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GROWING THE LOCAL FOOD MOVEMENT

The local food movement is sweeping across Indiana, benefiting the environment through sustainable production and those who purchase it with a tasty lack of preservatives. April Hammerand, community organizer for the Food Coalition of Central Indiana, is one of the forces behind this shift. She shared with NUVO the successes and obstacles facing Indiana during its local food revolution. BY JULIANNA THIBODEAUX COVER PHOTO BY STEPHEN SIMONETTO

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DANIELS AND THE WOMEN

When the governor signed HEA 1210 into law last week, the ACLU of Indiana took immediate action on behalf of Planned Parenthood, challenging the constitutionality of the defunding. Moving past a failed attempt to secure a temporary restraining order on the legislation, PPIN and its supporters fight on. BY CATHERINE GREEN

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from the readers Admirable exposé

It’s interesting to see, according to the local paper (Elkhart Truth, May 15, 2011), that VIM’s attorney seeks a gag order preventing the plaintiff’s attorney from speaking to the media on this case. It’s quite obvious that NUVO has done an excellent job in their reporting; and they are to be commended in “exposing” many of the players that have allowed such a catastrophe to happen to a neighborhood (“Kim vs. VIM,” Cover, May 11-18). It’s hard to understand why that county government did not do their job from the very beginning. One might ask, “Why are the players in this case continually trying to avoid and disrupt exposing the truth? Could they have something to hide?” Our hats go off to all those people who live in that neighborhood, as they have continued to fight for what is right. How could

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these government officials allow conditions to exist that cause traumas, especially to little children, knowing they could have prevented that whole mess?

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I would not have found this article except for the bitching and moaning of VIM’s attorney trying to stop an open discussion of this environmental eyesore (“Kim vs. VIM,” Cover, May 11-18). After having been near the grinding, it took me a week to get the wood particles out of my sinus. I felt you gave a very good overview of this business that gives good businesses a black eye.

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HAMMER Nixon’s strategy lives on

Why it could doom Daniels’ chances

BY STEVE HAMMER SHAMMER@NUVO.NET

he national media descended upon Indianapolis last week for the unlikeliest of reasons: a laid-back, informal speech by our state’s First Lady, Cheri Daniels. Despite warnings from aides that the address would not be newsworthy, there they were: CNN, The New York Times, Politico and others, all hoping for something more than the cow-milking and flower-picking stories they got. What they really wanted, of course, was a hint from Mrs. Daniels or her husband on whether he’s going to run for president next year. As promised, Mitch kept mostly mum. To the national media, he looks like an attractive candidate mainly on the grounds that he is not certifiably insane. He’s not advocating the legalization of heroin, as Ron Paul does; he’s not fixated on the president’s birth certificate, as Donald Trump was; and he seems to be a likable, reasonable person whose peculiar form of anti-charisma may resonate well with national voters. To the governor himself, there will never be a better opportunity. With every serious Republican official having dropped out or been labeled as insufficiently conservative, Daniels may feel like buying a sweepstakes ticket for the nomination. The only thing stopping him is the growing probability that the sweepstakes has a grand prize of losing the presidency in another landslide. It seems that only another complete collapse of the economy will stop Obama from getting reelected. He’s fulfilled many of his campaign promises from 2008 and his recent success in authorizing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden only bolstered his image as a reluctant but ultimately successful warrior. Republicans face a tough electoral map next year no matter what. The Tea Party movement is strong on enthusiasm and influence but short on numbers. The party has poisoned its name with just about all minority voting blocs and the Republican “big tent” promised by John McCain turns out to be guarded by tattooed, assault rifle-toting Glenn Beck supporters. Another reason traces back in history to 1968 and Richard Nixon. Having already

lost one national election and facing a difficult challenge from a third-party candidate, Nixon decided upon what his aides called the “Southern Strategy.” This involved the carefully planned exploitation of racial divisions in the South. By talking in vaguely segregationist tones and promising to restore traditional white values, Nixon successfully pulled it off. Ronald Reagan and both George Bushes expanded upon the Southern Strategy by adding elements of class warfare. Only they could restore law and order, shrink government and keep America’s military strong. While those candidates mostly abandoned the Southern Strategy rhetoric once elected — the U.S. Justice Department did more to desegregate schools under Nixon than it did under Lyndon B. Johnson, for example — the general philosophy of dividing voters among racial and economic lines continues to this day. Daniels or any other Republican nominee will have a tough time reaching out to independents due to the party orthodoxy of the moment, which insists upon ideological purity as a prerequisite to power. And the Southern Strategy only works if there are more scared white voters than enthusiastic African-American and Hispanic voters. Our changing demographics tell us that won’t be the case in 2012. A Republican victory must include at least some moderate whites, maybe a few so-called minority votes. That’s why the Southern Strategy works well in individual states but less so in national contests. No Republican will be able to carry California or New York, and must battle fiercely in places such as Florida and New Mexico. It is said much of Daniels’ reluctance in making a decision to run for president stems from his wife’s hesitancy to expose their family to the scrutiny of a national campaign. This is a legitimate concern — many of their family secrets long thought to be buried will emerge during a tough campaign. One thing that no pundit has suggested, to my knowledge, is that Mrs. Daniels is leaning against her husband running for president because she’s a smart woman who knows that history and demographics suggest he’ll be unsuccessful no matter how nobly he fights to win the job. But ambitious politicians tend to seize their chances where they can, so a Daniels bid for the presidency seems more likely than not. If he wins the nomination but loses the general election, it will be because of Nixon’s divide-and-conquer strategy, which was never intended to be a permanent philosophy. And, wherever he may be residing in the cosmos, whether it’s extremely hot or extremely tranquil where he is, old Tricky Dick Nixon will be watching developments closely and shaking his head about where the Republicans went wrong yet again.

If Daniels wins the nomination but loses the general election, it will be because of Nixon’s divide-andconquer strategy.

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HOPPE Mitch Daniels can count

to the Department of Transportation. He hasn’t allowed the discussion of high-speed rail in Indiana to get that far. Meanwhile, Michigan’s new governor, Rick Snyder, is also a Republican and has wasted no time in establishing his own draconian bona fides, virtually dismissing the elected officials of Benton Harbor and replacing them with his own appointed BY DAVID HOPPE manager. Rather than derail his state’s DHOPPE@NUVO.NET existing high-speed rail initiative, he has taken the money. Why? his being Indiana, you probably Perhaps it’s because Snyder understands didn’t see the news last week about that while high-speed rail may represent a the $2 billion the Obama administracertain amount of long-term risk, its potention awarded to states for high-speed rail tial for economic development makes the construction. No, here in Indiana we are gamble worth it. Detroit, thanks to fedstill reeling from the aftershocks of the lateral stimulus funds that enabled General est session of our Republican state legislaMotors some renewed profitability, is ture, also known as the Daniels Express. showing signs of progress. Creating a highHere’s what you missed: Florida was set speed connection to Chicago will create to begin building a high-speed line that jobs and foster synergies involving financwould have run trains between Tampa es, human capital and cultural resources and Orlando at 168 mph. But its new that could more than offset the costs of a Republican governor, Rick Scott, took a new transportation syspage from the playbook tem. of Wisconsin’s new This position stands Republican governor, in stark contrast to Scott Walker (the name that of Republicans in similarity is, apparently, Indiana’s state legislaa coincidence and not to ture. Just as Daniels has be taken for an androiisolated Indiana when it dal conspiracy aimed at comes to high-speed rail, state government conthese politicians, many trol), and sent the money of whom were elected back to Washington, thanks to strategic D.C. infusions of cash from The feds repurposed —Gov. Mitch Daniels Daniels’ own war chest, the money, sending it have all but thrown a to projects in California, tarp over the state, warnthe Northeast and the ing potential entrepreneurs and investors Midwest. The $400 million in Midwestern to stay away. money is of particular interest, since it will What are women to make of a state that help pay for routes linking Chicago with St. not only has one of the most restrictive Louis and Detroit. anti-abortion laws in the country, but has Did you get that? There are going to be taken the extra step of defunding Planned high-speed rail lines running from Chicago Parenthood, thereby denying access for to St. Louis and Detroit. For those whose thousands to a range of healthcare services? geography is a little rusty, Indianapolis is And what are same-sex couples to make found between these two destinations. of renewed efforts to write a gay marriage But Indiana is not part of this latest ban into the state’s constitution while also high-speed rail initiative because, as Gov. denying them the right to civil unions? Mitch Daniels once said of the plan to Combined with a corporate tax cut and build a high-speed network connecting vouchers that will use public funds to help Indianapolis with other cities in our region, even middle-class parents pay for private “I wouldn’t want Indiana to get left holding school tuition, not to mention a billion dolthe bag…” lar state surplus that might make taxpayer Daniels has become a role model for the refunds possible, this session has succeeded new generation of Republican governors in burnishing Gov. Daniels’ conservative who think that public services are what’s image for a national stage. Indiana’s numbers wrong with state government — because look better than any other state in the Union. they cost money. That’s a real problem But what, exactly, has this accounting because most state governments are gotten us? Our environmental quality is required by law to have a balanced budget. deplorable. Our care for seniors and chilAdmittedly, this makes running a state a dren in need is dreadful. Hoosiers earn less tricky business. Since services cost money, than the national average — and this numyou either have to pay for them through ber has declined even further since Daniels taxes, or face the painful fact that you can’t took office. afford them. California, meanwhile, has a budget In Indiana, Daniels has resisted highdeficit 15 times greater than Indiana’s. speed rail because he’s afraid the state will We’re often told it’s a basket case. But in wind up paying for ongoing maintenance California they’re building a 220-mph highcosts. He has expressed doubt that highspeed system between San Francisco and speed rail can be self-supporting. This posiLos Angeles. Somehow they’re still able to tion has become a model for Daniels’ newly get things done out there. Maybe there’s elected colleagues in Florida and Wisconsin more to good government than balancing although, unlike those politicians, Daniels the books. has never had to send federal funds back

Is th a t all it takes?

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For the handful of truly green Hoosiers, every day is Bike to Work Day. This Friday, IndyCog and Bicycle Indiana make it official, working with the City to promote alternative commuting. Participants will make their way to Monument Circle in the morning, taking advantage of free bike parking, breakfast, giveaways and available info on how to make the two-wheeled trek a regular gig. Veteran cyclists will lead rides from 11 locations throughout Indy beginning at 6:30 a.m. — check www. bicycleindiana.org to find the rendezvous closest to you.

GREGG TO RUN FOR GUV

John Gregg, former Democratic Speaker of Indiana’s House of Representatives, finalized plans to run for governor over the weekend. Gregg filed an exploratory committee on Monday, sealing his fate as the party’s best hope for a gubernatorial victory next year. The attorney and former radio show host is known for his charming personality, while his campaign video focused on Hoosier values. He’s a favorite for the Left, but only time will tell if he’ll be able to beat out likely opponent U.S. Rep. Mike Pence.

LACKLUSTER SUSTAINABILITY

Our beloved Gov. Daniels signed off last Wednesday on SB 251, the so-called Clean Energy Portfolio Standard. The half-assed attempt at green practices imposes a voluntary goal for the state’s utilities: 10 percent of electricity generated by clean energy sources by 2025. It also shifts construction costs on projects like nuclear power plants to ratepayers, allowing companies to take all the profit. We wonder how this lack of commitment to environmental issues will reflect on Daniels on the national stage as he weighs a run for president.

INTERSTATE IRE

The controversial $3 billion extension of I-69 has come to a standstill in Bloomington. A vote Friday by the Bloomington/Monroe County Metropolitan Planning Organization to exclude I-69 from its Transportation Improvement Program was met with cheers from locals. Environmentalists have long rallied against the planned development. Residents living near what would be Phase 4 of the project worry about who’s going to pay the tab, especially when area roads could use improvement instead. The Indiana Dept. of Transportation will now reconsider discretionary funding within Monroe County, potentially deciding to withhold funds for all county transportation projects. By Andy Jacobs Jr.

When my wife, Kim Hood, began her TV career, she was making about nothing a week and couldn’t afford a Pap smear. Planned Parenthood gave her a free one that detected very early stage uterine cancer, which was nipped in the bud. Had our fearless state legislature killed Planned Parenthood back then, they would have also killed Kim. Now they will be wiping out some other young women, I guess in the name of God. 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO // 05.18.11-05.25.11 // news

news Daniels and the women

HEA 1210’s attack on reproductive health

BY CA T H E RI N E G R E E N CG RE E N @N U V O . N E T

ast Tuesday, Governor Mitch Daniels signed into law a bill that effectively neutered Planned Parenthood of Indiana (PPIN). HEA 1210 cut off federal funding to the organization, a total of $1.4 million according to PPIN spokeswoman Kate Shepard. The move risks losing Indiana $4 million a year in federal family planning grants. Those lost dollars would join the $150,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that funded follow-up and disease intervention with patients testing positive for HIV. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana took immediate action, filing a request for an injunction and temporary restraining order in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled Wednesday to deny the restraining order request. “We are deeply disappointed that the judge decided not to stop this unconscionable law,” PPIN President and CEO Betty Cockrum said in a press release Tuesday. “The court’s ruling today means that 9,300 Medicaid patients at our 28 locations have lost services from their preferred provider.” According to Indianapolis Business Journal, Judge Pratt reasoned that the state had not “had enough time to respond to Planned Parenthood’s complaint and that the group did not show it would suffer irreparable harm without a temporary restraining order.” Betty Cockrum explained during a phone interview Friday that it was an ill-fated show of compassion, deciding not to contact Medicaid patients Tuesday evening to inform them of the cut-off, that may have drawn that conclusion. “Because we were clear that we were going to use our women’s health fund resources to cover the patients across the state that morning, she observed that our patients weren’t being harmed,” Cockrum said, adding that it was “an unfortunate conclusion, but you can appreciate the logic.” Judge Pratt also said of her ruling Wednesday that it did not indicate which way she would vote during the injunction hearing on June 6. She’ll give a final decision by July 1 whether to stop the law entirely. In an effort to soften the blow, PPIN is using donated funds to extend services to Medicaid patients through Saturday, May 21. “The investment of these gifts that are coming in response to the defunding to cover the services to the Medicaid patients

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is further demonstration that we take this mission of providing reproductive health care very seriously,” Cockrum said. There are some restrictions to this emergency response, however, besides its impermanence — clinics cannot accept any new Medicaid-eligible patients, and “some services will be scheduled later to give the court time to issue a ruling on the injunction,” according to a press release.

Constitutional controversy

Moving past the contentious moral issues in the battle over reproductive health, PPIN and its supporters are focusing on the constitutionality of this most recent incursion. In press materials circulated by the organization throughout this year’s legislative session, PPIN has highlighted that 94 percent of its services are for preventative purposes, and that no federal funds go toward abortion. That’s been the case for more than 30 years thanks to the Hyde Amendment, which the U.S. House voted to make permanent earlier this month with HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.

“When you see this kind of response across the country, that keeps you going.” —Betty Cockrum, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Indiana

But that hasn’t been good enough for conservative lawmakers. “If we’re buying the roof over their head or their paper clips, we’re still subsidizing abortion,” bill co-sponsor Rep. Matt Ubelhor (R-Bloomfield) told The Associated Press. HEA 1210 prohibits the State from granting to or entering into contracts with any entity that provides the procedure. It also prevents Medicaid patients from receiving any services at PPIN or other health centers that perform abortions, excluding hospitals and ambulatory care centers. But in so doing, the legislation fails to comply with the Medicaid Act, which mandates that Medicaid patients be able to choose their providers. By signing the bill, Daniels has risked losing all federal Medicaid funding that Indiana receives each year. Thus, the ACLU is basing its defense on the grounds that HEA 1210 “violates federal Medicaid law and health care providers’ First Amendment Rights” while endangering patients “by stripping PPIN of funding, and requiring providers to give misleading and unscientifically founded ideas,” according to a press release Thursday. Speaking for the opposition, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller also issued a statement. “This legislation has generated

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Supporters of PPIN rallied at the Statehouse earlier this year (left), and outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in April, speaking out against legislators’ plans to defund the organization.

strong emotions on all sides,” Zoeller said, “and my office will provide a vigorous legal defense for the statute.”

Insufficient alternatives

Meanwhile, the legislators responsible for the defunding have yet to publicly address its disputed constitutionality. Instead, they continue to stand by their assertion that these actions are in no way harmful to Hoosier women. In a press release last Wednesday, another of the bill’s co-sponsors, Sen. Scott Schneider (R-Indianapolis), fell back on the Right’s standard defense that there are abundant alternatives for patients losing access to PPIN’s services. “The case made by Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a false alarm and their claims that women will go without health services are false,” Schneider said. “They would have everyone believe they are the only provider of women’s health services in Indiana, but there are 150 clinics throughout the state that can still provide Hoosier women with the services they need.” An April 29 release from the governor’s office offered a list of such providers: “In the 21 counties where these 7 entities (affected by HEA 1210) currently operate, there are approximately 800 Medicaid providers which are eligible to provide Medicaid clients with health and family planning services.” The tally noted 192 Medicaid providers in Marion County alone, but did not offer location names. It also failed to say whether all of the services PPIN provides are available at each, or whether these sites are accepting new patients at this time. Among the services offered by PPIN: pelvic exams and Pap tests; testicular exams and instruction for self-exams; testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; distribution and education about birth control methods; HIV testing; administration of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine; and pregnancy testing. Four of PPIN’s 28 health centers offer surgical and medication abortions. Despite these sizable challenges — to women’s health, the status of Indiana’s federal health care funding and the basic constitutional rights of citizens — PPIN has

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demonstrated an unflagging determination. “This fight started in earnest the first week in January, and it has been unrelenting,” said a battle-worn Betty Cockrum on Friday. She seemed encouraged, though, by support nationwide. “When you see this kind of response across the country, that keeps you going. It’s clear that people understand what we do,” Cockrum said. “They’re speaking with their wallets, and that’s pretty striking.” But if the hearing on June 6 doesn’t turn out as PPIN hopes, the future, according to Cockrum, looks grim. “If we find that we aren’t successful, we will do everything we can to avoid closing health centers,” she said. “But I cannot promise that that would not happen.” For more information on Planned Parenthood of Indiana, visit www.ppin.org; to learn about the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, go to www.aclu-in.org.

Regulating shame

In addition to the constitutional infringement, HEA 1210 also imposes a mix of bureaucratic obstacles and guilt-tripping scare tactics on the procedure. • Citing “substantial medical evidence,” the new law redefines fetal viability, shifting forward the cut-off date for abortions to 20 weeks from 24. The bill states that after this point, a fetus “has the physical structures necessary to experience pain… seeks to evade certain stimuli... (and) has been observed to exhibit hormonal stress responses to painful stimuli.” The legislation also offers the evidence that “(a)nesthesia is routinely administered to a fetus of at least twenty (20) weeks of postfertilization age when prenatal surgery is performed.” • Women seeking abortions must now be informed orally and in writing of the “risks involved, information concerning the fetus, available assistance and existing law.” Further, women must view fetal ultrasounds unless they state in writing that they do not wish to do so. • On the providers’ side, physicians performing abortions are now required to have admitting privileges at a county hospital, or one in an adjacent county, or “enter into an agreement with a physician who has admitting privileges in the county or contiguous county; and notify the patient of the hospital location where the patient can receive follow-up care by the physician.” Indiana schools compete in RecycleMania by Catherine Green

Growing the local food movement April Hammerand & the Food Coalition of Central Indiana

by Julianna Thibodeaux • photos by Stephen Simonetto

t’s the last day of the season for the Indy Winter Farmers Market and spring is in the air. The high-ceilinged space, located downtown in the Maxwell Building on East Ohio Street, is bustling with a diverse Saturday crowd and dozens of local farmers and food vendors. Asparagus and other early spring vegetables are in good supply, offering a taste of more to come at other markets in the weeks ahead. Farmers markets like this one — Marion County alone boasts more than a dozen — are one way that food shoppers can access healthy food in season. I’m here to shop, but I’m also here to follow April Hammerand around. Hammerand is manager of the newly renamed Food Coalition of Central Indiana (formerly Indy Food, Farm and Family Coalition). Unofficially, she’s your local farmer’s best friend. And she wants to make that farmer your best friend, too. “One of the reasons the Coalition exists is because we’ve lost a lot of our food culture since the 1950s,” Hammerand tells me as we walk past a milk vendor. “People don’t know how to cook in-season anymore.” Practices such as canning your own tomatoes and jam, for instance, meant seasonal fruits could be enjoyed all year long, offering a form of food security before the pre-packaged, mass-produced food revolution took hold. The Food Coalition of Central Indiana (FCCI) serves as a catalyst for these and other related issues: where and how we grow our food, how much of it we buy, and from whom. Often, it comes down Food Coalition of Central Indiana has just published their 2011-12 Local Food Guide, covering a six-county swath of Central Indiana, including dozens of farms and farmer’s markets listed by county. The guide also includes restaurants that serve local food-derived dishes. The Guide is available at a farmers market near you, or via download at www. indyfoodfarmfamily.org.

to a simple economic equation: Is good food available, and is it affordable? Unless you’re growing it yourself, would you rather purchase your next tomato from the farmer in your neighborhood or a multinational corporation in California? And which one is likely to taste better, and offer greater nutritional value? As FCCI manager, Hammerand sits at the hub of a wheel: its spokes are the small farmers, university researchers, agricultural extension offices, co-op grocery stores, farmers markets, community gardens, restaurants, city policymakers and even health and social workers who understand the benefits of equal access to healthy food.

The need for conservation

Hammerand defies stereotypes when it comes to community organizers, which is essentially what she is. She’s young, for starters — a doe-eyed, soft-spoken 20-something with a kind smile who prefers her bike to her car. Her childhood hometown is so small that she instead tells me the name of the town where she attended high school, Woodstock, Ill. From an early age, Hammerand recognized the need for conservation. Because she lived in a rural setting, she learned to appreciate the crucial role farmers play in sustaining us. “I had rabbits and I sewed dresses,” Hammerand recalls, “but I was hanging out with the farmers.” Her parents had fled Chicago, in part because of the lure of the land. “Conservation was key to them from the beginning,” Hammerand says. “We had a 10-acre forest behind my house. Developers were going to build 2,000 homes, essentially right in my backyard. It was my playground… all of the kids in the neighborhood played there.” The threat of loss settled deep in her psyche, and when it was time to graduate from high school and consider her future, Hammerand decided to make a career out of this concern for the land — not just in terms of ecology, but human sustainability

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as well. She stayed close to home, earning a bachelor’s degree in international resource economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she focused on natural resource management. Taking on an interdisciplinary approach, she simultaneously took courses in the agricultural school, the natural resource and environmental science department, and the economics department. Ultimately, it all came down to money: who had it and what they did with it. If you didn’t speak that language, no one would listen — a fact that Hammerand believes has in some ways held back the environmental movement.

“I’m here to organize the leaders of the movement, to strengthen the projects… If we can work together, we will make everyone successful.” — April Hammerand

environmentalists were caught in a box.” Her “aha” moment: “If we can support local farmers, then we can stop urban sprawl.” This deceptively simple concept informed the direction she would continue to take. After working for a local produce distributor in Chicago, she returned to school to pursue a graduate degree in environmental communication and management from the University of Agriculture Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. The program drove home the importance of economics in the food and conservation equation. In Sweden, she learned about across-the-aisle communication “between the business world, farmers and environmentalists, engineers and designers.” When Hammerand returned to the U.S., she says, “I came back to America as a Swede. I didn’t understand why we weren’t separating our garbage. I didn’t understand why there was so much packaging.” Soon afterward, Hammerand was invited to take on the manager role for the Coalition, which is fiscally managed by Earth Charter Indiana with the support of outside grant funding. “I came here in 2010 not knowing anyone, being an outsider… being a quiet observer,” she says. As soon as Hammerand began her work coordinating the collective efforts of a coalition of growers, producers and local food advocates, it was assumed that she would lead their efforts. She had to remind them that she was not here to lead the movement — that was up to them. “I’m here to organize the leaders of the movement, to strengthen the projects… If we can work together, we will make everyone successful.”

Growing pains An activist at heart

Hammerand had originally envisioned becoming an environmental lawyer, but realized, soon after her first environmental law class that “again I was going to be caught in a system, in a box; just like the

The FCCI finally started to come together as a unified force last January, when a group of 20 coalition members returned home energized after attending the Growing Power conference in Milwaukee, Wis. Growing Power’s Will Allen, a rock star of the urban farming movement, set the gold CONTINUED ON PG. 14

Amy Matthews (left) owns South Circle Farm (also see images previous page and next page); April Hammerand (right), head of Food Coalition of Central Indiana, sure loves her farmers. CONTINUED FROM PG. 12

standard for building sustainable food systems in urban settings, at the same time providing economic opportunity and equal access to healthy, homegrown food to multiple socioeconomic groups. Growing Power has duplicated Allen’s hugely successful Milwaukee program in Chicago, with satellite training sites in a number of other cities. As Hammerand remembers it, “Will Allen was like, let’s ramp it up. We’ve been doing this local food movement for 10 or 15 years, and nothing’s happening, we’re not working together. We need to organize and we need to work together.” For Hammerand, this was the moment that FCCI members in Indianapolis finally started to crystallize a vision for what the city needed to do to get more local food to residents, and to get the public to understand why it was important in the first place. A series of meetings followed, resulting in the new name and a new mission: “To

Upcoming event: Neighbor Power!

Presenters from the Indianapolis food system share stories about their projects within the food movement and the difference they’ve made in their neighborhoods. Gardens, farms, community development, youth engagement and many other topics will be explored. Saturday, May 21 8:30 a.m. (registration) – 3 p.m. Schwitzer Student Center University of Indianapolis 1400 E. Hanna Ave. www.neighborpowerindy.org This is a free event; Continental breakfast and lunch provided. Questions? april@indyfoodfarmfamily.org or 417-8449.

enhance the health of our community by improving the food system and increasing access to resources and nutritious food.” The main push for the new and improved Coalition, which now represents roughly 35 food-related or concerned entities, is to make locally grown and produced food — like the kind sold at the Indy Winter Farmers Market — accessible to everyone. But there’s one problem, and it’s a big one. As Hammerand puts it, “We don’t have enough local, sustainable food to feed our city.” There aren’t enough local farmers to feed Central Indiana’s population, now greater than two million. So there’s a paradox to overcome: bring more consumers to the local food table, while simultaneously nurturing the growers needed to sustain them. The land may be available, but are there enough investment dollars to match?

Abundance is where you find it As Hammerand continues to tell her story, equal parts cautionary and feel-good, I quickly realize I’m not going to get much shopping done. That task is left to my husband and daughters, who set off in search of leafy greens and a little breakfast. It’s hard not to be distracted by the colorful displays of food and crafts or to resist listening in on the many conversations buzzing around us. Clearly, shopping in this way is far more interesting than your local grocery store. Here is abundance of a different kind: Nutritionally dense foods produced in a manner that promotes the sustainability of our soils and that come to us without the burning of mind-numbing amounts of fossil fuels. As author Barbara Kingsolver writes in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, “The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.” Not every resident of Indianapolis has the luxury of shopping at this farmers market, nor could the market feed a metropolitan area of our size, or even a small

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subsection of it — say, the downtown area. However, there are many other venues where locally produced food is available. Some grocery stores carry local foods as well, and more and more are jumping onto the local food bandwagon. Good Earth in Broad Ripple, for instance, has always carried some local produce and dairy products. One of a growing number of urban farms, Amy Matthews’ South Circle Farm is helping to bridge the gap between supply and growing demand. An Indianapolis native, Matthews returned to the city this past winter after earning her chops as a farmer in urban and rural settings in several American cities.

“Knowing that the Coalition was out there meant that limited role could feel more significant, and I could feel connected to a greater movement.” — Amy Matthews

The FCCI is one of the reasons she decided to return and apply her know-how in her hometown. “When I’m farming, I’m just one site having a limited impact. Knowing that the Coalition was out there meant that limited role could feel more significant, and

I could feel connected to a greater movement,” she says. “I think it’s going to be really effective in connecting the dots for people.” The key, she suggests, is getting diverse voices to work together. “In Chicago and Cleveland I got to see how those movements were working together with really different interests towards food. I guess it shows me that the coalition is or could be set up for success, seeing that people from the universities are involved, people from the health professions are involved, people growing food are involved.” The FCCI’s Hammerand is all about getting those stakeholders to think collectively. “April is great at bringing people together,” Matthews says. “She’s definitely a convener, and a huge supporter. I feel like she’s got her heart in the right place.” Matthews tends about two acres of growing space across from the Concord Community Development Corporation (CDC). “It’s a mixed used space, meaning we’re going to host community-based programming through partnerships starting this summer or next spring,” she says. In addition to hosting a community garden at the site, “as we evolve, we’ll probably form some partnerships so folks can do education onsite.” Already, the enterprise has raised enough money to build a shelter on the grounds and start a food voucher program for lowincome families in the neighborhood. Even in a relatively small plot — Matthews has farmed just one of the two acres so far — she offers variety: “I have sweet peas and spinach, I’m growing lots of different perennial and annual herbs, I have lots of greens, I have kale, collards, and Swiss chard… and I’m trying to get my beans planted.” You can purchase Matthews’ produce from the Stadium Village Farmers Market, on the south end of Downtown across the street from Shapiro’s Deli. [For more information about local farmers like Matthews, see next page. ] Hammerand sees the Coalition as promoting such diversity, gathering together the small urban farms and the nearby rural farmers to further a common cause — bringing local food to local tables — for the benefit of all. “That’s what we’re trying to do, essentially,” she said, “see the broken links in the food system, in the food movement.”

A coalition’s first harvest

My husband returns with sacks of early spring vegetables — spinach, kale, leaf lettuce — along with a handful of honey sticks, handmade soap, chocolate milk from Trader’s Point Creamery, organic Ethiopian coffee beans from Harvest Café and a flat of vegetable starts. My daughters are working their way through obscenely large cinnamon rolls from Rene’s Bakery. As we finish our conversation, Hammerand considers her first year. She recounts the fallow months that led up to the first Coalition breakthrough, followed by the ripening of its vision for a stronger network of food producers and a more savvy public who realize what’s at stake when it comes to where they put their food dollars. “I feel like the movement is ripe,” she says. “We’re at the right time, we have the motivation, we have the land. We have the skilled people, including the elders who can teach us… how to grow food, how to cook food, how to preserve food.” She adds with a grin, “I think part of it is realizing that farmers are cool.”

late ‘70s! Brendle started his operation to provide his health-conscious wife (and co-owner) with an alternative to refined sugar. The Brendles’ initial three hives have grown to over one hundred and their little hobby has blossomed into a thriving business. They sell their honey and a variety of other products (such as candles, soap, and skin care) at the Geist Farmers Market every Thursday from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. and at the Fresh Market store in Carmel. 9801 Fall Creek Rd., 517-0484

BUTLER CAMPUS FARM Tim Carter

Butler Campus farm is a small chemical-free farm located in the heart of Butler University. The project was proposed by the Earth Charter Butler student organization in the fall of 2009, and as of January 2010, a 1/2-acre site had been selected near the Butler Prairie at the intramural athletic fields. The produce is enjoyed by Butler students themselves (at the Atherton Union dining hall and Napolese, a nearby pizza joint). It is sold every Thursday between noon and 2 p.m. at the Butler University Gazebo. Extra produce is donated to the St. Thomas food pantry at 46th and Illinois St. Butler University, 4600 Sunset Ave., 940-6506, www. butlercampusfarm.com

HARVEST CAFÉ COFFEE ROASTERS David Darga and Larry French

Local farms

From their soil to your table The following ten farms are represented by the newly renamed Food Coalition of Central Indiana (formerly Indy Food, Farm and Family Coalition). For more on local food, including a survey of local farmers markets, see our Summer Fun Guide next week.

BASIC ROOTS COMMUNITY FOODS Kay Grimm and Sue Spicer

Wouldn’t you like to avoid the supermarket hassle and have fresh food delivered to your doorstep? That dream is now a reality with Basic Roots — a seasonal, once a month, year-round, sustainably-produced food delivery service. Along with locally grown goodies, each delivery includes a copy of the nutritionist penned newsletter, Digest This!, which is filled with food facts and recipes. In addition to subscription options, look out for JUICE, the group’s mobile cart of fruits and veggies on the near eastside of Indy or in Lockerbie. Supported by a network of about 75 growers, Basic Roots has been “making good food accessible” since 2005. 341 N. Hamilton Ave., 3410474, www.basicrootscommunityfoods.kaysue.org

BIG CITY FARMS CSA

Matthew Jose and Tyler Henderson

This group puts vacant urban lots to good use, turning them into beautiful fruit and vegetable producing gardens. Big City Farms is currently farming 11 lots on the near east side of the city. In addition to selling its products on the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) market, this organization works closely with several local restaurants to provide heirloom and specialty vegetables and fruits. Given the high demand for its produce, Big City Farms is looking for volunteers to help out (and volunteers get free, fresh produce!). 506 N. Oriental St., 694-4299, www.bigcityfarmsindy.com

BRENDLE HONEY FARM Tom and Sharon Brendle

Tom Brendle definitely knows what he is doing when it comes to harvesting honey. He’s been doing it since the

This company hand selects only the very finest green coffees from all over the world and small batch roasts them to release the distinctive characteristics of each origin of coffee. It uses state-of-the-art digitally controlled infrared roasting machines (trying saying that twice). Harvest Café also provides its customers with educational materials and programs to better appreciate its quality coffees, teas, and other products. If you don’t see the kind of coffee you want in their catalogue, don’t hesitate to request it — special orders don’t upset the employees here. 5130 B East 65th St., 585-9162, www.harvestcafecoffee.com

IRVINGTON CSA Levi Fisher and Family

Irvington CSA is run by an Amish family using traditional Amish practices (meaning no chemicals or mechanized machinery). Their produce is delivered to Irvington for pick up every Friday evening for 25 weeks beginning in mid-May. Extras such as maple syrup, honey, and fresh eggs are also available weekly at a reasonable price. And the Fisher family sends weekly email updates about each week’s produce. In addition, there is a small collection of recipes on their website (and they encourage everyone to contribute). Also check online for share options. 5463 Hibben Rd., 3510995, www.csa.eliroi.com, www.irvingtoncsa.com

SLOW FOOD GARDEN

organization. Located in White River State Park, this 6,000 square foot garden was designed to demonstrate urban growing techniques and thus encourage community gardens. The food grown here is sold to local farmers markets as well as downtown restaurants. Five interns cultivate the garden, pick the crops and make the deliveries. Founder Laura Henderson is no slouch when it comes to developing Indiana’s local food culture as she is also the founder of the Winter Farmers Market and co-founder of Urban Earth Indy. 801 W. Washington St., 233-2434

SOUTH CIRCLE FARM Amy Matthews

This one acre urban farm produces vegetables, berries, plants and herbs the organic way (pesticides are not welcome by any means). And it is gearing up for its first growing season in downtown Indy. South Circle Farm is the anchor tenant of the non-profit Concord Farm, which will host community gardeners and educational programs as it is built and blooms in the city. The farm will also partner with People for Urban Progress to build a garden pavilion to host meals, events, and classes. It will be fun to watch this farm grow. 2048 S. Meridian St., 4469448, www.southcirclefarm.com

TRADERS POINT FARM ORGANICS

This is it (drum roll, please) — the one, the only grass-fed, organic dairy farm in the state (as certified by the USDA). Traders Point is also the only organic processor of cheese and ice cream. A young yet flourishing farm, it has been “nourishing the land that nourishes us all” since 2003. You can taste all that it has to offer right on the farm at The Loft Restaurant & Dairy Bar (which will be open for extended hours this summer). Or add your local grocery store to its long, growing list of clients. 9101 Moore Rd., Zionsville, 733-1700, www.tpforganics.com

WATERMAN’S FARM MARKET Carol Waterman

It is known for its strawberries, but Waterman’s Farm Market produces a helluva lot more (such as sweet green peas, sweet corn, green beans, beets, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, the list goes on and on). And the farm facility is available for everything from birthday parties to corporate retreats. You can even take behind the scenes tours to see how products go from the good earth directly to your dinner table. Look out for the Strawberry Festival this June, which features music, food, tours and more. 7010 E. Raymond St. or the Greenwood Market — 1100 N. New State Rd. 37, 357-2989, 888-4189, www.watermansfarmmarket.com

Laura Henderson

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FESTIVAL

Only have time to do one thing all week? This is it.

WEDNESDAY

CABARET

Rock the White Rabbit @ White Rabbit Cabaret

SATURDAY, SUNDAY

41st Annual Broad Ripple Art Fair @ Indianapolis Arts Center Get ready for festival season. One of the first festivals of the year is the Broad Ripple Art Fair, returning to the Indianapolis Art Center in its 41st year. The event showcases the works of over 225 artists, as well as locally grown food so you can munch as you browse. This is a family event, bring your kids along for face painting and the WTHR spin-a-pot activity. The fair is open from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets for adults are $15, $12 if purchased in advance, kids 3-12 get for $2 and anyone younger gets in free. Visitors on Saturday get a wristband granting free admission on Sunday. See our music and food sections for more on BRAF. 820 E. 67th Street; www.IndplsArtCenter.org/BRAF; 255-2464.

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Art by Ben Johnson, among over two hundred artists, will be on display at the 41st annual Broad Ripple Art Fair.

Looking for a hint of Middle Eastern flare to spice up your week? Look no further. The Bennu Dancers are shimmying into the White Rabbit for their benefit concert, Rock the White Rabbit , a dance extravaganza that also includes Faten Ali Munger, Kaitlyn McDonald, BellyBelly, Jamila Ali & Adonia and many other local dancers. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Nicholas D. Durham Trust. Raffle prizes will be available from local artists as well as Mystique Salon and Day Spa, New Day Meadery and Dance Factor Dance Studio. A cash bar will be available. The fun begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are $25. 1116 E. Prospect St.; www.bennudancers.org; 417-2897.

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STARTS FRIDAY

VISUAL ART

The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show @ SoFA FREE

STARTS FRIDAY

VISUAL ART

iPhoneography @ Renaissance

FREE

And you thought you loved your iPhone before. Rock n’ roll photographer Harry Sandler’s is taking the iPhone to new heights. Sandler’s work with the iPhone involves manipulating images taken on said phone on his travels to places like Iceland, Spain, Scotland, Canada and around the United States. The exhibit runs now The work of Harry Sandler is featured at Renaissance. through June 24, and features over two dozen artists. Note that Sandler will be at the Apple Store at Keystone (8702 Keystone Crossing, Suite #128) from 8-10 a.m., to talk about his experiences as a tour manager and film and video producer. The Renaissance Fine Art & Design Gallery is open on Fridays 5 p.m.-10 p.m. and Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; entry is of course free. 246 Main St.; www.renaissancefineartanddesign.com; 506-8477.

Let’s talk about sex, shall we? It’s, ahem, how we got here on the planet, right? Addressing such topics as reproduction, sexual politics, romance and the human figure, the

Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show

will open on Friday (6-8 p.m.) at IU’s SoFA Gallery. In conjunction with the show, the Kinsey Institute will have an open house on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The art show is free and will run until Saturday, July 30. Jeremy Sweet’s “Hasta La Muerte” is part of the new exhibit opening at SoFA. The SoFA Gallery is located at 1201 E. 7th St. in Bloomington, 812-855-8490, www.kinseyinstitute.org.

FRIDAY

Servant Leadership seminar @ Interchurch Center What is effective servant leadership? You’re

FUNDRAISER

[Re]sonance @ Earth House

We all need a little help from our friends sometimes. Come lend your support to the Earth House Collective at the [Re] sonance fundraiser, an event featuring an arts show and a silent auction. Music will be provided by Good News/Bad Wolf, Dead Birds Adore Us, and DJs from Twin Peaks and DJ Ryan Lee. Proceeds from the Art by Jonathan McAfee is part of the fun that evening will go toward upgrading the sound benefits Earth House. facilities and general operating costs for the Earth House Collective. The party begins at 7 p.m. and a donation of your discretion is needed prior to entry. 237 N. East St.; www.earthhousecollective.org; 636-4060.

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Dr. Keith M. Kent leads the servant leadership discussion.

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itching to know, aren’t you? Dr. Keith M. Kent will scratch that itch for you with this upcoming seminar. Kent, CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, will not only define servant leadership, but share examples of servant-leaders and explain seven key characteristics that make them effective. The session includes active learning as well as opportunities for questions and group discussion. Each participant will also receive a copy of Dr. Kent’s book, The Case for Servant Leadership. 8:30 a.m. to noon, $49. The Interchurch Center is located at 1100 W. 42nd St., 327-7144, www.peacelearningcenter.org.

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Phil the Void leads the charge, starting Friday.

STARTS FRIDAY

COMEDY

Very Big Laughs @ IndyFringe Don’t leave town for the Indy 500. You have to stay so you can laugh your ass off at the IndyFringe Theatre. Or we should say with the fellow theatre audience members. There, funnyman Phil Van Hest (aka Phil the Void), who now, we shit you not, has moved to Indianapolis, will host an improv and sketch comedy show featuring the comic stylings of VINCSANITY, The Belmont Transfer, Douchejax, JAKE, Matt, 4 Days Late and more. With names like that, how could it possibly not be funny? May 20-21 and May 27-28 at 7, 8, 9 and 10 p.m. Tickets: $12, $8 for seniors and students. The IndyFringe Theatre is located at 719 E. St. Clair St., 522-8099, www.indyfringe.org.

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Roy Zimmerman will comfort you during The Rapture.

SATURDAY

SPECIAL EVENT

Roy Zimmerman @ Center for Inquiry

According to some Christians, the Apocalypse will begin by the time this party starts. The “true Christians” will be “raptured” while the rest of us are at the Center for Inquiry listening to comedian and singer-songwriter Roy Zimmerman! Not a bad way to spend your last remaining day on Earth. The “rapture party” begins at 6 p.m. (when all the earthquakes are presumed to take effect) and Zimmerman’s show will commence at 7. Ends at 10 p.m., $15. The Center for Inquiry is located at 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, 423-0710, www. centerforinquiry.net/indy.

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The fun continues at IMS this weekend.

SATURDAY

RACING

Pole Day/Tom Carnegie Day @ IMS On your mark, get set, GO! The

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is gear-

ing up for the season and you have a chance to see the racing drama play out from the beginning. Races on this day determine the first 24 grid spots, with the fastest driver gaining pole position on race day. Gates open at 6 a.m., practice starts at 8 a.m. and the qualifying races last from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The nine drivers who proved their racing mettle by leading the pack will return to best their earlier times at 4:30 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults, free for those 12 and under. 4790 W. 16th St.; www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/indy500; 492-8500.

MONDAY

MUSIC

Time for Three @ Shaarey Tefilla This is the final concert for the chamber music series,

“Music at Shaarey Tefilla.” Series artistic director Michael Isaac Strauss will be joined by several renowned guest artists including members of the band Time for Three. Focusing on Jewish composers and themes, this allstar concert will raise funds for the Congregation of Shaarey Tefilla — the first synagogue in Hamilton County. General admission: $20, $15 for CST members and $5 for students; 7:30-8:30p.m. Congregation Shaarey Tefilla is located at 3085 W. 116th St., 733-2169, www.shaareytefilla.org.

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Time for Three is among the performances at this Shaarey Tefilla event.

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A&E FEATURE David Hochoy: 20 years at DK Dance Kaleidoscope also celebrating 40 years in 2011

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ance Kaleidoscope was established in 1972 by Young Audiences of Indiana. Cherri Jaffee served as artistic director from 1977 and as co-AD with Ginger Hall from late 1980s until David Hochoy’s appointment in the fall of 1991, making this year his 20th anniversary as artistic director. Hochoy, born in Trinidad, West Indies, initially intended to be a physician, but switched to theater and at age 20, and discovered his true love: dance. After studying at the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham schools and dancing with national companies, Hochoy was invited in 1980 to join the Martha Graham Company, advancing to soloist in 1982 and rehearsal director from 1986-1989. Prior to coming to Indianapolis Hochoy served on the faculty at Texas Christian University and as guest faculty and choreographer with the American Dance Festival, Vienna International Dance Festival and dance companies worldwide. DK is at the cusp of celebrating its 40th anniversary and Hochoy’s 20th. NUVO visited with Hochoy for a retrospective and his thoughts about DK’s future. NUVO: What has changed over 20 years with DK, personally and with the company? HOCHOY: I think that the biggest change is that we are now recognized as being one of the “major” players in the Indianapolis performing arts scene. We have certainly become more stable financially, although it is a constant challenge. On the personal side, I now consider Indianapolis to be my home and where I belong. I understand what my role is and love the work that I am blessed to do each day. Penrod was the first thing I did in fall of 1991 with a company of seven dancers. That season we rehearsed at 429 East Vermont and we performed on the Upper Stage at the IRT in its pre-renovation status. When I realized IRT closed its season in May, I asked if DK could do a program on the Mainstage in June of 1992. I wanted to do a full-length piece to show we could do something big and beautiful, not only small pieces. I put all of my eggs in that basket. A lot was riding on my shoulders. NUVO: DK subsequently has performed Scheherazade several times, in 1995 at your performance space at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 2004 Scheherazade was back at the IRT, and in 2008 at Clowes with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. It seems this initial bold venture for a full-length dance has

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Left to right Kenoth Shane Patton, Tim June, Liberty Harris, David Hochoy, Brandon Comer, Jamie Ripsky, Mariel Grenlee, Melanie Screiber, Caitlin Swihart; (kneeling) Zach Young, George Salinas; (sitting on floor) Jillian Godwin

adapted well for DK in multiple venues. Why the moves to different spaces? HOCHOY: Growth comes with moving forward to accessible spaces as they open up. Bringing the company offices and rehearsal studios to Butler and performances again to IRT are part of that. NUVO: How have the outreach programs you’ve developed helped to build Indy’s dance audience? HOCHOY: When I first came, I made a commitment to accessibility. I have always felt that someone should be able to walk in off the street and enjoy one of our programs. That, along with programming diverse themed concerts, has built a devoted following of fans. One of the comments from an audience member that I love is, “I never know when the surprise is coming in a DK show, but it always does.” I also think that because the dancers are firmly based in ballet and Martha Graham technique, it gives the company a “look” that audiences can immediately compare with other dance companies they attend. DK has a reputation for collaborating with many different arts groups, and that has also built audiences. I would have to say, however, that our best attraction is our reputation for constant artistic excellence, and of that I am extremely proud, because we work so hard to achieve it every time. NUVO: How has the relationship with Oregon Shakespeare Festival shaped DK? HOCHOY: Performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival developed the dancers into consummate full-blown artists. Having to perform six shows a week, all summer, gave them the invaluable experience of learning from their performances and growing in a way that only performing can teach, because you will do something

in a performance that you never would in 100 rehearsals! It also forced me to open my spheres of influence as a choreographer, since I could not always choose the music that I wanted. You always learn more from the things that you don’t want to do, but must. DK started going to OSF in 1998. For several years we were there for 3-5 months for a full residency. Over the last few years we went for about a week as one of the Green Show performing groups. We’re not going there this year, but are going to the Sweet Pea Festival of the Arts in Bozeman, Montana, during August. NUVO: How does music influence your themes, ideas, shapes? HOCHOY: I’m very influenced by music, and almost always the music is a starting point in the germination of ideas for a piece. I like many different kinds of music, and I think that it is important to expose the DK audience to a wide range in order to keep their interest. I’m very proud of our current season and the wide variety we are presenting this year – music from Broadway shows, Elvis Presley songs, an all Classical program and electronic music [see infobox]. NUVO: What do you look for in building your company of dancers? HOCHOY: Apart from technique, the thing that I look for the most is personality. Martha Graham always talked to us about “holding the stage” and it is ingrained in my aesthetic. I try to bring this out from my dancers as much as possible because I truly believe that the audience wants to connect with the individual dancer. As far as the staff is concerned, I leave that in the capable hands of Jan Virgin, our Executive Director who does a fantastic job. Ex DK dancers are everywhere in the country, teaching and choreographing. Roberta Wong teaches down at IU in Bloomington.

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David Hochoy: “You always learn more from the things that you don’t want to do, but must.”

NUVO: How do production elements, costumes, setting, lighting, sound, connect with your choreography? HOCHOY: I consider Laura Glover, lighting design, and Cheryl Sparks, costume design, my artistic partners in the process of creating a work designed for performance. The production elements play a huge role in the overall perception of the performance, and I think that that is one of the things that Dance Kaleidoscope is known for: outstanding production values. NUVO: Where are you taking DK over the next five years? HOCHOY: I think that the company is a good size right now, 11-12 dancers. That is financially feasible. I would love for us to do some more touring, and that is starting to happen. One of my dreams is for us to have a school, where we can train new generations of dancers, and give the current DK dancers an opportunity to teach. I think that DK has developed into a unique expression of our community. It’s not only the fact that the majority of work is created here in Indianapolis. We are an arts organization that exists only because people care enough to support it, and in that way I like to say that that we are truly “of the community, by the community and for the community.”

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An Evening of electronic music featuring David Hochoy’s In the Moog and Skinwalkers with live music by Jazz Violinist Cathy Morris When: May 19-22 Where: Indiana Repertory Theatre, 140 West Washington For Tickets/more info: 940-6555, www.dancekal.org

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ISO’s new music director appears this Friday BY TO M AL DRI D GE EDITO RS@ N UVO.NET When Raymond Leppard assumed the reins as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s music director in 1987, he was 59 years old. When Mario Venzago took over, in turn, in 2002, he was 53. We now have, in succession, at 28, the youngest music director among major orchestras in the United States. Krzysztof Urbanski conducts this weekend for the first time since his initial guest appearance last season on April 16-17, 2010. I wondered how someone at this young age views taking charge of a major American orchestra: NUVO: For being a rather young conductor, do you already find yourself at home with most works in what we think of as the standard classical repertoire? URBANSKI: I don’t think that age has anything to do with understanding, feeling the music. It is only a matter of having a sensitivity as an approach to art. NUVO: What is your musical background; how did you get into conducting? URBANSKI: There aren’t any musicians in my family, and I started my musical education quite accidentally when I was 12. At the age of 15, I wrote my first composition for orchestra. I asked my colleagues from the music school in Pabianice to perform the piece during a concert I organized. It appeared that there was no conductor or someone to beat a tempo and show where to start. So I accepted the challenge. The piece was ... pretty bad, but I found conducting to be great fun. NUVO: Tell me about how you program a season. For example, would you go beyond

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those concert programs you are scheduled to conduct, and consult with guest conductors as to what they should or would like to program for each of their appearances? Have you thought as yet about the 2012-2013 season? URBANSKI: I program the concerts I conduct but with [ISO artistic vice president] Martin Sher’s help. We always aim for a whole season’s programming which is diverse and interesting. We have already planned the 2012-2013 season. I am sure it will be a very exciting year for the orchestra and me — and hopefully as well for the audiences. NUVO: The ISO currently has a number of vacant or vacating player positions to fill, such as principal cello, principal trumpet, principal oboe and assistant-principal viola. What will be your approach and involvement in filling these positions? URBANSKI: Principal positions in any orchestra are very important issues. I’ll be attending all final auditions for these positions. This May we are starting with the viola and cello positions and will subsequently fill the remaining vacant ones. NUVO: Do you plan on making a home here in Indianapolis, and if so, do you expect you and your wife to be involved to some extent in promoting our orchestra locally? What can you see yourself doing to help raise the attendance level in the ISO classical series and the Symphonic Hits concerts? URBANSKI: Yes, we will establish our residence in Indianapolis next year. The ISO has a fantastic board and staff, and I will support their efforts. We should make sure that people know that art is not for the “chosen ones.” Classical music is accessible to everyone. Music is so heterogeneous, and I am absolutely certain that everyone can find composers and pieces they will like. And they are worth seeking because music can release incredible emotions, making our everyday lives disappear and moving us to different worlds.

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MUSIC ISO SYMPHONIC HITS PROGRAM NO. 8 y Hilbert Circle Theatre; May 12-14. With the back of the stage empty, we saw clustered in its front a phalanx of string players — and quite a large audience to view and hear them. The featured work — but not the best — was Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: four short concertos for violin and string orchestra, each depicting a season of the year. Zach de Pue, our concertmaster, served as both soloist and “leader,” a title reserved for when a conductor is not present. Starting with “Spring,” we heard a total of 34 string players and a harpsichordist following de Pue’s dictates as well as his keenly expressive playing over the rather startling mood changes throughout. While de Pue rendered his part masterfully, with his strings mostly cohesive, the harpsichord was entirely inaudible in all the loud passages. Opening the program was Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, K. 364, one of the supreme compositions by anybody. Lasting a full half hour, K. 364’s three movements are at once symphonic, intensely beautiful, intensely sad, intensely sparkling and intensely difficult to bring off an entirely successful performance. For this one, ISO principal violist Michael Strauss joined de Pue in front, with a pair of horns and oboes added. Though de Pue, who stated he had never played the work before, did a splendid job making tempo nuances here and there, the sublimely yearning C minor slow movement seemed too fast, our players sliding right past some of its most treasured moments. Still, I wanted to leave the hall with K. 364 in my head, not the Vivaldi. For more review details visit www.nuvo.net. — TOM ALDRIDGE

PACIFICA QUARTET w Ensemble Music Series; Indiana History Center; May 11. This time we had a case of “the last was the best,” in string quartet playing. Ensemble Music closed its current five-concert season Wednesday with its first engagement of the Pacifica Quartet, who took up residence as Faculty Quartet on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in 2004. These musicians did a superlative job with the Schumann Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41 No 1, the Schostakovich Quartet No. 8 and, far from least,

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Beethoven’s Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132. Schumann’s first string quartet shows lots of craft in its often contrapuntal construction, but little Schumannesque melody per se. At once we heard not only a near-perfect balance among the players but beautifully matched, equally centered vibratos. Furthermore, the Pacifica players tossed off their ensemble technique as though native to them. This brand of playing continued in the dour, five-connected-movement Shostakovich Quartet (1959). The Eighth marked a touchstone of his work in enduring his life as a Soviet composer on bad terms with its government. We’ve had Beethoven’s Op. 132 performed several times over recent years, but the Pacifica gave it the best live account I’ve heard of it. Our group took the opening movement faster than I usually hear it, but it lost nothing on that account. Is the Pacifica as good as the German based Artemis Quartet, to which I gave top honors in its first appearance here in 2008? Well, just wait till next year on May 2, and Ensemble Music will allow you to judge for yourself. For more review details visit www.nuvo. net. — TOM ALDRIDGE

THEATER/PERFORMANCE LA TRAVIATA e Indianapolis Opera; Clowes Memorial Hall; May 13 and 15. Because the principal singing was so good in this, the fifth production by Indianapolis Opera of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata (1853), I came away from this one with greater enjoyment than I had previously recalled. Returning from her IO debut in 2009 as La Bohème’s Mimì, soprano Maureen O’Flynn sang an altogether excellent Violetta, the courtesan, the “traviata” or “fallen woman.” She dominated in all four acts with an exceptional voice, both beautiful and controlled — one of IO’s best in a title role. O’Flynn especially defined herself in the familiar aria/ duet “Sempre libera,” which closes Act 1. Tenor Scott Piper, who later joins O’Flynn in the latter number, sang Alfredo, Violetta’s lover. His lyric voice proved a close match to his consumptive lover in their numerous duets. His vocal delivery was largely satisfying while not seeming quite as effortless as O’Flynn’s. Baritone Richard Paul Fink, his voice a bit nasal, nonetheless showed the same well-projected, controlled delivery as our principals in the role of Germont, Alfredo’s father. Bass/baritone Thomas Gunther’s Baron Douphol,

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A&E REVIEWS appearing as Violetta’s escort in the Act 2 Scene 2 soirée, made a quite masculine impression as the heroine’s pretended love interest. The remainder of the supporting cast, e.g. Paulette Maria Penzvalto as the socialite and “fellow” courtesan Flora and Mark Gilgallon as Violetta’s attending physician Doctor Grenvil all did creditable jobs, though all somewhat inferior to the principals. Artistic director James Caraher, now in his 30th IO season, competently led “half” the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s concurrently timid scoring. For more review details visit www.nuvo. net. — TOM ALDRIDGE

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MOM-O-RAMA w IndyFringe; May 14. Kevin Kling and Simone Perrin are consummate performers. He tells stories; she sings songs. Together they weave an evening that feeds your soul. Watching them is like eating a deliciously satisfying meal that leaves you well fed and wanting more. Kling expertly builds and subdues energy throughout each story, leading audiences through his autobiographical tales with his whole body. Kling maintains a sense of honesty on stage, with his stories, with Perrin and with the audience. Because of this, we are receptive when he tags each story with, not a moral or lesson, but with message about what it means to be human. As we reflect on his tales, Perrin gently guides the audience from one story to the next with a melodic voice that shoots straight through your bones. My advice: the next time this pair is in town… buy your tickets early. 576-9848; StorytellingArts.org. —KATELYN COYNE

Work by Dorothy Stites Alig is on display Gallery 924. Gallery 924; through May 27. Through Dorothy Stites Alig’s multi-layered process of image creation in Nocturnal Noon, her abstract art allows viewers to escape into imagining what nightlife in Las Vegas, Indianapolis, New Orleans and New York City looks and feels like in the waking hours. Alig photographed these cities at night, digitally produced a reverse negative to simulate daytime, then printed those files onto Japanese Washi papers she had hand-painted. She went a step further and painted on top of the artworks to merge the digital elements with the artist’s hand. Layering processes have been a constant in Alig’s art, but Nocturnal Noon has a new, expanded, contemporary energy. The exhibition’s title work

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is an engrossing, horizontal scroll of Vegas imagery – colorful dots and bands of blurred neon lights and strips of changing patterns intermixed with iconic architecture – all with a zippy, hazy feel as if we were road tripping with Hunter S. Thompson. Other pieces are mounted to panels or framed, all made with Alig’s flawless attention to details and most with bright colors of bleeding inks against washy backdrops. Could Alig be giving a nod to Impressionism with her numerous titles that list shot locations and times, such as the otherworldly “The Circle 9:44 p.m.” that depicts Indy’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument? She certainly depicts changes in light, so much so that she turned captured moments inside out to reward viewers with brightened visions of familiar places. 924 N. Pennsylvania, 631-3301, www. artscouncilofindianapolis.org/gallery924 —SUSAN

with “Zygote” which Arnholter describes as the only self-portrait he’s ever done. In this particular work, you see a circular swirl of thinly-applied paint on a wood surface. It’s a sort of cloudy bluish crater surrounded by much thicker accumulations of mottled oranges and reds mixed together with no discernable deliberation. But the zygote swirl at the center — the fertilized egg in this chaotic stew — gives a necessary focus to the overall composition. In another abstract composition entitled “Burnin’ Love’ his process is somewhat more brutal. That is, he actually burnt a hole in this particular contemporary fresco to reveal, without words, an eternal truth about love. 1125 Brookside Avenue C7, www.wlsandg.com — DAN GROSSMAN

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PERSPECTIVES: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST FRESCOS BY DOUG ARNHOLTER r Wug Laku ’s Studio & Garage; through May 28. Doug Arnholter describes his paintings as contemporary frescos. He uses homemade paints composed of mostly organic materials along with “cheap acrylic” (his words) to build up his abstract compositions on wood, layer by layer, letting each layer dry before adding the next one. And when he finally accrues enough of these layers, he might, by a combination of “intentional carving and natural breakage,” dig down to the texture of the wood that he’s painting. Such is the case

Work by Doug Arnolter is on display at Wug Laku’s Studio & Garage.

MOVIES Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides BY E D JO H N S O N - O TT EJO H N S O N O T T @N U V O . N E T

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t only a few minutes over two hours, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the shortest movie of the based-on-an-amusement-park-ride Disney franchise, and the screenplay is simpler than the convoluted last installment. Shorter, simpler, sounds like an improvement, but damn if the film isn’t draggy. As I sat and sat through the action adventure, I found my attention drifting to Hans Zimmer’s score. The music never stops, or even eases up, it just keeps underlining and accenting and thundering all over the place. I couldn’t decide whether the relentless orchestration was more annoying or amusing — it certainly was interesting. The flick consists of a string of set pieces mixing action and vaudevillian style comedy

— pretty much the kind of feature you’d see on video screens while waiting in line to go on the Pirates of the Caribbean amusement park ride. Nothing wrong with that, but after three films in the series, I was hoping for juicier set pieces with better jokes. The print I saw was in 3D — if you’re determined to see the movie, I suggest you seek out a theater showing it in 2D. Don’t pay extra for 3D effects that mostly range from being underwhelming to unnoticeable. Stars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are missing from On Stranger Tides, along with a number of enjoyable supporting players. This time around, it’s Depp, Depp and more Depp, with Johnny Depp continuing to mix the swagger and cool of Keith Richards with the ridiculous self-confidence of Pepe Le Pew for his characterization of Capt. Jack Sparrow. The first 40 minutes or so are devoted to getting the players into their places, which entails — as usual — daring, silly and poorly-staged fights and chases by director Rob Marshall. The cast splits into teams, with everybody following the trail of Ponce de Leon to locate the legendary Fountain of Youth. Sparrow, now a captain without a boat, spends some time with Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who is aligned with a British ship. He spends far more time on a different ship with the fiery Angelica (Penelope Cruz, who is so much better when speaking in her native language), who turns out to be the daughter of the infamous Blackbeard (Ian McShane, who isn’t

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scary). The Spanish have a boat, too. They stay out of sight most of the time, waiting until late in the game to show up and spoil things for the whole class. What else do you need to know? There are mermaids. And there’s the real Keith Richards, playing Jack’s pappy. Richards is working the talk show circuit in support of the production, showing a clip from the movie featuring him. You should know that Richards’ entire appearance in the film is only a few seconds longer than the clip.

I just thought of one more thing to tell you. After the film concludes, the credits roll for what seems to be forever and then there is one more brief scene. It shows Penelope Cruz on a tiny island. She wades into the ocean and finds a doll with the likeness of Capt. Sparrow. She smiles. End of post-credits scene. There you go. Now you won’t have to hang around for the bonus scene. Better yet, skip seeing this in a theater altogether, secure in the knowledge that it will be frequently aired on basic cable until the end of time.

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The following are reviews of films currently playing in Indianapolis area theaters. Reviews are written by Ed Johnson-Ott (EJO) unless otherwise noted. THE BEAVER (PG-13)

Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with Mel Gibson in this drama about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black (Gibson) was once a successful executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter how hard he tries, Walter can’t seem to get himself back on track ... and then he finds a beaver hand puppet and decides to do his talking through it. 91 minutes. At Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.

FREEDOM RIDERS (NR)

This week, PBS will tell the story of Joan Mulholland and Diane Nash, who in 1961 helped trigger change in America. They were among the people who traveled through the South on buses in order to directly violate the Jim Crow laws and made racial integration in any public place illegal. They were met with death threats, beatings, fire bombings and imprisonment, yet responded with a message of equality and love. Premieres Thursday, May 19 at the Christian Theological Seminary (1000 W. 42nd St.) at 7 p.m. Admission is free to the public. Call 327-7144 to register for ensured seating.

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Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig co-wrote and stars in this R-rated comedy from producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and director Paul Feig (creator of Freaks and Geeks). In the film, Wiig dukes it out with another woman, hoping to replace her as her best friend’s Maid of Honor. Bridesmaids is as solid as any other comedy from Team Apatow. True to form, the movie is crass, funny, sweet and, at two hours and five minutes, considerably longer than it needs to be. Also starring The Office’s Ellie Kemper, SNL’s Maya Rudolph and Reno 911’s Wendi McLendon-Covey.

WINTER IN WARTIME (R) e

Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) is a World War II adventure story set in a Nazioccupied Netherlands village and presented from the point-of-view of Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier), a 13-year-old local boy. Michiel’s days take a sudden dramatic turn when he witnesses an airplane crash in the forest and eventually ends up tending to Jack (Jamie Campbell Bower), the wounded British pilot of the plane. The kid’s big adventure gets progressively more complicated and it starts looking less like an atmospheric period piece and more like a thriller, from the plot points to the camera work. The film combines a ring of truth in its portrayal of people and places with a storyline incorporating close calls, a shocking surprise and a climax full of derring-do. The acting is good, and the film is visually impressive. Winter in Wartime moves into pulpy territory — pretty nervy for the genre — but it held me all the way. Ends Thursday, May 19 at Landmark’s Keystone Art Cinema.

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La Dolce Downtown Tavern On the Plaza is new outdoor option B Y D A V I D H O PPE DHO P P E @N U V O .N E T We were downtown at half past 6 p.m., the temperature still hovering near 90 degrees. But, we thought, this is May — way too early in the season to be taking cover in conditioned air, especially on an otherwise lustrous evening. So we headed to Tavern On the Plaza for a bite. Tavern On the Plaza is the JW Marriott’s latest flourish, a spacious outdoor café located on the hotel’s northwest corner, across from the Eiteljorg and Indiana State museums, and immediately adjacent to local designer Jeff Laramore’s scarlet swoosh, also known as “The Cardinal,” one of the more successful pieces of public sculpture to

be installed downtown. The considerable talent behind Osteria Pronto, the terrific Italian restaurant located on the JW’s first floor, is responsible for TOP, but that’s not to say that Osteria’s menu has merely been transported into the open. While some signature items (the formidable meatball dish, Spaghetti Vecchio Mondo, for example) are on offer, TOP’s menu includes a selection of other dishes, like burgers and baby back ribs, that are prepared on a grill installed at the edge of the dining area. There’s also a well fortified bar for cocktails, beer and wine. We started with a couple of salads, the Top ($7) and a Classic Caesar ($8). These were served in generously proportioned bowls. The Top consisted of mixed lettuces with toasty garlic croutons and robust shavings of Parmesan cheese, topped with a bright balsamic dressing. The Caesar found the right balance between tartness and cream that managed to be refreshing, despite the ambient evening warmth. My companion followed her salad with a half order of the Penne Primavera ($10), a creamy green pasta dish, including fresh peas, tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini,

CULINARY PICKS THE BROAD RIPPLE ART FAIR— SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, MAY 21, 22

The Broad Ripple Art Fair returns yet again this year on Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22. I bet you’re thinking, “An art fair? Why is this being featured in the food section of NUVO? Have they lost their minds?” We may have lost our minds a long time ago, but we wanted to tell you all about the food at the Art Fair. The local restaurant booths are a popular part of the art fair, fueling your energy to continue enjoying the art and

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CONTINUING CRAFT BEER WEEK MAY 18 Beer Sellar, 6466 E. 82nd St., 8 p.m., Bloomington Brewing Company tapping of Floyd Rosenbaum’s Ruby Bloom Double Hopped Pale, Btown Brown Ale and a firkin of Dry Hopped Double Hopped Pale; 849-2739 Flatwater, 832 E. Westfield Blvd., 6 p.m., a full spectrum of Sun King on tap; 257-5466 MAY 19 Sun King Brewing Company, 135 N. College Ave. 4:30-6 p.m. Brewers Roundtable2. Join the conversation about the role of homebrewers in Indiana’s burgeoning craft beer industry. Free. Followed by Sun King Fistful of Hops Tapping 6-9 p.m., live music, food and pints, free to adults of legal drinking age; 602-3702 Tomlinson Tap Room, Third Thursday Brewery Feature. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25. MAY 20 Harvest Café Coffee Roasters, LLC . Open House, noon-4:00 p.m., 5130 East 65th Street, 46220,

mixed with what amounted to a Gorgonzola cheese pesto. The flavors of the fresh vegetables were actually amplified by the rich cheese, which kept its place in the mix and refrained from overpowering the other ingredients. I ordered a half slab of the Baby Back Ribs ($11). This abundant serving of six heavy-duty bones came with sides of jalapeño slaw and baked beans. The choice of a serving of fruit or chips, standard with all grilled dishes, was almost too much. The ribs were slathered in a rich, if not particularly original, sauce. They were awesomely meaty but on the springy side for me — this meat didn’t slide from the bone. Those sides, on the other hand, were superb. The slaw was downright refreshing, the peppers giving it a remarkable dash of pep. And the beans, infiltrated with finely shredded pork, were a marvelous complement. All in all, this was a prodigious meal for the price. We finished by sharing an order of Ice Cream ($7), which turned out to be a gelato parfait, consisting of strawberry, mocha-like chocolate and vanilla scoops, with ripe strawberriesandn blueber-

music. The Jazz Kitchen, along with Ripple Bagel & Deli, Hubbard & Cravens and Shalimar, are among the returning favorites this year — as is Blue Moon Brewing with free samples of seasonal brews. We are especially looking forward to art fair newcomers, BRICS (Broad Ripple Ice Cream Station), whose store is right on the Monon Trail featuring almost 40 flavors of ice cream in pretty much whatever way you want them to dish it up. Maybe a double scoop of chocolate peanut butter in a chocolate dipped waffle cone? Sounds delish. The Broad Ripple Art Fair is at the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Center (67th Street and College Avenue) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. next door to Bier Brewery and Great Fermentations, Purchase of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee benefits The City of Refuge, a ministry to the homeless children of Jamaica. Free, RSVP: ddarga@harvestcafecoffee.com; 317-585-9162. MAY 21 Upland in Bloomington, UpCup Competition and AHA Rally. Micro Beer Festival, Cap n’ Cork, Lima Rd. Ft. Wayne, 2-4 p.m. Beginning Brewing Class, Great Fermentations, 9 a.m. MAY 24 Kegging Seminar, Great Fermentations, 6 p.m. North Coast Brewing Dinner, Monon Food Co., 6 p.m. $25; 722-0176

CORRECTION Flat 12 will not host weekly tastings on site. Brewer Skip DuVall informs, “We are planning on the Bloomington brew fest along with the Brew Ha Ha and the summer fest so I need to start building an inventory.” If you have an item for Beer Buzz, send an email at least two weeks in advance to beerbuzz@nuvo.net

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The many sides of Monika Herzig Pianist, pedagogue, composer — and, now, author

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onika Herzig is a lot of things. A jazz pianist, whose second album for Owl Studios, a DVD and CD combo called Come with Me, was released this April. A pedagogue, teaching music industry courses for undergrads at IU-Bloomington and a jazz history class for continuing studies students at IUPUI. A church organist, employed by Ellettsville First United Methodist for 16 years. A community organizer, who has founded support and outreach groups for Bloomington jazz musicians (Jazz from Bloomington) and women in music (ISIS). A composer, whose analytical work often involves unusual chord changes and harmonic twists, perhaps because of her background (classically-trained outside of the American jazz tradition) or simply the way her brain is wired (a math major on the undergraduate level, she identifies herself as more analytical than big-picture oriented). But wait, there’s more: A theorist, who thinks the structure of a jazz combo offers insights on how to organize any small group of creative thinkers, in business as well as the arts. A soon-to-be published author, whose collection of essays on David Baker will become the first book on the jazz pedagogue and musician. And, on a non-professional level: A mother, whose two children, ages 9 and 11, have managed to find their way to an album cover or two. And a GermanAmerican, who became an American citizen three years ago, 23 years after she and her husband, the jazz guitarist Peter Keinle, bought a one-way ticket from Germany to Northern Alabama. And it goes on and on. Herzig has one of those CVs that make you wonder just what you’ve been doing all these years, and how people like her can resist the lure of, say, home entertainment systems and beer. But she’s not a singer, and you’re just going to have to deal with it. “Every time I set up somewhere, I can bet on it that someone will come up and say, ‘Are you going to sing tonight?’ Herzig explains on a Saturday night at Rick’s Café Boatyard, the Westside restaurant where she’s played with her trio every Saturday night for a decade. “I don’t sing, and I think because of that I’ve grown more averse to it.” To be clear, Herzig isn’t against vocals. She just doesn’t need them for much of her work.

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Here’s how she puts it in the liner notes to Come With Me, explaining the inspiration behind the song “The Pianists Say,” which she says was crafted as an answer to all those who ask her to sing: “While I do enjoy vocals and the power of words very much, I do believe that instrumental music can communicate deeply, far beyond words, touching the depths of our emotions.”

Maybe that question — aren’t you going to sing for us tonight, Monika? — can annoy in another way: It assumes that any female in front of a band ought to be a singer. That’s a stereotype that Herzig hopes to turn on its head through her work with ISIS of Indiana, the support organization for female musicians she co-founded with vocalist Heather Ramsey. ISIS, whose June 2 Divas of Jazz concert at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club will exclusively showcase female musicians, was hatched during the December 2009 release show for Peace on Earth, Herzig’s first album for Owl Studios. Ramsey approached Herzig that night. “We got to talking, and I realized, here’s another entrepreneurial spirit,” Herzig explains. “She’ll come up with all these big ideas, and I go, ‘Heather, I think that’s possible, but that might be a little too far-reaching.’ So we have a good balance.” And the biggest goal of the organization is to reach a balance, to address a gender bias that Herzig thinks can be attributed to a lack of prominent female role models in the jazz. She points to studies that show that, while nearly equal numbers of males and females are involved in high school music programs, college jazz studies programs see a dramatic drop-off in female involvement. “There’s something that happens when the question comes up, ‘Should I do this as a profession?’” Herzig says. Most girls answer “no,” but Herzig is hoping they’ll reconsider. This summer, ISIS, in collaboration with the Civic Theatre, will host a summer camp for girls called Girls Create Music, a sort of analogue to Girls Rock! Indy that will have components addressing songwriting, self-image and basic instrument instruction, and will close with a performance by the campers. Not that Herzig is only in this to convert girls: She reaches out to groups of all ages and, er, sexes, from adults looking to catch up on the history of Indiana jazz to impressionable grade schoolers. In 2005, Herzig founded the organization Jazz in the Schools to teach about jazz in Central Indiana schools. Her programs focus on key Indiana jazz musicians: songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, guitarist Wes Montgomery, her colleague David Baker — and a few female instrumentalists who might well serve as historical role models for girls playing jazz: ragtime pianist May Aufderheide, who may not have the name recognition of a Scott Joplin, but whose songs are still among the genre’s most

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Herzig sits before her longtime companion.

widely played; and the Hampton Sisters, all of whom were instrumentalists and singers. And for the past seven years, Herzig has taught a jazz studies course, “An Introduction to Jazz History and the Indianapolis Jazz Scene,” through the IUPUI continuing studies department. Borne out of a somewhat self-interested pitch by Chatterbox owner David Andrichik, who suggested to Herzig that a class whose sessions ended with performances at his club would be a great idea, Herzig’s course nicely combines classroom and experiential learning, beginning with a lecture at IUPUI’s Senior Center and, indeed, closing with a performance featuring a local jazz musician at the Chatterbox. Herzig met one of her collaborators, the former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf, while he was enrolled in her IUPUI course. The two went on to perform in a spoken word setting, eventually releasing a record, Imagine: Indiana in Music and Words. A poem Krapf wrote about the class — and, in particular, about Herzig’s impact on her students — touches on another broad theme in her life: that of the outsider attending to an indigenous culture more respectfully and enthusiastically than many who grew up UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., Monika Herzig Trio at Rick’s Café Boatyard (4050 Dandy Trail), no cover May 24, 8 p.m., Herzig and Cathy Morris at the Chatterbox (435 Massachusetts Ave.), as part of Herzig’s IUPUI jazz education course, no cover May 28, 2 p.m., Herzig and Heather Ramsey

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in it. Here are the salient lines from Krapf’s “What Have You Gone and Done?”: “You came to Indiana / from Swabia via Alabama / and brought us home to an Indiana Avenue / no longer visible to the eye” (from Bloodroot, copyright IU Press). Case in point: When Herzig learned that, despite reports to the contrary, no one was working on a biography or study of the life and work of David Baker, she decided to take on the project herself. Not that she had ever written a book before, or that she had funding at the ready. She put together a proposal for IU Press, which was interested but didn’t have the resources for a significant advance. An NEA grant eventually came through, and David Baker: A Legacy in Music is due this November. The book is a collection of essays addressing different aspects of Baker’s work and life, including his classical and jazz compositions, pedagogical methods, work with the Smithsonian and NEA and early career as a musician. Herzig wrote some of the essays, and is credited as the primary author, but she wanted to involve other authors from the beginning, including IU professor and Owl Studios labelmate Brent Wallarab.

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Jennifer Mujezinovic’s portrait of Herzig, as featured on the cover of Come with Me .

that would have taken her out of the state, including an organist gig at a large Catholic church on Long Island. But Bloomington felt like home. In fact, it looked like home Jazz wasn’t unknown in Herzig’s homefrom the beginning. She remembers drivtown of Horb, Germany, a small burg high ing from Alabama to Indiana in 1991 and in the Swabian Alps that was once known noticing the similarities between the hilly for its textile factories. But it wasn’t exactly landscape of south central Indiana and that popular either. There was one group in the of her birthplace. She grew up near a ski area, Beeblebrox, headed up by Peter Keinle. slope — and, at one time, Ski World wasn’t And, as Herzig puts it, “they tried to play this too far from her Bloomington home. hardcore fusion and nobody got it.” “I really liked it,” she says of her first Still, she was determined to play with impressions of the city. “The whole culture someone, and she had a pretty good keyboard in Bloomington is so much different from — one of the first Yamaha DX-7s. Classicallyeverywhere else because you have people trained but not as well-versed in jazz, she from all over the world…It’s a mini-oasis.” approached the group in 1986 while an Herzig and Keinle started a family around undergraduate. Herzig: “The thing is they said, that time: “We’re going to be old grandmas ‘You can practice with us, but when we play, and grandpas,” she jokes. And by 2002, we need someone who can really play.’” Herzig had found a steady job at IU as a Keinle and his cohorts needn’t have lecturer, helping to create music industry warned her. They may classes for a newly-crehave allowed Herzig ated arts administration into practices to get program. Her students access to her key“It’s all about the have gone on to jobs board, but she proved with Bloomington outenergy of creating a her chops and never fits, including indie label missed a concert. The new project that came Secretly Canadian and band name survived promotions company Herzig and Keinle’s out of your mind, and Rock Paper Scissors, move to the States in as well as corporations 1988, with versions molding it and maksuch as Atlantic Records. of BeebleBrox taking ing it a reality.” shape in both Alabama, where Herzig attended No shame in — Monika Herzig grad school, and in her game Bloomington, where they moved in 1991 so When Herzig that Herzig could purapproaches a new sue her doctorate. album project, she has one central quesHerzig studied alongside now-household tion in mind: “How can I do something names in the local jazz community during special and different?” On her first Owl her time at IU, most of whom are now her Studios album, Peace on Earth, she labelmates at Owl Studios: saxophonist Rob answered that question by working up a Dixon, trombonist Rich Dole, trumpeter/edu- selection of Christmas songs, including cator Mark Buselli and his colloborator Brent John & Yoko’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over).” Wallarab. She had significant performance For her latest project, she happened opportunities early in her studies, including upon the idea of coupling an album’s a one-off 1991 trip to Monte Carlo with the worth of music with a DVD. After all, a IU big band sponsored by Johnnie Walker, DVD equals “extra value,” which is imporwhich saw IU students playing alongside jazz tant in a jazz world in which some of the greats such as Freddie Hubbard, Betty Carter most successful artists rarely sell more and Dave Brubeck. “It worked really great,” than ten thousand copies of an album. Herzig says of the experience, “but then IU Owl went for it, despite the extra realized, ‘Oh, we have an alcohol company expense. As Herzig puts it, studio head J. sponsoring.’” Allan Hall “is just there to support, and if She earned her doctorate in music educa- he thinks it’s a good idea, he’ll go for it.” tion (with speciality in jazz studies) in 1997, Or Herzig may just be really convincing: at which time she considered job offers in the documentary about her featured on

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the DVD, Hall calls Herzig “a hustler, in the best sense of the word,” a characterization that Herzig laughs off when I bring it up during our talk at Rick’s Cafe Boatyard. But she is tireless, and one wonders just where she finds her passion. Herzig: “It’s all about the energy of creating a new project that came out of your mind, and molding it and making it a reality...That excitement is where my energy comes from, I think. It’s obviously not the money.” She’s at no loss for ideas for the future, although she’s presently occupied with her work on the David Baker book and with ISIS of Indiana, which will present its signature event, the Femmes Blu festival, September 30 at The Cabaret at the Columbia Club. She has an idea for a solo piano CD that includes multimedia components, including an interactive score and video clips. And she’d like to tour more, despite the difficulty in finding gigs in the absence of an actual jazz circuit. Looking back, Herzig doesn’t think it so unusual that a German-born musician has ended up a steward for the Indiana jazz tradition. She points to her time as

an instrumental arranger and director for the IU Soul Revue, an ensemble affiliated with the university’s African American Arts Institute. “We were presenting the black tradition and nobody said anything,” she says of her place in the ensemble, which she notes also included a Japanese guitarist at the time. “I wrote the arrangements, I did my job, it was in style and it worked.” And she’s invested in the state — and the country, noting that she can get legitmately upset over, for instance, the slashing of funding for public radio, now that she’s become an American citizen. “We’ve been here now 20 years, and getting integrated and teaching a class, you realize what a great tradition this state has,” Herzig says. “I guess I’m an adopted Hoosier, passing the word on… Even musicians who live here sometimes feel like they have to justify something or feel inferior. And when you look back, it was the crossroads: everybody came through, we had all these clubs, all the great bands played here and a lot of great musicians were from here, there’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

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A Muscle Shoals native, Malone plays solid blues-rock with gritty vocals and convincing guitar work. Michelle Malone may have the best voice you’ve never heard.

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8 p.m., $30-$70 (plus fees), all-ages Alto saxophonist David Sanborn, of “Night Music” and multi-Grammy fame, is joined by up-and-coming, Dutch-born saxophonist Candy Dulfer, who did plenty of time in the pop music world with folks like Prince and V an

Candy Dulfer Morrison. She’s the one evidently having super sex with her super sax in the promo photo. And if you think that’s a terrible pun, it’s no worse than the title of one of Dulfer’ s records, Saxuality. Just saying. ROCK SHELBY COUNTY SINNERS, INNOCENT BOYS, DANNY THOMPSON, TH’EMPIRES

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Radio Radio becomes the honky-tonk it was always meant to be, if it weren’t for that fancy bar lifted from Planet Hollywood. The drummer-less American band Shelby County Sinners isn’t actually from Shelby County, though it is fronted by a Shelby — Shelby Kelley, formerly of Creepin’ Charley and the Boneyard Orchestra, occasional contributor to these very pages as an illustrator. Innocent Boys are working in a sort of barrelhouse, country pop territory, with keyboards in the arena of Jerry Lee Lewis. Danny Thompson remains the city’s pre-eminent rockabilly guitarist, and th’Empires play garage rockabilly with a weirdly truncated name.

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Henry Wolfe ing the sinners come the time of the Rapture, which a tiny, over-publicized group of Christians believes will take place May 21. But really , if you happen to show up to the Center for Inquiry’ s “rapture party,” headlined by the satirist Roy Zimmerman, you’re just making it so much easier for Cpt. Vengeance to lay his wrath upon you. Zimmerman isn’t solely concerned with debunking religious BS: he also tackles the T ea Party, birthers, Limbaugh, Beck and Proposition 8 opponents, with a panache that’s earned him an inevitable, favorable comparison to Tom Lehrer (Los Angeles Times), and a nice blurb from Lehrer himself: “I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on reintroducing literacy to comedy songs.” FOLK COSY SHERIDAN WITH TR RITCHIE

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7 p.m., $10 (12 and under free), all-ages The title of Cosy Sheridan’s one-woman stage show — “The Pomegranate Seed: An Exploration of Appetite, Body-Image and Myth in Modern Culture” — happens to sum up some of the major concerns in her songwriting, which couches modern concerns (body piercing, women’s restroom etiquette, Barbie’s impact on body image) in the context of ancient Greek and Roman myth. This year’s final Indy Folk Series show (indyfolkseries.org). ROCK ROBIN TROWER

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8 p.m., $25, all-ages The Procol Harum guitarist, also known for his solo work and collaborations with Brian Ferry, has been a mainstay on the American touring circuit since well before my birth. Here’s Hoppe on his 2009 appearance at the Egyptian Room: “The evening’s best moments came when Trower allowed himself the room to create lush beds of psychedelia. While he can blaze away with the best of them, his particular gift is for vintage atmospherics. His signature tune, ‘Bridge of Sighs,’ with its magisterial languor punctuated with splattering solo passages, epitomized Trower’s approach.” ROCK THE EMBRACEABLES, POP LOLITA, EVERYTHING, NOW! White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $6, 21+

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reunited for a string of what can no longer be called reunion shows (because there have been so many), and plan to record an album in the near future that might end up being their second full-length. And Everything, Now! continues to churn out ‘60s-styled, garage-pop nuggets, with a sixth release on the way and a new 4-song EP now available. ECLECTIC KWANZAA POPPS & IRB SOUND, BLACKBERRY JAM The Ugly Monkey, 373 S. Illinois St. 9 p.m., $5, 21+

Reggae meets funk. Kwanzaa Popps, one of Indy’s first reggae toasters, now back in town after an extended stint on the East coast beginning in the mid ‘90s, leads his IRB Sound. Napier was impressed by a 2010 concert by the Popps and his cohorts: “Their original songs are tough, funky and at times bordered on raw, two-tone ska-like energy. Popps’ velvet smooth vocals af forded an extra spiritual energy that all good reggae singers bring to the plate.” With bass-heavy , aggressive funk by Blackberry Jam.

Sunday ROOTS JASON WILBER, TIM GRIMM AND JAN LUCAS-GRIMM Central Library, 40 E. St Clair St. 2 p.m., free, all-ages

Three Bloomington musicians kick off the Central Library’s Hometown Roots Concert Series, a summer-long free music series that includes jazz, choral and percussion installments. Tim Grimm’s latest, the tribute album Thank You Tom Paxton, makes a convincing case for Paxton as a singer-songwriter of great sensitivity and insight, collecting both the familiar (“Rumblin’ in the Land,” a close cousin to “Blowin’ in the Wind” in approach and content) and more recent, less widely-distributed and played work. His wife, Jan Lucas-Grimm, joins on vocals. Jason Wilber, a sympathetic radio interviewer (insear chofasong.com) and guitarist for John Prine when not pursuing his often witty solo work, happens to play electric on several tracks on Grimm’s new album.

Tuesday FOLK HENRY WOLFE

White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 E. Prospect St. 8 p.m., $7, 21+

Henry Wolfe’s bio spins a familiar enough

SOUNDCHECK story of an ambitious songwriter packing all his possessions into a old station wagon and heading to the west coast, armed only with a couple records, Paul McCartney’ s Ram and Harry Nilsson’s Nilsson Sings Newman , given him by a friend. It also downplays one salient point that compromises that gonnabe-a-star narrative — namely, that Wolfe is one of Meryl Streep’s sons. That tension between apocryphal PR yarn and well-heeled reality is problematic, but the proof is in the music, which is legitimately easy-going, rambling and laid-back in the style of Nilsson, with Wolfe’s pleasantly over-reaching voice reminding one of Newman. Cosy Sheridan

BROAD RIPPLE [MUSIC] FAIR As usual, and as tends to be the case at our more established art fairs (your Penrods, your IMAFs), the Broad Ripple Art Fair can be just as much about music, which is, after all, also art. Three adult stages (and one for the kids) feature an eclectic mix of artists, including rock (Red Light Driver, Borrow Tomorrow), Latin (Stacie Sandoval’s Trio ConPaz), Irish (Emily Ann Thompson), fusion (Splinter Group) and folk (Doug Henthorn, Luke Austin Daughtery). Here’s the full list of bands — check indplsartcenter.org/braf or pick up a program for complete times and info.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today I received this email: “Dear Chosen One: My name is Boopsky, also known as ‘The Impossible.’ I rule a small kingdom that exists in a secret place — an island with abundant riches and rhinoceros playgrounds. To make a long story short, you have won our ‘naked’ lottery. Please come visit us to claim your prizes. We will carve a statue of you out of butter and strawberry jam. Your funny ways of walking and talking will be imitated by all of our citizens. Then you will be caressed as a monarch on a pile of TVs and sung songs to by our reincarnation chorus. Can’t wait to see you be so happy!” I suspect you may soon receive an invitation as puzzling as this one, Aries — an apparent blessing that carries mixed messages or odd undertones. My suggestion is to hold off on accepting it until you find out more about it. Meanwhile, make sure it doesn’t distract you from taking advantage of a less flashy but more practical opportunity.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I don’t know what I’m looking for,” sings Brendan Benson in his bouncy pop song, “What I’m Looking For,” “but I know that I just want to look some more.” I suspect those words could come out of your mouth these days, Virgo. I worry that you’ve become so enamored with the endless quest that you’ve lost sight of what the object of the quest is. You almost seem to prefer the glamour of the restless runaround — as painful as it sometimes is. That probably means you’re at least somewhat out of touch with the evolution of your primal desires. Check back in with the raw, throbbing source, please.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When it’s flood season, the Amazon River rises as much as 60 feet. At that time, the adjoining forests earn their name — várzea, a Portuguese word meaning “flooded forests.” The river’s fish wander far and wide, venturing into the expanded territory to eat fruit from the trees. In the coming weeks, Libra, I imagine you’ll be like those fish: taking advantage of the opportunities provided by a natural windfall. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Provocative new influences are headed your way from a distance. Meanwhile, familiar influences that are close at hand are about to burst forth with fresh offerings. It’s likely that both the faraway and nearby phenomena will arrive on the scene at around the same time and with a similar intensity. Try not to get into a situation where they will compete with or oppose each other. Your best bet will be to put them both into play in ways that allow them to complement each other. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you desperate for more companionship? Have your night dreams been crammed with soulful exchanges? Are you prowling around like a lusty panther, fantasizing about every candidate who’s even remotely appealing? If so, I have some advice from the poet Rumi: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” In other words, Sagittarius: To foster the search for intimate connection, identify the patterns within yourself that are interfering with it. By the way, this is good counsel even if you’re only moderately hungry for closer connection. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you live in the United States, your chocolate almost certainly contains insect parts. The Food and Drug Administration understands that the mechanisms involved in making chocolate usually suck small passers-by into the works, which is why it allows manufacturers to include up to 60 bug fragments per 100 grams of chocolate. A lot of basically positive influences have a similar principle at work: Unpalatable ingredients get mixed in with the tasty stuff, but not in such abundance that they taint the experience. This week, Capricorn, you may be unusually tuned in to the unpalatable side of some good things in your life. Don’t overreact. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I went to a literary event in which young poets read their work. One poet, Shelby Hinte, began her segment by talking about what inspires her. “I like to write about women who are more interesting than me,” she said. I was full of admiration for that perspective. It suggests she’s cultivating the abundant curiosity and humility that I think are essential to the creative process. As you slip deeper into an extra fertile phase of your personal cycle, Aquarius, I urge you to adopt a similar voracity for influences that surprise and fascinate and educate you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. So in other words, if you were able to time-travel back to medieval England with a laptop computer and a solar-powered battery charger, the natives might regard you as a wizard with supernatural powers. I think there will soon be a similar principle at work in your life, Pisces: You will get a vivid glimpse of amazing things you could accomplish in the future. They may seem fantastic and impossible to the person you are right now — tantamount to magic. Be alert for expanded states of awareness that reveal who you could ultimately become.

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