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You’ve seen Dan Grossman’s byline in NUVO’s arts section for years now. During the day he works for Goodwill Industries. He wrote an essay about some of the hidden 2D gems you can find thrifting. Plus: Indianapolis School of Ballet is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a selection of works by Balanchine, and local authors are getting ready for a reading of mythical tales.
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The definition of a “Native American” in Indiana determines eligibility to serve on the Indiana Native American Indian Affairs Commission. The definition began one way when the commission was created then was changed in 2012. Some want it changed and others want it to stay the same. The result is a battle over who fits the definition — and can be represented in the state.
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Big things are happening here in Indy including a local brewery making rank amongst the top breweries in the world; a new Indy-based company is changing the food delivery industry in an awesome way, and at an Indy event enjoy your own version of drunk history.
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t has been stated many times in the last few months that the American electorate is angry. Eight years ago we elected Barack Obama and his platform of “change we can believe in.” Now it seems that large numbers of voters are casting ballots on platforms of “change that is completely unbelievable, if not certifiably crazy.” The standard reason given by political experts for the unpredictable voting pattern this year is simply that voters are angry. There is certainly plenty of documentation of the anger, but virtually no data on the specific reasons for it. So, what is making us mad? I did a Google search of “why Americans are angry,” and came up with plenty of opinions but no actual data. As is often the case in my research department, many theories I assumed were the source were ultimately shown not to be. First, the theory that “it’s the economy, stupid” turns out not to be it. Yes, Americans are earning almost exactly what we earned twenty years ago. But those numbers are adjusted for inflation, which means the middle class actually is standing strong. Polling data, the rise
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in the work force and the strength of a national unemployment rate that dipped below 5 percent this year, all combine to indicate that the workforce is not angry at all. In fact, poll after poll confirms this. Second, I assumed that the appearance of unsecured borders, outdated immigration policies, and a new and ominous terrorist organization had America completely spooked. Nope, that’s not really it either. The data here fluctuates faster from year to year, and while there are differences among us on how to address these things, there is not uniform pessimism regarding solutions for progress. The “differences among us” is the key phrase there.
There is certainly plenty of documentation of the anger, but virtually no data on the specific reasons for it. After reading a dozen or so media reports from my Google search and my customary deep dive into the Pew Research Center library of topics, I am convinced that the anger being expressed by the electorate this year is a result of a phenomenon called “sorting.”
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Alan Abramowitz and Kyle Saunders of Emory University first identified sorting in an article in 1998. Much of the gridlock and partisanship that characterizes our politics and government appear to exist as a result of what is more often referred to as voter polarization. In politics, polarization and sorting seem like the same thing even though political scientists know the specific differences. To average Americans, sorting is a term that translates more broadly because it is not just politically based. For example, there is no evidence that religious liberty is actually under threat here. Many conservatives, however, believe that it is. And culturally these people are drawn to each other in a sorted group, bonded by their shared view that something precious to them is in danger. Likewise, many liberals believe that civil rights protections are either inadequate or under siege. That shared perspective has bonded this separate group through similar fears. Through their bond, this sort also has a clear picture of the oppos-
ing group at whom to direct its anger. And our politicians are campaigning to the sorts within their parties, exacerbating the trend. For example, on the larger political stages, the pro-choice Republican is extinct, as is the NRA Democrat cheerleader. The divides are also becoming more and more distinct among racial and religious lines. Our culture is becoming more diverse in both of these categories each year, and though our civil rights policies continue to expand, sorting continues to create divides here. Party affiliation numbers are unchanged. But today’s devotion to either party has made those devotees less tolerable to members of the other. And all of this is occurring during good times. There does not seem to be a governmental or political answer to this problem, and neither is the real reason for it. We may very well need to rely on culture and commerce to adapt and realign us. Nearly 53 years ago, JFK gave his famous commencement at the American University when he said: “For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.” The “we” he referred to included the source of our fear and anger then, the Soviets. Today, the source of our anger is each other, a more worthy opponent. And we will need to conquer our anger without defeating its source. n
WHAT HAPPENED? Environmental groups gearing up for clean power plan challenge A few weeks from now, environmental groups will be going up against the coal industry in the U.S. District Court in Washington over President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which placed the first ever limits on heat trapping carbon dioxide pollution from power plants. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily halted the plan because its legal merits are being challenged. Kerwin Olson, executive director of the Citizens Action Coalition, considers the fight a big waste of time and says the coal industry needs to adapt and change its business model. “Coal is on its way out,” he states. “Natural gas, wind, solar and efficiency are all cheaper, cleaner, and if you look at all the new resources built in our country over the last 12 months, it’s all natural gas, wind and solar. So coal’s time is finished and it’s time to move on.” Peabody Energy, America’s largest coal company, denies the scientific consensus on climate change and has said it joined with others in the coal industry and attorneys general from coalproducing states to protect what it calls affordable energy for American families. The case will be heard in the federal court in Washington on June 2, and will likely go back to the Supreme Court regardless of the lower court’s ruling. — INDIANA NEWS SERVICE Pence, Ritz differ on federal bathroom guidelines for transgender students Gov. Mike Pence Friday said the federal government has “no business” mandating all public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms based on their gender identity. “I have long believed that education is a state and local function,” Pence said in a statement. “Policies regarding the security and privacy of students in our schools should be in the hands of Hoosier parents and local schools, not bureaucrats in Washington, DC.” The letter, issued by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, does not carry the force of law, but does indicate that schools could lose federal funding if they do not comply. Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz rallied behind the guidelines created by the Obama administration. “In Indiana, we have already seen schools take steps to ensure that their students and staff feel safe regardless of race, religion, sex or gender identity,” Ritz said in a statement. “I will support their efforts, and will continue to ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn in a safe and welcoming environment.” The guidelines come as the Obama administration and North Carolina battle in court over the state’s new law requiring people to use the bathroom based on their gender at birth. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE
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ndiana Sen. Randy Head (R-Logansport) introduced Senate Bill 13 in this last legislative session, hoping to reintroduce language similar to that used in the original statute when the Indiana Native American Indian Affairs Commission was founded as a result of an executive order in 2003 by the late Democratic Gov. Frank O’Bannon. The bill was an attempt to amend the language in the Indiana Code regarding eligibility of the Commissioners, defining members of historical tribes in Indiana as Native American Indians for the purposes of the Commission. “The idea was to return to the original language,” explains Kerry Steiner, the Commission’s executive director. The original language allowed historical tribes of Indiana that maintain current rolls to sit on the Commission, but the wording was changed in 2012, limiting eligibility to federally recognized tribe members. By restoring the original statutory language, SB 13 would have reinstated eligibility to historical Indiana tribes.
Defining terms The definition of a Native American Indian was established at the federal level to include native Hawaiians and Alaskan natives, as well as members of an enrolled or federally recognized tribe. Indiana Code deviated from the federal language in order to include the Miami Nation of Indians, who are not currently federally recognized … although they once were. There are upwards of 6,000 Miamis living in Indiana today. The Indiana Miami, or eastern Miami, received federal recognition in an 1854 treaty. Forty-some years later, recognition was terminated. They have been fighting to regain it ever since. Ironically, in 1993, a federal judge ruled that the government didn’t have the authority to terminate their status in 1897, but that it was too late to appeal. Accordingly, the Supreme Court declined to review a subsequent appeal in 2002. The Indiana Legislature lent support in 1980 by voting in support of federal
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Six tribes are represented on the Indiana Native American Indian Affairs Commission. However two tribes — the Wea Indiana Tribe and the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana — are not federally recognized.
recognition, but the U.S. Congress refused to grant it to the Indiana Miami as a tribal group distinct from the western Miami, or Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. The two tribes were once one, but during removal in 1846, those who remained behind in Indiana became known as the Miami Nation of Indians of the State of Indiana, while those who left became the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
“The idea was to return to the original language.” — KERRY STEINER
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The Indiana Miami filed a petition with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1984, but were told they didn’t meet two of the seven criteria needed to achieve federal recognition: specifically, they lacked sufficient evidence of governance and evidence of a distinctive community. The BIA disregarded documentation the tribe provided and denied recognition in 1990.
The following year, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) introduced a resolution for federal recognition, but he later withdrew his support after constituents raised concerns over gambling rights. Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, Native Americans are allowed to establish casinos on their lands if their states allow Class III gambling. If the Indiana Miami gained federal recognition, they could legally establish casino gambling in Indiana, although the Indiana legislature rejected it. Gambling opposition was also responsible for the failure of a 2011 bill by the Indiana Legislature to grant state recognition, with the sole authority to determine its tribal membership.
The issue of recognition vs. representation The Commission’s purpose is to help the Native community by advising government officials about employment, education, health, housing and civil rights issues faced by Native Americans in Indiana, and to identify and provide opportunities. Under the current statute, the governor is responsible for making eight
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of the appointments to the 15-member (plus two non-voting members) board. Voting members are supposed to include six Native American Indians from different geographic regions and two Native American Indians with knowledge of Native American traditions and spiritual issues.
“The language was too loose. Any group that calls themselves Native American can qualify.” — SEN. RANDY HEAD
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Every governor since the creation of the commission has seated members of the Miami of Indiana and the Wea Indian Tribe; these tribes have always been represented on the Commission. The idea is to recognize all indigenous peoples who live here and unite the Native community through inclusion. Despite the unifying intent, as Head acknowledges, “The division has resurfaced.” Members of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, the only federally recognized Miami Indians in the U.S., showed up at the first meeting of the new Commission in protest. “The Miami of Oklahoma have shown up at every meeting to protest,” Head confirms. They’ve also made a lot of phone calls to voice their opposition to the appointment of commissioners who are not federally recognized. Under the current iteration of the Code, Commissioners Erin Oliver of the Indiana Miami and John Boyd of the Wea Tribe are technically ineligible to serve. However, Steiner and Head agree that the issue of eligibility has not impeded the Commission’s work. One way to address the issue is through attrition. According to the minutes of a 2015 public meeting, then-Chairman John Warren said that as commissioners’ terms expire or they resign, only members of federally recognized tribes will be appointed in their place. Meanwhile, objection to the nonfederally recognized commissioners continues. While the protests are seen by some as a time-consuming diversion, Steiner sees this as an opportunity for education. The solution, she believes, is to return to the statute’s original language.
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Whatever wording might be included in a revised bill — because the state legislature is out of session until next January — it won’t be heard this year. “We’ll try again next year,” Steiner says, at which time she expects to see conversations about what the proposed language might include. She hopes lawmakers will include those who oppose the bill in order to give them a voice. Head, a non-voting member of the Commission, isn’t so sure. “I don’t know if we’ll reintroduce it again.” While relying on attrition to address the issue of non-federally recognized commissioners will eventually result in cessation of the protests, only a change in the statute’s wording — or the achievement of federal recognition — will ensure representation of all of Indiana’s Native peoples. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.18.16 - 05.25.16 // NEWS 7
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background air then enters an urban area, it’s primed to start the processes that produce pollutants.” Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are two of the main pollutants linked to global climate change. Wofsy, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, studies the atmosphere in an effort to understand the factors that affect its chemical composition and to help design programs to reduce undesirable changes.
Council ranked Indiana fourth in the country for having the worst toxic air pollution created by power plants. The Environmental Integrity Project ranked Indiana third in the country for the highest averages of the top eight hazardous air pollutants. Indianapolis is the state’s largest urban city and local government has taken a variety of steps to improve the city’s air quality with entities like the Central Indiana Clean Air Partnership through the city’s Office
“So, we’re looking for the sources of methane that come from the nation as a system and make it into the atmosphere of Indianapolis.” — DR. STEVEN WOFSY
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According to Mielke, researchers from Purdue and Penn State universities have been conducting studies of greenhouse gases in central Indiana for several years. The result of that research has created a bank of data that has caught the attention of researchers from around the world. “Indianapolis has become kind of a model city to see how much greenhouse gas is produced on a citywide basis,” Mielke says. Indiana is known for having some of the worst air pollution in the country. The National Resources Defense
of Sustainability and initiatives like knozone action days. “The idea is that we hopefully will be able to identify which regions of the city are actually contributing most to the total methane flux coming from this area,” says Dr. Jonathon Franklin, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow. The research team is spending two and half weeks in the city. The UIndy students assisting on the project are earning a salary through the university thanks to a grant from the Environmental Defense Fund. n
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A food desert occurs when affordable nutritious food cannot be easily obtained, especially by those without a car. In 2014, Walk Score — an online blog exploring various walkability issues around the country — ranked Indianapolis as the worst food desert in the United States. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed a searchable map that shows food desert locations all around the country. The interactive map shows large portions of Marion County and parts of Bloomington as severe food deserts with little access to healthy and affordable food. In terms of income, Indianapolis ranks ninth on the CBS Money Watch list of 11 poorest cities in the United States, with 29.1 percent of the city’s population earning less than $25,000 a year. In 2015, Better Policies for a Healthier America released its report on the state of the obesity epidemic; Indiana was ranked seventh most obese in the country. Indy natives have not taken this lying down. Everyone from shop owners to elected officials, from volunteers to preachers have started doing their part to try and alleviate the damage done by living in a food desert.
“THE GREEN OPTIONS WERE BROWN” When André Carson (D-Ind.) spoke to a group of students at the University of Indianapolis in March, he told them that he did cartwheels up and down College Avenue when the Double Eight supermarket was shut down. “I felt for the community, because they didn’t have many options,” Carson said. “However, if you ever went inside of that particular Eight, the place was very filthy – filthy establishment. The customer service was terrible. There weren’t any food options other than food that was near spoiled, or that was expired or was to be expired the next day.” After just a handful of visits to the market, Carson decided to take his business elsewhere. “My heart went out to those people who did not have transportation. They had fewer options, and had to accept what was presented,” he said. Those options included the Double Eight, with spoiling food, or a gas station
U.S. Rep. André Carson was unimpressed with the Double 8 Foods store on College Avenue. The store eventually closed in July 2015 without notice to employees or customers. across the street. Carson said that the gas station, which had a Chester’s Chicken chain inside, at least had cleaner facilities and better customer service. In July 2015, all five Double Eight markets throughout the city shut their doors, never to reopen. According to RTV 6’s coverage, the closure happened without notice to its customers or its employees. The company shut down after 58 years in business, citing declining revenue. For nearly sixty years, the
erable amounts of crime, so the excuse has been there.” According to data collected by SpotCrime.com, the surrounding areas where all five Double Eight markets once stood now see very high levels of crime. Carson sees a three-point solution. First would be to improve Indianapolis’ transportation. “I think for the most part it really has to do with the need to improve transportation at the crux of it. So it speaks to
“There are a number of valuable programs that look at addressing food access in struggling communities – I think we should be looking for ways to fund these programs.” — U.S. REP. ANDRÉ CARSON, (D-INDIANA)
Double Eight markets stayed behind and weathered the storm while other markets left. According to Carson, the issues that drove Double Eight out of business are similar to the issues that chase other markets out of neighborhoods. “You’ve had in the past a reasonable presence of grocery stores,” he said. “These stores have left due to different positions that the organizations have taken, and as a result we have what we have now in these food deserts. Now, many of these grocery stores were located in areas where there were consid-
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what we need to do as a world class city, in terms of revamping our infrastructure – be it light rail, be it bus rapid transit and other things,” he said. “… So many of these people in most of these cities like Indianapolis, and even rural communities, they don’t have access through a car or public transportation. Second would be to require the community to serve as watchdogs against what he says are unscrupulous practices. “I think that as consumers — as community stakeholders — we’re going to have to start applying greater levels of scrutiny on these establishments so
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they don’t think it’s okay to come into food deserts and present options that are simply unacceptable in any other community,” he said. As an example, markets in food deserts should no longer be given a pass to sell “green options that were brown,” as the Double Eight he used to shop at did. Finally, Carson wants to see Congress pass, and the president sign, the Food Deserts Act. Carson says his bill would help eliminate food deserts by providing a revolving door fund for NGOs, non-profits or private entities to open a market in a food desert. If the bill is passed, the Department of Agriculture will provide grants to each state. The states will then distribute loans to for-profit or non-profit entities to open a grocery store in an underserved area. Loans will also be granted to existing supermarkets in underserved areas to bring their selection up to par. According to notes on the bill provided by Carson’s team in early March: “priority will be given to applications that include a plan to hire workers from the underserved community, provide information about a healthy diet, do not sell alcohol or tobacco products, [and] source food from local farms and gardens.” Each state government will be required to issue the loans at or below market interest rates for terms no longer than 30 years. Payments of principal and interest will return to the fund to be redistributed as new loans. The act calls for an initial investment of $150 million to be divided among the fifty states. The states with higher percentages
of underserved communities will receive more funding. States will be required to provide a 20 percent match of whatever federal grant they receive. Carson says the benefit of the revolving door system would keep the program free from politicking. He says because of politics, sometimes funding for current programs becomes unstable. “There are a number of valuable programs that look at addressing food access in struggling communities – I think we should be looking for ways to fund these programs. Now the tougher part is that the funding for these programs is very unstable,” he said. “It depends on which party is in power.” Unfortunately, those politics seem to be getting in the way of the bill’s success. “The prospects for passage this year are pretty slim,” Carson said. “Only because Democratic led bills have rarely been considered. However, we’ve had considerable productive discussions with the House Agriculture Committee. To have that kind of dialogue on both sides of the aisle in the House and Committee is a huge step.” Carson’s bill has received support from more than just Republicans and Democrats. Muslim Alliance of Indiana, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Feed Indiana’s Hungry, Gleaners Food Bank and even Meals on Wheels. Carson said that this speaks to what he views as a universal concern about hunger in the United States. S E E , DESE RTS, O N PAGE 12 PHOTO BY MICHAEL RHEINHEIMER
Six Double 8 Foods stores closed last year.
Food retailers and the complex answer to food deserts When it comes to the issue of food deserts, people sometimes assume that the answer is simple — a retailer just needs to create a food store in the center of the needed area. But food retailers, especially traditional ones, say the answer is much more complex. National food retailer Kroger maintains 24 stores in Indianapolis and 45 stores in the metropolitan area, which includes parts of surrounding counties. Company spokesman John Elliot noted several issues that complicate the “just-buildanother-store” answer. “Each Kroger store is its own profit center,” says Elliot. “We don’t use high profit stores to subsidize low profit stores because ultimately that doesn’t work.” Elliot says other retail stores that have tried to use stores to subsidize each other often find themselves losing in all markets and eventually closing doors. Another point is mobility and accessibility. With 24 stores in the city, Elliot says there are plenty of Kroger options, but sometimes getting there is more than half of the battle. “Through our membership with the Indy Chamber and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Kroger supports the mass transit proposal for Indianapolis,” said Elliot. He feels it is unfair to rest the responsibility of eliminating food insecurity solely on the shoulders of food retailers when so many other factors are at play. Accessibility for those who don’t or can’t have a car is not an issue to be solved by the retailer. “That’s just not feasible,” said Elliot. “But at the same time accessibility is not just an issue for our customers, but our employees as well.” Feasibility is another issue for retailers, especially when their business models don’t always fit the will of neighborhoods and communities. “Kroger’s current business model is food, fuel and pharmacy,” said Elliot. “But sometimes local ordinances or local opposition to fuel centers don’t allow for a Kroger location.” And as much as Kroger wants all residents to shop at its stores, Elliot says the company realizes it isn’t the only food source in town and education is needed so that others realize it too. “Food sources other than the traditional food retailer are out there,” said Elliot. “Both retail and non-retail options.” Food pantries, farmer’s markets, co-ops, and non-traditional retailers are all options Elliot says should be considered when talking about food access. — AMBER STEARNS NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.18.16 - 05.25.16 // COVER STORY 11
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LIFE IN A FOOD DESERT Maxine Thomas’ life took a turn when the Double Eight on Fairfield Avenue closed. For years, that was the only supermarket she and her neighbors had in their neighborhood. She said in the immediate aftermath of the store’s sudden closure, her community rallied together to do what they could. “It was kind of like carpooling and asking neighbors to pick up and go and grab things for each other,” she said. “They would make calls and go knock on the doors to see if they needed a ride or if they could bring something back for them. I actually have provided transportation for a few individuals who needed a ride to the store after they closed.” Many of her neighbors were elderly or disabled, and did not have reliable transportation to get them to and from the next closest market. She said most of her neighbors simply couldn’t afford transportation. When Carson announced the Food Desert Act at the Edna Martin Christian Center, Thomas came to show her support. “When I learned of that bill I was really excited,” she said. “We don’t have a reliable market there. For myself, I knew that my help would only be in it for so long and for so many. But even on a national level where our congressman is
really stepping up with this bill and really making a direct impact on it — and we really appreciate it.” Like Carson, Thomas believes that the first step toward beating food deserts is raising awareness. “If people know that this is real, that there are individuals that have needs to access food just to feed their families – people have a power to actually change and make a difference so that is something that really should be heard,” she said. “It is real. Just raising the awareness that a local community is affected by this food desert is real, but it doesn’t have to be. Something can be done, just taking it to the people in power, like our congressman and his colleagues, to get them to support something that really makes a great impact on the community.” Overall, Thomas said that she is optimistic for the future. She believes that the Food Desert Act will contribute to ending the damage done by hunger, and sees the bill as the start of something great. She’s aware of the critics of Carson’s bill who worry about the $150 million startup cost. She says she wants them to realize what’s at stake. “I just wish they’d realize that people can’t feed their families,” she said. “People’s lives are at stake. The city spends all that money putting in those blue cars and there are people here who don’t have the money to rent those cars to go get food.” S E E , DESERTS, O N PA GE 1 4
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A PLACE FOR RELIEF Stephanie Davis has lived in Indianapolis her entire life. During her lifetime in the city, she has seen a gradual increase in the amount of hungry people. Davis is the program director for Catholic Charities’ Crisis Office. According to her, at least 200 needy families receive aid from the Crisis Office between Mondays and Thursdays when they are open. “Individuals are allowed to visit every thirty days just because the need is so great,” Davis said. “We would run out of food if we kept our doors open all the time. A lot of the food we do receive from USDA, but half of it is purchased or donated.” Those donations, she says, have been slowing down since the 2008 recession. “I think people try to help as much as they can, and individuals don’t always have a community network or a family network to help,” she said. “A lot of the people who come to see us now are the working poor.” Davis said part of her job now entails helping people who once had enough food or money to donate. She blames underemployment felt since the economic downturn. “We actually have people in middle management positions leaving lunch early. It’s a way to provide for their
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And at Saint John the Evangelist, a Garden Door Ministry is operated. According to their website, any hungry or homeless people that come to the door are given a meal. The Catholic Charities food pantry is one of 57 food pantries serving Marion County. Most of the pantries are affiliated with local churches with monthly access and serve only the families sharing the same zip code with the pantry. Gleaners Food Bank and the Saint Vincent DePaul pantry are the only food banks in the city that serve the entire city and allow weekly visits. n
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The issue of food deserts in Indianapolis has become a priority for many organizations in Indianapolis. The Indy Food Council is a collaborative effort of many of those organizations that are dedicated to creating a food system in the city that provides everyone with access to healthy nutritious food. The group’s initiatives focus on improving access to healthy food, expanding the market for local food and community-based programming for health and nutrition education. Conquering hunger and creating access to good healthy food will take much more than a quick easy fix. The issue is a multi-layered complex problem that will most likely require many paths to multiple solutions.
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[EDITOR’S NOTE] Dan Grossman is a longtime NUVO freelancer who covers (predominantly) visual art around Indy. He is also an employee of Goodwill Industries. This article has not resulted in any kind of financial gain for Dan from Goodwill Industries — it’s just a great story about some hidden artwork gems and a freelancer we love.
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t’s not the end of the world,” the store manager told me when I told him that I didn’t have my bank info on hand. This was my first day on the job, at Nora Goodwill, in March, 2012, on the northeast side of Indianapolis. The manager’s name was Jeff. He was 28 years old, 15 years my junior, and he’d been with Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana since high school. Goodwill retail stores can be found all over the United States, of course, but it’s not a monolithic organization. Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana is just one of 164 independent Goodwill organizations located in the United States and Canada. Its affiliates share essentially the same mission: helping people prepare for, find — and keep — employment through its thrift stores, administrations, educational centers, and schools. Jeff had no evident concerns about my checkered history of employment. In fact, I had actually just been through a 3-month period of unemployment. I was, however, working as a freelance writer, mostly for NUVO, covering the visual arts. It should be noted that not all Goodwill donations are sold in-store — on the clothing racks or in the wares aisles or in the locked case. The most valuable stuff — designer clothes, jewelry, original paintings, etc. — is culled and sent to
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if he had continued painting after the war, depicting interstate highways, suburban tract homes, and moon launches in his signature style? A mural by Christian Quintin, “The Lovers of Indianapolis,” reminds me of “Spring Turning” — every time I pass 870 Virginia Avenue, on my way to Fountain Square to cover arts for NUVO. It’s evocative of Wood’s painting in its stylized depiction of rolling hills under a blue sky. Considering the mural’s location: the exterior wall of a commercial building on Indy’s southeast side, adjacent to the I-65 overpass, there’s something nostalgic — even elegiac — about I suddenly felt like I was back in my the contrast between the and the city. NUVO beat: the world of visual arts. mural Fountain Square is where I end up every First Friday of the month around midnight. And then, the next to make shopping malls and superhighday — without fail, comes the hectic first ways or turned into mega-farms. Saturday of the month sale at Goodwill. Wood is classified as one of the “AmerAnd on these sale days, while trying to ican Regionalists” along with Thomas maintain order in the store, I sometimes Hart Benton among others. Benton and wonder about my life. Will it always be Wood both came to renown during the 50 percent freelance writer, 50 percent Great Depression. Benton, who was the Goodwill Guy? I’m not complaining, most famous of that group, captured mind you, because Goodwill has given the dynamism and relentless, churning me a perspective that other writers activity of American life in his Indiana might not have. murals and other works. Still, it’s hard to keep that perspective In the postwar era, however, Benton in mind 24/7. And on those difficult, abandoned the rhythmic and contorted hectic sale days when it’s not so easy to styles of his great murals altogether. He see the light, I often find myself saying — wasn’t inspired by post-WWII America whether to myself or a fellow Goodwill — the America of sprawl and indoor employee — “It’s not the end of the shopping malls — and probably felt that world.” n America had abandoned him. But what ShopGoodwill.com, Goodwill’s online auction site. One of those culled items—something I saw on that first day — was a print of Grant Wood’s 1936 painting “Spring Turning,” set aside for auction. I suddenly felt like I was back in my NUVO beat: the world of visual arts. “Spring Turning” portrays a patchwork of square, symmetrical farm fields on rolling hills—evocative of landscapes that no longer exist. It’s likely that the rural landscapes that inspired Wood’s painting have been long ago paved over
Until this May — the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the running of the Indy 500 — it didn’t seem like the Indy 500 was a particularly popular subject among Indy artists. Or maybe that’s just my impression gleaned from 8 years of covering the Indy arts scene. Well then, what to make of the veritable explosion of Indy-500 related gallery openings and art events on Friday, May 6? Maybe Indy artists and galleries take Indy sports for granted until there’s some big event or until there’s some big anniversary to celebrate. You certainly can’t lob such an accusation towards Walter Knabe – selected as the official Indy 500 artist in 2010 – whose official Indy 500 artwork is included in this exhibition. In this giclee print with silk screen images and hand painting you see a modern Indy car in the foreground: in the background you see car models from the Indy 500’s earliest days. As if taking a hint from Walter Knabe, this exhibition sets out to encapsulate 100 years of Indy 500 racing — and artmaking — into one cohesive exhibit. And it does so by displaying rarely seen works from the archives of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway side-by-side with contemporary works by talented Indy artists. A charcoal drawing of an antique race car in motion by the late Herron professor Robert Weaver example. The contemporary artists in this exhibition often go way beyond literal renderings of track action. Carey Collins’ abstract “On a Clear Day we can hear the Track,” is a meditative mixed media work that at first glance seems to have more to do with color theory than anything else. Perhaps Collins is evoking a kind of sound-of-racing-induced synesthesia? Tyler Hesterhagen’s “The Taste of Victory” might be called a kinetic sculpture since it has not only a milk bottle and a sink but flowing water over a pool of milk. Constance Scopelitis’s “Growing Up in Indiana” merges portraiture with a semi-abstract composition evoking the checkered flag among other colorful motifs; perhaps she’s making something of the fact that growing up in Indiana, the 500 is something that’s in the air and impossible not to breathe in somehow, whether or not you’re a racing fan. — DAN GROSSMAN Through May 27, Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery, closing reception May 27, 5-9 p.m.
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Book of Mormon spoof, The Book of Merman is now at The Phoenix
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Generations clash in The Book of Merman, a musical-comedy mashup of the 2011 Tony Award-sweeping musical The Book of Mormon and Broadway darling of the ’30s to ’70s Ethel Merman, of Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy fame, whom Time Out New York named in the top 25 greatest divas of all time. While it’s purported that Merman died in 1984, in The Book of Merman, two Mormon missionaries ring her present-day doorbell and hilarity ensues. Merman was memorable for her brassy personality, but friends also described her as “vulnerable” and “childlike.” Even in her later years, every event was exciting, including the mundane ones. Jolene Mentink Moffatt captures this mixture of wonderment and cheekiness, a pairing seen not just in her character but also in the show itself. Tyler Ostrander and Lincoln Slentz shine with freshfaced naiveté even if their songs reek of unsubtle innuendo (“If It’s Not Hard, I Don’t Like It”). Fans of Merman and Mormon will appreciate the slips of music each is notable for that are incorporated into the show. Ostrander’s character, Elder Shumway, sees Merman as a goddess, which opens the door for Moffatt to belt out some Mermanesque tunes — and for Elder Braithwaite to do some soul searching. “She’s Ethel Merman” is a direct parody of “I Believe,” and a lively rap number uses “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” from The Pirates of Penzance as its base. Emily Ristine directs Moffatt, Ostrander, and Slentz in their affable characterizations with Jay Schwandt as musical director. The trio’s interactions (quartet if you include Jay) are a joy to watch. Glen Bucy’s set of a residential neighborhood is a realistic backdrop that doesn’t hog all the stage space, giving the actors room to sway and pout. Friday night’s performance had a few off notes, but the show is a crowd-pleaser with feels; no matter which generation you identify with, you’re bound to be a convert by the end. — LISA GAUTHIER MITCHISON Through June 12, Phoenix Theatre, 749 N. Park Ave., $33, phoenixtheatre.org
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or Victoria Lyras, the founding artistic director of Indianapolis School of Ballet, the choreography of George Balanchine is everything. Literally everything. It’s what she learned as a child dancing with the New York City Ballet, it’s the methodology that she uses at the ballet school, and it was even the reason why the school was opened 10 years ago. “This is what makes Indianapolis School of Ballet special and different from everybody else,” says Lyras. “We are a Balanchine based school. Balanchine is the soul of this organization. Not that we don’t do other things, of course we do, but there was a void in this community of Balanchine. It was my intent to bring his legacy to the midwest; it just didn’t exist here.” Balanchine was the artistic director for the New York City Ballet for years; it was there that his style was truly seen as neoclassic. It can be noted that many of his ballets are not dependent on plot and narrative, but focus solely on the dancers and the musicality. Lyras will be combining several of his works in the 10th anniversary show, including Serenade and the first three scenes of the four temperaments — part of Balanchine’s black and white era of choreography, meaning he stripped away costumes and only had dancers in leotards. This is also one of his hardest ballets with eight of the ensemble dancers never leaving the stage. “See the music hear the dance [is a quote from Balanchine], this ballet completely depicts that,” says Lyras. “The
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architecture of the choreography is just remarkable … It’s the way the steps, the basic steps, are interwoven musically … and the way he uses the human bodies in this instance to see the music.” All of the dancers who have graduated from the school and now dance professionally will be returning for an encore performance. Lyras currently has former students in the Nashville Ballet, the Cincinnati Ballet and one dancer who just wrapped up a role in On the Town on Broadway. She will open the show with the Carnival of the Animals, an original piece that she choreographed. She feels that the combination of that and the works of Balanchine will give a strong taste of what the school can do, especially in the small snippets of the famous choreographer’s work. She noted that Balanchine used to make appetizers and was known for his cooking. She wanted the sampling of his work to be similarly palatable. “Balanchine was known for even getting Stravinsky out of a bad mood with his cooking,” says Lyras. “I wanted to have a balanced program.” Lyras hopes that this program could be the push that they need to get a profes-
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sional ballet company up and running. The school currently sits in what used to be the Indianapolis International Ballet, which went bankrupt some years ago. “I am business minded and this community has been badly burned, or it was 10 years ago, and it has taken many years to get to this point for us,” says Lyras. “I don’t know what the future holds but I do it carefully, with integrity and I do it fiscally responsibly.” She notes that the school hasn’t been in the red at all in the last five years, and is currently able to offer $40,000 in scholarships to dancers. It has always been her goal for the school to lay the groundwork for a professional company. Right now she just needs that extra financial push to make it happen. Though she wouldn’t say how much that would be exactly, she did mention it will depend on whether they have 10 or 16 dancers to start. Between starting a school right after it was shown that a professional ballet company couldn’t be sustained (at the time) in Indy and taking on a personal loan of $200,000 to get the doors open and classes started, Lyras is clearly committed to the idea. “The connections are there,” says Lyras. “The artistic product is there.” n
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INSIDE MYTHIC INDY There are 33 stories in the Mythic Indy book. Here are our top 13 favorites. Descriptions are by Corey Dalton The Man on the Monon (If You Believe) by Ben H. Winters: An old man haunts the Monon Trail, waiting for his long-lost love. A Delicate Endeavor by Maria Cook: The relationship between a widower and his son takes a startling turn thanks to an alien at the Indianapolis Zoo. Heart of the City by Alex Mattingly: Indianapolis’ newly elected mayor learns about the city’s true power — an ancient creature gestating beneath Chase Tower. Be Safe: Please Repost by Robin Beery: Former Governor Mitch Daniels and his wife fight crime while riding motorcycles. Or do they? The Fall of Tomlinson Hall; or The Ballad of the Butcher’s Cart by Clint Smith: Republicans and cannibals and infernos — oh, my! Indianapolis: Normalcy as Veil by John Beeler: Time travelers postulate that Indianapolis is much more interesting than it appears. Fountain Square by Annie Sullivan: Could the fountain in the square actually be the fabled fountain of youth? Carpe Lucem by Sarah Layden: A woman searches for her missing husband in a drowned, post-collapse Indianapolis. Ransom Place by Corey Michael Dalton: The completely fabricated story of how the neighborhood got its name. The House of Blue Lights by Jim Thompson: Three boys investigate the mysterious house — and find more than they bargained for. Irv Rats by Carrie Gaffney: Unsurprisingly, booze and vermin played important roles in the founding of Irvington. The Devil and James Whitcomb Riley by Jason Roscoe: Once a year, the poet’s spirit tells a dark visitor a tall tale. Or else. The Zero Point by Hugh Vandivier: A patron of the Red Key explains how the center of the city was really chosen.
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omewhere deep underground, with the Chase tower overhead, there is a cultish demon. Yes, a demonmonster-thing. And it’s using the spires at the top as a giant tuning fork in its master plan to summon bad energy. To be fair this only exists in the Mythic Indy book, written by 33 local authors who have taken small bits of truth and weaved them into Indianapolis’ own series of myths. The idea was birthed by Corey Dalton. For Dalton the project started when he was being held captive; not literally but he did volunteer to sleep in the window of the Vonnegut Memorial Library for Banned Books Week. His presence garnered some national attention and when reporters asked about Indy he eventually wanted to switch up his answers. “I started to get bored and thought it would be funny to make up stories,” laughs Dalton.
“I think adding this intrigue, mystery and myth on top of the city stirs people’s imaginations.” — COREY DALTON
While he didn’t make up a bunch of false facts about Indy at the time, it gave him an idea for an anthology of short stories. He put out a call for submission through the literary journal Puchnels and received about 100 word docs filled with mythical tales in his inbox. He then whittled it down to 33, removing ones that focused on the same icon or the same neighborhoods. “I think Indianapolis can sometimes be a little boring to outsiders, and even people who live here, so I think adding this intrigue, mystery and myth on top of the city stirs people’s imaginations,” says Dalton. “I also think that people
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like to support Second Story because it’s doing good work in Indianapolis.” The profits from the book have been going to Second Story, a non-profit that hosts writing camps and encourages students to not fear the written word. Dalton helps run a program in the early spring where for six weeks students meet with mentors on Saturday mornings to help them get ready for the writing on ISTEP. “I don’t have a kid, but it’s interesting to sit down with kids that are that young and tell them ‘oh wow you are a good writer’ when they have never heard anything like that before,” says Dalton. He hopes that the collection is also something that not many have heard of before. “I read some other anthologies where they’re trying to be very literary or appeal to just writers,” says Dalton. “It’s not something I want to sit down and read. “I think just in general Indy doesn’t do a very good job of celebrating its literary heritage or the current stuff that we are doing in the arts as far as literature goes,” says Dalton. “I think anytime the community can come together and show … that there are good writers and good stuff happening, I think that the writing community [benefits] from that.” The book boasts bylines like Ben H. Winters, Jason de Koff, Maria Cook, Maurice Broaddus, Sarah Layden and Clint Smith.
Local arts writer Hugh Vandivier had a piece published in the hardback after he read the callout on Punchnels. “With all of the involvement I have had in visual arts in Indianapolis I haven’t really had the opportunity to work on my own art and my own craft, which is writing,” says Vandivier. His story focused on the the idea of the “zero point” (where the north, south, east and west streets meet) in Indy is not at Monument Circle like one would expect. It’s actually one block south on Washington and Meridian. Vandivier set his piece at the Red Key Tavern and used it as a tribute to his friend Matt Elliott, one of the owners of the old Northside News Cafe, who passed away. The narrative follows Elliott and Vandivier sitting at the bar with High Lifes and glasses of Makers in hand, discussing the story of how the “zero point” came to be. For Vandivier what makes this collection stand out is its place as a cultural bookmark as the city is rapidly growing. “As the city is changing — I am looking out the window right now in a building that was built by Clemons Vonnegut, a school, I am looking at new construction along Mass Ave at a big old crane — as the city keeps changing it’s kind of nice to be able to create more culture around Indianapolis,” says Vandivier. “I think we have really great culture here, but I love the premise of coming up with some new myths so to speak and really tapping into the creativity and imagination of our residents.” n
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hanks to a deluge of advertising, it’s hard to escape the fact that this year is the 100th running of the 500-mile race at Indianapolis. Commonly referred to as the “greatest spectacle in racing,” it has become renowned as the biggest single-day sporting event in the world. This year’s race looks like it’s going to be bigger in every way than it has been since “The Split.” A once-in-a-lifetime milestone like this is a must-see event. Race fans evidently agree. Local hotels began reporting “no vacancies” for Race Weekend months ago. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced in early May that grandstand tickets were sold out for the first time in years.
RSVP “Johnny and I feel like this is a pivotal year,” says Dana Capels, wife of the celebrated crew chief. “The neat thing about this year is a lot of our racing friends that we haven’t seen in many years are planning on attending. Also, there has been a huge amount of hoopla in all forms of media!” Some of the excitement may be media-driven, but there is a certain “buzz” in the city this year that hasn’t been felt for more than a decade … or two. “The whole town has a whole new energy this May,” says James Hinchcliffe, Canadian driver for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports who has lived in Indianapolis
for seven years. “It’s noticeably different.” In fact, Hinch says, it started even before May. Some of that hype can be attributed to IMS for publicizing its Project 100, a $90 million capital improvement initiative designed to enhance the fan experience with a new scoring pylon, stadium seating, better access, Wi-fi and more. “It’s awesome to see how the city gets behind it,” Hinchcliffe adds, “and how much interest there is this year. I hope they maintain that interest for the next 10 years.”
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make it.” Discussion in the garage area is less about the 100th than it is about the 101st. How many teams will be around? Will they be laid off this winter? Will they have a job next season? The IndyCar community hasn’t been healthy for a very long time, so while fans are celebrating this historic achievement, mechanics worry about continuing employment.
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Crew members have some genuine concerns, but drivers are trying to downplay the significance of this race for “There should be good attendance this year,” agrees Mike Levitt, CEO of LAT different reasons. “There’s lots of buzz,” Scott Dixon, driver for Chip Ganassi USA Digital Media. But what he and othRacing, acknowledges. “It’s like no other ers who work in the series worry about is race. Nothing compares.” He says it’s what happens after the 100th. “absolutely unlike any other sporting event,” including the World Cup and the Superbowl. “Indy is a true slice of the purest But the secret to sucAmericana and once you’ve seen it cess, he adds, is “tryto treat it like any first-hand, you’re gonna be hooked.” ing other race.” Drivers and team members can’t let — MICHAEL CANNON, PRESIDENT OF GTC INDY themselves be distracted by the excitement of this momentous race. On the other hand, everyone wants Other races suffer from low attentheir likeness on the Borg Warner trophy, dance. Sponsorship is lacking. A new particularly for the 100th race. Will Powevent in Boston on this year’s schedule er, driver for Penske Racing, recognizes was cancelled before it even happened. the significance of giving Indianapolis Most teams are “limping along finan500 win #17 to his boss Roger Penske, cially,” Levitt observes. “The question who is celebrating his 50th season as a is whether guys working for a living can
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team owner. “God, I hope I’m the guy,” Power says.
Fans The vibe may be more substantial this year, but the burden is the same as always for the teams, says Michael Cannon, president of GTC Indy, LLC and engineering consultant for Dale Coyne Racing. He expects the spectators’ experience to be even better than usual, considering “all the additional pomp, events and celebrities — but then again, IMS always puts on a great event for the fans.” One result from the buzz, he says, is that “we’ll see people taking in their firstever Indy 500 and then falling in love with the event. Indy is a true slice of the purest Americana and once you’ve seen it first-hand, you’re gonna be hooked. That, to me, is going to be the best part of the 100th: a chance for new fans to share in Indy’s unique and enduring appeal.” After all, he says, “It’s Indy — The Big One!” Or, rather, the Big One-Oh-Oh. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.18.16 - 05.25.16 // SPORTS 19
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IF YOU DISREGARD THE THREE AND FOUR-TIMERS, NINE DRIVERS HAVE WON THE 500 TWICE. Tommy Milton, Bill Vukovich, Rodger Ward, Gordon Johncock, Emerson Fittipaldi, Al Unser, Jr., Arie Luyendyk, Dan Wheldon and Juan Pablo Montoya have all won two championships.
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TOMMY MILTON WAS THE FIRST TO WIN TWO. His wins came in 1921 and 1923.
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FIVE DRIVERS HAVE WON BACK-TO-BACK 500S. Wilbur Shaw won it in 193940, Mauri Rose in ’47 and ’48, Bill Vukovich took checkered in 1953 and ’54 (and were it not for his tragic death at Indy in ’55, won more), Al Unser, Sr. took the 1970/’71 races and Helio Castroneves won in 2001 and 2002.
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ROW. Big Al and Helio Castroneves came close. Al Unser, Sr., won in 1970 and ’71, finishing second in ’72. Starting in 2001, Helio finished first, first and second — although his 2002 win was controversial.
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FRANCE HAS PRODUCED THE MOST NUMBER OF FOREIGN-BORN DRIVERS WITH FOUR. Brazil, England and Italy have given use three each.
tunately for us stat freaks, however, practice laps aren’t “official,” even though that’s the quickest trip around the oval ever recorded. He was on it, indeed.
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KANSAS HAS SEEN THE SAME NUMBER OF TOTAL VICTORIES AS INDIANA — NINE. You can thank several multiple-winners for that total: Rodger Ward (1959, 1962), Johnny Rutherford (1974, 1976, 1980) and Wichita’s Rick Mears (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991)
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AL UNSER SAW THE LONGEST STRETCH BETWEEN HIS FIRST AND FINAL WIN. Al Sr. won his first in 1970 and his last in ’87, a span of 17 years.
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THE NAME “UNSER” HAS APPEARED AT INDY MORE THAN ANY OTHER FAMILY NAME. Jerry Unser, Bobby Unser, Al Unser, Al Unser Jr., Johnny Unser and Robby Unser have all run in the 500. Louis Unser made it through several stages of the 1940 driver’s test but didn’t make the field.
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RICK MEARS HAS THE MOST WINS FROM THE POLE. Mears went wire-to-wire three times.
TONY KANAAN RAN THE FASTEST 500 — ON AVERAGE. The speed for Kanaan’s win, divided by every lap? 187.433 mph.
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HARROUN RAN THE SLOWEST. C’mon, it was 1911 — which explains the average speed below 75.
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TROY RUTTMAN WAS THE YOUNGEST MAN TO WIN THE INDY 500. Ruttman was 22 years and 80 days when he the Greatest Spectacle in 1952.
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AL UNSER SR. WAS THE OLDEST. Al was five days short of 48 when he won in ’87.
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OFFENHAUSER ENGINES HAVE POWERED MORE WINNING RIDES THAN ANY OTHER. The total is 27, with the last coming in 1976. Miller engines won 12 500s between 1922 and 1938.
THE 500 HAS SEEN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RAY HARROUN AND LOUIS WINNING DRIVERS FROM 77 WEEK’S NUVO! PENSKE HAS THE LOCK ON CHASSIS HAVE COME 97 MEYER BOTH WON FROM 87 20 STATES. 69 OWNERSHIPS WINS. FROM THE DALLARA SHOP. THE RECORD-WORST FIELD The Penske team has
Here’s a little preview of our notched a total of 16 Indy 500 victories. Lou Moore’s squad big ol’ tribute to the 100th from the 1930s and ‘40s is a running of the Greatestdistant second with five. Spectacle in Racing, an TWO MEN HAVE WON excerpt of NUVO’s “500 FIVE RACES AT INDY. Jeff Gordon notched five Facts about the Indy 500.” Brickyard 400s before he
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To the right you’ll find acher a fewwon the US Grand Prix Formula One race all but excerpts from the chapter three of the eight times the road-course was open to F1 of our story entitled ALL drivers at Indy. TIME RECORDS.
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NOT COUNTING THE FOURTIME WINNERS, SEVEN DRIVERS HAVE WON IT THREE TIMES OR MORE. 500 tidbits, in print andLouis Meyer, Wilbur Shaw, Rose, Johnny Rutheronline, on May 25 — Mauri ford, Bobby Unser, Helio Casjust a few days before troneves and Dario Franchitti all have three wins.
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MEYER WAS THE FIRST TO THREE. Louis wrapped the trifecta in 1936.
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INDIANA HAS PRODUCED THE MOST WINNING DRIVERS. Seven Hoosier natives have won the 500, including: Joe Dawson (1912), Howdy Wilcox (1919), L.L. Corum (1924 co-winner), George Souders (1927), Louis Schneider (1931), Bill Cummings (1934) and Wilbur Shaw (1937, 1939, 1940)
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TWO OF THOSE WERE FROM INDY. Schneider and Cummings were both from the Circle City.
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CALIFORNIA’S SECOND FOR PRODUCING WINNING DRIVERS — SIX. Ohio and PA have given us five winners each, too.
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INTERNATIONALLY, INDY’S SEEN 28 VICTORIES AMONG 20 DRIVERS. Those winners are from ten different countries.
POSITION. That’d be 28th in the field.
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JULES GOUX HAD THE BIGGEST LEAD AT THE CHECKERED. Goux finished the 1913 race a whopping 13 minutes and 8.4 seconds ahead of Spencer Wishart.
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LITTLE AL TALLIED THE WIN IN INDY’S CLOSEST FINISH. Al Unser, Jr., beat Scott Goodyear by only .043 seconds in 1992.
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ARIE LUYENDYK WAS THE FASTEST EVER. “The Flying Dutchman” turned a lap at 237.498 mph during quals on May 12, 1996. That’s a lap time of 37.895 seconds.
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Trick answer, really: The “lock” in recent years by the Italian manufacturer on IndyCar bodies made for a tally of 15 wins since the end of last century.
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2008 WAS THE FIRST YEAR ALL 33 CARS RAN THE SAME MAKE OF ENGINE AND CHASSIS. The Dallara/Honda package was run by every entry from 2008 to 2011. Chevy and Lotus got back into the engine game in 2012, and Tony Kanaan’s win in 2013 was powered by Chevrolet.
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IF YOU’RE PICKING A NUMBER FOR YOUR CAR, GO WITH “3.” Cars with that numeral have won the 500 a total of 11 times. Three not available? Go with No. 2 (nine wins) or Numero Uno (seven wins).
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It’s happened twice: 1911 and 2013. (Seriously, that 2013 race was hella cool. More later.)
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FEWEST RUNNING AT CHECKERED: 7. That happened in 1966.
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BIGGEST JUMP FROM START TO FINISH IN A FIELD LARGER THAN 33: 32 POSITIONS. Zeke Meyer must’ve wished the 1932 Indy 500 had been limited to 33 cars, since he was able to take his 38thplace position at the green flag and manage to move up to sixth place by the end of the run.
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ONLY TWO HAVE RUN THE “TRIPLE.” Juan Pablo Montoya and Jacques Villeneuve have run in the Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400 and United States Grand Prix at Indy. Take it away, IMS website: Montoya won the 2000 Indianapolis 500 in his only start in that event, drove in the United States Grand Prix from 2001-06 and raced in the Brickyard 400 in 200712. Villeneuve raced in the Indianapolis 500 in 1994-95, winning in 1995, drove in the United States Grand Prix from 2000-03 and 2006, and raced in the Brickyard 400 in 2010.
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FIFTEEN DRIVERS HAVE RUN BOTH INDY AND THE BRICKYARD (NASCAR, THAT IS). They are: John Andretti, Geoff Brabham, A.J. Foyt, Larry Foyt, Robby Gordon, Sam Hornish Jr., Jason Leffler, Juan Pablo Montoya, Max Papis, Danica Patrick, Scott Pruett, Tony Stewart, Danny Sullivan, Jacques Villeneuve and J.J. Yeley.
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FOUR MEN HAVE RUN THE 500 AND F1 AT INDY. Thomas Enge, Justin Wilson, Takuma Sato and Jean Alesi all ran the US Grand Prix at Indy in addition to the 500.
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ONE MILLION MILES HAVE BEEN RUN. Adding the mileage from the first 99 Indy 500s gives a total of 1,060,930 — that’s enough to circle the planet 42 times.
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Bigger Splash takes you to a location you’ve never visited and, by its end, leaves you feeling like you have. It’s interesting, exotic, and erotic, incorporating the kind of casual European-style nudity that elevates our American pulses. And it stars Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes. If you enjoyed Only Lovers Left Alive, consider this required viewing. Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love) directs this remake of Jacques Deray’s La Piscine, but substantial changes have been made. The film is set on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, which lies substantially south of Italy, making it a frequent landing spot for refugees. These are people who have taken to the sea in the hopes of finding a place to restart their lives. Their stories are important, but the focus here is not on them. Guadagnino keeps them in the background, while studying the dynamics of four privileged Westerners. You know, the way we like it in our movies. Westerners always make a bigger splash. Marianne Lane (Swinton) is a rock star styled after David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust days. She’s had an operation on her throat and it’s imperative that she
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brash times ten, the sort of guy who talks about how you have to just grab life and live it, and then proceeds to do so – in your face – until you want to strangle him. Henry jabbers nonstop, making inappropriate remarks and generally bugging the hell out of everyone except us. That’s the wonder of Ralph Fiennes. He’s so good that even as I cringed over how he was spoiling everything for Marianne and Paul, I enjoyed watching him do it. As if his demeanor wasn’t disruptive enough, Henry has brought along his If you get involved with the daughter, Penny (Dakota characters and appreciate the sense Johnson), who is 22 going on Lolita, posturing of specificity of the location, you seductively around Paul, up to her daddy, will likely be as swept away as I was. cozying and making comments that are almost certainly snarky, If not, you may get bored. but doing so with such a flat affect that you can’t safely call her on them. Johnson’s performance here is much better than male form. Schoenaerts looks like Ryan the one she gave in Fifty Shades of Grey. Gosling’s ever-so-slightly less flashy The movie deals with sexual politics. brother. His performance is layered and You needn’t know any more than that. If well done. you get involved with the characters and Marianne and Paul’s quiet time at the appreciate the sense of specificity of the glorious pool at their villa is interrupted location, you will likely be as swept away by the arrival of Harry (Fiennes), her as I was. If not, you may get bored. record producer and ex-lover. Harry is
speak in no more than a whisper until her recovery is finished. What seems like a major limitation on Swinton allows her to showcase her considerable skills in other ways. Her performance manages to be both cool and genuine. Marianne’s boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust and Bone) tends to her needs. He is protective, but cordial, a charming schoolboy grown into everything we currently celebrate about the
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A few words about the nudity before I wrap this up. I know that in Europe people are much more relaxed about nudity in films, but we’re in America, where celebrity skin is still a big deal. I don’t know why we’re so interested in the genitalia of famous people, but we are. A Bigger Splash gives us a look at the rarely-seen bits of all four of the leads. Ralph Fiennes penis and testicles get the most screen time. They’re perfectly average, except that they’re attached to Ralph Fiennes, which ups their groovy factor. Beyond being fun to peek at, they actually add to the film. Late in the story there’s a confrontation at the pool between a partially clad Paul and a naked Harry. Harry’s nudity enhances the primal situation. At once he seems both brazen and vulnerable. There’s an erotic undercurrent as well, unless I just imagined it. A Bigger Splash takes you somewhere exotic, showcases fine actors, creates a fascinating atmosphere and shows a little skin. I appreciate it. n
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oney Monster is a dose of liberal medicine coated in conservative cinematic sugar. It’s no surprise that it stars George Clooney, who likes to keep his finger on the political pulse of America. Clooney has ventured into topical territory in front of and behind the camera — from the Middle Eastern oil industry in Syriana to the corrupt presidential campaign cycle in The Ides of March. In Money Monster, he infiltrates the American economy. But, like the film itself, his character barely scratches the surface of our financial fears.
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$800 million in its shareholders’ money. Kyle is upset because he lost his entire life savings, which he inherited from his deceased mother. And he was hoping the money he invested in Ibis would help support him and his pregnant girlfriend. Oddly enough, Kyle’s circumstances don’t feel as dire as they should. The film focuses on the bigger picture rather than plumbing the depths of his pain. Rather than fleshing him out and exploring the personal reasons behind his extreme acDespite the solid, engaging tions, the screenwriters mostly try to make Kyle a mouthpiece performances, the characters for Americans’ anger at “the one percent.” He speaks in ultimately feel like archetypes broad strokes, ranting about instead of flesh-and-blood people how fat cat CEOs are lying to the common man and how the for whom we can ache. American economy is crooked. Nothing terribly new or eyeopening. And Kyle ultimately seems to simply want answers Sensitively directed by Jodie Foster, for this wrongdoing rather than a way to the film revolves around a flashy show save his life. in the vein of CNBC’s Mad Money, which The one man who can pull back the turns stock trading into a surreal, sleazy curtain on the corruption angering spectacle. It’s a funhouse mirror image Kyle is Ibis CEO Walt Camby (Dominic of the financial world. And the host, Lee West). But he’s hardly capable of musterGates (Clooney), acts like the ringleader ing the kind of honesty Kyle demands. of the sideshow circus we call the stock Worse yet, he’s merely an embodiment of market. He’s more of a showman than corporate greed rather than a complex, a financial expert, constantly spewing catchphrases and comparing the lines of stock market charts to the voluptuous curves of the women he seduces. Lee’s antics lead his director, Patty (Julia Roberts), to leave the show for work with less style and more substance. Her wish for a more serious show comes true in the worst way when a gunman sneaks onto the set, demanding answers for the corruption seeping through the cracks of Wall Street. The troubled young man, Kyle Budwell (Jack O’Connell), straps a bomb vest on Lee, screaming at him for urging viewers to buy stock from Ibis Clear Capital, a corporation he claimed was “safer than your savings account.” Of course, Ibis quickly crashed after that, mysteriously losing
full-fledged character. Money Monster works for a while on a simple popcorn level as a hostage thriller. Clooney does a good job juggling fear with talk show charm. That’s the film’s most powerful spectacle — a cocky entertainer in an uncertain situation, a larger-than-life personality shrunken by the specter of death. Like she did with Mel Gibson in The Beaver, Foster brings out the vulnerable side behind Clooney’s tough-guy persona. And she creates electric chemistry between him and Roberts, who portrays Patty as Lee’s conscience, reigning him in when his ego spins him out of control. Despite the solid, engaging performances, the characters ultimately feel like archetypes instead of flesh-and-blood people for whom we can ache. It’s a drama that wants to win your heart but focuses too much on striking your mind, particularly with ideas about how our money controls us. It’s topical and relevant, but the best films are ultimately timeless, affecting us no matter what the socioeconomic climate is outside the theater. Money Monster wants to be a popcorn movie with a political message. It wants to be important. But films are usually important when they’re not trying to be — when they simply allow their stories to unfold and reveal major human truths slowly and organically. Like the TV show to which the title refers, the film shoves its ideas in your face. Like its characters, Money Monster doesn’t fully come alive on screen. It tries too hard to make a statement, losing sight of the people amid the politics. n
FILM EVENTS Winning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 19, 7:30 P.M. Starring actor-turned-racecardriver Paul Newman, Winning puts viewers in the midst of the high-speed action on the racetrack. Indy Film Fest’s Roving Cinema event will bring the movie full-circle, as much of the classic was filmed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “It’s a movie every racing fan should see and it’s fitting that as we celebrate the 100th Running, we’re providing fans of every generation a chance to watch this film on the very hallowed grounds that form a key piece of the plot,” said Doug Boles, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Indianapolis Motor Speedway, $25 GA, $50 VIP, indyfilmfest.org Hills and Hollers May 21, 7 P.M. Hoosier-made horror! Written and directed by IU alum Ben Arvin, this little indie slasher flick follows “a couple dealing with the struggles of the Midwestern Rust Belt as they are attacked by masked assailants against the backdrop of a serene autumn in southern Indiana.” Sounds spooky! The premiere of the film will be followed by an after-party at Serendipity in Bloomington. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. IU Fine Arts Theater, 1200 E. 7th St. (Bloomington), Premiere Only: $5, Premiere and AfterParty: $10, facebook.com/HillsandHollers2016
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Susan Sarandon is wonderful in this story of Marnie Minervini, who takes the substantial money left to her by her recently passed husband and moves from New Jersey to Los Angeles so she can be near her very busy daughter (Rose Byrne). While her daughter loves her mom, she is too occupied to tend to her. Marnie takes care of that by meeting locals, learning their needs and bankrolling them. The premise, based in part on truth, may sound sitcommy, but Sarandon makes everything work. She's delightful. Co-starring J.K. Simmons, Michael McKean, and Cecily Strong. — ED JOHNSON-OTT
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Tues., Jun. 21 and Wed., Jun. 22, 6-9 p.m. If you lived through the 1947-1953 frenzy, during which Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill coined the phrase “Iron Curtain” to depict the secretive actions of the then Soviet Union, it was real-time scary with safety drills in schools and home cellars outfitted with survival gear. We looked over our shoulders, checked shadows at alley ways and generally stayed alert for anyone asking too many questions. However, if you happen to search for “Cold War Indianapolis” in your web browser today it might connect you with the Sun King Brewing Company co-sponsored “Duck & Cover: A Historic Bar Crawl through Cold War Indianapolis.” The event will happen along Mass Ave on June 21 and 22, from 6-9 p.m. each evening. Beer in hand, participants will start and end at the IndyFringe Theatre and journey to four different locations to learn about the brave men and women whose vigilance kept Indianapolis “safe” from the Red Menace, and hear about the spies and Communist sympathizers that tried to infiltrate the heartland. “This is one of the best tickets in town because it’s such a unique event – it’s your only opportunity to hear these historic stories with a beer in hand surrounded by friends,” said Keira Amstutz, president and CEO at Indiana Humanities. “This year’s theme is a look at the fear and intrigue that surrounded people in Indianapolis during the Cold War era, and the jobs that were created due to the demand for greater intelligence.” Indiana Humanities staff members work with the Indiana Historical Society staff to conduct archival research and interviews in order to develop the vignettes and characters. These vignettes and characters are played by Indiana Historical Society actors. According to an IH news release. “This year’s stops are all based on real events and include a re-enactment of the first meeting of the Indiana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a retirement party for a long-time employee of the Eastside’s Naval Avionics Factory, which produced classified technology for the federal government after World War II,” stated Kristen Fuhs Wells. — RITA KOHN
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still-bubbling pan of cheese makes its way to the tabletop by my elbow. I look to my left and see the fresh chopped herbs and veggies on top and the hint of spicy chorizo under the yellow surface. ClusterTruck’s Executive Chef, Tim Mcintosh, sits down a large hotel pan full of chips. “Queso fundido,” he says. Despite being stuffed from the insanely good Mug Double I just inhaled, I can’t pass up a bite and then another, and another. What is ClusterTruck? Well, it’s hard to say. To the people of Indianapolis it is the perfect solution to the question, what am I having for lunch? To the food delivery industry, it is the company that is setting standards for how food should be delivered. To me, it is the perfect blend of a tech start-up and a restaurant and it is exciting. It allows diners to get quality food from nearly any restaurant concept delivered to their door and for it taste fresh. You may, much like I originally did, think it is like any of the other meal delivery options in the city, but after a trip to see behind-the-scenes, I can attest that it is unlike any other dining option in Indy. In their own words, “ClusterTruck is made of people revolutionizing the way meals are ordered, prepared, and delivered. We are technologists, culinary experts, and logistics savants; all unified for the cause of creating a
food delivery experience worthy of our community.” ClusterTruck’s founder, Chris Baggot, tells me he just suggested the queso fundido when we were downstairs ten minutes ago. It wasn’t on their menu, it wasn’t something they had tested before, it was just something he suggested. Ten minutes later it was a reality, this to me is the beauty of ClusterTruck: there is no limit to what the team can come up with and dish out. Their kitchen is massive and with the creative, business-minded Baggot at the helm, they have the opportunity to be inventive and to grow and adapt to the tastes of their clientele. Travis Hall, vice-president of marketing, is showing me around their kitchen when he explains just how adaptable the kitchen is. During their first few weeks they noticed they were doing well on the weekdays when people were downtown for work, but on the weekends it slowed down considerably. This being a tech company, they pay close attention to analytics. Travis was noticing spikes early on the weekends, during breakfast time. So, now they have their new Lazy Breakfast from 9 a.m. through 3 p.m. and you have the amazing option of having it delivered to your curb. Short Rib Hash in bed is the perfect solution to a Saturday hangover. So how is it different from all the other delivery options in the city? Well, first off you’ll never get food that isn’t fresh. This is the benefit of ClusterTruck being a
tech company. It is the middle of a lunch rush and I’m amazed to see how fluidly all of the moving parts of this operation work. Travis explains the process as I’m watching it. Say for example you order a bowl of What the Pho!, and say it takes the kitchen 7 minutes to make a bowl. You also order a side of Sriracha Blue Tots (why wouldn’t you?) and those take 3 minutes to make. But, the closest driver is still twelve minutes away. In your average delivery system, there is no accounting for when a driver will arrive, and there is a good chance that your tots are dropped at the same time as they start building your pho. So, your food has been under a heat lamp, tots getting soggy, pho getting cold, before the driver even arrives. The software that keeps ClusterTruck running smoothly and proficiently knows that driver is twelve minutes away. So, your pho doesn’t even show on the screen until the driver is seven minutes away, that is when it kicks off. Then, when the driver is three minutes away, that’s when the tots drop. As your driver is arriving your food is being bagged, taken out of the kitchen and in the driver’s hand. Five minutes later it is at your curb and a minute later you’re sitting on your couch, slurping fresh pho, munching on crispy, spicy tots and watching Daredevil. It’s a work of art and all you have to do is enjoy. n For the full story, head to nuvo.net/food
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Hertog Jan Brouwerij of the Netherlands and the well-known and highly respected Brewery Ommegang. While Bier ESB took first out of 68 entries (including Mother Earth Brew Co. and Powell Street Craft Brewery) in Category 70: Extra Special Bitter. It’s an incredible feat for this small brewery to be the Indianapolis brewery (of the 60-plus Central Indianapolis breweries) leading the way with worldrenowned beers. Bier runs on a staff of nine full-time employees, three of which are part of the Connor family. Of the 83 Indiana beers entered into the competition, only two other breweries took home any other medals. Crooked Ewe in South Bend took home a bronze medal for their Glasgow Butcher Scotch Ale. The only other “It was like hitting a grand slam for brewery in the state to receive a gold medal, a the second time in the game to win brewery that has been the final game of the World Series.” named Best Brewery in The World multiple — JERRY CONNOR, CO-OWNER, BIER BREWERY times, was Three Floyds of Munster, for their Blot Out the Sun AmericanStyle Imperial Stout. This is a major step for Bier Brewery ers attention to details. He never ever and for the Indianapolis brewing comcompromises. There are no shortcuts.” munity. It is a sign that due to the influx The gold medals are a testament to of breweries in the city brewers are havthe vision and drive of the Bier brewers. ing to be more precise and consistent in Sanitarium won gold in Category 61: their brews. We are at a point in IndiaBelgian-Style Dubbel or Quadrupel, napolis where, if a brewery isn’t pushing beating out 72 other entries including prizes were Bier’s Sanitarium BelgianStyle Quadrupel and their ESB, English- Style Extra Special Bitter. This was the brewery’s third time sending biers and though they had come home with a silver medal in the past, this was a first time pulling in a gold. According to Jerry, the reason the biers stood out this year was because of “Darren’s and the brew-
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out great beer it won’t last because we have breweries that are releasing world class beers. When I ask Jerry what’s next for Bier, other than celebrating of course, he tells me, “We are releasing Chinookalicious (IPA) in cans in about two weeks. The week of the Indianapolis 500 we will have a lite lager, “The Track Bier” available only on tap in the taproom. Then there is the Belgian Wit the same week. The Wit is one of my favorite. We did this about three years ago and finally we are doing it again.” It’s a world of never stopping for the Bier Team, and this mindset of hard work is paying off for them. A press release from the brewery points out, “Five years ago, Bier started with barrel-and-a-half fermenters. They immediately wowed customers with a variety of true-to-style, traditional biers. Now, in 2016, Bier has followed their customers’ demands and expanded their production to 40-barrel fermenters. Attention to quality has never waned through their journey. As [their] co-founder states, “OUR QUALITY IS OUR MARKETING; OUR MARKETING IS OUR QUALITY.” Make sure to congratulate them next time you’re in their taproom off 65th Street drinking a bier or two, or filling up your growler. They have set a new precedent for Indy brewing and made an already exciting time for the city that much more interesting. Hmm, I think it’s time to for me to go drink a bier. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.18.16 - 05.25.16 // FOOD 25
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“When you get a Grammy, you are immediately on a new level. You’re legit, all of a sudden. You’ve got people in the business, in the industry, that all of a sudden know about you.” That’s what a nameless ghoul from Ghost said, after introducing himself as Fire in a late April phone call. So everyone knows about Ghost, kind of – they do perform in masks, after all. Their single “Cirice” snagged them a Grammy for Best Metal Performance earlier this year, and thoroughly befuddled a theater full of people when they scooted onstage in full robe-and-mask mode. “I basically regard being given a Grammy as being given a big box of tools,” the Nameless Ghoul said. “You can do what you wish with them, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that everybody goes out to buy your album. But it means you get a whole set of keys that you can open up a lot of doors with, that potentially could make people more aware of you.” These keys are helpful to Ghost, which encountered some stumbling blocks in America before they were more well known, as some people found the Satanic mass concept their live show and lyrics revolve around … objectionable. This led to trouble securing distribution and additional players to record their 2013 Infestissumam in Nashville. But if those objecting took a second look at Ghost, they may be surprised about the thoughtfulness of their – yes – Satanic rituals. “Essentially, religious mass as we know it, regardless of where you are, it’s usually a combination of visual, smell, music, authority and conduct,” the Ghoul said. “It’s ritual. There’s something profound with rituals with rituals that goes very well with the human psyche. We like rituals and the idea of rites. I don’t know if we’re emulating it. In a way, we are simulating it and if people are coming together and agreeing upon being in this religious moment, it turns into one. I wouldn’t say that ours is very much different from a Springsteen show. It’s just that we sort of openly use liturgy and religious paraphernalia to further extend that religious feeling.” — KATHERINE COPLEN Ghost with Pinkish Black, Thursday, May 19, Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
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wo tweets were sent out last week by Bloc Party’s official account, saying, in full: “Following the state of North Carolina’s decision to enact House Bill 2, which serves to discriminate against transgender people, we have invited Matt from Equality NC to speak at both of our shows there next week. We will also be making a donation to Equality NC.” Bloc Party fans in North Carolina surely let go a heavy sigh of relief that yet another performer wouldn’t be canceling their booked shows in the state in the wake of HB2, a bill that seeks to force transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with the gender on their birth certificate, and eliminates antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQ persons in the state. HB2 is a bill that opponents say is punitive, discriminatory and dangerous, and that the Department of Justice filed suit against. The cultural fallout in in the state includes show cancellations by Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Cirque du Soleil, Ringo Starr and Boston; Cyndi Lauper, Tacocat and Mumford and Sons donated their show earnings to local LGBTQ orgs. Add Bloc Party to the list of bands donating to equality-minded nonprofits.
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When NUVO spoke with Bloc Party lead singer and rhythm guitarist Kele Okereke last week after Bloc Party announced their donation and speaker, he was reluctant to speak much about the decision. “I don’t feel comfortable talking about that stuff, only that it was obviously an issue that we all had to speak about and discuss for quite a long time,” Okereke says. “It’s still kind of a little bit raw.” We respect that very much and move on: Okereke’s band’s latest album is Hymns, a collection of lower-key groovy jams that showcase Bloc Party as a much different band than the group that blew up radios with “Banquet” from Silent Alarm in 2005. It shares musical DNA with his recent solo releases and pulls influence from his time as a dance music DJ. As one might guess, Hymns’ central lyrical concern is religion, no doubt influenced by Okereke’s Roman Catholic upbringing. Okereke says that while he’s not currently observant, religious texts
have always informed his writing. “I’m not a religious person, but I do like stories. I like fables and I like myths,” he says. “I’ve always been moved by allegorical stories. I remember being very much into classical great myths when I was a kid as well. Currently I’m reading up a lot on West African religions and how those sorts of stories went on to affect African cultures. It’s something that I’ve always found interesting. I think it’s the idea of there being an element of education in these florid, descriptive stories that might appear like a fantasy, or might appear to just be kind of decorative, but underneath there’s some kind of lesson or teaching about human nature.” Although influences have stayed consistent, recent years have brought changes to Bloc Party in lineup (Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong out; Justin Harris and Louise Bartle in) and location. Okereke relocated back to London from New York a few years ago. He says he’s seeking a quieter type of life these days. “I feel like moving back from New York to London, I’ve kind of been avoiding nightlife and avoiding the scene, really. I moved from where I was living in East London in a very busy, young, hip part of town to a really quiet part of town, a very green part of town,” he says. “I have a dog.” n
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF KRISSY ARNOLD Around a decade ago, I attended the Irish Fest at Military Park. I was there for the music, not the vendors. But I spotted this long-haired young person at a booth that displayed beautiful photos — mostly portraits of people — and I lurked until we got a chance to meet. The photos were evocative images of people in New Orleans, just after Katrina, compiled into a book. I immediately invited the photographer to NUVO to discuss taking portraits for us. Once Krissy came in — she was then going by Kris — I discovered she also built web sites. Coincidentally, we were at that very moment looking for a person with that set of skills. Krissy applied that very day, if I recall, and was quickly hired, and so we spent a couple of raucously wonderful years working together. Somehow Krissy juggled web and IT duties with continuing gorgeous work as a photographer for NUVO. For whatever reason, I don’t think I ever heard Krissy play in a band, but suffice to say she could pretty much do anything, including changing genders, though by the time Kris was becoming Krissy, she was already living in Texas. Krissy Arnold loved beer and bonfires and heavy metal music. She was a no-bullshit juggernaut of creativity. She loved ghost towns and abandoned buildings, haunted places where damage and neglect could be revealed as something beautiful. That’s what she did best; she turned the lost into the found. — JIM POYSER,
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come out in a certain way. You just try not to get in the way of them. I wrote way more songs than what ended up on the record, but I was kind of following that, you know? And they determined what the record was going to sound like. Which is weird and sometimes frustrating, but that’s kind of the way it goes. NUVO: Speaking of the album, since you’re playing in Lafayette, Indiana in the Hoosier state, I have to ask what was the inspiration for the track, “Henrietta, Indiana”? RITTER: That one came to my mind just as a town name at first. I didn’t know anything about the song, but Henrietta just kind of rolls off the tongue. It
seemed like a place that had a vibe to it. This girl who is growing up, and her father and brother make this terrible choice. She has to decide whether or not she’s going to make the choice or not. I like writing about places I’ve never been or, more like, places that I can imagine. Towns are so important to my way of thinking about music. In “Getting Ready to Get Down” there’s a town, a girl coming back to a town…a homecoming. It seems to come into my mind a lot.
NUVO: You’ve played in Indiana before? RITTER: Yes, I have. NUVO: In Indianapolis, right? RITTER: Yes. NUVO: Other than that performance do you have any connections with Indiana or any memories from when you played here that stand out? RITTER: My parents met and fell in love in Indiana. NUVO: Oh [laughing] that’s good.
Roots rocker stops at Lafayette Theater Thursday RITTER: So I’m very grateful for that. I’d hate to not be here. [laughing] Yeah, the many times I’ve been to Indianapolis it’s always struck me as kind of a city that was built to be big. The streets are big, the buildings are big. I think it’s just an interesting city. That being said, I haven’t got the chance to travel elsewhere [in Indiana] as much so I’m really excited to do that. NUVO: I think you’ll like Lafayette as well. There’s a lot of character to small cities with aspirations to be bigger. There’s a lot of inspiration in that. As a storyteller though, going back to that, do you have a lot of literary interest? Anything you’ve been reading recently that inspires you musically? RITTER: Recently I’ve been reading a lot of spooky books. I don’t know why, but I kind of woke up one morning and decided I really wanted to read some spooky books. I’m doing that, and you know you just can’t trust it. You just go with it. It’ll line up to something. It may not be a spooky song, but it’ll add up to something that I wouldn’t have predicted. Does that make sense?
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NUVO: Yeah, it does. Do you have any examples of ones that you’re currently reading? RITTER: I’m reading a book by John Wray called Canaan’s Tongue. It’s about a band of vigilantes, and the strange stuff that happens to them. I’m a big fan of Shirley Jackson. She had a book called The Sundial that I just finished. There’s all kinds of good stuff out there if you’re looking for it. NUVO: When you write songs is there an emphasis on the storytelling first? Like with “Henrietta, Indiana,” you said the song kind of finds you, but do you try to focus on having a theme in mind? RITTER: Well, you know, it happens any number of ways. I think about it a lot of times like you’re making puzzle pieces, like a little bit for music and a little bit for words…like little things. And then you have them all out on the table, and you have to put them together somehow. You just try randomly, and things happen. Other times you just have this moment of pure inspiration, and the words and music come out altogether. Like “Henrietta, Indiana” that came together quickly and out of the blue. It could happen any number of ways. I wish I knew better. I would be writing way more songs. n
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CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF PUB LIFE AT STATE STREET I
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t wasn’t long ago that a smallish-sized building near the corner of New York Street and State Avenue sat lifeless. Located in the Holy Cross neighborhood of Indianapolis, what was formerly a drag bar was nothing more than an eyesore, with boarded-up windows and an eerily empty parking lot. After driving past the space for years, GloryHole Records founder Jimmy Peoni decided it was time for a change. “I’ve always enjoyed putting on shows and was really prone to house shows,” says Peoni, who has booked shows in Indy for years. “I did a few at Radio Radio, White Rabbit and Melody Inn but really liked house shows. I had always looked at the building that was there, and I liked the location.” With this in mind, Peoni sought to create a venue with a laid-back, house show vibe, opening State Street Pub in May 2015. A longtime supporter of local music, he began booking shows at the Pub with an “If you build it, they will come” approach, knowing that the music community would rally behind his efforts. Now one year later, State Street Pub is set to celebrate its first birthday with a twonight shindig featuring several local acts that have played a part in helping the venue get its feet off the ground. “I can’t tell you how overwhelmed I’ve been by how the kids have taken to it,” Peoni says of all the support he’s gotten from Indy’s young music lovers. “I firmly believe that if you give off good things, you get good things back, and I’ve always tried to give to the music community here.” In keeping with the spirit of house shows, State Street Pub aims to keep things DIY, often giving musicians and artists the freedom to make their imaginative event ideas come to life. One of those is the A/V Club nights where local art meets local music for a live audio/ visual experience. “Landon Caldwell, Jordan Allen and I started the State Street Pub A/V Club last year as a monthly event, and it’s been my new favorite side project,” says Jeremy Tubbs, who’s also a cofounder of Fountain Square’s General Public Collective. “It works so much better in a bar. The attention of it in a gallery would feel awkward. Inside the pub, it can just be happening and evolve as people come and go.” 30 MUSIC // 05.18.16 - 05.25.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Known to many by his producer name of Clint Breeze, Carrington Clinton has also started coordinating a series of “Nightly Notable” showcases at State Street Pub that feature local jazz, soul and R&B artists all on one bill. In addition to performing with his own band (Clint Breeze and the Groove), Clinton has welcomed several other notable locals to be a part of his showcases thus far, including Drayco McCoy, Elle Roberts, John Stamps and DJ Little Town. “The first Nightly Notable show was incredible,” reflects Clinton on the event’s January installment. “The turnout was great, and all the artists killed it. It felt like a packed out, hot and sweaty house show. The energy was electrifying.” Since moving back from California last year, Landon Caldwell (Creeping Pink, Burnt Ones, Learner Dancer) has worked as a bartender and booker at State Street, ensuring that many of these innovative event ideas make it onto the calendar. “I like the curatorial approach. I’m into anything that makes a show more than just a couple bands playing rock ‘n’ roll,” he says. With this in mind, he strives to keep all Pub events equally eye-popping. “I want every show to have the magic of
the first punk shows I went to as a teenager,” he says. “For that to happen, we’ve got to be pushing the boundaries of what we consider a show.” Another member of Burnt Ones, Mark Tester recently moved back to Indianapolis from California and started working for State Street Pub part-time. “From afar, seeing the consistent visual aesthetic on the posters and the attention to detail in what was being booked at State Street Pub once Landon came back made it seem like something was in the air here,” he says. In particular, Tester believes that State Street has “filled a void in the city as far as what you can do with a bar venue.” “It definitely feels like a place the city needs, in that it hasn’t really gotten swallowed up by some of the genre tropes and expectations venues usually fall in to,” he says. “We are trying to dig into some of the unifying weirdness and outsider tendencies in the city, so we are more interested in cultivating a space that can go from hosting harsh noise to withdrawn folk to lo-fi punk to improvisational and explorative music than we are in getting whatever flavor-of-themonth bands/sounds or hip DJ nights that will fill a room.” Caldwell also believes that State Street is helping more and more local musicians to feel at home when they’re at the bar
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too. “We wanted State Street Pub to be a hybrid of a bar venue and a DIY venue, which for the most part, I think we have done rather successfully,” he says. “I feel like that has a lot of appeal to local musicians, so much so that quite a few bands refer to State Street Pub as home.” In talking with both bands and patrons that frequent the bar, this sentiment is one that is heard time and time again. “There’s a certain expectation and vibe when you enter the doors at State Street Pub,” Clinton says. “It feels homey and welcoming — divey, gritty and most importantly, refreshing.” “It’s run by artists so naturally everything they do is genuinely sympathetic, in-line, and on pulse with the music and arts community,” adds Raw Image guitarist Jacob Gardner. “It feels like a home to me, and I love house shows.” Caldwell simply hopes that the Pub can continue to grow at the same rate over the next year. “If we can do that, I can’t even imagine what we will be doing,” he says. n One Year Anniversary Party features Benny Sanders, Peter and The Kings, Nathaniel Russell, Jorma Whittaker (Friday) and Skin Conditions, GGC Field Manual, Potslammer, Serpent Piss, Miami Mice II, SUS, Raw Image (Saturday)
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olding her own in the midst of what statistically is a predominantly male genre is something Jessie Cochran holds up as a badge of honor. “Being able to run with the big dogs has never been an issue with me, male or female,” says Cochran, who, with her band Mantra, will play her first big Indianapolis show as the opening act for Butcher Babies at the 5th Quarter Lounge on Thursday. “I’ve always just been myself no matter what anyone has said. I learned early from the very first time I heard Otep that the gender gap is an illusion. Women can bring the ‘grrr’ just as much as men, while maintaining their femininity. Once the music starts there’s no question of my ability.” In a way, she says, being a woman becomes an advantage in the genre. “I can do all these things the men can do while also having a clean vocal range that not many can touch. The music we create speaks for itself without having to rely on sex appeal. That’s what I love about Mantra. We just make music, and give zero fucks.” Three years ago, before she was brought into the fold as the band’s lead singer, Mantra was at a crossroads, trying to find a way for its dueling vocalists to stand out amid a crowded sea of like-minded bands. “It started to get weird,” says guitarist Thomas Duvall of the situation. “So me and the band were thinking about how we could do things differently. Once we got Jessie in the band, the rate we blew
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up was exponential. Her stage presence and her talent, it did a lot for us.” The band has been working on a new EP for the better part of a year, which they hope to release later this summer. It highlights their ability to meld genres within the world of metal while maintaining a strong melodic presence amid their signature layers. “That’s what I like about our music so much, is that you can never tell which direction the song’s gonna go,” says Cochran. “We have ‘Cheyenne,’ where the beginning of it is this beautiful melody with crescendos and decrescendos, so much build-up, and by the end of the song you’ve had your ass kicked. It starts out so beautiful and intricate and then becomes so raw. A lot of our songs will do that. You never know how it will start or how it will end. There’s just a lot of emotion in it.” The melding of influences has its advantages, allowing each member to contribute to the writing process while creating a sound that is their own, even if it’s tough to pin down. “I think that’s the thing that separates Mantra from what you’re hearing nowadays,” says J Mantra, who shares
vocal duties with Cochran. “We don’t just set out and say, ‘This song’s gonna sound like this band’ ... Everybody has different influences, with some overlap, but everybody likes different stuff. And we bring everything we can from different genres.” “We got told once when we played Pierre’s in Fort Wayne that we were a mix of Kittie and Cradle of Filth, so that was kind of interesting!” Cochran laughs. “I took it as a compliment, but you don’t want to get stuck in one genre. There’s so much beauty in what we do because it’s so layered, which gives a lot of freedom to develop interesting vocal shifts. All the harmonies in there, that’s my favorite thing to do, finding the vocal patterns that don’t just stick with the melody.” As the first band to take the stage on a night with an ever-burgeoning group of performers, Mantra (pronounced MON-tra — “because we’re not all men anymore!” Cochran reminds fans) will have the chance to set the tone for the entire night. Not that their leader is worried about the pressure that might entail. “You hit it, and fuckin’ hit it hard!” she says of the opportunity. “It’ll be good, a great show to open up for. A lot of people have confirmed they’re super excited to be there. And people have been very receptive to our stage shows in the past. The last time we played at Pierre’s there were like a thousand people there, and not many had heard of us before the show. But once we started playing everyone was getting into it. And nobody threw anything! Nothing has been thrown at me yet.” n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 05.18.16 - 05.25.16 // MUSIC 31
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creaming Gypsy Bandits' blend of jazz, psych rock and absurdist theater holds no counterpart in Indiana music. The Screaming Gypsy Bandits’ exploded across the Indiana music scene in a brief but brilliant flash leaving just one official release in their wake: 1973's superb In the Eye. But the collective output of the Bandit's many contributors holds a vast and nearly incalculable influence. The demise of the Screaming Gypsy Bandits launched the careers of the vocalist Caroline Peyton, proto-punk pioneers MX-80 Sound and a host of other significant musical adventurers. I chatted with former Screaming Gypsy Bandits' drummer and vocalist Michael Bourne who performed with the group until 1972. For the last 30-plus years, Bourne has been best known for his role as a jazz jock on Newark, New Jersey's WBGO Jazz 88. But Bourne is also a respected music journalist with a long history of contributing to Down Beat magazine. NUVO: During what years were you living in Bloomington? MICHAEL BOURNE: I was in Bloomington from 1967 to 1984. I went to graduate school and then I stayed. I got a Ph.D., but during the period I was writing my dissertation I got on the radio. And I just stayed on the radio. I did jazz shows on WFIU. NUVO: What was happening in the Bloomington music scene when you arrived? BOURNE: There was a lot going on in the late '60s. The jazz rock thing was happening, which came out of Miles Davis. The first jazz rock band I heard was a predecessor to the Bandits called Mrs. Seamon's Sound Band. Mrs. Seamon was the housemother at Foster Quad, I think. [note: Mrs. Seamon was the head dietician at Willkie Quad, according to a 2007 interview with Mrs. Seamon's band member Randy Sandke.] Randy Sandke was in that band, and Michael Brecker was in that band. Brecker was nineteen at the time. I went to see them and they played "Light My Fire" for like forty minutes. It was amazing. Brecker was playing amazing solos. In Mrs. Seamon's Sound Band was
also Bruce Anderson, who played guitar. From that band Bruce Anderson came together with Mark Bingham to form the Screaming Gypsy Bandits. There were so many musicians who came in and out of Screaming Gypsy Bandits, but Mark Bingham was the leader for a long time. I came in for a minute and played drums and sang for the band. I was with the band when we played with Beefheart in Cincinnati and around that time we got a chance to record and the band just fell apart in the studio. It was weird. Mark Dresser was playing bass in the band at that time. He was just a teenager. Now he's one of the mainstays of the Downtown New York jazz scene. After the Screaming Gypsy Bandits, Mark Bingham and I eventually came back together and did another band called the Brain Sisters. There was so
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I remember we did a show somewhere in Indiana with Yank Rachell, the blues mandolinist. We played down where the Irish Lion is, there was a bar down there and I can't even remember the name of it. We did play some clubs in Bloomington just below the square. We played in Cincinnati at Ludlow Garage. We didn't have a hell of a lot of gigs. It was a 10-piece band, you know?
“Jazz was ‘whorehouse music’ as somebody actually said. Well kiss my ass!” — MICHAEL BOURNE much great music in Bloomington. The anti-war movement was happening and bands were playing in Dunn Meadow for anti-war protests and so forth. When I came into the Screaming Gypsy Bandits I brought all these theatrical elements, because that was my thing. I was an actor and a Ph.D. candidate for theater. Mark Bingham eventually moved to New Orleans and opened a studio. He worked with the Rolling Stones and R.E.M. Bloomington was an extraordinary place at that time and there was an extraordinary art scene, lots of theater and lots of music. NUVO: You just mentioned bands playing on Dunn Meadow, what sort of venues were the Screaming Gypsy Bandits playing? Were you working clubs like the Bluebird? BOURNE: No the Bluebird came along later. But the Bluebird is where Charles Mingus played, and Bill Evans played, and Sun Ra and his whole Arkestra played.
NUVO: The Screaming Gypsy Bandits' featured the incredible, charismatic vocals of Caroline Peyton. I've heard the band had a pretty wild stage presence. Can you tell me about the group's live shows and Caroline's role in that?
BOURNE: It was the hippie times and the free love times. I brought kind of a surrealistic thing to the band. But Caroline was a wonderful singer. She could've been a bigger star if she was handled right. But we all fell apart in the studio, like I said. They could've gone on to great things. But she did go on to greater things – she did come to New York and started working in the theater. It's a very odd thing when you think about her career. She was this really wild hippie girl with a great voice, and then she ended up singing in musicals and operas in New York, then ended up in Nashville with a church choir. It was a complete arc of all these different styles of music. Caroline made a couple really great records in Bloomington. n
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Many a night was spent spazzing out to electro punks Prizzy Prizzy Please in Bloomington basements seven or eight years ago. The excellent, bizarre sax and keyboard band relocated to Chicago and did what great college bands do after some years together: fell apart. Happily, the quartet returns to Indy on a mini reunion tour that stops at General Public Collective Friday. Before the show, vox/sax player Mark Pallman filled me in on what the band has been up to since its last show at Radio Radio in 2010. It involves secret government research in the Alps. Really.
where in the French Alps solving math and science problems for the government in some highly classified programs. He is currently working towards earning his Ph.D. in “Super Powers.” I am being 100 percent honest. He has explained his work to me like 10 times now and my feeble plebeian brain can’t seem to wrap its neurons around it any more clearly than that. He unfortunately won’t be at the show, because he is defending his Ph.D. that same weekend. (PHD>PPP.) Our good bud Brett Haley, of Spokesmen and Parlor fame will be playing bass with us instead. Brett has been making music and things out of wood since he was born. He is the best guy I know.
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NUVO: What will you play at the show?
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PALLMAN: The set list isn’t really in stone, but it will be 100 percent old classics. NO NEW SONGS (because we haven’t written any). There may be a couple choice covers peppered in there too.
convenient or practical to do full force for a very long time. We were a very active band from 2006 to 2010, but in 2009, we all left Bloomington and kind of migrated off on our own paths. Ted (keys), Scott (drums), and myself all moved to Chicago and Bob (bass) stayed in Indiana to finish up one of his masters degrees. In Chicago, we all worked in a warehouse packaging and shipping t-shirts while we finished up our last record Chroma Cannon and planned one last blowout tour. It’s been eloquently dubbed “The Tour That Ended Music” because none of us have played in bands since. I think we all kind of realized at the time that it wasn’t something we’d keep doing forever. Everyone was just kind of burnt out on it and ready to do new things. Scott now has his own music curation business Uncanned Music and record label International Anthem. We’re actually playing these shows in support of a record he recently released for Ahleuchatistas. They will be playing with us in both Indianapolis and Bloomington. They rule. I’ve spent the past six plus years working in advertising and directing commercials for Optimus, a production company in Chicago. I recently started my own little production company as well called Special Occasion, with my longtime directing partner. We make videos (and music) for anything you will pay us to make. Ted is living in St. Louis, where he recently earned his law degree from Washington University. He is now a full-fledged, certified, practicing attorney at law. These credentials are not to be taken lightly. He can get you out of any legal jam using the immense power of his superior brain. He is terrifyingly over-qualified to be in this band. Bob is working in a secret university lab some-
NUVO: Are there any plans for future releases? PALLMAN: We don’t have anything planned or in the works, but I wouldn’t doubt we put something out again eventually. It may be next year, in ten years, or never. You just never know. I’d love to record some PPP again though. NUVO: What’s your favorite Bloomington or Indy memory of playing PPP shows?
PALLMAN: Statehouse shows were obviously
super special. The parties there were epic and the shows got so rowdy and fun. There is video evidence to immortalize too (in spite of the absence of smart phones). I also am very fond of one particular joint Indy/ Bloomington memory from like 2006 or 2007. We opened in the evening for Spoon at the Vogue (easily the biggest show we ever played) and then loaded up the van to play at the Bluebird later that night in Bloomington for Rock n’ Roll Prom. We performed as “Bruce Cougar Mellenstein” that night, playing mashups and medleys of John Cougar and Bruce Springsteen songs with dear friend Michael Hodges. Looking back, that night was pretty epic and stands out in a cloudy memory bank of sloppy, drunk performances. —KATHERINE COPLEN Prizzy Prizzy Please with VV Torso and Ahleuchatistas Friday, May 20, General Public Collective, 1060 Virginia Ave., all-ages
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The short attention span is now enshrined as the default mode of awareness. “We skim rather than absorb,” says author James Lough. “We read Sappho or Shakespeare the same way we glance over a tweet or a text message, scanning for the gist, impatient to move on.” There’s a problem with that approach, however. “You can’t skim Shakespeare,” says Lough. I propose that we make that your epigram to live by in the coming weeks, Taurus: You can’t skim Shakespeare. According to my analysis, you’re going to be offered a rich array of Shakespeare-level information and insights. To get the most out of these blessings, you must penetrate and marinate and ruminate. Taurus
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise,” said Friedrich Schiller. The coming days may be one of those times for you. I therefore advise you to dodge any tendency you might have to be impressed with your sophisticated intelligence. Be suspicious of egotism masquerading as cleverness. You are most likely to make good decisions if you insist on honoring your raw instincts. Simple solutions and uncomplicated actions will give you access to beautiful truths and truthful beauty, especially if you anchor yourself in innocent compassion. Gemini
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): To prepare you for the coming weeks, I have gathered three quotes from the Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti. These gems, along with my commentary, will serve you well if you use them as seeds for your ongoing meditations. Seed #1: “He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?” Here’s my addendum: No later than your birthday, you’ll be ready to start from scratch. In the meantime, your task is to find out where scratch is, and clear a path to it. Seed #2: “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” My addendum: Monitor your dreams closely. They will offer clues about what you need to remember. Seed #3: “Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.” My addendum: Go in search of the miraculous. Cancer
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are friendships like circuses, waterfalls, libraries,” said writer Vladimir Nabokov. I hope you have at least one of each, Leo. And if you don’t, I encourage you to go out and look for some. It would be great if you could also get access to alliances that resemble dancing lessons, colorful sanctuaries, lion whisperers, prayer flags, and the northern lights. Right now you especially need the stimulation that synergistic collaborations can provide. The next chapter of your life story requires abundant contact with interesting people who have the power to surprise you and teach you. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible,” says author Rebecca Solnit. She is of course implying that it might be better not to beat the possible, but rather to protect and nurture the possible as a viable option — especially if perfection ultimately proves to have no value other than as a stick. This is always a truth worth honoring, but it will be crucial for you in the weeks to come. I hope you will cultivate a reverence and devotion to the possible. As messy or maddening as it might be, it will also groom your powers as a maker. Virgo
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An invigorating challenge is headed your way. To prepare you, I offer the wisdom of French author André Gide. “Through loyalty to the past,” he wrote, “our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s joy makes way for it.” What this means, Libra, is that you will probably have to surrender your attachment to a well-honed delight if you want to make yourself available for a bright new delight that’s hovering on the frontier. An educational blessing will come your way if and only if you clear space for its arrival. As Gide concludes, “Each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding wave.” Libra
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Henry David Thoreau wrote that, and now I’m passing it on to you just in time for a special phase of your long-term cycle. During this upcoming interlude, your main duty is to FEED YOUR SOUL in every way you can imagine. So please stuff it with unpredictable beauty and reverent emotions. Cram it with mysterious adventures and rambling treks in the frontier. Gorge it with intimate unpredictability and playful love and fierce devotions in behalf of your most crucial dreams. Warning: You will not be able to rely solely on the soul food that has sustained you in the past. Be eager to discover new forms of nourishment. Scorpio
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Here’s how every love letter can be summarized,” says Russell Dillon in his poem “Past-Perfect-Impersonal”: “What is it you’re unable to surrender and please may I have that?” I bring this tease to your attention because it may serve as a helpful riddle in the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase when you will have an enhanced ability to tinker with and refine and even revolutionize your best intimate relationships. I’m hoping Dillon’s provocation will unleash a series of inquiries that will inspire you as you imagine how you could supercharge togetherness and reinvent the ways you collaborate. Sagittarius
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Fifth-century Christian theologian St. Jerome wrote that “it requires infinite discretion to look for gold in the midst of dirt.” Ancient Roman poet Virgil on one occasion testified that he was “searching for gold in dung.” While addressing the angels, nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire bragged, “From each thing I extracted its quintessence. You gave me your mud, and I made gold out of it.” From what I can tell, Caprciorn, you have been engaged in similar work lately. The climax of your toil should come in the next two weeks. (Thanks to Michael Gilleland for the inspiration: tinyurl.com/mudgold.) Capricorn
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “At this time in my life,” says singer Joni Mitchell, “I’ve confronted a lot of my devils. A lot of them were pretty silly, but they were incredibly real at the time.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Aquarius, you are due to enjoy a similar grace period. It may be a humbling grace period, because you’ll be invited to decisively banish worn-out delusions that have filled you with needless fear. And it may be a grace period that requires you to make strenuous adjustments, since you’ll have to revise some of your old stories about who you are and how you got here. But it will also be a sweet grace period, because you’ll be blessed again and again with a visceral sense of liberation. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): More than halfway through her prose poem “A Settlement,” Mary Oliver abruptly stops her meandering meditation on the poignant joys of spring’s soft awakening. Suddenly she’s brave and forceful: “Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.” Now would be a perfect moment to draw inspiration from her, Pisces. I dare you to say it. I dare you to mean it. Speak these words: “Therefore, dark past, I’m about to do it. I’m about to forgive you for everything.” Pisces
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