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The Indiana Legislature will split into study committees this summer to tackle 40 topics of interest and concern. This week NUVO highlights four of those topics — and why they are important.
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his is a message to supporters of Donald Trump. I don’t mean the ones who supported him months ago. Those supporters really wouldn’t get this. I am specifically talking about the supporters who once could not fathom Trump as the Republican nominee, but now are “falling in line” and “getting with the program.” I am speaking directly to you. This will make perfect sense to all of you. I envision you regretfully nodding while you read this, wishing you had not become the very thing that makes today’s topic even possible. The topic is fascism in America.
Is it really more important to these Republicans to be victorious for their party regardless of the peril that victory might bring to our nation? Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution wrote a disturbing column titled “This is How Fascism Comes to America,” published May 18 in The Washington Post. It struck a chord. It was being shared, tweeted and cited by Republicans, particularly those who see Trump for what he will truly always be. Search for the column and read it. Twice. My summary of it is that the presumptive GOP nominee has no allegiance to the party or its platform, and since the party didn’t embrace him when he thought he needed them, he never will. That’s one problem. But here is another one. Kagan writes: “His incoherent and contradictory 4 VOICES // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
utterances have one thing in common: They provoke and play on feelings of resentment and disdain, intermingled with bits of fear, hatred and anger.” Most Americans will agree that the primary force behind Trump’s campaign is the angry voter. Adding that element to his complete lack of ideology, and we now have the two main ingredients for a fascist regime in this country. Kagan is not the originator of this theory, and Trump is not the original subject of it. The word “fascism” derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. We all know that fascism is bad, but if asked to explain what it means, most of us can’t. There are reasons for that, starting with its near eradication from the planet with the end of World War II. Umberto Eco wrote in his famous 1995 essay, “Ur Fascism” (“Eternal Fascism”): “Italian fascism was certainly a dictatorship, but it was not totally totalitarian, not because of its mildness but rather because of the philosophical weakness of its ideology. Contrary to common opinion, fascism in Italy had no special philosophy.” Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher and semiotician. Semiotics is the study of meaning-making, and is closely related to linguistics. In his essay, Eco listed 14 traits that a fascist exhibits. In an eerie way, this list accurately describes Donald Trump. The inspiration of the essay was based on the dictator that defined the governing style from Eco’s homeland and early childhood, Benito Mussolini. And we all know how Mussolini’s reign ended. Well, maybe all of us don’t know, but I am betting most of the Republicans who vowed to oppose Donald Trump with all of their might earlier this year do. Ironically, the fundamental difference between Mussolini and the more infamous Adolph Hitler is that even Hitler
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had a policy platform. Like Mussolini, Donald Trump has no platform. The strength of a fascist regime comes from the middle class, its support of the leader and then its blind reliance on that leader for illogical solutions to obvious problems. And for the first time in modern times, there are large numbers of Americans willingly signing up for that program. The worst part about it is that the people I am writing to this week are Americans who know better. Is it really more important to these Republicans to be victorious for their party regardless of the peril that victory might bring to our nation? This peril was clearly recognized here by them just a short time ago. The candidate has not changed one iota since the nomination deck was cleared a few weeks ago, but somehow otherwise smart people have decided that they can now magically tolerate him. Kagan’s timely and contextual column is spot on. I am glad he published it and even happier so many people around the country are reading it. Eco warned us in a far more comprehensive manner more than 20 years ago of the same thing. I have written before that there are worse things in the world than losing an election. Losing a nation’s soul is certainly one of them. n
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HOOSIER CHILDREN NEED SCHOOL LUNCH
here has been much recent media attention paid to the National School Lunch Program. President Truman signed the program into law in 1946. The program subsidizes paid, free and reduced cost meals in public and private schools across the country. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is the part of the program receiving the most attention and has been misconstrued. Congress included CEP in the 2010 Child Nutrition Reauthorization package with bipartisan support. CEP allows school districts that are located in high poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without requiring individual eligibility determinations. This provision, strongly supported by school
administrators, reduces administrative effort and cost. As a result, CEP improves student achievement and behavior — things that we can all agree are important to ensuring our students’ success. The media and members of Congress have described incorrectly the participation threshold for CEP. For the first time in the 2015-16 school year, schools and districts were eligible if 40 percent of students were “directly certified.” This means students were automatically enrolled for free meals because the student’s household was already certified for SNAP, Head Start, TANF, or the student was homeless or in foster care. This does not mean that a school with “only” 40 percent of students eligible for
These new provisions will prevent eligible, hungry, Hoosier children from accessing school meals. Is this really what we want for our kids?
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free and reduced lunch can participate in CEP, as has been reported. Income eligibility for free and reduced lunch is broader than is eligibility for SNAP, Head Start and TANF. Thus, at schools with 40 to 60 percent of directly certified students, there is a much larger percentage of students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. Also, data shows that many eligible students are missed when schools must individually certify students. In the Lafayette School Corporation, where five schools meet the 40 percent threshold for students directly certified for free lunch, the actual rate of free and reduced lunch eligibility ranges from 65 to 82 percent. Last week the House Committee on
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Education & Workforce passed a new reauthorization package that not only significantly restricts CEP participation but would also severely limit the ability of school staff to reach out to families who may be eligible for free and reduced price lunches, and it would increase the amount of verification paperwork (and associated administrative costs) schools will need to perform. These new provisions (introduced by O.S. Rep. Todd Rokita(R-Ind)) will prevent eligible, hungry Hoosier children from accessing school meals. Is this really what we want for our kids? By eliminating the administrative costs associated with determining individual student’s eligibility, managing payments, and monitoring lunch accounts, it is simply more cost effective to serve all students. Under this bill, many schools with a high rate of children living in poverty would be ineligible to participate in CEP. Child hunger is a serious problem in Indiana and should be given serious regard. Schools are places that our children go to be nourished — intellectually, emotionally and physically. School meals are a vital part of that equation. n
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WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO INDIANA? Legislative leaders select mix of topics for summer study
Recounts approved in two primary races Some Indiana candidates will have to wait a bit longer to learn whether they’ll be on the ballot for this November’s general election. The Indiana State Recount Commission held a hearing last week to discuss recount petitions that were filed after the Indiana primary on May 3. Under Indiana law, a recount can take place if the difference is less than one percent of the total votes. Ron Drake leads David Orentlicher by some 68 votes of almost 60,000 total votes in the 8th Congressional District Democratic race. Because of that slim margin, Orentlicher filed for a recount against opponent Ron Drake. Drake testified at the hearing and said there should be no issues with the current election results. He petitioned to dismiss the recount for the 8th Congressional District. But Orentlicher thinks differently. Attorney William Groth, who represented Orentlicher, said mistakes happen and because of this, the legislature has given candidates the right to a recount. “This is in recognition in the inevitability of human error in any complex undertaking and particularly in the context of a public election,” said Groth. Drake, however, argued that after the primary Orentlicher had told multiple members of the media that despite a close race, there weren’t any issues with the voting process. “Mr. Orentlicher acknowledged that he had gone through precinct by precinct and found no problems,” said Drake. “And yet now, he requests a recount in all of the precincts.” The recount commission rejected Drake’s motion to dismiss Orentlicher’s petition, ruling a recount is allowed based on how close the results are, and not comments made by a candidate to the media. Until the recount is completed, neither candidate can declare himself a winner. That could slow or stop the campaign in the Democratic race, which could work in favor of incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Larry Buschon. A recount also will happen in the Democratic race for the state Senate seat in District 36. Sean Gorman has a slight lead over Jesse Kharbanda, with 37 votes. The commission must have ballots for the November election finalized by mid-September. Secretary of State Connie Lawson said the commission will work diligently to get the recounts done as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of steps to the process. — THE STATEHOUSE FILE 6 NEWS // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
The Indiana General Assembly will investigate 40 topics in summer study committees.
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very year during the summer, members of the Indiana General Assembly get together in small groups to explore topics of interest and concern affecting the state. More often than not those summer study committees result in legislation that is proposed in the following legislative session. Last week House Speaker Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis) and Senate Pro Tem David Long (R-Fort Wayne) announced the topics legislators will explore this year. Some of the topics are relatively boring but still necessary for review while others are controversial and have stemmed from public outcry. However all will be important to the future path of the state. There are 40 issues that will be studied this summer. But we decided to take a look at just a few that are of
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LGBT civil rights The Interim Study Committee on the Courts and The Judiciary will explore five topics. Jurisdiction changes, a motion clerk pilot program, guardianship issues and communications with protected persons are topics you will probably never hear about again after this article. But LGBT civil rights will probably get more attention than the committee will like. Sen. Tim Lanane (D-Anderson) had asked for a summer study committee on the topic last year, but was ignored by leadership. Long said the issue would be debated quietly over the summer but not in a public committee. Democrats championed the “four words and a comma” campaign all summer in 2015, which supported the addition of “sexual identity, gender identity” to the existing civil rights
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law in Indiana. Republicans were silent until the fall when Sen. Travis Holdman (R-Markle) introduced Senate Bill 100. Holdman’s bill proposed civil rights for the LGBT community with numerous exemptions written in for religious objections. Holdman claimed it was the best compromise he could come up with that offered the LGBT community the
One year later Lanane made the request for study again. This time his wish is granted and the public debate Long tried to avoid will happen.
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civil rights they desired while honoring the opposition based on “strong religiously-held beliefs.” SB 100 was bad enough with its provisional LGBT civil rights. But matters got worse when a revised version of the bill was reintroduced as SB 344. The new bill took the T out of LGBT by removing all references to gender identity. The revised version may have quelled the concerns of those who don’t like (or really don’t understand) the concept of transgender, but the progressive community was furious. Homosexuals and straight advocates vowed they would
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affair with her 13-year-old student. May Kay Letourneau’s case was very high profile and known across the country. Nineteen years later headlines in Indianapolis are causing state legislators to stop and look at how to prevent such actions from happening. In the two incidents that occurred in Indianapolis, the question of when and how law enforcement is notified came into question. In the first case, Park Tudor teacher and coach Kyle Cox pled guilty to trying to initiate a sexual relationship with a student. The student’s father discovered explicit
Ways to reduce sexual misconduct in schools and ways to improve reporting requirements are the only issues the summer education committee will address.
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not leave their transgender brothers and sisters behind. SB 100 never made it out of committee and SB 344 was pulled from the floor in the eleventh hour of second readings. One year later Lanane made the request for study again. This time his wish is granted and the public debate Long tried to avoid will happen. Legislative leaders have indicated that they will also study the issue of transgender people and public bathrooms — specifically students in public schools. The Obama administration — with the guidance of the departments of education and labor — issued a directive stating the transgender students are allowed to use restrooms in accordance with their gender identity and not their biological anatomy. The issue came up in the 2016 legislative session with the proposed bill eventually withdrawn. Sixth District Rep. Luke Messer (R-Indiana) has filed legislation aimed to block the administration’s directive.
Sexual misconduct in schools Americans were shocked in 1997 when news broke of a Washington state schoolteacher who was having a sexual
emails — which included images — exchanged between Cox and his daughter and took the evidence to school officials. The evidence was reviewed and saved by the school’s attorney and given back to the parent. However the images and emails were not immediately shared with law enforcement investigating the case. A few months later another very similar case was revealed at a public school. Indianapolis Public Schools guidance counselor Shana Taylor was arrested and charged for having a sexual relationship with a student. Like the Park Tudor case a parent disclosed the relationship to school officials. But it took six days for authorities to be notified. The criminal act was reported to administrators in the building (the principal was on medical leave at the time, but others were there) who immediately contacted the district’s administration, including the human resources office. However somewhere along the chain of command within the school system, no one thought to contact authorities outside of the school district. Both cases are still pending in the S E E , IM P OR T A N T , O N P A GE 0 8 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // NEWS 7
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court system and the private and public schools are looking at how faculty and staff are trained to report such cases, including when and who should be contacted. Legislators are doing the same through a study committee on education. In fact, ways to reduce sexual misconduct in schools and ways to improve reporting requirements are the only issues the summer education committee will address. (An entirely different committee is looking at how to replace the ISTEP exam.)
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transmission of disease. But they also called for a review of criminal penalties for drug offenses — including paraphernalia-related offenses — and the use of drug courts. Mental health experts have been saying for years that addiction is an illness and should be treated as such instead of being viewed as a criminal act within one’s control. Who knows? Maybe the Legislature is finally starting to listen to someone other than each other. The Study Committee on Public Health, Behavioral Health and Human Services will look at this topic along with seven other issues. With such a full plate we can only hope that heroin addiction and treatment will be given the attention it deserves.
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Topics studied in study committees often result in legislation for the following session.
Heroin epidemic Adding another topic to the “better late than never” column is the issue of heroin use, treatment and recovery in Indiana. News broke in 2015 that southern Indiana was seeing a sharp rise in HIV cases, specifically in Scott County. Public health officials determined the epidemic was the result of heroin use and the sharing of needles. The legislature passed emergency legislation authorizing a needle exchange program among its efforts to curb the spread of disease. When the interim study committee topics were announced, legislators decided to look at the results from the needle exchange in stopping the
Every year the code revision commission is tasked with preparing technical corrections to the Indiana Code. The goal is to fix any conflicts or errors that exist in the code. The errors may be the result of new legislation that overrides existing language in the code or may be conflicts between two or more laws. One of the most glaring errors in Indiana Code right now is the definition of marriage. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in June 2015, same sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. In Indiana, marriage equality was a done deal in October 2014 when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a cert from the state challenging lower courts’ rulings that Indiana’s marriage ban was unconstitutional. County clerks have been issuing marriage licenses in Indiana since that October decision (that really wasn’t a decision). However, according to Indiana Code, marriage in Indiana is still between one man and one woman. This is the type of technical error the Code Revision Commission is tasked with correcting. It didn’t come up on the 2015 General Assembly — but that is somewhat understandable since there was hope among certain people that the U.S. Supreme Court would rule differently than the lower courts in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. However the technical correction wasn’t proposed to the legislature in 2016 either. Summer study committees typically conclude their work prior to reorganization day in mid-November. With this year’s election cycle promising to be a race to the finish, it is uncertain what kind of impact, if any, the election will have on the results of the summer study committees. n
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or people who identify as LGBTQ, Pride is a time to sigh in relief. Walking through Downtown, Pride celebrations are a time to stand together in solidarity and safety. It’s a time when holding your partner’s hand isn’t given second glances. A time to get dressed and not overthink whether that outfit is too masculine or too feminine — or that if you choose wrong, you could be putting your life at risk. A time when maybe you don’t have to carefully weigh which bathroom you use will cause the least harassment. While it can be all of those things, Pride is also a marker of miles left to go in protecting LBGTQ Hoosiers. Sadly, we remember the LGBTQ Hoosiers who are hurt or even killed for who they are and who may never see justice. On the eve of Circle City IN Pride, happening all over the city from June 4 - 11, we’re taking stock of LGBTQ rights in Indiana. >>>
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Indiana issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples. We won a thing.
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Housing discrimination is allowed based on sexual orientation and gender identity through state law. City civil rights ordinances do help discourage this though.
Indiana allows step-parent and second parent adoption for same-sex couples.
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GENDER MARKER CHANGE ON IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS Indiana has policies in place to facilitate gender marker change on driver’s licenses, however judges do not have to grant the order. That’s it!*
Indiana employers can refuse to be sued by an employee they have fired for being gay. Again, the human rights ordinance does help discourage this.
HATE CRIMES Indiana has no law that addresses hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS As a state, Indiana does not prohibit discrimination in public accommodations.
SCHOOL ANTI-BULLYING LAWS & POLICIES Indiana does not have a law that addresses harassment or bullying of students based on sexual orientation and gender identity. After a presidential order, trans Hoosier students can use the bathroom of their choice.
TRANSGENDER HEALTHCARE Most insurance companies do not cover trans healthcare. There is no law in Indiana that requires insurance companies to do so.
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During legislative sessions in Indiana, many members of the LGBTQ community brace themselves to fight to maintain a lack of rights, to not take three steps back for every right given. In 2015, Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) brought a fight that could have ended in businesses legally being able to deny services based on sexual orientation or gender. In 2016, HEA 1337 stripped away reproductive rights from all Hoosier women and hit lesbian couples who want to use artificial insemination with a blow. But nationally we have moved forward. The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 allowed same-sex couples to get married in all 50 states. And a recent order from President Obama declared that schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice. In the last few years, federal rights have slowly made strides. But in our state, advocates have had to continuously fight to maintain the very little protections we have. It’s something that Jennifer Drobac, a professor with the IU McKinney School of Law, is very aware of. In a recent conversation, Drobac noted that according to Indiana Code 22-9-1-16, an employer who fires someone for being gay has to agree to be sued in court. Yes, you read that right — they have to sign a dotted line saying they want to be sued. “In order to get into court under the Indiana Human Rights Act, the employer has to agree in writing to be sued,” says Drobac. “So what they give with one hand, they take away with the other.” Indiana state law still does not cover discrimination based on sexual orientation. “But it does cover discrimination on the basis of sex,” notes Drobac. She goes on to explain how someone might be able to take a case of discrimination based on sexual orientation and make it a sex case under Title VII (sex discrimination by
harassment) or IX (sex discrimination by denial of participation). She gave the example of someone saying they wouldn’t hire a masculine presenting woman because she didn’t fit the gender normative standard. But for a sexual orientation or a gender discrimination case, there are currently no teeth when it comes to getting a jury trial or damages. “Indiana has a human rights act — big deal, it’s worthless, says Drobac. “Anybody facing sex-based harassment or racial discrimination or discrimination based on LGBTI status, you’re going to have to go federal law,” says Drobac. “And federal law obviously doesn’t protect on the basis of sexual orientation or transgender status yet.” Currently federal law has not explicitly included LGBTQ rights under the Civil Rights Act.
“Indiana has a human rights act — big deal, it’s worthless.” — JENNIFER DROBAC IU McKinney School of Law
WHAT RFRA REALLY DID Although RFRA passed — and came with protests, signatures, businesses refusing to expand in Indianapolis, conferences cancelled and thousands of dollars lost with each committee hearing and session — it did eventually come with a “fix.” And Kathy Sarris was one of the driving forces behind it. Sarris has worked closely with legislators as a lobbyist since her move from Chicago to Indiana decades ago. For her, the motivation to fix RFRA was the impact that it would have on those in the service industry. “I did it because, from my point of view, if all the sudden we had conventions canceling and events canceling. I personally wasn’t going to be hurt by it, but having had a restaurant, I knew it would affect servers, line cooks,
people who are cleaning hotel rooms,” says Sarris. She and fellow Indiana Equality Political Action Committee member Chris Douglas began to meet with House leader Brian Bosma, proposing that clarification be added to RFRA stating that a business could not refuse service to someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Businesses with fewer than six employees can still refuse to hire or choose to fire someone based on a religious reason. Religious-based groups, schools, churches or nonprofits can also deny someone service or employment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. According to David Orentlicher, also a professor at the IU McKinney School of Law, the human rights ordinance in Indianapolis does cover housing, employment and public accommodations. “It’s pretty good, because there are anti-discrimination statutes that protect on the basis of orientation and gender identity,” says Orentlicher. There is a state order that prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in state employment. Former Governor Mitch Daniels created the order, which remains to this day. Indianapolis added protections in 2005. Bloomington — although having included sexual orientation since 1993 — added in gender identity in 2006. In the wake of RFRA, communities around Indiana began adding it to their own city ordinances, discouraging business owners from denying services. If Merrillville and East Chicago would add the protections then well over half of the population in Indiana would be covered.
GETTING CARE Equal access to health care is a huge part of the protection. While there is a federal statute requiring emergency rooms to treat anyone who comes in, there may be an exception under RFRA for private religious hospitals like St.
Vincent in non-emergency situations. Theoretically, according to Orentlicher, they could absolutely refuse service to someone based on their identity. Sarris also noted that there is a conscientious objection law in place federally that allows any doctor to refuse treatment based on their own convictions. “That was the problem of RFRA,” says Drobac. “It was hitting us everywhere. “The other problem that I think we face in Indiana is that even though the RFRA is gone, this whole religious orientation is coming through in the abortion statute,” says Drobac, referring to HEA 1337, a law that added new restrictions to a woman’s right to an abortion in Indiana earlier this year. “People think that is just an LGBTQ issue, but it’s not because the way our RFRA was written … It affects women. An employer was within their rights … to discriminate against women who engage in premarital sex, who access birth control, have used in vitro fertilization.” She noted that lesbians will be particularly affected by this, since in vitro fertilization carries a risk of birth defects. Women who are pregnant and see that their child has life-threatening diseases must carry the child to term under Indiana law. It’s one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the nation. “Our new law now requires people who have gone through extraordinary lengths in order to be loving parents; it now requires that you carry a child that has tay sachs, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, children who will die — you have to carry that child to term, says Drobac. “This law is clearly unconstitutional, and Indiana made it law anyway.” Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky are challenging the law in federal court. The ACLU of Indiana filed the case on behalf of Planned Parenthood, which is working its way through the court system. “In that sense women are close allies — should be — working with the LGBTI S E E , P RIDE, O N P A GE 1 2 NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // COVER STORY 11
PRIDE EVENTS CALENDAR RAINBOW 5K RUN/WALK JUNE 4, 8:30 AM The 5th-Annual Rainbow 5K Run/Walk raises money for the Indy Pride Resource Center Fund and for HIV education through the Indiana AIDS Fund. Starts and ends at 22 and Talbott Streets, $30 registration
PET PRIDE JUNE 4, 2 PM The day is complete with puppy play pools, onsite adoption opportunities from local animal rescue shelters, and a pet fashion show. Riverside Park, Shelter 5, 2420 E Riverside Dr., Free
COMMUNITY PICNIC & BAT ‘N’ ROUGE JUNE 5, PICNIC @ NOON, BAT @ 2 PM Garfield Park hosts a picnic and Indy Pride softball game. The Indy Pride Bag Ladies will play against the Circle City Pride Softball league. Garfield Park Corporate Shelter 2524 Conservatory Road, Free
PRIDE SKATE JUNE 5, 6 PM - 9 PM Pride Skate is family-friendly event, but by no means is this restricted to those with kids. This year’s theme is Galactic Pride Skate. Roller Cave Family Fun Center, 8734 E 21st St., $7 for children (ages 12 and under) and $12 for adults.
BEING TRANSGENDER IN INDIANA: MAKING HISTORY PAST AND PRESENT JUNE 8, 5 PM Trans pride this year “is designed to advocate inclusivity of all trans, intersex, gender variant and queer peoples, and to inspire everyone to help make a real difference by promoting equality and diversity through visibility,” according to Indy Pride organizers. The night is hosted by IYG’s Lane Banister and author Chrissy Garrison. There will also be a free health and wellness fair from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. After, LGBT activist Andrea James will discuss her experience being trans in Indiana. Other trans Hoosiers will also speak. Indiana Historical Society, 450 W Ohio St.
GIRL PRIDE JUNE 8, 8:30 PM Performance art will be hosted by Cirque Indy and the lovely Angel Burlesque crew. DJs will include: DJ Fate, Chachi Guerrero, and DJ AriAtari. VIP tickets are still available which gets you early entry, a seat upstairs and a meet and greet with performers. $20, $40 VIP, The Vogue, 6259 N College Ave, circlecityINpride.org
CIRCLE CITY IN PRIDE FESTIVAL JUNE 11, 10 AM - 7 PM Located right at the parade’s end, the festival is a huge fundraiser for Indy Pride. Exhibitors from around the state and country come to show their support. American Legion Mall, Free
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community … to combat this,” says Drobac. “I also think we should also be protecting under the basis of sexual orientation and transgender and other trans status, so on a general basis,” says Drobac. “And we will at some point; the question is when.” She added that a disconnection between civil and criminal law in Indiana can particularly be harmful for LGBTQ youth. “We have a sexual exploitation reporting law,” says Drobac referring to what she calls the “Park Tudor Case.” This states that any adult in Indiana must report any kind of abuse, including harassment, of a minor. She voiced concerns that even highly respected attorneys and school officials don’t always know that every adult in Indiana is required to report such abuses. “That would include LGBTI youth who are being harassed and abused and discriminated against,” says Drobac. “As a neighbor, if you know a minor is being sexually abused or exploited you are required to report. “That same minor who is abused or exploited by a teacher may not be able to recover civil damages because that same consent can be used against them
California, until the legislature rectified it in January. “What happens is under the human rights act and Title VII, which protects against discrimination and sex based harassment … consent is a complete defense,” says Drobac. “It is often used against the ones who are groomed, manipulated, exploited. They are often the ones who are somehow manipulated into a consent and they cannot file civil damages.” This does apply to middle school students, but not secondary or collegiate minors. Drobac began to see this when she was representing trans individuals in 1993 in California. She currently does not have a license to practice in Indiana. “Much of the climate in Indiana reminds me of the climate I was facing [in California], I guess that was 25 years ago,” says Drobac. “People didn’t want to hire transgender individuals [and] the whole bathroom issue … There is no protection in Indiana based on transgender status. “There just aren’t laws to protect the LGBTI population in Indiana, and we need to work to change that,” says Drobac. “Until those laws exist, we as neighbors and as friends and as concerned Hoosiers need to step up and stand up for our LGBTI friends.”
“Much of the climate in Indiana [now] reminds me of the climate I was facing, I guess that was 25 years ago [in California].” — JENNIFER DROBAC IU McKinney School of Law
in a court of law even though it was no defense in a criminal case — it might serve as a complete defense in a civil case,” says Drobac. Her recent book published by University of Chicago Press, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers, discusses the conflict in detail. The same disconnect was found in
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LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER Hate crimes, acts of violence against someone based on a prejudice, are currently protected on a national level when it comes to sex, race and religion. Identity based on orientation and gender are still not covered. Indiana is no exception, and with it has come heated
debate amongst legislators and lawyers. “The concern is it’s important to send a message because you shouldn’t harm someone or deny someone services causing physical injury, says Orentlicher. “Then we get into whether we are punishing people for what they think or what they do.” Those on the other side of the debate voice fears that charging someone with a higher sentence based on their thoughts instead of the action alone will lead to a slippery slope. However, in most states with hate crime protection it is rarely prosecuted. It serves more as a stance that the state will not tolerate the behavior. Based on past debate in the legislature, it seems highly unlikely that Indiana will ever enact such protection before a federal statute mandates it. Today, one of the most vulnerable groups are those who identify as transgender individuals. In 2015 the Human Rights Campaign placed transgender homicides at an all time high, particularly against trans women of color.
THE NEXT FIGHT: TRANSGENDER PROTECTION Nireah Johnson’s name is spoken every year on November 20, Transgender Day of Remembrance. In 2003, the 17-year-old African American woman was murdered by Paul Moore. When he realized that she was trans, he killed her and her 18-year-old friend, dumped their bodies on the Eastside of Indy and lit their car on fire. He was sentenced to 120 years in prison. An accomplice, Clarence McGee, was sentenced to 10 years. More violence has followed. Hawthorn Mineart, founder of the Indiana Transgender Network, noted that Tajshon Ashley Sherman was murdered just two years ago — and there’s likely been many more. Many trans individuals are often misidentified as the wrong gender by police and coroners. Their deaths often fall under their “dead name,” the name given at birth instead of the name trans individuals choose after coming out. A few of the other major systemic
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issues for transgender individuals center around identification changes in Indiana. Mineart notes the process to get a new driver’s license, Social Security, passport, and birth certificate with the correct name and gender is often a long battle. It begins with getting a court order, and it’s truly up to the judge whether they grant that or not. Obtaining one usually consists of showing the judge that you have been receiving medical treatment — like hormone therapy — related to transitioning. Such treatment is often a point of privilege, reserved for those who can afford medical care. One of the biggest issues, Mineart adds, is as simple as going to the BMV. Each branch is different. Mineart
contends that some make a bit of a scene, like saying a trans person’s dead name out loud, or loudly calling corporate to discuss the name change. This can make a person feel very vulnerable and even put them physically at risk — and remember, there’s no hate crime law in Indiana. “That can be a huge strain on your life,” says Mineart. “The healthcare issues are a major stressor for most trans people who are seeking transition-related healthcare, whether it’s hormones or major surgeries…,” says Mineart. “And if you do find a doctor who will do transition-related healthcare, often times insurance companies are not supportive.”
The result means an out-of-pocket payment. Soon, transition-related care must be covered under the Affordable Care Act. Until then, many have to travel over state lines to receive treatment. Indiana opened its first trans health clinic at Eskenazi Health earlier this year. And currently there is only one surgeon in Indiana who can complete gender reassignment surgery. Mineart notes traveling for care can be a huge stressor. “[It’s] a major burden to have to travel out of state for surgery then have to travel back during your recovery,” says Mineart.
“RIGHT TO PEE” BILLS One of the other systematic and social issues are the current debates around
the country regarding bathrooms, and the ability of trans individuals to use whichever they choose. “These bathroom bills are just really doing a number on the community,” says Mineart. “People are scared, and they are talking about being scared, and they are having strategies.” Mineart says that they have heard of people making sure to use a buddy system and always having someone who can protect you. Indiana had a bathroom bill in the works, which fortunately died earlier this year. “I think they … more than likely learned lessons from RFRA,” says Mineart. “… For us, even though there is not a specific law, there is still harassment going on … It’s not just affecting transgender folks, it’s affecting anyone who doesn’t fit a specific gender profile.” For Mineart one of the first steps will be strong hate crime legislation. “I think just in general it’s a message to everybody, that we don’t tolerate discrimination,” says Mineart. “I think it allows us to say, ‘Hey when we are walking in to get our gender identity changed, you know we really need to have more consistent ways to do that’. Not having consistent ways to do that, a way that’s easy, so one court can say one thing and one court can say another, and license branches discriminating, we can say, ‘Look this is an issue of S E E , PRIDE, O N PA GE 1 4
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RIGHTS YOU DON’T HAVE, EVEN AT PRIDE. Harassment There is no protection against hate crimes or harassment for LGBTQ people in Indiana. While there is safety in numbers at pride, there is no legal protection for hate-based attacks. Firing While we at NUVO highly doubt that any one business along the parade route would fire someone for how they identify, theoretically, if they wanted to, the employee could not receive a jury trial or carry the case into court outside of the human rights ordinance. Women’s rights Women’s rights were hit hard in 2016 with the passage of HEA 1337, the most restrictive abortion law in the
country. To the west of the parade route lies IU Health where doctors will be forced over the next year to not perform abortions if the child has a terminal illness, something that will absolutely impact lesbian, bi, queer and transgender individuals. LGBTQ kids It is required under Indiana law that adults report sexual abuse or harassment of minors. In a criminal court case, minors cannot be found guilty for consenting to an adult when it comes to sexual abuse. The adult can use it as a defense in a civil case. According to the Human Rights Campaign, “as a community, LGBTQ people face higher rates of poverty, stigma, and marginalization, which put us at greater risk for sexual assault.”
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discrimination.’ It would help us get closer to helping fix that kind of issue. In general I think that would help when it came to medical care as well. It would mean feeling safe when we go into restaurants, when we go into retail stores, having access to the kinds of things people do in their everyday lives, knowing that there was some kind of civil rights protection and we can’t just be turned away.” Bathroom safety should be particularly considered during Pride. But the systemic issues hardly stop at health care, protection and identification. The impacts particularly are problematic for youth.
PROTECTING YOUTH “One of the things is talking to young people and young people in school …” says Mineart. “Young people face a lot of harassment and bullying. And not just harassment and bullying from their peers but also misunderstanding from educators and staff and faculty in their schools. That can also be a really big issue for young people. Depending on what school system they are in, they can see all kinds of problems.” An executive order came from Obama earlier this year barring schools from preventing trans students from using the restroom of their choice. That level of exposure is a huge step forward. “I think for trans people, visibility has made things change quite a bit because
of the visibility on a national level … and people in our community feeling comfortable to be visible and be out,” says Mineart. “And that comfort can change things. A lot of it involves people being open and coming out. Personally, that’s what really changes things. A personal interaction in the community.” That personal connection is something that Mineart spends a lot of time helping foster with the Indiana Transgender Network, an online publication that publishes information and pointers, like which BMVs and judges are best to go to for identification changes. “Somebody needs to write all these things down, so it’s not just through word-of-mouth, but that’s how these things get passed along,” says Mineart. Trans activist Korvin Bothwell feels the problems are extremely social and systematic. “I think it’s contextual,” says Bothwell. “Social issues that are facing transgender people in Indiana right now are the ever growing population of people who are buying a false narrative that transgender people and pedophiles have a link. That’s a problem.” There have been over 40 pieces of anti-trans legislation nationwide. “I think the motivation is there are groups of people who have been connected to lobbying groups who have been trying legislate morality in the United States for decades,” says Bothwell. “They focused in on the LGBT community. They lost their battle with gay marriage, now
they are coming after trans people. “The biggest issue that LGBT face right now is the mad flood of people in the moveable middle who are watching all of this go down and are not critically thinking they are weighing in on the issue and instead just buy this line of line of balderdash,” says Bothwell. “ They have no horse in the race one way or another, so rather than thinking it through and spending some time critically assessing the arguments, they say, ‘Well I have this vague sense of fear and you people feel really strongly about it so rather than trying to connect to anyone or push my own opinion, or push my judgements on the situations, I am just going to let the status quo continue and sit idly by while people just get ... wiped from society.’ ” He noted that legislation like SB 100 and SB 344 thread that needle. Bothwell notes that a problem that he has run into with legislators is they often want to know about ways that he personally has been discriminated against, instead of letting him speak as a representative in those meetings, much like the legislators themselves. “If you don’t feel discrimination then we don’t need to extend an antidiscrimination law to your group,” says Bothwell, discussing the way some senators feel. “There is no reason to amend the language in our civil rights law to protect you and this thought and sentiment is going out while a senator is trying to [legalize] that discrimination (SB 100). And no one is saying anything about it. It is the best example of double speak ever … If you are not personally being assaulted, if you’re not personally being violated, if you’re not personally losing your job — which there are plenty of people being assaulted, violated and losing their job — then they see no reason to change this law, even though they can’t see that their colleagues in their own chamber are trying to do the very thing that we are requesting people not to.” For him it’s as simple as a two word and a comma fix to the civil rights code to include LGBTQ citizens, preventing trans individuals from being attacked at
the most volatile points in their lives. “This period of time is when we are most vulnerable and this is the period of time when legislators are also trying to attack us,” says Bothwell, referring to trans individuals who do not wish to have surgery, or plan to and have not had it yet. “We are fighting for … the most basic blueprint on how not to be hostile towards trans people,” says Bothwell. “It’s not a massive coup to say that you can’t fire me for being who I am … No one would say racism is over even though it’s illegal to discriminate based on race. So the next step is to continue to dismantle transphobia.” One of the biggest issues is making sure that law enforcement receive continuing education concerning trans individuals, not just a single set of sessions.
“This period of time is when we are most vulnerable and this is the period of time when legislators are also trying to attack us.” — KORVIN BOTHWELL Trans activist
“When we get killed, when we die, if we don’t have all our identification in order then cops are going to [misidentify us],” says Bothwell. The result is no true list of those who are killed, their names being erased from history — lost somewhere between an insurance company who won’t cover them and a BMV employee who fears what they don’t understand. With each session we grit our teeth, crack our knuckles and get ready for a new battle. What matters is to never stop fighting. In the words of the poet Robert Frost — there are still miles to go. n
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FIRST FRIDAY Assembled artist reception June 3, 6 p.m. The Harrison Center for the Arts will be showing “Assembled,” a series of new work by Christina Hollering, Lauren Ditchley, and Katherine Fries. These three artists focus — through mixed mediums — on memory, place, object, and association. According to the Harrison Center “they situate themselves on the fine edge of sentimentality and examination of what we keep and why we keep it. Christina, Lauren, and Katherine ask the viewer to consider the collective human experiences that we engage in with objects.”
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Town and Country: Indiana Stories by Kipp Normand & Kyle Ragsdale June 3, 6 p.m. The show will focus on icons from Indiana history. But don’t expect to see many that you will recognize. These will be lesser known folks. Plus who doesn’t want to see collaborations between Normand and Ragsdale? Town and Country will be up for display through July 8. Gallery 924 at the Arts Council, 924 N. Pennsylvania St.
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Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 N. Delaware St. William Denton Ray and Mary Lessing June 3, 6 p.m. William Denton Ray, a painter and sculptor, is based out of the Harrison Center for the Arts. He cites his inspiration from artists like Basquiat, Picasso, Miro and styles found in graffiti and classic skateboard graphics. Mary Lessing noted that 30 percent of her work from this show will go to the Samaritan’s Purse charity. She also added to the Harrison Center Facebook page: “I make art because I have to. It is an integral part of who I am. When I am not creating, I am a depressed shell of a person that I do not recognize. Continuing to create means life to me … Inspiration for me comes mostly through music, film, other artists, and tattoo and punk culture. My favorite artists are Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, and Caravaggio. Movie characters from Wes Anderson movies in particular have been inspiring me lately. I think what fascinates me about them is how he conveys the deep sadness and hopefulness of nearly all of his characters. Although extreme, his characters really reflect on the complexity of life and of what it is to be human. We are all deeply flawed and we also all have a propensity for greatness.”
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Indiana State Museum in 2014. Getting an intimate knowledge of Russell’s work is something that, according to Kern, profoundly affected her artistic development. A similar process of absorbing and learning took place when she went to the IMA more than a dozen times to see the artwork of Thornton Dial. “And that’s primarily how I’ve learned about art. I didn’t go to school,” she says. “When I left North Central I went straight into banking,” she continued. “So I feel that I’m constantly learning through my eyes, reading.”
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Kern’s studio is in her home, densely packed with not only her own artwork but that of locally known artists such as Jerome Neal. And it was that studio into which she brought in a vintage mannequin – one which she had found in an antique store in 2012 and bartered for with her own work — and decided to turn into the artwork that will be the centerpiece of Body Parts. “The thing that struck me the most was, she just wasn’t whole,” says Kern. “I know that’s obvious when you look at her, but she couldn’t walk, she has no arms or hands; and I guess the big thing too was no head. She’s just stuck there. Can’t move, can’t think, can’t talk, can’t see. And I kept coming back to the blind part. “So fast forward, I had the opportunity to get Braille books. I cut up the Braille books and started to apply the pieces to her body and covered her entirely in Braille. I describe the process as scaling a fish, and then picking up the scales and gluing them back onto the fish. I loved the way I could accentuate the curves of the female body because I could make the lines and the pattern of the Braille in the direction that I wanted to take it.” This made-over mannequin, called “Torso,” is confined to a wooden cart studded with nails and can be pulled with the help of a long wooden stick. This work might just serve as a visual metaphor for her experiences in the world of retail banking. Another sculpture, entitled “Vagina,” addresses issues of gender: looking through the eyepiece of this repurposed plaster of Paris mold the viewer can only see two balls, representing male and female. But there are three balls in the sculpture. It may be something of a commentary on the bathroom laws recently passed in North Carolina or the RFRA controversy back home in Indiana. In any case, there is a wellspring of materials close to home on which her art can feed. Unlike the late James Spencer Russell, Kern needed not travel too far from Indianapolis, where she was born in 1961, to develop her art. She currently lives in Carmel with her husband Ron. n
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became really happy.” After helming his first feature, the cult comedy Shakes the Clown, Goldthwait picked up small-screen directorial gigs — including several
hundred episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live. His return to standup “affords me the ability to say no to being on reality shows. I can do standup, and then I get to pick the behind-the-scenes stuff that I want to do.” Goldthwait got his start in Central New York state at a club booked by an older comic named Barry Crimmins. Bobcat and Tom “Tomcat” Kenney (now the voice of Spongebob Squarepants) S E E , B O B C A T , O N P A GE 1 8
Jim Leugers’ comedy career was a service to Indiana. He performed stand-up all around the state, founded a comedy show called An Evening With The Authors – a comedy show comprised of fake authors reading from their hilariously fake books – and could do a spot-on Phil Harmon impression. Jim was scheduled to perform at the 2016 Limestone Comedy Festival before he passed away at 48 after a cancer diagnosis. When you’re a comedian in Indiana you have to love it. There isn’t a clear path to success. You aren’t surrounded by peers that are getting sitcoms or Comedy Central specials. You have to carve it out yourself. It takes consistent energy to do it at all. And even more to do something that is all your own. Jim Leugers did that. “[His comedic voice] was cynical and pessimistic because it was. But it was also silly and stupid and smart. It was everything...“ says Melinda Kashner a Bloomington comic who moved to Los Angeles. “[His physical voice] was a giant bear and [his voice was] a silky, silky smooth teddybear man’s” “He didn’t have a shtick, he was just himself.” says Kashner. Jim was a comedian who put so much thought and care into his work that it raised the bar for comedy in Indiana. “In a small comedy scene like we have in Indiana, you’re basically friends with everybody for the most part.” says Mat Alano-Martin, comedian and co-founder of The Limestone Comedy Festival. “There are the comics that aren’t only just SUBMITTED PHOTO in your social group and are trying to do it but [there are comics] that write at a level of creativity that inspires you. And Jim was definitely one of those guys for me. ... Every time I watched him on stage it was a joy. He inspired me by making me happy.” Jim’s presence in the Indiana comedy off stage scene helped other comedians succeed as well. “He made me worry less,” says Bloomington comedian David Britton. “Comics before their set, we’re kinda wired and in our [own] heads. But Jim would always sit back and relax.” Britton says, “ And so I knew I could sit with Jim if I just wanted to relax. That’s a hard thing to get over, going to shows where he normally is and he’s just not there. There’s a hole. There’s this missing thing that should be there.” Leuger is still in the voices (and jokes) of comedians who are performing all over the U.S., and especially in Indiana. I hope he’s in mine a little bit now. The Limestone Comedy Festival will pay a tribute to Jim Leugers during its opening show Thursday night. — HARLAN KELLY
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followed Crimmins to Boston, where Crimmins would book acts in the bar of a Chinese restaurant, the Ding Ho. The Ding Ho became a critical part of American standup: Paula Poundstone, Steven Wright, Dennis Leary, Kevin Meaney, Dana Gould, Lenny Clarke and a host of other comedians began their careers at open-mic nights in the bar Crimmins booked. Barry Crimmins, in addition to becoming something of a mentor to Bobcat, is also the subject of Goldthwait’s most critically-acclaimed film, a documentary titled Call Me Lucky. Crimmins, whose act could drift into political diatribes and extended rants about America’s corrupt political and financial systems, became a nationally-known activist after he revealed — on stage — that he’d been raped as a very young child by a man who’d gained access to the boy via a teenage babysitter. (His older sister had interrupted an attack on Barry that might’ve proven fatal had she not intervened.) Goldthwait’s film traces Crimmins’ career from Skaneateles, NY (“Skaneateles is an old Indian word — it means ‘beautiful lake surrounded by fascists,’” cracks Crimmins early in 18 STAGE // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
the film) to the Ding Ho to Crimmins’ on-stage revelation and into his role as an activist. After coming out as the survivor of sexual child abuse, Crimmins went to war with AOL regarding the ease of access the then-new internet technology afforded pedophiles to share child pornography and target potential victims. The film includes footage of Crimmins testifying before the U.S. Senate in the mid-’90s. NUVO spoke to Bobcat while Goldthwait was on tour in April. NUVO: Call Me Lucky — that is a really astonishing film. For those who don’t know, give us the genesis of the story — you were originally going to do a fictionalized version and it became a documentary during the process? BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT: Yeah, I was going to do a narrative all the way back to when Barry first appeared at the judicial hearing on the Senate floor. [That was] like a Frank Capra movie to me — an outsider going to the Hill … a little guy taking on a big corporation. That was the idea. I didn’t want to do a documentary because I didn’t want Barry to have to relive all that. But I started hearing him on Marc Maron’s podcast and some others, and Robin Williams suggested I do it as a documentary. [Williams] gave me the
money to start the actual filming of it. NUVO: One of the most startling parts of the film was the reaction from Barry’s sister when she realized you were actually going to go there and talk about the abuse Barry suffered — it was an “I can’t believe he’s actually going to ask me about this shit” look at that moment. GOLDTHWAIT: She did know what we were going to discuss, but this is something she’d only shared with Barry. That was pretty brave of her. I knew it would be key that we’d have someone backing up Barry’s story. I’m very indebted to her. NUVO: What also impressed me: You were dealing with this horribly revolting subject matter, and — even through the worst part of it — there was always an underlying humor there. I think that has a lot to do with Barry himself. You always feel for the guy. GOLDTHWAIT: I needed to help the viewer let off some steam. Barry was always about hiding things by making people laugh. NUVO: At the end of the film, when he’s in the basement of that house — the place where he was raped — how difficult was it for you to put him in that situation and, more importantly, >>>
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GOLDTHWAIT: Yeah, I got sober at 19 … when everybody else was distancing themselves from me because of the way I was drinking, Barry was the one who stood by me. It’s funny when people see the movie, ’cause Barry is such a hard-drinking guy, a hard-partying guy, but I always felt that Barry wasn’t an alcoholic. “I was in a lot of movies, and you When he disclosed to me the events of his life, realize you’re just a cog in a machine. I was relived in an odd Out of frustration I started directing kind of way because everything made sense my own stuff.” to me. I understood the drinking and so on. NUVO: How is he now? Now that the movie’s out there? GOLDTHWAIT: He’s doing dates, he’s writing new material. It’s funny, since Barry is so disenfranchised with the twoparty system, but because this election is so insane, it’s forced him to get involved again.
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he Lobster is set in the near future, in SHOWING: NOW SHOWING AT KEYSTONE ART a world that values couples above all RATED: R, e else. David (Colin Farrell) has been left by his wife. Per society rules, he moves to a government hotel, where he to their craft. Fun Fact: Those actors are has 45 days to pair up with a new love – then required to get back in shape and otherwise he’ll be turned into the animal hit the talk show circuit so that everyone of his choice and released into the wild. will understand that they are back in At the hotel, David is asked what animal fighting shape again. he would like to be turned into should that become necessary. His answer is a lobster. Asked why, he earnestly says, “Because lobsters live for over “[It’s about] how single people 100 years. They’re blue-blooded, like aristocrats, and they stay fertile are treated within society. The all their lives. Also, I like the sea pressure that is on them in very much.” Yorgos Lanthimos’ first English order to be with someone.” language film is billed as a comedy, but you need to understand — YORGOS LANTHIMOS, DIRECTOR it plays its odd premise straight. The humor is mostly absurd and deadpan, delivered by characters that are trying to salvage their lives David is the only character that gets a and retain their places in the human name. The other main cast members are community. So yes, it’s a comedy, but a Short-Sighted Woman (Rachel Weisz), very somber one. Loner Leader (Lea Seydoux), Limping Man I found the movie sad, funny and (Ben Whishaw), Hotel Manager (Olivia challenging. Some of the imagery is Coleman) and Lisping Man (John C. Reilly). disturbing. The pacing is deliberate, Roughly the first half of the film adwhich means that if you get involved in dresses David’s arrival, orientation and the story everything will likely seem to move along at the right clip, but if not, you may find it draggy. Colin Farrell is very good as David, making the peculiar social rules seem plausible by his low-key, polite, and direct reactions to them. Asked during the intake process whether he is sexually attracted to men or women, he responds, “Women,” then says, “Is there a bisexual option available?” When told, “No sir, that option is no longer available,” he nods and says nothing, while we marvel at how the system eliminates gray areas to more easily fit people into boxes. Farrell put on 45 pounds for the role and he promptly strips down to his tighty whities so that you can see his big belly, because when an actor gains or loses a significant amount of weight for a role, Hollywood Law mandates they show you the results of their dedication 20 SCREENS // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
socialization attempts at the hotel. The second half follows him as he sneaks away from the place and joins a group of rebellious loners that live in the woods. They have their own set of extreme rules that turn out to be understandable in context. Physical romantic or sexual contact with other rebels is forbidden, because that’s what the system wants them to do. So when the Loner Leader tells David she was looking for him, he covers for his amorous activities by saying, “I was masturbating behind those trees over there.” Filmmaker Lanthimos told the Washington Post that he and his writing partner Efthymis Filippou wanted to “do something about romantic relationships and how single people are treated within society. The pressure that is on them in order to be with someone and … the pressure they put upon themselves to be with someone. We like to push those situations to extremes in order to reveal the absurdity behind them, behind things that we consider normal in our everyday life.” The story never reveals, or even speculates, whether the failed singles are really transformed into animals, leaving you with one more thing to discuss after the movie. Certainly, The Lobster is not for everybody. But if you’re adventurous and patient, there are ample rewards to be had.n
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“From the moment I fell down that rabbit hole, I’ve been told where I must go and who I must be” — ALICE the film feels like a simple carnival ride, thrusting viewers into a quirky world of strange yet forgettable sights and ultimately leaving us empty. The film finds Alice (Mia Wasikowska, seeming bored) traveling back in time to uncover truths about the Mad Hatter
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(Johnny Depp) and his family that may save his life. Before she can embark on her quest, Alice must acquire a device called the Chronosphere from Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen). His palace is the film’s most surreal setting — a gigantic clock that controls the speed of the whole universe. While this world is certainly exotic and visually arresting, it feels more like a level of a video game than a setting of significant emotional impact. In fact, much of the film feels this way — like a mere tour of computer-generated worlds rather than a story whose special effects enhance its drama. However, the film does have one nugget of emotional truth: “You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it”— a statement you don’t hear often in tales of time travel. It’s a refreshing idea — a dose of gritty medicine in a sugary work of lighthearted fantasy. The idea that you can’t mould your past bears resemblance to something Roger Ebert once said: “We are who we are ... and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people. And for me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” If only this film focused more on stirring up empathy from viewers, connecting viewers’ hearts to the characters’ pasts more than dazzling our eyes. n NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // SCREENS 21
DRINK FOR A CAUSE NEGRONIS FOR LIFE I recently interviewed the five Indianapolis bartenders who competed in the World Class Bartending Competition. Out of those five bartenders, four of them named the Negroni as their drink of choice. Moral of the story: drink more Negronis. According to Josh Gonzales, owner and bartender at Thunderbird in Fountain Square, “The Negroni is a simple cocktail composed of equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth. These three components work together to create a drink that is a perfect balance of bitter-sweet goodness.” If you’ve never tried this delicious elixir (or if it’s your go-to cocktail), the week of June 6-12 is Negroni Week and it is the perfect reason to drink as many of these bittersweet mixes as you can. Fifteen bars around Indianapolis will be giving back $1 to charity for every Negroni sold during this week. In 2015, more than 3,500 bars and restaurants raised over $320,000 toward charitable causes. This year is looking to be even bigger. According to Gonzales, “It’s usually the first drink serious bartenders fall in love with and one that can be riffed infinitely. Ordering one at a bar is the equivalent of knowing the secret bartender handshake. You will instantly be recognized as an experienced drinker and you’ll most likely be treated as a member of the inner circle.” The bars that are a part of the event so far in Indianapolis include: The Alley Cat, Black Market, Iozzo’s, Jazz Kitchen, Libertine, Liberty Street, Marrow, Mesh, Metro, Pizzology, Plat 99, Rook, Seasons 52, Tini, and Union 50. If it were me, I would get one Negroni at each bar, that’s only two a day and three one day. No two Negronis are going to taste the same and who knows, maybe you’ll find your new favorite drink in the city. Just listen to Ryan Puckett of Libertine.“You can switch the gin, vermouth, and the proportions up and have a very different cocktail so that would keep it interesting enough. And its pretty great at any time of the day. Negronis all day.” Like the proverb: “two to three Negronis a day keeps the doctor away.” — CAVAN MCGINSIE
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clean bone sits calmly upon the white ceramic plate, a few sips of beer remain in the pilsner glass and the sun sets slowly behind the antique homestead to our left. Strangers are caught up in conversation. It’s everything a meal should be. And yet it’s not commonplace. The art of a simple, peaceful meal together has been nearly lost in our fast-paced society. Unfortunately, it’s a rarity for us to sit down as a community and to share the spoils of the land we live in, a rarity to chat and enjoy each other’s company, unencumbered by the modern advances of our world. Technology steals the conversation; the food seems uninteresting and purely convenient, many times having been zapped into life via a microwave, the beer flavorless and made by automated machinery. Some of us care more about what some random, talentless family a world away has going
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on in their faux world than the people in the room with us. It’s a sad state. But there’s a movement away from this, and one event that is leading the charge in Indiana is the Prairie Plates series at Conner Prairie. “People tend to think of Conner Prairie in alignment with the farm-to-table movement,” says Chris Petrelli, the director of programs for Conner Prairie. “So, a couple of years ago we started looking for a way to showcase a nightlife aspect of Conner Prairie for adults, while seeking out those restaurants that are local, that shop locally, source their food locally, or at least have a certain ethos about them that is very Indiana, very local to the environment, a celebration
of local food.” From this search sprung Prairie Plates, where the Conner Prairie team partners with unique restaurateurs and chefs in the area to create these dining experiences on their grounds. In the first few years the program has seen some of Indiana’s greatest restaurants and chefs prepare spectacular locally sourced meals tied to differing themes. David Tallent, Regina Mehallick, JJ Boston, and many more talented chefs and their teams have created one-of-a-kind meals for past event-goers. “Each of these events is also a collaboration where we pair the right chef with the right environment,” says Petrelli. “We worked with Cerulean last year on our Lanape [Len-ah-pay] Indian theme primarily because Alan Sternberg had reached out to us to find out some information on Native American cuisine that he was interested in somehow infusing into his restaurant. So we said, “Here’s some information and, oh, by the way, we do this program. Would you >>>
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Lamb Relleno. <<< be interested in experimenting on I’m lucky to be here. This event has some of that cuisine with us up here?” So been immensely popular with the public he created this evening of Native Ameriand as more and more people hear can inspired food while our guests had about it the more exclusive it becomes. the opportunity to mingle through our As Chris points out, “People have really Native American camp that coincided responded to it. You know, we get a lot of with our Dance Lenape program, where return visitors that are excited to come we have Native Americans from the Delaware Tribe in Oklahoma come here to share their cultural dances and music. It turned into a In the first few years the program wonderful evening where has seen some of Indiana’s greatest we paired delicious modern food with historical restaurants and chefs prepare interpretation and so we try and do that with each spectacular locally sourced meals of these Prairie Plates.” tied to differing themes. Back to my meal:“I’ll take Potent Indiana Potables for 400,” says a back. Because you really can’t do this white-haired, bespectacled woman. She is seated at one of six wood bench- elsewhere in the area, you can get the food at the restaurants and you should es in front of an indigo board with the already be doing that, but you can’t get it words Indiana Jeopardy across the top. in these historical settings while historiThe girl standing in for Alex Trebek cal interpreters are speaking with you in takes the card off and reads the statethe slang of the times. It’s a very unique ment aloud. My girlfriend answers in experience.” the form of a question, “What is Three I bear this in my mind while taking my Floyds?!” first bite, the pepper, cheese, lamb and We’re celebrating Indiana’s Bicensalsa verde all meshing together into a tennial Celebration with a bit of state delicious opening dish. The setting is history; my girlfriend and I have already unique, being outside in this expansive, made our way through the animal barn, meeting all of the sheep, goats and calves gorgeous, rustic setting surrounded by strangers, all of us brought together by raised here at Conner Prairie. I have an a love of Indiana and the enjoyment of Upland Champagne Velvet in my hand, local food and drink. The man to my left a little piece of Indiana history in itself, comments on the food and we delve into as the beer comes from 114-year-old conversation, my girlfriend and his wife handwritten brewer’s recipe. joining in. Soon, the other couple at the Next up is a venture through the table is chatting along and we’re making 200-year-old Conner House. But, before that, J.Ford’s Black Angus, from Terre Haute, is serving up an appetizer of S E E , P LATES , O N P A GE 2 4
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references to travel, literature, the loathsome qualities of technology, favorite places around the city, our mutual love of the film Meet Joe Black. Our second course is crostinis with local vegetables, a honey truffle vinaigrette and goat cheese, as well as another round of libations (white wine this time). We continue to converse and become acquainted with one another. It is a fast reminder of the communal quality of cuisine. In the words Anthony Bourdain, a man who has shared more meals with more people than maybe anyone on Earth: “You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.”
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According to Chris this year will be a big year for Prairie Plates. They are kicking off the season with J. Ford’s and Upland; up next is the always popular Petite Chou featuring an 1859 hot air balloon voyage. Then, Meridian will prepare a food and fine wine meal on the covered bridge paired with a trek through the brand new Treetop Outpost exhibit, and the season will end with an awesome event from the chefs at Ivy Tech. “What’s fun about this year is that we challenge the people involved to source their ingredients within 100-mile radius, within reason. You’re not going to get coffee grown within that area, but you can find a coffee roaster within a 100mile radius. The chefs step up because they see it as something different and interesting. This whole idea stemmed from a chef at Ivy Tech, Tom England, who basically promotes the 100-mile diet. “We said, ‘Well, I wonder if we could have a 100-mile brunch. So, Ivy Tech decided to get their students involved, which I’m really excited about because I feel that they’re going to put all of their energy into it.” Our third dish of the evening arrives:
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perfectly prepared double-cut lamb chops. We all dig in, except for the two non-meat eaters at the table — luckily beer and wine are vegan. Once my lamb chop is meat-less, I take a sip of my Campside Session IPA. I’m stuffed and I’m happy. What did Christopher McCandless say? I think it was, “Happiness is only real when shared.” The same goes for most everything in life, including meals. We are all asked to move over to the Conner House for a quick, informative and comical historical presentation entitled “What’s a Hoosier?”
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From drummer to beatmaker, producer and now leader of the 2016 Birdy’s Battle Royale champions, Clint Breeze melded power to finesse at the start of the night. With Carrington Clinton comfortably manning his drums behind the scenes, he allowed his band “The Groove” to take control, and they won the crowd over with a jazz-fueled combination of Earth Wind and Fire and The Roots, filtered through a Pharell lens. Winning from the opening spot was no breeze (pun intended) because the level of talent at this year’s Battle Finals was immense. My vote for close second place goes to Tracksuit Lyfestile. They played second from last of the night and proved there’s plenty of room for a sound you truly haven’t heard before. An instrumental combo featuring trombone distorted through a varied set of live FX-pedals, the band brought a hard-rock edge to what is still a highly experimental sound. They got the biggest pop of the night from the crowd, particularly when they busted out Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” near the end of their set. Playing a cover during a Battle Royale round can be a risky move, however. Legacy of Triumph learned that the hard way, when for better or worse, their sloppy take on “Killing in the Name” cover only showcased how much of a debt they owe to the sound of Rage Against the Machine. Marion-based Carmichael took the stage next, as this year’s rightful successor to Prowlers and the Prey’s alt-mericana sound. It took a while to pin them down — at first they reminded me of Isbellera Drive-By Truckers, but with upright bass. When I heard their exceptional three-part harmonies on “Don’t Miss You At All” echoing against thundering bass drum, however, I knew they were more likely to draw comparisons to the neo-folk of Delta Rae. Young Kingdom’s Cale Gerlach had vocals that confidently brought together influences as disparate as Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon and Cage the Elephant, in a high-energy performance which would have dominated any other battle. Stay Outside played to a somewhat diminished crowd after midnight, Aaron Becker wrung every drop of energy out of that room for his standout vocal performance. By the time he was tossing his guitar in the air at the finish of show-stopping “Lieutenant Dan,” they’d proved their sound — The Slip meets the intensity of Thrice’s Dustin Kensrue — has plenty of staying power. Their album release show at Grove Haus on June 10 needs to be on your “must attend” list.
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n April 22, in the dusty glow of twilight, approximately 60 strangers gathered inside the empty storefront at the corner of Broad Ripple and College. One email three days prior confirmed I was “on the list”. A second email, with only an address, arrived a day prior to the event. I only knew two other things: music would be involved and BYOB was encouraged. I was officially in the SoFar Sounds club. Those same 60 strangers left with smiles on their faces, new merch in their hands, a venue baptized, and some new friends to go with it all. After a show of hands from first-timers – almost everyone – and a moment of silence for our dearly departed Prince, there was a brief introduction by Sofar Indianapolis founding member and City Director Kiefer Berry before the main festivities. I loved the simple décor, the intimate ambiance, and the giddy anticipation of seeing new live music. No one looked twice at my choice of drink (lemon water) and I made sure to chat up a few of the more fashion-forward members of the party. I felt at home immediately. On this evening's agenda: Brooklyn's Noble Kids who had recorded a Daytrotter session earlier; Des Moines's Christopher the Conquered, a one-man show no one in attendance is likely to forget any time soon; and Amy & the Engine, a Boston-area band with enough energy and personality to fill big venues very soon. “Sofar Indianapolis had it's first show in May of 2015, and we're working on one show a month for the first year,” says Kiefer Berry. “In 2016 we are looking to grow by working with local businesses and sponsors. Sofar was founded by Rafe and Rocky in London in 2010. They were tired of going to shows only to witness people being too drunk, looking at their phones and generally just not paying attention to the bands that were pouring their hard work out to people who didn't care. “So they started hosting gigs in their living rooms and basements where people would just sit and watch the music happen. No phones, no drunkards, just great music getting the attention it deserved,” Berry says.
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I would say Sofar Indianapolis has met, and exceeded, those goals. The show itself reminded me of my youth in Northeast Ohio during the '90s. Homemade fliers made the rounds before shows, DIY venues could be inside or out, and run the gamut from a local Y, a KofC, a basement, or even in my case, a plastic card company's warehouse. Cover charges were small, canned goods for local charities were
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often accepted for a discount or free entry, bands hit the road in the spirit of music and toured in small groups or solo with only vague notions of where they could crash after the show. New friends were made, camaraderie was high – a scene's energy could fuel shows for months on end and a mention in a zine like Maximum Rock & Roll could boost a band's popularity overnight. Sofar Sounds seizes this nostalgia and capitalizes on our yearning for community while tapping into our desire for the
new, the mysterious. “Our audience is usually in awe by the intimate and unique nature of the show,” says Kiefer. “We constantly have people asking how they can host or get involved. Artists are typically amazed at the fact they have an audience just sitting there staring at them, taking in their music the way it was supposed to be heard.” He's right. At this show, the performers were in their element – soaking up the uniterrupted attention. The few times audience phones came out was during a break between acts, or when fans were encouraged to take photos of the performers and hashtag for social media: #sofartours. There wasn't the usual melee and mosh of a standing room-only crowd, nor the dazed slouched of assigned seats. Sofar crowds are on the floor, on pillows, or leaning in to the center of it all – the audience is not on stage but simply as close as they can get to the magic. And there's no burly bouncer to break the aesthetic distance. “Past performers for Sofar Indianapolis include Sirius Blvck, Bigfoot Yancey, Saint Aubin, Automagick, and many more,” says Berry. “Sofar Global has hosted acts such as Hozier, Karen O, and Bastille. We aim to bring some bigger acts in the future to play with some of our amazing local talent. All in the living room.” n See sofarsounds.com/indianapolis for info
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’m proud to introduce Indiana’s first posi-jazz band, Paper Claw. “So the joke is that posi-jazz is the theme,” says Zech Baumhover, laughing over the idea. “We wanted to keep an improvisational theme to the music. There’s a very uplifting, positive feel to most of the songs. Most of them are pretty evil sounds, but it’s not like it’s all going to be over and you’re fucked. It always feels like there’s an uplifting energy that comes from it.” Walking through the door at The Spot Tavern in Lafayette, Tim Gick, guitar and vocals, greets me on a rainy Wednesday day before a show featuring John Flannelly and Bree Jo’ann on their honeymoon tour. We decide to conduct our interview in the backroom versus the large outdoor patio space. Gick (formerly of TV Ghost and REV//REV) is soon met by his bandmates, Zech Baumhover, bassist and vocals, and Casey Synesael, drums, and we begin a loose conversation behind a hidden door in the dark performance area. “It kind of started when I was talking to Zech. We had in [at The Spot] one of those Australian bands that was kind of grungy and heavy,” says Gick on the genesis of Paper Claw. “I was like, dude, I just kind of want to start a grunge garage rock band. I was just going through playing at home, playing old Stooges songs and all these Nirvana songs I learned when I was a kid.” Baumhover elaborates that Australian bands and becoming bored with electronic music were huge factors of starting Paper Claw. Synesael chimes in with a genuine, “Why am I here?” Tim and Zech assure Synesael he was integral in the creation of their songs, which included a process of recording while playing live. The end result was quickly self-releasing a cassette. I was eager to grab one of the cassettes before their April 29 show with NYC jazzpunk-drone combo Sunwatchers. Mixing genres with exciting new results is no new concept, but it took a few listens of the loose-but-structured Paper Claw cassette to rationalize the ideas coming from a mix of academic jazz, punk, grunge, and jams. Lots of jamming. With the band forming, creating a 30 MUSIC // 06.01.16 - 06.08.16 // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // NUVO
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Within that jam are several builds leading to an improvised freak-out of joy — Gick’s eyes rolling to the back of his head as his body bends backwards, Baumhover in a complacent groove zone, and Synesael swaying a dance in time.
ton of songs and recording within a matter of months, their enthusiasm becomes contagious. As far as the process goes, Casey says, “We were easily able to record the ideas for the songs, and about not even a month later we were able to record the finished versions of the songs and a couple more jams.” “The way we record affects the ease with which we finished up everything really fast because we pretty much applied the same treatment to each of the recordings,” continue Casey. “With a few differences here and there, it made the recordings sound really cohesive like what it would sound like in a live set.”
On March 12, Brisbane band, Nite Fields, heavily inspired by the Cocteau Twins, headlined at The Spot, but a new band no one has ever heard, called Early House, played last. This was the first show for the band that will change their name to Paper Claw, and the confidence for captivating the crowd is there as if they’d been playing together for over five years. A melodic and pop element blended to the vocal pairings of Baumhover and Gick, and it’s surprising how tight and catchy the first few songs are. By the end, there’s a 15-minute jam comprising of a possessed Gick flailing around.
The distinct chemistry between the trio was undeniable. “After the REV//REV tour I think Tim just disappeared until he went to Portugal for a month and a half,” say Baumhover. “We had this whole huge time to think about the tour, and how it really sat with us. Tim got back, and it was kind of like we were both holding our breath, being like, uh…do you want to quit REV//REV and start another band where we play guitars?” Synesael played guitar in Lafayette band Pnature Walk, but he seems to have found a niche with drumming. He says, “I get to react to what they’re playing, and also, if I want to, I get to use my ability as a drummer to sort of drive where the songs are going.” Synesael
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smiles while collecting his thoughts, “It’s a good change.” Months later, I catch Paper Claw playing one of their shortest, but nonetheless explorative sets at State Street Pub on May 11. People from Lafayette drove to Indianapolis to see them play in a different setting. After two succinct, grungedriven songs, they broke free into a jam that seemed to go over 20 minutes. Within that jam were several builds leading to an improvised freak-out of joy — Gick’s eyes rolling to the back of his head as his body bent backwards, Baumhover in a complacent groove zone, and Synesael swaying a dance in time. The motion of letting go all comes back to what Baumhover calls the current central hub, The Spot. “Being here at The Spot we see a lot of jazz coming through,” says Gick. “Seeing all these different kinds of jazz coming through has inspired me to let go. Not every moment has to be a hook.” Baumhover grabs onto the inspirational gravitas, “Take a chill pill, and try not to make everything happen at one time.” They all agree they are not afraid to explore stuff, and not afraid to screw up. Even though Gick feared veering
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in geographical regions more sympathetic to his radical musical vision, bouncing from California to New York and eventually landing in Europe. In total, Tyler released a dozen highly regarded solo LPs before his death from heart failure in 1992. All of Tyler's LPs are worth hearing, but I'd particularly recommend 1975's Live in Europe released tucks' bandleader Russell Brown and on Tyler's own Abka label. Fronting an called Naptown jazz greats like James incredible group, featuring the brilliant Spaulding and "Killer" Ray Appleton Steve Reid on drums and Melvin Smith's classmates. screaming guitar, Live in Europe is one His time at Attucks provided the of the most aggressive and hard-hitting strong musical foundation he'd build jazz albums ever recorded. his career on, but it was a summer trip The sound Tyler achieved on Live visiting a Midwest relative that led Tyler in Europe anticipated the throbbing to the pathway of avant-garde expresnoise of New York "no wave" bands like sion he'd follow for the remainder of his DNA and James Chance several years before that scene materialized. In addition to his solo work, Eastern Man Alone was quite Tyler also recorded as a sideman on several possibly the first major exploration important LPs by the of avant-garde music in Indianapolis. extraordinary jazz violinist Billy Bang, as well as touring with the beloved avant-garde big band maestro Sun Ra. life. During a trip to Cleveland at age Despite has achievements, in India14, Tyler had a chance encounter with napolis Charles Tyler remains largely saxophonist Albert Ayler, a titanic figure in the world of free jazz. After graduating unknown. His name is omitted from almost every major treatise I've read Attucks and completing a brief stint in on Indiana jazz history, including Dathe army, Tyler returned to Cleveland to vid Williams' exhaustive and otherwise join Ayler's revolutionary jazz ensemble. essential 2014 book Indianapolis Jazz. In 1965, Tyler recorded two important LPs with Ayler, Bells not Spirits Rejoice on Perhaps Tyler's radical free jazz sound was too abrasive for Hoosier ears. And ESP-Disk. These recordings brought it seems that's still the case today, 50 his work to an international audience years after his debut recording was and also earned him an opportunity to record with ESP as a leader. Tyler's debut released. n LP Charles Tyler Ensemble was recorded in NYC in 1966, and the follow-up EastKYLE LONG ern Man Alone was recorded the following year while Tyler was studying at IU. Tyler's time at IU would mark his last period of residency in Indiana. Tyler >> Kyle Long broadcasts weekly on would spend the rest of his life working WFYI 90.1 FM Wednesdays at 9 p.m. SUBMITTED PHOTO
n January 2 of 1967, saxophonist Charles Tyler entered the Feature’s recording studio in Indianapolis to cut an LP titled Eastern Man Alone for the groundbreaking experimental music label ESP-Disk. It was Tyler's second record as a bandleader, and he was joined on the session by a group featuring Indianapolis jazz great David Baker, who'd arranged a scholarship for Tyler to study in his fledgling jazz studies program at IU. The music Tyler and his ensemble laid down in the studio that day was unlike anything else happening in the Indianapolis scene. As a saxophonist, Tyler specialized in unleashing roaring torrents of free-form melodic improvisation. Eastern Man Alone was quite possibly the first major exploration of avant-garde music in Indianapolis, and it remains one of the most significant. Eastern Man Alone looms large in my LP collection. Growing up in the bland and rigidly conservative cultural landscape of suburban Indianapolis in the 1990s, I was desperate to find some evidence of a defiant creative spirit in my hometown. My first listen to Eastern Man Alone provided that. Tyler's work shattered all restrictive conventional perceptions of Hoosier artistic expression, and I loved it. It's not just like that for me. Tyler's Eastern Man Alone has acquired an enthusiastic cult audience around the world. On his website Head Heritage, the British new wave rocker Julian Cope heaps praise on the album, writing that Eastern Man Alone,"should have been called The Psychedelic Sounds Of Charles Tyler because that's just what it is, high-energy trip music that will space you right out." In a 2010 Jazz Times magazine review of the LP, writer Lyn Horton waxed that Tyler's "music is seminal, even more so it seems than either John Coltrane’s and Ornette Coleman’s was, because it is downright raw." While Eastern Man Alone remains a significant milestone within the context of Indianapolis music, it was just one small step in the grand musical journey of Charles Tyler. Tyler was born in Cadiz, Kentucky in 1941, but largely grew up in Indianapolis. Tyler attended Crispus Attucks, where he studied under the great At-
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masters into this show, too. Think Puente, Dizzy Gillespie and more.
A Tribute to America, Indiana War Memorial, all-ages
Jazz Kitchen, 5377 N. College Ave., $12, 21+
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Diane Coffee June 4, 9 p.m. Seriously if you can find a way not to be ecstatically happy while in the crowd at a Diane Coffee show, tell us. Actually, don’t. The Hi-Fi, 1043 Virginia Ave., Ste. 4, $10 in advance, $12 at door, 21+
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WEDNESDAY ROOTS The Tallest Man On Earth 8 p.m. The Tallest Man On Earth’s last album was more fleshed out, less whispered vocals and fuller instrumentation. It’s a natural evolution for Baby Bob Dylan (as we like to call Kristian Matsson.) Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., (Bloomington), $25, all-ages NOISE Thumbscrew, The Tucker Brothers Group, Derek Johnson: 8 p.m. We’ll let Derk Richardson from The Absolute Sound tell you about Thumbscrew: “If Cream - Band and Nirvana had played instrumental jazz... they might have sounded like Thumbscrew. ...electric guitarist Mary Halvorson (just about every jazz critic’s favorite new six string goddess), double bassist Michael Formanek, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara forge a sound that is both heavy and melodic, qualities shared by those iconic power trios. In terms of jazz legacy, Thumbscrew obliquely bridges the guitar elegance of Jim
Hall and the skronk of Marc Ribot, with Halvorson negotiating a tone on her hollow-body Guild that moves from fluid, ringing, and clean to brittle, bent, and blurry — and can’t be mistaken for anyone else’s.” Locals The Tucker Brothers and Derek Johnson will open, with Johnson performing Steve Reich and Michael Fiday pieces. Radio Radio, 1119 E. Prospect St., $8 advance, $10 door, 21+ Fruit Bats, The HI-FI, 21+ BYOV, Lola’s Bowl and Bistro, all-ages Salsa Night, Red Room, 21+ The Family Jam, Mousetrap, 21+
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Leon Bridges 8 p.m. We’ll tell you the story of a dude who made it SUPER BIG. Leon Bridges’ self-titled was an homage to everything we loved about the golden age of Motown. He dropped it, then started selling out clubs, then bigger clubs, and now huge Murat-sized theaters. Murat Theatre at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $29.50 advance, $35 door, all-ages
Espanglish Night, Standout Story, Perror Planetario, Melody Inn, 21+ Black Friday with Nakay, 187, DJ Social Justic Manowar, State Street Pub, 21+
SATURDAY TRIBUTES Bill Lancton’s Santana Tribute 7:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m. Guitarist Lancton’s love of Santana is inspiring — and he threads in all kinds of other Latin jazz and rock
Pam Thrash Tero, The Bluebird (Bloomington), 21+
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Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, The Early November 7 p.m. Last year’s Dashboard Confessional show was the first time Chris Carrabba had taken his old band back on the road. Carrabba told us what he was thinking when tickets started selling in huge numbers, and how it felt to be exhausted from so many years on the road. Carrabba: “I’m keenly aware of the fact that we were at a point of overexposure, pure exhaustion from 300 dates a year for 10 years. If there’s an exaggeration in there, it’s a slight exaggeration, a slight miscalculation. So we were criticized and heralded in equal measure, and then maybe positively criticized in unequal measure, a little bit unfairly when that backlash against a scene that we were involved in happened en masse. When we took a break, I didn’t know if we were coming back. And when we did, I didn’t know if we were coming back to people
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Polka Boy 7 p.m. The perfect polka cover band to dance to on picnic tables, Polka Boy’s performances at the Rathskeller are legendary. This gigantic cover band features accordion, horns, a killer drummer and lots of gang vocals.
Summer Under The Sails: Jesse Lacy, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, all-ages Slow Season, JC Autobody, Bent Rail Restaurant and Brewery, all-ages Vonnegut Sessions Kickoff: Danny Barnes, Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, all-ages Birthmark, Carate Urio Orchestra, Metavari, Joyful Noise, all-ages Dan Giffin, Melody Inn, 21+
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DON’T CALL HER COUGAR There’s this boy — he’s 29; I’m 46 and female. We met when we were 23 and 41. I was not and am not into little boys. The Kid chased me, and I turned him down for months — until I got drunk one night and caved. It was supposed to be a onenight stand, but it isn’t anymore. We’ve never been “together,” because the Kid wants kids and happily ever after and all that horseshit, and I don’t (and I’m too old even if I did). The Kid has been in several relationships over the years, looking for The One, and I genuinely hope he finds her. In my wildest dreams, I’m invited to their wedding and their children call me auntie. But in the meantime, the Kid runs to me when he hits a hiccup in a relationship, and I let him — meaning, he gets mad at her and fucks me madly. Afterward, I get him to talk about it — he tells me what happened, and I always try to advise him how to make it better, how to make it work. But so far it hasn’t, and we’re “us” again until he meets another girl. I do love this Kid, for what it’s worth. But I’m afraid I’m ruining his chances. I’m afraid that by being an escape hatch, I’m giving him a reason not to work on other relationships and he will never find the kids/forever thing he’s looking for. Should I let him go for his own sake? If I tell him honestly why, he won’t accept it, so I’d have to just vanish. I’d hate that. It would be worth it if I knew he met someone and got to live happily ever after. But I’d spend my life feeling bad for disappearing on him, and I’d always wonder if the Kid wound up alone. — DON’T CALL ME COUGAR
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He’s young, he hasn’t met a woman he could see himself with for the long haul, and he appears to be in no rush — he can have his first kid next year or 20 years from now. And the meantime, DCMC, he has you. Here’s where I detect some conflict between statements and actions: The fact that you keep fucking the Kid while he’s technically still with other women — first you fuck him (madly) and then you advise him (sagely) — is a pretty good indication that you’re not ready to let go of him, either. If you really wanted to encourage the Kid to work things out with whatever woman he happens to be seeing, DCMC, you would offer him your make-it-work advice without fucking him first.
“I’m afraid that by being an escape hatch, I’m giving him a reason not to work on other relationships.” Fucking someone who has a girlfriend — especially someone who has a girlfriend he’s supposed to be with exclusively — doesn’t exactly telegraph “I think you two should work it out.” So going forward, maybe you should offer the Kid your advice when he’s seeing someone, fuck the shit out of him when he’s single, and don’t waste too much time worrying about whether fucking you incentivizes being single. Because single/you may be what he wants right now.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The voices in our heads are our constant companions. They fill our inner sanctuary with streams of manic commentary. Often we’re not fully cognizant of the bedlam, since the outer world dominates our focus. But as soon as we close our eyes and turn our attention inward, we’re immersed in the jabbering babble. That’s the bad news, Aries. Now here’s the good news. In the coming weeks you will have far more power than usual to ignore, dodge, or even tamp down the jabbering babble. As a result, you may get a chance to spend unprecedented amounts of quality time with the still, small voice at your core — the wise guide that is often drowned out by all the noise. Aries
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I foresee fertile chaos in your immediate future, Gemini. I predict lucky accidents and smoldering lucidity and disciplined spontaneity. Do you catch the spirit of what I’m suggesting? Your experiences will not be describable by tidy theories. Your intentions will not fit into neat categories. You will be a vivid embodiment of sweet paradoxes and crazy wisdom and confusing clarity. Simple souls may try to tone you down, but I hope you will evade their pressure as you explore the elegant contradictions you encounter. Love your life exactly as it is! Methodical improvisations will be your specialty. Giving gifts that are both selfish and unselfish will be one of your best tricks. “Healing extremes” will be your code phrase of power. Pisces
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CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to many sources on the Internet, “werifesteria” is an obscure word from Old English. But my research suggests it was in fact dreamed up within the last few years by a playful hoaxster. Regardless of its origins, I think it’s an apt prescription to fix what’s bugging you. Here’s the definition: “to wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery and adventure.” If you are not currently seeking out at least a metaphorical version of that state, I think you should be. Now is an excellent time to reap the catalytic benefits of being willingly lost in a wild, idyllic, relaxing setting. Cancer
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): We are inclined to believe that the best way to see the whole picture or the complete story is from above. The eagle that soars overhead can survey a vast terrain in one long gaze. The mountaintop perspective affords a sweeping look at a vast landscape. But sometimes this perspective isn’t perfectly useful. What we most need to see may be right next to us, or nearby, and it’s only visible if our vision is narrowly focused. Here’s how poet Charles Bernstein expresses it: “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.” Use this clue in the coming weeks. Virgo
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m debating about which of your astrological houses will be your featured hotspot in the coming days. I’m guessing it will come down to two options: your House of Valid Greed and your House of Obligatory Sharing. The House of Valid Greed has a good chance to predominate, with its lush feasts and its expansive moods. But the House of Obligatory Sharing has an austere beauty that makes it a strong possibility, as well. Now here’s the trick ending, Leo: I’d like to see if you can emphasize both houses equally; I hope you’ll try to inhabit them both at the same time. Together they will grant you a power that neither could bestow alone. Leo
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Between now and July 25, there’s a chance you will reach the peak of a seemingly unclimbable mountain. You could win a privilege that neither you nor anyone else ever dreamed was within your reach. It’s possible you’ll achieve a milestone you’ve been secretly preparing for since childhood. Think I’m exaggerating, Virgo? I’m not. You could break a record for the biggest or best or fastest, or you might finally sneak past an obstacle that has cast a shadow over your self-image for years. And even if none of these exact events comes to pass, the odds are Virgo
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Aphorist James Guida contemplates the good results that can come from not imposing expectations on the raw reality that’s on its way. “Not to count chickens before they’re hatched,” he muses, “or eggs before they’re laid, chickens who might possibly lay eggs, birds who from afar might be confused with chickens.” I recommend this strategy for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Experiment with the pleasure of being wide open to surprises. Cultivate a mood of welcoming one-of-a-kind people, things, and events. Be so empty you have ample room to accommodate an influx of new dispensations. As James Guida concludes: “Not to count or think of chickens.” Sagittarius
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Life will invite you to explore the archetype of the Ethical Interloper in the coming days. The archetype of the Helpful Transgressor may tempt you, as well, and even the Congenial Meddler or the Compassionate Trickster might look appealing. I urge you to consider experimenting with all of these. It will probably be both fun and productive to break taboos in friendly ways. You could reconnoiter forbidden areas without freaking anyone out or causing a troublesome ruckus. If you’re sufficiently polite and kind in expressing your subversive intentions, you might leave a trail of good deeds in your wake. Aquarius
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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your theme comes from the title of a poem by Fortesa Latifi: “I Am Still Learning How to Do the Easy Things.” During the next phase of your astrological cycle, I invite you to specialize in this study. You may imagine that you are already a master of the simple, obvious arts of life, but here’s the news: Few of us are. And the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to refine your practice. Here’s a good place to start: Eat when you’re hungry, sleep when you’re tired, and give love when you’re lonely. Pisces
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