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Corrections An editorial error in our May 9, 2012 story “Duke’s Cost Overrun Saga” left out the word “construction” before the words “cost overruns” in the lead. To better characterize the full cost-overrun picture, we edited the lead to the story posted on NUVO.net to reflect construction ($94 million higher than IURC approved in 2009) plus financing costs ($151 million

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HAMMER Losing Lugar The radical right reflect poorly on the rest of us

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

utwardly, life in Indianapolis seemed unchanged. People were buying flowers for Mother’s Day, waiting in the McDonald’s drive-through lane and roasting hamburgers on charcoal grills outside. Business as usual. But the city and state suffered an invisible but not intangible loss last Tuesday when Republican voters lived up to their reputation as being the most short-sighted, ignorant and narrowminded voters this side of Mississippi and unceremoniously dumped Sen. Richard Lugar in favor of a semi-educated hillbilly with a flair for memorizing Rush Limbaugh stories. Even if the new nominee, Ricky Bob Mourdock or whatever his name is, selfdestructs and loses the election, ironically helping President Obama by giving him a new Democratic ally in the Senate, it will take a long time for Indiana to live down the shame of kicking out one of the most intellectual and effective senators in American history. Indiana has a long history of electing crazy, unqualified people to office. Congressman Dan Burton shot watermelons with a rifle to prove his theory that the Clintons were murderers. Mike Pence parlayed hosting a radio talk show into many undistinguished and embarrassing years in Congress and is threatening to be an equally incompetent governor. The patron saint of Indiana incompetence, Dan Quayle, not only got elected to the Senate, but also the vice presidency, where he spent four years with the same deer-in-the-headlights look. If not for Sarah Palin, he would still hold the record for dumbest nominee on a national ticket. Despite that, on occasion Indiana has sent men and women of excellence and intelligence to national office. Congressman Lee Hamilton was a rock of solid thinking in Washington, helping build bipartisan alliances to protect America’s military and intelligence operations. He is one of the few politicians publicly praised by both Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney. Birch Bayh was a senator who stood up to Richard Nixon and helped defeat Tricky Dick’s segregationist Supreme Court nominees in the early 1970s. He also helped craft the constitutional amendment granting the vote to 18 year olds.

And in Indianapolis, Mayor Bill Hudnut was perhaps the greatest visionary the city has ever seen. He dreamt of a vibrant, sparkling downtown area full of shiny hotels, restaurants and shops to help build a world-class city and create thousands of jobs. And Richard Lugar was perhaps the greatest of them all. Although he was a conservative, he didn’t mind working with moderates and liberals when their goals were shared. Lugar’s goals were to help win the Cold War and then, even more importantly, help rebuild the former Soviet Union and keep its nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. Lugar worked with three Democratic presidents and three Republican presidents to help guide American foreign policy in the right direction. He didn’t care about ideology when it came to our nation’s security. All he cared about was doing the right thing. And for 36 years, that had been enough. We felt free to elect zany, radical people to other offices because we knew that Lugar’s steady, quiet leadership would always be there. Until the corrosive, subversive teabagger wing took over the Republican Party, Lugar’s seat was always considered safe. I’m not sure what the teabaggers think Mourdock will do if he is elected other than craft speeches in the style of Glenn Beck on Fox News to talk about how un-American it is for President Obama to try and help people who aren’t white. That’s really all he will do — if he bothers to even show up for work, which as state treasurer he didn’t do very much. He will join the lunatic caucus of the Senate and be completely ineffective in getting anything done except saying no to Obama over and over again until the end of the president’s second term in 2016. Lugar accepted defeat gracefully, as he has done everything else in his public life. But he issued a written warning to Mourdock, advising him (gracefully) that his approach is full of shit. Lugar then defended his service in the Senate in this way: “Ideology cannot be a substitute for a determination to think for yourself, for a willingness to study an issue objectively, and for the fortitude to sometimes disagree with your party or even your constituents.” Whatever else may be said about Richard G. Lugar, he was a man who always thought for himself and strove to do the best he could for Indiana and the United States. His kind of compassionate, thoughtful leadership is nearly extinct in his party. No wonder he had to go. But long after Billy Bob Mourdock is forgotten, Lugar’s name will be remembered as a true statesman and patriot. We are all diminished by his defeat. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

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Or Mourdock’s gift to Obama

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he whacking Republican voters handed St. Richard Lugar last week is a good example of the kind of weirdness people can commit in the name of love. I’m sure at one time or another you’ve known someone who professed an undying loyalty to a partner they otherwise appeared to detest. One might be a neat freak with a perverse pleasure in complaining about the other being a slob. Or a person who by nature is shy and retiring might unaccountably pair off with a mouthy, aggressive type. These are the sorts of couples who give each other “I’m with stupid” t-shirts and claim it’s just a joke. This appears to be the sort of relationship Tea Party voters who chose Richard Mourdock over Lugar have with America. They claim an essential love for this country, yet it seems there’s little they actually like about the way this place behaves. Tea Partiers are steamed about the mountain of federal debt and what they say is a government trampling their rights. These are real concerns many people share. But the Tea Party’s way of dealing with these issues is to back candidates like Mourdock, who would use the debt as a wrecking ball to effectively bring down the federal government as it has existed since Franklin Roosevelt used it to make life bearable during the Great Depression. Mourdock has said he sees little point in trying to compromise with Democrats. What he says he wants is a Republican dominated Senate or, in other words, one-party rule. That, as someone once said about Mussolini’s Italy, is a great way to make trains run on time, but it has nothing do with governing a complex nation made up of a wide variety of people living across a spectrum of circumstances. America’s spending with largess, it’s true. We shoveled at least $3 trillion into a fruitless war in Iraq, to take just one example. But our national debt is due to more than the tendency to throw money at problems. A country this size has real needs that states cannot meet by themselves. Finding ways to address these needs is how our government makes sure everyone shares an American life, regardless of what state they’ve landed in. The federal government invests in programs like Social Security and Medicare

to protect older citizens, civil rights laws to create equal access to voting and public facilities, even an interstate highway system to enhance travel and commerce across state lines. The manifest success of these programs makes you wonder what America the Tea Partiers and candidates like Mourdock want to “recover.” Mourdock’s victory seems certain to push the easily impressed Mitt Romney further to the right as he makes his bid to be president. Moderate Republicans (an increasingly antique breed) and some independents have been hoping Romney might find a way to pivot toward the center now that President Obama is his sole adversary. But the Tea Party’s virtual takeover of the Republican agenda means that to do this, Romney would have to run against, not with, the tide in his own party. And if we know anything about Romney by now, it’s that he’s not one to buck a trend. This puts President Obama’s personal endorsement of gay marriage into context. The president had previously danced around the issue, claiming that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but that he supported civil unions and was also in favor of equal rights for gay people. Over time, he said, his view of gay marriage “evolved,” until finally coming round to support for the idea. Although Obama’s endorsement is not tied to any kind of legislative initiative, it has, nevertheless, stirred up a lot of speculation about how it could impact his race with Romney. Romney, predictably, is a man-and-a-woman guy, against gay marriage and civil unions, too. In light of the fact that both candidates say they think this issue should be left to the states, many pundits have questioned why Obama would choose to bring it up. The reason may be that he sees that he’s running against the Tea Party — a party, as Mourdock has proclaimed, of no compromise, bent on undoing generations’ worth of nationally unifying work in the name of balancing the federal budget. By waiting to make his endorsement until national polling confirmed that a majority of Americans have no problem with gays marrying one another, Obama adroitly found a simple, unmistakable way of showing the difference between how he and Romney understand American life. It might also be that Obama is at last beginning to understand the nature of his opposition: The Tea Party doesn’t want to make America better, they want to change it. A lot of marriages are based on this same, fatal premise. What starts out as a weird attraction winds up becoming a tugo-war, as one benighted spouse tries to make the other conform to his or her idea of a dream lover. It’s no wonder almost half the marriages in America end in divorce.

Obama is at last beginning to understand the nature of his opposition: It doesn’t want to make America better, they want to change it.

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So what is Great Expectations? Great Expectations is a professional, personalized dating and matchmaking service that allows single men and women to meet other quality singles in their area. In business for more than 35 years, it’s the nation’s oldest and largest private membership club for singles. Members work with personal relationship specialists who are there to guide them on every step of their journey to finding that special someone. Taking the time to meet with all potential members in-person, everyone must first be screened for emotional stability and have a background check run. “When clients come in and meet with one of our relationship experts, they’ll receive a full consultation. All are told up front that not everyone can qualify for our program. If we feel that for any reason they are not ready to be in a serious, committed relationship, we offer advice on how to prepare for a serious relationship. Great Expectations isn’t for the casual dater.” said Andre. If the potential member qualifies for Great Expectations, and they feel Great Expectations is a good fit for them as well, they’ll schedule a time for their professional photo and video shoot. After a new member has their profile complete with bio, photos and videos, they are ready to meet and mingle with other members. Members are given access to a password protected, secure website to search profiles from home. “Remember, we aren’t an online dating company, we’re a matchmaking service. We like to offer the convenience of searching profiles online to our members, but our Member Service Department, with help from our relationship experts, will also select and send profiles to our members whom they believe would be a good fit together.” said Andre.

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Indiana is famous for its bigotry against homosexuals (among others). The latest chapter in this legacy, titled Dynasty Young, is so sad in that this flamboyant, homosexual teen felt compelled to bear a stun gun to repel bullying at Arsenal Technical High School. IPS policy prohibiting the carrying of weapons at school led to the expulsion of Young — UNTIL JANUARY 2013. That neither seems fair nor the healthiest course of action for this suffering teenager. The social tide may be turning even more in favor of allowing people to openly express their sexuality without having to feel ashamed or evil. (If President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage is any indication.) Puritanism has its place, but not at the expense of people — likely the majority — enjoying healthy, wild, safe sex.

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At Monday night’s meeting, City-County Council President Maggie Lewis continued her long-standing support of Indy’s hotel workers with the introduction of a Freedom to Work ordinance. The proposal, sponsored by CCC Vice President Brian Mahern, would prevent temporary staffing agencies from making agreements with hotels that would impede workers from moving from a temporary firm to a hotel looking for a permanent employee. “Workers claim that area hotels have agreements that block them from taking better paying jobs in other hotels to make ends meet,” a UNITE HERE news release said. “They hold that after working for temporary agencies, they are barred from working directly for area hotels, leaving them with no choice but to continue to work for temporary agencies for as little as $7.25 per hour with no health insurance, sick days, or vacation days.” The CCC referred the ordinance to its Rules and Public Policy Committee.

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he Greening the Heartland conference is expected to draw more than 1,000 green building and sustainability practitioners. Attendees will get to learn about Indy’s latest forays into green construction, such as the new Wishard Hospital/ Eskenazi Health project, the energy-efficiency retrofits to the 50-year-old Indianapolis City-County Building and the Nature Conservancy of Indiana’s new headquarters. While Indianapolis is taking small steps toward a greener future, focusing on individual projects, what would happen if the entire city could somehow be retrofitted to produce all of its own energy? Or better yet, the entire state or country? German Chancellor Angela Merkel hired one of Greening the Heartland’s keynote speakers, Jeremy Rifkin, to explore those possibilities in her country. In a telephone interview with NUVO before the conference, Rifkin, who is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of more than 20 books, about how scientific and technological evolution can affect economic and social change. Here is an edited sampling of Rifkin’s comments:

Rifkin on the current energy/ environment landscape:

We have a global crisis … As fossil fuel energies are sunsetting, they’re never getting cheaper again. We can drill all we want, but we’re drilling for the more scarce energy: shale gas, tar sands, heavy oil. The technologies based on these fossil fuel energies are like the internal combustion engine — they’re old. And the infrastructure of our economy is made from carbon, from plastic to cement, so construction costs are going up. And now to compound it, we have the impacts of climate change affecting agriculture infrastructure. As you know in Indiana, it’s becoming a real problem.

Rifkin on oil versus growth:

When Angela Merkel became chancellor of Germany, she asked me if I would come to Berlin to help her new government address the question of how to grow the German economy and create jobs. The first thing I asked the chancellor was,

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‘How do you grow the German economy—or even the global economy—in the last stages of a great energy era?’ That’s the problem. The real economic crisis in the world was July 2008. That’s the month oil hit $147 a barrel in global markets. All the prices in the global supply chain went through the roof, including groceries. Everything is made out of fossil fuels and is moved by them. At $147 a barrel, even in developed countries, we all stopped buying — the world economy shut down in July 2008. That was the economic earthquake and the collapse of the financial markets 60 days later was the aftershock. We’re still dealing with the aftershock but we’re not dealing with the earthquake. We’re the endgame of the Second Great Industrial Revolution. The reason is that we’ve hit two milestones: peak oil per capita and peak oil production. Every time we try to re-grow the economy we’re going to have the same cycle. In 2009, oil went to $30 a barrel because no one was buying it — the economy had stopped. In 2010, we tried to start the engine again by replenishing inventories around the world, and now it’s $115. Other prices are going up, gasoline prices are $4 to $5 a gallon. It will effect the presidential election. We’re seeing these four-to-six-year cycles ... Every time we try to re-grow, everything goes up then collapses.

Rifkin on climate change and economic revolution:

We also have the real-time impact of climate change. Scientists tell us that we’re looking at a 3 degree Celsius rise in temperatures this century. Three degrees takes us to the Pliocene era, three million years ago. When the temperature goes up, the whole hydrological cycle changes … ecosystems can’t catch up to a changing weather cycle. Scientists say we are in the early stages of the sixth extinction event, up to 70 percent extinction of all plant and animal species by the end of the century. We’re in complete denial. What we need is a new economic vision for the world that’s compelling, and a new economic game plan that’s deliverable that will get us off carbon in 30 years. Economic revolutions occur when three things come together historically. We change energy regimes, then we create communication revolutions. When communication technology revolutions converge with new energy regimes, they change economic, history, social and political landscapes. For example, 19th century, print technology became cheap. We went from manual presses to speed power presses. We introduced public schools. We created a printliterate workforce with communication skills to manage the complexities of the coal-powered, steam-driven energy revolution in the First Industrial Revolution. In the 20th century, we centralized electricity, and the telephone: the radio, and television became the communication media to manage a more complex ... society. That

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Jeremy Rifkin, a renowned author, international consultant and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, will be one of Greening the Heartland’s keynote speakers.

industrial revolution is on life support. We are on the cusp of a new convergent communication-energy movement, Europe and Germany is leading this new convergence. The Internet has been a powerful communication revolution in the last 25 years. I grew up on centralized, top-down communication — the Internet is distributed collaboratively. It scales the lateral power. In less than 25 years, 2.3 billion people sending their own video, audio, text. The Internet communication revolution is just beginning to merge with a new energy regime, whose energies are distributed and have to be organized collaboratively and scaled laterally. It’s a perfect fit.

Rifkin on the connection between communications and energy:

The Third Industrial Revolution is the second of a series. The first was published a year ago. The Empathic Civilization, is a rethinking of the historic narrative based on communication/energy convergences and their shift in consciousness all through history. For 40-some years I’ve been working in these fields of energy, communications, and economics. When you look at history, energy revolutions make possible more complex living arrangements. They can annihilate time and space and bring more people together. If you think about new energy regimes, increasing the energy flow, and creating more complex civilizations, they can’t manage without a new communication revolution. We’re seeing a quick convergence, moving in northern Europe and Germany, where the Internet starts to organize and manage distributive energies with distributive technologies. I’m always guardedly hopeful. I’m also not naïve as to how daunting, especially now — the clock is not with us. We have to convert the world quickly and our climate scientists are saying that if you don’t do this within a couple of years in a turnaround with no mistakes, we may not be Primary Results: Mourdock wins by The Statehouse File Brooks and May among GOP winners by The Statehouse File

able to avert catastrophic climate change.

Rifkin’s five pillars 1) You need renewable energies to get off carbon. 2) Wherever you have buildings and infrastructure you collect (distributive energy) onsite because they are distributed energies. 3) You have to store them because they are intermittent. [He cites examples of distributive energies, including: solar, wind, geothermal, forest residue, agricultural waste, ocean waves, and garbage.] 4) You have to share them across continents or you don’t have enough to run the continent — that’s the electricity Internet. 5) You have to plug them into the transport system. These five pillars alone are nothing, they’re simply components. It’s only when you phase them in that you create the synergies to create a new economic infrastructure for a new economic era. This is power to the people ... It is a democratization of energy. The one thing about America is that once we get the story, no one can move as quickly. We can transform our country overnight.

GREENING THE HEARTLAND May 16-18 Indiana Convention Center Conference includes breakout sessions, plenaries, exhibits, workshops, lunch and other fun. Info/tix: www.greeningtheheartland.org HIGHLIGHTS: Wednesday | 11 a.m. Author Charles Fishman Thursday | 11 a.m. Author Jeremy Rifkin Friday | 11 a.m. Presentation on Wishard/Eskanazi Health Rally planned in support of bullied, gay teen by Jack Meyer Same-sex silliness by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz

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ast year, I grew my first cucumber and eating it made me feel like I’d never before actually paid attention to food while eating. I’m no foodie, but eating from my own yard fired up something inside me besides a simple digestive process. Growing it myself seemed to fill that vegetable with meaning, with grace. I am seeking to recreate that experience on a larger scale. This time it will be with chickens. As it turns out, I am far from alone. Bolstered by an absence of regulation combined with surging interest, urban chicken farming is taking off in Indianapolis. Leading that charge is a local advocacy group founded by Andrew Brake; Nap Town Chickens. He founded the organization last fall, after the huge success of his (now annual) bicycle tour of backyard coops, Tour de Coops. Brake’s aim is – as his business card proclaims – to put “a coop in every yard, a fresh egg on every plate.” Currently Nap Town Chickens is fully engaged in their newest initiative, Project Poultry. “I want to put a chicken coop in every school in Indianapolis,” Brake says, and he’s already lining up sponsors to do exactly that. Before Project Poultry, only one school in the area had a coop: Brook Park Elementary in Lawrence. As of this writing, nine schools are set to have coops built by spring, and many more are in the discussion phase. What accounts for this dramatic increase in school-based chickens? “There’s a lot of curriculum built into raising chickens, so teachers like it,” Brake

Nap Town Chickens started in Indiana, November 2011. Project Poultry began simultaneously, but did not place any coops until March 2012. Nap Town Chickens (NTC) will be sponsoring the 2nd annual “Tour De Coops.” On Sept. 16, 1-6 p.m. Think “Meridian-Kessler Home Tour,” but with chicken coops. Areas will include Broad Ripple, Meridian-Kessler, ButlerTarkington and Rocky Ripple. Project Poultry aims to provide a chicken coop for every school in the state of Indiana, and then — the world! They are not limited to schools and will help anyone to get their own coop.

says. Besides just getting eggs to eat, I want to help kids think about where food comes from, what goes into producing it, and how not to waste it.”

Chickens eat anything Andrew Brake is a big fan of not wasting food – it’s what attracted him to chickens in the first place. At first, he didn’t have a deep philosophical urge to bring people closer to their food and enjoy a more meaningful connection to healthy living. As his own personal investment in raising chickens increased, so has his awareness of those less quantifiable rewards, but his initial concerns were simply practical: Chickens were an attractive alternative to food disposal. “Chickens will eat anything. They’ll eat chicken. You can feed a chicken table and kitchen scraps, and get eggs. Then you can grind up the shells and feed them back to the chickens. In nature, there is no such thing as waste,”Brake says. While some of that might sound a bit macabre, these are the kinds of natural cycles most humans are missing from their day-to-day experience. As the mil-

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lennium progresses, more and more people are experiencing feelings of detachment and meaninglessness. Putting coops into schools is a great way to help kids regain some connectivity to nature in their lives. “I’m not trying to save the world, but it’s a start,” Brake says. Rocky Ripple resident Maggie Goeglein didn’t attend an elementary school with chickens, but that didn’t stop her from taking the plunge. Her coop was featured on the Tour de Coops last year, and she is quick to highlight the more metaphysical benefits of personal chicken farming. “They connect me to my place, in a world where we are encouraged to ‘purchase experiences,’” Goeglein says. She loves being in charge of quality control for the food she eats, and claims that the unseen benefits are more valuable than the obviously tangible eggs themselves. “They help me close the loop – I have less waste in my life. I spend more time outside, I have an increased sense of home and belonging, free fertilizer for the garden, and of course there’s the chicken tractor,” Goeglein says. The phrase “chicken tractor” was a new

one for me. Apparently, if you want a space in your yard to become very easy to plant in, just pen the chickens in that space for about a month. They will dig it up, fertilize it and feed themselves while they’re at it.

Egg-o-pause The only aspect of urban chicken farming that people haven’t found an answer to is what to do with the creatures when they enter what’s called “egg-o-pause.” Chickens can live six to 12 years or more, but tend to stop laying regularly after three or four. Many people are interested in eating their retired lay-ers, but not so interested in “dispatching” them personally. Goeglein agrees it’s a necessary part of the process, but she raised her hens from chicks and they all have names. “I couldn’t do it,” she admits. Veteran backyard chicken farmer Josh Ethington says he tried butchering his own chickens. “I can’t eat chicken anymore,” he says. “It’s the smell.” So, ready to get some chickens? Me too. I’m not even thinking about my own retirement yet, so dealing with retired chickens can just sit on that same back-burner for a while. I told Andrew Brake that I already had two cats – what’s the commitment comparison to chickens? “Well,” he said, “they take a little more effort than a cat, but much less than a dog.” That sounds exactly my speed, and anyway I’m tired of having pets that lay things I can’t eat. Even when pickled that stuff is a little hard to swallow.

The coop does not have to be heated, but it does have to be free of drafts. A four or five foot cube is about all the room you need for four or five birds. The coop needs an elevated “roost” for the hens to sleep on (a horizontal pole of some kind) and an elevated space about the size of a milk crate for them to lay in. After that just line the floor with straw, wood chips, shredded newspaper, pine needles, pine shavings, sand, gravel, or nothing at all! Just don’t use cedar chips. Chickens hate cedar chips. Seriously, they really do.

ANDREW BRAKE: AT A GLANCE BORN: Nap Town AGE: 30, but in chicken years that’s only about 4 SCHOOLING: Cathedral High School, Indiana University PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT: Keep Indianapolis Beautiful WHERE DO YOU “BUY LOCAL”? My backyard and all of the sponsors who are supporting Project Poultry: Heldman Exteriors, G. Thrapp Jewelers, Garrity Stone, Pet Supplies Plus, Style Salon, Silver in the City, Johnson-Melloh Solutions, Indiana Farm Bureau, Hope Plumbing and Simon Skojdt Printing. NTC’S LONG RANGE PLANS: As Bill Gates outrageously claimed some 30 years that he would put a computer on every desk in the U.S.A., Nap Town Chickens will put a chicken coop in every school yard in Indianapolis. Then, we’ll move on to retirement homes, firehouses, rehabilitation centers, etc. “A Coop in Every Yard, A Fresh Egg on Every Plate.” One day...

Chickens “come home to roost.” That’s their thing, and they do it. Chickens will not run away on purpose, but they will get run over or eaten by local fauna just like any other small pet. So, your job is to lock them in the coop at dusk, and let them out at dawn. “The run” is the place you let them out into, for food and exercise. If that sounds like too much effort, build an enclosed run – then the chickens can let themselves in and out of the coop without your help, and remain protected from raccoons, foxes, hawks and neighborhood dogs. If you have an enclosed yard, feel free to let them run in it. Keep in mind they will probably destroy your flowers and eat your vegetables, so keep those areas fenced off.

If your chickens have a good stretch of yard to run around in, your chicken feed bill can be cut in half – they will feed themselves with worms, grubs, bugs and seeds. Maggie Goeglein says that during the winter, when she has to really supplement the appetite of her five “girls,” they eat about $10 of chicken feed per month. Get a hanging feeder and a water dispenser and you’re pretty much set – these pets are pecky, not picky. You may need to keep the water from freezing in the winter but hey – that’s the excuse you needed to start looking into low energy solar heaters, isn’t it?

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As mentioned, there are no rules about having chickens in Marion County. That being said, there are rules about noise. The easiest solution? Don’t get a rooster! Hens are pretty quiet, and a rooster is not required for egg production. If you want to raise your chickens from infancy, you can buy chicks at supply stores for 99 cents each – you can even have them delivered by mail. That process is very labor intensive, and new chicks require daily attentive care for a couple weeks. If that sounds fun, do it! The process is incredibly rewarding and can really help to develop an emotional attachment to your flock. Not everyone is looking to form relationships with their birds. I’m just going to buy my hens, winter-hardy and fully-grown. The outrageous cost for a chicken of egg-laying age that can survive an Indianapolis winter? Six to ten bucks. There is a lot more to learn, and there will be the initial cost of time and money to build a coop and acquire some hens. For one weekend’s worth of work, and one pamphlet’s worth of knowledge, you and your family could never again have to shell out cash for eggs that Nature wants you to have for free. As Brake so eloquently put it during his chicken coop workshop at the State Fairgrounds, “Chickens will change your life. But they’re not that big of a deal.” (Top, left) The colorfully painted Rocky Ripple coop of Constance and Michael Axler. (Above) Anne Collins and Andrew Brake with chickens ISA and Fionna. Seven year-old Eastsider Axler Hendrix holds eight week-old Scoobie.

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There’s a semi-legitimate argument floating around the zeitgeist that programs like Happy Hour — the ISO’s booze-laden, Time for Three-driven, young professionalseeking, not at all intimidating melange of indie rock, Americana and bite-size classical warhorses — are bad for classical music. You see, the kids will get a false impression, and will be surprised to see that at “typical” symphony concerts, you have to pay for your drinks, the conductor is old and not very hot (unlike the fetching Steve Hackman, the one-time American Idol contestant who has led Happy Hour since Time for Three took it over), the symphonies can sometimes run for as long as an hour (without clapping between movements), and so on. But this seems to me a bit specious, not only because Krzysztof Urbanski isn’t so deficient in the looks department himself — but also a) not all young professionals are neanderthals, disappointed when the shiny thing goes away; b) it’s not all about the trappings — there is also the music, which ranges from inventive arrangements of indie rock (notably Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek”) to Time for Three’s virtuosic Americana; and c) the classical world is a bit hidebound for reasons that sometimes have more to do with economics than aesthetics, and being that the ISO isn’t, say, the Royal Concertgebouw, there ought to be room for experimentation and growth, with thought toward how the ISO can draw in new audiences without compromising anything essential. That’s well enough about that; this year’s final Happy Hour program will include arrangements of Beatles songs and Mumford and Sons’ “Little Lion Man,” Grieg’s Holberg Suite and a Time for Three original, “Banjo Love.” 6:30 p.m. (complimentary food and drink, with ticket, from 5 p.m.) @ 45 Monument Circle; $25; indianapolissymphony.org

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Well, zero waste can be sexy, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get there, some of which has been led by Timo Rissanen, assistant professor of fashion design and sustainability at Parsons School of Design. Rissanen will join Michael Bricker of People for Urban Progress for a talk about sustainable design Thursday night at The Toby as part of Indy Talks. Some 15 to 20 percent of all the fabric used to make clothes ends up in landfills, according to The New York Times (which quotes “fashion industry professionals” for that figure), because it’s cheaper to throw away the scraps than recycle them. Rissanen’s dissertation, “Fashion Creation without Fabric Waste Creation,” details his attempts to try out different techniques that might reduce that waste. Several zero-waste techniques, including Rissanen’s, are extant; none will be easy to implement on a large scale, because of the necessity to redesign factory infrastructure built without a thought to sustainability. Bricker and PUP have been thinking about urban design on a local level, reusing football and baseball-related detritus, including the RCA Dome roof, discarded Super Bowl memorabilia — and seats from Bush Stadium, which are finding second life at bus stops around town. Petra Slinkard, IMA curatorial associate for textile and fashion arts, will moderate. 7 p.m. @ 4000 N. Michigan St. (Tobias Theatre); $5 general admission, $3 IMA members; imamuseum.org

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@ Indianapolis Museum of Art NoExit’s month-long Theban Play spectacular has two weeks left to go: this weekend’s premiere run for Antigone, and, after a break for Memorial Day and the race, a final capstone weekend, May 31-June 2, featuring all three Theban Plays in succession, one each night. In theory, Antigone was to be a remount of the successful 2009 production on the IMA grounds that inspired the company to return to the same location and up the ante by staging all three of Sophocles’ Theban Plays at once. But the production will differ somewhat from its predecessor; as director Georgeanna Smith, reprising her role from 2009, told NUVO last month, “I always tell myself its going to be so easy, and then I change a billion things. It’s been problematic, because we didn’t videotape this, and I didn’t take great notes and no blocking notes exist. It’s been fun to recreate with almost an entirely new cast, to revisit and have it be a little more collaborative in that way.”

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May 17-19, 7 p.m. @ 4000 N. Michigan St. (meet at the Sutphin Fountain); $20 general admission, $15 IMA members, $10 seniors and students; noexitperformance.org

Okay, so those of us who have seen one too many theme park-style, “rock through the ages” spectaculars might be less than piqued by a show billed as a “celebration of age in song” and featuring music by a seemingly random selection of songwriters, including Bob Dylan (natch, since “Forever Young” is his), Nina Simone, The Grateful Dead, Janis Ian, Toby Keith, Sting, Taylor Swift, Loudon Wainwright and Paul Simon. Ah, but if I tell you Tim Brickley and Bryan Fonseca — the guys behind last year’s quite excellent John Prine revue, Pure Prine, which ended up in Chicago after premiering at the Phoenix — are cocreators, and that the musicians include Tim Grimm and Jan Lucas Grimm, both in that Prine show, well, you might just rethink your first impression. Ken Ferrell, Max Henschen, Heather Styka and Sherri Brown Webster round out the cast of this co-production by the Phoenix and the University of Indianapolis Center for Aging and Community. Opening May 17, 7 p.m.; through June 3 @ 749 N. Park Ave.; $25; phoenixtheatre.org

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The inaugural Onyx Fest, the city’s only festival devoted to the work of African-American playwrights, will present three premieres this weekend at the IndyFringe Theatre: Jaron Marquis Garrett’s Betsy on E. 10th Street, the story of an elderly veteran who becomes a first-time homeowner in a neighborhood on the brink; Lisa Sims’ When You Least Expect It, concerning a certain Tonya, whose problems include a fiance who may or not be who he says he is, a mother addicted to gambling and a brother indebted to a loan shark; and Nicole C. Kearney’s re-Entry, about a man attempting to reconnect with the outside world after spending nearly half his life in jail. We chatted briefly with Garrett to get a sense of his new play, which he says is entirely the product of invention, though “he later met someone whose story paralleled the main character’s very closely.” Betsy on E. 10th Street is based in the Tuxedo Park neighborhood on the near east side, where he grew up, attending Arsenal Tech High School before moving away for college. He notes that the play is more of a biographical study than a dissection of the politics of the area; or in other words, “Politics are only seen in the subsidies that the well-deserved main character benefits from to acquire the property.” Garrett is the co-founder of the Indianapolis Urban Theater and Dance Company, which strives to “give more opportunities to professional performers of ethnic and diverse backgrounds.” Plays run one hour, with each play performed three times through the weekend. Check indyfringe.org for complete showtimes. May 18-20 @ 719 E. St. Clair St.; $10 adults, $8 students

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Join us June 1 at the Athenaeum for a free public celebration of these — and all of our 2012 — CVA winners. Reception: 5:15-6:15 p.m.; program: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Please RSVP at www.cva.nuvo.net.

Pictured: Julia Whitehead KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY This one-of-a-kind destination in Indianapolis honors native son Kurt Vonnegut in a variety of ways, from its expansive library to its national outreach. It’s been quite a year for the organization, as they weighed in on the national conversation regarding the banning of Slaughterhouse-Five in Missouri. Also, they are building a board of directors with an impressive lineup, including the nationally known comic, Lewis Black. The beloved Vonnegut needed a central location to be properly appreciated, and Julia Whitehead and friends stepped up.

Pictured: Tamara Zahn INDIANAPOLIS DOWNTOWN INC. Zahn formed Indianapolis Downtown, Inc. in 1993 a not-for-profit organization focused on developing, managing and marketing downtown Indianapolis. And what an amazing two decades this has been! With Zahn at the helm of IDI, the revitalization of the downtown is revealed for all to see, including some 80 projects totaling $3 billion, featuring 3,000 new downtown homes and six cultural districts. A prolific board member with such organizations as Indianapolis Cultural Trail and Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association, Zahn can now add a CVA to her wealth of awards that includes a Sagamore of the Wabash.

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Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2012 @ Grunwald Gallery (Bloomington) Seven years ago, a couple curators with Bloomington’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction came up with the idea of doing a juried art show to meet at least a few goals — a) to raise money to mount exhibitions of the Kinsey’s holdings, b) to expand its contemporary art collection (which has been amassed entirely by donation in the absence of an acquisitions budget) and c) to provide a showcase for artists creating work pertaining to the Kinsey’s research. The show started small — literally, in the Kinsey’s own rather humble gallery space — but in recent years, has expanded into the larger Grunwald Gallery and attracted more and more artists, including some well-known names with representation. In initial years, “erotic” was part of the show’s title, but a more inclusive approach now sets the pace, with artwork accepted that somehow pertains to one of the following: “sex, gender, eroticism, reproduction, sexuality, romantic relationships, the politics of sex and gender, and the human figure.” Opening reception: May 18, 6-8 p.m.; panel discussion: May 19, 2:30-4 p.m. (Morrison Hall 007); through July 21 @ 1201 E. 7th St., Bloomington; free; indiana.edu/~grunwald

John Keats is a touchstone for NYC-based playwright Johnna Adams’s Sans Merci, making its Indy premiere this weekend at Theatre Non Nobis; his “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” or “the beautiful lady without pity,” furnishes both a title and conversational inspiration for the play’s characters, three women who were direct or indirect victims of a pitiless attack sustained during a humanitarian mission. Kelly and Tracy, friends and lovers, had travelled to Columbia to help the country’s U’wa tribe challenge an oil company with plans to drill on sacred ground. The play picks up the storyline three years after their trip, with Tracy dead and Kelly handicapped as a result of the attack. Tracy’s mother arrives on Kelly’s porch to pick up Tracy’s things — it’s her first time meeting her daughter’s once girlfriend — and the two discuss the past, represented, in part, through flashback, which affords Tracy a speaking role. May 18, 19, 25, 26 and June 1, 2 at 8 p.m. @ 1125 Spruce St.; $15 general public, $13 students and seniors; thechurchwithin.org

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The incentives will come fast and fierce on Bike to Work Day, particularly for those who work in the vicinity of the Indy Bike Hub YMCA, located in the east wing of the Indianapolis City Market. First off, beginning from 6:30 a.m., you can join up with one of at least 13 commuter rides starting at all points throughout the metro area, including Central Park on the Monon in Carmel, Gear Up Cyclery in Plainfield and Freewheelin’ Community Bikes at 34th Street and Central Avenue (details on all rides at theindycog. com). Then, once you’re downtown, free parking and free breakfast is available at the Bike Hub YMCA (or in temporary parking provided by PedalandPark.org). Mayor Ballard and other landed gentry will speak toward 8 a.m.; then, as the work day winds down, a Sun King-sponsored Happy Hour will kick off at Tomlinson Tap Room, running from 3:30-6:30 p.m. But, most importantly, there will be prizes — prizes! — for those who register their commute at theindycog.org, including a cruiser bicycle donated by New Belgium Brewing Company.

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Encore Vocal Arts’ The Magic of Fred Waring @ Lawrence Central High School Auditorium If you like Glee, well, chances are you probably won’t flat-out love Fred Waring — but given a certain appreciation of the craft, you will get a sense of the historical roots of the show choir and glee club phenomenon. Waring started a singing group, the Collegians, while at Penn State in the late 1910’s; eventually dubbed the Pennsylvanians, they had recording success through the ‘20s, then exploded in the ‘30s, by which time their conductor was a household name. Using a CICF grant, Encore Artistic Director Chris Ludwa has lately been on Waring’s historical trail, reconstructing his arrangements and spending time with the last living performer to tour with Waring. Encore will perform those reconstructions alongside the Lawrence Central’s show choir at the high school’s auditorium. 8 p.m. @ 7300 E. 56th St.; $18 adult, free for 18 and younger; encorevocalarts.org

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Broad Ripple Art Fair Since 1971, the Broad Ripple Art Fair has been the standard by which all other art fairs are judged — with the Iowa/New Hampshirelike privilege of being first out of the gate, of defining the path which the art world will take for the rest of the year (at least in some sort of karmic sense). It’s juried, so you know the 225-some artists will be professionals; it’s kid-friendly, but there’s always plenty of beer available; and the music and entertainment isn’t too shabby either, on several stages littered throughout the Indianapolis Art Center and Opti-Park grounds, notably the picturesque Riverfront Stage. It’s also the center’s biggest fundraiser on the year, so attend knowing that part of the ticket price will benefit year-round programming. May 19, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; May 20, 10 a.m.5 p.m. @ 67th Street and College Avenue; advance: $10 members, $12 public, $2 children aged 3-12; gate: $15 adult, $2 children aged 3-12; indplsartcenter.org been cranking this stuff out on a semi-regular basis for the past month or so. The setup is classic situation comedy: Jesus Christ has returned to earth to save everyone but instead spends his time on PlayStation and pizza. He turns 30 and suddenly has actual responsibility, as he, his roommate Ben and his angel sidekick sort out how to assemble a ministry while still paying rent. What makes this madness really great is how completely creators Matt Kramer and John Patrick Coan embrace all the tropes of 1980s sitcoms — the wacky neighbor, the comic misunderstandings, the breakout star that everyone goes “woo woo” when he shows up, the jerk landlord. They’ve also added in psychopathic girl scouts and a pimp-turned-apostle for good measure, along with Rashomon-style storytelling and some public service announcements warning us to stay away from creepy guys in vans. It has everything except Woody Harrelson intoning, “Cheers is filmed in front of a live studio audience.” Plus, I don’t know if I will ever, ever get that catchy theme song out of my head. The fourth and final installment of Jesus Is My Roomie, will “air” May 23 on the White Rabbit Cabaret stage; Coan’s move to Chicago has hastened the end of the series, though Kramer will remain in town and plans to create another show in the not-so-distant future. —PAUL F. P. POGUE

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Reliving 2003, one panel at a time Web comic tells story of short-lived band BY WADE COGGESHALL WCOGGESHALL@NUVO.NET Well into middle age, Troy Brownfield still loves comic books. He’s made something of a living from his passion, writing for the likes of Fangoria, Zenescope and DC Comics. And his latest creation, which debuted February 29, is his largest undertaking yet. Called Sparkshooter, it’s a long-term web comic about his other core interest — live music. Specifically, the series chronicles the ups and downs of a fictional rock band in a real-life music scene: Indy circa 2003, an “alive time” for the local music scene, according to Brownfield, when indianapolismusic.net was a core online gathering space for artists and the Midwest Music Summit vied for SXSW-style relevancy. As an undergrad at ISU, Brownfield got into organizing shows and festivals. After moving to the Indianapolis area, he managed bands, including Samsell, and played in others, such as the Frank Booth Project. Managing bands at that juncture, he found the mechanics of booking shows and getting them into contests fascinating. “You have your dramas and arguments, but you can’t ever say you didn’t have a good time, at least for part of it,” says Brownfield, noting there was always a lot more going on behind the scenes than most people merely attending the concert would ever imagine. It’s those stories — both his and others he’s heard — that are woven into Sparkshooter. “There’s lots of material – big archetypal stuff and individual anecdotes,” says Brownfield. “I’ve tried to do it in such a way that the characters are broadly relatable, but the people who know (this scene) can immediately identify the characters.” One page of the comic is released every Wednesday at sparkshooter.com. It’ll go up to two pages a week once Brownfield and his graphic design partner, Sarah Vaughn, have enough material for the transition.

“She’s incredibly well-suited to this kind of story,” Brownfield says of Vaughn, whom he met when she was a student of his at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute. “Not just her ability, but the kind of stuff she was into before, that feeds into the vibe I wanted for this.” For all of Brownfield’s immersion in comic book culture, he’s strictly a writer. “If I drew (Sparkshooter) it would be a bunch of sticks stalking each other,” he says. “I recognize my limitations.” Vaughn deserves a lot of the credit for lending a sense of authenticity to the comic, beyond Brownfield’s stories. Brownfield cites one page of Sparkshooter — a streetscape of Guilford Avenue in Broad Ripple — as evidence of her eye for detail. People familiar with that area, particularly with the way it looked in the early 2000s, will recognize the street immediately, he says. “I’m a bit familiar, only because Troy basically created a whole class for me — ‘Indianapolis music scene circa 2003ish 101’,” says Vaughn, who now lives in Washington, D.C. “I’ve always liked the look of thicker lines and flat and monochrome tones and texture, which is a big part of the look for Sparkshooter.” Readers should expect cameos from actual people who populated the scene. “It will be in a fairly organic way, kind of woven into the story where it makes sense,” says Brownfield. “We’re not going to force it.” Themes explored in Sparkshooter include the dynamics of a male-oriented band having a female lead singer and the struggle to meet grownup obligations like family and jobs. “The age of these characters is roughly 25,” says Brownfield. “Some of them sense this is it, that if they’re going to make it this is the last chance. Once you introduce marriage and children, it becomes infinitely harder to (succeed), let alone practice.” That sounds serious, but Brownfield assures that the focus of Sparkshooter is humor. “The main thing I want it to be is a good time,” he says. As for its ending, Brownfield has ideas, but for now Sparkshooter is an evolving storyline. When it’s done Brownfield and Vaughn could have more than 400 pages. Whether it ever gets printed or remains a digital collection is up in the air. “The idea of not shutting any door is really more of what informs it rather than any immediate plans,” says Brownfield.

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Settlement, a new collection of poetry by 2011 Indiana Emerging Author award winner and occasional NUVO correspondent Micah Ling, consists of two “acts,” the first concerning Native American reservations, and the second, the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. The collection closely examines how people carve out their own personal space under abusive conditions, while questioning the ways in which we countenance these abuses. Ling marshals a wide cast of characters into her work — which she at one point describes as a “a pile-up of eyes, views” — including Marlon Brando, the CEO of the Palestinian Securities Exchange and the graffiti artist Banksy. These are poems driven by anger — a type of anger that has been cordoned off and forced to define itself within imposed boundaries. One narrator reminds himself, “Be deliberate in your anger/ remember who you are: remember/ who you wanted to be.” This deliberation marks a great deal of the collection: Speakers acknowledge their desire to set things right, while exploring the possibility that in situations as complex as these, neither reconciliation nor revenge is sufficient in and of itself. In a collection full of images of division and separation, one of the most exemplary is that of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, referred to as “The Wall,” which illustrates what many of the narrators see as the fundamental problem underlying these conflicts: culturally constructed divisions between peoples. Settlement points toward the realization that the true problem is neither “us” nor “them,” but the very concept of “versus. ” Indeed, the first poem of the collection finds Elouise Cobell, a former treasurer for the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana who later went on to seek reform in the United States government’s policy toward Native Americans, deciding that her true adversary is not the “the state, the nation/ parcels and money and law” but the very concept of being pitted against anything at all. She asks, “how do you keep versus/ from haunting your days/ and your dreams?” —TAYLOR PETERS

BENT OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION TERRY BORDER RUNNING PRESS

Greenwood sculptor and art photographer Terry Border’s “bent objects” are ordinary household items brought to life with a little wire, creative lighting and some really bad puns. Bent Object of My Affection — his latest book-length collection of his objects, also available at the moment of creation at bentobjects.blogspot.com — features bits and pieces arranged in romantic situations that might earn a PG-13 rating for sexual innuendo (Vienna sausages, anyone?). Some photos are clever and creative, such as the shot of two disposable tape dispensers “French kissing,” their tape tongues entwined. Others rely heavily on wordplay to make their point, sometimes even doubling and tripling the layer of puns to provoke multiple eyerolls and “Oh, now I get it” lightbulb moments. And some are just plain sweet, like the two wire-legged puzzle pieces pictured next to the caption “Together, we make something bigger.” Bacon, beans, candles, film cannisters, cash, and cupcakes are all subject to Border’s impressive wit. While the same type of joke appears on every page, it’s done in such a charming way that you keep flipping through till the end. —EMMA FAESI

A&E REVIEWS THEATER OEDIPUS AT COLONUS NOEXIT PERFORMANCE AT INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART; MAY 11 t Ryan Ruckman, playing Oedipus in both plays that bear the king’s name during NoExit’s month-long Theban Play engagement, may have been a bit low-key in Oedipus Rex, but his terse, laconic approach seemed appropriate to Oedipus at Colonus, which sees the blind ex-pat looking for a place to die, more or less. Michael Bachman’s interpretation was staged around a fountain in the formal garden south of the Lilly House, a setup allowing for surprising entrances through the trees and the kind of balance-beam inspired stage movement that left one wondering who would end up splashing in first. There was a stately, deliberate, almost repetitive feel to the proceedings: in a repeated trope, characters mimed their death by hanging, as if doomed to eternally repeat actions taken during one lifetime. Most moving were the last few minutes, when the script drew from a verse translation, sometimes spoken in chorus, to tell of Oedipus’s death. —SCOTT SHOGER

VISUAL ART MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: CYNTHIA AND LYDIA BURRIS RENAISSANCE GALLERY; THROUGH JUNE 1 e Lydia Burris has exhibited her work with her mother, Catherine, before, but this is the first such show including work by both artists since Catherine’s death in February 2011. The subject matter of both artists can seem quite dark at first glance. But there’s a sense of humor in Catherine’s work that tends to temper things, as in her assemblage, “Six Degrees of Separation,” in which a mummified head has been cut open to reveal an egg-shaped brain studded with yellow baby faces. In Lydia’s work, the overarching concern seems to be the cyclical nature of life on earth. Her mixed-media “Metamorphaphobia” — which seems an attempt to come to terms with her fear of death, the ultimate metamorphosis — shows human remains nourishing a tree

growing out of the soil. And the luminous mixed media painting “Into Beyond” shows a female subject looking into eternity with an unblinking fearlessness. Mothers and Daughters, originally developed around the Burris paring, includes three other mother/ daughter parings of work. In sync with its Mother’s Day opening, the show includes written statements of mothers reflecting on their artist daughters, and vice versa. —DAN GROSSMAN

MUSIC ANDRÉS CÁRDENES WITH INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INDIANA HISTORY CENTER; MAY 12 r On Saturday the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra joined with the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis’s Laureate series to feature the latter’s 1986 bronze medalist Andrés Cárdenes in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63. ICO music director Kirk Trevor led the orchestra in a three-work program to a nearly filled IHC Basile Theater. First came the Intermezzo for String Orchestra (1900) by the relatively unknown German composer Franz Schreker (1878-1934). The full-string complement took hold in a post-Romantic, pre-Modernist style, one which I found mildly engaging. Trevor’s strings held their end of the bargain with a few slips here and there. In the Prokofiev, Cárdenes confirms his station near the top of the IVCI laureate heap, giving us rich but well controlled timbres. Trevor and his forces put the composer’s mature three movements on full display, with added castanets in the jauntily rapid triple-meter finale. Soloist and orchestra remained in near-perfect balance throughout. Trevor concluded with a work I can’t recall ever hearing live locally, Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 in E-flat — a “late” symphony from the Austrian composer’s most mature set of six written for his second London visit in 1794-95. Filled with inventive wonders, it reaches a peak in the purely 18th-century Classical style. With a heavy dose of intricate passage work, the players showed some ragged edges in certain places, but it was so nice to hear it once again that I could overlook its lack of perfection. Perhaps with another rehearsal or two... —TOM ALDRIDGE

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Would-be investigative journalists Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) go undercover and join the tiny, but growing cult of a reclusive young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling) who claims to have come here from the year 2054. Surely she’s a fraud, but what if ... ? The script, co-written by Marling and director Zal Batmanglij, examines the need to believe in something more and the need to question those beliefs. The low-budget mix of mystery and sci-fi effectively builds an intimate, ominous atmosphere without special effects or action scenes. It’s a head trip and a pretty good one, but what does Maggie stand to gain? If she’s a con artist, probably money. If she’s a mental case, probably something Jim Jones-ian. If she’s a genuine time traveler, she might be here to change the past to improve the future. The early indoctrination scenes with the undercover reporters grow tedious, but when Maggie makes a request involving a peculiar young girl, and a cop approaches one of the journalists, the story gets downright fascinating. In the end, you have to decide what the closing scenes mean. A minor movie, but captivating when it matters. 85 minutes. —ED JOHNSON-OTT

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Speed Freak: Are you Indy Racing Experience-d? BY KATE SHOUP EDITORS@NUVO.NET Along with 31,128 other people, I was a proud finisher of the 36th annual MiniMarathon, a 13.1-mile foot race organized by the 500 Festival to kick off the month of May in Indianapolis. I’m not sure I’d say I “ran” the race, but I did cover the distance in an ambulatory fashion. Frankly, given the humidity, I was just grateful to not be among the 240 participants who required medical assistance — the highest number in the race’s history. For many participants, myself included, the high point of the Mini (aside from the part where you get to stop running and kindly volunteers congratulate you and give you cookies) is the part where you run a complete lap around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Yes, it’s hot. Yes, it’s crowded. Yes, it takes an interminably long time to get all the way around (in my case, somewhere in the vicinity of 28 minutes). But it’s the Speedway. It’s the closest thing this city has to hallowed ground. On Wednesday, I experienced the Speedway in a totally different way: as a passenger in an IndyCar two-seater, which is basically identical to a regular IndyCar except that the Dallara chassis features a second seat, behind the driver. Before I could ride, I of course had to sign various legal documents to release the operator of the two-seaters, The Indy Racing

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Experience, of all liability in the event of some catastrophe, and to provide my health insurance and emergency contact information. I tried not to overthink this. Then, it was time to suit up. I stepped into a very smart firesuit, swapped my Converse high tops for fireproof booties, and slipped a flame-resistant balaclava over my head, capped by a full-face helmet. I was ready. I discovered that my pilot would be Stéphan Grégoire. Grégoire, who hails from France but now lives in Carmel, started 44 IndyCar races between 1996 and 2001, and has run the Indy 500 six times. He was all business - very Stig-like in the front cockpit. I’m not sure his gaze ever shifted from its forward trajectory as I clambered into the back seat. I sank down into the tub, one leg to each side of the driver’s seat. Mechanics on either side of me went to work, adjusting the straps of the five-point harness and buckling me in. I’m not so great with small spaces, but before I could discuss my rising panic with the crew, Grégoire punched the accelerator, and we were off. Words cannot describe what it feels like to hurtle down the front stretch at IMS, swallowing up the grandstands, the yard of bricks, and the scoring pylon, plunging into turn one, at 180+ miles per hour. And the wall — as you come out of each turn, it’s RIGHT THERE. I swear, you could reach out and touch it. Also, the force involved — it practically reorganizes your internal organs. And yet, somehow, there’s no real sense that death is imminent. The way the car sticks to the ground — it’s like God playing Hot Wheels. All too soon, the ride was over. Grégoire angled the car into Pit Lane, cutting the engine as we approached the crew. We coasted to a stop and the guys were upon me, unbuckling my harness and pulling me out of the car. It took me a while to do the math, but eventually I figured out that our fast lap — the middle of the three — took roughly 50 seconds. To put that perspective, consider this: Had I completed the Mini-Marathon in a vehicular rather than ambulatory fashion, “running” it in the two-seater, I would have been done in less than four and a half minutes. Something to think about for next year….

Kate Shoup, NUVO’s Speed Freak, is blogging from the track throughout the month of May; catch up to her latest exploits on nuvo.net. Here’s a taste of this week’s installment: “This year, the big topic is, Will There Be 33 Cars in the Field? A second, and related, popular topic is, Will the Lotus Engines Be Up to Speed? ... If, by some series of unfortunate events, a mere 31 - or, worse, 30 - cars line up three abreast on race day, it will of course be regrettable. But in the end, I don’t think it will detract from what I predict will be an amazing race. The field this year is simply too strong. It’s no exaggeration to say that there are at least 15 drivers who could reasonably win this thing, plus a few additional dark-horse drivers.

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or in a paleteria. With its unusual flavor combinations and fresh ingredients, it was the best popsicle he’d ever tasted. It brought back an ocean of memories from childhood summers, but with flavor combinations matching his adult sensibilities. Jeff works by day as a video producer for his company, Headquake Productions. But on his off hours, he and his wife, Stacey, experiment in their Meridian Park kitchen. When Jeff decided to start making popsicles, the standby supermarket flavors just wouldn’t do. And so began almost two years of research, into everything from whether Indianapolis already had a homemade-popsicle vendor (as far as Jeff can tell, he’s the first in the Midwest) to finding the best machine for sealing the pops in recyclable plastic bags. There was also the fun part — the decisions about flavors. Pink grapefruit. Blueberry buttermilk. Sweet black tea and lemon (also known as the Arnie P). Avocado. These flavors were developed in their home kitchen (Jeff claims to be the only person in Indianapolis eating popsicles in January), tested, and re-tested for making volumes of up to 80 at a time in their rented space at Indy’s Kitchen. They now have seven staples on the menu all summer long, with seasonal flavors available when ingredients are at their peak; all are priced at $3. “Tennessee strawberries are coming into season, and when we get those we’ll offer a strawberry cheesecake flavor,” Jeff

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going, since I was a teenager, in the wrong direction. When I decided to become a musician, I wanted two things out of it: I wanted to become a world renowned guitarist and I wanted to make an impact on the history of rock and roll. And I accomplished both of those things. Through my involvement with a band called Television, and our tenure as a house band at a dump called CBGB, I got my wish. You know that song where Ringo (Starr) sings, “One sweet dream came true?” Well, that’s what happened to me.

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NUVO: Television is often associated with the punk movement of the ‘70s. Punk means something different now. Then it was a popularized term that meant “against the grain” – it was a different kind of rock. How do you feel about the way people perceive punk today, is it even relative to what it meant then, or do you even care about the title?

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ichard Lloyd has always found himself aligned with rock and roll. The guitarist and founding member of Television’s most recent solo release is entitled Lodestones: Nuggets from the Vault, and contains previously unreleased songs from throughout his career. Lloyd will play Indianapolis on Friday, May 25 at The Melody Inn. I spoke with him about getting started at CBGB, the lodestone and the finer aspects of Pringles. NUVO: Before I was going to interview you, I obtained a lodestone. RICHARD LLOYD: Wait a minute – you obtained a lodestone? You either went, or bought, or someone gave you an authentic lodestone? Oh my god. Well, historically, the Chinese used to chip a tiny sliver off and float it on water. You know that water sticks to itself, so there’s surface tension on water. If you can get a sliver of lodestone that’s light enough that it won’t break, you can place it on water and you’ll have a compass. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of a record of mine called Field of Fire.

“We’re not ‘punk’ rock.” I would say that we were alien, teenage hobos with guitars. Runaway children with guitars who find themselves together on a flying saucer.

NUVO: Yes, you dedicated that to the lodestone, right? LLOYD: Yes, dedicated to the lodestone, which in my mind gave it a fairy tale. It’s in your pocket, right? Nobody else needs to know you have it. And because you have it, you know the correct direction. Now you have a compass, an internal-like compass. NUVO: You released your unreleased cassettes and called the album Lodestones. Do you feel that these songs represent different periods of freedom you had? LLOYD: Of course. Field of Fire came at the end of my drug addiction period. I ha d been

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LLOYD: No, we never cared. Here’s the problem: If you played original music you could only get a gig about twice a year opening for some traveling act. We needed a place to play to sort of develop — an out-of-the-way place. One day I went up with Tom Verlaine and we saw Hilly (Kristal) and he was up on his step ladder fixing the awning that said CBGB. And we said, “Hey, are you going to have music?” and he said, “Yep.” And we said, “Well what kind of music?” When he hammered in his last nail or whatever, he came down and said, “CBGB stands for country, blue grass, and blues.” And we said, “What does the ‘UMFUG’ mean?” because it was CBGB & UMFUG. And he said, “It stands for ‘Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers.’” A gormandizer is technically the opposite of a gourmet. A gormandizer will argue over which are the better Pringles. Or which are the best Twinkies. He took us into the bar and he had the world’s biggest collection of neon signs overhead. At the end of ’73 you can imagine what rock was then – arena rock. We had to convince him to let us play there. The next day I went back with our manager and he asked, “What’s your best night money wise?” “It’s a bar, so Saturday.” “What’s your worst night?” “Sunday — sometimes I don’t even open.” So Terry (Ork) said, “Look, let my band play on a Sunday and I will guarantee you that you will equal or make more money at the bar than you do on a Saturday because I am friends with a lot of people, and everyone

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Richard Lloyd, former teenage hobo.

I’ll invite is an alcoholic.” Anyway, we played CBGB and each one of us earned one dollar. Other bands started to hear about shows, and started to show up. We were all different. Journalists started writing about us and they didn’t know what to call us. John Holmstrom started this magazine and called it Punk Magazine. He embraced the CBGB scene. Bands like us and the Talking Heads thought, “We’re not ‘punk’ rock.” I would say that we were alien, teenage hobos with guitars. Runaway children with guitars who find themselves together on a flying saucer and say, oh we might as well start a band. I remember watching The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and I remember the phe-

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nomena – the worldwide energy. The kind of energy that you only really see in war. It turned into the psychedelic era of the ‘60s, the hippies, the yippies, the dippies, the whatever. And here was this new genre — the punk movement. And we were at the head of it. I remember hating the name Beatles, you know writing ‘Beat’ instead of ‘Beet’. But the music made the name – not the other way around.

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Scratch talks scat Editor’s note: There is a plethora of creatively used curse words in this interview. Lee “Scratch” Perry is one of the most influential and prolific artists in Jamaican music history. The 76-year-old producer has been a central figure during some of the most important musical developments in the countries history. Perry’s accomplishments include releasing one of the very first reggae songs (his 1968 debut single “People Funny Boy”), presiding over the first – and some say best – recordings by Bob Marley and the Wailers and pioneering dub music at his Black Ark recording studio in Kingston. While Perry’s surreal, psychedelic Rastafarian creations have influenced several generations of musicians, from punk rockers to dubsteppers, his musical achievements are often overshadowed by his erratic behavior. Perry’s psychological condition is frequently a topic of discussion amongst his fans; some insist he’s clinically insane while others argue it’s all an elaborate act to establish his persona as the mad genius of reggae. I spoke with Perry via telephone from his hotel room in Poland where it was past 1 am. I was hoping Perry would shed some light on his unorthodox musical methods, but he quickly grew bored with my questions and decided to entertain himself by launching into extended monologues on issues of a more scatological nature. NUVO: You’ve been working in the music business since the late 1950s. As a young man what attracted you to pursue music as a career? LEE PERRY: I had no other choice. I didn’t care much for the Babylon education, so I was a struggler. Music took me up out of the struggle and turned me into a

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superman and a superstar. From nothing to something, from bottom to top, from nowhere to somewhere. That’s how I go, like a flash of lightning. NUVO: You’re a great innovator and the music you’ve created has no precedent. What inspired you to bring these new sounds into the world? PERRY: To tell you the truth, and the truth is everything and nothing – my nature represents my god. My nature is my grace. I listen to my shit. I listen to the food I eat. I listen to my piss. I listen to the water I drink. I listen to my poop; it is the bread of life that I breathe. I listen to my shit because my shit feed me when I’m hungry. My shit is my guiding light and my guiding star. I love my piss because it provide energy for me and water to drink. It provide me water to wash in and water to walk on. My poop supply me with the most information ever. No FBI or CIA can inform you like my poop can inform you. Are you taking in all that? NUVO: So getting back to music – in 1977 you produced an amazing album by two Congolese musicians named Seke Molenga and Kalo Kawongolo. Also, your solo recordings make frequent reference to Africa. Do you feel there is a strong connection between African music and Jamaican music? PERRY: Yes, that is the reality. The drums that we play come here from Africa. The drums come from the jungle. Without Africa there wouldn’t be a Jamaica. Now we have Jamaica and we have Africa and we mix it together. The drum comes from Africa and the rhythm comes from your heart — it goes “boof, boof, boo-boof, boof, boof, boo-boof” and your brain goes “tikkytikky-tikky-tikky” and your piss goes “shhhhhh-shhhhhh-shhhhhh-shhhhh.” That’s the cymbal. It goes like ‘shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ and the cymbal sounds like your piss ( laughs.) Not even the president knows that. I know things the president doesn’t know. What

the Pope don’t know, I know and I know everything that the Pope know. To tell you the truth, everything is your identification, your I.D. But mine is I.P., I pee. Even the Pope tried to steal my X, steal my G and steal my V and steal my I. The Pope tried to steal my I, but the Pope can’t steal my I. My identification is named I.P. You might think I’m crazy, but I am not lazy. But maybe I am crazy. ( Sings) ‘maybe I’m crazyyyyyyyyyyyyy, but I am not lazyyyyyyyyyyy’ (laughs). I was once a fish and I changed into a man, back when the controller was named Neptune. When you leave the sea, go sleep on the moon and control all the stars. (Sings)”Maybe I’m crazyyyyyyy, but not lazyyyyyyyyy.” Are you all right? NUVO: Yes, I’m all right. Are you? PERRY: I asked Jesus Christ Almighty God to please help me shit. I said I want to shit. Oooooooh I want to shit. Oooooooh please help me shit. ( laughs) This is the revenge of shit. This is the return of shit. This is the judgement of shit. Lord Jesus Christ I want to shit. (Laughs, then sings) “Maybe I’m lazyyyyyyyyyyy.” No, I’m not lazy. NUVO: You’ve worked with a long list of great artists, including Jamaican performers like Bob Marley, The Congos and Augustus Pablo. You’ve also been sought out by non-reggae musicians including Paul McCartney, The Clash and the Beastie Boys. Do you have any favorite memories from these collaborations? PERRY: I want to say this to you and it might sound a little funny. I am the most famous artist I ever worked with. I am the Upsetter. I am the most famous artist anyone could ever meet and there is

none like me and there is none that could confuse me. They are all hypocrites and vampires and parasites and bloodsuckers, sucking me dry, sucking all my energy, telling dangerous lies. ( Sings)“I’m still crazyyyyyyyyyyyy.” NUVO: Social justice is a major theme in so many classic reggae songs. Do you think musicians can change society through their art? PERRY: Yes! My music did come to wipe out Babylon and my music did wipe out Babylon. (Sings) “Maybe I’m crazyyyyyyyyyyy.” On the surface Perry’s remarks may sound absurd and, well, they are. But it’s all part of an elaborate syncretic philosophy Perry has been cobbling together for decades, melding bits of Rastafarian wisdom with various strains of arcane mysticism. Perry also loves playing the role of the joker. At one point during our interview, while roaring with wild laughter, he confessed that he likes “teasing people.” I’ve followed Perry’s career for years and I’ve always favored theories suggesting the producer is an eccentric genius over claims that he’s a certifiable maniac. After speaking with Perry, I’m even more certain that his madness is at least partially calculated. Come decide for yourself on Sunday, May 20 when Lee “Scratch” Perry performs at The Vogue. Kyle Long creates a custom podcast for each column. See this week’s online at NUVO.net. Lee Perry Sunday, May 20 The Vogue, 6259 College Ave. 8 p.m., $20 + fees, 21+

REVIEWS SNAARJ LEVELS SELF-RELEASED

Levels is the second release from Bloomington based indie jazz-rock outfit Snaarj. Although the LP clocks in with a brief nine songs, Levels is a substantial work — full of deep textures, deft musicianship and expertly crafted compositions. Snaarj are able practitioners of the jazz-rock sound, a style pioneered in the early ‘70s by groups like Soft Machine and Henry Cow. It takes serious musical chops to pull this genre off, but the four-piece ensemble (drums, bass, alto and tenor sax) do it with grace. Plus they don’t bog themselves down with the extended, meandering “prog rock” solos that weighted down many early jazz-rock groups, like the aforementioned Soft Machine. This is a leaner variety of jazz-rock, as evidenced by the LP’s second track “Pauly Shore Rides Again.” The song recalls the aggressive, stripped down avant-funk of New York’s no-wave. Shades of DNA and James Chance permeate the track, before it explodes into a beautifully melodic chorus between Josh Johnson and Dustin Laurenzi’s horns. This inspired sax interplay between Johnson and Laurenzi is a highlight throughout Levels. In “Husky Plus,” the twisting bass of Bobby Wooten becomes the focal point. The composition begins as the most firmly jazz-rooted work

on the LP, while slowly dissolving into abstract math rock noise. “Captain Cool” repeats the experiment. Beginning as a soft meditative chant between the saxes and drummer Ben Lumsdaine’s glockenspiel, the composition ends in an explosion of free jazz noise. This is Snaarj’s first full length studio LP – their first LP was a live album recorded at Chicago’s Tonic Room. This is a very impressive debut effort and highly recommended. -Kyle Long

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e I just can’t seem to get the driving Steve Allee tune “Three Hip Mice,” which opens his smart new album, freespace, out of my head. As with all things Allee makes, freespace is solid, understated, and inviting — full of locktight grooves and tasty, adventurous solos. Its nine originals — tantalizing swing and Latin tunes with tempos from medium to up — are skillfully performed by Allee and his cohorts, Indiana University Jazz faculty members Steve Houghton and Jeremy Allen, on drums and bass respectively, Eastman School of Music’s Clay Jenkins, trumpet, and the internationally renowned Bob Sheppard, saxes and flute. Allee and percussionist Houghton, although having long known each other, only first played together six or seven years ago. It was magical. “We found we had this great chemistry, a sixth sense when we play,” Allee said. “We

seemed to constantly anticipate each other.” The two have since collaborated on several projects, from small-group sessions to Allee’s Passages, a three-part concerto for percussion and 63-piece wind ensemble, commissioned by Houghton in 2010. freespace is their most recent endeavor. The album’s single ballad — placed strategically at the end, rolling back the heat, but not the intensity— is a lush and delicate trio rendering of the Jules Styne standard, “Never Never Land,” from Peter Pan. Note to self — beg Steve to record an entire album of Great American Songbook ballads, whose harmonic and melodic possibilities he so beautifully and naturally reforges. Allee will showcase the exciting music of freespace this Saturday,at the Jazz Kitchen, with Rob Dixon in for Sheppard and Ansyn Banks in for Jenkins. Show times are 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. -JEFF REED

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birthed Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene. In late April, their van was broken into and most of their equipment was stolen. They’re back on their feet after receiving loads of fan donations and will perform at Radio Radio this Friday. They’ll also play an in-store performance at LUNA Music before the show. See NUVO.net for times and details. ROOTS RIVERROOTS MUSIC AND FOLK ARTS FESTIVAL Madison, Ind. Times vary, prices vary, all-ages

This annual festival is bringing the sisters Searson, The Band of Heathens, Over the Rhine, Hayes Carll, Whiskey Bent Valley Boys and The Black Lillies to its riverfront stages this weekend. Organizers have added more children’s activities and have been “expanding the family attractions, because it is a family-friendly event,” said event organizer Greg Ziesemer. He mentions a storyteller tent and smaller demonstration tents, where people will working in historic costumes, creating and teaching. See NUVO.net for more information on set times and tickets.

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On May 18, the Earth House stage in downtown Indianapolis will be shared by four Indianapolis Americana rock bands, doing their part to make Telecaster guitars ring loud in our city, just as Roadmaster, Henry Lee Summer, Mere Mortals and many others did in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Dubbed “The Wake: A Showcase of American Rock ‘n Roll” (i.e. if rock is dead, let’s have a freakin’ party), The Dead Hearts, The Weakenders, Attakulla, and Henry French & The Shameless will bring three-chord rock and roll noise to the church.

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Start your engines ... and stereos

Plus, sustainability and erotic chairs Sophisticated automobile technology makes high-performance engines purr in relative silence, but automakers fear that their most demanding drivers are emotionally attached to the engines’ roar. Consequently, as Car and Driver reported in April, the 2012 BMW M5, with 560 horsepower tempered with sound deadeners, has installed pre-recorded engine noise, channeled into the car’s cabin via the stereo system. A computer program matches the amplitude of the engine’s growl to the driver’s accelerator-revving. In other automobile tech news, Peugeot technicians announced in March that they were preparing “mood paint” for the body of the company’s iconic RCZ model. The paint’s molecular structure would be alterable by heat sensors in the steering wheel and elsewhere that measure a driver’s stress levels. A calm driver might see his car turn green, for instance -- but watch out for road-rage red!

The Continuing Crisis

• With only 30,000 hotel rooms in Rio de Janeiro, and 50,000 visitors expected for the June United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, officials persuaded owners of many of the city’s shorttime “love hotels” (typically renting for four hours at a time) to change business plans for a few days to accommodate the delegates. A BBC News stringer reported that the hotels will remove some special fixtures and furniture, such as “erotic chairs” and velvet wall coverings, but that the large, round beds would stay. Fortunately, the conference does not begin until June 13. The night of June 12 (“Lovers Day”) is a big income-producer for short-stay hotels. • The Marine Wounded Warriors Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., generally enjoys excellent support from the community, but in an April report of the Government Accountability Office, Marines complained of a “petting zoo” environment in which civilian charities and advertisers use the battalion to seek out “poster” faces and bodies that “looked the part” of wounded veterans, such as those severely burned or missing limbs. Warriors who suffer post-traumatic stress or brain injuries often appear outwardly “normal” and are likely to be ignored by the support organizations, thus setting a “bad tone” among the wounded. • Not Your Classic Perps: (1) In October, Dr. Kimberly Lindsey, 44, a deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control’s Laboratory Science, Policy, and Practice Program Office, was charged with two counts of child molestation and bestiality involving a 6-yearold boy. (2) In April, Yaron Segal, 30, a post-doctoral researcher at a physics lab

at MIT, was arrested upon arriving in Grand Junction, Colo., after arranging with a woman online to have sex with the woman’s underage daughter (an adventure that was the product of a law enforcement sting). (Two weeks later, Segal was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent suicide.) • Oh, Dear!: (1) At a March Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance, the music continued uninterrupted as two patrons engaged in a fistfight over box seating. Conductor Riccardo Muti “never stopped conducting,” said a patron. “He very gracefully, without missing a beat -- literally -- he brought (the second movement) to a very quiet and subdued close.” (2) It costs $8,500 (plus $3,000 annual dues) to join the ultra-prestigious New York Athletic Club, which counts Olympic champions among its upper-crust members. However, an April brawl in a back room, said to have begun over a woman, saw (according to witnesses) fighting “wolf packs” in a “lion’s pit” that resulted in several bloody injuries, with two people sent to the hospital and three arrested.

Names in the News

• (1) Arrested for felony battery in Bloomington, Ind., in April: Ms. Fellony Silas, 30. (2) Announced as eligible for parole in June by the Kansas Prison Review Board: Mr. Wilford Molester Galloway. (3) Arrested for hit-and-run in April in Roseville, Calif.: Mr. Obiwan Kenobi, 37. (4) Arrested on drug and weapons charges in Clarkstown, N.Y., in April, Mr. Genghis Khan. (5) Among the silly town names uncovered in an April report on SmarterTravel.com: Why, Ariz., Whynot, Miss., Hell, Mich., Pig, Ky., Elephant Butte, N.M., Monkeys Eyebrow, Ky., and Embarrass, Minn. The report also found towns in Wales and New Zealand that are 58 and 57 letters long, respectively.

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• Following her recent holiday in the United States, in which she passed through Boring, Ore. (pop. 12,000), Scotswoman Elizabeth Leighton returned home to suggest that officials in her hometown of Dull, Scotland, arrange for the two towns to become “sister cities,” even though they did not qualify under normal protocols because of Boring’s larger size. (The Oregon town was named for a Civil War soldier, William H. Boring.) • Some villagers in China’s Shandong Province who are too poor or isolated to hook up to home heating fuel service have an alternative, according to a March report by China News Center. They take giant, heavy-duty balloons that resemble 15-foot-long condoms and walk to filling stations to inflate them with natural gas every four or five days. The danger of explosion is high, but the balloons remain many villagers’ best option. • A Better Reason to De-Fund Planned Parenthood: The organization has survived a controversial de-funding campaign over its limited abortion program, but its Washington state chapter, Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, began a quixotic safe-sex campaign in February in which thousands of condoms were distributed with scannable barcodes. The plan

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was that users would automatically register information about their locations during sex, and, if the users chose, other information about the particular sexual experience they just had. Among the choices: “Ah-maz-ing,” “Rainbows exploded and mountains trembled,” “Things can only improve from here.”

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• At the 10th Arab Shooting Championships in Kuwait in March, as medals were presented and winners’ national anthems were played, officials were apparently ill-prepared for medalist Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan. Consequently, her “national anthem” was, inadvertently, the humorous ditty from the movie “Borat.” (Instead of such lyrics as “sky of golden sun” and “legend of courage,” the audience heard “Greatest country in the world / All other countries are run by little girls” and “Filtration system a marvel to behold / It removes 80 percent of human solid waste.”) Dmitrienko reportedly kept a mostly straight face throughout, although Kazakhstan later demanded, and received, an official apology. • Clumsy: (1) In March, Germany’s celebrity rabbit -- the genetically “earless” bunny Tiny Til -- was accidentally crushed to death in a zoo in Limbach-Oberfrohna when a cameraman accidentally stepped on it while setting up for a news conference. (2) In 2011, a photographer snapping pictures for an art magazine moved a 2,630-year-old African sculpture to get a better shot, and accidentally smashed it

(“to smithereens,” according to the owner, Corice Arman, who filed a $300,000 lawsuit in April 2012 against the photographer and his magazine).

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• Lawrence Cobbold, 38, has a house in Plympton, England, but has to make living arrangements at his parents’ home or elsewhere because his place is totally taken over by his 21,000-item collection of bird ornaments and doodads. Before heading off to sleep elsewhere, he spends an average of four hours a day tidying up the collection. His dad (who described his other son as “completely normal”) said, “I just hope I die before (Lawrence). I don’t want to (have to) clear all this out.”

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• Questionable Strategy: Robert Strank, 39, was arrested in Beavercreek, Ohio, in April and charged with trying to rob the Huntington Bank. According to police, he had approached the bank’s counter but become ill and asked a teller to call 911 to summon medics. There were conflicting news reports about when medics arrived to treat Strank, but there was agreement that Strank recovered and subsequently presented the same teller his pre-written holdup note demanding cash. He was arrested in short order. Thanks This Week to Douglas Wilson, Reta Burnett, and Gerald Sacks, and to the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A Russian woman named Marija Usova decided to go skydiving even though she was eight months pregnant. “I wanted my baby to have the beautiful feeling of flying through the air and free-falling before it was born,” she said. Soon after she jumped out of the plane and opened her parachute, she went into labor. Luckily, her daughter waited until she landed to be born. What does this have to do with you? I don’t recommend you do anything even remotely like what Usova did in the next few weeks. But do be alert for healthier, saner approaches to the basic theme, which is to be adventurous and wild and free as you birth a new possibility. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You spend nearly one-third of your life sleeping. For one-fifth of that time, you’re dreaming. So pretty much every night, you watch and respond to as much as 90 minutes’ worth of movies created by and starring you. Much of this footage is obscure and confusing and not exactly Oscar-worthy, which is one reason you may not recall many of the details when you wake up. But according to my astrological analysis, the immediate future could be different. Your dreams should be full of riveting entertainment that reveals important information about the mysteries of your destiny. Please consider keeping a pen and notebook near your bed, or a small recording device. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s Oxymoron Season for you. That means you’re likely to encounter more than your usual share of sweet and sour paradoxes. The logic-loving areas of your brain will almost certainly have to seek assistance from your non-rational wisdom. I’ll give you a heads-up on some of the lucid riddles you should be ready to embrace: 1. a humbling triumph; 2. a tender rivalry; 3. a selfish blessing; 4. an opportunity to commune with risky comfort; 5. an invitation to explore a relaxing challenge; 6. a chance to get up-close and personal with a longdistance connection. For best results, Leo, memorize these lines from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and recite them periodically: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself. / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s at least a 50 percent chance that the coming days will be over-the-top, out-of-the-blue, and off-therecord. I’m half-expecting florid, luscious, and kaleidoscopic events, possibly even rococo, swashbuckling, and splendiferous adventures. Are you ready for all this? Of course not. That’s the point life will be trying to make: nudging you to learn more about the fine art of spontaneity as you improvise your way through unpredictable lessons that will lead you toward the resources you’ll need to succeed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Obsessions. Enchantments. Crushes. Manias. Fetishes. Some astrologers think you Libras are mostly immune from these indelicate but sometimes delightful modes of human expression. They seem to believe that you love harmony and balance too much to fall under the spell of a bewitching passion that rivets your focus. I disagree with that view. It may be true that you’re better able than the other signs to be objective about your fixations. But that doesn’t necessarily dilute the intensity you feel when they rise up and captivate your imagination with the force of a thousand love songs. My advice? Have fun and stay amused. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken,” said Scorpio poet Antonio Porchia. In other words, the oppression from whic h we have freed ourselves may continue to influence us long after we’ve escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches might keep distorting our decisions and twisting our emotions. But I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that you’re entering a time when you have an enhanced power to dissolve the lingering taint your broken chains still impose. Yo u finally have the resources and wisdom to complete the liberation process. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It’s not driven by envy, pettiness, or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you speculate about people’s talents and call attention to their successes; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might not flow as easily as the cheap and shabb y kind -- at least at first -- but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene sparkling clean. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometimes I have a dream that seems cryptic or meaningless when I first wake up, but a few days later I realize it was a brilliant insight into what I most needed to transform about my life. If you don’t recall many of your dreams, that might not be a familiar experience for you. But you’ve probably had waking-life experiences with a similar arc. I predict you will be given at least one of those in the coming week. It may confound you while you’re in the midst of it, but will eventually reveal choice clues that have the power to change your life for the better. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may not have heard about the “forbidden colors.” And you certainly haven’t seen them, even though they exist. They’re reddish green and yellowish blue, which the cells of your retina are not built to register. However, scientists have figured out a trick by which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough -- seeing something that is supposedly impossible to see. (If you’d like to read more about the forbidden colors, go here: tinyurl.com/ForbiddenColors.) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There’s no such thing as a wrong note,” said jazz pianist Art Tatum. “It all depends on how you resolve it.” Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis had a similar philosophy. “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note,” he said. “It’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” I think that’s an excellent understanding for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Pisces. Be wary of coming to premature conclusions about alleged mistakes. Wait to hear the entire song and see the bigger picture.

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