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URINE TROUBLE s a woman who occasionally uses the men’s bathroom to avoid the line for the women’s, I take particular interest in the “bathroom bans” being passed by states that would criminalize me for eschewing the bathroom patriarchy. Sen. Jim Tomes (R-Wadesville) proposed one of the most egregious versions of the bill back in December 2015 that would have criminalized people for using the wrong bathroom with up to a year in jail, and fine them up to $5,000. For perspective, that’s a harsher penalty than Johnny Manziel faces for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. Indiana’s lawmakers were busy making women’s healthcare decisions last session, so the bill died in committee, but you might be wondering why the state of Indiana has suddenly sniffed out a need to criminalize people for using the wrong bathroom. For this solution in search of a problem, we turn to North Carolina. The city of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance protecting LGBT persons from discrimination in several public places including bathrooms. In response, the state of North Carolina passed an anti-anti-discrimination law that bans local governments from enforcing any non-discrimination ordinances. It effectively nullifies a
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dozen such ordinances in the state. It also forces schools to violate Title IX by requiring them to ensure students use separate bathrooms matching the biology they were born with. It is being sold to the public as a necessary deterrent to crimes against women and children in bathrooms. To be clear, state lawmakers insist they aren’t worried that transgender people
Bathroom bans unnecessarily punish transgender people. As Lara Nazario, a Charlotte resident and trans woman, explained, “If I were to walk into a men’s bathroom, I would either be told that I’m in the wrong bathroom or I’d be outed as a trans woman. This can often lead to violence or harassment, especially when there’s no protection in place for people like me.” As a result of North Carolina’s law, businesses like PayPal have withdrawn a planned expansion that would have created 400 jobs, Bruce Springsteen canceled his performance in that state, and the NBA announced it is changing venues for the 2017 NBA All-Star Game and Weekend. Others are following suit. It’s unclear how much North Carolinians are willing to give up to eliminate an imaginary bathroom boogeyman, but it’s clear to the discerning that these laws are an
themselves are sexual deviants. They’re worried that sexually deviant men will throw on a wig and some rouge to gain access to these facilities – so the obvious solution is to punish lawabiding citizens for having the audacity to use the bathroom. Point out the tens of thousands of gun deaths each year, and these same Republicans will insist any attempt to reduce them is a tyrannical violation of their 2nd Amendment rights. But give them one documented I’m just speculating, but maybe incident of a man cross-dressing to gain sentencing men who assault women access to a women’s to harsher penalties would be a more bathroom, and suddenly the mere effective deterrent than banning trans possibility of this scenario rises above women from bathrooms. tragedies like Sandy Hook that occur on a regular basis. overreaching response to an exaggerated The cross-dressing man was charged threat. Women are far more likely to be with six counts of unlawful use of a victimized by someone they know than concealed camera for the purposes of by a stranger in a public bathroom. sexual gratification. An additional law If we’re not going to demand unisex wasn’t necessary to secure justice. bathrooms, then let’s at least refrain I’m just speculating, but maybe from criminalizing people for the sentencing men who assault women simple act of urinating. n to harsher penalties would be a more effective deterrent than banning trans women from bathrooms.
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ony and Jerome have the kind of love you see in movies, the kind you hope for in real life. They met by chance as kids, while Jerome’s family was vacationing at Ottawa Lake in Wisconsin. Tony, whose family lived near the lake, brought his nephew for the day. Thirteen years later they ran into each other somehow, maybe by fate, and Jerome told a friend: “I’ve just met the man I’m going to marry.” There was a phone call, a first date, a first dance. “It was the dancing that sealed it,” Tony says, smiling. It’s been 20 years now. He’s a truck driver. Jerome is in sales. Like couples everywhere they finish each other’s sentences, refill the other’s coffee and order food for each other. Like couples everywhere, Tony and Jerome know each other’s habits, tastes, needs. There’s just one problem: They have to hide. In fact, for this story, Tony
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insisted we not use his real name. Jerome asked that we not use his last name. Tony’s afraid he’ll lose his job if coworkers learn he’s gay. Jerome has come out at work, but at a cost: He’s lost his last two jobs – most recently, the company said, because they had to eliminate the position. Jerome isn’t sure he lost his job because he is gay. Tony doesn’t know either, but is positive that if his co-workers learned about Jerome he’d be fired – or harassed by co-workers until he quit. The truck driver is so sure of this, he spoke only on condition that he not be identified, and asked to be called Tony for this story. “You have to do it if you want to keep your job,” Tony said. “Or your life,” Jerome added. Tony’s fears are not unfounded. Amid the certainty of their love is the uncertainty of what would happen if Tony’s employers knew he was gay. Indiana is one of 28 states without laws
protecting the LGBT community from employment discrimination, and adding these protections has not been a smooth process for lawmakers. In Illinois, Megan Sommerville is doing something neither Jerome nor Tony could do because of Indiana law. She is suing her employer for discrimination based on sexual identity. Sommerville, a transgender woman, sued her employer, Hobby Lobby in 2014 because she was not allowed to use the woman’s restroom at work even though she identifies as a woman and looks like one. She is suing under the Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and other areas based on sexual orientation or gender identity, among other characteristics.
“Indiana, surprisingly, for a northern state,” Sommerville said, “is exceedingly conservative and far behind.” Indiana Senate Bill 344, which would have provided protection for Tony, Jerome and their jobs, failed in the General Assembly in February. Two Republican senators, Travis Holdman and Brandt Hershman, drafted the bill. Mary Kite, a psychology professor at Ball State, has researched attitudes toward LGBT people for over 30 years. She has found that gay men are 34 percent less likely to receive an interview for a job. Lesbians are 12-13 percent less likely. In her study, gay subjects mentioned that detail of their lives in an “interests” section of their resume or cover letter when applying for a job. >>>
ONLY 20 STATES and Washington D.C. have employment non-discrimination laws covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
THREE STATES — North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas have state laws prohibiting the passage of local non-discrimination ordinances.
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND WISCONSIN have employment non-discrimination laws covering sexual orientation only.
INDIANA IS AMONG 28 states with no employment nondiscrimination laws covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
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<<< “Oftentimes,” Kite said in a faculty presentation at Ball State University on April 6, “it seems like discrimination is gone, but it’s really not.” On the job, according to a 2011 survey by the Williams Institute, a think tank through UCLA School of Law that conducts research on sexual orientation and gender identity, 35 percent of LGBT people reported being harassed at work because of their sexual orientation. Sixteen percent of respondents reported they lost their jobs because of it. The same survey found that up to 78 percent of transgender people had experienced harassment or mistreatment at work because of their gender identity. Further, 47 percent reported they had been discriminated against in hiring, keeping a job or being promoted. Kite said this discrimination reflects a lack of understanding about sexuality. An emerging notion among some psychologists is that gender, rather than being simply male or female, lies instead on a scale. And the ambiguity may be physical, as well. In an exploration of the topic in the journal Nature last year, writer Claire Ainsworth noted that some researchers think
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Like Tony, 53 percent of LGBT employees report feeling obligated to lie about their personal lives while they are at work, according to a 2014 report by the Human Rights Campaign. Jerome, Tony and Sommerville are not without hope, though. Organizations like GLAD and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission use litigation to earn rights for the LGBT community. Spokesman James Ryan for the EEOC in Washington, said when the agency receives a charge of discrimination, it first validates the claim and then tries to mediate a solution. If that does not happen, the EEOC will file suit, hoping that the attendant publicity will deter other companies from discriminating. “Anyone who works in the United States has the right not to be discriminated against in the workplace,” Ryan said. Kite said it is a matter of when change happens, not if. “It takes a while,” she said. “It’s definitely starting to pick up in the major cities in Indiana.” Already, Indianapolis, South Bend, Evansville, Muncie, Kokomo, Carmel
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as many as 1 percent of the population has some degree of “intersex” development. “Doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary — their sex chromosomes say one thing, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) or sexual anatomy say another,” Ainsworth wrote. Kite said people who don’t identify clearly as male or female, or who don’t possess the traditional male or female characteristics, can become targets. “Pretty much anytime people violate gender roles, there’s pushback,” she said. In the workplace, this can come in the form of harassment or discrimination. Carisa Cunningham, of the GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), says discrimination is caused by the stigma and prejudice against this community. She said that’s also because there are no nationwide legal protections against discrimination for LGBT people. When Jerome did come out at work, the decision was not an easy one. “I was afraid I would get fired,” he said. “I was afraid I would get hurt.”
among others, have passed laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The movement appears to transcend politics: While Democrats have often led the fight for LGBT rights, the mayors of Evansville and Carmel are Republicans. “It’s a ripple effect that’s going to change the world,” Sommerville said. Though the debate is over for this year, Senate leader David Long, also a Republican, told the IndyStar in an article on February 3, that Indiana lawmakers will revisit the gay rights issue next year. The Hobby Lobby manager is still waiting for a decision on her lawsuit. Sommerville said the increasing acceptance of LGBT people across the country gives her confidence that the case will turn in her favor. For Jerome and Tony, who do not live or work in towns with LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances, they find comfort with each other. “We’re just a happily married couple who just happens to be gay,” Jerome said. n
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Big Car opens the Tube Factory with photo, video and sculptural show ASPHALTUM: ART EXHIBIT CELEBRATING 100TH RUNNING OF THE INDY 500 e
An artist friend punched me in the shoulder the other night and told me that, after reading my racing-themed weblog, she didn’t believe the Indy 500 — the theme of many First Friday openings this month — meant much to me. Guilty as charged, I suppose. But while it’s true that I’ve never been to an Indy 500, that doesn’t mean I have a problem with curators running with the 500 as a theme. Kathleen Asheton’s work is the most literal in Asphaltum, as she is a professional racing photographer; she captures something of the heroworshipping hysteria of racing, and the serene diffidence of one of the best known drivers — NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon — in “Autographs.” Who knew that you could both reference the racing world and color field painting? Kevin Teare, apparently. From afar Teare’s “Open Wheel 3: A Color Chart for the 1965 Indy 500” looks something like those Georgia O’Keefe cloudscapes gone technicolor. Speaking of Color Field, Skip Jones’ four painted “Field Shifter” sculptures evoke Ellsworth Kelly’s panel series hanging in the IMA’s contemporary collection (hanging there for way too long if you ask me). But Jones’ work flies beyond Color Field with their tri-winged triangular construction and the way they shift color onto the wall — light cast upon them with LED lights — intermingling with shadow. Jones’ pieces also evoke the world of particle physics, a subject addressed in Katrina Murray’s painterly work. Murray has been getting back to painting, slowly, after a brain injury sustained in a car accident a year ago. Her abstract composition “Slow Motion” may very well evoke the painting of Joan Miró, but it was inspired by the spontaneous, free-flowing artwork of her three-year old granddaughter Baylor. Another artist getting back to paint— after a decade working with repurposed materials—is Danielle Riede. Her oil on canvas painting “Canopy,” looks from afar like a geode slice with its circular bands of greens, blues, and aquamarines. Maybe, when you view the cars rushing by from back in the stands — all colors blurring together as one — it’s easier to see the art of it.
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ast October, Jesse Sugarmann was standing on the track of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway watching the pace car make its second lap. Behind the wheel was one of 100 people who were chosen to take part in his exhibit — The People’s 500. The show is Big Car’s first in the Tube Factory near Garfield Park, a multi-use community and art center focused on housing artists, providing accessible workshops and creative spaces for neighbors. Last year Big Car’s executive director, Jim Walker, showed the space to NUVO. A talent that has been true of Walker for years is the ability to point out an empty shopping mall or the crumbling cinderblock walls of a factory and paint a picture of what it could become. Many of Walker’s original ideas for the Tube Factory have come to fruition: the Listen Hear space (a block away from the Factory), stacked with bleachers for small shows and records lining the walls, and the wood and metal shops downstairs for artists to use like a makers space.
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“I think the Tube will be a lot like Service Center was, where a lot of the programming is coming through partnerships,” says Walker. When we were out at service center we had things like Trade School there … we are already getting all kinds of requests for the space … It will be a nice mixture of what our own team — what Shauta [Marsh] and Brent and Edwardo, Edwardo has a lot of programming in the works about immigration … it’s really what can we work on together.” The largest projects on the horizon are the artists’ homes (that were empty) purchased by Big Car with Riley Development. They hope to have them move-in ready by the end of the year. Currently there are three on Nelson Street and seven on Cruft. All of the homes will be co-owned by artists and Big Car, so that if the artists decide to sell
Big Car can keep the price regulated and ensure it’s sold to another artist. The idea is to keep the housing affordable to keep the neighbors from being priced out of their own block. They have plans to hopefully take over the large building to the south east of the Tube Factory, ideally making it into a space for small scale manufacturing and artist studios. They also acquired a church at the end of the block to be
“People don’t trust artists. In Indianapolis there was a surplus of trust.” — JESSE SUGARMANN converted into a studio and second gallery space. (The first is inside the Tube, which had its grand opening just two weeks ago.) The story exhibit (based on the Indy 500) really began in 2012 when Sugarmann received a Creative Capital Grant.
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He also wanted to give the pace car a chance to complete a full 500 mile race with everyday people behind the wheel. Sugarmann noted that in the interviews — which will be playing in a video room to the side of the gallery — he was continuously surprised by the answers when he asked what the “moment” was for them with the 500. Overwhelmingly it was Danica Patrick being the first woman to lead Indy 500 on May 29, 2005. He called it a “The scale of this project that we did “diversity of awe.” “I wasn’t surprised with Jesse also matches the scale of that that came up as a the project we are taking on in this theme for women, but I was surprised that it neighborhood.” was a theme for men,” says Sugarmann. — SHAUTA MARSH For Marsh the entire show is a representation of what Big Car has taken on with Garfield Park in the concept was to open what looked like Tub Factory, Listen Hear and the artist an unsanctioned Pontiac dealership as residencies. a performance space and showcase for “The scale of this project that we did car related sculptures. Originally she with Jesse also matches the scale of the approached him about bringing that project we are taking on in this neighwork to Indianapolis. When he came to borhood,” says Marsh. visit and discuss the show with Walker, But on a purely artistic scale, the show he drove him around the city pointing sings through the vivid high resolution out alternative corporate spaces that images. could be open to housing his work as an “It’s a bell you can’t unring, says Sugarartist. mann, discussing working with a camera “I began to realize how strangely open with that kind of capability. the powers at be in Indianapolis were to “[It was also] being able to produce at art, says Sugarmann. this scale, in terms of production quality “People don’t trust artists,” says and the opportunities that were afforded Sugarmann. “In Indianapolis there was to me by Big Car and by IMS to accoma surplus of trust.” plish that goal (and many other funders He explained that it seemed like really) have elevated the quality of work, business owners here see the benefit of the type of work that I can see myself activating spaces. Sugarmann began to making in the future,” says Sugarmann wonder just how trusting Indy would be. “… It has relieved my fear of taking on He asked Big Car to help him reach out things that are too big for me.” to the IMS. Big Car seems to be conquering the “They have access to scale that I have same fear too, constantly walking a never even had to think about before,” tightrope of making a community better says Sugarmann. “They think in acres without causing a financial exodus and I tend to think in inches.” when things start improving. Keeping And the scale kept getting bigger. The the focus on the neighbors and (mostly) IMS gave him a weekend of access to the the artists are ways that Walker hopes to track, a pace car and racing suits (after do that. crossing quite a few t’s with lawyers). “We are investing in these shows,” says Sugarmann put a call out to the public Walker. “It didn’t come from somewhere for people who wanted to be photo and else. It was made from start to finish, interview subjects. The big draw, of from idea to exhibition, in Indianapolis course, was the opportunity to drive a … We really like that combination — pace car. Our own managing editor Ed bringing in an artist like Jesse who can Wenck couldn’t even refuse. help us elevate our city and connect with “The pace car is the most other cities and other places. And also representative element of the racing showcase a lot of the great things that experience that is available to the local artists are trying to do.” n public,” says Sugarmann. “You can’t go to a Dodge dealership and get something shaped like an Indy Car.” “Its purpose is to find emerging artists and put a giant megaphone in front of them and suddenly make them very visible,” says Sugarmann. “That’s how I got hooked up with Big Car, they heard me through that.” Shauta Marsh, chief curator and cofounder of Big Car, saw an installation that Sugarmann crafted in Detroit. His
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Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., FREE Vocab May 11, 8 p.m., One of the oldest spoken word staples in Indy, Vocab is back and rolling at The Casba. For the May round the spoken word feature will be Greggory Deboor, the musical guest will be Steven Cooley and the visual artists will be Ben Rose and Spill (Phillip Kincaid). To see how host/ founder Tatjana Bryd curates each show go to the NUVO.net archives. Bryd rarely performs herself, but this round she will be stepping up to the mic. The Casba, 6319 Guilford Ave., $5, 21+ Poems For the People Featuring Devon Ginn & Jon Kuhn May 17, 7 p.m., Poems for the People is poetry mixed with comedy. The doors open at 6:30. So far the lineup is boasting: Gwen Sunkel, JL Kato, Matt Panfil, Penny Dunning, Josiah Ray, McCruiston, John Sherman, Erin Carr, Headlining, Comedian, Jon Kuhn and Devon Ginn. Indy Fringe Basile Theater, 719 E. St. Clair St, $5. Quake: A Queer Speakeasy May 26, 7 p.m., Alright this isn’t a poetry event specifically, but I will eat my hat if there isn’t some spoken word here at some point in the night. Call it a talent show/open mic for the local queer and trans communities. Want to share your stuff? Send an email to QueeringIndy@gmail.com on the kind of performance you’d like to share, a link to your work, and a two line bio. Thirsty Scholar, 111 E. 16th St., Ste. 101, FREE The Mad Hatter Poets Society Writers Open Stage Second and fourth Friday of every month, 7-9 p.m., Nestled in the Underground 9 Studio, Mad Hatter is a solid space to share new work and works in progress. While you are there check out Bookmamas’ stellar record collection in Irvington Vinyl. Bookmamas, 9 Johnson Ave., FREE
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY
OTHER POETRY EVENTS AROUND INDY Hijabi Dialogues: Stories of Gender, Faith, Identity and Understanding May 11, 7 p.m., The last chance to catch women of different religious backgrounds and life experiences all coming together for a night of spoken word. They discuss everything from faith to gender.
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Divedapper Carnival is shows poets in an untamed state
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s a longtime poet, Kaveh Akbar is fully aware of the common misconceptions that non-writers have of poetry events. For this reason, he’s making sure that the Divedapper Poetry Carnival defies them all. “It’s a daylong celebration, and it really will feel like a carnival,” says Akbar, who is also the founder and editor of a literary hub called Divedapper.com. “There will be unhealthy fried food and cotton candy and corndogs. There’s going to be dunk tanks and face painting. But then, there’s also going to be poetry readings by some of the premier poets in America.” Presented in partnership with Butler University and Divedapper.com, this first-ever free event will take over Butler University’s Efroymson Center for Creative Writing. In addition to numerous free workshops for both children and adults, those attending can also expect readings from Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Danez Smith and Heather Christle, who are co-headlining the event. “We picked these poets specifically because they’re very good performers of their poetry,” says Mindy Dunn, administrative specialist at the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing. “It’s not going to be the typical poetry reading where you come into a very academic room, and you
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were just kind of goofing around and talking one day about things we wanted to do,” says Akbar. “He said something like, ‘Why don’t we do a poetry festival at Butler?’ And we went back and forth spit-balling about it in the goofy way that friends do.” Eventually, the two started piecing the festival together, gaining “I don’t know of anything more and more support from those in the community. else like it.” “It took me a while to actually — KAVEH AKBAR get really invested in it and excited about it, only because I didn’t think that it was a real thing,” says Akbar. “But now, pretty much everything that we were spit-balling about origicome sit and you’re sort of held captive nally in that first conversation is actually for an hour while the same poet reads. going to happen, and it’s going to be the Instead, it’ll be light-hearted and joyful.” greatest, most exuberant, most positive A graduate of Butler’s creative writing celebration of poetry. I mean, I don’t master’s program, Akbar explains that know of anything else like it.” the initial idea for this carnival simply Throughout his work with Divedapper. started out as a pipe dream. com, Akbar has grown to love excellent “Dan Barden [an English professor at poets who are working to further the Butler] and I are good friends, and we
art form. For this reason, he’s especially excited about the headliners. “They’re just doing everything right,” he says. “They’re three of the most famous poets in America, and they’re still constantly finding ways to help other poets and to give of themselves.” By having these energetic writers take part in such a lively event, Akbar ultimately hopes that audiences leave the carnival with a newfound excitement for poetry. “Poetry is very, very much a part of the world around us today, and it’s very, very much alive and thriving,” he concludes. “We’re sort of in a golden age of poetry right now, and this event is a demonstrative sign of its good health.” n
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KINANE: Yeah. It just proves that you don’t know anything. That’s why comedy is fun, you’ll never figure it out. There’s no end. NUVO: You used to ride BMX bikes, right? Were you any good? KINANE: I was terrible at it because I was scared. I was a real scared kid but I liked skateboarding and BMX — all the isolation sports. If it was anything with a team, I didn’t understand because I
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trouble writing jokes once they are in a healthier place. Do you feel like being sad is more generative than being happy?
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NUVO: Is there anything nice about that? I know bombing sucks. But is there something nice about thinking, “at least I know I can still take risks and get away with it?”
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yle Kinane has a reputation for being a bit dark and twisty in his standup. The 39-year-old comic has appearances on Drunk History and a special on Comedy Central under his belt. But his real gems are hidden away on podcasts like The Nerdist and WTF with Marc Maron. Kinane is on a new standup tour and will be coming to Bloomington later this week. He spoke with us about some of the dark spots in the life of a comic.
KYLE KINANE: Once in awhile you’ll have a connection that you make and you’ll think, “Oh wow! How did I not see that before? You’ve been telling this joke for a year — how’d you not figure out that it could lead into this other part right away?” But I’m really bad with the game play analysis that other comics do. They’ll record their set, then go home and listen to it and fine tune it. I can barely stand listening to myself for the hour that I’m on stage. But there’s still some nights where you’ll try something new and sometimes it bombs miserably and that’s a surprise too. I’ll think to myself, “Wow you’ve been doing comedy for seventeen years and you really thought that was a good idea to say in front of people. Alright, well you’ve got a lot to learn still.”
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wasn’t coordinated and athletic. I think that’s why standup works … [In] skateboarding and BMX and comedy you can just say, “I want to be good at this just because I want to be good at it. It doesn’t mean I beat anyone else. It just means I’ve proven to myself it’s something I can do.” NUVO: A large percentage of my friends start doing standup because they are feeling terrible and then they have
KINANE: Stand up is planned obsolescence. You complain about life being shitty, and if you do it well enough, life isn’t shitty anymore. It’s easy to complain because everybody has problems. Especially when your audience is 20 and 30 somethings who are all in student loan debt because they were convinced that they had to go to college. They went for something that wasn’t practical and now they owe $100,000 for their communications degree. You related to those people, especially in an arts field. When you start comedy the rest of the audience is other comedians or musicians or people in that same part of the world. You’re usually not doing an open mic at 11:30 on a Tuesday to a bunch of CPAs who have to be up at 6 a.m. So you’re playing to a like-minded audience. NUVO: If you could end up in any place where would you want to end up? KINANE: Right now if you could get to a Brian Regan level, where somebody else is driving the bus, you can tour for a month or two months a year. Make enough money to live off of for the rest of the year then travel and see the rest of the world. That would be ideal. I don’t need millions of dollars, I just need enough to escape society frequently. [I just need] enough to pay for a self-sustaining cabin out in the woods. Just enough money to emerge from the bunker to make the year’s money, restock my water and foods supplies and then I’ll be back in the bunker in two months. A financed descent into madness is what I want. n
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The semi-biographical 1959 musical Gypsy is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most popular collaborations, featuring such enduring songs as “Everything’s Coming up Roses” and “Together Wherever We Go.” The story, set in the 1920s and ’30s, is about a “stage mom” who vicariously lives out her dreams by shackling her two daughters to showbiz. The second act is the most compelling, when Rose thrusts her eldest daughter, Louise, into burlesque, and the story gets into the grit of mother-daughter dynamics. Footlite Musicals’ current production, under the direction of Tim Spradlin and vocal director Jo Read Trakimas, suffered from some opening-night glitches, but hopefully, these will be resolved as the run continues. The production is carried by Susan Boilek Smith as Mama Rose and Elise Annette Delap as Louise. Boilek Smith is a powerhouse on stage, not only with her stunning vocals but her portrayal of a fierce woman who won’t take no for an answer. Her rendition of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” brings the house down. Delap is her foil, maintaining her sweet-natured, accommodating demeanor compared to her smothering mother. While her vocals are also strong, her delivery reflects Louise’s gentle charm in the face of her mother’s steamroller approach. Her vocals are crystal clear and communicate Louise’s optimistic view of life. Also of note is Rich Baker as the girls’ manager/ Rose’s love interest; his is a loveable underdog. Though only spotlighted briefly as Tulsa, one of the background singers/dancers for the girls’ act, Noah Nordman deserves mention for his excellent performance of “All I Need Is the Girl.” — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Through May 22, $10, footlitemusicals.wildapricot.org
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TECH AT THE TRACK INNOVATIONS
Some of the innovations pioneered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that are used beyond the race track:
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1909: hard driving surfaces 1911: rear-view mirror - Ray Harroun, Marmon Wasp 1911: pace car/rolling start - Carl Fisher, Stoddard-Dayton 1911: elevated curves (banking) for highway safety: Lincoln Highway, 1920s 1913: four-wheel brakes - Jules Goux, Peugeot 1913: dual overhead camshaft to improve engine performance - Jules Goux, Peugeot 1916: lightweight engine parts - Louis Chevrolet, Frontenac
Ed Carpenter makes contact with the wall in 2014 — note the “safer barrier,” an IMS improvement that reduces the force of impact during crashes. It’s one of just a few advancements at IMS not yet applied to American highways.
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1921: four-wheel hydraulic brakes - Jimmy Murphy,Duesenberg 1922: seatbelts - Barney Oldfield, pace car 1923: superchargers - Christian Lautenschlager, Christian Warner,Max Sailer , MercedesBenz
How the Indy 500 went from tech-testing to competition
1925: front-wheel drive - Dave Lewis, Miller 1925: balloon tire - Firestone 1926: intercooler - Frank Lockhart, Miller 1927: alternative fuels (methanol, ethanol) Leon Duray, Miller 1930s: disc brakes - Miller 1931: high-performance diesels: Clessie Cummins, Duesenberg/Cummins 1934: four-wheel drive: Bill Cummings, Miller 1946: magnesium wheels 1952: turbochargers - Freddie Agabashian, Cummins Diesel Special 1960s: low-profile tires with stronger sidewalls and a wider footprint for better cornering — Firestone, Goodyear 1963: all-wheel drive - Bobby Unser, Novi 1967: turbine engine - Parnelli Jones, Paxton 1971: Gurney flap (aerodynamics) — Dan Gurney, Eagle 1993: crash data recorders - Delphi Ongoing: improvements in lubricants and oils, durability in tire compounds for better traction, wear and durability asphalt pavement development
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n the early years of the twentieth century when automobiles were new, cars raced on public roads. What is now considered rallying was first formalized as a competition in France in 1894 with a race from Paris to Rouen. One year later racing hit the streets of Illinois for America’s first sanctioned race. The few existing roads were rough, rutted and sometimes muddy former wagon paths that meandered around obstacles such as trees and boulders. They were brutal on cars. Not only did that make for difficult and dangerous racing, but it also hampered everyday travel by automobile. Realizing that the burgeoning U.S. automotive industry needed further development if it was to compete with European design and craftsmanship, entrepreneur and automobile enthusiast Carl Fisher envisioned an immense test track to develop and promote this new phenomenon. Automakers needed a place to test prototypes. Because it was flat, the 328-acre Pressley Farm west of Indianapolis lent itself to becoming the perfect test track.
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Built in 1909 to develop and test the latest automotive technology, Fisher’s track attracted local manufacturers and racers. Fisher’s test track also enticed observers eager to watch the competitions from the relative safety of grandstands.
It worked. More than 80,000 spectators, some arriving on special trains from Chicago, New York and Detroit, watched Fisher pace the field of 40 race cars in his Stoddard-Dayton roadster. The lines between racing to test and racing for sport blurred in 1910 when the AAA refused to sanction the race because the cars “were not stock models, but professional racing Your daily commute, from rubber to machines,” according to Automotive Quarterly. road, owes thanks to the Speedway. By 1912, touches of sporting professionalism were apparent, with crews wearing color-coordinated After repaving the track in 1910 with uniforms. Local hotels filled up with bricks that would provide a safer surface advance reservations for this extraorthat was easier on tires ( it had originally dinary event. The “500” was becoming been crushed stone), he announced plans for a 500-mile race in 1911: a gruel- sport’s biggest day. ing test of endurance for man and machine, to be sure, but something more. The “International 500-Mile SweepRegardless of its sporting direction, stakes Race” was an unprecedented, racing remains a platform for experiintoxicating, addictive, daring spectacle mentation that has taken automotive guaranteed to thrill an audience. It was development beyond clinical testing. the birth of American motorsports. Indeed, trial by racing has improved The stage was set to transform this the automobile and contributed to testing ground into a sporting venue. safety on the highway. Your daily commute, from rubber to road, owes thanks to the Speedway, where many innovative technologies were tested By offering the biggest purse for a sinunder race conditions. gle event, Fisher not only persuaded the “Racing has always been a test laborabest drivers to participate, he also drew tory,” Al Speyer, executive director of the attention of the press. He wasn’t the only one taking advantage of free public- Firestone Racing, once said, “because the demands of the track were far more ity; automakers painted their names on extreme than anything on the street.” n the cars to get a little extra promotion. Known as an outlandish promoter for the daring publicity stunts he devised, Fisher learned from his mistake in 1909. Undaunted by calls from the press, several automobile clubs and the public to end the bloodbath after several drivers were killed, he instead hyped the danger and the unrivaled drama.
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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND A self-taught mathematician cracks open theorems BY ED JO H NSO N- O T T EJ OHNSONOTT@ N U VO . N ET
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rinivasa Ramanujan (Dec. 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was a self-taught mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions. NOTE: I have no idea what those terms mean. When it comes to anything math-related beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, I am as useless as a dog in a room full of Frisbee designers. I do understand that, working in isolation, Ramanujan (Dev Patel) also rediscovered theorems that were previously know in mathematical circles. His life changes drastically when his letter to the celebrated Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) is answered with an invitation to the school. Ramanujan leaves his mother (Arundhati Nag) and wife (Devika Bhise) to travel from India to England. He hopes to be published, but finds himself challenged in an unexpected way. He has always maintained that his concepts are gifts. “You wanted to know how I get my ideas? God speaks to me!” Hardy will have none of that, informing the young man that “intuition is not enough” and demanding he produce proofs of his many groundbreaking formulas. Eager to move forward with his work, Ramanujan finds the prospect of churning up verification of his formulas to be a colossal waste of time. The fact that he is self-taught is another factor: does he have the practical chops to put the math on paper? Then there’s the issue of God. When Hardy states that he is an atheist, the kid
snaps back, “No sir. You believe in God … you just think he doesn’t like you.” The notion of a man giving the credit for revolutionary mathematical formulas to a deity is fascinating. Writer-director Matthew Brown allows one brief scene where an attempt is made to describe Ramanujan’s perception of the world around him in poetic terms. It passes in the blink of an eye. And what about those formulas that made me dizzy just reading them? Brown offers one elaboration of a Ramanujan theory. I won’t pretend to have understood it, but the explanation made it a bit easier to relate to the man’s work. I appreciated the effort. So if the film doesn’t examine Ramanujan’s work in detail, and if it veers
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We get a look at Ramanujan’s time at Cambridge. In addition to skepticism, he must deal with racism, including a brutal assault from a group of young thugs. Ramanujan enjoys support from some of the other Indians on campus, but the cultural gulf is enormous. An incident dealing with his vegetarian diet underscores the gap. It also provides Patel one of his best scenes. The heart of the movie is intended to be the relationship between Ramanujan and Hardy. It works to a degree. Jeremy Irons certainly has the crusty part of the character Dev Patel continues his post down. The lighter moSlumdog Millionaire career with ments work well enough, though watching Irons be another solid performance as an nice – impish, even – is a bit weird. Dev Patel conenthusiastic, put-upon young man. tinues his post Slumdog Millionaire career with another solid perforaway from the specifics of the contribumance as an enthusiastic, put-upon tions he claims to have received from the young man. divine, what does the movie focus on? Together they navigate the by-theThere’s a half-baked romantic subplot numbers screenplay of The Man Who about the mathematician being so far Knew Infinity, making the clichés seem from his bride, but Brown appears less a bit less clichéd. Want to know more than committed to getting up close and about Ramanujan? Read one of the personal with the arranged marriage, books about him, or check out the doculeaving us with a few wistful glances into mentary on the man. Want a serviceable, the distance and little more. but routine biopic? Look no further. n
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Weekend Plans is a comedy of discomfort. It’s the kind of show that makes you cringe and writhe on your couch. You’ll laugh nervously out of familiarity and scream, “That’s like me!” as its characters entangle themselves in one awkward encounter after another. This web series is the one entry from a Hoosier in today’s “best of” the 2015 Middle Coast Film Festival presentation at IU Cinema. Born in Indianapolis and raised in Avon, writer-director Ronald Short based Weekend Plans on his transition to Austin with his wife. “It’s based off this six-month period where my bestie lived with me and my wife when he first moved here,” Short said. “The things that happen in the show are mostly made up from my brain, but the seeds are from life — whether it’s from a conversation we had or just imagining if a Saturday night went a different way.” Short stars as Linus, a quirky, pot-smoking bohemian — like the Dude but less relaxed. His wife, Lisa (Bloom Wilde), is the more reasonable person who has to rein him in. And Jon (Nathan Minger) is the frequently jealous third wheel. They’re much like the characters in Short’s first film, Billi & Theodore, which premiered at 2012’s Indy Film Fest. These millennials are open and expressive yet also intensely insecure, allowing their imaginations to immerse them in irrational fear scenarios. IU Cinema is showing three of the series’ 14 episodes, all of which force the characters to cope with squirmy situations: “BBQ Tony” centers on Linus and Jon wondering whether they would be gay lovers in another life; “Poop-Butt Ninja” finds Linus forced to confront possible burglars naked; and “Chicken Biscuits” revolves around Linus and Lisa (Bloom Wilde) as they debate whether they are craving Chick Fil-A enough to justify the possibility of offending their gay friends protesting the place. This is definitely the sort of show you should enjoy with buddies — the kind that makes you feel like you’re watching yourselves on screen. — SAM WATERMEIER
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JOE PUG STARTS A PODCAST..................................... 18 FEST FOUNDERS TALK SHOP..................................... 19 JACOB GARDNER’S ILLUSTRATED FESTIVAL MAP........20 BREAKING DOWN ALL 100ISH BANDS........................22 CHARLIE PARR ON FATHERHOOD...............................23 WHIPSTITCH SALLIES DO BEER AND GEAR.................24
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of Austin, Tex., so I assume you have a little bit of time off. JOE PUG: I do. We toured relentlessly last year, which was good. This year is a little more laid back, because we don’t have an album. NUVO: Are you working on an album, or are giving yourself some time out of the studio? PUG: Oh, yeah. I’m always working on new stuff. We recorded the last album in 2014, and released it in 2015, so I’ve been writing and doing various things on the new one for a long while now. NUVO: Topping a folk festival bill, how has your relationship with folk music changed? Windfall took a different, more soulful tack, and your sound is evolving. What’s influential in the genre of folk right now?
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fter a decade on the road – with many stops in Indianapolis, a favored space – East Coasterturned-Chicagoan-turned-Austinite Joe Pug has logged a lot of time behind the wheel down empty highways. And he’s filled that time, like so many other audiophiles like him, with podcasts. Now, the singer-songwriter, beloved for mournful ballads like “Bury Me Far From My Uniform’ will entertain other road dogs with a podcast of his very own: The Working Songwriter, a monthly showcase digging into process and craft. Before his set at the Folk Fest on Saturday, we called Pug up to chat about his new venture, new record, and old Indiana inspirations. NUVO: I’m calling you in your home 18 COVER STORY // 05.11.16 - 05.18.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
PUG: The genre itself is a lot more malleable than it used to be, a lot more accepting and laid back than it used to be. Me playing with my band on this new record was not exactly Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger, axe in hand, trying to cut the microphone cord. I think the folk community is a lot more diffuse than it used to be, and a lot more hard to pin down as to exactly what it is. I think that it’s found it’s way into a lot of other genres at this point. I think a lot of what people are considering Americana music right now wouldn’t have been considered folk music even 15 years ago, 20 years ago. NUVO: Since you’re a headliner on this bill full of folkies, and some of them are in their first couple years of making music their work, what’s your best advice for the youngins’ looking to strike their way out in the world? PUG: I really think that for all the stuff you can do business-wise, any angle you can get, any book you can read to tell you how to do it, any piece of advice, everything is really trumped by the fact that if you write a song that people really want to listen to, and will seek out on their own, and will share with their friends, that will be the most effective and probably the only thing that will get you moving forward. That is simultaneously terrifying, because it can be hard to write that, but also really empowering. I’m telling you, if you’re able to write something that people want to listen to, doors will open for you. They really, really will. I’ve felt that myself, and I’ve watched that happen with countless friends. It’s the truth. NUVO: I’d love for you to tell me about The Working Songwriter, your podcast. PUG: Yeah! So I started this podcast
this year. I’ve probably spent a full 40 percent of my adult life in a van driving around, and the only thing that has kept me sane is that I’ve discovered podcasts. I think it’s such an amazing medium, and I’ve fallen in love with so many different shows. That’s been the case for about five years, and I listened to those as much as I listen to music. I got interested in working in that medium myself, and said, ‘”Well, hey. I have so many friends that I could interview to do this.” I got an idea for the show, did a couple of demos, sent them around to friends, got notes. We released it this year, and I’m really excited. I’d love for it to be a hub for people that listen to this type of music and play this type of music. I’d love for it to be a monthly touchstone for everyone to get together and celebrate a member of our musical community. None of it is going to be journalistic shit; I want this to be a guest, and for whoever it is to sound great within the context of it. It’s very exciting! It’s nice to be doing a new venture and working in a new medium. NUVO: What are some of the podcasts that you lean on in super long drives? PUG: Well of course you have to listen to [WTF with] Marc Maron; he’s great. I love the Dan Carlin stuff [Hardcore History]. I listened to Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast, which is pretty rough around the edges. For sports, I listen to Bill Simmons. I listen to the David Axelrod podcast that came out last year on politics. At a certain point, I’m at home more this year, I’m doing chores around the house with headphones on listening to it. And I’m like, “Alright, I’m just an old man listening to political talk radio.” NUVO: You’ve cited John Hiatt as an influence. We’re very proud – he’s an Indianapolis dude, albeit relocated – and I’d love to hear about how his music has influenced your own. PUG: I think there’s a spectrum in any art, and at one far end of the spectrum there’s people that know their craft really, really well. Too well, let’s say, on one side, where all they focus on is the craft and the structures. On the other side of the spectrum, you have people that do things through sheer intuition, and do it too much. I’ve been listening to John Hiatt now for 20 years, probably. My folks put it on in the car when I was a little kid. What I’ve learned from him is that he is so great about having a structured song, knowing what the rules are, but always giving into intuition and having a sense of play and fun in his work. And I think that’s what art is. It really is the interplay of intuition and craft. He is just the master of that balance. n
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hen I ask Patrick Burtch and Mike Angel how much of a logistical nightmare coordinating 100 bands on a bakers dozen stages in one day is, I’m honestly expecting a different answer than I get. Both Virginia Avenue Folk Festival cofounders shrugged a bit, looked at each other, and said – I’m paraphrasing here – “It’s really no problem at all.” No problem at all to stage what they say is the largest number of performers in a single day festival in the country? Nah. Burtch, owner of Rocket88 Doughnuts (on Virginia Avenue, natch, and with a new location in SoBro) and Angel (singer/guitarist in Bigfoot Yancey, the band closing the Wildwood Market stage) went big in year one, booking 70 acts on nine stages. The result? A beautiful, volunteerdriven event that had Virginia Ave.-adjacent businesses reporting record sales to the founders. This year, the promoters and Square Cat Records co-founders upped the ante, booking 100 or so bands on 13 stages for their second fest. And they expanded the interpretation of “folk fest,” too. The headliners are of the pluck-and-pick persuasion, but the vast lineup includes hip-hop, improvisational percussion, straight-ahead rock and much more. “I don’t think it’s quite as difficult and daunting as people might imagine. I just think not a lot of people want to take the risk to do it,” Burtch says. “A lot of people said we couldn’t do it, which made us want to even more so,” Angel jumps in. Coming out of last year’s fest, “We knew we wanted to expand further down the Avenue, and we did that this year. We really like the shock value of the amount of bands we have, but we didn’t want to double or triple it. We added on 30,” Angel says. But some things they knew they wanted to maintain. Burtch: “The free aspect of it, we were really cognizant
Mike Angel, founder
about trying to keep that.” They’re able to do that, mostly through sponsors, and, Burtch adds, “being smart with money” and not overspending. The fest is free, but VIP wristbands go for $35, and offer access to private VIP room acoustic sets, giveaways, food and drink and discounted merch. Virginia Avenue Folk Fest is all-ages, with the exception of The Hi-Fi. In addition to more venues, the fest will close a portion of the Avenue this year, between Grove Avenue and Woodlawn. Performers are divvied up across the stages with a conscious nod towards diverse bills. “I like the idea of having stages where there’s different kinds of genres back to back. There’s one stage where we’ve got a folksy old school female[-fronted] act followed by punk rock. [It] introduces people who are going there for one act, and stick around for another act that they would never normally listen to,” Burtch says. Picking acts for the fest from submissions for the Folk Fest relied on the achievement of a single point. “Our criteria was ‘good music,’ ” Angel says. “Making set genre stages is counterproductive to what we’re trying to do.
Patrick Burtch, founder
We’re trying to bring everyone together. I think of it as brackish water. The old school folk people are meeting with the young indie rockers. There’s too much division in the music scene, and this is a chance for everybody to get together, meet new people. … We’re really good at making people step out of their comfort zones.” Burtch and Angel really do love to shake it up: Consider their late 2015 event, Random Band Challenge, where musicians’ names were drawn out of a hat to form new groups, then tasked to play in a competition at Radio Radio. One band that formed out of that challenge, Wolf and The Wereboys, will play the fest on Saturday. “This year, we’re trying to diversify the types of music more, which will, in turn, diversify the types of people in the bands in general,” Burtch says. They use the New Orleans Jazz Fest as a reference point: folk music is the seed from which the fest grows, not a binding requirement. Speaking of seeds: “This year, we chose Keep Indianapolis Beautiful,” Angel says, as the fest’s beneficiary. Why? Easy answer:
“They live at the end of the street from both of us, a stone’s throw from us. They do great stuff.” “Every year we’re going to pick another local organization,” Angel says. “We like to rotate,” Burtch adds. Last year, Burtch says, homelessness prevention org Trusted Mentors received $14,000 in proceeds from the fest. Fundraising for the community improvement and beautification nonprofit KIB will be done in a variety of ways: donated sales from businesses, collection on site, and more. “That was what was such a draw for us, when [Virginia Avenue Folk Fest] wanted to partner: That it was in our neighborhood,” says Ashlee Wilson Fujawa, PR Director for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. “Our building is here, and it’s such a great representation of green and sustainability. It’s such a great example of what you can do for the environment, and what you can do for the city. [This] is an opportunity for people to connect with nature right in the middle of Downtown. That is what was such a draw for us to move to the area, too. We came here before the Cultural Trail was over here. We really wanted to add back into our neighborhood, be one of those anchor institutions. “The Folk Fest is such a great event and we are so grateful that proceeds will help us keep all of Indy clean and green,” Fujawa says. So, sure, festival planning is definitely time-consuming and occasionally tough – Burtch and Angel run down the list of bummers when asked: asking people for money, cracking the inscrutable permitting process with the city – but these guys make planning an all-ages, free megafestival look easy. And that’s beautiful. n
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BREAKING DOWN THE BANDS ARTHUR’S MUSIC STAGE AT FOUNTAIN SQUARE PLAZA Sarah Grain and The Billions of Stars, 11 a.m. This quintet threads bits of jazz, folk and bossa nova together.
to Indy last year, and in the midst, released Wilderness Hymnal.
DEYLEN REALTY STAGE AT AMERICAN BEAUTY Born Mountaineer, 11 a.m.
Flaming Diamonds, 12 p.m.
These Columbus/Bloomington-based folk rockers open the stage.
Organizer Angel describes the surprisingly web presence-less Flaming Diamonds as “Nothing like Neil Diamond.”
Gypsy Moonshine, noon
War Radio, 1 p.m. These indie rockers hold a monthly First Friday residency at Swizzle Stick in Greencastle.
Lexi Len and The Strangers, 2 p.m. Honky tonk sweetie Lexi Len leads a band of Bloomington outlaws.
Nick Dittmeier and The Sawdusters, 3 p.m. Louisville Dittmeier’s latest is Midwest Heart / Southern Blues – and by Midwest, he means good ol’ Indiana, of course. (They hail from Jefferson.)
Wordsmith, 4 p.m. Baltimore-bred hip-hop.
Chicago Farmer 5 p.m. The Chicago Farmer in question is Illinois-born Cody Diekhoff, a touring songwriter who writes populist folk in the Guthrie vein.
Jeremiah Tall, 6:15 p.m. Pennsylvania singer Tall tells tall tales — or Tall’s tales, he says. Check out that suitcase-turned-kick-drum, why don’t ya?
Sweet Poison Victim, 7:30 p.m. This Afro-Caribbean collective is 100 percent guaranteed to make you shake ya booty.
CALVIN FLETCHER’S COFFEE COMPANY Donn Smith, 9:30 a.m.
Songwriter Katie Josway put together a quality group; her voice has a haunting quality to it, similar to Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. — WB
Beyond Normal Sea, 1 p.m. We’re suckers for any band with sweet piano parts, like what Beyond Normal Sea’s got on “Twenty-One.”
Kyle Bolender, 2 p.m. Bolender hails from Bloomington, where he put together a 15-track album Bookshelf last year that sweetly grooves along.
Great Future, 3 p.m. This band writes driving rock in the vein of The Thermals.
Vinny Vinny Combo, 4 p.m. Matt Socey wrote for us in 2010 that VVC is bringing back the old school Maxwell Street-style of raw Chicago blues. Guess what? Still are.
Champs Elysees, 5 p.m. Champs Elysees is one of the groups of Jurassic Pop bands that tickled our fancy in 2015.
Corduroy Jackson and The One Term Presidents, 6 p.m. After eight years of playing out, Jackson released his first EP, Shelta. (Also: Best band name on the fest.)
Hammer and The Hatchet, 7 p.m. Ever y tune this bluegrass band plays is like a musical postcard, a tiny snapshot of Brown County’s pastoral pleasures. — WB
Largest amount of performers in a single day festival, you say? We’ll break them down one-by-one, we say! Find performers by order of performance at each stage. All blurbs are by Katherine Coplen, unless otherwise noted as JS (Jonathan Sanders), SJ (Seth Johnson) or WB (Wayne Bertsch.)
Upright Willies, 9 a.m.
Ampersand Blues Band, 4 p.m.
Lawson Reunion Band, 2:15 p.m.
Grover Parido and Chad Mills are the core of Upright Willies, plus the titular William Rood on upright bass.
Christian Taylor’s blues project dropped a killer cassette on GloryHole a year or so.
Think downhome Ohioan bluegrass, as played by three generations of family.
Brentney Campbell, 10 a.m.
Brother O’ Brother, 5 p.m.
If baritone ukulele isn’t your favorite instrument already, then it will be after this set.
These Birdy’s Battle Royale winners plan a (frankly crazy) eight vinyl releases for 2016, including several split 7-inches with bands like Veseria.
Kenan Rainwater Band, 3:15 p.m.
Megan Hopkins and Dave Vogt, 11 a.m.
Whipstitch Sallies, 6:15 p.m.
Isn’t it great when two great songwriters decide to get together?
See page 24.
Isle of Manhattan, noon
Psychobilly power trio make red-blooded rock and roll right out of Gas City.
IoM is the Indy-based solo project of Ryan Gullett of Asteria.
DisTinct, 1 p.m. Timmy Okafor is DisTinct, another one of a few hip-hop artists at the fest.
Crescent Ulmer, 2 p.m. Ulmer’s voice is a gift; see her, and you’ll see.
Matthew Ruddick, 3 p.m. Ruddick was a weekly staple at Doc’s in Muncie before it shut down — maybe he’ll become a weekly staple at Rocket 88 after this set.
Chris Dollar, 4 p.m. This New Old Cavalry member will fly solo at this show.
Chad Mills, 5 p.m. Apparently Mills will wile away the day at the donut stage, since his band plays first up in the morning, and he helps wraps up. (P.S. Fingers crossed his Bruce Springsteen cover from Tonic Ball makes the set.)
Ryan M. Brewer, 6 p.m. Brewer pulled off a sweet concept last year: 18 shows in 18 days to showcase his album Trails.
BIG CAR STAGE The Matchsellers, 12:30 p.m. This duo met when Warsaw musician Andrew Morris met Kansas musician Julie Bates — in Germany.
Sculptor and songwriter Smith takes a break as festival stage director for Irvington Folk Festival to pop over to Virginia Ave.
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Don Ford, 10:30 a.m.
New Augusta Bluegrass Band, 11:30 a.m.
St. Louis folk rocker Zachary Schwartz prioritizes socially conscious anthems in his songwriting.
These local bluegrassers worship at the altar of Bill Monroe — rightfully so
Pope Adrian Bless, 2:30 p.m.
Brown County acoustic folkie Ford will bring a pack of covers with him, plus some bluegrass-flecked originals.
Grace Minnick, 11:30 a.m. Fort Wayne’s Minnick is a multiinstrumentalist studying at IU.
Greg Mahan, 12:30 p.m. Our sister pub Cincy’s CityBeat wrote that Mahan’s music is “elegant, graceful and often poetic Americana music.”
Fred Gillen Jr., 12:30 p.m.
The Owl God brings one of the few doses of straight hip-hop to the fest.
This year Fred Gillen marks 20 years of touring. Happy 20 years, Fred!
Jeff Kelly, 3:30 p.m.
Midwest Rhythm Exchange, 1:45 p.m. This acoustic mandolin gypsy jazz quartet lights up the Mousetrap regularly.
Hogeye Navvy, 3:15 p.m.
Chad Lehr, 1:30 p.m.
This Aristocrat mainstays bring celtic fun and plenty of sea shanties.
Lehr’s played in a pack of bands like My Hidden Track and This is Me. He’s flying solo here, though.
White Lightning Boys, 4:45 p.m.
Jethro Easyfields, 2:30 p.m. Roots rocker Easyfields has been making it work here for a long time — and we love a man who adds liner credits for his dog.
Boxcar Annies, 3:30 p.m. Brown County ladies Heather Elkins and Gabrielle Steenberger add on Picker Dan and Barry Elkins to become the Annies.
Jesse Lacy, 4:30 p.m. Lacy should be commended for his #GIVINGBACK project that benefits a variety of different non-profits.
Brandon Wadley, 5:30 p.m. Wadley relocated from East Tennessee
The Hollow Ends, 1:30 p.m.
This six-piece bluegrass from Brown County has conquered every hill and holler in the state in the 15 or so years together.
When it comes to Jeff Kelly, it’s best to think of established American songwriters in the vein of Matthew Ryan, Dustin Kensrue, Joe Pug and Jason Isbell. — JS
Amythyst Kiah, 4:30 p.m. Tennessean Kiah makes low-down Southern Gothic country blues.
Von Strantz, 5:45 p.m.
The Elixirs, 7:30 p.m.
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ToeKnee Tea, noon Fresh off — and we mean fresh as in last week — the release of his newest album at the Mel, ToeKnee Tea will almost certainly have new music to present.
Will Scott, 1 p.m. This songwriter returned to his hometown after years in New York City, bringing a bunch of well-crafted songs back with him.
Megan Maudlin, 2 p.m. Count 2016 as the year Megan Maudlin’s star rose in a huge way.
Eric Lambert, 3 p.m. Last year, Lambert racked in a Chicago Music Award for best entertainer — the Midwest loves a flat-picking guitarist!
Haley Jonay, 4 p.m. This young, mighty songwriting machine has snagged great opportunities opening for acts like Ed Sheeran for one reason: she hustles.
Mighty Brother, 5 p.m. This Bloomington band brought a ton of locals in the studio to record their debut record, arranged around the songwriting pair of Jake Ryan and Nick Huster.
Roger Banister Trio, 6 p.m. Banister plays solo, as a duo, as a trio, and on and on, because this man can play basically any instrument — and he’s got a sweet spot for old school covers of tracks by Bill Monroe and Johnny Cash.
Jonny Carroll, 7 p.m. Grand Rapids’ Jonny Carroll spent winters busking in Great Britain, and brought back a bunch of Brit folk inspiration.
HOTEL TANGO WHISKEY The Dead Weight, 11:15 a.m.
Steve Smith and Conga J, 12:15 p.m.
Indiana Boys, 8 p.m.
Red Clay Pigeons, 2 p.m.
In their years together, this grooving pair recorded a pack of releases that they’re releasing online — and yes, there are congas. Lots of congas.
After a solo release, Muncie’s Wesley Moore recruited a band last year to bring his songs to life in rustic folk form.
Joshua Powell and The Great Train Robbery, 1:15 p.m.
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Jon Wood fronts a shifting lineup of local folkies to bring his catchy songs (“Half Lit Moon” is a NUVO favorite) to life.
This conscious reggae/dub group threads roots and folk through their tracks.
Frontier Folk Nebraska, 6:30 p.m.
Stampede String Band, 7:45 p.m.
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Moor.Dub, 5:15 p.m.
Does improvisational percussion belong at a folk festival? Folk yeah.
These storytellers in the round (Chris Wolf, Pablo Adams, Ralph Ed Jeffers) play together — but don’t get it twisted. They’re not a band.
Digital Dots, 3 p.m.
These Mel mainstays present an amazing Hillbilly Happy Hour on third Fridays — but YES, they exist outside of the confines of 38th and Illinois, and we’re all better for it.
Rob Funkhouser, 11 a.m.
Country rock kicks off the Hotel Tango stage; The Dead Weight is currently in the process of recording their debut, and will probably roll out a couple new ones in their opening slot.
Kenan Rainwater, Richard Grist and Joe Bolinger are the Indiana boys in question — and yes, that’s a Tom Petty reference.
Punkin Holler Boys, 4:15 p.m.
Not a folk band and not from Nebraska; rather, rock from Kentucky. (They’re good, so they get to be confusing.)
Kelsey Horton and Jess Strantz are the core of Von Strantz, a string band that dug into stories on their Narratives EP series.
CPR Revival, 6:30 p.m.
Fact: Reverend Peyton produced Rainwater’s The River flows at Primary Sound Studios in Bloomington.
This three-piece psych rock act just announced a massive lineup of tour dates, all the way through late June.
This top-level pickin’ four-piece just recorded a live album during a set at the HI-Fi.
MILHAUS STAGE AT HI-FI Chris Dance and The Holy Echo, noon This large band features instrumental flourishes of Eastern inspiration from frontman Dance’s time spent in Indiana plus pleasing – and unexpected – harmonies with singer Jaymi Anderson.
Pool Holograph, 1 p.m.
— and we know that sounds crazy, but it really works.
Joe Pug, 6:45 p.m. See page 18.
Kopecky, 8:45 p.m. This Nashvillians dropped the “Family Band” and dropped Drugs for the Modern Age on ATO last year; they’re regulars in Indy, and we eat them up every time.
REVERIE ESTATES STAGE AT GENERAL PUBLIC COLLECTIVE Mike Brewer, noon With stints as a string player in classical orchestras and a guitarist in rock groups both, expect Brewer’s tunes to take a classical bent.
Dear Lincoln, 1 p.m. The band geek in us is stoked that a band with sax and clarinet makes such chill folk tunes.
Steven Dunn, 2 p.m. Dunn’s latest full-length is called Indianola, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t recommend his three-song holiday song record For Judith — Christmas in May, anybody?
Caleb McCoach, 3 p.m. The songwriter’s latest Vanity is out now on In Store Recordings, and the selftitled track is, in our opinion, the best song he’s written to date.
These fuzzed-out four-piece rockers will skedaddle down 65 from Chicago to play the fest.
Adam Kuhn, 4 p.m.
Dan & Sam, 2 p.m.
Achilles Tenderloin, 5 p.m.
This Dan and Sam is Dan Snodgrass and Sam Shafer, both guitarist and vocalists for the Bonesetters — perhaps they’ll present crowd favorites in another light?
We’re craving a sandwich, and another record from pre-war blues devotee Joe Augustin, a.k.a. Mr. Achilles Tenderloin.
Injecting Strangers, 3 p.m. Cincy’s Injecting Strangers mashup horror movies and gang vocals, and it’s a goddamn delight.
Peter and The Kings, 4:15 p.m. From The Impossible Shapes to Learner Dancer, the multi-instrumentalist found himself playing all kinds of styles in all kinds of bands — but now he’s up front with his own project, and a tape out on Magnetic South last year. — SJ
PBR MAIN STAGE Wolf and The Wereboys, noon This spooky band led by Chris Wolf garnered top honors at last year’s Random Band Challenge, also coordinated by Burtch and Angel.
Shelby County Sinners, 1 p.m. This band has all the honestness of Shelby Kelly’s solo efforts, added into the raw energy of another one of his projects, Creepin’ Charlie. — WB
Brave Baby, 2:15 p.m. Shimmering North Carolina quintet Brave Baby’s Electric Friends made waves with its slinky grooves and expansive instrumentation.
Motherfolk, 3:45 p.m. In their bones, Cincy five-piece Motherfolk craft the kind of driving folk popularized in the late aughts by Mumford and Sons, but with frequent pop twists.
Buffalo Rodeo, 5:15 p.m. Mash up Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tennis, and you’ve essentially got Bowling Green ambient rockers Buffalo Rodeo
Fractured folkie Adam Kuhn’s songs envelope like a memory foam mattress.
SUN KING STAGE AT WILDWOOD MARKET I Dream in Evergreen, 11:30 a.m. IDIE’s 2013 release to Come Back Home is drenched in joyous harmonies and light keyboards — particularly on standout closer “A Better Way Home.”
Circle City Deacons, 12:30 p.m. This isn’t just standard 3rd wave ska — these cats have a lot of elements of northern soul woven in as well. — WB
Luke Knight, 1:30 p.m. Brownsburg folkie Luke Knight was picked for a Sofar Sounds secret show last year, and video emerged of a show we wish we hadn’t missed. Don’t make our mistakes.
The War on Peace, 2:30 p.m. Take a perfect little synth pop cruise on War on Peace’s LP East and West.
Dietrich Jon, 3:30 p.m. Diederik Van Wassenaer’s excellent glam folk EP Higher showcases his skills as a string arranger.
Saint Aubin, 4:45 p.m. Saint Aubin, as a band, made its bones on putting out a twisty hybrid of swampy blues-fueled Americana, and each prior EP built on the framework. —JS
Charlie Parr, 6:15 p.m. See page 23.
Bigfoot Yancey, 7:45 p.m. This is founder Mike Angel’s band — you’re not going to miss the founder’s band, are you?
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hen I rang him up, Charlie Parr reflected happily on his last journey to Indy, just a few short months ago for a show at Radio Radio. It was his first time in Fountain Square, and he noshed at Siam Square before playing a great show for “really, really kind guys.” Those kind guys, assumably? Burtch and Angel, who bring him back for a fest slot at the Sun King Stage at Wildwood Market on Saturday. Parr’s a one-guitar road warrior, putting out a dozen albums in the 20ish years since he began playing music. The catalyst for his first song, the toe-tapping “1922” is a rough one: his father’s death, which he says he’s still grieving all these years later. His father — an intriguing figure by all accounts — looms large in Parr’s musical portraits. Here’s a portion of our conversation about dad stuff — having one and being one — plus his adopted hometown’s music scene, and excitement over contemporary folk music.
ON FOLK IN SPIRIT, NOT INSTRUMENTATION:
“Some of my favorite musicians, I consider folk artists because it’s more related to a do-it-yourself ethic than it is to a certain kind of music. I really appreciate that about the current stage of folk music. Folk music for me is at such a lively point in its progression. Real fans of folk music will really embrace the idea of this whole process [of evolution], saying ‘Now we get to have folk music that also includes sampled beats and computer stuff and banjos and fiddles, and,
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and, and.’ You just keep bringing it in, because it’s all folk music. We’re all folks creating music. That’s what the essence of it should be.”
ON FATHERS AND FATHERHOOD:
“I don’t know if I’d be doing this if it wasn’t for my dad. It’s wasn’t anything overt – my dad was a huge music fan, but he never played anything. He worked in a packing house. He worked all the time. When he wasn’t working in a packing house, he helped my uncle farm potatoes. He was just constantly doing this manual labor. He wasn’t home a whole lot, but when he was home, we had this big ol’ Magnavox stereo, and he had this bizarre, large collection of records that included tons and tons of stuff. He would play records all the time. He didn’t like the TV, he didn’t like news, he hated politics, he hated religion. He didn’t like to go to church. He couldn’t read until he was 55, and then he taught himself how to read just because he wanted to read from a certain book. He was a very independent man, and he liked to be outside. Half the time he was home, you’d find him sitting in the garage with this stereo speaker outside with him so he could
listen to records. I got an early appreciation for music out of him. He got me a guitar, and didn’t get me any lessons. … Dad just encouraged me to just sit down, listen, and figure it out. Eventually you’ll make something about it. That’s what I did. He gave me the space and encouragement to do that. In every way, he was supportive in these real subtle kind of ways. He graduated from third grade; he wasn’t a talky person. He didn’t really talk a lot, but he had a lot to say in other ways. For some reason, I was just a receptor to everything that he was about. When I was 25, he died of lung cancer. It shook me to the core. That was 1995 and I still haven’t recovered from that. I’ve tried really, really hard since I’ve had kids of my own to bring some of the stuff that he was about into my own idea of fatherhood. Because you can sit and talk to a kid all day, but I don’t know if that does as much as a demonstration will.”
ON HIS ADOPTED HOME OF DULUTH:
“Right now is the Homegrown Festival in Duluth. It last for seven days and hosts 150 bands now, and they’re all from Duluth. It’s the weirdest [fest]. When I’m home, and I’m not doing my solo stuff, I
Charlie Parr, 6:15 p.m. Sun King Stage at Wildwood Market
play with a trance blues band called the Devil’s Flying Machine. We played last night for Homegrown, and last night in addition to us, there was a couple other rock bands. There was a band made up of instrument-playing robots. There was a poetry reading; there was a hip-hop outfit downtown; there was a punk night at the Barrel Room. I think a through line isn’t so much any certain sound; the through line is the community here. I’ve only lived in Duluth since 1999, but the moment that I got here, I was floored by the sense of community that comes here. I moved from Minneapolis, where there’s a real strong music scene. It’s also more fragmented, where you’ve got all the folkies over on the west bank; the rock bands uptown. Up here, the scene is pretty small – you kind of have to mix it up with other people. I find myself playing a solo set on a bill with a hip-hop band, a punk band, some other way out there instrumentalist. There’s a woman here who plays looped cello experimental music [Kathy McTavish]. Maybe it’s the same in Indianapolis – there’s this real, eager sense of community here. Everybody wants to get together and make music together all the time.” n
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it since I was 13. It was a replacement because my orchestra teacher dropped a music stand on my first one, so I got an upgrade. I’ve taken it everywhere. It’s been on the beaches of Hawaii. I left it out overnight at a festival by a campfire. A friend brought it to me.
little thinner body; a little smaller body. It’s bigger than a concert but the neck scale is different too.
BURBRINK: Yeah, the next day, covered in dew.
BURK: We used to be a whiskey band, as in we used to do shots before we’d go on.
HERRIN: Some nice hydration.
HERRIN: When Jack Daniels came out with, what I now consider terrible, that honey whiskey…
The Whipstitch Sallies, 6:15 Fountain Square Brewery Stage at Milktooth
BURK: I used to play violin and now I play fiddle. I think it’s really about hygiene, because I just don’t clean it to make it look more rustic. NUVO: My grandfather always said that the bridge was lower. SUBMITTED PHOTO
THE WHIPSTITCH SALLIES ON GEAR AND BEER — OR MOONSHINE BURBRINK: It’s a Martin DM model from about the year 1999. Someone asked me the other day if it was a D-18, I get that a lot, but it isn’t. It’s a DM — dreadnought mahogany.
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zipped down south to Taxman Brewing in Bargersville to meet with Allie Burbrink, Katie Burk and Sam Herrin of The Whipstitch Sallies, where we discussed the equipment the threepiece outfit uses to make their classicwith-a-punch music, and, of course, alcoholic beverages. Taxman’s The Standard is delicious. NUVO: Allie, let’s start with you. What’s your main instrument?
NUVO: Now you also play banjo. What model are you using? BURBRINK: My banjo is a Gold Tone [WL]-250 model. It’s a White Ladye tone-ring. It’s historical, that name goes back a long time. When I saw that I thought that it was cool. NUVO: Katie, will you describe your fiddle? BURK: It’s called Lewis, the Dancla. It’s really a nicer learner’s instrument. I consider it my lucky charm. I’ve had
BURK: You can do more double stops, two strings at once. It makes it a lot easier. My friend built me a new bridge.
NUVO: What is the band drinking these days? BURBRINK: It’s evolved. HERRIN: It goes in phases and stages
BURBRINK: I’m rockin’ that tonight. For performing I prefer whiskey. Other things make me not as focused. Whiskey’s all right. It’s liquid courage. BURK: I’m a gin and tonic person. It’s my go-to.
NUVO: Sam, you’re playing mandolin and guitar, right?
HERRIN: In the bluegrass world, you don’t realize how much of a party scene it is until you’re in it. I feel like we’re pretty tame. Comparatively.
HERRIN: Yeah, when Allie is playing banjo I’m playing guitar.
BURK: We’ve turned down a lot of moonshine. More than we can drink.
NUVO: What’s your mandolin?
BURBRINK: That’s true. We’ve declined more ‘shine than we have imbibed. We hit it pretty hard when we got to Cashiers [North Carolina] though.
HERRIN: It’s an Eastman MD305. I much prefer the A-style to the F-style. It’s a tone thing. An A-style, the tone is more like a fire hose, whereas most F-styles are more like a laser pointer. I would rather blast than have lasers I guess. For the money I could either get an F-style that sounded shitty or an A-style that sounded great. So I got the A-style. I prefer tone over looks. NUVO: What’s your acoustic guitar? HERRIN: It’s a 1969 Gibson B-15. Nothing’s been re-done to it. It’s pretty beat up, but I love it. I got it in Bloomington. NUVO: I’ve been selling gear for almost 15 years and have never seen that model. HERRIN: It’s a student model so it’s got a
HERRIN: That’s because it was the most hellacious ride. BURBRINK: It was the worst drive in the history of drives. It was this crazy, hilly… HERRIN: Not hilly, mountain-y. BURBRINK: Mountain-y, switchback-y road in the sheet pouring rain in Sam’s jeep. It was a soft top, with plastic windows; couldn’t see. HERRIN: It was terrifying. BURBRINK: She was in need of a drink when we got there. Luckily it was a party house. They were like, “Jello shots? Moonshine?”n
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ach food item in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles … If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce “Previous generations used to eat locally our country’s oil consumption by out of necessity ... communities had to over 1.1 million barrels of oil every rely on local farms for all of their meals. week.” - Barbara In many ways, this was beneficial. People Kingsolver, author of Animal, ate fresh, seasonal foods that were Vegetable, Miracle. It’s no secret, naturally flavorful and nutritious, and eating locallyfarmers and communities prospered.” sourced, in-season food is the best way to eat. It — HOMARO CANTU, MICHELIN STARRED CHEF makes perfect and logical sense. Eat what is available where you live, when it is naturally foundation behind the beloved A Taste available. Yet, for years, the American of Indiana Event. Over our karaage public has, more or less, waged a war chicken and Szechuan pork belly rice against the food that is available in their bowl we are discussing the importance own back yard. If we walk into Whole of local food, sustainable food, in-season Foods on a Sunday in October and there food. The setting is the perfect place to aren’t bananas, we go bananas. “How have this conversation since Ed Rudisell are they out of bananas,” says a woman and Carlos Salazar are two figures in who looks a bit like Nancy Grace. The Indiana’s quickly emerging food scene answer is, if they have them, you’re lucky that care about and strive to keep their
restaurants local. Rob, a major advocate in the city for Slow Food (a group that promotes “good, clean and fair food) astutely points out, “Buying and eating locally just makes sense. Rather than sending [money] to a company that’s based a thousand miles away, you are putting your dollar directly in the hands of a local owner, who is likely going to spend the same dollar with another local business.” Where you choose to spend your money can change the lives of those around you. When you buy that Gunthorp Farms chicken from Pogue’s Run Grocer, you’re supporting Hoosiers Greg and Lei Gunthorp. You’re helping them send their three kids to school. You’re helping the Gunthorps’ 15 full-time and 15 part-time employees. You’re helping a family farm stay in operation and continue to produce pasture-raised, antibiotic-free meat. When you buy Pilgrim’s Pride? Your money goes into the pockets of multimillionaire CEO William Lovette, and if you want to know how your chicken got to your table, just type: “Pilgrim’s Pride chicken treatment” into your Google search. In the need for convenience in this era we have grown so detached from nature and the foods we should eat and it’s detrimental to the enivronment, our communities, and our health. The late, and highly talented Homaro Cantu reminds S E E , L O C A L , O N P A GE 2 7
AMY GENTRY: I found out about #BiggestSmallBeerEver through the Pink Boots Society, and was inspired by how many women across the country were excited to participate in this national collaboration. I’ve been a participant in International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day for the last three years, and there is something really special about working with other brewers to brew collaboratively for a cause. NUVO: How will you work with the recipe—tweak it? ANDY WALTON: I didn’t change [the recipe] much. I nix’d the peat smoked malt and went with a higher percentage of wood smoked malt, and used slightly different yeast. AMY GENTRY: I didn’t make any major adjustments to the recipe. I changed a couple malts to accommodate what we had available and used a different hop variety for a little character. My personal opinion is that since there was thought and care put into the choice of and reason for using this recipe, it was respectful to keep true to the original intent of the beer. NUVO: How is being part of this initiative a natural progression of what you do as a craft brewer/owner? ANDY WALTON: I look for inspiration everywhere, and enjoy a good story. I am forever trying new things and ultimately, just trying to have fun. Participating in this seemed like a no-brainer. AMY GENTRY: This is a hard question! I think as an owner/brewer, choosing to participate is a way to be involved with the national brewing community and to show our support for craft beer initiatives. Local, possibly even hyper-local, has become an intense focus in the last couple of years and I think it’s very important to remember that no matter whether a brewery is small or large, we’re all part of a national conversation that takes place every time someone sips a beer. For the full story head to nuvo.net/food — RITA KOHN
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TINY CHATS MIRANDA ON MERLE Reigning queen of country Miranda Lambert stops at Klipsch Music Center this Saturday on tour with Kip Moore in tow. Lambert’s the epitome of a twangy super star: each of her five albums debuted SUBMITTED PHOTO at number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart. After divorcing country singer Blake Shelton, Lambert’s face has dotted a proliferation of tabloids grossly speculating on her life. She doesn’t answer many questions about the ins and outs of her personal life in interviews, but she did say in an email exchange last week that she’ll continue to write about her life as inspiration for her art. NUVO: We just lost Merle. I know you’re a big Haggard fan — what was your favorite aspect of his writing? MIRANDA LAMBERT: I love Merle because he was always honest. He shared his story in a way that made you feel like you really knew him. He sang with conviction. I think singing the songs and listening to the records of our heroes is important. We should continue to be inspired by them. NUVO: Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette — these are women you’ve mentioned you admire, that opened the door for women in country that you could walk through. What needs to happen to keep that door open for girls who grow up and want to be musicians? What’s your best advice for the 12 - 15 year old set? Who are some of your favorite young musicians? LAMBERT: Being brave and strong in who you are is the key to being a woman in this business. But having said that, it’s a beautiful thing to be brave enough to show vulnerability. The women you mentioned are the best at all of these things. I learned from them and many others and I‘m still learning every day. One of my new favorite artists is Maren Morris. She is a great songwriter and just has an edge. I love her! For the young dreamers I say, take your time. Be a kid and go to high school and do what young girls do. I know that sometimes it feels like forever before you get anywhere but the more life you live the more you have to sing about. Life is inspiration. NUVO: How do you balance autobiographical writing and non-autobiographical writing, especially as your private life is increasingly “reported” on [in tabloids]? LAMBERT: I am not afraid to tell my story. I will always use my life for my art. Tabloids are not even on my radar. I want to be talked about for my music or my work with animals. Nothing else, especially my personal life should not be anyone business but my own. I write about things I experience and I always will. If people want to know about me, they should listen to my music. That pretty much says it all. — KATHERINE COPLEN
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porter and you ith hundreds of thousands of are worried about miles traveled, dozens of counsurviving an argutries toured via interstates, ment with him. Let planes, vans and buses; from dining me dig into this with royalty in the South of France in issue (and I want castles to living on the road with hobos to assure you that and vagabonds, Rev. Peyton has seen there are millions more out there like and done a lot. As an internationally you who are dreading political discusrevered recording artist and performer sions and political arguments with — and a proud Hoosier — we asked family members around the United Rev. Peyton to lend his unique perspecStates.) That is because as a country tive and wildlife experiences to our we are more polarized than ever when readers. it comes to political party affiliation. Got a question about music, travThis isn’t hyperbole or exaggeration. eling, love, food, religion, politics, The data proves it. According to the family, friends or enemies? Send it in Pew Research Center, Democrats and to bigdamnadvice@nuvo.net or submit anonymously tobigdamnadvice. tumblr.com, and Rev. Peyton will answer back in a regular column. Anonymity is assured. “Extremism on all sides leads This column originally ran online in December. After the Indito violence.” ana primaries, with Trump as the presumptive nominee, we thought — REVEREND PEYTON it would be apropros to print it. Dear Rev: My dad is a Trump supporter. I’m as far liberal as you can be, about. How can I survive this election with my family? What’s the most loving way to tell him that I think he’s totally crazy? REVEREND PEYTON: To the person who wrote this question, I want to say a giant thank you. Thank you for giving me the perfect question for this time of year. However, if you think I was going to come out in this column and back one party or candidate over another they were grossly mistaken. What I am about to say is very serious, but I am in no way backing anyone, so read carefully, pay close attention, and try to take what I am saying to heart. So your dad is a Donald Trump sup-
Republicans are more divided than at any time in the last two decades. According to a recent YouGov poll, 49 percent of Republicans and 33 percent of Democrats would have a problem with their family marrying someone outside of their political affiliation. This is compared to 5 percent for Republicans and 4 percent for Democrats when the same question was asked in 1960. Shanto Iyengar (director of Stanford’s political communications lab, working with Dartmouth College political scientist, Sean Westwood) found that political bias far outweighed racial bias when people were reviewing resumes of applicants. Here is the sad irony of this whole political picture. As average Americans we are actually far closer to
the middle than our elected officials, news media, and partisan blog sites would like for each one of us to believe. It is true that the most extreme among us are the ones who tend to be the most engaged. The most polarized among us are more likely to turn out to vote. The biggest problem that we face currently is that if someone leans to one side of the political spectrum, they then shut down the other side entirely. They use words like “evil,” “stupid” or “Nazi.” Is your Dad an evil Nazi? My guess is no. Is he, like you, only getting his news from one side? My guess is he is a disciple of Fox News and the Drudge Report. My guess is that you are a disciple of Huffington Post, Slate and Salon. Both of you probably have no idea what the other one really truly believes politically, or why you believe what you do. Your discourse doesn’t get past weak arguments like, “You just don’t get it,” or, even worse: “You’re an idiot.” As humans we want to tribe up. It is an evolutionary trait that helped us to defeat the neanderthal and build civilization as we know it. It can also be a very ugly trait. This desire to be true to our tribe can cause us to close our minds. This is a fact that has become way more obvious to me the more and the farther away that I personally travel. When you get to see the differences in other cultures, you are able to better understand just how much we are so culturally the same here in the United States. A Democratic American has
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way more in common culturally with a Republican American than a Bulgarian of any political affiliation. However, when it comes to the things that really matter, like friends, food, family, etc., we share these values with everyone across the planet. Since you wrote in this question, I am sure you really care about what happens to this country. You are concerned about the path we are on, and you are concerned about the future. I am guessing your Dad does too. He is concerned, he cares, and if he votes, then he is engaged and doing his civic duty. You just disagree. I don’t think I am going out on a limb saying that I could probably phrase political questions that could elicit the same response out of both you and your old man. In the earliest days of our nation, you wouldn’t call a political foe an “idiot” in public. It would mean an honor duel to the death. You would choose weapons and then one of you would literally be killed in a “fair” fight to the death. If Representative Joe Wilson had yelled, “You lie” to the President of the United States, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, like he did in 2009, President Obama would have challenged him to a duel. One of them would have literally been killed. Am I calling for a return to honor duels to the death? Of course I’m not, but I do long for the days when in disagreement you might start off by saying, “I know you to be a gentleman and your character is beyond reproach, however
I must respectfully disagree with you because…” So in short, don’t tell your dad he is crazy. If it is going to be an issue, then don’t bring it up at all. If politics does come up, then see if you can really explain what you believe without name calling or buzz phrases or parroting bloggers. See if you can really listen to your dad, and find out why he believes what he does. Maybe you can open his mind, maybe he can open your mind. Extremism on all sides leads to violence. The far right and the far left is just one economic catastrophe or tragedy from becoming ISIS. Stand up for what you believe, but I personally have way more respect for someone who can extend a hand in friendship to someone they disagree with. It is harder to compromise than it is to dig in your heels. Presidents will come and go. Quit de-friending people who disagree, and remember you only have one dad, and he won’t be around forever. Maybe you could find a place to volunteer with your dad that you both could get behind. It would go a lot farther toward making the world a better place than sharing a partisan Facebook post. In that same spirit, I suggest you get your dad one of those Trump, “Make America Great Again” hats as a gift. Think of it like raising the white flag of truce. The joke will be on him anyway, because regardless of what you believe politically, I think we can all agree those hats look ridiculous. Who designed them, anyway? n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.11.16 - 05.18.16 // MUSIC 31
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reo Jones' 2012 LP Betty established the rapper as a force in Indianapolis music, and earned the emcee positive notices outside the Hoosier state. In the wake of Betty's release, many in the Indy music scene laid great hope and expectation at the emcee's feet. In the four year's that have passed since, it's my assessment that Jones ably met and surpassed all the artistic promise reflected in Betty. To some, four years may seem like a significant gap between albums for a young artist working hard to breakthrough. "It was that long ago?" Jones laughs when I remind him of Betty's issue date. But Jones has hardly been standing still. During those intermediary years he's toured diligently, co-founded local super-group White Moms, recorded collaborations with David "Moose" Adamson, and continued to refine and improve his web series Let's Do Lunch. But perhaps most importantly, Jones has become a catalyst for, if not the face of, an important music scene in this city in Fountain Square, that has merged various strains of rap music with indie rock and more experimental forms. Like many neighborhoods in the midst of gentrification, Fountain Square is a place of contrasts. Decades old momand-pop hardware stores share street space with avant-garde galleries. Freshly minted art school students move into age-worn city blocks filled with homes that have provided shelter for generations of conservative working class families. In recent decades Fountain Square has felt the harsh and unforgiving crush of poverty. The sharp bloodletting of American manufacturing jobs wreaked havoc on blue collar areas like Fountain Square, where neighborhood blocks are dotted with abandoned, boardedup homes lost to foreclosure and other financial disasters. It'a a tragic turn of circumstances that leads to high crime rates and low property values, opening space for hordes of starving artists and real estate speculators to move in. In the center of this culture clash lies the soul of Oreo Jones' Cash For Gold, out Friday on vinyl, tape and digital platforms. Whether intuitively or overtly, Jones created a soundtrack for the wide spectrum of residents that make their homes in struggling neighborhoods like Fountain Square. There are art rap jams on Cash For Gold that will provide background fodder for the next GPC gallery 32 MUSIC // 05.11.16 - 05.18.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
opening, and lyrically heavy tracks that will animate long nights for a struggling father hoping to sell enough dime bags to buy a box of diapers and formula for his newborn. One of the most striking tracks on Cash For Gold is "Mud.” Jones calls it his "social justice record,” adding that he wrote the lyrics "last summer when the crime rate was running rampant, especially killings and shootings." "Mud" weaves together a pair of vignettes that speak to the youngest victims of inner-city violence, and for me evokes thoughts of 15-year-old Andre Green killed last summer by IPD officers. Musically this is perhaps the most traditional hip-hop track on the record, but lyrically "Mud" marks a noticeable change of direction for Jones who seemed surprised by the song's subject matter himself. "I don't know if it's just me getting older, but I felt like it was important to tell a story about people affected by these shootings here in the city,” Jones says.
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thought of money over your head." I don't want to give the impression that Cash For Gold is filled with depressing tales of struggle and poverty. Jones also delivers the fun-filled, referencelaced escapist fantasies that fueled his Black Fabio project with Action Jackson. "Coogi Sweater" is a highlight, with the catchy repetitious chorus easily lodged in your head. The chillwave vibes on "Stevie Knicks House" will also please fans of Jones' larger-than-life-on-a-lowbudget wordplay. Somewhere in between the social justice tracks and party cuts lies "Caravaggio,” Jones created a soundtrack for the featuring an unhinged wide spectrum of residents that guest spot from emcee Flaco. "Caravaggio" make their homes in struggling marks another of Cash Gold's best moneighborhoods like Fountain Square. For ments. Having exhausted the potency of name-checking top shelf alcohol, luxury cars, and haute couture as symbols of The DMA-produced "Sufficient privileged social rank, many outlier Funds" provides another strong morappers have turned toward referencment. Adamson always impresses me ing the world of fine art for evidence as one of Indiana's musical visionarof their big baller status. While on the ies, putting his warped stamp on every surface "Caravaggio" appears to be genre of music he touches, in this fashioned in that mold, Jones tells me case an ominous, grinding hip-hop he has a deeper emotional connecbeat. While "Sufficient Funds" travels tion with the master painter's work: well-worn hip-hop territory, the story "He's my favorite artist. Teddy Panzer of a street hustler trying to come up, gave me the beat and it just screamed the inspired verses from Jones and his Enlightenment Period. It was dark, and Ghost Gun Summer colleague Sirius Caravaggio's paintings are super dark." Blvck enliven the set piece. "Sufficient Flaco and Jones use the theme to Funds" succeeds in recreating the make larger points about the art world. sort of eerie crime sagas perfected by I ask Jones about the Flaco-led chorus Golden Age artists like Mobb Deep, "Black boy go to the IMA, let a Nigger Raekwon and Ghostface Killah. "When sway." "I feel like it's important for art I wrote "Sufficient Funds" I was superto be accessible to everyone," Jones duper broke" Jones tells me, Adding says. "I've been to galleries where I feel the song is about, "just being able to out of place. It's not always culturally create and live without the looming diverse and it's kind of uncomfortable.
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You feel brushed aside and that's the reference with Flaco on the chorus." And what exactly is Jones' overarching vision on Cash For Gold? The title itself provides a nod to that question, referencing those ubiquitous pawn shop signs that seem to blot every poor and working class inner city neighborhood. The signs entice residents to turn over their most valued treasures for that quick hit of cash they desperately need to scrape by one more week. But, here, Jones flips the script: "It's about finding wealth in love and memories. It's about being spiritually wealthy and finding riches in something besides money." Jones has clearly found gold in the fertile Fountain Square music scene he's been mining over the last couple years. Cash For Gold shines brightly from the effort. It's a superb LP and a satisfying follow up to Betty, expanding on that album's best attributes while developing richer textural nuances both musically and lyrically. This record cements Jones' position as the most artistically ambitious rapper in Indy, and also establishes the emcee as an artist who has chosen not to ignore the the struggles besetting the impoverished residents of Indianapolis neighborhoods like Fountain Square. n
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Todd Rundgren 8 p.m. Over the course of his decades-spanning career, Rundgren’s next move has never been easy to pin down. One moment he’s singing Laura Nyro-style torch songs, the next he’s engaging in flights of prog-fancy with Utopia. When you think you’ve got him figured out, he shifts and slips through your fingers like grains of sand. The one thing that’s never changed is Rundgren’s dedication to his muse. It’s taken him to some very interesting and at times challenging places. He is a creature of the past, present and future. Rundgren has a healthy respect for the past, not too many rockers would cover Gilbert & Sullivan. Rundgren did that on his 1974 album, Todd, with a recording of “Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare Song” from the opera, Iolanthe. Another, perhaps unexpected thing about Rundgren? His many connections with Hoosiers. The Indiana/Rundgren connection began first with Roadmaster, a band from Indianapolis that had a few songs produced by Rundgren. The group later broke up and became John Mellencamp’s backing band. You have to dig deep for that type of rock music factoid, but that type of obscurity is background radiation for the true Rundgren devotee. In the right setting. When I bring up Roadmaster, there was a real fondness in Rundgren’s voice. “Oh yes, Asher Benrubi, The Mighty Adam T. Smasher. I was on tour in Cincinnati and I think some of the guys in the band came to see me play. I met them and hung out with them for a while and I think they sent me a demo. And I thought: ‘These guys, they rock pretty good,’ you know, let’s do some serious demos and see if they can get a record deal out of it. And I’m not sure if we were successful or not. They did get one record out of it and then everybody broke up and joined John Mellencamp’s band,” said Rundgren. More recently, Rundgren’s Indiana ties run through two towns: Greencastle and Bloomington, home to Depauw and Indiana University. Rundgren has fulfilled prestigious functions at both. He gave the 2009 Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture at Depauw University and it was this honor that led to his time in the fall of 2010 as the Wells Visiting Scholar at Indiana University. That devel-
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. “I now have a mania for shortness,” he wrote. “Whatever I read — my own work, or other people’s — it all seems to me not short enough.” I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efficiency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter. Aries
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Approximately 30,000 sites on the Internet attribute that quote to iconic genius Albert Einstein. But my research strongly suggests that he did not actually say that. Who did? It doesn’t matter. For the purposes of this horoscope, there are just two essential points to concentrate on. First, for the foreseeable future, your supreme law of life should be “creativity is intelligence having fun.” Second, it’s not enough to cavort and play and improvise, and it’s not enough to be discerning and shrewd and observant. Be all those things. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Western culture, the peacock is a symbol of vanity. When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it’s lovely, but may also mutter, “What a showoff.” But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem: an embodiment of hardwon and triumphant radiance. In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents. This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini. Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Clear moments are so short,” opines poet Adam Zagajewski. “There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.” Here’s what I have to say about that: Even if it does indeed describe the course of ordinary life for most people, it does not currently apply to you. On the contrary. You’re in a phase that will bring an unusually high percentage of lucidity. The light shining from your eyes and the thoughts coalescing in your brain will be extra pure and bright. In the world around you, there may be occasional patches of chaos and confusion, but your luminosity will guide you through them. Cancer
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Some things need to be fixed, others to be left broken,” writes poet James Richardson. The coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to make final decisions about which are which in your own life. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are either too damaged to salvage or undeserving of your hard labor? Consider the possibility that you will abandon them for good. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are cracked, Virgo
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but possible to repair and worthy of your diligent love? Make a plan to revive or reinvent them. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Once every year, it is healthy and wise to make an ultimate confession — to express everything you regret and bemoan in one cathartic swoop, and then be free of its subliminal nagging for another year. The coming days will be a perfect time to do this. For inspiration, read an excerpt from Jeanann Vernee’s “Genetics of Regret”: “I’m sorry I lied. Sorry I drew the picture of the dead cat. I’m sorry about the stolen tampons and the nest of mice in the stove. I’m sorry about the slashed window screens. I’m sorry it took 36 years to say this. Sorry that all I can do is worry what happens next. Sorry for the weevils and the dead grass. Sorry I vomited in the wash drain. Sorry I left. Sorry I came back. I’m sorry it comes like this. Flood and undertow.” Libra
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to the British podcast series “No Such Thing as a Fish,” there were only a few satisfying connubial relationships in late 18th-century England. One publication at that time declared that of the country’s 872,564 married couples, just nine were truly happy. I wonder if the percentage is higher for modern twosomes. Whether it is or not, I have good news: My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you Scorpios will have an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please! Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Some days I feel like playing it smooth,” says a character in Raymond Chandler’s short story “Trouble Is My Business,” “and some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.” I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won’t be prime time for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You’ll be better able to take advantage of fate’s fabulous farces if you’re geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Rebecca Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, “I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.” Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. Now is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honor the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished. Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear.” The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I’m passing it on to you. Why now? Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty, and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you’ll seek out the tangy, the smoldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” That’s from a Coleman Barks’ translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime? Pisces
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