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A response to our cover story on Indy Pride: I’m co-president of Indianapolis PFLAG and I’ve been marching in the Parade for the past 8 years. I look forward to the Parade and Festival all year long - a wonderful chance to see old friends and meet new people and share PFLAG’s message of love and support for all LGBT people and their families. Come visit our Booth #58! — Annette Siegel Gross
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Pete Adams always gets excited before his band Baroness starts a tour. The current one however stops here on June 11. By Wade Coggeshall
In a market economy, employers pay employees what they’re worth. Period. Also, note what this article doesn’t say: 1. What education does Miryah have?
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3. Why did she choose to have children when she can’t afford to support them? I’m sympathetic, but it sounds as if Miryah has made a string of bad decisions, and actions have consequences. — Anonymous Coward
WHAT’S ONLINE THAT’S NOT IN PRINT? … it seems pretty easy to understand the concept that workers who are paid minimum wage cannot support even one person, much-less three.
HOPPE: THE IPAD GENERATION Life used to be an exercise in face-toface navigation. More and more, those faces appear on screens.
2. Where is the father of her children?
REVIEW: TIME FOR THREE Tom Aldridge writes about the performance debut of William Bolcom’s Games and Challenges: Something Wonderful Right Away.
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As for the judgments on her living situation (i.e. “Where’s the father?”) I’m not sure how your moralizing judgments make a difference here. The facts of America are these: Women raise children alone all-thetime. You judge her while knowing nothing about her: Maybe he left. Maybe he died. You really don’t know who the guy is or what the circumstance is, so just writing her off as making “a series of bad decisions” seems pretty demeaning. “In a market economy, employers pay employees what they’re worth.” Wrong. Employers pay their employees the least amount that they can get away with. “Worth” is too subjective to waste your time determining it for every employee, so employers simply pay the least amount that they can get the employee to accept that is legally passable. — Thorvington Finglethorpe
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’ll be honest. The mere premise of this column makes me uncomfortable. Two interconnected issues, panhandling and homelessness, present a moral dilemma I’m unsure I’ll ever figure out. On one hand, panhandling involves a a negative influence on business interests. human being who has found himself or I understand the complexity of the issue. herself in a situation in which they must Mayor Greg Ballard recently said that repetitively ask others for support. On the Indianapolis has lost more than $6 million other, panhandling is the result of a sysin spending by visitors as a result of their tem that has massively failed millions of perception of Downtown. Americans, because in order to have, othBut again, we’re talking about human ers must have not. beings who should never be disregarded I am somewhere in the middle of this for the almighty dollar. dichotomy, because I recognize that in its I do give Indianapolis credit for trying with most basic form, panhandling represents a its ill-fated donation box approach, which is human in need, and I feel a moral obligavery similar to the “homeless meters” that tion to help and support those less fortuhave sprouted up in cities around the country. nate than me. The idea is that it is far more effective to give I genuinely believe in the value and to social service entities than directly to panagency of human beings, and I (like many handlers, and these receptacles are designed of you) feel for those who panhandle. I want to provide easy avenues for giving. However, to help each person, but it’s incredibly difficult when you have no idea how that money will be spent and there is an almost absolute We have the ability to come up certainty you are enabling that person to be in the exact same with solutions that respect the spot the next day. I also recognize that this dignity of panhandlers. person is a part of something much larger than a few dollars here and there will ever fix. the boxes in Indianapolis didn’t catch on and As a result, what are we supposed to do didn’t move the needle on panhandling. when we walk around Downtown and are Despite this failure, I am certain that bombarded with requests from panhanwe have the ability to come up with soludlers? What am I supposed to do with my tions that respect the dignity of paninternal struggle of discerning whether this handlers without simply pushing them person is genuinely in need, suffers from a out. Given the success of Indy’s 5x5 idea mental illness or is just manipulating me generating events or even PitchFeast with for my generosity? Dreamapolis (the organization I founded), Given my inability to answer these queswhy not hold an idea competition to find tions, I am uneasy about the increasing the best idea to solve social issues such as prevalence of panhandling and our collecpanhandling? I’m sure that funders and tive failure at adequately addressing it. From a city perspective, some Indianapolis city officials would see the benefit of making a $10,000 investment in innovation as leaders believe the best way to fight panopposed to losing $6 million annually. handling is to legislate against it. It is already At the end of the day, simple legislation is illegal to aggressively solicit money, but legislation has been recently proposed to also ban not enough; a couple dollars here and there isn’t either. We need to think big. I sincerely “passive” solicitations at night Downtown. hope that from a legislative perspective and Nationally, cities have begun to respond a civic engagement perspective we are able to a rise in panhandling after a report by to facilitate a challenging conversation that the National Law Center on Homelessness can lead to solutions, because visitor doland Poverty, which found a 7 percent lars are critical to the continued growth and increase in prohibitions on begging or panexpansion of our urban core. handling between 2009 and 2011. Dealing with panhandlers is a part of Many of these cities, such as Nashville, stoking that collective growth. Instead of Tenn., Orlando, Fla., Grand Rapids, Mich. and assigning blame we should be working to Salt Lake City have begun instituting policies include them in the process, not pushing to greatly reduce the panhandling population, them away for someone else to handle. citing health risks to the panhandler, as well as NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.05.13 - 06.12.13 // VOICES 5
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On Saturday, more than 150 Hoosiers gathered to spell out the words “Beyond Coal” in hopes of moving Indianapolis Power and Light to shut down its coal-fired power plant on Harding Street. The plant contributes 88 percent of all toxic emissions from industrial sources in Marion County, according to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory. Leaders from the NAACP, Hoosier Interfaith Power & Light and Citizens Action Coalition joined Sierra Club, which is spearheading the Beyond Coal effort, to unveil a new letter to IPL Chief Executive Ken Zagzebski, urging IPL to invest in clean, renewable energy and get help move Indianapolis off the list of the nation’s top 20 most soot-polluted cities. (DG) Indiana Youth Group, a local non-profit organization dedicated to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth in Indianapolis, announced Friday that Administrative Law Judge Melissa Reynolds ruled the BMV erred in its decision to suspend the IYG’s specialty plate sales. Though there is the potential for appeal, IYG still found gratification in Reynolds’ ruling. “While the politics may not have been on our side through this process, we were always confident that the facts were”, IYG executive Director Mary Byrne said in a news release. “We just wanted a fair shake from the state and a chance to sell our plates again. We got that chance from this judgment and we are incredibly grateful that our case was reviewed based on the merits and not a political agenda.” In January 2012 Hoosiers were the first in the country to be granted a specialty license plate for a LGBTQ youth services organization. Eight hundred IYG plates sold during a 10-week period in 2012, generating $20,000 in support for IYG before legislative interference undermined the effort. (DG)
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evelopers’ plans to build a mixed-use retail and residential building along Broad Ripple’s Central Canal have a chorus of opposition clamoring for them to return to the drawing board. At issue is a joint project between local outfits Browning Investments and Sheehan Development Co. to redevelop the site of an abandoned Shell gas station on College Avenue and a neighboring 1940s-era apartment building along the canal with an estimated 35,000 square feet of retail space, 88 apartments and 400 parking spaces. The twobuilding complex that would be as high as five stories, anchored by health food supermarket Whole Foods. The Hearing Examiner for the Metropolitan Development Commission is set to consider the developer’s request to more than quadruple zoning guide-
lines for village retail space and more than double the height allowances at a public meeting set for June 13 at 1 p.m. in the City-County Building’s Public Assembly Room, 200 E. Washington St. Concerns that Whole Foods would undermine the viability of Good Earth Natural Foods dominated the nearly 1,500 public comments added to an online petition in protest of the project. Good Earth, which sits about a block away from the proposed development, has sold health food in Broad Ripple since 1971. With a Whole Foods already operating two miles up the Monon Trail in Nora, many petitioners said bringing the store to Broad Ripple would amount to overkill. “I adore Good Earth, and would be heartbroken if it went out of business,” wrote Micala Carey. “There is already a Whole Foods right down the road, there’s no need to build another one. Part of Broad Ripple’s charm is in all of its small businesses where you can find interesting things that are not sold in generic corporate stores. If you introduce giant corporations that drive out small businesses, it becomes just another cookie cutter area, and there would be no reason to go there.”
ROUGH AUDIENCE Local residents also packed an informational meeting hosted by the Broad Ripple Village Association on May 23. Though the BRVA does not have the power to approve or deny the developers’ zoning variance requests — that decision ultimately rests with the city-county council — association leadership aimed to offer local businesses and residents with the information necessary to generate informed feedback before making a decision about whether to offer public support of the plan. The BRVA will review the results of its online public survey on the project, which remains open through June 5, before making its decision. “The bottom line is we need to get out information so that people can make decisions,” BRVA Past President Mark Wolf told those gathered at the meeting. Many in the crowd, however, seemed to already have strong opinions about the proposal. About 45 minutes into the meeting, in the midst of a presentation by Joe Scimia from S E E , B A T T L E , O N P A G E 09
Two of the most popular soccer teams in the world — F.C. Inter Milan and Chelsea F.C. — will faceoff at Lucas Oil Stadium on Aug. 1. Local promotional partners — including the city’s new pro soccer team, Indy Eleven, Visit Indy and Marion County’s Capital Improvement Board (the stadium owner) —met with the news media Wednesday on the field of the stadium to make the announcement that the Guinness International Champions Cup will play a first-round match of its premiere club tournament in Indianapolis — bringing the world’s game to Indy’s pigskin palace for the first time. The announcement served as a monumental cap to the one-year anniversary of Indy Eleven President Peter Wilt’s arrival in town to formalize discussions with the team’s owner, local developer Ersal Ozdemir, about the possibility of bringing a pro soccer team to Indy. Tickets to the Chelsea/Inter Milan match, which range from $30 at the low end to VIP options at $250, are available at ticketmaster.com. (RT) Four companies have filed suit in federal court to stop Indiana’s county prosecutors from enforcing a new law meant to crack down on the sale of synthetic drugs. The firms say the law is unconstitutional, in part because it’s so vague. The suit says the law is “not objective and can easily be abused to fit whatever criteria law enforcement decides it wants to use on a particular day and lends itself to abuse and harassment of Indiana citizens and business owners.” The law – approved by lawmakers this spring as Senate Bill 536 – makes it illegal to possess or deal “look-alike” synthetic drugs, such as spice and K2. Currently, only substances identified as synthetic drugs based on their chemical makeup are banned. (LW, Statehouse File) NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.05.13 - 6.12.13 // NEWS 7
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BATTLE , FROM PAGE 07 Faegre Baker Daniels, who represents Browning Investments, members of the standing-room-only crowd began to yell and jeer when Scimia suggested organic items are not currently offered in Broad Ripple. “We have some of the best local grocery stores in the state right here in Broad Ripple,” a resident named Diana said during the Q&A session. “I don’t agree with having a grocery store or any sort of competition for Good Earth.” Panelist Bryan Chandler of Eclipse Real Estate represented Whole Foods at the meeting and said the company had been looking to invest in the area for a long time. “They’re very interested in doing business in Broad Ripple and have been for 20 years now,” Chandler said, noting that the neighborhood is always the first stop of the Whole Foods president when visiting Indianapolis. “That investment will come at the cost of other local businesses,” said another resident. “Why should we support you in destroying our local grocery stores?” Chandler pointed out that other big stores like Marsh and Target have stores in Broad Ripple and Glendale, respectively, as well as in Nora. Scimia rejected the notion that added competition kills existing business. “When the Fresh Market first came to town [at College and 54th], did it destroy all the local grocery stores?” he asked.
ENVISIONING THE FUTURE To cultivate greater neighborhood vitality, the Envision Broad Ripple plan, adopted by the city in 2012, guides zoning decisions within the village. “The desire of the BRVA is [to figure out]: How do we create a village that is all-day living?” explained Elizabeth Marshall, BRVA secretary and Midtown Economic Council member. “Services need people to stay in business ... We have vacant spaces that we can’t seem to fill with anything other than bars.” Browning and Sheehan contend their project would enhance the village experience inline with several of the plan’s tenets, including the desire to increase density, by promoting Broad Ripple as “a place to work, live, play and gather.” In addition to the apartments and retail spaces, the developer’s statement outlines efforts to “dramatically improve this existing gateway into Broad Ripple Village” by designing public sitting, gathering and walking areas alongside the canal. In a recent interview, Good Earth President Rudy Nehrling countered: “It doesn’t bring anything new —it doesn’t fit into the scale of Broad Ripple and, architecturally, it doesn’t fit in with neighborhood. It certainly serves the developer and Whole Foods, but doesn’t bring anything to village except for added traffic.” Response to the modern design of the complex, which is not yet final, according to architect Greg Jacoby of Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf, was less than complimentary, according to sentiments expressed during the recent meeting. “This building looks like it could be any place. It doesn’t look like it belongs in Broad Ripple,” one woman said, garnering cheers and applause from the crowd. Another resident said it had none of the
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The chorus of opposition to a proposed development on College Avenue north of the Canal became so vociferous at points during a public meeting May 23 at Broad Ripple United Methodist Church that organizers threatened to end the event.
old charm for which many buildings in the area are known. “The people that live here appreciate that historical reference and that historical architecture,” she said. A man who said he is a landscaper by trade asked a more direct, personal question: “If your building is five stories high, how will you prevent people from looking into my backyard?” “Since you’re a landscaper, plant some trees,” one of the panelists said half-jokingly. In response to a question about how to make the facility’s parking garage look less like a parking garage, Scimia mentioned efforts to incorporate local mural art into the project. He responded to safety concerns about added traffic by acknowledging the issue and noting that a traffic study is planned.
to see Broad Ripple return to family-type businesses. Will you commit to not having businesses that sell alcohol?” “No. Whole Foods sells beer and wine,” responded Chandler, who seemed to be confused by the question in an area known, as BRVA Secretary Marshall said, as “a bar destination.” Bill Woolf, owner of Bill’s Hair Design at 6163 N. College Ave., said he has mixed feelings about the project. “I like the apartments. I’m not against five stories. I’m all for density. I do not like retail and housing combined because of the safety of the residents,” he said, saying that his business’ proximity to the Vogue and other bars means he sees a lot of “transients.” “I can’t see any use coming out of mixed use [developments],” Woolf continued. “We still need to work on creating a safe
TIF TURBULENCE Funding is another point of “The bottom line is we need contention. to get out information so that “We know this project is not sustainable without some people can make decisions” help from the city,” said Jamie Browning of Browning — MARK WOLF, BRVA PAST PRESIDENT Investments, who was a panelist at the public meeting. The developers are asking environment.” the city to issue a $6.6 million bond and loan The BRVA, which holds no vote in the them $5.6 million of the proceeds to cover the ultimate decision, has yet to decide whethcost of certain aspects of the projects includer to support the project. ing demolition work, flood proofing, and The proposed development still has a construction of the parking garage and faciligauntlet for government approvals to navities along the canal. They propose that the gate before it can possibly be built. additional $1 million be used to fund other The Hearing Examiner for the projects in the neighborhood, suggesting that Metropolitan Development Commission, the incremental tax gains the city could expect who is responsible for making recomfrom higher assessments on upgraded proper- mendations on zoning variance requests, ties would cover the cost of bond repayment. will hear from the staff of the Department While some argue the use of this so-called of Metropolitan Development, the project tax increment financing, or TIF, money will proponents, remonstrators and any politibe of ultimate benefit to the neighborhood — cians who want to weigh in before issuing enabling the development of property which a recommendation to the Metropolitan may otherwise be cost-prohibitive to tackle— Development Commission. others decry the idea of using any form of tax The MDC will then repeat the hearing money to support private business interests, process. If it supports the project, it will especially on a project so beyond the scale of then proceed to the City-County Council existing operations. for consideration. The DMD staff report will be availPARTING SHOTS able for public review at tinyurl.com/ Jim Holland, a BRVA board member and BroadRippleCanalDevelopment by the the night’s moderator, grew tired of the repeti- afternoon of June 7. To read the developtive questions and statements and asked for er’s statement, peruse the Envision Broad something new before he ended the session. Ripple plan, or participate in the public One father stood up and said, “I’d like survey, visit BRVA.org.
Indianapolis Animal Care & Control Adopt-A-Thon In conjunction with Just One Day, an effort to suspend the killing of healthy, adoptable animals on June 11 at shelters nationwide, IACC will offer five days of reduced pet adoption fees and other bonuses. The $50 fee covers spaying or neutering, age-appropriate vaccinations, dewormer, microchipping with a year’s Home Again membership, FIV and feline leukemia testing for cats, and heartworm testing for dogs. People opting to adopt two cats will be offered the second for $25. Friday, June 7, through Tuesday, June 11, Indianapolis Animal Care and Control, 2600 South Harding St. Indy Pride Parade and Fest The Cadillac Barbie Pride Parade with floats, vehicles and exhibitions galore embarks at 10 a.m. from the intersection of College and Mass Ave, working its way to Central Library. The party leads right into Pride Fest, which will rock into the night with acts like Mya, Cynthia Layne, Detox of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Indianapolis Men’s Chorus and the Indy Pride Bag Ladies. Sat., June 8, American Legion Mall (St. Clair to Michigan between Meridian and Pennsylvania) All Ages. Suggested Donation: $5, Gates open at 11a.m. Stargazing at the IMA Enjoy the evening’s celestial array, including appearances by Venus, Mercury and Saturn. Hosted by the Indiana Astronomical Society. Sat., June 8, 9 p.m., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Rd. Free. Scavenge The Ave NUVO presents Indy Read’s “Scavenge the Ave.” Beginning at The Athenaeum, the six-block scavenger hunt down Mass Ave supports adult literacy programs in Indianapolis. Organize a team of one-six participants for adult or family-friendly routes. Register your team at indyreads.org. Wed., June 12, 6 p.m. The Athenaeum, 401 E. Michigan St. Starting at $12.
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OPENING Ana Gasteyer: Elegant Songs from a Handsome Woman The star of screen ( SNL, Suborgatory) and stage (Wicked, The Royal Family, The Threepenny Opera ) said to the Los Angeles Times of her cabaret show, “It’s so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest. I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels — and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate earnestness.” The June 7 performance is billed as Pride Night at the Cabaret to jive with the Circle City IN Pride Festival, which runs through the weekend. The Cabaret at the Columbia Club, June 6 and 7, 8 p.m., $55-75 ($12 minimum), thecabaret.org Intimate Opera: Julius Caesar The town’s scrappiest opera company has chopped down Handel’s Julius Caesar to a two-hour running time and moved it to the present day in an effort to make it more manageable and, indeed, intimate. Presented in Italian with scene descriptions and supertitles with live music provided by a scaled-down ensemble. IndyFringe Basile Theatre, June 7-8, 14-15, 8 p.m., $20 adult ($10 student, senior), intimateopera.org Buck Creek Players: City of Angels A tribute to ‘40s Hollywood that picked up Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score closes out Buck Creek’s season beginning Friday. Buck Creek Playhouse, June 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, $17 adult ($15 student, senior), buckcreekplayers.com Spotlight Players: God of Carnage Four neanderthals meet to discuss a fight between their children in God of Carnage, a pretty darn mean-spirited comedy by French playwright Yasmina Reza that’s been produced on just about every continent since its 2006 premiere — and made into a 2011 film by Roman Polanski. Spotlight Theatre, June 7-8, 14-16, 21-23, $12 adult ($10 student, senior), spotlight-players.org Motus Dance Theatre: Pairings Motus’s annual fundraiser matches up food and wine pairings — prepared this year by Adam Ditter of Bluebeard and Ian Phillips of Killer Tofu — with new dance pieces. Plus a silent auction. White Rabbit Cabaret, June 8, 7 p.m., $85-400, motusdance.com
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f Friday’s Circle Theatre wasn’t sold out, it came mighty close. What attracted so many? Perhaps it was the $20-per-ticket charge for the remaining seats, wherever located — good for both the classical and pops series till the end of this season. The evening featured the performance debut of William Bolcom’s Games and Challenges: Something Wonderful Right Away, for playing, miming and improvisation, featuring our trio-in-residence, Time for Three. Drawing first from Chicago’s Second City improv comedy troupe (with which he worked in the ‘60s), Bolcom fashioned a nine-part work lasting nearly half an hour, a mix of “games” and “challenges” featuring the orchestra, plus Urbanski and Time for Three members Zach de Pue (violinist and ISO concertmaster), Nick Kendall (violinist) and Ranaan Meyer (bassist), all of whom were enlisted to produce music as well as engage in a hefty degree of mimicry, with “art imitating life.” Starting with an empty stage, the work began with orchestra members stepping their way on stage, each sounding a note with each step while chanting from Facade — An Entertainment (poetry by Edith Sitwell, music by William Walton). The then-filledstage people intoned: “Thanks, Edith and Willie, from the City of Indianapolis.” That was Game One — the music now up full. Which immediately segued into Game Two: “Play Ball.” Urbanski was the pitcher and the Time for Three players were the batter, catcher, and umpire respectively. (No ball was used; after all, this was mime.) Then came Challenge One: “A Little Bit Ominous,” in which the Time for Three improvised on a phrase supplied by Andre Hajdu’s Book of Challenges. (Interviewed last week by NUVO, Bolcom cited Hajdu, an Israeli composer whose work often features improvisation, as an inspiration in writing Games and Challenges. Bolcom studied alongside Hajdu at the Paris Conservatory in the ‘60s.) And so it went through the ensuing six parts — three games, two challenges and a Finale melding both called “I Want My Fun Now!” that involved the audience in clapping and chanting. Nothing profound happened, but it was a trip! Bolcom’s one startlingly original musical entry was in his eighth part, Game Five: “Slow and Easy Wins the Race.” Starting at the bottom of the lowest register of the lowest (and largest) instruments — i.e. the tuba,
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the contrabassoon and the double basses — the music glided slowly upward, engaging each instrument at the bottom of its respective compass, gradually encompassing more and more of the smaller instruments. As the pitch got higher, the largest instruments reached their upper limit and bowed out. This continued till only the smallest, highest-pitched instruments were left. And guess which one made it to the top. Rebecca Price Arrensen’s piccolo was the only instrument sounding at the end. She stood up and gave us a “hurrah.” To my knowledge, no composer has ever done this before. Though Bolcom’s remaining orchestral music was generically contemporary, the
Time for Three group stood out, as they seemingly always do. They examined many styles, including more than a hint of bluegrass and adding improvised excitement to the experience. As another pace changer, the program’s second half featured two Gershwin mainstays: Rhapsody in Blue, with Awadagin Pratt as piano soloist, and the all-orchestral An American in Paris. Though technically not quite on a par with most of the younger guest pianists we’ve savored this season, Pratt offers an originality in his keyboard work missed by others — not to mention his improvising on a number of Gershwin’s keyboard passages in his own manner. This compensated for a lack of articulation heard in some of the fleeter construction. Clearly his finest symphonic work, Gershwin’s An American in Paris derives some of its orchestral brilliance from Puccini, as in La Bohème’s opening scene and all of its Act 2. Urbanski did a commendable job bringing out all the myriad shades of colors in this tour de force — despite a few slips by the horns and brasses.
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Rutherford Chang’s record store offers 750-plus copies of just one album BY SETH JO H NSO N EDITORS@N U VO . N ET
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utherford Chang vaguely remembers buying The Beatles’ self-titled 1968 release from a garage sale as a teenager. But it was his second copy, purchased seven years ago, that set him on a trail that leads him to iMOCA this First Friday. Chang, a 33-year-old artist who splits his time between New York City and Shanghai, has since gone on to acquire more than 750 copies of The White Album, all of which are showcased in a carefully catalogued, record store-styled show titled We Buy White Albums. Chang carries only first-edition White Albums — those bearing an embossed title (more or less invisible from a distance) that was replaced in 1975 with gray printing. They’re all somehow less than mint, whether they simply bear the inevitable marks of age or have more significant damage, ranging from offhand sketches to water-logged cardboard. “Every copy has a story behind it,” Chang says. “Often I don’t know who owned the album — but because of the physical condition of the albums you can always imagine what has happened in the past.” In keeping with its title, the We Buy White Albums shop — which opened in New York City’s Recess gallery this February — has grown with each move. iMOCA will buy albums on Chang’s behalf with a couple caveats: as noted,
Chang is looking only for first editions and each copy must be worth less than $20 (keeping with Chang’s interest in adding well-worn specimens to the shop). Visitors are invited to browse and listen to the collection, and Chang plans to digitally record each album and document each cover and disc label when he finishes touring the show. He then plans to press a new double LP “made of the accumulated recordings and images layered upon each other,” according to a press release. Chang’s project has earned notice in The New York Times, Hyperallergic — and Wired, which described The White Album as “a memento mori for everything we make: nothing lasts forever, so we should design for that.” “In a way, it’s a document of that whole era, of what’s happened and the way that these basically white squares have gone out into the world and become unique objects,” Chang says of his White Albums. “I obviously didn’t create what’s on the cover or the way that these vinyls have aged, but it’s the way that they’ve been out in the world and become unique.” In conjunction with Chang’s exhibit, Indiana Humanities will host Indiana University music professor Glenn Gass as apart of its INconversation series on June 11 at iMOCA. Gass will speak about The White Album and share “other tales from rock ‘n’ roll history,” as he calls them. Visitors are encouraged to arrive a half hour early for lunch provided by Neal
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Art as Dissent in the Spirit of Ai Weiwei The ACLU’s Ken Falk, the IMA’s Rachel Huizinga and artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm discuss art’s role in a free society as part of the ACLU’s First Wednesday series. Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 5, 6 p.m., aclu-in.org Preserving Miami Marine Stadium Miami-based architect Jorge Hernandez talks about his city’s efforts to save a 1963 stadium noted for its modernist design but fallen into disrepair. Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 6, 6 p.m., free, imamuseum.org The Self-Portrait Show Featuring self-portraiture across a variety of media, including ceramics, sculpture, video, painting and poetry. Gallery 924, June 7-July 26, indyarts.org
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Brown’s The Brown Bag. Gass remembers going into Downtown Records in Greencastle upon the album’s release, when a preponderance of white squares greeted shoppers in much the same way as does Chang’s show. Coming in the wake of Sgt. Pepper’s extravagant photo collage, Gass says that The White Album’s plain design was “breathtaking,” as it allowed you to “imprint your own imagination” onto the album’s “blank canvas.” In the same light, he believes the songs on The White Album allow for a more “detours” than Sgt. Pepper’s, which takes the listener on more of a guided ride. As such, Gass thinks that Chang’s exhibit does the album justice. “I really do feel like you sort of imprint yourself onto that album and onto those songs,” Gass says. “I think the idea of the exhibit itself is brilliant actually.” Sharing iMOCA’s gallery space for the month of June is Nathaniel Russell’s The Opposite of Lost, featuring a collection of “fake fliers” he’s designed over the years, most of which feature lost and found items.
Heather Stamenov: TA-DA! Featuring new large-scale paintings by the Stutz artistin-residence, Herron prof and Christel House instructor. Primary Gallery, June 7-28, primarycolours.org Jacinda Russell: A Tale of Obsession and Nine Fake Cakes A Tale of Obsession takes as source material a collection of photos of Marilyn Monroe that once belonged to a certain David C. Nolan. For years, members of Russell’s family believed Nolan to be the photographer; in fact, the photos were taken by others, but Nolan made his own mark by cataloging them, stamping his name, copying out quotes, etc. Russell, a Ball State professor, digitally combined the front and back of the photographs and enlarged each photo by two and half times for the show. The cakes are photos of styrofoam cakes floating in pools. Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery, June 7-28, stutzartists.com Talbot Street Art Fair 270 artists are on the manifest for the 58th annual Talbot Street Art Fair, held between 16th and 20th streets on Talbott Street and on cross streets between Delaware and Pennsylvania streets. June 8, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and June 9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free, talbotstreet.org Independent Music + Art Festival & INDIEana Handicraft Exchange IMAF turns 12 with another June afternoon’s worth of music (including Five Year Mission, Pravada and The Pinstripes) and local art on the Harrison’s lawn. And running simultaneously inside in the Harrison’s gym is our fair city’s preeminent arts ‘n’ crafts fair, featuring puppets and soaps and posters and things made out of stones. Harrison Center for the Arts, June 8, noon-8 p.m., indieanahandicraftexchange.com, harrison center.org
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Josh Cocks – Josh was not asked to be a part of Bloomington’s first comedy open mic in September 2008 and has been repeatedly disrespected ever since. Conor Delehanty - Another comic who started in Bloomington and moved on to a bigger scene, Chicago. Conor’s understated delivery sets you up perfectly to be sucker-punched by his great jokes. Brian Frange - Former house emcee of The Comedy Attic, in-house art director for the club, lived with the Thompsons. Jon Hancuff - Soft-spoken, Jon’s jokes sneak up and blindside you. Probably my favorite joke writer in Bloomington. Tyler Jackson - Tyler advanced to the semifinals of the 4th Bloomington Comedy Festival while living in Louisville and now resides in Chicago. Kid Kazooey - A Bloomington legend, we’re so happy to have Kid opening up our family-friendly show. Part Hoagy Carmichael and part Shel Silverstein, the Kid abides. Christine Little - A Hoosier now living in L.A., Christine balances Midwest charm with big city smarts into one funny package. Ben Moore - Bloomington’s first ever full-time professional comedian, his debut album Never Coming Back debuted in the iTunes Top 40.
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Joshua Murphy Bloomington’s original comedy wunderkind is partially growed-up and wowing audiences all over.
Jamison Raymond - The reigning “Funniest Person in Bloomington” and creator of the comic book Henchmen.
Dwight Simmons - An IU grad started in B-town, moved to Chicago, then to Indianapolis and is arguably the hottest comic in that city. Brent Terhune - Indy’s undisputed king of puns and wordplay, Brent’s comedy both disarms and charms.
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ive years ago, Jared and Dayna Thompson made history by opening Bloomington’s first and only full-time comedy club, The Comedy Attic. This weekend, they’ll make history again by teaming up with Bloomington comedian Mat AlanoMartin to bring Central Indiana the first annual Limestone Comedy Festival. National headliners including Tig Notaro, Pete Holmes, Doug Benson and Maria Bamford will be joined by more than 50 other comics from across the country to participate. Most comedy festivals take place in big cities — consider Bridgetown in Portland, Just For Laughs in Montreal and Sketchfest in San Francisco. So how did Bloomington, a town of just 80,000 people, pull off such a feat? Limestone cocreator Mat Alano-Martin says it’s all in the timing. “Jared and Dayna have built such a reputation in such a short amount of time with fans of comedy and the industry itself,” he says. And it’s true. In January, The Comedy Attic was named one of top 10 comedy clubs in the country by USA Today. With national attention on the club, Alano-Martin approached Thompson about making their mutual dream of a local comedy festival a reality. And Alano-Martin was certainly the man to do it. Previously the Vice President of Programs for the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, AlanoMartin is a touring comedian himself, as well as a former tour manager — he had the pragmatic skills to put the festival in motion. And Thompson could secure the talent. Nearly 300 comedians submitted to be considered for Limestone, and only 40 were chosen. Of the 40, six come from Bloomington and two are from Indianapolis. Local comedian Brent Terhune is excited not only to perform at Limestone, but to build relationships with the other comedians. In Terhune’s opinion, comedy festivals are invaluable to comedians because, “comics get to hang out and meet each other. It’s a good opportunity to build relationships
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and find out about other comedy scenes around the country.” The festival will also have members of the industry in attendance. “I’d like to have good shows and meet new and funny people,” says Terhune, laughing, “but I’d settle for a sitcom deal or picking up major Hollywood representation.” A particular highlight of the festival will be the podcasts, which will have approximately one million combined downloads. In addition to recordings by headliners (see page 17), on-site recordings of The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian, Comedy Film Nerds with Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini and The Unbelievable Podcast with Brian Frange and Charles Gould are scheduled for the week. Unique to Limestone is a showcase for students of comedy class taught by local Bloomington comedians. The class allowed members of the community interested in performing comedy to learn some of the basics of joke writing and comedic performance. Unlike music fests, where crowds can zoom between shows at their leisure, once you’ve picked a comedy venue, you’re in for the whole show. Alano-Martin and Thompson kept this in mind, so each headliner will perform twice — with the exception of Notaro, who kicks off the entire weekend with a Thursday evening show — to ensure everyone gets to see all the headliners at least once. From there, festival goers can pick and choose which podcasts or other shows to attend. There’d be no Limestone without a thriving spot like The Comedy Attic. Why has the venue succeeded where others have failed? “It’s a perfect storm of our audiences being great and us paying attention to what’s happening in comedy,” says Thompson. “When you book a good line up, you have great shows. When you have great shows, the comics talk to each other about what a great time they had and that makes comics wants to come here.” Melinda Kashner has worked and performed at The Comedy Attic.
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“Hello, how are you? I have cancer; how are you? Just diagnosed with cancer. Feels good.” Tig Notaro’s been one to watch since her appearances on The Sarah Silverman Project. But after a searing set last year at L.A. club Largo that addressed her recent breast cancer diagnosis, breakup and her mother’s death, she was catapulted into the spotlight. Notaro’s comedy is low-key and dry, but uproariously funny. She’s recently signed to local label Secretly Canadian, writes for The Amy Schumer Show and hosts podcast Professor Blastoff.
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It’s been a banner year for Pete Holmes, whose podcast You Made It Weird took off right around the time the comedian was tapped by Conan O’Brien to host a late night show on TBS. The Midnight Show, as it is called, was picked up just before the release of new album Nice Try, The Devil. Holmes, a former television writer and New Yorker cartoonist, careens into his SUBMITTED PHOTO sets with maniac energy and frequent, hilarious crowdwork. We exchanged emails last week about his new show and predictions for the end of Mad Men.
Insanely prolific stoner comedy god Doug Benson hosts not one, not two, but three regular comedy podcasts, including Doug Loves Movies, Dining with Doug and Karen and The Benson Interruption. He releases multiple episodes per week, records an album every year and tours incessantly in between movie projects like Super High Me. The man is busy. So why all SUBMITTED PHOTO the work? “It forces me to come up with new jokes instead of relying on old stuff. Not gonna point any fingers, but some comics rarely update their acts,” says Benson. His most popular podcast, Doug Loves Movies, tapes in the UCB Theater in LA. Benson invites a collection of different comedians to participate in a variety of cinema trivia games, including the ever-popular Leonard Maltin Game. When asked to pick his top three favorite moments taping DLM, Benson’s answer is ready. “John Lithgow, John Lithgow and John Lithgow. When that guy came on the show it was amazing,” he says. Benson will host a taping of foodie podcast Dining with Doug and Karen at Limestone. On that show, he samples food along with fellow comedian Karen Anderson. Another regular podcast, The Benson Interruption, was once a show on Comedy Central; it sets Benson and a revolving line of comedians together onstage, with Benson interrupting their sets. He takes it to the next level with The Benson Movie Interruption, which puts Benson and even more comedians in the front row of a movie screened live, wisecracking throughout. Benson will tape an episode of The Benson Movie Interruption at Limestone. He tours frequently with Graham Elwood, a regular guest on DLM and host of the podcast Comedy Film Nerds, along with comedian Chris Mancini. Elwood and Mancini will perform at the fest and record an episode of their podcast — and possibly pop up on Benson’s podcast tapings. But when it comes to movies, Elwood and Benson do things separately. “We rarely even go [to see movies] together,” says Benson. “I like to sit close and he likes to sit in the back. Plus, he wants to see every major release on opening weekend. I’m not in that kind of rush for most of the films these days.”
Truly odd comedian Maria Bamford made an appearance on television screens last week during an extended guest stint on the new season of Arrested Development as struggling addict and actor Debrie Bardeaux. It’s the latest in a string of television appearances for Bamford, which includes a smattering of voice work. Bamford’s a master impressionist, which set off her 2007 eponymous web series in which Bamford starred as every character, including her mother, father, coworkers and other acquaintances. She talks often of her family, even recording a dark, twisted and, ultimately, cathartic set in front of an audience of just her mother and father for 2012’s The Special Special Special. We spoke the day after Netflix dropped all 15 episodes of Arrested, and I couldn’t resist a few questions about the series. “The whole character — the idea — was [already formed]. I just said lines, which is lovely. Just lovely,” says Bamford, of Debrie. “I got to improvise a little bit, but not too much, which was okay with me because I was pretty nervous.” Another new, familyMaria based project Bamford Bamford on stage is working on currently at The Attic is called Ask My Mom, available online on PHOTO COURTESY THE COMEDY ATTIC MyDamnChannel. com. “I’m excited for that [because] I’ll finally, hopefully be working with my mom,” says Bamford.
NUVO: Last time I saw your act was in Bloomington at the Comedy Attic, and then I ran into you downstairs at The Bishop Bar. How do you like Bloomington? It’s a tiny liberal oasis in the middle of great big red Indiana. Lots of tattoos and angst and harp players. PETE HOLMES: Can I use your answer? I love it. In the middle of this big red state, it’s nice to see a lot of tattoos and harp players. But, like, angsty harp players. Drinking Guinness. Because the pint has a harp on it. And because of their angst. NUVO: What is the one rejected New Yorker cartoon that you think should have absolutely made it in the magazine? HOLMES: Every single one of them, honestly. But my favorite was always these angels with huge wings in heaven and the guy is saying, “I miss backrubs.” Or the girl avocado yelling at the boy avocado, “What do you MEAN I’m ‘the good kind of fat’?!” NUVO: If, in an alternate timeline, you were a youth pastor, like you talk about in your act, what would your first lesson be? HOLMES: Love something bigger than yourself and love your neighbor. Everything else is just bologna. Also, is it ethical to eat bologna? NUVO: Do you think Mad Men will end with Don killing himself? Will Peggy get the spin off she deserves? HOLMES: No, and no, and, no, she doesn’t. I’m so sorry. When it comes to Mad Men I’m an opinionated monster and the show is Don and he would never kill himself and a Peggy spin-off without Don is like a sandwich without bread or sexual tension.
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The Internship Early reviews of this Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson vehicle are mixed, but the two are always a pleasure to watch. Think Google Crashers as the two aged, anachronistic interns do service at a, ahem, certain digital giant. (PG-13) The Purge Dystopian thriller whose premise is that for one 12-hour period each year people can commit any crime they want. Imagine what would happen to the film industry! (R) Stories We Tell Oscar-nominated film by Sarah Polley is universally beloved, so if you’re looking to see a film this week where you don’t walk out, wishing the world of The Purge was true, this is the one. (PG-13) At Any Price t Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ( Man Push Cart, Chop Shop) deserves credit for presenting members of the agricultural community as regular folks, but Dennis Quaid as a genetically-modified super seed salesman strays close to caricature in his perennial desperation. (R) —Ed Johnson-Ott
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hen I first saw the art for The Kings of Summer — a poster showing three high school age boys leaping off of a precipice to dive in the waters below — I thought of Stand by Me and envisioned a nostalgic adventure story. The trailer for the film made it clear that there was plenty of humor, delivered mostly by the clueless adults in the story, so I adjusted my expectations accordingly. The actual movie — the runaway boys make a ramshackle home of their own in the forest — is more of a daydream stretching thinly to feature film length, with sketch comedy and montages filling in for the emotional gaps. It’s easy to watch and certainly has its pleasures, but key parts are missing. In the Ohio-filmed production, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts from a screenplay by Chris Galletta, we meet Joe (Nick Robinson), who lives with his father Frank (Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation in top form) following the relatively recent death of his mother. Dad is funny, but his strictness rubs Joe the wrong way. Joe’s best friend is Patrick
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(Gabriel Basso), a high school wrestler whose insipid, cooing parents (Megan Mullally and Marc Evan Jackson) would drive anyone crazy. The third figure in the runaway team is Biaggio (Moises Arias), widely dismissed as “the weird kid” and prone to making non sequiturs. Joe comes to Patrick with a plan: He’s found a secluded clearing in the woods nearby and wants to build a house there for the two of them to live. Patrick eventually agrees and the boys use found and nicked objects to assemble a serviceable enough cabin. And then they split. Biaggio joins them, by the way. He’s not either teen’s friend, but they don’t shoo him away. Later, a girl named Kelly (Erin Moriarty), who Joe fancies, becomes a major factor in the story. The adults notify the authorities (comic cops), the guys become a hot news item, the authorities can’t find them although they are just over in the
woods (near a chain restaurant) and have visitors coming and going — nevermind, this is a fantasy, a daydream. Suspension of disbelief and all that. What hurts the movie the most is the dynamics between the boys. Joe and Patrick are best friends — we are told this, but never see any evidence onscreen. They behave more like coworkers than buddies. And then there’s Biaggio, introduced as a chronic outsider and kept that way throughout the story. Where is the bonding, the camaraderie, the character development, the richness? In place of moments that might have fleshed out the relationships, we get montages set to music of the boys doing things in the woods. There are fine moments — I especially liked a scene where Joe and Patrick played drums on a large pipe while Biaggio did a tribal dance atop it. But most of the time the movie made running away and living in the woods look repetitive and dull. It may be that way in real life, but if you’re offering an hour and a half escapist fantasy, please be kind enough to create a destination that seems desirable and people we’d actually be interested in knowing.
Frances Ha e Frances (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old New Yorker trying to realize her dreams as she drifts from apartment to apartment in Noah Baumbach’s ( Greenberg, Kicking and Screaming) charmingly blunt black and white film. Gerwig is wonderful as Frances, who is impulsive and quirky without ever seeming mannered. The endlessly hopeful young woman is surrounded by peers that have either found their path or are well-heeled enough to take their time looking. There’s a sense of authenticity here that’s lacking in most films of this type. At Keystone Art Cinema. (R) —Ed Johnson-Ott Now You See Me y Magicians robbing the rich and giving to the poor. If you like airy, flashy, self-assured summer heist flicks you may have a good time here … IF you are willing to watch the movie without questioning any of the impossible things that happen and if you don’t mind a twist ending that makes no sense whatsoever, even on its own terms. (PG-13) —Ed Johnson-Ott
FILM EVENTS Bike-IN Movies: The Goonies (1985) An outdoor screening (on the lawn behind Garfield Park Arts Center) with food trucks on hand for refreshment needs. Garfield Park, June 7, 9 p.m., free Summer Nights: Pillow Talk (1959) Virile Broadway composer Rock Hudson impersonates an effeminate Texas rancher to josh with interior decorator and phone-hog Doris Day on the party line. Indianapolis Museum of Art, June 7, 9:30 p.m., $10 public, $6 member Midnight Movies: Willow (1988) Val Kilmer is a long-locked warrior and Billy Barty the village wizard in George Lucas’s long-gestating brainchild. Keystone Art Cinema, June 7 and 8, midnight, $7.50
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CVA event schedule:
The honorees
6 – 7:15 p.m. Reception including drinks, light
Eskenazi Health • Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy
appetizers, conversation and a performance from previous CVA winners, Time for Three. Drinks and food provided by Augustino’s and Sun King.
of Gene and Marilyn Glick • Indy Reads • Indy Urban Acres • Joyful Noise Recordings • People for Urban Progress • Lifetime Achievement, Judy O’Bannon
7:15 – 8:30 p.m. NUVO Cultural Vision Awards
The location
Ceremony: free and open to the public. Afterward, we suggest taking advantage of downtown nightlife entertainment options at various First Friday gallery events on Mass Ave and in Fountain Square.
Innovation. Inspiration. Celebration. NUVO’s Cultural Vision Awards is now in its 15th year. The CVAs were originally created to celebrate individuals and organizations that are pathfinders — folks bringing new perspectives and innovative ideas to Indianapolis’ understanding of itself. NUVO defines cultural vision in its most inclusive sense. We look for people and programs whose creativity enlarges our city’s selfimage and enhances our quality of life. The CVAs also have been NUVO’s way of rebutting the old saw that Indianapolis is a town that doesn’t generate new ideas — that we wait to see what works elsewhere before adopting it for ourselves. NUVO always has been dedicated to telling stories about Indianapolis citizens who link ideas to action and find new ways to solve long-standing problems. These are the people who help distinguish what is authentic and, yes, authentically weird, about this place. The CVAs are another way to bring attention to some of these stories. Every year that the NUVO editorial team combs through nominations that come to us through readers, community contacts and past honorees, we are reminded of the many compelling ways people in Indianapolis have found to make life better. This process culminates with the annual NUVO Cultural Vision Awards, a night where these stories are shared.
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New this year, Indiana Landmarks Center. Formerly the Central Avenue Methodist Church, the building had fallen into disuse. With the help of a $10 million contribution from the Cook family of Bloomington, this important Indianapolis edifice has been restored — beyond its previous glory.
The award Benjamin Johnson grew up in Indiana where he was first introduced to glass at the Indianapolis Art Center. He went on to earn his BFA in glass from Kent State University and his MFA in glass from Ball State University. His education in glass extended beyond university at the Corning Museum of Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, and Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti in Murano, Italy. Johnson’s desire to pursue glass has taken him from the coast of New England to the mountains of North Carolina where he was a resident artist at the EnergyXchange, a renewable energy center. Johnson’s artwork is regularly shown in venues throughout the United States. It can be found in the permanent collection of the Indiana State Museum and has been published in Art Glass Today. Johnson’s work has received best in show awards in Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana, Florida, and Arizona, and he has been the recipient of a Windgate Fellowship Grant Award, an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, a Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group Jerry Raphael Fellowship and a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship. This year he will be recognized as a Rising Star in contemporary glass at the Museum of American Glass in Millville, N.J. Currently Johnson is home in Indiana sharing his passion for glass as a faculty instructor at the Indianapolis Art Center.
Eskenazi Health
Indianapolis Cultural Trail:
Promoting health and wellness
A LEGACY OF GENE AND MARILYN GLICK
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feature a Sky Farm, where it will esearch suggests the biomedical model only accounts grow fresh produce to help feed for about 15 percent of patients and staff; utilize specially healing,” says Matt Gutwein, commissioned works of art; and president and CEO of Marion create a significant new public County’s Health and Hospital Corp. space, called Eskenazi Commons. “We’re trying to address that other Through the leadership of Dr. 85 percent as well.” Lisa Harris, Wishard’s CEO and Gutwein is talking about the medical director, the hospital has city’s transformed public hospital, revolutionized its approach to food. Eskenazi Health, a new, $754 million Harris began by encouraging staff state-of-the-art facility that not only members to begin cultivating plots builds upon the accomplishments of of the Wishard campus. From there, Wishard, the city’s oldest hospital, but she saw to it that fresh produce was represents an invigorated vision for the utilized by the hospital food service, overall public health of Indianapolis. and that affordable vegetarian Due to open Dec. 7, Eskenazi options were offered in the cafeteria. Health’s realization stems from These efforts have been an extraordinary extended to the expression of public larger community support. In 2009, at through Wishard’s “How do the bottom of the investment in local we promote Great Recession, farmers’ markets and Gutwein and his health and community gardens, board put forth a as well as through wellness and public referendum public nutrition get at the asking citizens to classes that provide root causes of support $600 million in locally grown fruits illness?” bonds to build a new and vegetables at public hospital. The –Matthew Gutwein, reduced prices. proposal won, with a Eskenazi Health The Sky Farm takes resounding 85 percent these efforts to another in favor. The yes vote level. It will place a prevailed in every one fully functioning farm on the roof of Marion County’s 522 precincts. of the new Eskenazi building. Food Eskenazi Health will build on the trail- grown at the Sky Farm will be used blazing approaches to public health by the hospital food service. “We will long associated with Wishard Hospital. emphasize that people are eating the “The overriding theme that we’ve very food they are looking at,” says brought to this is how do we keep Gutwein. “It’s also a statement about people from getting sick in the first our city. We want to say that the place,” says Gutwein. “How do we public hospital having a sky farm is part promote health and wellness and get of the values we share as a city.” at the root causes of illness so people Gutwein sees Eskenazi Health as don’t wind up being very ill — and building on a legacy that has been very expensive — patients.” sustained by citizens for 150 years. The new hospital will not only be “It’s been an incredible privilege to LEED (Leadership in Energy and be part of this.” Environmental Design) certified for its green design features, it will also — DAVID HOPPE
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linked virtually all of Downtown’s felt this was a city where you can arts, cultural heritage, sports and have big ideas and people might entertainment venues. But Payne help you make them happen,” and his collaborators soon realized says Brian Payne, the founding their project was about more than visionary behind the Indianapolis connectivity. “One of the guiding Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene and principles, up front, was for the Marilyn Glick. trail to position Indianapolis as a In his capacity as a board progressive, innovative and creative member of the city’s Cultural city in the 21st century,” he says. Development Commission, Payne Design became a leading had become a vocal advocate for element. “We felt that a really the city’s newly designated Cultural beautiful level of landscaping was Districts. The districts, though, had going to be important,” adds Payne. a problem. They felt disconnected “I always figured that my favorite from one another. parts of the trail would be wherever Payne, the president of the the coolest buildings are. Now I find Central Indiana Community that my favorite parts are where the Foundation, had taken up bicycling landscaping is most plush.” with his young son. He loved Over the years, as the energy and the trail has taken enthusiasm being “It emboldens shape, it has helped generated by the raise the city’s game Monon Trail. people to take when it comes to how Payne’s experience their ideas to we think about our on the Monon enabled another level.” built environment. “As him to see how a – Brian Payne, the Monon created network of bike and Indianapolis Cultural Trail: the opportunity for pedestrian trails could A legacy of Gene and the trail, the trail not only connect Marilyn Glick has created an Indy’s Cultural Districts, opportunity for other but reinvigorate things,” says Payne. “It peoples’ perceptions emboldens people to of their city. take their ideas to another level.” Payne began talking with people. For Payne, as for many of the rest By his estimate, he took part in over of us, the trail has changed how 100 one-on-one conversations with we think about Indianapolis. “My different folks, soliciting their ideas understanding of complete streets and conveying his passion for the and connectivity and place-making project. It took time. But Payne’s — I’ve learned much of that through persistence paid off, inspiring the the trail experience,” he says. “The buy-in from donors necessary to trail taught me. The trail became the establish the project’s credibility. basis for knowledge and philosophy, Ground was broken on the first not the other way around.” leg of the trail in April 2007. The trail not only became a hub for existing — DAVID HOPPE and planned greenways, it also
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Indy Reads
Indy Urban Acres
The heart of a community
Combating hunger in low-income families
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he plan,” says Travis DiNicola, Indy Reads Books is the director of Indy Reads and organization’s latest — and most founder of Indy Reads Books ambitious — venture, one that literally places Indy Reads on the on the east end of Mass Ave, “has city’s map. It’s a full-fledged used always been to have a bookstore bookstore, a shop with a large with an inventory that was mainly inventory of books in all categories, used and donated books, and tie along with a choice selection of it to a cause: Indy Reads. It’s a way new titles. to not just raise money, but raise The store also features a stage awareness.” for intimate public programs, Indy Reads is a long-standing with seating for up to 35, and a nonprofit organization dedicated children’s area. In just its first year, to helping adults learn to read. Indy Reads Books has not only The lack of literacy skills among provided its parent organization with adults is a massive problem in a visible presence in a desirable central Indiana. These adults are location — on Mass Ave, hard by unemployable for most jobs, since the Cultural Trail — but it has also they have to be able to read at an offered the public a range of adult eighth grade level to qualify for a and children’s literary GED, the equivalent programs, in addition of a high school to tutoring for adult “A bookstore diploma. “Illiteracy is learners. a spectrum in terms of can be the When Borders skills,” DiNicola says. heart of a closed its Washington “The best information community.” Street bookstore, that we have is that Downtown lost its – Travis DiNicola, approximately 6 to only destination book Indy Reads 7 percent of adults retailer. DiNicola 18 and older within and his team have central Indiana worked to fill this void. have no literacy skills Located in an 1800’s-era building, whatsoever.” Indy Reads Books has been a Indy Reads trains volunteers to welcome addition to its burgeoning tutor adults who come forward to neighborhood, creating a improve their literacy skills. Over the Downtown locus for the city’s writing years, Indy Reads has produced a community, book lovers — and all number of programs, from spelling those people who are making the bees to scavenger hunts, in an effort effort to join their number. to help people better understand As DiNicola says, “A bookstore can the dimensions of adult illiteracy and be the heart of a community.” to raise the funds needed to address — DAVID HOPPE the issue.
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he Indianapolis Parks Foundation corn, beets, turnips, beans, carrots began combating the hunger and more, all grown without the use of low-income families in March of pesticides and harmful chemicals. 2011, after receiving a $150,000 The organic urban farm was grant from Indiana University Health designed to combat issues which made the development of facing families in poverty, such Indy Urban Acres Farm possible. as diabetes, obesity and hunger, Today, eight acres on the Eastside as part of Mayor Greg Ballard’s between 21st Street and Shadeland fight to eliminate “food deserts” Avenue, formerly used in the in Indianapolis’ urban area. The staging of construction for I-70, program teaches and promotes grow a variety of fresh produce community involvement with the because of the initiatives from these farm’s resources, growing more than organizations. 35,000 pounds of fresh produce in Though only a portion of the area 2012 with the help of more than 500 is developed, plans to expand have volunteers. Educational opportunities seen the construction of a hoop designed by the farm helped more house with the help of students from than 1,000 kids explore Indy Urban IUPUI, an orchard area for apples, Acres Farm last year. pears, cherry and They learned about peach trees, along sustainable urban Indy Urban with raised beds for agriculture, soil, additional crops. Acres donates healthy eating and The farm has truly 100 percent more. Community blossomed under the members who visit are of the harvest careful supervision of inspired to give their to low-income farm manager Tyler green thumbs a try families Gough. His expertise and have a space set in planning, planting through a aside to do so at one and cultivating has partnership end of the Indy Urban made the project a with the nonAcres Farm plot. success. It donates With the help of profit Gleaners 100 percent of the volunteers, the support Food Bank. harvest to low-income of the community families through a and the drive of a partnership with the city getting hip to non-profit Gleaners urban gardening, Indy Urban Acres Food Bank. The nonprofit takes Farm has kept countless Hoosiers charge in distributing the goods to from going hungry. Even better, food pantries throughout the city it has provided healthy, organic, and to hunger relief agencies in 21 locally grown meals and taught central and southeastern counties. communities about the value of Products of the harvest include sustainable urban farming. potatoes, cucumbers, kale, chard, greens, lettuces, spinach, radishes, — JORDAN MARTICH
Joyful Noise Recordings
People for Urban Progress
Happily analog
Specializing in transit, environment and design
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Kiely Holden, Karl Hofstetter, Reagan (the mascot), David Woodruff, Corey Barnes, Shawn Woolfolk, Brendan O’Donnell
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n a world of MP3s, Indy label Joyful garnering significant commercial Noise Recordings happily sends us placements and top festival slots. back to basics: Cassettes, vinyl, even This year, Joyful Noise flexi-discs, are lovingly produced and Recordings celebrates 10 years of unconventional formats, as well sold in small batches to eager fans. as the first full year inside their new But their basics aren’t that basic: space in the Murphy Arts Building. with gorgeously rendered vinyl, The performance space-cuminnovative packaging and highoffice-cum-record store opened in quality, limited releases, Joyful Noise May of last year; the label schedules Recordings navigates the re-surging shows at least monthly, with revolving analog market with savvy. exhibits by local artists. Shoppers can Label founder Karl Hofstetter has also dip into the building during the an ear for what will catch the music week to purchase new releases. community’s attention and an eye Their local space and art exhibits for how to package his product. He’s just scratch the surface of Joyful Noise collected a talented group to run a Recording’s support of Indianapolis. tight production team that’s garnered They’re released music by locals heaps of critical praise. for years, including new releases “I would say my from Sleeping Bag, one rule of thumb is DMA, Mike Adams artistic sincerity,” says at His Honest Weight, “I would say Hofstetter. “I believe Racebannon and my one rule that having pure Memory Map. And, intentions is the key to of thumb starting this year, the making worthwhile art. label is promoting is artistic And so often people Hoosier music on an sincerity.” working in music international scale, – Karl Hofstetter people are driven by as they just achieved other things (trends, worldwide distribution. “This city gave us popularity, money, the environment necessary to grow etc). I strive to sign bands that are artistically honest, regardless of genre.” our label into what it is today. Had we started in Chicago or New York A few standout releases from the I don’t think we would have ever label include a boxed vinyl set of local gotten off the ground. Indianapolis band Marmoset’s four albums and possesses a magic combination a 10-casette box set by Joan of Arc. of traits — cheap housing, cultural Their relationship with indie superstars excitement, large population without like of Montreal and Dinosaur Jr. much competition — which make it a lent the label early cred, and their great place to start something new.” continued fastidiousness has resulted After ten years, 2014 is shaping in a carefully curated roster that leans up to be the best one yet for Joyful towards noise music, but ventures into Noise. They’ve just signed indie rock a little bit of everything else too. giant Sebadoh, who will release Perhaps the biggest success story their first album in 14 years. They’re of 2012 for Joyful Noise Recordings also planning a series of LP/DVD was Kishi Bashi, the electric violinist, video releases that will capture live beatboxer and vocalist whose performances in a tactile, unique soaring sounds on new album 151a way — the label’s calling card. impressed NPR enough to earn — KATHERINE COPLEN Best New Artist of the Year while
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ichael Bricker, a co-founder tackle projects public and private, of People for Urban for-profit and non-profit. PUP is in Progress, says it can be the midst of developing a strategic tough to describe his organization plan that will ensure its long-term to the uninitiated. But it’s not for survival and create a rubric of sort want of trying. Think of PUP — the to determine what projects to take playful acronym finds its way into on. The organization aims to be a the name for various projects — prototype for social enterprise, a as a “do tank” instead of “think non-profit that operates on for-profit tank.” Or an “innovation center.” principles. That means using income An “awesomeness curator.” Or from certain projects to fund other, an “apolitical, non-judgmental less profitable projects. resource” promoting “exponential PUPstops offer a good example change” by starting with a handful of how the social enterprise system of ideas and following through on works in practice. A PUPstop is, them, doing instead of showing. essentially, a row of four Bush In the end, PUP’s story is best Stadium seats, refurbished, told through its projects, each of remounted and installed at a busy which addresses at least two of IndyGo stop. PUP raised an initial the organizations three $15,000 to fund the key concerns: transit, salvaging of seats, environment and design. but from here on, People for Projects like salvaging the they aim for the Urban Progress material used in the RCA PUPstops project aims to be Dome’s inflatable roof, to be essentially a prototype PUP’s reason for coming self-sustaining. Thus for social into being in 2008. The they’ve offered enterprise, roof material is still being some seats for used to make a variety sale “as-is,” or a non-profit of products, such as without having that operates bags, wallets and shade been refurbished on for-profit canopies. Or salvaging so that they might principles. Bush Stadium’s seats and be installed as a installing them at IndyGo PUPstop. Those bus stops. Or salvaging funds will help PUP the signage that was left cover costs incurred behind after the Super Bowl. And while refurbishing the seats, as well even projects that don’t involve as allow the organization to plant recycling our sports infrastructure like more PUPstops. car sharing, yellow grease recycling, Newcomers might familiarize solar panel installation on brownfields themselves with PUP by visiting its — and infographics that show Murphy Arts Center headquarters people how they can negotiate our on a First Friday, according to PUP city’s government. board president Gary Reiter: “Hang Bricker’s training in the world around, show up and feel the of architecture and design has energy — and it’s the kind of energy informed PUP’s notion of itself as a that occurs on a daily basis.” place for people with “portfolio” — SCOTT SHOGER careers — i.e. young, often welleducated professionals looking to NUVO // 100% RECYCLED PAPER // 06.05.13 - 06.12.13 // COVER STORY 25
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t 77, Judy O’Bannon is no slouch. Even though if anyone has earned the right to sit back and put her feet up, it is O’Bannon. But she’d rather kick up her heels — and that is, almost literally, what she continues to do as an elder stateswoman and community activist: traveling the state and the globe, giving speeches, asking questions and figuring out ways to solve global problems with local solutions. During a recent conversation in her eclectic home, built in the 1920s in a style best described as “movie star stucco,” O’Bannon demonstrates yet again that she is not one to sit still. First, she offers a tour of her home, which she renovated not long after the death of her husband, former governor Frank O’Bannon, in September of 2003 — when, as she puts it, “in a minute everything changed.” Having been inside the Governor’s Residence during the Frank and Judy era, I was struck by the contrasts: from stately, traditional furnishings and contemporary art by Indiana artists in the residence, to the vibrancy of her current home with its gemstone color scheme, Moldovan carpets rolled up in stacks, art by children in the VSA Indiana program (a favorite organization of hers), and a diverse collection of glassware and pottery verily bursting from the kitchen shelves. One gets the sense that O’Bannon’s current home is as much an expression of her true self as the Governor’s Residence was during the seven years she was Indiana’s First Lady, when she offered it up as “the state’s living room,” hosting events for all manner of Indiana resident: from summer camps for young women incarcerated in the Indiana Girls School — “they just wanted somebody to think they weren’t awful” — to workshops on the environment. RAISED BY COMMUNITY It all started with World War II. O’Bannon was 5 years old, living in Downers Grove, Ill. — then a town of just 500 or so, now a busy suburb of Chicago — and like so many other American families far removed geographically from the battles and bombs, those back home wanted to do their part. “The war effort was such a community involvement,” O’Bannon recalls. “I recently went back to the little town where we had our scrap pile, right down by the train station. … People threw things on those metal scrap piles, things of real value; not just things they didn’t need any more. They threw the iron fences from their old Victorian houses into those scrap heaps for the war effort. And my mother ran a doll hospital that refurbished dolls for servicemen’s kids.” When O’Bannon was 10, the family moved to Lincoln, Neb., after her father was sent there to work by Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T. It was still wartime and her father’s charge was to start a factory for the war effort. “It was a wonderful next 26
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to Indiana. Take Peru (the one in South America, not Indiana). After O’Bannon traveled there, she saw that it was opening up for tourism — but that had both positive and negative consequences. “How is tourism used in Indiana? What does it show the world about where we live? What is it doing to the environment if you bring a lot of people in here?”
Judy O’Bannon
Lifetime Achievement
GOING LOCAL
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step from that little town because it I never could teach the adult class.” was navigable by a kid on the trolley,” That, she learned, was for men only. O’Bannon recalls. But not one to sit idly by, she also ran a But by the time her father’s factory cable station, foreshadowing her later was set up, just a few years later, the work in television. war was winding down. That’s when the GLOBAL CONNECTIONS family moved to Indianapolis, and she’s When we spoke, O’Bannon had just made Indiana her home ever since. returned from China and Tibet for her After she and Frank O’Bannon were program Judy O’Bannon’s Foreign introduced, during her senior year in Exchange. Before that: Italy. “I figure I’ve college at Indiana University, she was got to go to rambunctious places while I set to go to Germany on a scholarship exchange program, and then to Yale. But still have that sort of umph,” she told me, laughing. But she’s more when Frank proposed, “I fascinated with what she said, well, that’s too far. So calls “strange places,” I said, there’s this seminary “I really just in Louisville I know about places that aren’t on wanted to go …” and that seminary most people’s radar. study theology was close to Corydon, Moldova is one of Frank’s hometown. So those countries. “It’s and get married she applied — and was the poorest country to Frank accepted. She was the in Europe. Why am I O’Bannon.” first woman to do so. “It fascinated? Do I just –Judy O’Bannon was 100 years old and like bad times or what? there were 400 men But there’s so much there. I wasn’t trying to do I’ve learned from the the crusade for women’s people and the women … boy, what rights. I really wasn’t. I really just wanted they’re been through, how they hang to go study theology and get married to tight, what they’re doing.” So she keeps Frank O’Bannon. going back. “But in all of it, when I go “So I just went a semester and then I somewhere else and come back, the did what good women did. ... I raised thought is I’m not doing a travelogue at kids and ran the Girl Scouts and they all; they’re message pieces.” later let me run the Sunday schools but She always makes a connection
O’Bannon recalls the days chairing the Hoosier Millennium and Bicentennial projects (she later took on the Indiana 2016 initiative). “So we traveled around the state in a motor home that had shrinkwrap on it,” she recalls, delivered tool boxes to communities, and asked them to address four major questions: “Where we are today as a community? What are we doing well, what are we not doing well? Where do we want to be at the Millennium, and how do we get there?” For the bicentennial, “We were using that as a spark for communities to look ahead to the bicentennial and say, ‘This is where we want to be. How are we going to get there?’” For 10 years O’Bannon chaired the state’s Main Street Program, through Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana (now Indiana Landmarks). That work turned out to be more than a full-time job. “A lot of it was economic development, being a goodwill ambassador.” Her television work addresses this, too. She continues to host and produce the WFYI program Communities Building Community, bringing attention to the many ways Indiana residents foster community life in the Hoosier state. Most recently she’s taken up the cause of aging. “I find one of the questions you face is, when do you say, I’ve worked hard all my life, I’m just going to live and enjoy every moment of today; I’m going to quit using my energies battling anything that I don’t think is fun. And when are you going to say I’m just going to fight the conditions that make you just an old person with no hope? “The only way I know how to do this aging thing is to reach outside of myself as much as I can and focus on things out there with greater purpose and mission than my own little wants and comforts.” O’Bannon writes about these and other issues in her column in the Corydon Democrat. O’Bannon continues to be asked to speak all over the state — she averages half a dozen requests a day. And when people ask why she continues to go around giving speeches, her response? “I say, it is such a privilege to be invited into somebody else’s world on a day that they’re either solving a problem or celebrating something that happened or organizing to do some big thing, even if it’s cleaning up broken glass on an empty lot.” — JULIANNA THIBODEAUX
Past Honorees 2012
46 for XLVI: Arts Council of Indianapolis Indianapolis Downtown Inc. Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Nate Jackson, IUPUI The Project School RecycleForce Lifetime Achievement: John Mutz
Indiana Equality Pauline Moffat, Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival Joe Vuskovich, Yats Restaurants John Clark Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Tonic Ball Lifetime Achievement: Sandy Reiberg
2006
2011
Good Earth Natural Food Store Christine Collier, The Center for Inquiry Schools ISO Residency Program: Time for Three Central Indiana Jobs With Justice Katz & Korin Primary Colours Bicycle Garage Indy Lifetime Achievement: Lois Templeton
2010
Big Car Earth House Collective Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Art Herron High School Indy Pride Bag Ladies King Park Area Development Corporation My Old Kentucky Blog Lifetime Achievement: John Gibson
2009
Girls, Inc. Indianapolis Care and Control Indianapolis Motor Speedway Kristin Kohn Matthew Jose, Big City Farms Naptown Roller Girls Phil Campbell, Murphy Arts Center Spotlight Indianapolis David Allee, The Jazz Kitchen Lifetime Achievement: Joyce Sommers
2008
Indianapolis Children’s Choir Indianapolis International Film Festival Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center Indy Feral Indy PRIDE Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Regina Mehallick Ron Spencer, Theatre on the Square Standard Recording Lifetime Achievement: Gerald Bepko
2007
Bill Ryder Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra Indiana Canine Assistant Network
American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Liz Barden, Big Hat Books Todd Robinson, LUNA Music Forest Manor Multi-Service Center IDADA - Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission Justice for Janitors Lisa Freiman, Indianapolis Museum of Art Planned Parenthood of Indiana Lifetime Achievement: The Hampton Sisters
2005
American Pianists Association Ellen Clippinger, AYS Joanna Taft, Harrison Center for the Arts David Clough, Radio Radio Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Second Helpings The Heartland Film Festival Traders Point Creamery Young and Laramore Lifetime Achievement: Anna White
2004
David Andrichik, Chatterbox Jazz Club Jane Rulon, Indiana Film Commission Ball State University Indianapolis Center Ed Wank & Dave O’Brien Improving Kids’ ™ Environment Organization for a New Eastside State Rep. Bill Crawford Storytelling Arts of Indiana United States of Mind Lifetime Achievement: Mari Evans
2003
100 Black Men of Indianapolis Blaine Hogan Butler Visiting Writers’ Series Community Faith and Labor Coalition of Indianapolis Hoosier Environmental Council Indiana University Medical School and the Moi University College of Health and Science Indiana Youth Group Ron Keedy, Key Cinemas
Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Lifetime Achievement: Andy Jacobs Jr.
2002
Branching Out Productions Butler University Department of Theatre and Drama Christamore House Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis CURE: Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association Peace Learning Center Theatre of Inclusion/Susurrus Wayne Zink Lifetime Achievement: Raymond Leppard
2001
Armonics Architecture Dayspring Center Indianapolis International Violin Competition Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson Indy Parks Greenways Julian Center Key Learning Community Phoenix Theatre Lifetime Achievement: Father Boniface Hardin
2000
Fiesta, Inc. IMCPL: Meet the Artists exhibition Indy Jazz Fest SEND: Southeast Neighborhood Development Corp. TAB Presbyterian Recreation Program Ten Point Coalition WFYI: “Across Indiana” Young Audiences of Indiana Lifetime Achievement: Sam Jones
1999
ACT Out! Asante Children’s Theatre Central Indiana Community Foundation Circle Centre Mall Quilt Project Indianapolis Art Center Parents for Public Education POLIS / Spirit and Place Supporting the Arts Responsibly Lifetime Achievement: Thomas Binford
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Still homebrewing Though Jason Burk and Brent Chapman announced their departure from Tuxedo Park Brewers, co-founder Adam Burk reports the Fountain Square homebrew shop will continue to serve its loyal constituency at 1139 Shelby St. (enter and park off the Alley). Open Tue-Fri, 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. and Sat, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For more info call 408-6970, email storekeeper@tuxedoparkbrewers. com or log on tuxedoparkbrewers.com. Reality check Brewers in Germany are standing up against allowing “fracking” — the process of obtaining natural gas and other resources through the use of hydraulic fracturing — in the fight to maintain the purity of Germany’s water. “We are concerned that fracking endangers the brewing water that more than half of Germany’s breweries take from private wells,” according to a spokesman for the Association of German Breweries. Brewing and brewery tourism are major industries throughout Germany. Elected officials are expected to come out on the side of brewers. New tastes Flat 12 Cucumber Kolsch is a refreshing, deep gold German ale with lager qualities coming from pilsener malt and cold fermentation. The brew was voted Best of Show by patrons at the May 2013 Crown Brewery Festival in Crown Point. It’s on draft and in bottles around Indy. We sampled at Flat 12’s Taproom and agree with the accolades. Before they run out, try Double Pogue’s Reserve and Hinchtown Hammer Down Ale. Other new Flat 12 seasonals include Axis Hefe, German Hefeweizen and Japanese Sorachi Ace Hops (on draft only). Thr3e Wisemen is pouring three new big beers — Old 59 Barley Wine, Double Pit Road Red and Kiss the Bricks Maibock. Sun King Brewing Co. released two specialty brews in the King’s Reserve series. Bourbon Barrel Cowbell, a Bourbon Barrel-Aged Porter, nicely balances the roast and cocoa malt flavors with creamy vanilla and flavors of bourbon. Stupid Sexy Flanders, a Belgian-style Flanders Oud Bruin, is fermented with wild yeasts, Lactobacillus and Brettanomyces to impart tart cherry flavors over the malt sweetness. Both are available in two-pack cans at the brewery.
EVENTS INtoxicating History Subtitled “A Historic Bar Crawl Through Time, Space and Debates,” the Indiana Humanities-hosted INtoxicating History will feature interpreters and performances (including a can-can dancer), a silent film screening and more. $45 includes a drink at each location. Starting from City Market, June 6, 6-9 p.m. intoxicatinghistory.eventbrite.com Yelp Drinks Cocktail Week Yip! Yap! Yelp! The local reps of the mighty review site Yelp have put together a week’s worth (June 9-15) of liquor-inspired events, many of them involving heavy discounts. Head to yelp.com for a complete list, including a bar crawl on Handlebar Indy (a 12-passenger “biking bar”) and mixology class at the Stutz. Local Food Potluck Bring a dish made with locally grown and/or produced food — as well as diningware, blankets, chairs and drink — for the potluck to celebrate the founding of the Indy Food Council and the release of the 2013 Local Food Guide. Herron Morton Community Garden (1840 N. Talbott St.), June 11, 6:30-9:30 p.m., indylocalfood.org
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Select restaurants offer the promotion during lunch; a few offer beer and wine pairings that may be included in the menu or listed for a separate charge. Midtown is defined by these boundaries: 65th Street to the north, Fall Creek Parkway to the south, Illinois Street to the west and Keystone Avenue to the east. You may find your new hangout spot during Chow Down. Last year I took a chance on Sahm’s Place at 65th Street and Keystone Avenue, and now you can find me at the bar or in the dining room once a week. Owner Eddie Sahm constructs courses that highlight their regular menu (the iceberg wedge salad is a must when you pick a side dish for an entree), but he also works with their chef to design items that sum up what Sahm’s is about in one bite. Imagine dinner at your grandma’s house if she were hip and made beer-infused soups and risotto with scallops. New to the promotion in 2013 is the tapas restaurant and bar Sabbatical, which took over a coveted Broad Ripple Avenue patio spot last year. Their 2 for $30 menu starts with soft french bread and butter on the house while you mull over the appetizers and small plate entree choices. Try the portabella mushrooms stuffed with vegetables and a cajun roulade, all hidden under a blanket of melted cheese. Dried berries, kale, bacon and pepitas are mixed with pieces of juicy chicken and tossed with a pesto mayo to make up the salad for Garden Chicken Crostini. Heartier options include the Spicy Tequila Pulled Pork, served as sliders and topped with crispy fried onions, and the S’Mocha Pepper Brisket,
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slow cooked and rubbed with coffee, Mexican chocolate and topped with a sweet and smoky portabella cream sauce. Vegetarian, vegan and glutenfree options are noted for each course. Other new restaurants this year include Aristocrat, Bazbeaux, Delicia, Egyptian Cafe, Fat Dan’s Deli, Good Morning Mama’s, SoBro Cafe, Usual Suspects and Za. Regulars such as The Jazz Kitchen, Mama Carolla’s and Ambrosia remain on the program. Rooftop dining is available at Bazbeaux’s; one might try a hookah with hummus and falafel at Egyptian Cafe. JT’s Grille and Bar, Mediterra and Meridian all have outdoor dining, among others. New menus are added daily to ChowDownMidtown.com. Chow Down Downtown is one of three restaurant promotions coordinated by the Indiana Restaurant and Lodging Association (the others being Devour Downtown, Northside Nights and Savor the Southside).
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Located in a grove of trees immediately south of the historic Central Canal and alongside its namesake street, Meridian has the look and feel of an elegant country inn, with a spacious wood-beamed dining room and a cozy bar. This setting is a handsome complement to Meridian’s food which emphasizes fresh ingredients and elegant presentation. If you’re on a budget, try a salad with a delicious seasonal soup. The Lobster Pot Pie is especially recommended. And the cocktails are profound. 200 S. Meridian St., 466-1111, meridianonmeridian.com The Northside Social The Northside Social has a very particular allure: comfort-chic. The place goes beyond yesterday’s craft beer flights and gourmet burgers to new terrain like aromatherapeutic aperitifs. Social sources locally made infusions — scents like Thai basil, lemon and cucumber — to impart strong smells and a hint of flavor to some of their more choice cocktails. Everything on the beer list is priced around $5, which helps to counteract the sticker shock of the $10-plus martinis. 6525 N. College Ave., 253-0111, northsidesocial.com
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Recess Recess proves that our local chefs are committed to making Indianapolis a real dining destination. With Greg Hardesty, Gabe Jordan and Eli Anderson on top billing, this Midtown eatery is a who’s who of Indianapolis culinary superstars. For about $40−$60 per person (sans alcohol), executive chef and owner Hardesty takes you on a food tour through his mental playground with a singular prix fixe menu that changes nightly. Supplemental courses are sometimes offered, along with choice of entrée. Along with the outstanding food, an impressive and carefully chosen assortment of beer and wine rounds out the experience.
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4907 N. College Ave., 925-7529, recessindy.com SoBro Cafe Suitably distant from the madding crowd that is Broad Ripple, but not so far away as to be inconvenient, SoBro Café offers a relaxing oasis in which to cool the jets and enjoy some made-to-order sustenance at almost any time of the day. Pleasantly devoid of attitude or pretense, this smartly appointed eatery caters to a wide range of tastes, from vegan to carnivore, with a strong emphasis on freshness. The house specialty is the pannekoek, or Dutch pancake, which comes in a dozen or so preparations, some sweet and some savory. Try the chai, a spicy, subtly creamy brew that’s absolutely worth the wait. 653 E. 52nd St., 920-8121, sobrocafe.com Zest!
A quintessential jazz supper club in the heart of Meridian-Kessler. The cuisine has a distinctly New Orleans emphasis with an focus on fresh ingredients; the crab cakes are terrific and the cocktails are sincere. Check out the Eggplant Tower, a specialty that’s unique to the city. It’s a super-rich vegetarian broadside that stacks slices of eggplant with mushrooms, goat cheese, caramelized onions, shards of red bell pepper, asparagus, baby spinach, basil pesto and, over the top and round the sides, melted parmesan cheese.
Zest!’s menu runs to 12 pages and includes everything from an Asian slaw salad made with a spicy peanut dressing to baja tacos, mixing corn mealcrusted basa with white cheddar on white corn tortillas with cilantro-lime rice, black beans and lime sour cream. Serving breakfast all day, it also offers a rustic scrambled omelet, a stuffed tortilla, and crème brûlée french toast. Zest! expanded earlier this year by opening the neighboring Twist Lounge, a slightly goofy (Mona Lisa with mustache as wallpaper) and laid-back nightclub spot with serious cocktails, now open Thursday through Saturday.
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They found their replacements, Sebastian Thomson on drums and Nick Jost on bass, through friends and acquaintances. “We started putting feelers out, and all paths led to these guys,” Adams said. “They were the ones most excited about the offer.” The timing for tumultuous life events usually sucks –– but this was especially the case for Baroness. Yellow & Green, their third longplayer, was heralded by multitudinous and varietal publications as not just one of the best metal albums of 2012, but one of the top releases overall. They had four shows remaining on what was a six-week trek at the time of the bus crash. The current tour is the first time Baroness have been able to promote Yellow & Green stateside. “As if I wasn’t already stoked to play and tour as much as we do, now it has a much more profound meaning,” Adams said. “I feel very lucky to be able to continue doing this.” Baroness have always been one of the more cerebral acts in their scene. But Yellow & Green is unquestionably their biggest departure yet. There’s still plenty of thunder and dirge, but it’s interspersed with more quiet contemplation. Adams welcomes the amelioration, saying he felt mentally exhausted with previous touring cycles because their setlists were so monolithic. “We’re always trying to challenge our-
Band recovers from bus accident; tours stateside with acclaimed double LP selves to write better songs,” he said. “We felt renewed [after finishing Yellow & Green]. Now our sets don’t have to be so dense. We can add more space and dynamics.” Metal enthusiasts can be notoriously fickle when one of their favorite bands evolves though. For Baroness, it’s no longer about confining their music to one narrow segment of the spectrum. “Maybe some of our old fans aren’t as keen on the new material, but I think we’ve picked up some new fans along the way –– even people not necessarily into heavier music,” Adams said. “This tour should be surprising.” There is one motif Baroness have maintained –– naming their records after colors. Red Album was first in 2007 followed by Blue Record in two years later. The idea stemmed from having a whole package, which has always included original artwork by Baizley. “That comes from growing up obsessed with vinyl [records] and collecting them,” Adams said. “We may be done with the color scheme now. But it was a way to get out what we wanted to in terms of putting everything together and making it seamless. We want to deliver it as something you’ll want to hold onto.” Indeed, Baroness are old guard like that, right down to releasing a double album in the Internet age. Simply put, they had so much good material they didn’t want to cut anything. “We messed with the sequencing a lot because all these songs had been written at different times,” Adams said. “It was a matter of putting the pieces together to make it feel like it’s two records. But really it was just a way for us to get it all out.”
This band has redefined the topographical details of Kokomo, Ind. that exist inside of my mind. Contrary to the name they’ve chosen (and certain facts), as I spin this record and close my eyes I can see a beach full of surfboards, swimsuits and boomboxes blasting rock and roll. No Coast caters to good-natured punks and grizzled fans of scuzz rock. The sound is spurned out of tense longing for a length of coastline and from the lengthy catalogue of musicians from nowdefunct Kokomo hardcore band In the Face of War –– both vocalist, guitarist Nate Black and vocalist, bassist Mike Wilson were past members of the legendary group. With drummer Bryon White and organist Neal Cunningham, they’ve discovered another passionate way to perform a different style of music. Their debut full-length, Rock And Roll All Night (Yeah Right) is a retrospective testament to surf-pop, proto-punk and garage rock. On the whole this album is a killer introduction to independent, nonchalant rock music. Vocals are heartfelt and dynamically transient, from distorted, crooned verses and harmonized choruses to shouted lines. Black’s guitar flashes fast with twang and reverb, riding the groove and shaping the wave of each song. Bass and drums are uptempo, placing these tracks into the ‘party time’ musical signature. Cunningham’s organ highlights and annunciates sections practically, augmenting the mix of sounds further. “Enough Is Enough,” the album’s straightforward opening track, sets the pace for the headbobbing, jump up-and-down type of dancing you’ll start doing in seconds. Standouts like “Cruel City” and “Get Along” will get you singing, too. I can’t stress how important it is to order the physical vinyl album for the four songs not contained in their bandcamp site’s digital download. –– JORDAN MARTICH
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You want a guaranteed, betthe-farm, drink–some–Pabst good time? Go to a rockabilly gig. And go somewhere where the bar has some age to it. I mean, you can go anywhere you want, right? But a little smoky, greasy, dinged up atmosphere gives the music the lived-in, spunky vibe it deserves. Rockabilly is Elvis, and Sun Studios, and Carl Perkins and The Stray Cats and MG and The Gas City Three, and it doesn’t change much. Upright bass. A snare or small drum kit. Tattoos. Pompadours and leather. Chicks in dresses that make you look twice. Some bad boy and girl attitude. That’s a snapshot of rockabilly. The aforementioned MG and the Gas City Three ran into a little good luck recently, when they were asked to play as the movie band in a B-movie classic remake. The director is cult movie legend Jim Wynorski, from the Roger Corman School of Directing: quickie/ campy/scary/drive-in movies. Gila! — a remake of 1959’s The Giant Gila Monster — was shot in Johnson County locations in December of 2011. MG and The Gas City Three contributed several tracks that they play during their current live set to the soundtrack. We caught up with MG’s drummer and manager Nathan Striedinger as they prepared for the movie’s premier in Columbus a few months ago; they’ll play this week in Markleville. NUVO: How did the Gas City Three get involved in the movie Gila!? NATHAN STRIEDINGER: Bill Dever, the producer, contacted us. He talked about playing “Fever,” by Peggy Lee. “Red River Rocks” and some originals. We were thinking about a traditional thing, but pushing it. After a few calls, we all got together at the
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Otherworldly folk-pop sextet Of Monsters and Men are following the Head and The Heart playbook –– create a solid album, tour it endlessly. I’m not sure yet if the sprawling Icelandic poppers will tour quite as long on their first LP as their Seattle-born sonic sisters, but their first full-length, My Head Is An Animal , dropped all the way back in the fall of 2011.
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studio and recorded the tunes. We rolled up to Franklin, met the director, Jim Wynorski, Bill Dever, and the cast and crew and broke a leg. Jim would yell, and we’d started playing while cameras and things are flying around you and over your head. Christina DeRosa is an excellent hollywood actress and singer and sang “Fever” with us. Let me just tell you –– she nailed it. Hopefully it’s not too obvious in the movie, but we were all stunned. All the cast and crew cheered after we were done but for a split second after the last note, you could have heard a pin drop. We also played during the general sock hop scene while people danced and talked. Jim was impressed. NUVO: What is the short history of the band? STRIEDINGER: MG & the Gas City Three formed in the middle of 2010 in Anderson, Indiana. We’ve been playing almost non-stop and just recently took a break after singer Marc Gullion had his baby. We have an album on iTunes and in stores called Get In, Shut Up and Hold On, on Gas City Records. It came out in April 2011. I created Gas City Records to help promote MG & the Gas City Three and to help organize my thoughts. I started a label to put projects under the same umbrella. If I’m working on flyers or booking shows, I need to group those under Gas City Records, LLC. NUVO: What are a couple songs you love with the band?
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their on-stage banter was sorely lacking. Because ... they can’t speak English very well. Which is fine! We don’t need our folk-pop collectives to keep us entertained between the songs. We just need the music to do the entertaining, which is did, for the first three quarters of the show. Unfortunately, much like those constantly touring Seattlites we mentioned up top, the relative sparsity of Of Monsters and Men’s current catalogue leaves a bit to be desired in a full set. I think they would blow a festival set out of the water: 45 minutes would have been perfect. An hour was just a bit too much. The crowd was stacked with teens, tweens and even smaller kids. Makes sense –– the band writes lullabies, primarily. In fact, they ended their set with a lullaby to say goodbye. It was a completely pleasant, entertaining show from the sextet. I just can’t wait until that second fulllength album is out to flesh out the rest of the setlist. –– KATHERINE COPLEN
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STRIEDINGER: “Can’t Slow Down” is one of my favorites. After that, I’d say, “Rock Kept ‘A’ Rollin’” is absolutely killer. The video for “Rock Kept ‘A’ Rollin’” is also stellar. NUVO: Best way to get recorded music? STRIEDINGER: Right now, we’re using ReverbNation and iTunes. NUVO: Who is in the band and what instruments do they play? STRIEDINGER: Marc Gullion handles vocals, Scott Manning on guitar, Josh Fite plays upright bass and I take care of the drums and management. NUVO: Who gives you rockabilly fever? STRIEDINGER: JD McPherson is huge. We love Rev. Peyton, Hudson Hornet, Cousin Brothers, Bigger Than Elvis. Too many to name. Follow them for a great show. Playing with the legendary Art Adams anywhere is always a great show. And the Brass Rail in Ft. Wayne is an excellent little rockabilly venue. PHOTOS BY ZAC STEGER
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HÜTZ: If I was making electronic DJ music, the influences would be right in your face and the album would start off with samples of sambas and so forth. But we’re not making superficial, disposable music. We’re making music that’s first of all, our music. Influences are kind of invisible for us. Influences are are not really important for us in a genre sense; it’s more like an energy. A new energy enters the Gogol Bordello laboratory and lives inside of it. So Latin America is pretty rambunctious in its temperament –– just like Eastern Europe. It’s not about putting labels on a genre –– I’d actually prefer it to be untitled entirely. But the cumbia rhythm has been an essential part of Gogol Bordello records for the last three or four albums. NUVO: “Malandrinho” is the first single to be released from the album. The malandro is a popular figure in Brazilian sambas. Do you identify with that character? HÜTZ: That’s a good point. Now you’re hitting it on the nail. A malandro is a very
NUVO: You were part of the Boycott Arizona movement and you’ve also supported Romani rights in Europe. Do you see similarities between the struggle of undocumented Americans and the Romani? HÜTZ: Yes, it’s a very similar situation. But I must say in Europe it’s in a much worse state than here. I would even say the Romani activist movement is in a state of defeat. In the beginning of the century it was a lot more spirited, but guys like Silvio Berlusconi have broken that spirit quite a bit. NUVO: Any new music you’re hearing that’s inspiring you right now? HÜTZ: I’ve been listening to a lot of hiphop from the third world. It’s a completely different form of music from American hip-hop. American hip-hop is in deep trouble, it’s been looking for a new form for a decade and not finding shit. But in Latin America, Africa, Arabic countries and Eastern Europe, they have such a different take on it and it’s so closely connected to folk music. People take their folkloric music and throw in new beats and the sound is so powerful and fresh. NUVO: Any particular region? HÜTZ: Yeah, the Chilean hip-hop scene is on the upswing. There’s a lot of energy down there. Argentina for sure too. There’s a lot of interesting things with people combining tango with punk rock and hip-hop and going beyond the Gotan Project stuff. They’re taking it outside the laptop and making the music live again.
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The guys in Grammy-winning country group The Zac Brown Band have an industry reputation for trying hard to connect with their fans, with delicious results. With their on-tour cook, Chef Rusty Hamlin; they regularly host eat and greets where they sit down and have dinner with their fans. In the early days of the eat and greets, Chef Rusty and his sous chefs would work out of the back of a trailer. As the band grew in fame, they outgrew the taco truck-sized trailer. Now they travel with a state of the art, 50-foot kitchen trailer fitted to all of Chef Rusty’s specs. Drummer Chris Fryar credits the connection they have with their fans as the number one thing that has given Zac Brown Band so much success. “We love making music and to be able to do it at the capacity that were doing it is an extreme blessing,” said Fryar. “The fans are what made us successful. We are blessed to have a lot of really good diehard fans that support us and give us our job.” NUVO: How did your eat and greets get started?
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CHRIS FRYAR: In the earliest days of doing radio promotions, we were doing a lot of meet and greet situations where the fans would line up and there would be a giant banner from a local radio stations behind us. They’d stand in line, they’d walk up, we’d shake their hand and they’d smile for the picture. They were all ‘thank you very much,’ –– and it wasn’t very fulfilling for us because we’re all fans of music ourselves. We all got to talking about it, than arrived at the idea that we wouldn’t like that very much ourselves so Zac came up with this really wonderful idea: What if we sit down and had dinner with our fans? [Then], we’d actually got a chance to connect with them on a more personal
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THURSDAY PRICE Girl Pride Part of the cast of Showtime’s The Real L Word, the women of Hunter Valentine claim to be musical soulmates from the start. Now, eight years later, they’ve released three albums and will head to Pride to perform a show at Talbott. Talbott Street, 2145 N. Talbott St. 9 p.m., $10 advance, $12 at door, 21+ HIP-HOP Kendrick Lamar Compton rapper Lamar is touring massively successful major label debut good kid, m.A.A.d. City after the release of several popular mixtapes. He’ll perform with Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock and Ab Soul. The Lawn at White River State Park, 801 W. Washington St., 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages Atlas Genius, Deluxe Old National Centre, all-ages Tiki Night featuring Go!Tsunami, Circle City Steel, Stockwell Road, Melody Inn, 21+
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FRIDAY GLEE Darren Criss He plays Kurt’s darling boyfriend on Glee, created and starred in Harry Potter tribute musical A Very Potter Musical and is in the midst of making his film debut: Criss is a triple threat coming to a theater near you. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., $25, all-ages ROCK Soulsik Album Release Hard rockers Soulsik will be accompanied by Pragmatic, Halibrid, Hadean and Kill Zone to celebrate the release of Apparitions. Beale St., 6125 Southeastern Ave., 8 p.m., $5, 21+ FEST Good Times, Good People Music Festival Just drive a bit south for a weekend of folk, bluegrass and jam in the rolling hills of Brown County. Headliners include Howard, Lewis and Lovins, Ultraviolet Hippopotamus and the Rumpke Mountain Boys, but there’s plenty more (almost 20) artists where that came from. Your ticket includes a campground. 12 and under are
free! Through June 9. eXplore Brown County, 2620 Valley Branch (Nashville) times vary, prices vary, all-ages PURPLE Gogol Bordello Zany gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello counts more than eight members, including an accordion, violin and saxophone. Egyptian Room at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 9 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
FEST IMAF The independent Arts and Music Festival takes over the First Friday favorite, the Harrison Center. Bring the kids and plan on eating at food trucks sprinkled throughout the parking lot. All sorts of local artisans will showcase their crafts for purchase, and attendees can enjoy music on two stages. Most bands scheduled are locals: there’s more to come, but so far the schedule includes The Bonesetters, Pravada, Sleeping Bag and Lord of the Yum Yum. Harrison Center for the Arts, 1505 N. Delaware St., noon, FREE, all-ages
PRIDE Mya One of the faces of NOH8, Mya’s a ceaseless advocate for tolerance and a variety of philanthropic causes. She’s also a red hot performer, popping up regularly on pop and R&B charts and in massive collaborations like 2001’s “Lady Marmalade.” She’s headling the musical portion of this year’s Pride at a concert on Saturday evening. DeKuyper Stage at Circle City IN Pride, Downtown Indianapolis, donations accepted, all-ages
BLUEGRASS Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival “Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.” That quote’s by the father of bluegrass himself, Bill Monroe. His music is still bringing people together yearly at the Bill Monroe Bean Blossum Bluegrass Festival, which, this year, features instrument workshops and a bluegrass camp for kids. The lineup is too extensive to list here, but the biggest names in contemporary bluegrass are making a stop at the fest. Through June 15. Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park and Campground, Morgantown, Ind.,times vary, prices vary, all-ages
SATURDAY FOLK Lily and Madeleine Teen sister sensations Lily and Madeleine are on the cusp of something great; their EP The Weight of the Globe was released this spring to acclaim. Their voices meld in perfect harmony –– no surprise they’re Internet sensations and sell out most venues they book. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
FOLK Son Volt In the Wilco family, Son Volt may be our favorite. From Uncle Tupelo founding member Jay Farrar, Son Volt channels the hard-drinking spirit of Neil Young and Crazy Horse and the sad ballads of Dylan. Their new album, Honky Tonk, takes their sound somewhere else entirely – a roadhouse dance floor. Sonic change isn’t anything new from this founding group of the alt-country scene. Opener is Colonel Ford, which features members of Son Volt. Take note –– this is an early show. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 6:30 (doors), $20, 21+
TRIBUTE Judas Beast What would this be besides a tribute to Judas Priest and Iron Maiden? You know you want to go. 8 Seconds Saloon, 111 N. Lynhurst Dr., 8 p.m., 21+ FOLK The Tallest Man on Earth Some may say he’s the tiniest, most Swedish Bob Dylan soundalike on Earth, but there’s more to Kristian Matsson than that. His album The Wild Hunt is a delicate collection of folk-revival and quiet fingerpicking. But it’s more than just a Dylan knock-off; tracks like “King of Spain” are exuberant and graceful. But Matsson always honors his greatest inspiration: “King of Spain” makes reference to “boots of Spanish leather.” His most recent release drops some guitar work in favor of slow piano, but the wistful, yearning of Matsson’s folky voice remains the same. Strange a Swede would honor American traditional music in such a straightforward, earnest way. Opener Strand of Oaks is the music of one Tim Showalter, whose debut, Leave Ruin, was heartbreaking and strange. The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave., 9 p.m., $18, 21+
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METAL Baroness, Coliseum After an epic car crash almost killed them while on tour in Europe, Baroness returns with a vengeance Tuesday at Old National Centre. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 8 p.m., $20, all-ages MARCHING March Fourth Marching Band Better than any high school marching band we’ve ever seen –– and that’s saying a lot, since Indy is the capital city of Serious Marching Bands –– March Fourth Marching brings fire dancers, stilt walkers, flag dancers and other manner of performance artists to their shows. White Rabbit Cabaret, 1116 Prospect St., 8:30 p.m., $15, 21+
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 ROCK Alt-J British rock quartet Alt-J are cruising on the success of of 2012’s An Awesome Wave. They’ll perform an acoustic in-store set at LUNA Music the same day. That show starts at 6 p.m. Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 7:30 p.m., $20, all-ages
FRIDAY, JUNE 14 SUMMERTIME Cool Creek Summer Concert Series This family-friendly concert series is the perfect time to play outside and pack a picnic with the kids. Keep your eye out for a show later in the summer featuring Cook and Belle, a country duo that have opened for Randy Travis and Rascal Flatts. Polka Boy will perform on June 14. Cool Creek Park, 2000 E 151st St., Carmel 46032, 7 p.m., $5, free for 12 and under, all-ages
SATURDAY, JUNE 15 ROCK Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers What can you say about Tom Petty? He’s a Southern rock superstar with a passel of best-selling albums that define the sound of summer for so many people. Klipsch Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages POP Amo Joy Album Release Indy pop rock group Amo Joy is preparing to release their fifth album at a show supported by Mr. Kinetik, Everything, Now! and DMA. The album’s release was halted by the tragic death of bass player Paul Cobb, but the band has mourned, recorded his tracks and prepared to honor his memory with this new release. Radio Radio, 1119 Prospect St., 8 p.m., $5 admission, $10 with album, 21+ SERIES Irvington Artist Series Bring the family and some lawn chairs to Ellenberger Park to enjoy local artist performances featuring acoustic roots musicians on fiddles and mandolins. The final show in August features popular local bluegrass group Old Truck Revival. On June 15, Small Blue World will take the stage. Ellenberger Park, 5301 E. St. Clair St., 6 p.m., free, all-ages
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 FOLK John Reilly and Friends John C. Reilly’s more than a movie star and stage actor –– he’s a the frontman for a new folk group that includes Tom Brosseau and Decemberists singer/Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark. He hooked up with Jack White III for a duo of singles released last year, and is commit-
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ORCHESTRA The Polyphonic Spree Sprawling symphonic pop group The Polyphonic Spree will breeze into Deluxe from Dallas at the end of June. Replesent in matching outfits and Singers and instrumentalists galore. Deluxe at Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey St., 7:30 p.m., prices vary, all-ages
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Recurring Themes • Creative Smuggling: Abdullah Riyaz, 50, was arrested at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, in April after he appeared to be uncomfortable sitting in the waiting area. Officials found four “biscuits” of solid gold in his socks but obviously thought there might be more, and after nature took
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its course, found Riyaz to be one of those rare humans with the ability to brag that he once excreted gold (eight more “biscuits”). • A report circulated in April that an apparently Orthodox Jewish man (likely a “Kohen”) had tied himself up, head to toe, in a plastic bag while seated on an airline flight -- likely because his teachings told him that flying over a cemetery would yield “impurities.” News of the Weird mentioned a similar report in 2001. Airlines have made accommodations in the past, even in the face of criticism that a man in a plastic bag is a safety hazard. (Exceptions to the Kohen belief: Accidental tears in the bag are excused, but pre-punched air holes not; Kohenim unaware of the cemetery overflight in advance do not need protection; and deceased family members yield no impurities.) • Accountability: The chairman of the National Showcaves Center in a Welsh national park, aiming to halt a recent downturn in tourism business, threatened in April to sue the U.K. National Weather Service for its “all too (frequent) ... gloom and doom reports.” The NWS had called for snow and cold weather over Easter weekend, but no snow fell, and the cold weather was tempered by sun and blue skies. (He also suggested adding “health”type warnings to forecasts, e.g., beware that
EDITOR’S NOTE: Starting this month, we will be ceasing publication of News of the Weird. Yup, we will miss it too, but as we focus more and more on dedicating our pages to local stories written by local writers and illustrated and photographed by local artists, we just couldn’t keep spending these pages on non-local features. Plus, you can still find your News of the Weird here: newsoftheweird.com. weather reports might be wrong.) • In New Haven, Conn., in March, police had trapped two car-theft suspects in a multifamily building whose occupants were hiding from the suspects, thus necessitating urgency in ending the siege. Officers ordered a K-9 unit but were told it would be delayed. In a tactic departments occasionally employ, officers still threatened to release the dogs immediately, and to make the threat credible, available officers began barking. The suspects quickly surrendered rather than face the vicious canines. • Herbert and Catherine Schaible, members of the First Century Gospel Church in Philadelphia and believers in faith-healing rather than medical care, were convicted in 2011 in the bacterial-pneumonia death of their 2-year-old son, Kent. As a condition of probation, they promised medical care for their remaining eight children, but in April 2013, their youngest son, Brandon, died after severe diarrhea and pneumonia, again treated only by prayer, and they were arrested -- and the other children removed from the home. The medical examiner called Brandon’s death a
homicide, and the couple also face five to 10 years in prison for violating probation. • Detectives’ New Best Friend (Facebook): Christopher Robinson, 23, became just one of many recent suspects whose addiction to Facebook did him in. Robinson had never made a single child support payment in the three years since a court order was issued in Milwaukee, Wis., and the case had languished over how to prove that he was hiding money. Using other evidence for probable cause, the prosecutor got a warrant to search Robinson’s private Facebook information and discovered a candid photograph of him, laughing over a pile of cash. • The annual Chinese “tomb sweeping” celebration has been mentioned several times in News of the Weird, but has experienced a resurgence since 2008 when the government reinstated it as an official holiday. The theory is that people bring valuable items (such as jewelry) to ancestors’ gravesites and bury them with the body, which will upgrade the relative’s afterlife. Now, however, practitioners seem convinced that paper images of items are sufficient (and, of course, less expensive). Many simply leave signed (and generous!) checks for the dead, according to an April New York Times dispatch, and others bury representations of “mistresses” to accompany presumably frisky corpses.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY © 2013 BY ROB BRESZNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The longest natural arch in the world is the Fairy Bridge in Guangxi Province, China. Made of limestone, this 400-footwide span crosses over the Buliu River. No one outside of China knew about it until 2009, when an American explorer spied it on Google Earth. Let’s make the Fairy Bridge your metaphor of the month, Aries. Judging by the astrological omens, I suspect there’s a good chance you will soon find something like a natural, previously hidden bridge. In other words, be alert for a link between things you didn’t know were connected.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Studies show that people spend 87 percent of their time inside buildings and six percent in enclosed vehicles. In other words, they are roaming around outside enjoying the wind and sky and weather for only seven percent of their lives. I think you’re going to have to do better than that in the coming week, Libra. To ensure your mental hygiene stays robust, you should try to expose yourself to the natural elements at least nine percent of the time. If you manage to hike that rate up to ten percent or higher, you stand a good chance of achieving a spiritual epiphany that will fuel you for months.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope that in recent weeks you’ve made yourself a master of sticky and intricate details. I trust you’ve been working harder and smarter than you have in a long time. Have you, Taurus? Have you been grunting and sweating a lot, exerting yourself in behalf of good causes? Please tell me you have. And please say you’re willing to continue for a while longer. The way I see it, your demanding tasks aren’t quite finished. In fact, the full reward for your efforts may not become available unless you keep pushing beyond the point that you consider to be your fair share.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Resurrection is the Scorpionic specialty. Better than any other sign of the zodiac, you can summon the power to be reborn. It is your birthright to reanimate dreams and feelings and experiences that have expired, and make them live again in new forms. Your sacred totem is the mythical phoenix, which burns itself in a fire of its own creation and then regenerates itself from the ashes. Now here’s the big news headline, Scorpio: I have rarely seen you in possession of more skill to perform these rites than you have right now.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): How free do you want to be, Gemini? A tiny bit free, hemmed in by comfortable complications that require you to rely on white lies? Or would you rather be moderately free in ways that aren’t too demanding -- politely, sensibly free? Maybe you feel brave and strong enough to flirt with a breathtaking version of liberation -- a pure, naked freedom that brings you close to the edge of wild abandon and asks you to exercise more responsibility than you’re used to. I’m not telling you which kind you should opt for, but I am suggesting that it’s best if you do make a conscious choice.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Octavio Paz spoke to a lover in his poem “Counterparts”: “In my body you search the mountain for the sun buried in its forest. In your body I search for the boat adrift in the middle of the night.” What have you searched for in the bodies of your lovers, Sagittarius? What mysteries and riddles have you explored while immersed in their depths? How has making love helped you to better understand the meaning of life? I invite you to ruminate on these uncanny joys. Remember the breakthroughs that have come your way thanks to sex. Exult in the spiritual education you have received through your dealings with lust and sensuality. And then go out and stir up some fresh epiphanies.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In August 1961, the Communist government of East Germany built the Berlin Wall. It was a thick concrete barrier designed to prevent the oppressed citizens of East Berlin from escaping to freedom in West Berlin. The barrier was eventually policed by armed guards. Traffic between the two Berlins became virtually impossible for the next 28 years. Then a miracle occurred: East German authorities relinquished their stranglehold. They tentatively allowed East Berliners to travel to West Berlin. Soon the Mauerspechte, or “wall woodpeckers,” showed up. Armed with hammers and chisels, these people began chipping away at the Wall. Two years later, most of it had been demolished. I hereby assign you to be a wall woodpecker in your own sphere, Cancer. The time is right to demolish a barricade. It may take a while, but you’re ready to start. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The following slogan captures the spirit I bring to composing my horoscopes: “I live in the future so that you don’t have to.” But right now this slogan doesn’t apply to you. From what I can tell, you are currently visiting the future as much as I do. Here’s what I wonder, though: Are you time-traveling simply to run away from the dilemmas that face you in the present? Or are you taking advantage of your jaunts to acquire revelations that will help you solve those dilemmas once you return? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know that there are different kinds of stress, right? Some varieties wear you out and demoralize you, while other kinds of stress excite and motivate you. Some lead you away from your long-term goals, and others propel you closer. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to finetune your ability to distinguish between them. I suspect that the more you cultivate and seek out the good kind, the less susceptible you’ll be to the bad kind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Do you know what minced oaths are? They’re rarely used anymore. If you went back a hundred years, though, you’d hear them regularly. They were sanitized swear words, basically; peculiar exclamations that would allow people the emotional release of profanities without causing a ruckus among those who were listening. “Bejabbers!” was one. So were “thunderation! and “dad-blast!” and “consarn!” Here’s one of my favorite minced oaths: “By St. Boogar and the saints at the backside door of purgatory!” I bring this up, Capricorn, because I suspect it’ll be a minced oath kind of week for you. What I mean is: You’ll have every right to get riled up, and you should express your feelings, but not in ways that create problems for you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s only one correct way to spell the English word “beauty.” But that wasn’t true centuries ago. Before the advent of the printing press, orthographic anarchy prevailed for many words. Some of beauty’s variations included bewte, beaute, beaultye, beuaute, bealte, buute, bewtee, and beaultye. I bring this up, Aquarius, because I think it would be fun and healthy for you to take a respite from having to slavishly obey standardized rules. I’m talking about not just those that apply to spelling, but others, too. See what you can get away with. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the last chapter of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, the lead character says the following: “There is nothing nobler, stronger, healthier, and more helpful in life than a good remembrance, particularly a remembrance from childhood. A beautiful, holy memory preserved from childhood can be the single most important thing in our development.” I bring this up, Pisces, so as to get you in the right frame of mind for this week’s featured activity: remembrance. One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is to reminisce about the old days and the old ways. To do so will enhance your physical health and purify your emotional hygiene.
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