searing solos with lead guitarist Mark Chatfield. He handled the signature guitar line of “Main Street” with his sax and performed an impromptu embellishment on “Turn the Page” when Seger forgot part of the lyrics. Seger could’ve rehashed his greatest hits and still have plenty to fill a setlist. But for someone still in writing and performing mode, he’s used this spring tour to display what has unmistakably been a prolific career. The gospel-steeped “Good for Me” fit right in, followed immediately by the seldom-played chestnut “Shinin’ Brightly” and the one-two punch of “Travelin’ Man” and “Beautiful Loser” that made Seger’s Live Bullet one of the most acclaimed live albums ever. Indianapolis-based Borrow Tomorrow earned the honor of opening the show, and took full advantage of the opportunity. As singer Chris Jerles proclaimed, for four Indiana boys, “This is one hell of a thrill for us.” Lead guitarist Robert Newport transitioned seamlessly between bluesy wail and ragged rock throughout their half-hour set. Jerles stalked the big stage and busted out some Springsteen moves. About twothirds through the performance, he bellowed “I’m looking for a brand new start” at the end of a sly, sliding country-rock piece. They may just get it.

The house show remains the ultimate combination of party and concert, the closest you can get to the music without actually having an instrument in your hands. Case in point: Friday night at a big brick house in the 30 block of College Ave., where local acts Amo Joy and Christian Taylor, as well as Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Son Drop, performed for 50 or so odd fans and friends. The scene was so close-knit that at times the squeaking of the keg pump threw off musicians’ timing. To get the evening going, singer-songwriter Christian Taylor took the stage with fellow Homeschooler Andrew Gustin on rhythm guitar and melodica. The two played a sort of stripped-down, electric folk with Taylor’s poetic lyrics taking center stage. Sound-wise they seem to fall somewhere in the Neil Young realm, but with a “Dylan-esque disregard for melody,” as audience member Chelsea Doyle observed. Taylor’s words have that peculiar capacity all great singer-songwriters seem to share: the ability to bend your mind and make you ponder. After a break and brief hang session on the porch, Kalamazoo-based Son Drop took the floor. Fronted by lead guitarist and singer James Duke, these guys have a low-slung, alternative-on-antidepressants kind of sound they describe as “working man’s psych rock.” The band has a weirdly comfortable feel, sometimes cinematic, sometimes nostalgic. Indy-based band Amo Joy capped off the night. The interesting thing about these guys is just how different their stuff sounds live than on their latest album, Across Nycthemeron (2010). The cuts on the album have a sugary, Yellow Submarine, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd feel about them. Live, however, the band sounds decidedly more punk, adding a buzz-bass and turning up the intensity a little closer to eleven. When asked about this effect, frontman Adam Gross said the “dirtiness” of the sound is something that evolved as the band has played the album live. This band’s astonishingly wide range — which seems to run from chamber pop to punk — is best displayed in the track “A Regal Tomorrow,” which starts with a lilting, whistle-driven melody, before descending into outright garage rock.

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and offer personal advice for women on the importance of raising proper families and catering to mujahedeens’ needs. The latest, Al-Shamikha (“The Majestic Woman”), which surfaced in March, featured interviews with martyrs’ wives and advised women to stay indoors, both for modesty and a “clear complexion” (advice that earned the magazine its nickname “Jihad Cosmo”). • Snowmobilers fall through thin ice every season because the ice’s thickness is difficult to estimate, especially at night. Less understandable is that every season, when other snowmobilers come to rescue the downed snowmobiler, they drive their vehicles as close as they can to the spot of the fall — which, of course, is right at the lip of thin-ice-break, thus virtually assuring that their vehicle, too, will fall in, such as the four people who fell through the ice in a pond near Holyrood, Newfoundland, in February. • Young girls “grow up” prematurely, often aided by hungry retailers such as the U.S.’s Abercrombie & Fitch and the British clothiers Primark and Matalan, each of which this spring began offering lines of padded bras for girls as young as 7 (8 at Abercrombie & Fitch for the “Ashley Push-Up Triangle”), with Matalan offering one in size “28aa.” Child advocates were predictably disgusted, with one Los Angeles psychologist opining that permissive mothers were trying to compensate through their daughters for their own lack of sexual appeal.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The 16th-century English writer John Heywood was a prolific creator of epigrams. I know of at least 20 of his proverbs that are still invoked, including “Haste makes waste,” “Out of sight, out of mind,” “Look before you leap,” “Beggars shouldn’t be choosers,” “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” and “Do you want to both eat your cake and have it, too?” I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect you’re in a Heywoodian phase of your long-term cycle. In the coming weeks, you’re likely to unearth a wealth of pithy insights and guiding principles that will serve you well into the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There’s not a whole lot of funny stuff reported in the Bible, but one notable case occurred when God told Abraham that he and his wife Sarah would finally be able to conceive their first child. This made Abraham laugh out loud, since he was 99 years old at the time and Sarah was 90. It may have been a while since God has delivered any humorous messages to you, Libra, but my sense is that She’s gearing up for such a transmission even as we speak. To receive this cosmic jest in the right spirit, make sure you’re not taking yourself too damn seriously.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe,” said astronomer Carl Sagan in his book Cosmos. In other words, the pie can’t exist until there’s a star orbited by a habitable planet that has spawned intelligent creatures and apples. A lot of preliminaries have to be in place. Keep that in mind, Taurus, as you start out down the long and winding path toward manifesting your own personal equivalent of the iconic apple pie. In a sense, you will have to create an entire world to serve as the womb for your brainchild. To aid you in your intricate quest, make sure to keep a glowing vision of the prize always burning in the sacred temple of your imagination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): No one in history has ever drunk the entire contents of a regulation-size ketchup bottle in less than 39 seconds. So says the Guinness Book of World Records . However, I believe it’s possible that a Scorpio daredevil will soon break this record. Right now your tribe has an almost supernaturally enormous power to rapidly extract the essence of anything you set your mind to extracting. You’ve got the instincts of a vacuum cleaner. You’re an expert at tapping into the source and siphoning off exactly what you need. You know how to suck — in the best sense of that word — and you’re not shy about sucking.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ll quote Wikipedia: “Dawn should not be confused with sunrise, which is the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon.” In other words, dawn comes before the sun has actually showed itself. It’s a ghostly foreshadowing — a pale light appearing out of nowhere to tinge the blackness. Where you are right now, Gemini, is comparable to the last hour before the sunrise. When the pale light first appears, don’t mistake it for the sun and take premature action. Wait until you can actually see the golden rim rising. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When some readers write to me, they address me as “Mr. Brezsny.” It reminds me of what happens when a check-out clerk at Whole Foods calls me “sir”: I feel as if I’ve been hit in the face with a cream pie — like someone is bashing my breezy, casual self-image with an unwelcome blast of dignity and decorum. So let’s get this straight, people: I am not a mister and I am not a sir. Never was, never will be. Now as for your challenges in the coming week, Cancerian: I expect that you, too, may feel pressure to be overly respectable, uncomfortably formal, excessively polite, and in too much control. That would be pushing you in a direction opposite to the one I think you should go. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): At one point in the story “Alice in Wonderland,” a large talking bird known as the Dodo organizes a race with unusual rules. There is no single course that all the runners must follow. Rather, everybody scampers around wherever he or she wants, and decides when to begin and when to end. When the “race” is all over, of course, it’s impossible to sort out who has performed best, so the Dodo declares everyone to be the winner. I encourage you to organize and participate in activities like that in the coming weeks, Leo. It’s an excellent time to drum up playful victories and easy successes not only for yourself, but for everyone else, too. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his book The Rough Guide to Climate Change , Bob Henson talks about the “five places to go before global warming messes them up.” One such beautiful spot is Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. Vast swatches of its trees are being ravaged by hordes of pine beetles, whose populations used to be kept under control by frigid winters before the climate began to change. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and Switzerland’s Alpine glaciers are among the other natural beauties that are rapidly changing form. I suggest that you apply this line of thought to icons with a more personal meaning, Virgo. Nothing stays the same forever, and it’s an apt time in your astrological cycle to get all you can out of useful and wonderful resources that are in the midst of transformation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’m not superstitious,” said Michael Scott, the former boss in the TV show The Office. “I’m just a little stitious.” From my perspective, Sagittarius, you shouldn’t indulge yourself in being even a little stitious in the coming weeks. You have a prime opportunity to free yourself from the grip of at least some of your irrational fears, unfounded theories, and compulsive fetishes. I’m not saying that you suffer from more of these delusions than any of the rest of us. It’s just that you now have more power than the rest of us to break away from their spell. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Plato’s Republic, Socrates speaks derisively about people who are eu a-mousoi, an ancient Greek term that literally means “happily without muses.” These are the plodding materialists who have no hunger for inspiration and no need of spiritual intelligence. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Capricorn, you can’t afford to be eu a-mousoi in the coming weeks. Mundane satisfactions won’t be nearly enough to feed your head and heart. To even wake up and get out of bed each morning, you’ve got to be on fire with a shimmering dream or a beautiful prospect. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his Book of Imaginary Beings, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges reports the following: “Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.” I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because my reading of the astrological omens suggests that you, too, may be in training to fight a beast that does not exist. Luckily, you’re also in an excellent position to realize that fact, quit the unnecessary quest, and redirect your martial energy into a more worthy endeavor. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Want to see a rabbit chase a snake up a tree? Go watch this video on YouTube: tinyurl.com/ BunnyWhipsSnake. If for some reason you don’t have access to Youtube, then please close your eyes and visualize a cute bunny harassing a six-foot-long snake until it slithers madly away and escapes up a tree. Once you have this sequence imprinted on your mind’s eye you will, I hope, be energized to try a similar reversal in your own sphere. Don’t do anything stupid, like spitting at a Hell’s Angels dude in a biker bar. Rather, try a metaphorical or psychological version.

Homework: Imagine it’s 40 years from today. As you look back on your life, what is the one adventure you regret not trying? Testify at http://www.freewillastrology.com.

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